Same I totally forgot about this but I played with it as much as my gameboy back then! Such a weird wave of memories and nostalgia always comes when I remember specific things like this too
I had the pixter. My mom emailed the company to complain about the pen placement because I’m left handed. Their response was basically “where else would we put it?” Sigh
The Hannie Corner I remember selling my gameboy color to GameStop when I was 14 for less than a dollar. Like, why. That 64 cents or whatever wasn’t worth it. Kids are super dumb.
You guys think that's bad? When I was around 6 or 7, my older brother (by one year) traded our SNES AND ALL OF ITS GAMES for an ACTION FIGURE! A GOD DAMN ACTION FIGURE! JUST SOME GENERIC FIST-SIZED ACTION FIGURE!
I remember the thing. For one Christmas season parents were convinced it’d make their baby smart. I remember there being an entire section of the toy store being dedicated to it and being alongside the Leap Frog. Even as a kid I felt like it was snake oil and it was pretty clear from the outset that Leap Frog would be more popular.
Things from the early 2000s just feel like a fever dream that i'm always surprised exist. Also I do remember this, but I never got it cuz we had the leapster. And if my brother and I learned anything from it, it was "play the piano" in german.
@Michael Persico Oh boy. Yep. yes I was referring to the leap pad. It's been... A long time and I didn't have the forethought to google the correct name. Whoops. Thank you for the correction.
@@lisachiappetti6092 Had to google it for the actual spelling, but it's "playing the piano" or "das piano spielen". My brother and I would spam this specific one because we thought it was funny. XD
Never owed one (I was a teenager when they came out), but I was working in a toy store at the time they were on the market. So I was quite familiar with them. I handled them in their packaging, I stacked them behind the counter, I sold them to parents, I may have even play a store demo of one (though I'm not entirely sure). They looked cool for a kids toy at the time, but I was rocking the Game Boy Advance back then and felt that it be a waste of money to buy one.
I had one of these when I was little! Totally forgot about that thing! (Also since I have a jojo icon I’m legally required to mention that I liked your jotaro barbie makeover)
Does anyone else remember Skannerz? That was a thing right? I do have fond memories of me and my buddies getting into collecting and battling with those neat little monster things. And we did often went to our local supermarket just to scan stuff and look exceedingly suspisions for those who worked there. Good times.
I had a pixter. I remember really liking it at the time. I felt so cool, probably because I didn't know any other game consoles existed other than maybe the v-smile or leap frog stuff. I remember a dinosaur video for it that I remember thinking was cool at the time.
Oh my god, i HAD the original pixter! I loved the hell outta that thing. Then i forgot all about it and also tried googling for it a year or two ago to no avail. When you don't know the name of it, it's literally impossible to find. I had no clue they made later versions of it, that's kinda wild. Dang, thanks for the memories! I wonder how cheap they are to get nowadays? It'd be awesome to have one again for the novelty of it.
I COMPLETELY forgot about this thing. This video unlocked memories I forgot I had. I must have been 4 years old when I got that original model. I remember picking it out at Toys R Us and deciding which of the cartridges to choose.
Holy cow. When I saw the thumbnail for this video, a part of my brain woke up that has been asleep since 2001. I had the original Pixster and loved drawing on it. Also if you left it on, it would start playing music. :)
I'm so glad you made this video! I've been trying to remember what these things were called for a while now. Me and my brother each had the original! Mine was purple with green trim while his was blue with green trim. We didn't have any cartridges, but they were still a lot of fun! We mostly used the stamps to either stamp in a scene or a face, rather than free hand anything. We made all sorts of creative and interesting scenes and faces, just to crack up when we used the explode animation to blow them up. It also had a feature that allowed us to send creations back and forth between the devices. Sometimes we would steal each other's devices just to sabotage each other's most coveted saved art work. It was a lot of fun
This video made me think of my old Vtech smile! My sister had a pixter, and we would play in the back of the car during the many 8 hour+ trips my family made.
When you do old leapfrog learning toys, theres one I vaguely remember. It was this handheld one where you twist the ends of this cylindrical toy to answer trivia or math and they have a multiplayer where you toss it to someone else hot potato-style. It also used cartridges with different games on it. I had fun with it with my brother when we were in grade school.
Dude I actually also forgot the name of this until one day I spent an hour googling old systems from the 2000s. The reason was that the music sounded a lot like a riff in harder, better, faster, stronger and I couldn't think of wtf the game was called
I have never heard of this until now. Also, these early-to-mid 2000’s kids tech products are so fascinating to learn about because they’re so odd and unique, it makes me realize how little innovation there is in current tech products.
It makes me realize how great my mom was at filtering my choice of toys so that I actually got shit I wanted, and not all the shit he reviews lol I remember thinking VideoNow was gonna be the biggest wave of the future when I was like 8 years old lol
I had the original Pixter and I remember playing with the animate cartridge. The workflow and latency was frustrating so I ended up just listening to the music half the time
Not only do I remember the Pixter VERY fondly, I actually had TWO of them! One for me and one for my sister. Not only that, we also had SEVERAL cartridges for it, some of them are even duplicates of each other! I especially had a lot of fun playing on that thing... while it lasted before my parents gave them away. I'm genuinely surprised this thing isn't getting any info online AT ALL! Some examples of cartridges I enjoyed were a safari game, an frame-by-frame-based "action" cartridge, a racing game, and even the Rescue Heroes cartridge!
I remember seeing one at a Thrift Store about 5 years ago, wish I knew how many people sought after it, I would have bought it 😅 Probably didnt work and would have only been a decorative casing though
You should do a video on Adventure Quest. That 2D side scrolling anime style RPG. It was all browser based. I'm sure a lot of kids played this back in the day.
The Pixter was great! Man did I waste so much time on that thing growing up. I had so many game cartridges. I would haul them around in a gallon ziplock bag wherever I went lol! I had the silver and green Pixter Color. Now that I think about it, I'm almost positive that spending so much time on the Pixter growing up is what has led me to love making 2D and 3D graphics along with video editing to this day! Thank you for allowing me to unlock this realization! I would have totally forgotten about all of my memories with the Pixter. Eventually, the Game Boy and DS took over for me haha.
My baby game system of choice was the LeapFrog DIDJ. It had full blown 3D games on it like Star Wars The Clone Wars. I got the bundle with Sonic 1 on it. It was Sonic from the Genesis, except you had to do simple math problems to get checkpoints.
This video dug up an obscure childhood memory of being on a super long road trip and playing with my Pixter in the back seat. I only remembered tic tac toe and being able to erase drawings with the lady bug effect. I also remember having to cover my head with a blanket because the screen didn't show up in bright sunlight.
Incredible, watching this was like unlocking a memory. I always saw commercials for these when I was a kid but I'm glad my family got the Gameboy Advance/ Nintendo DS rather than one of these knowing their capabilities. However, the Pixter did remind me of one piece of tech I had when I was a kid. It was a blue and silver toy which was interactive in the same way the Pixter was - it was not backlit and could only do one color. The "power" button also "opened" the toy and would push a cover screen open. I wonder what that one was called...
AHHH I had a Pixter color and I forgot it even existed until this video. When I think about it I can vividly remember a specific sound effect for certain drawing tools! Great video as always :)
holy shit someone else other than me knows about that little green piece of joy, I only had that and the rescue rangers one but god I loved the dino one. I don't even remember what you did in it but I do know that I loved it so much.
I remember this! I remember playing the dinosaur one all the time when I was younger, but I haven't thought about it much in years. Thank you for reminding me of my childhood.
I had one when i was a baby but i barely remembered it. I knew i had "some game console esque toy with a color screen" but i didnt know what it was at all until now. Thanks billiam!
I managed to dig up my old original pixter with some type of dinosaur game in it. Also you should do the tiger electronics handhelds from the late 90's.
bro i was OBSESSED with the fairly odd parents cartridge for this omg. i mean i feel like i was obsessed with this thing in general. i remember being in the back seat of the car in my own world playing pixter
Well, Nintendo likes to pretend that DS thing is still around. But also the idea that (basically full) Switches are about to become a thing every kid has is........kinda weird feeling. Like I'm happy about how wide spread tech has become but it feels a little off.
I used the heck out of this as a kid! This and the Leapfrog stuff. The music cart for the original was a ton of fun, and the Color Pixter had some really nice games for the age range. Like the world explorer and spongebob games I especially remember. I think if it still works by the time I have kids the Pixter will be a great way to introduce them to handheld tech without needing to worry about youtube autoplay or the, getting scammed.
I still have my old pixters somewhere. They were genuinely great for little kids (like myself at the time) I remember getting a gameboy advance for my birthday and never touched my pixter again :(
Is that a joke? (Nobody...) Iv never understand it, iv asked this before but nobody has explained it to me. It's like people use it but they don't even know the meaning themselves
Ulises Solis Bruh, for real? Alright, look. At first, it’s describing that any and everyone is just minding their own business. (Hence why it’s titled like “Nobody: ... Not a single soul: ...) and then randomly, someone says or does something outrageous or something like that. (Insert Billiam’s or somebody else’s actions.) those usually come last... because that’s the joke... an overused joke... Does that help? Did I just get whooshed?
I had the purple one and my grandma got me this for the holidays when I was super young, I think maybe when I was 7 or 8. I played it a lot during car rides.
I saved up my money for daaaaayyyys to get this. I can remember the commercial so clearly. I also remember playing with it for like 1 week and then adding it to my bin
Just so good Jumpstart DvD was great so remember crying at the end of the 2nd Grade Disc you know the one that you could make your own character. (Bro that deep research I forgot there was more then just one Google page 😂😂)
I remember one of this, i got one from a hand me down from my cousin living in the United States, i just remember the sound effects of putting a stickers on a painting
my brother has the green one w the dino cartridge! i was too young to play with it when it came out but i remember using it from like 2004-2008 and we definitely still have it
I had one of these and my parents got me the Dora game for it. You could create your own episode using scattered clips and I just filled up all the slots with Swiper saying “Oh man.” A bunch of times
I had troubles figuring out what this toy was since my sister had the same toy when I was little. After watching one of her video diaries, I finally found out what the toy was called, the Pixter.
This video bring back weird memories. Like I know I had one when I was younger but which one? I look at the regular one and the color and I remember seeing these images but???
WAIT A SEC I HAD ONE OF THESE!!!! I bought it at a yard sale and it came with the Barbie Fashion Show game that I played once (wasn’t into Barbies despite the other boys in my family liked Barbie). The screen ended up getting pressed too hard and it wouldn’t show the actual image anymore.
Nice classic Fujifilm shirt sir. I actually do phone support for the digital camera. I remember seeing these things on the market and being like "oh thats where all the balm pilot screens went."
I had the fashion Pocket Pixter growing up, and while it was very annoying, I did love this thing, and happily brought it with me when I went to Disneyland for my 8th birthday.
This video dug 10+ year old memories up from my childhood. (21 y.o rn) I loved the pixter color a lot but eventually it got pushed aside by the Nintendo ds. Me and my brother both had pixter colors and I'm pretty sure we wore them out near the end. I definitely remember playing the Barbie Doll cartridge a lot along with Scooby Doo, and Spongebob. By wore out I mean it was just old, no amount of AA batteries could help it any longer. Eventually I remember having a hard time even drawing on it because the touch lag was so bad, or it just stopped registering that it was even touched at all. I'm pretty sure that's why my parents just ended up getting me and brother each a ds. We loved Pokemon more anyways lol I'm pretty sure my parents gave us the pixters in 2004 because we were still in touch with my uncle. (Not deceased, we're just choosing no contact for reasons)I have good memories of playing the pixter for entire car trips to his house.
That brief picture/drawing of robot baby gave me real nostalgia holy crap. That was my favorite toy as a kid. I might still have it but I remember it's bottle not recognizing the doll anymore. Also it's constant crying. And sometimes it's crying would sound like a grown man trying to sound like a baby. Anyway thank you for resurfacing those wonderful memories even for a brief joke :,)
I didn’t have this but one of my cousins did. I don’t remember what games they had but I loved to borrow it when I visited his house. I remember that “sticker” mini game where they have you blank faces to which you put eyes, nose, mouth and other stuff on. There was also a dinosaur version, but you pasted dinosaurs and plants and bugs on jungle environment, I think. That noise of the pencil drawing is so nostalgic.
Can I suggest a "Was Weird"? topic? Creatures Was Weird? They were a franchise (it still technically exists but it's not really the same). There were three mainline games for the PC.
Never had one of these, but I did have an original Leapster, then a Leapster 2 when that one broke, and also a Leapster but for the TV. Pretty interesting devices that I’d love to see on the channel!!
My sister and I shared a purple Pixter color! I have such fond memories of that thing. I ran into my sister's room when the video got to the part about the Pixter color. Despite her trying to sleep for work in the morning she watched the video with me just remember the Pixter. That ticking noise it makes when you draw made me so happy.
THANK YOU I had this distant memory of this thing, and for the past like 6 months i have been searching like crazy thinking i had some leapfrog thing as a kid but nope i had a pixter. The amount of satisfaction and relief i feel finally knowing im not compleatly insane is just amazing
I had one of these. No games or extensions. And all I remember in the way of audio is the jingle "You got the pixter you got the power!" Unless it was something else called pixel something. Some drawing toy and it was either this or some off brand ripoff that had an advertising budget.
Your search for this toy was similar to mine. I remembered it, had no idea what it was called, searched the internet, asked my family who had no idea what I was talking about, and then I accidentally discovered the name because I was just watching your video on leap frog where you mentioned it 😂😂😂 thank you, this has been driving me insane 😂😂😂
I remember my cousin having the Pixter and I played with it when I would visit. I forgot all about this! It was my first introduction to drawing tablets.
It's not forgotten in my household, me and my sister had one when we were little. It was a color Pixter, it was so fun for little me. I had Teen Titans, Disney Princesses, Dinosaurs, and more. But my favorite one was Spongebob :). I'm pretty sure mine was Lime with Purple.
The thumbnail of this video was a huge nostalgia bomb! I had totally forgotten about my Pixter though I played with it constantly when I was 8 ish! I'm pretty sure I had one of the Pixter 2.0s, but it totally could have been one of the originals. Definitely not the color one though. I never did get any of the cartridges for it, or if I did it wasn't very memorable. I do remember chewing on the ridges of the drawing stick, and the sounds effects have definitely stayed buried in my brain, hearing them again was wild. So, thanks for making this video. I definitely would have completely forgotten about this decently large part of my childhood if you hadn't!
I had the blue Pixter Color and loved it SO much! My favorite game was "Alphabet Forest"; I don't remember the gameplay elements of it (probably very lackluster) but I remember that I thought it looked really nice! I never completely forgot about this system but I outgrew it, replaced it with a DSi, and had to throw it away because it didn't work anymore...
I never had these but I remember my Radio Shack being FULL of Leap Frog systems. My little cousin had one and yup it was borring. I keep playing sims with my ds lite 😂
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Billiam are you going to do a review on the digimon tamagotchi 🤩🤩🤩🙏🙏
Can you review the Action Man show from the early 2000s, that uses to be my jam.
I say this every time. But please if you can, Do a video on the crush gear turbo toy line and or anime!! 😭😭😭😭
Wryyyyyy?
Billiam we all know you dont want to do this
Billiam never fails to dig deep into the back of my memory and find a toy I completely forgot about
I mean, it seems familiar to me, but I'm not sure if I've actually heard about it. It's like deja vu.
Same I totally forgot about this but I played with it as much as my gameboy back then! Such a weird wave of memories and nostalgia always comes when I remember specific things like this too
If I remember correctly I didn’t have any cartridges for it.
Same here I vaguely remember that four square menu
It feels so weird to remember something that I probably never would have remembered again were it not for this video
I had the pixter. My mom emailed the company to complain about the pen placement because I’m left handed. Their response was basically “where else would we put it?” Sigh
Well they cant put it on top or bottom so where are they supposed to put it
@@pineapplers8138 it will get lost
@@jknifgijdfui they could have made left handed variants
I’m left handed also. Majority Rules.
@@phillips2683 im not.
Well, I never had one and won't care for it lol
When I was 8 or so, my parents told me I could have a GameBoy or a Pixter Color. 8-year-olds should not be trusted to make decisions like that.
The Hannie Corner I remember selling my gameboy color to GameStop when I was 14 for less than a dollar. Like, why. That 64 cents or whatever wasn’t worth it. Kids are super dumb.
F
Please tell me you got a Gameboy 😂
@@kaitie648 Hate to disappoint. To this day, I still don't own one. Also, my Pixter broke after a few years, so I don't have that anymore, either.
You guys think that's bad? When I was around 6 or 7, my older brother (by one year) traded our SNES AND ALL OF ITS GAMES for an ACTION FIGURE! A GOD DAMN ACTION FIGURE! JUST SOME GENERIC FIST-SIZED ACTION FIGURE!
Turning Barbie into a Jojo, Now that is something I've never seen before, lol.
You thought it was me, Barbie! ❤️
BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!
bimbofication OUT, jojofication IN
when he says "what can I say, im baby" I jumped off the roof
It got me like: 😢😢😭😭😭😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
So basically
I don't get it and I want to, care to explain?
@@MilkMiruka ok you see, I'm baby
@@SupermanThatHoe555 what
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Little Girls: I'm gonna make Barbie beautiful!
Billiam: I'm gonna make Barbie Jojo-ful!
wacom? more like WHACKOM real artists do their work on the pixter
Teddie From Persona 4 oh hey Teddie
>:o T3DDY B34R
*inner osu! player intensifies*
teddie...
I remember the thing. For one Christmas season parents were convinced it’d make their baby smart. I remember there being an entire section of the toy store being dedicated to it and being alongside the Leap Frog. Even as a kid I felt like it was snake oil and it was pretty clear from the outset that Leap Frog would be more popular.
Things from the early 2000s just feel like a fever dream that i'm always surprised exist.
Also I do remember this, but I never got it cuz we had the leapster. And if my brother and I learned anything from it, it was "play the piano" in german.
@Michael Persico Oh boy. Yep. yes I was referring to the leap pad. It's been... A long time and I didn't have the forethought to google the correct name. Whoops. Thank you for the correction.
Now I'm curious. How do you say "play the piano" in German?
@@lisachiappetti6092 Had to google it for the actual spelling, but it's "playing the piano" or "das piano spielen". My brother and I would spam this specific one because we thought it was funny. XD
@@MintyKisses cool I learned something new today. Thanks fam!
Or “to use the computer “ in Japanese 😂
billiam: **full hotwheels computer setup at a very young age**
me: *still asking my parents for a 200$ laptop*
It's strongly suggested he bought it as an adult.
I don’t think so. It sounds like he HAD one as a kid and is trying to find a different one to buy now as an adult
Never owed one (I was a teenager when they came out), but I was working in a toy store at the time they were on the market. So I was quite familiar with them. I handled them in their packaging, I stacked them behind the counter, I sold them to parents, I may have even play a store demo of one (though I'm not entirely sure). They looked cool for a kids toy at the time, but I was rocking the Game Boy Advance back then and felt that it be a waste of money to buy one.
I was 7 and I felt the same way, waste of money
Yeah, I never had one and most kids I knew already had the game boy advance anyway lol
I was probably in preschool or 1st grade when I got mine, it was a lot of fun :)
Therapist: Jojo Barbie does not exist.
Jojo Barbie:
I'm sure I could've died not knowing about Jojo's Bizarrbie adventure
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Barbie’s Fabulous Adventurer
I'm fully expecting to see the LeapFrog on here at some point.
Edit: literally seconds later: "we'll get to them someday"
🔊
My friend you are in luck! 😂
I had one of these when I was little! Totally forgot about that thing! (Also since I have a jojo icon I’m legally required to mention that I liked your jotaro barbie makeover)
Does anyone else remember Skannerz? That was a thing right? I do have fond memories of me and my buddies getting into collecting and battling with those neat little monster things. And we did often went to our local supermarket just to scan stuff and look exceedingly suspisions for those who worked there. Good times.
Yes, my friends had it and it was glorious!
Was it where you scanned barcodes for monsters? I had one I think!
Oohh! 😮 I always wanted one of those! They looked so cool! It would be awesome if Billiam made something with that!
Skannerz was the shit
Yes, I had one. I loved it but dropped at a supermarket and then it was dead. That was 10 years ago.
I had a pixter. I remember really liking it at the time. I felt so cool, probably because I didn't know any other game consoles existed other than maybe the v-smile or leap frog stuff. I remember a dinosaur video for it that I remember thinking was cool at the time.
Yes, Dino Draw! I had that one, you could excavate fossils and stuff like that.
11:07
Me: Is that... is that what I think it is?
11:12
Me: Yare Yare Daze.
that was a top kek
It's so epic in so many ways
OH NO!
@@yukisetsuna1325 actually Jotaro
Is that a mother fucking JoJo reference?!?!
Oh my god, i HAD the original pixter! I loved the hell outta that thing. Then i forgot all about it and also tried googling for it a year or two ago to no avail. When you don't know the name of it, it's literally impossible to find. I had no clue they made later versions of it, that's kinda wild. Dang, thanks for the memories! I wonder how cheap they are to get nowadays? It'd be awesome to have one again for the novelty of it.
I like the look of the pixter color and its cartridges; it's like a fusion between hippy flower power and space age.
The drawing sound is so nostalgic my grandparents used to buy us a lot of toy tech.
So basically this is a cyberpunk Etch-A-Sketch, right?
pretty much.
Nah, you're thinking of the animator.
I COMPLETELY forgot about this thing. This video unlocked memories I forgot I had. I must have been 4 years old when I got that original model. I remember picking it out at Toys R Us and deciding which of the cartridges to choose.
Holy cow. When I saw the thumbnail for this video, a part of my brain woke up that has been asleep since 2001. I had the original Pixster and loved drawing on it. Also if you left it on, it would start playing music. :)
I'm so glad you made this video! I've been trying to remember what these things were called for a while now. Me and my brother each had the original! Mine was purple with green trim while his was blue with green trim. We didn't have any cartridges, but they were still a lot of fun! We mostly used the stamps to either stamp in a scene or a face, rather than free hand anything. We made all sorts of creative and interesting scenes and faces, just to crack up when we used the explode animation to blow them up. It also had a feature that allowed us to send creations back and forth between the devices. Sometimes we would steal each other's devices just to sabotage each other's most coveted saved art work. It was a lot of fun
I remember very vividly having this as a kid.
I haven't seen it in like a decade.
But that sound- that sound it makes. It brings me back.
This video made me think of my old Vtech smile! My sister had a pixter, and we would play in the back of the car during the many 8 hour+ trips my family made.
When you do old leapfrog learning toys, theres one I vaguely remember. It was this handheld one where you twist the ends of this cylindrical toy to answer trivia or math and they have a multiplayer where you toss it to someone else hot potato-style. It also used cartridges with different games on it. I had fun with it with my brother when we were in grade school.
I had the same thing, it was purple and yellow and had alot of math games
Dude I actually also forgot the name of this until one day I spent an hour googling old systems from the 2000s.
The reason was that the music sounded a lot like a riff in harder, better, faster, stronger and I couldn't think of wtf the game was called
I have never heard of this until now. Also, these early-to-mid 2000’s kids tech products are so fascinating to learn about because they’re so odd and unique, it makes me realize how little innovation there is in current tech products.
Because old gadgets did 1 thing, like take a picture, make a call, play games etc. Now smartphones do everything
@@notkerrystolcenberg And that’s a problem, because you can’t balance watching Netflix and reading comics on the same device.
First world problems
It makes me realize how great my mom was at filtering my choice of toys so that I actually got shit I wanted, and not all the shit he reviews lol
I remember thinking VideoNow was gonna be the biggest wave of the future when I was like 8 years old lol
I had the original Pixter and I remember playing with the animate cartridge. The workflow and latency was frustrating so I ended up just listening to the music half the time
You're like a 2000s nostalgia king. I remember this!
Not only do I remember the Pixter VERY fondly, I actually had TWO of them! One for me and one for my sister. Not only that, we also had SEVERAL cartridges for it, some of them are even duplicates of each other! I especially had a lot of fun playing on that thing... while it lasted before my parents gave them away. I'm genuinely surprised this thing isn't getting any info online AT ALL!
Some examples of cartridges I enjoyed were a safari game, an frame-by-frame-based "action" cartridge, a racing game, and even the Rescue Heroes cartridge!
You could probably steal LGR's Hot Wheels PC
Or just ask for it, I'm sure it's just sitting in his storage unit anyway
Yes! I thought of his.
I remember seeing one at a Thrift Store about 5 years ago, wish I knew how many people sought after it, I would have bought it 😅
Probably didnt work and would have only been a decorative casing though
New LRG Video:
New Robot I Found In My Storage Unit
@@charlesjoelespinosa3249 What?
You should do a video on Adventure Quest. That 2D side scrolling anime style RPG. It was all browser based. I'm sure a lot of kids played this back in the day.
Shit I played the hell out of this game and others on that universe.
Yulgar, Zorbak, the ZardHunter ... God, that was my teen years right there.
hOLY JESUS I LOVED THAT
You just awakened an ancient memory. I forgot I had one of these.
I loved this...and I was a teenager. 😲😲😲 I would spend hours playing with it.
Holy cow I had been looking everywhere for this!! It was a distant memory that I only knew how it looked like thanks to an old xmas pic
The Pixter was great! Man did I waste so much time on that thing growing up. I had so many game cartridges. I would haul them around in a gallon ziplock bag wherever I went lol! I had the silver and green Pixter Color. Now that I think about it, I'm almost positive that spending so much time on the Pixter growing up is what has led me to love making 2D and 3D graphics along with video editing to this day! Thank you for allowing me to unlock this realization! I would have totally forgotten about all of my memories with the Pixter. Eventually, the Game Boy and DS took over for me haha.
My baby game system of choice was the LeapFrog DIDJ. It had full blown 3D games on it like Star Wars The Clone Wars. I got the bundle with Sonic 1 on it. It was Sonic from the Genesis, except you had to do simple math problems to get checkpoints.
This video dug up an obscure childhood memory of being on a super long road trip and playing with my Pixter in the back seat. I only remembered tic tac toe and being able to erase drawings with the lady bug effect. I also remember having to cover my head with a blanket because the screen didn't show up in bright sunlight.
Incredible, watching this was like unlocking a memory. I always saw commercials for these when I was a kid but I'm glad my family got the Gameboy Advance/ Nintendo DS rather than one of these knowing their capabilities. However, the Pixter did remind me of one piece of tech I had when I was a kid. It was a blue and silver toy which was interactive in the same way the Pixter was - it was not backlit and could only do one color. The "power" button also "opened" the toy and would push a cover screen open. I wonder what that one was called...
A new Billiam video already? It's our lucky month lmao
Gorgeous drawing of Pombo btw, you should start an art channel!
AHHH I had a Pixter color and I forgot it even existed until this video. When I think about it I can vividly remember a specific sound effect for certain drawing tools! Great video as always :)
I loved the Pixter, it was so cool as a kid. I especially remember the Dinosaur cartridge
YES THE DINOSAUR CARTRIDGE!!!
The dinosaur one was the best
holy shit someone else other than me knows about that little green piece of joy, I only had that and the rescue rangers one but god I loved the dino one. I don't even remember what you did in it but I do know that I loved it so much.
I remember this! I remember playing the dinosaur one all the time when I was younger, but I haven't thought about it much in years.
Thank you for reminding me of my childhood.
I would like to see a video about Humungous Entertainment and JumpStart games. :) I loved those as a kid!
I had one when i was a baby but i barely remembered it. I knew i had "some game console esque toy with a color screen" but i didnt know what it was at all until now. Thanks billiam!
I managed to dig up my old original pixter with some type of dinosaur game in it. Also you should do the tiger electronics handhelds from the late 90's.
bro i was OBSESSED with the fairly odd parents cartridge for this omg. i mean i feel like i was obsessed with this thing in general. i remember being in the back seat of the car in my own world playing pixter
Well, Nintendo likes to pretend that DS thing is still around.
But also the idea that (basically full) Switches are about to become a thing every kid has is........kinda weird feeling. Like I'm happy about how wide spread tech has become but it feels a little off.
I used the heck out of this as a kid! This and the Leapfrog stuff. The music cart for the original was a ton of fun, and the Color Pixter had some really nice games for the age range. Like the world explorer and spongebob games I especially remember. I think if it still works by the time I have kids the Pixter will be a great way to introduce them to handheld tech without needing to worry about youtube autoplay or the, getting scammed.
OMG do a video on the Leap Start tablets and games ASAP that like the only thing that I ever had before my DSI
I still have my old pixters somewhere. They were genuinely great for little kids (like myself at the time) I remember getting a gameboy advance for my birthday and never touched my pixter again :(
Nobody: ...
Not a single soul: ...
Billiam: I’m gonna reach into your brain and pull out a deep rooted memory you didn’t even know you had
it's what i do
Is that a joke? (Nobody...) Iv never understand it, iv asked this before but nobody has explained it to me. It's like people use it but they don't even know the meaning themselves
Ulises Solis Bruh, for real? Alright, look. At first, it’s describing that any and everyone is just minding their own business. (Hence why it’s titled like “Nobody: ... Not a single soul: ...) and then randomly, someone says or does something outrageous or something like that. (Insert Billiam’s or somebody else’s actions.) those usually come last... because that’s the joke... an overused joke...
Does that help? Did I just get whooshed?
I had the purple one and my grandma got me this for the holidays when I was super young, I think maybe when I was 7 or 8. I played it a lot during car rides.
"That wasn't just cold brew, that was cold brew concentrate. That was alot."
9:36 *Goes for second sip*
I have literally been trying to remember the name of this for over a year now! THANK YOU for the reassurance that I'm not insane and making it up
I kinda remember this, maybe my younger brother had this? But I had a GB/C/A growing up. So I never felt the need to get another "system".
I saved up my money for daaaaayyyys to get this. I can remember the commercial so clearly. I also remember playing with it for like 1 week and then adding it to my bin
Just so good Jumpstart DvD was great so remember crying at the end of the 2nd Grade Disc you know the one that you could make your own character.
(Bro that deep research I forgot there was more then just one Google page 😂😂)
I remember one of this, i got one from a hand me down from my cousin living in the United States, i just remember the sound effects of putting a stickers on a painting
ah, this was one of my favorite toys when i was a kid! i always loved the sound effects lol
my brother has the green one w the dino cartridge! i was too young to play with it when it came out but i remember using it from like 2004-2008 and we definitely still have it
11:12 Jotaro! Wow so great much good 11/10 amazing
I had one of these and my parents got me the Dora game for it. You could create your own episode using scattered clips and I just filled up all the slots with Swiper saying “Oh man.” A bunch of times
"Ken, you made one fatal mistake in our relationship, you pissed me off"
I had troubles figuring out what this toy was since my sister had the same toy when I was little. After watching one of her video diaries, I finally found out what the toy was called, the Pixter.
You never fail to create good content. Keep up the work man. Maybe you could cover Shaman King, Xiolin Showdown, Megaman NT Warrior or Mucha Lucha.
I miss Shaman King D: I had the entire manga collection and watched the show religiously on Saturday mornings
6:51 Don't feel bad about your drawing skills Billy, that Knuckles you did is actually pretty good!
This video bring back weird memories. Like I know I had one when I was younger but which one? I look at the regular one and the color and I remember seeing these images but???
Oh man, I remember my grandma having two of those original ones with a cool case with like 3 or 4 games and man those were the good ol' times
WAIT A SEC I HAD ONE OF THESE!!!! I bought it at a yard sale and it came with the Barbie Fashion Show game that I played once (wasn’t into Barbies despite the other boys in my family liked Barbie). The screen ended up getting pressed too hard and it wouldn’t show the actual image anymore.
Same with me, bought it at a garage sale and totally forgot about it until now..
Nice classic Fujifilm shirt sir. I actually do phone support for the digital camera. I remember seeing these things on the market and being like "oh thats where all the balm pilot screens went."
You take notes on your iPad with your Apple Pencil?
No no, I take my med school notes on my Pixter
I had the fashion Pocket Pixter growing up, and while it was very annoying, I did love this thing, and happily brought it with me when I went to Disneyland for my 8th birthday.
You've unlocked memories I didn't even know I had..
This video dug 10+ year old memories up from my childhood. (21 y.o rn)
I loved the pixter color a lot but eventually it got pushed aside by the Nintendo ds. Me and my brother both had pixter colors and I'm pretty sure we wore them out near the end. I definitely remember playing the Barbie Doll cartridge a lot along with Scooby Doo, and Spongebob.
By wore out I mean it was just old, no amount of AA batteries could help it any longer. Eventually I remember having a hard time even drawing on it because the touch lag was so bad, or it just stopped registering that it was even touched at all. I'm pretty sure that's why my parents just ended up getting me and brother each a ds. We loved Pokemon more anyways lol
I'm pretty sure my parents gave us the pixters in 2004 because we were still in touch with my uncle. (Not deceased, we're just choosing no contact for reasons)I have good memories of playing the pixter for entire car trips to his house.
Holy shit in just finished rewatching your old bionicle video!? I mean LITERALLY JUST FINISHED then you upload!? *WHAT'RE THE ODDS*
That brief picture/drawing of robot baby gave me real nostalgia holy crap.
That was my favorite toy as a kid. I might still have it but I remember it's bottle not recognizing the doll anymore. Also it's constant crying. And sometimes it's crying would sound like a grown man trying to sound like a baby.
Anyway thank you for resurfacing those wonderful memories even for a brief joke :,)
Not going to lie, I never buy youtuber merch, but I would buy a Big Coffee Energy shirt.
I didn’t have this but one of my cousins did. I don’t remember what games they had but I loved to borrow it when I visited his house. I remember that “sticker” mini game where they have you blank faces to which you put eyes, nose, mouth and other stuff on. There was also a dinosaur version, but you pasted dinosaurs and plants and bugs on jungle environment, I think.
That noise of the pencil drawing is so nostalgic.
Can I suggest a "Was Weird"? topic?
Creatures Was Weird? They were a franchise (it still technically exists but it's not really the same). There were three mainline games for the PC.
Creatures with the norns? If it's those games you mean they were a pretty big hit and then they just... vanished.
Never had one of these, but I did have an original Leapster, then a Leapster 2 when that one broke, and also a Leapster but for the TV. Pretty interesting devices that I’d love to see on the channel!!
My favorite RUclips hipster
My sister and I shared a purple Pixter color! I have such fond memories of that thing. I ran into my sister's room when the video got to the part about the Pixter color. Despite her trying to sleep for work in the morning she watched the video with me just remember the Pixter. That ticking noise it makes when you draw made me so happy.
Dude love your videos!! Very well researched and really funny, keep up!
THANK YOU I had this distant memory of this thing, and for the past like 6 months i have been searching like crazy thinking i had some leapfrog thing as a kid but nope i had a pixter. The amount of satisfaction and relief i feel finally knowing im not compleatly insane is just amazing
GOOGLE PAGE 3?!? *I LITERALLY CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I WENT PAST PAGE 1*
I had one of these. No games or extensions. And all I remember in the way of audio is the jingle "You got the pixter you got the power!" Unless it was something else called pixel something. Some drawing toy and it was either this or some off brand ripoff that had an advertising budget.
Thank you for reminding me that this was a thing that existed
Your search for this toy was similar to mine. I remembered it, had no idea what it was called, searched the internet, asked my family who had no idea what I was talking about, and then I accidentally discovered the name because I was just watching your video on leap frog where you mentioned it 😂😂😂 thank you, this has been driving me insane 😂😂😂
I used to have the Pixter Multi-Media System when I was little. I didn’t have any games, so I just messed with the apps that were already in there
I remember my cousin having the Pixter and I played with it when I would visit. I forgot all about this! It was my first introduction to drawing tablets.
NEED me some review of that Leapster with the stylus!
and if you have time the art program game for it (cough)
It's not forgotten in my household, me and my sister had one when we were little. It was a color Pixter, it was so fun for little me. I had Teen Titans, Disney Princesses, Dinosaurs, and more. But my favorite one was Spongebob :). I'm pretty sure mine was Lime with Purple.
Anyone remember the jumpstart for grade 1? With robot character. Good times
That was grade 3, at least in America. Grade one had Frankie the Dachshund.
The thumbnail of this video was a huge nostalgia bomb! I had totally forgotten about my Pixter though I played with it constantly when I was 8 ish! I'm pretty sure I had one of the Pixter 2.0s, but it totally could have been one of the originals. Definitely not the color one though. I never did get any of the cartridges for it, or if I did it wasn't very memorable.
I do remember chewing on the ridges of the drawing stick, and the sounds effects have definitely stayed buried in my brain, hearing them again was wild.
So, thanks for making this video. I definitely would have completely forgotten about this decently large part of my childhood if you hadn't!
Holy sh- this unlocked childhood memories I didn’t even know I had. I forgot about this thing! I loved it so much! Dude! Take me back 😭
I had the blue Pixter Color and loved it SO much! My favorite game was "Alphabet Forest"; I don't remember the gameplay elements of it (probably very lackluster) but I remember that I thought it looked really nice! I never completely forgot about this system but I outgrew it, replaced it with a DSi, and had to throw it away because it didn't work anymore...
I never had these but I remember my Radio Shack being FULL of Leap Frog systems. My little cousin had one and yup it was borring. I keep playing sims with my ds lite 😂