Can I Fix It? Barcode Battler fix, demo and interesting story.
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Another retro repair... 1991 was a great time for video games and also budget handheld devices for us poor people who couldn't afford Gameboys.
I bought this off eBay for £7.99 boxed but no cards or instructions. It was listed as 'doesn't turn on'.
But we can repair it and go one better, get it playing and using a barcode from the most unusual source... my ARM?!
The Barcode Battler was a forerunner to Digimon and Pokemon. If you were lucky enough to be Japanese you could even link it to your Famicom or Super Famicom!
Here's a link to the book I mentioned, Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood. I'm in no way affiliated with them, I just LOVE this book.
UK:
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US:
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I'm an absolute novice/noob so please don't ever take any of my videos as instructional, rather as inspiration to tackle your own repairs. If I can do it, you can too, you almost certainly know more!
Thanks for checking out my channel and to all you wonderful people who have subscribed, I am eternally grateful.
As someone growing up in the early 2000's, I knew a kid who had this thing and I had no clue what he was doing and I think neither did he. Remember that this was during the time where most of my friends had a Game Boy or if you had some rich parents you might even had the Game Boy Advance! Nothing like a stranger on the internet to remind you of better times and giving a nice demonstration as well!
Haha glad to have reminded you :) I reckon my experience wasn't actually how it was in the rest of the West, but I remember all the kids at school were going on about how cool it was and that they are getting one for Christmas, I already had imagined scenarios where I'd ask my parents to cut out barcodes from boxes and being told no, so although I wanted one I knew I'd never get one. Christmas holidays came and went and in January, NOBODY mentioned their disappointing presents. One kid brought his in, nobody understood it and then it got confiscated by a teacher anyway haha 😂
fantastic outro song and video, but especially outro song, sir. thanks :)
Thank you! Glad you stayed until the end, looking at the stats, a lot of people have clicked off before getting to see it haha.
What a great cleaning! Great video man! Keep it up! Love all the retro stuff.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed, loads more to come soon :)
2:22 it says please help me. I'm kidnapped in a Japanese toy factory and forced to put stupid handhelds together.
Haha :D
I had a similar toy growing up called Skannerz
Yes! I heard about that when researching this, there were a few others as well, which is odd as you'd have thought they'd have learnt from the OG BCB haha.
i did not look how much subcscribers your channel had and i can say you deserve more. because i thought its more like 50k
Thank you, that means a lot. I guess it's a long old journey that I'm at the start of. I don't do myself any favours but I can't stand the idea of telling people to subscribe, I less it's really subtly 😂
I remember this coming out and couldn't work out why anyone would want it! Nice restoration though 😃
Haha it's crazy isn't it. Thank you! I sort of restored the box as well but that's for another video :)
Hahaha, awesome outro!
Haha thank you, the best bit of the video is the end 😂
I really hopped Scotticus would make a comeback! 😅
Scotticus is weak but died with honour.
Love this! surprised you don't have more subscribers.
Ah thank you, glad you like! Either I just don't get enough exposure/views or I'm crap haha 😆
Hopefully it'll pick up the better I get and the more videos I do, onto the next one now :)
There was a very similar toy that came out in the mid-late 2000's that, iirc, did actually get pretty popular (at least here in the US). I believe it was called either "Code Skannerz" or just "Skannerz". Also the word "Skannerz" may have also had an "A" instead of an "E" but regardless it was definitely spelled in that stupid way.
Yeah! I read about them. I don't know why they did that after seeing the flop of the BCB, although the scanner is much better, it didn't require you to cut the barcode out of everything, you could just swipe it over, if only the original BCB had that, who knows how much better it would have done! Also having bitmapped graphics instead of just boring numbers probably would have helped, but this was 1991-1993 I guess :)
I hate to be one of the people who makes these comments... but how do you only have 299 subscribers? Let me at least make it a nice round 300.
Ah, you're the one responsible for me just loudly proclaiming '300' to my girlfriend haha. Thank you soooo much :)
Crack shot is very much an American idiom. Pretty common to hear in the South.
Aha! Thank you. I also realised afterwards I missed 'a' beforehand. My mind went straight to a shot to the crack 😂