Nintendo Album Stickers from 1992 | Ashens

[@JiveGuruXL]

I find it endlessly fascinating how Ashens has such an encyclopedic knowledge of stuff I've never heard of, yet has no knowledge of Early Nintendo stuff. I would have figured he'd have sat down and played these games by now.

[@GeorgeDundalli]

His encyclopedic knowledge probably comes from a lifetime of playing them, and the early Nintendo stuff wasn't as big in the uk

[@tncorgi92]

I was impressed by the Aiken Drum reference. I'm older than Stuart and probably haven't heard it in 40 years.

[@milesedgeworth132]

I'm glad Ashen isn't just another NIntendo nerd that can recall the date where Miyamoto first thought about Mario and when the Wii U was officially buried, but doesn't know who Terry Bogart is.

[@SteveBrandon]

@@tncorgi92 There's a version of it on Raffi's Singable Songs for the Very Young if I remember correctly.

[@IronsWorks1990]

Nintendo wasn't big in the UK in the early days at all it was around this time as he said they were starting to get noticed. Console gaming never really took off here til the Mega Drive.

[@FixerUK]

Archaeologists in a few hundred years: "I can't believe these stickers are still stuck to this ancient rotted coffin and what's all this electronic tat inside"

[@Pehmokettu]

And when he opens the coffin lid mummified Ashens shouts 'Hello!'.

[@funnyguy8498]

Pehmokettu oh god it’s like the return of dio but with more tat

[@koenvandamme6901]

And then they're attacked by a flickering skeleton.

[@numbers9to0]

"This must be a ritual item. I think they used it to please their gods for rich harvests."

[@Mepholar]

Quest for the Game Child: Part 2. The Exhumining

[@glennwright8355]

I like how the package looks like a yeast packet

[@HaydenX]

They're 28-years-old...you probably could use them as a yeast packet with all of the spores inevitably contained within.

[@DerCrawlerVomUrAnus]

That means they are more valuable than gold at the moment.

[@15-Peter-20]

I have HIV 😢

[@shuriKen469]

are you sure?

[@brenbren732]

SkyBlue 1988 prove it

[@gamingchinchilla7323]

"... Its like a currency but even more imaginary." I see what you did there.

[@guns102]

The shiny dr. Mario head is quite hard to find. The feet were super common though

[@swanningabout]

So.... just common then

[@ssilvaxxx22]

Ok boomer

[@grumpyoldwizard]

The Merlin sticker logo looks like a Chinese dragon vomiting.

[@SteveBrandon]

I can see a Chinese dragon now that you mention it though my first impression was that it's a fleshy-coloured crescent moon face with white hair and a beard, although that's just from seeing it now. I swear I don't remember that Merlin logo at all and I'm only around 2 years older than Stuart Ashen. In Canada, from about the mid 1980s to early 1990s (re: the era when I paid attention to such things), most of the non-sports licensed property sticker albums that were sold in convenience stores were from Panini.

[@ABW941]

Looks more like a Chicken with fur.

[@andyc6542]

Marlins offices/production factory used to be a five minute bike ride from my house in Milton Keynes. Great memories of going down there with mates, album and £1 in hand, and being able to buy stickers. They’d always give us an extra packet each for free! We’d sit out the front with our albums filling them out and swapping stickers. Those were the days.,,

[@alegomanYTPs]

I'v stared at it for 10 minutes and still can't tell what it is

[@fortherecord1569]

6:09 is actually such an iconic moment when you get the FIRST piece of Tri-Force on your adventure. Hands down my favorite sticker of all the lot.

[@ThePilgrums]

"Is that Bowser or Koopa?" oh Stuart...

[@DoodleWill]

Morton's taking a poo

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

His imperial rottenness, high lord demon king Bowser T. Koopa, king of the koopas and commander in chief of the Koopa Troop.

[@ABW941]

It is one of the children of bowser, i dont know his name.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@ABW941 Morton Koopa, Jr. And sadly, they have been retconned in more recent games to not be his children. And the specific wording is that "they are not *currently* his children," meaning the were but aren't anymore.

[@williamsfan9237]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio in the cartoons he was known as Big Mouth Koopa.

[@CandGoods]

My boyyy, this sticker album is what all true warriors strive for!

[@dba4292]

??

[@dba4292]

What do you think you are?

[@austinreavis4226]

I just wonder what Barry is up to. (Zelda CDI reference)

[@15-Peter-20]

Wow you're beautiful

[@BuzzKirill3D]

Great! I'll grab my stuff!

[@jaimesuffering]

Open more obscure cards packs things

[@VelSparko]

I actually have a sealed box of GoldenEye 007 trading cards I've debated sending to his P.O. Box, but knowing his backlog we wouldn't see the video on that until 2071 or something.

[@JonasC22]

I would love to see more garbage pail kids stuff

[@channelfadge7438]

A kid at my school got so obsessed with these stickers that he stole money from his mum's purse to fuel his habit. He ended up with the biggest stack of swaps but grounded for life.

[@UpTheAnte1987]

These are the stories I read youtube comments for

[@TheJolle]

Nintendo stickers, not even once

[@U014B]

A FITTING PUNISHMENT

[@Horcrux_maker]

More time indoors to spend with his stickers...win win!

[@johnthwaites5976]

I loved collecting stickers, the smell of freshly opened stickers and the excitement of finding rare shiny ones! Xx

[@archgirl]

Me too. For me, it was opening Pokémon stickers and card packs in 1999.

[@SMuha]

The 8th wonder of the world: Stuart's storeroom

[@15-Peter-20]

Black

[@Undrave]

Snake Rattle & Roll! That was a RARE game! And it was all isometric, really cool but weird game. There was, indeed, a severed foot enemy. It was practically invicible too and real pain. I also remember when you landed in the water a shadow would start to stalk you with a riff on the JAWS theme playing.

[@JonasC22]

with your half a Mario, if you stick it on the wall in a corner that is next to a mirror on the adjacent wall, and boom, full Mario.

[@RealistReviewer]

5:31 Mario contemplates existence while taking a dump down a pipe.

[@DeckyStrikesBack]

I completed the Sonic the hedgehog 3 sticker album in about 1994. Greatest achievement in my entire life.* *so far

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

& Knuckles.

[@snowbeatuk]

I didn't even know there was a Sonic 3 sticker album! Child me would have gone nuts if he'd known about that one. I'm off to Google now, thanks for the tip!

[@DragonNexus]

I'm one sticker short because when mum sent a list off they misread one.

[@vjpearce]

10:15 Umm... the de-evolution of Crazy Frog? 11:44 "Telebug" Wow, you're showing your age, Stuart. I showing my age too by remembering watching it when I was 4 XD

[@davidlittlewood2860]

"Made in Italy" that feels very on brand

[@capt.raptor4650]

_Mario the factory worker!_

[@lorro6178]

I was genuinely moved by his knowledge of the Panini sticker brand :v

[@HighlyInterested]

Oh man I’ve been watching ashens and that brown sofa for over 12 years now, and even to this day he has me waiting for the new videos, thanks!

[@chandranapier2259]

gamer4life559 he’s one of the only channels that has managed to do that. Most other well known you tubers either go off the rails or go into obscurity.

[@tedioustotoro4885]

“There’re must be some effort because of this illustrations” Most, if not all of these pictures are from instruction booklets and promotional material. Also, most of the screenshots look like the GBA ports of NES games where they removed half the pixels to make it fit but these stickers were released 10 years before those so that can’t be the source.

[@David315842]

Stuart Ashen is indeed the man called "Error".

[@loneshewolf74]

5:14 That's Morton Koopa Jr. and it looks like he's lifting his leg to pee.

[@skootergirl22]

Or fart in lennys face.

[@SolidSonicTH]

I made out with Wendy O.

[@nm8573]

The end of that was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen I'm still laughing and I'm by myself, surely you all know how hard it is to left something hysterically when alone

[@bluekewne]

5:23 poor Morton - even though he's in Smash, no one still remembers who he is

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

It's all about dem Fire Emblem Characters!

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

I remember him! He's one of those guys I need to cycle past to get to Iggy or Ludwig.

[@snazzrazzmazzlejazz8974]

OtakuUnitedStudio Please, Roy’s the boy!

[@Khetamine]

I do

[@IanC14]

He's in Super Mario Maker 2 now!

[@brandonbarnes1942]

This was actually very exciting. Please do more like this. I collect silly tats as well and i understand your genuine excitement and its great. My knowledge is shit outside of old electronics, quick someone recommend sticker packs

[@isortofyoutube]

Those stickers wildly vary in quality and I'm here for it.

[@SailorMaxie]

"Please come in! I won't kill you like the last - _I totally will."_ -Dr. Mario, PhD

[@connor2131]

12:23 genuine excitement from some old strikers from 1992. Love it.

[@LdeinerProductions]

It’s like a currency but even more imaginary

[@VinceR3000]

I laughed out loud

[@lasarousi]

It is JUST currency. No extra imagination.

[@sirmugman]

i said "oh like bitcoin" but yes i got a laugh too

[@DimT670]

@@lasarousi I definitely bought chips from my friends using panini stickers back in grade school

[@steved8193]

I remember these. I still don't really know how I could go through someone's swaps and say "got, got, need" with such certainty without checking a list.

[@SamMally2629]

Mad to think it’s been seven years since I pressed subscribe after watching some random man eat some way way out of date jelly babies

[@BrokenCircus]

Twelve years since I happened to find (and unmute) a video about a knockoff Wii.

[@Cthulu1985]

@@BrokenCircus The same amount of time since I subscribed after watching the mythical PolyStation 3.

[@danielsavitz5774]

I hit subscribe during the period of time when Fortress Guardian was the newest video. I miss popstations and neo double games...

[@No1.OriginalTrilogyStarWarsFan]

Great video as always Stu

[@Bopnan]

It's amazing how universal the culture of sticker collecting is. I swear every country must have their own variant of "got" and "need" but it's all done the same way. Here in Argentina we said "late" (as in "la tengo", I have it) and "nola" (as in "no la tengo", I don't have it)

[@Dessan01]

Wow this brought back a lot of memories, as a 7 year old I can’t tell you the amount of excitement I had at seeing my dad hand me that tiny pack of stickers lol I’d forgotten all about it. Don’t think I ever did finish the album. Got, got, got, need lol yup.

[@EMKWANREVIEWS]

I’d love to see you unbox some pogs from the 1990s

[@The_LIC]

He did on nerd cubed's channel

[@aborted4196]

He did it on Dan nerd² channel

[@amyyydd1052]

Just came across your videos I use to watch them before like in 2017 so glad I found this channel again!

[@the_peefster]

We need a sequal with another lot of packs

[@PercyPumpkinheart]

The screenshots appear to be cropped photos taken of TV screens running the games, possibly off of VHS recordings. They probably just settled for what they could get. Despite the quality, though, I'd still have been pleased with these as a kid for sure.

[@emile_jeanne]

Thanks for showing these! There's a videogames shop in town that was selling these and I always wondered whether they were any good! I've never seen an album that you could stick these in but you can always just buy an empty notebook.

[@Shabaan]

Thank you for uploading so many brilliant memories as a kid. This was the only album I completed as a kid and sadly it disintegrated a couple of years later. Now where are those FA football albums I use to have gone..... (PLAY GROUND MUTTER) Got got got need, that's a shiny that's worth 5 stickers. And the best part, when someone completed their album? They would get all the unwanted duplicate stickers, chuck them in the air and shout 'bundleeeeee' to look cool in front of the girls and everyone else will frantically chase after airborne stickers and fight over them. Great memories.

[@nensondubois]

The NES screenshots were taken from a composite source and the Game Boy was likely the same from a Famicom wideboy adapter ran through and interlaced source.

[@retrobear9367]

Its funny you posted this. I ordered a Gameboy game from Ebay and it came with a pack of these. Hadn't seen these things in years!

[@gwivongalois6169]

That shiny Mario hiding behind the shroom, he is naked, isn't he? No hat means no nothing else?

[@broken_halo9049]

Another great video. Thank you for continuing to provide us with your hilarity. Jumpy Manwell is the best thing I ever heard the second best was Evil Bastard.

[@Aranathe]

How cool is that, I collected these! I loved the decoder idea! 😀

[@Fazeof1p]

To think, the concept of "buying a lot of things to complete a set" would later by replicated by EA for their videogames. Its like that concept never died.

[@Chaos89P]

Except this feels much less scummy somehow.

[@IanC14]

And Blizzard. And Ubisoft. And Activision. Lots of companies do loot box crap even in paid for games. It's not just EA. I mean I hate EA for various reasons but they aren't the only one that do this.

[@Mockthenerd]

@@Chaos89P because EA can't legally break into your house and remove your sticker album but they can legally shut down their servers and all your virtual stickers vanish into nothingness. I know a lot of people who still have their old sticker collections and display them.

[@archgirl]

The nobody shit isn't fucking funny Umm... Valve don’t do it, do they..?

[@EgoCityGamingUK]

I loved those stickers, I still have the album.

[@chadschmaltz9790]

You're right, some of the Mario screenshot stickers were showing secrets.

[@Caledon91]

This is like Paper Mario Sticker Star but less disappointing.

[@TheHutchy01]

Dr. Ashen's 12 hour video of nothing but spinning tomato sauce was at least several hundred times better than Sticker Star.

[@SvenSvenApfel]

It's funny that you see the interlacing lines from the video capture in these screenshots.

[@DirectorOfChaos9292]

I think the "Evil Bastard" two piece sticker is a Wizzrobe from Zelda 2

[@LivingVicariouslyHD]

I did not expect to see Snake Rattle & Roll in this. Very cool! I would've loved these as a kid.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Ashen, you should check out Transformer: Earthrise. G1 characters with modern action figure engineering and transformations that aren't as complicated as unscrambling six Rubik's cubes simultaneously while juggling them. The new Optimus Prime is absolutely lush, and only really missing Roller.

[@nigelmathewsnrm]

Seriously, I have yet to see a completely completed sticker album, I know I never did, but that was not 'cos the other kids wouldn't swap, but most of the newsagents wouldn't stock the stickers and more often than not, the ones that you could find, you either got a double of one you already got or it wouldn't fit in the space in the album.

[@theflipflapchannelcreatedb8160]

Have you heard that Mario and Zelda during the 90s had been used as subsitute franchises for the Philips CDI? Plus, have you heard of KZbin Poop before because of Hotel Mario and the CD-i Zelda games? You know the cut-scene animations look funny and hillarious right. Also, when there's smoke THEY PINCH BACK!

[@thechonkywuf651]

[Picture of bowser] [picture of one of the koopalings] Ashens: they are the same picture

[@UpTheAnte1987]

Packet 1: Need, Need, Need, Need, Need, Need Packet 12: Got, Got, Got, Got, Got, Got

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I'm amazed that they are almost universally "Bad screenshot" or "official art put through a needless filter to look as crummy as possible"

[@Roadent1241]

I thought some of them were just 'nicely balanced photos of the screen during gameplay'.

[@uubrmanx]

Nintendo stickers, along with some now-Microsoft stickers.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Wah-hey!

[@luizamoony]

I'm still reeling at the excitement, this was a lot of fun to watch lol

[@Claidheambmor]

Yep, I remember these. I bought them from the local newsagent. I was born in 1986 so my mum would have bought them for me. Loved them.

[@markwebster76]

Bloody hell. I completed this album. I still have it. Happy times.

[@AllensWorld]

Yes I had this album. It was lots of tips and cheats for the games. But you needed to see the sticker for the location on the game

[@brycevo]

Those are so cool. This art is really neat

[@AnimeToonist]

For whatever it's worth, yep, the second sticker you pulled with the door kind of floating in space is indeed from Super Mario Bros 2

[@SonyUSA]

Man I remember in a box of cereal I got a roll of Nintendo stickers... Mario 3 I think? and they came in a little cardboard roll-out box... man I loved those!

[@UrbanHomesteadMomma]

Good lord stickers! I had so many damn stickers, multiple books!! I was an 80’s child so it was all about Lisa Frank... lots of scratch and sniff, puffies, fuzzies, and shinys... had to have a book for each 😂 So much damn $ wasted on stickers in my youth lol

[@dan_loup]

Looks like some sort of primitive direct capture getting screwed by the NES 240p resolution. Televisions are normally meant to send 480 lines of image in two frames, one being the odd field, and the other the even field and repeat etc.. But it's the picture generator itself that picks if it's an odd or even field, and all old consoles are programmed to just send one of the fields over and over while just letting the other lines go black (which you only can see if you have a bigass TV anyway). But as with modern televisions, their capture thingamabob was probably just guessing 480i, thus why you get the shitty combing/squishing etc..

[@EgoCityGamingUK]

Wow the nostalgia! I still have this sticker album at my moms lol

[@ScarfmonsterWR]

That Merlin logo is so bad that I didn't know what I was looking at until it was described to me...

[@Mustang424]

Haven't been this early since Pop station watch was a thing.

[@leong9013]

17:12 Dr Amigo cameo

[@FIDreams]

14:24 or as I would have said, ‘naked Mario behind a large mushroom to compensating for something’ XD

[@electrofreak0]

His lack of early Nintendo knowledge makes me feel like he missed part of his childhood

[@Nickthegamingnerd]

Most of us UK kids at this point owned commodore 64s and Amigas

[@ToTheGAMES]

UK was a barren wasteland filled of Z(zed)X Speccy's and Commodores.

[@Rentta]

@@Nickthegamingnerd And Sega consoles. .

[@finthegeek]

Oh trust me we had a lot better

[@Chaos89P]

I think his childhood was pretty typical for a Brit. Computer gaming was bigger than in this side of the pond in the 80's.

[@Zontar82]

In Italy getting and trading stickers wasn't an hobby, it was a religion. That is why all known stickers related thingies comes from here, we had cults based around footies stickers also, 4:56 ... Mario x20 and 99 coins? year totally not cheating there

[@EvilOnami]

I got irrationally excited about the snake rattle and roll sticker. one of my favorite games ever. probably because we were too poor to buy more than one game a year if that and I spent many an hour playing that.

[@nensondubois]

Holy shit I remember these cards! Hard pink bubblegum included. Last time I opened one was 24 years ago and it came with hints and tips cards for various games like Yoshi's Cookie and Dr Mario.

[@3PilaresDeOz]

Mario Golf reminded me of those Joel memes from TLoU2 leaks, cracked me up.

[@uselessDM]

Oh, The Bevis Frond, I have one of their albums, their latest and it's really good actually.

[@strongcoffee7]

I had this album and the Street Fighter 2 one... Finished them both... Ah memories... Need to find them out, I treasured them!

[@ranchdressing1037]

You have my respect, sir. I have these too lol. Enterplay makes some good cards too, there's also "Game Paks" wax packs out there, and water tattoos.

[@usagiwithascythe]

Those screenshots look like they were taken from a famiclone

[@Redhotsmasher]

Yeah, one of those really cheap portable Chinese ones with an LCD that's slightly too low res and terrible scaling.

[@2fortsmostwanted]

It feels special to catch a video within the first hour of its release. Pleasure to join you!

[@grotgrusson5124]

My friend here in Sweden had these stickers back in middle school. If I remember correctly, there were some pictures / drawings in the album it self, that was sort of a blurry red mess. But when you put on the 'Special album "3D-glasses"', a whole new world open up, and you could see the hidden picture. Well, you could actually see the picture without those glasses, but it was alot harder.

[@johneygd]

If he waited 2 years longer, those stickers would,ve been 30 years old, not only that but the smell would,ve also turned everything into 1992 again.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

I seem to remember having some of these. I think as a kid those rather bland screenshots would have held a lot of wonder and mystery.

[@Sprech41]

I cannot believe most of these stickers are just screenshots. And by "screenshots", I mean photos taken of a CRT television playing the game.

[@Josh12323]

Some excellent stickers

[@Chaos89P]

Morton, Jr. Iggy and Tryclyde in that order. I don't know the names of those other two things, but the Shy Guy looking thing is a Snifit.

[@ashsboomstick2417]

Worth it for the Telebugs reference alone, so few people remember it it seems.

[@CidsaDragoon]

I had tons of these books as a kid, although I think I remember sending away for certain stickers too.

[@JayT10200]

I can only imagine what those hands have done to that sofa when the camera isn't on. Such as I see Ashens being that type who likes his hand in between the cushions alot

[@roboticrainbow]

They even missed a spot with the ms paint fill tool on the 3 headed snakes blue background 😅 what amazing quality ! ...oh spoke too soon, you point it when you got the double of it!

[@thepokekid01]

I remember getting one of these kind of sticker packs once as a kid and never again. I remember crappy pictures and parts of pictures for something like $5. I think I even remember them being more like Stamps than stickers (whichever one I got), where you had to lick the backs to stick them... Really, after that it was making sure they were trading cards before buying those kinds of things. Turned me off stickers for life!

[@YourCrazyOverlord]

No lie, I'd love to have these for the odd nostalgia factor. The shittiness enhances them somehow

[@TnT_F0X]

16:44 I just noticed Mario doesn't have gloves on... HE IS NAKED!!!!

[@mightyfilm]

I had a much different Mario sticker album. I don't think I had any of the stickers, but what I remember of the descriptions, they just took screenshots of the cartoon series. There was also a Simpsons one that was rushed to market because it exclusively used screen grabs from the Tracey Ulman shorts.

[@johnp254]

Collect more and open more I honestly enjoy this content

[@H4WK6969]

i miss collecting spitting image cards, they were amazing.