Are they completely identical? Same adventure mode, single player and no saving though?
@davidsomoza10 жыл бұрын
That makes Rascal Racers a butchered port of Merlin Racing. (RR was released after MR) without the dkr-esque overworld and other features it seems.
@jojothebard668710 жыл бұрын
Alex Angulo It maybe, but... STILL KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
@WiiBlackOpsMan10 жыл бұрын
thats what i thaught
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
Alex Angulo As far as I can tell they are not identical. There seems to be a number of changes to the game. I think it was ported to the Playstation after the Nuon.
@mineboom73777 жыл бұрын
6:33 Oh my gosh. Merlin Racing is a Rascal Racers port. Someone get Caddy! This cannot go unseen!
@Exospray4 жыл бұрын
Given this one seems more advanced I think this was the original, then when the system flopped they ported sliced up bits of it to the PS1
@washyourmouthoutwithpope13344 жыл бұрын
i thought I recognised it from somewhere!!
@srbarkerchan3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering why it looked so familiar.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
@@Exospray Apparently it's a prequel
@oz_jones2 жыл бұрын
Other way round
@mjallen13087 жыл бұрын
That founder looks like every project he starts fails immediately.
@crieverytim4 жыл бұрын
skeeter or Mr burns
@JasonMontell25014 жыл бұрын
He looks like a failed project himself
4 жыл бұрын
Jason Montell r/rareinsults
@crazycrazyjake4 жыл бұрын
MusicMan lol for real, culito! No mames!
@harryallsopp91364 жыл бұрын
Starting with his hair in the morning
@P0LYB1UZ2 жыл бұрын
Because of this video, i was able to recognize a Nuon at my local thrift store. The price of most of the games and the controllers has since skyrocketed due to collectors hoarding and reselling them. I wanted to genuinely thank you in this regard, as the oddity makes a great addition to my video game collection and allows me to experience Tempest 3000, which is arguably my favorite of the Tempest games that aren't the original. The original is only right on a dial.
@favoritemustard3542 Жыл бұрын
Yup! You had to twist the puck out of it! It felt so good, though, smooth & solid.
@justanotheryoutubechannel5 жыл бұрын
If one doesn’t exist already, I hope someone creates an emulator for this so people can play Tempest 3000.
@zerocal764 жыл бұрын
How about we hope no one wastes their time creating an emulator for this lol
@NateRox4 жыл бұрын
Just Another KZbin Channel it would probably be easier to just remake the game entirely
@richardadamson14384 жыл бұрын
There's a emulator but it isn't that good.
@edvance10303 жыл бұрын
@@NateRox You know what? Tempest 3000 is already a remake of the original 1981 Tempest arcade game, so if you want to play it, get the emulator of the original arcade and the rom of the original Tempest game and have fun.
@HerecomestheCalavera2 жыл бұрын
@@edvance1030 Or play Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar emulator.
@LGR10 жыл бұрын
Awesome to finally see this video come to fruition! Been waiting ever since you mentioned you'd run into a Nuon, really cool to see a nice in-depth video on this oddity. Happy to have helped a little with getting some of the games for it!
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
You da man Lazy Game Reviews! :D
@mattsworld794310 жыл бұрын
I managed to get one of the American consoles a while back, purely for the Jeff Minter stuff. Such a limited amount of games and way ahead of its time. Only now are they embedding console quality gaming abilities into TV's
@saturnrobinson505710 жыл бұрын
Must... control...urge to squeal like a fangirl.
@billant25 жыл бұрын
Around 2000 there were quite a few flops from various upstarts... they all had one thing in common, they were based on optical disk technology (CD/DVD) trying to break into the large consumer market... some made it, other have flopped. At 8.47 he said Free Fall 350 AD hmmm. it should be 3050 AD ??
@solarstrike335 жыл бұрын
LGR It’s also worth noting that FreeFall 3050 AD also got a mail-order exclusive PC release in 2003 until lately. It was recently also put on Steam as of December (2018).
@KartKing4ever9 жыл бұрын
There's something about this channel that I like. Especially how the word 'subscribe' was not said once at the end of the video.
@Insertmiddlefinger9 жыл бұрын
KartKing4ever That alone makes me want to subscribe now... Wow, there is something ironical about me wanting to subscribe after you mention it, or/and the fact that I want to subscribe now because it does NOT ask me to... Well, ill sub then, this should be good.
@Echoesoftimelover8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, if only there wasn't any Click Here To SUBSCRIBE! To make up for it, I'd like it more.
@cjcathead24688 жыл бұрын
+Echoesoftimelover some times people need to help idiots like me to remember to subscribe :P
@marioman5749 жыл бұрын
Whenever I hear about obscure consoles like this, I always wonder what would've happen if they had been successful.
@boyifyouboomeimaboobooonyall9 жыл бұрын
Gaming would be different.. Like very different.. Like not cool (looks down)
@anueutsuho74252 жыл бұрын
Alternate universe where this hit it big and there was some shitty failed console called the Playstation
@socialjusticewarrior23162 жыл бұрын
imagine if SEGA were still making consoles.
@SpinoRexy7332 жыл бұрын
@@socialjusticewarrior2316 I kind of wonder how that would have changed the gaming world if Sega was doing that.
@車食べたい7 жыл бұрын
You know whats funny about that Korean exclusive game? Its a licensed game for Crayon Shincan, and... Crayon Shinchan is a Japanese show!
@PeiceofNick6 жыл бұрын
車食べたい Yeah, for some reason he failed to point this out.
@reaper1266 жыл бұрын
Asian show to correct you
@SgtTwilight5 жыл бұрын
And now Crayon Shin Chan has a South African English Dub exclusive for the 3DS. What a weird world we live in.
@dickdiggler32345 жыл бұрын
Imagine if there was only one game on the USA system and it based on a random Mexican show
@michaelkeehan80944 жыл бұрын
It's like a region-locked French game based on Thomas the Tank Engine (which is British for the 8 people who didn't know).
@lilGthePantherBoy4 жыл бұрын
I love how hes like "Mario kart" and "Diddy Kong" BUT ITS CTR
@fencefirst27224 жыл бұрын
Yeah it was so CTR
@mx3fto4 жыл бұрын
Looked like a re-skinned rascal racers to me
@coolvato104 жыл бұрын
NGeoHP afjup
@douglasthequilava4 жыл бұрын
@@mx3fto If Caddicarus fou d that game I'm sure he'd shoot it.
@ElTwOJaY4 жыл бұрын
Yep its CTR
@GameSack10 жыл бұрын
I have a friend who has a Nuon and all of the games and we were supposed to do an episode on it sometime last year. It still may happen. I haven't played the thing yet.
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
I really want to see what the two of you make of it. I didn't have the other versions of the games, would you be able to do comparison footage to show off the various ports?
@GameSack10 жыл бұрын
***** Maybe. That would be a good idea. I have to wait until said friend moves back out to Colorado.
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
***** Lmao, what games did you have for it?
@emailchrismoll10 жыл бұрын
aaaaw shit the sack just arrived to teabag
@almostliterally5936 жыл бұрын
Do it
@Rakshasa19868 жыл бұрын
The console failed? Looks like...*Nuon* wanted it!
@onihaiena61527 жыл бұрын
Mars Ba-dum tsss
@colehouston96637 жыл бұрын
STOOOOOOOOOOOP
@mlnl62037 жыл бұрын
FUCK YOUUUU
@JohnnyThousand6057 жыл бұрын
Nicely done. =)
@MarkySauce7 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@NaveedMohebbi10 жыл бұрын
Man, you know something went wrong when a port of Myst wasn't even released on the thing.
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
If you check out Nuon-dome.com you can find out more about the library of games that never made it out. You would be surprised at what was supposed to be on the system!
@GoodGuyPlayer26 жыл бұрын
"What happens when a console fails so fast and so hard that nobody knew about it when it came out?" You call it the Ouya and run with the kickstarter patrons money ;P.
@Darkest_matter5 жыл бұрын
Lool
@garfieif81875 жыл бұрын
Considering we all remember OUYA and it had a lifespan of a few years, I would say that you're pretty off base. A better example would be the Apple Pippin. What's a Pippin, you ask? Exactly.
@Darkest_matter5 жыл бұрын
@@garfieif8187 i know what the pippin is
@elephystry5 жыл бұрын
Ibraheem Productions it’s a basketball player
@huntshowdown98345 жыл бұрын
Pippin helped Frodo and the gang
@vapor4045 жыл бұрын
“Obvious success of the Jaguar” that killed me you need a Netflix special
@heywoodjablowme16248 жыл бұрын
Why in the world would you pick Planet of the Apes and Bedazzled over The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai??
@kennethbosquemarinmoved10788 жыл бұрын
It has noun features you generic dipshit
@MoreUniqueThanMost8 жыл бұрын
But does it have Nuon features?
@heywoodjablowme16248 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ guys... watch the fucking video... 3:06
@GeoNeilUK7 жыл бұрын
Fuck you, adjective features are far better.
@jasonmoyer7 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was kinda laughing when he said "I'm a film buff" and then didn't pick the one great movie ouf of the four with Nuon features.
@jeffgoodnough97042 жыл бұрын
I cannot recommend enough "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension." It starts with a heaping scoop of sci-fi camp, but has this incredible allegorical followthrough. It stars Peter Weller, actor and ballet dancer with two doctorate degrees, Jeff Goldblum, and Jon Lithgow. This movie will blow your mind.
@AcidGlow5 жыл бұрын
*That Korean console looks like a VCR..* ✅🙂
@maustank52243 жыл бұрын
Oh hello verified user
@ECL28E3 жыл бұрын
That was a thing for western-made consoles in the 90s. The Philips CD-i, Panasonic 3DO, and this; as if they didn't want their consoles to look like toys, but like media-center elements. Hell, in the 70s and 80s, there were a ton of consoles that had those weird wood-panel decorations; like they're meant to be played in a log-cabin
@mynameisleeyesitis3 жыл бұрын
@@ECL28E well that was to match the televisions at the time which had the same decorations, going back to the days when tv looked like a radio, in a wooden box but with a screen
@donutreligion29794 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this at Best Buy and it was pretty hidden away with the DVD players and nowhere near the traditional game consoles. There was definitely nothing trying to push it on the market as a game console.
@markusTegelane3 жыл бұрын
as he said, not all nuon systems can play games
@favoritemustard3542 Жыл бұрын
@@markusTegelane it... still could have been misplaced. & I mean where do you put it? With such a limited roster...
@ressljs3 ай бұрын
I had one of these, and the box it came in only had a tiny area showing it's ability to play games. After it failed, I heard that NUON systems actually sold half decent, but the manufacturers kept the profits from the hardware, and VM labs (the company behind NUON) kept the profits from game sales. So when people bought them as fancy DVD players but didn't buy games for them, Samsung and Toshiba ended up getting all the money. It would also explain why the manufacturers advertised them as DVD players with extra bells and whistles, but didn't advertise that they played games.
@Psyn0707 жыл бұрын
Okay, I can sort of understand picking up Planet of the Apes but you preferred Bedazzled OVER Buckaroo Banzai? Do you even know what insane masterpiece you passed up?
@PeiceofNick6 жыл бұрын
Tom Majestic I found it werid that he would treat it as a bad movie, because its not.
@VinderHD5 жыл бұрын
Excuse me Bedazzled is a classic ( . )( . )
@timothyneiswander31514 жыл бұрын
For watching a movie I will take the comedy genius of Buckaroo Banzai. For b( . )( . )bs, I prefer the hands on experience.
@marvstevens40134 жыл бұрын
LOL exactly what i was thinking, And the moron claims he is a movie buff
@billvick28794 жыл бұрын
Maybe he's a lectroid !!!
@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS9 жыл бұрын
Buckaroo Banzai is a great movie dude, you missed out not using that one.
@rerez9 жыл бұрын
We'llAlwaysHave VALIS Watched it right after this video was made. Really enjoyed it, the ending theme kicks ass.
@firstnamelastname-oy7es9 жыл бұрын
+Rerez Do little is also pretty good imo. Especially the Giant Fart scene!
@z1DEv_ag7 жыл бұрын
pkd :)
@loginregional7 жыл бұрын
I mentioned this before, but here goes, again! That theme is used on the Alex Jones Show.
@WilliamStoneContentZone6 жыл бұрын
+LOGIN Noticias That seems like it would make less people want to watch it
@brandonnetwork5 жыл бұрын
This was the very first Rerez video I've ever seen, back in 2014 when it came out. This and the AVGN are what got me fascinated with gaming tech, retro games, and obscure gaming stuff. So along with the "who's watching this in *insert year here*" cliché, also who else was motivated by this video too.
@marcush47414 жыл бұрын
I HAD THAT DVD PLAYER AND DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHAT IT WAS!!!!
@Edwin6264.4 жыл бұрын
WTF
@mikerutledge28474 жыл бұрын
Ummm wtf
@channel59803 жыл бұрын
bruh
@niche81373 жыл бұрын
*Please* tell me you still have it, lol.
@urktheturtle29889 жыл бұрын
Is... is Merlin Racing.... Rascal Racers?
@hogsuckeraccountreal9 жыл бұрын
Thats what I thought
@timseeger91809 жыл бұрын
Yes and they are both shit
@Dalekzilla548 жыл бұрын
+Night Clone Oh god, someone get Caddicarus onto this, pronto!
@scottcowan73438 жыл бұрын
it is exactly rascal racers, and miracle space race, and atv racers, ah telegames.
@petejohnson45688 жыл бұрын
+Night Clone "I DON'T THINK I WANTED TO PLAY AS BOAT!" -Caddicarus
@mspenrice8 жыл бұрын
:-o How... how did you do a review of the Nuon system ... without saying Word One about the light synthesiser that loads when you put an audio CD into it? It was specially programmed by Jeff Minter (the lead guy on Tempest 2000 & 3000, and maker of something similar for the Jag even - which Sony then ripped off for some early versions of the PSX) and is apparently one of the best audio visualisers going outside of the legendary Winamp one... Seriously, I was expecting there to be SOME footage or mention of it...
@md_vandenberg5 жыл бұрын
Because when I buy a game console, I want it to have a sweet CD-Audio visualizer. Guy, Shane didn't even make mention of the PlayStation 2 _once_ in this video, the Nuon's direct "competitor". Thoroughness wasn't on his to-do list.
@hjalfi2 жыл бұрын
Jeff Minter also did the light synthesiser for a few other systems, including the XBox 360, which (IIRC) you could fly manually with up to four different controllers, each one operating a different aspect of the visualisation. ...I heard about the Nuon from his blog, which he thought was really interesting; it was this weird DSP-like system, and T3K used all kinds of pixel-shader-like effects in an era that predated pixel shaders. I was sad it died so hard, although looking at the other games it was probably a blessing. Jeff Minter also worked on Polybius.
@edgardeitz27842 жыл бұрын
Is this the _same_ Jeff Minter who was the leader of a programming group called "Llamasoft", which produced great, trippy looking games for the "Commodore 64" and other systems?
@mspenrice2 жыл бұрын
@@NintendoDude888... It's a figure of speech, not an actual piece of software. And "most" don't matter here, it's a presented video where you'd think the author may have done a little more research and know more about the subject than some randomer.
@mspenrice2 жыл бұрын
@@md_vandenberg so are you agreeing with me or trying to debate? I can't tell. My complaint after all was about the seeming lack of detail in the coverage. Also its not really "not being thorough" as outright skipping one of the machine's barely-secondary selling points, because it wasn't a games console primarily. It was a DVD and CD player that could also play games, and run bespoke software in general (the synth being a good built in demonstration of that). Or would have if anyone (other than Jeff) ever wrote anything for it. The PSX also had a half decent lightsynth in it, and the JagCD, probably others too. They were a moderately common and cool thing to have at the time, especially with CDs being by far and away the main music distribution format (the Nuon may or may not have been mp3 compatible... Not sure either way but certainly not guaranteed, and if so they would still have been read from CDR). If you're going to play music through a thing connected to your TV, and particularly if you might not have any separate speakers, may as well have something interesting on the screen that also prevents burn-in. Also the period of Winamp visualiser becoming a popular thing, Microsoft adding one to Media Player, etc, after they had an initial flush of popularity in DOS instead.
@NexusVerbal7 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who loled when Richard Miller's picture came up?
@jimbo-fk4dq6 жыл бұрын
I did as well. He has a 6 or 7 head going on.
@MikeDijital6 жыл бұрын
Hey Moe Hey Moe!!
@tommyjohnson48556 жыл бұрын
he looks like the type of dude who should stay away from children
@dntlss5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha ha, when it gets to that point its time to shave it off @Miles Holder
@yodagaming10075 жыл бұрын
How can a man look both 12 and like Montgomery Burns?
@luigiman42556 жыл бұрын
I owned one of these as a young kid in the early 2000s. First DVD player we owned. There was a pretty cool demo disc that came with mine along with Ballistic. There were ports of other games such Myst on the disc.
@grproteus4 жыл бұрын
9:00 ".... a C-virus of some sort".... DUDE!
@Siara874 жыл бұрын
At least now we know what have to be done, move up guys.
@NiteGrite3 жыл бұрын
they were ahead of their time
@TomasGregovich9 жыл бұрын
The racing game looks more similar to Crash Team Racing (the menu font is exactly the same).
@shaunburton11129 жыл бұрын
your spot on I even recognize the maps and hud layout, early naughty dog devs me think
@tael649 жыл бұрын
+Shaun Burton The graphics and art style are near identical as well.
@shaunburton11129 жыл бұрын
pretty sure i caught a glimpse of aku aku there too, either there is a serious case of copyright infringement or there is a missing link
@erics20049 жыл бұрын
+TomasGregovich How could he not see this is a blatant rip off of CTR?
@haruhisuzumiya66509 жыл бұрын
+Eric S CTR with diddy kong racing
@hard4games10 жыл бұрын
Great episode! Now I'm going to keep an eye out for this thing at my local thrift shops!
@mattgam3r6869 жыл бұрын
Well, the dream cast was awesome
@rerez9 жыл бұрын
It was! Easily one of my all time favourite video gam systems.
@noneedforname75209 жыл бұрын
+Rerez *game Jk, Sorry, pLEASe dONt KIll Me!
@alexshek1689 жыл бұрын
I love dreamcast, what happened to it?
@mattgam3r6869 жыл бұрын
the playstation 2 crushed it
@alexshek1689 жыл бұрын
Come on, Sega had to let it happen. Dreamcast had way more games than PS2 in the beginning.
@lewisplayspool4 жыл бұрын
6:14 "...that means that this Nuon system exists *seoul-ly* to play this one game." Well done man, you got me there...
@mukiex44135 жыл бұрын
One thing missed in this video: The Nuon, in DVD playback, could zoom 50x with bilinear filtering on a DVD. It was the ONLY player at the time that had good, fast, smooth zooming playback. In that regard it was actually a really good DVD player.
@ItsaDogandGame10 жыл бұрын
you know I'm in south korea...looks like i'll have to do some hunting for that... uh... "gem"
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
You should find it! The Nuon should be bundled with a Korean film of some sort. Plus, you can reveal how that game is!
@benjaminwessel52906 жыл бұрын
ItsaDogandGame nicee
@1dyingwish6 жыл бұрын
Shin Chan is a hilarious animie, might be worth it.
@ultra64666 жыл бұрын
The Shin Chan game looks badass too.
@salozmen298 жыл бұрын
Genius!! A DVD player and video game console.........oh wait, PS2.
@thisnamehaschangedthanksto81858 жыл бұрын
+salozmen29 it was released before the ps2, so you could say it was an innovative idea. on the other hand, PS2 was more of a gaming console with a DVD player feature on it, whereas Nuon was more of a DVD player with a gaming console feature on it.
@walterflanagan96745 жыл бұрын
@@jasonlee7816 True but every console has shitty things about them tbh.
@walterflanagan96745 жыл бұрын
@@jasonlee7816 I love Xbox tho not gonna lie.
@Darkest_matter5 жыл бұрын
@@jasonlee7816 meh.. i liked my xbox butps2 was good too
@jasonlee78165 жыл бұрын
@ Walter Flanagan name some consoles that have features you dislike
@brandon92719 жыл бұрын
there was a 9th game created called 'smash the Nuon with a hammer!' It was region free ;)
@aronflaviol9 жыл бұрын
it took me too long to get it
@brandon92719 жыл бұрын
Aron Flavio Luciano you must really like Tempest! Lol
@aronflaviol9 жыл бұрын
brandon9271 not a native speaker. And i also dont know what you mean by that i really like the tempest
@brandon92719 жыл бұрын
+Aron Flavio Luciano i mean that must like Tempest a lot since its the only game worth playing on this console :)
@aronflaviol9 жыл бұрын
brandon9271 ok. haha
@joshuaturner28034 жыл бұрын
I've been playing video games since the 70s and I never heard of this system of day of my Life thank you for sharing is history
@13rrtttt132 жыл бұрын
I had an OPPO DVD player with NUON. I didn’t know it was a “game console” until after I was looking through the manual. I bought it because it was one of the few DVD Players that had really good upscaling to HD using the NUON processor at the time. Really good player, and your video decries the “console”…never did play a game on it.
@favoritemustard3542 Жыл бұрын
Could it play while zoomed in? I would seriously doubt that it couldn't, but I am curious... ty
@ivo54869 жыл бұрын
Somewhere sometime Caddicarus shudders at the mention of Merlin Racers, better known as Rascal Racers.
@jessesteck83818 жыл бұрын
Dreamcast was a pretty good console. There were just too many competitors coming out at the time and it didn't sell.
@robertkirkpatrick30928 жыл бұрын
I respectfully disagree. Sega had really lost the trust of most of the fans. Sony was rumoured of threatening several developers. The Dreamcast was a great system. In many ways it was ahead of its time. I think it would have been a bit closer if Sega had a dvd drive.
@TimeWalk3r8 жыл бұрын
I thought the reason why not many developers jumped on Dreamcast was with the way they handled the Sega Saturn: forcing the console to come way earlier than expected and then dropping support very quickly. This pissed off some developers and made them stop working with SEGA.
@firstnamelastname-oy7es8 жыл бұрын
It was a good console, but it didn't have many great games on it because Sega killed it too early.
@amihartz8 жыл бұрын
Nobody is going to mention its piracy problem? Okay.
@TheNephilimofEmpireCity8 жыл бұрын
It had such a problem with that because it was using a Windows operating system on it Windows CE to be exact and that allowed the code of the games to be ripped onto a PC and onto a bootleg disc or could be downloaded and ripped onto your own
@shadowspider910 жыл бұрын
The steam box is looking like it might fallow in the 3DO and Nuon's footsteps. As the steam boxes are being made by over a dozen 3rd party supplier's that won't see any money from game sales, and will be priced extremely high. True the steam box will inherently have a vast game library since it connects to steam, but I'm really not sure how well $1000 box who's only use is to connect steam to your TV, will sell.
@seano129 жыл бұрын
But steamboxes aren't even consoles: they're PCs. It's always cheaper to build your own PC, so nobody really bothers.
@AnTran1479 жыл бұрын
Steam Boxes will be available in multiple configurations and price points though, so they're not all "priced extremely high".
@shadowspider99 жыл бұрын
An Tran The cheapest one is like $500. Not extremely high but any one not versed in tech is going to go for the PS4, and anyone who is versed in tech is going to know that $500 is extremely low grade in the tech department.
@AmaranthOriginal9 жыл бұрын
shadowspider9 I'm not so sure about that, considering it's the boutique PC market that is still going, and their entry-level units often cost about that much. I imagine that means there's a market unsavvy and gullible enough.
@shadowspider99 жыл бұрын
Zachary Amaranth I have no doubt there is a market. The question is if that market is big enough to keep supporting making these?
@SymbolicSplenetic4 жыл бұрын
me initially: "Hmmmph....not that obscure, I heard of this thing." me after 1 min: "Oh yeah, I heard of it through watching Rerez's video in 2014"
@stephenfiler32044 жыл бұрын
Same lol
@fadorka4 жыл бұрын
Damn Richard's hair cut is lit af
@TheLastLineLive9 жыл бұрын
You are wrong about the 3d0 being a bad idea. It is true that the hardware manufacturers got the shaft, but the competition and standard specs between them ensured the price would drop as manufacturing costs did rather than based on when the sole manufacturer wanted to. This actually allowed the system to dive in price quickly, it was about half of what it was at the original $699 launch price within a year. Also the license fees and development kits were inexpensive and didn't have the regulation issues of Nintendo and Sega consoles, while this did lead to a lot of shovelware, it also lead to some great exclusive games. Basically it was in between PC and console, standardized specs and ease of consoles, market competition for both consumers and developers of PC. The idea itself is great, the execution may be questionable though I don't think that was much of an issue, the upcoming Saturn and PlayStation was more of a problem than the way the console itself was executed.
@rerez9 жыл бұрын
downphoenix Yeah, I probably should have said the execution was more of an issue rather than the idea itself being outright bad.
@Taupe__9 жыл бұрын
I also I believe the reason for the 3do being made was that Panasonic wondered why there where so many home video game consoles and they decided to make the 3do with the intention of being the console of choice the only one. But everyone knows what happened to the 3do
@richongaming9 жыл бұрын
downphoenix Yep, I owned a 3DO. Unlike a lot of people I actually enjoyed it...then again i got the system for $20 and the games for $5 each during clearance. There were some real gems in there.
@LeSarthois9 жыл бұрын
downphoenix I think he said the marketing scheme was a bad idea, not the system itself. And if there was good ideas in it, there was some flaws as well. As you mentionned, the licencing fees and tools were inexpensive and there was no quality control. While it was a nice idea to see different things coming on a console, it also overloaded the 3DO library with utter crap (and I don't mean it from "mouth to ear", but actual, factual experience with the system). It would have been wise for Panasonic and/or the 3DO company to create a quality label ensuring consumers they would buy something great and not some cheap digital mess. Indeed, the Playstation coming out nailed the fate of the 3DO more surely than the flaws in it's marketing scheme. Tho, it did helped things, as Sony, while checking the games for approval before release (at least in the beginning, for example delaying the release of Rayman because it was a 2D game and they wanted to push 3D games first - that's history for you, Rayman was actually submitted first on the Playstation, but as Atari had nothing to release for the Jaguar on one hand and Sony had delayed Rayman to release other games first, the Jaguar version was officially released first) allowed more various games than Sega and Nintendo ever did. They also kinda ended the "European segregation" in that games were now more often directly imported from Japan and not from America, and for the most violent, they were cencored (or not) for each country rather than on a whole scale. You can see a fine example in Resident Evil Director's Cut: the French and German version have the original, uncensored color FMV intro of the Japanese version, when the other European version keep the censored B&W one (tho, it was announced with the original FMV even in NA, so... it's probably a mistake from Capcom on this part, but it still mean that someone at Capcom or Sony France and Germnay was able to communicate with their Japanese counterpart directly, something that would almost never happen before.) It's likely that this scheme of marketing from Sony was pulled out from the 3DO, refined to fix it's most obvious failures and adapt to the more traditionnal "console maker-game publisher" scheme.
@TheLastLineLive9 жыл бұрын
LeSarthois Yea, I'm sure Sony borrowed some ideas from the 3D0 and improved on it. It is a shame the M2 never came to be, it was significantly more powerful than the other consoles of the time and was able to put out some pretty impressive graphics, somewhere in between the N64 and Dreamcast for 1996, not bad. 'Course it never came to be, 3D0 couldn't make the funding, etc. happen so they just did game development instead.
@johnspahn4208 жыл бұрын
Did not get Buckroo Banzai? Epic fail
@PeiceofNick6 жыл бұрын
John Spahn Yeah, why would he think the movie was bad?
@llYossarian5 жыл бұрын
@david burrus He even said he's "...kind of a movie buff" only a couple minutes after dismissing Buckaroo Banzai like some kind of straight-to-video trash.
@jimbob32865 жыл бұрын
@@NintendoDude888 >says the guy who posts the same thing three times *sips gingerale
@desmondsanchez60595 жыл бұрын
Buckeroo is the only good movie he named lol
@beeeater48755 жыл бұрын
@@jimbob3286 lol i thought he was fucking jokin wtf.
@TVisTheRetina8 жыл бұрын
I bought the later Samsung model new in 2002. I think you're the only person that considers this DVD player a 'console'. No one considered it a console when they were being sold new in stores, nor in the years after. Nuon is just a DVD chip technology format that can also load software/games. Calling it a 'console' is an extreme stretch. I guess my Android phone is a game console too then.
@cargo_vroom97295 жыл бұрын
It's a box with a controller that plugs into your TV and plays games, that's what console means. I'd call an android device that also meets those criteria a console too.
@KOT_AMV4 жыл бұрын
@@cargo_vroom9729 exactly, we do call the OUYA a console after all.
@SneedyKetler3 жыл бұрын
The idea of a system behind some of the staff behind both the Atari Jaguar and the 3DO sounds like something special until you wonder what group of employees they were.
@chickenvasquez784 жыл бұрын
"Cuz she's a (dun dun) 20th century Fox!" -Jim Morrison / The Doors
@GameplayandTalk10 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! I didn't expect it to be as in-depth as it was, considering how obscure the NUON was. As a fan of the Jaguar back in the day (thank you, Tempest 2000!), I was actually pretty stoked for the NUON (thank you, Tempest 3000!). I got one not too long after its release when you could still get it at Best Buy in 2000. Unfortunately, despite it being a solid DVD player (I had the Toshiba SD-2300 model), it was pretty lackluster. Yeah, I enjoyed a couple of the games (Tempest 3K and Iron Soldier 3 mainly, the later I had to mail in for), but most of them were simply average at best or simply done better elsewhere. Other cool looking games like aMaze or a port of Pitfall: the Mayan Adventure (which would have had the potential to be the best home version) never surfaced, which didn't really help the platform at all (actually, they might not have helped anyway). On a side note, to add to your "..Was also released on PlayStation" argument, Space Invaders XL, from what I can tell, is basically the same game as one of the classic Space Invaders releases for the PS1 in Japan (the import, not the US remake published by Activision). Likewise, the same game was released on the Saturn in Japan. These weren't known as "Space Invaders XL", but looking at screen shots you can pretty much tell they are the same thing. They even have the same versus modes. Actually, even the SNES version of Space Invaders had this too (minus the added music from a variety of Taito games).
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
I think you are right about Space Invaders. It was just so hard to find info on some of the Nuon games!
@devilmikey009 жыл бұрын
Honestly freefalls opening cutscene was pretty impressive looking for the time. Really showed what this COULD have done, possibly. That said once you actually started trying to play it looked awful ;p
@TheOldKing19987 жыл бұрын
Merlin Racing isn't exclusive. It's literally just rascal racers for the playstation.
@Takimeko5 жыл бұрын
Rascal Racers didn't have a adventure mode.
@Teddy_Bear3125 жыл бұрын
Rascal came out 4 years later
@larrymoody40547 жыл бұрын
I actually owned this system all we did is play Tempest and watch DVDs on it
@skunk126 жыл бұрын
6:14 That Nuon system exists Seoul-y in Korea. 😁👍
@eddygoombah8 жыл бұрын
Buckaroo Bonzai is not an unwanted film. It rocks.
@terminaldeity8 жыл бұрын
+eddygoombah I watched it like a month ago. And it indeed rocked.
@streetwithoutjoy8 жыл бұрын
+eddygoombah ABSOLUTELY AGREE.
@pferreira19838 жыл бұрын
+eddygoombah Great movie.
@loginregional7 жыл бұрын
The "ocarina" outro is used almost daily on Alex Jones' show.
@IneptOrange9 жыл бұрын
why does the nuon logo look like the ebola virus? 0:53
@augh70589 жыл бұрын
thougth the same.
@muddyduck649 жыл бұрын
I have you beat on this one. The RDI HALCYON was only available through mail-order and never retail. There was only 12 ever made, and it ONLY HAD 2 GAMES EVER RELEASED.... period.... no other games were even compatible. Of those two games, both were { get this } laserdisc.... not truly interactive. It had speech recognition that couldn't recognize anything you said and since the only two games it had { Thayer's Quest, NFL Raiders vs. Chargers } were not truly interactive- controller was a hit and miss that never got it right.Another thing - this console was a laserdisc player { { LASERDISC!! wholly crap batman } } it was limited.... even when it was released in '86. Didn't help that it was ------ 2500 at its release { 2,500 !!! } and people still think the Neo Geo was expensive.
@muddyduck649 жыл бұрын
+Johnnie Reddcloud By the way... Thayer's Quest was ported over to a number of systems { much notably the pc- } as was that horrible football game { which was just clips of real games } .... so that meant that the system had NO exclusive games AT ALL.... sad, really.
@theonlyrealcdub7 жыл бұрын
Johnnie Reddcloud interesting. thanks for the information.
@kruks7 жыл бұрын
I was going to make the comment that the title of the video was a bit click baity, and the Halcyon was the example I was going to give too, haha. There's plenty of other very obscure consoles though. If anything, Nuon is a little less obscure than many because of Tempest. Probably a lot of Tempest 2000 fans found the Nuon DVD player wondering about Tempest 3000.
@vitradesk4 ай бұрын
6:16 missed opportunity to say “this one game exists SEOULE-y in South Korea”
@theangrygamer28236 жыл бұрын
There is actually a new Tempest game out on steam. It’s called tempest 4000. Ps this is in 2018
@solarstrike335 жыл бұрын
Fortunately, it’s also from Jeff Minter to boot.
@srbarkerchan9 жыл бұрын
Merlin Racing looks eerily similar to Rascal Racers for the PS1.
@Jacob_Kuschel9 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed!
@Jacob_Kuschel9 жыл бұрын
***** Interesting. I guess you learn something new everyday! :)
@jimvw21479 жыл бұрын
srbarkerchan cyoar!
@queentsareena9 жыл бұрын
Merlin Racing looks like a ripoff of Crash Team Racing
@IamPedroUK9 жыл бұрын
I thought exactly the same thing - even the adventure mode looks pretty much identical!!
@InsaneGamersOfficial9 жыл бұрын
***** exactly what I was going to say.
@InsaneGamersOfficial9 жыл бұрын
***** Yeah, it just won't let me reply to your comment yesterday
@MrAmazing-xe2xz9 жыл бұрын
r4rukku Thank you, I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw the game play.
@ChannelODaLlama9 жыл бұрын
Dillon Atkins have you paying ANY attention to the conversation
@Berrrb9 жыл бұрын
Merlin Racing looks like the poor man's version of CTR
@ShinySephiroth19 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I thought. It looks very similar.
@Zance219 жыл бұрын
+TheBerb9 It's actually a sort of clone to Rascal Racers.
@Snandra669 жыл бұрын
+supervideoperson First thing I thought when I saw the footage.
@litoskin9 жыл бұрын
it's not a clone of rascal racer for psx !! . Rascal racer was made by the same team(miracle design) some time after merlin racing. Because the Nuon was much more powerful than psx and it uses a dvd format...the original game for nuon was divided in 3 parts (one with kart ,one with boat, and one with space ships)and ported to psx.
@JoseMartinez-jm1bu5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. Very well researched and educated review. I did see the nuon and tempest 3000 at a store but no controller. Never saw both items ever.....again.
@MintManicus3 жыл бұрын
Out of all this I gotta say packing it with DVD players was genius.
@farajaraf3 жыл бұрын
Or the way Sony did it
@blaquenoise9 жыл бұрын
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai cult classic.
@PeiceofNick6 жыл бұрын
Chad_803_to_401 And yet for some reason, he thinks its a bad movie
@SgtTwilight5 жыл бұрын
@@PeiceofNick Opinions, man I didn't think the movie was very good either, to be honest. Felt like it was trying to hard to become a cult franchise and not a fun movie.
@WH2503988 жыл бұрын
Racing game looks like a port of Rascal Racers
@Casketkrusher_7 жыл бұрын
WH250398 Crash Team Racing more like.
@kismartin19127 жыл бұрын
WH250398 Caddicarus TRIGGERED
@famoussession74267 жыл бұрын
Rascal racers but with a story
@hazatheonly7 жыл бұрын
a port of a terrible game with a horrible story tacked on. I imagine because ctr had one
@ryanamberger9 жыл бұрын
I need to get me a nuon emulator. These titles look like real hits.
@ActionGamerAaron9 жыл бұрын
+Ryan Amberger ROFL good luck with that
@billgarcey86359 жыл бұрын
+Ryan Amberger www.nuon-dome.com/
@ActionGamerAaron9 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, I'm delighted to be so wrong.
@nguy11289 жыл бұрын
+esrever holy mother of godly nuon SHYTE
@sinaay7 жыл бұрын
That one game 'Shin Chan', you guys will never know how much of a impact that cartoon had in the Netherlands
@edgardeitz27842 жыл бұрын
Merlin Racing - the developers should've *studied* "Mario Kart" and "Diddy Kong Racing" and other similar series to learn what made them work and how to replicate it while tweeking it into their own thing. Further developing the story for adventure mode would've also helped them with ideas for improving the gameplay... Rebalance the difficulty in racing, make the racer characters / cars have differing stats or abilities, make the "caged Merlin" scene optional (with a button press), make it so the crystals you need to get actually affect the gameplay in a positive manner (Chaos Emeralds, anyone?); these are a few suggestions...
@andyjacobs70109 жыл бұрын
6:02 The system and game is Seoully for South Korea. That's what I heard.
@EpsilonBiatch8 жыл бұрын
tfw the only good game for your platform gives people epileptic seizures.
@MoonLight-ub1vs6 жыл бұрын
Epsilon yessss
@davidschreiber49615 жыл бұрын
nope
@sheltonjacobs36185 жыл бұрын
I was looking forward to watching this video to find out about this obscure gaming system and then he said why would anyone want to watch Buckaroo Banzai and all credibility was lost.
@GORF_EMPIRE5 жыл бұрын
@@NintendoDude888 Repeating the same reply to multiple comment posters much?
@ShelfWarmer4 жыл бұрын
I agree. Buckaroo Banzai is one of the greatest films ever.
@otaking35822 жыл бұрын
"Unwanted films"?! Buckaroo Banzai might've not been a commercial success, but it still has a strong cult following!
@paxhumana20159 жыл бұрын
I wonder if anyone is ever going to develop games for it like they did for the Dreamcast? People are STILL making games for the Dreamcast to this day and people are STILL making new games for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, so why not allow the Nuon to be a home to home brew games?
@HerecomestheCalavera9 жыл бұрын
Only thing is these new games that come out for the Dreamcast are usually 2D shooters. Games that look like they would be at home on the Neo-Geo. Thats fine, but I want to see a new Dreamcast game that takes advantage of the DCs graphical power.
@mattorama9 жыл бұрын
Pax Humana Because tens of millions of people have Dreamcast and Genesis. Who's your audience on the Nuon? Who's actually got one? Who's going to buy your game?
@paxhumana20159 жыл бұрын
mattorama, you would be surprised, Doubting Thomas.
@HerecomestheCalavera9 жыл бұрын
Pax Humana I'd like to know, it seems like one of those consoles that without the internet nobody would even know or care about. Heck even with the internet hardly anyone cares about it.
@paxhumana20159 жыл бұрын
Classic80sStuff, this console is the equivalent of a 1960s Biscayne or Bel Air. A lot of people might not know that they even exist, but give them some work, and they can perform wonders, just like this system could make awesome video games.
@areyourock10 жыл бұрын
Caddicarus needs to know about Merlin Racing.
@ohnoitsgrey82719 жыл бұрын
BluRay did it faster? I remember BluRay coming out and we went through 4 or 5 players to find one that could load the movie in less than 7 mins.
@rerez9 жыл бұрын
Trust me, the special features on these DVDs feel as though your system crashed.
@SsnakeBite5 жыл бұрын
Only recently discovered this channel (well, I did hear about it before but never check it until a couple weeks ago) and working my way through the archive. I really love this episode. It's amazing that this thing exists and failed so spectacularly that only 8 games exist. Even some of the most abject commercial failure in game consoles history usually managed about 50 games or so. And the fact that one of them is region locked and another one requires a third-party controller to work properly is just incredible.
@hitkid2456 Жыл бұрын
Yup, like Virtual Boy and 32X both had a middling library, but still more than nothing and some pretty surprising titles like Jack Bros. But this baby, it was like it was ethereal. For this, I can only think of Gizmondo which actual crime was involved with!
@francobuhay96042 жыл бұрын
The disrespect for Buckaroo Banzai is unacceptable.
@JourneyStudiosisawesome9 жыл бұрын
You didn't need The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai? That movie was one of the best Sci-fi movies of all time! Yes the movie was a commercial flop but it was a Sci-fi comedy. Something not yet famous untill SpaceBalls.
@rerez9 жыл бұрын
I saw it after I made this video. Honestly, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. The DVD also had quite the price on it!
@PeiceofNick6 жыл бұрын
Rerez Yeah, its a good movie.
@jordanWAH8 жыл бұрын
awww, buckaroo bonzai should have been the only choice! the movie is psychotic. it bombed on release. obscure cult following, sure , but I love it!
@josecochez8 жыл бұрын
crazy flick LOVE IT!
@boobio18 жыл бұрын
buckaroo bonzai is dogshit.
@josecochez8 жыл бұрын
remind me never to watch movies with you
@kruks7 жыл бұрын
I'm with you here. Yes, it's a bizarre movie and hard to call "good", but the other three are uninspired Hollywood mediocrity. I'll take cult-classic level oddity over uninspired cash grabs.
@robertdragon94786 жыл бұрын
jordan WAH its a classic.
@HunterVS10 жыл бұрын
Merlin Racers...looks almost EXACTLY like Rascal Racers on the PS1
@rosstigane10 жыл бұрын
I see what you mean there.
@aleblasco3910 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I think when I first saw in the video!
@GreenforeverLeaf10 жыл бұрын
It's from the same company. Probably the same game too....
@ForeverDiox10 жыл бұрын
You! MY BRETHREN!
@zombee3810 жыл бұрын
and I have that game now that you mention it I will have to check it out just to compare it...lol thanks
@maybemaybenot81124 жыл бұрын
So you're telling me pennywise, got into gaming.
@user-iu6xo4ob6n5 жыл бұрын
anybody else break out into hysterics when they seen the pic of richard miller?
@elcocho15689 жыл бұрын
You're so underrated Rerez. Love your vids man.
@rerez9 жыл бұрын
Thanks! :)
@thegamingconnoisseur41517 жыл бұрын
ahaha of course Clint sent him the games. they'd probably be at a good will :P
@derekstronf18374 жыл бұрын
That's a pretty damn good possibility
@earx236 жыл бұрын
I got one via the post. But it was a DOA. But anyway, it's hopelessly obscure, which is more perfectly illustrated by this video than I could ever do. Well done man :)
@cjhs20066 жыл бұрын
Hey Rerez,Can You Please do a Positives Episode About Skylanders?
@Malkmusianful10 жыл бұрын
you're gonna piss off a lot of Buckaroo Banzai fans there's a MASSIVE cult following for that film
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
I've since watched Buckaroo Banzai and really enjoyed it. Best end credit sequence ever! :D
@Malkmusianful10 жыл бұрын
I know, right? My favorite part about the film is the ridiculous number of jobs Buckaroo has - it's literally like W.D. Richter's trying to make fun of the multi-talented adventurer that's since become a cliche. Think about it - a physicist, test pilot, successful rock musician, practitioner of martial arts, and surgeon.
I like how you went into the Nuon-ces of this console! Bloody hell what is wrong with me?
@Metrawolf6 жыл бұрын
So I should probably *not* mention that there is a freeware remake of Tempest available for PC that runs at 60fps, has strikingly better visuals, and comes packed with more gameplay features, rendering the need for T3000 obsolete? Look up Typhoon 2001.
@steveandrade34775 жыл бұрын
The only good thing about Bedazzled was Elizabeth Hurley saying "I've been naughty". Kept that on loop for a half an hour.
@flyingninja12348 жыл бұрын
Go watch Buckaroo Banzai! It's awesome!
@The8BitDuke10 жыл бұрын
Sooooooo, what's worse? The Nuon or the Wireless 60?
@CazTheGamerGuy10 жыл бұрын
The Nuon has Tempest 3000. The Wireless 60 does not.
@The8BitDuke10 жыл бұрын
***** A solid, solid point.
@rerez10 жыл бұрын
The 8-Bit Duke I am afraid ***** is right. This system is just way better than the Wireless 60 in pretty much every way.
@rmrealm10 жыл бұрын
Definetly the W60. Nuon is capable of some good games, but it came and went so fast that nobody really payed attention to it.
@brendamartin845810 жыл бұрын
Oh, and since your here, Merlin racing is a sequil to rascal racers. Caddicarus reveiwed it
@raymxslappedyall36604 жыл бұрын
dude at local game store was selling a 3do for 6 or 799$ back in 1995
@sodaddict3 жыл бұрын
This is a good example of the saying "show me the money" The Nuon failed cause it launched with a miniscule library of movies. If they wanted it to succeed, they had to go all out with a 100 movie library, not a literal handful.
@WatchdogGoon9 жыл бұрын
Richard Miller, Vice President of the Colin Mochrie Look-alike Club
@WillEatForFood9 жыл бұрын
Plank? Is that u??
@WatchdogGoon9 жыл бұрын
Johnny?!
@kabliekke9 жыл бұрын
Plank??? I haven't seen you in such a long time!
@shaunburton11129 жыл бұрын
Yes Plank!
@Takato25272 жыл бұрын
The Nuon release date: July 2000 PS2 release date: March 2000 let that sink in
@awesomebluetoad8945 Жыл бұрын
And the Dreamcast!
@CazTheGamerGuy10 жыл бұрын
Ah, Tempest 3000, the 1000th sequel to Tempest 2000... Wonder where TxK fits in... Ah well, the Tx series always seems to have the top title for every system it comes out on, even on a system as forgotten as this.
@LeSarthois2 жыл бұрын
Wow, didn't saw this video until now. To add insult to injury on the failure this console was, it appears that most European versions of the Nuon players featured no controller ports, meaning that you couldn't play games with them (I suppose this is the part where Rerez say that some player can't play games on them). And it turns out, you can hack those players to add the controller ports and make games playable, but what kind of madness is that?