Gobble or be Gobbled | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Handheld games came in all shapes and sizes. This particular game goes by many names; Packri Monster, Gobble Man, Ogre Eater, Hungry Monster, Pack Monster. All released by Tandy or Bandai, all the same, and all sporting the beautiful tagline "Gobble or be Gobbled". And THAT folks, is the reason I bought this little VFD handheld game, before LCD games became truly dominant.
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Come on Nerd. Softer Japanese consonants. Bahhn-Dye. Bahhhhn-Dye.
Huh? Have you been at Octav1us' wine?
I wouldn't get a chance.
Nostalgia Nerd And rightly so. Great video, I would have loved one of these stand-alones when I was a child.
Made do with turning off the tv to the electron when I heard movement downstairs 🤣
Pete, you're most definitely living up to your channel name with this one! Very nice!
If it makes you feel better, I didn’t know that either.
Those screens were so vibrant I think they put our (then) kids brains into a mesmerized trance or something...
You can fix the directional controls with a common pencil. By marking over the contact points on the rubber with the graphite, you renew the connection that it makes when the directional controls are pressed. Thanks for the great video!
Isn't it kinda ironic that Bandai used to make Pac-Man ripoffs and now they are owners of Pac-Man as Bandai-Namco?
Eh, in 1982 EVERYONE was ripping off Pac-Man. I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find a major game publisher that didn't have their own Pac-Man variation, aside from companies who managed to get official licensing.
Bally Midway lost their license with Namco, because they made many unauthorized mods to the original Pac-Man. The first was Pac-man Plus, which was designed to screw up pattern running. The next one was Ms. Pac-Man.
I still have one of those. VFD looks amazing. The joystick on mine was responsive so I guess it depends on how much it was used.
Tandy was heaven when I as a kid, I had an LCD Pac-Man clone from there. ALL my pressies and toys came from there, the catalogue was fascinating, RC cars, electronics kits, really miss all that! You could go in the shop and try all the things out before buying too. I guess for many reasons that kind of shop experience is dead and gone now, very sad.
I miss Radio Shack in general.
Pak Mon...Pac Man’s Jamaican Cousin
That would explain the ogres
Instantly upon hearing those bleeps and bloops, I felt like 10 again for a second.
Made me instantly think of my Astro Wars. Can I power it? Isnt there something about the polarity being backwards? Thats my Sunday gone then. Thanks bleeps and bloops!!!
The styling of Packri Monster to catch the eye as PACkri MANster is gold. As knockoffs go, that's now way ahead on my leader board, knocking Chintendo Vii into respectable second place after a solid run in front.
1987 ! Very good year ! PREDATOR 1 MOVIE AND TANDY PAC MAN !
Yeah I can just envision the car journey to Cornwall with my dad towing the trailer tent looking stressed and balding (dad not the trailer tent) as he takes the wrong turn for the 15th time. Then after listening to BLUP BLUP BLUP BLUP BLUP BLUP for about 3 hours he finally looses the plot and rages, the game system is tossed out into Bodmin moor to be enjoyed by the Goblins in the pasty mines..
Gobblin goblins?
And that’s why you took up football. I could kiss your dads bald head, but nothing else. There are kids in the back seat so let’s keep this err, wholesome.
The score resetting to zero after 999 brings back memories. It was referred to as `clocking` in my school and good players just said how many times they clocked a game rather than bothering to say the actual score. Also, that lone Duracell is unnerving me for some reason....
the joystick contacts needed cleaning on your test unit.
I loved Tandy handhelds in the 80’s. I wish I still had the ones I use to have. I think out of all of them I miss King Man the most. I played that thing on quite a few family trips.
KING MAN. Love that name.
Nostalgia Nerd, yeah it was kinda like Donkey Kong. Look it up.
I love these random handheld games, VFDs are one of my favorite things
80s joysticks - especially consumer end - had materials that developed electrostatic oxidization. In short the electrical shorting burnt a non-conductive layer or even the mechanical movement eroded a gold leaf thin foil copper. Usually opening it with some rubbing alcohol (90%) gives it quite a few years of life but you sometimes need to replace the contacts.
Any time i played games like these back then (i had 2 game and watches and a well-to-do friend of mine had tons of vacuum-display games), I remember I would get bored pretty quickly.
I remember stuff like this fondly. I always loved how bright the display was.
About the controls, you should consider giving the pads a light cleaning. It might improve the controls unless it's a flaw in the logic or something.
I remember getting an electric shock plugging in one of these types of games (a Grandstand Scramble I think) into the mains socket as a child. That horrible pulsating sensation as my finger touched one of the plug's pins will never be forgotten.
I got the Hungry Monster edition for Christmas 1983. It was one of my favorite things.
Arrrghhh!!! The single Duracell amongst the Hyundai batteries makes my brain itch.
Yep, just give me some damn consistency!
actually, it's not just ugly, it is a risk for battery leakage.
I don't think it spells the end of the world somehow
it'll be alright if he took them out again after he was done with it, what I imagine he did
It’s playing on my mind too, is there help for people like us?
I remember being 6 or 7 and playing a similar game! I was enthralled with playing a miniature video game!....then again I was 6 or 7. Everything electronic was enthralling!
@2:38 mixing battery brands!? That's living dangerously😎
I got the Hungry Monster for Christmas in 198-whatever. I absolutely loved this game! The joystick was very responsive, yours probably needs cleaned.
Also, once you eat the ogre, wait until it comes back out of the pen, before you eat another power pell... Food.
The ogres have a pattern they follow that's easy to learn.
"In this world, it's gobble or be gobbled."
"It's really not."
A Radio Shack special there! I had a couple of them just like this. One was called cosmic fire or something like that. Lots of fun!
It may not be impressive now but back in the early 80's that thing would have been considered state of the art handheld electronics. All your friends would have been lined up at your door to get some playing time...no doubt. Love all those classic games, thanks for the video.
I remember these types of games being played by kids on school buses. This one kid had "Pack Mon"as we called it and always played it. Later on they get replaced by the Coleco mini games but they were way more expensive than the handhelds you get at Radio Shack. Me, I had a G&W Mario Bros. and BurgerTime. Great memories...
Had a load of these around 1980-1982. Galaxy Invader 2000, Astro Wars, Grandstand Munchman, and friends had others like Grandstand Firefox, Caveman, Scramble. They were great (if only the batteries would last).
However, in 1982, I got hold of my first ZX81, and a copy of Sinclair Programs magazine. Somehow, the idea of playing them seemed much less exciting when compared to the endless possibilities that a typed in 1K ZX81 game held.
I loved this game as a kid! I could not remember the name of it... I'm so glad I stumbled on this video!
Used to have something like this, but that unit had the maze walls behind the plastic, to keep them more lined-up with the active 'graphics'. (it also reduced the amount of wear the walls suffered when we had to clean the shell.)
The fact that you can't mute it seems like a big design flaw. I would imagine their target demographic would be kids playing it after bedtime. :)
Ah man! You put a smile on my face today! Thanks! 😂
I had a great shooter called Firefox with this type of display. I loved it as my folks couldn't afford a computer until a few years later I got my Amiga 500, Batman the movie pack!
Man, I'd totally forgotten about this thing! A mate had this when I was a kid.
I don't mind games where the score clocks over to 000; One of my fondest childhood gaming memories is doing that with the classic Donkey Kong G&W. :)
Ah yes, VFD tech. I had a Scramble, "handheld," game as a kid (looked more like a mini portable arcade cabinet) with VFD, and it was great to play while hiding under the covers when I was supposed to be sleeping, or on car trips. A little repetitive, but pre-Gameboy, it sufficed.
We had a VFD _PacMan2_ by *Entex.* Still trying to find it somewhere about the house, but the thing took a pair of size C batteries on each end - 4 batteries total, which gave it some heft, and sort of resembled a cocktail table game. It also had controls for two players.
(See Handheld Museum for images.)
That alluring turquoise glow of the VFD screen draws my attention in
That sound made me take out my earphones to make sure it wasn't playing in the room. It sounded diegetic for a second
VFD was such a beautiful display type, infinitely better than the LCD games which followed it, but price and form factor were always going to be its undoing i guess. These things used to be regular car boot fodder in the 90s, if only they were now :(
The controls on this thing were probably never great but it does look like a lot of muck has got into this one, a good clean and may reshaping of the pads and you'd have this thing working better in no time at all, if you've got the time i reckon it deserves that bit of TLC, great video
Makes me miss my Defender VFD handheld. Decent game, mono color VFD that used colored overlays. Speed settings used a dial. Game was featured in the last Avengers movie. Sadly mine got damaged when it got wet.
Much of my childhood was spent on games of this type played in the dark. I kinda miss them :)
Shakespeare said it best: "To gobble or not to gobble, that is the question"..Very profound of him.
notice the joystick is on the correct side.. nice to see :) when i was about 9 or 10 i had the yellow hand held Puck Monster.. currently selling on ebay for between £15-£50 which was pretty much the same as this. i spent hours on that thing. loved it
I found the french Packri Monster last year for like 10€, in very nice conditions, and I still play it. The trick of pressing up while in the warp to hide and wait is the best strategy to aim for a big score.
Excellent. You must feature more of these type of things.
Nice of Bandai to label the components for when they need replacing. :P
Actually had this. And yes the controls were naff then too. Those sounds take me back though
Ogre Eater... "Don't settle for less... settle for less than less and a little more..." PERFECT! 😄
VFDs are actually more like tubes, rather than CRTs, altho the effect of electrons exciting the phosphor is the same. They are essentially a vacuum diode, with the plate painted with phosphor(triode if there is a multiplex grid)
Packri Monster was available in the UK too, I had one as a kid.
_"Which fill(s) me with an uneasy feeling of pleasure"_ I'll have to remember that one.
You could try to clean the joystick contacts and see if it responds better, rubber domes often get dirty and not work very well until cleaned. They also wear out when used a lot so it may not help, but it's worth trying. Washing with soap or dish soap, rinsing and then using alcohol or distilled water to get any remaining residue works best among things I use for carbon pads, but I believe there can be better ways to do this. There are also pad replacement kits that consist of a bag of round carbon pads and a very tiny tube of silicone caulk- you cut off the carbon disc from the old dome trying to leave the rest of it intact and make the place for carbon disc as flat as possible without removing too much, and then you glue the new disc in place taking care not to smear any silicone on the active surface or wipe it off immediately with a q-tip with alcohol to ensure good contact. This however can make the button feel different when pressed as a modified dome has different thickness and flexibility, so some originality is inevitably lost when this is done, but you have a working button again.
The description on the NA package is pure engrish gold:
•Joy stick-control Monster as he gobbles green food to score points
•Monster must avoid being gobbled by Bogey
•Bogey turns "Coward" when monster eats red power fruit
•Monster gobbles Coward Bogey quickly to score maximum points
"I'm sure we'll manage chief!" . 😂
I wonder if anyone is making things like this now. would love to see modern games made with these type of screens and chips.
The joystick on the one I had as a kid worked well enough, as far as I remember.
HD38800-A27 is a PMOS 4-bit microprocessor, A27 referring to the particular masked program in runs
This really hit my childhood. I used to have one that I played daily
Someone needs to make modern VFD handhelds. A real arcade port of Pac or Ms. Pac would look pretty nice, and a game like Dr. Mario would kill in VFD.
Some of the earlier new mini-arcades were.
Is it just me or does the screen remind anyone else of the eq in a 90s component hifi?
As Sugar would say.. "A mug's eyefull"
It's a beautiftul eye candy for true VCR lovers. uwu
@@Nostalgianerd you calling me a mug?
Next to Nixie and Magic eye tubes one of the mosdt beoutiful obsolete display tech.
Got some nice 7 segment on my audio stuff and I love it.
Can't wait to get everything manual with switches and stuff. It might be "retro" but there is something to it to actually feel what you are doing.
Score rollovers were pretty common with these old games. You were supposed to keep track of how many times you rolled the counter so you could brag about it later. ;-)
Also, go get a pencil eraser and clean the contacts on the joystick. Go now! Shoo! Shoo!
I had Astro Wars. It seemed amazing at the time, given its only competition was a TRS-80 in my house.
I don't really remember this one in particular (even if it did come out in the US) the one I had was entex's Super Cobra and that was a pretty good conversion from what I remember... it also used a VFD display so playing at night was no big deal! but a neat look at that handheld.
That Packri Monster looks more like Packri Manster. I approve that shameless box art.
Holy crap, I repaired one of those about 20 some years ago. When I was twelve or something.
I own this one! randomly found it one day for pennies. it was quite intriguing lol XD
"i can't believe it's not pac-man"
I believe this was actually in Ripley's Believe it or Not.
"It's not nice to fool Nostalgia Nerd"
Could it be pac-man?
"If it's Pac-man, Here's how it's Pac-man"
200k BRO Awsome job mate.
Close....
Come on now Pete, as a Brit you should know its the "Quickshot" Supervision! ;) Also, I love VFD games. Something super awesome about the way those light up colour(ish) screens look.
in 1978 and '79, I made good (for the time) money installing switches on my friend's portable football games so they could silence them during High School class.
The control issue is most likely the buttons themselves. They might need to be repaired. Heard a car rear window defroster repair kit can fix them.
Oh wow, as soon as you turned that thing on, my memories came back! I totally played this as a kid!
In this world, it's gobble or be gobbled.
I'm sure I played that when visiting a Maplin store back in the day.
Never mix different brands of batteries, you could create a black hole or a rift to a hell demon dimension!
Yeah, munchkin on G7000 (I guess odd 2 in USA) was brilliant but an extra scramble desktop by grandstand that played one game was a far away dream in the early 80s. The display though. Who needs a backlight?
Edited for a space .. a bloody space ....
Still better than Ataro's "official" Pacman home console games.
O boy, i immediately wen't looking for my onw machine with's i bod in the day. In The Netherlands, (and probably the rest of Europe) it was called Hungry monster. The joystick was better when it was new, but in a few weeks it was beginning to wear out. Cleaning with WD40 helped a bit, but it never got really good again. I though at one time to add a switch for the sound because it was pretty loud, but i never got to it, but i put some color on the white lines to make the screen a little more colorful. Well, what do you know, still works after years of inactivity. :-)
I had one of those! Loved it.
I had one of these Back when i was a Child
Fun fact: "pakuri" ("Packri" would be pronounced just like that) means rip-off in Japanese.
Well, pakuri (gerund form of "pakuru") literally means that act of "biting into and gobbling up in a snatching fashion". It's this "snatching" connotation that leads to the slang term that implies theft, but it's the original biting/gobbling meaning that gave Pac Man its name in the first place. I wonder if the people at Bandai were thinking of the theft connotation when they named their knock-off "Packri Monster". The original theft connotation used to mean more literally stealing all or part of something rather than a knock-off, and I'm not sure if the knock-off connotation existed in the early 80's. Nowadays the internet community would make the connection in an instant (I love Japanese "pakuri" sites dedicated entirely to cataloging knock-off products.)
Of course the whole word comes from onomatopoeia in the first place. "PAKU" just being the sound effect of the act. I love words that come sounds. =)
You have to realize that in most Asian cultures the act of imitating wasn't considered "theft". It is considered theft in Japan now, but in the 50's it certainly wasn't, and it still isn't considered theft in China (despite massive attempts to change it).
Thanks for the longer explanation. Yeah, I'm well aware that パクる's original meaning is "to bite", but since nowadays "pakuri" is extensively used to talk about rip-off or fake products, I thought it would be interesting to add that remark.
NozomuYume - Pacman wasn't called Pacman in the beginning, it was called Puck Man and was based on ice hockey, it was changed to Pacman because people were worried that the "P" would be altered to create a rude word.
4:55 Might be worth opening it and spraying the contacts with contact cleaner...
I had the yellow giant handheld pacman was awesome for the time
WOW! that is huge.. Looks pretty cool though.
I can't stop thinking of Kirby's Dream Land.
Absolutely Love this game !!!!
Noticed the phrase "Fun-Filled Musical Sounds" on the box. Was it written by a posh lady from the 1930's?
I had the Packri Monster version, identical except the start of game tune was different!
I also had Packri Monster, and when I heard that start music, that was my first thought as well. Damned if I can remember what it DID sound like though, so now I'm questioning my memory. Different version of the circuitry, perhaps? It was, after all, marked "Packri Monster" on the back of the PCB inside, after all.
This might need some research! There are videos by ArcadeUSA and Onourshelf both showing the same Packri Monster unit but they have different tunes when you press start. I'll have to find my one and try it again.
i want to see the Angry Video Game Nerd try this shit out, it could be comedy gold :)
yes but this is not them, i can not imagine the rage.
Had this as a puppy and looking to get one again.
Reminds me of my Grandstand Astro Wars VDF.
I love this thing and want to live with it.
That’s something i alway’s found weird & obscure about these ‘’handheld’’ devices,
they were huge and chunky ,with lot’s of stuff inside, a huge speaker for only bleep sound, filters on top of the limited lcd/bpf??screen, etc,, all just for this primitive stuff,
I can’t believe they required 4 double A battery’s to run all these primitive stuff on it,
the oddly optional external power source maybe handy but that defeats the whole purpose of those handheld devices being portible .
( note: some 70’s home game consoles did only run on 6 see battery’s ,again defeating half the purpose to play videogames athome.
Oh well , this was early 80’s stuff what could i ever expect for such old technology wich just wasn’t there ,haha.
You're nothing but complaints huh? Also it's not and led screen. Pay attention
had to start somewhere, Sonny...
theglurgle no indeed it’s not led but it’s a kind sort of leds wich are not programmible, they can only switch on or off at an certain color, yeah i did complain about this stuff but i must admit that it is interesting how really hard they tryed to make a video game handheld with such old technology, wich simply wasn’t there.
Didn't Tomy make a mechanical version of this? or am I imaging that :S
They didn't make a mechanical one. They made a VFD one which was officially licensed by Namco. It was called Puck Man.
There is more entertainment in the video than the game.
This is not bad at all. PSP of its time
I see a Nostalgia Nerd video alert....i rejoice and hit like
You really should have watched this one before hitting like. At the end of the vid he calls for the repeal of child labour laws, declares war on the free world, and admits to pissing in swimming pools.
Should have been called MAZE MOVER but I think that game should have done in 3D in a first Person Perspective.
I MUST OWN ONE OF THESE!!!!