AVGN: Sega 32X (Higher Quality) Episode 26

Episode 26 of The Angry Video Game Nerd "Sega 32X". Presented here in higher quality than previously available on KZbin. The old upload was only 360p. This is 480p.
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[@ChapBloke]

"We live in the year 2007" God, where did the time go?

[@SolidSnake684]

fattoler I remember watching this around 2010 and thinking "man its already been a couple years". Well now its about to be 10, good lord

[@AzayBae]

Where did the hair go?

[@Ichverbot]

IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR

[@KyleAnvilSlinger]

Joshua Moon 2016 was the last current year.

[@MinusTheRogue]

fattoler ikr, that's already 10 years ago

[@slashbash1347]

"We live in the year 2007." AVGN made a market off nostalgia and now he's something people are nostalgic for.

[@kennethmelo6336]

It all comes full circle

[@adamsanter9385]

@@kennethmelo6336 The circle is now complete

[@KaijuForceNeo]

Here in 2024, they have at least fixed up some of the problems addressed here.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

"We live in the year 2007." Dam Son!

[@happypasta6]

Even this KZbin upload is double that (well the 7 part at least) and it's almost 10 years later now

[@TheBcoolGuy]

happy pasta Yeah. It's been a long time...

[@TheBcoolGuy]

***** "Goddamn! I probably made alot of people feel really old now. My apologies." I hate this. You're not a bad person for being a certain age. I'm younger than you. I'll bet you were born in '98. I was born in '00.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

***** Turning 16 in October. To be fair, some my age are really immature, but we're the same age in my opinion. I used to play with a '96er until I was about 11 (because his mother died...)

[@TheBcoolGuy]

***** Yeah. He doesn't speak to me or my mum anymore. He couldn't possible handle the emotional pain of it.

[@maximeclermont7064]

Well, we're in 2015... and THESE FUCKING BOXPLUGS STILL EXIST.

[@halfhawk718]

FUCK BOXPLUGS!!!!!!!

[@Theealterego]

Fuck Obama!!

[@glitchsmasher]

maxime clermont Shows how much you know about electricity.

[@XPSGames]

glitchsmasher can you explain why they are not a fucking piece of shit? I'm actually curious.

[@glitchsmasher]

Unpanted Lord Because if you have a box halfway through the wire, the wire will snap because it is too thin and if there is no box your console or whatever will be fried with hundreds of volts of AC electricity, that's why.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Funny fact: Sega actually made their own power strip when the 32X came out, that had enough room to plug in 5 AC adapters. They called it the Sega Power Strip. I've still got one of those in my closet.

[@MDCYouTube]

Yes & the power strip still cost a fortune used.

[@AwesomeCoolGuy2133]

+Akaihiryuu77 "Funny fact"? The hell is that?!

[@askmewhosjoe6682]

+Son Goku it's funny because it's a piece of shit

[@didma]

googled it, looks pretty cool

[@lazzaroscacerni730]

Yup. That's what the power strip shoud be

[@D41N]

"It's on life support." best quote

[@humanitysucks4025]

MCPRO1210 X who cares? Aside from you with your obsession for yammering at strangers. Whose names are in a language you don't understand?

[@habeanliliana5024]

"Humanity sucks" You're name is fitting because that's our condition at the moment, but it's not fitting because you commented on an anime hater, and hated him. To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd :"SHIT LOAD OF FUCK!" And:"I gotta send this fucking shit back to the fires of hell."

[@habeanliliana5024]

Humanity Sucks:"SHIT LOAD OF FUCK!" "i"m mamba24":"I gotta send this fucking shit back to the fires of hell.

[@beliar52]

like sonic in these days

[@HEYitzED]

Both of its slots are getting fucked at the same time.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

This video was made closer to the release of the 32X than to the present day.

[@madcat4563]

Thanks for that, now I feel older.

[@hitkid2456]

N-n-no, that's impossibleeee

[@theoneitself]

Now I feel like an OLD FUCK

[@FreneticZetetic]

I love this kind of thinking; it's my main mode lol. "More time has passed since this video was made, than since the 32X was launched and AVGN did this video". MY kind of logic!

[@erainmartinez8175]

why is this a thing?

[@herringway434]

its ten years later and they still have those god damn boxes

[@Kaissaz]

the nintendo switch too :D

[@metademetra]

Only things I own with a box are my speakers and my 3DS charger. Everything else either ends in an actual plug or a compact USB adapter I can easily fit other adapters next to.

[@Dray1147]

xbox one s puts the box IN the console, so that's a thing they can do. They just choose not to.

[@bdawgschnarr6623]

Joe Blow yup exactly why so many 360s red ringed too much hardware too compacted with no air flow shit suckkkks.

[@mickeymouse12678]

@@Kaissaz You're joking right? The Switch has a box???? What the actual fuck, Nintendo?

[@thrillshow]

"We live in the year 2007..."

[@halfhawk718]

its 2014 now.

[@latenitelui]

Bravo Hawk its 2015 stupid

[@vrabo3026]

Mr. StephanoCrazy It's 2032.

[@latenitelui]

no its 19XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[@vrabo3026]

Mr. StephanoCrazy What kind of a remark was that? You're not even trying. :3

[@adnanasif9538]

"Gamers are too smart to be suckered in" Yeah, about that.

[@retrostar-qe6hl]

Yeah let me guess you bought a Sega 32x

[@adnanasif9538]

@@retrostar-qe6hl No A Soulja Boy

[@retrostar-qe6hl]

Why

[@HEYitzED]

Yeah. People are actually buying Last of Us 2.

[@retrostar-qe6hl]

Hu

[@trollskullkid69]

8:26: James filmed that scene in his underwear. WHAT WAS HE THINKING?!

[@goldenkid0074]

+trollskullkid69 IKR. I Just noticed that

[@SyBabyProductions]

+trollskullkid69 Took me nine years to notice that, until just now.

[@Dill_Pickle1997]

+trollskullkid69 what the hell? James you perv nerd

[@haveyboythebighuggerkid7733]

DA HELL wheres your pants

[@thechuchofthecentury3853]

That's pretty funny actually

[@SKMP]

"we live in the year 2007, we shouldn't have these boxes." Well we live in the year 2016, and those boxes still fucking exist.

[@FunBoysGaming]

*2021

[@SKMP]

@@FunBoysGaming *Why are we still here? Just to suffer?*

[@sidefacingbri3340]

We live in the year 2021, and they’re still around.

[@prophswrld]

My switch charger? Has a fucking box. I mean come on, how much fucking shit goes into that box that makes it take up so much space?

[@SleepyTom2165]

I come from the future and the future sucks. Let's go back to the past, and play some shitty games that suck ass.

[@tompinks_]

6:10 After all these years, that STILL cracks me the fuck up. Amazing.

[@CattyMintgum]

2015 and we still got those Box plugs.

[@ZaBuKra]

+Catty Mintgum No way, on what? I haven't seen any of those boxes anywhere

[@DaveGrean]

+ZaBuKra My external hard drive, digital camera and iPod docking station all have one. Granted, I didn't buy them this year, but they're still pretty recent.

[@ZaBuKra]

Vuoto Well my mind is fucking blown then...

[@DaveGrean]

ZaBuKra The universe is full of fascinating mysteries.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

+Catty Mintgum We also still don't have self-lacing shoes or hover-boards. :)

[@SlyHikari03]

“Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!” The editing probably predated ytps.

[@MisterMalleable]

It’s got great stutter loops, that’s for certain

[@Decenium]

Just love that music comparison of Doom

[@rickmarr4478]

Proof that the SNES is superior.

[@akpokemon]

Seriously, that part shocked me! I thought the 32X was supposed to be superior hardware-wise.

[@noahmarini6787]

Gotta love GZDOOM.

[@theobserver4214]

Rick Marr Nah, PC is superior to the SNES with DOOM. Better music (SC-55 for days)

[@theobserver4214]

PyGuy PC is better, but SNES actually TRIED to sound good. 32x was no joke, the OPL version of DOOM's DOS music, and then put on the chip. It sounds like ass because it's an Yahama OPN chip trying to play something made for at least a Yahama *OPL*

[@DrShaym]

I just bought an external hard drive and the power supply has one of those stupid box things.

[@Vision-lz4ru]

Dam only 5 likes?

[@NourElRayes]

What are you doing here

[@soraiii7092]

You're here?!

[@Wflash00]

What's worse is that the PSone AC adapter has a wider neutral prong making it so you can't turn it around in tight spaces

[@patcahill3724]

This video is a classic and it still holds up

[@Zetzteno]

This review was made at the golden age of gaming and internet’s fascination with it. 2007 review still feels like it was made in 2020

[@wachinimagaming4898]

I didn’t start watching AVGN til around 2012, and Thinking back on the crap I used to watch on KZbin back in 2007, I’ve never considered how high the production value something like this on KZbin was at that time.

[@thecasualguy12345]

It's so weird after not watching these videos after a few years. It takes you right back to when you got so excited to see the new episodes with your friends and laughing our asses off everytime.. You could say. He definitely lives up to his montra.. And takes you "back to the past"..

[@BigDHomeVideo]

1:57 Ah yes my favorite video game, $4.99 The Dolphin.

[@xm_heecka.laddder.job_mx5962]

Does it really suck tough

[@Arz2003]

Hard AF game

[@brskywalker14]

“We live in the year 2007....” *take me back*

[@hitkid2456]

*to the past*

[@KaijuForceNeo]

Nada. I’ll tell you about the future, instead.

[@Choatemister]

2007... That was nine years ago. Jeez

[@SuperDragon978]

Choatemister 10 years ago now.

[@lilituthebetrayer2184]

+SuperDragon978, 4 more days to those 10 years now :D

[@truwho82]

Thomas Y-you too

[@truwho82]

Thomas kek

[@TheRealCSH]

Now it's ten years ago.

[@TBrizzle01]

2007 was the golden age of KZbin. So happy James still makes excellent videos.

[@KaijuForceNeo]

I’m happy to live in 2024. AKA, the Platinum age!

[@ZapperTheFox_]

3:34 Now we live in the year 2019 and we still huge boxed-like plugs.

[@esmooth919]

Right? I wish Nintendo would give us a travel size adapter for the Nintendo Switch!

[@hitkid2456]

@@esmooth919 I mean all you need is USB-C cable (although it's very strange that the adapter doesn't work the other way around; I've tried it).

[@KaijuForceNeo]

Here in 2024, these “Box Plugs” are designed with convenience in mind.

[@eyelove_owlcity]

"what were they thinking?" famous line

[@JerichoDeath]

Oh, Neptune. Never made it into this world.

[@kainhighwind2]

+JerichoDeath But it did give us Nep Nep in Hyperdimension Neptunia!

[@GrayMindedSoul]

SHIT I WASNT ONLY ONE

[@daddyinthestreetsenpaiinth9250]

What the hell did you say?! Neptune made to the world as a goddess with big titties and cute lolis!

[@Xenonfuji]

NEP

[@radioactiveriver6718]

Nep Nep

[@0mnicide]

6:11 is one of the best AVGN moments of all time.

[@TrentonBennett]

Those box power plugs piss me off to no end... -.-

[@pgtmr2713]

Trent Bennett They could design those to stack through the next one. So all the box power plugs go into one spot. Just design a limit to the number allowed to plug into each other or when a certain amount of amps is reached the last one won't turn on it's receptical

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

Trent Bennett Worst of all, companies still release electronic devices with such things, like the nVIDIA Shield Console...

[@glitchsmasher]

Ashley Wolf Well if you want to pump hundreds of volts of AC electricity in to your shield go ahead.

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

glitchsmasher Morons like you can't understand that I'm not wanting the disappearance of the boxes, but the detachment of those from the plugs, like the example AVGN showed with the Atari.

[@glitchsmasher]

Ashley Wolf Things like phone chargers and old games consoles use super thin wires that would be broken easily if there was a box like that, the only way to prevent that is to use bulky, thick cables like laptop chargers.

[@jert1000]

"It's on life support!" LMAO ... So true!

[@mc22b]

Higher quality' so we can see how dusty and dirty the console is lol

[@darklinggolem]

That requires a 4K Camera and TV. For more accuracy. Buy a OLED TV or a OLED/AMOLED Phone

[@charlescampuz5812]

DarklingGolem50 lol, no it doesn’t. 480p goes a long way in showing just enough detail, even on the worse displays.

[@xm_heecka.laddder.job_mx5962]

yeah, so what XD

[@Thehunterpwn]

RIp in peace 32X you tried your hardest but AVGN hated you still

[@Seth6581]

The ending was seriously EPIC!

[@DDRUTOU]

(During the 2020 pandemic) 2007 you say? Must be paradise

[@JM-sy5qv]

2007 when you could buy retro gaming for $2.50...Not long after this though. AVGN is probably a contributing factor to rising retro gaming.

[@thejamman4070]

I recently found a 32x in a pawn shop for $2.32.

[@pixel5708]

Did you bye it?

[@nathbro6247]

He should of

[@yobyckinfungal4283]

NathBro i found one for like $60

[@thejamman4070]

Pixel Man10 no. My genisis doesn't need this shit.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

I got mine for $9.99 shortly after the Saturn came out. I already had the Genesis and Sega CD (the Sega CD having two of my favorite games of all time, Lunar and Lunar 2). Then I got a bunch of 32X games for $5.

[@MegamanNG]

Another funny episode. It's one of these few episodes that make me not want to stop laughing. I'm serious. Here goes the Genesis, the SEGA CD and... bullshit. What a load of fucking bullshit. So freaking funny!

[@UmbreonFlash]

I am seeing you everywhere lately...

[@MegamanNG]

UmbreonFlash Why you ask? :) You know you're not the only person that said that.

[@mariofan649]

***** I am to btw I am one of your fans

[@MegamanNG]

mariofan649 Pleasure. :)

[@aimfuldrifter]

Word "bullshit" is so funny? Maaan, you have to have low needs :D

[@joshuahumes5548]

The rants about end labels and power thingys are my favorite things he talks about because it's so obvious

[@vroomkaboom108]

*WHEN DID THE IDEA OF SIMPLE CONVENIENCE BECOME OBSOLETE?*

[@stacksofslaps7442]

5:24 I genuinely thought he was making fun of the music but no.... thats actually the music

[@eduardomoeller657]

"we live in the year 2007" me in 2020: "I fucking wish"

[@emil2321]

I can't believe this happened 13 years ago, i feel old af

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

"Same thing is Atari: labeled,not labeled!" Frogger: *uno* *reverse* *card*

[@4Corry]

It was so sad to see him destroy that consoldering the prices on eBay.

[@4Corry]

@Risen General Hopefully.

[@4Corry]

@Risen General even if he has extras he could’ve not destroyed it. It was 2007 though so the prices may have been way lower then compared to now.

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

“We live in the year 2007” Hearing that 17 years later makes me feel old.

[@Derikimi]

Sometime I like to imagine that in the future people will review todays console just like this. ^^

[@MegaManNeo]

Teens and even younger kids already do so in some way. At least I used to be around younger people for a certain time who used to go wtf whenever they saw something 8 or 16 bitish.

[@Lamarfin]

I don't think you can review x360 or PS3 in the future. Because those consoles will break in few years.

[@MegaManNeo]

Lamarfin That's an argument, most modern devices will probably although I like to think some people still will be capable of repairing those things somehow. Then again... I don't mind as long as we can somehow emulate those things. And more importantly... the actual good consoles staying alive (NES, SNES, MD/GEN, DC, GC, GB, GBA)

[@DenSvartaStjarnan]

Lamarfin My Xbox broke after 2 weeks, while my PS3 is still working perfectly, besides a few rare crashes. I guess someone will have to never use his PS3 until the day comes. The Xboxes are all defect in one way or another, so that really is fucked.

[@Lamarfin]

DarthUno I have to agree. Xboxes are fucked. The whole RROD thing was horrible. If I am not too wrong PS3 didn't have huge problems like that.

[@r3znor_x]

Gotta love how even 13 years later we still have box-shaped ends to A/C adapters on a lot of devices that don't run on USB. The 5200 was on to something.

[@Briskeeeen]

They're power supplies used to step down the voltage of the wall into something that won't immediately kill whatever you're powering. They're bulky because they physically have to be, you can't make software to stepdown voltage, so you need actual components which take up room. If you don't want all of that heavy, bulky, heat producing components inside your system, then you have no choice but to make a box.

[@jonathanjollimore7156]

The description of 32x get me every time

[@Gideon_Judges6]

Gotta say that SNES music and sound was much better with that SPC700 chip. You can thank Sony for that.

[@askmewhosjoe6682]

Yes sir

[@ItsB1998]

lol yeah the 32X sounds like flaculance

[@LunarDelta]

The QSound system in the 32x was extremely poorly documented, apparently. You know what else was terribly underused? The Ricoh sound chip in the Sega CD. Not every game for the SCD used CD audio, and almost all of those disappointingly used the YM2612 for sound instead of the Ricoh chip, which is a shame because the Ricoh chip had eight channels of ADPCM, with volume control, panning, and even ASDR envelope support. The only thing it didn't have was an echo/reverb filter, which isn't that big a deal. TBH, they should have given the Genesis a chip like that to begin with.

[@Gideon_Judges6]

+PiccoloNamek you know your Sega hardware. I studied Nintendo and Playstation consoles hardware a bit, but skipped over the Sega ones for some reason. The music on a of sega games always reminded me of the later Yamaha chips like OPL2 and 3. I'm guessing it had an older yamaha chipset. Very 80s synth sounding. Thanks for the info.

[@LunarDelta]

Yeah, the original Genesis had a standalone Yamaha YM2612. Other versions had a YM3438 that was integrated into a general purpose chip on the motherboard. The latter was better because it had far less DAC noise, but also worse because people had actually been creatively using the DAC noise to make special effects and now they couldn't do that, and games that made use of it wouldn't play back properly. The new chip also had a terrible amplification circuit.

[@gabitron9000]

Dat flaming compound bow though.

[@Zontar82]

i loved when avgn did its reviews in this spontaneous,critic attitude,rather than the family friendly,calm attitude of nowadays

[@UXMusic]

family friendly? lol

[@SKMP]

I don't know what you've been watching, but I don't recall avgn ever being family friendly

[@mutantfrogs]

“We live in the year 2007” 13 years later and still going strong!

[@samuellayton3539]

"We live in the year 2007..." Greetings from 2021!

[@AW-ci9yn]

Hi 2021, 2045 here. Walls don't exist anymore so we don't have to worry about those ridiculous adapters.

[@firdauskotp]

Sega doing an EA before it was cool.

[@Acorn212]

It never was cool, we hate it.

[@esmooth919]

No. EA is just a greedy corporate fuckboi of a company. Sega, on the other hand, ran themselves into the ground by constantly making bad business decisions, giving a lot of their innovation a bad name.

[@Badget007]

"When did this idea of simple convenience become obsolete" Wanted to say that to phone companies removing the headset port, sim tray and memory card tray

[@davidvanhorn193]

"When did this idea of convenience become so obsolete ?" My favorite quote of the video, Lol...

[@juggernautakira]

This, THIS type of avgn review is gold. Its simple, focused, and not stretched out. I love these reviews. James, stick to the basics!

[@johnnytyrrell7060]

Who else is looking at this in June 2019 or later.🏁🏁🏁🚂

[@riflebusters1]

Meeee!!!!

[@marioskoutras6583]

2016 and we still have these giant boxes!

[@PinkManGuy]

3:33 "We live in the year 2007!" is legitimate psychic damage. I feel so old now.

[@XxWolfcastlexX]

We live in the year 2019 and I still see these huge plugs everywhere

[@stefanm.734]

It's kind of sad how almost a decade later, some cords still put the transformer on the plug rather than the cord.

[@MegaManNeo]

I remember watching the original upload like million times. Also, is it just me or does anyone else want a 32X more badly than before? :þ

[@jonyboyishere]

The way the super nes is so tidy with the control wrapped up compared to the sega mess lol!! what a fan boy :) love this

[@basslinepromotions]

I fuckn miss the old nerd episodes they feel so much more angry and real

[@lopson8683]

6:30 I'd like to point out that 2007 AVGN doesn't have Snatcher or Knuckles's Chaotix but has like four copies of Slam City.

[@T3KNUG3T5]

Nice pfp

[@DJnedKnowledge422]

could be from buying bundles on ebay.

[@esmooth919]

They might have been donations. He spoke on that before too

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

“We live in the year 2007.” God I feel old as fuck sometimes

[@Just_a_Lad]

When this video came out Sega 32x was less than 15 years old. Now in 2020 we're watching a video which is less than 15 years old. Time definitely flies.

[@stealthxero]

Man this episode always brings back memories. I got one of these for free from my neighbor when I was a kid. I have fond memories of it, even if it still didn't stack up to the SNES. I still remember playing Tempo and Knuckles Chaotix a ton

[@isbryanflyingordying2202]

Fun fact someone hacked the files of virtual fighter and found models of sonic and tails that work they were suppose to be secret fighters

[@mikediloreto5965]

The second cable from the Genesis to the 32X is due to (I believe) the 32X doing all the work, with the Genesis essentially providing controller signals. You could probably modify it to work as a standalone console

[@mikediloreto5965]

I don't think it was that severe. That just seems very implausible to begin with. I don't even think it damaged the Genesis at all.

[@jarnoob]

Mike DiLoreto the second cable is there because the genesis drew the characters etc. and the 32x infact only drew the background. So the video signals were merged in 32x. And yes, this is the worst imaginable way to do it.

[@downsouth420]

You can. I've seen people solder the 32x processor to the Genesis and simply use the Genesis to play 32x games. Not that there is anything worth playing.

[@meetoo594]

@jarnoob It was the other way round, genesis drew the backgrounds whilst the 32x overlaid the 3d graphics and sprites. 32x wasnt bad actually, space harrier and afterburner were pretty much arcade perfect and virtua racing and kolibri were far superior to anything a base genesis could run.

[@billyho7747]

Wow!!!! Watching in 2019 and after only a couple mins of this and i gotta say that Cinemassacre and AVGN have came a long way!!!

[@Marcos_Ledinich]

I will never get tired if this videos

[@DaelinZeppiTheComputerGamer]

Yes, this may be my favorite AVGN episode.

[@AndySprings]

You said like you were asked

[@Wanking_wanker]

3:31 I bet he would be angry that in the year 2020 the box thing is still an issue

[@marinaraman8238]

13 YEARS LATER THEY STILL HAVE THOSE THINGS WHY.

[@bachzettey3207]

best way to spend quarantine, watching old avgn 🙏

[@gggggg5162]

Dear god ,2007?still 12 years later and we STILL watch this

[@eyelove_owlcity]

Sega does desperate thing but Nintendon't

[@esmooth919]

Virtual Boy says hi

[@villemallasto9949]

We live in the year 2007 😂

[@Bluedemons213]

Already the end of the decade I’ll miss the memes, games, tv shows, and everything else. The things this guy said tho, I’ll never forget and couldn’t agree with it more.

[@swastikazero3325]

2007 its been 12 years.. Still watching this again. Feels oldd..

[@theplasmapro8343]

He could've put one adapter where the tv was, moved down the lower adapter on the power strip, and plugged the tv into the power strip

[@GalanDun]

Point is the boxes were and are dumb

[@simonjakobsson2800]

Actually the european SNES games dont have endlabels either, since our design of the cartridges was not the same as the american.

[@theobserver4214]

Simon Jacobsson You Europeans weren't given any shits from Nintendo. They could only care less about PAL, as their market was NTSC-U and NTSC-J

[@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853]

Super Famicom games don't have endlabels either, though! It makes you think - out of all the conscious design choices around Nintendo consoles, one of them was to eliminate endlabels. It gets even worse when you realise this: *Famicom* games didn't have endlabels! We only had endlabels on NES cartridges in Europe and Australia because we used the NES design - so, the NES was adapted for the US market, but not for Europe (can't speak for Australia - I'm English). And Nintendo wondered why the NES failed over here... I went to Japan a few years ago, and when my host mother heard that I'd bought some SFC carts, she dug out her old Super Famicom from her attic with about 5 games, insisting upon me taking it home with me. Here's the thing: she still had the game boxes, which I've also held on to, and the lack of endlabels doesn't matter because of the boxes. Maybe the lack of endlabels was never noticed in Japan because it was common to hold onto the boxes, which most western gamers would instead throw out. What do you reckon?

[@Acorn212]

Merica

[@DJnedKnowledge422]

@@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853 well put. who knows. but that's amazing she gave you her superfamicom!

[@TheChrisRolla]

“We Live In The Year 2007!” Me in quarantine in 2008 at 3am: *smiles*

[@RetroCat31]

Re-watching 2019......... these videos are great. They have held up very well.

[@sextet2248]

1:50 Notice how he has two copies of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

[@Knobs4u]

do you not?

[@MegamanNG]

Sextet Could it be that one of them is the beta version.

[@HermaphroGynandro]

I have two copies of Knuckles Chaotix.

[@TooCooFoYou]

HermaphroGynandro I feel bad for you :(

[@HermaphroGynandro]

***** Did you hate Knuckles Chaotix?

[@MadmanmadisonYT]

The year 2007... God, i feel old.

[@bunkercape1147]

I'm watching this in 2016. we still have them.

[@Zenith_95]

We live in the year 2007. I started watching in 2008. Damn......

[@seanmyster6]

Wow, the 32X Doom music sounds like absolute crap compared to the SNES version. No wonder the Genesis had a reputation for poor sound quality back then.

[@lordoftheminifigures8525]

I know. It's like comparing Lego to DeCool.

[@64bitmodels66]

@John DiLoreto nah lol it was due to the genesis having a late 80s Yamaha synth sound chip. the super Nintendo had a sampling spc700 made by sony that used samples for music, mainly from a deal with sony. if only sega made that soundchip deal instead......

[@slambangaction]

The solution to the Nerd's boxplug problem: plug the TV into the power strip along with two of the boxes, and plug the third one directly into the outlet. Alternatively, stomp the 32X into bits and play something less shitty!

[@theobserver4214]

Or better yet give me his 32X console and games

[@ctg8563]

I wish we still lived in the year 2007. I agree with the combo moves and pressing UP makes you jump.

[@Kopenits]

2007 was a great year. Modern warfare and halo 3. The golden era

[@zombyre1]

I think I read somewhere that Sega of America designed the 32X not knowing Sega of Japan was working on the Saturn at the same time, so that's called one hand not taling to the other. And about Nintendo's end labels: Keep in mind that the US NES and SNES cartridges are completely different from the Japanese Famicom and Super Famicom cartridges (which didn't have end labels) while the N64 had the same cartridge designs around the world, so Nintendo didn't just stop using end labels, Nintendo of America just stopped changing the design of the whole consoles for no reason.

[@SilentProti]

To be clear, they had a purpose to rework Nes from Famicom - they though after the video game market crash because of Atari, people wouldn't buy Famicom if it looked like a toy, so that's why Nes looks more like a vcr player.

[@makutas-v261]

@@SilentProti And it looks way more badass.

[@SoulFoxie]

8:28 I wonder how man attempts it took James to get that shot with the 32X or is James secretly (or openly? Not a big wiz on James himself) a Master of Archery?

[@kadepow11]

I am watching this in 2019 and we STILL HAVE THAT BOX PLUG SHIT

[@ulyssesgamelogs1530]

>Nintendo Switch

[@Changetheling]

The Doom music showdown ROCKS. Great job Mr. Ken Kutaragi!

[@halotricks4you]

"We live in the year 2007 and they cant figure out that shit like that takes up too much room?" Boy its 2018 and its still a problem

[@DareToBeDeviant]

Even now in 2014 we still have electronics with polar sensitive connectors that are those humongous boxes at the end. We understand they're voltage regulators and fuses but damn, have them all at the middle of the cord (3:25) and the plug typically being universal fit. There are power strips specifically made for connecting multiple adapters but damn does it get jumbled, look ugly, and are expensive. His intro to the Doublevision (Part 2) is hilarious. *dramatically struggles to pick up the adapter* "What the fuck were they thinking?!?! Is this necessary? Look, I can't fit this God-forsaken piece of shit in the electrical outlet unless there's nothing next to it! What a fucking hog!"

[@xenocg]

Look at my 3ds charger!

[@TooCooFoYou]

Creepah Girl The 3DS chargers are the perfect example for those companies who still use the big box. It might still be a box, but at least it's small.

[@GweiTheLeafChild]

Good thing the Playstations got it right, the PSU are in the console.

[@TheLoveMario]

***** the WIIU also got it right, there's a GIGANTIC GRAY PSU but it's at the middle of the cord. my printer also got it right, the regular-size PSU is at the middle of the cord, and the PSU also has a green LED that tells me when there's power going through. ...wait, that's useless...

[@VideoAggression]

MarioKart7z It's gotta be companies who have a deal with power strip companies to make you chain together generic ones and blow your house up if you don't manage it as you should. Can't think of any other reason why we've got them a million years later. I can only have two of those pieces of shit connected to a generic power strip at a time, so I had to plug that one into another in the middle and keep the two off when they're not in use.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

5:06 welcome to life, that’s all tournament fighters

[@nickkurtz2000]

The intro already made my day