Gamate Review | Ashens

[@SendyTheEndless]

"Gamate", a.k.a we stuck the words "game" and "mate" together and never once thought to say it out aloud.

[@NovaCaine2489]

Orrr it could be said "gay mate"

[@virginiacharles5357]

And you are not even Greek, for me it's the funniest handheld name ever 🤣

[@IvanovIvanAKrutoi]

I say "Guh-mate".

[@archangelmichael5908]

Nothing wrong with that it’s practically the 80s

[@peterclarke7240]

@@virginiacharles5357 You're forgetting the Game Master...

[@Blade8745]

"Wanna go play football?" "No, sorry. I have to play with my gaymate." "You mean Gamate?" "What's that?"

[@gronkus4443]

Damn, you beat me to it 12 years ago

[@rockapartie]

@@gronkus4443 Hello, person from the present 😅

[@samholdsworth420]

I reported this comment for gay hate😊

[@TheDeldiz]

The games seem to be competently programmed. The main problem is the crap LCD screen.

[@ElectronikHeart]

As I can see, you can play a lot of balls games with the GayMate.

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

No-One-Cares fact of the day: The wolf on the cover of Brick Blaster actually is the end boss.

[@xj0462]

really?

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

xj0462 If I remember right, yeah.

[@xj0462]

***** ok

[@twudotJam]

Did you also have one of these junk piles?

[@xj0462]

Creative_ Name.exe no i havent....yet

[@keepXonXrockin]

"More obscure than an unpublished novel written by a 17th century Bavarian peasant who immediately ate the manuscript on completion then dropped dead" Hope my neighbours don't think I'm weird for hysterically laughing out loud at 11pm. Although, who cares.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

25 years later (21 years later when this video was made), and the unit and its games are STILL retail price, and that's second hand! Was there a time in the late '90s & early 2000s when this thing was cheap?

[@ryandevan2793]

Possibly.

[@dankhill6851]

the console is now between 200 - 500$ 8 years after this comment, most games cost between 100 - 200$

[@Knuxfan24]

I wonder what would happen if a Gameboy Pocket's screen was shoved into that.

[@brickbrainiac]

you could actually see without standing in the core of the sun and a mirror

[@JacksonJacoy]

+brick brainiac yeah, you would have to stand on the surface of the sun.

[@adamjensen1329]

Gamate...Gamete...That console was inspired by sex sells

[@thattwitalex]

Oooooohhh *SCIENCY*

[@TheMamaluigi300]

Alex Haines That’s the next generation of A S T H E T I C right there

[@LostRelicGames]

I had one of these as a child. It was a lot of fun, I had about 20 games. Anyway. If you stick a fork or any metal cutlery into the external adaptor port while playing brick blaster, you will get unlimited lives. True story, don't ask me how I discovered it!!!!

[@MikeUnderTown]

cool

[@TheConciseStatement]

Was hoping you were going to review a competitor to Grindr.

[@ChrisStoneinator]

Dino ball's physics look utterly bizarre. It loses all horizontal momentum when it drops below a certain threshold. Someone must have intentionally made it do that. Or perhaps the momentum values are really low resolution and the ghosting is doing a LOT of work to smooth it out when it's arcing.

[@GobotWars]

AvE: "Focus you FUCK." Ashens: "Focus- thank you." And here I thought Canadians were meant to be kind and British were supposed to be rude...

[@elephystry]

GobotWars IT WON'T CHOOCH!!

[@WinVisten]

GobotWars AvE? Who's that?

[@SuperDerpio64]

​@@WinVistenangry video game nerd you fat Thank You!

[@UltimatePerfection]

Hey, ashens, did you review some "brick games"? If so, please do that. They're actually pretty fun if not a little limited in terms of games they play. Just be sure to get brand new tho - the screen in those tends to fade away over time.

[@Rok_Satanas]

1:10 the way you said it at that moment is actually a Greek curse word which means "You(in Plural) are F***ing

[@realgamingfungus]

XD

[@elephystry]

Atanasov Goran profile picture checks out

[@Rok_Satanas]

conduit122 dude what?

[@elephystry]

Atanasov Goran I was implying that you looked Greek xD

[@EdgeRatedR007]

Gamate tous ga(y)mates

[@Geraffel]

In this video: See Ashens play with his gay mate.

[@TheLarryburns84]

You mean.. homosexual friend.

[@comradeurod9805]

Stefan Lightle dont put it like that

[@LiviuDragon]

its a game mate not gaymate

[@GabrielZ.]

@@LiviuDragon no it's a gamate

[@spacepirateivynova]

Sounds like the antithesis of Playboy Playmate... 'Playgirl Gamate'

[@Rhiorrha]

If that's not a dodgy title for a product, I don't know what is.

[@exodoniexodoni4415]

Doctor-it's a boy! What will you name him? Ashens-buppon

[@XYZB0RG]

and on that day buppon gammatey was born

[@cd-lf8xm]

I had one of these as a kid. They were sold at Target in Australia during the mid 90s when Asia presumably didn’t want them anymore :-) The tetris clone and a port of vindicators were the highlights.

[@wolfyboy]

let us all rejoice when BOPEN, ashens firstborn son, arrives!

[@jrmcferren]

That pinball game reminds me of "Revenge of the Gator" for Game Boy. The European version was called "Pinball: Revenge of the Gator."

[@Kumimono]

One of those annoying things, I have a memory, of a Finnish computer magazine (MikroBitti) in 19XX, which had an article about this system. I remember the layout, the colors, but not what they thought about it. Nothing pleasant, I fear.

[@thx134]

"hey jimmy what are you doing" "playing with my gamate"

[@NoFormalTraining]

I take one look at that thing and think "game gear". Then I go and look up SEGA's old hand held to refresh my memory and see they look nothing alike really. Oh well.

[@TheHutchy01]

Everyone loves their gamate. Mine's the only person I know who'll pay me for painting miniatures for one thing.

[@Killerkid451]

Gay-Mate Game-8 Ga-mate Gam-Ate i cant think of anymore

[@punkgrl325]

Seems like something I would have loved to have as a kid. Not too different from the Gameboy and appears to be more comfortable to hold. I feel like it could have had a shot if it had more commercial support. Oh well.

[@RTYalex]

69 games were made for the gamate

[@vsaucefanboi6966]

Nice

[@Skelig]

Nice

[@CaptScapegoat]

Nice.

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

Nice

[@SuperDerpio64]

Nice

[@SuperDerpio64]

Its been 12 years how's buppon doing?

[@KevinJones-bt7ib]

also was watching the game child video and made me think of the cheetah gamate, and I wondered if it was even real for a moment pmsl

[@yeahcjay]

I've once walked in my girlfriend's bedroom and caught her playing with her mate. She kept telling me that he was gay, so I nicknamed him "Gamate".

[@OfficialSnakerYT]

Gay Mate... Game eight... Gamartey...

[@harpdevil]

There is a console called the Battman that is just dying to be reviewed by Ashens. It's like it was built for that purpose!

[@DevilMaster]

My cousin had bought one in 1991 or so. It sucked ass, the screen failed to keep up with the games, so the only thing you saw most of the time was a blurry mess.

[@annother3350]

Gaymate sucks ass - there's a surprise..

[@DeadlySin2606]

Well in Greek gamate means "you are fucking" (plural). You pronounce it the way Ashens did in 1:10

[@killlannisters7195]

I was looking for someone to say that!

[@AntonisVloutis]

ELLADA REE

[@monkeybluecheese]

Γαμαμε και το ξερουμε!

[@DeadCrescendo]

4:18 "Very thin thing, very long thing, very black thing" L...lewd.....Too lewd...

[@BullsquidGaming]

+DeadCrescendo welll the game device sounds like gay mate so thats even more lewd .......every video always has a thats what she said joke in it

[@LemonChieff]

_-No "gay mate" joke, I'm impressed-_ Nvm

[@edbadyt]

1:06

[@roryhadley3811]

+edbadyt he said neverminnevermind

[@hobbified]

I wouldn't really call that a joke.

[@LemonChieff]

hobbified I guess it's only funny to gay guys o.o

[@joystickgummyfox]

Sure would make for an awkward conversation and reaction: "I used to have a Gamate (gay mate) but then I threw it in the garbage when I realized I could do better."

[@LiviuDragon]

ashens videos are great to watch when you sick or bored

[@Lukeno52]

One of the few of this sort of system that actually shows potential. A higher-quality speaker and a bit better screen could've made this a very reasonable little device for its time, and probably a half-decent competitor to the Game Boy.

[@vissova]

I would love to have a gay mate. ... Wait..

[@MrGameplayGirl]

lmao accurate

[@AgentTasmania]

I had one. Great friends for a long time but I haven't seen him in years and have no goddamn idea where he went.

[@obeseperson]

+AgentTasmania rescue him

[@emilsteph2]

vissova *homosexual friend

[@vjpearce]

0:25 You sure about the Gameboy? It looks like it was made to compete with the Sega Gamegear?

[@TXFDA]

It still annoys me that things like this can have a fully functional normal Headphone jack....but the Gameboy Advance SP didn't. I will never understand. And since it's the only GBA I have, it's a bit annoying. Wtf Nintendo?

[@samir.3468]

They wanted you to buy their special headphones with a proprietary jack because it gets them more money. IIRC GBA original did have a normal headphone jack. That and/or because of how tiny it already was, they didn't want to jam a 3.5mm jack onto it. Actually, looking at mine right now, there's not a lot of good places the jack could go without causing issues. Put it on the left or right sides and it's pressing into your hand as you play. Bottom is entirely taken up by the cartridge slot, and top is entirely taken up by the L+R buttons, charger port, and accessory port. They might could've jammed a 3.5mm there but it would've been a squeeze.

[@Charky_Creations]

Every Nintendo handheld before and since the sp (including the micro) had a headphone jack. Having opened one up, it's certainly possible it wouldn't fit - there's a lot going on for such a small board.

[@franziskavonmoore13]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but quid are slang for pounds pence are like penny's or I think they have penny's? Oh and euros are different country

[@changoelchango]

I think youre right. Nobody commented for like 11 years so i decided to not leave u hanging

[@advacardo1846]

you know mate, this is pretty gamate.

[@jokesmakemehappy4201]

In this video Ashens pushes his Gamates buttons but evidently gets frustrated.

[@plumbojumbo2190]

It looks like a Game Gear ._.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

vaguely the same shape, but not really.

[@kittykat1111111111]

Just on the note that you said the screen on the Gamate appears clearer on the video you said that about the Gameking thing as well. I think it was that anyway

[@SwedishGameNerd]

Nice! I had one of those when I was a kid, but later on sold it to a friend because I needed money for a Gameboy (which I later traded for a crappy Atari Lynx, but thats another story). I kinda regret that I sold it, but now I remember how much it sucked :) By the way, I really like your videos Ashen, you are very entertaining. Keep up the great work.

[@Uplink199]

I'm surprised Ashens hasn't done more old/knock off tech videos in the past few months. Those were always hilarious, I wish he'd go back to them.

[@augustwest5356]

where does it say "Deeno ball"? i see "Dino Ball" like dinosaur...

[@elephystry]

August West that's how he pronounces it

[@iaincowell9747]

10:17 Devil Crush. There was also a Mega Drive port called Dragon's Fury.

[@whutwhy]

it's not as bad as the pop station

[@umbaupause]

i laughed so hard when you mentioned the startup ding sound, because i was expecting that one too :D

[@a2pha]

Alright ! Finally a console that caters to my ... wait ... Oh, "Ga-Mate." I see ... nemmind. :)

[@JasonLihani]

2023 - the Wikipedia page hasn't changed since Ashens saw it.

[@XaneMyers]

That pinball game's physics...so BAD; It just seems to shoot the ball at whatever angle the flipper sends it flying and gravity never takes over until it hits something above it, then it falls STRAIGHT down until it hits the bottom; Even *I* could make a better pinball game than that!

[@Kanakotka]

I'd suspect you got the pronounciation right at 1:10 if it's a japanese unit.

[@douro20]

A very capable game system which was crippled by poor quality content.

[@jessitilbrook]

Are you sure that's how you decode the serial number? I have an old one and it says "0002839", any idea? cheers

[@ProtoMario]

Don't touch Golden Finger by hands, I have lived by that lesson my entire life...best 25 years evar!

[@SHGames97]

Leave me the fuck alone.

[@Misha-dr9rh]

@@SHGames97 No

[@SHGames97]

@@Misha-dr9rh well I appreciate your company

[@ploxioths]

What is that music at the end of the video? That's some great music.

[@niccage6375]

So those are sperm and egg cells?

[@RoboticRedstone]

Yes, their on your face. :P

[@CaptainJimp]

***** They're*

[@RoboticRedstone]

Modified Garry Oops. Sorry. It's a typo.

[@RoboticRedstone]

***** LOL *Facepalm*

[@RoboticRedstone]

***** I'm talking about you btw.

[@Adam_Dot_Com]

sounds like a good name for a Grindr competitor, right?

[@Person-fr5md]

In Sofa We Trust.

[@georgef551]

I'm thinking a 3'rd party manufacturer made theis and the Game Boy, as they are too errilly similar, even down to the 8x8 pixel font used in the games.

[@ziongite]

The quality of this unit is so much better than the Chinese ripoff units you reviewed, this one actually looks somewhat legit and like the games were properly made (for the time). Googled it, oh it's from Taiwan and not China, makes sense now, yes the Taiwanese seem to make things way more legit than the Chinese. I was thinking the whole time, this thing is just a little too well done to be Chinese, lol.

[@uselessDM]

@artrocker65 I don't know if you know it or not, but the word actually is cheetah, some kind of animal.

[@ProtoMario]

I wonder if this was produced when gay meant happy? If so then does it mean Happy Mate? .....either way it sounds like its for homesexuals?

[@FatherOfGray]

It's only 7AM over here and you've already made my day. XD

[@henry2ish]

It sounds like a shortening of "gamer gate."

[@kenetickups6146]

eh, kindof

[@SouthwesternEagle]

Pugia That would be some sort of political scandal in America involving a gamer.

[@henry2ish]

I'm aware which is why I said it.

[@augustwest5356]

this thing is obviously meant to trick people looking for Segas Game Gear, not Gameboy. It's shaped very similarly to the Game Gear, which is something ive noticed you never reviewed. You did the Sega Nomad, and those At Games emulator kind of things, bu5 why no Game Gear? Cmon Ashens!!! You gotta complete the Sega handheld collection!!!

[@queazocotal]

The gamegear came out the same year, probably later than the gamate. (gamegear october 90, gamate sometime in 90)

[@jazzthehampster]

Is it pronounced gay mate cause i need one

[@gamingisforeveryone5498]

You got one m8

[@elephystry]

Jazzlal37 right here c:

[@YoSoyConando]

I can't even remember if my original Game Boy ghosted. Did they fix the screens later? I didn't get one until around 1994 when I was 5. I know the Game Boy Color didn't really suffer from it. Lack of damn backlight was another story, I can't believe we didn't get a Nintendo handheld with a backlight until a GBA redesign.

[@Arualiaa]

Shit now I genuinely want a handheld called Homosexual Friend. With a rainbow shell and everything. I’d play the shit out of it in public.

[@XYZB0RG]

of course it's the guy who obsesses over a mentally ill 40 year olds shitty ebook

[@KevinJones-bt7ib]

pmsl I seen this in an old game magazine years ago, was it mean machines?? summit like that

[@zacotb]

Do you really pronounce it as GAYmate or is it Gah Mah Tey?

[@frankiesparkes3947]

No one seems to know

[@fuelx7]

@Flargsh It's not that hard to look at the bar that says 12:13 where I was able to conclude that this is 12 minutes of nonsense without having to fully watch the whole clip.

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

The gamate my wallet! interpret that as you wish 😂

[@ItsJustOkay]

I interpret that to be a blistering commentary on the public's fascination with celebrity over the problems rising in their own homes and communities.

[@lyrex687]

Kyogre's Hideout I interpret that as the cold and inevitable death that everyone is going to experience, with our lives being a mere speck on the Earths long lifespan, or ya know, the game ate my wallet. Either one works.

[@GuardYourFlanks]

I remember one summer I was going to order one of these things, but when I got home from vacation I had a Gameboy sitting on the table that I won through a Captain Crunch contest, so I never bought the Gamate.

[@nobodyimportant6071]

i love my gay mate

[@og4407]

4:58 and don't feed it after midnight

[@zouzouna89]

gamate means "f@ck" n greek

[@DoselH]

lol

[@-throat-]

“Fatck”

[@RoseVictor2008]

@GangstaHotdog Also some ads on youtube give you an option to skip but not many come with that feature ,so as you said adblock could be the problem extension.

[@IntoTheMindlessAbyss]

More like 'Gay-mate' am I right? lol

[@WH250398]

*homosexual friend

[@jupp8023]

The shanking level is over 9000 right now

[@neelav2394]

He literally just mentioned that in the video. Why TF do you repeat things like a parrot?

[@fatman24271]

@ashens nice camera what ar u using?

[@jujukawa8049]

the only way I think of this is gay mate

[@someweeb3650]

Juju Kawa thats because its the only way to think of it

[@Fuzy2K]

7:55 -- That kind of looks like the Daicon IV girl on the left there O_o

[@suspectsn0thing]

#GamarGate

[@aschnauzercalledfredv2749]

suspectsn0thing #GamateGate

[@kjw21411]

Where's the Vectrex cartridge from France?! :C

[@jcrowley1985]

Those games look like the card games for the Master System. Did you try putting one in a master system?

[@jenwww]

@GoucheGizmo you can disable ad from your setting too

[@sabbath1212]

if i had the money i'd commission someone to make an original RPG for this sadly forgotten gem of a handheld, which was a victim of its time, not its design, or its dream. it deserves to be explored to the limits of its capabilities.

[@JoelGloade]

i think if given the choice between the Gamate and the Super Child Prodigy the choice is fairly obvious, the SPC has apparently the 30 or so games that weren't released outside of Asia.

[@unused.christopher]

I read about this on Wikipedia and found this info: The easiest way to tell which type one has is by turning the Gamate on without a game in - the "bad" one displays horizontal lines while the "good" one displays a slightly corrupted checkerboard pattern.

[@veggielord1740]

So they made the screen out of Dot Matrix from Spaceballs?

[@Soraking007]

dose it have the game boys problems of ghost image where after you turn it off the image remains for a while?

[@Stenstorp]

That thing on the back about interference is almost exactly the same as the back of the gameboy. Just so happened that I had one next to me at the time.

[@Watswat5]

"It's a very thin thing, it's a very long thing, and it's got a black part..." Suppressed memories rising subconsciously.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

Looks like it shares the same LCD screen with the Gameboy