The WEIRDEST Consoles of All Time

[@JRChuxx]

Soul Calibur * Shenmue * Jet Grind Radio * The Typing of the Dead * Skies of Arcadia * Grandia II * Resident Evil : Code Veronica * Phantasy Star Online (especially if you get a DreamPi or broadband adapter for online play) * Metropolis Street Racer * Crazy Taxi * Sega Rally 2 (only after entering the 30 FPS lock cheat, normally the game's wildly fluctuating FPS is rough) * Sonic Adventure * Toy Commander * Chu Chu Rocket *2k sport series* *All Dreamcast bangers, ya don't know jack about that masterpiece of a system at the time*

[@tbuk8350]

I actually love the Wii U. The name was dumb, but it was a great console with a lot of great games. Also, it's one of, if not the easiest console to homebrew, and it's really powerful.

[@01020m]

Powerful?

[@TommyAgramonSeth]

@@01020m it's literally just three gamecubes stacked on top of each other

[@gatgat01]

It was great to use to emulate on my pc that was it.

[@ShadowXSAP]

Wii U had a ton of great experiences, ram smooth and very few glitches. Mostly it was a tablet for KZbin tho lol

[@zabtronics]

@@TommyAgramonSeth duct taped together and connected with GameCube controller extension cords

[@nluna75]

The laseractive also had a turbografx 16 add on which was awesome. Laserdiscs were around back in the 80s and they were awesome in sound and picture and introduced me to audio commentaries.

[@LiquidPolarity]

Yes! That's exactly what I was going to say too.

[@studiokadaver]

TG16 & PCE

[@Eliddinn]

The dreamcast was amazing, had the best arcade games

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Seriously the Dreamcast for as short of a life as it had was amazing. Saturn and PS Vita were also amazing although the barrier of entry both then and now are still rather high.

[@RodimusPrime29]

How'd you forget the Atari Jaguar & it's controller of like 20 buttons!? I remember going to some party place & playing the Bruce Lee game on that thing.

[@mac3rdc]

You forgot Ready to Rumble Boxing. First released on Dreamcast. I loved that game.

[@fragslayer]

They forgot a LOT of games but its a short vid i guess. Soul Caliber, Cruising USA, R2R ect. Plus I'd have to argue Sonic Adventure was there ONLY completely 3D success as the rest were trash.

[@robk6831]

2k and power stone alone

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

The weirdest console i had was a SNK NeoGeo pocket, i randomly picked up at a flea market. It came with three games and they were completely weird. They were like original GameBoy games, but recreated during a fever dream.

[@homermorisson9135]

Before you dunk too much on LaserDisc though, the major feature of that format was that it was actually _analog_, not digital... and that made it far superior than any of its contemporary counterparts. Plus the fact that you could actually use a _fast_ forward feature, compared to the bullcrap VHS called "fast", and had almost instantaneous chapter swap, that all made LaserDisc _the_ format of choice for many people who actually cared about visual and audio quality... but admittedly, it was sadly only really available for, if not rich, then at least rather well-off people.

[@KillRei]

The LaserDisc can be used digitally though. Also they were incorrect when they said the LD can carry less data than CD. CD carries 700 MiB of data while LD can carry 3.27 GiB (3348 MiB) of data.

[@Kushari]

Dreamcast definitely had protection, there was just a boot cd that circumvented it. Also you had to download the isos, you couldn’t rip them yourself.

[@iSamYTBackup]

and the second revision fixed the piracy problem since the way you ran games on cds on it was patched

[@TattleDelta]

And it was so successful that it stopped nobody.

[@R3AL-AIM]

OnLive TV console... Was super ahead of its time. I wanted one after playing through the PC app. Glad I never did get one, but I digress.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah on live was one of those things that I wanted and then immediately didn't. And of course Sony bought them and as far as I know did nothing with it.

[@Keepskatin]

Onlive failed the same reason Stadia, and Xbox game pass failed... Internet is not fast enough for smooth streaming gaming.

[@thelazyworkersandwich4169]

@@Keepskatin Gamepass isn't a cloud gaming service nor has it failed.. yet.....

[@Keepskatin]

@@thelazyworkersandwich4169 You are incorrect my child.

[@KillRei]

​@@KeepskatinYou're the one who is incorrect. Xbox Game Pass is actually successful as most Xbox console owner has subscription to it. Also the game streaming feature is called Xbox Cloud Gaming which is a separate service from Xbox Game Pass. Dunno how successful it is though but I imagine that it should be somewhat successful, maybe.

[@AtsukamiMusic]

I really liked the Wii U, the large gamepad made it incredibly comfortable to hold and playing DS games on it was a great experience, it's a shame they didn't continue with dual screens with the switch (Wii U style, not DS style).

[@realslimsh8y]

Wait, you could play ds games on the wii u?

[@Fetidaf]

@@realslimsh8yyou can play gran turismo on it lol

[@AdriaticTokoru]

11:19 I almost cried when I saw that you guys really hated this console, it didn't do bad like the virtual boy... it was a misunderstanding! Most people don't get it 😢

[@NiGHTSnoob]

The Dreamcast had copy protection, actually extremely good copy protection. The issue was it can read karaoke CD's and those don't have Dreamcast copy protection so it doesn't run the check for them. Someone (I actually think it was Action Replay) figured out how to make it boot games while booting into karaoke mode. It's an exploit but it doesn't truly crack the copy protection, and this meant that a lot of games had to be compressed or have elements cut out of them to fit on a CD since it's only 60% the capacity of a GD. I remember Sonic Adventure is missing some music for example.

[@frozedokkanbattle]

I literally cannot stop laughing at this video also Austin needs to bring back that mustache

[@xorkatoss]

lmao PS Vita was weird?? it was an awesome successor to the PSP! I remember back in 2013 when I was into army and everybody had "cheap" PSPs to play and kill time while there was only one "rich" guy that had the PS Vita and I once watched him play a Batman game and it was simply amazing!

[@themandalorian996]

As an owner of a PS Vita, it was actually really good. I liked it.

[@zacthegamer6145]

Especially if you jailbreak it.

[@mech____]

The Tottori Sand Dunes (鳥取砂丘, Tottori Sakyu) are large sand dunes located just outside the city center and are Tottori's most famous tourist attraction. They span roughly 16 kilometers of coast along of the Sea of Japan and are up to two kilometers wide and 50 meters high

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

A sand dune is a large, wind-blown pile of sand. Deserts have sand dunes; sand dunes aren’t deserts. The Tottori sand dunes are actually slowly shrinking because vegetation in the surrounding area are able to grow and reclaim the space.

[@TaroKunLife]

Should have included the Zeebo or the Que N64 System in a Controller thing.

[@TheBloodypete]

The thing that really confused me about the Wii U, why, whyyyyyyy, did no one make a DnD game for it? It would have been the killer app for it. Players play split screen on the TV, DM uses the controller to steer it all! Such a hugely missed opportunity, especially seeing as how DnD has exploded since!

[@MaximNightFury]

Or a remake of LoZ: Four Swords!

[@heyitstoki]

What kind of boom arms are they using to hold the mics? I'm looking for a good quality, decent priced boom arm.

[@stefanegger]

I _HAVE_ an Cheetah annihilator and two C64 GS, it is fun when the cartridge's made for the C64 say "press F1 on keyboard to start". There is even one Ocean (?) game that says "compatible with C64 GS" but needs a keyboard, so go figure. Oh, and just if you wonder, the joystick is a 3rd party and terrible, no micro switches, cheap brittle plastic and terrible feel to it.

[@shakeyoulikehaiti]

@3:48 That Austin mustache though 🤣

[@StevolutionVIII]

I must've had a VERY different Nokia Ngage (or maybe 2.0 version?)... I didn't take the battery out (didn't even take the battery COVER off) to change my games, The ear speaker was on the face of the phone like all my other cell phones.. As of a year or year and a half ago I was looking through an old box of electronics and pulled it out thinking "maybe it still works, maybe there's still replacement batteries available?". I remember getting it when Cingular Wireless still existed before they bought At&t and merged. I still own Tony Hawk, Tomb Raider, Call of Duty... LOVED that cell phone (loved Nokia in general with their near indestructible little brick phones lol).

[@LiquidPolarity]

I have Pandemonium, Tomb Raider and FIFA!

[@paulaldo9413]

That's the N-Gage QD. It was more convenient and looked a bit less stupid, but Nokia cheaped out on the buttons. The buttons were stiff and clunky, it was so bad.

[@LOTR_BTTF]

I got a Virtual Boy as a kid. The game play was so bad; I only remember playing it a few times. I don't even know what happened to it; guessing my mom got rid of it.

[@AlexSanchezber]

This is my new favorite channel

[@MSUHitman]

I was at E3 2004 & the Phantom prototype was at the show & playable.

[@AmjidMajeed]

I STILL have my Panasonic FZ-1 R·E·A·L 3DO Interactive Multiplayer which doesn't get as much use as my other consoles. Remember the classics such as Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, Return Fire, Star Control 2 and Road Rash? To name a few.

[@John_1920]

08:15 The Tottori Sand Dunes are Japan's largest desert, a 16 kilometer by 2 kilometer (9.9 x 1.2 mi) strip of sand located on the edge of Tottori City on the Sea of Japan.

[@Atropos148]

heyooo, that Harrys link doesnt work, can you please take a look at it? that offer seems very interesting

[@tbuk8350]

Can't believe they forgot about Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 in terms of S tier games on the Dreamcast.

[@ringringbananarchy]

Matt is VERY right about the PS Vita. Sony just gave up on it, really early into it's cycle. No ads, no support. It was a great system, that sold ok, but Sony just quit on it.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

They were killing it with the PS4 and just decided to cut the Vita loose. It was a short-term decision that had long-term consequences. They can never go back to the handheld market now if they ever wanted to. They burned that bridge to the ground.

[@12pandemon]

It makes me so angry about it too. The vita is one of the greatest handhelds IMO. Featuring a fairly powerful SOC for the time, with a brilliant screen, excellent controls for it's formfactor, AND thanks to it's digital library having the ability to play PS1 and PSP titles, an on launch backlog (which helped since the launch titles were kinda meh.) On top of that, it was powerful enough that we saw ports of classic PS2 and even PS3 titles! The sly cooper collection is a must have despite it's slow-downs in some sections.

[@danielmarcus420]

​@@JohnDoe-wq5euloving my Playstation portal

[@mirrakirra]

I can agree that the PsVita was a fail due to sales, but they did do a good bit with it. It got quite a lot of games. Got a lot of ports. Still has been getting updates until like early 2022. It was even almost a smartphone with the touchscreen and internet access.

[@hikkamorii]

laserdisk is literally 1970s technology, so it's not a surprise that it's so huge, it even predates both Betamax and VHS. The reason why it was commonly used for interactive ""games"" is because laserdisk was random access, and so you can really accurately locate data you need, without fast forwarding or whatever. (Yes I know that the CAV and CLV discs work differently, but that is not the point)

[@DealerofDoom]

Y'all crazy n-gage was amazing!

[@Neshabean]

bro we need love for dreamcast and it's nostalgia

[@mattbeebe1288]

guys you need to do a video about the 90's sega channel online/cable gaming set-up

[@MaximNightFury]

The Dreamcast _did_ have copy protection but the MIL-CD compatibility introduced a security hole. Revision 2 Dreamcasts actually lacked support and you couldn't just burn a CD anymore.

[@MaximNightFury]

Also the N-Gage released on a Tuesday... Taco Tuesday

[@corndog9482]

11:06 was THE best analogy for the Vita that I'll *ever* hear in my lifetime. Bravo 👌

[@cdgames69]

In fairness to the Ouya, it was a pretty decent emulation box, and is relatively inexpensive compared to some Android TVs

[@kingzach74]

I still have my OUYA and love using it for retro games as despite Austin claiming the controller sucked, it was actually a somewhat premium feel on the Kickstarter version that had a metal feel to the covers.

[@itis_fives]

That hyper scan I had was crazy. I remember playing Ben 10 and half the cards not working

[@TyGamer0426]

I don't understand why the WiiU gets so much hate, yea it had a lot of short comings but the pad was cool for the few games I played, granted I only bought it for Zelda games like WindWaker, Twilight Princess, Hyrule Warriors, and BOTW and only 3 of those games had uses for the touch pad but it was fun I had a lot of fun with it. While no one loves it I love it and charish my time with it.

[@goramiir]

panasonic 3DO?

[@jesussegura4475]

Is Austin wearing his t-shirt backwards during the Harry's add read?

[@HCoRE8]

Actually the dreamcast did have anti piracy. the games that were burned onto discs were already modified images with the autoloader on them.

[@KentuckyRanger]

I remember, when Philips CDi came out, I spent hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of dollars on it. I even purchased the expansion card, that allowed me to play movie discs! Then, I spent another $300, for the online kit. After that, I came to my senses, purchased a Sony Vaio PC, and never looked back...😂😂

[@karnige5804]

dreamcast would have survived if sega didnt decide to make most of their games. it backfired. they lost hundreds of millions and it killed the console

[@jpeg619]

I actually had the hyper scan with the X-men game! Talk about a nostalgia trip

[@scepticskeptic1663]

had a saturn and modded it with 50/60hz switch and action replay.. best 2d ever!! so many games

[@MendedPearl]

Sorry Matt but the Excuse Me Princess was from the Cartoon spot not the CD-I games

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Matt's entire experience seems to be from KZbin poops so I don't expect much.

[@carlosvence]

11:06 so true

[@joelavoie84]

I hope everyone finds something that pleases themselves as much as that Phantom pun pleased Matt.

[@jameshiggins3215]

I dm on this is on telegram it's a con my message from them under my comments is no longer showing scam and now it's deleted. Scam be careful

[@codysmith1534]

Honestly. I had a Sega Saturn as a child. It was my only console of that generation, so it is nostalgic for me personally.

[@MxrcuryYT]

God I love this channel

[@aimwell8813]

The CD-I wasn't a console. It was a multimedia device that happened to have a few games on it. I heard a story in a comments section from a CD-I youtube video saying that this person worked at a retail store that sold CD-I's, and the CD-I was almost never sold as a console.

[@hinfinity]

Dope y’all got a sponsor! I love when my fav creators get paid

[@dennett316]

7:06 , no Austin, you're very wrong about the N-Gage's abilities. Way more powerful than a Gameboy Colour or Advance, it ran ports of Tomb Raider and Tony Hawk that looked like slightly rougher versions of the PS1 games. The screen, design of the phone aspect and awful controls really killed it off right out the gate.

[@Phantom12309]

My friends had like 4 or 5 Wii’s and I love that someone finally acknowledged it

[@Ozzy242]

I didn't think the N Gage was a console but like a hand held like the GBA.

[@davidprodigy5833]

It hada million buttons

[@mat99rich]

The biggest problem with the Wii U was the marketing and misconception. Most people that weren't major into gaming didn't really know the WiiU was a completely new system. Even a lot of parents didn't know this. And since the Nintendo Consoles are more focused on a younger demographic you need to convince parents to buy the system. Most parents thought it was some kind of addition to the Wii and most of them weren't going to buy what they thought was an extra peripheral that cost more than the Wii. Nintendo really should have called it something else and I think it would have done a lot better. And the proof is the switch. And a lot of the games did well when you think of the fact the WiiU only sold 15mil and Splatoon sold 9mil they did decent the problem was that lack of sells. On the Vita the biggest thing was Japan. Since Playstation was in Japan they focused on the Japanese market with the Vita. And since Playstation of America didn't have the same enthusiasm with the Vita it got left behind. The fact that there were games releasing for the Vita last year shows how much more of a market the Vita had in Japan. And the fact most people here in America probably don't know that the vita has been having releases of games up to June of last year is even more testament to this fact. And the stupid proprietary memory card they probably should have just went with an microSD and did what they have done with the PS5 and had some kind of minimum requirement.

[@austinkoeppen6122]

The Wii U was great. It suffered from poor marketing.

[@thorodinson3597]

Yup. A simple name change to Wii 2 (or Wii²) and all the confusion would have been gone.

[@seanbrienflynn]

What, no love for the TurboGrafx-16 and/or TurboExpress?

[@LilithTitan]

I still have two dreamcasts and it's one of the most underrated systems despite the no DRM.

[@highbar12]

One of my best friends growing up had a laser disc player. We always watched the movies at his house because they were better then vhs. Stupid expensive but ahead of its time

[@MrVlodato]

The only thing wrong with the vita was the price of the memory cards. The vita game library is goated if you like jrpgs

[@ryanevan1692]

I had a virtual boy when it came out when i was a kid and I remember playing bomberman on it and then 20 min later having to turn it off because of the motion sickness

[@BULLET_J3ST3R]

My cousins had the Pioneer LaserActive, we played so many Sega Genesis games and we always thought that LaserDisc was better than CD/DvD 😂

[@Miphawellspring]

Do you guys know there is a system thats of Nintendo&Playstation?

[@tehleeterer]

Dreamcast was awesome Dead or Alive 2 was awesome on it. Also you forgot the best handheld the Tiger Game Com , the only games i had for it was Duke Nukem 3d and Mortal Kombat Trilogy and it was in black and white but it was great.

[@DoubleCTech]

This is has to be one of my favorite channels. 😂

[@Jezee213]

Matt, you're going to pull a muscle yelling "HELLO" for the intro! haha!!

[@KeyzTheGreat]

How can you not mention sonic adventure on the Sega Dreamcast? Plus you could take your Cho baby with you via the memory card.

[@jjayala]

I feel horrible with the recent closure happening but I delayed playing stadia until a few months ago because I thought stadia and ouya? Were the same thing.

[@casedistorted]

I actually owned a Nokia N-Gage back in high school and I loved that phone. It was so dumb and I knew it was dumb, but my dad asked what phone I wanted and we saw the NGage there at the mall's cell phone kiosk. I got it. I never got any more games for it but I played the default Tony Hawk's Pro Skater that came with the game so many dang times. Man, I wish I still had it. I have every other cell phone I've ever owned so I am surprised I can't find that thing around still. Maybe my dad threw it in the trash out of spite. I DID have the phone functionality for the N-Gage and it was actually not bad! It worked just as good as any other phone, it was easy to text on because it was used as a game console, and you got used to holding it a certain way so you could hear people while talking into it clearly too. The problem of swapping games I never had to deal with because I never owned any other games for it (just could not find them anywhere, not in a regular game store anyway), so I just left Tony Hawks Pro Skater in there and played it whenever I got bored. I did get a Game Boy Advance Original though so that quickly replaced my NGage. I graduated high school in 2004 so yeah. I also owned a Virtual Boy and I LOVED that thing as a kid. I am one of those weirdos who doesn't handle motion in VR well, but I can handle 3D like no ones business. The 3DS was awesome for me too.

[@AaronShenghao]

To be honest, Switch will not exist without WillU.

[@AverageNerdGamer]

The Wii u crawled so the Switch could walk

[@thegasmaskguy2302]

I own a LaserActive, it doesn’t work completely, as sound won’t work only for lasersdiscs, yet will work for SEGA Genesis and SEGA CD games. I have the controller and remote too. Honestly I’m afraid of trying to fix it myself and of getting it fixed simply due to rarity.

[@Keepskatin]

Sell it to a big collector

[@Artimidorus]

Since you had Phantom, you should do a list of "Scam consoles" like the Calico and Amico, etc.

[@Wimmle]

Can't beat the Philips one blade when it comes to shavers

[@cesarvarela5438]

I actually use Harry's razors, surprised to see em sponsoring a this is video, but I love those razors, best I've tried so far and I've used lots cuz i got sensitive skin sadly

[@TheDloeblein21]

i can say proudly my vita is still un-modded to this day and i have an og 3g model.

[@StaveEntertainment]

In the middle of the Harry sponsor, youtube put in a Dollar Shave Club ad lol

[@daxmoney5011]

10:20 vita was goated it was essentially a ps3 portable. Playing MK9,uncharted and hot shots golf and I think persona 5 was on this thing I had this thing and it was my childhood

[@KillRei]

Just to note a correction here, the LaserDisc actually carries much more data than CD. LD has 3.27 GiB (3348 MiB) of storage, while ordinary CD has only up to 700 MiB of storage.

[@James9000]

I do love laserdiscs! I have a small collection but I need to get a player they are very expensive.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

And as far as I know the lasers in them are finicky as hell. And I'm assuming most are either dead or dying if they were used at all and even if they weren't probably.

[@kendellawsonsr4082]

I’m sorry. I need you’ll to post everyday…Forever! I absolutely love your vlogs. I literally won’t watch KZbin until you’ll post. 🎊 🎉🎊🎉🎥🎥🎥🍿🍿🍿🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@amazingdrewH]

Can't believe they didn't mention that the pack in game for the C64 console wasn't ported from the full Commodore 64 version correctly and couldn't be played without the keyboard

[@seanshaffer7163]

Do a video on the clicker vision in television Atari, 53, 230 70 something hundred

[@MikeLitiorus]

Hey Matt. I'm starting to get really big like you and most department stores don't fit me anymore. Where do you buy your clothes bro?

[@legitgibbo3225]

I bought an ouya i used it for Kodi and it was great to run retro games but when kodi got to heavy for the system I sold it and got a amazon fire TV box

[@PokeTr0yz]

I just remembered where I know you from Matt, you used to come to the IGN #Playstation #Beyond podcasts as a Guest all the time back in OG #IGN days. Your obsessed with the #Persona Series and your the one who got me to get it when it was on PS Plus mads long ago in the Ps3/Ps4 days. Man I miss #Beyond, didn't you used to work at naughty dog or one of those big AAA game dev studios? I forget the other game at the moment but THANKS for always talking about Persona or I'd have never got into #Persona3 and every other 1 since. Rock on brother I been watching but now ill be sub'd on all ur channels

[@truscottelli]

What about the Mattel Intellivision.

[@pdt1060]

The CDi wasn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be but it was still pretty bad. It was underpowered, too expensive, and didn’t really know what it wanted to be. If it made it to market before cdroms were common in PCs like it wanted to be it might have been just mediocre.

[@pedrothevenard]

I have so many great memories playing King of Fighters 95 or Samurai Shodown on my cousins Neo Geo CD, I envied him so much until I got my Playstation 1, which we also played together many many afternoons eating cake and drinking soda, great times.

[@Otterplus]

Matt Laserdisc Ansini speaking facts here, as usual.

[@Tonytyga88]

Matt has a direct line to the “funny” nerve in my brain every time.

[@Tonytyga88]

Everyone and their best friend has a podcast… but I’ll say it… “This is” should go live at some point for a few episodes

[@Ecus85]

I didn't saw the Sony Ericsson Xperia play z800. That one was even weirder than the Nokia one.

[@AyyuBX7]

Dreamcast! I love that system! Yes I burned games and some needed boot discs. I even had a boot disc to watch movies on the Dreamcast

[@jakesapir]

The NGAGE definitely had more power than the GBA. I can't vouch for anything else about it, but it had power.

[@Chrish1981]

If I remember right the cdi was made by a few companies, magnavox or something, all terrible lol

[@InsaneCarverUpqik]

i was literally talking about the laser disc to my gfs dad yesterday XD i had one back in the day that i think my dad got a pawn shop for cheap i only had 2 movies for it thoughTerminator 2 and Maximum Overdrive

[@p1n3apple21]

As someone that didn't have a wii, i loved the wii u and i feel like people only hate on it to fit in. I love this channel but even in this video they didn't give any reason as to why the wii u was bad outside of "people thought it was an attachment" while other consoles had objective complaints like pricing and lack of support. Hardcore gaming wasn't really feasible on the gamepad but the pro controller was great and it was like the beginning of the switch's conception and it had great games on it. Apart from playing upscaled wii games, Bayonetta 2, Mario kart 8, Hyrule warriors, some of switch's biggest and best remakes originated and played great on the Wii U.