The WEIRDEST Handhelds

What is it about handhelds in the 90s being named after water fowl?
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Chapter Titles
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0:00 Hello and Welcome
0:30 Game.com (not a website)
1:08 The SuperVision
2:09 The Cybiko
3:17 The Gizmondo
4:29 The Select-A-Game
5:17 The Mega Duck
5:57 BanDai WonderSwan
7:14 The Digiblast
8:07 Atari Lynx
9:37 TurboXpress (Game TANK)
10:33 R-Zone XPG

[@asnowpoff]

I want the "matt talks about Kamen Rider for 8 uninterrupted minutes" cut

[@HecateEnodia]

Me too.

[@CaptainVaxinth]

Yes. This should be a video of its own.

[@raymondcorrea1]

Matt knowing about Kamen Rider ExAid gives this episode so many bonus points

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

@SHiSNO :)

[@eldaritch]

we need a unedited cut of Matt talking about Kamen Rider Ex-aid

[@villagestone8946]

Kenzi and Matt slowly shoving kamen rider bits into this show is smthing I never thought would happen, but I'm glad it's here

[@EricM-Prime]

I can't be the only one who wants that 8 minutes of Kamen Rider, right?

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

celebrating today bc I finally got them to talk about Kamen Rider on This Is :D!

[@thisis]

you WOT

[@kittyfries915]

Didn't even read the comments yet, when the wondersawn came up i was like "lemme guess they're probably going to bring up that it made a cameo in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid"

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

@@kittyfries915 what better way to establish the backstory of how he became a gamer AND a doctor

[@Mochi_Wan]

Nice

[@joshuawoodbridge6267]

Super Sentai is better :P 😂😂

[@iMoevious]

I need video of Matt talks about Kamen Rider for 8 uninterrupted minutes

[@facundopetrolo1999]

That Ergheiz "cool" sound is unmistakable

[@Fr3ud]

Love when Kyle comes thru with the facts bro

[@wargreysama]

I'm happy that Matt is ONE OF US.

[@wargreysama]

Okay, Kamen Rider Belt reviews when?

[@JesseJuarezz12]

Never thought I’ll ever hear him say Kamen Rider like holy moly

[@wargreysama]

@@JesseJuarezz12 That was truly unexpected indeed.

[@asdfrozen]

IMO the main (and possibly only) notable thing about the WonderSwan is that it was created by the same person who created the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi.

[@TheFlyingHernie]

My brother had the Turbo Express (with TV tuner) when we were young....I was low key jealous. That thing was super cool!

[@Antarsan]

I need those 8 minutes of Matt talking about Ex-Aid, where do I send money?

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

send me all your gashats

[@jordangulfin]

I’m sure it’s been said many times, but I just want to thank This Is for throwing the THPS character select screen music into rotation. It’s a good vibe 🤙🏾

[@AronFromThisIs]

It's a bop

[@ThatuanGai]

My favorite part of this video were the subtitles. Matt had his name every time but Austin was "Man With Glasses". Glorious.

[@PrimeKPhotography]

I remember seeing this when I was young! I remember that anything with button layouts that werent conventional were cool and thought this thing was pretty awesome! Never got a Cybiko though

[@DarrelDelfin]

Damn, I can't believe Austin didn't care about the Kamen Rider lore drop. Disappointed. Massive L. 😔 Matt though, is an absolute king for that. Massive W. 💪🏽

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

yea i've basically been holding Matt at gunpoint and he finally caved and watched a few episodes of OOO and 1971 ... i guess in hopes of understanding what i'm talking about at any time also hey i know you from twitter, i didn't know you watch This is!

[@DarrelDelfin]

@@KinseyFromThisIs Hahah Y'all keep me company on long drives. Love all the content! ☺️

[@shawnjb1989]

Does anyone remember Skannerz, it was like a monster fighting one hander like digimon digivice or Pocket Pikachu, the gimmick was it had in IR scanner where you went around scanning the upc codes and fight evil monsters and turn ‘em friendly and then add them onto your pocket monster team, the premise of this was there were different colors and shapes of scanners all corresponding to different alien factions and you could fight your team against your friends by scanning each other’s IR blaster. This was back in the days of the gameboy color so it had a tiny 2 inch screen and obviously no wifi, but I enjoyed it, it would be fun to see that come back on something like the switch, or I guess Pokémon Go was pretty close to it idk I never got on that train.

[@KyanbuXM]

I miss it, was such a neat idea. Wish it didn't die quite as hard as it did.

[@nicholaskrupa6259]

Did you guys cover the Sega nomad? My brother had that, and it was basically the same idea as the turbo Express, which we never had but had the turbo grafix 16, also had the game gear with TV tuner lol

[@Wimmle]

That intro was so on point for This Is

[@DemonGhostX]

Yet again the Neo Geo Pocket Color, the greatest handheld of its generation, getting absolutely no love. It had a built-in microswitched joystick and had not one but TWO Metal Slug games for it. How badass is that? It needs to be included in the next video!

[@EB01]

The clicky joysticks make the Neo Geo Pocket handhelds such a unique experience.

[@Z64bit]

Ok so it was good but how weird was it?

[@EB01]

@@Z64bit Hard to say. I don't recall any Neo Geo cabinet having the clicky stick - could have been worn down but the Neo Geo cabinets in NZ were often more DIY than anything official. I don't think that any had clicky sticks. For NGP Metal Slug it felt perfect. The stick had a good "click" in it and it felt very satisfying in general. Like I wish I could have a fidget toy of it (but not a real NGP stick as I don't want to wear out an OG part). IMO it would be hard to put a clicky stick on a modern handheld, except maybe as a replacement for the D-Pad (i.e. have an analog stick and a clicky stick on Left). As for weird. There would be an oddness to use it for any game used to an analog stick over micro-switches. Edit: Oh and it's out of the park better than the shallow feeling sticks like on the PSP (I think that NGP clicky stick better than the 3DS Circle Pad).At the time it would have been the absolute best "stick" on any portable.

[@Chrish1981]

Freedom units is now the official currency lol awesome

[@Itachi0609]

I agree 100000% with Austin the Lynx is an amazing system. My stepdad gave me his.

[@Hyena_Tron]

I can’t imagine listening to Matt infodump about Kamen Rider and then saying you didn’t need to know all that, what else is there more important than video gamer doctors and Kamen riders?

[@MRTuning704]

I had a cybiko lol my mom won it in a box of junk on eBay I remember it had a doom clone on it and it was the only thing good on it

[@sloppynyuszi]

I had the PC engine GT and played a lot of two button street fighter on it (the only way to play it in my opinion, you want to use the start button to switch between kick and punch). It wasn’t that big, and compared to the game gear the screen was really crisp and not washed out at all. Who ever threw in China Warrior in the package for me was cruel. 😢

[@Tagiau]

Does it count if I turn on the amphitheater effect in windows? I feel like that's close enough to be a clean pirate and not a filthy one.

[@BrentM11]

So uh, where's our uncut version with the Kamen Rider discussion.

[@officialmilhouse]

When listening to this in 'audiobook' mode, matt sounds like the parrot from Aladdin 😂😂

[@JasonMetzger8898]

Watching TV on the go is the reason I bought the LG vu, best phone on the market at the time

[@Logan.]

Legends of the hidden temple…. That show was dope AF😂

[@wobedraggled]

TurboExpress and Lynx were so amazing, as long as you were near an outlet... or had fee use of the car cigarette lighter port.

[@sloppynyuszi]

Not sure what your dad was like, but mine was pretty pissed when the car wouldn’t start

[@payhemseht]

>look at that d-pad I can't, it's not on screen anymore. Maybe have a little window somewhere with the things you're talking about?

[@BalloonDog289]

Can you review the leapfrog handheld

[@anon_y_mousse]

I remember seeing the ads for all but two of these in the Sears Wish Book and fantasizing about them but never getting them. However, I don't think that the CDAB layout is weird for that Tiger handheld since now we've got XYAB and YXBA. No, the weird layout there is with having an on and off button on opposite sides of that row of buttons, start *and* select *and* pause, with pause being next to off, which just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

[@erinlefevre1]

Has anyone ever noticed the subtitles don't say their names? They say "matt" and "man with glasses" lmao

[@Makerr8]

There needs to be a ranking of the best pocket pet devices. Something like Tomagachis, Digimon, the pocket pikachu from G/S, etc..

[@dextersbeard3472]

Correction* every kid wanted a portable TV as a kid back in the 90s. Even now everyone watches youtube and streaming apps from their smartphone, how is that not the same as watching portible TV. Also i dont think portable TV had anything to do with the Turbografx handheld failing. Turbografx in general was not marketing very well in the US vompared to Nintendo and Sega. It is a great console though

[@NoNamicekk]

6:57 how could I forget the name of this song?

[@poletooke4691]

8:42 goddamn it. ok that got me lmaooo

[@Lakotashunkaha]

More Kinsey!

[@TheH0lyHamster]

ALL MIGHTY KYLE HAS RETURNED!!!

[@niall0423]

The DIGIBLAAASSST!! 😂

[@joshuawaldrop7979]

That THPS main menu track going very hard.

[@williamlau762]

The DIGIBLAST will now be repeated constantly in my mind.

[@denzelrobinson5512]

The Cybiko looked like the Skwak Pad from Cyberchase 😆

[@itsdeonlol]

That hat Matt LMAO!!!

[@thumbtak123]

The Mega Duck was for markets where game systems could not be imported, from my understanding. You might want to look into the history. It is interesting.

[@Tagiau]

That's where it ended up being mainly sold, but it was intended to be a gameboy competitor worldwide.

[@Galvamel]

You totally forgot the greatest handheld of all time the Milton Bradley Microvision!!!!!

[@benjamingonzales1174]

Sticky Balls 😂☠

[@carltonleboss]

Good to see Kyle come back

[@BradTech.]

"Tanky Boy"

[@zombl337og]

crazy how i only knew half of these and i love tech

[@RaineyRetro]

Me and my sister had the blue cybiko...Im subscribing just because yall mentioned it

[@josephferrel3413]

Some very interesting handhelds.

[@dylanwhitmire7433]

Shout out to the tiny Mike Stoklasa Flossing

[@poletooke4691]

7:22 she thought she was safe, but NOOOO! THE DIGIBLAST!!!!

[@aidsmaster69420]

Shout out the editor good job m8

[@trstmeimadctr]

Yo, where do I got to hear Matt talk about Kamen Rider for 8 uninterrupted minutes and how much do I have to pay?

[@mummymon]

The Watara Supervision had a larger screen than the Game Boy and could also connect to the TV

[@creauspssrb627]

Oh wow a kamen rider reference in this is Also didn't know matt watcjes kamen rider, ex-aid is kino stuff

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

matt has watched four episodes of OOO bc I said that was my favorite one 😂

[@creauspssrb627]

@@KinseyFromThisIs gee even 000 one of the best TAJADORRRRRR

[@KinseyFromThisIs]

@@creauspssrb627 TAJADOR GOATED

[@ChrisLincoln]

I still have both models of Cybiko, though I don't have the charger for the original and those batteries are cooked

[@HowardVangorder]

please tell me you removed the batteries before they caused damage

[@erronr]

Matt, I still want to know where that shirt is from!

[@speedwaynutt]

10:38 The worst thing about this product is the Batman and Robin film. Nobody needs to be reminded about that train wreck of a film.

[@thefacelessgamer2641]

You forgot the interchangeable game Child

[@AutoYoung]

I had a blue Cybiko back in the day

[@KingZayre]

kamen rider ex aid?! "Ill clear this with no continues!" Dai Henshin!

[@Shunbound]

The only thing that kinda made me switch to my phone for YT was Premium. I hate ads. Mostly use shorts on mobile nowadays. Long form vids I watch mainly on my computer.

[@BrianCarmien]

What are the best and worst DIY handheld consoles?

[@cgwworldministries83]

wtf I was watching this video on a projector on the outside of my RV as I was getting ready to go camping... how did you know?!?

[@key099able]

Give us Kamen Rider cut

[@lordandythegreat]

The intro was so cringe💀

[@carltonleboss]

Welcome to the channel

[@alexmorrow3750]

Yup

[@ikhoonyejelem2967]

That's these two for ya

[@lordandythegreat]

@@Marlin30as bruh💀

[@paulcarmi8130]

@@Marlin30as you know good and goddamn well that’s not true. Stop lying.

[@zombl337og]

whered u get that oversized hat?

[@matthewjbauer1990]

What about the Game Child?

[@SquishySenpai]

I'm pretty sure the MP3 cartridge mentioned early in the video was the same idea as the one on the Handspring Visor. It added MP3 playback capability and had just enough storage to hold like 10 songs.

[@cordelldawhare3854]

7:02 let the man speak!

[@Allen-hb2th]

I need to hear those 8 minutes of kamen rider facts

[@The2KXperience]

I know it's a longshot but I've been trying for the longest time to find the song that is referenced at 8:46 and if anyone knows the name I'd love you forever.

[@Grasshole]

That’s the first note of the Ultra Instinct theme

[@mqaisataloss.5951]

Oh man I still got my mega duck its like a tank just keeps going

[@rob2257]

How are you ducking cease and desist orders for using the Powerpuff Girls music? Lol

[@NerdyMeathead]

The Cybiko also used to be able to hack garage doors

[@Ian99_]

7:02 good to know there's another weeb at austin evans other than ken

[@caeberos2819]

You should have taken just one moment to mention the marboro branded lynx, people should know

[@SirMegaManNeoX]

"THE DIGIBLAST!!!"

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

The Gameboy always ruled for two simple reasons a) it had great games and b) you can play for hours and hours on a 4 double A's. That was the single biggest problem I think with 99.9% of every competitor. Either less good games and far fewer or absolutely crap battery life.

[@Splackavellie85]

Not only that, but it exemplified the “it just works” mantra, and for the lowest cost of entry in the market. The Game Gear was a good competitor, but it notoriously had failing audio output after a while.

[@nikkihendrix1234]

Adata uses the branding XPG in their tech products like ram and SSD’s

[@danmcgee6992]

lol I used to watch tv on my Sega Gamegear all the time

[@belababus3776]

Kamen Rider reference!!!!

[@samwalker8893]

Had FOUR cybikos. You could side load pokemon onto it

[@TheLoneGunman.]

My body contains the best handheld game.

[@southernpanda33]

The Atari lynx was amazing for the time.

[@Retrogames765]

Except for power consumption was bad

[@southernpanda33]

But when it came out, it was still amazing for the time. Power consumption was bad everywhere back then.

[@TheZoenGaming]

I still have my Atari Lynx. It was great for hour long drives to see relatives on holiday weekends. Edit: And it still works! LOL My first gameboy stopped working decades ago.

[@piri75]

Mine works as well, ah, the good times!

[@AxiomTheory]

A couple fortnight's? That's around three quarters of the February's I've ever lived through

[@dwighttuggle]

Hahahhahahahha What in the MC Escher?

[@tkdtigre1989]

Please let us have the "matt talks about Kamen rider" clip. Please!!

[@andrewvara96]

The Archos gamepad

[@Wagonball_Z]

i had the watari when i was a kid.

[@nickalotdegit]

How many controllers got annihilated to make the monstrosity in the thumbnail? ;)

[@stephenrypkema3186]

The cybiko gave me flashbacks to 15 year old me creating an eBay account. Just to buy this. Was not as cool once you got it.

[@RogueEgo55]

10:33 me whos watching on my hacked new 3ds xl