Casio Loopy Review | Ashens
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Casio Loopy My Seal Computer! A rare and obscure games console that was never released outside Japan. It has almost no games for it and all the ones that do exist were published by Casio themselves, but it does print stickers!
Translation and Japan-o-knowledge kindly provided by Krista Yabe - @tamyururu on Twitter. 
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Okay but imagine unlocking or achieving something in a game and getting a physical sticker for it. That'd be awesome. "Yeah bro I have the 'Dark Soul' sticker".
Yeah, its a neat idea but not a new one. Printable certificates was a 90’s/00’s thing kids games did on PC. I remeber several living books and disney games doing just that
Id have loved that with the gameboy... Pokemon red blue yellow but you had a physical pokedex looking notepad with 151 pages, and when you found a new pokemon you could print the pokedex entry and stick it in your pokedex, or even just print pictures of charizards and stick them to every available surface..
@@Colt45hatchback the game boy did have a printer addon. And a camera, and a sonar for finding fish. The game boy printer wasn't in color, but why would it be? I don't think they were stickers either.
Oh, sorry Ashen(s) COLOUR.
Are you happy I added a "u" to the word color? I'm so tolerant of different cultures that I'm willing to spell like an idiot (an American idiot. In UK I would be spelling like a champion bee-wrangler. Like I was Nicholas Cage and I had bees all over my head. That's how I spell)
Super Mario 3D World (Wii U and Switch) has the same thing
I have a Hello Kitty thermal printer which enables me to print out my own stickers from my phone. I now have the coveted Bloodborne 3 achievement, that I earned playing the PS7 version in the future.
But do you think that gets me laid?!? The sticker, no. The printer, yes.
Nobody needs a sticker for an achievement for a console that only 8 people own. You're already a mega-Chad for owning the stupid console, printing out cheevo stickers for that console drops you back into the weirdo category. All your friends are earning Dark Souls cheevos (digital, TBH) while you bust out your coveted sticker cheevos for a game that nobody heard of. Besides, do you really want to pay $100 more for the PS5 just because they slapped a stupid crappy printer inside? A printer that will only accept $70 ink cartridges made by Sony elves, which hold 10ml of ink and dry out prematurely due to the heat and air flow of the APU\fan? No, that's a terrible idea. Look at the Game Boy printer \ fish finder sonar if you want an idea for a useless peripheral that maybe could have printed out stupid sticker cheevos.
Side note: why a printer for a portable console, and no printers for normal consoles? Because gamers don't want printers.
Nobody gets laid due to stickers. It's the Hello Kitty thermal printer that is the pussy magnet. I have to beat the women off with sticks. Small, fragile sticks. I'm not a monster.
i was expecting the game cartridge to fly across the room when he pressed the eject button
kirb pkmlover for some reason I also did.
kirb pkmlover me too
A flying cartridge, that's the best kind.
@@thekungachunga4578 Meh space cartridge is even better
@@conn4832I might be late to the party, but that comment immediately made me think of that RUclips video where a dude sent an Earthbound SNES cartridge to space.
Holy shit my sister actually had this when we were kids. Was not expecting to see it on this channel :D
Bow-Wow Puppy Love Story is actually pretty fun. No joke, it's a cute little RPG with story elements not too serious but still isn't afraid to get real at times, especially the final dungeon where your friends sacrifice themselves one by one to let you continue to the final boss (they're all fine at the end but holy shit it's a seriously darker tone than what the rest of the game is like).
@TrinixDMorrison I know it's 4 years late, but guess what? Turns out that one person that worked on Bow Wow Puppy Love Story/Wan Wan Aijo Monogatari actually worked on the original Final Fantasy on NES. I wish I was joking.
I would've loved this thing. I was obsessed with printing out my Pokemon Snap photos at Blockbuster back in the day.
To be completely fair and honest, the graphics look really nice. The hardware of the 32x could do a lot of nice looking 2D sprite art. Shame it wasn't really utilized properly past a few notable examples like Knuckles' Chaotix.
bobsauce100
Yeah, the sprite art is nice, especially the animation in Puppy Love Story, but by the time the Loopy came out, the Saturn, which had superior 2D capabilities, was already on the Japanese market. Then again, I'm sure the average sticker enthusiast didn't care about that.
It also doesn't help anything in the Loopy's favor that the Japanese economy was undergoing a major recession at the time and that families weren't gonna spend the equivalent of hundreds of dollars on a fancy sticker printer.
bobsauce100 not to mention Virtua fighter and Virtua racing
Change your name to Boobsauce. It'll all be better. 💝
Yeah this system definitely has its interesting parts. I love the old school anime look of the graphics, it makes me miss my childhood.
Also I am like 40 and I would still happily play with the sticker printer. I wish they'd made everything about it a little less dull, though.
So the game teaches you how to train your puppy, that training takes a lot of dedication, that having a puppy is a responsibility, but also that he can fly if his ears are large enough. I'm getting kind of a mixed message.
And that clocks are handy for clearing minefields.
I'm just being reminded of that 80's cartoon series with a bunch of dogs (the leader being a little puppy like the one shown here), with one dog that could fly because his ears were so long.
This thing actually has some homebrew potential, it's almost like a sticker-printing SNES
@Z2P ah yes, a Game Boy Advance Advance
Can the Casio Loopy run DOOM?
@@lunatpr5594 No. It can't run DOOM.
@@northernplacecorporation dont be so negative
@@temmie5085 Oh. OK.
So did the professional Japanese translator friend of yours come up with the dog's name or did you ask him for it, because I have to say, "barf-ass" is a very creative name.
I've only just watched this vid, and yep that was the first question I had too 🤷
nice paper mario facepalming pfp, where did you get that from?
@@iProgramInCpp paper mario
@Stop Banningme バーファス
*Stickers won't make you happy. Stickers cannot fill the emptiness in your soul.*
YOU DON'T KNOW ME.
Pfft, try me. I would genuinely have a blast with the printer.
They help my depression
But they can wallpaper over it.
Stickers can patch the hole in your heart. (^_^)
He named the dog Vomit-Ass. Just so you guys know!
Lmao love it!
So cute. So fucking cute.
The puppy game looks really cute
Casio Loopy > CS:GO
With the Casio loopy, you can have custom stickers, but no custom sprays in CS:GO.
KevinCS I'd rather buy this than csgo
No it's true, there are no custom sprays in CS:GO
I wonder if it would play Doom.
Carson Folio everything can play doom
Eryka Angelina Larente Play it WELL, that is the question
Lazy Game Reviews released a video recently where he played DOOM on a Casio Calculator. Spec-wise, The loopy would play doom
SomeBlokeOrWhatever This was the comment i was looking for.
It should be possible to port Doom to it because it uses the same CPU as the Sega 32X and that had Doom on it.
I never knew Casio made a console, I'm so out of the loopy.
Jokes aside, my siblings would probably murder someone to get their hands on a sticker printer, everyday I wake up some new piece of furniture has been kindly refurbished with stickers thanks to them.
Mohammed Hamza kindly refurbished ;)
Mohammed Hamza or ur 12 as it looks
oh boy! lmao
2 in fact
the price was 25.000 yen (220 euro)! crazy! it was released during 1995 so only one year later in Japan the Playstation 1 price dropped down to 24.800 (in 1995 it was 29.800). crazy Casio
I have to say, that animation of the dog shaking his head was pretty good, there was the processor power
i'm concerned Casio would ever release a console that could allow girls to print asymmetric anime boys onto thermal paper
The graphics are pretty impressive to be honest
17:38 I wonder if the girl who drew that Pikachu ever imagined that more than 350,000 people would see her work of art.
i would've lost my shit over getting this for christmas as a child, this thing is so cool tbh
if you take a hammer to the eject button; will the cart shoot out like a rocket?
AmericaTheEngravy sauce would be Awsome to see😂😂😂😂😂😂
When i was a kid i had a classmate who swears he got his ps1 to launch disks like that by putting tape over the vents on the sides.
AmericaTheEngravy sauce I was waiting for Ashen to do a similar joke on the eject button
Sebastian Abele You just need to replace the CD motor with a power drill and cover everything with liquid soap and your guaranteed to break the disc and all of the games
when i was in middle school there was a kid who swore up and down that he had sex with his playstation
You should show them the gameboy print labels we used to make Stu :D
He showed a couple in one of the Gameboy Jamoree videos. It was pretty funny.
You should definitely show us the gameboy print labels You and Larry used to do, Stuart.
I still have my camera printer and a few rolls, I used the hell out of the gameboy camera as a kid, my friend had one too.
Please tell me you have some sort of video on this.
Larry Bundy Jr. Smile! you're on Gameboy camera!
The graphics are quite impressive actually. It's clear that they could have done a lot more with this.
We need an HD remake of that first game. That story is so deep and full of lore.
I recently purchased a Casio calculator watch, it is great. I never expected the same company would produce something such as this... This work of art.
Looks like a cross between the N64 and GameCube.
You're right. It looks more like N64 to me tho.
I was kinda thinking the same, to me it looks a similar shape to N64 with the colour of a gamecube xD
And the controller of a SEGA Genesis (Mega Drive for those of you in Europe and Japan)
TakerKaneanite619
N64 X GameCube
^
Casio Loopy
game4brains 123 Looks more like a Neo Geo CD controller imo.
This thing actually had potential...A mixture of interesting looking system, good hardware for the time, sticker printer...kids loved that type thing!
But aiming it at one gender and the software....well that killed it.
The animations on that game during the cutscenes were actually really impressive looking compared to snes or genesis.
nate not really a fair comparison. 32-bit RISC vs 16-bit 6502-like (snes) or 16-bit Motorola 68k (genesis)
To be honest the thermal printer could be pretty cool as an adapter for PS4 and Xbox One, like you get an achievement and can choose to print it out to put in the games manual, like the game manuals that support it have pages with sticker slots for a physical bonus. I doubt I would use it as an adult but as a kid that would have been the tits!
To be honest? Were you telling lies before?
@@defs8073 all the time
17:38 I just love that sound
17:43 Piss
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17:12 KILL ME Cat
20:13 2013
Javonni Otero That shit freaks me out man
what is that music?
I want to see it printing, wondering how fast and how it works
Basic dye sublimation. Those things are very loud.
Lewis Tan probably about as loud as a good old dot matrix printer
It's a different sound type though. DM printers are even more annoying and pain inducing.
Same!!!
Casino loopy printing .. into youtube search bar 😊
How to entertain girls according to Casio Loopy:
step 1 add a sticker printer
step 2 instruct them to slap stickers on things
step 3 watch the streets of Japan become a terrorized area of Stickers, earning the name Stickerland of the Forgotten.
For context, the "printing stickers" thing ended up being a fad/trend in Japan among young girls called purikura which now take photos of you and print the pic. The Loopy was capable of that as well but came out a bit before the purikura craze, making it a trendsetter in that area.
So yes, that's exactly how you appeal to young japanese girls (and young western girls too as I personally loved stickers as a kid).
@@Otome_chan311 I'm not a girl but I loved stickers as a kid too, only stickers of formula 1 cars and the likes. I'm wondering why there hasn't been a simply USB sticker printer with dedicated easy to use software targeted at kids? That would sell, I think.
@@ReddoFreddo Well I can't speak for modern day kids since I'm not one. But I know I would've really enjoyed something like that, as I got all sorts of stickers and such as a kid. Especially if you combine it with popular characters/mascots/etc. I imagine such a thing would sell quite well.
I've never touched a sticker since 2012. Fuck you, Miyamoto!
@Brody Massey Shit I lost interest in stickers when I was about 11
Finally ... after over 20 years the Casio Loopy has been finally acquired and reviewed by its real target group - Ashen
That is no waffle my friend. It is a chocolate bar.
Loving that Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower. Because little girls love Bloodborne!
I would print a sticker that says NUT and stick it on the huge eject button
I nominate mpouka nouka for a RUclips oscar in the category of funniest shit ever said
XD XD XD XD XD
Yessss more consoles. These are my favorite videos on this channel.
Especially the knockoffs, like the pop stations :D
wll
That blue color of the device makes me irrationally angry. I feel like something in my younger life was that color and I don't know what...
TXF Oddly enough I feel the same way but absolutely cannot put my finger on why.
gamecube?
gav Right color, but I never had a GameCube. Good try though.
TXF Gameboy? I've seen them in this colour.
Maybe a 21 questions because you knew it was smarter then you
The robes of your sexually abusive priest?
"Just like digital toast" -Ashens 2017
the loopy is pretty A E S T H E T I C tbh
C A N I T R U N W I N D O W S 9 5?
Looks like the Comfiest 90's Console after the SNES. 7/10 would buy one for a japanese niece in 1 9 9 6
*S A N T I A G O*
agreed
ashens when did you get that
Unofficaljosh
He got it when it released, for his illegitimate Japanese daughter from the occupation.
okay Thanks
**double takes**
Wait, what?!
Michael Rigs OKAY THANKS
why is the dog flying
Tibblaye Enoshima
Game Logic! anything can fly with them.
Designers were high.
I taught my dog to fly, he became a small spoltch of red on the paving 25 storeys down. RIP Food Ration....
Because japan
very impressed with the effort put into this video. good stuff. perfect review
The graphics are... actually pretty sharp? I am pretty sure that they would sell more units if they just sold the printer and some software to run it on a computer.
I want Help Us lady on a t-shirt. Please.
"It is October," NO IT'S NOT ASHENS! "1995" Oh....
ohnoanotherputz In ny defense I'm very very tired, but for a moment there I was legitimately confused before I remembered that I was born November 1995 and therefore it couldn't be October 1995 as I am not in a womb. Just in bed. Which is not the same thing.
Stuart, you are currently my favourite youtuber. You've got a way of keeping viewers invested in nostalgia that isn't even their own. That's hard to do, sir.
Obscure old electronics like this is great, cool video.
"so yea...We printed a blue waffle"
~Best of Ashens, 2017
The Cassiopeia had a Hitachi SH-3 CPU, which was the model inbetween the SH-2 in the Loopy, 32X and Saturn, and the SH-4 in the Dreamcast!
There were multiple models of each of the SH generations. Many versions of the SH2 came out after the SH3.
donpalmera thanks for the info :-)
Fifth day on an Ashens binge, but still no purge. Ever so entertaining brown sofa with a pair of eloquent hands.
Somehow I have missed this video over all these years... Finding an unwatched Ashens video of a strange piece of electronic console hardware from his golden years is just fantastic
Tell me about it 😂
It's a bit too loopy for me, and for that reason, I'm out.
OJ Simpson Okay tell me truthfuly. Did you kill that bitch or not.
OJ Simpson Hahah shark tank😂😂😂😂
Don't give up. Take another stab at it.
Seal is out as well.
Such is life
Video game hardware reviews have to be my favorite types of Ashens videos, especially for the more obscure ones like this.
Maybe someday he can take a look at something like the Virtual Boy or the 3DO. Or maybe the Gizmondo, if only so he can tell the story of how a botched promotional event for the handheld ended up leading to the discovery that the CEO of the company that made the Gizmondo had ties to *the Swedish Mafia.*
My god daughter would love a sticker making machine, no flat surface would be safe! I wonder if something similar exists today???
Is that girl on the cover about to kick the dog?
It's depressingly more culturally acceptable in that part of the world to commit casual violence to animals. :(
^ Right, because we Westerners don't enslave, imprison and kill animals on a massive industrial scale.
No. The girl and the dog are just running together. It's more obvious if you look at a larger image.
@@vampvhs -knowingly bwahahaha 👻😱🤣😈
Ahh the Loopy. I remember not knowing what this was until now.
honestly ???
from an aesthetic perspective an obtuse old game system that prints magical girl stickers is something im interested in
It's probably very unlikely that you will read this, Stuart, but I hope this gets to you somehow. I've watched your videos for a long time and genuinely enjoyed your take on the mundane and your certain type of dark wit that sits so well on my funny bone. I just wanted to take a moment to say I can really tell the level of work that went into the production of this video and I hope that you continue to put as much effort into your future videos as you did this one. Regardless, I'll most likely continue enjoying your entertainment. Thanks for what you do, man.
DevilishlyExpectantSolemnlyPatient and it was unlikely.. what an astonishing surprise
looks more purple than blue to me. Especially on the picture on the box. its like halfway inbetween full on blue and full on purple.
It's one of those tertiary or quaternary colors that all things female are manufactured in.
"Use your stickers as a form of communication!"
Casio predicted emoji?
I started out thinking "Well, I bet some weeaboo types would buy it these days".
Near the end, I found myself actually kind of wanting one of these. I honestly don't know why, as I'm not especially into anime stuffs and even as a kid was never really fond of stickers. Not quite sure how to feel about being a grown man wanting a failed Japanese sticker-printing console marketed towards young girls...
Duran Artora brosio loopy
i really find this very interesting, never expected a console for Casio and having a unique feature of good quality printer of stickers, a rare and interesting piece of tecnology
The audio sounds surprisingly top notch for its time.
This thing is so quaint... I like it.
Ashens: "I'll be donating this to the Centre of Computing History at Cambridge." And sure enough, he did so today.
I went to the museum you've donated this to and I still can't forget the Lemmings theme tune because we had an educational talk in the room where you can play it.
Never thought I'd hear Ashens mention bluewaffle lol. And respect for your donation to Cambridge.
I would of begged my mom for that as a kid if that ever came out in the USA and in English. I would of loved it! Man I bet it would of went viral!
You know what else had a 32-bit RISC CPU? The Acorn Archimedes. You know what else had a 32 bit RISC CPU? The iPhone up to the iPhone 7. You know what else had a 32-bit RISC CPU? The Raspberry Pi. You know what else... This family of chips really got around.
32-bit RISC isn't that specific.
That's because RISC processors (ARM, MIPS, etc) were (and are) still popular with low-powered, electronic devices.
Akaishi ARM on android phones.
The Sony Playstation also has this, according the the Dualshock Console version box.
... RISC is a type of processor, not a processor in of itself. Stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer. As far as types of RISC processors. We have the MIPS family, the ARM family, the SPARC, Super H(which the Loopy uses), PPC, the list goes on.
love these indepth obscur tech videos.
Always loved watching Ashens but never have I laught so hard at an episode before
15:03 Stuart, that's a fucking chocolate bar mate.
but the important question: if you slam the eject button does the cartridge fly across the room
It was nice of you to donate the console to a museum most people would sell it on ebay in about 20 years time
This 90's anime aesthetic is a guilty pleasure though
why there in no printing process shown?
Starting out with the premise that this is a "games machine" and not a "sticker maker" is a little bit silly isn't it? Casio make a ton of label printers and this is just an extension of that and not some attempt to get into the games market.
I'm wondering about non-gaming parents not knowing the difference between consoles and getting this instead of what their kid actually wanted. Like those kids that got Brick Game instead of a game boy.
wow, this is amazing.
You should have given this to Ben Heck so we could actually see the insides and the processor. Like this looks really powerful and sound reproduction actually sounds pretty good. Would have loved a look inside!
I'd love to see him review the JXD Singularity S192. The best & most powerful Android-based handheld console ever made. And, no, I didn't forget about the Nvidia Shield Portable. Because the Singularity is more powerful than the Shld Prtble AND it supports most Shield games out of the box. However some will require root to access. Thankfully though, JXD themselves offer ways to root the Singularity and to access the Shield Hub to use both Geforce Now and NVIDIA's official Game-stream, PC game streaming.
As a 23yr old woman I suddenly need this! Also my laptop is covered in stickers (mainly mlp and barbie)
dude this is the weirdest nostalgia for me. My sister used to have one of these (this was in early 2000's UK, no fucking clue how it was here) and I used to sit and play with that massive eject button when she was at school. Watching Stuart press the eject button at the start was like that scene at the end of ratatouille where the food critic gets that big ol' flashback from eating the plants. I had completely forgotten about that until this video, thanks stu
“Jump cut because its a pain is the arce to get into the box” lol 😂 that was golden
Any Homebrew scene?
Ahh but can it print out an inflatable crown... Oops wrong video
xDDDDDD
you mean a fucking inflatable fucking crown ^^.
Whoa those graphics are gorgeous!
And they also launched a special add-on that allowed users to take screen shots of sources such as a VCR and use them on stickers.
You should do more reviews about Japan consoles .
Like digital toast.
-Ashens 2017
brilliant. i always wondered if we'd get another obscure console video. of even more value than the mega duck
very nice of you to donate it to the museum
Your humour is drier than a Ryvita thin on the face of the sun, and I love it 😂 "digital toast" 😂😂😂😂
That's a really good Lady Maria, needs more flaming blood though...
I always knew 'boot the loopy but never cared to look into it.Thanks for satisfying to answer all I ever I ever wanted to know about it.Simon Peggs reviews rule!!!!!
the duck motorcycle turning into a plane scene had me laughing pretty good. 13:18
I wonder how it would feel like to play a Loopy while looping on acid.
Is there really a point to a girls-specific console? Seems to me that if I were a girl, I would rather get a proper console and play games that aren't shit on it.
Definitely, but the stickers are a bit of a huge selling point. I mean, I have Photoshop and a tablet and a proper printer and blank sticker A4 sheets at home, but I still want this thing xD Some of the "PC collection" minigames look quite fun too. Whatever marketing research they did, it's working o_o Kid me would have gone absolutely nuts with this. The name Loopy might be justified ^^
SsnakeBite
'Print Club' (purikura) was popular with girls. You'd go to a photobooth, take pictures, edit them in the booth, and print them out on stickers. This was probably just to cash in on the trend in the domestic market. Obviously these aren't photos though, but the process is similar, and the addon helps.
*EDIT: It's possible the internal editing function was designed coincidentally with the appearance of the first actual purikura machine, but culturally stickers, photos, and customization were already a fad.
no offense, Fiorina, but their marketing research didn't work because this console was a gigantic failure
It's working for *me* ^^ Their marketing was obviously off, since this is not even a proper console, but for me it would have been great.
I feel like I'm repeating my comment xD Almost like a loop.
SsnakeBite Yes, I would most definitely prefer a proper console as a girl/woman. Which is why I have always had PlayStations. However, if they had come out with this Loopy console, and just made it into a sticker design and printing machine, dropping the pretense that it's a game console, I might have been interested. I enjoy doing artistic stuff, and that could be fun. As far as a game console though, no it wouldn't be something that I would find interesting.
Talk about kids, I would love a sticker printer like that, those now retro stickers are adorable.
Damn it, Ashens, I was eating when you started explaining the plot of Bow-Wow Puppy Love Story. I nearly choked.
15:03- Waffle? I'm pretty sure that's a candy bar with the wrapper peeled back...
Best not think too much about that