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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2014
  • 25 years. That's almost as long as something that took 26 years! Custom Gameboy courtesy of www.gameboymods.co.uk
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  • @Larry
    @Larry 10 лет назад +452

    OMG Ashens is doing shitty game child rip offs!?!?

    • @GreenforeverLeaf
      @GreenforeverLeaf 10 лет назад +4

      Seems like it.

    • @nobel11
      @nobel11 10 лет назад +8

      Apparently they made a video game for that board game you guys played in that video, Who knew?

    • @Larry
      @Larry 10 лет назад +14

      Walter Hunt
      Video games based on board games always suck though. so i doubt it's any good!

    • @BLY99
      @BLY99 10 лет назад +4

      ***** Yes i remember The Last of Us video game was shit, the board game however was brilliant.

    • @Larry
      @Larry 10 лет назад +7

      boloyung9
      there's a board game???

  • @Larry
    @Larry 10 лет назад +176

    Argonaut software developed Race Drivin' for the Gameboy, which impressed Nintendo so much they asked them to develop what would become Starfox (Starwing). Argonaut also designed the Super FX chip to go with it from scratch,
    Also the Super FX chip was originally called the "Mario chip", it's also printed on every early chip.

    • @Mentski
      @Mentski 10 лет назад +3

      Argonaut were also responsible for the rather popular Starglider series, of course.

    • @solus2094
      @solus2094 10 лет назад +3

      Wow 2 awsome youtubes in one place

    • @alphamone
      @alphamone 10 лет назад

      They also made the mediocre pc fighting game (but with awesome music) "FX fighter".
      Though for an early 3d pc fighting game, it was still reasonably good.

    • @0osk
      @0osk 10 лет назад +2

      When I first read that comment, I read "Argonaut" as "Arrogant". XD

    • @Mentski
      @Mentski 10 лет назад +1

      IIRC that was originally meant for the SNES as their answer to Virtua Fighter, hence the "FX" in the title, but that version was scrapped.
      I get the impression the the Super FX 2 they were using by then probably wasn't powerful enough to do it justice.

  • @HB45175
    @HB45175 9 лет назад +13

    I remember Hugo being played on TV (read: on the national TV broadcast) by kids calling a special contest number in the morning. They would push 4 and 6 on their phone and Hugo would move left or right, 2 for down 8 for up etc. Your success was largely based on how close to the TV-station you lived, the lag for anyone living anywhere else in the country was insane.

    • @d0dg3st4r
      @d0dg3st4r Год назад +1

      Yeah I have been looking for that exact game to play because of that exact memory... Which version and which console is it?

  • @TheLonelyGoomba
    @TheLonelyGoomba 10 лет назад +92

    This channel just got 100 times better... And it was pretty good to begin with

  • @TheLaXandro
    @TheLaXandro 10 лет назад +89

    Ah, Tetris. What a game. Something you can't possibly produce a sequel t... oh... Let us never speak of it again.

    • @JaredConnell
      @JaredConnell 4 года назад +13

      Now there all the way up to tetris 99! I havent even play most of the other 98

    • @lowen__
      @lowen__ 4 года назад +3

      Jared Connell if we're being honest with ourselves there probably are 98 different versions of Tetris from the Gameboy to the switch.

    • @MrJHM007
      @MrJHM007 3 года назад

      I had tetris 2 for the Game Boy, it was decent.

    • @daemonspudguy
      @daemonspudguy Год назад

      @@MrJHM007 isn't Tetris 2 a color matching variant of Tetris? How would that even work?

    • @MrJHM007
      @MrJHM007 Год назад

      @@daemonspudguy 3 kinds of blocks, black, white and speckled. And that's about all i can remember off hand.

  • @georgef551
    @georgef551 10 лет назад +73

    This was released (1989) on Nintendo's 100th anniversary.

    • @redfedalpha24
      @redfedalpha24 5 лет назад +1

      Who cares?

    • @yourworstnightmares6320
      @yourworstnightmares6320 5 лет назад +3

      Yea when they were a card company

    • @lunakittyyy
      @lunakittyyy 4 года назад

      King1666 ah yes, because replying to an older comment is a sin

    • @georgef551
      @georgef551 4 года назад

      @@lunakittyyy Get this, not everyone saw this video when it came out.

    • @Bendetoma
      @Bendetoma 3 года назад

      @@georgef551 Get this, he was being sarcastic and was talking to someone who deleted his comment

  • @Ninjamohawk
    @Ninjamohawk 9 лет назад +7

    When I had my Game Boy as a kid we had this one really super bright floor lamp right next to where my dad sat on the sofa to watch TV after work. I was always so disappointed when he got home because it was the best place in the house... well, nearly the only place in the house where I could easily see my screen. Ahh the bittersweet memories.

  • @AliFareedMC
    @AliFareedMC 10 лет назад +194

    Ashens to Ashens, Dust to Dust
    RIP Nintendo

    • @ryl-ie
      @ryl-ie 10 лет назад +2

      What?

    • @Voxel8or
      @Voxel8or 10 лет назад +45

      lyk if u crie evrtim

    • @ryl-ie
      @ryl-ie 10 лет назад

      Excuse me?

    • @AliFareedMC
      @AliFareedMC 10 лет назад

      Voxel8or LOL

    • @CherryPixelBun
      @CherryPixelBun 10 лет назад +7

      The 3DS is actually doing pretty well, that's normal for Nintendo handhelds. It's just Nintendo just has a giant Wii U sized hole leaking out the money the 3DS has made.

  • @isstvan82
    @isstvan82 10 лет назад +14

    When I was growing up, it was the Tamagochi Gameboy game that would randomly spawn. I have three, and I can only assume that mitosis in involved.

  • @spwolftech
    @spwolftech 6 лет назад +9

    I put my gameboy in a cupboard for a year and a half.... no WWF game ever appeared... I am sad now...

  • @spugesdu
    @spugesdu 10 лет назад +25

    How old are you Ashens? Were you born in the 60s? Do you regenerate?

    • @ozmond
      @ozmond 3 года назад +1

      No he was a child in the 80s

    • @kris_0520
      @kris_0520 3 года назад +2

      @@ozmond There’s a joke here, particularly a Doctor Who joke at the end.

  • @Popecornclock
    @Popecornclock 10 лет назад +34

    Ah,, my first strong memory as a 5 year old child. The year was 1994, and I received a Gameboy and Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. About a year later, I was playing the game again in my room, and got to the 3 little pigs boss in Mario Zone. I kept dying over and over, and out of frustration I banged the Gameboy against my head which cracked the screen. That was the saddest day of my life. To avoid getting in trouble, I hid it under some filing papers in the computer desk in our bonus room. My mother didn't ask me about it for a good 6 months, and while she was disappointed with me for hiding it, she bought me the recently released Gameboy Pocket.

    • @Wflash00
      @Wflash00 6 лет назад +5

      Ouch. I cracked the screen on mine only recently. I took it to school with me, it was in my pocket and I banged it into a desk. I didn't even pull it out of my pocket until I got on the bus and I gasped so loud as soon as I saw it and it caused a few heads to turn.

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 Год назад +1

      @@Wflash00...that sucketh!
      Did you ever find a replacement for it?

    • @alkestos
      @alkestos Год назад

      Yooo, we are the same age. Don't have a Gameboy though, never did.

    • @d0dg3st4r
      @d0dg3st4r Год назад

      I recently discovered 6 golden coins. I wasn't expecting much, especially after the previous mario made for the GB. Gosh, was I surprised! What a hidden gem that is!

  • @Kevb0ardGames
    @Kevb0ardGames 10 лет назад +20

    uhm... the black cartridges are not just black because of a design choice... black ones are GB Color games that are compatible with the original one...

    • @faokie
      @faokie 10 лет назад +13

      That's the textbook definition of a design choice.

    • @15-Peter-20
      @15-Peter-20 5 лет назад

      No

  • @ProjectADOC
    @ProjectADOC 8 лет назад +3

    The more i watch your videos, the more i love 'em :) Keep up the good work m8!

  • @hypermecha223
    @hypermecha223 4 года назад +1

    I spent a whole winter (well maybe 3-4 days during a terrible snowstorm) jammed under a lamp on a stand, curled up to one side of a rocker armchair playing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening from beginning to end. On the last day I had to go to a magazine shop to get a gaming magazine that told the pattern to get through the final maze, because I had been wandering aimlessly through it for hours and I was losing my mind. The snow drifts were so high we couldn't get our front (and only) door open, so we had to open a window and slide out. I have such a fond memory of that time and any time I hear the music from the game it instantly takes me back to 1993.

  • @QueenAurora85
    @QueenAurora85 6 лет назад +2

    It’s been 4yrs since this was put out still love watching it your gameboy videos are some of my favorites

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 Год назад +1

      UserName ✔s out! lol it's been 4yrs since you left this comment...
      ...that's 8yrs, for you mathematicians at home lol

  • @ChillyPeppers
    @ChillyPeppers 10 лет назад +30

    ashens, if you're gonna shh the gameboy you technically gotta throw an egg at it. it's the rules.

  • @BurntFaceMan
    @BurntFaceMan 8 лет назад +19

    Anyone Remember "dial in gaming" where you played games like "Hugo" on some Ant and Dec tv show by using your landline phone to play?( I remember Live n kicking, and some other show. can remember names.)
    Yes your LAND LINE phone. tones made the character on the screen(TV) move very delayed and appallingly jerky movement. then you won a prize if ant and Dec said you were the high score etc...
    Larry probably beat the game this way mind =P

    • @dnebdal
      @dnebdal 8 лет назад

      +BurntFaceMan Ha, they did that on Swedish TV as well. :)

  • @nlicky
    @nlicky 10 лет назад +1

    It's been a while since Ashens put out a gaming hardware video, but a series focusing on the Nintendo Game Boy is really awesome. Looks like there's both officially licensed things and some non-licensed stuff as well. Great overview of the Game Boy and some games along with a few interesting quirks along the way.

  • @gijsyo
    @gijsyo 9 лет назад +2

    Mr Ashen, we your fans require part 2 quite badly now :)

  • @dpad200x8
    @dpad200x8 8 лет назад +5

    Holy crap! I completely forgot about WWF Superstars until watching this, and you're completely correct! I don't think anyone in my family or anyone I knew bought the game, but I had it, I remember it. I have no clue where it came from.

  • @VGJ
    @VGJ 10 лет назад +3

    I remember winning my Gameboy in a bag of Quavers. Years later my brother painted Space Wolves decals on it for some reason and then I lost it on ten pin bowling trip.

  • @tomcrowmike
    @tomcrowmike 10 лет назад +1

    Ooh, I'm really bloody excited for this series

  • @theobyrne2457
    @theobyrne2457 9 лет назад +13

    The more you listen to this guy's voice the better it gets

    • @D00dlebugInc
      @D00dlebugInc 6 лет назад +1

      Theo Byrne that's a really weird thing to say and I totally agree with you

  • @lukerobinson7791
    @lukerobinson7791 10 лет назад +7

    I personally would rather have a GameChild over a GameBoy

  • @Burger_pants
    @Burger_pants 10 лет назад +18

    As a kid I had a game called Robopon, which was a ripoff of pokemon with robots.
    But the unusual thing was it had an IR sensor which you could us a remote control for your TV to send items and stuff to the game, its really unique and strange, you didnt have that to show so I thought I'd mention it.

    • @OdaSwifteye
      @OdaSwifteye 10 лет назад +4

      I'm glad you mentioned that. I actually found Robopon a lot of fun and played the sequel as well which ended up being a let down because the remote/clock gimmick was axed and it changes the gameplay mechanics rather than improve them.
      I liked a lot of games that I considered to be "Pokemon ripoffs." Like the various digimon games, The Dragon Warrior Monster Tamer series, Azure Dream's (which was really a rougelike but that term didn't exist among 9 year olds in the late 90s), and who can forget......wait. What game am I thinking of again?
      Animorphs had a game and it was a pokemon knockoff. I'll just let you imagine what the gameplay was like.

    • @gadgetbusterjnr
      @gadgetbusterjnr 10 лет назад

      Oda Swifteye I love Pokemon but I think Dragon Quest/ Warrior Monsters was actually better.

    • @OdaSwifteye
      @OdaSwifteye 10 лет назад

      panic_more Oh tell me about it. I loved that little series. It did the monster breeding before Pokemon and did the thing that Pokemon still hasn't done with breeding. Mixed offspring results. That and the aftermath was pretty limitless. Find all the monsters, Fight all the demon lords, win all the tournaments, and visit all the worlds.
      Was a bit let down by the Dragon Quest monsters joke but that was quite a few years later.

    • @Burger_pants
      @Burger_pants 10 лет назад

      panic_more i had that too, it was good but it was brutally hard at times

    • @TTKMKaizen
      @TTKMKaizen 10 лет назад

      Oda Swifteye They sort of attempted mixed offspring with weird combinations of moves from the parents. You can get a pikachu to learn surf this way.
      But it would have been more interesting to have colour swaps and type changes passed onto offspring.

  • @JosieC84
    @JosieC84 10 лет назад +1

    Ah the Gameboy. So many fantastic memories playing it.

  • @rickyrigatoni
    @rickyrigatoni 10 лет назад +52

    I had an original gameboy, but I don't have any memories of it because the only game I had was Babe: Pig in the City

    • @spybomber6499
      @spybomber6499 10 лет назад

      LOL,mine was mortal kombat, TRY THAT!

    • @spybomber6499
      @spybomber6499 10 лет назад

      It sucks, mortal kombat that is

    • @rickyrigatoni
      @rickyrigatoni 10 лет назад +4

      Well I'm glad that I at least didn't have _bad_ memories, then.

    • @Flako92
      @Flako92 10 лет назад

      I swear I have seen you comment on a NGE video before.

    • @rickyrigatoni
      @rickyrigatoni 10 лет назад

      A lot of people have this guy as their profile pictures.

  • @borjangagovski6545
    @borjangagovski6545 10 лет назад +4

    Ashens, please, continue this series!

  • @SonicTheAIDShog
    @SonicTheAIDShog 9 лет назад +3

    Watching yet again and restlessly waiting for the next part in the series =[[[[[[[[[[{{

  • @andystanford7117
    @andystanford7117 10 лет назад

    The 100000 games in one were a blast from the past haha. Cool video!

  • @dotcomGone
    @dotcomGone 10 лет назад

    Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you

  • @Farmeryeti
    @Farmeryeti 10 лет назад +3

    I was born in '95 so I believe the earliest rendition of the Gameboy that I had was the Gameboy Colour. But my heart belongs to the Gameboy Advance. Not the SP with the back light and all, but the original model. I even had one of those awkward lights that you stick on the top so you could see the screen. Kind of.

  • @adammullarkey4996
    @adammullarkey4996 8 лет назад +45

    Hang on. WWF? World Wildlife Federation Superstars doesn't sound like a particularly fun game. I'm glad I don't live in the past...

    • @primemeow
      @primemeow 8 лет назад +2

      Word Wrestling Federation.

    • @bruhbbawallace
      @bruhbbawallace 8 лет назад +7

      +TCOM Reborn! Tis but a jest.

    • @LordSmuggington
      @LordSmuggington 7 лет назад +1

      We meet again, ye magnificent bastard?

    • @adammullarkey4996
      @adammullarkey4996 7 лет назад +1

      ***** Wait, weren't we arguing before?

    • @LordSmuggington
      @LordSmuggington 7 лет назад +1

      Adam Mullarkey
      No I found you long after that and we made amends. This would be... Well, I can't help but think our fourth meeting.

  • @megakev321
    @megakev321 10 лет назад

    Best video from ashens EVER.

  • @Aaron-lr1di
    @Aaron-lr1di 10 лет назад

    I'm really glad you're covering the gameboy =)

  • @ThereMayBeLions
    @ThereMayBeLions 10 лет назад +45

    The PSP was ok, but Nintendo had always been overlord in the Mobile gaming platform. It didn't stand a chance

    • @coolguyisbadman01010
      @coolguyisbadman01010 10 лет назад +14

      *Portable, not mobile.

    • @ThereMayBeLions
      @ThereMayBeLions 10 лет назад +2

      Jack Baliey You can take it with you, yes? Mobile counts for the same definition as well

    • @coolguyisbadman01010
      @coolguyisbadman01010 10 лет назад +12

      DeeM10123 Mobile refers to Phones, and tablets. Handheld refers to things like the game boy and PSP.

    • @Stephakaii
      @Stephakaii 10 лет назад +4

      Jack Baliey It's weird like that. Phones and tablets are held in your hand AND are mobile. The Gameboy and PSP are held in your hand AND are mobile.

    • @ElectronicRatings
      @ElectronicRatings 9 лет назад +10

      Just saying the PSP did stand a chance. In fact the PSP is the only handheld in history that shared a decent portion of the market with Nintendo's handhelds by selling nearly 80 million units. Also the PSP is by far my favorite handheld because of the hack ability. Do not get me wrong.. I understand that Nintendo dominates the handheld market but saying PSP did not stand a chance is so utterly incorrect.

  • @rickyleeufc
    @rickyleeufc 8 лет назад +11

    we need the lynx review ashens

  • @apexgt4
    @apexgt4 5 лет назад

    Why yes ashens, I am keeping up. I think it is very interesting that the cartridges go there

  • @adoringfanatic7618
    @adoringfanatic7618 10 лет назад

    Gameboy is the best thing ever! I adore Ashens!

  • @GetBant
    @GetBant 10 лет назад +7

    Oh Game Boy, How i love you!
    We went through all the Launch Games and are currently working through others on GetBant.

  • @Jamb13
    @Jamb13 10 лет назад +12

    Jeez Ashens, telling the difference between Chinese and Japanese is easy! And definitely something you should know considering your particular career in reviewing cheap tat
    If it's nothing but crazy complex characters then it's most likely Chinese!
    我不知道任何中国
    If it's a combination of complex characters and simple characters then it's Japanese!
    アシャンスの手を見るのが好き
    Using this rule, you can see that those fake cartridges were, as they pretty much always are, written in Chinese

    • @joeygonzalez883
      @joeygonzalez883 7 лет назад

      Bīdeō gāmeū aka video game

    • @MuchWhittering
      @MuchWhittering 4 года назад +1

      Shouldn't it be アシェンズ, not アシャンス?

    • @MuchWhittering
      @MuchWhittering 4 года назад

      @@joeygonzalez883 *Bideogēmu. Except they generally just say ゲーム.

  • @donhonk
    @donhonk 10 лет назад

    I LOVE THE GAMEBOY, thanks Ashens.

  • @alinayossimouse
    @alinayossimouse 10 лет назад +1

    the black carts are actually ones containing both the game for the regular game boy and the version for game boy color. a notable example is link's awakening DX that contained extra puzzles based on colored elements that are missing if you play the same cartridge in the classic game boy

  • @mr.enclave7677
    @mr.enclave7677 7 лет назад +16

    10:31 If you loom closely, you can see LJN's "Rainbow Stamp of Death".

    • @fizalex6612
      @fizalex6612 7 лет назад +13

      Sith Stalker ahh good 'ole Laughing Joking Numbnuts, that rainbow might as well be a "this game is shit" sticker.

    • @neyoid
      @neyoid 6 лет назад +3

      Fizalex LJN made one good game. It was the spider man one.

  • @nexviper
    @nexviper 10 лет назад +4

    I had a Game Gear as a kid, thank christ for the mains adaptor is all I can say. The number of batteries I sacrificed to that beast during trips was hideous.
    Did eventually move up to the Game Boy Colour which I loved. Sadly I broke my original one (dropped something heavy on my bed not realising the poor thing was under the covers and cracked the screen), one day I was given another one by a friend who didn't want his old one but it had no battery cover and was a bit beat up.
    Always get a bit of an itch every now and then to buy another off ebay.

    • @yugioh1581
      @yugioh1581 10 лет назад

      ***** I'm pleased to receive packs of batteries as gifts today and I'm 25... You never have enough, it seems.

  • @omarzegaib
    @omarzegaib 9 лет назад

    that was hilarious!! nice video man!

  • @SkyTheLeafeon
    @SkyTheLeafeon Год назад +1

    "Dead lines" on a Game Boy screen can actually be easily repaired - heat has to be applied to the ribbon cable that connects the LCD to the motherboard, which thereby reseats the individual connections and allows them to regain proper contact (thus making the dead lines go away).
    The only point of caution is that the contacts sit beneath a rubber/foam (can't remember) strip, which you have to carefully lift without damaging the ribbon cable further.

  • @Undrave
    @Undrave 10 лет назад +7

    They stopped doing the plastic cases some time before the Game Boy Color came out. I'm pretty sure my Pokémon game didn't have cases.

    • @Whybot182
      @Whybot182 10 лет назад +4

      You're right, my yellow, gold & blue didn't have cases only the boxes.

    • @Undrave
      @Undrave 10 лет назад +2

      And little plastic bags.

  •  10 лет назад +6

    I can't think of Gameboy without Pokémon instantly coming to mind :D

    • @ryl-ie
      @ryl-ie 10 лет назад

      Ikr

    • @ryl-ie
      @ryl-ie 10 лет назад

      I have yellow for the gameboy

  • @StevenReviews
    @StevenReviews 10 лет назад +1

    These are the kind of videos I tune in for GREAT JOB ASHNES

  • @keefeeweefee.8714
    @keefeeweefee.8714 5 месяцев назад

    I got mine in Christmas 1990. Best Christmas present i ever had. Still got it to this day.

  • @BlattGaming
    @BlattGaming 10 лет назад +22

    This was my first video game system. Such good memories

  • @xChillDudex
    @xChillDudex 10 лет назад +30

    Finally a random gaming video. I had originally subbed because of those. Nice to finally see one again. I mean I guess the cheap rip off console videos can only go so far you have probably reviewed most that have been made.

    • @Ron_BWL
      @Ron_BWL 10 лет назад +4

      I second that, subbed solely for those handheld system reviews (mainly fake/rip-off one)

    • @Boa796
      @Boa796 9 лет назад +1

      yeah, im still glad he's making videos to this day tho, they're still very entertaining.

  • @geekchris105
    @geekchris105 7 лет назад +1

    Just a statement on how popular the Gameboy was: my grandmother, who was about 60 when the Gameboy was released, bought one to play Tetris and tennis on it. My grandfather only used it to play baseball.

  • @jamesheal1779
    @jamesheal1779 8 лет назад +1

    Find your channel very intresting been a fan for a while now 😀, thanks for ur entertainment when i am bored

  • @niino4329
    @niino4329 8 лет назад +5

    You know, fixing the vertical lines isn't hard at all.

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 8 лет назад +4

      He won't read this / take notice / care anymore, due to how famous he is nowadays. I'm writing this as he says that they all have badly scratched screens, well mine is immaculate and has ONE tiny 3mm scratch on it!

  • @owenq.2391
    @owenq.2391 9 лет назад +3

    What happened to this series, Ashens?

  • @ilittlemonster22
    @ilittlemonster22 10 лет назад +1

    right as i wanted a new ashens video :)

  • @interghost
    @interghost 10 лет назад

    Nice one. Got to love the old GB. Like you say was released at just the right time and pretty much had a monopoly on the market back in the day. And to think 25 years on they are still making squeals to the same games on their new handhelds...

  • @xtraflo
    @xtraflo 10 лет назад +4

    When are you going to post Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc .. ?

    • @omo9674
      @omo9674 9 лет назад +2

      I was hoping for a follow up but you have obviously got a better idea.

  • @BatteryExhausted
    @BatteryExhausted 8 лет назад +13

    Game Boy was my third parent.

    • @BatteryExhausted
      @BatteryExhausted 7 лет назад

      parent
      ˈpɛːr(ə)nt/Submit
      noun
      1.
      a person's father or mother.
      "the parents of the bride"
      synonyms: mother, father; More
      verb
      1.
      be or act as a mother or father to (someone).
      "exhaustion is incompatible with good parenting"
      synonyms: bring up, be the parent of, look after, take care of, rear, raise, nurture
      "all children are special to those who parent them"

    • @BatteryExhausted
      @BatteryExhausted 7 лет назад

      MarioBlaster10 Seems you do not understand the full meaning of 'parent'

    • @BatteryExhausted
      @BatteryExhausted 7 лет назад

      MarioBlaster10 Actually, when you think about the use of the word,
      "be or act as a mother or father to (someone).
      "exhaustion is incompatible with good parenting"
      synonyms: bring up, be the parent of, look after, take care of, rear, raise, nurture
      "all children are special to those who parent them" "
      Then a 'parent' can be anyone or thing that takes on the responsibility of raising a child.
      So time to shutup.
      You are embarrassing yourself.

    • @BatteryExhausted
      @BatteryExhausted 7 лет назад

      If you are adopted, you consider the people who raise you 'parents' don't you? Have a think. Stop trying to be smarter than you really are.

    • @BatteryExhausted
      @BatteryExhausted 7 лет назад +3

      No. But I didn't write "Gameboy was my biological parent" did I?
      Seriously.
      Enough now.
      What I wrote made sense and was a humorous comment. You not being able to understand things fully has lead to all this boring back and forth.
      You are 100% wrong in your critique.
      You are dragging the average down.
      Stop.

  • @SniperWalrus
    @SniperWalrus 10 лет назад

    Oh how far we've come.

  • @Atlas552
    @Atlas552 10 лет назад

    My first handheld was the Gameboy Color. Loved it so much! Especially the Harry Potter games and Commander Keen could entertain me for hours.

  • @guns102
    @guns102 10 лет назад +26

    I like your gaming videos but I also like your food videos but which one is better? Only one way to find out... FIGHT!

    • @maxjones3134
      @maxjones3134 10 лет назад +15

      Nah I prefer the random tat videos. Such as action figures and pound land specials.

    • @guns102
      @guns102 10 лет назад +3

      4 way FIGHT then ;)

    • @pigwarts
      @pigwarts 10 лет назад

      Max Jones I like the tat video games ones the best. Best of both worlds.

    • @adamjackson6195
      @adamjackson6195 10 лет назад +10

      I'm disappointed no one got that reference

    • @guns102
      @guns102 10 лет назад +2

      my references are too op it seems Adam :P

  • @RWL2012
    @RWL2012 8 лет назад +5

    You could have fixed the screen on your original Game Boy from back in the day, there is a soldering iron trick if you watch RetroGameTech's video on repairing a Game Boy with that screen problem. But too late now :-(

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 8 лет назад +3

      Just got my screen fixed, but using PointBlankEngineering's service on eBay UK - yes money but he knows what he's doing and I recommend him; mine's as good as new now!

    • @mkultrasoldier
      @mkultrasoldier 7 лет назад +1

      RWL2012 Exactly. It makes me sad that people throw thier memories away when they could fix it easily.

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 7 лет назад +1

      Niall Asher yeah or at least get it fixed by someone else like I did

  • @samholdsworth420
    @samholdsworth420 3 месяца назад +1

    Almost 35 years now mate

  • @staticfanatic
    @staticfanatic 10 лет назад

    "i'm going to be going over the gameboy and all its weird accessories in a series of videos".
    THANK YOU BASED ASHEN OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD

  • @EndL3sSH0p3
    @EndL3sSH0p3 10 лет назад +3

    Your voice sounds like the voice of the narrator of the game "the Stanley Parable" :D just noticed

  • @Plexiii13
    @Plexiii13 10 лет назад +4

    I heard an ice cream truck paying the Tetris theme once

    • @vinnybossman
      @vinnybossman 10 лет назад +2

      How much did the ice cream truck pay the Tetris song? And while I'm at it, in what currency?

    • @OdaSwifteye
      @OdaSwifteye 10 лет назад +1

      Vinicio Amores I assume it's somewhere in Europe because in North America the Ice cream truck plays nursery ryhmes. In the south it will even play Dixieland incredulously.

    • @vinnybossman
      @vinnybossman 10 лет назад

      You didn't really get my original comment, did you?

    • @OdaSwifteye
      @OdaSwifteye 10 лет назад

      Vinicio Amores You were telling a joke I assume?

    • @vinnybossman
      @vinnybossman 10 лет назад

      Right on

  • @Ardhamon5000
    @Ardhamon5000 10 лет назад

    Oh man!! I loved this video!!

  • @nopenope8827
    @nopenope8827 7 лет назад +1

    How'd he get his screen (on the original Gameboy) like that? my looks nothing like it, is the lens plastic or glass?

  • @pieldmiel9033
    @pieldmiel9033 10 лет назад +34

    I just found a copy of Ducktales,is it worth anything?

    • @bren7080
      @bren7080 10 лет назад +27

      Keep it. Ducktales is an absolutely great game.
      (You can sell it, but it's just a really good game)

    • @Sheehy223
      @Sheehy223 10 лет назад +5

      Yes, to the right person.

    • @pieldmiel9033
      @pieldmiel9033 10 лет назад +4

      ***** I was looking to sell it in Amazon, but the price would be like 3 dollars, ill just keep it (: thx doe

    • @bren7080
      @bren7080 10 лет назад +4

      Mexicandew $3?
      That's odd.
      I need to buy it if it's that low a' price

    • @joedasheep
      @joedasheep 10 лет назад

      like $5 without a perfect condition box. there aren't many games from any generation that are worth much.

  • @noco-pf3vj
    @noco-pf3vj 8 лет назад +12

    18:32, I hear that, you dubbed that didn't you, stuart.

    • @Shadowfied
      @Shadowfied 8 лет назад +2

      Wow, nice catch. I was listening with speakers and was like "are you crazy?" - put on headphones and heard that you're correct.

    • @noco-pf3vj
      @noco-pf3vj 8 лет назад +1

      Thanks, I have a high sensitivity speakers system, very detail sound almost annoyed me sometime. Stuart dubbed other video too, but I commented in this video just for fun.

    • @VMMMCXV
      @VMMMCXV 7 лет назад +1

      Rise best girl

    • @Shadowfied
      @Shadowfied 7 лет назад

      All P4 girls are best girl :3

  • @hayden7525
    @hayden7525 Год назад +2

    Hard to believe this was 8 years ago

  • @Idiotbreadloaf
    @Idiotbreadloaf 10 лет назад

    Always looking forward for your new videos!! :)

  • @ChrisWachtler
    @ChrisWachtler 10 лет назад +10

    The Pokemon Crystal and Gold had cool cartridges.

    • @thkarape
      @thkarape 10 лет назад +3

      ***** You can change the battery very easily.

    • @MikeDragon
      @MikeDragon 10 лет назад +1

      I have Crystal. The cartridge is really pretty nifty!

    • @RQLexi
      @RQLexi 10 лет назад

      ***** Changing the internal battery is, as has been said before, quite simple and risk free. The only part that can be a bit fiddly is unscrewing the custom bit screw on the back, but you'll manage.

    • @jonmahashintina
      @jonmahashintina 10 лет назад

      Silver's cart is rather disappointing. I was a Gold kid myself.

    • @MikeDragon
      @MikeDragon 10 лет назад

      Jon Mahashintina Well, there's no much difference from gray to silver so I don't blame them for making Silver's cartridge the way is.

  • @scotty_blocks
    @scotty_blocks 7 лет назад +6

    I had friends at school whose Dads went abroad on business trips and would bring home fake GB cartridges for them.

  • @xynthymr
    @xynthymr 10 лет назад

    @ashens- The black carts are actually hybrid cartridges. When inserted into a monochrome Gameboy, they play in black & white, but when inserted into a GBC they play in colour, opposed to actual GBC carts which only work in GBC consoles and only play in colour.

  • @ashtern5675
    @ashtern5675 6 лет назад

    Ive watched the gameboy extravaganza series so many times

  • @Efreeti
    @Efreeti 10 лет назад +18

    "Good thing they don't do that anymore, well not to the same extent anyway".
    Uhm, Stuart, are you aware that the Xbox One released in North and South America, UK and Australia in November 2013, but not until THIS MONTH in Scandinavia, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia, Japan and China? 10 months isn't as long as ~15-18, sure, but it's still mindbogglingly long.

    • @CthulhuTheArmadillo
      @CthulhuTheArmadillo 10 лет назад

      Boggled!

    • @jonmahashintina
      @jonmahashintina 10 лет назад

      Suppose that's the problem with all that TV channel stuff they got going in it.

    • @Efreeti
      @Efreeti 10 лет назад

      ***** Okay, sorry, I was going off information I found. My mistake.

    • @benanderson89
      @benanderson89 10 лет назад +2

      Efreeti Its still not as bad as the 80s and 90s by a long margin.
      Europe never got the Super Nintendo until 1992, for example.

    • @yugioh1581
      @yugioh1581 10 лет назад

      It's for a good reason with some of them, as Japan favour Sony over Microsoft.

  • @orange_dougnuts8728
    @orange_dougnuts8728 8 лет назад +4

    I have an orange see through gameboy with red see through buttons and a red screen ;3

  • @AVFCAM
    @AVFCAM 9 лет назад

    Impressed the game box is in such good condition

  • @PixieStixxandAdderal
    @PixieStixxandAdderal 10 лет назад

    YES
    MORE ASHENS TECH REVIEWS
    YES

  • @redwyvern_7818
    @redwyvern_7818 7 лет назад +6

    Was I the only one to end up binning the boxes because I thought they where extra packaging?

    • @fizalex6612
      @fizalex6612 7 лет назад +1

      Drift_Nerd_ 9 nope, my brother always threw out the cardboard packaging. I wish I could have kept them. I'd still have my old stuff, my aunts broke my NES and ands and I stupidly ha e away my genesis when I got a ps1. Why are we so stupid as kids?

    • @Orax1701
      @Orax1701 7 лет назад

      Fizalex It's not looking too good for you now.

  • @jakublulek3261
    @jakublulek3261 8 лет назад +3

    Still waiting for Atari Lynx Extravaganza. I was interested in Lynx in 90s because of fantastic arcade ports but never got it, my first portable was Game Gear, I have 3 Game Gears in total, and completed from theyr wrecks one final Game Gear which I have today. Shit, blurry screen and appaling battery life but unique, never-seen-again games. I like consoles with landscape orientation, GameBoy was too narrow for me, until GBA, so Game Gear and than PSP and Vita were my choices. I actually love PSP so much that I had model 1000, 2000, 3000 and Go, all at the same time, Vita never deserved so much passion, Sony just didn't nailed it like with PSP.

  • @patrickhoughton2002
    @patrickhoughton2002 9 лет назад

    I got a game boy for my 7th birthday I'm 32 now and it's still going strong. Thanks for the vid.

  • @mrlichenstein
    @mrlichenstein 10 лет назад

    Sure brings back memories! A neighbor gave me 2 of these and a few games along with a light and some games all in a case. I also have that 4-way connector. I never could get it to work with my games though...

  • @joefishjones
    @joefishjones 10 лет назад +4

    18:32 Strange edited voice over, did you notice it?

  • @sabotagethefool
    @sabotagethefool 9 лет назад +6

    Not the game you paid for? Looks like you got.... a Raw Deal...

    • @IvanovIvanAKrutoi
      @IvanovIvanAKrutoi 9 лет назад +2

      YEEEEEAAAAAAAH!!

    • @sabotagethefool
      @sabotagethefool 9 лет назад +1

      Thank you, but where's my sunglasses!? Fetch my sunglasses damn you! :p

    • @TheMamaluigi300
      @TheMamaluigi300 9 лет назад

      +sabotagethefool how about you print out sunglasses that you cant the explosion going on in the background out of, because lets face it: cool guys dont look at explosions

    • @TheMamaluigi300
      @TheMamaluigi300 9 лет назад

      +TheMamaluigi300 *cant see the

  • @Jprime777
    @Jprime777 10 лет назад

    "Sitting in weird places under lamps"
    I've never spent so much time near a lamp in any other period of my life than the Gameboy years. I had a lamp by my bed for the specific purpose of playing the various Gameboys. The backlight on the GBASP was such a godsend back then.

  • @djcactus
    @djcactus 10 лет назад +1

    I remember being in Spain as a kid and finding a 99 in 1 cartridge in a local shop, blew my mind, had world heroes 2 and a slew of Japanese fighting games on it..... Still have it 20 years later

  • @marijanbarac1216
    @marijanbarac1216 8 лет назад +9

    god i love this ahhaha cracked me up far better than any of 'try not to laugh impossible challenge' crap videos..and gameboy is awesome i still have it

  • @moviedevil12
    @moviedevil12 10 лет назад +3

    Nerdcubed send me

  • @rydude998
    @rydude998 9 лет назад

    I am really looking forward to these videos.

  • @zwerty007
    @zwerty007 10 лет назад

    OH MY GOODNESS
    I used to own Shadowgate when I was 7 or something and I've been trying to remember what that cool point and clicker in the dungeon is ever since I somehow lost it. Mentioning that name really rang a bell, thank you so much.

  • @EveryDaySkinnyGuy
    @EveryDaySkinnyGuy 10 лет назад +3

    Hey, can anyone tell me what the differences are between all the pokemon games? Why are there so many, but so little differences?

    • @BrainBoltG
      @BrainBoltG 10 лет назад +8

      Graphical updates (depending mostly on handheld you're playing on) and the amount of guys to catch and activities to do with said guys. Story however hasn't evolved much since the original. Not too bad though since I wager most people don't play them for the story. (I mean I don't...)

    • @UKPokePower
      @UKPokePower 10 лет назад +11

      So, originally the idea was that people could buy the game and collect the monsters, and they decided to do two versions of the same game, but make certain monsters version exclusive. This prompted you to trade with your friends to "Catch 'em all"
      With each iteration of the franchise I, as a fan, will admit that the core game play is exactly the same as it was when I put my copy of Red into my original Game Boy the first time. They do make minor tweaks with each release though, such as new mechanics, story lines, enhanced competitive battling system and of course, new monsters.
      I'm pretty sure there are so many because with each new game they get new players, so when they continue to sell like they do, why would they stop. Also, there are SOOOOO many spin offs and merchandising opportunities, its essentially like having a money cow that is ripe for the milking! And there you have your answer =)

    • @BrainBoltG
      @BrainBoltG 10 лет назад +1

      Forgot to mention too, it's also a cultural phenomenon. That kind of helps. Like I've been playing it since I was 10 and it's still around and popular, says a lot. :)

    • @UKPokePower
      @UKPokePower 10 лет назад

      BrainBoltG Yeah that is a pretty big point that I too missed out haha! I have been playing since its first release. Many, many a year ago!

    • @BCProgramming
      @BCProgramming 10 лет назад

      They are the same concept, but revise mechanics, story, as well as characters. Fundamentally it is a turn-based Japanese RPG, and each iteration makes minor tweaks to the combat mechanics, adds new moves/abilities, etc. As others have said, each new generation adds a bunch more pokemon as well; the first two games had 151; the second generation had 250 or so, etc. Overall the reason they keep making so many is the same reason they make Mario games; most Mario games are very similar to one another, but they are a pretty sure sell.

  • @juanpostel3463
    @juanpostel3463 10 лет назад +12

    Dont blow on cartridges all it does is your saliva getting on the pins and corroding them faster simply remove it and reinsert it

    • @Ashurman666
      @Ashurman666 10 лет назад +6

      Evil To be fair the blowing really didnt work,removing and reinserting is what really worked

    • @Wourghk
      @Wourghk 10 лет назад +8

      Evil
      It's true. Saliva is pretty corrosive, but there isn't enough saliva in a single healthy person's breath to cause any harm to the electronics.
      Besides, only the prissy kids had the proper cleaning kits, so everyone else just blew in them.

    • @Ashurman666
      @Ashurman666 10 лет назад +6

      Wourghk Except blowing did nothing,it was removing and re inserting that did the trick

    • @Siknik64
      @Siknik64 10 лет назад

      Wourghk Unless you're part lizard/komodo dragon.

    • @GAMEShane
      @GAMEShane 10 лет назад

      I think youre thinking about rubbing alcohol

  • @RavenIsland85
    @RavenIsland85 10 лет назад

    I still have my Gameboy, love that old beast!

  • @SeafoodKilla1
    @SeafoodKilla1 8 лет назад

    LOVE your sense of humour...cheers!