let it sink in that the closest thing Raocow has to a face reveal, after over a decade of nigh-daily let's plays, comes in the form of seeing a vague reflection of his face when he played Sonic X for Leapster
I love how all the sonic X stuff kind of happened right about as the franchise started to take its legendary nosedive, as if there's any causal relationship at all.
We finally have more solid proof that rao does indeed have a face, despite what he probably has said in one of his noun sequiteur lines over the years, way to lie to all of us smh
Fun Sonic Facts! The Leapster is the only piece of game-related Sonic media that Christopher Thorndyke, human protagonist-turned-sidekick from Sonic X, has ever appeared in. He cheers Sonic on when you solve math problems.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting That wasn't really Sonic, that was you, the dumb kid that got bamboozled into going to the schoolhouse on the promise of fun times. Sonic just kinda stood around telling you what to do.
I already knew that raocow wore glasses because like ten to twelve years ago (in, throwing out a more or less random guess, probably one of the Mushroom Kingdom Meltdowns) he spent like three videos complaining about a glasses malfunction (either a lens popped out or an arm broke and his hasty, hacked-together fix wasn't very good), and for **absolutely** no good reason that has stuck with me all this time.
Everyone is focused on raocow's reflection, but I'm here imagining how painful it would be if my very rigid fingers were to suddenly bend like his thumb.
Funny enough, I'm pretty sure A and B being oriented that way is how Sega consoles did it back in the day, so it makes a tiny bit of sense. Now, onto pressing matters: this is a Sonic X game, _in 2005,_ using _Genesis sprites._ This is a "Mario Chimera" flavour of weird.
There was actually an issue of Archie's Sonic X comic where Eggman traps the characters in a video game, that game being basically Sonic 1, with the Robotnik boss in it supposedly being based off a young Gerald.
I find it amusing that they use the Sonic 3 Sonic sprite, Sonic 1 Goal sprite (as checkpoints), and the Sonic Advance Checkpoint sprite (as the goal). It's like they just went into Sega's ClipArt folder and grabbed what they liked.
If it was just an asset flip like the smartphone games that'd be funny enough, but they went and reanimated the Sonic Advance level-ending breakdance in the Sonic 3 style. What
Sonic X never ends 2:17 I went to school with an "Emma" a "PJ" and a "Nnnjjessss!" Sonic: A math robot!? Now you've gone too far! Chris: Didn't he try to blow up the plan-- Sonic: THIS IS MUCH WORSE!!! 3:31 So the world is One city, One boat, One Jungle and a space station? Guess they had a few pieces left over after they put the world back together again after Advance 3. 5:08 27: TWENTY-SEVEN!!! 5:44 That could apply to about 90% of the things he builds. 7:39 Sonic is all: "Augh; not this again!" I like how this is clearly meant to introduce kids to the concept of two-digit numbers, and yet, it expects them to know what 99 is. Recycled Hub Overworld Zone Vs. M A T H
like, wow, it's trying to teach kid's math but not really respecting their intelligence at the same time? "press arrows to move" "press a to jump over street cleaner" This game was made by omochao
@@MrOmegatronic dunno, maybe just thinking of personal experience getting dropped with sonic 1 and trying to figure things out haven't played vidya games before. Kids are smart, just not in the ways typically associated with smartness.
Yeah... a lot of executives think that kids are barely-sentient bags of money with the words "parent's wallet" attached, which... is pretty inaccurate, and stems from a lot of people not understanding the difference between intelligence & knowledge. Kinda silly, really.
I've heard of Leapster before and about this game, but what surprises me is that there was apparently two Leapsters! Anyway, this thing is almost a sort of spiritual successor to the *Game.com**,* its got minigames, a touch screen, and a weird licensed Sonic game that feels like it would be a bootleg if you just watched footage without any context, it even uses ripped Sonic 3 sprites. The screen is also super zoomed-in, that's impressive, definitely a thing to rival a game you will eventually play (probably). Although to its credit, both the console and the game looks way more appealing and functional than most of anything on the *Game.com**,* even if it's still pretty bad overall, I mean, it's basically Donkey Kong Jr. Math: Sonic Edition.
Torus Games are an established and genuinely good Australian game studio. It's just that they almost exclusively make licensed stuff for kids... But they also made the GBA port of Doom 2!
Leapster, eh? Is it even possible to die in this game? Death count: 0 [2407] (0 in this episode) Deathless episodes: 1 [300] (1 in this episode) (0:01) Whoa, that echo. Also, it is now canon that raocow has a face! (1:17) It bothers me too. I want my A button to the _right_ of my B button, darn it! (2:17) That second name looks like something Twitch Plays Pokémon would type. (2:27) Station Square? Sonic Adventure never ends. :P (2:51) Good bye, Tails! (3:02-3:08) I'm sorry, what... Robotnik's "greatest invention ever" is a math robot? I had to pause the video until I stopped laughing from that. (4:02) Oh, this is an actual 2D Sonic platformer? (4:54) So, you outclass this math robot by simply touching the number 1 right next to it? Was Robotnik growing senile when he created the math robot and claimed it was his greatest invention ever? (5:04) Okay, 27 is at least a bit bigger... except the game just hands it to you after you go a little bit to the right. (5:44) Pfft... The "super sucky machine" got me laughing again. (10:36) It's weird how the signs and lampposts seem to have their roles reversed. (11:13) Just in case you need a reminder, press the A button to enter level 2. :P In all seriousness, though, you probably would need emulation or a much less straining setup if you were to show off all 9 levels. So, I'd be okay with you moving onto the next game after tonight.
my apologies in Xs if this information is already "out there" somewhere (if it's in talkhaus, somewhere reasonable, i'll check it) ... how much did this leapster set you back, rao-da-cow?
I swear I saw this game emulated on youtube years ago. maybe it ran awfully though i can't remember. EDIT: ahhh, there was a leapster model with TV output.
We do need to see the rest. are there boss fights? What are the other worlds like? How does it end? Is this the one where you save friends or is that the other one? If so there is notably a sonic 3 style modern Amy and that's kinda cool I guess.
Did you know the developers spent literally two seconds naming "Eggman's Sucky Sucky Machine" in this children's game? Had they spent more time on it... they probably would have noticed something is a bit strange about that name.
It's easy to make fun of these types of games, but remember they are explicitly targeted towards a very young audience. I like that they exists and other than the basic math skills this game teaches, it also gets kids used to playing games in general.
I know I'm way behind on the series. But I have a theory that raocow isn't actually a human but some form of Elder God of playing video games. This video does nothing to change my mind.
I still don't understand how they managed to make such a terrible "for the kids" character in that show. The freaking wheelchair girl would have worked better in Chris's role.
@@EllenHourai Yeah, he's this rich kid with lots of school friends and a large family that loves him to death, yet we're supposed to believe he was horribly lonely until Sonic showed up.
Math Robot? Finally Eggman figured out how to bring everyone down on their knees. Math, a big blessing but even worse enemy to all of humanity. Anyway, not the worst edutainment game I have seen.
let it sink in that the closest thing Raocow has to a face reveal, after over a decade of nigh-daily let's plays, comes in the form of seeing a vague reflection of his face when he played Sonic X for Leapster
isnt there a better face reveal out there in the advent series because people were REALLY GENEROUS
Raocow got his friend to record the video and he recorded voice over for it
@@momamario Which video is it?
@@leonillbati-on4389 He literally showed his face one advent like 2 years ago. I was disappointed he wasn't identical to roocow
@@ryanlutes do you have a link? im curious now
EDIT: nvm its GrAPE 22nd
I’m so happy about that time you correctly identified the number 1 and a giant talking robot exclaimed that you’ve outclassed it.
I love how all the sonic X stuff kind of happened right about as the franchise started to take its legendary nosedive, as if there's any causal relationship at all.
Correlation; not causation.
"My wonderful math robot" is weirdly something I did not expect to come out of Mike Pollock's mouth and I'm even less sure what to feel about it
When you know some of the things he's been in, it's frankly hard to be surprised
@@DoubleATam Both him and Dan Green have quite the portfolios.
"Now cluck like a chicken!"
@@tripodranger7873 oh man my favorite barnyard animal :)
@@camwoodstock 2:55 tails and amy have been captured
Fun fact, the Leapster 2 was apparently retired in 2019. That's right, this console lasted until two years ago.
should've lasted longer
It lasted longer than the Wii U.
really excited for 2025 when raocow starts All The Popstations
We’re playing that game where people throw their arms and legs at each other for the 90th time
The city background actually has pretty good parallax scrolling and looks pretty nice? I'm kinda impressed.
The hardware is honestly pretty impressive for a portable edutainment device, especially for one released for seventy bucks.
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: also, strange amount, of technical difficulties, getting the footage, into my computer, that was weird, and unusual, and unexpected
We finally have more solid proof that rao does indeed have a face, despite what he probably has said in one of his noun sequiteur lines over the years, way to lie to all of us smh
Maybe he's using a decoy face to distract everyone from the truth!
@Eduardo Lipshitz - Wait, was there a face reveal on the forums???
Nah, he did an actual face reveal in a very short Patreon video quite a while back now. Wasn't on the talkhaus.
@@BobisOnlyBob is it still up if I sign up to the patron
HE HAS NO FACE,
HE HAS NO SOUL!
Fun Sonic Facts!
The Leapster is the only piece of game-related Sonic media that Christopher Thorndyke, human protagonist-turned-sidekick from Sonic X, has ever appeared in. He cheers Sonic on when you solve math problems.
Technically he appeared on a sign in Sonic Adventure DX.
In this game Eggman exploits Sonic's greatest weakness: his lack of a preschool/kindergarten education.
I mean Sonic did outsmart eggman in Sonic’s schoolhouse. Which has a similar difficulty.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting That wasn't really Sonic, that was you, the dumb kid that got bamboozled into going to the schoolhouse on the promise of fun times. Sonic just kinda stood around telling you what to do.
@@tripodranger7873 Sonic was the teacher in that game, I'd hope he knows how to do basic math and spelling.
I already knew that raocow wore glasses because like ten to twelve years ago (in, throwing out a more or less random guess, probably one of the Mushroom Kingdom Meltdowns) he spent like three videos complaining about a glasses malfunction (either a lens popped out or an arm broke and his hasty, hacked-together fix wasn't very good), and for **absolutely** no good reason that has stuck with me all this time.
Not to mention that his portrait in the raocoins (cowgadons?) in ASMT has glasses
@@rootbeer_666 Ohhh is THAT what that's supposed to be? Well I feel dumb now
Everyone is focused on raocow's reflection, but I'm here imagining how painful it would be if my very rigid fingers were to suddenly bend like his thumb.
I know this definitely isn't what happened, but the idea of raocow going to the shop and buying this as a grown man amuses me.
Don't get too excited, Sonic! That was the EASY math robot!
My greatest creation, the MATH ROBOT! It compliments you if you touch an ethereal floating number in the sky. COWER before me, mortals!
So I guess, strictly speaking, this is the first game to feature Mike Pollock as Eggman
goddamn it
Man, look at that sweet full-colour multilayered scrolling background. This is like the MGS3 Pachinko Machine of Sonic games.
raocow's insistence on tearing down the industry of "big math" is super entertaining here
Funny enough, I'm pretty sure A and B being oriented that way is how Sega consoles did it back in the day, so it makes a tiny bit of sense.
Now, onto pressing matters: this is a Sonic X game, _in 2005,_ using _Genesis sprites._ This is a "Mario Chimera" flavour of weird.
There was actually an issue of Archie's Sonic X comic where Eggman traps the characters in a video game, that game being basically Sonic 1, with the Robotnik boss in it supposedly being based off a young Gerald.
I find it amusing that they use the Sonic 3 Sonic sprite, Sonic 1 Goal sprite (as checkpoints), and the Sonic Advance Checkpoint sprite (as the goal). It's like they just went into Sega's ClipArt folder and grabbed what they liked.
Actually I think that's the Sonic CD signpost, which is an even more bizarre choice.
If it was just an asset flip like the smartphone games that'd be funny enough, but they went and reanimated the Sonic Advance level-ending breakdance in the Sonic 3 style. What
Sonic X is just the gift that keeps on giving, huh
8:26 Sonic: Finds 24.
"How can you do this? It's outrageous. It's unfair."
Of all Sonic games to still have camera issues
Sonic X on the Leapfrog
Man raocow sure has improved since ol DK Jr math. 😊
The 4Kids voice cast fabulous introduction episode!
Did you show your parents what you learned?
Raocow's corporeal form has glasses. Intriguing.
I will take this opportunity to plug JX's sweet remix of one of this game's songs in Sonic Advance 3's style.
Unrelated, this video has Ashens energy.
Raocow enhanced Reflection Video with panning and Explaination. (Skip to end for full image): ruclips.net/video/oHg5SJYRHA0/видео.html
Sonic said "Bring it on!" way earlier than I expected.
Sonic X never ends
2:17 I went to school with an "Emma" a "PJ" and a "Nnnjjessss!"
Sonic: A math robot!? Now you've gone too far!
Chris: Didn't he try to blow up the plan--
Sonic: THIS IS MUCH WORSE!!!
3:31 So the world is One city, One boat, One Jungle and a space station? Guess they had a few pieces left over after they put the world back together again after Advance 3.
5:08 27: TWENTY-SEVEN!!!
5:44 That could apply to about 90% of the things he builds.
7:39 Sonic is all: "Augh; not this again!"
I like how this is clearly meant to introduce kids to the concept of two-digit numbers, and yet, it expects them to know what 99 is.
Recycled Hub Overworld Zone
Vs. M A T H
We can now be about 80% certain he is not a squid in a human suit
The remaining 20% are still standing pretty strong, though.
@@RickyRatte He's a mimic octopus. Of COURSE his reflection looks vaguely humanoid.
Honestly, I would like to see more... of that painting. It looks neat.
I remember my little brother had this! I also remember being shocked by the custom Sonic 3 sprites...
All right, we're back at the mainline sonic games!
yooo raocow has long hair, idk why but that makes so much sense
also that painting in your wall is really nice
Oh lord, I completely forgot about the leapster....
Sonic looks so cross eyed in those cutscenes
He seems to have crab/snail eyes
like, wow, it's trying to teach kid's math but not really respecting their intelligence at the same time?
"press arrows to move" "press a to jump over street cleaner"
This game was made by omochao
My favourite was when they asked the player to count 2 rings.
To be fair, this thing _is_ aimed at preschool kids, IIRC, so they might not actually know. Especially in a lot of executives' minds.
@@MrOmegatronic dunno, maybe just thinking of personal experience getting dropped with sonic 1 and trying to figure things out haven't played vidya games before.
Kids are smart, just not in the ways typically associated with smartness.
@@MrOmegatronic And yet, they're expected to know what 99 is.
Yeah... a lot of executives think that kids are barely-sentient bags of money with the words "parent's wallet" attached, which... is pretty inaccurate, and stems from a lot of people not understanding the difference between intelligence & knowledge. Kinda silly, really.
A while ago, my thrift store had a ton of leapster games. Now I wonder if this gem was among them...
I've heard of Leapster before and about this game, but what surprises me is that there was apparently two Leapsters! Anyway, this thing is almost a sort of spiritual successor to the *Game.com**,* its got minigames, a touch screen, and a weird licensed Sonic game that feels like it would be a bootleg if you just watched footage without any context, it even uses ripped Sonic 3 sprites. The screen is also super zoomed-in, that's impressive, definitely a thing to rival a game you will eventually play (probably).
Although to its credit, both the console and the game looks way more appealing and functional than most of anything on the *Game.com**,* even if it's still pretty bad overall, I mean, it's basically Donkey Kong Jr. Math: Sonic Edition.
don't forget there's a version of sonic on the didj too.
Gesundheit
I feel that this is one of those things where I would ask "What's a didj?" and you'd say "Pretty good, you?" or "Didjeez nuts!" or something.
Torus Games are an established and genuinely good Australian game studio. It's just that they almost exclusively make licensed stuff for kids...
But they also made the GBA port of Doom 2!
Now I can't stop thinking of Doom on Leapster.
?evif-ytxis derdnuh xis retfa semoc rebmun tahW
This video has shown me that I am not ready for a raocow face reveal. I am ready for raocow to continue to be a disembodied voice
The closest to a face reveal well ever get, some unknown cameraperson's hair in a reflection.
Leapster, eh? Is it even possible to die in this game?
Death count: 0 [2407] (0 in this episode)
Deathless episodes: 1 [300] (1 in this episode)
(0:01) Whoa, that echo. Also, it is now canon that raocow has a face!
(1:17) It bothers me too. I want my A button to the _right_ of my B button, darn it!
(2:17) That second name looks like something Twitch Plays Pokémon would type.
(2:27) Station Square? Sonic Adventure never ends. :P
(2:51) Good bye, Tails!
(3:02-3:08) I'm sorry, what... Robotnik's "greatest invention ever" is a math robot? I had to pause the video until I stopped laughing from that.
(4:02) Oh, this is an actual 2D Sonic platformer?
(4:54) So, you outclass this math robot by simply touching the number 1 right next to it? Was Robotnik growing senile when he created the math robot and claimed it was his greatest invention ever?
(5:04) Okay, 27 is at least a bit bigger... except the game just hands it to you after you go a little bit to the right.
(5:44) Pfft... The "super sucky machine" got me laughing again.
(10:36) It's weird how the signs and lampposts seem to have their roles reversed.
(11:13) Just in case you need a reminder, press the A button to enter level 2. :P
In all seriousness, though, you probably would need emulation or a much less straining setup if you were to show off all 9 levels. So, I'd be okay with you moving onto the next game after tonight.
I think I can see long hair, LONG HAIR SQUAD REPRESENT
Woah! its kinda trippy seeing raocow's face... kinda
my apologies in Xs if this information is already "out there" somewhere (if it's in talkhaus, somewhere reasonable, i'll check it) ... how much did this leapster set you back, rao-da-cow?
Was there a 3.5mm jack on this thing? Probably could’ve gotten audio that way.
Oh dude, they had a model with TV out that you could’ve probably snagged for, like, $15
Using the Sonic 3 sprites has to be a jarring decision for the target audience who probably weren't around to see Sonic before his Adventure design.
I swear I saw this game emulated on youtube years ago. maybe it ran awfully though i can't remember.
EDIT: ahhh, there was a leapster model with TV output.
Wow this is not at all what I expected lolol.
Roa... accidental face reveal.
I don't know if you can call that a face reveal, it's more of a head reveal tbh
Amorphous blob reveal
Corporeal form reveal
Yuzuki Roa? Where?
Maybe I've watched too many forensic cop shows; but that could probably be enhanced to reveal his face.
hitting the like button on principle of you playing a fuckin leapster game for this lol
We do need to see the rest. are there boss fights? What are the other worlds like? How does it end? Is this the one where you save friends or is that the other one? If so there is notably a sonic 3 style modern Amy and that's kinda cool I guess.
rao man has some rocking hair. rao man looking good.
Did you know the developers spent literally two seconds naming "Eggman's Sucky Sucky Machine" in this children's game? Had they spent more time on it... they probably would have noticed something is a bit strange about that name.
It's easy to make fun of these types of games, but remember they are explicitly targeted towards a very young audience. I like that they exists and other than the basic math skills this game teaches, it also gets kids used to playing games in general.
Gotta go at a reasonable pace
f a c e r e v e a l ?
I know I'm way behind on the series. But I have a theory that raocow isn't actually a human but some form of Elder God of playing video games. This video does nothing to change my mind.
This is the game that has Sonic 3 styled Modern Amy Rose, right.
There’s a lot of weirdly competent sprite work in this game
ooo nice art
Wow, that's a strong reflection ther... WAIT IS THAT CHRIS THAT I SEE??? ARGH!!!! MUST PUNCH! MUST PUNCH!!!
I still don't understand how they managed to make such a terrible "for the kids" character in that show. The freaking wheelchair girl would have worked better in Chris's role.
@@tripodranger7873 Yeah, I was never a huge fan of the audience stand-in kid trope, but Chris was by far the worst.
@@EllenHourai Yeah, he's this rich kid with lots of school friends and a large family that loves him to death, yet we're supposed to believe he was horribly lonely until Sonic showed up.
raocow has a face confirmed
raocow in real life
Math Robot? Finally Eggman figured out how to bring everyone down on their knees. Math, a big blessing but even worse enemy to all of humanity. Anyway, not the worst edutainment game I have seen.
but it do.
Is it just me, or was raocow bare-chested?
cow-chested
yeesh, rip off of dk jr. math, much? I swear sega doesn't even have two original ideas to rub together
also that robot looks like pom pom from homestar runner. jeeze, sega!!! eyes on your own paper!!!