Despite its obvious limitations, the Nomad blew my mind in the 90s. Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time.
@MitsuhashiTakashi8 жыл бұрын
unless you had a turbo express or a master gear converter for your game gear
@PacoCotero12218 жыл бұрын
Nintendo need to do a SNES portable like ds
@PacoCotero12218 жыл бұрын
***** the ports were bs
@PacoCotero12218 жыл бұрын
2l84me
@chaoticcranium8 жыл бұрын
"Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time." Yes, my dear 2015 chaoticcranium, and it would remain all but entirely unheard of until just now with the Nintendo Switch! Nintendo owes some sort of homage to the Sega Nomad, the console that did it first!
@Larry10 жыл бұрын
The aliens jump on too fast to see as you're playing a PAL game on an NTSC system, so you're actually playing the game 17.5% faster than it's supposed to be!
@Mentski10 жыл бұрын
Alien 3's US and EU carts contained identical code, that's the speed it ran in the US, no matter the cart. I guess you could argue with the developers being Probe and obviously based in the UK that they didn't optimise the game to run at a playable speed on a 60hz Genesis. Regardless, It was a VERY rare occurrence that any Mega Drive game was optimised for the different hz rates, outside of maybe making sure the music played at the right speed.
@Lazyguy2210 жыл бұрын
The aliens have VAT? I KNEW IT WAS YOUR FAULT DELORS
@BehindTheRides10 жыл бұрын
Mentski PAL frequency is 50Hz, NTSC 60Hz. When you use a PAL cart on a NTSC system it is much faster because the difference in hertz in their frequiency, no matter what the code is, is hardware side.
@chocolatethunder488310 жыл бұрын
Please dumb down your response for me.
@UltimaKeyMaster10 жыл бұрын
And I thought Shadow of the Beast was ridiculous with that massive fuck-up.
@Xelger10 жыл бұрын
I had a Nomad back in the day. I liked that you could plug in a controller for a second player instead of needing two Nomads. The battery pack was never difficult for me to get on and off though. It's probably only harder for you because it's old. The thing is, getting the rechargeable battery pack for the Nomad was a *must*. It gave you longer play time and didn't eat batteries like a glutton that way. It had a nicely back-lit screen though, and even though there was a blurring problem, I was still able to adjust to it. All-in-all, I had fun with it, and I was glad that I bought it.
@RichardCraig10 жыл бұрын
Yeah, too bad those battery packs were $70 when they were new! I wanted one so bad, but I just couldn't justify spending as much for a battery as I could for a couple new or a handful of used games.
@OutrightRegent45 жыл бұрын
Holy shit. First on therunawayguys and then on ashens. Seeing xelger on here is quite the gem
@AbduCola9 жыл бұрын
"You are Soapy Mctavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go!" I died xD
@Journey_to_who_knows Жыл бұрын
And history repeats
@Nostalgianerd10 жыл бұрын
The reason you can't shoot the aliens is because it's a PAL cartridge running at a higher speed (i.e. 60hz rather than 50hz). This effectively speeds up the game, making it bloody hard!
@tyedyejedi2 жыл бұрын
Genesis does what Nintendont
@MoundN2 жыл бұрын
That's not the issue. The issue is that the character can tun past 70% of the screen before the camera catches up.
@hotelmario510 Жыл бұрын
@@MoundN It's a combination of bad game design and the game running too fast.
@samholdsworth42011 ай бұрын
@@tyedyejediballs to Picasso
@samholdsworth42011 ай бұрын
@@MoundNyes because it's running faster than it should be
@THErepareman168 жыл бұрын
"dont shoot lazers out of your face its weird." great advice for life kids
@ToyoTheFox8 жыл бұрын
THErepare man16 lol
@DrBachur7 жыл бұрын
Who says Stuart Ashen isn't a real role model?
@stagpie64497 жыл бұрын
dont tell me what to do mum
@h0td0gwater6 жыл бұрын
I read this just as he said it Very spooky
@TooManyMoths9 жыл бұрын
Oddly enough, the alien in Alien looks strangely like the final boss from Ecco the Dolphin.
@AlphaOmegaSin10 жыл бұрын
I will definitely second that Streets of rage 2 being one of the finest beat em ups as well as one of the finest Sega games in general
@tompreston578410 жыл бұрын
Wow Alpha is an Ashens Fan? Never expected that!
@tompreston578410 жыл бұрын
Haha yeah that did sound like fanboying. Was just more not putting them two together
@henrygerard23155 жыл бұрын
You angry pissbaby
@Larry10 жыл бұрын
The Nomad is based on the Sega Mega Jet, Which was a handheld device Sega sold to Japanese Flight companies so they could rent games and the system to them during flights. The only difference was it didn't have a screen. But I bought a brand new one about 10 years ago when had my art job, so would buy any old shit anime or gaming shit. I'll have to dig it out and do a video on ti some time!
@maxwelsh61216 жыл бұрын
Not quite 'nomad minus screen' but dimensions and color do seem to be the only other differences, it's shorter etc, plus runs in Japanese I assume - looking at it tho, especially noting the second player controller port placement , I'd say it more then likely is the same circuit board inside of course that's modified to run a screen too, extra transformer , or a bigger one with separate windings, whatever I'm being very pedantic and not trying to be a dick or troll, just anyone look them up and see he's totally right- but so am I and details matter to historians
@h0td0gwater6 жыл бұрын
God bless you Larry. That is all
@icuseriously33468 жыл бұрын
Loved those old genesis cases. If only nintendo had something like that for N64 games. You so much as breathed in their direction and those boxes fell apart.
@coffinfeeder77325 жыл бұрын
Somehow, all the boxes that came with me and my brothers’ N64 games were inexplicably lost. For a time, I actually believed N64 cartridges weren’t packaged since I’d never seen a box for them until I was 13. I just find it odd none of the boxes for the games survived. My guess is that a lot of the games were traded by my older brothers, but the other trader lost the box for his game and we were left with only the cartridge. In fact, it’s possible out of the dozen or two games that I currently have, Hey You Pikachu! is the only game that wasn’t exchanged to a friend or family, and it’s the one that was included with our Pikachu N64. That sucks, I suppose.
@TheDutyPaid10 жыл бұрын
20 years later the Turbo Touch 360 is reborn as the Steam pad.
@whispersmusic61732 жыл бұрын
Yes and Nomad reborn as Steam Deck
@EvilTurkeySlices Жыл бұрын
@@whispersmusic6173 that is very true.
@TheLonelyGoomba10 жыл бұрын
The screen reminds me of the Atari Lynx screen
@Myoron10 жыл бұрын
"Go Ecco! You dolphin faced fucker!" God damnit, I had to pick the one moment he drops a precision f strike to drink some coffee...
@Wonchop10 жыл бұрын
Ah, Wrestle War. I remember that racking up a shit tonne in late Blockbuster fees.
@clytaemnestra10 жыл бұрын
oi
@RossOriginals10 жыл бұрын
Ah, rental stores, those were the days.
@Larry10 жыл бұрын
Would have been cheaper to buy the bloody thing :D
@ExplosionRadius10 жыл бұрын
***** I don't know about that. Renting a game had an appeal all of it's own. Knowing you have a limited time with a game made you enjoy it a lot more.
@Anex95210 жыл бұрын
they're still over here in Australia since there is no Netflix or Hulu. *****
@LnnyOsoTo8 жыл бұрын
Man with all other collectors I can imagine them having big rooms where they have all the stuff. With ashens I just imagine everything he shows is on a huge pile to the side of that sofa xD
@jhgann869 жыл бұрын
I firmly believe the Nomad was way ahead of its time (so far ahead of its time that the technology didn't even exist to do it properly). If they could have made this smaller, with better battery life, and a screen that wasn't a blurry ghosted mess (the Game Gear had the same problem with its screen and similar battery life issuse)... this could have changed Sega's destiny.
@Arcade_Cat_8 жыл бұрын
So Sega released this portable console in 1995? The Nintendo Switch is a bit late then.
@seven07797 жыл бұрын
Kyle Sorenson nice
@anthonys47887 жыл бұрын
obviously
@shadoom7 жыл бұрын
the switch will only last 2-3 hours playing zelda
@rexon317 жыл бұрын
shadoom actually the switch will use any portable battery charger so you can extend that 😉
@Soraking0077 жыл бұрын
actually that was a misnomer its gonna last playing BotW it will last between 3-5 hours. the max its battery can be is around 8-9 hours, also you can use a power blocik which you can get for dirt cheap that are really good. ive got two of the damn things.
@deijavoodoo3669 жыл бұрын
'you dolphin faced fucker'..... Had me in stitches
@TheCrimsonEmo10 жыл бұрын
For some reason seeing the sonic european box art again has really inspired me to wanna dust off my old childhood consoles, buy new shelves and turn my flat into my own personal mini-gaming museum. I have so much gaming history shoved into drawers doing nothing. Each shelf could house one console, a controller and 3 games on display. Add some lcd lights and really snaz it up. Ohhhh, I'm going to go to poundland... Thanks Ashens!
@DBZHalusaTwin8 жыл бұрын
blowing in to the cat ridge is how we fixed things in the 90s lol
@PenisGabber6 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the cat ridge. I️ remember those...
@IanC146 жыл бұрын
You blew your cat?
@PenisGabber6 жыл бұрын
obviously he's some sort of furry
@justanotheryoutubechannel4 жыл бұрын
Omg the ghosting is INSANE. I’ve never seen live video of anything running on the actual Nomad screen, and dear god is it insane. No wonder it didn’t sell!
@thisthingmint2504 жыл бұрын
The game gear has the same crappy screen design too.
@Nostalgianerd10 жыл бұрын
"You Dolphin Faced Fucker" - Best thing I've heard, possibly this year.
@Siphonay10 жыл бұрын
The funny thing with the back of the cartridge boxes or in the manual is that they're transalted so awfully in languages other than english that it becomes funny.
@Siphonay10 жыл бұрын
That's totally the type of sentences that can be found. Thay can also be grammatically correct but making absolutely no sense at all. It's really a hobby to read Master System or Megadrive games manuals.
@GamersBrainStorming10 жыл бұрын
***** Empire earth cheat codes FTW (Fuck That Whale)
@his_purpose38 жыл бұрын
He summarized the crappy call of duty series amazingly towards the beginning of the video.
@BaxzXD8 жыл бұрын
Benny Collela "crappy call of duty series" I guess you just base your opinions on what everyone else says.
@his_purpose37 жыл бұрын
DoomGhoul, the series is the same fucking trash every year
@DaChazSterTV10 жыл бұрын
Coincidently, the only Genesis/Mega Drive game that won't work is the X-Men game. In one of the Computer levels, you have to reset your console. But, the Nomad doesn't have a reset button.
@CastleFsUczN5nnK10 жыл бұрын
What about powering it off and then on?
@DaChazSterTV10 жыл бұрын
Nope. Only the reset option works.
@RandoMuTuberMaowlick10 жыл бұрын
DaChazSterTV You're sure there isn't a button combination that can make it reset?
@DaChazSterTV10 жыл бұрын
Nope. It's the only Genesis game that won't work on a Nomad.
@callsignjuggs524810 жыл бұрын
DaChazSterTV some one has been watching avgn
@8bitmagic10 жыл бұрын
I seriously can't believe ive been watching you review random crap on a brown sofa for years and still love it
@KaNe149310 жыл бұрын
I've been watching Ashens since 2006 when I was 12 years old and have watched every single video up to this day. Streets Of Rage 2 is my favourite game of all time and to hear Dr. Stuart Ashen call it "One of the finest games ever etched by man onto cartridge" makes me love him even more. Never stop what you're doing you sexy man!
@Dreadpirateflappy10 жыл бұрын
"go Ecco...you dolphin faced fucker" Made me lol quite a bit
@someitguy21759 жыл бұрын
"No don't shoot lasers out your face, its weird." Going to put that gem in my pocket for s rainy day ;-)
@DeadwingDork10 жыл бұрын
We needed a Blueglass cameo for this video.
@TravestyBrimstone10 жыл бұрын
Sonic should have worked on Nomad, as the first Sonic was not region locked. But anyway, cool video. It was nice to see Nomad in action.
@RAMChYLD10 жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken, aren't the first two Sonic cartridges region free? Anyways, I wonder if Ashens is aware that there are region bypass adapters for the Mega Drive out there. Sure, it's a bit ugly since you lock-on a cartridge on top of it (and it looks ridiculous when you have a Sonic 3 cartridge locked on Sonic and Knuckles locked on to a Game Genie on it), but well, it works.
@gold_lightning10 жыл бұрын
RAMChYLD Yes Sonic 1 and 2 (and Sonic & Knuckles) are region free. Oddly enough, the only game in that series that WAS region locked is Sonic 3 (alone).
@DJCube170110 жыл бұрын
He mentioned that it wasn't working due to the screen, rather than the region lock.
@RAMChYLD10 жыл бұрын
+Dean Jones unless I'm mistaken, he mentions it's because his games are all 50Hz? The worst that will happen is that they run faster on the Nomad.
@RAFMnBgaming7 жыл бұрын
+RAMChYLD and are thus rendered unplayable by ludicrously low reaction time exacerbated by LCD input lag.
@velavideoentertainment Жыл бұрын
5:24 Handsome fish This part made me die of laughter when I was young
@SteveBenway10 жыл бұрын
I'm puzzled now, coz I've played quite a few Mega Drive games on my Nomad. Either I'm very lucky, or you're very unlucky... or have dirty contacts on your carts. Sonic 1 most definitely works. I have it running as I type this.
@ExeDist10 жыл бұрын
He is going on that he has a NTSC console and only PAL cartridges. I never had a problem with my drive as I just went in side and modded the hard jump configuration, so I could switch it when I pleased (I also f***** with the port slightly!). Question? could you possibly have a chipped Nomad? (I don't know if that type of chip existed for something that old, but heck, they must of appeared at some point!)
@SimmyBassline10 жыл бұрын
is there a lot that dont work? i have been looking into gettin one recently
@SteveBenway10 жыл бұрын
I don't think so. I know Virtua Racing doesn't work, but it's the only one in my collection that wouldn't play.
@carbon12559 жыл бұрын
SimmyBassline I would not put money on it, there may unknown variables at work.
@TheSonnyworld9 жыл бұрын
***** He has a pal cart it won't work
@IcarianX6 жыл бұрын
"Go Ecco! You dophin faced fucker!" I came for the highbrow wit and was not disappointed! That really did genuinely make me laugh out loud!
@kerbal66610 жыл бұрын
Mr Ashens? (holds up hand at back of the class) Can you tell us why the Mega Drive in the US was named after a prog rock band from Surrey? Nowhere on the web has a solid answer.
@GT639810 жыл бұрын
No, "Genisis" is the book in the Bible where everything is created, and it is a reference to this. The band just so happens to have the same name.
@TheFutureIsPrimitive10 жыл бұрын
Mega Drive was a legally protected name in the United States, so it could not be used. It was then called the SEGA Genesis, because it was the genesis of the 16-bit console generation. The Genesis was massively popular over here and SEGA of America was very successful. That's why millions of people call it the Genesis.
@kerbal66610 жыл бұрын
Hmmm I wonder who had the rights to Mega Drive?
@cassthenerd602310 жыл бұрын
kerbal666 Its a company who makes car parts I think or a brand of car parts.
@kerbal66610 жыл бұрын
Daniel Castaneda Nice one!
@Jaimas10 жыл бұрын
The Turbo Touch 360 was designed for fighting games, specifically. The big draw was that some versions of it were programmable, so if you knew what you were doing you could program a tricky-to-use special move into it, and then, using the program feature, use that move essentially on call.
@UltimaOmegaZero8 жыл бұрын
I swear when you blew into that cartridge part of me died just then.
@jekblom1238 жыл бұрын
everyone does that.
@UltimaOmegaZero8 жыл бұрын
jekblom123 Yeah, I know. It's just that it slowly corrodes the cartridge.
@usernameDataText8 жыл бұрын
He's right, just use 90 degrees alcohol !!! >
@diamondfailer118 жыл бұрын
+Malik Walik I have 80 degree cologne. Would that work?
@usernameDataText8 жыл бұрын
Aperture Science technically yes, but you'ld rather get some alcohol to prevent your cartridge to smell too good. :)
@siriusunknowncicerone6549 Жыл бұрын
Certain people mentioned this console to *a certain Let's Player* - where he plays Sonic Game Gear games. "The Game Gear ate the batteries, the Nomad DEVOURED them!"
@Mentski10 жыл бұрын
I'm starting to question whether that Sonic box had a copy of the game inside it, because that *should* have played fine on a 60hz device, at its proper speed. Aside from the few later on that locked you out based on region settings in later years (Like SoR II), Most games were completely cross compatible... Developers never bothered to optimise gameplay for different hz rates and most of the time the carts contained exactly the same code on the ROMs - An NTSC cart would just play slower on a PAL machine, and a PAL cart would play faster (or how us purists like to say: it's proper speed) on an NTSC machine. There are even some earlier carts that have the code for the western and Japanese versions inside, and will run in all 3 territories and change the title screens and language accordingly based on region settings (Japanese cartridges were a slightly different shape though so wouldn't fit in a US/EU slot without cutting the slot a bit, and a US/EU cart wouldn't fit in a JP machine unless you removed the cart lock bar in the console) Stupid piece of trivia about the region lockout on SoR2: The EU version and the Japanese version are identical and work on either machine, and even changes it's title screen to Bare Knuckle II an a JP MD, but won't work on a Genesis. The Genesis version only works on a Genesis because it's a stupid billy no-mates, has a different sprite for Blaze's jump kick so you cant see her pants, and has had the title screen changed to "Streets of Rage 2" instead of "Streets of Rage II" because apparently Sega US didn't think Americans understood Roman numerals.
@anthonywebber81522 жыл бұрын
post 1993
@yushatak10 жыл бұрын
As someone who had one when they weren't terribly old, and with a huge library of games, I can confirm that they were pretty damn nice at the time to have even with the battery issues.
@Blizardstar120010 жыл бұрын
Sega Nomad: An Airbender's favorite console.
@tuxcup10 жыл бұрын
*Favourite
@tuxcup10 жыл бұрын
***** Thanks a lot, captain obivous. *facepalm
@thickmcrunfast338610 жыл бұрын
I lol'd when he realized everything was orange. The way he views his own work all through the viewfinder makes for great accidental meta humor.
@MillRunner10 жыл бұрын
My Sega Nomad story: So, it was around my birthday last year. I was in the mall's one of two retro game stores and noticed their Sega Nomad for sale. Seeing how I had a bunch of cash and a bunch of Sega games, I bought it. The guy advised me that the contrast knob didn't work, so he sold it to me for $70 instead of $80. I take it home, plug it into the wall, and the screen doesn't work. I can plug it into the TV just fine, but the screen on the portable console didn't work, making it as portable as a regular Sega Genesis. I return it to them, and instead of them refunding my money, the say they can fix it. A few weeks go by, and I call them up, they say that they're waiting on some parts, so I wait for another couple weeks. When I call them up this time, they say their repair guy quit and they're trying to find a new guy to replace him with. I say fuck it and demanded my money back, and they did. That store is bullshit overall, they buy games from other stores and sell them for more.
@ICosmicWolfI9 жыл бұрын
i had a nomad as a kid and this video brought back so much nostalgia. i used to play a game called vectorman i really miss this.
@ALPHAHXCORE5 жыл бұрын
The most surprising thing about the nomad is that it has no japanese release, when u think that would be the very reason they made it, to cater to the japanese market with their small homes and commute times
@Knuxfan2410 жыл бұрын
& now a PSP can do the Nomad's job incredibly well.
@ExplosionRadius10 жыл бұрын
Sega: "Our handhelds are super awesome with all the hardware they have! Battery life? What's that?"
@joeytribbiani23557 жыл бұрын
"You are soapy mactavish man, go shoot brown man! And do it again next year" bro I spit my drink out lmfao
@SuperDanny121210 жыл бұрын
I thinks your channel is amazing, Ashens. I had one of these growing up. I traded it for a carton of cigarrettes (stupid). Now you can buy the with new digital screens. Not that this is obscure, but your channel and boogies are the first channels that i ever saw such obscure stuff being reviewed. I thought it was a joke at first. But i think its amazing.
@DJTEVAdotCOM10 жыл бұрын
I still have this. It was an awesome protable at it's time.
@DOSRetroGamer8 жыл бұрын
Is the steam controller the reincarnation of the Turbo Touch 360?
@Channel9iNE8 жыл бұрын
+DOSRetroGamer Steam controller is a better version of it by having TWO touchy things
@pazzoeo8 жыл бұрын
you can set it to require click
@Tea-vi9ey8 жыл бұрын
What a twist!
@mind_combatant8 жыл бұрын
the Steam Controller at least gives a bit of feedback, so there's that...
@Channel9iNE8 жыл бұрын
BUT ITS GLOSSY.For some reason gamers hate gloss
@Zathurastra7 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, the days when portable gaming was a novelty, and not something just anyone could do on the now omnipresent smartphone. I spent many an hour huddled up next to the wall-outlet with my Sega Nomad, playing Comix Zone, Vectorman, and Sonic & Knuckles.
@Crowley910 жыл бұрын
And it is impossible to complete the first X-Men game on this thing since it requires you to reset the console as part of the gameplay.
@ejej300010 жыл бұрын
No, it is not.
@Crowley910 жыл бұрын
Really? That game requires you to press the reset button at a certain point, and I thought Nomad doesn't have that. How can you finish that game?
@ejej300010 жыл бұрын
Crowley9 You cannot finish it. I just read your first comment wrong :)
@SerabiiBot10 жыл бұрын
For some reason, Athens' "NAO NATHINGK" at around 1:17 made me burst into hysterical laughter..
@freehugs_xoxo10 жыл бұрын
Good thing I pulled an all nighter. :D
@MeowingCookie_10 жыл бұрын
Lol same!
@spacepirateivynova7 жыл бұрын
For a rare system, we have 3 of them. They appear to be much more common in the US. And the best use was as a portable genesis/megadrive with the output-to-tv. It also, yes, works just fine with the master system converter, though you might as well just port around a proper genesis in a gym bag or a backpack. No, it will not work with a 32X because of the strange layering that used on the video signal.
@DonutDurgn10 жыл бұрын
*Echo the Dolphins secret rape cave of Sexual pleasure.* Best sequel ever.
@BigBimbo7 жыл бұрын
ChaosWaffle ?
@encycl07pedia-6 жыл бұрын
Ecco* Also WTF is wrong with you?
@nobel1110 жыл бұрын
That Ecco music... mmmm.... good memories. I recorded that music on to a tape back before I knew what an internet was and used to listen to it on the bus ride to school.
@backyardgaming10 жыл бұрын
I'll give you £5 for the nomad
@fuppetti10 жыл бұрын
I'll give him £5.01 :P
@tuxcup10 жыл бұрын
Deltaexio with a hint of lemon... £5.02
@LazarouDave10 жыл бұрын
tuxcup guess what....i'm not bidding :P But if i was, it wouldn't be £5.03
@micajoeh010 жыл бұрын
Dan Arthur $9.55 CAD I don't know the exchange rate.
@tuxcup10 жыл бұрын
$9.56CAD.
@Crabmaster10 жыл бұрын
I was partially hoping you'd play Ecco juuuust long enough to be able to joke about dolphin abductions. Also it is amazing seeing how even back then there were such huge jumps in the gaming industry, one moment you have your handheld Sega Genesis, six years later you have the GBA which was I believe twice as powerful than the Genesis itself with so much less space taken up!
@NormalVidsForNormalPeople7 жыл бұрын
3:46 "you are soapy mactavish man, you must shoot brown men GO! and then next year do the same again but slightly more expensive dlc" -Stuart ashen
@TrainzVeteran10 жыл бұрын
From a technological standpoint, the Nomad is one of the most impressive Handheld game systems ever made. The fact they put a fairly recent home console in a portable unit is an achievement in itself. But obviously, was let down by poor screen and battery life. I think it was quite a testament to Sega's eagerness to experiment. This was one of the few times it actually worked. (Somewhat) People often berate Sega for failures like the Mega-CD and 32X, but hey, you didn't see your precious Nintendo doing anything new, did you? Yeah, playing it safe, like what they do with practically every Mario game these days. :P
@AngryPrawn10 жыл бұрын
Ecco always freaked me out. The music was eerie as fuck.
@NaokisRC10 жыл бұрын
The moment when all the dolphins got sucked up scared me as a kid. Nice cute and cuddly BAM ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE GONNA BE EATEN.
@Mentski10 жыл бұрын
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE.
@nobel1110 жыл бұрын
I love it. Eerie and badass!
@maria_remedios10 жыл бұрын
Mentski FOR PIGS.
@OdaSwifteye10 жыл бұрын
Oh good that wasn't just me. I think the music was supposed to simulate the atmosphere or at least the ambiance of the deep sea but it was weird. I always expected something to come out and kill me but it was never that aggressive.
@hohtari18 жыл бұрын
I love the "In all its ---------- Glory" thing
@TBrizzle018 жыл бұрын
I think Mega Drive is a cooler name than Genesis. Coming from an American.
@joeygreathouse30298 жыл бұрын
+TBrizzle01 It always puzzled me as a Mater System owner. I thought "But...it isn't the Genesis at all...it's like their third or fourth gaming computer." haha
@annother33504 жыл бұрын
Mega drive sounds 80s to me - like "check out this djs mega master mix"
@Liamthewaldo4 жыл бұрын
@@annother3350 that sounds way more 90s then 80s
@annother33504 жыл бұрын
@@Liamthewaldo The "dj mega master mix" type of thing came about some time after the invention of the 12-inch single in the late 70s
@Z39hyrr10 жыл бұрын
This is the cleanest Sega Nomad I've ever seen
@ImTheKingOfHyrule10 жыл бұрын
There is actually a handy mod for replacing the Nomad's screen with a modern LCD that uses less battery and looks much brighter and sharper. Not the cheapest thing in the world to have installed, but well worth looking into if you are into the Nomad. There's also services to mod the old burned out rechargeable battery packs with fancy new lithium so you can play for much longer than the original battery pack allowed for even when they were new.
@sonichockeyaug10 жыл бұрын
Nice! Can you send me a link?
@ImTheKingOfHyrule10 жыл бұрын
I don't know of any storefront websites offering the service, but ther is a guy on the Racketboy forums who does the screen and battery mods for $70 and $60 respectively. www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17415
@AgentTasmania10 жыл бұрын
That much trouble just to play some dull, frustrating, vanishingly brief old games? My experience has barely been worth the time to set up emulators.
@ImTheKingOfHyrule10 жыл бұрын
AgentTasmania I bet your first game was Call of Duty.
@AgentTasmania10 жыл бұрын
Timstuff Nope. PSOne, and even going back to the stuff I loved as a kid is just frustrating and dull now. Spyro, Chrash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater all dissapointed me when I got the station out after about a ten year gap. The rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia don't fit my prescription.
@viraticwars10 жыл бұрын
The Nomad is amazing. I wish those were still around.
@blodguizer10 жыл бұрын
A shame it never got a Sega CD add on.
@RichardCraig10 жыл бұрын
Ha, that'd be fun to carry around! ...and imagine the battery life!
@RRW35910 жыл бұрын
That would be the CDX.
@RichardCraig10 жыл бұрын
RRW Eh, not really since the CDX didn't have its own screen or controls like a portable system... all it could do on its own was play audio CDs. It would've been neat if there was been a way to plug the CDX into the Nomad to have a portable Sega CD, but I'm pretty sure Sega was well aware by that point that the Sega CD was old news and almost a total flop.
@IvanovIvanAKrutoi5 жыл бұрын
Or a Sega 32X add-on.
@frogfan57777 жыл бұрын
An excellent description. Seriously, this is one of the best.
@yourepostedinthewrongneigh15458 жыл бұрын
I'm probably alone on this... But I envy the Europeans for having gotten the mega drive and not genesis... Mega drive just sounds more badass.
@unverifiedbiotic8 жыл бұрын
+PsychoticBastard I think you meant MEGA DRIVE.
@yourepostedinthewrongneigh15458 жыл бұрын
Michał Pawlak Well fuck me! XD I didn't notice!
@patrickroche41838 жыл бұрын
the games ran a lot slower though. I think they ran 17% slower. after playing the USA version, I found it to be much better, like with the sonic games
@RWL20128 жыл бұрын
+Patrick Roche they can be modified to play in 60Hz NTSC
@encycl07pedia-6 жыл бұрын
Patrick Roche America, fuck yeah!
@mrcraggle10 жыл бұрын
@REALstrumentals ispitthetruth He meant that it was released late in that year, not the decade. It came out in Europe on November 30th, 1990.
@DarkAndTriumphant8 жыл бұрын
The Streets of Rage series will always be my favorite games
@thewiccalady73868 жыл бұрын
Omg yesss!! But you have to admit streets of rage 1&2 was a lot better than 3. I found 3 a little disappointing, but maybe that's just because I haven't been able to finish it yet!!
@BrySkye8 жыл бұрын
+CrazySweetGirl The Japanese version (Bare Knuckle 3) was a LOT more fun to play. They managed to suck most of the fun out in changing it to SoR 3. The thing to really go for now though is to track down Streets of Rage Remake v5.1 and play it on PC, ideally with a Mega-Drive or Saturn v2 Controller. It basically merges all three games into one as well as a ton of new stuff.
@thewiccalady73868 жыл бұрын
+BrySkye sounds cool, but its so hard to find these types of games now :/ rather sad really. I love well to me they are retro games, but I do know to alot of other people they are no where near retro XD but If I do see it, I will definitely try and get it!!
@BrySkye8 жыл бұрын
CrazySweetGirl It shouldn't be much harder than typing it into google ;)
@thewiccalady73868 жыл бұрын
+BrySkye ahhh cool, I dont know why, but I was thinking it was going to be in cartridge form XD
@AzraelJericho8 жыл бұрын
I used to play Japanese and U.S games on a UK Megadrive.. just adapted the cartridge. Ran with no issues from what I remember.
@akliyen10 жыл бұрын
Is the Turbo Touch 360 a warning for the Steam controller?
@mcsruler10 жыл бұрын
I believe the Steam Controller is supposed to have Haptic Feedback though.
@TheGuyWhoIsSitting10 жыл бұрын
Techcraft2 mcsruler Didn't they say they were ditching that idea and going more for the conventional game pad that is like the XBOX controllers instead?
@davidfgranger10 жыл бұрын
mcsruler The Xperia Play is similar, the touchpads are ok when the game is properly optimised, albeit in a nowhere-near-as-good-as-an-analogue-stick kinda way.
@carbon12559 жыл бұрын
mcsruler Haptic feedback is a load of shite. It is a trackpad that vibrates.
@luiscanamarvega10 жыл бұрын
The prolonged "aaaaaa" when he said sega was exactly the same pitch as the sound my microwave oven was making. Yes.
@narryg10 жыл бұрын
Ashens is the new YSG
@RantiMess10 жыл бұрын
Dan.
@ELSEIFedm10 жыл бұрын
I knew someone would say it.
@sudo45110 жыл бұрын
who's ysg?
@CryoDragon10 жыл бұрын
Who is YSG?
@empire010 жыл бұрын
Cryo Dragon Yellow Shirt Guy aka Blueglass. He's a speed runner that speed runs this game. He's got a ridiculous laugh, look up some of his videos.
@BeckyNosferatu7 жыл бұрын
I can't tell you how many times I raged so hard at my grandparents bowling alley as a kid while playing that damned thing...
@scaryscary24228 жыл бұрын
DAMN YOU SOAPY MACTAVISH!!!!!!!!
@slicer236110 жыл бұрын
Alien 3 - The Nomad might have arrived late, but so did you! The Nerd pointed the appearing-enemies problem out half a year ago. Turbo Touch 360 - I had one of those. It went into the "controllers" pile. And stayed there. Forever.
@Charjune9 жыл бұрын
I love Ecco the Dolphin!
@zebimicio52049 жыл бұрын
Charjune ecco is by sega
@Charjune9 жыл бұрын
I already know that. What's your point?
@zebimicio52049 жыл бұрын
"Different than sega version" What dies that supposed to mean?
@Charjune9 жыл бұрын
Because Ecco the Dolphin has also been released for Windows 95 in 1996. That's the one I first played and the one I grew up with. The soundtrack is different than the Sega release and what I also noticed is that there are actual CGI cutscenes in the Windows version, something that I never saw in the Sega consoles (a friend of mine had the same game back then and I played the Sega version online to notice the differences). If you google or search on KZbin for "Ecco the Dolphin PC" (or "Windows") you may find playthough, cutscenes and soundtrack of the Windows version. I totally love the PC soundtrack of the game.
@zebimicio52049 жыл бұрын
Tl Sooo U meant other then the console version?
@ProfessorFessor10 жыл бұрын
The Turbo Touch 360 was either released or heavily marketed around the rise of games like Street Fighter and was sold on the idea that doing things like down to towards was easier if you didn't have a D-pad cutting into your thumb. Your complaint about diagonals was likely not because you didn't know where your thumb was, it was because the controller only registers up, down, left, and right yet the touch area is massive. Anywhere outside the lines you can see on the pad is a dead zone and if you didn't have freakishly huge thumbs you could not use this controller effectively at all. I only ever knew one person who played games and had massive meathooks for thumbs and that was my dad and he loved the Turbo Touch. After he used the SNES controller he bought the line (they made them for the NES as well) and only ever used them from then on.
@KingCorny939 жыл бұрын
Ashens grab a Qtip, get some drops of windowcleaner on it and rub the catridge contags clean. Then you grab your creditcard and some clean piece of cloth. Wrap an edge of your creditcard with the cloth and apply a little bit of windowcleaner on it and stuff the clothwarped card in the cartidge slot and carefully jiggle it up and down to get all the dust out it has collected over time. Blowing the catridge or slot will damage it, the contacts will rust and your game/ console will die a painful death.
@KingCorny939 жыл бұрын
***** I just noticed that my cellphone autocorrected nearly every word I wrote.
@Rouz1029 жыл бұрын
+KingCorny93 The best way to clean the games is to open up the cartridge and clean the contacts with an eraser. It'll remove all the gunk on it. Windowcleaner or any liquid will also eventually damage and cause rust, as will any amount of liquid. Although I did have to settle for this method recently because the cartridge had weird screws in it for some reason that weren't standard gamebit screws.
@coropixel49759 жыл бұрын
+Mario Rodriguez +KingCorny93 *facepalm* Windowcleaner corrodes. You use isopropyl, nothing over 97% or it will damage the contacts.
@coropixel49759 жыл бұрын
***** Gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8
@KingCorny939 жыл бұрын
CoroPixel my 1983 Famicom games still run properly.
@Cynthesia10 жыл бұрын
This episode is quite relaxing for some reason
@AdvancePlays10 жыл бұрын
Doesn't the Steam console have two of those touch pads instead of joysticks, like the Turbo Touch 360? Dang, wonder how that turns out.
@dennett31610 жыл бұрын
I'd imagine they're a lot more sophisticated than an early 90's 3rd party Megadrive controller.
@AdvancePlays10 жыл бұрын
Paul Dennett I suppose, but an iPhone screen is a lot more sophisticated too yet a lot of people despise that.
@3lloGuvner10 жыл бұрын
wee1owen12 Don't confuse sophisticated technology with sophisticated design. There's good reason people despise touch screens for most games; most games genres evolved without the consideration of a control scheme that required you to cover half the screen with your fingers and thumbs.
@AdvancePlays10 жыл бұрын
'Ello Guv'ner I wouldn't necessary count that as large an area of contempt as you think, considering games like Slayin exist, where the controls aren't on the play area yet still receive scorn.
@3lloGuvner10 жыл бұрын
wee1owen12 Well there's other things wrong with touch screens. No tactile feedback is a big one depending on the genre. As for Slayin, i don't know anything about it so i couldn't say whether i think the hate is deserved or not.
@Glamador8 жыл бұрын
Two hours of play is being generous! This thing devoured batteries.
@Bismuth83X8 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: This was originally called the Venus, and it was one of a whole series of planet-themed names: Mercury: Game Gear Venus: Nomad Mars: 32X Jupiter: I think it was a Genesis with a built in CD and 32X Saturn: Sega Saturn Neptune: Genesis with a built in 32X Pluto: A Saturn with built-in internet My names: Earth: Genesis Uranus: Genesis with a Sega CD Eris: Dreamcast Ceres: Master System
@powersonic01238 жыл бұрын
Funny how all of the consoles with planet names ended up being a commercial flop for SEGA, just like all consoles with cat names were shitty for Atari.
@thatdudegaming35018 жыл бұрын
+powersonic0123 XD calico
@charly888888888 жыл бұрын
Practically every Sega console flopped.
@AdhamOhm8 жыл бұрын
Nintendo had some company codenames for their consoles as well... Dot Matrix Game = Game Boy Project Reality = Nintendo 64 Dolphin = Game Cube Revolution = Wii Iris = Nintendo DS
@HaydenX8 жыл бұрын
The Genesis, Game Gear, and Dreamcast were the only non-flops in the west (the Game Gear and Dreamcast both were profitable...though not as much as Sega was hoping). The Saturn did quite well in Japan. The 32x was by far the biggest flop Sega ever had their hands in...
@NightTrekker10 жыл бұрын
To this day I still regret accidentally busting the screen to my Nomad. It was a power hog, but it was one of the greatest "handhelds" ever.
@Hennessy19810 жыл бұрын
"You are Soapy MacTavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go." Am I the only one that got the COD reference?
@encycl07pedia-6 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@ValanceJ10 жыл бұрын
My jaw literally dropped when you pulled out the turbo touch. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.
@staffofawesome10 жыл бұрын
Better battery life than my IPhone...
@CastleFsUczN5nnK10 жыл бұрын
Then you should have a shitty Chinese knockoff :P
@Vikingland9 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Alien 3 on the Genesis way back when. Super hard.
@ILikeToLaughAtYou7 жыл бұрын
Hello guys, I'm ashens and I'm about to attempt my longest sega ever.
@annother33504 жыл бұрын
Sega saga
@SniperWalrus10 жыл бұрын
Finally. This was one I was waiting for!
@KittenoftheBroccoli9 жыл бұрын
Has anyone told you that you sound like the narrator from The Stanley Parable?
@Haggy9 жыл бұрын
fireclaw316 OMG... really :D
@mramir12389 жыл бұрын
fireclaw316 not even fucking close just because he is british lol
@KittenoftheBroccoli9 жыл бұрын
MrAmir I dunno. He at least reminded me of him when I first started watching.
@venstoma9 жыл бұрын
+WallE since when did you get thumbs?
@computerman7899 жыл бұрын
+MrAmir "British" is vague as he wouldn't sound very much like the guy from Stanley Parable if he had a Scottish or Welsh accent seeing as the Scottish and Welsh are also British...
@steveg512210 жыл бұрын
You can replace the ghosty screen with a modern LCD, and you can also convert a modern battery to work.
@Geo35z10 жыл бұрын
And yet it's still more advanced than the Xbox one...
@SebastianQ20035 жыл бұрын
Mydogeatsshit um no its not😂
@hypnotised-clover5 жыл бұрын
@@SebastianQ2003 It is.
@FedorovAvtomat10 жыл бұрын
Had one back in the day, still have it. I was king of the bus well into when the GBA came out, especially since I could play Streets of Rage 2 with another guy, with 1 console.
@TechnoBambino10 жыл бұрын
My dad's cousin co-designed that Sonic 1 EU cover.