Retro or Repro Video Game Quiz | Barshens

[@PPeasants]

The best part about all of this is the fact the life counter in "Eric and the Floaters" is labelled Erics. Focking fantastic.

[@samholdsworth420]

Not Eric's? Lol

[@samholdsworth420]

Too smart brosef

[@therealCG62]

It has taken me this long to realize that both bars and hens are in the intro- the music is the bars (as in, the musical measure the bar), then hens is... well, the clucking. I'm a smart boy give me praise mother

[@MightyRude]

I think because I am

[@evilutionltd]

Pay attention to the tshirts they have on too.

[@TheHellpoy]

The musical bars are actually horizontal and 5 instead of 4 :D

[@jonbeef]

*I think, therefore I am.

[@samholdsworth420]

Cluck 🐔

[@superiodity]

Ashens needs a segment completely dedicated to jokes.

[@KnugenMooMoo]

agree lol

[@danforbes3573]

"An Excellent Agreement" Which I second

[@bio0link]

"An Excellent Meme"

[@danforbes3573]

***** :)

[@danforbes3573]

Jody Barker I bet it was.

[@shellypriest5320]

Loved the clapping ice cream cone joke...LMAO

[@vexphoenix]

agreed it was fantastic XD

[@RFC3514]

It's an oldie, but a goodie. He forgot to do the enthusiastic tongue action at the end, though.

[@katewilliams2415]

It IS old (but I forgive him)! I remember my older brother telling this joke way back in the eighties! Cue the swirling mists of time...

[@novaryx]

shelly priest I don't really get it

[@shuriKen469]

mmm ice cream.

[@rachysnip]

love the way ashens tricked barry by giving intense info about playing the fake games and vague info on the real ones, as if it was because it was made up XD oh dat tricky ashens

[@mog398]

I knew the Crazy Dialler one was the fake one because there's no 0 on that keypad

[@eyem6407]

I noticed that too. What a lazy ashens. Aaaaasssssssss.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

What a lazy Aaaaassssssssshens.

[@lordoftherats8215]

Also every time the number would have to be (---) 555 ----

[@Gozuma2]

I knew since i've seen the video it came from.

[@mspenrice]

nah, you press fire and a direction for 12-3-4-6-7-8-9, fire and centred stick for 5, and AVOID pressing fire for 0. Reaction type game, stops you from winning just by holding fire and spazzing the stick in all directions.

[@rebecca7518]

Stuart's imagination in making the fake games is excellent

[@CosylandWhispers]

I'm so glad this channel exists. I was a fan of Barry and Ashens before this channel started and each video fills me with joy :D

[@AsymptoteInverse]

It's alarming how convincing a liar Ashens is...

[@_thorkon]

Hobo Sullivan Doctorate in Psychology helps with that.

[@benjaminencarmine]

@@_thorkon No, it doesn't.

[@ioioioioio6026]

@@benjaminencarmine pretty sure it does

[@bmbpdk]

@@_thorkon So "Doctorate in Psychology" is posh for "overpriced and overhyped professional liar", like "Politician"?

[@koholos]

@@bmbpdk No, it’s a spin-off of the “Doctor” class, which is posh for “liar and thief”, just like Politician.

[@paulnash9851]

We used to play Moonbase Alpha at school each week for "computer studies". Half hour of that + half hour of Granny's Garden. Magic days, when a BBC Micro felt like the future....

[@Dualdevastator]

waited to watch this at 2:30 am. Absolutely worth it.

[@thyowen]

I love the chemistry between you two! Never fails to make me laugh.

[@KyleKatarnBanthaHerder]

I love how Barry thought that a game based around nothing but moving a joystick around to input a phone number would be an actual game.

[@DanoLefourbe]

Honnestly, there were games with less gameplay than that at the time.

[@telephonebear21]

It's basically an early rhythm game. But without the rhythm.

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

There's a game on that system where you program in BASIC. Bear in mind the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM.

[@xXxLiabilityLukeexXx]

Is Barry shouting "I TOLD YOU TO STOP DOING THAT!" In the intro? :')

[@cheesoid6628]

yep

[@fang1693]

he is shouting hail butts

[@93BlazinFire]

@Sofa King They filmed in the London KZbin space, books aren't his, I think

[@kribz4576]

Sofa King they aren’t his

[@theantithesis1]

Communist Mutants From Space was a game for the Arcadia Supercharger, later Starpath Supercharger, which was an add-on for the Atari 2600 that expanded the RAM and allowed for better graphics. The games came on cassette and needed to load. The games were largely pretty good, at least on a technical level because of the enhanced hardware.

[@DorMinRS]

I'm watching the playlist of all Barshens videos and by sheer coincidence this one came on at exactly 14:30.

[@JacobHillSBD]

I'm watching at 2:25! I need a quiz early today.

[@BulletWilly]

I always look forward to these videos! ;)

[@gangswagster]

I was watching the Tathub but as soon as I saw this i immediately switched. love you barshens!

[@QuiteFranklyFrank]

This is awesome, going to steal this idea for party/bar-quizzes!

[@senatorcthulu1815]

Nothing better than a Barshens video popping up before i get into the bath.

[@Psyched_Crow]

I recognized Crazy Dialer as Call Centre Simulator for the Mivich 7

[@Michirin9801]

You've put the crazy-obscure ZX spectrum conversion of the original Bomber Man in the video... Much respect!

[@accskaguy]

Actually that "Communist Mutants From Space" game was made for the Atari 2600, *but* needed to be adapted/connected to an external cassette tape drive to bring the game to life. There were maybe 6 or 7 games made in this series in this way. One required 2 cassettes to hold all the data, and was quite sophisticated for an Atari game back then. Even the "Communist Mutants From Space" had a surprisingly large number of game-play options. (for a game of that style)

[@izzycabbit5536]

This is my favourite thing you guys have done so far! ^-^ I need to see more of this, Stuarts repros were incredibly convincing XD

[@184fish]

This intro is just the perfect depiction of the worst intro. And I can't help but love it. Cheers for the awesome videos, always looking forward to more from you guys.

[@blacksaphire7773]

I'm sure it's just the titles of the videos that puts me off, but when I actually click on them, I find the videos to be quite enjoyable.

[@PhantomFearYT]

I guessed them all correctly!

[@Offensive_Username]

"Super Jack in the Forest" totally has the background from Pitfall and Ashens claims he drew that?

[@BurntFaceMan]

Watching this at half past 2. in the morning lol!

[@mountnstream]

I knew "Eric and the Floaters" was the real game, because I remember Stuart mentioning that game when playing the "Bomberman"-clone that was on the Game King-handheld that he once reviewed.

[@TenshiCat]

Your long-time Ashens watching proved useful!

[@Sampler19]

Why did Tenshi Cat have a collision?

[@TenshiCat]

+Sampler19 He's very clumsy!

[@Sampler19]

ah

[@_Over_9000]

I love this. More of these please. Now that you have over 100,000 subs I think this will blow up.

[@officiallyturtlesquared]

"Barshens simulator." SOMEONE MAKE THIS!

[@AuroraStarstorm]

IT IS HALF PAST TWO! What an amazing coincidence :)

[@MrLolKins]

Best ending to a segment yet.

[@GuykingsLePoynter]

The trick here is to figure out which one is obviously far too weird to be a real game... and then pick that one.

[@pokedude583]

I'm watching this at ten to three... I guess I'll have to watch it tomorrow.

[@MinorLG]

As someone who was born the same week as the release of the SNES, and in America, it is amazing That I got all 5 correct.

[@wesleybcrowen]

Wow, I got them all right! The last fake looked pretty genuine tho, and the only thing I could latch on is the fact that Eric has the design of the original Bomberman.

[@tharealsteven]

Love that joke at the end!😂😂😂

[@jolibros]

You guys should do more taste tests. But only if you want to, nobody is forcing you. And great job so far on the show guys!

[@Nathan_A_RF]

I just started to watch this video. It is half past two on the dot by absolute coincidence.

[@kirstygunn9149]

I'm watching at 2:20pm on the 11/7/18.

[@SilencerGDA]

I played Eric and the Floaters. Was fun.

[@ChrissieBear]

I still want that Barshens simulator.

[@craigblackie2034]

Those trees you drew look suspiciously like those from Pitfall.

[@doctorwhat9218]

Just so you know, I had to wait til now to watch this, damn that 14:30 rule!

[@benfroberts]

Always loved that joke! (I thought it was his dad who got him to do it though)

[@michaelwilliams9566]

Great as always guys!

[@oktaycomu]

best outro ever .

[@gyl8452]

finally, it's friday - barshens time :D

[@d2factotum]

I remember Escape from Moonbase Alpha! Played it at a friend's house on his Electron, since I was a Spectrum household myself...

[@adamclayton6386]

Barshens is awesome keep up with the funny video

[@wolfyboy]

XD lol! the kid couldn't eat an ice cream right, either! XD

[@aaronj.9779]

Great joke at the end. :D

[@markiangooley]

Bars for the opening music and Hens... has a rooster crowing?

[@wyattneal2797]

I'm watching this at 2:29. I'm such a savage

[@drdiabeetus4419]

You should make a video called "Retro or Metro" I have no idea what'd be about, but that's your job

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

Can't wait for someone to make actual versions of these like they did with Vinny Vole.

[@mojotheaverage]

You guys should do this with toys from poundland

[@wadwadwadwadwadwadw]

So Ashen drew the trees in Pitfall. I am shocked.

[@deanhill9624]

No word of a lie... I actually started watching this video at half 2.

[@thostwoone]

i actually started watching this at half past 2 :O

[@rockerseven]

Roland and the Meanies looks like ET vs an evil R2D2 and a Tie Advanced lol

[@ZZCopter]

Tooth Invaders I had (have somewhere) an Cartdige for C64

[@predcon1]

0:44 I thought my phone was about to ring.

[@mspenrice]

Hmm, Eric and the Floaters is probably like the first level of bomberman over and over... (if you remember, the first enemies in bomberman are actually balloons...) Can't help thinking that you would get insane colour clash every time Eric moved vertically though, unless he did a herky jerky kind of move where he only shifted by one character space at a time...

[@breakingbasha]

The crazy dialer was so easy to make out as a fake, because you would have to dial 0 on a 3x3 board.

[@mathematics117]

I really liked the old intro here!

[@jakesapir]

Speaking of Surgeon Simulator, what happened to the Ashens Game Jam?

[@KingHenryVR4]

I was thinking it was gonna be a quiz on spotting a genuine game cartridge from a reproduction :)

[@redpeng1124]

I was right every time!

[@TheTurnipKing]

5:44 very little about programming for the Atari 2600 can be called "lazy".

[@letshaveawank]

I accidentally started watching this at exactly 2.30. Do I win a fiver?

[@ChrissieBear]

I want a Barshens simulator...

[@Sampler19]

Barshens!

[@AsterInDis]

The other thing about the crazy dialer game is that the numbers have zeros in them, which is not an option you can pick.

[@vampblckheartofdeath]

Watching this at 2:37 so I guess it'll work for a few more minutes.

[@CraftyTom94]

Haha I'm watching at 02:30 am what a coincidence

[@BookDragon1995]

There needs to be a Barshens simulator

[@SsnakeBite]

I got them all right but I've got to be honest, I had to give most of them a good thinking before I figured it out.

[@juliassacre]

Why have I heard of Escape from Moon Base Alpha before? The name is really familiar to me but I can't quite place it...

[@acidhelm]

I knew Super Jack was fake; I recognized the trees from Pitfall! right away.

[@otaking3582]

I'll admit, I knew about that last one thanks to Guru Larry

[@Mercgribern]

...I played Tooth Protectors. You can choose between toothbrush, floss, etc. Teeth get lost if you fail to remove the baddies. Needless to say I've had a life long fear of major tooth loss most of my adult life. Didn't make me brush my teeth more though...

[@tateellinwood]

I want both the hens and bars shirt to confuse people

[@nolakali]

Its easy to spot the fake once you figure out ashen's text. He uses the same font in almost every one.

[@spongebot64]

I'm probably one of the few that recognises the 'Carpets - Bono' reference.

[@MuchWhittering]

It's currently 2:31pm...do I have to wait until half past 2 in the morning to watch?

[@TronciM]

Ashens is really good at drawing

[@randolfcoollidge5274]

Does it matter if it is 2:30 am or 2:30 pm?

[@TheWildDeadHero]

There's a small error that gives away Super Jack in the Forest of Bad Apples: The second zero in the score is slightly too thick on the left, whist the other zeroes are fine.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

Man I'm glad it's half past two. Else I'd not be able to watch this. And that would have been a shame.

[@TheAlanCulley]

I wasn't prepared to wait nearly twelve hours to watch this, so I took a chance, and watched this at 3.32 and you were correct it didn't work at all. Cant say I'm all that disappointed though.

[@Haplo699g]

Hey you filched that Meanie from Rebelstar now how are the Rebels going to get in the base???

[@subtledemisefox]

I knew the last one from Action 52

[@subtledemisefox]

Not action 52 but one of ashenns videos

[@3gamerman3]

I started watching and when They said not to watch it until it's half past 2 I checked and it actually was half past 2...

[@lbco13]

In a complete coincidence, it's 2:30 am but still 2:30

[@BigBadTomA]

how do you dial 0 in crazy dialer? !

[@HappyCynic]

You don't. It isn't real.

[@eyem6407]

+eldospinks you aren't real.

[@HappyCynic]

Eyem I think therefore I am.

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

You press the button on the joystick, silly.

[@purplegill10]

How do you press 5 then?

[@HodorsLeftShoe]

I miss BarLi