another unsolicited technical note: vacuum fluorescent displays, much light fluorescent lights, internally generate light in the near ultra-violet which is then converted to green by the fluorescent material. A decent amount of the ultra-violet light light escapes unmolested by the phosphor, however, and can pass the blue filter on cmos detectors and CCD's, thus the blue color in recording, but green when viewed with eyeballs.
***** I think the point was it was that it recorded more blue than it was supposed to. Much as I like watching ashens videos, Im not going to watch the whole thing again to fact check this though.
***** I think he has probably more than rudimentary video editing skills and equipment. It would probably be insulting to say he at least bother to color correct for whatever lighting he uses. Most non-extremely-expensive studio lighting doesnt show up white on non-extremely-expensive cameras. (caution, contents of comment may contain partial or complete factual or logical errors)
***** It would be insulting to insinuate that he doesnt :P I maybe should have made that more clear. He talks about color correcting all the time in his videos.
I used to own a Super Kong and I loved it. My sister lent it to a cousin without my permission who lived miles away and so I didn't get it back for well over a year. When I did get it back my cousin had managed to blow vacuum fluorescent display, making it a useless, unplayable beeping piece of rubbish. My aunt tried to compensate for it by giving me my cousin's Simon machine, you know, one of those rubbish round things with four different coloured flashing buttons. I was gutted.
I hope many different kids of shit were beaten out of the guy shortly thereafter. Cause yeah, I've never even owned Simon and I can pretty much tell it'd be inadequate compensation.
Not really. Astro Wars worked well enough, but the other two where no real step up up from popstations. And these where made with some attempt at quality, not the stamp-out cheapness of the poppies which are no more 'modern' than the features here.
AgentTasmania Thats because 30 years ago the technology was less advanced, it was very hard to make something like that... it was top of the edge of game technology... nowadays people can even make these things themselves and still some popstation games are worse than those of 30 years ago when it was very hard to make something like that
Takahashi Yuuki Actually Vacuum Fluorescent Displays are nice, bright and accurate. (often used in audio equipment at the time) While I'd prefer actual "needle" meters on recorders, VFDs stomp same period LED meters. IDK if it's the best choice for battery operated equipment, as they use way more power than LED.
Stuart mate, I could watch you review postage stamps and would still laugh until my spleen burst. Which reminds me, I really should go get that seen to..
Your channel is the only channel where I don't skip any of your intros. I love them. I love the way you say hello. It puts me in a good mood. Thank you for being you, Ashens!
***** I think the Super Kong game is made to be played at an angle. You'll notice that the ladders align with the floors when you play with the screen tilted (as if it was laying flat and you were viewing it at ~45 degree angle. I'm guessing Mode A was used for the power adapter, and that's why it didn't work?
This is the most clever April Fools' joke I've ever seen. Subverting our expectations of a joke video by just posting a regular video. This just goes to show Stuart's brilliance as a youtube chessmaster. His cunning is of the highest caliber.
Seeing the arms flying everywhere in the Boxing game reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hokuto no Ken a bit. ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORAAAAAAAAH Astro Wars looks damn brilliant for an early portable game. Cool screen, nice color visuals, and it's designed like a piece of high-tech science equipment or something. Super Kong looks a bit neato. Well, Super Kong himself, the game looks a bit eh.
The Astro Wars cabinet was released in the states under the name Galaxy II(if there was a Galaxy I, I have no clue.) Ah, both the joyous and painful memories associated with the one my mom gave when I was a kid. The joyful because it was a fun system for an 8-year-old not allowed to have a Game Boy, who actually managed to get 9999 points and beat the game, which his mom never did in all her years of playing the game. ...And the painful memories of accidentally crushing the machine and having a mom who's still angry at me to this day about it...
Used to have Scramble made my Grandstand, used to love playing that thing.... memories... coming back..... oh the joys of childhood and not knowing about this future life of having to work and pay bills and be responsible
A Cylon's Minge. Not an image I'm going to forget for a while, one for the terribleness of a robot minge, and two for the sheer bliss that would be Tricia Helfer's.
The Bambino Boxing commercial IS on RUclips Turns out, their slogan was: "Beat a Bambino, and you've beaten the best!" I don't think the first half of that slogan would go over very well in Europe
Galaxian predates Galaga...because Galaga is the sequel to Galaxian. In fact, near as I can tell, Astro Wars/Super Galaxian predates the arcade release of Galaga by just a couple of months.
I have Astro Wars! I'm 25, but it used to be my dad's and my grandad gave it to me. I had a little wave of nostalgia hearing those horrible noises it made in the video.
"to be honest their is no skill at all and you're just mashing buttons in the hope of winning. Ya' know, like Tekken!" *grabs popcorn* *scrolls down to comment section*
Galaga, Frogger, and Dig Dug are my favorites. 🥰 I loved Namco Museum PS2 growing up, we also had a plug n' play of Frogger. 😊🐸💖 Please have a wonderful day. 😻
I lost it at "maybe we're both bees and fighting in a bonnet." I love the reference. I can always rely on Ashens for my healthy dose of sarcasm and dry humo[u]r. And a bit of tat induced rage from time to time.
I got an Astro wars console circa '81. Loved it. It was a portable games console which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to take out of the house.. Work than one out. Preferred this to our Intellivision. My dad worked for Radio Rentals. And they had a deal with Mattell. Great video again. Batteries were expensive then, so you had to use the mains.
The Astro Wars game did a decent job of recreating the various levels of the arcade game Moon Cresta in LED form. I was surprised to see those four ships/aliens at the top come to life, as well as the docking procedure. Pretty clever and playable for the technology! And you just have to love that "Air Traffic Control" case. Too cool.
Sometimes I wonder about those Pop stations. Sure they are made in China on the cheap but when you should have access to 30 year old technology I don't really know what your excuse is. I am also including the Tiger Electronics here as the Game.com was mezmerizing in how it avoided being playable in almost every sense.
Oh man hearing that Astro wars music took me on a weird nostalgia trip, I loved that game, I remember my joystick broke and I sent it to the manufacturer and they fixed it lol
HARBOUR GAMING Still better than your mum. (I just feel like being unreasonable today. Please humor me and don't reply with an essay describing in painful detail why all triple A games are shit.) Lot's of love From Smeg
When he said Tekken, I found it strange because as a fan of both, I have to say SoulCalibur seems more notorious for button mashing. If any of you are on the Steam community, you should try Divekick (very cheap!) as it's a fighting game where button mashing DOESN'T help you at all!
When docking the top in Astrowars, you could move the top left and right as well as thrust. There was a position that you only took 3 shots to kill those 3 aliens. When you got to 9999 it would play the 1st song 10 times and the game ended.
another unsolicited technical note: vacuum fluorescent displays, much light fluorescent lights, internally generate light in the near ultra-violet which is then converted to green by the fluorescent material. A decent amount of the ultra-violet light light escapes unmolested by the phosphor, however, and can pass the blue filter on cmos detectors and CCD's, thus the blue color in recording, but green when viewed with eyeballs.
***** I think the point was it was that it recorded more blue than it was supposed to. Much as I like watching ashens videos, Im not going to watch the whole thing again to fact check this though.
***** Yes! laziness, to the.. something.
***** I think he has probably more than rudimentary video editing skills and equipment. It would probably be insulting to say he at least bother to color correct for whatever lighting he uses. Most non-extremely-expensive studio lighting doesnt show up white on non-extremely-expensive cameras.
(caution, contents of comment may contain partial or complete factual or logical errors)
***** It would be insulting to insinuate that he doesnt :P I maybe should have made that more clear. He talks about color correcting all the time in his videos.
I used to own a Super Kong and I loved it. My sister lent it to a cousin without my permission who lived miles away and so I didn't get it back for well over a year. When I did get it back my cousin had managed to blow vacuum fluorescent display, making it a useless, unplayable beeping piece of rubbish. My aunt tried to compensate for it by giving me my cousin's Simon machine, you know, one of those rubbish round things with four different coloured flashing buttons.
I was gutted.
I hope many different kids of shit were beaten out of the guy shortly thereafter.
Cause yeah, I've never even owned Simon and I can pretty much tell it'd be inadequate compensation.
TheApachacha
Guy? It was a girl!
But you hunted down and murdered your cousin in cold blood. So everything was eventually even.
I'm glad that RUclips gaming has an entire category for Astro Wars.
They do?
The 80's Jingle is just pure awesomeness !
***** DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE ^_^
***** That's 90's. Not early 80's.
*****
Radical!
"You are different to me and therefore must be eradicated" The bus driver tells me that everyday.
That's pretty much how YT comment wars start, as well.
May the comment wars start
bitty burks I HAT3 U CUSS U NO LIK BLUBURRYS!
Dwarven Pony Berries are for losers.
Kaine Boyko you're a loser. You just don't like berries because you have no life. Grow up.
The worst part is that these games are better than the much more modern popstation games...
I was just thinking that too, heh.
Not really.
Astro Wars worked well enough, but the other two where no real step up up from popstations.
And these where made with some attempt at quality, not the stamp-out cheapness of the poppies which are no more 'modern' than the features here.
AgentTasmania Thats because 30 years ago the technology was less advanced, it was very hard to make something like that... it was top of the edge of game technology... nowadays people can even make these things themselves and still some popstation games are worse than those of 30 years ago when it was very hard to make something like that
"modern"
Ok I've heard so much about this popstation I feel compelled to try it, where can I find it, and it is so bad it's good ⁉️
Is it just me, or are those VFD beautiful!? Really like the glow they give off. I want those on all my electronics now.
VFD are also good at starting and putting out fires depending on the type
Well, at least my stereo would shine like a diamond as it burned into coal.
lol that was a reference- idk anything about vfd lol
I think the camera exaggerates it a bit.
Takahashi Yuuki Actually Vacuum Fluorescent Displays are nice, bright and accurate. (often used in audio equipment at the time) While I'd prefer actual "needle" meters on recorders, VFDs stomp same period LED meters. IDK if it's the best choice for battery operated equipment, as they use way more power than LED.
Bambino looks like something out of the Fallout universe.
fuck my friend only showed me that game yesterday and that's one of the first things I thought of upon seeing this video
What primitive technology. The boxing characters can take their own arms off, but they can't throw them at one another! D=
You words paint such vivid pictures, Ashens.
"It's like looking at a Cylon's minge."
"The music sounds like a Dalek giving birth."
*standing ovation*
Tabletop games on a sofa.
Rebel.
Tabletop games two a sofa.
Rebel.
What an odd typo. Thanks for pointing it out!
Stuart mate, I could watch you review postage stamps and would still laugh until my spleen burst.
Which reminds me, I really should go get that seen to..
Your channel is the only channel where I don't skip any of your intros. I love them.
I love the way you say hello. It puts me in a good mood. Thank you for being you, Ashens!
"Who knows? Who cares? This is VERY beige!"
I lost my shit.
My god that was funny.
I played the shit out of Astro Wars at my nan's house because she kept my uncle's one from when he was a kid.
Love that game.
XMenOrangesTangerine
Your comment is really old, but so did I! My nan had kept my dad's one.
Your comments are really old. 😢
Wow! That was a spot-on impression of the Silver Skull!
***** I think the Super Kong game is made to be played at an angle. You'll notice that the ladders align with the floors when you play with the screen tilted (as if it was laying flat and you were viewing it at ~45 degree angle.
I'm guessing Mode A was used for the power adapter, and that's why it didn't work?
Usually on those games, Mode A and Mode B were simply different skill levels.
lol 11:53 drater
Define "ladders".
I would assume if you sat the Kong game on an actual surface like it was meant to be on, the ladders would line up a bit better.
TXF haw haw wit who tha fuck dae ye hink ye ur
3:25
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA"
"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"
THD *"IS THAT?"* y'know screw that t
you know it
THD I
Oh you're approaching me?
Instead of running away your coming right to me?
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD
This is the most clever April Fools' joke I've ever seen. Subverting our expectations of a joke video by just posting a regular video. This just goes to show Stuart's brilliance as a youtube chessmaster. His cunning is of the highest caliber.
You can really see how far gaming has come today, those gold games though.....Must have been the best things back in those days.
Astro Wars was the first game I ever "clocked" (80s kids will get the reference), it went absolutely mental. Happy days.
I love his 80's endings!
The Astro Wars one surprised me. I was expecting it to be horrible.
Love the VFDs on these, always reminds me of the early digital dashboards in older cars.
fucking lost it at Cylons Minge.. hahahaha
I'm diggin' that 80's-esque ending screen, Ashens.
Seeing the arms flying everywhere in the Boxing game reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hokuto no Ken a bit.
ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORAAAAAAAAH
Astro Wars looks damn brilliant for an early portable game.
Cool screen, nice color visuals, and it's designed like a piece of high-tech science equipment or something.
Super Kong looks a bit neato. Well, Super Kong himself, the game looks a bit eh.
All I can hear in my head in the boxing game is Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star screaming ATATATATATTATATATATATATA.
The Astro Wars cabinet was released in the states under the name Galaxy II(if there was a Galaxy I, I have no clue.) Ah, both the joyous and painful memories associated with the one my mom gave when I was a kid. The joyful because it was a fun system for an 8-year-old not allowed to have a Game Boy, who actually managed to get 9999 points and beat the game, which his mom never did in all her years of playing the game. ...And the painful memories of accidentally crushing the machine and having a mom who's still angry at me to this day about it...
The ladders in Super Kong do seem to be in the right positions - remember, you're supposed to play it with the display on an angle.
astro wars was great back then , thanks for the memories!
The closest I ever got to it was GALAGA!
This would have tided me over until my next arcade visit 👍🕹👍
"A'raight lads, 'ow ya doin'?" -Super Kong, 1985-2014.
Used to have Scramble made my Grandstand, used to love playing that thing.... memories... coming back..... oh the joys of childhood and not knowing about this future life of having to work and pay bills and be responsible
A Cylon's Minge. Not an image I'm going to forget for a while, one for the terribleness of a robot minge, and two for the sheer bliss that would be Tricia Helfer's.
Kerrigan! She ghosted me, once...
...either that, or it was the starcrack...
The Bambino Boxing commercial IS on RUclips
Turns out, their slogan was: "Beat a Bambino, and you've beaten the best!"
I don't think the first half of that slogan would go over very well in Europe
Astro Wars looks like a Galaga inspired game.
Hence the "Super Galaxian" name in Japan.
Galaxian predates Galaga...because Galaga is the sequel to Galaxian. In fact, near as I can tell, Astro Wars/Super Galaxian predates the arcade release of Galaga by just a couple of months.
Waitress tipping?
Sounds easier than cow tipping, but much ruder.
Boxino Bambling.
he brought back the outro
THANK YOU ASHEN
I think for games that can be 2 player you should bring in Dan or Barry for a 2nd player
I have Astro Wars! I'm 25, but it used to be my dad's and my grandad gave it to me. I had a little wave of nostalgia hearing those horrible noises it made in the video.
Super Kong - Meet the Kong who can't be stopped!
Hot fuzz?
Yes!
"It's like fighting an angry metronome."
I died right there xDD
"to be honest their is no skill at all and you're just mashing buttons in the hope of winning. Ya' know, like Tekken!"
*grabs popcorn*
*scrolls down to comment section*
That was obviously a joke though, the tone he used clearly gives it away xD
Popcorn is for fucking losers. Kek.
'It's like looking up a Cylons minge or something...' Ashens, I do love you!
lol "words were but candy in the minds of fools"
Galaga, Frogger, and Dig Dug are my favorites. 🥰 I loved Namco Museum PS2 growing up, we also had a plug n' play of Frogger. 😊🐸💖
Please have a wonderful day. 😻
"We've won the war...And now we're flatulent." Funniest line ever!
"Oh look, a place for a sty-geuahahahah"
"Go go gadget copter!".
if you set the super kong game on a table and played it, the ladders would be in the right position.
Looking up a Cylon's minge?
Well now.
Wouldn't mind doing that with the one played by Grace Park...
Bambino Boxing: The world's earliest representation of every anime fighting scene. Many blurred hands colliding.
"It's just like fighting an angry metronome"
ahahaha
I lost it at "maybe we're both bees and fighting in a bonnet." I love the reference. I can always rely on Ashens for my healthy dose of sarcasm and dry humo[u]r. And a bit of tat induced rage from time to time.
Late 70's still inspired *CURVES*.
I got an Astro wars console circa '81. Loved it. It was a portable games console which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to take out of the house.. Work than one out. Preferred this to our Intellivision. My dad worked for Radio Rentals. And they had a deal with Mattell. Great video again. Batteries were expensive then, so you had to use the mains.
The ladders didn't line up straight on because it's meant to be viewed from an angle.
The Astro Wars game did a decent job of recreating the various levels of the arcade game Moon Cresta in LED form. I was surprised to see those four ships/aliens at the top come to life, as well as the docking procedure. Pretty clever and playable for the technology! And you just have to love that "Air Traffic Control" case. Too cool.
It'll turn instantly awesome when you start screaming "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!" while you box. XD
+Oriru Bastard Doesn't that mean "come on!"? I hear it quite a bit in old Japanese fighters/anime.
+DegenerateProduction something like that, its mostly from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, if you are interested in action and silliness, watch it
+Ricin42 you mean awesome!
MitsuruguiReiji bro, its the best show
+Ricin42 part 4 hype am I right?
'Is like fighting an angry metronome or something...' This is why I subscribe to this channel! XD
my brother got Astrowars one christmas and played it non-stop (he's 37 now) I think its still in the loft!!
I had Astro Wars as a kid!!! First piece of old electronics I've seen on the Ashens channel that I had and properly loved as a boy! :D
That ending was so 80s it hurt.
The ladders are drawn for the angle of tabletop play, so they look wrong when played with a more direct angle.
I am filled with sadness to realize I was a (young) adult when these came out.
CYLON'S MINGE - I am crying, that's amazing, you bastard!
4:45 As a point of interest, most cultures (especially Asian) don't really make a distinction between blue and green.
+TBF Salem Interesting how that works, seeing as we didn't really see orange as its own colour for a long time as well.
I love Ashens' super 80s outro.
OH Ashens, you spoil us.
Oh man, I had Astro Wars. It was a xmas present from my folks some time around 1981 or so :D
Such memories.
Sugar Ray Robinson was a kid, and then was a squid?
+Tommy TwoTacos So that's where the Idea of Splatoon came from..
This is the best April Fool's joke ever!
In that it's not a joke at the viewer, it's fun to partake and ultimately helps Ashens clean up the backlog!
Any plans to do a Neo Geo Pocket Color episode?
Holy Hell, I actually owned one of those with Sonic Pocket Adventures on it! I'm with this guy, review that!
Surely, assuming he has one.
Jordan Harris Yes it does.
So essentially the pop station fighting game is based off a fighting game from the 70s and stripped down the features from back then.
Yes, it also struck me that the boxers were tearing off their hands and throwing them at each other...
zh84
Maybe they were fighting like that back in the day
Need...more...ashens...can't....go...on
Amazing. A boxing game from the late 70s has a far superior display than a POP Station
Sometimes I wonder about those Pop stations. Sure they are made in China on the cheap but when you should have access to 30 year old technology I don't really know what your excuse is.
I am also including the Tiger Electronics here as the Game.com was mezmerizing in how it avoided being playable in almost every sense.
CYLON'S MINGE ahahahaha! XD
"like pheasants and such?" killed me
Still better than ipad/tablet games.
I had an AstroWars when i was 7-8 years old. Bloody loved it!
Happy new month everyone!
I still have my Firefox-F7 Grandstand tabletop somewhere. I loved that game!
FireFox F-7 was *AMAZING*.
Just out of interest, what is that song at the end?
Oh man hearing that Astro wars music took me on a weird nostalgia trip, I loved that game, I remember my joystick broke and I sent it to the manufacturer and they fixed it lol
Astro Wars was loud. Very loud.
I owned a few Table-Top games back in the day including ,Astro Wars,Scramble & Caveman ,loved them all
That Tekken joke tho
The boxing controls for player 2 were inverted if you notice. The punch controls are on the right, not left like player 1.
Still better than Call of Duty Ghosts
Still better than call of duty .
Still better then turtle transformers.
And fifa
HARBOUR GAMING Still better than your mum. (I just feel like being unreasonable today. Please humor me and don't reply with an essay describing in painful detail why all triple A games are shit.)
Lot's of love
From Smeg
Michael Green holy shit some one else who uses the word smeg.
The super kong ladders do align properly to the levels when you hold the machine at an angle.
Ashens, by Tekken you mean street fighter right lol
All fighting games.
soundslave
With the possible exception of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Ultimate HD Tournament Bonanza Edition).
When he said Tekken, I found it strange because as a fan of both, I have to say SoulCalibur seems more notorious for button mashing.
If any of you are on the Steam community, you should try Divekick (very cheap!) as it's a fighting game where button mashing DOESN'T help you at all!
He was joking, but Law, Christie, Eddie and Lili are those kinds of characters you can win by mashing buttons with, at least against casuals, anyway.
That's why I didn't think he was joking, you CAN actually win by button mashing fairly easily.
Diddle li diii, di diddle diddle di diiii, di diddle liii di diiii. . . .shit! I gave my self a flash back to the eighties. . . back to therapy then.
I am anus of mushroom blood?
Good for you.
That's an excellent question.
One might say so.
I perfectly understand you
"Words were but candy in the minds of fools..." Truly poetic
The 80's seem like a terrible and dark time.....Is it true everyone was hairy and greasy for some reason?
yes, it's was a very hairy time, full of hairspray and body grease.
80's Britain.
Drugs,smoking,scooters,mods and sex!
Read that in Peter Griffins voice. You're welcome.
FiftyShadesOfGaming Doesn't seem very different from today...
Astro Wars was sold in the US as Galaxy II under the Epoch brand.
The Italian phrase for children is bambini, not bambino.
He said children, not child.
5Assassins You serious? Does that seriously bother you? Or do just want people to know, that you can look up words on the internet?
I didn't look it up on the internet, smart ass.
5Assassins That means, you brag about knowing a little bit of a foreign language?
Ma chi se ne frega? Wen kümmert's schon?
Show-offs, seriously...
You just said the same thing twice.
Damn... Astro Wars... I remember that. We got those here in NZ too. Was really fun for a kid to play back then.
HE INSULTED TEKKEN. RAIN HELL UPON HIS PERSONAGE.
Tekken sucks. If you don't devote half of your life to learning one combo move on one character, you can't win.
Charles Grimm Street Fighter Master Race.
Charles Grimm Street Fighter Master Race.
Summon the Spoony One so he can air juggle his ass.
Tekken is bollocks, button mashing bollocks.
When docking the top in Astrowars, you could move the top left and right as well as thrust. There was a position that you only took 3 shots to kill those 3 aliens. When you got to 9999 it would play the 1st song 10 times and the game ended.