The Game Boy Advance e-Reader Bundle

I pop open the Game Boy Advance e-Reader bundle box and see what's inside.
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[@jtessexpress]

"Scott's Stash" is almost like an off-the-cuff, really obscure podcast that Scott does all by himself and I admittedly like it more than his main channel now.

[@radiantstarlight0428]

oddly enough it’s really good background noise

[@flopp_idk]

​@@radiantstarlight0428 I agree, it's good to just pop on then start a game or clean up

[@hiimlunaaaa]

guys he did it, he talked about pokémon again

[@andyblanton6570]

"A must-have for gamers and collectors alike?" Did Nintendo not know that gamers would be the only people who would care enough to collect them?

[@iriskrane2433]

The e-reader is funny bc it was originally a Pokémon TCG thing, only for the Pokémon cards, that’s why the e in the e-reader logo looks like a pokéball. However someone down the line said “this is stupid” to which someone else said “yes, let’s use this for other games” completely missing the point of why the e-reader was stupid. Anyways, one of my favorite pieces in my collection.

[@JeskidoYT]

Place your bets people. Eat a shoe if it's Nintendo Japan, or eat a banana if it's Nintendo USA.

[@lolster239]

@@JeskidoYT I’m betting Nintendo USA.

[@jakebl.7244]

@@JeskidoYT Nintendo of Japan. This seems like their type of odd idea.

[@ryebread666juan4]

Yeah when Scott was showing the individual e-reader I noticed on the packaging a normal pokemon card which confused me, now I know thanks for mentioning this

[@Poever]

It was announced in 2001 as the Pokémon E-Reader, a year where Pokémania was on the wane. So between then and the launch they must have made the choice to remove the branding and broaden its appeal so as not to jinx it

[@harparp7205]

I think it’s neat that there were essentially Animal Crossing Amiibo cards before Amiibo

[@Duqustar]

Animal crossing amiibo festival

[@leakdeo]

@@Duqustar *gasp* NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!1!!!1!!!!!!1!!!

[@Duqustar]

@@leakdeo WAHAHAH

[@Depressed_Cuboid]

@Duqustar *no.*

[@yukinagato1573]

Animal Crossing e-Reader Festival

[@skippychurch2965]

I love how even Scott knows this shit is ridiculous, but is still chill enough to not technically care, anyhow.

[@puppetlegopeyto]

"Wow, I can't get enough of these sealed E-reader boxes!" -a phrases said by no one ever, except Scott

[@shanez1215]

Also the only person in history who said: "I need to buy another Ouya"

[@pavloverboy]

As a self-proclaimed Animal Crossing expert, the Sanrio amiibo cards are not meant to be trading cards. The standard Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing can be traded, since the packs are randomly assorted. However, because the Sanrio series only includes 6 new villagers, it wouldn't make sense for Nintendo to market the cards as a trading card game.

[@katien.3946]

Glad someone said this so there isn’t any confusion

[@drabonlady]

That's only in the west. The Japanese version comes with 2 ramdom cards and 1 of 6 stickers. So there is a high chance you are going to get doubles if you want to collect all the cards and stickers. So trading is the easiest way to get all of them.

[@SleeplessStreams]

If they wanted them to be collectable but only 6, they should have made them into $20 e-shop cards.

[@jacscar3536]

psychiatrist: so... what is your addiction... scott: ya heard of the e reader

[@alessandromazzini7026]

The problem Is that have become mine as well, and since i'm european i Need to buy japanese ones

[@soulguibo]

That sounds like a real scott bit

[@radiantstarlight0428]

“ever hear of battery corrosion?”

[@Overfletch]

I have the pokemon colosseum e-reader cards that were only released in Japan and they're my favorite piece of my collection! Something about how gimmicky they are adds to the charm. I also thought my e-reader was broken when I first tried using the cards+reader as I had to rely on google translate to figure out what the menus meant while using them ingame.

[@blockacheese_]

how much

[@Overfletch]

@@blockacheese_ I bought my set a few years ago for around $350 but I've been seeing it sell recently for at least double with how much everything is going up

[@seanyproductions]

There’s definitely gonna be a Scott the Woz episode on the e-reader soon

[@trailervideos]

I hope so

[@olpendoomandagi5565]

PlayStation One Retrospective Next

[@Socioromanticism]

It's really cool for a game collector who can/would spend that kind of money on stuff we're all interested in to share all that stuff with us talking at us for half an hour. I mean, I like this stuff. Not enough to buy it, God, no. But it's almost just as cool to get a good, long look at it all. Sincerely, this is a great use of a video sharing platform. Scott can tell us stuff about video games outside of his Scott the Woz format and just flex his game collection at us. It's neat.

[@SimonSky.]

I love how at 26:54, Scott lifts the cards in sync with the "coin" sound of the music... ...TWICE!

[@Sticky_sausage69]

I’m expecting the next episode of Scott the woz to be about the e-reader

[@lemonlime8949]

I'd be so happy, I really find the tech behind this so fascinating

[@stonexl]

If he owns all this stuff for it he might as well.

[@Sticky_sausage69]

@@lemonlime8949 Is it weird how it is probably better than what Nintendo makes today

[@LessTh3nThree]

Unfortunately i don’t believe after making a video about it on the stash account, we will be getting a similar video on the main. But I truly hope im wrong because i would also enjoy that lol

[@olpendoomandagi5565]

PlayStation One

[@ChristopherMoom]

Instead of showing off some collection of Pokemon cards, or a collection of cards from literally any card game that human beings actually like at all, Scott would probably show off his e-Reader Card Collection

[@wrenren2112]

Don’t forget his collection of Mario sports superstars amiibo cards

[@Isopromptyl]

Im pretty sure that the e reader collection would be more valuable.

[@idkwhattoputherelol420]

nah dude Mario cards for sure

[@notarmani4804]

@@wrenren2112 Worth it.

[@Trainerredwantstobattle]

There were Pokémon cards in that binder and pack

[@FanonBanned]

SMB3 was the highest selling, non pack-in game on a single platform and single SKU. It was surpassed during the Nintendo DS era.

[@toastcrumch]

I know smb stands for Super Mario Bros but somehow my square brain read it as Shin Megami Bensei

[@abhijithravikumar5300]

SKU?

[@servantbyday]

@@abhijithravikumar5300 Yeah, "Stock Keeping Unit". It is the identifier for most items sold in retail stores.

[@kadosho02]

@@toastcrumch that would be a very dark adventure

[@frds_skce]

@@toastcrumch same, bruh. My eyes perceived the abbreviation as Shin Megami Bensei

[@jaji666]

This entire channel is one big flex. And I love it. Edit: Damn, I can't believe how sexy that pristine condition gba box looks.

[@robotortoise]

23:18 Hearing Scott sarcastically and excitedly talk about how corroded and disgusting his Gameboy Advance box is way more amusing than it has any right to be.

[@reahslademhA]

Gotta love scott’s 17 minutes and 30 seconds of foreplay before actually opening the box.

[@dreckel6572]

definitely knows what hes doing

[@randoml97]

"Getting into the E-reader in terms of... wasting my money" is such a ridiculously Scott thing to say and I love it.

[@jorblor6476]

Watching scott open packs really gives me that special kind of serotonin

[@victarr.7428]

4:36 Scott's not kidding. I used to play games on a white GBA. By the time I sold it, it had terrible dark stains/fingerprints near its buttons and directional cross just from normal handling.

[@Pluike]

I love Scott sitting on the floor and talking, it's a nice relaxing time.

[@adualaispuro]

same

[@Mattm182]

Really disappointed that not a single e-reader card was scanned in the video.

[@Teddingtin]

Same, I was anticipating it the entire time.

[@TiagoRai12]

They're sealed. Lol

[@Mattm182]

@@TiagoRai12 oh yeah I forgot. Things aren’t able to be opened/unsealed anymore. Darn 😭😭😭😭

[@emilyvilleneuve9315]

This video is making want to finally take a swing at trying to print my own e-reader cards. I downloaded archives of dot codes and forum discussions trying to crack the printing method a couple of years ago, but haven't attempted it myself. The GBA is tied with the PS3 for my all time favorite console, so went through a phase in my late teens trying to get all of the enhancing/connector cable accessories. I was lucky to borrow/return a friend's Game Shark in my last week of high school to force all of the special events in my copies of Emerald and Fire-Red, since he was the last person I personally knew who had one. In the inflated market we are in, I am very happy to have collected as much of it as I had.

[@Robin0928]

Watching Scott call us out on listening to him unbox a Gameboy Advance E-Reader set hurt deeply

[@theflail]

"I don't want to open one of my only two e-readers." I love you man.

[@Civilian08]

When I was a kid, I went to a friend's house, and I'm pretty sure it was his birthday, but everyone who came got E-Readers. It was a very strange thing.

[@frds_skce]

Goddamn, that's a nice gift. Kinda felt bad for those kids who don't have gameboy advance and ended up stashing these e-reader in their attics tho

[@-FutureTaken-]

Their parents accidentally bought 5 then couldnt sell them back because nobody knew what an e reader even was

[@Uncleharkinian]

I agree with the E-reader logo, since I only ever saw it on Pokémon cards and NO ONE HAD ONE I thought it was just another symbol for Pokémon like a energy or evolution

[@AlanRedgown]

Using the e-reader with Super Mario Advance 4 was “fun”. Since the e-reader occupies the game cartridge slot, you needed to connect it to *another* GBA, putting SMA4 in one GBA and the e-reader in the other, to get the cards to work. I think I convinced a friend to let me use his and managed to play like one custom level. Besides that one time, I couldn’t play the custom levels because I only had one GBA. EDIT: Scott does mention this later in the video, but I’ll leave my comment.

[@riflemanm16a2]

I have the Mario Party e-Reader game as well. I played it a grand total of once with a friend when he came over. In fact, the e-Reader itself was so short lived that I only got to buy a card pack once before it was discontinued.

[@lowercase3479]

“Ive been kinda getting into the e-reader latley just in terms of y’know, uhhh…. wasting my money”

[@GalaxyIsAsh]

Scott please do more of these. It was very entertaining too watch and listen too.

[@kylemassey4060]

I only had one opportunity to transfer the new levels to my copy of Mario 3. The messed up part is, you could only save the levels to your cart once you beat them. I was stuck with 10 level cards and only 2 being playable.

[@CroakPad]

It's amazing how much unique Pokémon stuff Scott owns despite not giving a fart for the series.

[@johnedington1632]

I just bought an EReader for 25$ and they had the DK Jr. Cards for 2$ loose. This local place has several sealed packs,but they want way to much. It'd be nice to get a couple more sets at a reasonable price. I used to have it as a child. Not the best, but like you said an interesting piece of history and neat collectable.

[@maccamachine]

this box is beautiful i love the characters and how blue that was reader section is

[@ZanbonSen]

I had an e-reader when it came out and it's still the one piece of tech I don't really regret not keeping into adulthood.

[@RetroGamingNook]

I want to start seeing speed runs for scanning e-Reader sets. Mine is just sitting in a storage cube crying.

[@nintendude78]

Thank you! I have been waiting for this

[@austynwiles5414]

3:20 Same here even after owning the mario bros card pack I always the logo looked like something of madcatz quality.

[@PuppetMasterIX]

21:41 So funny thing about this: this set of the TCG, unique for having e-Reader dock codes on the cards, included holographic rares (as per usual), _but_ the holographic cards *do not have* the dock codes printed on them, so if you got a rare card, you couldn't use the e-Reader features associated with that card.

[@Squirtleshore]

Up until like 2011 or so, you could buy sealed E-Readers on Nintendo's online store. I'm so mad I didn't do that.

[@belikewatersf1051]

I remember buying this when it came out, good stuff 😎

[@TheNiteNinja19]

Having it as an external attachment that you can hook via link cable, would have been better, because you could have done something like Pokemon trading card Game 2, and they could have put barcodes on the back or the sides of the cards that you can scan into the game. Or a whole new trading card Game based on that kind of philosophy.

[@TheKabuto90]

It would actually be pokemon trading card game 3. 2 was released but as a japanese exclusive.

[@ceeb420]

Watching you open the Gameboy Advance box (minus the corroded batteries) made me feel some type of way. I remember getting that same one for Christmas and being over the moon. So long ago.

[@TimDespairBear11]

nothing makes my day better than watching Scott take a look at trash from 20 years ago

[@jessiealtgirl]

I love these videos

[@jellyboi984]

very cool, would to like see more stuff like this

[@TeacheReady]

Scott I love you, All the way from Mexico

[@MysteryMii]

Can’t wait to see the e-reader episode of Scott The Woz!

[@olpendoomandagi5565]

PlayStation One Retrospective first, than E-Reader.

[@TeacheReady]

I love that this is like a museum of old videogames

[@KoRnBrony]

the only in-box ones i could find were over $1000, holy shit Scott

[@internetguy7319]

9:00 Pokemon Rumble U had a line of Pokemon figures that worked essentially like Amiibos, but before Amiibo.

[@dariangoodness3037]

Just found out about this channel and it’s super dope to see old Nintendo packaging like this and also to hear Scott nerd out about vintage game boy era stuff, not sure if you’ll read this but you should make a video where you put an ips screen in it, I feel like it would fit with the rest of the videos on this channel although not sure how you’d feel opening up a new gba

[@isaacbetzold]

you should do a video about how you find this stuff!

[@GameFrank]

haha oh man I love the e-Reader! I still have my original unit and cards from back in the day.

[@TheLegoNation]

Nice having the battery’s included

[@KreeTheBasilisk]

Aww, the e-reader seemed like such a magical device in my younger days, but I guess not everyone else loved it as much as I did. I always thought it was cool that all the code for the games were in such tiny dots literally out in the open to be scanned like that, like if microfiche and qrcodes had a baby. I even remember trying to print out copies at home, but alas the resolution needed to print at that scale was quite demanding. I felt like they just barely scraped the surface of the cool things you could do with encoded data on cardstock before people got bored of it and it went the way of the dodo. The Pokémon cards were such a great little pile of easter eggs though. The shorter side just being a small dex entry, but the longer side could be all sorts of surprises like minigames or utilities or tiny vignettes. The coin flip tool was my favourite, being able to do coin flipping for any board game in a more entertaining form.

[@ericbazinga]

That's so cool that the box for the Game Boy Advance is so small, about the same size as GBA game boxes.

[@5ouIs]

Watching him open that GBA hurt. It's extremely difficult to even find them, this was the only listing I could find: www.ebay.com/itm/284319495449?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28 And the GBA he opened has been inside that e-reader box ever since it was released in the store. So that means the box has never been scratched, bumped, or damaged in any sort of way.

[@pryan609]

I remember when the e-reader launched. I've been in gaming retail that long (actually longer). It was such a massive flop. I just remember the Nintendo rep coming by and giving us all these information pamphlets to help educate what the e-reader was. Literally no one cared. Even as a giant Nintendo fan I looked at that device completely bewildered. Like who was this for? No kid wanted it and no one older was looking for it. I never understood who the intended audience was supposed to be.

[@yorandeege2462]

5:02 just got an ad and scott said welcome back lol

[@zeetonblaster2319]

I had this growing up. So much fun setting up, although my parents were so annoyed that we were young children and didn’t understand the concepts of the “e-reader”

[@angusyoung119]

I love IRL Scott as much as Scott the Woz

[@molgorp7199]

Honestly my favorite pokemon card that I own is an e reader card, I wondered why it looked like that for the longest time

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

How do we know this isn’t ashens and Scott just dubbed over it

[@g.u.959]

American Ashens = Scott the Woz

[@squeedles_1943]

Sofa = ashens Carpet = Scott

[@Poever]

The carpet is the visual tell

[@MrMatthias]

The lack of the sofa was my first clue 😉

[@whatisinternet4393]

The eReader logo reminds me of the data design logo

[@iriskrane2433]

Oh, Scott, the history of Pokémon card printing in the US goes: Wizards of the Coast > Nintendo > The Pokémon Company international. Nintendo does own about a 1/3rd stake in the Pokémon Company, so they kinda still print them.

[@Spider_Mike023]

Regarding the fun of buying card packs. I like both knowing what u get and not. As a magic the gathering player I love cracking new packs seeing what I got. But it does come to a point where I’m like alright go in the shop and buy singles of what I need but didn’t get.

[@leeartlee915]

Glad to see Scott is spending that big KZbin money wisely.

[@Uncleharkinian]

Coming with a 5 sample cards reminds me of the 3DS AR cards

[@benservey9295]

I never knew that the pokemon cards with the weird bar on the side was for the E-reader!

[@nickk3077]

The GBA e-reader, also known as the second coming of Jesus Christ.

[@vietzscheallagard2129]

Are you a calvinist?! It's obviously the birth of Christ! Sheesh!

[@haroldtorres2710]

@@vietzscheallagard2129 I thought that was the Gameboy Camera?

[@Tapukokomaster54]

I agree

[@acidsuperdave9473]

@@haroldtorres2710 I thought it was Gex.

[@brya9681]

Or the 4th coming of Buddha

[@caliklepto1316]

you just opened possibly the last sealed copy of an e reader gba bundle..sealed gba systems alone go for thousands. i cant imagine this..

[@ominousvirus5278]

0:59 Ah, so it was like the Among Us card swipe LOL

[@Emihana]

Aweh yeah!

[@gustavolopez2599]

Wait what !! Didn’t know you had a another channel. Instant subscriber for sure. Cool I owned an e reader its darn cool

[@Aiden7g7g]

Yes, indeed I have

[@koulatta9693]

Wake up babe new Scott's Stash upload

[@henriquesousa9686]

Man... i was hopping you would do a full blown video about this... it whould have been great

[@jacobpeet1329]

That kickflip cover song was from a web show called dam class or something

[@yepimbatman]

The berry thing with the EReader is actually pretty crazy. It was the only way to get a whole slew of berries that were otherwise not in the game

[@rainbowspongebob]

Yes

[@project_boredom2940]

Scott’s Stash becoming an Unboxing Channel

[@danh2134]

It's possible to use the e reader on the gamecube without an gba , it works on the gba adapter

[@zincmann]

"Scott Unscripted" is like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde LOL....

[@TeeGee3]

My two favorite youtubers, Scott the Woz and Scott’s Stash sure do love talking about Nintendo handhelds

[@Gamemaster_909]

They also sound similar too. I guess all Gubble fans sound the same

[@godspeed-is-taken]

I just found this channel after watching the main since the beginning.

[@xx1norm1xx]

I love how you open this stuff, I get respecting the past and stuff but what is the point if they never get played?

[@ralphjebson6034]

How dare you, Scott. I’m currently neck-deep buying all the e-reader shit-CIB e reader and e+ reader from Japan, sealed toys-r-us promo manhole cards, every sealed pack and a set of club Nintendo Pikmin cards with the binder, and the one thing on my list I still haven’t come close to checking off is this damn e-reader bundle, and now here you are showcasing it to the world! They’re already so expensive, Scott, how could you do this to me? 😔 great vid tho thx for posting it

[@Commander_Bowling]

I can't believe you release a video only 5 days after I buy my own E reader. What a coincidence.

[@damesofpk]

I didn't waste my time though, I could watch you all day.

[@GlutzahnLP]

I think the trading card part is about the game and watch (they talk about rare cards there) and maybe they also planned more pokemon cards

[@TheSomberGamer]

I like the way Scott says Donkey Kong

[@theharley684]

There is a Scott the Woz unboxing channel?! crap gotta subscribe.

[@gramgramsgram8328]

Imagine an entire Scott the Woz movie all about the e reader

[@randomnesstv3635]

even though this video probably wasn't scripted it seems like whenever scott talks he already knew how funny it would be

[@AustinTroth]

i have an e-reader and a few of the rare things like Mario Party E-reader. Don't think I ever ended up using it much outside of just playing Excitebike and Ice Climber. Which once I unlocked those in Animal Crossing, I just used the GC to GBA transfer method to play those at home as it was equally weird and annoying to do

[@Nukatha]

I'm looking forward to the full episode on Mario Party-e