Videomaster Enterprise | Ashens
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Become a master of video enterprise with... a calculator. Yes. Play Pontoon! And Speed Way! And Brain Drain! And do some sums! Then replace 5 AA batteries.
#videomaster #calculator #ashens 
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10:10 “It does genuinely have more gameplay opportunities than a lot of modern mobile games, which just exist to-
[AD FOR MOBILE GAME STARTS PLAYING]
-suck your cash like a demonic bastard.”
The timing was exquisite.
How poor are you? Buy premium 😂
RUclips with ads is horrible and unusable
It's as old as me and more broken..... this pleases me!
Or open it up and cleat it with alcohol ,
@@johneygd if you do that..you end up with an old calculator that will rarely ever be used...do it my way and it's a trendy hipster accessory sold in an overpriced boutique
The manual for this is available online.
"The select American Pontoon press 'Blackjack'..."
Apparently they weren't sure what they were going to call Pontoon right to the writing of the manual.
Forget TI-83s, this is the real gaming calculator.
The nSpire CX CAS would be a better option, though
You can emulate GBA games and run real Doom WADs!
AIO inc. r/wooosh
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@@AiOinc1 Casio Prizm is probably better only because of the buttons and the price being far less. It is less powerful, but you can overclock the CPU and memory bus
@@bozokdraaf5996 Thank you for this
An advert for Headspace popped up right as Ashens was saying "bastard". It was the greatest ad break ever, because it went like this;
"...like a demonic bas-"
"Here at Headspace, we-"
*skip ad*
"-tard!"
*end credits play*
This is the Ashens I subscribed to 12 years ago! Love the tech content!
"Calculator's not a game." Maybe not the way _you_ play it.
If you can spell upside down then it can be a game...
I too like to live dangerously.
@@brentfisher902 exactly. Nobody can tell me that 80085 is not funny in math class. It's practically a game.
I'm old enough to remember calculators that were powered by one car battery.
Remember when calculators were powered by slaves?
Pepperidge farm remembers
I was a janitor years ago and recall that some of the hand towel dispensers were powered by 8 D cell batteries and 1 AA battery.
@@nslouka90 O.o dear Hades that's insane.
Ah, the Curta calculators. Those are valuable I hear.
I once owned a slide rule but never fully learned how to use it. It was more fun to hit my little brother with.
Looks similar to the Mattel electronics games such as Football.
Maybe Ashens can make a movie out of this: *Ashens and the Videomaster* . Then, he must presss the '9' button to win :)
"it sounds like the world ended but we won, yay" I laughed
Nice avatar
@@paulgascoigne5343 much obliged brother
Send it to Big Clive, he will fix the 9 button and while he's at it will probably replace the display with warm white LEDs.
finally some real tat again!
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN You must be new here
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN tat literally just means junk. and it's the meat and potatoes of ashens.
Yes! My first thought exactly! Miss the popstation reviews.
@@MisterCasket don't forget about the AirPhone 4. I absolutely love all the knockoff crap Stuart's reviewed. The food stuff's great, too.
Nice Megadeth profile picture man!
It's definitely not Merlin, but it's not bad for such an early device.
Fascinating fact, Gunpei Yokoi saw a guy playing with a calculator while riding the subway, and it inspired him to create the Game And Watch series, and eventually Gameboy.
I'm genuinely impressed by the thing. I'd love to open it up and see how it ticks.
Ah, shame. I've only ever played Calculator 2: Lord of the Credit Crunch.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN Ah. I don't believe there was a Japanese release.
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN Do you sell sushi? If so I'll buy in bulk!
@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN What's yaoi gotta do with sushi?
"I know how to play Blackjack!"
>Immediately gets the rules of Blackjack wrong by thinking an Ace is worth 10.
aces are wild
Aces can be high or low in blackjack.
Yes but Conundrum means that Aces are worth 11, not 10
Maybe he thought it was hexadecimal, hexadecimal goes as letters after 9 so A would be 10.
A high ace is worth 11, and together with a picture card(J, Q or K) is 21, or a blackjack. And if having an ace is going to bust you, that's when it goes low.
At first, I thought Ashens was showing us an old cable box remote.
I’ve always loved your videos before bed, took a month break and I’m back all in
This is clearly from a parallel dimension where Gunpei Yokoi just stuck with calculators and never made the Game and Watch.
Skyrim port when?
The .com removed from the intro feels off
I've still got the grandstand version of this, which is silver, which I received one Christmas in the 70s. To be honest, I still think it's fairly awesome for it's time. :) As far as I can tell, it's all still working as it should too. :)
It feels so empty without the ".com" in the intro.
Same here man.
This is the type of gadget that makes you wished you get the actual Mastermind board game, or a regular calculator instead for Christmas.
i am the operator with my pocket calculator
*bweep bwoop BWOOOM*
by pressing down the special key, it plays a little melody
*cue the terrifying noises this machine makes*
*tries to add 59 and 2* ” No we can't because the nine doesn't work. On the plus side...”
Uh huh... I see what you did there.
Anytime I see an Ashens review of something obscure video game related, I knoiw it's gonna be a fun day.
Heh. I would've loved this back in school. Speedway was better than expected.
Oh MAN! I have been waiting YEARS for you to cover the Versiolaser Energize or whatever it is you said. Thumbs up! Way up!
When you are done with this thing you should send it to Dave Jones at the eevblog. He would absolutely love it, and probably fix the bad buttons.
11 digits is pretty fancy. Even my dollar store scientific calculator I use for my amateur electrical engineering needs has just 10 digits. I'll get a TI one day, I swear.
My class mate had one of these in around 1980, can remember being a bit jealous at the time, and yep, still am.
Videomaster, the master of videos with no video. Such simpler days.
PacJack was probably one of the many games Midway were going to make before Namco took the rights from them.
And so later on pacman was born,haha.
Ad right before the end credits?
Who are you, Larry Jr. Bundi?
That is the most comically small display font I have seen in some time.
Thank you, ashens, for this much appreciated Videomaster Enterprise review.
Perhaps you could send the Videomaster to GadgetUK164, for repair or replacement of that display.
At the very least you can use it for some Star Trek cosplay.
Yay
Well it is called the Videomaster Enterprise.
-The borg have adapted to all modulations exept nine! Quikly set phasers!
-We cant, away team has only one tricoder and nine button doesnt work.
-At least you all wear red uniform.
Ashens uploads on my birthday. this just got even better!
Happyyyyy birthdaaaaaayyyyyyy stranger!
@@nickdraco8435 thanks!
Well done on fishing for likes
@@swanningabout but it failed lol
Love those glowing red displays they used to use (even if they used more battery than an LCD)! Reminds me of the TI "Datamath" calculator my mom had when I was a kid. Pretty cool name, that.
Triple-A games on a double-A handheld? Intriguing.
I got bored and decided to how long I have been subscribed... Turns out I have been watching you for 5 and a half years at least. Ashens, thank you for staying true to you.
ryangadd130695 I’ve been watching since the PS3 wasp video. Ashens feels like an old family friend at this point.
@@moosegoose3159 He really does! I admit that I no longer watch uploads instantly with work and adult life, but I go through them at least one month and catch right back up. I think I have watched every video to feature him at this point lol.
the intro is soley the reason i subbed.
Back in the day we had real video games like Speedway and BrainDrain.
Send it to Big Clive, He'll made a video fixing it, you get another video playing it after being fixed.
It'll be Fanny Flambeaux all over again...
Replacement LED display? Tricky. Have to make one from scratch.
Even better than many mobile games that...
-cut to empires and puzzles ad-
Same for me man except it was for Clash Of Clans...
Very nice blast from the past. Sorta surprised you've never looked at the Game Gear, unless I am forgetting a video, given your love of chronicling handheld systems.
Those red displays with the really thin lines are really early LED hex modules. If you give the keypad contacts a clean inside with isopropyl some of the elements may start working again. The screen and keypad often share the same lines so dirty keys will affect the screen. May or may not help.
I remember growing up in the 90's and playing my dads old handheld soccer game that was just like that.
Matt Parker would have a field day with this one.
Speedway squad was my favourite 70's detective show
I'm sorry, it was 1965*
Oh Stuart, I gotta get me one of theses, looks like so much fun, and you can fix the 9 key in it lmfao
I've a pong console from these guys, the Videomaster Colourscore. I got it from my dad, who had gotten it as a Christmas present around the time it had been released. He said he gave it to me since then he knows it'll be taken good care of. My dad and I play on it occasionally, and it's a fun lil' console.
My mom used to have a couple of those. She also had those sports game things, like football (American) and baseball.
Ashens talking about an obscure gaming console thing? Sign me up!
An enterprise that was doomed from the start.
Have to say, when the school started allowing us to have calculators in math class (would have been around 1977, when I was in 9th Grade), I would have loved this device. Sadly, I think much of the class decided their favorite pastime using them was probably typing in 58008 or 7734 :)
That's rather impressive for the time, with Speedway being especially clever considering the limitations of the display. It would be really nice to get it working properly. I'm going to see if I can get one of these for my calculator and other tech collection.
can't wait to get home and break out the late 70's Mastermind board!!
WOW, so that's how kids played video games in math class before the TI-82. I used to write games for the TI-82 back in the 90s by the way. It was more interesting than math lectures and I probably learned more.
I actually think Speedway is quite a clever idea - its like... minimalist top-down racing... lol
Wow, Ashens video in a glorious 50 fps?
Brown couch now looks more realistic than ever!
Video ended followed by an ad for the Harry Potter phone game which I think is a hilarious juxtaposition
How could you? Calculator was my favorite game to play in school!
You should send this thing to My Mate Vince and get him to try and fix it
The story of Gunpei Yokoi seeing a salaryman so bored on a long train ride he was playing with his calculator like it was a game and being inspired to design the Gameboy would sound less inspirational if it was actually a literal calculator with games on it.
Cheers fella, now when ever any kid tells me I’m so lucky to have lived in the 70/80s when everyone had everything I can show them this and ask them if they’d like to swap it for their Nintendo Switch. ;)
Oh good, I'm early to the crazy doctor that reviews tat.
Did anyone else get an ad in the middle of Stuart savagely saying the word 'bastard'?
When will they remake calculator for the switch SMH
Speedway car for Smash 6
Waiting for the day Brain Drain gets remastered for the PS4 tbh.
I think Nintendo used the Videomaster as inspiration for the Switch online service
That’s interesting, and i bet once gompai yoko saw an man playing with this calculator during a train trip,he came up with the idea of a game & watch series handheld, haha.
This is such cool ancient tat
I forgot you existed for a solid year
Wait...calculator is not a game? I pre-ordered the sequel
I preferred the prequel
@@lovelyheiferdev Yeah, but what about the crossover with Spyro doing his taxes? That one was awesome!
I got the season pass with exclusive Countdown decals.
First confirmed DLC is a button dedicated to "5318008" but the roadmap promises an online multiplayer battle royale mode by 2020.
And yet this is still better than a Popstation.
nice,
with the recent episodes looks like both Ashens and Oktavius went with classic tat.
i like to see that, hope for some tat off will eventually take place as crossover between these two creators.
The lack of '9' functionality reminded me of the Dick Emery Show calculator sketch lol
I Like it.! Should be simple enough to fix.
Reminds me of my Casio Watch Number-Invaders 1981
Popstations are back. Seriously, saw some in Poland recently. New games too.
We had a Casio calculator which had a piano function, which was pretty cool at the time
"I'm the operator with my pocket calculator!"
The two broken eights on the left look like devil horns!
\m/ Yeah, rock on! \m/
"Farty noise."
"We got gas."
I see...
I have never click on video so fast. Just watching Barry Lewis video now ashen new one 😊 I’m happy onion not sad one
The buttons make it look like a Psion Organiser II, except without the slidey case bit.
an escaped bear roaming freely on the street, is no laughing matter. it's quite deadly
Pretty sure this uses a bubble LED display, not a VFD. Also, the ridiculousness of this thing's name made me think whether Videomaster Enterprise was actually the name of the company who made it, which they decided to print in full, rather than the name of the product. And yeah, one does not simply use melodic combinations of sounds as far as these ancient games are concerned.
I had one like this. It was battle star galactica. I liked that as well as the Mattel basketball. Anyone remember micro vision. Was like a hand held Atari. They had break out etc.
I did in fact enjoy the faded sticker and now I can die a happy man.
Hey! Vacuum screens are cool.
I wonder if one of the various RUclipsrs could repair this to get it in "full working order"
I was thinking the same!
lol, loved the simpsons reference.
Shame the display and the “9” no longer works properly. Wonder if Bigclive could do anything with it? I bet this came at at premium cost when compared to a regular calculator. 💷
I had one of these, bought from argos in 1979-1980 time period. Cost was about 20 iirc.
For my birthday that year I had enough money to buy an electronic game. Went to argos and got a space war thing which looked great from the box (it was shaped like a computer console and had spaceships flying around). Got home and discovered that it was basically 16 leds where you controlled one and had to find the hidden assailant. It was unbelievably rubbish.
Luckily argos agreed to swap for a different game and I chose this one because I already liked electronic mastermind and liked the idea of a pontoon game too.
It worked well but had terrible battery life and failed after 3 months or so due to the display. I got a replacement from them, that also failed after a few months - they had stopped selling them by that point so got money back.
Those look like Ikea batteries, but I could be wrong :P
The way it looks reminds me of a Psion Organiser II, and now I'm wondering if any of those 3 games are available on it, as they'd work better on its LCD screen, given the additional sp, especially with the 2 line screen!
Speedway is basically a prehistoric version of Subway Surfers :P
I feel like this was probably a prop used on Star Trek.
Glad I missed that one...then and now!
Beautifully placed advert
Seem to recall the same people doing a pong clone. Very cheap, quite cheerful.
Videomaster sounds like a c grade super villain