The Most Obscure Console Ever: The Nuon - Rare Obscure or Retro - Rerez

[@LGR]

Awesome to finally see this video come to fruition! Been waiting ever since you mentioned you'd run into a Nuon, really cool to see a nice in-depth video on this oddity. Happy to have helped a little with getting some of the games for it!

[@rerez]

You da man Lazy Game Reviews! :D

[@mattsworld7943]

I managed to get one of the American consoles a while back, purely for the Jeff Minter stuff. Such a limited amount of games and way ahead of its time. Only now are they embedding console quality gaming abilities into TV's

[@saturnrobinson5057]

Must... control...urge to squeal like a fangirl.

[@billant2]

Around 2000 there were quite a few flops from various upstarts... they all had one thing in common, they were based on optical disk technology (CD/DVD) trying to break into the large consumer market... some made it, other have flopped. At 8.47 he said Free Fall 350 AD hmmm. it should be 3050 AD ??

[@solarstrike33]

LGR It’s also worth noting that FreeFall 3050 AD also got a mail-order exclusive PC release in 2003 until lately. It was recently also put on Steam as of December (2018).

[@mineboom7377]

6:33 Oh my gosh. Merlin Racing is a Rascal Racers port. Someone get Caddy! This cannot go unseen!

[@Exospray]

Given this one seems more advanced I think this was the original, then when the system flopped they ported sliced up bits of it to the PS1

[@washyourmouthoutwithpope1334]

i thought I recognised it from somewhere!!

[@MissBarker93]

I was wondering why it looked so familiar.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

@@Exospray Apparently it's a prequel

[@oz_jones]

Other way round

[@Caddicarus]

@ 6:30 ..... IT'S FUCKING RASCAL RACERS

[@xanderac]

Are they completely identical? Same adventure mode, single player and no saving though?

[@davidsomoza]

That makes Rascal Racers a butchered port of Merlin Racing. (RR was released after MR) without the dkr-esque overworld and other features it seems.

[@jojothebard6687]

Alex Angulo It maybe, but... STILL KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

[@WiiBlackOpsMan]

thats what i thaught

[@rerez]

Alex Angulo As far as I can tell they are not identical. There seems to be a number of changes to the game. I think it was ported to the Playstation after the Nuon.

[@mjallen1308]

That founder looks like every project he starts fails immediately.

[@crieverytim]

skeeter or Mr burns

[@JasonMontell2501]

He looks like a failed project himself

Jason Montell r/rareinsults

[@crazycrazyjake]

MusicMan lol for real, culito! No mames!

[@harryallsopp9136]

Starting with his hair in the morning

[@P0LYB1UZ]

Because of this video, i was able to recognize a Nuon at my local thrift store. The price of most of the games and the controllers has since skyrocketed due to collectors hoarding and reselling them. I wanted to genuinely thank you in this regard, as the oddity makes a great addition to my video game collection and allows me to experience Tempest 3000, which is arguably my favorite of the Tempest games that aren't the original. The original is only right on a dial.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Yup! You had to twist the puck out of it! It felt so good, though, smooth & solid.

[@Rakshasa1986]

The console failed? Looks like...*Nuon* wanted it!

[@onihaiena6152]

Mars Ba-dum tsss

[@colehouston9663]

STOOOOOOOOOOOP

[@mlnl6203]

FUCK YOUUUU

[@JohnnyThousand605]

Nicely done. =)

[@MarkySauce]

Bruh

[@obstacle1667]

Merlin Racing isn't a Nuon exclusive game, It's a renamed version of Rascal Racers on PS1.

[@blake7086]

Thank you

[@genericname3516]

I thought it was familiar... brb, watching more Caddicarus videos.

[@obscurevgm_663]

FAK DAT GAME!

[@brandonwenzel2844]

yup. saw it on Caddi's video.

[@sushiSlayr]

It's the other way around. Merlin Racing debuted in 2000; Rascal Racers was 2004.

[@KartKing4ever]

There's something about this channel that I like. Especially how the word 'subscribe' was not said once at the end of the video.

[@Insertmiddlefinger]

KartKing4ever That alone makes me want to subscribe now... Wow, there is something ironical about me wanting to subscribe after you mention it, or/and the fact that I want to subscribe now because it does NOT ask me to... Well, ill sub then, this should be good.

[@Echoesoftimelover]

Yeah, if only there wasn't any Click Here To SUBSCRIBE! To make up for it, I'd like it more.

[@cjcathead2468]

+Echoesoftimelover some times people need to help idiots like me to remember to subscribe :P

[@車食べたい]

You know whats funny about that Korean exclusive game? Its a licensed game for Crayon Shincan, and... Crayon Shinchan is a Japanese show!

[@PeiceofNick]

車食べたい Yeah, for some reason he failed to point this out.

[@reaper126]

Asian show to correct you

[@SgtTwilight]

And now Crayon Shin Chan has a South African English Dub exclusive for the 3DS. What a weird world we live in.

[@dickdiggler3234]

Imagine if there was only one game on the USA system and it based on a random Mexican show

[@michaelkeehan8094]

It's like a region-locked French game based on Thomas the Tank Engine (which is British for the 8 people who didn't know).

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

If one doesn’t exist already, I hope someone creates an emulator for this so people can play Tempest 3000.

[@zerocal76]

How about we hope no one wastes their time creating an emulator for this lol

[@NateRox]

Just Another KZbin Channel it would probably be easier to just remake the game entirely

[@richardadamson1438]

There's a emulator but it isn't that good.

[@edvance1030]

@@NateRox You know what? Tempest 3000 is already a remake of the original 1981 Tempest arcade game, so if you want to play it, get the emulator of the original arcade and the rom of the original Tempest game and have fun.

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

@@edvance1030 Or play Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar emulator.

[@marioman574]

Whenever I hear about obscure consoles like this, I always wonder what would've happen if they had been successful.

[@boyifyouboomeimaboobooonyall]

Gaming would be different.. Like very different.. Like not cool (looks down)

[@anueutsuho7425]

Alternate universe where this hit it big and there was some shitty failed console called the Playstation

[@socialjusticewarrior2316]

imagine if SEGA were still making consoles.

[@SpinoRexy733]

@@socialjusticewarrior2316 I kind of wonder how that would have changed the gaming world if Sega was doing that.

[@GameSack]

I have a friend who has a Nuon and all of the games and we were supposed to do an episode on it sometime last year. It still may happen. I haven't played the thing yet.

[@rerez]

I really want to see what the two of you make of it. I didn't have the other versions of the games, would you be able to do comparison footage to show off the various ports?

[@GameSack]

***** Maybe. That would be a good idea. I have to wait until said friend moves back out to Colorado.

[@rerez]

***** Lmao, what games did you have for it?

[@emailchrismoll]

aaaaw shit the sack just arrived to teabag

[@almostliterally593]

Do it

[@NaveedMohebbi]

Man, you know something went wrong when a port of Myst wasn't even released on the thing.

[@rerez]

If you check out Nuon-dome.com you can find out more about the library of games that never made it out. You would be surprised at what was supposed to be on the system!

[@GoodGuyPlayer2]

"What happens when a console fails so fast and so hard that nobody knew about it when it came out?" You call it the Ouya and run with the kickstarter patrons money ;P.

[@Darkest_matter]

Lool

[@garfieif8187]

Considering we all remember OUYA and it had a lifespan of a few years, I would say that you're pretty off base. A better example would be the Apple Pippin. What's a Pippin, you ask? Exactly.

[@Darkest_matter]

@@garfieif8187 i know what the pippin is

[@elephystry]

Ibraheem Productions it’s a basketball player

[@huntshowdown9834]

Pippin helped Frodo and the gang

[@lilGthePantherBoy]

I love how hes like "Mario kart" and "Diddy Kong" BUT ITS CTR

[@fencefirst2722]

Yeah it was so CTR

[@mx3fto]

Looked like a re-skinned rascal racers to me

[@coolvato10]

NGeoHP afjup

[@douglasthequilava]

@@mx3fto If Caddicarus fou d that game I'm sure he'd shoot it.

[@ElTwOJaY]

Yep its CTR

[@AcidGlow]

*That Korean console looks like a VCR..* ✅🙂

[@maustank5224]

Oh hello verified user

[@ECL28E]

That was a thing for western-made consoles in the 90s. The Philips CD-i, Panasonic 3DO, and this; as if they didn't want their consoles to look like toys, but like media-center elements. Hell, in the 70s and 80s, there were a ton of consoles that had those weird wood-panel decorations; like they're meant to be played in a log-cabin

[@mynameisleeyesitis]

@@ECL28E well that was to match the televisions at the time which had the same decorations, going back to the days when tv looked like a radio, in a wooden box but with a screen

[@donutreligion2979]

I remember seeing this at Best Buy and it was pretty hidden away with the DVD players and nowhere near the traditional game consoles. There was definitely nothing trying to push it on the market as a game console.

[@markusTegelane]

as he said, not all nuon systems can play games

[@favoritemustard3542]

@@markusTegelane it... still could have been misplaced. & I mean where do you put it? With such a limited roster...

[@ressljs]

I had one of these, and the box it came in only had a tiny area showing it's ability to play games. After it failed, I heard that NUON systems actually sold half decent, but the manufacturers kept the profits from the hardware, and VM labs (the company behind NUON) kept the profits from game sales. So when people bought them as fancy DVD players but didn't buy games for them, Samsung and Toshiba ended up getting all the money. It would also explain why the manufacturers advertised them as DVD players with extra bells and whistles, but didn't advertise that they played games.

[@heywoodjablowme1624]

Why in the world would you pick Planet of the Apes and Bedazzled over The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai??

[@kennethbosquemarinmoved1078]

It has noun features you generic dipshit

[@MoreUniqueThanMost]

But does it have Nuon features?

[@heywoodjablowme1624]

Jesus Christ guys... watch the fucking video... 3:06

[@GeoNeilUK]

Fuck you, adjective features are far better.

[@jasonmoyer]

Yeah I was kinda laughing when he said "I'm a film buff" and then didn't pick the one great movie ouf of the four with Nuon features.

[@jeffgoodnough9704]

I cannot recommend enough "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension." It starts with a heaping scoop of sci-fi camp, but has this incredible allegorical followthrough. It stars Peter Weller, actor and ballet dancer with two doctorate degrees, Jeff Goldblum, and Jon Lithgow. This movie will blow your mind.

[@vapor404]

“Obvious success of the Jaguar” that killed me you need a Netflix special

[@jessesteck8381]

Dreamcast was a pretty good console. There were just too many competitors coming out at the time and it didn't sell.

[@robertkirkpatrick3092]

I respectfully disagree. Sega had really lost the trust of most of the fans. Sony was rumoured of threatening several developers. The Dreamcast was a great system. In many ways it was ahead of its time. I think it would have been a bit closer if Sega had a dvd drive.

[@TimeWalk3r]

I thought the reason why not many developers jumped on Dreamcast was with the way they handled the Sega Saturn: forcing the console to come way earlier than expected and then dropping support very quickly. This pissed off some developers and made them stop working with SEGA.

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

It was a good console, but it didn't have many great games on it because Sega killed it too early.

[@amihartz]

Nobody is going to mention its piracy problem? Okay.

[@TheNephilimofEmpireCity]

It had such a problem with that because it was using a Windows operating system on it Windows CE to be exact and that allowed the code of the games to be ripped onto a PC and onto a bootleg disc or could be downloaded and ripped onto your own

[@Sardoshice]

“A C-Virus of some sort” 2020: *hmmmmmm*

[@nickwilliams6621]

I wonder what they mean by 'C'-Virus. Hmmmmmm lol

[@TheRealRagnarok]

That was exactly what I was thinking when I heard that, and I came to the comments to see if someone thought the same as me

[@KadenLovesGames]

It was actually a Sea Virus

[@EdElectra]

BRUHHH

[@starman1158]

8:59

[@brandonnetwork]

This was the very first Rerez video I've ever seen, back in 2014 when it came out. This and the AVGN are what got me fascinated with gaming tech, retro games, and obscure gaming stuff. So along with the "who's watching this in *insert year here*" cliché, also who else was motivated by this video too.

[@Izhen_UwU]

8:58 That C-VIRUS thing is actually pretty funny in the year 2020!

[@luigiman4255]

I owned one of these as a young kid in the early 2000s. First DVD player we owned. There was a pretty cool demo disc that came with mine along with Ballistic. There were ports of other games such Myst on the disc.

[@gaminghistory101]

This is an amazingly detailed video, Shane. Awesome job on this "documentary"!

[@rerez]

Thanks! :D

[@gaminghistory101]

You're welcome! :D

[@TomasGregovich]

The racing game looks more similar to Crash Team Racing (the menu font is exactly the same).

[@shaunburton1112]

your spot on I even recognize the maps and hud layout, early naughty dog devs me think

[@tael64]

+Shaun Burton The graphics and art style are near identical as well.

[@shaunburton1112]

pretty sure i caught a glimpse of aku aku there too, either there is a serious case of copyright infringement or there is a missing link

[@erics2004]

+TomasGregovich How could he not see this is a blatant rip off of CTR?

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

+Eric S CTR with diddy kong racing

[@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS]

Buckaroo Banzai is a great movie dude, you missed out not using that one.

[@rerez]

We'llAlwaysHave VALIS Watched it right after this video was made. Really enjoyed it, the ending theme kicks ass.

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

+Rerez Do little is also pretty good imo. Especially the Giant Fart scene!

[@z1DEv_ag]

pkd :)

[@loginregional]

I mentioned this before, but here goes, again! That theme is used on the Alex Jones Show.

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

+LOGIN Noticias That seems like it would make less people want to watch it

[@lewisplayspool]

6:14 "...that means that this Nuon system exists *seoul-ly* to play this one game." Well done man, you got me there...

[@13rrtttt13]

I had an OPPO DVD player with NUON. I didn’t know it was a “game console” until after I was looking through the manual. I bought it because it was one of the few DVD Players that had really good upscaling to HD using the NUON processor at the time. Really good player, and your video decries the “console”…never did play a game on it.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Could it play while zoomed in? I would seriously doubt that it couldn't, but I am curious... ty

[@Psyn070]

Okay, I can sort of understand picking up Planet of the Apes but you preferred Bedazzled OVER Buckaroo Banzai? Do you even know what insane masterpiece you passed up?

[@PeiceofNick]

Tom Majestic I found it werid that he would treat it as a bad movie, because its not.

[@VinderHD]

Excuse me Bedazzled is a classic ( . )( . )

[@timothyneiswander3151]

For watching a movie I will take the comedy genius of Buckaroo Banzai. For b( . )( . )bs, I prefer the hands on experience.

[@marvstevens4013]

LOL exactly what i was thinking, And the moron claims he is a movie buff

[@billvick2879]

Maybe he's a lectroid !!!

[@NexusVerbal]

Am I the only one who loled when Richard Miller's picture came up?

[@jimbo-fk4dq]

I did as well. He has a 6 or 7 head going on.

[@MikeDijital]

Hey Moe Hey Moe!!

[@tommyjohnson4855]

he looks like the type of dude who should stay away from children

[@dntlss]

Ha ha ha ha, when it gets to that point its time to shave it off @Miles Holder

[@yodagaming1007]

How can a man look both 12 and like Montgomery Burns?

[@TVisTheRetina]

I bought the later Samsung model new in 2002. I think you're the only person that considers this DVD player a 'console'. No one considered it a console when they were being sold new in stores, nor in the years after. Nuon is just a DVD chip technology format that can also load software/games. Calling it a 'console' is an extreme stretch. I guess my Android phone is a game console too then.

[@cargo_vroom9729]

It's a box with a controller that plugs into your TV and plays games, that's what console means. I'd call an android device that also meets those criteria a console too.

[@KOT_AMV]

@@cargo_vroom9729 exactly, we do call the OUYA a console after all.

[@mukiex4413]

One thing missed in this video: The Nuon, in DVD playback, could zoom 50x with bilinear filtering on a DVD. It was the ONLY player at the time that had good, fast, smooth zooming playback. In that regard it was actually a really good DVD player.

[@marcush4741]

I HAD THAT DVD PLAYER AND DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHAT IT WAS!!!!

[@Edwin6264.]

WTF

[@mikerutledge2847]

Ummm wtf

[@channel5980]

bruh

[@niche8137]

*Please* tell me you still have it, lol.

[@salozmen29]

Genius!! A DVD player and video game console.........oh wait, PS2.

[@thisnamehaschangedthanksto8185]

+salozmen29 it was released before the ps2, so you could say it was an innovative idea. on the other hand, PS2 was more of a gaming console with a DVD player feature on it, whereas Nuon was more of a DVD player with a gaming console feature on it.

[@walterflanagan9674]

@@jasonlee7816 True but every console has shitty things about them tbh.

[@walterflanagan9674]

@@jasonlee7816 I love Xbox tho not gonna lie.

[@Darkest_matter]

@@jasonlee7816 meh.. i liked my xbox butps2 was good too

[@jasonlee7816]

@ Walter Flanagan name some consoles that have features you dislike

[@mspenrice]

:-o How... how did you do a review of the Nuon system ... without saying Word One about the light synthesiser that loads when you put an audio CD into it? It was specially programmed by Jeff Minter (the lead guy on Tempest 2000 & 3000, and maker of something similar for the Jag even - which Sony then ripped off for some early versions of the PSX) and is apparently one of the best audio visualisers going outside of the legendary Winamp one... Seriously, I was expecting there to be SOME footage or mention of it...

[@md_vandenberg]

Because when I buy a game console, I want it to have a sweet CD-Audio visualizer. Guy, Shane didn't even make mention of the PlayStation 2 _once_ in this video, the Nuon's direct "competitor". Thoroughness wasn't on his to-do list.

[@hjalfi]

Jeff Minter also did the light synthesiser for a few other systems, including the XBox 360, which (IIRC) you could fly manually with up to four different controllers, each one operating a different aspect of the visualisation. ...I heard about the Nuon from his blog, which he thought was really interesting; it was this weird DSP-like system, and T3K used all kinds of pixel-shader-like effects in an era that predated pixel shaders. I was sad it died so hard, although looking at the other games it was probably a blessing. Jeff Minter also worked on Polybius.

[@edgardeitz2784]

Is this the _same_ Jeff Minter who was the leader of a programming group called "Llamasoft", which produced great, trippy looking games for the "Commodore 64" and other systems?

[@mspenrice]

@@NintendoDude888... It's a figure of speech, not an actual piece of software. And "most" don't matter here, it's a presented video where you'd think the author may have done a little more research and know more about the subject than some randomer.

[@mspenrice]

@@md_vandenberg so are you agreeing with me or trying to debate? I can't tell. My complaint after all was about the seeming lack of detail in the coverage. Also its not really "not being thorough" as outright skipping one of the machine's barely-secondary selling points, because it wasn't a games console primarily. It was a DVD and CD player that could also play games, and run bespoke software in general (the synth being a good built in demonstration of that). Or would have if anyone (other than Jeff) ever wrote anything for it. The PSX also had a half decent lightsynth in it, and the JagCD, probably others too. They were a moderately common and cool thing to have at the time, especially with CDs being by far and away the main music distribution format (the Nuon may or may not have been mp3 compatible... Not sure either way but certainly not guaranteed, and if so they would still have been read from CDR). If you're going to play music through a thing connected to your TV, and particularly if you might not have any separate speakers, may as well have something interesting on the screen that also prevents burn-in. Also the period of Winamp visualiser becoming a popular thing, Microsoft adding one to Media Player, etc, after they had an initial flush of popularity in DOS instead.

[@ItsaDogandGame]

you know I'm in south korea...looks like i'll have to do some hunting for that... uh... "gem"

[@rerez]

You should find it! The Nuon should be bundled with a Korean film of some sort. Plus, you can reveal how that game is!

[@benjaminwessel5290]

ItsaDogandGame nicee

[@1dyingwish]

Shin Chan is a hilarious animie, might be worth it.

[@ultra6466]

The Shin Chan game looks badass too.

[@joshuaturner2803]

I've been playing video games since the 70s and I never heard of this system of day of my Life thank you for sharing is history

[@larrymoody4054]

I actually owned this system all we did is play Tempest and watch DVDs on it

[@devilmikey00]

Honestly freefalls opening cutscene was pretty impressive looking for the time. Really showed what this COULD have done, possibly. That said once you actually started trying to play it looked awful ;p

[@brandon9271]

there was a 9th game created called 'smash the Nuon with a hammer!' It was region free ;)

[@aronflaviol]

it took me too long to get it

[@brandon9271]

Aron Flavio Luciano you must really like Tempest! Lol

[@aronflaviol]

brandon9271 not a native speaker. And i also dont know what you mean by that i really like the tempest

[@brandon9271]

+Aron Flavio Luciano i mean that must like Tempest a lot since its the only game worth playing on this console :)

[@aronflaviol]

brandon9271 ok. haha

[@jordanWAH]

awww, buckaroo bonzai should have been the only choice! the movie is psychotic. it bombed on release. obscure cult following, sure , but I love it!

[@josecochez]

crazy flick LOVE IT!

[@boobio1]

buckaroo bonzai is dogshit.

[@josecochez]

remind me never to watch movies with you

[@kruks]

I'm with you here. Yes, it's a bizarre movie and hard to call "good", but the other three are uninspired Hollywood mediocrity. I'll take cult-classic level oddity over uninspired cash grabs.

[@robertdragon9478]

jordan WAH its a classic.

[@SymbolicSplenetic]

me initially: "Hmmmph....not that obscure, I heard of this thing." me after 1 min: "Oh yeah, I heard of it through watching Rerez's video in 2014"

[@stephenfiler3204]

Same lol

[@chickenvasquez78]

"Cuz she's a (dun dun) 20th century Fox!" -Jim Morrison / The Doors

[@TheLastLineLive]

You are wrong about the 3d0 being a bad idea. It is true that the hardware manufacturers got the shaft, but the competition and standard specs between them ensured the price would drop as manufacturing costs did rather than based on when the sole manufacturer wanted to. This actually allowed the system to dive in price quickly, it was about half of what it was at the original $699 launch price within a year. Also the license fees and development kits were inexpensive and didn't have the regulation issues of Nintendo and Sega consoles, while this did lead to a lot of shovelware, it also lead to some great exclusive games. Basically it was in between PC and console, standardized specs and ease of consoles, market competition for both consumers and developers of PC. The idea itself is great, the execution may be questionable though I don't think that was much of an issue, the upcoming Saturn and PlayStation was more of a problem than the way the console itself was executed.

[@rerez]

downphoenix Yeah, I probably should have said the execution was more of an issue rather than the idea itself being outright bad.

[@Taupe__]

I also I believe the reason for the 3do being made was that Panasonic wondered why there where so many home video game consoles and they decided to make the 3do with the intention of being the console of choice the only one. But everyone knows what happened to the 3do

[@richongaming]

downphoenix Yep, I owned a 3DO. Unlike a lot of people I actually enjoyed it...then again i got the system for $20 and the games for $5 each during clearance. There were some real gems in there.

[@LeSarthois]

downphoenix I think he said the marketing scheme was a bad idea, not the system itself. And if there was good ideas in it, there was some flaws as well. As you mentionned, the licencing fees and tools were inexpensive and there was no quality control. While it was a nice idea to see different things coming on a console, it also overloaded the 3DO library with utter crap (and I don't mean it from "mouth to ear", but actual, factual experience with the system). It would have been wise for Panasonic and/or the 3DO company to create a quality label ensuring consumers they would buy something great and not some cheap digital mess. Indeed, the Playstation coming out nailed the fate of the 3DO more surely than the flaws in it's marketing scheme. Tho, it did helped things, as Sony, while checking the games for approval before release (at least in the beginning, for example delaying the release of Rayman because it was a 2D game and they wanted to push 3D games first - that's history for you, Rayman was actually submitted first on the Playstation, but as Atari had nothing to release for the Jaguar on one hand and Sony had delayed Rayman to release other games first, the Jaguar version was officially released first) allowed more various games than Sega and Nintendo ever did. They also kinda ended the "European segregation" in that games were now more often directly imported from Japan and not from America, and for the most violent, they were cencored (or not) for each country rather than on a whole scale. You can see a fine example in Resident Evil Director's Cut: the French and German version have the original, uncensored color FMV intro of the Japanese version, when the other European version keep the censored B&W one (tho, it was announced with the original FMV even in NA, so... it's probably a mistake from Capcom on this part, but it still mean that someone at Capcom or Sony France and Germnay was able to communicate with their Japanese counterpart directly, something that would almost never happen before.) It's likely that this scheme of marketing from Sony was pulled out from the 3DO, refined to fix it's most obvious failures and adapt to the more traditionnal "console maker-game publisher" scheme.

[@TheLastLineLive]

LeSarthois Yea, I'm sure Sony borrowed some ideas from the 3D0 and improved on it. It is a shame the M2 never came to be, it was significantly more powerful than the other consoles of the time and was able to put out some pretty impressive graphics, somewhere in between the N64 and Dreamcast for 1996, not bad. 'Course it never came to be, 3D0 couldn't make the funding, etc. happen so they just did game development instead.

[@ivo5486]

Somewhere sometime Caddicarus shudders at the mention of Merlin Racers, better known as Rascal Racers.

[@urktheturtle2988]

Is... is Merlin Racing.... Rascal Racers?

[@hogsuckeraccountreal]

Thats what I thought

[@timseeger9180]

Yes and they are both shit

[@Dalekzilla54]

+Night Clone Oh god, someone get Caddicarus onto this, pronto!

[@scottcowan7343]

it is exactly rascal racers, and miracle space race, and atv racers, ah telegames.

[@petejohnson4568]

+Night Clone "I DON'T THINK I WANTED TO PLAY AS BOAT!" -Caddicarus

[@francobuhay9604]

The disrespect for Buckaroo Banzai is unacceptable.

[@vitradesk]

6:16 missed opportunity to say “this one game exists SEOULE-y in South Korea”

[@johnspahn420]

Did not get Buckroo Banzai? Epic fail

[@PeiceofNick]

John Spahn Yeah, why would he think the movie was bad?

[@llYossarian]

@david burrus He even said he's "...kind of a movie buff" only a couple minutes after dismissing Buckaroo Banzai like some kind of straight-to-video trash.

[@jimbob3286]

@@NintendoDude888 >says the guy who posts the same thing three times *sips gingerale

[@desmondsanchez6059]

Buckeroo is the only good movie he named lol

[@beeeater4875]

@@jimbob3286 lol i thought he was fucking jokin wtf.

[@mattgam3r686]

Well, the dream cast was awesome

[@rerez]

It was! Easily one of my all time favourite video gam systems.

[@noneedforname7520]

+Rerez *game Jk, Sorry, pLEASe dONt KIll Me!

[@alexshek168]

I love dreamcast, what happened to it?

[@mattgam3r686]

the playstation 2 crushed it

[@alexshek168]

Come on, Sega had to let it happen. Dreamcast had way more games than PS2 in the beginning.

[@hard4games]

Great episode! Now I'm going to keep an eye out for this thing at my local thrift shops!

[@vibri_]

There's a reason the PS2 did as well as it did. It was a good DVD player AND a good console.

[@fadorka]

Damn Richard's hair cut is lit af

[@ryanamberger]

I need to get me a nuon emulator. These titles look like real hits.

[@billgarcey8635]

+Ryan Amberger www.nuon-dome.com/

[@nguy1128]

+esrever holy mother of godly nuon SHYTE

[@TheOldKing1998]

Merlin Racing isn't exclusive. It's literally just rascal racers for the playstation.

[@Takimeko]

Rascal Racers didn't have a adventure mode.

[@Teddy_Bear312]

Rascal came out 4 years later

[@MissBarker93]

Merlin Racing looks eerily similar to Rascal Racers for the PS1.

[@Jacob_Kuschel]

Yeah! Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed!

[@Jacob_Kuschel]

***** Interesting. I guess you learn something new everyday! :)

[@jimvw2147]

srbarkerchan cyoar!

[@SneedyKetler]

The idea of a system behind some of the staff behind both the Atari Jaguar and the 3DO sounds like something special until you wonder what group of employees they were.

[@SsnakeBite]

Only recently discovered this channel (well, I did hear about it before but never check it until a couple weeks ago) and working my way through the archive. I really love this episode. It's amazing that this thing exists and failed so spectacularly that only 8 games exist. Even some of the most abject commercial failure in game consoles history usually managed about 50 games or so. And the fact that one of them is region locked and another one requires a third-party controller to work properly is just incredible.

[@hitkid2456]

Yup, like Virtual Boy and 32X both had a middling library, but still more than nothing and some pretty surprising titles like Jack Bros. But this baby, it was like it was ethereal. For this, I can only think of Gizmondo which actual crime was involved with!

[@GameplayandTalk]

Excellent video! I didn't expect it to be as in-depth as it was, considering how obscure the NUON was. As a fan of the Jaguar back in the day (thank you, Tempest 2000!), I was actually pretty stoked for the NUON (thank you, Tempest 3000!). I got one not too long after its release when you could still get it at Best Buy in 2000. Unfortunately, despite it being a solid DVD player (I had the Toshiba SD-2300 model), it was pretty lackluster. Yeah, I enjoyed a couple of the games (Tempest 3K and Iron Soldier 3 mainly, the later I had to mail in for), but most of them were simply average at best or simply done better elsewhere. Other cool looking games like aMaze or a port of Pitfall: the Mayan Adventure (which would have had the potential to be the best home version) never surfaced, which didn't really help the platform at all (actually, they might not have helped anyway). On a side note, to add to your "..Was also released on PlayStation" argument, Space Invaders XL, from what I can tell, is basically the same game as one of the classic Space Invaders releases for the PS1 in Japan (the import, not the US remake published by Activision). Likewise, the same game was released on the Saturn in Japan. These weren't known as "Space Invaders XL", but looking at screen shots you can pretty much tell they are the same thing. They even have the same versus modes. Actually, even the SNES version of Space Invaders had this too (minus the added music from a variety of Taito games).

[@rerez]

I think you are right about Space Invaders. It was just so hard to find info on some of the Nuon games!

[@eddygoombah]

Buckaroo Bonzai is not an unwanted film. It rocks.

[@terminaldeity]

+eddygoombah I watched it like a month ago. And it indeed rocked.

[@streetwithoutjoy]

+eddygoombah ABSOLUTELY AGREE.

[@pferreira1983]

+eddygoombah Great movie.

[@loginregional]

The "ocarina" outro is used almost daily on Alex Jones' show.

[@muddyduck64]

I have you beat on this one. The RDI HALCYON was only available through mail-order and never retail. There was only 12 ever made, and it ONLY HAD 2 GAMES EVER RELEASED.... period.... no other games were even compatible. Of those two games, both were { get this } laserdisc.... not truly interactive. It had speech recognition that couldn't recognize anything you said and since the only two games it had { Thayer's Quest, NFL Raiders vs. Chargers } were not truly interactive- controller was a hit and miss that never got it right.Another thing - this console was a laserdisc player { { LASERDISC!! wholly crap batman } } it was limited.... even when it was released in '86. Didn't help that it was ------ 2500 at its release { 2,500 !!! } and people still think the Neo Geo was expensive.

[@muddyduck64]

+Johnnie Reddcloud By the way... Thayer's Quest was ported over to a number of systems { much notably the pc- } as was that horrible football game { which was just clips of real games } .... so that meant that the system had NO exclusive games AT ALL.... sad, really.

[@theonlyrealcdub]

Johnnie Reddcloud interesting. thanks for the information.

[@kruks]

I was going to make the comment that the title of the video was a bit click baity, and the Halcyon was the example I was going to give too, haha. There's plenty of other very obscure consoles though. If anything, Nuon is a little less obscure than many because of Tempest. Probably a lot of Tempest 2000 fans found the Nuon DVD player wondering about Tempest 3000.

[@steveandrade3477]

The only good thing about Bedazzled was Elizabeth Hurley saying "I've been naughty". Kept that on loop for a half an hour.

[@otaking3582]

"Unwanted films"?! Buckaroo Banzai might've not been a commercial success, but it still has a strong cult following!

[@EpsilonBiatch]

tfw the only good game for your platform gives people epileptic seizures.

[@MoonLight-ub1vs]

Epsilon yessss

[@davidschreiber4961]

nope

[@blaquenoise]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai cult classic.

[@PeiceofNick]

Chad_803_to_401 And yet for some reason, he thinks its a bad movie

[@SgtTwilight]

@@PeiceofNick Opinions, man I didn't think the movie was very good either, to be honest. Felt like it was trying to hard to become a cult franchise and not a fun movie.

[@Berrrb]

Merlin Racing looks like the poor man's version of CTR

[@ShinySephiroth1]

That's exactly what I thought. It looks very similar.

[@Zance21]

+TheBerb9 It's actually a sort of clone to Rascal Racers.

[@Snandra66]

+supervideoperson First thing I thought when I saw the footage.

[@litoskin]

it's not a clone of rascal racer for psx !! . Rascal racer was made by the same team(miracle design) some time after merlin racing. Because the Nuon was much more powerful than psx and it uses a dvd format...the original game for nuon was divided in 3 parts (one with kart ,one with boat, and one with space ships)and ported to psx.

[@grproteus]

9:00 ".... a C-virus of some sort".... DUDE!

[@Siara87]

At least now we know what have to be done, move up guys.

[@NiteGrite]

they were ahead of their time

[@redstone0234]

Fun Fact: Nuon inspired the DVD play back functionality on the PS2

[@Takato2527]

The Nuon release date: July 2000 PS2 release date: March 2000 let that sink in

[@awesomebluetoad8945]

And the Dreamcast!

[@JourneyStudiosisawesome]

You didn't need The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai? That movie was one of the best Sci-fi movies of all time! Yes the movie was a commercial flop but it was a Sci-fi comedy. Something not yet famous untill SpaceBalls.

[@rerez]

I saw it after I made this video. Honestly, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. The DVD also had quite the price on it!

[@PeiceofNick]

Rerez Yeah, its a good movie.

[@elcocho1568]

You're so underrated Rerez. Love your vids man.

[@rerez]

Thanks! :)

[@ErnestJay88]

The only info i knew about Nuon system are half page article on video game magazine back in 2001 call it "an interactive DVD player"

[@theformerkaiser9391]

It’s a crime that Tempest 3000 is relegated to only the Nuon, at least Tempest 2000 was ported to other consoles in the form of Tempest X3.

[@WH250398]

Racing game looks like a port of Rascal Racers

[@Casketkrusher_]

WH250398 Crash Team Racing more like.

[@kismartin1912]

WH250398 Caddicarus TRIGGERED

[@famoussession7426]

Rascal racers but with a story

[@hazatheonly]

a port of a terrible game with a horrible story tacked on. I imagine because ctr had one

[@thegamingconnoisseur4151]

ahaha of course Clint sent him the games. they'd probably be at a good will :P

[@derekstronf1837]

That's a pretty damn good possibility

[@sheltonjacobs3618]

I was looking forward to watching this video to find out about this obscure gaming system and then he said why would anyone want to watch Buckaroo Banzai and all credibility was lost.

[@GORF_EMPIRE]

@@NintendoDude888 Repeating the same reply to multiple comment posters much?

[@ShelfWarmer]

I agree. Buckaroo Banzai is one of the greatest films ever.

[@earx23]

I got one via the post. But it was a DOA. But anyway, it's hopelessly obscure, which is more perfectly illustrated by this video than I could ever do. Well done man :)

[@JoseMartinez-jm1bu]

Thanks for posting this. Very well researched and educated review. I did see the nuon and tempest 3000 at a store but no controller. Never saw both items ever.....again.

[@shadowspider9]

The steam box is looking like it might fallow in the 3DO and Nuon's footsteps. As the steam boxes are being made by over a dozen 3rd party supplier's that won't see any money from game sales, and will be priced extremely high. True the steam box will inherently have a vast game library since it connects to steam, but I'm really not sure how well $1000 box who's only use is to connect steam to your TV, will sell.

[@seano12]

But steamboxes aren't even consoles: they're PCs. It's always cheaper to build your own PC, so nobody really bothers.

[@AnTran147]

Steam Boxes will be available in multiple configurations and price points though, so they're not all "priced extremely high".

[@shadowspider9]

An Tran The cheapest one is like $500. Not extremely high but any one not versed in tech is going to go for the PS4, and anyone who is versed in tech is going to know that $500 is extremely low grade in the tech department.

[@AmaranthOriginal]

shadowspider9 I'm not so sure about that, considering it's the boutique PC market that is still going, and their entry-level units often cost about that much. I imagine that means there's a market unsavvy and gullible enough.

[@shadowspider9]

Zachary Amaranth I have no doubt there is a market. The question is if that market is big enough to keep supporting making these?

[@queentsareena]

Merlin Racing looks like a ripoff of Crash Team Racing

[@IamPedroUK]

I thought exactly the same thing - even the adventure mode looks pretty much identical!!

[@InsaneGamersOfficial]

***** exactly what I was going to say.

[@InsaneGamersOfficial]

***** Yeah, it just won't let me reply to your comment yesterday

[@MrAmazing-xe2xz]

r4rukku Thank you, I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw the game play.

[@ChannelODaLlama]

Dillon Atkins have you paying ANY attention to the conversation

[@cbremer83]

Had one of these. Never owned a single game for it. lol

[@luisgonzalez5482]

I like how you went into the Nuon-ces of this console! Bloody hell what is wrong with me?

[@medinachete73]

I've got one of those LOGITECH controller, but mine is USB, for PC. It's great for flying, because it has a slider on top and analog control, besides the L1 and R1 buttons. Great video, congratulations.

[@flyingninja1234]

Go watch Buckaroo Banzai! It's awesome!

[@Daniel15au]

8:99 "c-virus" oh no

[@StriderOwO]

*Merlin Racing* Oh my god IT'S RASCAL RACERS AGAIN! BURN IT! BURN IT! SEND IT INTO THE FIRES OF HELL!

[@Dargonhuman]

No you fool, it was born of the Fires of Hell, sending it back will only make it stronger! We must bury it, bury it deeper than E.T. was buried and sanctify the site with the blood of 13 sacrificial lambs to seal it away for 1,476 years and 12 days, during which time its power will be weakest. Then, one of our distant descendants must take up the Holy Spindle, bless it with the holy waters of Mount Fuji and put the discs onto the spindle, thus draining the game's last remaining unholy power, after which they should crumble to dust because, crap, they're plastic discs that have been rotting in the ground for almost a millennium and a half.

[@StriderOwO]

Dargonhuman Or... y'know, we could just smash them to pieces. If it worked with Bratz: Rock Angels, it should probably work for this. Or just slaughter it. If it worked once it should probably work again. ...Wait, twice. It worked twice.

[@seventhrequiem]

stride99 no shoot it and throw both rascal and the noun into the burning house

[@theallknowingsause8940]

lol

[@douglasthequilava]

Give it the Kill Bill treatment like Caddicarus did in his Miracle Space Race video!

[@sinaay]

That one game 'Shin Chan', you guys will never know how much of a impact that cartoon had in the Netherlands

[@aaron_aj_knight_95]

Imagine buying a console to only have one game launch for it. I've heard of only buying one game for a console, but that's pretty sad.

[@ohnoitsgrey8271]

BluRay did it faster? I remember BluRay coming out and we went through 4 or 5 players to find one that could load the movie in less than 7 mins.

[@rerez]

Trust me, the special features on these DVDs feel as though your system crashed.

[@CazTheGamerGuy]

Ah, Tempest 3000, the 1000th sequel to Tempest 2000... Wonder where TxK fits in... Ah well, the Tx series always seems to have the top title for every system it comes out on, even on a system as forgotten as this.

[@ImperialDoor]

Freefall's plot is basically Crackdown.

[@brianhull2407]

I think that Merlin Racer is also on PlayStation, but under a different name and without the Adventure mode.

[@bonk2575]

My grandpa has this and untill today noone of us knew it was a console, he just used it as dvd player

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Please send Caddicarus your copy of Merlin Racing and a Nuon. Trust me, he’ll love it.

[@user-iu6xo4ob6n]

anybody else break out into hysterics when they seen the pic of richard miller?

[@maybemaybenot8112]

So you're telling me pennywise, got into gaming.

[@sodaddict]

This is a good example of the saying "show me the money" The Nuon failed cause it launched with a miniscule library of movies. If they wanted it to succeed, they had to go all out with a 100 movie library, not a literal handful.

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

The controller doesn’t even look like it goes with that black VCR-looking thing.