Gizmondo: The Worst-Selling Handheld Console Ever

[@Roadstar1602]

What kind of world do we live in when a flooring company can't make a decent handheld gaming console?

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

Roadstar1602 I don't know a company that made playing cards did pretty good, as did a company that makes theme park rides, one that made PC operating systems and one that made TVs and audio players

[@rcmero]

Keep in mind that according to my sources this was competing with the N-Gage of all things. At least that thing let you make phone calls.

[@jessjudd]

Roadstar1602 Even the Connecticut Leather Company was able to sell a few million ColecoVision consoles. How times have changed.

[@strangevision99]

John the Crossover Master N-Gage was a little earlier as I remember it competing and dying alongside the GBA, maybe the redesign lasted until 2005. I think there was some vague N-Gage successor mentioned around this time but I don't think it ever released.

[@johnbarnes1122]

Roadstar1602 😂

[@VampLovr54]

I love how the only one with a happy ending was the car that got split in half.

[@emperorfaiz]

And then, the car was restored and sold. What a happy ending.

[@daniellez417]

That means that technically, Gizmondo was worse than a car crash.

[@Mkhwlani]

if he was a friend of Phil swift the car could've stayed one piece

[@orangetangyvideos]

@@Mkhwlani Phil swift could've made him a new car outta flex tape

[@Bootystank99659]

Lord English doesn’t know what a panini is

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

"Let's see what 400 dollars got you in 2005!" A DS and PSP. That's what you could a got instead. 2 MUCH better handheld game systems!

[@thebestcentaur]

Seriously. This is like whiffing BADLY in a sports draft.

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@thebestcentaur Ryan Lief level bust.

[@keybyss98]

And cheaper too. You could get a DS and a bunch of games for $400. Same with the PSP.

[@hayato1886]

@@keybyss98 If you got all games for 35$, you could get a new DS and 7 games for less than this things asking price, assuming this was back when the DS was still hot shit

[@j0an-07-arc6]

Cough cough you forgot the Gameboy advance

[@rayray117]

I remember going to a Gizmondo store in central London. I was using my PSP to listen to music and the staff said PSP was crap and going to fail.

[@Palkia8-Bit]

It sold 81.09 million though?

[@diabeto1216]

🤡

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

The 2000s version of NFT Bros

[@HiNRGboy]

that's hilarious looking back now

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@Rayray what could you even buy in the Gizmodo stores? Their system didn't have many games & barely anyone bought the console

[@brew1234567891]

Just FYI. Most rear engine super cars are designed to break in half in a crash to separate the driver from the engine.

[@bandombeviews6035]

Jason Brewer That’s actually really interesting, I didn’t know.

[@maltheIDM]

That is actually pretty clever

[@TerryMcKean]

I was just wondering how did they EVER manage to repair that utterly shredded car and turn it around and resell it for 1.4 mil when I saw your comment... mystery solved.. lol :-D Thanks, Jason

[@richsurtees87]

Came here to comment this

[@goofboy413]

@Roborav That's not being built "shoddily", that's being built with safety in mind. Nearly all cars are designed to do similar things in the event of a crash to increase the safety of the driver.

[@Waynimations]

The story behind the device is even more interesting than the system itself

[@friedchicken297]

I hope you don't live in Sweden, if you know what's good for you paisan...

[@shuntaro2408]

lol threats from retards on the web. Never change YT never change

[@friedchicken297]

I was talking about the Swedish Mafia's connection to the gizmondo but okay

[@GIitchclan12]

It's not scary.... until you find out how they make the meat balls.

[@supersmashbro596]

suddenly the swedish chef got a lot scarier.

[@swoll1980]

The unsold Gizmondos were all turned into 7-11 security cams.

[@GamerBoy705_yt]

LMAO

[@gjtrue]

Really?

[@SpideyfanX]

Each with built-in ads?

[@swoll1980]

@@SpideyfanX of course

[@bastardjokemen8518]

I believe you

[@liquidkameleon]

I refuse to believe someone actually published a game and named it Sticky Balls.

[@Louis-wp3fq]

"Fathammer Classics" isn't much better...

[@TheDavidish]

@@Louis-wp3fq doesn’t sound as absurd tho

[@CraigStCyrPlus]

11:30 It also has WAP 2.0

[@2Scribble]

Apparently we live in the bad timeline...

[@Matt.Willoughby]

It's the name of an English dessert. It's a bit like spotted dick or bread pudding but it tastes more like creamy stick or sweaty egg sacks

[@Larry]

I was lent a Gizmondo by the company to showcase on TV, but I held on to it for so long they went bust and didn't need to give it back :S

[@BilisNegra]

I feel for you having to keep this pile of trash then! If you still have it, you can now sell it for like 150 bucks bc of its rarity though. You may have to wait for some time, but yes, there are a few dudes that will pay that for junk like this.

[@futonrevolution7671]

Did it come with a membership card for their anti-terrorism task force?

[@dgproductions4686]

Hello, you!

[@mightydegu]

It's just a pile of goo now.

[@heathercramer8966]

Are you a youtuber

[@XRemARx]

gizmondo camera actually looks good because it makes everything look like a hipster album cover

[@beckyquin8365]

That's what I genuinely liked. It makes for cool late 90's and early 2000's type of pics. But other than that, it's trash all around.

[@pearz420]

Early 2000s were the most hideous era in the history of photography. Everything looked like complete shit for the better part of a decade.

[@riddell26]

@@pearz420 whatever kid, you're too young to understand.

[@wayge]

@@riddell26 im old enough to know we had no business transitioning to digital at the time. We didnt have the hardware to outclass a shitty little disposable camera and "affordable" camcorders would record at like 12fps and a 3 digit bitrate. It was stupid. 1890s footage looks better than a video of someone in 2006

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

@@pearz420 That's part of the charm.

[@Lurker1222]

Gizmondo had the most extravagant “booth” at E3 2005. They literally built a recreation of a town and just parked a Porche Carrera GT in the middle. There were also scantily clad booth babes everywhere demoing the system. Spared no expense. Ill never forget it.

[@T80Delta]

No wonder my dad came back looking energized after that - I was too young to remember the details, but I love the imagery😂🤣

[@Lurker1222]

@@T80DeltaE3 2005 is considered by many to be the last “true” E3. It was a show to be sure.. and the after parties were crazy. I worked for Alienware at the time and was invited to a couple. Good times indeed.

[@LeeSixTwenty]

Why a Porsche? Did they have a sponsorship deal with Tiger?

[@vampvhs]

The fact that the only Gizmondo commercial uses the same fact about bees as the intro to the Bee Movie makes me want to believe the Gizmondo exists in the Bee Movie universe, and is canon

[@Rabbitlord108]

If DreamWorks made a sequel to that film nowadays. I can totally see them referencing this thing.

[@tomyyoung2624]

YES!

[@TriremeBoy]

Funny thing is gizmondo come first before bee movie, so that is definitely a possibility

[@AgentTasmania]

The same bullshit factoid*

[@MattMcIrvin]

Bee Movie only the bee is a mobbed-up Ferrari-crashing CEO

[@Nikorasu69]

So yeah, I used to work for Gizmondo. There is even a Swedish short documentary about the whole mess. At least I got to promote the god damn thing at E3 :)

[@LGR]

I salute your place in history, sir

[@Nikorasu69]

LGR Thanks, it really was a fun time in a way.

[@bandombeviews6035]

What did you do at gizmondo? I’m curious

[@memovilmx6239]

@@bandombeviews6035 x2

[@feminist098]

Can I Sue you for 600$. ?

[@DoubleD19788]

So every picture of Bigfoot taken as been on the Gizmondo. This makes sense now.

[@PsionicMonk]

DoubleD1978 The true cryptozoologists device of choice

[@grim_reaper1960]

Hahahaha

[@cupcakethesabertooth6802]

Nah, you gotta use a 0.1 megapixel camera

[@dguy0386]

im pretty sure that there are more pictures of Bigfoot then Gizmondos out there XD

[@crusader2.0_loading89]

Lol 😆

[@patm2145]

"Getting children to keep a GPS tracking device with them at all times was a tough sell." Oh how times have changed...

[@Hacker-at-Large]

Sharing your info with the Swedish mob or Facebook. Tough call. Not sure we got it right.

[@RyTrapp0]

I'd feel safer if the Swedish mob had all of my info that FB does...

[@BilisNegra]

Well, children -and many adults- want people to know where they are and the (so they believe) interesting places they visit using social media, yes, but ONLY when they want to. Nobody wants to be PERMANENTLY controlled, and any young person specially refuses to be controlled by their parents at all times, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, so no, things have not changed that much.

[@BlownMacTruck]

This is just a dumb comment. If that GPS device had all the software and connectivity phones have today, of course they’d carry it around. Likewise if you told someone to carry a GPS device today that did nothing else, you’d still have no uptake.

[@patm2145]

BlownMacTruck you're really overthinking 5 words

[@Strateggo]

I remember I went to the store in London. I already had the psp and ds, but when you’re a serious gamer, you have to have ‘em all! Anyhow, I went to the store, just a few weeks after the opening, and oh man. There was no one there, the place was absolutely dirty, the staff was walking around like a herd of zombies, and most if not all of the machines were off. I walked out after 30 seconds thinking ‘if this is the Gizmondo experience, then I want none of it’.

[@spyroledragon]

That TTA boot screen you get before the GIZMONDO one is actualy a software mod, a hack, to boot pirated games on standard SD cards. Legit unhacked systems will only show the GIZMONDO boot screen and won't play games unless they are on a Gizmondo official SD Card.

[@Dd-gi5lm]

Interesting.

[@ShadowNinja452]

Hmm, makes me wonder where LGR must have gotten this Gizmondo from? That’s wild. Never knew that about the Gizmondo.

[@sohousama]

I remember having My DS and seeing all these neat systems come out, PSP, Gizmondo and Tapwave. and Almost regreting getting my underpowered DS at the time. But then most of those machines disappeared and the DS started getting REALLY good games and I was pretty happy with it. Got a PSP years later and loved it too.

[@hitkid2456]

Ah, I remember the Zodiac too. Along with other failed efforts for home, like Nuon.

[@fran5678can]

Had LBP PSP?

[@coolawesome76]

the PSP is really good, games are fun and the system isn't bad. i only have 6 games for it but i would get more

[@collinhennessy6558]

@@coolawesome76 Hack the psp. You can emulate everything up to snes

[@coolawesome76]

@@collinhennessy6558 i don't have a computer, only 1 laptop and i don't know coding and stuff

[@nikkid1759]

I know this video is from 2018, but I just wanted to say thank you for putting in the effort of adding closed captions to all of your videos. It helps in so many ways and it doesn't go unnoticed. :)

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

agreed

[@RealityLiesBeneathTheVeil]

I believe it's automatically generated

[@jeffb.6642]

"getting children to keep a GPS tracking device with them at all times was a tough sell" Well that statement hasn't aged well

[@megami215]

It’s all internet there phone

[@charlesgoldt7943]

@@megami215 Hä?

[@DimT670]

Why? Phones have gps capabilites but you can just... Turn em off. Not so here

[@iwannabethekid34xc]

@@DimT670 that's a huge misconception and the most telling sign you've never worked in cybersec lol if people knew how vulnerable modern technology was, we would have a massive growth in Mennonite and anti-tech society.

[@azugn5739]

@@DimT670 all phones with sim cards ping their locations to cellular towers pretty much all the time.

[@jabronii]

I forgot you were even reviewing a product. What a journey

[@psiangel]

This is a review?

[@SuperNicktendo]

I remember when that guy crashed that Ferrari. What a crazy story. My friends worked for a video game company that was actually a front for the owners to embezzle investor funds. The early 2000s were a crazy time for electronic companies.

[@Objectorbit]

What company was it?

[@SuperNicktendo]

I don't remember the name since this happened in 2003-2004. I'll have to reach out to him to make a video on it. I just remember that they would get paid but their checks would bounce and it was later revealed these guys were just looting money from investors.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Super Nicktendo - your friends worked for Atari? ;)

[@SuperNicktendo]

Yellowblanka lol nope.

[@lewzero]

This was the same criminal who was running MotoRex! Selling r32, r33 and r34 skylines illegally imported. Scary how things are related sometimes

[@aserta]

Would like to point out that the Ferrari wreck is perfectly normal at even small speeds and even when impacted IN TO by other cars at an angle in the rear quarter of the car. It's a design element meant to save the cockpit of the car (or habitacle) from the potential death inducing forces that would occur in a normal (rear engine) car when the motor remains on the cockpit during the crash. There's various design elements that allow it to simply shear off rather than enter the passenger space. Similarly, modern cars with front mounted engines are designed to have the engine and transmission shear off the mounting points and 'slide' under the car along the drive shaft tub (on front engine rear drive cars) or simply shear off completely (on front engine, front drive cars). Just my two cents on this, to some, the Ferrari wreck, seems incredible, it is not, it's a safety feature. A similar, but older car (in design aspects and distribution) like a Lancia Stratos, would probably kill the passenger in a similar crash and the engine would not detach (strong mounted).

[@sellingacoerwa8318]

That's not what Porsche Girl told me...

[@jessjudd]

aserta Fascinating. Thanks for the info!

[@humiecrusher]

To be honest it still sounds pretty incredible

[@nilus2k]

High end sports cars are built more like race cars then standard road vehicles. In the event of a high speed crash the car break apart around you transferring as much of the crash energy to blowing the thing apart. Makes for spectacular looking wrecks but it keeps the crew compartment safe.

[@Chaos89P]

aserta That makes a lot of sense really. I don't remember what my reaction to it was, except "Was he trying to commit suicide?"

[@vito]

I remember a kid in my high school had one and I was so confused because even at the time it came out it was considered a complete obscurity

[@menopriezvisko94]

It is obsurity in all times tbh

[@nthgth]

I recall the Sidekick the same way. One friend had one, and I was always like - does your normal phone not work anymore? And have you not heard of Game Boy Advance or DS?

[@BrendanielReads]

Seinfeld watched the Gizmondo commercial and that's how he got the idea for The Bee Movie.

[@kinoepigrafe]

O shit, how can it be you're in the comments for this video and no one noticed you in the past 30 minutes?

[@stu1701E]

Greetings, and welcome to a Tales From 4Chan thing, the 29th one?

[@XanCrews]

Oh yeah Brendaddy, I could listen to you talk about Bee Movie for hours.

[@adj789]

he had to bee

[@TonyMelon]

henriquedematos idk who the hell this guy is who the hell are you?!

[@EdgyShooter]

"He doesn't care much about principles" Seems quite fitting for the founder 😂

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

@Gernot Schrader you didn't spend 7.5 years in jail like that guy, did you?

[@hiimemily]

​@@АлексейГриднев-и7р You got him so good that his account exploded!

[@orangetangyvideos]

Eric: I'M PART OF A ANTI TERRORISM TASK FORCE! Bus company: Dude we're just giving old people rides

[@Kyanzes]

Aunty Relocation Transport

[@pseudonayme7717]

I'm here for the Sticky Balls lolz 😄

[@TheEpicDiamondMiner]

Technically Eric (Erik) is his father's name. In Scandinavian countries, the child does not have the same last name as the parents. The child's last name is their father's first name (possessive), combined with either "son" or "dotter". So the last name of the son of Hjalmar would be "Hjalmarsson", and the daughters would be "Hjalmarsdotter". Also, the spelling of dotter varies, it's either dotter, dottir, dóttir, or datter.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

*makes game console called ISIS* ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

@@TheEpicDiamondMiner The search party has returned from Sweden. They were unable to find who tf asked.

[@michaeltan7625]

For 2005, the hardware seems impressive. Like it's actually doing 3D pretty well, around or maybe better than the DS, has a camera, load videos and musics, and has a GPS. Although with a $400 price tag, none of that is really enough to make people buy it

[@robadagamer]

the screen was too small, the audio quality was very low and the controls... that thing was too small.. who tf designed it ? The psp was at least 100 times better.

[@abomala1607]

3D is much better than a DS . this thing was easely twice the power of the DS.... but nintendo nether sell console with power since gamecube . They sell with good game and good gameplay

[@captainnintendo]

I remember actually being pretty excited for this thing. Heck, I even went to a Swedish Gamestop (Live in Denmark) to get one. Only ever used it once, maybe twice before completely losing interest in it tho. Looking at the sale numbers, it would seem that I alone am responsible for about 1% of the total Swedish sales of the damn thing.

[@joaothemage1631]

@Captain N What happend to yours?

[@joaothemage1631]

My bad Adam; I meant to tag the original poster

[@lindleywalter-smith9911]

Hnbj h mvvvvh

[@ZosoHacker]

I did some design and photography work for Gizmondo. I went to their HQ when it was all falling apart. What a shabby set up. Full of miserable half-hearted staff. Amazed I got paid.

[@kazutama3902]

Please detail!

[@legendfpv]

How much did sony pay you for this comment?

[@beeman4266]

Everything about this product says "We put in the absolute least amount of effort." If you can't even get an ergonomic button layout right on a portable system then you have no hope.

[@weaponofmassconstruction1940]

Me too. If you called in sick they got the Swedish mafia to shoot your knee caps.

[@TheRaggedyDandyRandy]

@@legendfpv How much did Microsoft/Nintendo paid you to write this comment?

[@cpt.keaton]

They made a bee movie script meme in their one and only tv ad before the bee movie even existed. At least they succeeded at *something*

[@KieronQuinn]

According to all known laws of retail, there is no reason the Gizmondo should be able to sell

[@hobbified]

and 20-some years after Robert Cormier's The Bumblebee Flies Anyway...

[@romanjohnson2220]

fun fact: richard burns rally is recognized as one of the hardest and most realistic racing games EVER. imagine trying to play that on a gizmondo

[@Maximus20778]

your not wrong its hard

[@DarkFread]

13:08 Oh god I hate that kind of rubber plastic so much, aging horribly by getting greasy and sticky... Such a despair to find it in so many places.

[@magmakun9277]

10:27 Jevil

[@magmakun9277]

They predicted it

[@MOS6582]

Yeah like Thinkpads (IBM and Lenovo). Why do they keep using it?

[@EpicB]

Is there a good way to get that kind of sticky rubber off? I've got a wireless keyboard with the same kind of rubber coating on the handrest. Aside from the coating it's a perfectly fine keyboard.

[@MrPoeGhost]

The sticks on my PS3 controller are doing the same thing and it sucks ass.

[@derwamper1258]

Just keep in mind, the same year the PSP launched! This thing is a big joke.

[@saleplains]

it really is a bizarrely awful product. kinda sad that it had the computing power to actually run games but the rest of the hardware was so incredibly terrible.

[@abohsukampret]

My local game magazine did a side-by-side comparison of Gizmondo vs. PSP vs. NDS. I remember thinking "why would anyone want to buy this?"

[@maximkonechno8742]

School Shooter you are fuckin joke ,psp can’t remote play ps4

[@eduardwithau]

@School Shooter PSP and PS Vita are different consoles.

[@Remake5182]

But the DS kicked the PSP ass.

[@annekariceisnice]

I went to the London launch party for the Gizmondo, it was absolutely ridiculous how much money they had thrown at the event. I remember talking to one of the game Devs who was certain this system was going to have a big impact and got pretty annoyed with me when I said I felt it didn't have much of a future 😂

[@T80Delta]

My dad was involved with this company. He helped tiger telematics secure funding, and I still have 2 of these from before they were publicly available. So much nostalgia! I have all the sample games too. Full of glitches because they were never finished for final production. One of the most interesting things about the Gizmondo was the fact that they intended to sell 2 different devices - one at a higher price with no ads, and one at a lower price with location-based ads. In 2005!! I remember being able to plop in my SIM card from Cingular to send texts! Truly ahead of it’s time. I could go on and on

[@RileyBanksWho]

ok

[@lineialquantum]

@@RileyBanksWhodon’t be a hater

[@tommylight1312]

“Umm my Dad works at, Tiger Telematics.”

[@RileyBanksWho]

@@lineialquantum stop making assumptions and stop hating on my comment.

[@ryukami404]

@@RileyBanksWho May I have a sip of your Haterade kind sir?

[@yza8175]

i actually like how the pictures came out, give me so retro feels

[@P1nkR]

Yeah you are right. Modern phones need lame filters for those same feels.

[@kaisoundz]

I would buy this just so I could take aesthetic pictures

[@voidpriestess8339]

Yeah me too. It's nice

[@chompythebeast]

Yeah it's been enough time now that the early digital camera aesthetic has its own appeal, it definitely places the photos they take in time

[@pearz420]

I can't relate to this at all. It's objectively shitty photography in every category. Why not get retro feels from actual film? This is maybe the most desperate nostalgia I've ever encountered.

[@Kickiusz]

"Gizmondo Isis"... Well, that name didn't age well at all, did it?

[@Doncornuto]

Just ask poor Isis (godess) how she feels about it.

[@PsylomeAlpha]

Also, such an insult to the goddess Isis.

[@GiuseppeDongo]

Grow up.

[@PsylomeAlpha]

@@GiuseppeDongo stop being a dick, Austin.

[@GiuseppeDongo]

Melissa The Rotund My apologizes Melissa. I’m sorry you feel that way.

[@crass340]

16:10 Stephan Erjksson - jail@prison Clint, you savage

[@Clarence.Boddicker]

Stefan Eriksson..

[@crass340]

Oh, it's regional dialect

[@or10nsharkfin]

Stefan Eriksson spent so much time working on sponsorships for vehicular sports one would think he’d want to be a racing team owner or something and just got saddled with making a game console.

[@pearz420]

Well the one commercial they made looked exactly like a car commercial...

[@FMecha]

If only he sponsored (or owned) a NASCAR team - S1apSh0es would have also addressed this.

[@messmer777]

From the ad, what is apparently Stefan Eriksson's personal motto: "He doesnt care much about principles, do you?"

[@CathodeRayKobold]

A home furnishings company turned technology company with a history of wasted money and unscrupulous business practices. I wonder if Aperture Science wasn't inspired by this company.

[@cissi9671]

Mord podd

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Zoshi Well they might have had access to the needed time travel tech ...

[@Chuiodie]

Fun fact: If a GPS receiver has been off for a long time, the first thing it has to do I find one satellite, and then receive the almanac from that one satellite. Based on how message data is encoded, it takes 12.5 minute to download the almanac. Once the device has the almanac, it then knows roughly where to look in the sky for other satellites, and can start acquiring more. More modern receivers can either download the almanac from cell networks, or have enough channels (one channel can track one satellite; Gizmondo looks like it can track 12) and processing that they can all just keep searching and eventually find enough.

[@marlinnotfish]

The rubber that thing is made of reminds me of the early 2000’s Volkswagens interiors that smelled like crayons Isidro and had the same issue with the rubber breaking down and melting leaving a gooey feeling on a hot day.

[@thedungeondelver]

Also, my brain going "Wait, 2005? But that was just - *_THIRTEEN YEARS AGO_* ." Kind of catches me off guard like how I still think of "1995" as just a few years ago - and yet some of you good folks were probably not even alive back then when I was wrapping up college :O

[@user-74652]

If it makes you feel any better, I was alive in 1995, but I grew up in the 2000s, and I still feel like 1995 was more recent than it actually was.

[@Fazeof1p]

I'm old enough to remember the 90s, but it was mostly full of things like Bubsy, Dialup Internet, pogs, Tomogatchis, and Netscape Navigator. It was a strange time.

[@thedungeondelver]

the 1990s were a great time to be a young adult. I don't wanna get all weepy and nostalgic about it, but being in my 20s in the 90s was a really great time.

[@Arashi441]

I was born in 1993 and this happens to me all the time. From 2000 onwards I'm like "but 2006 wasn't that long ag- OH SHIT".

[@imnotmattdamon]

It just means you're young at heart, yet still became an old fart. Just ride the wave dude, i'm there with you...

[@olivia.martin]

I actually love the aesthetic of the pictures this thing takes. If you showed me a photo from this thing and asked me what decade it’s from, I would say the 1990’s for sure!

[@NoReplyAsset]

agreed. the photos have a good natural vintage aesthetic to them!

[@pearz420]

We had film in the 1990s. These takes are scary to me. It looks exactly like when it from. Get your eyes and/or memory checked!

[@brycevo]

This thing is just so wierd. I wouldn't mind a Full Tech Tales on this.

[@LGR]

It's definitely worth a full documentary of some kind. I was overflowing with crazy details making this video, was hard to keep it concise!

[@brycevo]

LGR I hope you have fun making one. I can't wait for the next video. Thank you.

[@RyTrapp0]

Yes, PLEASE a Tech Tales! It's been too long, and this is a PERFECT subject!

[@emdotrod]

This would be a good crossover episode with Norman from Gaming Historian

[@IndygoEEI]

Agree and doubling down on it needing a Tech Tale episode. If there's more to the story, I wanna hear you tell it.

[@grumpycat_1]

So this was basically a way for the owners of Floor Depot to finance their racing team and write it off. Well played.

[@mooniejohnson]

“So I got some pizza, stepped in front of a subway train, and died.” I want that on my gravestone.

[@keithbrown7685]

damn rights! : )

[@adenowirus]

"Good"

[@jessragan6714]

What do you want on YOUR tombstone?

[@adenowirus]

Jess Ragan "Well, that's a bummer"

[@metfan4l]

27:15 The Gizmondo Isis... wow that would've been an unfortunate name.

[@mikeymaiku]

Today yes. Back then i dont think anyone would have cared

[@himbeerme]

Triple M The Anti-Terrorism-Taskforce will take care of that, oh wait...

[@SkeleCrafteronYT]

Bwahahahaha.

[@RacerBest]

Toyota had a model in Japan called Toyota Isis that was sold from 2004 to 2017.

[@farenhite4329]

Remember, 9/11 happened around 4 - 5 years.

[@Zizzily]

You can't get more 2000s than a Chalupa-shaped gaming device.

[@RyTrapp0]

Zzyzx Wolfe Surely there was a Taco Bell promotion at some point - Taco Bell is to go to miss a PR collaboration like that

[@Zizzily]

They certainly missed out.

[@CarbyGuuGuu]

This, the original Game Boy Advance, and the Nokia N-Gage. The early 2000s were like Tex-Mex for handheld systems.

[@ThePandaAgenda]

George Vasquez don't forget the psp. It gets sad when you forget about it ;(

[@jasonblalock4429]

Were any of the PSP models chalupa shaped? I just remember them as rectangles with rounded corners.

[@Claydood]

I remember hearing about this thing, had my interest at the time. Never seen it in stores and ended up getting a DS and forgetting about it.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

14:40 "Mid 2000s skins" Gaming peripheral manufacturers are still stuck in that time period.

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[@requiem4ameme2]

10:40 - Oh, for the love of God, not that stupid "bumblebee flight shouldn't be physically possible" myth. The calculations behind that were made in the 1930s. They were hastily put together and mistakenly based on principles of fixed wing flight, which apply to aircraft. They don't apply to bees at all, because their wings aren't fixed or rigid, and they utilize a completely different propulsion method than planes or birds do. Chinese scientists performed an experiment in 2001 with more accurate modern techniques, and confirmed that bee flight is completely, 100% possible. It doesn't just happen because "nobody told the bumblebee it can't fly" or some nonsense like that. Do the people who write this stuff believe that bumblebees are literally magic, or what? Yeah, I know, First World Problems, but it just irks me how people still blithely accept pseudo-facts like this without bothering to think rationally. Science is based on observations from the real world. If we don't understand an observed event, that points to a flaw in our scientific understanding, not said event being impossible. If it were physically impossible for bumblebees to fly, they wouldn't be flying all over the damn place. Edit: Some of you seem to have read my comment as, _"The general population is stupid, and I'm superior to them because I know how bees fly."_ This was not the point I was trying to make, nor is it something I believe. I don't think that pseudo-facts persist because people lack intelligence; I think it's more due to a lack of inquiry and too much blind faith in statements that sound scientific. We lead busy lives, and it's hard to find time to investigate every claim we hear, especially if it's being made by a friend or someone else we trust.

[@worldcure7883]

Blue Laser because the vast majority of current people alive in developed countries are exceedingly lazy and complacent. It inevitably causes ignorance and stupidity because everyone has been told they are educated, they have no drive or interest other than to understand cultural phenomenon and create more new socially backwards cretinous children to pollute the world further.

[@worldcure7883]

Blue Laser it almost seems like people are not only ignorant to undisputed facts, they are living in a complete fantasy world with very little disruption. It's disgusting and sad that that's the way the world is now, even when we have incredible technology and databases that allow the everyman/woman to learn about literally anything they want to, wherever they want to, whenever they want to.

[@worldcure7883]

Blue Laser but I digress, both your profile picture and opinion on these matters bring me joy. That is enough of a glimmer of hope for me haha.

[@Immorpher]

They even spent the time to make a 3D animation of the idea. You think that if they were spending so much time on it they would have looked into it. I think a lot of this comes from an advertising team who hates their job to a media team who also hate their job. They just want to get paid and be done with it as fast as they can.

[@12ealDealOfficial]

The amount of things that go unknown in the first world is pretty staggering. Climate change deniers come to mind.

[@effluviah7544]

That built-in camera is 100% vapourwave ready, it has that low-res charm.

[@TruFalco]

effluviah YES I was just thinking that.

[@incognitoburrito6020]

+Cody Khaos Make sure not to cut yourself on the edge there buddy.

[@x-fun3149]

don't worry he's just a swedish mafia man, the worst he can do is throw a meatball at you

[@codykhaos4987]

Incognito Burrito I know man, its so crazy. If Im lucky, the edge will be so sharp that I kill myself too... I got a first class ticket to hell and I have no fucks to give ya... Santa Muerte will have her bounty... Adios sucker...

[@codykhaos4987]

X-Fun P.S: Your youtube channel is lame as fuck, lol...

[@Shorty_Lickens]

13:18 that soft plastic/hard rubber was very popular on cheap electronics for most of the 90's and 2000's. It breaks down quickly and is mildly toxic, but was inexpensive to produce. A lot cheap game controllers were covered with it. You can scrape it off but the layer below starts breaking down as soon as it touches air, so its pointless.

[@hingeslevers]

The first loading screen is loading the second animated loading screen...

[@hanselmanryanjames]

hingeslevers Loading the loading screen! Me and my friends used to joke about that on a few ps1 games that seemed to do the same thing.

[@bunnydexter7178]

Ah, good times:) I could literally cooked a pack of noodles by the time the console fully loaded.

[@kirara2516]

The Souljaboy console of its time!

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

Even Souljaboy consoles are better than this crazy joke.

[@wolfgangvan-uber6515]

I'm more reminded of the OUYA, even though this was a stationary console

[@Impostor39890]

Souljaboy console has way worse specs than this, it can't even play emulated GBA games at full speed.

[@bullsfan2021]

souljaboy at least had name recognition / marketing.

[@kingcobrajfssepaboosterclub]

Except with an actual gangster 😂

[@mkzhero]

That's some crazy history.. Also the whole "doesn't care about principles.. do you?" sounds like it carries quite some extra meaning given the guy's history...

[@kaistephens2694]

“It doesn’t care much about principles. Do you?” “You like jazz?”

[@danielandricky]

OMG, I remember going to the Gizmondo Store on London's Regent Street back when it was new (it was a few doors' down from the Apple Store at the time, what a different experience!). What a bizarre device. I had no idea it was so rare, I feel fortune to have played with one!

[@sodaddict]

Damn, that camera makes for a great 80's aesthetic.

[@lemon-mint2700]

vintage polaroids are relatively cheap. i'd suggest the real deal :P

[@jpsplat]

i was thinking someone should use the gizmondo for their mixtape art

[@MayerEO]

just get any Android device loool

[@hackscracks3454]

Galactic Punt Burn

[@cristylivefr]

The LG G6 has a good camera but a lot of android phones have crappy cameras and let’s be honest almost all android tablets have terrible cameras

[@LeonStephan]

For some reason I always end up returning to this video. This machine is so just interesting and I always enjoy having Clint talking in the background.

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

10:38 I can’t believe bee movie memes existed in 2004. My life had truly been fun.

[@SockyNoob]

I fucking lost it when I saw that lol

[@magmakun9277]

Lmao

[@magmakun9277]

Dont forget Jevil 10:27

[@magmakun9277]

He also pronounces it like Jevil

[@thescreemregular5168]

HAND H E L L D

[@samuraifez]

I'm actually surprised at the graphical capabilities of this thing! That Colors game at the very least looks decent

[@juliocbp9389]

Stefan's pics are the most 2000's photos I've ever seen in my whole life.

[@Knight_Astolfo]

As a young child, I thought it was “Scamdanavia” and that’s where scams were invented.

[@firepower7017]

chibi hungary He is closer than you think

[@zanegandini5350]

Holy shit, a Hetalia roleplayer on KZbin in 2018? Never saw that coming.

[@LoftySkinner]

Scamden* Only the Swedes do this shit. Getting people trapped in IKEA because they can't find the exit (that's why they sell meatballs) and Ericsson being notorious for making phones that broke 1 day beyond warranty.

[@MattMcIrvin]

The technology here really takes me back. Around this time, I was working on mobile operating systems, and it really took a while for the industry to realize that a multifunctional handheld mash-up device like this really wanted to be sold as a smartphone. Both of the companies I worked for in that sector originally didn't realize that, and lost some time thinking of their product as the OS for a sort of jumped-up PDA and messaging device before realizing "oh, it has to be a phone". I think one of them died in part because it took them too long to make that mental shift. (On the other hand, realizing it is no guarantee: witness the Nokia N-Gage.)

[@pkbelly]

Back when WAP meant "Wireless Application Protocol", and nothing else.

[@geekoborabora]

A man involved in crime and kidnapping... helping develop a device to track children... THAT'S not sketchy at ALL...

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

OH JESUS I DIDNT EVEN THINK OF THAT.

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

I've seen this story many times, and I've somehow never thought about that before.

[@bluedragon9925]

Whoa... I don't even want to know what he planned on doing with the data he collected from kids...

[@DoubleATam]

Ah, so they decided a device designed to track your children was less ethical than a trojan horse game console designed to track your children *without their knowledge*.

[@fuzzydunlop1753]

It seems they subscribe to the 'it's not a lie if people don't realize it's a lie' school of thought, although it sounds like the people behind this delectable piece of technology didn't have being ethical very high on their list of priorities to begin with lol..

[@MiG2880]

Much like all 'smart' technology... They've actually managed to trick people into paying hundreds to 'bug' themselves, placing video and audio surveillance devices in their homes at their own expense. Then when they leave their home, they are tracked / listened to / watched by their smartphones. I've watched in horror over the last twenty years as 99.9% of people around me have been falling over themselves to usher in a new era of authoritarianism. At no point did they consider not buying these devices. They didn't even question it. At this point I consider humankind to be a lost cause. I can't help but despise my own species for their pitiful weakness. SMH

[@redpup6931]

@@MiG2880 Sounds like you don't know about the data and privacy menu found on most phones' settings app. If you did know about that, I'd say you're a conspiracy theorist. Otherwise, that's a human rights violation! So you could then just sue them. As for the video/audio surveillance devices, I could slam a hammer on my Amazon Echo, crack it open, and see no camera. Audio surveillance... I can just unplug it when I'll probably never use it. I don't even really use my phone, yet I defend this maybe I just really like technology

[@gustavobrtt]

do you trully believe that changing privacy menu settings does anything?

[@redpup6931]

Gustavo Ok, sure, but that’s a bit of a human rights violation I believe and all the people who make the phones must have the phones Sooooo it would be inconvenient in many different ways to have data privacy do nothing And besides, we’re already on a website that collects our data for ads and much more. You shouldn’t be here if you don’t want your data shown to google. Besides, do you want to go back to the technology of IBM computers without internet? And have it be like that for the rest of your life?

[@MrLeonwars]

*I'm lost in the forest, good thing i have my Gizmondo with me.*

[@Babbleplay]

Heard the soft rubber used on the Gizmondo ended up atrophying, and most of the ones still around today look like they were left in front of a space heater too long.

[@E3kHatena]

So did the Gizmondo TV ad paraphrase the Bee Movie, or did The Bee Movie paraphrase the Gizmondo ad?

[@biglevian]

E3kHatena neither, this saying is a few decades old and untrue.

[@ethanlaborde]

The ad predates the movie by about two years.

[@herooftime1000]

They used the analogy well before the Bee Movie meme'd it to the general public.

[@humiecrusher]

It is a phrase associated with terrible products in general

[@CORV3TT33]

It annoys me everytime i hear it... its so asinine... we know how bees fly damnit...

[@MadCatmkII]

I got my Gizmondo after they had gone bankrupt and I think GameStop was clearing them out. Too bad for me that all the games had already been sold when I got there. Anyway, the first boot screen that Clint gets is from the, uhm, _additions_ to the system needed to run games you don't have.

[@maxxxedd3000]

Fun fact: That Ferrari (as well as numerous other supercars) were designed to be split in half in a high speed crash. This transfers the energy of the impact away from the occupants which is why he managed to walk away.

[@meowmocha12]

That explains how it broke apart in such a weird way.

[@nsf001-3]

@@meowmocha12 No point having a car like that if you're not gonna drive it 200mph

[@mnightfamalam1510]

Forget this entire story, let's talk about the fact Ferrari managed to fully repair that thing

[@among-us-99999]

Our GPS also has windows CE, and some games. For example "Russia blocks" guess what it was. A crappy clone of Tetris with different music.

[@psiangel]

Well tetris is Russian blocks............

[@c0mbo]

@Gernot Schrader you mean Алексей Леонидович Пажитнов?

[@ccricers]

From Russia with fun!

[@SuperJet_Spade]

It's quite interesting to learn about handheld devices that I had no idea had existed as I spent my childhood playing my Nintendo GBA SP.

[@ianadams187]

Wavetable Guy same man

[@bi0hazard921]

That's why it's best to forget what you know, and search for what you don't know. I wish I knew this a long time ago

[@Phenom98]

DeathGamingXP Forget what you know? ....You mean forget about the GBA?

[@bi0hazard921]

EnclaveSoldier not so much as "Forget" but more along the lines of "Take a break from or put down" explore, search and learn more. Sorry for the confusion.

[@Azuris190]

I remember seeing it on an Magazin and my first Opinion was :"It will die by birth". The D-Pad looks so bad

[@DerthDeboblo]

Ahhhh.....the 2000's. Full of hope's, dreams, and failure. Good times!

[@chriscros13]

How lol

[@Nordicsmith]

I bought one from my local EB games back in the day. They were selling these out for about 99 bucks back in 2006-2007 i think. It´s opened but almost never used and in superb condition.

[@ronch550]

3.5mm headphone jack. Beat that, Apple.

[@myes344]

Apple: what are those? Also apple: we has disposable air pods tho does that sounds like something u might be intrested in?

[@bonnytylerscatdays2814]

I will Never understand why apple removed the 3.5mm audio jack it's like shooting your self in the foot and bragging about it.

[@owoberon4947]

222 likes 222 x 3 = ???

[@yt-sh]

@@bonnytylerscatdays2814 air pods easily lost they have to buy more = more money

[@kittamitz]

@@owoberon4947 666, a normal number

[@Behon]

Every time I see a link or mention of Gizmodo I do a mental double take to remember they aren't referring to this.

[@RyTrapp0]

Behonkiss Videos Uh huh, that still seriously fucks with me

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

Child tracker by an ex mafia goon. Geeze

[@KasumiRINA]

How you think all these shifty "family" organizations that are pushing for banning everything make money? They usually have ties to ones providing illegal goods and would lose profit if stuff gets legalized... Like during prohibition, people who profited from banned alcohol were the ones selling alcohol and would campaign against legalizing it. Similarly here, of course a KIDNAPPER and extortionist would want to put 24/7 tracking device on children... It's always the kidnappers campaigning for "child safety." In a roundabout way, FB forcing people (especially children) to use real names, real pictures, real contacts etc. makes it a heaven for stalkers. And Facebook's official position is that not allowing children to be anonymous somehow helps anyone but potential kidnappers.

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

yeah pruudy much.

[@vandagylon2885]

DeepFriedPotatoes Geese Howard

[@Charzilian]

DeepFriedPotatoes yeah I feel like this was just a scheme for child sex trafficking.

[@Violant3]

Man... This camera, it really gives me an 80's asthetic

[@TextileGeorge]

Need one of these for my asthetics blog

[@VaporwaveSunset]

Aesthetics are practically what I live for

[@thema1998]

@@VaporwaveSunset I can tell.

[@primarchayanamisrequious7946]

Doesn't it?

[@RorschDG-2]

Wait, wait wait... Ferrari repaired that TOTALED Ferrari? HOW

[@MrFutago87]

Duct tape.

[@efegungor438]

@@MrFutago87 *flex tape

[@Bl4ckD0g]

Rebuilt it from the ground up. It's pretty much not even the same car anymore. Far be it from Ferrari to let an Enzo stay wrecked though.

[@vipervidsgamingplus5723]

Sanding, milling parts out of metal and making it so that the car is basically scrapped so they didn’t really repair it. It is kind of like a psp you just got a new one

[@diabolo1809]

@Joe Blow they are designed to split in half so that in the case of a crash, the engine is far away from the cockpit and the driver. It's a safety feature to prevent the driver from essentially being cooked alive from engine fires

[@henridemontaigne959]

The camera on this has some really lovely qualities surprisingly.

[@JacksonKillroy]

Yeah, the pictures, while not technically impressive, look kinda pleasing

[@pearz420]

I don't get you people. They make my eyes hurt. They remind me of how much photos made my eyes hurt for like a decade until we got enough pixels and better software.

[@riddell26]

@@pearz420 sounds like a you problem

[@TrueDiox]

Sticky Balls... In my head canon, someone did give a good read to that name and still approved it. Great video as usual!

[@acorn2oak90]

$400!? The PSP had real Bluetooth and an analog stick. F*** that thing. Good video though!

[@observationduty]

PSP came in 2005 , same as this thing LMAO..and it was cheaper.

[@rvnx]

And WiFi, and a much bigger screen!

[@trcwrd5810]

and better games!

[@maximkonechno8742]

Acorn2Oak Bluetooth is psp go exclusive

[@riotgrrl9218]

REAL bluetooth

[@monarchofthesea9395]

Those were the days, when if a dodgy company wanted to give you a handheld gps that gave you targeted ads, they'd have the decency to give you a hefty discount for their shit product.

[@TheGadgetGod]

BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?

[@RobbertN]

Fortnite?

[@CitrusRev]

Robbert N Shut up

[@Chaos89P]

Александар Hey, that rhymes! Why wouldn't it run Crysis though? But can it run a program that loops "farts"?

[@cavejohnson4306]

More importantly can it run DOOM?

[@bludj992]

Can it run a PSP game???? A DS game????

[@KConny]

1:30 There is a swedish made documentary about the people behind the device. "Tjock-Steffe" that came out in 2019, and what a ride it is.

[@ThePCPitChannel]

OMG The Giz! I was heavily involved in the community. I sold peripherals and software after it went bust that the ex-devs provided. The profits went back to the devs who had been made redundant. It had so much promise :( If you ever want any more info for a tech tale, I have lots :)

[@TheSefirosu200x]

Lol literally my first thought was "Gizmondo? Isn't that the system that melts made by the crazy mafia dude?"

[@MegaZeta]

Two crazy mafia dudes, really, though Carl Freer's tried to buy his way into a squeaky-clean image today.

[@TheWolvesCurse]

"soft rubbery texture", it's called "softlack" in german, the abomination of 2000-2008 cars. couldn't buy a car without this stuff in the interior back then. it looks giod when new and feels fine, but it wears off quickly, esoecially on things like doorhandles which get touched often. a cheap way to make plastic things appear higher quality in the beginning, but down the road it's just awful.

[@Wok_Agenda]

Then you had to wrap it in vinyl

[@onometre]

My old Volvo had that on the stereo and ac buttons. By the time I got the car, it had turned to sticky mush. I had to spend a day getting it all off with running alcohol

[@VirtualPlaza-fn1gm]

Wait, did the release of conflict desert storm 2 for the gizmondo ever see the light of day? i see it in the bottom of the picture at 5:32, i cant find any info on this release at all so its possible it is one of the cancelled releases

[@efilwv1635]

But can it run Crysis?

[@wolfgangvan-uber6515]

Probably at 1 frame per minute

[@ameliawright6947]

Please Stop.

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

It can do anything.

[@foxontherails]

Zhero Zhero It can run Doom. And Postal, too, apparently.

[@someoneelse4811]

Overused.

[@sneekz07]

I remember wanting this so desperately and then the next week I went into the Game Store and they were all in a bargain bin.

[@zed-xr4353]

Stefan Eriksson - "Your move John McAfee"

[@allen-etcetera]

To give everyone an idea of how small 14 games is: Counting the Japan-exclusive games, the Virtual Boy had 22. Gizmondo had fewer games than the VIRTUAL BOY.

[@L.P.5895]

At the time of this comment being posted, this video has just acquired more views than the sales of the console being reviewed