As a kid I knew nothing about video games. I really wanted one of these after seeing the ad on TV. The man working in the shop advised I get a Gameboy instead. There are some good people in the world :-D
I'm always fascinated by how technology reaches mainstream appeal, which I increasingly realize is not about who did what first. If you had told me there was a handheld console in 1997 with internet access and a touch screen, I would have been completely amazed. But when you look at the console itself, you realize that those features mean nothing unless you can use them meaningfully.
I'm happy with one math. I would be happier with 0% math because numbers are for Plato and his freaks. Euro-Britian can have all the maths they want. I'm just surprised they didn't call it "mathz" with a zed. Because Heinz baked beans in England are called Heinz baked beanZ for some reason. Possibly they are not real beans.
*Looks at the modem port* I don't believe it myself. Imagine reading your email on this thing. And you'd have to hook it up to a modem so you couldn't leave your house anyways. Why not just use a computer? - AVGN
The only reason I could possibly think of to use this thing to look at my e-mail on it is if I had an e-mail from a drug dealer and I didn't want the government to know what I'm doing. They would just see that I'm using a Gamecom and say " Ah, he's just got one of those ass rocks, who gives a shit?" Then again I do have TOR...
+Violent Sparkle Eh, what if you were at a friends house? Also, those 90's pcs took forever to boot. If the game.com just let you check email fast, it would've been like a modern cell phone. But tiger fucked that up too.
At least it served one purpose: teaching me how to spell. No joke, my dad owned one with the Internet modem and he would make me type the words into the search bar. I was 1.
Why does hell have an elevator? I'd think it would be more punishing if you had to walk up or down stairs. Elevators are pretty posh. I don't even have one in my hell house.
"Basically, AHone of the many AHhardware flaws of the gamecom AHwasAH the screen. You can't see AHwhat theAH hell is happening. AHI can't AHseem to controlAH anything. It's just a AHblurry mess AHand AHughAH AH AH" I am dying of laughter xD
This last Christmas when I was walking around looking at Christmas lights, I pooped a little bit in my pants. I felt I should share that, since we are clearly in non sequitur territory with this comment. Farkle. Bizznutz Jinjo tastic Frojgle-sqez Biollante (that's a Godzilla villain)
@@2sdays He means that most gaming video review channels from that long ago have aged terribly (In that they are cringey and embarassing or awkward, or a rip off of AVGN)
@@2sdays alot of the videos back then were incredibly amateurish as compared to what we watch now . RUclips was filled with people just using their family cheapo camcorder to record various things while charming and fantastic for the time these days many may find it hard to sit through . Ashens is an outilier
@@jimmyhopkins1 i could understand not wanting to watch some guy record his tv and ramble for 15 minutes, but that was a minority of videos. a lot of them were very concise and unlike today weren't blasted with sponsors and done purely for monetary gain
Well I certainly wouldn't play that batman game in public as it might give wrong picture to other people as they would be wondering "what porn game is that pervert playing"...
man oh man this thing was ahead of its time (for a little while) and it got supported by some good games and devs. If it had a backlight and color, and right off the bat, i wonder how far it would have gone.... it would have sold wayyy better
You knowledge of Fighters Megamix is spot-on (aside from the gaffe about Janet). Good stuff. There's also another version of Bahn (Ura Bahn), Bean and Bark from Sonic The Fighters, an inflatable bear (I think that's what it was) called "Kumachan", a Mexican jumping bean called "Deku", and the game also had a playable version of the AM2 palm tree and a big slab of meat on two legs if you were real diligent about poking around.
I used to have one of those handheld lights-out things. I imagine it would have been a lot of fun, but since I was young, impatient, and stupid, I just pressed the buttons a lot and pretended I was controlling a starship or something...
Hey Stuart. Just a bit of trivia regarding cartridge slots; I'm not sure if they were technically cartridges, rather than disks, but the Cambridge Z88 had slits for no fewer than 4 'cartridges' to be inserted at once. My father wrote most of the code for that device, so I grew up with one as my own personal computer.
Fun fact, Candy in Fighting Vipers was actually to be included in Sonic Championship/Sonic the Fighters, but as a mobian cat named Honey. Look her up. It's real. She was scrapped, but brought back in the PS3/360 ports
Honestly batman's "ugh" sounds more like he got a wrong order at Mc Donalds then he got hit by someone. Maybe they grabbed a intern and told him to go "ugh" and he just begrudgingly did it as quick as possible to get back to his desk.
Did anyone notice in the last game that every time you punch or kick the background music suddenly gets interrupted by the sound effects? Quite annoying if you ask me
+Aconcernedrifleman neither could most handelds even the gameboy had trouble with it since the synthesizer chip can only play one of the same types of noises at a time playing pokemon and constantly running into a wall in lavender town was the most effective way of showing it since it turns it from a creepy song into a bunch of random beeps
I can't believe Tiger actually made a handheld game console that would compete with the Nintendo Game Boy. And I remember seeing the Gamecom commercial where that dude is insulting the public. "it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells". That's what he said on the commercial.
2:32 Heres a sad story about my first time with the gameboy pocket. I went to flea market one day and they had a small store full of retro games and consoles, i laid my eye on the only gameboy pocket they had (It was the same color btw). I decided to spend $28 in total for the handheld as well as a copy of Kirby's Dream Land. Once I stepped outside, I got excited and turned on the power. Nothing but a black vertical line appeared. I tried turning on the power with and without the cartridge but I still got the same result. So I returned it saying how they sold me a defective handheld. They apologized and gave me a gba instead for free.
Actually, Tiger was bought by Hasbro. You remember the Furby? Yeah, that was all Tiger Electronics. Even after being absorbed by a larger company, they still trolled the toy world.
I've had one of these with the optional modem. Granted, it was only text but I could check my HoTMaiL account from a hotel. I felt like a baws. The only thing I never liked was the lack of a backlight. But hey, it was 1997...
To this day I have no idea why Capcom decided to reversion Resident Evil 2 for this thing. They only did the Leon scenarios though. There were plans for a Claire one later on, but it was thankfully cancelled.
I remember when this first came out. I wanted it SOOOOO bad that I got one for Christmas when they had a price drop (from fifty bucks to five dollars) I also had a bunch of games, though Duke Nukem and Solitare were the only two worth while games.
The game.com...I remember this...this thing was going to be the next best thing to warm bread and butter. There even were Screenshots of a Symphony of the Night Port for this Thing - to bad it never got released and the Unit failed.
You need to get ahold of a Pixter or a Pixter color. This reminded me of on, tho the Pixter was usually used for drawing I do remember there being games, I had a spongebob one. The touch screen was the only way to control anything tho lol. There was another game I had but I can't quiet remember what it was
Holy shit I had one of these way back then! I was just cruising around your videos and then stumbled into this. My favourite game back then was RE2, but I didn't own a lot of games, just a handful. It was pretty neat though at the time.
"Imagine reading your email on this thing. You'd have to hook it up to a modem so you couldnt leave your house anyway! Why not just use a computer?!" - AVGN
"One of the major problems with the Game•Com..."
_-"oah"_
As a kid I knew nothing about video games. I really wanted one of these after seeing the ad on TV. The man working in the shop advised I get a Gameboy instead. There are some good people in the world :-D
"Ah!Ah!" - Batman
Words to live by! Never forget...
Amen!
***** AH
TheThomasTT I
I literally died of laughter when I heard this.
Batman was about to climax before you turned it off.
I shit myself reading this xDd
He didn't want to get demonetized.
Man I busted out laughing when I heard the Batman damage sound effect!
It's not damage sound effect. It's Batgasm :D
Every time Batman gets hit, it sounds like he just got done taking a massive dump.
Kasa KANAL I luv how kid's game turned out to be 18+ by design issue :D
MNanme1z4xs Maybe it was meant to be an "issue"
Kasa KANAL exactly because how else can they sell this game?
I love the start up, "gamecom, fuck you"
DjClayface "gamecom active"...
Furby Man Shhhh dont ruin the comedy
Furby Man Doesn't sound like it though
LOL FUNNY
+DjClayface Explains why only that kid that lives in the bush in your backyard owns one.
I'm always fascinated by how technology reaches mainstream appeal, which I increasingly realize is not about who did what first. If you had told me there was a handheld console in 1997 with internet access and a touch screen, I would have been completely amazed. But when you look at the console itself, you realize that those features mean nothing unless you can use them meaningfully.
I think the first Nokia communicator was out in 1997?
OMG I died when 'batman orgasm' happened......
"AUUUUUHHH"
-Batman
+老刘 Batman can't stop orgasming at 15:08 and that's why Ashen switches off his game.com :))))))))
+老刘 I had the Game.com and the game when I was a kid. Once my teacher looked over and said "what is that?!"
I almost pissed my pants lmao
He must be doing Robin in the Batcave.
lmao. "that's called maths... or, math, if you're american, 'cause you're only allowed to have one over there due to a budget deficit or something."
I'm happy with one math. I would be happier with 0% math because numbers are for Plato and his freaks.
Euro-Britian can have all the maths they want.
I'm just surprised they didn't call it "mathz" with a zed.
Because Heinz baked beans in England are called Heinz baked beanZ for some reason. Possibly they are not real beans.
UK is a shit hole
That batman game. Between the whip cracking noise and the cries of pain/ pleasure... better use headphones. ///U_U///
ICUSeriously Close your eyes and enjoy...
"Whopsh. Unh!. Whopsh. Unh! Whopsh. UNH!"
Now imagine Cyborg making those sounds
Pleasure Island the game
i NEED a 10 hour loop of that batman damage sound
*insert lennyface here*
I have a loop of it on my SoundCloud, hit the loop button and enjoy:
soundcloud.com/sodaddict/mystery-box-3
TremendousPuppy funny
+TremendousPuppy that is beautiful.
Yeah... while some people need other stuff in order to feel fulfilled, we need Batman being damaged
*Looks at the modem port*
I don't believe it myself. Imagine reading your email on this thing. And you'd have to hook it up to a modem so you couldn't leave your house anyways. Why not just use a computer?
- AVGN
The only reason I could possibly think of to use this thing to look at my e-mail on it is if I had an e-mail from a drug dealer and I didn't want the government to know what I'm doing. They would just see that I'm using a Gamecom and say " Ah, he's just got one of those ass rocks, who gives a shit?"
Then again I do have TOR...
+Violent Sparkle Eh, what if you were at a friends house? Also, those 90's pcs took forever to boot. If the game.com just let you check email fast, it would've been like a modern cell phone.
But tiger fucked that up too.
best comment ever
@@thekungachunga4578 gamecom opsec > tails + tor
At least it served one purpose: teaching me how to spell. No joke, my dad owned one with the Internet modem and he would make me type the words into the search bar. I was 1.
I've been in hell, and I can confirm that the music from Lights Out is definitely the elevator music.
Toxfrot i bet it stops on every floor with no one getting in for the 666 floors
Why does hell have an elevator?
I'd think it would be more punishing if you had to walk up or down stairs.
Elevators are pretty posh. I don't even have one in my hell house.
"Basically, AHone of the many AHhardware flaws of the gamecom AHwasAH the screen. You can't see AHwhat theAH hell is happening. AHI can't AHseem to controlAH anything. It's just a AHblurry mess AHand AHughAH AH AH"
I am dying of laughter xD
14:56
GrimmyReaper why all the AH what’s the point of that please.
@@Turnbull50 check previous reply
@@Turnbull50 Batman orgasm sound effect, LOL.
My favorite part
"this is the music that plays on the elevator down"
my favourite quote of yours yet
pillowcase1 the quote is at 10:21 btw
"if you die and go to hell this is the music they play in the elevator." IM DYIN
oh shit waddup
+Annoying Doggo here come dat bad time
+Bold and Brash More like belongs in the trash!
Takachi Roichi BOOM ROASTED
Sorry, I missed one.
I've never heard LESS Batman-ey music in all my days! And I watched Adam West reruns on sky as a kid!
holy dissonance, batman
"Everytime batman gets hit he sounds like he just got done taking a big dump" - AVGN
The original DS had a slot for GBA Cartridges & DS card slot.
Tonks Moriarty so did the ds lite
This last Christmas when I was walking around looking at Christmas lights, I pooped a little bit in my pants.
I felt I should share that, since we are clearly in non sequitur territory with this comment.
Farkle.
Bizznutz
Jinjo tastic
Frojgle-sqez
Biollante (that's a Godzilla villain)
Nearly a decade old but still watchable. You have no idea how rare this is on RUclips.
what do you mean.. you cant watch any old videos?
@@2sdays He means that most gaming video review channels from that long ago have aged terribly (In that they are cringey and embarassing or awkward, or a rip off of AVGN)
@@junkyardwulf2874 i haven't found one older review video i've found 'cringey' or embarassing, that's a zoomer concept
@@2sdays alot of the videos back then were incredibly amateurish as compared to what we watch now . RUclips was filled with people just using their family cheapo camcorder to record various things while charming and fantastic for the time these days many may find it hard to sit through . Ashens is an outilier
@@jimmyhopkins1 i could understand not wanting to watch some guy record his tv and ramble for 15 minutes, but that was a minority of videos. a lot of them were very concise and unlike today weren't blasted with sponsors and done purely for monetary gain
Batgasm
Better than the Bat Credit Card?
Batman likes fighting crime a bit too much...
Best line?
"If you die and go to Hell, this is the music that plays in the elevator on the way down."
Well I certainly wouldn't play that batman game in public as it might give wrong picture to other people as they would be wondering "what porn game is that pervert playing"...
Hero my friend made that mistake everyone was staring at him lol
It really doesn't sound like Batman orgasming to me. Now, if it were Cyborg making those sounds, I probably would think it sounded like orgasming.
It's pretty much the bottom screen of the original DS. You know, the fat chunky one. Only not in colour and not... you know... good.
You are the most sarcastic person I’ve ever heard or seen in my life, and by sarcastic, I mean amazing
I've never seen a man get even pretend excited over built-in solitaire
omg batman's sound effect is amazing lol. imagine having that on a loop as a ringtone or something lol
Tried playing Resident Evil 2 on this, cutting off my thumbs seemed like a good idea after a few minutes of playing
The Tapwave Zodiac had dual "game" slots in 2003 but they were actually just SD card slots
The DS has 2 cartridge slots.
No it has 1 ds slot and 1 gba slot
@@Liamthewaldo
Both of which cartridges go in.
i didnt know batman was a masochist.
I used to get those stupid Tiger handheld games when I was a kid. In retrospect I really should have just gotten a Gameboy.
*Game Boy
*game.boy
I remember having one of these, with the official Batman and Robin game. It was about as good as the movie itself.
man oh man this thing was ahead of its time (for a little while) and it got supported by some good games and devs.
If it had a backlight and color, and right off the bat, i wonder how far it would have gone.... it would have sold wayyy better
Robins' "throwing birds" are actually called Wingdings, no idea why they're called throwing birds in this game.
Nope. What he throws are Birdarangs.
Wingdings is worse
15:08 lmfao!!! I'm dying. sounds like someone is backdooring batman lmao!
the original ds had two slots, one for a gameboy game and one for a ds game
Enderknight27
So did the DS Lite.
Ivan Simpson No shit.
***** I wasn't trying to be. all I said was no shit.
Ivan Simpson Damn, beat me by a month!
Enderknight27 I think he meant two of the same slots
You knowledge of Fighters Megamix is spot-on (aside from the gaffe about Janet). Good stuff. There's also another version of Bahn (Ura Bahn), Bean and Bark from Sonic The Fighters, an inflatable bear (I think that's what it was) called "Kumachan", a Mexican jumping bean called "Deku", and the game also had a playable version of the AM2 palm tree and a big slab of meat on two legs if you were real diligent about poking around.
that lights out title screen music actually sounds pretty catchy haha :)
15:08 is still one of my favorite Ashens moments.
" Yes, there'll be stomach-churning action, thats the blur from the screen... "
That made me cry from laughter.
"That's called 'maths'. Or 'math' if you're American, because you're only allowed to have one over there."
Americans can't handle more than one.
Just kidding :)
+Kvejk Entrtejnmnt no it's true we can't lmao
but maths does not make sense math does soooooooo
Levi Cassidy
Your complete lack of punctuation doesn't make sense.
"If you die and go to Hell, this is the music that plays in the elevator on the way down." LMAO!
I used to have one of those handheld lights-out things. I imagine it would have been a lot of fun, but since I was young, impatient, and stupid, I just pressed the buttons a lot and pretended I was controlling a starship or something...
Hey Stuart. Just a bit of trivia regarding cartridge slots; I'm not sure if they were technically cartridges, rather than disks, but the Cambridge Z88 had slits for no fewer than 4 'cartridges' to be inserted at once. My father wrote most of the code for that device, so I grew up with one as my own personal computer.
To the Fapmobile...let's go!
I'm reminded of Hotline Miami when I look at "Phone Book"
Fun fact, Candy in Fighting Vipers was actually to be included in Sonic Championship/Sonic the Fighters, but as a mobian cat named Honey. Look her up. It's real. She was scrapped, but brought back in the PS3/360 ports
Honestly batman's "ugh" sounds more like he got a wrong order at Mc Donalds then he got hit by someone. Maybe they grabbed a intern and told him to go "ugh" and he just begrudgingly did it as quick as possible to get back to his desk.
GrandCorsair no, that's too much work and quality for anything associated with Tiger
"Ah!"
- Batman
Oh Tiger Electronics. I'd say "nice try" but I don't want to lie to you.
My favorite was the startup (6:25 and 19:27). I finally get to hear it without the audio being warped slightly!
15:07 "uhh uhh uhh uhh" LOL
totally me every time my middle school teacher says something
22:55 "A fighting game, unless you choose Janet, then you can just shoot the opponent to death"
Why does that description remind me of LEGO Racers?
batman gets fisted news at eleven.
i had this back in the day and the battery was so short you couldn't even get to the end of batman level 3 before it died
Did anyone notice in the last game that every time you punch or kick the background music suddenly gets interrupted by the sound effects? Quite annoying if you ask me
Mer Feraine I don't think the system can handle bot the SFX and the BGM at the same time, which puts in on par with the rest of Tiger's products.
+Mer Feraine theres no sound in the video
Thomas Pavlick huh?
+Aconcernedrifleman neither could most handelds even the gameboy had trouble with it since the synthesizer chip can only play one of the same types of noises at a time playing pokemon and constantly running into a wall in lavender town was the most effective way of showing it since it turns it from a creepy song into a bunch of random beeps
I still have no idea why i keep watching Ashens videos... they are just... mesmerizing
"if you die and go to hell, this is the music that will play in the elevator on the way down"
LOL!
I can't believe Tiger actually made a handheld game console that would compete with the Nintendo Game Boy. And I remember seeing the Gamecom commercial where that dude is insulting the public. "it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells". That's what he said on the commercial.
I waited for 6hrs when this first came out game traders wouldn't even take it for £1.00 even though I paid about £168.99
2:32 Heres a sad story about my first time with the gameboy pocket. I went to flea market one day and they had a small store full of retro games and consoles, i laid my eye on the only gameboy pocket they had (It was the same color btw). I decided to spend $28 in total for the handheld as well as a copy of Kirby's Dream Land. Once I stepped outside, I got excited and turned on the power. Nothing but a black vertical line appeared. I tried turning on the power with and without the cartridge but I still got the same result. So I returned it saying how they sold me a defective handheld. They apologized and gave me a gba instead for free.
14:34 is where the fun starts!
"Aah! Aah--Aah!"
13:50 is where Batman's moan on the Game Com starts.
Only system you've ever heard of with 2 cartridge slots? The original DS had 2 though?
For two different formats though, so that doesn't exactly count
I believe the only good game on this thing is sonic jam.
Dr Ashens' DJ impression was so accurate, he even peaked his mike mid-sentence.
@Kuraime hmm your right how could I be so blind, well either way you slice it he does beat up alot of people O_o
ooo
i cried till i laughted duiring the batman part
+VanillaSnake21 but there is no sound
Thomas Pavlick I hear sound, I think your speakers are off
Thomas Pavlick can't be, there's no music in the background. They can't copyright a sound. I think it's your device.
+VanillaSnake21 i had some errors with my web browser errors fixed :D
Thomas Pavlick ok, great. Wasn't that groan hilarious?
14:13 - "Eat punch, Evilton"?
This is the second comment I've seen that where the comment was made before you could click the time stamp..
14:13
I got given this by my father, along with a Jurassic Park game. I returned to my old brick gameboy, and never went back.
"Aaaah! Aaaah! Aaaah!"
I'll just write a famous quote while I'm here.
"Every time Batman gets hit, it sounds like he just got done taking a big dump."
hahaha i got a big kick out of the discovery that the calendar is literally just a calendar
Actually, Tiger was bought by Hasbro. You remember the Furby? Yeah, that was all Tiger Electronics. Even after being absorbed by a larger company, they still trolled the toy world.
I've had one of these with the optional modem. Granted, it was only text but I could check my HoTMaiL account from a hotel. I felt like a baws. The only thing I never liked was the lack of a backlight. But hey, it was 1997...
To this day I have no idea why Capcom decided to reversion Resident Evil 2 for this thing. They only did the Leon scenarios though. There were plans for a Claire one later on, but it was thankfully cancelled.
Tiger licensed it from them.
I like how the manual for the fighting game tells you what food the characters like and dislike. How is that relevant?
Japanese culture, my friend.
lol tone of voice when you go "tell you what you can do, your fucking job" love it
I lost it when he said about the lights out elevator music.
"this thing sucks more than a professional ass sucker" LMAO
I remember when this first came out. I wanted it SOOOOO bad that I got one for Christmas when they had a price drop (from fifty bucks to five dollars) I also had a bunch of games, though Duke Nukem and Solitare were the only two worth while games.
The game.com...I remember this...this thing was going to be the next best thing to warm bread and butter. There even were Screenshots of a Symphony of the Night Port for this Thing - to bad it never got released and the Unit failed.
AVGN: "Everytime Batman gets a hit he sounds like he was just done taking a big dump."
"He sounds like a bad 70's porno."
Wow this brought back some lost memories...totally forgot i used to have this when i lived in Pinner! Thanks man haha
Batmans last words: Uhuhuhuh..
WTF xD
Btw, what does it say when you start the mashine? "Game come, fuck you" O.o
"Everytime Batman is hit, he orgasms."
Just like the real Batman.
"Everyone - Animated Violence"?!
These days if a character wants to say "butts" the game has to go unrated LOL
Ah those were the days.
7:37 Actually, that's very similar to the title screen in the Sims 3 DS
You need to get ahold of a Pixter or a Pixter color. This reminded me of on, tho the Pixter was usually used for drawing I do remember there being games, I had a spongebob one. The touch screen was the only way to control anything tho lol. There was another game I had but I can't quiet remember what it was
I'm just constantly thinking of Tyger Security from the Batman Arkham series! XD
14:34
13:50 - 13:52: Zack, don't get any ideas for your Justice League movies...
Too late. He's done it to Cyborg.
More like Joss Whedon. Misogynist.
"BUILT IN SOLITAIRE!" *shakes box violently*
Two cartridge slots is actually a really good idea for a handheld.
+kadkidd But mine? :(
:3
I need to change my profile picture for this comment
Oh, the day Ashens reviews the Leapster...
"That's called maths"
It's not maths, it's Cyberchase
+Jake Sharratt (worldofjake2012) Hoooly fuck, my childhood just came back seeing you're profile picture.
"Runnin' into Cyberchase..."
Ethan LaBorde It's Robot Boy now
Fluttershy Pony That's why I hate changing avatars. Because if I change an avatar and someone made a comment about a previous one, the joke is ruined.
Loved that show. Taught me so much better than school ever did.
Holy shit I had one of these way back then! I was just cruising around your videos and then stumbled into this. My favourite game back then was RE2, but I didn't own a lot of games, just a handful. It was pretty neat though at the time.
AVGN brought me here
***** matters not.
Yes that is lovely Hellavator music, the most relaxing aspect of your descent to hell. XD
"Imagine reading your email on this thing. You'd have to hook it up to a modem so you couldnt leave your house anyway! Why not just use a computer?!" - AVGN