Amazon’s handheld consoles are fun

[@sjm4306]

Was really hoping the software on the frozen one would lock up ... then you could say it really was frozen .........

[@TheRetroFuture]

😂😂😂

[@chrisropherboulay]

Wow really that is so funny😆

[@slowped]

lmao

[@MemesAndvids]

your comment was so funny that it got pinned 😂

[@queen-elsa-arendelle]

Let it go already.

[@tori_girlonline800]

Watching Elliot try to say "El Chupacabra" was pretty much the highlight of my day.

[@TDAdvocate]

Legit was going to say this as well. Lmao.

[@DerekSmit]

I'm dutch and even I knew what he was trying to say (I think I first heard it on Dexter's laboratory).

[@Banryu95]

Came here to post this same comment. That was amazing.

[@JarodMoonchild1975]

Yeah, that was funny. Clearly he hasn't heard it pronounced before. And by logic, probably not altogether, either.

[@bennbutters2578]

@@DerekSmit you legend, what a call back I loved that show

[@snOwBL1nD]

As a Mexican-American I died when you tried to pronounce chupacabra lol

[@pou3321]

Laughs in polish

[@CagedCrage]

I was laughing out loud, so great

[@nicolaidisnicolareis4839]

Me too, as a Spanish.

[@christophermorin9036]

CHEW PACK RUBBA!

[@FerHivore]

Chew-Barack-Obama

[@Cyranek]

8:53 as a Texan I took for granted knowing how to pronounce chupacabra

[@TheRetroFuture]

Hahahah

[@pilcrow182]

I grew up in *Wisconsin* and took it for granted. I don't know how any English-speaking person has *not* heard the word spoken a hundred times, regardless of where you live... :P

[@tennamrinchen9904]

Nick W what does it even mean

[@pilcrow182]

@@tennamrinchen9904 It's a creature of Mexican legend, usually depicted as something wolf- or lizard-like (although some describe it more similarly to a sasquatch/bigfoot). Its name literally means 'goat sucker' as it's said to suck the blood of livestock dry.

[@Ripguitar662]

Same

[@AndyLundell]

I want an adult/all-ages console with the crazy controls of that LeapFrog device. That would be fantastic.

[@therealkenny6]

Might want to check out the Playdate, then-it has wacky controls as well.

[@bland9876]

The closest thing you're going to find is probably in Atari 2600 with paddle controllers there's also a controller that looks like a marble sticking out of a hole and when you try to rotate the marble in place it won't come out of there and the game somehow knows how you're rotating it in order to do stuff

[@professionalfangster1510]

Maybe the Sega Saturn NiGHTS Into Dreams... controller?

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

@@bland9876 how do you not know the name of a trackball controller?

[@bland9876]

@@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464 probably a brain fart if I had to guess.

[@partypiggaming9344]

Don't call these the gamboys of today. They don't deserve that sort of respect.

[@GldRush98]

Yeah these are more of the "Tiger Electronics" of today.

[@tan_nerd07]

@@GldRush98 you couldn't be more correct

[@ジョンマーティン]

Right? It's like comparing trash to gold

[@rafaelinhos]

GldRush98 no they’re more like the games available in old Sony Ericsson middle quality mobile phones like T610 etc...

[@pawnshifter6435]

30$ industrial garbage with crappy rip-off non-quality programs. what a great deal

[@zefmarinho2163]

About the game at 8:51, the story about Chupacabra is a mystery/terror case very, very famous in Latin America (a least here in Brasil, in the 90s). It's about some kind of creature that were killing animals in the farms and sucking their blood. This is the reason for the name "Chupacabra", that means something like "Goat-sucker". Google results about it are kinda creepy. This is the most unexpected comment I've ever made on a youtube video lol

[@cryptidproductions3160]

It's also pretty well known in the US to with a lot of sightings around the southwestern states like Texas

[@yoymate6316]

tem br até aqui mds

[@justanotherpiccplayer3511]

This looks like top tier Ashens material

[@leecroft1983]

Is there any other, no.

[@pilcrow182]

All Ashens material is top-tier material. But yes, this would fit right in... :D

[@RamzsASMR]

Facts

[@klownysam7356]

Pop station alert

[@yoymate6316]

He’s actually reviewed one of the child-branded Lexibook ones!

[@jobeyjam]

A frozen game console, I’d trade my switch for that.

[@mariocart2wrholder]

Man choice : Switch Or Frozen game console

[@gatodeplastico]

You need to thaw it first! :D

[@idkwhattoputhere616]

That's like trading a Lamborghini for a go-kart

[@Dragoonglue]

10:26 The game you are thinking of is Pyoro. Btw, both Pyoro and the paper plane one originally were WarioWare minigames.

[@MrHankeyy]

Yeah i remember the paper plane on the GBA warioware

[@heavyarms55]

The Frozen one kind of makes me think of a possible reason why less girls get into video games than boys. Imagine you're 3 years old, and you get that as a gift. But the boy gets the one from Cars. Look at the difference between those 2! It's not that girls are less inclined to gaming, but they are given a bad first impression, and then society pressures them not to enjoy the hobby.

[@ungratefulmango]

These are going to appreciate in value massively. They hold a lot of value due to their high quality

[@hopkidokid]

Oh definitely. Next 10 20 yrs these things will go for millions so hold on to any u get specially anything disney,their beyond rare.

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

@@hopkidokid they're*

[@nick_XIII]

We bought the RockIT for my daughter, and now that she's getting of a closer age to be able to play with it, she loves it! Some of the games make really clever use of the controls.

[@FerHivore]

I wonder if the screen ripples because it’s actually a 16x9 screen with bezels that make it look 4x3, so the screen actually extends right to the edges of the d-pad and action buttons, occasionally getting pressed under the d-pad. That’d also explain the vertical layout of the action buttons.

[@tombuster]

I remember playing the original "ball blaster" in primary school ages ago. It was called "Zuma" or sth like that. Was quite fun from what I remember

[@SleepingCocoon]

Zuma is actually a rip off as well. the original game is Puzz Loop by Mitchell Corp in japan, released in arcades in the late 90s. they were a pretty legendary developer, I'd recommend reading about them.

[@jabajuba]

Thanks for the fun fact!

[@tsubasaplayer16]

Oh god. That 8 in 1 handheld is just NES bootlegs. I recognized Diamond as a rom hacked arkanoid because I also have a 50(?) In 1 plug n play that has that exact same game. Same music and everything.

[@evelin1006]

It's a VT handheld

[@weegle.]

Yeah I could tell they were nes games by the box lol

[@weegle.]

This dude isn't very knowledgeable in video games, he called breakout "that game we all know", he called a puyo puyo/columns clone "Dr mario", he called a game and watch game clone original, and he called clones good things and recommended a handheld full of ripoff games

[@yoymate6316]

Evelin is right, it’s a JungleTac VT. They’re the highest-quality famiclones that are still made afaik, being that they’re an actual system-on-a-chip executing code natively which will always be better than emulation in low-powered stuff. It’s an expanded architecture based on and compatible with the NES but with much better sound and more oomph (yet still less powerful than an SNES)

[@auto1lija]

"Spring Bros" is just a rip-off of a Game & Watch as well

[@ToxoRetro]

Indeed. 😃 Fire to be precise. People jump out the window of a burning building, so the player has to rebound them to safety.

[@tacocats2244]

@@ToxoRetro the only reason I know what that game is, is because of the game and watch stage in Smash Bros ultimate

[@yamigekusu]

4:00 that's a Columns ripoff. It's a puzzle game series from Sega

[@louie207]

Exactly what I was thinking 🤔😆

[@popman4502]

don't you mean "Tetris"

[@SurmenianSoldier]

@@popman4502 it's not tetris

[@bfargthesquat8504]

when deciding between these and the switch, he took a long look at the switch and... Let it go Get it? Cuz frozen?

[@consolemayhemthestarcollec1308]

.....

[@queen-elsa-arendelle]

Selling the Switch never bothered him anyway.

[@kesselsauer4441]

*no stop*

[@SebaGomez]

"Busca el chupacabra" lol

[@RoshGMZ]

The 8 in 1 console looks like the Animal Crossing New Horizons Nintendo Switch …

[@athought1110]

You can see he’s a gamer cause he uses a leap frog

[@matcha6710]

Pronouncing Chupacabra: "chew-pah-cah-bra". There you go.

[@NueThunderKing]

Mätchä nope, it is choo-pa-cah-bra, no chew, in spanish we don’t pronounce the u like that.

[@cecilectomy]

@@NueThunderKing lol what? Chew and Choo are pronounced the same. Your full pronunciation is equivalent to his.

[@NueThunderKing]

@@cecilectomy nope, chew and choo are different, the pronunciation of both differ in that the first one has the sound of the letter i (in the way we pronounce it in spanish) that the later lacks.

[@cecilectomy]

@@NueThunderKing not sure how the Spanish pronunciation matters when the point is to show an ENGLISH speaker / person how to pronounce it. In English choo and chew (CHo͞o) are essentially the same. Also, as chew isn't even a Spanish word, the Spanish pronunciation matters even less.

[@NueThunderKing]

@@cecilectomy it matters if you are trying to explain how things are pronounced in another language, and I'm baffled you disregard it completely. Anyway I never ever heard people pronounce those two things the same, perhaps sometimes it can sound quite alike, but it has a clear difference.

[@weirdosheep619]

I love how Elliot has played so many poorly-emulated bootleg handhelds that he is now impressed by generic ripoffs of semi-competent existing games.

[@valiantm.r.5996]

Your dry humor makes these reviews even more enjoyable 😂 good content 👍

[@ghostfacekillah9275]

Send the planes one to Minimme. He's a huge fan of the movie

[@izzieb]

REVIEW DISNEY PLANES.

[@queen-elsa-arendelle]

Oh he'd put Tony Hawk's face on it somewhere.

[@GFY1997]

He passed away a while ago

[@Dunkelwald_]

@@GFY1997 no, he didn't?

[@JohnMackweb]

El Chu-pack-a-bra triggered me

[@EngineerOfChaos]

Honestly the Leap Frog one looks pretty cool for a Baby's First Console. I could see myself buying it for my nephew if it still exists in 2-3 years...

[@stefanegger]

Road Fighter is a NES game and you have to pick the white cars for extra time. Diamond looks like Arkanoid. Its not a bad game, its just "old".

[@mjdxp5688]

For Pyoro and Paper Airplane Chase alone, that Planes handheld is actually pretty neat!

[@nickymagro8753]

Hmmm did he sell his switch tho

[@TheJunky228]

sold it for $800 on ebay

[@nickymagro8753]

Oh

[@TheJunky228]

@@nickymagro8753 I should clarify I don't actually know whether he did or didn't

[@nightsflameoutdated3864]

With $800 he could’ve bought two switches

[@TheJunky228]

@@nightsflameoutdated3864 for mrsp, but they've been selling at way inflated prices from scalpers and whatnot recently-ish

[@CarlosHernandez-nf4xd]

9:11 That's Quarth. I played the Gameboy version when I was young and it was a great puzzle game. Best way to describe is like reverse tetris except you have to fill in into a block so it will disappear.

[@megamanfan3]

This one might be based off of the arcade version.

[@jensjohansson4243]

5:35 It sure is like a Game&Watch game. It looks a lot like "Fire" on Game&Watch.

[@joshandrews8913]

The game at 9:12 is a reskin of a game called Quarth, which was a game for the original Game Boy. It's like an alternative to Tetris. You shoot pieces at the falling shapes to fill them into complete rectangles to make them disappear. How do I know this? I buy and resell Nintendo handhelds on EBay, and luckily Quarth came with one of the first ones I got. It was lucky because it's the only game I can use to test the DMG's and GB Pockets.

[@bland9876]

9:15 for a brief second he's playing a game where you have to make squares you basically have a gun that shoots a one square wide square and you have to make squares out of it or rectangles the bigger the more points

[@speedwaynutt]

These might be cool but are they better then the Pop station line up. Ashens over the years has clearly proven the Pop stations are the greatest thing ever hahaha.

[@dittoisdone]

I was so excited to get the game and watch style ones when I was a kid! Fond memories of playing a version of Keystone Kapers on a road trip.

[@ToxoRetro]

Keystone Capers! Nobody ever mentions that Atari 2600 classic. 😀

[@samuelrobertson3767]

I had a leap frog as a kid! They were used as like a learning device back then but they were way low tech compared to now lol

[@shept.7736]

I think I was lucky to grow up with a dirt cheap ds lite (which I still own) instead of a cheap emulated gameboy clone

[@willhalbrooks1411]

The planes one actually has me intrigued.. not what I thought would happen before watching this video

[@Ryyi23]

Ever since I first saw it, I've always thought that the Leap Frog Twist is the best introduction to video games for very young kids.

[@serbiti64]

Best part of the video... 08:48 Having Elliot say "El Chupacabras"!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Evercade_Effect]

Thanks for testing these odd devices. If planes was $9.99 and available in the US I might legit buy it.

[@JoeyDoesTech]

That Panda game music is something straight out of a horror film.

[@pental.a.d.3289]

Who keeps buying these, outside of people making vids on them I've never seen anyone buy this type of thing

[@pental.a.d.3289]

@mcchrism SO YOU'RE THE ONE KEEPING THEM IN BUSINESS

[@RiderLeangle2]

I assume parents who are very cheap and don't trust their kids with/want to give their kid something good

[@rzygam_tym]

my parents xD

[@Dargonhuman]

@@RiderLeangle2 Or well meaning grandparents who don't know any better. "Is this that Apple Microsony Nintenstation he keeps talking about?"

[@WintrBorn]

I loved these things back in the day - I still have my old Tiger handhelds, and they were pretty good back in the 80s.

[@kbramlett6877]

Disney's Planes was a Disney Animation Studios spin-off of Pixar's Cars with the main character Dusty Cropduster being voiced by the comedian/actor Dane Cook. Even though Pixar is owned by Disney, Planes had nothing to do with the Pixar division.

[@bland9876]

Speaking of that last one having a bunch of weird buttons back in the day I'm talking when video games were very very very new a company called Atari came out with a video game system and it had two controllers that you could use with it that were the standard 2 one looked like in arcade joystick with one button next to it but the other one was really weird it looked like a volume knob from a music player and you could control the game that way they were referred to in instruction manuals as paddle controllers it's been like 20 or 30 years since that system came out and yet I've never seen another system to do such a thing just imagine the video games that you could create with the power of say an Xbox series X but with a different controller than the standard one

[@RyanRommes1337]

That panda song is a banger

[@RockRedGenesis]

What I wouldn't give to see a "1-Grit" tear-down of these handhelds!

[@bulldogtonyyt1116]

Chupacabra, CHU-PA-CA-BRA as in Devil Dog, and in CARS/PLANES universe, is a legendary tale from Mater!

[@peachjackson3856]

I like seeing these types of silly game gadgets even though I don’t think I’ll be picking any of them up. Still fun to watch. Cheers!

[@cbmysteryracerDEV]

The bird game on DSiWare you're thinking of is called Bird & Beans, and the bird character's name is Pyoro.

[@Slooby]

selling my soul for a Lexibook Frozen kids toy

[@darthgroover]

Road Fighter is an actual NES game by Konami, so it certainly is a famiclone and all the games are some hacks.

[@DavisMakesGames]

Nice! The 8 in 1 really reminded me of the Pocket Arcade kit from TinyCircuits, that might interest you.

[@julien2983]

Road Fighter was a famicom game from konami, I remember it well.

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

The machine itself for the 8-in-1 handheld was quite good though. I wonder if it might be possible to get an emulator of that thing, probably put some NES, and Master System games on it.

[@austinkoeppen6122]

The cheap handhelds of today are worlds better than the cheap handhelds from when I was a kid.

[@MikeSmith-is3su]

I bought a wowstick thanks to this channel. The smartest purchase I made in a while.

[@collinlim6]

You should try to modify the dusty one into an iPhone looking console! Would be so cool and would look really slick to carry around:)

[@raffitz]

The Spring Bros one is a reskin of a classic Mario Game&Watch Gallery game (not an actual game&watch game) called Fire.

[@puissantpoisson]

for the 8 in 1, I recognised the Diamond game, it's been used in other consoles (famiclones one, liek the N-joypad), though the version I played had more stuff on the right (number of lives and such) If I remember correctly. So I wonder if they actually modified the game, or if they just didn't display everything on screen.

[@puissantpoisson]

according to english wikipedia on the n-joypad, Diamond is a game from a company called "Nice code software", and after some googling, I stumbled across a wiki about bootlegs, I saw the name of the company changed multiple times, but I also saw this: "Diamond - Arkanoid clone coded from scratch; the goal is now to hit the diamond at the top instead of destroying all of the bricks. Three different graphic hacks of Diamond exist, all under the same name, along with a title hack called Blocks Array (VT02)." If one of the version doesn't show the HUD on the right, that would explain it.

[@cassyrea3726]

your pitch for the leap frog at 17:35 is hysterical "if you enjoy lots of visual things and moving things and lots of sounds and colors and lights" .... so if youre a baby?

[@wardrich]

14:40 lol - "Okay, so we've designed this racing game for a console with A and B buttons. Let's set B to Accelerate and A to Brake!"

[@azumarill1403]

That last one is pretty cute ☺️

[@auto1lija]

Road Fighter is an actual licenced NES game

[@AmartharDrakestone]

"Nintendo weren't that stingy" - I specifically remember getting both the Game Boy (Play it Loud transparent version) and the Game Boy Color (original purple) back in the 90s, and they did not include any batteries.

[@Katzelle3]

5:40 The Game & Watch game is called Fire and the background is from Super Mario World.

[@AIOctober]

Disney had a whole video game division for a while and their track record wasn't entirely solid but when they got perticularly great? They've made some of the best tie-in games out there, even kinda tried their hand at being a competing AAA studio for a bit before they bet their chances on "Disney Infinity" instead, to interesting results. I hope they're happy that when they trashed that entire video game division, they traded that for suspect partners to farm out wasteful, junky *tat* just because they wanted to put "Frozen" stuff on more things wether they're good or not. I almost feel like that's a metaphor for their creative choices once they decided they could just buy IPs rather than help foster more creative stories (despite many folks from within trying their best with the actual content) but I dunno, this makes me sad. @.@

[@Daminite]

Rather than the Gameboy these are more closely the evolution of Tiger Handhelds.

[@sheik124]

Spring Bros is Game & Watch "Fire"!!! It looks closer to the version from Game & Watch Gallery, which is why you probably recognized it almost immediately.

[@jvampyre1744]

I'm here for the EPIC chupacabra pronunciation!!! That was great!!!

[@tombuster]

That game at 9:12 was actually a multiplayer gameboy game called "quarth" once you get the hang of it, it's a blast!

[@BenjaminHari]

The planes one was actually somewhat decent. Nice screen, actually decent and much better quality games than anything else, not to mention the smoothness of the games and the portability of the device is really big plus. If I was somewhere without my switch and maybe even without my phone I would actually have fun playing that lol.

[@jodiemcclure7854]

I got my son the leapfrog rocket twist both purple and green and he loves it to pieces

[@StevenS757]

Leap Frog has been in the educational toy game here in the US for quite a while now. There are a well known brand

[@BernicePanders]

Thank you for the variety, and for making me laugh during one of the worst times of my life... 💜🙏

[@orlenoggenni7510]

I have a game and watch gallery that includes a game similar to “Spring bros”. The game is called Fire and you have to save baby’s from a burning building.

[@wardrich]

Haven't gotten to the part in the video yet, but Leap Frog is actually a really well known company (at least in North America) that does a lot of early-years tech stuff. Actually pretty quality as far as early years edutainment goes.

[@paul2062]

im so glad you sorted your camera positioning out!

[@Mr_Man1928]

6:05 That is a reskin of a game&watch game called fire. (or fireman.)

[@Hyreia]

While not Gameboy killers these blow Tiger Electronics out of the water. Those screens are amazing! And your favorite pick does seem to have a lot of nice mini games on it. If you were on a roaddtrip or something and didn't want to run your phone down playing games, I could see this being viable. 10 year old me would have loved it.

[@kelleyb2463]

You just started my Christmas present list! Now, if I could only find those Dusty planes handsets in the US :( Thank you for the reviews!

[@lykosleather7515]

would be really cool if someone could make a handheld that plays flash games.

[@areallydepressedfish5201]

I forget that people outside of North America don't all know the legend of "El Chupacabra".

[@SuperFigures-ql2dv]

I actually had a very similar console to the Planes one when I was a kid but mine was Spiderman themed And yes it did have Pyoro on it

[@SATOhara3173]

I'm so glad you stuck Dusty on your face at the end

[@Neskicks]

My son has the Leap Frog Twist, and it's pretty neat, but it emits a TERRIBLE super-high-pitch tone that drives my wife and me crazy, even when it's turned off. Its like the high-pitch of an old TV that's on but not playing anything. The only way the tone stops is if the battery is dead. There is a platformer game where you help a sludge-type creature get off a spaceship that uses the D-pad and the three colored-dials to raise and lower platforms to guide the creature. Most of the games only use one or two control inputs at a time.

[@SunnyViviews]

i still have a very old leapfrog device that i played as a kid, loved playing all the learn games they just seemed to be normal games

[@ParanoidThalyyMVS]

I sold my Switch and bought a Wii U, my best decision regarding video games.

[@Kayreku]

The last one is such a cool idea

[@unstableturtleduck]

Seeing you get excited about the leapfrog is great

[@TheGlitchyGamecubeKid2]

i wake up, i go to youtube, who do i see? A LEGENDARY KZbinR! THE RETRO FUTURE!!!!

[@kesselsauer4441]

Last time I was this early, Mario still had brown sleeves.

[@SansBinky]

Ball Bladder is where it's at! I live in New Mexico, USA and the chupacabra is a real thing

[@The-Will-Billy]

the dpad problem is similar to the switch pro controller dpad problem where if you hit the the sides of the dpad occasionally it will do an up or down input. Except the frozen dpad looked way worse than the switch one

[@lazuardirinaldi7516]

7:51 Yooo nostalgia just hit me with that DSi exclusive Paper Planes oof

[@SurmenianSoldier]

Not really exclusive since it originally was on WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgames!

[@ΔημήτριοςΦιστουρής]

Hi I love your modifications to advance Gameboy and the original one especially with medroid can u please tell me what screwdriver to use to replace the frame from it thank you and I'm big fan of your work honestly

[@jelly063]

5:47 This is Game & Watch - Fire.

[@PhantmZero]

do the screens fit in any gameboy maybe?

[@f4rr3r]

I’m glad someone else shares my nostalgia for the Warioware re-releases on DSiWare