A look at some Game.com games | Ashens

[@MartKencuda]

Well, if anything that Resident Evil game was at least TRYING. It was certainly ambitious. I mean, at least it wasn't just a generic sidescroller like what the back of the box looked like it was going to be.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

it could have been fine had they made the controls at least somewhat intuitive.

[@DmitriyK12]

🙄🙂😓😋

[@DmitriyK12]

Mortal Kombat: Senior Citizens edition ; joking aside, the frame rate and screen tearing really did need to be addressed before MK: Trilogies hit store shelves or yard sales. If only Tiger Electronics LLC waited a few years and released / made or created a newer Pocket Pro DX (coloured sprites over a larger display/screen) then it would have been a true competitor to the other handheld devices of the 1990's - 2000's...oh and if the ram was increased, and CPU/motherboard included a faster processing CPU !!!🙈☹️😰🤐😊😍😬😵😱😲

[@Mega_Umbreon]

The "eastern european" music from the Sonic Jam title screen is the music from the Sonic 3 load/save screen slowed down and made into ear piercing pain

[@rushhq0]

Hello. I know that this is old, but when you also get into a game it plays mushroom hill slowed with quite a few note in the wrong tune entirely.

[@onkkell]

I find it funny that a game where half of the characters look different only in color scheme is available for systems with monochrome displays.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I know, why did they ever think Sonic would be suitable on a mono display? Trolli Gumi Bearz

[@JR-gl1nx]

At 1:06 when his face reflects in the screen it looks like he is wearing some kind of elephant mask, quite creepy!

[@mephistosprincipium]

the awkward moment when you see yourself in a reflection

[@JR-gl1nx]

Knut Kniffte Yes, that is why I put the word "mask" right there in my comment... Perhaps you should properly read a comment before posting your redundant, smug little replies.

[@KnutKniffte]

Alex R Thanks 4 the reply brrrrrothaaaa

[@fauxcuss]

+Knut Kniffte Why are you deleting things brrrrrothaaaa?

[@levicassidy9312]

hey it's better then the shit you millennials come up with today like phrases such as "i'm dead" wen things are funny or "it's Lit or stay Lit" wen trying to sound cool or bruh or boi wen someone makes a stupid comment and last but not least the most dumbest move i have ever seen become a thing that spread like wild fire that refuses to die out is the DAB move where it looks like your covering a sneez ...... but how we talked in the 90's is weird? hmm i think you need to look at the shit you kids do in today's age cause wow just wow LOL!!

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

0:20 "Click here now, too late now it's gone" You just had to make fun of annotations disappearing forever eight years before it happened, huh?

[@Rakshasa1986]

It's called Sonic Jam because Sonic moves like he is stuck in an endless ocean of coagulated jelly.

[@Clarissa_Star]

No blast processing here, sadly.

[@marshallperry2446]

There is blast processing. it processes for a few seconds if its on before you chuck it next to a cartoonist.

[@eptio9849]

i thought jelly was supposed to be coagulated

[@gestaposantaclaus]

Our jelly is what you call jam. Its not a solid.

[@foxerboxer2123]

Anubis I thought it was because Sonic's brain was mushed into a jam-like paste.

[@theslushygoldfish]

This dude is the best! This is an old video, and the comments are probably dead by now, but he cracks me up

[@AlphaOmegaSin]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who ever had to suffer through the RE2 port on there lol

[@datasilouk1995]

I was hoping to see Duke Nukem 3d as mentioned in the other video.

[@15-Peter-20]

Try retrez channel

[@Seawolf.Gaming]

"THERES NO SUBZERO OR SCORPION! YOU CAN'T HAVE A MORTAL KOMBAT GAME WITHOUT SUBZERO OR SCORPION!"

[@Ben-in3sb]

Maybe they were the secret characters

[@Seawolf.Gaming]

+Cat Burger my comment was a quote from AVGN, and no they were not the secret characters.

[@LoponStormbased]

I know this is a year old comment, but, they probably didn't have them cause... it's monochrome... hopefully you understand why that'd be a problem haha.

[@MrSnake-dh3hu]

Loponstorm Your comment is now also a year old, but Scorpion and Sub-Zero were included in the Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat. And no, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell them apart.

[@thekungachunga4578]

I mean, technically you can have a MK game without Scorpion or Sub Zero. It just won't be a very good one.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

"Click here now!!" RIP annotations

[@-throat-]

you think THYAT'S bad? I have a Chrome extension that actually restores annotations so you can see them again! But for some reason this video's annotations didn't get saved...

[@DeadwingDork]

That Sonic Jam boxart is actually from Sonic R. Weird wild stuff.

[@AustinofEarth]

It might have been ill-conceived but you have to agree that putting RE2 on this thing was a pretty crazy accomplishment. Id buy this just to look at that, actually.

[@SK33T2000]

Same

[@BIaziken2]

AustinofEarth too bad you wouldn't be able to see it.

[@Metalfacejoel]

It's not even the same game. There are like zero similarities outside the basic aesthetics and plot.

[@1111-e4p]

they also somehow managed to force sonic, mortal kombat, and duke nukem onto this thing doesn't mean they work.

[@meowistforlife]

??? Look at it, yes. See, no!

[@CrabJock]

1:06 What the hell are you wearing in that reflection? It's creepy as hell. It reminds me of the Grand high witch in "The Witches".

[@wazfallout3pokey]

That look incredibly creepy.

[@Bugsaresocool]

I'm watching at night and I think i shat my self

[@wazfallout3pokey]

Bugsaresocool It looks like he stuck a tea pot on his head.

[@somekindoflandcow]

probably the noseybonk mask

[@JeanMarceaux]

@@somekindoflandcow most certainly

[@radicaledwards3449]

ahhh so it was tiger who started the .com boom!

[@Sb129]

Lol, makes me think of the .Com bubble

[@emolgatheelectricsquirrel6734]

Radical Edwards it's the illuminati😱😱

[@dannywapbang]

That was 1995, Tiger made this in 1997.

[@FrontierJazz]

It is incredibly sad when even vintage Sonic Team can't produce workable music for your system.

[@dannywapbang]

Tiger composed it in-house. Speed up the "music" by 2x. It's Sonic music, but random trills, like America imitating Japanese music.

[@TrueUndergroundStyle]

I used to have one of these when I was a kid. I left it out in a tent for an hour and the heat literately turned it demonic. It would rarely turn on and when it did, it would make really loud noises and the screen would be all messed up.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

I can't unhear it since I heard someone say it years ago. When the system is powered on. "Gamecom. Fuck you."

[@BarHonigfeld]

I wonder if you could technically hook up a better screen to that.

[@mustangmckraken1150]

Bär Honigfeld There's an emulator for it, too, it doesn't look half bad on a monitor lol.

[@DisturbedOneX]

Damn, congratulations. You deserve an award for such a daring, courageous lifestyle. One could only dream of the heights you've reached.

[@glitchedoom]

"Completely collapsed into a jerking mess" Sounds like one of my average Saturday nights.

[@SparrowwithaMachinegun]

When the box said "portable game T-Rex" I honestly thought it was a Jurassic park game where you play as the T-Rex :(

[@flix3497]

02:49 Did the console just say "Fuck you"?!

[@MiiMaker]

+Flix The Soulless "Game com Fuck You" xDDDD

[@istealmemories4091]

I heard active which is what it really said but uhh I guess I can see why you would hear that

[@MaximilianBrandt]

Literally everything in this console says "fuck you", starting from the screen and ending in games.

[@DrBreakfastMachine]

I think that the Game.com is actually ancient technology left here on Earth by the Predator, and it's hard to see because of the characters are constantly turning on and off their early-model clocking devices.

[@taffypoodle7548]

GAME-COM ACTIVE !!!!

[@Ccoolty]

that's the soundbyte that plays when you enter the gates of hell.

[@dannywapbang]

"Grid... online."

[@AAAAAAAAA403]

GAYCOM ACTIVE!!!

[@JanoyCresvaZero]

Oh my God... This is the first time I've ever noticed, but the BGM for the Sonic game was ripped directly from Sonic and Knuckles! That's fucking Mushroom Hill zone!

[@christophermcavoy2530]

Did he have a mask on or is the reflection fucking with me

[@JanoyCresvaZero]

And while the R-Zone was awful, I could at least understand what was happening in the games I had. It was a Christmas gift from a distant cousin when I was about 8 years old, I can't even remember the games I had. It was the head strap version. I could at least follow along with what was happening, unlike the game.com which I couldn't even tell where Rayden was throughout the entire fight on Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

[@05Rudey]

Now I remember why I still used my original Game Boy from the late 80's to the late 90's. Eventually replaced by a series of Palm Pilots, though the first two were black and white, they did have a very clear screen and some pretty good games to download. We are massively spoilt for choice now.

[@MadTimmy]

This was the handheld I was stuck with for a couple years growing up...I had Lost world, Williams arcade collection, lights out, and Batman and Robin. When you played the lost world you didn't get passed the crappy driving part and onto the 2-d side scrolling part of the game. Its still crap though. The whole reason I asked for the handheld was because on the commercial they showed Duke Nukem 3d running on it... I was never able to find it in stores though and then saw a video of it on youtube

[@KirbyMario12345_939]

If you screencap at 22:31, it makes for a brilliant reaction image!

[@DylRicho]

They are in Britain too. Jam goes on bread, in sandwiches and toast, as well as in cakes, while jelly can go with ice cream or in a trifle and is eaten as a dessert.

[@EdgyShooter]

So was the screen originally this bad? As he does mention it's damaged?

[@VOAN]

10:25 - That screenshot is from the first Resident Evil game yet Tiger used it for this game. There's also a second model Game.com which came with a built-in light I believe that has only one cartridge slot. I think that one was much better but the light it use tend to cause glare so it's not as good either way.

[@VOAN]

***** Like I said, that screenshot is from the first RE game yet Tiger used it for this game. This game was not made by Capcom.

[@DaTmadChannel]

You thought Sonic Boom was bad? Sonic 06 being the worst Sonic game ever? Naw! Sonic Jam for Game com is the worst.

[@sternleiche]

at least the soundtrak is great

[@oldemail5568]

Well actually Sonic Jam for Game.com Did not count as a real Sega Game,It was a port so Tiger could make a few bucks.But u are true the port was crappy

[@Error52QFG]

It's a port of Sonic 1 somehow worse than the GBA version...

[@duckwantbreads]

+Nick Tucker it's actually not a port, they couldn't get the whole games to work so each of the games only has 4 levels that have no resemblance to the originals other than tile sets and enemies, the final boss in Sonic 2 according to Sonic Jam for the Game.com is the very first boss of the mega drive version.

[@1111-e4p]

I dont think they included sonic 1

[@Nayson]

6m17s That was almost as good as the Mel B/Eddie Murphy gag from the Kinnect games video. Bravo sir.

[@RobotwarsKing]

_"He's not my favourite hedgehog, anyway. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is my favourite hedgehog, get your facts straight!"_

[@JRWeezy84]

Wtf is tiggy winkle?

[@dannywapbang]

​@@JRWeezy84British literature

[@JanoyCresvaZero]

What the fuck is the noise that the person/dinosaur is making in the Lost World game?! It sounds like that German Shepard saying, "I love you!"

[@Lowmandavis]

Could one modify this game system replacing the screen with a modern LCD screen to get the games to look better?

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

Yes.

[@robertwayne20]

I love how the Sonic Jam game generically uses Sonic R's box art.

[@blodguizer]

The games are actually not bad, especially considering they were all done in house by Tiger. The reason they look so bad is because of the terrible screen.

[@killlannisters7195]

Yes, and because every game runs at 5 FPS

[@Holothurion]

Indeed. Played on the emulator available, on a PC monitor, both graphics and gameplay are improved a lot. On the downside, the emulator's FPS is a tad slower than on real hardware.

[@robloxmaster6816]

If I where to put an actual LCD screen on it or Liquid Crystal Display do you think that it would display better or do you think that it's the hardware

[@Holothurion]

With a better LCD screen than the one featured on the system, the output would be more crisp and defined, and a lot less blurry (the Pocket Pro version has a slightly better display than the first model, on par with the Game Boy Pocket's, with less of a ghosting problem). Still, the machine's hardware is seriously underpowered, and the games were too ambitious for it. Considering the system's limitations, Resident Evil 2 is good, easily the best game for the console. Duke Nukem is not that bad either, but a lot of content and animations had to be cut. Both William's Arcade Classics releases are also acceptable (some of the games included are seriously affected by the screen's blurriness, though). On the other side of the scale, Mortal Kombat Trilogy has good graphics, but most of the animations consist of only two frames (easily noticeable in the fighters' stance), the AI is predictable and very easy to beat, and the gameplay is really slow. The later also applies to Sonic Jam which, of all the bunch, is also the most hurt by the screen's ghosting, with both issues rendering it almost unplayable. The rest of the library falls somewhere in-between. All of them, with no exception, present control lag to a greater or lesser degree.

[@Holothurion]

Indeed (I assume you're referring to the emulator's FPS, right?).

[@chaosfood]

Actually, all British people are either Simon Pegg or the Queen. Any other person claiming to be British was actually one of these two in a mask. The more you know!

[@whatamiwatching2183]

15:52 This music gives more of a "Michael Myers is going to kill me" vibe than a "Raptors are going to kill me" vibe....

[@twistedtim21]

man this like another installment of "Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of"... unfortunately we have heard of it

[@Crispycheese7]

I stole one of these from Toys R Us when I was little.... I took it back!

[@TiberianFiend]

You should've burned it.

[@HazelTheHare]

Drink, check. Crisps, check. Headphones, check. Ok, Im ready for an Ashens night.

[@voxlvalyx]

This thing is terrible, and might be the reason *nothing* has a C and D buttons nowadays. The title should be changed to "A 'Look' at some Game.com games" Also, this is pretty irrelevant, but on the other versions of Resident Evil 2, the face that displayed in the opening cutscene was the stuff of my younger nightmares.

[@Enderfreaksgames]

***** Actually I got one from my grandma once and it worked pretty well it may have been garbage but it functioned and I had never experienced trouble seeing the screen.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

***** Neo-Geo had C and D buttons...

[@bearlyismyname]

+Shinku Quickman >nowadays

[@pferreira1983]

+Ailuri Catbear The player movements in Resident Evil 2 were more or less like the console and PC versions except slightly slower.

[@SomeBlokeOrWhatever]

A thing that doesn't often get mentioned about these old handhelds -- _Cheap LCDs are Ink Based, and they rot_. It's very likely that the GameCom wasn't _that bad_ back then. It _became blurrier_ over time and exposure to the elements.

[@23Scadu]

Then again, so could a Chihuahua. Actually, the raptors in the novel weren't even Velociraptors. Michael Crichton used information from a book that classified Deinonychus as a species of Velociraptor. Of course, Deinonychus is still fairly small, certainly much smaller than the raptors of the movie.

[@sr212787]

What was that reflection?! 1:07 Looks like an elephant nose and mustache, ha

[@MrTheMighty]

The Jurassic Park intro music reminded me of the Halloween theme.

[@JudgementPlays]

Not even my mutated roommate with fucking lazer vision can see this screen.

[@JudgementPlays]

Kris Bailey sure

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

Is he in the X-Men?

[@Zontar82]

can't wait to see more of these games....oh wait.. "This is absolutely the last time I have anything to do with one of these bloody things" o_o

[@TheParkerizing]

that T-Rex seems happy to meet the player...

[@NickUnitedKingdom]

whats that poking out from between t-rex's legs on the back of the box?

[@JackOfHarts96]

Christ! That clip at the end scared the shit out of me!

[@AgentTasmania]

I love it when he does something a bit silly and pre-planned. Spontaneity is good, but even the best improve is limited.

[@ODST_Viking]

Wait how did he know what a Stegosaurus looks like in the Jurassic Park game, but not when he built a toy one last week!

[@tacaloking4]

sadly i think this is tigers best work

[@LadyBloodyWrists]

Logan Thresher what about Furby or the robo babies and chi pets?

[@tacaloking4]

ok there best work when it comes to video games

[@hexyko4850]

They made interesting virtual pets but it seems like the rest is shite.

[@AAAAAAAAA403]

@@LadyBloodyWrists KEEP THOSE CREATURES OF HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!

[@DrGonzoOBoogie]

I think you did a Jurassic Park Lost World blind bag that had the same image on it as the front of this games box.

[@yetiv2193]

22:30 My reaction to most things on this internet.

[@gunfuego]

if you saw half the stuff I've seen you'd be stuck that way lol

[@unixfreak]

Haha. Used to have one of these as a kid... only ever had one game, was a batman side-scrolling platformer based on the film with the evil ice-dude. Can't say i've thought about the gamecom since i threw it out years ago. Gonna end up with blurry nightmares for years after watching this video....

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

Batman and Robin? Oh god.

[@MrRussor]

I think this thing could've been half decent if they'd just put a colour backlit LCD screen on it. It would've suffered the same battery life issues as the Game Gear, but at least the games would've been playable. It actually looks like it had a fair bit of power inside it for the time.

[@T3KNUG3T5]

The SM8521 is a pretty capable CPU. It just required a arse load of programming to get things to be at a decent speed.

[@AAAAAAAAA403]

It would have helped if tiger wouldnt develop the games in house

[@FrontierJazz]

And a surprisingly true-to-the-original sprite based recreation of Resident Evil! These are true gems.

[@Nickwithneighbors]

That sonic game reminds me if you would of played sonic and he was carrying cinder blocks over his shoulders.

[@StephenAlexWalker]

Sonic Jam was designed specifically for the Saturn it only came out on Saturn and Game Com.

[@DASyam-tb7qt]

"When I say punchy punchy, doesnt mean getting kickey-in-the-facey"

[@lockjawbob]

There WAS a Saturn version. I think it's the game I played most on that console, to be honest.

[@jomon324]

Did you know that in American supermarkets at the time of the Saturn version's release, there were actual jars of "Sonic Jam" being sold? Tails was orange flavored, Knuckles was strawberry, and I think Sonic was grape. >_>

[@lasertoothtiger]

5:52 they misspelled raiden.

[@glimdibby]

Sonic Jam will turn your brain into Jam.

[@Convector101]

Mrs Tigywinkle i remember her ohhh mannn the memorys of that little book !!

[@VioletKasuga1197]

Deadly force will be required, to see the damn screen.

[@nightwheel]

What you needed was a copy of Duke Nukem 3D for the Game.com. That game is well....... interesting.

[@jekblom123]

was this stuff even tested? its virtually unplayable.

[@StriderOwO]

jekblom123 The question is, was the Game.com ever tested?

[@shannettgoddett9086]

jekblom123 nope never in my prediction

[@jekblom123]

Shannett Goddett isn't that, like, law that you have to have testers though?

[@Silentsam90]

jekblom123 outside of anything to do with health and safety, not really. There's no law requiring QA, as long as you dont misrepresent your product.

[@TheMarc1k1]

Sounded like the Sonic Generations Hub Room music on the menu screen of Sonic Jam :P that just me?

[@ShiitakeWarrior]

lol @ "Sonic Jelly"

[@EvilKatarn]

I'm glad you haven't drunk that whole bottle of Tesco brand gin yet.

[@0lionheart]

Tiger is like the Seegson to Nintendo's Weyland Yutani.

[@TestaBottleZ]

Aric Dilbeck click the link in this guys comment to see some weird shit

[@Frogenshtein]

You should've tried Sinistar. "RUN, COWARD--I LIVE"

[@MrGlenbw]

19:41 - If you listen closely, you can actually hear Game.com saying, 'F@CK YOU'.

[@Bittergamer1886]

WOAH! I'M DETECTING MASSIVE SARCASM LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! YOU'RE MAKING IT GO OFF THE CHARTS! :P

[@justduncannohiro]

the stegosaurus sounded like a pullback car dying!!!(^-^)

[@Nyasahi]

What, you think it should be rated AO?

[@DragonUltraMaster]

"You can pretend something is happening" xD

[@editmangiffard]

Can't afford a Beard. So I'm growing turds into a member of U2. Yeah, that's right, I'm Living la vida Bono.

[@digipack]

"Rayden" though...

[@rustkitty]

Hmm, my favorite hedgehog is Hedgehog from the obscure anime miniseries Interlude. The best part is how it is somehow even less of a hedgehog than Sonic! I never knew that was possible. I have no vendetta against real hedgehogs, but they are kinda meh. I take a high speed wolf thing made of pure light any day of the week.

[@JohnSTF72]

Can't-see-a-damned-thing-.com

[@ChickenDelight131]

LOL look at the tags. "invisible bloody screen, eye pain, confusion, retinal agony" XD

[@bartwardenn555]

It's a glorified pop station

[@Knuxfan24]

Was Sonic's idle animation that unused falling asleep animation from Sonic 3?

[@zan7737]

I don't know, nobody can see the damn screen

[@Knuxfan24]

Played this on an emulator. & yes it is, in fact, he also does the unused Whistle animation as part of it.

[@felixlogographic2802]

Knuxfan24 Why would anyone waste their time programming a Game.Com emulator?

[@Knuxfan24]

You'd be surprised what people are willing to do

[@UndyingZombie]

If you knew how to play the games it would not have been soo irritating watching this. Since some of the things you where blaming on the game/system where actually your own doing >< Not saying this version of the games you showed here is not shite ( or the system itself ) just saying that.. a fair amount of misrepresentation is there..

[@robloxmaster6816]

Oh my god it's actually resident evil 2 not just some nock of with the same name

[@nogidoki3325]

did you really... just tried to defend that piece of crap in some way? lmao

[@David315842]

They did make a Sonic Jam for the Saturn, it had a 3-D overworld and all the classic 2-D platformer Sonic games on the Mega Drive. BTW Tiger's best product was the TALK BOY! :D

[@JonGee420]

The moment I saw the Tiger logo I knew you were fucked. I had a few of their l.e.d. games as a child of the 80's/early 90's

[@AlekTheNerd]

Cool story bro, and I must say; your ability to stay on topic is truly excellent.

[@nitori2005]

Ashen's laugh near the end made my day.

[@XaneMyers]

Why is Sonic Jam using Sonic R's artwork?

[@boeflexnick9715]

on the sonic jam they made "jam" red... LIKE STRAWBERRY JAM.

[@MoodersInit]

that music in sonic makes me want to play sonic and knuckles again

[@JensForum]

The hell was with the Ending!?

[@PhoneyGeek]

6 minutes in and I've lost the will to live. I commend you and your perseverance to battle through.