The Game Wizard | Nostalgia Nerd

[@KillernuckTokusatsu]

64-BIT 32-BIT 16-BIT 8-BIT 4-BIT 2-BIT 1-BIT HALF A BIT A QUARTER BIT THE GAME WIZARD!!!

[@Sub2RazE]

U copyright avgn with Tiger electronics

[@DmitriyK12]

You guys/gals are a bunch of haters; leave old relics or antiquated video game handhelds were they belong... in our favorable or unfavorable past (nostalgia can only go so far, but in my honest opinion I wouldn't mind trying out a Game wizard IP/electric video game...at least if only to see what I missed after all these years.

[@abobeleiranilton]

Does anyone remmber the name of the purple device, on 3:32 ? It was my first handheld console and this is the first time that i've seen a mention of it...

[@KillernuckTokusatsu]

@@abobeleiranilton I have no idea

[@Killerspieler0815]

@Killernuck Extras - the "GAME WIZARD" might be even emulated on a 1941 computer using a software based emulator

[@Overbound]

I wanted a Game Wizard badly because of the Star Wars games. But every time I had money for it I ended up buying a Genesis game instead. Dodged a bullet.

[@FunkyPixie]

When I look at the game wizard i keep thinking of the tiger handheld things i saw on AVGN and Game & Watch

[@Chaos89P]

Reminds me more of the R-Zone in concept than any other Tiger game. At least these aren't as ear-grating.

[@bland9876]

Game & Watch Gallery 4 is such a fun game on my Game Boy Advance

[@Q3ark]

This looks like something my nan would have got me thinking it was a gameboy

[@c0mpu73rguy]

Mandatory « We already have a Gameboy at home joke » passing by, don’t mind me.

[@feieralarm]

Watching this without the presents of a brown sofa feels like cheating

[@naranciaisbestboi125]

*presence

[@gwishart]

Why is a sofa sending you presents? It isn't even Christmas yet.

[@rickyleeufc]

Ashens

[@volvo09]

Oh man, this is exactly something I would have gotten as a kid... So disappointing.

[@TroyFoxxin]

I know I was. when i was little i got one as a gift. was excited thinking i got a game boy then after looking more closely.. yeah took a hammer to it. lol

[@MrScottev]

My grandma told me she had got me a Gameboy. I had to pretend not to be disappointed when I unwrapped it wasn't even electronic it was one of those water hoop games.

[@danehenry895]

@@TroyFoxxin I was one of those unfortunate kids too!!!... gutted cos my mates got gameboys, gamegears & atari lynx's for christmas..

[@mirek190]

...me too.. but even a worse version . Mine had only a and b button ...

[@Ezyasnos]

@@TroyFoxxin I got something like this as well, not with replaceable screens, but with '99 games built-in'. Yea, 99 slightly different variants of the very same game.

[@Dorelaxen]

Somebody call Ashens. The Pop Stations are evolving.

[@bzboy21]

_We must get the _*_WLL_*_ alarm!_

[@wyattmanhabel644]

No, they are devolving

[@uzaiyaro]

“The worst handheld game console ever” -Dr. Ashen has left the chat

[@bland9876]

dr. of shitology

[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

This would have been the bomb 10 years earlier when Game&Watch was still a thing.

[@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial]

I mean...it’s terrible...but my god is this interesting. The fact it is region locked is hilarious

[@prodos8]

In the early 80's my brother and I used to buy the LCD games that Radio Shack sold. They were very good for the time. These look like they were produced well after the technology had expired. I mean, I remember my kids getting real LCD games in their happy meals in the late 90's. They were quite crappy compared to a Gameboy Color.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

@5:45 Wait. MGA got the license to do a *Barbie* themed Game Wizard? That MGA? The same company that would later do Bratz and LOL Surprise made Barbie LCD Games? What!?

[@CourtneyCoulson]

I cannot believe this was released in the 90's. It looks ancient, 70's at the most recent.

[@CinemaMacabro]

This and Game Child were indicators that your parents hated you

[@singletona082]

Nah, just that your family was poor.

[@BobMonkeypimp]

@@jgfjgfify kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYXJY3SplKaEbNU

[@naranciaisbestboi125]

@@singletona082 My family was poor and even they wouldn't waste their money on these.

[@stilljamming]

Or in case of Game Child, that your family lived in Poland's Lower Silesia region. I have seen 2 of them on the same day in two different places once.

[@stilljamming]

@@jgfjgfify Yeah. Ashens and the Quest for Game Child.

[@questendervids2090]

I had the starwars one, I thought I would never see that nightmarish disappointment ever again. I was wrong, Damn you youtube suggested video list!!

[@RJRC_105]

So basically, this is a Pop Station. In fact, one of them looks to have the same shape as Laden vs USA.

[@KieronQuinn]

The origin story of Popstations, I would bet the "Soccer" game is even the same as the one in those things

[@ThatGastrodon]

I'm almost certain the popstation soccer game and the one here have the same startup music

[@Muzer0]

Doesn't look like it to me; Popstation "Soccer" actually attempts to be a game of football (just very badly), whereas this one is more like "having an infinite number of balls flung at you and trying to kick them back"...

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Man of culture, I see.

[@alexalexander1772]

Throw away lcd device. I never realized that was an option. I thought you had to give tigers to your friends as gifts. Circle life.

[@hylianarmy0]

I got one of the Power Ranger packs as a kid for Christmas back in 1995 or so. I wanted a Game Boy (ideally one of those snazzy ice blue Pocket units), but my grandmother (bless her) sent one of these. I ended up playing it a lot because I didn't have anything else. When I moved, it was left behind; when I came back to my old house years later, I found the base unit just laying in the dirt under a tree, rusted out and sun-bleached; I sure didn't leave it there. I took it home and buried it in the backyard. There's some strong symbolism there, I'm sure.

[@freeecountryy]

These are the gifts you got from your (god bless 'em) ill informed grandparents / family members for xmass or bday that gave you a unique feeling of both disappointment and vague excitement, that quickly faded to a sour funk after 10 minutes trying it out.

[@leskobrandon6950]

Wanted a Gameboy as a kid. This is what 🎅 brought me. Frick 🎅.

[@Gunzee]

I still remember the reaction of a kid who owned one against seeing a gameboy. He was so angry, he never reacted to other handheld games like that and we had many lcd games in our playground. PS, Grandstand made some great lcd games, their double dragon, batman and Pac-Man were great. My match of the day 2000, a pong based console still works.

[@Wii505]

It looks like a Gameboy that had a love child with a Mega Duck!

[@Vollification]

Looks more like one of Nintendos inbred sins they keep locked up in a basement.

[@DmitriyK12]

🤷🏻‍♂️🙄😋👹😼🙈🙉🙊

[@DmitriyK12]

If you don't want experience or play this old yet interesting electronic video-game unit, then you may move on to current gen handheld consoles/device's like Nvidia Shield, 3DS, PSVita and or a Nintendo Switch , PSP, GBA, etc ! I don't see anyone forcing you to actually look at or try to play these ancient relics.

[@DmitriyK12]

@@Vollification 😓😲😰😧🤐😢

[@DmitriyK12]

Why did everyone and anyone love/simply adore the old Nintendo Game and Watch but were furieous with these other very , very rare and unique experiences/trials ?! ☯️😁🤗🤔

[@FyberOptic]

This was something your grandma or aunt would buy you. I can't imagine any kid actually asking for it.

[@V1VISECT6]

GameWizard: The GameBoy's pevert uncle.

[@AntiBunnyStudio]

I remember seeing these in the store. Never had one, but recently I was actually trying to remember what they were. The idea of combining one of those Tiger LCD style games with interchangeable cartridges to make a cheap portable wasn't a horrible idea in the early 90's. Would have been a much bigger deal if it had released 10 years earlier though.

[@macdaniel6029]

There is exact ONE LCD Game worth playing: Tetris. My first handheld in the early 90s. I played it for many hours.

[@tanathos0414]

I still have a Tetris LCD and play it...once a year. Played like a maniac for a time in the early 2000s when I was about 14.

[@sloppynyuszi]

I have it as an iPhone case now.

[@FIXTREME]

You forgot snake

[@skankingrudeboy]

I had the Game Player as a kid. I loved it and would spend hours playing Mine Sweeper.

[@thomashorton7830]

I also had one and enjoyed the mine sweeper game.

[@MrGeocidal]

I used to play that game on Windows 95

[@Aevilbeast]

The fact that our lunches were packed with sugar actually made me really happy! LOL Seriously though, I think about old lunches sometimes and miss the hell out of them! Nowadays (at the public schools where I live) they don't actually do warm cooked-on-site meals anymore, and instead do a "healthier" meal where everything is pre-packed and under strict nutritional guidelines. Heck, you can't even bring your own lunch, unless you have strict medical or religious reasons, because schools are afraid of legal ramifications of kids who might share food and accidentally give it to someone who might be allergic or can't have it for some reason! I mean, it makes sense but it's definitely a big difference from when I went to school and kinda takes the fun away from lunchtime imo.

[@supersquare]

12:51 The Game Wizard was memeing way back in the 90's

[@kFY514]

This brings back memories! I got the Power Rangers set as part of a package from an uncle in America when I was like 5, I think. Living in a post-Eastern Bloc country, with my parents not really having money for luxuries like proper consoles, it was fun and I remember playing the heck out of it. Although I remember the games being rather difficult and also getting boring after a while. Exactly as expected, I guess. Not much later, we got a PC, and PC gaming came with it, and it was obviously a huge step up. I didn't get into the world of consoles, either home or handheld, until several generations of hardware later, though.

[@oddpodshow]

Well...don't care how rubbish they are, I want these now!

[@SomeDudeInBaltimore]

>Ring Raiders >Failed I feel attacked.

[@brandoncurrypitcher1945]

I had the Power Ranger 3 pack as a kid and loved it! Never new it could play other games. I had a SNES too but this handheld still got a decent amount of play.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

There was and LCD Tank game I got a long time ago. It was very small, about half the size of that gameboyish looking thing. The case was literally shaped like a tank, and it was actually a REALLY good LCD game. It was like a LCD version of the original Legend of Zelda, but you drove a tank instead. It was open world that allowed you to travel in any direction, as long as it was up down left or right. I memorized how to get to all the bosses, find all the power ups as well. It was a pretty cool game for an LCD game. It showed what LCD games could be honestly if companies were not lazy with the concept. I really wish I could remember it's name, nor have I found any photos online of a similar LCD game, let alone youtube videos. Seems it will go down as a forgotten game, despite actually being a good LCD game. I'm pretty sure it's because it came out really late in the LCD game world, I got it around the time I owned a Nintendo 64.

[@diebesgrab]

As somebody just barely old enough to have seen the tail end of the LCD handheld era as a young child, and who never owned one, I always felt slightly jealous when I encountered other kids with them, in spite of having a Game Boy and a Genesis. This faded as I grew older and realized what crap they actually were, but I guess on some deep, insignificant level, it never entirely left me since I still remember those feelings to this day.

[@EmblemParade]

I would like to see Breath of the Wild ported to this innovative ... thing.

[@5roundsrapid263]

I always thought the worst handheld was any of the Tiger LCD games. Oh, there was a knockoff? Wow.

[@Wongwrangler64]

I'm surprised ashens hasn't done a video on these seems like the pop stations granddad.

[@negirno]

I think he stopped doing reviews of those pop stations because less and less people watched them. It was kind of depressing to watch the same shit in different packaging.

[@TrioChoasWolves]

This was my entire childhood during long road trips between Idaho and California. Sadly, I got board really easy with the lingering taste of egg salad sandwiches and cheap soda. How this brings up horrid nostalgia!

[@thedilutedspine]

I actually had the Star Wars 3 pack as a kid. I may even have it all still kicking around somewhere in a box at my mom's house. Blew my mind seeing it in a video so many years later

[@MegaTerryNutkins]

Had one of these as a kid, got it from Argos. The Space Invaders and Minessweeper carts were pretty playable.

[@grimTales1]

This looks like the lovechild of a Popstation and a Tiger handheld game

[@andymadden8183]

Game Player. How imaginative.

[@bland9876]

Imagine if someone was able to make a game system similar to this or one of those tiger handhelds but the game on the system was Minesweeper.

[@nathanurie4686]

The=a

[@bland9876]

@@nathanurie4686 the is correct because most of these don't have a removable screen look at the tiger hand helds as well as the game n watch

[@nathanurie4686]

@@bland9876 "similar to this" should have clarified what system you were talking about then.

[@NathanChisholm041]

Boy I forgot how crappy hand-helds were back in the day except for game & watch! These days we have Handheld Emulators like my new RG 350 that have over 13000 games included

[@ShinoSarna]

An interesting LCD handheld I have gotten as a kid was one that had a similar form factor to Game Boy. However, the screen was arranged into grid of squares, but had extremely low resolution - 40*50 or something like that, so typically, one element would represent one object. It had clones of Tetris and Battle City on it.

[@HybridAngelZero]

I actually got the Star Wars Game Wizard from the relative as a kid for Christmas or some such. I still own it, and I think I've played it for maybe five minutes total in the last two decades and some change. As a side note, these were my first exposure to the Star Wars franchise

[@michaelturner4457]

So this thing is basically a popstation, but with officially licensed games.

[@MisterRorschach90]

Those three animated figures at 2:19 are literally flipping their friend off for not having a real gameboy. That’s nostalgic af.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

"Collision detection is great" Objects jerk around so badly you can hardly tell when anything is supposed to hit something in the first place.

[@mrembeh1848]

5:26 where did you get that background from ?

[@gopherlab]

12:48 How graphics was made in quartz games? It was drawn by hand?

[@jeremyadkins9665]

My roommate has one, we ended up finding it in the attic of his old house. it was the Star Wars 3-pack.

[@MaskedGEEK]

I remember having a LCD cartridge handheld gaming .... thing. I say cartridge loosely because, while it marketed itself as being a 6 in 1 game console, the "cartridges" were all wired with the exact same LCD segments, just all 6 having a different theme. So the actual game was contained on the main unit itself which allowed you to take one cartridge out and swap it for another while the machine was still on without any side effects at all, except losing a life if you didn't pause between swaps. So I'd be less inclined to call them cartridges and more themed screens. I had long since gotten rid of it before 2000 rolled around though.

[@SonicSP]

5:39 Had that as a kid. The Power Rangers one.

[@yy-hj4br]

Same. I was such a stupid kid, I thought it was better than my gameboy.

[@Puremindgames]

@@yy-hj4br If your gameboy didn't have Power Rangers it probably was.

[@jdb2002]

What did you do on the Power Rangers game?

[@jonothanthrace1530]

The way the early Game Wizard carts worked is essentially the same as the Magnavox Odyssey, where the carts are basically just jumpers.

[@alexk7467]

I remember having the Star Wars Game Wizard when I was a kid, which I played in the early days. Not sure what happened to it in the end, but after getting a gameboy color about a year or two later (which I still have to this day) I don't think I played this anymore.

[@robintst]

I had Tiger handheld games growing up but they really only served to be a periodic distraction on long car rides like with most children. I was one of the weirder kids who actually liked to observe the passing scenery, especially if it was a trip to somewhere when we'd go on vacation/holiday. I was easy to entertain, heh.

[@jasonturner2476]

I would not have liked this as a kid, but now that I collect older games, I really do like these for display purposes. I have 2 complete All Star Sports sets, each with the blue consoles and vinyl cases (they were all included in one lot), along with the complete Star Wars collection, console and vinyl case. For whatever reason, the vinyl cases only hold the console and two cartridges. You can stick a third cart in the console, but then you can't close the case, lol.

[@ryanbmx5]

I have the Star Wars one somewhere in a box of old LCD handhelds. I got it for Xmas one year and I'm pretty sure it came from Eckerd's or Wallgreen's (pharmacy chains in America). I kept it all these years because it's so obscure and very people have ever heard of it. Gotta love random early 90s tech.

[@Astolfo2001]

I am not surprised at the quality of this thing at all as MGA is also the company who later created Bratz.

[@stevenwhuntva]

I just really have a soft spot for consoles with proprietary interchangeable cartridges. Also thank you for pointing out that all Wizard carts can be used with all Wizard units, I could not find anything that indicated as such and I landed on this video trying to find word either way!

[@BaronOfAnarchy]

I had the Ace Ventura one. I use to pretend I it was a game boy.

[@MagicPumpkin]

I had the Game Player for Xmas as a kid, really enjoyed it, any portable LCD game was great to take on trips.

[@PixelsLtd]

I had the Grandstand Game Player, I specifically asked for it as a cheap present (£14.99 from Argos) before going on a school trip abroad, to play on the bus. I actually loved it - this was a year before I was allowed a "real" console - too expensive and I would lose it or have it stolen. Invader was semi playable, got a good deal of fun from that. Never did work out how to play Minefield though I enjoyed trying to find out. It's like Minesweeper but I'd randomly die when I thought I should have won. Always wish I could have found more games. Would have killed for the Star Wars, Mask or Power Rangers ones at the time - by the time they came out a couple of years later though, I had a real Gameboy, Game Gear and second hand Supervision lol. [Edit] wtf the logic is in the console not the carts? I feel lied to! Also RING RAIDERS!!! I forgot that was a thing! They were cool! Lol [/edit]

[@RetroSegaDev]

I had one of these! An original release :( it was indeed a poor man's Gameboy and that's why I had it... Until I got a GB a year later or two

[@thedungeondelver]

"Spanking action buttons!" - _Nostalgia Nerd, 2019_

[@Ezyasnos]

Imagine being that kid that asks for Christmas Transformers, Playmobils and a Gameboy and gets Gobots, Playbic and this.

[@bruhmoment4378]

Which would you choose: Boy, girl, child, or wizard?

[@blacksunshine7485]

Game Wizard-meet Game Genie. Game wizard? Keep it. I got a Pittbull now!

[@MrGeocidal]

I'm so glad my parents got me an actual Game Boy

[@Joe-xq3zu]

Oh god that star wars pack, I had that as a kid, I remember thinking it was the lamest thing ever. Slow unresponsive feeling controls, and gameplay that lost any sense of novelty after about five minutes. It was complete shit.

[@HeyImGaminOverHere]

I REALLY like the animations you have going on in this video. Very entertaining!

[@dtrainbcca]

Slightly related...I found these plastic dirt bike handlebars while thrifting. I thought they were interesting and assumed they were controls for a motorcycle RC. After researching the MGA logo I found on the handlebars I had no luck finding any info online so I contacted them directly. I received a call from a rep which was a pleasant surprise and relayed as much info about the item physically to her. While they have some RC's and toys for girls the rep was excited and bewildered to find they had no info on the product. Even with numbers on the toy present she could find nothing. I ended up giving it to a friend to let her son play with but still to this day I have no idea what they were used for.

[@rob9472]

I feel sorry for the kids that got these things, I should consider myself lucky to have had both a Tiger and GameGear at the time.

[@Christopher-N]

I enjoyed handhelds from Tiger, RadioShack, and one or two other lesser knowns. When you were lucky to have a little bit of money in your pocket, it was affordable entertainment.

[@vcolinc]

Very funny. I love all the disgruntled noises you make!

[@SeekerLancer]

I had a Power Rangers one as a kid. Absolutely abysmal.

[@kevin._.27]

Reminds me of the LCD PDA my uncle bought me and i used for like 2 days. It had a 0.3 MP black and white camera. Really happy i had a gameboy color.

[@briteboy6131]

I had the 3 game variant of the Star Wars one! I got it for Christmas one year (not instead of a gameboy thank god) and my brother had the Goosebumps one. I remember thinking it was cool that each cartridge had a screen, but the games were essentially the same as tiger electronic games

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

It's hilarious to think that this thing was a contemporary of the Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx.

[@MightyistheRCGamer]

I got power rangers with carrying case and I love it and works great and looks new

[@leeashleyanthony]

Nice title crawl! :D 6:16

[@Peteman81]

I'd never heard of this - nice review! I had a couple of LCD games, and a "console" would have good for the time!

[@edwardbyard6540]

I wanted a Game Boy for my 10th birthday. I got a Konami Skate or Die LCD game. I was so disappointed. In hindsight, interest rates were about 17% and my parents were struggling for money, so they did the right thing.

[@ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan]

I had one of these, but it was Goosebumps themed. I had like, 4 games for it. All of them were Goosebumps. I had forgotten all about this piece of junk. Lol. Thanks for the good memories amigo!

[@grimTales1]

This looks like a job for... Ashens/AVGN too :)

[@carpediem4887]

Tat

[@vipereas]

He have a office in the same building as Ashens so it is not impossible

[@zeikjt]

@@vipereas They've definitely worked together before and there's even an excerpt from Ashens at 3:24

[@diamondsmasher]

Thought the same as he modelled all the devices on his couch! 😂

[@zedeighty]

I have a soft spot for LCD games and the Game Wizard has intrigued me for some time. Sadly, the postage for these things often exceeds the value so I'll probably never get one. Always wondered if the carts were compatible with the game player, so thanks for clearing that up.

[@jeremyusbourne6289]

Love your videos buddy followed your channel for years. Keep up the fab work.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Oh man...nerd, I forgot about this car crash. Still better than a barcode battler!! Or the R-ZONE...Shudder...

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

cant remember which one, but one of the starwars games also got a dedicated-LCD handheld version released by MGA (probably a bunch of others of these did also)

[@oldstylegaming]

it sort of reminds me of the Dreamcast VMD. Great video :-)

[@TheRealFallenDemon]

I had the Star Wars one when I was a kid. Can't remember getting much play time out of it

[@firelightyear]

TheRealFallenDemon Atleast EA Star Wars is better than what you played.

[@agnel47]

Me: mom, I want a gameboy Mom: we have gameboy at home. Gameboy at home:

[@jaketheman091]

LOL so it’s a console range called the Game Wizard, eh? It’s cool to find out the name! I have two variations - one Goosebumps and one of The Mask. You can say my mind was blown once I found out you could play a Goosebumps cartridge on the Mask console 😂 Really happy to see a video on this :)

[@b3h8t1n]

I loves these as a kid. I had those and the tiger electronics games 😃 we lived down the street from radio shack 😎

[@triclon]

My parents bought me one, actually two, of these instead of a Gameboy when I was a kid. Had the Star Wars two pack and the sports pack. Basketball was definitely the best game out of those. Eventually they caved and got me a Gameboy as well.

[@NotMyRealName6]

Someone tell Ashens. We just found the world's first Pop Station. The criteria for Pop Stations are... 1. LCD handheld (or similar technology) with interchangeable games 2. Obvious ripoff of an actual handheld console