A look at some Game.com games | Ashens
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- This is absolutely the last time I have anything to do with one of these bloody things. Not only are they LCD-based harbingers of pain, but it's pretty much impossible to film the screens on the damned things. (To be fair, it's also pretty much impossible to see what the screens show with the naked eye...)
Mortal Kombat Trilogy! Resident Evil 2! Jurassic Park: The Lost World! Sonic Jam! Williams Arcade Classics! They're all ruined. RUINED.
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I find it funny that a game where half of the characters look different only in color scheme is available for systems with monochrome displays.
I know, why did they ever think Sonic would be suitable on a mono display?
Trolli Gumi Bearz
The "eastern european" music from the Sonic Jam title screen is the music from the Sonic 3 load/save screen slowed down and made into ear piercing pain
Hello. I know that this is old, but when you also get into a game it plays mushroom hill slowed with quite a few note in the wrong tune entirely.
Well, if anything that Resident Evil game was at least TRYING. It was certainly ambitious. I mean, at least it wasn't just a generic sidescroller like what the back of the box looked like it was going to be.
it could have been fine had they made the controls at least somewhat intuitive.
🙄🙂😓😋
Mortal Kombat: Senior Citizens edition ; joking aside, the frame rate and screen tearing really did need to be addressed before MK: Trilogies hit store shelves or yard sales. If only Tiger Electronics LLC waited a few years and released / made or created a newer Pocket Pro DX (coloured sprites over a larger display/screen) then it would have been a true competitor to the other handheld devices of the 1990's - 2000's...oh and if the ram was increased, and CPU/motherboard included a faster processing CPU !!!🙈☹️😰🤐😊😍😬😵😱😲
It's called Sonic Jam because Sonic moves like he is stuck in an endless ocean of coagulated jelly.
No blast processing here, sadly.
There is blast processing. it processes for a few seconds if its on before you chuck it next to a cartoonist.
i thought jelly was supposed to be coagulated
Our jelly is what you call jam. Its not a solid.
Anubis I thought it was because Sonic's brain was mushed into a jam-like paste.
Classic Ashens episode!
Just want to say you've brought me immeasurable joy throughout the years. Thank you.
At 1:06 when his face reflects in the screen it looks like he is wearing some kind of elephant mask, quite creepy!
the awkward moment when you see yourself in a reflection
Knut Kniffte Yes, that is why I put the word "mask" right there in my comment... Perhaps you should properly read a comment before posting your redundant, smug little replies.
Alex R Thanks 4 the reply brrrrrothaaaa
+Knut Kniffte Why are you deleting things brrrrrothaaaa?
hey it's better then the shit you millennials come up with today like phrases such as "i'm dead" wen things are funny or "it's Lit or stay Lit" wen trying to sound cool or bruh or boi wen someone makes a stupid comment and last but not least the most dumbest move i have ever seen become a thing that spread like wild fire that refuses to die out is the DAB move where it looks like your covering a sneez ...... but how we talked in the 90's is weird? hmm i think you need to look at the shit you kids do in today's age cause wow just wow LOL!!
"Click here now!!"
RIP annotations
you think THYAT'S bad? I have a Chrome extension that actually restores annotations so you can see them again! But for some reason this video's annotations didn't get saved...
This dude is the best! This is an old video, and the comments are probably dead by now, but he cracks me up
It might have been ill-conceived but you have to agree that putting RE2 on this thing was a pretty crazy accomplishment. Id buy this just to look at that, actually.
Same
AustinofEarth too bad you wouldn't be able to see it.
It's not even the same game. There are like zero similarities outside the basic aesthetics and plot.
they also somehow managed to force sonic, mortal kombat, and duke nukem onto this thing doesn't mean they work.
??? Look at it, yes. See, no!
I'm glad I'm not the only person who ever had to suffer through the RE2 port on there lol
"THERES NO SUBZERO OR SCORPION! YOU CAN'T HAVE A MORTAL KOMBAT GAME WITHOUT SUBZERO OR SCORPION!"
Maybe they were the secret characters
+Cat Burger my comment was a quote from AVGN, and no they were not the secret characters.
I know this is a year old comment, but, they probably didn't have them cause... it's monochrome... hopefully you understand why that'd be a problem haha.
Loponstorm Your comment is now also a year old, but Scorpion and Sub-Zero were included in the Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat. And no, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell them apart.
I mean, technically you can have a MK game without Scorpion or Sub Zero. It just won't be a very good one.
I was hoping to see Duke Nukem 3d as mentioned in the other video.
Try retrez channel
I used to have one of these when I was a kid. I left it out in a tent for an hour and the heat literately turned it demonic. It would rarely turn on and when it did, it would make really loud noises and the screen would be all messed up.
Damn, congratulations. You deserve an award for such a daring, courageous lifestyle. One could only dream of the heights you've reached.
It is incredibly sad when even vintage Sonic Team can't produce workable music for your system.
1:06
What the hell are you wearing in that reflection? It's creepy as hell. It reminds me of the Grand high witch in "The Witches".
That look incredibly creepy.
I'm watching at night and I think i shat my self
Bugsaresocool It looks like he stuck a tea pot on his head.
probably the noseybonk mask
@@somekindoflandcow most certainly
Now I remember why I still used my original Game Boy from the late 80's to the late 90's. Eventually replaced by a series of Palm Pilots, though the first two were black and white, they did have a very clear screen and some pretty good games to download.
We are massively spoilt for choice now.
Did he have a mask on or is the reflection fucking with me
"Completely collapsed into a jerking mess"
Sounds like one of my average Saturday nights.
I wonder if you could technically hook up a better screen to that.
Bär Honigfeld There's an emulator for it, too, it doesn't look half bad on a monitor lol.
GAME-COM ACTIVE !!!!
that's the soundbyte that plays when you enter the gates of hell.
"Grid... online."
GAYCOM ACTIVE!!!
ahhh so it was tiger who started the .com boom!
Lol, makes me think of the .Com bubble
Radical Edwards it's the illuminati😱😱
That was 1995, Tiger made this in 1997.
I stole one of these from Toys R Us when I was little.... I took it back!
You should've burned it.
If you screencap at 22:31, it makes for a brilliant reaction image!
The games are actually not bad, especially considering they were all done in house by Tiger. The reason they look so bad is because of the terrible screen.
Yes, and because every game runs at 5 FPS
Indeed. Played on the emulator available, on a PC monitor, both graphics and gameplay are improved a lot. On the downside, the emulator's FPS is a tad slower than on real hardware.
If I where to put an actual LCD screen on it or Liquid Crystal Display do you think that it would display better or do you think that it's the hardware
With a better LCD screen than the one featured on the system, the output would be more crisp and defined, and a lot less blurry (the Pocket Pro version has a slightly better display than the first model, on par with the Game Boy Pocket's, with less of a ghosting problem). Still, the machine's hardware is seriously underpowered, and the games were too ambitious for it. Considering the system's limitations, Resident Evil 2 is good, easily the best game for the console. Duke Nukem is not that bad either, but a lot of content and animations had to be cut. Both William's Arcade Classics releases are also acceptable (some of the games included are seriously affected by the screen's blurriness, though). On the other side of the scale, Mortal Kombat Trilogy has good graphics, but most of the animations consist of only two frames (easily noticeable in the fighters' stance), the AI is predictable and very easy to beat, and the gameplay is really slow. The later also applies to Sonic Jam which, of all the bunch, is also the most hurt by the screen's ghosting, with both issues rendering it almost unplayable. The rest of the library falls somewhere in-between. All of them, with no exception, present control lag to a greater or lesser degree.
Indeed (I assume you're referring to the emulator's FPS, right?).
02:49
Did the console just say "Fuck you"?!
+Flix The Soulless
"Game com Fuck You" xDDDD
I heard active which is what it really said but uhh I guess I can see why you would hear that
Literally everything in this console says "fuck you", starting from the screen and ending in games.
_"He's not my favourite hedgehog, anyway. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is my favourite hedgehog, get your facts straight!"_
Wtf is tiggy winkle?
You thought Sonic Boom was bad? Sonic 06 being the worst Sonic game ever? Naw! Sonic Jam for Game com is the worst.
at least the soundtrak is great
Well actually Sonic Jam for Game.com Did not count as a real Sega Game,It was a port so Tiger could make a few bucks.But u are true the port was crappy
It's a port of Sonic 1 somehow worse than the GBA version...
+Nick Tucker it's actually not a port, they couldn't get the whole games to work so each of the games only has 4 levels that have no resemblance to the originals other than tile sets and enemies, the final boss in Sonic 2 according to Sonic Jam for the Game.com is the very first boss of the mega drive version.
I dont think they included sonic 1
Christ! That clip at the end scared the shit out of me!
I love it when he does something a bit silly and pre-planned.
Spontaneity is good, but even the best improve is limited.
22:30 My reaction to most things on this internet.
if you saw half the stuff I've seen you'd be stuck that way lol
that T-Rex seems happy to meet the player...
That sonic game reminds me if you would of played sonic and he was carrying cinder blocks over his shoulders.
I think this thing could've been half decent if they'd just put a colour backlit LCD screen on it. It would've suffered the same battery life issues as the Game Gear, but at least the games would've been playable. It actually looks like it had a fair bit of power inside it for the time.
The SM8521 is a pretty capable CPU. It just required a arse load of programming to get things to be at a decent speed.
It would have helped if tiger wouldnt develop the games in house
0:20 "Click here now, too late now it's gone" You just had to make fun of annotations disappearing forever eight years before it happened, huh?
Awesome video ashens, your videos are always entertains me and makes me laugh, keep up the good work
I actually played the heck out of a handheld of the mortal combat game that my grandma had, I can't believe I remembered that!
Did you know that in American supermarkets at the time of the Saturn version's release, there were actual jars of "Sonic Jam" being sold? Tails was orange flavored, Knuckles was strawberry, and I think Sonic was grape. >_>
Not even my mutated roommate with fucking lazer vision can see this screen.
Kris Bailey sure
Is he in the X-Men?
10:25 - That screenshot is from the first Resident Evil game yet Tiger used it for this game. There's also a second model Game.com which came with a built-in light I believe that has only one cartridge slot. I think that one was much better but the light it use tend to cause glare so it's not as good either way.
***** Like I said, that screenshot is from the first RE game yet Tiger used it for this game. This game was not made by Capcom.
Ashen's laugh near the end made my day.
This thing is terrible, and might be the reason *nothing* has a C and D buttons nowadays. The title should be changed to "A 'Look' at some Game.com games"
Also, this is pretty irrelevant, but on the other versions of Resident Evil 2, the face that displayed in the opening cutscene was the stuff of my younger nightmares.
***** Actually I got one from my grandma once and it worked pretty well it may have been garbage but it functioned and I had never experienced trouble seeing the screen.
***** Neo-Geo had C and D buttons...
+Shinku Quickman >nowadays
+Ailuri Catbear The player movements in Resident Evil 2 were more or less like the console and PC versions except slightly slower.
A thing that doesn't often get mentioned about these old handhelds -- _Cheap LCDs are Ink Based, and they rot_. It's very likely that the GameCom wasn't _that bad_ back then. It _became blurrier_ over time and exposure to the elements.
sadly i think this is tigers best work
Logan Thresher what about Furby or the robo babies and chi pets?
ok there best work when it comes to video games
They made interesting virtual pets but it seems like the rest is shite.
@@LadyBloodyWrists KEEP THOSE CREATURES OF HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!
I remember the commercial with the midget insulting the audience.
And a surprisingly true-to-the-original sprite based recreation of Resident Evil! These are true gems.
So was the screen originally this bad? As he does mention it's damaged?
What was that reflection?! 1:07 Looks like an elephant nose and mustache, ha
Awesome once again Mr. Ashen! Thank you! Love your videos!
So weird getting this recommended in 2023. It's like he's not changed :) still as good as ever!
This video could literally be released today and no one would realize its a decade old lol
lol @ "Sonic Jelly"
Deadly force will be required, to see the damn screen.
i loved watching this when it came out and when avgn did an episode on tiger products i thought of you and now im back here.
15:52 This music gives more of a "Michael Myers is going to kill me" vibe than a "Raptors are going to kill me" vibe....
Could one modify this game system replacing the screen with a modern LCD screen to get the games to look better?
Yes.
"You can pretend something is happening" xD
Cool story bro, and I must say; your ability to stay on topic is truly excellent.
looking at shir like this amazes me on how far weve goe. its like the original psvita/nintendo ds
Tiger is like the Seegson to Nintendo's Weyland Yutani.
Aric Dilbeck click the link in this guys comment to see some weird shit
"Rayden" though...
What kind of heinously underpowered CPU (and graphics system) did this have in it, then? I'm pretty sure I've seen better animation on the Spectrum than what's exhibited here in RE2, so it's presumably got something less powerful than a 32 year old Sinclair machine... (or in other words, a 3.5MHz Z80 that's wholly responsible for all pixel pushing duties short of the actual video signal generation *as well as* the game routines proper *and* audio output...)
In something that was meant to compete with the Gameboy / Gamegear AND connect to the internet in some way.
Jeez.
It was a SHARP SM8521 8-bit CPU running a main clock speed of either 4MHz 8MHz and 10MHz (I'm unsure of which the Game.com used) and a subclock of 32.768KHz with a massive 4kB ROM and 1kB RAM in addition to being able to accept a 2MB maximum external memory. LCD controller was a back and white with four gradations of grey handled by VRAM that was 2 phase 160 x 100 dot or 2 phase 100 x 260 dot. Like the Sinclair example you gave, this processor was also responsible for the sound.
In comparison:
The Gameboy Color also used an 8-bit SHARP processor, however it utilized the far more powerful LR35902 (Based on the Zilog Z80 8-Bit processor). This processor ran a 2 processor mode 4MHz and 8Mz clock speed and had access to 8MB ROM and a 32kB RAM. The graphics were generated using 16kB of VRAM and had a 15-bit color pallet (32,768 colors)
As you can see they stinged out on the processor with the Game.com and paid the price (300,000 consoles sold). So did people conned into buying one as they cost $70USD and the Gameboy Color was released at around the same price. I am aware that the Game.com was released a year before the GBC but that is no excuse IMO. The hardware is comparable to the original Gameboy, a console released 8 years earlier, which is lazy and dodgy and I reckon that Tiger Electronics would have been aware of the impending release of the GBC and would have been somewhat clued in on the abilities. This means they pushed a crappy product which they knew wouldn't be able to compete with Nintendo a year ahead to cheat people out of hard earned cash. Tsk Tsk.... If you want more info on the SM8521 for some reason check out the datasheet archive website.
kyleadelaide yes
420 rems
6 minutes in and I've lost the will to live. I commend you and your perseverance to battle through.
was this stuff even tested? its virtually unplayable.
jekblom123 The question is, was the Game.com ever tested?
jekblom123 nope never in my prediction
Shannett Goddett isn't that, like, law that you have to have testers though?
jekblom123 outside of anything to do with health and safety, not really. There's no law requiring QA, as long as you dont misrepresent your product.
the stegosaurus sounded like a pullback car dying!!!(^-^)
Hold on... Is the Sonic Jam cover art the exact same as Sonic R's? I don't think Sega expected this to be a major hit, huh? Smart...
They did make a Sonic Jam for the Saturn, it had a 3-D overworld and all the classic 2-D platformer Sonic games on the Mega Drive. BTW Tiger's best product was the TALK BOY! :D
Can't-see-a-damned-thing-.com
It's a glorified pop station
That last clip is what i currently feel like on a daily basis. 6 hours of sleep sure is delightful!
That Sonic Jam boxart is actually from Sonic R. Weird wild stuff.
19:41 - If you listen closely, you can actually hear Game.com saying, 'F@CK YOU'.
If you knew how to play the games it would not have been soo irritating watching this. Since some of the things you where blaming on the game/system where actually your own doing ><
Not saying this version of the games you showed here is not shite ( or the system itself ) just saying that.. a fair amount of misrepresentation is there..
Oh my god it's actually resident evil 2 not just some nock of with the same name
did you really... just tried to defend that piece of crap in some way? lmao
Why would you want to play Sonic on a Game.Com when the Game Gear was such a better choice? I had a Sega Game Gear from about 1994 up until the early 2000s and then lost it somehow while moving. I actually enjoyed playing that thing. I had Sonic and some Power Rangers game that was a one-on-one fighting game (a la Street Fighter).
i still have one of these games con consoles still boxed! :D its been stuck under my bed for 2 years, i hope to keep it that way
The graphics on this system reminds me quite a lot of something you'd see on a TI graphing calculator.
this videos over 4 years old. I remember this video coming out
Ashen's I love your videos so much!
I pretty much just found a Tiger Electronics "Chess and More" 8 in 1 LCD game, with a manual for every alternate language they translated it to.
Would make a great gag gift. "Sorry kids this is all daddy could afford this year"
I would take that gift. I actually want a game.com.
Impressive. At around 24 seconds Resident Evil 2 for gamecom is a solid contender for your list of games with the fastest game over.
I had one in the 90s and kept going into Argos to see how many they sold. Not many and I was a very sad child.
The brownness of your couch is truly epic.
The reflection in the beginning is gold
Ashens is the only RUclipsr i could sit through a whole 22:36 worth of video
I think you did a Jurassic Park Lost World blind bag that had the same image on it as the front of this games box.
Haha. Used to have one of these as a kid... only ever had one game, was a batman side-scrolling platformer based on the film with the evil ice-dude. Can't say i've thought about the gamecom since i threw it out years ago. Gonna end up with blurry nightmares for years after watching this video....
Batman and Robin? Oh god.
thats great, have a game with movement thats really hard to handle and starts you next to an enemy that kills you within a second unless you really know how to handle said movement.
You made my whole year. Thanks.
i like it how the graphics are perfect and resident evil gets a decent visualization but if anything dares to move,everything but the background collapses into nothingness
i used to play this as a kid but all it brings back to me is depressing nostalgia
Well now i know where bmth got the parasite eve lyric "if the suspense doesnt kill you something else will" from
watching this video, I can see what's on the game.com screen, along with your reflection, along with my own reflection of my own monitor
6m17s
That was almost as good as the Mel B/Eddie Murphy gag from the Kinnect games video. Bravo sir.
They are in Britain too. Jam goes on bread, in sandwiches and toast, as well as in cakes, while jelly can go with ice cream or in a trifle and is eaten as a dessert.
WOAH! I'M DETECTING MASSIVE SARCASM LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! YOU'RE MAKING IT GO OFF THE CHARTS! :P
Even by mid-90's standards, it's obvious why this thing tanked.
I can't afford pasta anymore, since the spaghetti just fell out of my pants pockets too much. So I grow hats. Yeah, that's right, I'm living la vida Gaben. HL3.
Raptors were actually only slightly taller than modern chickens, although they were an average of 2m long. They also had feathers. They're not quite as formidable as Jurassic Park would have you believe, but I guess they could still probably kill a man.
there was a port of Jurassic Park: The Lost World on the Saturn, but it was a completely different game, that's as much as i know.
8:47 - Sonic is moonwalking!
Sonic ≥ Mrs. Tiggy-Winkel
When the box said "portable game T-Rex" I honestly thought it was a Jurassic park game where you play as the T-Rex :(