No, we have "Game Boy" at home... | Nostalgia Nerd

[@Nostalgianerd]

Some of you have been waiting two years for the next video I'm working on: instagram.com/p/DAVnfmkIstC/

[@jonny_codphilo7809]

ahhhh the onlyfans is finally coming

[@monotonehell]

Check, mate.

[@deagt3388]

Did you get sued by Nintendo!? ;-)

[@valley_robot]

The supervision was awful, I tried one back into the day and was not impressed at all

[@everycloud3388]

We were pretty poor back in the day. My friend had a Gameboy. he was kind enough to let me borrow it some nights. I always wanted a Suoervision, mainly because is was so cheap. my parents were wise and always said it wouldn't be as good as the Gameboy. Then the gods smiled on me! there was an ad in the local paper somebody was selling a Gameboy with several games for £80! A bargain! So my parents said I could get it. My birthday was coming up, so they said that if I put all my birthday money towards it they would cover the rest... and the rest is history!

[@HUYI1]

does any kid back then was in AWE when that kid on the block had a GB multicart with a dozen games and everyone after school wanted to play his cart?

[@everycloud3388]

@@HUYI1 My friend always had them,. He used to go abroad a lot and always came back with at least one. They were magical!

[@HouseOfFunQM]

@@HUYI1 Yeah I remember this, our Chinese classmate went to visit family a lot, and always came back with these dodgy cartridges. I borrowed so many off them, and confused the shit out of my parents who could never find them in shops to buy for me for birthdays haha

[@chickenindabox3169]

amazing friend, awesome parents

[@AlexGamingConsole]

I see you got you gameboy like I did, when it was already old

[@BennyColyn]

Ah the days where we could add "2000" to the product name and make it seem futuristic....

[@KRAWofficial]

Or any other multiple of 1000

[@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht]

An aspect where the Gameboy outshined every last one of these handhelds is the music, I think. The Gameboy has some really epic and memorable tunes like in the Zelda, Pokemon, Mario and Tetris of course. But who remembers beep-boop-earpierce fondly?

[@volvo09]

Yeah some of those matched the game boy with graphics, but fail miserably with sound.

[@HUYI1]

anytime it drops we are all gonna dance and vibe to it, i remember the headphone jack and getting headphones and being creative wild with GB camera back then 😄

[@AlexGamingConsole]

I love gsmes and I mean I really love games but the people who get off to bloops and beeps are weirdos. I was listening to NWA

[@Di3mondDud3]

I knew those looked familiar… I was like “man he has EVERY handheld Ashens reviewed”

[@BackToTheGame.98]

lol yeah, I was thinking he was giving Ashens a run for his money

[@jadedheartsz]

and Top Hat Gaming Man

[@HUYI1]

hahaha! good point! LOL

[@DystopianOverture]

@@BackToTheGame.98 They are friends in real life so I imagine they borrow eachothers retro tech to review.

[@BackToTheGame.98]

@@DystopianOverture Stuart is buddies with every Brit youtuber it seems. Hes such a bro.

[@Aiii83]

I asked for a GameBoy for Christmas, I got a Mega Duck. Honestly, I had fun with it. Not as much fun as I would’ve had if my parents had gotten my a GameBoy, but still, it passed the time on the backseat on the way to the grandparents just the same.

[@ClamBake7525]

"Do not touch golden finger with hand".. I doubt Octavious would pay heed to that warning.

[@Nostalgianerd]

The golden finger would be handed into oblivion.

[@WulfRanger]

Or stolen by their rattos 😂

[@neves188]

9:09 "You expect me to touch?"

[@Christopher-N]

I didn't have an NES growing up. I didn't even have a crappy clone. My NES was made out of cardboard and imagination. It wasn't until 1990 that we got a proper home computer.

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

Watch out, Nintendo might sue you for that bootleg NES of yours.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

​@@nobodyinparticular9640😂

[@3rdalbum]

"Home computer"? Pfft, you're lucky. I had to interpret BASIC commands in my mind in order to play games!

[@hi_tech_reptilez]

Hell I had consoles years before any computer. Here in the states we got our first PC in 95 or so, had an NES before that but my parents were young so they dug it too lol

[@RemoWilliams1227]

@@hi_tech_reptilez same early 90s we got our first 386 and then went from there. First console was the Atari 2600, late 70s from my older brothers.

[@user-qf6yt3id3w]

Imagine being the kid in the playground with the Gay Mate and no Gameboy.

[@vwestlife]

He was probably having a lot more fun.

[@Stefan-jo1sz]

You mean the gay me boy ?

[@DrxSlump]

I aggree with everything but those Tomy mechanical toys have a special place in my heart. It's not only nostalgia goggles, they're cool for what they were. Ways to make things somewhat work without electronics!

[@NumptyMcNumptyface]

I love how the artwork for Kill Shot would be fine for a regular vertical scrolling shmup. So naturally it was used for a Quarth knockoff.

[@sayjosetodayokay]

*1-second loop keeps playing* NN: "What is that? 1-second loop?" .. .. .. Background voice: "ʸᵉᵃʰ!"

[@AndyH0dge]

I actually asked for a Gamate when Maplin were selling them cheaply. Already had a Lynx and wanted something a bit more portable that didn’t eat batteries. As you said, way more playable than the basic Tiger “LCD games” of the time. Don’t remember it being terrible but the screen started to lose rows of pixels after a few weeks so it went back and I got a Gameboy instead. Probably a lucky escape.

[@vwestlife]

I wanted a gamate too, but not that kind...

[@HUYI1]

only the rich kids back then had the lynx and game gear, i didn't encounter any kid who had those

[@retrojoe85]

I'm italian and I remember very well the Supervision, damn! It was strongly adverstised as "even cooler than the Game Boy" but the story was another: it was crappier than the Game Boy! You can still find a lot of brand new cartidges on italian eBay stores today, but no one buys them because the Supervision can stop working at all with such incredible ease. In fact I have two models of them which none of them works anymore (they're crappy built), plus the A2Heaven multicart you mentioned: the first version, similar to the Game Boy, was the first ever to be distributed in Italy. It was similar to the french version but it was white rather than grey. Then they changed the shape into the model called "Quickshot Model" to avoid copyright issues from Nintendo. Some of the Supervision games appeared on the NES as unofficial carts in Asia and USA. In Italy we had also the Gamate, distributed by the toy company GIG, but it didn't last for more than a year. A total failure. Fun fact: a lot of italian eBay resellers are full with "new old stock" Gamate games, but it seems that a single working console can't be found in all Italy. Facts.

[@stevendobbins2826]

It's probably the capacitors that went bad.

[@retrojoe85]

@@stevendobbins2826 yes, surely. But I've noticed how most of the Supervision consoles don't come back to work even with replaced capacitors in most cases, it was a very crappy built console.

[@thehatfox]

There used to be an officially licensed Game Boy bubble bath. It came in a Game Boy shaped bottle which had one of these water ring toss type games built into it. Before I got my own Game Boy playing with the bubble bath ones in Boots was as close as I could get!

[@antilegion1001]

The game master's slanted dpad makes me physically ill.

[@justinbremer2281]

A device exclusively for Q-Bert and shit 😂

[@ViegasSilva]

19:23 Batman - *AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...AGH...*

[@Astfgl]

I was one of those kids who got a Supervision to take on holidays instead of a Game Boy. It honestly wasn't so bad, it had a number of decent games, mostly clones of popular arcade games, and the whole package was competently built. It just didn't have the lasting value you'd get from the Game Boy; most games for the Supervision were short pick-up-and-play affairs, not the kind of thing that would get you through a 12-hour backseat drive on the way to your holiday destination. I was definitely jealous of the other boys I'd meet at camping sites who had a Game Boy to play with.

[@kidShibuya]

Oh I hate the Gamate. Keep me mildly amused in hospital when I was a kid.

[@GroundThing]

Not going to lie, I expected the "door to door salesmen" line to lead into the squarespace ad read.

[@homelessEh]

the ShameBoy...

[@homelessEh]

grade school we all had tiger electrics like decks of cards trading them back and foreth at lunch break lol the king of the yard was the 2 player nintendo k.o. boxing with the little game pads that spooled out for 2 player.. that was the gem . its in the hands of a more careful collector now.

[@homelessEh]

and the megaman 2 tiger electric was popular

[@heroicnonsense]

Yup, we called them that here too. Shameboy, Lameboys, Wannaboys. The Supervision was sold here on mainstreet shops owned by the Vendex group (V&D, Dixons and Byte). They pushed these consoles hard, as the profit margins were much higher than Nintendo's units would get them.

[@reggiep75]

Haha that's ruthless and savage 🔥🔥🔥 😘👌 (

[@n3kosis]

1:33 im going insane

[@maxheadroom4659]

16:35 the "cougar boy" for those gamers who like older women.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

My granny got all of her grandchildren some knockoff GameBoy thing that had simple games like Snake and the one where you dodge obstacles while speeding down the highway preloaded on it one Christmas back in the nineties. For some reason, I remembered that upon seeing this video. 😂

[@tolindaniel]

This is the best video you've released in a very long time! I've missed this classic Nostalgia Nerd content.

[@herpyderpyderp]

8:22 the music is so aggressive, it's the death metal version of tetris

[@jeremysart]

There’s something I can appreciate about the Game Master’s rudimentary graphics. It’s like just a step above a Tiger LCD handheld.. I was obsessed with strange handhelds as a kid and teenager.

[@michaelnorcs]

This is EXACTLY the type of cheap shash my parents always bought me for the 6 years of asking for a computer, when they eventually bought me an already discontinued c64 when the atari st and amiga were already released by 2 years!

[@Michirin9801]

The "Game Boys At Home" from the 2000s were quite interesting I'd say... From cheap and $#!t popstations to weirdly kinda competent licensed ordeals and everything in-between... I remember in the mid-to-late 2000s some of them even had backlit colour screens! I had my fair few in the early part of the decade, but by that point I was SO over it and I'm so glad I convinced my dad to get me a Game Boy Advance SP instead, even though the DS and PSP were already out... I was on a budget, and the GBA was still getting new games at the time, and besides, New Super Mario Bros. and the DS Lite weren't out yet so...

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

I remember going into Dixon and the smell of these computers games was unmistakable! it's something that sadly missing today!

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

Game master 1/3 the price 1/4 the resolution 1/1000 the fun

[@axelprino]

For a moment I was wondering how I wasn't familiar at all with the GAMATE if it had released here in Argentina, then I went back in the video to pay attention to the year mentioned, I was one year old at the time.

[@migueldias8546]

Excellent work! Not sure everyone will understand how difficult it is to collect information about those systems! Thanks!

[@Kumimono]

Did cougar even have, the other meaning back then? Nice choice for music on the MegaDuck. :)

[@SteveMacSticky]

No it didn't. Not at all

[@coyoteartist]

That use of the word wasn't a thing until about 1999. Which is to long ago for comfort.

[@DeathInTheSnow]

@coyoteartist Long enough that the college students back then are now the cougars of today!

[@coyoteartist]

@@DeathInTheSnow That's not scary at all.

[@exception360]

Bought a original DMG GameBoy few months ago. Replaced the screen with an IPS one. And man, I love it!

[@flashmusicarchive]

"it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells!" is a quote that i hope Nostalgia Nerd will mention when he reviews the Game Com.

[@ThatMetalheadMan]

Be a hero and take up the mantle from the now retired Gaming Historian. You can do it!

[@MajorOutage]

Wut? He retired? When?

[@RetroGamesBoy78]

That wonky D-pad has twisted my brain so much its like a wrung out dish cloth! WHY! Please... make it make sense!

[@andresbravo2003]

Another Knock-Off Video that I’ve been waited for years.

[@mr.sowhat3796]

OH CMON I WAS NEARLY THE FIRST COMMENT. haha :)

[@jrtomsic]

I'm sad you didn't hit on the GameCom this time but I agree that it needs its own episode, and I can't wait for it. I had one of those, which came with a ultra cool version of Duke Nukem 3D. Saved up my own money to get it too!

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

4:49 A microcontroller. Neat!

[@HtheB61]

Surprised to see my video footage here about the Supervision TV at 14:13 🥰

[@kjrehberg]

I never knew the Zilog Z80 and its clone, the Sharp SM83 in the Game Boy, were "knock-off Intel 8080 CPUs."

[@MysterySmell]

The Game Master made it to New Zealand as well complete with television adverts... It was $100. The Game Boy was $199. And the Game Gear was $299.

[@Roxor128]

Looking at the footage of these things reminded me of a laptop I once had. It was a 486SX/25 with a monochrome screen. Gaming on it was a pretty smeary affair, but still manageable. Early LCDs were pretty horrible about response times, and this video served as a good reminder of that.

[@eg1885]

Games like this made kids like me very sad. But also taught a valuable lesson in expectation vs reality.

[@skycloud4802]

I had both the Sega Master System and the Nintendo Gameboy. Now you think of it, it is rather weird to love both Nintendo and Sega at the time back then, but many if us did in Europe.

[@SOOKIE42069]

omg way back in the day I had to RMA my Powercolor Radeon 9700pro and the customer service guy on the phone kept yelling at me "Did you touch golden finger" like I was an idiot for not knowing what he was talking about lol. I was like 13 and so baffled.

[@joed9305]

My parents originally bought my brother and I an Atari for the same reason you called out early in the video. The NES was expensive. The games were expensive. And our mom figured the Atari was the same thing, only a lot cheaper. Needless to say we got an NES a year or two later because the Atari was garbage at that point when compared to the NES.

[@MicesOnIces]

Nostalgia Nerd saving us from the Sunday night blues ❤❤

[@FatNorthernBigot]

From what I remember, Gaymates were very popular in the 90's. I had three (and since then, I found out it was actually five).

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Lmfao

[@adamrmoss]

They worth some money now

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@adamrmoss Only the newer ones.

[@ViegasSilva]

2:07 "That's not how *Urban Champion* works!"

[@Tyler-f00k1n]

I was gonna be very upset if you didnt mention the Mega Duck 🦆

[@evildork6805]

You owned one??

[@Tyler-f00k1n]

@@evildork6805 I collect old handhelds. I have one but it doesn't work anymore and IDK how to even fix it or if I'd want to fix it.. it's a part of history after all.

[@everennui1]

I had the supervision when i was a kid and i remember it fondly.

[@sickregret]

Can’t wait for Macho Nacho to release an all regions mod on that French Game Master system so we can finally play all region carts.

[@kilotangosierra]

seeing that gameboy retail box in a store when i was young in 1991, is the one thing i remember so clearly as a kid. its still my dream game console to this day (i have 3 DMG's now lol)

[@sonic2000gr]

Sorry but GAMATE in Greece would never work :D It's literally a form of the F* word in greek.

[@redstar96gr57]

GAMATE γιατί χανόμαστε ;-)

[@heroicnonsense]

I doubt a lot of Australian kids would openly disclose that they've been playing with their Gamate in bed all weekend either.

[@Muzer0]

I mean in English it sounds like "gay mate" so it's already maybe not the most appealing name to most teenagers given the rampant homophobia of the 90s...

[@techdistractions]

@@heroicnonsenseconstantly reminding said friends: its ga-ma-tay !! No it really is 🙈

[@LiveWireBT]

HAR TUNG 🤭 That pronounciation and styling really made me struggle for 2 seconds, then I got it. Hartung. Actually a very German name, not like many others ending on -ski or -ow. HarrTungkk. Such lovely soft German sound.

[@mcborge1]

The Megaduck did make it to the UK, I had one, lol.

[@jokuemt]

even those brick game 9999-in-1 (2/3 of them were weirdass tetris variants) were better than all of those

[@garrkell]

I would love a GameBoy rerelease with 50/60 of the top games preloaded on it like the S/NES Minis

[@rigues]

I remember seeing ads for the Cougar Boy on game magazines in Brazil in the 90s and thinking: "Hey, this seems pretty cool!". Checking some of the Gamate games, I found that Kill Shot is a clone of Konami's Quart, Boom is Mitchell's Pang, and Kiki Inland is Data East's Adventure Island. Can't speak for the clones, but at least Bit Corp was seeking inspiration in some good titles.

[@gundamboi2244]

the supervision looks like an some alternate design of a tng tricorder.

[@nv5302]

1993 Budapest, Hungary - I badly wanted a Gameboy because 2 of my well off classmates had one already and I loved the games they had. My single mom however found it more important to get bills paid and buy food, but she agreed to buy me one for my birthday. At the time a GameBoy was 10.000Ft without a game, then we saw the SuperVision in a high street toy shop. 4990Ft with 4 batteries, an earphone +1 free game. Gameboy or Supervision? The choice was obvious! I remember standing at the counter, trying to choose a game. The cashier suggested the best seller one, where you had to shoot coconuts from a palm tree, but I found that boring. Ended up going home with Eagle Plan and what a good decision it was. Loved the game and the audio, played it a lot... A lot because I did not have any other games anyway... ( Hindsight it was a G-Loc Air Battle clone ). I remember looking at the box many times, the robot holding the supervision was cool, and looking at the software library at the back of the box, I imagined having all the games on the photo, as I thought those were all the games on the console. Playing on it was pricey, at the time 4 Duracell batteries cost 500Ft which was a lot back then, luckily my cousin gave me a 6V adapter later, so I could play without batteries. Anyway,2 years later we returned to the toy shop to buy more games but they referred us to the importer "Royal KFT." which had an office in the X. district, an industrial area of Budapest. We visited their office with my mom on a rainy November afternoon in 1995 to be told that they don't and won't have any more Supervision games. Later, in 1996 on a Budapest fleamarket found a seller, he had a game for sale: Thunder Shooter for 1200Ft which my mother was willing to buy for me. I loved that game too ( an R-Type clone ) 4 levels only but challenging and had a good graphic.I consider myself lucky because I had the chance to play with two good games out of the many bad ones. Today I have Supervision console again with 50 sealed games in their blister, a multi cart with all games and a copy of The Journey to the West game. Can't wait to have a modern screen and rechargable battery solution whenever someone invents it. I think this was a system of its time, don't expect people who did not have a Supervision back then to have the fond memories of this console with way too many bad games

[@grvl307]

I had a game boy knock-off around 1996/97. It was better in every way (higher resolution, better battery life, built-in light.. etc) except for: the games. They were decent, but nothing could come close to super mario land, for example. It cost about half of what a game boy cost, the games were half price too, but it didn't come close in any way 🙃

[@robertklep]

"I make your Game Boy better than Nintendo"

[@ctwatcher]

I bought my son one when he was little, another boy had him sell it to him for 5 bucks. I never bought him another tech toy.

[@kristianp.5949]

I was that kid. My biggest wish was a Game Boy, but I got the Game Master for my birthday, and I hated it. It had the crappy Tetris, Space Castle and some racing game. I was gutted and my parents didn’t understand why.

[@anumeon]

You have got to love the Supervision, it even features Robocops midriff after all.. :D Atleast the tiltable one did.

[@rusty8ucket]

Fantastic video Peter - great to see you back in the small screen . Almost caught up now with your back log . Keep the retro love going 🕹️👍🏻

[@Erykthebat]

"But that's a story for another day" R.I.P. The Storyteller

[@JJMcCullough]

I love hearing about weird British and European games from the 80s and 90s. It's a dramatic illustration of how wide the cultural gap between the continents used to be.

[@azn1011]

furtiger aero is real and good, JJ

[@jackbaxter-williams8059]

Nice to see you here!

[@paper_gem]

Are you going to make a video about Canadian video games?

[@JJMcCullough]

@@paper_gem there aren’t any

[@ExperimentIV]

@@JJMcCulloughbro what are you even talking about nearly every Assassin’s Creed game was developed here, BALATRO is by a Canadian (LocalThunk), Christine Love makes some amazing games, Celeste by Maddy Thorson, Dead by Daylight, The Long Dark, Cuphead… what are you waffling on about

[@HouseOfFunQM]

Holy shitttttt I remember we had one of those QuickShot SuperVision things when I was like 4 years old! You just awoke the weirdest memories of random hand-down toys in my house.

[@barowt]

I had a similar one of those, used all of my birthday money to buy it because parents wouldn't.. it sucked so bad, that my mom bought me a Gameboy .

[@markmuir7338]

The Gamate would’ve been the butt of all jokes back in 1990s Britain, and you’d be left wondering why you no longer have any friends.

[@paranoidgenius9164]

The Game Master is what you get in the space between Tiger Electronics games & the classic GameBoy. I'm quite impressed, I thought you couldn't really work with anything less than the capabilities of the classic GameBoy to do with platform games . 64x64 resolution screen = 4,096 pixels on screen, it's amazing that you can create platform games with very little! Oh! The potential for the Gamate console, a worthy contender to the classic GameBoy, I have crazy visions of a dot matrix Sinclair Spectrum handheld!

[@Taneth]

I remember the Game Child. The cartridge was also the screen, so to change the game you had to pop out the screen (which was specialised for the game anyway). I had three games which were basically just dodge-ems (well, one was a bouncer, but still). I think I ended up pulling it apart after I lost interest and could find literally zero sources of new games because nobody had ever heard of it.

[@lvl90dru1d]

we never had these and were mostly stuck with game & watch clones all the way to the gba sps and later psps

[@BollingHolt]

"HIGH QUALITY STEREO SOUND" 🤣

[@SMlFFY85]

I'd have been happier with any of these consoles over the Game Child I got one year.

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

The Gamate reminds me of games and blur I got playing games on my Ti-83 calculator in High School.

[@BasVoet]

MPD78C11A. Rolls nicely off the tongue.

[@Nostalgianerd]

It's like poetry

[@daveadcock9128]

Imaging being the kid in the 90s with a ‘gay mate’

[@PedroSilvahf]

Was waiting for the mega duck to appear. I cant understand why they went on with all those instructions written around the screen

[@gwishart]

To make it cheaper to manufacture. Particularly when it came to localised versions with different languages. None of the switches, dials or connectors are labelled on the case itself - only on the screen surround.

[@PedroSilvahf]

@@gwishart I see. What i said is also about too much written stuff. My brain works in a way that if i look at something and there is any kind of writing i will read it. And when it comes to the mega duck, every time i look at the screen my head is going DC 5V CONTRAST HIGH RESOLUTION DOT MATRIX LCD SUPER STEREO SOUND and on and on

[@timmturner]

I got the game boy 2 months after it was released in North America for my birthday. About a week later I took it apart and found a screw that said do not screw and I screwed it in and it screwed it into the screen damaging it 😂

[@anthonykearney608]

I was lucky and spoiled as a child. I had both the gameboy and game gear. Snes and megadrive. Amigo 500 and pc. Etc

[@crimester]

6:55 i love the gaymate, it's my favorite handheld video game system

[@zerocks88]

golly that GaMate dotmatrix does leave a lot to be desired doesn't it lmao

[@shaden489]

I hadn't heard of a single one of these handheld before today what a cool interesting video

[@shduckman]

I actually got a Gamate as a kid. And I still own it in my collection to this day. boxed and everything. It´s not a great console :D But quite rare. I own a SuperVision as well. Rarely see any material on these weird old platforms, so thanks for making some :)

[@BrianMaddox]

People forget that we had like five actual games and hundreds of clones back then ;)

[@AcornElectron]

13:00 a wild Crystball appeared!

[@DovonMac1]

Mega duck sure is ear screeching

[@techdistractions]

I had Gamate - it was another xmas present where my folks had promised be a “nintendo” and got me .. well, this. I found out later it was a $60 clearance at target (australia). The tetris clone was quite good and I didn’t mind the port of Vindicators.

[@NielsPaul]

Ashens has entered the chat.

[@Retromantra]

Woow! I had never heard of any of these before. Thanks 👍 great video!

[@jansenart0]

Mega Duck is friggin awesome. The audio goes hard.

[@krzysztofczarnecki8238]

All of them are still orders of magnitude better than a "brick game" or a Tiger handheld, which is what most kids in Poland had at least one of instead of a GameBoy. When GameBoy was new, I knew only one person that had it. In the whole primary school. Brick games were dirt cheap, no more than a third of a Lego Bionicle warrior.

[@jasonblalock4429]

I can't get past how horrible the sound is on all of these. I mean, the bleepy little Game Boy sound chip wasn't *that* great but it could make decent music. But all of these, the sound would get grating in a matter of minutes.

[@volvo09]

Yeah, the graphics mat hed the game boy on some, but the sound? Horrible.

[@TheNightquaker]

4:10 I'm so glad I wasn't like that as a kid lmao. If my parents screwed up, I let them know in full, instead of faking it. Being a cheapo when buying Christmas presents for your kids is how you end up in an elderly home, and not a good one.