hey Reggie, you know that the Amiga CD32 was basically a consolized version of an Amiga 1200, right? Because if you buy a floppy drive for it you can basically play the classic Amiga floppy library (and yes, you can also connect a mouse and a keyboard to use it like a proper Amiga) I have the previous Commodore experiment that is even more obscure, the CDTV (it was a f*ckin mess) and the CD32 is backward compatible with that one too I'm from Italy, here Commodore machines were pretty popular (and still are, to a certain extent)
Reppin Amiga stuff is always appreciated! I never had the console but I had an Amiga 3000 in my bedroom as a child. It wasn't brand new on the market at the time but I loved it.
Damn, Kelsey got ACTIVATED on this question! lol Outstanding stuff. Also props to the Lazy Game Reviews dude for the similarly obscure Phar-Mor referential t-shirt.
I liked how different everyone's answers were. Also, Clint talking about the Megadrive PC combo with what looks like an Amstrad Mega PC in the background.
MachoNacho didn't want to do the assignment. "What is the most obscure console you've played?" "Regular consoles that people homebrewed and have never been available in any commercial context!"
0:36 Thank you! In the previous video there is such a tedious discussion about the WS being super obscure (which it no longer is). Thank you Kelsey for putting that out there as well! ❤
I have a couple (one beige, one black and silver) with around 19 carts and a cassette recorder for it. Really like to get some cassettes for the thing (and a hookup so I can actually attach it to the system).
2:34 “I’m playing Snake Roy on my Cougar Boy” is a thing you can say sincerely and truly and mean it. 4:00 Clint is wearing a Phar-Mor shirt. Huh. They actually rented out games - so got to play some 1990/1991 gameboy stuff.
Calling the CD32 obscure is just weird to someone living in the UK lol The most obscure thing i've played on is either the Casio Loopy or the Apple Pippin (both at conventions).
@@MetalJesusRocksright. I only heard of it in some EGM ‘annual round up’ issues - and their assessment was ‘🤷♂️’ we heard Amiga was going bankrupt … The Living Computer Museum (rip) had an Amiga day and I got to play one then.
@@philipcohen7192 I've owned 2 of them boxed over the years, sold them both on for next to nothing. The only game I ever had for it was Burning Rubber (the pack in) and it's not very good.
As a longtime Ashens fan, I'm excited to see someone else acknowledge the many weird handhelds out there that tried to compete with the Game Boy during its heyday. Also, my first console was a Sega Pico. I never knew what it was actually called until years later when I saw an article about it in an issue of Tips & Tricks magazine. My parents just told me it was a computer they got just for me, right around the time we got our first PC as well.
Dude! Clint, I saw you at the LI retro gaming convention and it was so unexpected that I’ve been wondering if it was actually you for months. I remember picking up the Amstrad and thinking, “This is the type of wacky thing you’d see on LGR.”
I rented so many Game Boy games there. They were like a dollar? Maybe even less? Way cheaper than Blockbuster. I still remember going there after getting my SNES and asking if they had Super Nintendo games and the girl working there said she'd check and she came back with a list of NES games that happened to start with the word "Super". She had no idea what a SNES was... I rented plenty of videos there too. Tons of wrestling tapes. I don't remember if they ever got SNES games because I don't remember what year it was, but not too long after the SNES came out there was some embezzlement scandal and it disappeared really fast.
Loved seeing these obscure consoles -- most of which I'd never heard of! The two most obscure ones that I own are a Sega Nomad and a Virtual Boy. However, I feel like the most obscure one I ever played might be a Sega Pico that I briefly fooled around with on a store display at Toys R Us around 1997 on the same trip when I bought my Sega Saturn. The Pico was almost more of a child's toy than a game console, but I think it's hard to say that it isn't a console of a sort just based on the fact that it's a toy that interfaces with a television, has a small game library, etc. (... Is it obvious I am/was a Sega fanboy?)
I think the most obscure console of all time might be the CPS Changer by CAPCOM. Yes, you heard right, a console made by CAPCOM. Although more than a console, is a supergun from the 90's. For those who don't know, s supergun is a device used to play arcade games in lieu of requiring a full arcade cabinet. The SuperGun can be used to display the image from an arcade game on an ordinary television.
More videos with Reggie!! Love that dude! The video where you guys played the updated Quake was really cool. I think your fans would enjoy more of those type of videos. You guys had good and fun commentary!
They're all just cheap Chinese emulation devices and knock offs. Nothing original. What's there to see? The same NES or random emulated game collections we've seen a million times already?
I've seen aftermarket Keyboard and Floppy drive attachments for the CD32, and I've long wanted to get one as a pseudo Amiga 1200 computer in that regard.
There was a (different) UK "version" as well, called the Amstrad MegaPC (the "Mega" part of the name coming from the Sega Mega Drive which you call the Genesis in America).
Probably either the Sega Pico or, if you count it, I briefly had an Adam computer when I was younger. It had games that you loaded from a cassette drive. The 80's was a wild decade.
I had a Game Axe Color which was a clone Famicom that was originally released in 1989. What made it unique was that it was the first attempt at manufacturing a handheld hardware clone of the Famicom. It was different than other handheld clones that came later because instead of using a single system-on-a-chip or emulation, it used versions of the Famicom's CPU, PPU, and supporting hardware and memory. It had a color LCD screen that was fluorescent backlit and took standard Famicom cartridges and NES cartridges with an adapter. It had A/V out, A/V in (so you could potentially plug in a VCR and use it as a screen/speakers), two clone Genesis-style controller ports, and took 6 AA batteries. You could also plug it up to a TV and use an AC adapter to power it.
The cool thing about the Nintendo Playstation is that it's a literal "ALTERNATIVE TIMELINE" device of what could have been. Instead, it was kind of Nintendo's biggest mistake and forced them to kind of re-contextualize their business model. Edit: also Stuart Ashens (Stewart?), Dr. Ashens (yeah that never not gets weird to think he's a legit MD of Psychiatry/Psychology) has some good obscure ones, made a movie about one of them.
From what I understand, Nintendo kind of had to backstab Sony to save themselves. The contact between the two wasn't that detailed, but Sony had near complete control over the discs and add--on/console. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a fear that Sony would slowly takeover Nintendo and perhaps even buy them out. Remember that this was Late 80's-Early 90's Sony. They were on a shopping spree at the time. They COULD of buy up Nintendo easily. I would figure that if the SNES-CD/Playstation was released Sony would of bought Nintendo just before they started work on the N64.
I had a Vic20 which is less a console and more a home computer, but it ran on cassette tapes that if you listened to them in a regular stereo sounded basically same thing as how a 56k modem worked. Had Frogger and other games on it. And with a dual deck boombox and some blank tapes was really easy to make bootleg copies of software.
Out of the 27 consoles and 8 handheld systems that I own, the Emerson Arcadia-2001 and the Bally Astrocade are the most obscure. Both systems are very overlooked and underappreciated.
I had a very small collection prior to discovering your channel around 2015. I was constantly trading in my old gen consoles whenever a new generation came out and only keeping the games from series I more than loved and kept trading in my other games whenever I was finished with them. Now I have a collection of a little over 600 games and 9 consoles. Hopefully will get my hands on obscure stuff like these. Thanks for always rocking dude!
Gonna talk about all these obscure and amazing games and consoles and make not one mention of that glorious Les Paul Custom Ebony just chillin in the background.... Mouth watering over that beauty. My dream guitar
❤ wow been awhile since I got notification, I love your channel Metal Jesus, As I grew up and young adult play many of the games you reviewed. Thank you for sharing this.
I know of the Game King line, Supervision, Cougar Boy/Mega Duck, and Gamate due to Stuart Ashen. Also there's like an...edutainment version of the Mega Duck that looks like a laptop that includes a little mouse, a printer, and even has a piano. Also also tell LGR to do an Oddware on that thing.
Ps1 combo with the LCD screen. We used to plug it into the outlets on the outside of houses and play ps1 games. That way our parents couldn't say we weren't playing outside. I've always viewed it as a precursor to the Switch. A console on the go.
I remember how that lead to companies making attachable LCD screens for consoles that may or may not have made sense. Like the Gamecube and original Xbox.
The breadth of knowledge off Kelsey there as she just reels off a bunch of handhelds I've never heard of is great. Boss seeing LGR, Kinsey, Gemma and Reggie too.
Love the video as always MJR! It still amazes me that you and Clint from LGR are friends/collaborators. I would love to see a big box hidden gems video with you both!
@@MetalJesusRocks That makes sense and I thought about that right after I made my comment🤦🏻♂️ Maybe one in this style at each of your own houses or something similar would work but regardless I have enjoyed all of your content for years and look forward to seeing more!
Enjoyed a lot of these, clearly people were using different definitions or targets, and that's all cool. Just imagining if these folks got together to set up a video game museum of sorts & show off all their different / hard to find consoles & console editions. :)
It's a tie between 'Socrates Learning Computer', and 'Vectrex'. I looped 10 levels with the built in Asteroids Clone with the latter and drove my math grades into the 90's and 100's with the Learning Computer.
A little game I had as a kid.. This was sort of a hand-held.. It was the 1984 Bandai Digi Casse. It technically had slit cartriges that also had the screen attached. It had multiple games.
Might be considered more of an add on, but I owned a Starpath Super Charger for the Atari VCS (2600). Really turned it into a different console with much more memory and games loaded off cassettes. Loved mine.
Maybe not obscure, but 'gray area' was having a "Power Player 128" (NES clone / system-on-a-chip) where the main 'console' was shaped like a Dreamcast controller, 2nd like the original gray non-analog PlayStation and a small dark brown pistol lightgun.
My first console was the Coleco Gemini. It was a clone of the Atari 2600. The best part was the controllers had a built in paddle that worked great. I wish I still had it, but it got yanked off the top of the tv and never worked again.
For me, and I have all but one game for it, but it's the Gizmondo handheld made by a company that were found out to have ties to the Swedish mafia, so they were shut down shortly after releasing it, making it pretty hard to find nowadays as all that happened back in 2005.
I still have a gx4000 that I bought for £5 from my local market auctions circa 1994(it was a market stall that bought catalogue returns by the pallet and sold them of to the loudest shouter! Think proto Amazon returns.) no idea if it still works as the power supply is prone to exploding and I don’t want to chance it. Not jealous of of Kelsey honest😁she could give quangdx a run for his money. Keep it awesome 👍👍👍👍
I think we can always rely on Kelsey to go ham on these questions. I've never heard of any of these consoles that anyone has played, pretty wild and interesting. I dig it and appreciate your content.
Kelsey started with gas pedal down :-) Nano Gamecube was really handy, compact, Travel, Pack and Go type of console! Always nice to hear and see obscure game consoles!
I love oddball, obscure systems. Pioneer LaserActive (with Sega LD pak), GameWave, Vectrex, Nuon, Gizmondo, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Tapwave Zodiac, Action Maxx, Viewmaster Interactivision, Astrocade, Xavix GamePort, and a Tomy Tutor. And these are mostly just stuff I found while thrifting in my area. I like supporting an underdog system.
Top 3 most wanted: Honorable mention: Sega Jet. NEVER heard of it. #3 That Yamaha kids console would be fun to have and explore. It's so cute! I like cute things. #2 Want the Tiny Tendo with the mini NES cartridges too. Good time for a geek to be alive! #1 That Sega Neptune replica of the console that was never "officialy" made is winner winner chicken dinner. Goes to show how amazing the modding community is nowadays and what you can do with 3D printers and some elbow grease. Awesome! Me want badly.
Kelsey took this question and ran with it. I feel the spark of old Kelsey is back again, it shone through with her legit enthusiasm for all those obscure systems she picked herself because she either acquired them OR had some laying around at Pink Gorilla somehwere lmao. But also something Wonder Swan adjacent, because it's on brand for her. Kinsey had a good solo answer as well! Gemma's one is pretty nifty too, I want to say I vaguely heard of something similar with Super Nintendos too on some airlines or such.
Yeah, I remember virgin airlines used to have Snes games. The buttons were built into the remote. There wasn't the option to use your own cartridges though!
I own and have played on a Sega Pico. Even gaming stores near me were surprised i owned one, and for a brief time, i even owned the Pri Fun printer (2 copies) with backup print paper and another Pico. Games i played on it ranged from Richard Scarry's BusyTown (most common) to Sonic Gameworld, to Charlie Brown Christmas (i dont know the real name since its all in japanese). But i only keep one now, which is highly valuable, LEGO Fun to Build. And if not for this game, i wouldnt have owned a Pico or accessories.
When I was a teenager, my parents decided to buy me a Hyperscan by Mattel. Only lasted 5 different games with multiple Licences. Unfortunately, most aren't worth your time, but Interstellar Wrestling League should not be overlooked. So many hours of great fun 👍
Arguably the worst console of its time. It was using a single speed CD drive when DVD consoles were on the market. Neat concept that was doomed to fail by its own budget.
I don't know if it counts as a console but the first thing I had to play a few games on way back in 1983, was the Coleco Adam, dual cassette drives, printer, keyboard. And I use the term "games" very, very loosely !!!
What's the most OBSCURE GAME CONSOLE you've ever played?
Casio Loopy at a convention
It was a SpongeBob handheld system I got at a Burger King a long time ago
OnLive in addition to their streaming service they had a streaming console and a controller. My stepbrother got it for free at PAX West.
Coleco Vision. I know it’s not that obscure but everyone else had Atari at that time
32X
If you look up the word "Flex" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of Kelsey and her handheld collection.
I was gonna say: woman is packing. I own a lot of stuff and know about a lot of exotic consoles....but this is next level ❤
@@samvimesfan9779 Same. I thought I knew stuff, but clearly I still have a lot to learn.
Kelsey went so hard in this video!
I wouldn't call it a flex. Owning a million junk emulation handhelds isn't a console collection.
@@b1oh1 You sound like you are a lot of fun to be around.
"Everyone's heard of the CougarBoy it's just the Brazillian version of the GameDuck"
oh well that settles that
That line cracked me up!
Even being brazilian and never ever heard about both hahaha
@@llpBR fez muito sucesso na metade dos anos 90, toda revista de videogame tinha uma propaganda desse portátil.
@@leandrolej Eu realmente não lembro dele! E parece muito legal, aliás.
I made it just in time! 😆
REGGGGIE!!! Down to the wire, but we got it done. 👍
For sure check out Rogue Declan for the Amiga CD 32. It just came out in physical boxed copies.
hey Reggie, you know that the Amiga CD32 was basically a consolized version of an Amiga 1200, right? Because if you buy a floppy drive for it you can basically play the classic Amiga floppy library (and yes, you can also connect a mouse and a keyboard to use it like a proper Amiga)
I have the previous Commodore experiment that is even more obscure, the CDTV (it was a f*ckin mess) and the CD32 is backward compatible with that one too
I'm from Italy, here Commodore machines were pretty popular (and still are, to a certain extent)
Reppin Amiga stuff is always appreciated! I never had the console but I had an Amiga 3000 in my bedroom as a child. It wasn't brand new on the market at the time but I loved it.
I have a CD32 (owned from new here in New Zealand), with a massive 6 physical games in my collection 😂🕹
Damn, Kelsey got ACTIVATED on this question! lol Outstanding stuff.
Also props to the Lazy Game Reviews dude for the similarly obscure Phar-Mor referential t-shirt.
Kelsey's on fire! Big up MJC from the UK!
Metal Jesus able to gather some of the most kick ass RUclipsrs. I love it
I'm thrilled so many people contribute to these. Really fun to put together!
Another banger episode here! Thank you so much for featuring me dude…. I secretly also loved Xeno Crisis showing up. What a game! Rock on 🤘
Thanks again! You rock 🤘
Is the Sega Megajet basically a Sega Nomad shoved in a GameGear shell? It looks awesome.
MJ: What's the most obscure game console you've ever played?
Kelsey: Yes
It's nice to see LGR pop up on some of these videos as of late.
"What is the most obscure console you've ever played?" Kelsey: all of the most obscure consoles ever
I liked how different everyone's answers were. Also, Clint talking about the Megadrive PC combo with what looks like an Amstrad Mega PC in the background.
Good eye! Gotta have 'em both after all
MachoNacho didn't want to do the assignment. "What is the most obscure console you've played?" "Regular consoles that people homebrewed and have never been available in any commercial context!"
0:36 Thank you!
In the previous video there is such a tedious discussion about the WS being super obscure (which it no longer is).
Thank you Kelsey for putting that out there as well! ❤
Not really a console but I miss my TI-99/4A. Spent lots of time with Hunt the Wumpus and Parsec.
My neighbor in the 6th grade had a TI99 and it was cool typing in games from a magazine. Good memories.
I have a couple (one beige, one black and silver) with around 19 carts and a cassette recorder for it. Really like to get some cassettes for the thing (and a hookup so I can actually attach it to the system).
2:34 “I’m playing Snake Roy on my Cougar Boy” is a thing you can say sincerely and truly and mean it.
4:00 Clint is wearing a Phar-Mor shirt. Huh. They actually rented out games - so got to play some 1990/1991 gameboy stuff.
You have no idea how disappointed I was to learn that it's just plain ol' Snake.
I just feel that the Barcode Battler doesn't get the love it deserves.
I use to have one but sadly a few years ago I donated it to Goodwill.
Calling the CD32 obscure is just weird to someone living in the UK lol The most obscure thing i've played on is either the Casio Loopy or the Apple Pippin (both at conventions).
The Amiga CD32 is extremely obscure here, especially in Washington State. Reggie's the only person I know who has one!
@@MetalJesusRocksright. I only heard of it in some EGM ‘annual round up’ issues - and their assessment was ‘🤷♂️’ we heard Amiga was going bankrupt …
The Living Computer Museum (rip) had an Amiga day and I got to play one then.
@@MetalJesusRocks Dude, anytime I bring this system up, people act like it doesn’t exist. Maybe for good reason? 😅
What about the Amstrad GX4000? Did anyone even own one?
@@philipcohen7192 I've owned 2 of them boxed over the years, sold them both on for next to nothing. The only game I ever had for it was Burning Rubber (the pack in) and it's not very good.
As a longtime Ashens fan, I'm excited to see someone else acknowledge the many weird handhelds out there that tried to compete with the Game Boy during its heyday.
Also, my first console was a Sega Pico. I never knew what it was actually called until years later when I saw an article about it in an issue of Tips & Tricks magazine. My parents just told me it was a computer they got just for me, right around the time we got our first PC as well.
LGR just casually dropping one of the most collectible Sega system's Ever 4:23
Yeah, I was pretty blown away by some of the stuff people showed!
@@MetalJesusRocksOMG I did not expect a reply from one of my favorite RUclipsr's today you have made my Friday
Dude! Clint, I saw you at the LI retro gaming convention and it was so unexpected that I’ve been wondering if it was actually you for months. I remember picking up the Amstrad and thinking, “This is the type of wacky thing you’d see on LGR.”
The Phar-mor shirt also very obscure. I remember renting VHS tapes at Phar-mor. Also used to do most of my back-to-school shopping there.
I rented so many Game Boy games there. They were like a dollar? Maybe even less? Way cheaper than Blockbuster.
I still remember going there after getting my SNES and asking if they had Super Nintendo games and the girl working there said she'd check and she came back with a list of NES games that happened to start with the word "Super". She had no idea what a SNES was... I rented plenty of videos there too. Tons of wrestling tapes. I don't remember if they ever got SNES games because I don't remember what year it was, but not too long after the SNES came out there was some embezzlement scandal and it disappeared really fast.
my holy grail is a Sony PSX which is a PS2 video recorder only released in Japan, very unreliable, but i have a working one and love it
Love you MJR! You rock! You never disappoint with the awesome content. Coming home from a long days work to a new MJR episode is always exciting!
Glad you enjoy it!
I need a video full of whay kelsey did. Just everyones top rarest consoles in the collection.
This was pretty cool. Thank you for showing us all these cool obscure consoles. I never new there were so many.
Glad you enjoyed!
Loved seeing these obscure consoles -- most of which I'd never heard of! The two most obscure ones that I own are a Sega Nomad and a Virtual Boy. However, I feel like the most obscure one I ever played might be a Sega Pico that I briefly fooled around with on a store display at Toys R Us around 1997 on the same trip when I bought my Sega Saturn. The Pico was almost more of a child's toy than a game console, but I think it's hard to say that it isn't a console of a sort just based on the fact that it's a toy that interfaces with a television, has a small game library, etc. (... Is it obvious I am/was a Sega fanboy?)
1:28 She's just showing off now. The question was the most obscure console (singular) 😂😂
This.
I think the most obscure console of all time might be the CPS Changer by CAPCOM. Yes, you heard right, a console made by CAPCOM. Although more than a console, is a supergun from the 90's. For those who don't know, s supergun is a device used to play arcade games in lieu of requiring a full arcade cabinet. The SuperGun can be used to display the image from an arcade game on an ordinary television.
Man Kelsey won handily!! "I've got the gameflipper XD, the gameflipper XD3, the florgtron, the florgtron 7 3D!"
Kelsey lol...meanwhile, me: "I've got a Gameboy Color..."
More videos with Reggie!! Love that dude!
The video where you guys played the updated Quake was really cool. I think your fans would enjoy more of those type of videos. You guys had good and fun commentary!
My man... 😂
You should definitely bring Kelsey to make a video together to talk about... All of that... Would be amazing.
For sure. I'd like to see some games running on them etc. I'd totally be interested in a deep dive
They're all just cheap Chinese emulation devices and knock offs. Nothing original. What's there to see? The same NES or random emulated game collections we've seen a million times already?
@@rodzandz yeah i dont think these emulation devices should count, only consoles with original exclusive games like the Zeebo.
@@rodzandz many of these are original platforms. Cheap yes, knockoff clone consoles or emulation devices - no
@@rodzandz The stories alone are very interesting to me... And for many more... I dont see the problem to talk about them, really.
I've seen aftermarket Keyboard and Floppy drive attachments for the CD32, and I've long wanted to get one as a pseudo Amiga 1200 computer in that regard.
PS5 was extremely obscure for the first few years after it came out. Literally no one had it in stock and no one I knew could get one. 🤣
Had to buy mine in the parking lot of a police station lol 😆. Like it was some precious metal or something 😂
@@balloonedraccoon2503a dirty deal
Just by luck I was around when Game had a new delivery in,one year to the day it was released
Wouldn't really call that obscure... Something that is in high demand is definitely not obscure
Its still obscure to me bc I hardly play mine. Sometimes I forget it's even in my house.
Awesome stuff! Was surprised with every one - lots of good variety here. That handheld nintendo with the cute little cartridges tho 😂
Alright... I 'll say what everyone else is thinking but not saying. These people should power up these consoles AND SHOW US THE GAMES!!!!
yep, exactly.
The Genesis/PC console is amazing! Never heard of that.
There was a (different) UK "version" as well, called the Amstrad MegaPC (the "Mega" part of the name coming from the Sega Mega Drive which you call the Genesis in America).
Holy crap
The Sega Mega Jet is so sick 😂😂 ive never seen that!!! I though Gebs was holding a damn Game Gear or something
Probably either the Sega Pico or, if you count it, I briefly had an Adam computer when I was younger. It had games that you loaded from a cassette drive. The 80's was a wild decade.
I had a Game Axe Color which was a clone Famicom that was originally released in 1989. What made it unique was that it was the first attempt at manufacturing a handheld hardware clone of the Famicom. It was different than other handheld clones that came later because instead of using a single system-on-a-chip or emulation, it used versions of the Famicom's CPU, PPU, and supporting hardware and memory. It had a color LCD screen that was fluorescent backlit and took standard Famicom cartridges and NES cartridges with an adapter. It had A/V out, A/V in (so you could potentially plug in a VCR and use it as a screen/speakers), two clone Genesis-style controller ports, and took 6 AA batteries. You could also plug it up to a TV and use an AC adapter to power it.
The cool thing about the Nintendo Playstation is that it's a literal "ALTERNATIVE TIMELINE" device of what could have been. Instead, it was kind of Nintendo's biggest mistake and forced them to kind of re-contextualize their business model. Edit: also Stuart Ashens (Stewart?), Dr. Ashens (yeah that never not gets weird to think he's a legit MD of Psychiatry/Psychology) has some good obscure ones, made a movie about one of them.
From what I understand, Nintendo kind of had to backstab Sony to save themselves. The contact between the two wasn't that detailed, but Sony had near complete control over the discs and add--on/console. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a fear that Sony would slowly takeover Nintendo and perhaps even buy them out. Remember that this was Late 80's-Early 90's Sony. They were on a shopping spree at the time. They COULD of buy up Nintendo easily. I would figure that if the SNES-CD/Playstation was released Sony would of bought Nintendo just before they started work on the N64.
8:26 microphone *input* you mean - think which way the sound is going!
I had a Vic20 which is less a console and more a home computer, but it ran on cassette tapes that if you listened to them in a regular stereo sounded basically same thing as how a 56k modem worked. Had Frogger and other games on it. And with a dual deck boombox and some blank tapes was really easy to make bootleg copies of software.
The Commodore Vic-20 was my very first computer! :-D I loved that thing! It also taught me BASIC programming. ;-)
Out of the 27 consoles and 8 handheld systems that I own, the Emerson Arcadia-2001 and the Bally Astrocade are the most obscure. Both systems are very overlooked and underappreciated.
I had a very small collection prior to discovering your channel around 2015. I was constantly trading in my old gen consoles whenever a new generation came out and only keeping the games from series I more than loved and kept trading in my other games whenever I was finished with them. Now I have a collection of a little over 600 games and 9 consoles. Hopefully will get my hands on obscure stuff like these. Thanks for always rocking dude!
Gonna talk about all these obscure and amazing games and consoles and make not one mention of that glorious Les Paul Custom Ebony just chillin in the background.... Mouth watering over that beauty. My dream guitar
Sega Nomad is the chad version of the Mega Jet
Kelsea set the bar really high 🙏🏼I have the JVC Victor Wondermega a Megadrive and Sega CD and karaoke machine in one from Japan 🤘🏼
My family had a PC called a Mega PC i think which was an Amstrad with a Mega Drive built in here in the uk.
❤ wow been awhile since I got notification, I love your channel Metal Jesus, As I grew up and young adult play many of the games you reviewed. Thank you for sharing this.
9:44 what is the cool sprite based clock thing?? i want one
1:26 JEALOUS. I would kill to have a game king (been on my wish list since Ashens' video on it)
I know of the Game King line, Supervision, Cougar Boy/Mega Duck, and Gamate due to Stuart Ashen.
Also there's like an...edutainment version of the Mega Duck that looks like a laptop that includes a little mouse, a printer, and even has a piano.
Also also tell LGR to do an Oddware on that thing.
Ps1 combo with the LCD screen. We used to plug it into the outlets on the outside of houses and play ps1 games. That way our parents couldn't say we weren't playing outside. I've always viewed it as a precursor to the Switch. A console on the go.
I remember how that lead to companies making attachable LCD screens for consoles that may or may not have made sense. Like the Gamecube and original Xbox.
I kind of feel like nothing is obscure anymore. With so many videos on these topics, nothing surprises me anymore, ha! Still great video!
Wish we got that CD32 MegaRace port back in the 90s. Should have asked Ben Heck to come on this episode with the Halcyon.
What a delightful group of people coming together to share their stuff. I wish I had friends like this 😭
The breadth of knowledge off Kelsey there as she just reels off a bunch of handhelds I've never heard of is great. Boss seeing LGR, Kinsey, Gemma and Reggie too.
That was awesome. I love stuff like this. Kelsey's section was insane. I must own a cougar boy. 😅
Reggie's D-Pad is not original on the CD32 controller. I had one they came loose all the time and used to rotate annoyingly.
Love the video as always MJR! It still amazes me that you and Clint from LGR are friends/collaborators. I would love to see a big box hidden gems video with you both!
We probably would collaborate more, but he lives across the US from me.
@@MetalJesusRocks That makes sense and I thought about that right after I made my comment🤦🏻♂️ Maybe one in this style at each of your own houses or something similar would work but regardless I have enjoyed all of your content for years and look forward to seeing more!
Enjoyed a lot of these, clearly people were using different definitions or targets, and that's all cool. Just imagining if these folks got together to set up a video game museum of sorts & show off all their different / hard to find consoles & console editions. :)
It's a tie between 'Socrates Learning Computer', and 'Vectrex'. I looped 10 levels with the built in Asteroids Clone with the latter and drove my math grades into the 90's and 100's with the Learning Computer.
A little game I had as a kid.. This was sort of a hand-held.. It was the 1984 Bandai Digi Casse. It technically had slit cartriges that also had the screen attached. It had multiple games.
The winner would be those like one or two youtubers who have an actual physical unit of Krokha on their hands
My SuperGrafx I'm guessing 😅
Might be considered more of an add on, but I owned a Starpath Super Charger for the Atari VCS (2600). Really turned it into a different console with much more memory and games loaded off cassettes. Loved mine.
I had never heard of the P/ECE before. So now I have entered a real rabbit hole researching it!
Maybe not obscure, but 'gray area' was having a "Power Player 128" (NES clone / system-on-a-chip) where the main 'console' was shaped like a Dreamcast controller, 2nd like the original gray non-analog PlayStation and a small dark brown pistol lightgun.
My first console was the Coleco Gemini. It was a clone of the Atari 2600. The best part was the controllers had a built in paddle that worked great. I wish I still had it, but it got yanked off the top of the tv and never worked again.
They had great controllers.. A joystick and paddle controller all in one! 😎
For me, and I have all but one game for it, but it's the Gizmondo handheld made by a company that were found out to have ties to the Swedish mafia, so they were shut down shortly after releasing it, making it pretty hard to find nowadays as all that happened back in 2005.
I can only imagine the amount of weird, funky "Super Mario 17" kind of games in those handhelds😂 great video!
I still have a gx4000 that I bought for £5 from my local market auctions circa 1994(it was a market stall that bought catalogue returns by the pallet and sold them of to the loudest shouter! Think proto Amazon returns.) no idea if it still works as the power supply is prone to exploding and I don’t want to chance it. Not jealous of of Kelsey honest😁she could give quangdx a run for his money. Keep it awesome 👍👍👍👍
Mine is still in box as i heard about the dodgy power supply plus buying any other games is going to be expensive and there crap.
I think we can always rely on Kelsey to go ham on these questions. I've never heard of any of these consoles that anyone has played, pretty wild and interesting. I dig it and appreciate your content.
That was awesome! Kelsey’s selection was out of this world.
Someone should catalog all these obscure consoles the same way the old-computers site does for vintage computers.
Kelsey started with gas pedal down :-) Nano Gamecube was really handy, compact, Travel, Pack and Go type of console! Always nice to hear and see obscure game consoles!
I love oddball, obscure systems. Pioneer LaserActive (with Sega LD pak), GameWave, Vectrex, Nuon, Gizmondo, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Tapwave Zodiac, Action Maxx, Viewmaster Interactivision, Astrocade, Xavix GamePort, and a Tomy Tutor. And these are mostly just stuff I found while thrifting in my area. I like supporting an underdog system.
Top 3 most wanted:
Honorable mention: Sega Jet. NEVER heard of it.
#3 That Yamaha kids console would be fun to have and explore. It's so cute! I like cute things.
#2 Want the Tiny Tendo with the mini NES cartridges too. Good time for a geek to be alive!
#1 That Sega Neptune replica of the console that was never "officialy" made is winner winner chicken dinner. Goes to show how amazing the modding community is nowadays and what you can do with 3D printers and some elbow grease. Awesome! Me want badly.
I'm surprised Tito didn't mention his Pioneer LaserActive with the Genesis module.
Kelsey took this question and ran with it.
I feel the spark of old Kelsey is back again, it shone through with her legit enthusiasm for all those obscure systems she picked herself because she either acquired them OR had some laying around at Pink Gorilla somehwere lmao.
But also something Wonder Swan adjacent, because it's on brand for her.
Kinsey had a good solo answer as well!
Gemma's one is pretty nifty too, I want to say I vaguely heard of something similar with Super Nintendos too on some airlines or such.
Yeah, I remember virgin airlines used to have Snes games. The buttons were built into the remote. There wasn't the option to use your own cartridges though!
Great video yall ✌️
I own and have played on a Sega Pico. Even gaming stores near me were surprised i owned one, and for a brief time, i even owned the Pri Fun printer (2 copies) with backup print paper and another Pico.
Games i played on it ranged from Richard Scarry's BusyTown (most common) to Sonic Gameworld, to Charlie Brown Christmas (i dont know the real name since its all in japanese). But i only keep one now, which is highly valuable, LEGO Fun to Build. And if not for this game, i wouldnt have owned a Pico or accessories.
I have a feeling this question has been asked before to the team as i remember Kelsey saying the Wonder Swann.
Kelsey just comes in and nuke's everyone's collection
Where can I get a Neptune working replica? That has been a sought treasure since I saw a picture of it in Gamepro as a kid.
Kelsey: "Oh, bro... Hold my beer..." Amazing!
For me it's probably the Pippin
When I was a teenager, my parents decided to buy me a Hyperscan by Mattel. Only lasted 5 different games with multiple Licences. Unfortunately, most aren't worth your time, but Interstellar Wrestling League should not be overlooked. So many hours of great fun 👍
Arguably the worst console of its time. It was using a single speed CD drive when DVD consoles were on the market. Neat concept that was doomed to fail by its own budget.
no duck station
A wonderful video! Thanks so much for uploading.
Oh I know all the handhelds that have came out over the years. Kelsey enters the chat, "oh really?" lol
I don't know if it counts as a console but the first thing I had to play a few games on way back in 1983, was the Coleco Adam, dual cassette drives, printer, keyboard. And I use the term "games" very, very loosely !!!
Yalls love of this keeps me coming back
Prison handheld consoles anyone?
Chelsea held the B button before the light even turn green.
Ya’ll knew better than to ask Kelsey that question. She is the ultimate console historian.
This is just a series of humble brags about obscure consoles your contributors own... and I'm here for it.
I guess Kelsey confuses singular and plurals? Flexing your obscure handheld console collection is an interesting way to go.
Kelsey didn't have to go so hard, but I'm all for it