Worst Ever: Game.com - Rerez

You won't believe what bad video games you'll find on Tiger Electronics' forgotten Game.com console.
0:00 - A Brief History of Tiger Electronics!
1:45 - Introducing Game.com
3:46 - Hardware Features & Controls
5:42 - The Game Library
7:13 - Lights Out
7:34 - Tiger Casino
8:15 - Henry
8:38 - Quiz Wiz
9:55 - Jeopardy & Wheel of Fortune
10:29 - Scrabble & Monopoly
11:17 - Centipede & Frogger
11:46 - Williams Arcade Classics
12:31 - Indy 500
13:39 - Batman & Robin
14:47 - Mortal Kombat Trilogy
15:28 - Fighters Megamix
15:56 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
17:29 - Resident Evil 2
19:24 - Duke Nukem 3D
21:53 - Sonic Jam
24:01 - The End of Game.com
#Gamecom #TigerElectronics #Gaming #VideoGames #WorstEver #Games #VideoGame #Comedy #BadGames #TheWorstEverSeries #Tiger

[@vaporwave2345]

1997: GameCom ad insults consumers. 2021: *Every* ad insults consumers.

[@anonmouse15]

But they make it so easy!

[@NekroDusien]

Oh how it all comes full circle.

[@oshabot1646]

"HAH LOSER"

[@franktruth9639]

At least the Gamecom commercial's insults were FUNNY and not to be taken seriously. These days, Proctor and Gamble makes commercials that demonize Men for simply being masculine.

[@pherlong7]

I bet you can't reach pink!

[@koharathecat]

"You wouldn't fake gameplay for an ad, wouldn't you?" Tell that to mobile game makers.

[@breadbox3987]

God mobile ads piss me off

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

@@breadbox3987 And they always overstay their welcome

[@ECWPlays]

@@breadbox3987 same

[@passedjudgements4729]

Worst one I'd have the displeasure of burning into my retinas started off with a bad voice over claiming "oh hey let's try out this famous game with the best drop rates. Wait why are there only two chests" and then I closed KZbin and picked up a book. I was done with the internet for the week

[@ECWPlays]

@@passedjudgements4729 Rise of fucking kingdoms tells fucking made up stories about their game, and I hate it.

[@Ryusuta]

"This game is a straight-up biohazard." I have, indeed, seen what you did there.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

No biohazard deserves such an insult!

[@colossaltitan3546]

That was hella smart

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Note for European and Japanese viewers: "This game is a straight-up Resident Evil".

[@paddedpineappleanimations265]

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Japanese only got the name “Biohazard”. European gamers got the title Resident Evil like North America.

[@mikailulum2540]

1997 : Quiz Wiz 2020: Quizizz _Umm... Tiger, is that you?_

[@Musicradio77Network]

“Quiz Wiz” was the Game Com version of the original handheld game that it was made by Coleco back in 1978 (the year I was born). It was a pretty fun game filled thousands of trivia questions, just like being in a game show. And that when game shows became more popular back in the 1960’s through the 1980’s. By the 1990’s, Tiger acquired the name and re-released “Quiz Wiz” during that time.

[@graftongazaway5633]

Lol I really like quizizz

[@findantu]

They still make tiger hh

[@baragonkunfan94thesecondar60]

tf is quizziz?

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

@@Musicradio77Network I thought you would've been born in the late '80s or early '90s.

[@andysee6996]

With that one commercial, Tiger made the "Make the Bad Guys Cry like an Anime Fan on Prom Night" line from Mighty No. 9's Masterclass trailer look tame.

[@derpydood]

While Mighty no. 9's played on a stereotype that could be insulting to anime fans, an anime fan could still get a grin out of it if they weren't too sensitive it. Even "John Romero's gonna make you his bitch" had an edgy attitude to it. "It's got more games than you've got brain cells" just comes off as a lame playground insult.

[@wadedevinney9681]

Yeah, but at least Mighty No. 9’s jab was all in good fun. Maybe people in that generation would have taken it differently, but Tigers shot just came off as nasty

[@kstanford387]

Or the "John Romero's about to make you his bitch" ad for Diakatana.

[@Asmallcorneroftheinternet]

Imagine that line from Mighty No. 9, now expand it to a 30 second commercial. And some people wonder why Tiger went bankrupt.

[@hudsondzc]

I agree

[@Civvie11]

And you all thought Sonic Genesis on GBA was slow.

[@g-forcefgt323]

Hey civvie

[@christopherbronson3275]

WHO LET HIM OUT?!

[@HydraSpectre1138]

Oh hey, Civvie!

[@EarlFaulk]

I got scammed with that....only way you could make it run decent was to turn off the music. I was so pissed

[@EarlFaulk]

@@SoloSlater It may look better but its nearly unplayable. I had a copy and the GBA version would lag and freeze like you were playing SOCOM 2 or another FPS with a bad connection. You would get killed by obstacles and spikes all the time if you didnt turn off music and sound to play in silence. Thats the only way the game would run right

[@nthgth]

Rerez has 347k subs, and this vid alone has 1.3 _million_ views. To me that's a sign of really good content. This is like my 5th time watching this video and most of the rest have similar re-watchability. Keep it up, boys!

[@brawler5760]

Shane and Adam always make quality content, 100%.

[@Breeze926]

"It surfed the net" That's one thing it has over the Switch

[@gameuniverse8736]

Actually you can use Google in your Switch,it's unnecesarily complex,but you can!

[@Breeze926]

@@gameuniverse8736 SwitchBru DNS gang.

[@guts2048]

Why can you barely use the internet on a wii but not on a switch

[@rcmero]

When it's easier to use a calculator on the Game Com than on the Switch. There's full on calculator wars on that thing, I am not making this up.

[@guts2048]

@@rcmero bruh

[@ChrisLeeW00]

R-Zone: It's like the virtual boy, but somehow even worse.

[@AmaryInkawult]

The version of the Virtual Boy that is sh!ttier and gives you the eye strain IMMEDIATELY because you had to play *CROSS EYED!*

[@bcyrx]

I had both the headband and the XPG versions. I can't remember why I wanted it... I quickly realized it looked cool with red and could be played in the dark... But they were still just garbage Tiger calculator games.

[@HLHReviews]

It’s basically a shitty version, as if the Virtual Boy wasn’t already shitty enough.

[@obeliscoparlante]

@@HLHReviews *AVGN theme intensifies*

[@JRR_Real]

“Unlike the Virtual Boy which causes eyestrains and headaches in minutes, this thing does it immediately.”

[@YourCrazyOverlord]

Tiger Electronics motto: Die hated, or die a failure. They achieved both.

[@jungle7068]

the logical way you would die is hated unless you went over budget.

[@tykamen5588]

I heard a rumor that the tiger electronic games are coming back

[@michaelbreen7865]

@@tykamen5588 I will show you my excitement with the following emoji. 😐

[@WillieManga]

....... What kind of sense does that make?!

[@WolfpackProductionsYT]

@@WillieManga and yet the tiger handhelds are back

[@RedScatt]

"Imagine reading you're emails on this thing, You would have to connect a modem to this so you couldn't leave you're house anyways, WHY NOT JUST USE A COMPUTER?!" -James Rolfe

[@Bustermachine]

More important than the gameboy being old tech was the fact the Nintendo worked hard to design games within the limitations of the system. Nintendo knew the screen was crap and would ghost a lot. So they designed their games carefully to minimize the problem as much as possible. And what worked, and what didn't, tended to trick out to other developers.

[@cartmann94]

Imagine 1997 kids getting this instead of a Tamagotchi.

[@NeedyForMusic]

Or a game boy

[@tykamen5588]

Or Game Gear or Atari lynx

[@emqbaba3890]

The parents promised a game boy, game gear or anything else than this not-so waste of money but they found it for 0.99 instead of the 1.99 the others cost (idk how much they actually sell for, this is a joke.)

[@emqbaba3890]

The parents promised a game boy, game gear or anything else than this not-so waste of money but they found it for 0.99 instead of the 1.99 the others cost (idk how much they actually sell for, this is a joke.)

[@cynicthehedgehog385]

You mean a Digimon VP.

[@Zeeruss]

I owned one of these when I was younger. I ended up selling it to my friend for $30. He played it for, at most, 15 minutes and instantly hated it. He tried to trade it into a local game shop and they wouldn't take it. So he walked around the mall for two hours talking to EVERY kid he could see asking if they wanted to buy it. He eventually sold it for $3 to a kid and his mom. 🤣

[@SonicBoone56]

I'd low-key buy it for $3 cuz I like handhelds way too much. But only for $3. Anything more than a hamburger is too much for it.

[@josehernandezmartinez8719]

Only 3 dollars? He should just keep it .

[@YaowBucketHEAD]

I'd buy it for a few bucks just to have it for the collection.

[@Rountree1985]

And if you would’ve kept it you could be selling it now for at least $100. Sucks to be you.

[@Rountree1985]

@Bob Cook video game collectors are dumb and have lots of money to spend. People really do collect these things.

[@uzaiyaro]

And to think that just four and a bit years later, we had the PSP.

[@therealmistermemer]

You mean 7 years.

[@connerwine8257]

Psp is a good console though

[@PO1PLE]

@@connerwine8257 that is their point, just a few years later after this crap, we had ps2 graphics on a handheld, they are saying that it is impressive that we went from sucky to great in such a short timeframe

[@i_like_lemons]

@@PO1PLE Computing technology were evolving pretty fast back then.

[@PO1PLE]

@@i_like_lemons yes exactly!

[@OrangeDied]

"It has more games than you have braincells!" And apparently more than the marketing team, too.

[@ammedia9870]

There’s more people in their marketing team than their brain cells combined

[@mattakudesu]

I got an r-zone for christmas and brought it to school for a while. The kids were impressed for the first few days until they realized how trash it was. It ended up at the bottom of my toy box, lost to the ages.

[@kywii6678]

Want someone like me to pay respects for your past self ?

[@stevewilkosotherchair7192]

@@kywii6678 f

[@satan1841]

@@kywii6678 F

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@kywii6678 Like this? *** WEDGIE!!! ***

[@Rountree1985]

I had a friend that got an R-Zone for Christmas the year it came out. God that thing was a ripoff, I think we both played it once and never touched it again. He had the Batman game.

[@razeenmohammed2620]

I got an easy explanation: the people who made the handheld didn't have a lot of braincells

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Roughly 19. Probably less.

[@shabmaster7128]

No, it was designed to do exactly one thing. Wring the last bit of value out of the licenses they held. Tiger handhelds were nearly dead for anything other than kids licensed stuff (Disney, Barbie, etc). Tiger still held the licenses to a bunch of popular game series so they designed this as a final cash in before that market completely died. This was not designed as a game console, this was designed as a means to cash in on licensing deals.

[@bioactivevirus]

😂 I'm dead

[@JoeyAnimate]

Count how many times he played that line

[@fattiger6957]

@@shabmaster7128 And they designed it with no understanding of the handheld game market. No kid in the 90s actually had a use for pda features and no kid wanted to play casino or game show video games. And no adult would want this thing either. It was like it was designed for no one.

[@moshuma3739]

"Well get to that in a sec'." "Well talk about that later..." Something's wrong, I can feel it.

[@koloax]

Lmao

[@BenBlackEquinoxEngelhard]

I miss internet in the 90's simply because it was so freakin' easy to extend your "free trial". Just before a billing cycle I'd call AOL and ask to cancel and when they'd ask (they always did) why I was cancelling I'd simply say I couldn't afford it. Every time they would give me a three month extension. I had free internet for nearly a decade before AOL was just outright obsolete.

[@Zulf85]

"begs to be touched!" So do I, gamecom. So do I.

[@funnyclown2514]

Talk about desperate

[@MidnightWanderer00]

You have a much better chance of getting touched than the Gamecom.

[@funnyclown2514]

@@MidnightWanderer00 A Virtual Boy has a better chance of being touched and it has less games released in North America.

[@funnyclown2514]

@@Darenz-cg9zg You mean the Virtual Boy?

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

Woooah slow your roll there

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

The Game Com is an excellent SELCETion for Worst Ever.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

AWSEMO!

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

Game-com, Game-dot-com, either way it sucks like a vacuum cleaner.

[@kurtworgan5632]

Is that from avgn?

[@rerez]

I officially approve this comment.

[@kenterminateddq5311]

@@rerez I have a feeling that on the next episode for the Worst Ever series is to talk more on the R-Zone. The R-Zone makes the Virtual Boy feel like the Switch. :(

[@noscope1876]

I think the reason why the system had 2 cartridge slots is for those who didn’t have pockets for some random reason and could only bring one game with them so having 2 was “SUPER COOL”

[@monhi64]

Yeah this thing was absolute trash but some of Shane’s criticisms make no sense. He implied the double slots was useless because it can’t play two games at once?? What does that even mean how does one play two games on one screen? Almost def for storage and that’s a great idea. And he was criticizing the lack of backlit screen, knowing full well people will bring up the gameboy wasn’t backlit either but that’s a decade older so tiger has no excuse. Which would make sense except gameboy didn’t add backlit screens until the GB Advance SP which is years after this console came out.

[@gordonf5553]

Well that is cool admittedly

[@LincolnRon]

Seems to me the advantage is that when one of the slot's pins becomes worn or bent (Like with a Game Boy or a Nintendo DS.) you have an extra slot that still works.

[@superpan218]

As the AVGN said, "The commercials made them look awesome, but really they were garbage."

[@SilversGamer]

Yup, totally.

[@edgelord8337]

The console that insulted its buyers in the ads. That's a recipe for disaster. I know there's some child that grew up with a game com I feel truly bad for you.

[@planetschlock]

I'm imagining a scenario where it's the kid's birthday party and there's one really large present. The kid unties the bow and lifts off the lid and BOOM! Out pops the red-suited, spiky haired midget from the commercial, thrusting a gamecom at the kid. "Happy birthday you idiot slacker! Here's a complete piece of crap!" All the while the kid's parents are laughing their heads off.

[@DrRubyMD]

Heh, yeah. I feel like John Romero's Dikatana didn't learn from their mistakes. You remember, " *John Romero Will Make you His bitch?* " yeah, it never works. Don't insult the people you're selling to, it just doesn't work.

[@Dan_K_Meme]

You're everywhere

[@jakerockznoodles]

@@DrRubyMD It's not even relegated to the 90s/early 00s. Mention Mighty No. 9 and there are still people who remember that ad: "Make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night! "

[@MoltoRubato88]

That was like the "DO THE MATH!" Atari Jaguar commercials.

[@PointsofData]

"Everytime you get a question right, you'll get an animation like this" *Summoners War catgirl ad plays*

[@KnakuanaRka]

PointsofData xD 😂🤣

[@cobalt7248]

Lol true!!

[@diskdem0n]

*HM*

[@hayleywaalen2612]

Cat Girl does the floss dance while eating tacos.

[@mayo4685]

I get it for lucky 7

[@ZaGorudan]

That commercial is brimming with the ironic satire and self deprecation you'd expect to hear on a radio spot in a GTA game. Yet it's real and actually made to sell something in the real world. Utterly confounding marketing decision.

[@TominatorT-]

22:09 "Hey all, Scott here and dang it, I own Sonic Jam."

[@SEiMEi_EXiSTS]

"It's a pretty rare game, but I don't wanna be known as the guy who owns Sonic Jam when I'm dead!"

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

I love how all the advertising for this was geared towards edgy teenagers; and yet the devs at Tiger were so completely illiterate in demographics that the only games they made for it were basic puzzle, trivia, and other family entertainment which young people aren't particularly interested in.

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@@Rountree1985 That's... what I said.

[@zombietrash416]

i still have my The Lion King and The Little Mermaid Tiger Electronic games from the mid 90s.

[@SoulConstruct]

Just goes to show how disconnected the product development and marketing teams can be from each other at times. Its not a stereotype if it's true.

[@zombietrash416]

i actually dont remember hearing about this when it was out. i only knew of the Tiger electronic hand held games. the ones that use the technology of a calculator. i still have both of mine.

[@TheBonkleFox]

@@zombietrash416 Even calculators work better as game consoles. There's a working port of Super Mario Bros. 3 for one Texas Instruments model and it's actually pretty dope.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

The ad reminds me of Mighty Number Nine's "make the bad guys cry like an anime fan on prom night" line. Protip: if you insult your customers in the ad, you're probably not moving many units.

[@viscountrainbows6452]

Seems everyone made a big brain move and kept their Gameboys💯🔥😤

[@MatthewCobalt]

Or threaten to give them a beat down in Quake. "SUCK IT DOWN!!!"

[@MrRuano825]

Turns out not many people wanted to be John Romero's bitch.

[@reesesollars1553]

The gamecom ad also reminded me of when one of Battlefield 5's developers decided to respond to backlash the game was getting with the phrase if you don't like it don't buy it and guess what no one bought it

[@GatorRay]

Go figure that we can probably blame the company that published Ride To Hell Retribution for that ad.

[@drewhunter4347]

Fun Fact: Tiger Electronics was going to release a second Resident Evil 2. In which you would play as Clare, but it was canceled due to poor sales.

[@spydersoup8447]

I think the cancelation is for the best honestly.

[@aight4494]

Well... the guy in the ad wasn't wrong. I only have 20 brain cells because of online school and my life falling apart.

[@Elazam]

I really Love that the R-zone exists, a console that is a mix of the two most hated consoles in the 90's: tiger electroincs LCDs and the Virtual Boy.

[@el-verdadero_mordecai-456]

@Chill Sodaa ese pac-man se ve muy español 😕?

[@gorkskoal9315]

lol you forgot the 3DOH! :Home of softpr0n FMVs

[@TammiJuusu]

@@gorkskoal9315at least that has Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, which is so bad it's good

[@gorkskoal9315]

@@TammiJuusu LOL Omg yes.

[@spiralcrisis]

I had an R-zone with Panzer Dragoon and a couple other cartridges. Seeing it here was a deep memory.

[@Blur4strike]

Companies that insult their current and potential customers, poor software selection for said customers, over-reliance on marketing gimmicks, faulty hardware. Yeah, I can see that they learned nothing from this mess.

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

Clearly they learned everything. And used it as a manual.

[@Blur4strike]

​@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 Not to mention making new additions to said manual for circulation among themselves.

[@meligoth]

At least Tiger did not charge you extra to have a fully functioning game like today's developers, because they couldn't back then.

[@cujoedaman]

@@meligoth Not true! They released Wheel of Fortune twice and charged for both :D

[@OhSayWhatIsTruth]

Ironically some of those gimmicks ended up working out well for Nintendo

[@SomnusLucisCaelum]

The Gamecom always made me think they just grabbed some cheap office assistants they had lying around from a shelved product (theirs or someone else's) and repackaged it as an "edgy handheld"

[@JasontheCartoonFan]

Remember that scene from Sesame Street where Grover was having a much more fun time with the GameCom than actually possible in real life?

[@datonecommieirongear2020]

The N64 port of RE2 is amazing work to compress that much data in way less space, while only barely downgrading graphics and sounds, putting voice in a console who didin't have a voice-chip, and FIXED bugs, and even gave full 360 stick control instead of tank. those people who made the port are geniuses.

[@dragonslayer7724]

There's also RE: Gaiden, a Game Boy re-imagining of an RE game.

[@ianfinrir8724]

​@@dragonslayer7724 Gaiden is a non canon sequel to RE2

[@labenvenci1584]

Fun Fact : A port of *Metal Gear Solid* was planned for the Gamecom. Screenshots exists along with info from promo magazines, it was planned to be a Isometric game and was the first handheld title in the series, but was cancelled for unknown reasons. We can be glad about that though. RE2 GC was planned for an Claire scenario also but that was cancelled.

[@unwelldanny7108]

I wanted both because a. sexy bitcrushed David Hayter and b. a game on the system with a female protagonist. Batgirl wasn't in Batman and Robin, so...

[@Turbulation1]

apparently sonic 3d blast was also planned for it, but cancelled

[@spugintrntl]

@@Turbulation1 same with Symphony of the Night.

[@Turbulation1]

@@spugintrntl well they were both isometric games planned for the game com but I guess the handheld wasn’t even powerful enough for a isometric game to run smoothly.

[@spugintrntl]

@@Turbulation1 Symphony of the Night is a side scroller.

[@ProtoBlueGaming]

"It begs to be TOUCHED!" *very suspicious eye movements*

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

5:15 Just like many other things, Japan had a version of the Game Boy called the Game Boy Light that had a backlit screen. Sadly it was Japan exclusive, would have been quite nice to have that version over here in the west.

[@brandonirish20]

Also America hates vision

[@kurtisharen]

Considering the advertisement shown had the Sonic gameplay on fast-forward, where you could actually see the missing frames, I wonder why there wasn't ever a lawsuit against them for false advertising. It wasn't any sort of cutscene, it was literally lying with the gameplay footage itself. That sounds like false advertising, with the intent to deceive regarding the quality of the product, to me.

[@OhSayWhatIsTruth]

Should we try to file a lawsuit now?

[@gianpaguiligan1358]

Doggy nah, no need Im pretty sure Tiger Electronics are out of the news now

[@EarlFaulk]

Im sure they knew kids wouldnt know that.

[@90sNath]

It looked like an older prototype that I heard got lost and then they had to start from scratch and rush this mess out the door

[@luisjogos821]

@@90sNath it's a humor, nobody is 200% sure if it is real.

[@elroyscout]

I have fond memories of the casino games in New Super Mario Bros. They used fake money, but it was fun because Nintendo Polish and charm. Plus, Luigi was the dealer, instead of a random T-Rex

[@M64bros]

I loved that game ever since I was little!

[@blakksheep736]

Me too.

[@williamdrum9899]

Those were so much fun

[@isenokami7810]

Plus most of those-at least the ones people seemed to play, myself included-were card games, like the notorious Picture Poker. Card games are inherently fun even with no money on the line imo.

[@1Thunderfire]

Curious how games rated for kids can't have pretend gambling games anymore but lootboxes are fine. 😐

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

To be fair though, Nintendo had the slogan "Touching is good" with their DS back in 2004/2005.

[@AstroTom]

Heya Hot Chocolate!

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

@@AstroTom Hey there, my friend! What's up?

[@AstroTom]

@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate Not much, just enjoying this video and spotted your comment! How about you?

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

@@AstroTom I'm doing alright, my friend. I'm just recording right now while watching football as well

[@AstroTom]

@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate Awesome!

[@Lumberurchin23]

"THE WRIST GAME!!" sorry i have to quote that literally anytime anyone talks about tiger

[@imbadatgames568]

I love this series, it shows a weird part of gaming history that you don't really see anywhere else. That ontop of the great quality and care that clearly goes into these just keep me waiting for the next one! Keep up the great work on these.

[@negator14]

Well, the nerd already did it several years ago. But Rerez is more family friendly

[@diewalker103]

Just see avgn man he already did all of it

[@cheeseboi588]

I just saw a video on this exact topic today, and not by AVGN.

[@TackyRackyComixNEO]

@Joe Blow FrameRater does a lot of videos like this, and they don't really do any characters or bits. They just did a GameCom video the other day actually.

[@Channeleven2345789]

@@negator14 The nerd did a half-assed job discussing the Game.Com's history.

[@emanuelespinoza9325]

Regarding the internet bit, WHY NOT JUST USE A COMPUTER? -James Rolfe, AVGN.

[@cobalt7248]

Lol

[@FemboyCommie]

YES

[@zombietrash416]

cuz most people didnt have a computer.

[@ronnieradon]

ZomBiE_TraSh In 1995? Really?

[@Rountree1985]

Ronnie yes, really. My family didn’t get one till 1996 and even then, we didn’t have internet. We just used it for typing school papers, playing games, and using a CD-ROM encyclopedia for research. Not everyone grew up rich like you.

[@qpol]

“let’s see a nintendo do that” nintendo DS: am i a joke to you?

[@passione6443]

It wasn’t out then

[@connerwine8257]

The nintendo ds line is legendary

[@oz_jones]

Apples to oranges, since in DS consoles the two ports actually serve a function, but you know that. Still, it was a dumb jab to begin with.

[@Rgoid]

Yes Nintendo DS, you are a joke to me.

[@eladr1en]

Ummmm the dude in the commercial is my high school math teacher. This was about the last thing I expected today.

[@edgelord8337]

When you ask for a game boy and you get this. You have my greatest condolences. It's like asking for sonic the hedgehog 2 and getting bubsy. If anyone has had to play this you certainly deserve my respect. You survived playing one of the worst game consoles ever designed by man

[@markify8019]

Why’d you post 2 comments my dude

[@TheTheninjagummybear]

@@markify8019, Why aren't they allowed to post 2 comments?

[@mg1fan]

Kiera Todd hey i know you, you’re that whining commenter that hates the letter F and i see that you are still nagging like an offended sjw. Instead of berating matt here why don’t you explain that the comment is the same but it is worded differently so that way your comment won’t be interpreted as a triggered person who is upset ok

[@mg1fan]

MattGames same comments different meaning , different as in the first line is different from his other comment and while the style is the same and the ending is similar albeit with minor editing. What i am saying it is the same but it is different

[@jmcortade8161]

Or having a Google Stadia instead of a Nintendo Switch! It's horrible!

[@machiner6]

I first witnessed the Angry Video Game Nerd show this off very briefly, and your reaction to the games in detail sounds almost spot-on to how he'd view them.

[@bookshelffury]

Probly cause he's seen the avgn episode too

[@therealmistermemer]

19:44 That's the plan, so that the Gamecom eventually has more games than you have braincells.

[@justinw7323]

My mom said no to me all the time growing up but she was nice enough to surprise me with a game boy for Christmas back in 92

[@Rountree1985]

I can’t believe I wanted one of these when they were new. I was legitimately let down when I didn’t get one for Christmas. Looking back, I would’ve absolutely hated it upon finally playing a game. Dodged a bullet there. Edit: why do you pronounce Nintendo as “Intendo”?

[@Loggylee2308]

You really did dodge a bullet.

[@raresdraghici5033]

Rountree1985 you dodged a damn big bullet

[@Bro-cx2jc]

You dodged a Banzai Bill sized bullet.

[@thesnesgeek]

I think you're parents knew what it was. Wise choice.

[@raymondmadrid]

You dodged a nuclear bomb

[@roadbreach]

NES launch title: Super Mario Bros Gamecom launch title: Henry

[@Herobrine100x]

The NES Launch titles are the ones shipped with R.O.B.

[@countrybloxcool]

@Lupe J. Mangle-Bonnie Crawford you’ll see in the video

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@Herobrine100x Um, no. The NES had a LOT of launch titles. The two R.O.B games (Gyromite, the pack-in title, and Stack Up) were among them, but so were games like Super Mario Bros, Wrecking Crew, Excitebike, Pinball and loads of sports games.

[@fgclue]

NES launch title: Super Mario bros Gamecom launch title: Henry kid: mom!!!!!!!! i want a NES mom: no ill give a gamecom kid (when gets gamecom): WHAT IS THIS

[@roadbreach]

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer I know, I was just comparing the names.

[@FamousWolfe]

Oh man, I remember as a kid back in '97 seeing the commercials on TV and wanting this thing! I was blown away with the idea of being able to play Sonic, Duke Nukem 3D, and Resident Evil 2 on-the-go, so naturally I added it to my wishlist for "Santa". That Christmas I instead got a GameBoy Pocket. I was a little disappointed, but when Pokemon came out the following year I had some of the best times of my childhood playing & trading those damn pocket monsters xD Glad to hear that I really did dodge a bullet lol.

[@MarthaRoseQuartz]

I only got the Gamecom for its internet capabilities. I doubted buying it because of the ads, but it had Sonic and you could play as KNUCKLES (who I found hot.)

[@JSmith-nu4bl]

This vid is one of Shane’s finest moments 😂😂😂

[@one2584]

9:12 are we just not gonna point out they misspelled Dr. Seuss

[@KatTheLavaGirl]

And they called us idiots with less than 10 braincells

[@shawnfields2369]

@@KatTheLavaGirl I'm sure they didn't have enough brain cells to even spell Dr. Seuss's name right; and definitely not enough to correctly port the amazing RE2. And I'm sure the people who made and marketed the Game com, didn't have more than 1 brain cell between them, that they had to share, and decide who would take it home with them when their shift ended. I bet somewhere out there, they're STILL deciding on whom should take their only brain cell with them, to this very day... oh, and also: "it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells!"

[@KatTheLavaGirl]

@@shawnfields2369 Also, don’t forget their inappropriate commercial talking about the Game com “begging to be touched.” This commercial was advertising a product for kids and teens!

[@magentapurpleyap5566]

@@KatTheLavaGirl the reason being they are so stupid that they think they only have 2 braincells.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

EPIC FAIL!

[@Nox_The_Box]

I remember getting handheld games with that kind of display as a MacDonalds happy meal toy

[@noahfessenden6478]

But those were fun. Mostly because A) they came free with food and B) little kids have a higher tolerance for mediocre games.

[@bensanchez8121]

@referral madness i remember those and the Sonic ones

[@calba24]

I remember those little cheap Tiger games. I got a Ninja Turtles version for Christmas one year. I was so excited. We were lower than dirt poor, so video games like an NES console was out of the question. I was thankful for the little game I received. It didn’t do much, but it kept my mind off my reality at the time. Single parent home, alcoholic mother, absentee father, welfare, living in the projects, being called every name but my actual name, and constant bullying at school for being a mixed race kid which was not as common then as it is today was what that little Tiger game took off my mind for a few minutes but I had some good times with the Ninja Turtles...

[@mr.9931]

I'm sorry to hear that fate was not so kind to you back then, I'm assuming this is sometime in the late 80s. I was bullied in school too for creating a club, where a stuffed animal was the mascot. I actually got 22 members before I took everything down. People liked the idea so much that their were many imitators. I gave out a prize to random people too. I honestly don't get much criticism from that now, so I'll I have to say is, focus on a better future and forget a bad past... And things are bound to get better.

[@Arthur-bz9ps]

Those hand held tiger games I loved as a kid especially when I didnt have a gameboy at the time..

[@callumdonnelly1718]

No point typing this when nobody's going to read it, but gonna put it out there anyway. The second cartridge port was for the internet connectivity, which required a cartridge ala the DS Lite.

[@Rountree1985]

It still was not necessary because there were no games that you could play online so what’s the point of having a game and the internet cartridge inserted at the same time?

[@KnakuanaRka]

But why would you need to insert a game and the Internet cartridge at the same time?

[@BenLogterman]

I also think it could be used if you were in a car, and wanted to bring two games without switching games.

[@waynefitch4026]

Did you really have to say that first part? Wtf I'm gonna like this comment before you off yourself.

[@TheTheninjagummybear]

@@waynefitch4026, Christ on a bike...

[@tf2godz]

"This is the worst officially licensed sonic game I have ever played.." oh noooooo

[@PhayzinOut]

Nine years later....... 😂😂😂

[@ChaseMC215]

Play Sonic 06, You two... It's really bad than the Gane Com port of Sonic Jam

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

Sonic 06 (or "Sonic Oh-NO!", if you prefer) is by far the least pleasant Xbox game I've ever played because of what it has in common with ET's infamous Atari 2600 game (the worst "real" video game ever).

[@BlueflagAlpha]

@@ChaseMC215 sonic 06 is not bad

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Alexis Eronmwon ^

[@xilitla.]

the scripting for this video is some of the best of the series recently ! super funny and charming while still being informative ! right on

[@gregmark1688]

The gambling games were also more or less pre-existing properties for Tiger. They had made a large number of handheld blackjack, poker, and slots games.

[@flyingfish1138]

“Mom, can I get a Gameboy?” “We have a Gameboy at home” Gameboy at home:

[@PANZERFAUST90]

unoriginal and dumb

[@Megarover]

"Just wait a year for the Gameboy Color"

[@Bro-cx2jc]

@@PANZERFAUST90 78 people disagreed so...

[@Bro-cx2jc]

@@Megarover Rerez is right that they could have done better than the monochromatic lcd with no backlight since Nintendo had already done that eight years ago, but let's not forget that Nintendo continued doing that until freaking 2003.

[@yoshiboy314]

Just get the Gameboy advance sp 101

[@shadowleon659]

This was a gaming console that was made to cash in the success of GameBoy and was doomed to fail.

[@huntercraves]

3:25 I see what you did there

[@driv3563]

8:33 *Oh no...*

[@barrentwo505]

Last time I checked, locks do *not* make that noise.

[@TheMDXtremeReal]

I fear for this man's sanity with each of his uploads Stay Sane Shane

[@rerez]

o_0 *TWITCH*

[@goldprime118]

@@rerez for the sake of your sanity, you shouldn't review the N-gage

[@GatorRay]

@@goldprime118 Yeah he should review the Wii U instead because he's already torn the Gamepad a new one in the past.

[@magicvampirelver1321]

Lmao😄😄

[@TheMDXtremeReal]

@@goldprime118 dang it now i wanna see it happen

[@Laxhoop]

I half expected Quiz Wiz to actually have a few wrong answers be the “correct” one.

[@rerez]

That's the risk of any older quiz game. If the questions were based off of what was 'current' knowledge they might be wrong by this point in time. I just couldn't stand listening to that damn whistle that you always hear if you keep playing!

[@Laxhoop]

Rerez No, I meant like “Who was the first president”, and the answer would be “George Washington Carver”.

[@rerez]

@@Laxhoop Oh it probably has errors like that!

[@alex_-yz9to]

@@rerez another thing you didn't show is that Quizwiz also has some animations that insult the player like the character going "NOBRAINER!". Why does everything about the fucking game com want to insult everyone and everything

[@20plus7]

Well, at 9:12 Dr. Seuss‘ name is spelled wrong. The publishers apparently didn‘t seem to care about quality or polish with these games.

[@BirchMonkey857]

9:00 He looks like a guy from School House Rock.

[@Magikarp-yk7io]

I absolutely swear to God I'm gonna make my children play this on long car rides like I had to, Lights Out? Solid fifty hours of game play 😁

[@Snakedude4life]

BATMAN AND ROBIN on the Game .com. No game comes close to perfection. 🎩 🐍 no step on SNEK! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@viscountrainbows6452]

The Lost World J̴̱̈́i̵̜͂g̵̝̈́a̷̩͝ ̴̠̊P̷̧̊ȍ̸̲r̸͇̾k̴̮͆

[@m.k.b.3880]

You hear that hasbros bringing this stuff back

[@Jamie-yp7qz]

Snakedude4life ÆUGH

[@Destide]

""Can I get a gameboy?" "You have a gamboy at home" 🐯 +💩= gameboy at home p.s your chapter game is spot on rerez

[@captainobvious9233]

"They learned nothing." Well, Atari rushing ET for Atari out caused the game to be terrible, cost the company millions and was even part of the reason of the Video Game Crash. Yet, here we are in 2021 and companies STILL rush bug filled incomplete games out.

[@arashink]

7:54: "Also known as War, and it never changes." Fallout on the gamecom!

[@ImagineABear]

If, in the mid 90s, there was a Game Boy that could holster two cartridges at once, I would have bought it. Being able to switch between two games would have been fantastic, instead of carrying around an entire carrying case or keeping a game in my pocket.

[@oz_jones]

Yeah, I too felt that the jab at the two ports was dumb.

[@someguy4915]

@@oz_jones Just take a bit of tape and stick a second cartridge to the back of your gameboy?... Due to the way the cartridges work, you'd have to reset the gameboy anyway to switch so no loading/saving game-states anyway. This way you have all the (one) benefit of having 2 cartridges while also having a gameboy that takes up slightly less space compared to a gameboy with two internal slots... And best of all? If you want to go insane with it you could just tape a third or, god forbid, fourth cartridge to it. Hence why this was never made into a real product by Nintendo.

[@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance]

@@someguy4915 bruh, you clearly never lived through the 90s where you spent your days in a pre smart phone era to stay entertained in waiting rooms of doctor offices, long car rides, or during recess. The constant wear and tear that would go through of shoving the Gameboy on a moments notice into your pocket would never withstand slapping tape on a cartridge. Worse yet, if the cartridge broke or became lost from falling off, good luck convincing your mom or dad to replace it because you can't just re-download it

[@someguy4915]

@@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance You should buy better tape then. Having lived through the 90's (as if it was such a hard thing to do...) with not much more than tape holding my gameboy together I know for a fact that tape is more than capable of this. Unless you were one of those kids who threw their gameboy around, knowing mommy would buy you a new one, especially since you directly mentioning convincing mommy and daddy to spoil you by buying you more cartridges.

[@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance]

@@someguy4915 lol the fact that my reply made you so irritated to respond that way tells me enough. Nah man, I never said living through the 90s was difficult. Also I'm not sure what magic trick you used to pull the excuse out of your ass that my parents bought everything when the exact scenario I gave was quite the opposite. I was just saying more or less that you have an opinion on something that you don't know much about becaue being born in 97 doesn't give you much street cred. I guess that infuriated you enough to comment with assumptions about how I grew up. Cause you got mad about tape. OK lol

[@TheBonkleFox]

"the worst way I've seen to play mortal Kombat" oh honey, never pick up the gameboy version

[@Rountree1985]

The game boy versions are better than this one. You can actually beat the game boy ones.

[@zachhaywood1564]

The standalone LCD handheld of MK also made by Tiger is even worse.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Mortal Kombat II for the Game Boy isn't too bad.

[@pixelplayer140]

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer yeah mortal kombat II on gameboy seems decent but I never played it.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@pixelplayer140 I mean, it's not great or anything, but it's not bad to play if you had one on you.

[@Dreaded4Saken]

rerez is in his element with these reviews

[@joshuac4772]

You can run a version of DooM on a Texas Instrument calculator, with a passive LCD, I would love to see someone get that version of DooM running on this.

[@camero4134]

There was a talk of pregnancy tests running DOOM lately

[@Avigorus]

Insulting their players? Sounds like modern-day EA was running that company, are we sure that their higher ups didn't somehow take over EA between then and now? lol

[@MariktheGunslinger]

At least EA has Jedi Fallen Order and C&C Remastered under their belt as of 2019-2020.

[@TheNexDude]

@@MariktheGunslinger one is a Star Wars game and the other is a remaster of a game originally developed by Westwood Studios.

[@NoahDaArk]

Actually that makes too much sense...

[@Blur4strike]

Might want to add Sony with Jim Ryan at the helm of the PlayStation division.

[@shabmaster7128]

YOU MISSED THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. . . . . . . You can play as a car in Fighters Megamix. Yes. As a standing car. In a fighting game.

[@wolveyplaysgames7760]

Wut?

[@rcmero]

@@wolveyplaysgames7760 You know, the Hornet car. From Daytona USA.

[@shawnfields2369]

@@rcmero Oh, yeah, everyone's favorite fighting sentient car; (that's NOT Lightning McQueen from Cars), but the Hornet from Daytona USA!

[@seamusquain2706]

In street fighter 2, people fight car In Soviet Russia, *CAR FIGHT PEOPLE!*

[@greyskies5115]

@@shawnfields2369 The third, actually. How could you forget Kitt from Knight Rider!?

[@redwolfe7049]

I can't explain it but this is one of my favorite episodes you've done.

[@KelleyWells1982]

Oh my God I’ve been subscriber for the longest I love your channel so muchhhh

[@red-man7017]

0:53 That image of cocoa puffs Sonic is not going to leave my brainstem anytime soon

[@maxwelll.514]

' They learned Nothing ' - ROFL

[@noahbaker1946]

64 bits, 32 bits, 16 bits, 8 bits, 4 bits, 2 bits, 1 bits, half bits, quarter bits, *THE WRIST GAME*

[@anthonygotttheonly]

I love how much effort developers put in to try to make the games playable, they really tried their best

[@seangunnell9451]

Even in the AVGN's review of the Game Com, it still was hard to see. And his was fresh out of the box unused.

[@pixelsafoison]

I've been following you for a few years - and I must say that the quality of your content has been skyrocketing during the past year

[@FemboyCommie]

Duh

[@blur4504]

Totally agree, his content was good and now is even better

[@15-Peter-20]

@@FemboyCommie I fancy your mum

[@lowsonoma941]

13 year old me definitely remembers this commercial calling me stupid lol. My grandma used to get me the Tiger handhelds for Christmas ever year. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@hitkid2456]

Even the goddamn startup is a SLIDESHOW. One of the most astounding things I've seen, they don't even give the games a chance to show what a unholy imagining it is.

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

Rerez is basically the emperor of bad consoles/games

[@PANZERFAUST90]

James Rolfe

[@dacoolguyultimate2447]

AVGN

[@channel5980]

AVGN

[@goldprime118]

COUGH *Angry video game nerd* COUGH

[@BlueflagAlpha]

Ahem. Game Sack

[@mikevasquez1103]

The advertisement isn't wrong though because the people who bought this system likely had about 19 brain cells. LOL

[@ReddestOne24]

Ha! That's funny!

[@patrickharrison7839]

6:07 It certainly plays more games than HIS brain cells. I’m talking about the announcer in the commercial.

[@hakai1014]

I mean…the announcer isnt wrong

[@shawnfields2369]

​@@hakai1014He's just stupid.

[@greasler6135]

I remember when they would give out those sonic games in Happy meals back in the early 2000s

[@DarksideBallerina]

As soon as I heard that screechy music I cringed. So many repressed memories...

[@Jax49]

"A calculator!" *inserts 80085* HA! classic!

[@hitkid2456]

What was the "equation" again?

[@Dark_Kin_66]

“That’s great marketing. Let’s insult the potential customers right from the get-go!” Modern Disney: “Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!”

[@DrWho2008t101]

I remembered this as if it was yesterday. Thanks for the video!