My leapster was my obsession as a kid and I really think it helped my education. My ADHD ass hated homework, but I'd happily spend HOURS learning spelling and fractions on my leapster with Madagascar and the Incredibles.
I had a leap pad 2 explorer and it had the pet game and a magic school bus deep sea cartridge games. And it was my first game console.then I got a mobi go with around 4-5 cartridge games. Then I had a purple Nintendo 3DS and I had one game which was animal crossing new leaf which I played that game for hundreds of hours and never got bored.if I didn’t have a leap frog I fear that I may not have been in all advanced classes, and I wouldn’t have the interest in the sea. I also have memories stored on it from the photos and I could be creative and edit the photos.
I got a Leappad for Christmas when I was 4, and I had a book about classical composers for it. That book (and the 2001 cinematic masterpiece, “Barbie in the Nutcracker”) introduced me to classical music; and I went on to study opera at university, but I found that I also had a huge fascination with classical composers and weird facts about them. I always joked with my parents that it was because of that leaped book. I always tried to find media about it online (my mom gave away my Leapad RIP), but never found a ton from the composer book. I continued being a music history nerd, and was the only one who enjoyed that required course in undergrad, and my essays would always be like 5x longer than they were meant to be, because I was so fascinated and wanted an excuse to read more and more. Lol. I graduated in December of last year, and for Christmas, my mom found me an old Leapad online (which came with a ton of other books that I didn’t care about). And then she gifted me the coveted “Hit it Maestro” book. I went through it and relived my nostalgia (I was also wine drunk, so that was great lol). And I also noticed the amount of immense detail that went into every aspect of the book. It was also even a tiny bit progressive for being from 1999, they alluded to Tchaikovsky’s homosexuality and his battles with depression (especially after the death of his dear sister during the composition of the Nutcracker), they also put Clara Schumann’s maiden name and listed her before Robert (she is often an unsung hero of romantic-era western classical music- and is usually “downgraded” to just being the spouse of Robert Schumann. The book held up very well, and it was so lovely to relive my nostalgia 😂 But now I’ve got a TON of Leappad books that I don’t know what to do with. I bought my cousin’s son a new styled Leappad for his birthday, and I would’ve loved to give him the old one I got too, but the pen is really hard to work with- I had to basically slam it into the book at a 90° angle to get it to work 😂
You don't realize how much I LOVED my leap pad. I played with it so much that the leap pad died completely. I love this video because the leap pad was so nostalgic. The Scooby-Doo and the donuts one was the best one.
OHHH my god, I had the Explorer Globe as a kid. Hearing the sound effect when you tap on something and the way the voiceover guy says "Madagascar" definitely unearthed some archived memories
I have extremely good memories of the LeapPad. With a lot of assistance from my parents, it helped me learn to read when I was 3 years old. I was proud of that as a kid -- I remember making other kids cry when I read Dr. Seuss books to them in preschool. I had the Explorer globe as well, which I credit with sparking my lifelong interest in geography.
'I have extremely good memories of the LeapPad.' 'I remember making other kids cry when I read Dr. Seuss books to them in preschool.' Beautiful. That's beautiful.
I had a leappad when I was a kid and I remember the scooby doo books. I really loved it tbh. It sounds silly with all the technology these days but I'd buy it for my future kids still. The book aspect I think really got me into reading. Like obviously I grew out of it eventually but it did help pave the way into enjoying actual books and I want that for my kids too.
I'm unlocking so many memories. I had a Monsters Inc. and Spongebob book for the leap pad that I loved so much, and an anatomy book that I got so frustrated with
I remember I could never get past one of the Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull levels because I didn't know division yet. That's an actual memory from my childhood.
Oh, DUDE, same. My brother had this Batman: Divide and Conquer game that (obviously) was all division and poor little young me just kept trying to guess the answers
Damn, they made a Crystal Skull one? I was already way too old for Leapster by the time that movie came out, what I remember about Leapster is that I had a Toy Story 2 one that I would read with my dad but I couldn't understand why "the" wasn't spelled like "da" so he spent like an hour explaining it to me and I still don't think I understood lol.
My mom left my leap pad on top of the car on the way to school once, surprisingly after being thrown to the side of the road it still worked with no issue. This thing was awesome, and indestructible. My younger sister had the Leapster as well and she was hooked on that Sleeping Beauty game.
I remember when I was a teenager, going to a friend's house and seeing a younger sibling or cousin's (I don't remember) LeapFrog toy, with a Scooby Doo book in it. I ended up messing with it while adults were talking in another room and was like "wow, this is really impressive, I wish could had this as a little kid". I'm sure there's apps and stuff nowadays that could teach more to a child, but... For something that doesn't have ads or or issues with updating or requiring wifi or anything besides batteries and the books, it's still as good for helping a kid learn now as it was back then I bet.
Towards the end of my leap pad pro's life, it had a bug where it just... WOULDN'T turn off, and would occasionally call out "touch the green go cir- touch the gre- touch the green go- touch-touch-touch the green go circle" like some kind of possessed phonograph.
I loved these interactive books as a kid. My younger sister and I each had one of the readers and we'd trade the booklets around. The reminded me a ton of the humongous entertainment point and click games. To this day I have a soft spot for point and click games.
I love how people have nostalgic memories with this toy[LeapPad] and i did own one too (the pink and purple one), I only had one booklet for it which was the original because by the time I was old enough to know how to play with it; money got short and it was one of the remaining toys that's nice along with my vtech laptop. I remember begging for my mom to buy me AA batteries so that I can play with them especially when the power goes out which was quite frequent in our place. I actaully learned form these and the fact that I knew the different types of insturments and what a cranium is at 7 is just amazing.
I had the pink LeapPad, I had mostly Disney and Scooby Doo books! I think I still have it floating around somewhere, I still think it’s an impressive piece of tech, even to this day. Especially as someone who has dyslexia and ADHD, it really made things fun whilst also keeping learning interesting.
I used to use my leappad in my grandmas car on long drives. Looking back, she probably HATED having to hear that thing the whole drive, but didnt want to stop me from "learning". I bet its still at her house somewhere...
Fun fact: an excerpt from the LeapFrog tooth story is used by the Leapster as its sort of equivalent to the Genesis's TMSS, or the Game Boy's Nintendo logo. If the cartridge contains that excerpt in the header, the game checks out. The Cutting Room Floor covers this in a bit more detail.
I guess they didn't want to bother with actually signing stuff, and I can see why: certificates, encryption, and all that would have been overkill, especially for something like the Leapster. The stuff after excerpt also mentions something about a content approval screen, one of which actually exists in the Leapster BIOS (just disabled or unused on retail units). It's just a basic red screen with "Game/Content NOT approved by LeapFrog" or something along those lines.
I remember how popular the books were. My parents were poor so never actually had one. My friend had one and never got into it either. Lol. I was one of those kids who adored the library.
I had one of the leappads at one point, I think it was my younger brothers haha, but man if little kid me knew Ben 10 was gonna be on the later models I mightve asked for one.
Leappad and Leapster helped me so much. Read my first book at age 2 and read my first lengthy chapter book (100+ pages) when I was 5. I also had the globe as well, my Mom and I would sit on my bed and compete in the challenges. A lot of times the geography info would cause me to become more interested, and my mom would go online with me and we would look at info. I was that weird kid that did a show and tell in Kindergarten on some photos I printed of the Great Wall of China. My favorite leapster games were Spider-Man and Math Missions. I remember there being a later console (I think it was called dij?) that I had too, and I loved the Indiana Jones, Spongebob, and Sonic games on it.
Great video... I was born in 1988, so LeapFrog was all around growing up. We used to have them, until the other technologies 'caught up' and out paced them + we grew up. Went from the LF products to the GameBoy OG and the GBC. We used to have a few in our school, too! :D
My sister had a leap pad when we were kids, and that "It wiggles Leap, the top one here!" Unlocked a memory of that line being played over and over, and over... 🙃
holy shit this unlocked some memories lmao, I actually still have my leapster (I don't think it works anymore tho) and and went and checked and they fr had so much licensed stuff, I had bratz, spider-man, batman, sonic, incredibles, scooby-doo, and nemo games
I hope Billiam will eventually cover the Leap Frog cartoons. Those things were my childhood, not really the devices myself. Letter Factory and Storybook Factory was my jam for child me.
I got the alphabet factory and the word factory when I was three, and I used them to learn how to read books when my parents couldn't read an extra chapter before bedtime
leapfrog basically raised me lmao. i loved the leapster explorer, the leap pad, and the tag pen thing haha. i believe my brother and i had a couple other things but this is such a nice throwback lol
I was born in 1998 so I was at the perfect ages to experience BOTH the original Leap Pad and the original Leapster. I remember loving the Leap Pad, but wishing my Leapster was a DS 😂😅
Unfortunately, I remember really wanting to use Leapfrog, but we didn't have any leapfrog stuff until my little brothers were old enough. I think I still played it though, even though I was too old for it.
I had a leap frog device when I was 5 or 6 and I legit had so much fun that I legit thought that it was more of a game system rather than a device used for education. The only thing I remember playing on it was this weird dog game were you not only took care of your dog but also learned how to write the alphabet and sentences at this dog contest of some sort.
me too i had the pink leapster and ds. i always brought them on car rides and the start up jingles for both of them are so ingrained in my head i’ll never forget the pew pews of the leapster. i’ll also never forget the coloring thing the leapster had and the bababoo sound the ghosts made
This brings back so many childhood memories. Like oof, I had the leap pad growing up (and I think it might still be somewhere in my basement) and dang did I love it growing up.
You just unlocked one of my forgotten childhood memories. I had two or three Richard Scarry books as a small child and I absolutely loved that worm character. I don't remember why but I probably thoght he looked fun.
I actually remember most of these. These were the pre-DS days with my family. Math missions and incredibles were my favorite. Math missions had actual games and was pretty fun. Incredibles wasnt bad, but the main "game" was like a chessboard that you moved characters through. There was also a batman game that had actual combat and bosses in it. Was pretty good! Also, the video now also had games...and they were something alright!
The Batman one was one of my favorites and probably the game I remember most vividly from this system! I also remember liking one about caring for a virtual dog and also some sort of race car game that taught you about pints and quarts and stuff by having you fill up the gas tank.
This entire video brought back so many memories. I had both leap pads and the leapster. The Scooby doo book was my favorite, and to see it again was amazing. Makes me want to play with my old toys again.
I had a leappad, the leapster was beyond my years. the book that came with it is forever etched into my brain, and I had so much fun with it as a young kid. I also learned to read relatively fast, so I would also just read the books on their own during class lol
When I was 6 I asked for a GameBoy Advance SP for Christmas. Instead I received a Leapster. Needless to say that was not a good Christmas when I discovered the only games on it were educational.
I'm pretty sure the GBA even had educational games,,so it's a better deal in that regard since it does both. The DS had educational games so I assume the GBA did too.
I was more of a V-Tech kid, though I did see commercials for it while growing up. Also was surprised to know that Sonic Didj was a thing. Especially with it using previous zones
I remember these! I had the one with the stylus and the talking book. I remember I essentially taught myself to read with that thing when I was little lol. Before long, I started reading earlier than most kids in my grade!
The Leapster had a few games with their mascots that were essentially a collection of minigames that I remember being really fun. That was, like, when I was 4-6, but i enjoyed them!
I rember them...my fave was the coloring one with the stickers but my fave version was the one you play by turning on the blue leapfrog without a cartrige...because it had more stickers...i loved it because i would creat stiries with the stickers for literal hours..nestalogia
Did anyone else grow up with those 2D LeapFrog movies that were on VHS and DVD in the early-mid 2000s? I internally screamed when the rat popped up on the screen at 13:18 because I remember him appearing in all 6 of them and having multiple voice actors.
The Leapster, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while, I actually grew up with one of those. Also, I had no idea Leapfrog had other products before that said console.
I had a tag pen when I was a kid and absolutely adored it. I was a huge bookworm even before I could read, and my single mom didn't have all the time in the world to read to me, so she invested in one. It must've worked because I was reading before I started kindergarten and was at a 6th-grade level by grade 4.
The Leapster was my childhood! It was one of those handhold ones. Also for years I thought Letter Factor was a fever dream I had as a child! I was just talking with my sister about it today! What a coincidence This entire video was flashbacks for me! Oh the nostalgia! I loved the drawing game! And the Cinderella one and the dog game
The leap pad was my favorite thing when I was little.. the frogs were the best! I was very sad when it stopped working.. I also found out if you click certain points of the page you can hear stories from other books in that story that I didn’t even have.
The fact fancy pants adventure got dropped made my day. I had the leapster book reader as a kid. It was fun for a bit. My favorite thing was the leapster bopit. Helped with my math skills and spelling
I had the original leap pad in Pink. I used it forever. I Have learning disabilities and it was the only thing that could help me. My younger brother had the writing one. I just remember it being so much bigger and bulky then mine. My younger sisters had the pen system. Which still is in our house and works. It is weird to hear about all the other options that I never knew about.
Oh definitely. I watched that movie so much that I got upset when they had a soft reboot and changed the character designs in the next movie they made.
i grew up with a lobster 2 and i vividly remember loving this pet grooming salon game and having a lot of fun with it i wish i knew where it was to play on it again
OMG YES! My parents would always get me stuff a grade or two above my current one so i'd be ahead of everyone else Also, it's weird to think that Mr Wonderful from Shark Tank created it
Holy shit man, you just completely took me back to a better time. A time I didn’t need to worry about school, work, money, relationships. I remember hooking up my elmax to my tv and coloring for my family to watch.
Oh my goodness this takes me back to when I was little. I owned a purple leap pad explorer and two leapfrog tag books (the newer ones). An incredibles one and a finding nemo one. I think I remember even watching an educational leapfrog show. One fun story I have was when me and my older sibling would ussually play around by tapping whatever we found on the page and hear what the sound was. In the incredibles book, one page had what looked like some guy in a small disked shaped ship off in the corner, and it played a goofy alian tune. So we decided to pretend my older sibling was an alian in the basement while my dad was playing some video game. My sibling walked beside him, (I have no idea if they were wearing something over themself or not) and made a silly pose. My sibling then said something along the lines of them being an alian and I played the tune from the book in another room. I don't remember much after that, but it's such a fun memory. Edit: spelling errors
I had a Leap Pad tablet and a Leapster L Max growing up! Honestly, the Leapster was my first gaming console before the plug and plays and PS2 I got in like 2006! It really says a lot that I had to donate it when I was like 11 because I wasnt using the thing anymore, but I still have fond memories of the L Max
Gosh, I had completely forgotten about this. We used to have a weekly day where we could either get one of these or play with blocks and finish math problems. I feel as a page of my life has been restored lol thanks Billiam!
@@BBC600 I think I only ever used mine once or twice. There was something about the design that just made it... not enjoyable? But it was a big christmas gift so I remember constantly trying to enjoy it
This was completely memory-holed for me. I used to have dozens of books for the leappad and read them every day, thinking back, they really were great as educational tools. The knockoff gameboy and current tablets just don't hit the same way.
I had an original LeapPad with three books. Two LeapFrog ones, and a SpongeBob one. I freaking loved it growing up! It was one of my favorite toys growing up!
I remember I was so excited when I finally got my LeapPad for Xmas after begging for it for so long. My parents were never the time to blow big money, so I didn't expect it. It was truly such an amazing gift & I played w/ it all xmas morning, but I left it out when we went to my gmas later on. When I got back, my dog had destroyed all of the books & pen. I cried for so long...
My family had like 3 Leapster consoles in the late 2000s (I'm not even sure how we got them, probably used) - I remember learning how to read using the Letter Factory game/movie cartridge and the Wii's instruction manual, for some reason. Something about the compressed voice clips and MIDI music just takes me right back :')
i swear every time i watch a billiam video i unlock more memories lol. i completely forgot about the leapster, but i had it when i was a toddler actually, and my favorite game on it was the incredibles...i'm shocked i even remembered it, but it was definitely when i was really young since i got my ds at age 6 and mostly stopped using it.
Same! I was considering to have my 7y/o nephew try it and see how he takes it compared to all of his modern teaching toys. Won't lie, the way he treats his toys I'm way to nervous he will destroy it lol.
I LOVED the LeapPad as a kid. Same with the Leapster, which I played a ton up until age 8 when I got my DS lol. This video opened up so much nostalgia for me
I had a few of these books - I specifically remember the lion king, Thomas the tank engine, Disney princesses and generic frog games. They were actually a lot of fun! Got such intense nostalgia hearing the sound effects! Weirdly though, despite being born in ‘03 I never heard of the leapster, too expensive for me I guess. The books were probably hand me downs
@@Nakia11798 I get what you are saying but an iPad/Tablet can so everything the leap pad could and more. It all just depends on the apps on the tablet. I bet there's a bunch of learning apps that are good but it all depends on how much control the kid has on the tablet and kids would rather play non educational games/programs.
I loved my Leap Pad as a little kid. I had the Scooby Doo book that Billy has here. I also had one that taught swahili, and a Quantum Leap book about weather patterns.
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My leapster was my obsession as a kid and I really think it helped my education. My ADHD ass hated homework, but I'd happily spend HOURS learning spelling and fractions on my leapster with Madagascar and the Incredibles.
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Omg same
The books were technologically incredible given the time, honestly.
I have to wonder how much effort it must've took to make ONE of them, let alone over a dozen of them!
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The cost must have been spectacular.
@@DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993. Probably over $40,000 just for one of them!
Sega had done it years earlier with the Sega pico with slightly more primitive tech, but essentially still the same type of recognition
Leapster is the reason I was the only kid in my second grade class that knew what a parallelogram was.
Same. That and Team Umizoomi
Yesss there were parallelograms in that Crayola game
I just learned it in a book from school... I was too old for the leapster. The leappad I had, though.
I still dunno what that is.
Edit: I remember.
I had a leap pad 2 explorer and it had the pet game and a magic school bus deep sea cartridge games. And it was my first game console.then I got a mobi go with around 4-5 cartridge games. Then I had a purple Nintendo 3DS and I had one game which was animal crossing new leaf which I played that game for hundreds of hours and never got bored.if I didn’t have a leap frog I fear that I may not have been in all advanced classes, and I wouldn’t have the interest in the sea. I also have memories stored on it from the photos and I could be creative and edit the photos.
I got a Leappad for Christmas when I was 4, and I had a book about classical composers for it. That book (and the 2001 cinematic masterpiece, “Barbie in the Nutcracker”) introduced me to classical music; and I went on to study opera at university, but I found that I also had a huge fascination with classical composers and weird facts about them. I always joked with my parents that it was because of that leaped book. I always tried to find media about it online (my mom gave away my Leapad RIP), but never found a ton from the composer book. I continued being a music history nerd, and was the only one who enjoyed that required course in undergrad, and my essays would always be like 5x longer than they were meant to be, because I was so fascinated and wanted an excuse to read more and more. Lol.
I graduated in December of last year, and for Christmas, my mom found me an old Leapad online (which came with a ton of other books that I didn’t care about). And then she gifted me the coveted “Hit it Maestro” book.
I went through it and relived my nostalgia (I was also wine drunk, so that was great lol). And I also noticed the amount of immense detail that went into every aspect of the book. It was also even a tiny bit progressive for being from 1999, they alluded to Tchaikovsky’s homosexuality and his battles with depression (especially after the death of his dear sister during the composition of the Nutcracker), they also put Clara Schumann’s maiden name and listed her before Robert (she is often an unsung hero of romantic-era western classical music- and is usually “downgraded” to just being the spouse of Robert Schumann.
The book held up very well, and it was so lovely to relive my nostalgia 😂
But now I’ve got a TON of Leappad books that I don’t know what to do with.
I bought my cousin’s son a new styled Leappad for his birthday, and I would’ve loved to give him the old one I got too, but the pen is really hard to work with- I had to basically slam it into the book at a 90° angle to get it to work 😂
pretty sure somebody ik has the composer one
i can confirm it’s existence
I had that exact book! Used to sit for hours playing the classical songs over and over!
A lot of songs are heard when I played with the Leap Pad Learning System with books! Especially The Happy Farmer by Schumann!
When he brought out that explorer globe it unlocked memories I didn't even know I had
I still have mine and it is somehow still working
My sister had one and uh... yours truly ruined it...
SAME HERE!
why do I feel 6 again
I’d set it to whatever setting made it play a little song for each country and just keep tapping Morocco to hear this one 5 second tune over and over.
Jesus the extreme feelings of nostalgia hearing the sounds from the leapfrog. This brought back so many memories I haven't looked back on in YEARS.
I heard that LeapFrog "press the green GO button" music and immediately got Ratatouille'd back to 2006
I remember the product!
Same
I had a leap pad and as a dyslexic kid it was probably the only reading based toy I was engaged with.
I see Billiam still hasn't fully recovered all his braincells from the Scooby-Doo Marathon but has atleast reached Leap Frog level.
Baby frog leaps, can't rush it.
He regressed to the Leapfrog mental state.
That's a good place to be
I think he forgot the console the leap tv
That's what they called the points in Turbo Twist
You don't realize how much I LOVED my leap pad. I played with it so much that the leap pad died completely. I love this video because the leap pad was so nostalgic. The Scooby-Doo and the donuts one was the best one.
Hearing the Leap pad song was a real *memory unlocked* moment
Seriously like holy shit it’s so familiar
@@charlottesimss9853 Same here man. Haven't heard that shit in 20 years!
I felt like the critic from Ratatouille. Just a long forgotten childhood memory suddenly wafts over you
Bad memory for me because it decided it was no longer completely turning off and randomly played audio at times.
I watched the movies
Whoever did the "correct/incorrect" lines did such a great job, had me cracking up!
That jingle and “touch the green go circle” made me have a Ratatouille moment.
the pause for me. As if it's been just long enough for the reader to become annoyed that I don't know what to do
THE JINGLE YOOOOOO
you couldn’t explain that feeling any better
OHHH my god, I had the Explorer Globe as a kid. Hearing the sound effect when you tap on something and the way the voiceover guy says "Madagascar" definitely unearthed some archived memories
I have extremely good memories of the LeapPad. With a lot of assistance from my parents, it helped me learn to read when I was 3 years old. I was proud of that as a kid -- I remember making other kids cry when I read Dr. Seuss books to them in preschool. I had the Explorer globe as well, which I credit with sparking my lifelong interest in geography.
same bruh that was my stuff back then
me too
Same
'I have extremely good memories of the LeapPad.' 'I remember making other kids cry when I read Dr. Seuss books to them in preschool.'
Beautiful. That's beautiful.
I had a leappad when I was a kid and I remember the scooby doo books. I really loved it tbh. It sounds silly with all the technology these days but I'd buy it for my future kids still. The book aspect I think really got me into reading. Like obviously I grew out of it eventually but it did help pave the way into enjoying actual books and I want that for my kids too.
When that little jingle plays after hitting the go button, something in my brain gets trigger like it’s an activation phrase for a sleeper agent
I'm unlocking so many memories. I had a Monsters Inc. and Spongebob book for the leap pad that I loved so much, and an anatomy book that I got so frustrated with
I remember I could never get past one of the Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull levels because I didn't know division yet. That's an actual memory from my childhood.
Well, it had to be better than watching the movie… and I remember liking it alright back then.
Oh, DUDE, same. My brother had this Batman: Divide and Conquer game that (obviously) was all division and poor little young me just kept trying to guess the answers
Damn, they made a Crystal Skull one? I was already way too old for Leapster by the time that movie came out, what I remember about Leapster is that I had a Toy Story 2 one that I would read with my dad but I couldn't understand why "the" wasn't spelled like "da" so he spent like an hour explaining it to me and I still don't think I understood lol.
@@thequietdreamer2186 Well at least we got Nuketown out of it.
Same! My brother and i saved up all our money for black friday for that at Toys R Us. Core memory unlockeddddd
My mom left my leap pad on top of the car on the way to school once, surprisingly after being thrown to the side of the road it still worked with no issue. This thing was awesome, and indestructible. My younger sister had the Leapster as well and she was hooked on that Sleeping Beauty game.
Holly shit I owned a Leapster growing up and seeing it again just gave me so much nostalgia
Same like it feels like it was just yesterday:')
I remember I always played the Cinderella game
i played the Toy Story game a lot
I had Dino dan
I definitely remember the book at 4:17, The Lion king and Nemo
Ah, sweet memories
I remember when I was a teenager, going to a friend's house and seeing a younger sibling or cousin's (I don't remember) LeapFrog toy, with a Scooby Doo book in it. I ended up messing with it while adults were talking in another room and was like "wow, this is really impressive, I wish could had this as a little kid". I'm sure there's apps and stuff nowadays that could teach more to a child, but... For something that doesn't have ads or or issues with updating or requiring wifi or anything besides batteries and the books, it's still as good for helping a kid learn now as it was back then I bet.
"Touch the green go circle" gave me war flashbacks. You're pressing the wrong one if I'm remembering correctly
Did yours have a quarter-inch offset, too?
Me too
Yeah I think you're right.
Towards the end of my leap pad pro's life, it had a bug where it just... WOULDN'T turn off, and would occasionally call out "touch the green go cir- touch the gre- touch the green go- touch-touch-touch the green go circle" like some kind of possessed phonograph.
@@dragonwithamonocle SAME. I thought it was possessed and threw it into the hallway in fear in the middle of the night.
I loved these interactive books as a kid. My younger sister and I each had one of the readers and we'd trade the booklets around. The reminded me a ton of the humongous entertainment point and click games. To this day I have a soft spot for point and click games.
I love how people have nostalgic memories with this toy[LeapPad] and i did own one too (the pink and purple one), I only had one booklet for it which was the original because by the time I was old enough to know how to play with it; money got short and it was one of the remaining toys that's nice along with my vtech laptop. I remember begging for my mom to buy me AA batteries so that I can play with them especially when the power goes out which was quite frequent in our place. I actaully learned form these and the fact that I knew the different types of insturments and what a cranium is at 7 is just amazing.
and it's here that I first heard The Wizard of Oz and remembering how much of a cliffhanger it was
4:50... you have no idea how much early childhood nostalgia memories you just unlocked for me with that jingle and narration.
Same
Omg same, memories unlocked
Me too!!!
The memories are coming back
Same
I had the pink LeapPad, I had mostly Disney and Scooby Doo books! I think I still have it floating around somewhere, I still think it’s an impressive piece of tech, even to this day. Especially as someone who has dyslexia and ADHD, it really made things fun whilst also keeping learning interesting.
this is a core memory unlocked. i literally played all of these. my whole childhood. me and my sister thought we were RICH for having these
You so was 😂 . I never got the leapster or the globe just the pad. That I shared with two other children xD
I used to use my leappad in my grandmas car on long drives. Looking back, she probably HATED having to hear that thing the whole drive, but didnt want to stop me from "learning".
I bet its still at her house somewhere...
When’s the Lobster 3 droppin?
The start up music and voice of the leappad just made me smile so big, how did I forget that shit holy cow
Same… how is all the noises ingrained in my brain…
Yeah the into definitely unlocked some memories too!
SAME
Yeah, that unlocked some early memories.
Fun fact: an excerpt from the LeapFrog tooth story is used by the Leapster as its sort of equivalent to the Genesis's TMSS, or the Game Boy's Nintendo logo. If the cartridge contains that excerpt in the header, the game checks out.
The Cutting Room Floor covers this in a bit more detail.
I guess they didn't want to bother with actually signing stuff, and I can see why: certificates, encryption, and all that would have been overkill, especially for something like the Leapster. The stuff after excerpt also mentions something about a content approval screen, one of which actually exists in the Leapster BIOS (just disabled or unused on retail units). It's just a basic red screen with "Game/Content NOT approved by LeapFrog" or something along those lines.
I remember how popular the books were. My parents were poor so never actually had one. My friend had one and never got into it either. Lol. I was one of those kids who adored the library.
I had one of the leappads at one point, I think it was my younger brothers haha, but man if little kid me knew Ben 10 was gonna be on the later models I mightve asked for one.
Same hahaha
Leappad and Leapster helped me so much. Read my first book at age 2 and read my first lengthy chapter book (100+ pages) when I was 5. I also had the globe as well, my Mom and I would sit on my bed and compete in the challenges. A lot of times the geography info would cause me to become more interested, and my mom would go online with me and we would look at info. I was that weird kid that did a show and tell in Kindergarten on some photos I printed of the Great Wall of China. My favorite leapster games were Spider-Man and Math Missions. I remember there being a later console (I think it was called dij?) that I had too, and I loved the Indiana Jones, Spongebob, and Sonic games on it.
Hearing the "touch the green go circle" thing unlocked a core memory I had forgotten about
Great video... I was born in 1988, so LeapFrog was all around growing up. We used to have them, until the other technologies 'caught up' and out paced them + we grew up. Went from the LF products to the GameBoy OG and the GBC. We used to have a few in our school, too! :D
My sister had a leap pad when we were kids, and that "It wiggles Leap, the top one here!" Unlocked a memory of that line being played over and over, and over... 🙃
Yep, I definitely read that one a lot bc I lost my one other book.
holy shit this unlocked some memories lmao, I actually still have my leapster (I don't think it works anymore tho) and and went and checked and they fr had so much licensed stuff, I had bratz, spider-man, batman, sonic, incredibles, scooby-doo, and nemo games
For me it was TOUCH THE GREEN GO CIRCLE WITH YOUR PEN which launched 23 year old memories
I hope Billiam will eventually cover the Leap Frog cartoons. Those things were my childhood, not really the devices myself. Letter Factory and Storybook Factory was my jam for child me.
I got the alphabet factory and the word factory when I was three, and I used them to learn how to read books when my parents couldn't read an extra chapter before bedtime
For years I thought Letter Factory was a fever dream!
Same I had the first 5 VHS/DVDs of the LeapFrog series when I was little, with Word Factory being my first one.
@@callousHeart aw, that's kinda wholesome
yeah they were my fave! i loved all leapfrog stuff tbh
leapfrog basically raised me lmao. i loved the leapster explorer, the leap pad, and the tag pen thing haha. i believe my brother and i had a couple other things but this is such a nice throwback lol
You know I'm still a child at heart when I laughed at "Leap gave Lil pot"
The Leapster was a top tier educational console. I love my Leapster so much. I also had the LeapPad too! Leapfrog gadgets were the best.
I was born in 1998 so I was at the perfect ages to experience BOTH the original Leap Pad and the original Leapster. I remember loving the Leap Pad, but wishing my Leapster was a DS 😂😅
Unfortunately, I remember really wanting to use Leapfrog, but we didn't have any leapfrog stuff until my little brothers were old enough. I think I still played it though, even though I was too old for it.
I had a leap frog device when I was 5 or 6 and I legit had so much fun that I legit thought that it was more of a game system rather than a device used for education.
The only thing I remember playing on it was this weird dog game were you not only took care of your dog but also learned how to write the alphabet and sentences at this dog contest of some sort.
Yeah Pet Pals and Tangled. top tier games
Pet Pals? I had that game too - I remember how annoying it was to win all 5 stars in the contest thing because one screw-up cost you the whole run :P
I played on the Leapster as much as my Gameboy Advanced and DS. Good times.
Did you play that SpongeBob game?
yesss!! i was thinking about my gameboy advanced! i still have mine and my brother still has his. they still work too!
me too i had the pink leapster and ds. i always brought them on car rides and the start up jingles for both of them are so ingrained in my head i’ll never forget the pew pews of the leapster. i’ll also never forget the coloring thing the leapster had and the bababoo sound the ghosts made
Oh my gosh! My childhood!! Especially with the green go circle. I was obsessed with every Tad & Lilly book
This brings back so many childhood memories. Like oof, I had the leap pad growing up (and I think it might still be somewhere in my basement) and dang did I love it growing up.
You just unlocked one of my forgotten childhood memories. I had two or three Richard Scarry books as a small child and I absolutely loved that worm character. I don't remember why but I probably thoght he looked fun.
I actually remember most of these. These were the pre-DS days with my family. Math missions and incredibles were my favorite. Math missions had actual games and was pretty fun. Incredibles wasnt bad, but the main "game" was like a chessboard that you moved characters through.
There was also a batman game that had actual combat and bosses in it. Was pretty good!
Also, the video now also had games...and they were something alright!
The Batman one was one of my favorites and probably the game I remember most vividly from this system! I also remember liking one about caring for a virtual dog and also some sort of race car game that taught you about pints and quarts and stuff by having you fill up the gas tank.
Bro my childhood flashed before my eyes
Oh man Leap Frog... so many good memories
Now I kinda wanna see if you'd ever review the old Leap Frog animated movies with the sentient alphabet
The Memories!!
he should.
Man I remember those Leapfrog DVD's I would always see those at Radioshack Circuit City Target, and Walmart.
The narration of the leap pad just unlocked a core memory
I love how mature Billiam is with just pointing to random words making random sentences 😂🤣😂
This entire video brought back so many memories. I had both leap pads and the leapster. The Scooby doo book was my favorite, and to see it again was amazing. Makes me want to play with my old toys again.
When I got a leap pad I had the biology book that had a skeleton. I’d annoy my mother by making it say “ ulna” over and over lol.
7:52 lmaooooo that caught me off guard 😭😭😭
I had a leappad, the leapster was beyond my years. the book that came with it is forever etched into my brain, and I had so much fun with it as a young kid. I also learned to read relatively fast, so I would also just read the books on their own during class lol
The bone song was lit.
Omg i remember this!! Leap Pad. Loved it so much! As a kid I used to finish the whole book over and over to feel accomplished 😂
When I was 6 I asked for a GameBoy Advance SP for Christmas. Instead I received a Leapster. Needless to say that was not a good Christmas when I discovered the only games on it were educational.
I would have been so pissed 🤣
there are some games that aren't educational but it's really hard to find
I'm pretty sure the GBA even had educational games,,so it's a better deal in that regard since it does both. The DS had educational games so I assume the GBA did too.
I'd forgotten how many of these I had until I heard the sounds. But yeah, I absolutely had a LOT of these. The globe was a favorite
I was more of a V-Tech kid, though I did see commercials for it while growing up. Also was surprised to know that Sonic Didj was a thing. Especially with it using previous zones
What kind of electronics did you use at the time? I used the leapfrog reading books and the vtech computers with mini games.
@@funnman1777 I just had this V-Tech console.
@@misterzygarde6431 I had the V tech and the Spiderman game with it...
I remember these! I had the one with the stylus and the talking book. I remember I essentially taught myself to read with that thing when I was little lol. Before long, I started reading earlier than most kids in my grade!
The Leapster had a few games with their mascots that were essentially a collection of minigames that I remember being really fun. That was, like, when I was 4-6, but i enjoyed them!
I rember them...my fave was the coloring one with the stickers but my fave version was the one you play by turning on the blue leapfrog without a cartrige...because it had more stickers...i loved it because i would creat stiries with the stickers for literal hours..nestalogia
Was there one which was like frogger but with maths?
Did anyone else grow up with those 2D LeapFrog movies that were on VHS and DVD in the early-mid 2000s? I internally screamed when the rat popped up on the screen at 13:18 because I remember him appearing in all 6 of them and having multiple voice actors.
yeah! I remember my mom would make my little sister watch them and I was often in the room lol
SAME
The Leapster, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while, I actually grew up with one of those. Also, I had no idea Leapfrog had other products before that said console.
I had a tag pen when I was a kid and absolutely adored it. I was a huge bookworm even before I could read, and my single mom didn't have all the time in the world to read to me, so she invested in one. It must've worked because I was reading before I started kindergarten and was at a 6th-grade level by grade 4.
The Leapster was my childhood! It was one of those handhold ones. Also for years I thought Letter Factor was a fever dream I had as a child! I was just talking with my sister about it today! What a coincidence
This entire video was flashbacks for me! Oh the nostalgia! I loved the drawing game! And the Cinderella one and the dog game
The leap pad was my favorite thing when I was little.. the frogs were the best! I was very sad when it stopped working.. I also found out if you click certain points of the page you can hear stories from other books in that story that I didn’t even have.
I can literally smell the early 2000s from billiam. Never change dude love your content
It smells like elementary school carpets and Scholastic book fairs.
@@immortaluglyfish2724 hmmm I can see that
this video is the most nostalgia inducing video you’ve done so far. good job
The fact fancy pants adventure got dropped made my day. I had the leapster book reader as a kid. It was fun for a bit. My favorite thing was the leapster bopit. Helped with my math skills and spelling
I had the original leap pad in Pink. I used it forever. I Have learning disabilities and it was the only thing that could help me.
My younger brother had the writing one. I just remember it being so much bigger and bulky then mine.
My younger sisters had the pen system. Which still is in our house and works.
It is weird to hear about all the other options that I never knew about.
Hey, does anyone remember that Leapfrog movie called Letter Factory, and watched it a ton as a kid? No? Just me? OK.
Hmmm
@Corbin Fitzpatrick Same!
used to watch that every morning when I was younger lol
Yooooo I totally forgot about that
Oh definitely. I watched that movie so much that I got upset when they had a soft reboot and changed the character designs in the next movie they made.
i grew up with a lobster 2 and i vividly remember loving this pet grooming salon game and having a lot of fun with it i wish i knew where it was to play on it again
You need to do a video covering all the jumpstart pc games!! Literally my childhood :’’’’’)
Y E S
me being in pre primary (age 5) explaining echolocation to my class coz i learnt it from those games
OMG YES! My parents would always get me stuff a grade or two above my current one so i'd be ahead of everyone else
Also, it's weird to think that Mr Wonderful from Shark Tank created it
Animal genius was my absolute JAM as a kid. Loved playing that on my leapster. Found a video of gameplay and the nostalgia hit me like a truck.
OMG MY CHILDHOOD IS BEING COVERED BY BILLIAM. THIS IS THE GREATEST HONOR OF ALL TIME.
The LeapPad was my pride and joy growing up!
Holy shit man, you just completely took me back to a better time. A time I didn’t need to worry about school, work, money, relationships. I remember hooking up my elmax to my tv and coloring for my family to watch.
Oh my goodness this takes me back to when I was little. I owned a purple leap pad explorer and two leapfrog tag books (the newer ones). An incredibles one and a finding nemo one. I think I remember even watching an educational leapfrog show. One fun story I have was when me and my older sibling would ussually play around by tapping whatever we found on the page and hear what the sound was. In the incredibles book, one page had what looked like some guy in a small disked shaped ship off in the corner, and it played a goofy alian tune. So we decided to pretend my older sibling was an alian in the basement while my dad was playing some video game. My sibling walked beside him, (I have no idea if they were wearing something over themself or not) and made a silly pose. My sibling then said something along the lines of them being an alian and I played the tune from the book in another room. I don't remember much after that, but it's such a fun memory.
Edit: spelling errors
I had both the Leap Frog and Pad growing up! This brings back so many memories. My leapster still works to this day!
Same! Mine still works too!
I had a Leap Pad tablet and a Leapster L Max growing up! Honestly, the Leapster was my first gaming console before the plug and plays and PS2 I got in like 2006! It really says a lot that I had to donate it when I was like 11 because I wasnt using the thing anymore, but I still have fond memories of the L Max
Gosh, I had completely forgotten about this. We used to have a weekly day where we could either get one of these or play with blocks and finish math problems. I feel as a page of my life has been restored lol thanks Billiam!
Man I wish they still made stuff like this now. Helped me a lot a child
Same it’s sad that kids nowadays are just using iPads and their parents phones while I grew up with Leapsters and Leappads and the V smile
"Remember the Fly Pen??"
*Years of suppressed memories from childhood suddenly come flooding back*
I wanted one but never had one.
@@BBC600 I think I only ever used mine once or twice. There was something about the design that just made it... not enjoyable? But it was a big christmas gift so I remember constantly trying to enjoy it
This was completely memory-holed for me. I used to have dozens of books for the leappad and read them every day, thinking back, they really were great as educational tools. The knockoff gameboy and current tablets just don't hit the same way.
I had an original LeapPad with three books. Two LeapFrog ones, and a SpongeBob one. I freaking loved it growing up! It was one of my favorite toys growing up!
I remember I was so excited when I finally got my LeapPad for Xmas after begging for it for so long. My parents were never the time to blow big money, so I didn't expect it.
It was truly such an amazing gift & I played w/ it all xmas morning, but I left it out when we went to my gmas later on.
When I got back, my dog had destroyed all of the books & pen.
I cried for so long...
I had a LeapPad Explorer when I was younger. I remembered having a game that was a mix of Spongebob and Mario Kart.
My family had like 3 Leapster consoles in the late 2000s (I'm not even sure how we got them, probably used) - I remember learning how to read using the Letter Factory game/movie cartridge and the Wii's instruction manual, for some reason. Something about the compressed voice clips and MIDI music just takes me right back :')
Omg the little music when you turn on the leap frog 😭 sheesh the feels hit me dead in my stomach .
i swear every time i watch a billiam video i unlock more memories lol. i completely forgot about the leapster, but i had it when i was a toddler actually, and my favorite game on it was the incredibles...i'm shocked i even remembered it, but it was definitely when i was really young since i got my ds at age 6 and mostly stopped using it.
Ngl, I think I MIGHT still have my leapstar and I used to pull it out sometimes even as a highschooler, it was nostalgic and comforting 💕
I still have mine!
Same! I was considering to have my 7y/o nephew try it and see how he takes it compared to all of his modern teaching toys. Won't lie, the way he treats his toys I'm way to nervous he will destroy it lol.
I LOVED the LeapPad as a kid. Same with the Leapster, which I played a ton up until age 8 when I got my DS lol. This video opened up so much nostalgia for me
SAMEEEEE
This was my very first game console back in the day of my early years of the 2000s and can’t tell you how much I played the Batman game on this thing.
I had a Leapster and was obsessed with playing this game with dogs. I have no other memories of it, just the dogs.
Pet Pals!!!
@@NewsiesForeverSecondToNone PET PALS!!
as a legend once said, " hi, I'm jared, I'm nineteen, and i never learned how to fucking read."
I had a few of these books - I specifically remember the lion king, Thomas the tank engine, Disney princesses and generic frog games. They were actually a lot of fun! Got such intense nostalgia hearing the sound effects! Weirdly though, despite being born in ‘03 I never heard of the leapster, too expensive for me I guess. The books were probably hand me downs
wow man, the original LeapPad did so well at teaching me how to read that I was onto chapter books by Kindergarten.
What a throwback.
Dude same! Those things were so ahead of their time
Same!!
I learned to read with one at that age I loved it. It is probably why I loved reading so much in my childhood. It was a success.
Same! They need to keep making toys like this for kids now.
They're not learning shit from an iPad.
@@Nakia11798 I get what you are saying but an iPad/Tablet can so everything the leap pad could and more. It all just depends on the apps on the tablet. I bet there's a bunch of learning apps that are good but it all depends on how much control the kid has on the tablet and kids would rather play non educational games/programs.
I loved my Leap Pad as a little kid. I had the Scooby Doo book that Billy has here. I also had one that taught swahili, and a Quantum Leap book about weather patterns.
Hearing the Leapster voice sent me straight back to my childhood