THE ENTEX ADVENTURE VISION - SUPER RARE CONSOLE | OCTAV1US

[@ErinPlays]

Oh my gosh, this console is adorable! I love discovering wacky rare consoles like this so I'm really into this video. Great job!

[@Spitefire6]

Same! I love stuff like these, even when they are not great :p do you watch Ashens?

[@ErinPlays]

No, but looking over his channel his content seems super relative to my interests! I'll have to check him out.

[@Spitefire6]

I so want an N-Gage! It would be cool to try and use one as a day to day phone for a week or something :P I tried it with a regular dumb phone and could barely make it! I don't have many weird consoles myself, only an old Pong system, and a couple of tiger handhelds :(

[@ErinPlays]

Octav1us yeah the N-gage is absolutely insane!

[@natgrant1364]

Erin Plays... and watches Octav1us! It's amazing how interconnected the community of retro KZbinrs is. Anyway, I also love weird old consoles and computers. It seems like there's no end of stuff I've never heard of that just seems to pop up when I last expect it.

[@hicknopunk]

The screen probably didn't jitter when it was new. Once these things get dropped or knocked over while the mirror was spinning they make a noise. That noise is the mirror being not aligned right.

[@Lazy_eye_blobFish]

I found you through Guru Larry, you were trying to cut a piece of paper with a video game handheld. I subscribed. Hope you have a blessed day!

[@wolfgangervin2582]

It was the tat-off with Ashens that was my discovery method.

[@DystopianOverture]

Octy appearing on Barshens was how I discovered her.

[@Barry_Mmm]

I first saw her on Ashen's Blockbusters video back in April 2018. Go check it out, it's fantastic.

[@themeanestofgenes2409]

@@Barry_Mmm Yeah me too. That was really funny.

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@DystopianOverture She was also on Cheapshow! Though I think she was on Barshens first...

[@benvisona4520]

Long live the musical intro!

[@sovietsniper6669]

I've been noticing a lot of jokes about being lonely/not having friends and I just wanna let my concern be known. I'm sure they're just jokes, but I've seen enough examples of artists/entertainers passing off real struggles as jokes in an attempt to call for help. So, if you are really struggling with feeling lonely and isolated, please take care of yourself. Slow down your schedule if you need to. Do what you gotta do to make it better. No one wants a sad Octav1us. If you're fine and those really are just bits of comedy and nothing more, then keep on being you! I caught on to you from a collaboration you did and I've enjoyed everything you've put out since I've discovered you. So few game oriented youtubers bother to track down the hardware and present systems that aren't already well known the way you do. It's awesome!

[@bwarrent]

Never heard of your channel until today when I started looking up old consoles I'd never heard of before and you had videos of them. It's great to have a look at these rare old machines. This one is especially unique!

[@nneeerrrd]

10:32 I'd attend even complex math classes with this teacher :)

[@5roundsrapid263]

Franko She can teach me how to multiply anytime!

[@Kumodot]

weird and fun to see that the cartridge is in fact the Eprom socket itself. So you plug the eprom of the game directly to the socket. On cartridges they use a PCB to have a easier to manage (and harder to destroy) using a single slot style connection.

[@MechaFenris]

I would assume the duplicate buttons are for rightys and leftys. (As a left-handed person who learned to play games in a right-handed world....) :) That would make more sense than 2 player (since there's only one stick)

[@georgeadams6254]

beat me to it.

[@georgeadams6254]

did u know, fun fact time: that arcade cabs originally came with sticks situated for right hand use, but arcade operators requested they were changed for left hand use to artificially increase difficulty, so people weren't as good. I heard that somewhere, so not really a fact... but fun if it were.

[@memberberry6177]

@@georgeadams6254 it's true.. My uncle used to be in the Arcade business and they did it to squeeze morey money out of the players. So it's a fact.

[@sparkles122]

George Adams yep. It is a fact. Eventually controllers copied. Until that happened the sick was for right hand, buttons left

[@Redhotsmasher]

That was my first thought as well, wouldn't be the only 80s console with that feature either.

[@strangulator42]

If only I could find a lady that looked at me the way Octav1us looks at THE ENTEX ADVENTURE VISION... initial joy and optimism transitioning into vague disappointment, and finally into mild annoyance...

[@thedeadstig123]

I loved the teacher version of octav1us!

[@Phoenix2312]

I did too... In fat its all I remember... What was she reviewing again?

[@danmann9116]

Yep she sure rocks that look.... Nostalgia Nerd, I'm jealous of you sir!@@!!

[@vgjhlgjhfuyfjhfjkhgyghj]

Hell yeah

[@TwoWholeWorms]

Octeach1us! :D

[@corvus1970]

The tech "centerfold" bit just earned you a new subscriber.

[@urkelheimer]

Sarah, watching your videos always puts me in a good mood and calms down my anxiety. Thank you for your contributions

[@rayceeya8659]

I knew it, it's using similar display tech to the Virtual Boy. *EDIT: The end result is flickery,, it gives you a head ache and a neck cramp... It really is the grandaddy of the Virtual Boy.

[@Redhotsmasher]

By the looks of it, it's like a giant Virtual Boy display but way worse. I mean, ow my eyes that thing is wobbly and flickery, and that's coming from someone who's tried the Virtual Boy once in a museum and thought its display wasn't nearly as terrible as people like to claim it is.

[@thewiirocks]

@@Redhotsmasher To be fair, this unit is nearly 40 years old. It's quite possible that the system's display was originally far more stable. In fact, it might be possible to improve this unit with some careful maintenance. Using the VirtualBoy as an example (which is practically half the age), most VirtualBoy systems suffer from degraded flex-circuit cabling that needs to be repaired in an oven. Thankfully it's a fairly easy repair or I never would have gotten mine back up and running!

[@thewassock]

Rotating mirrors were first used in mechanical television systems. The 240-line Baird TV system, used for some BBC TV broadcasts in 1936, used a rotating mirror in its cameras.. The colour scheme of the Adventure Vision reminds me of vintage DEC equipment from the late 1960s / early 1970s, particularly the PDP-8.

[@UncleBoogieRF]

I HATE channel intros longer than 5 or so seconds and yet yours I get sad when it’s not the long one. Glad this wasn’t one of them. Great video.

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

Good golly, it seems like everyone and their brother and their uncle and their uncle's brother's cousin was putting out some sort of game system in the early 1980's. We're probably going to keep digging up obscure unsuccessful consoles until we're all in a nursing home. :P

[@markiangooley]

The display uses laser printer (crossed with LED printer!) technology: spinning mirror thing like a laser printer, row of LEDs like an LED printer. Fascinating... but sort of a kludge.

[@Trendkill91]

So just discovered the channel a few days ago and that intro song has been stuck in my head for days. Enjoy your style and humor, keep the videos coming if you enjoy making them!!!

[@ColinJonesPonder]

This brings back memories. Not of this console but the game Turtles. We had this (as Turpin) in a local chip shop and I was crap at it... until I ported it to the VIC20 in BASIC! After playing my port for a few days, my next go at the arcade machine I scored over 8000, and found out it had more screen layouts. I added them as loaded from tape. Those were fun days!

[@mightydegu]

This is one of the real Holy Grails of the video game world, particularly in working condition. I've always wanted one of these.

[@spwolftech]

Decided to do a 5 year Anniversary channel marathon so here is my HI to try and make the algorithm be nice. Fun no matter how many times i have watched them.

[@jase7474]

Video game history is always a fun topic. Have been gaming since the Atari 2600 and getting the nostalgia feel seeing games and systems I had and used to play. But this is one of the best things seeing the systems I never heard of through KZbinrs like you. That red screen reminded me of the Virtual Boy. Thought it was cool that it looked like the top part of a arcade cabinet. Can't wait to see the next system you show off.

[@progbloke6655]

That brief shot of the 2600 brought back a lot of happy memories. So many hours spent playing Adventure, even though it was shite. Happy days !!

[@theartisanrogue]

I literally found my old Adventure Vision in my parent's storage unit, in fair condition. Glad to have found this video, great job on the video!

[@off2cdawizard]

I've been binge watching your videos for the past couple of weeks, and I have to say your content is great. I always love learning about rare and unique stuff and you really cover the gamut. Products like this fascinate me. Thank you for the overview and the great video!

[@punkrockkarl8220]

This was the first video I've seen. I subscribed in response to the intro song alone. 😊 Then the entire video turned out great! You have a new fan

[@ItsCrapContent]

Omg... This channel and the nostalgic nerd channel are the best.........and yeah I have come from watching those digitizer shows..awesome stuff x

[@Tormentadeplomo]

Another great video about a machine that no one remembers and no one needs. Keep up the good work!

[@cubeflinger]

Wow. New one on me. Thanks. Come for the nerdgasm stay for the humour. Keep it coming x

[@johnbrown3155]

Ok, bouncing stuff of DJ slopes head might now be my new favourite thing. The visual gag with NN's book was totally worth the time you probably spent dressing up for it.

[@SoftwareDocuments]

Thanks for the heads up about the Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech book, added to my Christmas wish list.

[@infesticon]

"i got the password to unlock your heart" Yea that's pretty much true. KZbinr celebretty crush go!! :P But yes love your contect a new video is always a treat.

[@Phoenix2312]

Preaching to the Choir my friend... :) Oh if only we were so lucky!

[@jesspace4069]

[@FunkyM217]

Someone was CRAZY enough to Actually Code a demo for this thing. It was the Highlight of that year's Revision Demo party. People actually fastcoded compo fillers, just so there were enough entries for a compo! The Demoscene is awesome. Look for CODE RED here on KZbin, that's its name.

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

Excellent review - and with the usual Octavius hilarity! The explanation section with Nostalgia Nerd nearly had me in stitches! :-D

[@randombarbarian5637]

I've owned 2 in my life, and yes your screen is bad. Under normal circumstances you could look at it (and play it) for hours (which I did a lot of when I was 8). The Defender game was an excellent port and was superior than the Atari 2600, or just about any port at the time (mainly because it had most of the buttons). Adventure Vision was far ahead of it's time, so its easy to see why its archaic today. They pop up on Ebay every once in a while from about $1200-2400. There was only 50,000 produced, and last estimates there was only a few hundred still out there working. I sold mine in 2015 with all 4 games and box for $2400. I miss it but not sure if I would ever get another one due to the fact they're so fragile.

[@xotmatrix]

Wow! Great to see pure unobtainium up close.

[@yackablejohnson1485]

I've never had an opportunity to play one in person. I have tried the games via emulation. This system ties back to the Virtual Boy and that LED array.

[@zapplecore]

Abundance of right angles lol

[@olafbuddenberg4787]

Fun to see this pop up on your channel after I just bought a Vectrex from a friend. Thanks for reviewing it and bringing it to my attention. When you first showed the screen in action I actually thought that it was broken and somehow shrunk to quarter size. Apart from that the button layout might come in handy for right and left handed players. Keep it up, Octav1us. Your channel is highly entertaining and the cat posters on your wall are rad. All the best from Germany! Sincerely, me.

[@MiggyManMike]

Fantastic use of "abundance of right angles" madam :)

[@MiggyManMike]

Oh and tell NN it's known as persistence of vision :D

[@realengland5841]

Excellent Video Octav1us. You're great at what you do. Stay positive and you will with prevail in your successful career as a retro gaming channel. I've been watching it lately. And your very creative.

[@chadgarrett6947]

Dat sexy librarian look tho. Great video as always Octav1us! Keeping that quality going up and up!

[@wulfspyder8381]

Merry Christmas Octavius!

You cannot understand just how wee escapingly exciting these things were to pre-pubescent boys in the late 70s/early 80s. I'd lost interest by 1982, as I'd played these, liked hand held games of the time and we had Intellivision. Just for reference, we only had Intellivision which came from Hounsditch and before that, a Grandstand or Ingersoll unit my uncle brought back from the Far East in about '78.

[@chinosts]

You're so funny, talented and beautiful OctK. I actually laughed out loud watching this video.. it was also great to see the return of people getting hit with randomly flung objects! Thankyou for posting.. can't wait for your next video.

[@mynameislevon]

Still can't get over how I love your intro 😎😎 Great video! Please keep it up!

[@ciphermatrix]

I do love stuff like this. Might ultimately be crap but the innovation, working with the limitations of the tech of time, sees some very clever ideas from the engineers that are probably implemented poorly due to budget constraints. Very enjoyable video.

[@MizfitZer0]

Bring back this intro in your newer videos??? It is so damn cute and makes me excited for the video lol x

[@PercyPumpkinheart]

Surprised I'd never heard of this one, despite its obscurity. It does seem like a cross between a Vectrex and a sort of early Virtual Boy prototype, what with the spinning mirror technology and the black and red screen. Anyway, thanks for introducing us to more obscure tech! I learn a lot on this channel.

[@NobletheSavage]

I don't know what I find more visually pleasing , white board Octy or a literal battery aimed at Slopes . Good times .

[@holnrew]

I'd be scared to try something so valuable, Quang is pretty awesome to trust you with it so we can see what it's like

[@Asobitech]

She stole it from my house.

[@SonicAlpha]

It's good to see you survived the "attack of the half naked Larry." Dark, dark times... ^_^ Excellent video, as always :)

[@popuptoaster]

10:32 Blimey. :S :D Great review of a console I never heard of despite being old enough to have bought a Binatone Pong console when i was young!!

[@twenty6hundred]

When I was heavy into collecting I really wanted one of these! Great video.

[@chrisnizer]

This thing was the TIT'S in the early 80's! I remember playing those Mattel "red dot" LED handheld games and this is leaps and bounds better than those things.

[@another_kinda_nomad]

Excellent video as always really enjoy these reviews of rare old consoles 👍👍👍👍

[@KickingJoub]

That 5 second joke was so worth dressing up for!

[@AdmiralBucock]

Great video as always Octav1us. I didn't know anything about this before so it's really interesting to hear about it and see it working. I don't think I'll be featuring that Turtles music on my podcast anytime soon though, even the short clip hurt my ears. Looking forward to more awesome content!

[@jamesheyworth3566]

You are wonderful. Thank for the rare retro goodness.

[@inquisitor229]

Excellent find! I worked in the games retail market at this time (1982) selling all of the popular consoles, but this is the first time I've heard of this one. The underside of the cartridge looks like an integrated circuit socket designed for constant swapping during development, such as would be used for EPROMS and the like to be plugged into. I have to doubt the true longevity of such things though, they were not intended for the abuse of ham fisted children!

[@RetroCabeza]

Looks like the Virtual Boy predecessor. And Turtles was the first Konami console game! With ports only for the Videopac (Odyssey2) and this lovely thing.

[@nameless5413]

Wow thank you for another insight into past, seeing your videos dose make me appritiate silly sometimes ingenious ways of past engeneering. And offcourse for puting your well being (hedache, possibly eyesight) is no small sacrifice.

[@ghtallon]

This thing would have given me RAGE. That flickering, tiny screen would have started up some nasty migraines. Great video. Xx

[@gfmretro]

Excellent video as always! 👍 👍 👍

[@iced_coffeelvr1069]

So cool to see another console that I've never heard of!

[@KasumiRINA]

14:59 not to mention that vector graphics age like fine wine, while rotating mirror LEDs age like two-day old milk that someone spat in.

[@gekkomonster7837]

Best Sunday morning!

[@AdamCoate]

I've wanted to try this one out for a long time. But every time I see the gameplay, I'm reminded that I'm not missing out on much. I've had a Vectrex for about 10 years now and never plan on giving it up. It has a thriving homebrew community which is almost as active as the Atari 2600 or NES homebrew communities. There is also a 32 bit expansion module called Vectrex32 with full 3D capabilities but unfortunately not many games have been done on it yet. Anyway, the point is, you should do a Vectrex video, and do one of your fun skits with the Spike and Molly characters.

[@polishenglish8356]

Witty, stunningly looking, awesome accent...I just cannot believe such goddesses exist!

[@Phoenix2312]

Another excellent Video! What I remember of it anyway... Seriously, I was really loving it - Then you had Nostalgia Nerd in for a Cameo - You had your glasses on.. And my mind went blank again! :) What were you reviewing again? I was just thinking about those specs!!!!

[@paulrowe3250]

Nice too have you back 😎

[@rosse119]

Great to hear the original song is back :D

[@chrisnizer1885]

The extra set of buttons would be great for left handed players. That way the console wouldn't be biased for right handed players and could sell just as well to both. I'm just guessing though. Great review though, thanks!

[@mickmickymick6927]

Such an interesting topic, thanks for doing this video, I never would have known about it otherwise.

[@ricardobornman1698]

Yup, a console a collector would love.

[@Kumodot]

That screen tecnology, based on a line of LEDs, called POV diplay (Persistent Of Vision) is the same tech you will encounter in the Virtual Boy. It's really ingenious.

[@craigjensen6853]

Yeah, Mat Moan of the channel 'Techmoan' did it with a reel-to-reel player, pretty neat!

[@little-death]

I'm guessing that the reason why there are buttons on both sides might be so that you can play it either righthanded or lefthanded; not an uncommon feature on old arcade machines.

[@billybollockhead5628]

My thunks too

[@SashaThePrincessofDarkness]

Yay! It's the full theme song... Even the "mew" at the end. If gives this ole girl a big smile.

[@screensavinggamer9724]

The document is in Dutch, not German, if that's useful to you

[@reyunderscore]

And the combination French/Dutch suggests a Belgian distributor

[@reyunderscore]

Also it describes the Asteroids clone, not Defender...

[@olafbuddenberg4787]

I was just about to point out the same thing.

[@kellerkind6169]

@@olafbuddenberg4787 so was I :-)

[@PixelOverload]

@@reyunderscore That's not even a game that came on this thing is it?

[@PixelsLtd]

Incredible video as always 😍 This is actually massively impressive for the time - if it wasn't so flickery. The way the screen works is actually incredibly similar to the Virtual Boy around 10 years later. Of course the Vectrex blows it out the water though. Those bit with Slopes were hilarious 😂 and the bit with Pete was amazing 🧐 and your cuddly Gengar is everything!! 😍😍

[@lShadowdark]

Looks like a nice console, if only they centered the image, stopped the flickering and used an augmentation glass instead of plastic, this would be an hard competitor for the Vectrex (and i guess i wouldnt be much more expensive)

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

....frightening - that section with nastolgia nerd sort of looked like he was imagining some sort of...ahem... ultimate "fantasy" of his going on.... nevermind....great cameos.

[@longier3693]

Grats your videos get better and better

[@armstararmy]

Most families had only one tv so the kids could play this without the parents could watch shows and the kids could play the game. Super huge advantage back them!

[@bald_engineer]

The bottom of the cartridge looks like the pins are directly from ROM IC with a wide DIP layout and machined sockets. Which is an interesting choice because they weren’t designed with the zero insertion force version. It’s possible that the socket type hadn’t been in wide use yet. Anyway, this cartridge is basically plugging a ROM chip into the motherboard. Later cart systems are similar but often included other signals, or hung in to a bus, and had stuff like RAM access. I doubt these did. They’re literally just a ROM chip.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Octav1us flinging heavy objects at Daniel is my new favorite thing.

[@caxzrockz]

I miss when you talked to your Octopus and Horace

[@ZombiWorkshop]

The way that screen works is.... actually crazy. XD

[@SEGAZombie]

Another awesome video great to see you focusing on these obscure consoles , though crappy I would love to one day get the chance to play on the adventure vision

[@verficationaccount]

Great video! Fun and informative - as it should be.

[@mikefellhauer3350]

Actually, before Colecovision Coleco had a previous cartridge based game system released shortly after the Atari, the Coleco Telstar Arcade supposedly released in March of 1977 (yes, I had one as a child).

[@QunMang]

First time I've seen one of your videos in my recommendations. For some reason I never visited even after seeing you in a few of Peter's videos, but here I am about to click the subscribe button. As for the buttons on both sides, it seems to me they just added redundant buttons for both right- and left-handed players.

[@QunMang]

@@octaviusking Ah, there is that then. Since there is only one joystick though it's possible it may just be a mistake in the instructions then. Who knows?

[@DrPlagueProductions]

YOU'RE SUCH A WAIFU ;__; I admire the fact that you could handle the console for 10 minutes, im here kinda drowned because of the spinning screen x___x

[@nogidoki3325]

cant watch her kinda dont like her lol

[@RetroCynical]

Now that's a state of the art piece of technology.

[@voltaire2001]

Damn, that intro just woke everyone up

[@drazen1529]

Great video, as always

[@amadeus484]

"Retro game collectors are crazy"... Yes, yes we are.

[@freakywayne8790]

I still have my Adventure Vision but have long since lost my Space Patrol and Super Cobra carts. I used to play this all day with headphones on. I’d still be playing it now but mine is missing a pin on the cart slot and all I get is a red screen. It actually wasn’t hard to see and I loved Super Cobra.

[@AlexKidd]

Don't know or care about this thing, but, you make it worth watching.. awwww