LGR - Opening Stuff You Sent Me! July 2018

Vintage computer hardware, oddware, PC games, electronics, and lots of Dutch candy. Fantastic as usual, thank you so much!
Background music is "Uptown Bossa" by Johan Hynynen.
#LGR #Unboxing #Retro

[@HieyWiey]

Techmoan will be jealous of your Data Discman collection.

[@cervanny9141]

Saw Techmoan's video too hahaha maybe Clint and Techmoan could do a collaboration someday probably on that Data Discman collection maybe an extended video about it.

[@rommix0]

"...but that's it at the moment, and as always thanks for watching."

[@thedungeondelver]

Heard his voice in my head as I read that :)

[@rjgscotland]

Looked to see if someone had already mentioned Techmoan's video! Yep definitely check his video out and perhaps get in touch.

[@LymanPhillips]

I watched tech moan video on the data disman last night, and then this one today. Like too cray-cray for words! I definitely see a collab video in the future here.

[@MandrakeDCR]

BEFORE YOU REPLACE THE POWER SUPPLY ON THE GATEWAY -> I've been a tech since before those came out. Gateway pulled a fast one on those. If the CMOS battery dies (button type) it literally will not power on. No shit. I bet I 'repaired' 30 of those damned Astros for people after we figured out what was going on (replacing power supplies, cables, motherboards, and finally getting the skinny from a GW level 2 tech.) They were super cheap power supplies, plenty of them failed, so it is certainly just as likely you might need one. BUT, popping out that battery, and popping in a new one is a super easy process that just might save you a bunch of time, a little money, and a crapload of frustration. ;) So yeah, literally - they were high-drain motherboards that the battery died in 1 to 2 years. Guaranteed product return for 'repair'. Replace the battery, costs next to nothing, customer picks it up from the Gateway box store and pays $60 bench fee. Lots of people upset about that one. lol - We and a lot of other PC repair shops ended up with a lot of business over that getting out.

[@LGR]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that!

[@patprop74]

Not that I, Or most of your viewers have one, Nonetheless, would still be fun to find out if the Coin cell trick worked.

[@MichaelBennett1]

Hopefully he sees this. Edit : he did!

[@MandrakeDCR]

No problemo. Let us know how it goes. Yeah - Gateway built all of those Gateway 'Country Stores' - showrooms with all of their models and an in-house repair center. Between that issue and a couple of others, they were only open a few years and then they closed them all. Asus had a rash of motherboards as recent as the Asus z97 series that had the same problem. Some of them even came out of the box 'dead'. Asus was quick to send out free batteries whether needed or not. (most of the time you could just pop out the battery for a few seconds, pop it back in, and *poof* - booting board) :)

[@Toonrick12]

Possum Tl;dr version: Change the CMOS battery before trying to replace the power supply

[@TastingKitty]

My eyes lit up instantly when I saw the Tonka Workshop CD-ROM Playset! Such fond memories of it from when I was a kid, thank you so much Ryan for sending that...made my day :D

[@morganrussman]

:D

[@mr.k7457]

Nostalgia started pouring out of my orifices

[@RickyLi]

The university language lab I used to work for in the early 90s used bernoulli disks to "swap" courses for students in computers. There was a separate bernoulli disk with programs for Spanish, Japanese, Italian etc. The lab administrator loved it because we didn't have to have one computer dedicated for each language, we'd just pop in bernoulli disks appropriate to which ever language that student who came into the lab was going to use. He also claimed it made licensing easier because, we only had one (or two) bernoulli disks that had the program actually installed in it, but we could use it on multiple computers. I thought that was suspect but he claimed it was all fine. lol

[@biglevian]

"The" Paul Allen is everywhere, he was on a live stream of Hugo and Jack not too long ago. Keep up the good work, Paul.

[@MichaelBennett1]

THAT was a hell of an unboxing ...and sealed Microsoft Bob too!

[@ULTRAWIDE.]

Stroopwafel's are literally the best thing ever invented

[@RS250Squid]

Dude, stroopwafels are amazing. the trick is to heat them up on top of your coffee, so the inside goes all warm and gooey :).

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Re: numpad family friend of mine used to work in a cash office, they'd use counting machines and all her job was all day was to enter the totals as the others yelled them out. She was absolutely wicked fast on a numpad as that's all she had on her desk basically. Terrible typist though, but could type numbers into Excel like nobody else I knew.

[@raygoodwin2303]

Put those Stroopwaffles on the top of a fresh cup of coffee so that the heat warms up the waffle. Thank me later.

[@TheGirlChris]

Ooooooh...

[@Phulax.]

A microwave works too.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

Just don't let it get too soft or it'll fall in and you can't get it out...

[@bouwmr]

I must be the exception to the rule maybe ... I like mine straight out of the fridge :-)

[@raygoodwin2303]

As soon as it starts to dip in the middle it's ready.

[@DeaDGoD_XIV]

3:49 I remember my uncle having a tenkey like this for his laptop so he wouldn't have to deal with the "Fn" key on his laptop. He was an engineer for Sperry so he often used the tenkey/num pad and found this to be a better alternative to having a PS/2 mouse plugged into the port Edited to clean up formatting.

[@jackrmcconnell]

We had the Acorn Archimedes version of SimCity Classic at school in the UK. The teachers guide you show in the video makes sense because they used to let us play it during Geography lessons as it taught about city planning, ecological impacts, environment, and so on. Always enjoyed those lessons as I was playing SimCity 2000 on my family’s Gateway 2000 at the time.

[@dab88]

I love these videos! The enthusiasm for old forgotten products and the genuine gratitude is just so wholesome it makes me feel good. Thank you Clint! 15:20 I recognise that compilation CD (Pagan, Wing Commander 2, Syndicate & Strike Commander) as it came with a Soundblaster 16 card + CD ROM pack I got in the mid 90s. Goodtimes!

[@raymondburnett6468]

Yeah I had the exact same cdrom/soundblaster 16 combo and that compilation cd was just so awesome. Wing Commander 2 and Syndicate especially :)

[@txcforever]

Damn! I really wanted a Pandora for ages. Even though it's a bit outdated now and because it never got a wide release it's still sold at crazy amounts of money, it's still a really cool device.

[@MichaelBennett1]

txcforever Yeah, in the same boat, would love to see an LGR review on it!

[@anthonya.jumelles7103]

Check out the sequel device the Pyra. I have been so aching to have one!

[@WrecklessEating]

Love these.

[@andromeda4641]

Love cheese

[@lizzydakid]

its so dope knowing people all over the world tune into your channel, keep it up dude

[@philscomputerlab]

Lovely stuff! I had one of those Gravis Joysticks, got it for Wing Commander, and loved it. But they didn't last long for me, they would start squeaking really loud after a while. Switched to the Sidewinder from Microsoft :)

[@ZacksScraps]

I still have a Logitech Attack 3 that I bought to play MS Combat Flight Sim 2003. Works to this day.

[@MarkTheMorose]

I live in hope of seeing an LGR/8-Bit Guy/Techmoan/Retro Man Cave/Phil's Computer Lab collaboration. Any hardware that needs fixing will get the full treatment from GadgetUK, and guest appearances will be made by Steve Benway and Mamemeister, who will contribute 'Arse' and 'Ah, bollocks' as necessary.

[@PaulHofreiter]

Not sure if you read the comments (I know with big KZbin channels there are just so many to go through) but I found your Chanel a couple of weeks ago and have subbed and binged a whole slew of videos. Seeing all of this stuff is very nostalgic and also is often featuring things I would have totally geeked out over as a kid. I didn’t know you did unboxing videos like this so this has been a cool bonus to see what people find interesting to send to you. So if you do see this, thanks a lot for all of the videos!

[@Fir3Chi3f]

Clint, you seem like such a great guy. Thank you for the video upload!

[@Laura-ew2en]

This was a pleasure to watch and seeing the Dutch candy fits into my life at the moment after I'm visiting The Netherlands after four years on Wednesday. Can't wait to travel, but packing is a thing I'm not exited for!

[@SOVATE]

I hope you realize how valuable that zorkmid is.

[@furrymessiah]

Good to hear you're back in a healthy mindset, buddy. This KZbin gig can take a toll on a person, especially if you start to obsess over numbers and monetization and such. As long as you remember what the L in LGR stands for, I think you'll be alright. Much love from your Myrtle Beach neighbor!

[@RobinvE]

So proud to be Dutch, seeing stroopwafels, drop and pepernoten sent to an American :-)

[@mrb692]

Robin van Emmerloot My dad goes to Amsterdam about once every 18 months or so on business, and he’s learned well. This time he brought home nearly a kilogram of stroopwafels (two 30 count packs). They are seriously delicious.

[@RobinvE]

If he's there again between begin September and 5th of december, tell him to get some pepernoten! You'll love them!

[@St0rmcrash]

Domestically in the US, United Airlines offers Stroopwaffels as the free morning snack option as of a year or two ago. For some reason they couldn't offer them on international flights though

[@pristine3700]

The 'instant' collection of digital book readers looks very interesting. Would love to see a video about those. 'Techmoan' YT channel did a video recently of one of those, the 90s sony data discman.

[@frederickmowry526]

I love when you see stuff...things I took for granted...as I grew up...wood grain...when I see it makes a big deal...to me now...Thank you...

[@MarkyShaw]

Papa bless, Clint. These Monday videos set the pace for a fantastic week. Many cool things to look forward to.

[@kanedamikami7771]

Marky Shaw Papa bless

[@Jena-cc6os]

This early morning video is making me so happy! The fact that it’s also 24 minutes makes me even more happy! P.S. Stroopwafels (sp?) are freakin’ fantastic!!

[@flybeep1661]

Oh boy are you in for a surprise when you try the Dutch drop candy. You'll either hate it or love it.

[@filipmac5577]

Clint lives in heaven, I can only imagine being around vintage computers and PC games!

[@BollingHolt]

Police Quest 3 ruled! They also remade PQ1 for VGA. I had both 1 and 3... not sure if I had 2 or even if it was remastered. Then they had Police Quest 4 that took a change in direction from 1-3. It was pretty cool, too. I wish I still had them!

[@Syntax.error.]

Nerds around the world unite! I am always proud when I see other Dutch people in these videos. :)

[@unclejustin7267]

What a great load of cool stuff. People used to unload this stuff on me back in the late 90's, I got to play around with it then it went to goodwill due to my very small house. This brings back such great memories.

[@Obscur888]

You know that even with your best efforts to stop it, you won't stop that tsunami of love expressed with nice stuff for ya!!

[@HoboVibingToMusic]

If lgr and 8 bit guy weren't a thing. I probably wouldn't be into old pcs. The old tech and studying them is really, what i like. I probably would be sitting on my chair and playing games a lot. Nowadays i ain't. I am searching to study old tech such as history of commodore n your tech tales. Thank you very kindly, LGR and 8 Bit Guy/IBook Guy.

[@RustyKeys72]

You rule. Respect. Very entertaining videos. All the best from Down Under.

[@retrox684]

Can’t wait for the gateway pc restoration. All in one pc’s with a crt are always cool

[@squidfox3926]

Oh god, I remember that Tonka workshop thing from my childhood... It straps onto your keyboard, and the different tools just push down on different keys when you move them... I loved that thing as a kid...

[@TrainToAlaska]

As someone who is Dutch, this vid made me laugh. Especially the 'Bart Smit' sticker on one of the boxes lol

[@VdamMusic]

Stroopwafels are great..!!

[@seekerseraphimtherecluse4314]

VdamMusic we need an LGR and SteveMRE collab video, trying Stroopwaffle rations

[@Simon_Said]

Clint - you are supposed to put the waffle over a hot cup of coffee or tea (literally, like a 'lid') to melt the caramel. It makes the waffle super gooey and awesome.

[@VdamMusic]

That would be great if they made something like that!

[@azurabayta133]

I've had a boxed copy of Ecoquest Search for Cetus floating around in my collection for ages after finding one at a thrift shop where I used to live, I had no idea it was remotely elusive! WHOA DUDE THAT BERNOULLI BOX THOUGH! That is a PROPER piece of retro tech right there. It's absolutely gorgeous!

[@mistwolf]

I bet those Ultimas have the sexy, super hard to get cloth maps. So regret tossing mine back then.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

Jamie Norwood at least you didn't use it for a napkin to wipe up your Chanello's Pizza stains while watching the DS9 season 2 premiere....

[@mistwolf]

PAKTRA PRODUCTIONS that hurts deep inside for your loss.

[@JessycaLunawoona]

Please tell me Roses will be present when you cover that Mary Kate and Ashley game.

[@mrb692]

LGRoses is the OTP of videogame reviewers, for sure

[@jasonblalock4429]

*Of course* he'll have Roses. How could she not want to play an Olsen Twins game?

[@natgrant1364]

This was my thought when he pulled that one out as well.

[@douro20]

A bit early for pepernoten, but never too early or too late for stroopwafels. I always wanted a Socket SDIO Scancard back when I had a Pocket PC (which is still my personal favourite among handheld platforms).

[@EngineHeadCW]

With no one else in the room, or the house for that matter, I said, in a normal speaking voice, "A new LGR unboxing video? Yes, please. I think I will!" I love these, and the thrifts videos. I get to see so many things that I've not seen in decades. I remember the ads in the early Computer Shopper magazines for those Bernoulli drives and they were SOOO EXPENSIVE! I wanted one so bad. I ended up getting an HP Colorado 800MB tape drive. I used it alot at the time. Anyways, again, I digress. I love watching your shows. Keep up the great work!

[@zoid9969]

I've been hoping to see an LGR video on the 32-bit Acorn machines ever since I started watching the channel. Having them mentioned is cool in itself. The "Archimedes" models don't appear often on eBay here in the UK, and when they do, they can go for ridiculous sums. A good alternative is one of the A30x0 machines - such as an A3000. I'm half-tempted to buy one and donate it to Clint to say thanks for all the wonderful videos.

[@IntergalacticSpaceKitten]

Your viewers send such nice stuff. They're almost all sealed or with perfect boxes. I'm impressed.

[@TheTurnipKing]

10:10 Captive is a classic 16-bit sci-fi Dungeon Keeper style game. It had a sequel, Liberation which was kind of a very early open world RPG, by one Tony Crowther, who has a bit of a classic gameography. Most relevant to you personally might be his involvement in Realms of the Haunting.

[@stevenixx3595]

What.. its nothing like dungeon keeper

[@nrood3821]

regardless of whats in those packages. that just shows that how good you videos are doing and that people like them. im enjoying them.

[@jhdkoopman2]

The two weeks you were gone was the darkest period in all recorded human history.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

WoW! Amazing! Incredible! Freakin' awesome! OMG!... I'm out of words!.... Thanks for sharing, Clint! Cheers!

[@ReprobiCrucesignati]

OMG! I remember playing the 4x4 Evo when i was a kid! Oh the memories

[@hannanorman4265]

That Tonka Workshop playset! Thats such wonderful nostalgia for me, I played that game so often as a kid. Great video!

[@atreyu4ws]

We had that model Gateway Astro when I was a kid. It had an internal modem IIRC and I think it was the first PC we ever connected to the internet with. I also played the Petz games on that computer for the first time. Good memories.

[@EricGeek1155]

Ah, I remember that model of Gateway Astro very fondly. When my parents upgraded their PC to a Dell Dimension 4600 with flat panel, they put the Astro downstairs for me and my brother to use. He had his sports games on there, and I had a few of the "keyboard topper" games. Also programmed my first bit of HTML4 on it, it wasn't connected to the WWW, but was still cool to play with how text was interpreted in IE. Look forward to seeing it on LGR!

[@BrilliantBenGaming]

There's something to the fact that the most boring beige grey diskette could hold some worth while minutes or possibly hours of fun. Without a big colorful box you didn't have a cover to judge by. Great haul!

[@seekerseraphimtherecluse4314]

I may be suffering diarrhea today, but your channel still manages to make everything comfy.

[@Dragonfire511]

Thank you Clint for your videos. They make my day better.

[@williammah1605]

you've been one of my top youtubers for a few years, always look forward to these Clint. thanks for all the content.

[@Sonict11]

So awesome to see an Open Pandora there. I still have mine and it works great. Mine was within the first 1000 batch. The d-pad and gaming buttons are really great and the battery life is crazy good if you had wireless off and was idling at the desktop. I seem to remember it showing a life of like 20+ hours or so. When I was doing things like emulation and whatnot, I could have played over 10+ hours on a single charge! Mine is the 600 mhz one with 256MB of RAM. Later, they couldn't get the 600 mhz chips, so they used ones with a higher clock speed and I think 512MB of RAM. I just checked when mine was shipped and it was back in February, 2011!

[@Daehawk]

I used to buy those model airplanes as a child. Loved them.

[@MiloKuroshiro]

I love so much to hear Clint. So comfy

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

The stuff....you can never stop it from coming, Clint. Never.

[@hanyougod]

Clint! You should team up with PushingUpRoses for the Mary Kate and Ashley game like you two did for the Christina Aguilera game... thing? I'm not sure how to even classify that software. But yeah! I enjoy the collaborations you two did. Hope to see more!

[@MFunkibut]

The Easy Bake Kitchen one is actually pretty fun if youre a lil girl of the right age. We found one out of box at a junk sale for my daughter years ago. The plastic gizmo straps to a standard keyboard and pushes keys when you push 'stuff' on the gizmo and that in turns makes the software react. A cheap custom controller but it did the job.

[@orvilledayspring7701]

Holy shit, that Tonka Workshop game was the first computer game I played when I was a little kid. That was def a blast from the past I was not expecting to meet today.

[@Razz_Dazz1]

OMFG I REMEMBER THE EASY BAKE KITCHEN AND TONKA WORKSHOP. I HAVE TALKED TO SO MANY FRIENDS AND NO ONE REMEMBERS THEM. BUT THERE THEY ARE. I AM SO GLAD TO HAVE SOME CLARITY TO THAT ONE WEIRD CHILDHOOD MEMORY OF GOING TO THE "COMPUTER GAME" SECTION OF A DEPARTMENT STORE AND IT BEING AMAZING.

[@vape9546]

Aww man seeing that Tonka brought back so many memories!

[@ezioauditoredafirenze5453]

Thanks again from the great video Clint. It's always been a joy to view them. It was very good to hear that your holiday was refreshing and you got your mind set up. All the best man. 👍😄

[@patchouli3422]

Stroopwafel are absolutely amazing. Always a welcome gift from my Dutch friends.

[@DecafToaster740]

A childhood friend of mine had that same Tonka keyboard clip-on accessory! Very interesting to see again.

[@Bethcon2]

Oh my gosh I had one of those Easy Bake Kitchen sets! I hadn't thought about it in years, but I spent HOURS playing it!

[@ghostshellsaito]

Thanks for the tip on "The Computer Cellar"! I have been searching for a cheap copy of Win95 and they graciously provided a disc from their iso backup. Thanks to you and the computer cellar I can finally get my IBM Aptiva 486 running a little better.

[@KaijuTurtle]

All those copies of Space Quest really makes me want to see LGR cover the big Sierra series. Either game by game or in retrospectives of each respective franchise.

[@tomjoad1363]

The item at 16:12 seems to be a stabiliser for the photo camera.

[@rollingtroll]

Hahahaha, stroopwafels. Say the O as in 'note', not as in 'poop' :D. And I love that he sent you sweet and salty licquorice, it's generally regarded gross by non-Dutch people but at least you get both kinds to try. Stroopwafels are generally considered epic by the non-Dutch. Get them fresh on a market if you can some day ;) The drop package says 'mixed drop mix'. Which is weird. Serge's packages are all over KZbin. Ha, a Bart Smit sticker. It's a toystore chain that recently ceased to exist and is now part of the (larger) Intertoys chain. Chocolade Pepernoten. Ah, those are only sold between about late september and december. So let's hope they are still edible. They're part of a celebration (Sinterklaas, you must have heard of it, Santa Clause is pretty much Sinterklaas plus Coca Cola) Oh man I love that Gateway, such a beautiful design. As much as I like your Tech Tales and other assorted stories and obviously your game reviews, thrifts and the unpacking videos are my favourites too. Doing a bit of video editing myself I do appreciate the hard work you put in your more extensive videos but man, I just love the anticipation and your commentary. "Gimball of some kind". Dude. You just got a free Gimball. I'd be over the moon, haha. You retroman. Shanon sent you epic stuff! Didn't Techmoan recently do an EBP video without actually having one that worked properly? Hey, it's a bernoulli drive! Very cool.

[@reggiebenes2916]

I'm from NC and I have never heard the words "Durham" and "Vacation" in the same sentence. I love your videos.

[@scharkalvin]

Years ago, I had a Bernoulli disk drive in my PC. It was a built in drive, with an IDE interface. They also made them with SCSI. The IDE interface was a little flacky, but it worked most of the time. It even worked under Linux, but not as a boot drive.

[@retro_gamer_uk]

Really enjoying all of your tech content Clint. You are an every day staple now! Keep up the good work.

[@TonySki]

Woah! I had that Creep Night Pinball and played it so much growing up. Pinball on the computer was so much more fun cause I didn't have to pump quarters in to play again.

[@ianstewart8420]

Eco Quest is my favorite game from childhood, both 1 and 2 are just fun educational games.

[@TintelFruit]

Drop, stroopwafels en pepernoten... Nu heb ik honger.

[@Oldskool4Life]

I loved those airplanes as a kid a long time ago (35 years) 😎

[@raywt3237]

those and the bomb bags brought back good memories!

[@Flashv28]

Congrats to 900k Clint!

[@KyleeLovesToRun]

I used to love those games where you attached a fixture onto the keyboard to play! I had a thomas the tank engine one. I spent hours playing that. Thanks for reminding me.

[@C6438911]

This is so awesome to watch. I get to see things I've never even heard of or known about their existence. Also, that you HAVE to turn down things! Aw man ! I hope you can somehow accept packages as much as you can! Anyway, great to see what people are willing to do for another person and I think it is absolutely great to watch. I'm not feeling envy or jealousy at all, it is just awesome to see your reaction when you are excited and happy about an arrived package! Your unboxing video's are always on my to watch list!

[@jaubuchon28]

That acoustic coupler is for the Trs-80 Model 100 and the rest of that family, super useful for making a connection to modern systems

[@mistwolf]

Not seen a Bernoulli in decades!

[@AndreasKoepkeAU]

Way back when I worked with an accountant who had a modern USB version of that style of number pad. Was common in the profession as they would often use laptops and the number pad made data entry a lot quicker.

[@dakel20]

Stroopwafels are -amazing-, so glad Microcenter carries them now. :D

[@TheStevenWhiting]

OMG the Acorn. I had the boardgame of Heroquest and loved it. Never knew they'd turned it into a computer game!

[@arupian666]

Why, why, why did it take me so long to subscribe ? Your videos are immensely relaxing... and I've watched all the thrift videos at least twice.

[@StacyCatProLLC]

I was recently traveling to Florida through road trip, and I found Georgia beautiful.

[@erretter]

Heya, serious question: Have you ever tought of opening up a museum with all your collected items? (someday in the long distance future, I mean)

[@TheoPantazi]

Wow I just noticed the Overboard box on the shelf! I worked on that game, did a ton of graphics for it back in the day for Sony Psygnosis! Oh man those were good times!

[@LightTheUnicorn]

Woah, that was some seriously sweet stuff you got there. The Pandora and collection of Data Discman units was notably awesome. Very cool!

[@barflugnarven]

Anyone else think the Bernoulli was actually an IBM PC when he was unboxing it? Great video, Clint

[@dvdemon187]

6:56 BALOON CHALLENGE! Oh yeah! This brings back some memories from when I was a kid. My mom actually played this one more than I did.

[@SevCaswell]

I used to play that Acorn version of Sim City on my boarding school's Acorn pcs in the computer lab. In fact it was on those Acorn pc's that I learned to use Word etc as that was what out IT courses were taught on until 1999.

[@adventureFAN]

I'm german and I loooove the dutch food