+UB40Music like the jaguar and no no no it's name should not be brought up ever games that are worser (which apparently is a word) (too lazy to put in that face) and dun :).
I loved the bit on the package where it said "Content's may vary from illustrations on the package". As if your expectations weren't low enough already.
And if anyone ever makes fun of you playing those crappy fakes, you can always throw those X shaped games at them like those ninja stars weapon thingies you see in ninja movies and who knows, kill your mocking enemies.
The rubber things are the electrical connections to the LCD display. The rubber is a sandwich of many parallel insulator/conductor layers, basically a vertical array of wires. Pads on the LCD and on the board of the unit roughly align with those on the PCB on the base unit. It's a typical way of connecting cheapo LCDs to boards, though I've never seen it used as a removable connection before (usually the LCD is bolted onto the PCB with something more than a crappy clip).
This is very old and probably no one will ever see this, but I feel like I should mention that that "bit of rubber" is a bunch of electrical contacts as well! It's something called a "zebra strip" or more properly elastomeric connector, commonly used for cheap press-fit contacts between a PCB and an LCD.
I remember having these kind of games back when I was like 5 now looking at these games they give me headaches. I mean they used to make these sort of games for those Happy meal toys.
I can't help but correct you at 2:50 - the rubber is actually the thing that connects the LCD with the devic. It's special rubber with conductive paths inside.
10:44 "Terrifying thought: You have been watching an idiot talking about a broken toy for over ten minutes" Not so terrifying when you realize you´ve been doing it for over *fifteen years*
pop stations remind me of a gag from that one manga where they're at a festival and win a DS lite at a shooting gallery but when they get it home they realize it's actually a DS light, as in a flashlight that looks like a DS.
Yes, clearly I was worked up. I sure am glad you notified me that I should calm down, because in my state of mass hysteria, I never would have figured that out on my own.
The idea that some poor bastard received this as a Christmas present off his parents, then had to show them the console they actually were hoping for actually makes me feel some level of depression.
I actually know someone who received something quite similar for their birthday from their grandma who thought it was the real one. They still have it now, maybe I could convince him to send it to Ashens.
Grandma: I got you an xbox for Christmas! You: really? Sweeeett! Grandma: here you go! You: oh...um...it's a popstation shaped like an xbox shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt
they had this at dolphin wholesale store. It was there for a year and me and my friends were all talking about it and thought if ashens would find it and do a review lol
Jesus, just got new headphones, and haven't adjusted the equalizer yet, and that siren made me fall out of my chair. My last headphones were muddy and I had to boost the highs.
The hilarious part is, unless you look at the ghost images of the LCD, you have no way to tell which game is which after you peel off the screen label!
"Tonight on The South Bank Show, a double length special where I talk to the legendary inventor of the Pop Station, the handheld console that changed the landscape of portable gaming forever. We also talk to Ann Widdecombe and Diane Abbott on how the Pop Station has inspired the new proposed legislation for preschool learning development."
I see... The rubber thing that fell out IS the electrical connection. It's rubber with tiny conductive stripes in it. I need a couple of those things; perhaps I should buy a popstation...
4:45 Creeped me out a bit. The protective sticker removal left some sort of brief evil smiley face.
Good eye man
Illuminati confirmed by evil satanic pop station.
You know pop stations are bad when you notice that
Omega flowey is back
@@martymannering8361 nope its satan
Why do I enjoy watching a grown man talk about bad children's things
TheEpicLuigi9 Arrested development?
TheEpicLuigi9 Because it's more fun than watching people brag about how good they think they are at video games?
+DragonRex20 oooh burn all LPers
+TheEpicLuigi9 Because at one time in our lives, we too bought into these bad childrens things!
+UB40Music like the jaguar and no no no it's name should not be brought up ever games that are worser (which apparently is a word) (too lazy to put in that face) and dun :).
my calculator can play games better than that
I loved the part where he said "This is a two player game, because you have to get a friend to hold the screen in so you can see it."
They should make an Xbox ripoff called the CrossCube.
But it will look like a GameCube and an xbox merged together lol
naught square
Still waiting for the POPbox One
First we need to wait for the POPbox 360
We need POPbox Ones and POPstation 4s..
Well I want my Pii U.
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Wait a second.
Knuxfan24 Do you mean the WLL U?
SunnyDoesntMinceraft Oh but of course. How silly of me.
I still remember watching this on a 2nd Gen iPod Nano using the free WiFi in Barnes & Noble the day he uploaded this
clean this
I loved the bit on the package where it said "Content's may vary from illustrations on the package". As if your expectations weren't low enough already.
"Realistic sound 'effect'.
Just the one sound effect? They couldn't afford more?
And if anyone ever makes fun of you playing those crappy fakes, you can always throw those X shaped games at them like those ninja stars weapon thingies you see in ninja movies and who knows, kill your mocking enemies.
That space war game looks borderline fun. Probably the most impressive pop station game I have seen.
I wish that on every Pop Station they would use Comic Sans in every sentence.
The rubber things are the electrical connections to the LCD display. The rubber is a sandwich of many parallel insulator/conductor layers, basically a vertical array of wires. Pads on the LCD and on the board of the unit roughly align with those on the PCB on the base unit.
It's a typical way of connecting cheapo LCDs to boards, though I've never seen it used as a removable connection before (usually the LCD is bolted onto the PCB with something more than a crappy clip).
the glorious 360p of old ashens :D
***** This video has too few explosions to even come near the kerbal awesomeness... wait... MICHAEL BAY'S A KERBAL
10:09 Everyone's first sexual experience.
I can't relate, but I'm just so excited to see one of my favorite Poopers here on a random video I'm watching at 6 AM. You're awesome, dude.
ohaidere.
Aww, thanks, buddy.
(Rosen voice) What are you doing?
HAH
To this day, my brother and I say, “there’s a fiver in it for you,” whenever we have something that doesn’t want to work.
this thing would a nightmare for christmas
check your grammar.
I was missing the be lol
+oscar diaz I didn't notice, he's a degenerate for noticing
JivenFr3shTitsOnSwag What?
Pearsephone Pink You are a social degenerate for noticing his simple typo and pointing it out in a condescending manner.
I love how plastic bits just start pinging off as you put the games in. That's some top notch quality right there! XD
i love the pop station series! i can't wait for future upcoming rip-off consoles!!!
4:45, it seemed to make a scary happy face when he pulled off the sticker!, just noticed now after almost 7 years lol.
"First time I take it out of the box"
"put the batteries in beforehand"
Logic.
That technical difficulty tune was bangin'
Does anyone else remember a Pokemon themed LCD game from 2006-ish, it was in the shape of a poke ball and was a bit shit...
The one where you tilt the ball to capture and battle pokémon? I have it sitting on my desk!
Kinzokan Called?!?!?!
(before my time, but still sounds interesting)
YES i remember this!!!!
Dr. Ashen my respect for your work, you sure know how to make your videos funny and exciting. I hope to see you having a TV show on BBC.
I come from the future. He did and had 2 movies
"I'll shove it in and see what happens."
Dangerous words to live by.
When the 24th Caprice is a "consoles" soundtrack
That wasn't a terrifying thought, I realized that doing that means I have skill at sitting and watching!
I still find myself going back watching these old old videos Ashens posted, man it's hard to believe he's been posting videos for 12 YEARS!!!
16 now
How... how do the Chinese even KNOW about the South Bank Show?? It's pretty niche even over here! That's insane!
I have no idea what the South Bank Show is, but it sounds like Paganini Caprice No. 24.
Moon Hoplite Ah yes, that's actually definitely it. Thank you for teaching me what it's actually called!
My comfort videos
This video was the video that got me into ashens.
when I'm a child, my family can only afford bought me game consoles like this. it's really bring back memories
5:12 when the captions are turned on it says "A very annoying tune starts" :)
Aaah the memories. ..those "cartridges" quickly became much more useful as shurikens...
5:33
I do lots of things with one hand when I'm alone too.
Also a note on the fact at the end, it has still been the best part of my day,
These games were TERRIBLE. I don't even know why they bother selling these, you can get better video game performance from a $30 Android phone.
check the date the vidd was published
+gangatalishis Yes. even in 2010 you could get much better even on a $30 phone.
PCgamer1080 Yessss. Playing Snake on a flip phone is much more enjoyable than this.
Isaac Ledesma not too sure but it actually was yes lol
Isaac Ledesma I have a $20 android from Walmart, and I second that statement.
"Gullible twits" -Ashens. Probably my favorite quote.
I noticed the popstation or PSP glitches around in the intro
This one is different. Normally it swings around but in this it stays upright while it turns.
8:52 dat laugh
Oh boy I had one of these and enjoyed it so much!
Said no one ever
Said no one ever
said no one ever
said no one ever
It would suck if your grandmother got you this for Christmas! XD
Yup
Cake Loader my grandmother buys Nintendo stuff a lot she had gotten me a 3ds xl for my birthday and a Wii U the following Christmas
what was that music in the technical difficulties bit?? was wicked
your videos are so Terrible, I LOVE them!!!!
That "hold" music is rather compelling.
Sounds like the background music they'd use in an episode of "How it's made" :-)
But does it get the red ring of death?
This is very old and probably no one will ever see this, but I feel like I should mention that that "bit of rubber" is a bunch of electrical contacts as well! It's something called a "zebra strip" or more properly elastomeric connector, commonly used for cheap press-fit contacts between a PCB and an LCD.
I saw this! Interesting tidbit, actually.
I saw this too! So there is no active circuitry in the module, and it's just the display and an identifier pin array then?
Can confirm, as an owner of a few of these, that those are indeed zebra strips
4:30 if you know what i mean *wink*wink*
***** oh yeah XD, im supprised to see you here... one question... do you have a steam account?
***** -> check your friend requests
I immediately scrolled down to see if anyone else noticed that.
+(S-F)Mr. Frog phrasing...
+(S-F)Mr. Frog wow lol
I remember having these kind of games back when I was like 5 now looking at these games they give me headaches. I mean they used to make these sort of games for those Happy meal toys.
No wonder we don't care about Soccer in the US
No cheerleaders
That's because Football is entertaining unlike American Football so you's need something entertain your small minds.
Small-Time-Gaming
I'm sure hairy men in short shorts are entertaining to watch for you, it's just not our thing
Yeah. Much better than little boys wearing armour.
The two should be merged to maximize appeal, should we have little boys in short shorts or hairy men wearing armour?
BobofWOGGLE
Think we already have the 2nd one; Game of Thrones (and look how popular that is)
The "Space Guardian" was actually available under the name "Space Counter Strike" on the first POPStation watch. :D
xbox "the ridiculously out of date one"...original xbox is actually at the forefront of emulation.nothing out of date about it at all.
The "Onion" is a warning that it's gonna make you cry
Still better than E.T. for the atari 2600
Idk..
Thomas Pavlick srsly, it almost crashed the video game market!
+Exclamation Mark Boxes it DID crash the market...
No E.T. is actually playable and you can actually complete the game, you can't on Pop Stations.
what was the technical difficulties song from?
still better graphics than cod
+moohooman Haha no.
Fuck that shit. I'll play cod any day over this pos.
+moohooman It's always great when someones copy-pasted 2011 era joke doesn't get the thumbs up they expected.
+Mhn Five I guess I deserve that one
8:29 and 8:51 EXPLODING PLASTIC!!!
*the tabs that hold that LCD game break off*
this consele has X FACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol you are amazing!!! and you have seen the space-shooty-guardian thing in the poly station 3 review
I own a ripoff console that looks like the first xbox and it plays 200 built-in atari 2600 games. Much better than this piece of shit.
I agree. What's the technical difficulties song?
betr den xbax 1 lel orignol jok fune xd xd
Jajajas so funneh you le win one le internets XDDDDD
Quality kek
My "that's what she said!" reflex was overloading while watching this video.
I'm surprised POP Station hasn't been sued yet. O_o
I can't help but correct you at 2:50 - the rubber is actually the thing that connects the LCD with the devic. It's special rubber with conductive paths inside.
This was 7 years ago. Time really flies
Ashen proves to us that even at 360p you can still make quality content
10:44 "Terrifying thought: You have been watching an idiot talking about a broken toy for over ten minutes"
Not so terrifying when you realize you´ve been doing it for over *fifteen years*
just over 7 years old now, haha.
pop stations remind me of a gag from that one manga where they're at a festival and win a DS lite at a shooting gallery but when they get it home they realize it's actually a DS light, as in a flashlight that looks like a DS.
Yes, clearly I was worked up. I sure am glad you notified me that I should calm down, because in my state of mass hysteria, I never would have figured that out on my own.
The idea that some poor bastard received this as a Christmas present off his parents, then had to show them the console they actually were hoping for actually makes me feel some level of depression.
I actually know someone who received something quite similar for their birthday from their grandma who thought it was the real one. They still have it now, maybe I could convince him to send it to Ashens.
Hah, I love your subtitles, Dr. Ashen. Another reason to watch all of your videos. Again.
The tune the South Bank Show theme song is based on is Caprice No. 24 by Niccolo Paganini.
Grandma: I got you an xbox for Christmas!
You: really? Sweeeett!
Grandma: here you go!
You: oh...um...it's a popstation shaped like an xbox shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt
Wow, the sound chip in this almost sounds like a SEGA Master System! It's the only POP Station that doesn't hurt my ears.
they had this at dolphin wholesale store. It was there for a year and me and my friends were all talking about it and thought if ashens would find it and do a review lol
Jesus, just got new headphones, and haven't adjusted the equalizer yet, and that siren made me fall out of my chair. My last headphones were muddy and I had to boost the highs.
These are awesome! Oh wait, it's 2023, not 1988. Nevermind.
How many x's are in the package? ITS A XXX TOY! Best pun ever!
Me: Mom can we get the Xbox?
Mom: We have an Xbox at home
Xbox at home:
Shut the fuck up, that joke is really getting old!
The hilarious part is, unless you look at the ghost images of the LCD, you have no way to tell which game is which after you peel off the screen label!
i can just imagine three little kids huddling around this and cheering on their friends :P
1:08 = FUNNY 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
6:05
this looks like one of those games that may come with a happy meal
I Remember the X-Box it Was My First Game Console I Grew Up With Back Then!
I've noticed that every time an Ashens video has subtitles, they slip the words "moon men" in there somewhere. Very cheeky.
LMFAO @ the Southbank Show music :P
"Tonight on The South Bank Show, a double length special where I talk to the legendary inventor of the Pop Station, the handheld console that changed the landscape of portable gaming forever. We also talk to Ann Widdecombe and Diane Abbott on how the Pop Station has inspired the new proposed legislation for preschool learning development."
Am I the only one who actually likes how this looks? Really does look like a mini version of the OG Xbox.
the "sad onion" is the epic lines he has XD
i'm glad i always remember to turn down the volume for pop station watches
I always had nightmares about buying a fake console jus like this in my childhood and still to this day
4:32. "Lord, it doesn't want to come."
This must be used in the next Ashen RUclips poop.
Am i the only one who finds ashens voice relaxing? o.O
The subtitles about the public domain music is hilarious.
"It is not very good for games but it does make a pleasing bouncing sound when you throw it in the bin"
I see... The rubber thing that fell out IS the electrical connection. It's rubber with tiny conductive stripes in it.
I need a couple of those things; perhaps I should buy a popstation...
Oh men that sad onion icon is killing. I can't stop laughing.