Mega Duck Console - Is It Worth Playing In 2018 !? - Cougar Boy History, Review & Retrospective

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @danieldemayo6209
    @danieldemayo6209 6 лет назад +43

    I asked for a mega duck and got a game boy instead as a kid.....I’m still recovering from the trauma...

    • @BavarianM
      @BavarianM 6 лет назад +10

      Daniel DeMayo lucky bastard
      I asked for a GBA SP and got a Game King

  • @TheRetroFuture
    @TheRetroFuture 6 лет назад +13

    I 100% approve of this video.

  • @Boojakascha
    @Boojakascha 6 лет назад +14

    On the "bitness:" the RAM doesn't matter. It's the CPU and data bus size. Furthermore the Intellivision WAS 16 bit and nothing will ever change that. Imagine someone would call the first ZX Spectrum 16 or 48 bit as it has 16/48 kB of RAM ;-)

  • @eyeparodyu2401
    @eyeparodyu2401 6 лет назад +5

    thank you to patreon,for giving people away to support content creators,Top hat gaming keep up the great work

  • @GameBoyGuru
    @GameBoyGuru 6 лет назад +3

    Kudos for the use of music from Thunder Force IV! I know this thing is pretty low quality, compared to the Game Boy, but I would still like to play one at some point, along with the SuperVision, for the sake of comparison.

  • @CandisClassicGameShrine
    @CandisClassicGameShrine 6 лет назад +2

    That bear game is a sideways version of Quarth for the NES and Gameboy. Neat to see a variation of it.

  • @Commander64
    @Commander64 6 лет назад +3

    pushing the rocks over in the montage made my laugh *more than it should have* 😂😂😂

  • @TG_Sponge
    @TG_Sponge 6 лет назад +2

    The Mega Duck is the best name I’ve heard for a gaming platform.

  • @Bukark
    @Bukark 6 лет назад +4

    Pretty sure the railway track game is a clone of Pipe Mania which was originally on the Amiga in 1989 but has been remade for just about every platform in existence since including the Sky TV box alongside Beehive Bedlam etc.

  • @juiceala
    @juiceala 6 лет назад +1

    The game at 10:59 is quite well known actually and is available on many many consoles including the GAmeboy (forgot what ir's called, Boxelite I think or something) and the Mega Drive called Shove-It, it's even on the iPhone.
    The one at 11:25 is also available on many many consoles even on the Genesis among the Action 52 games I think and I remember it was available on one if the obscure handhelds, I forgot which one but it's either the Virtual Boy (most likely) or the Atari Lynx.

  • @jrc9648
    @jrc9648 6 лет назад +2

    I honestly never heard of the system until the posting of this video. It almost looked like a Tiger system handheld.

  • @jaredgraywest
    @jaredgraywest 6 лет назад +10

    Pipe Dreams on the NES is basically the same.

    • @CommodoreFan64
      @CommodoreFan64 6 лет назад +1

      Yep that's the game indeed, and not a bad puzzle game.

    • @scottfriel8247
      @scottfriel8247 6 лет назад

      Pipemania on spectrum

  • @arja2317
    @arja2317 6 лет назад +1

    There was a Thomas the Tank engine game for SNES that was the building the track thing. There was also the same basic game on old windows computers as "Pipe Dream" and it was just fitting pipes together.

  • @JMFSpike
    @JMFSpike 6 лет назад +1

    I'm not liking how the start and select buttons are directly underneath A and B. That could potentially be an issue, which is probably why Nintendo didn't do that. As for the games, most of them look like they're running in slow motion. That would drive me nuts. The cartridges look cheap and easy to break as well. It's no wonder this console didn't last long.

  • @user-zl9vh2xr6b
    @user-zl9vh2xr6b 5 месяцев назад

    2nd Space's later levels were definitely a surprising experience. Gotta know more about how that even came to be.

  • @natsume-hime2473
    @natsume-hime2473 6 лет назад

    So many systems used the Zilog Z80. The Sinclair ZX80, 81, and even the ZX Spectrum, along with the US Timex-Sinclair variants, the TRS-80, and even the Amstrad CPC and PCW lines. Not to mention that consoles like the ColecoVision, SEGA Master System, and the handheld SEGA Game Gear of course also used it. On top of all of that, many early arcade boards used the Z80. Further more tons more powerful systems used a Z80 as a co-processor. So the Mega Duck and Cougar Boy are kind of poor examples of its usage, but they're still in legendary company. It's amazing to see how successful and popular the humble Z80 was as an 8-bit CPU.

  • @gallowaygaming75
    @gallowaygaming75 5 лет назад

    Love collecting hand held consoles so these videos are brilliant thank top hat dude

  • @mattvonnerf3495
    @mattvonnerf3495 6 лет назад +1

    "Railway" reminds me a lot of "Pipe Dreams" I played on the Amiga and Sinclair Spectrum.

  • @joeyparkhill8751
    @joeyparkhill8751 6 лет назад +3

    A new Handhelds Around the World episode from THGM AND it's about a console that my wife has but never lets me play? Yeaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!!

  • @hyzenthlay7151
    @hyzenthlay7151 5 лет назад

    The computer version was also sold in Spain by Cefa Toys, complete with "Ñ" button and everything

  • @bazdaniels7420
    @bazdaniels7420 6 лет назад +1

    In case no one else said so, that game with "Train" in the title -- is a clone of Pipe Dream on NES.

  • @Jikyuu
    @Jikyuu 6 лет назад +1

    Wonder Swan ... Mega Duck ... where is my Mighty Mallard?

  • @JosephSalomonsen
    @JosephSalomonsen 5 лет назад

    «Giving it a nice plastic rubish feel»✨

  • @altohippiegabber
    @altohippiegabber 4 года назад

    i bought one in the Netherlands back in 1993 (maybe 1994) and it was in the shops for around 50 guilders

  • @Spudnick799
    @Spudnick799 6 лет назад +1

    love the background music first paper mario and then windwaker...im playing windwaker so it fits perfect keep it up

  • @The-E-Base
    @The-E-Base 5 месяцев назад

    So, here's a fun fact, the only Mega Duck game to not be developed by Sachen was "The Brick Wall".
    Additionally, both "Magical Tower" and "Worm Visitor" were later brought over to the NES.

  • @mypkamax
    @mypkamax 5 лет назад

    What is the music used in the epic montage? Just interested... Sounds kinda familiar...

  • @adambourne5523
    @adambourne5523 6 лет назад +1

    I think you weere thinking of "pipe dreams" or "pipe mania" it was a general game type in the "Micro" era so had ports on BBCB, ZX, C64, Atari, Amiga, Tandy, etc. Also the hacking game off of Bioshock payed homage.

  • @PrinceWatercressXadara
    @PrinceWatercressXadara 6 лет назад +1

    Arctic Zone is basically a horizontal version of Quarth.

  • @kigirudrewko4767
    @kigirudrewko4767 6 лет назад +1

    If i remember correctly, a lot of these games later got Gameboy ports so kinda well... suck it, Megaduck?

  • @cessnaace
    @cessnaace 6 лет назад

    The Mega Duck reminds me of the Bit Corp Gamate in terms of graphics. I bought a Gamate after reading a feature article on it in "Retro Gamer Magazine" (an expensive magazine to buy in the U.S.). Unlike the Supervision and Mega Duck the build quality of the Gamate is rather high on most examples, especially internally. The sound quality using the built-in speaker is poor, and in Mono. The quality of the sound is much better using headphones, and is in Stereo.
    If you try to hunt one down, try everything out before buying. The capacitors used in the earlier ones were not nearly as good as those in the later examples, and so you may not get any sound if that's the case. Also, Bit Corp. switched to a better LCD sometime after the earliest batches, which are known to have some dead pixels. But mine is from a later batch and works perfectly.
    I don't understand how 6 people voted thumbs down on this video. It's a perfectly fine video. Thumbs up from me.
    From a dedicated patreon, M.S.H. :)

  • @barryschalkwijk9388
    @barryschalkwijk9388 3 года назад

    I was not that invested until i saw "Snake Roy"s cartridge art.

  • @paraierchestevmnsiem522
    @paraierchestevmnsiem522 6 лет назад

    Seriously... what a great Channel!

  • @Ness_and_Sonic
    @Ness_and_Sonic 5 лет назад

    That train game might have been a counterpart to pipe dream.

  • @mariowario5945
    @mariowario5945 5 лет назад +1

    What is the indie game at 2:05

  • @josephreynolds969
    @josephreynolds969 6 лет назад

    Mega Duck was also sold as the Cougar Boy.

  • @boxerblake1
    @boxerblake1 6 лет назад +1

    The train clone you are thinking is Pipe Dream

  • @Asobitech
    @Asobitech 6 лет назад +7

    Another video thumbnail with random sexy lady... oh wait...
    Great video and coverage on the Mega Duck.

    • @Commander64
      @Commander64 6 лет назад +3

      Sex sells but so do Ducks!

    • @frankschneider6156
      @frankschneider6156 6 лет назад +2

      Hey ... that's a hot duck instead of a hot chick, so what ?

  • @NimhLabs
    @NimhLabs 6 лет назад

    That pipe game is quite clearly Stonkers for the Speccy

  • @jamesburke2759
    @jamesburke2759 6 лет назад

    The game like the train track i beleive is pipeline, its a plumbing based game where you get different pipes to make a flow from point a to point b

  • @emmettturner9452
    @emmettturner9452 6 лет назад

    I’m guessing you’re only asking to improve your RUclips engagement metrics, but Pipe Dream is the game your train game was based on. Wish you actually let us hear the music you can’t recognize. Might have been able to help with that one if I could hear it... or is that the joke and the game has no music? Hard to get that if you don’t tell us that the game is silent!

  • @hwogrillo
    @hwogrillo 6 лет назад +1

    The fisheye cam thing at the end made you look like Angry Joe since he's been rather uhh..bloated the last few years.

  • @Boojakascha
    @Boojakascha 6 лет назад +3

    I would love to see you doing the Gamate =)

  • @xeno9000
    @xeno9000 6 лет назад

    What's with the stacked rocks? I noticed the same this in Russia. Didn't matter how many I knocked 10 more popped up. :)

    • @TopHatGamingManChannel
      @TopHatGamingManChannel  6 лет назад

      They are landmarks people place to basically show they have been there. There are alot of Russian tourists here, so maybe a Russian thing? Certainly not British.

  • @TG_Sponge
    @TG_Sponge 6 лет назад

    14:41 that caught me off guard lol

  • @frankschneider6156
    @frankschneider6156 6 лет назад

    Well Arctic Zone is not a Tetris clone, but a blatant clone of Konami's classic shooter Quarth, turned by 90° counter-clockwise. Pile Wonder might seem familiar to you, as it is a variant of Sokoban, a game to be found on practically everything. Railway is a clone of Pipe Mania, also found on pretty much every system in existence and finally Street Rider is a clone of the Namco arcade game Rally-X and appeared exactly at the same time as Pac-Man.

  • @dyscotopia
    @dyscotopia 3 года назад

    All of these videos have style and wit, but this one had me gasping for air, tho I'm still not sure what the backstory on THGM, or Thiggum, as he never likes to be called, and Thai lady boys is. I'm assuming the Lady Boy is an obscure 90s handheld used by bored massage parlor workers?

  • @hiiamsnek6789
    @hiiamsnek6789 6 лет назад +4

    Snek is a good game.

  • @timshel11
    @timshel11 6 лет назад

    Fightin’ round the world. You’re not fooling anybody...

  • @DuckRotation
    @DuckRotation 6 лет назад

    Before this video played an ad for CRTV aired and the guy straight up kept saying causation IS correlation. Did any of these dudes go to school.

  • @artificialfrontiers4603
    @artificialfrontiers4603 6 лет назад +5

    My rock stacks! ;_;

  • @RetroGamingDev
    @RetroGamingDev 6 лет назад

    What the duck is a Mega Duck? Watching now...

  • @kittbluevenom2384
    @kittbluevenom2384 6 лет назад

    You're in Crete?? I'm in Karpathos, visiting family. Cool

    • @frankschneider6156
      @frankschneider6156 6 лет назад

      Yeah, but he was probably exiled (like this other tall Englishmen with a weird hat: Napoleon ... )

  • @Batman-jm7np
    @Batman-jm7np 5 лет назад

    Hold up....... Is that Barney destroying the city?

  • @Eternal-pj8zh
    @Eternal-pj8zh 6 лет назад

    11:35 was it Gorby no Pipeline for the Famicom?

  • @kenpomroy7052
    @kenpomroy7052 6 лет назад

    That railway pipe laying game is a clone of pipe dream on the NES.

  • @Commander64
    @Commander64 6 лет назад +5

    Cougar boy 😂😂

  • @dondl578
    @dondl578 6 лет назад

    Super QuiQue. I was laughing at that name for 5 minutes.

  • @MitsuhashiTakashi
    @MitsuhashiTakashi 6 лет назад +4

    That car game is a rally x clone

    • @sohatyi
      @sohatyi 6 лет назад

      A t h s t e t i c A n d r o i d/GamingGutter darn, beaten

  • @martinb99
    @martinb99 Год назад

    "Engrish?" Had to check the year of upload - figured it was 1977. What planet are you on mate?

  • @aaldrich1982
    @aaldrich1982 6 лет назад +2

    I think the railway game you're thinking of is Thomas The Tank Engine for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

  • @RuubRoyce
    @RuubRoyce 6 лет назад

    An excellent reference.

  • @Fellipe2k5
    @Fellipe2k5 6 лет назад

    Top Hat Gaming Man Look at the Cougar Boy ad in a Brazilian magazine in 1994 i.imgur.com/gizqdiC.jpg / i.imgur.com/jAd3rsL.jpg

  • @maxinsano7376
    @maxinsano7376 6 лет назад

    I was going to ask how you knew the tic-tacs were spearmint flavored, like...did you lick them?? But then you went one to give the whole thing a good licking so....riddle solved. Are they all spearmint flavored, do you know? Or maybe they made some tangerine flavored tic-tac models or something? I would definitely prefer one that tasted like tangerines over spearmint.

  • @boxerblake1
    @boxerblake1 6 лет назад

    He's arrogant, but I appreciate how THGM does his homework.

  • @emmettturner9452
    @emmettturner9452 6 лет назад

    Funny that you more readily associate the Z80 CPU the Sinclair ZX80 in this context where the thing is an obvious knock-off of the Game Boy, which also had a Z80. This, of course, also means that there was a Z80 in the Super Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Super Game Boy 2, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Player, etc, but the Z80 is also used in all kinds of non-GB things: It’s actually the most successful 8-but CPU of all time. Even in the dedicated gaming world, it was used in everything from the Master System, Sega Genesis/MegaDrive, Game Gear, Sega CDX, JVC X-Eye, Pioneer LaserActive, Neo Geo/Neo Geo CD, Neo Geo Pocket/Neo Geo Pocket Color... the list goes on. This is why its use in the real Game Boy is a bit more significant than its use in a microcomputer. It’s a little like pointing out that the C64 and Apple II used a 6502 when discussing a bootleg knock-off NES even though you’d expect it to (because that’s what the NES used!). Just sayin’. No doubt, the Game Boy having the Z-80 is precisely why Sachen was able to so easily bundle their games for it as a multi-cart.

    • @natsume-hime2473
      @natsume-hime2473 6 лет назад

      The Game Boy family prior to the GameBoy Advance didn't use the Zilog Z80 at all actually. The Game Boy family used the Sharp LR35902, which is a pin compatible Intel 8080 clone that has unique registers. While the Sharp LR35902 does utilize some of the Z80's instruction set, it's not nearly all of the Z80 instruction set though. The LR35902 and later iterations are very unique chips. Also in later systems the Z80 was a co-processor, not the CPU, like in the Genesis/Mega Drive which used a Motorola 68000 as its CPU.

    • @emmettturner9452
      @emmettturner9452 6 лет назад +1

      Natsume-Hime This is really just semantics. It is a custom Z80, it’s just not a “Zilog” Z80 and it has been appropriately cut down/adapted to the intended platform. I *highly* doubt that the Mega Duck uses an actual Zilog Z80 either. It’s games were even released on Game Boy.
      Z80 refers as much to the architecture, instruction set, or platform as it does to any particular CPU, so there are a ton of different implementations. This kind of thing has been going on since the start with stuff like the 6507 for the Atari VCS/2600 and the Ricoh RP2A03 in the NES (both MOS 6502 CPUs). The Z80 was designed to be compatible with the 8080 because it was designed by the same guy (left Intel). Because it has a partial Z80 instruction set, it’s no more an 8080 than it is a Z80.
      Also, look for yourself: the GB Advance did not have a “Zilog” Z80 anywhere on the board. Wikipedia is wrong. What is there is there primarily for backwards compatibility and as a GBA mode sound CPU. There is literally a switch inside the cartridge slot that swings the entire system between GBA ARM and GBC Z80 mode, even changing the cartridge and link port I/O between 3.3v and 5v. Your GBC worm light will be pretty dim for GBA games. ;)
      Though there was no GBC backwards compatibility, its use as a sound CPU for GBA software also means that the Z80 core was included in GB micro, DS, DS lite, DSi, DSi XL, 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS, New 3DS, New 3DS XL, and New 2DS XL. The Z80 appears to have been integrated into the GBA’s ARM core and the DS series specifically kept the GBA ARM/Z80 core around even after ditching direct support for GBA game cartridges. I was using to play my free downloadable “3DS Ambassador” GBA games in 2011 and I moved it to the latest hardware via System Transfer each time the platform updated. ;)
      The vast majority of full Z80s weren’t “Zilog” Z80s. I’ve even seen completely different speed/manufacturer Z80s used interchangeably, like when GadgetUK164 pulled one from a Game Gear to use on a Neo Geo. Yes, I’m fully aware that it’s just a sound CPU there, since it also uses the Motorola X68000 and I’ve even had to make MVS and AES diagnostics carts specifically to test the Z80 sound on that platform. That said, it isn’t just a sound CPU in most other platforms since it’s often used as the primary CPU in reverse compatibility modes (GBA/GBC, Genesis/Master System, etc).
      Would you say that the Atari 2600 didn’t use a 6502 just because the 6507 put the same silicon in a different package? Even if you would, would you also say that the 2600jr doesn’t use a 6507 just because it integrated the CPU into a custom ASIC? Saying the GB didn’t use a Z80 is a bit like saying that Microsoft didn’t use a PowerPC design in the XBOX 360 S when they integrated the Xenon CPU into the “XCGPU” and had it fabricated by GlobalFoundries (formerly AMD) instead of IBM, Apple, or Motorola. How about Nintendo’s Wii U with the Espresso, Broadway, and Gekko integrated into a chip manufactured by Renesas? It’s definitely still PowerPC, despite also having ARM CPU in the tablet and embedded in the legacy Wii GPU (“Starlet”). How about the Cell CPU in the PS3? Each “cell” was notoriously limited, but still a Power PC, even if they were custom and fabricated by Sony, Toshiba, etc instead of IBM, Motorola, or Apple.
      To say that the GB isn’t a Z80, you might also say that the original XBOX isn’t a Coppermine Celeron or Pentium III simply because the cache configuration is different (custom). The Z80 has a lot more variety since it’s used in everything. Heck, the famous Kevin “Kevtris” Horton took his Zimba 3000 FPGA Z80 implementation that he made for Game Boy, Master System, Game Boy Color, etc and used it to replicate a Z80-based medical device for his primary employer. He now gets royalties for his FPGA Z80 core in that medical device... in addition to the Analogue Nt Mini and Super Nt.
      The Z80 is legendary but almost nothing using it used a proper “Zilog” Z80. The GB’s partial implementation is notable but, as we’ve discussed, custom and partial implementations of various CPUs were par for the course in this industry.

  • @yorkshireteafan
    @yorkshireteafan 6 лет назад +2

    Arctic Zone isn't bad because it's a knockoff of a Konami game called Quarth.

  • @Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial
    @Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial 6 лет назад

    Definitely a system that looks more fun watch a video about than to play

    • @Commander64
      @Commander64 6 лет назад

      I'm kind of intrigued, but you're probably right.

  • @DrGonzoChronic
    @DrGonzoChronic 6 лет назад

    Oh my god it's Russel Crow

  • @hdofu
    @hdofu 5 лет назад

    Railway is a pipe dream clone.

  • @jbinminot
    @jbinminot 6 лет назад

    It’s called Pipe Dream

  • @samtron5000
    @samtron5000 6 лет назад

    I’ve never played one of these or even seen one

  • @austinharding9734
    @austinharding9734 5 лет назад

    Nearly Recited wikipedia word for word

  • @cg_johnruto3649
    @cg_johnruto3649 4 года назад

    Were you trying to be a mega cat??

  • @HikikomoriDev
    @HikikomoriDev 9 месяцев назад

    A lot of this can be done in VRChat or Quest now, so meh. I always doubted this project.

  • @quincyq-radio6300
    @quincyq-radio6300 6 лет назад

    Awesome game consoles 👍😊

  • @dwarfbunni
    @dwarfbunni 6 лет назад +1

    hiscoe!!

  • @mopeybloke
    @mopeybloke 6 лет назад +1

    More like Mega Dud.

  • @Zapsplatt
    @Zapsplatt 6 лет назад +1

    Personally, I think the Virtual Boy is better.

    • @TopHatGamingManChannel
      @TopHatGamingManChannel  6 лет назад +3

      From my point of view, the Jedi are evil

    • @Zapsplatt
      @Zapsplatt 6 лет назад

      This aint no Virtual Boy, the king of all consoles!

  • @omegasupreme1970
    @omegasupreme1970 6 лет назад

    lol curse you top hat now i want a megaduck...wait wasnt Mega duck a villian from Darkwing duck????

  • @theheavytruth6309
    @theheavytruth6309 3 года назад

    I have a red mega duck.

  • @Snafu_Explosion
    @Snafu_Explosion 2 года назад

    So? It's a even more primitive, budget, Hand Held, rip-off of an already pretty primitive, budget, Hand Held!?
    Ha.

  • @guitarbla3k
    @guitarbla3k 5 лет назад

    I actually had this poop..........moral of the story, just buy your kids the real version of things

  • @helderoliveira2994
    @helderoliveira2994 5 лет назад

    Tetris on crack

  • @tylerd4884
    @tylerd4884 6 лет назад

    pipe dream is the nes game

  • @dcvk6250
    @dcvk6250 6 лет назад

    For me, it’s all about the games you can play on it, not the hardware. The Mega Duck simply doesn’t have the games good enough (and in enough quantity) to make it worth it for me.
    That, and ‘Mega Duck’ is too stupid of a name for me to take seriously.

  • @Hetkanookanders
    @Hetkanookanders 4 года назад

    The only worhty things in this video is you and the thunderforce music. That duck system is a abomonation

  • @Left-Earth
    @Left-Earth 5 лет назад

    Mega Duck. LoL More like Mega F**k. 😎

  • @jadedheartsz
    @jadedheartsz 2 года назад

    I'd love to be "preyed on" by a Ladyboy myself.

  • @pferreira1983
    @pferreira1983 4 года назад

    So another rubbish handheld. Typical.

  • @jerricabenton842
    @jerricabenton842 5 лет назад

    "queue the montage" I'm crying!!! :D

  • @jerricabenton842
    @jerricabenton842 5 лет назад

    stupid bloody busses... always coming 2 at once!