The main purpose of this toy, for most children, was not it's predetermined function as a "race simulator", but as a convincing control panel for the cardboard spaceship that you constructed.
I got an extremely old record player from my grandpa when he got a new one, and years later when I was more curious about inner workings of things, and got bored, I opened it up only to find an old wrapped cigar and nudie playing card. By then he had passed on but I always wonder if those were his or from someone who had it before him.
I had a corvette style driving toy with similar mechanics, but with the addition of functioning turn signals/indicators and headlights on the front of the toy that could be mechanically flipped up. I certainly did try to imagine that road being longer, the simulation more interactive, etc. Thanks for breaking it apart; works almost exactly as I always expected.
Yes!!!! that was mine the corvette version i remember the pop up headlights the batteries also laid down sideways. but i remember the turn signals and pop up hesdlights. I wonder who made it i thought i had the tomy one.
This is pretty neat! TOMY toys always seem to have pretty cool mechanisms. I've got an Astro Shooter table top pinball game by them that I really enjoyed tinkering with when I was younger. Ive actually had to go and fix it a few times as well. Everything on the game is powered by a single motor, and there are plenty of gears and mechanisms to "power" everything around the playfield. Kind of impressive design honestly, if not completely convoluted! :P
I used to have something similar as a kid, but way more shite... but at the same time, it was probably more reliable. It had none of these weird tacho-fuel-speed things, it only had a key, the wheel and the "screen". It worked slightly differently too. The car was a sticker on the actual screen, and the wheel moved the ENTIRE ROAD side to side instead.
I had one like that too. The one I had didn't have any of the grid on the side of the road or the car on the left. It was just an empty black road with some back lighting. It looked like the car was driving down a never ending road at night. I always found it kinda spooky.
FokkerBoombass Sounds like the Playmates Fun to Drive Dashboard. I had one of those as a kid and and the pop-up lights mechanism would get stuck, It was based on a corvette.
FokkerBoombass you most likely had the same one I had as a kid. It was called the playmates fun to drive. It was a corvette with the car painted on the screen and the steering wheel moved the light inside which in turn made the projected road move back and forth on the screen
I remember Playdays. There was a dopey brummy cat, a condescending bird and a little girl who forgot to take the pegs off her clothes when she took them off the line.
Thank you so much! We had that thing back in 1987. It didn't even seam to make much sense as a toy when I was 5. But it was fascinating. Now I know how it worked. Thanks!
Thomas Williams I don't remember the indicators. But I remember having one that had a "realistic" road, in so much that it was a cartoon of a winding road in a feild instead of this tron looking thing.
I've still got a very good torch that uses those battery's. We had that toy as kids but never played with it working as mum never had the battery's for it and they were expensive. We just pretended to drive with it, probably more fun than the actual game! And I remember play days: "its the why bird stop!"
A long, LONG time ago my family went to the beach and there was a little arcade there. Other than pinball, the games were almost entirely mechanical; some cost a nickel, some a dime.There was a game quite like that car where you "flew" a little airplane past obstacles. I think that was the first arcade game I ever played.
You know,i would love to have this toy back in the days.I would go into my dads car really often and pretend to be driving,this thing wouldve been perfect
"That's the end of that?", My ASS! You may have not noticed (while playing with it or replaying the footage), but at least the latter is preserved for all to see. The light that lights the screen flashes when you "hit" an object. It is very clear and repetitive, and is obviously not the unit cutting out. I assume that's why your brain filtered out the rhythmic flashing: it's a piece of crap. Not only this, but the reason it stopped working at the end would be clear if you looked at the dashboard. It engine had overheated! Keep in in high gear and the heat goes up. Look at the other gauges, they're all functional. I had one of these as a kid and my dad modified it with a bigger screen, a MUCH longer/swappable road tape with different difficulty/terrain, and a day/night headlight function. Don't be fooled by the complexity of strictly mechanical devices, they can be quite impressive. I also had a 'robotic arm' toy from radio shack. It was completely mechanical, yet featured a fully articulate arm controlled with two twistable joysticks. It had full rotate/elbow/wrist/grip functionality with two speeds for each articulation, but was only powered by an always on, constant rpm motor with only gear and lever mechanical connections diverting power. Now THAT was an impressive toy. I had lots of fun with it, especially when I decided to dissect it.. and I couldn't re-assemble all it's gears and sprockets, LOL!
Awesome. yeah we have a tendency to dismiss yesterday's technology with little thought, but it can as a result highlight the ingenuity of humans. Automata from several hundred years ago are a good example, some of which do things that you wouldn't imagine attempting without computation now (like a mechanical boy that draws pictures and handwrites text which is programmable). Obviously the Tomy toy is no work of genius, but a slightly less patronizingly dismissive look at it would have been nice IMO.
Not only is there the flickering when you hit the side of the road or parked car, but the trip counter also stops advancing for a couple of seconds every time you do. So there is actually a goal and some scoring going on here, and you can keep replaying to beat your previous score. When the fuel runs out, the game is over. To refill your fuel, you have to clear your score by pressing the counter reset button.
Aaaahh... child memories :') I wish I still had mine. I loved it. I remember that I always had it with me in our car, and pretended that I was driving :') That was 12 years ago.
THANK YOU. It's like the curtain of my childhood illusions have been pulled back, revealing a vast wasteland of fragile plastic and decaying electronics.
At first I would say that the gloves are creepy but the inspection and correction of the machine made up for and exceeded that! YAY! Good Job Grand Pa!
Well I guess I was imagining the off-road detection mechanism thingie. No.. wait, I still have the toy, it still works, and it still detects you getting off road. Is this magic?
There's plenty of room for collision detection on that thing. Doesn't have to use the canister; in fact, it's probably much easier to use something completely independent of the canister and just assume the canister's positioned right for it to work (which it would be, brand new from factory)
Yes I have one too and it flashes when you go off the road. You can see it happen in ashens video when he has it fixed. Mine makes a lot of noise the whole time which I don't remember, I wonder if it only made the noise when you were off road originally
That's not a blade of grass, that's a pine needle from the christmas tree that this was played with underneath back in 1986 when a happy kid had just ripped it out of it's packaging. Nice find!
The show was originally called Playbus, but the BBC were made to rename it Playdays because an organisation called Playbus complained and kicked up a fuss back in the 80s. There's still plenty of Playdays clips on RUclips including the intro.
Playdays is also playschool, i remember it, used to watch it as a kid myself, was very good for preschool children and it was also still on tv when my younger brother was born so i watched it again with him and he learned his numbers and colours through it also his squares and triangles as it was also watch with mother lets go through the square window.
For anyone interested the Japanese characters are ropupe. They are in katakana so should be an English word, but the pronunciation makes no sense and none of several sources give any translation.
The frame message: "I know I'll always be here You know it makes my heart beat" Excellent choice of music you seem to have there. (Royksopp, Happy up here)
I had one of these, I think my Grandpa bought it for me. Even with my naive pre-teen brain I knew it was a pile of crap and must have used it a couple of times at most. That noise is so evocative though, thanks for this.
Interesting. I always thought these sort of games were achieved with some sort of scroll spinning inside, but instead it's a take on the old spirit lantern parlor trick. Neat.
My cousin got one of those for his birthday when I was a baby and when I got older it got handed down to me and I got to say I really loved that thing me and my step brothers would setup joking playing Super Nintendo and taking turns driving that I really want that machine you have there because it brings back pleasant childhood memories
Oh good lord Stuart, What have you done?!?! [6:00] The grass masks have now infiltrated the past in an attempt to change the fates of the heathen mortals!
I remember having one of these growing up. Except mine was a Corvette. I figured out quite quickly that the road was just an endless loop. Except mine didn't seem to pivot left and right, so if you just left it going down the street it would never have an "accident" ever.
Oh and I remember Playdays! ;) The theme tune always gets stuck in my head. And the unrealistic bus driver moving the steering wheel left and right when the bus is still going forward.
Oh, geez, I used to love Play Days, and I used to call it Playbus, too. It was that exact intro sequence that caused me to think that you were supposed to use steering wheels like that for years.
The main purpose of this toy, for most children, was not it's predetermined function as a "race simulator", but as a convincing control panel for the cardboard spaceship that you constructed.
I got an extremely old record player from my grandpa when he got a new one, and years later when I was more curious about inner workings of things, and got bored, I opened it up only to find an old wrapped cigar and nudie playing card. By then he had passed on but I always wonder if those were his or from someone who had it before him.
What if he put that there for you?
Wasn't the cigar rotten by then?
0_0
You discovered grandpa's wank bank.
I'll wager that's a pine needle from a christmas tree good Sir!!
It's the hospital stop!
It's the crematorium stop!
It's the grief counseling stop!
Oh, Stuart, you never cease to amaze me.
its the morgue stop
regularflurfy who's Stuart? I thought this was the Simon Pegg eats nasty stuff and plays with toys channel?
Discount Simon Pegg, actually.
Its the usual moron in the comments quoting the part they thought was funny.
because......????? reasons????
Or to turn us all on, basically Dr Stuart Ashen is a total daddy.
The "blade of grass" is actually a pine needle. Some sorry sap got this for Christmas.
Was the sap part a intentional pun?
+josh whitwell oh yus
@Sassy The Sasquatch I was wondering what that was!
But how did it get inside? The mystery continues...
You mean some super lucky kid. This thing was the tits. If you had no video games.
It's like he dismantled my childhood, then fixed it and put it back together again. This is epic.
4:37 I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat
thanks i couldnt be bothered
But.. WHY
so we would spent time and effort trying to pause it at the right moment.
+wolfy boy lol like I did
I'm looking at this comment 31 weeks later and I forgot why
Stuart Ashen, can he break it? Stuart Ashen, HE ALREADY HAS!! #MyJam
***** Fixed it. Thanks by the way.
in a way some toys are cooked
Elijah Shafi Haven"t we had a comment war with each other once?
+Brenden White don't remember. I am not even sure.
+Brenden White Next Number 1 in the Charts right there!
Wow, it's actually working BETTER than it did before.
I had a corvette style driving toy with similar mechanics, but with the addition of functioning turn signals/indicators and headlights on the front of the toy that could be mechanically flipped up. I certainly did try to imagine that road being longer, the simulation more interactive, etc. Thanks for breaking it apart; works almost exactly as I always expected.
Yes!!!! that was mine the corvette version i remember the pop up headlights the batteries also laid down sideways. but i remember the turn signals and pop up hesdlights. I wonder who made it i thought i had the tomy one.
This is pretty neat! TOMY toys always seem to have pretty cool mechanisms. I've got an Astro Shooter table top pinball game by them that I really enjoyed tinkering with when I was younger. Ive actually had to go and fix it a few times as well. Everything on the game is powered by a single motor, and there are plenty of gears and mechanisms to "power" everything around the playfield. Kind of impressive design honestly, if not completely convoluted! :P
I used to have something similar as a kid, but way more shite... but at the same time, it was probably more reliable. It had none of these weird tacho-fuel-speed things, it only had a key, the wheel and the "screen". It worked slightly differently too. The car was a sticker on the actual screen, and the wheel moved the ENTIRE ROAD side to side instead.
I had one like that too. The one I had didn't have any of the grid on the side of the road or the car on the left. It was just an empty black road with some back lighting. It looked like the car was driving down a never ending road at night. I always found it kinda spooky.
I think I had one of those too, at one point.
FokkerBoombass Sounds like the Playmates Fun to Drive Dashboard. I had one of those as a kid and and the pop-up lights mechanism would get stuck, It was based on a corvette.
FokkerBoombass you most likely had the same one I had as a kid. It was called the playmates fun to drive. It was a corvette with the car painted on the screen and the steering wheel moved the light inside which in turn made the projected road move back and forth on the screen
_instead of driving a car, you were _*_changing the fabric of reality itself_*
I wonder why there aren't more driving simulators where you play as God
I remember Playdays. There was a dopey brummy cat, a condescending bird and a little girl who forgot to take the pegs off her clothes when she took them off the line.
and the guy who clearly had some kind of sexual relationship with a carousel.
The "condescending bird" lmfao :D
Glad he got it working, quite impressive for it's day.
0:58 Say it, don't spray it, Ashens.
you made my day
@Sassy The Sasquatch Dude you watch old Ashens videos. One cool person right here
@silixtuhibiski95 how about me? Watching in 2024 lol
@@SouthParkStudio You're an omega-level human
@@silixtuhibiski95who was sassy the Sasquatch?!?! 😢
Thank you so much! We had that thing back in 1987. It didn't even seam to make much sense as a toy when I was 5. But it was fascinating. Now I know how it worked. Thanks!
I had this when I was younger, it was also a toy I didn't get? Still don't.
I know I'll always be here. You know if makes my heart beat.
I just finished repairing my old one of these I got back from my father after nearly 35 years. Was a buzz playing the game again after sooo long 😁
I had a later version, which had indicators and a more realistic road layout. Absolutely loved it!
until i read your comment i thought i had this version. Thinking about it, i seem to remember indicators on mine too.
Ahh nostalgia.
Thomas Williams I don't remember the indicators. But I remember having one that had a "realistic" road, in so much that it was a cartoon of a winding road in a feild instead of this tron looking thing.
mine too had the indicators and pop up headlights. I thought it was a bit bigger too but maybe i was just small lol
I've still got a very good torch that uses those battery's. We had that toy as kids but never played with it working as mum never had the battery's for it and they were expensive. We just pretended to drive with it, probably more fun than the actual game! And I remember play days: "its the why bird stop!"
i know ill always be here, you know it makes my heart beat
A long, LONG time ago my family went to the beach and there was a little arcade there. Other than pinball, the games were almost entirely mechanical; some cost a nickel, some a dime.There was a game quite like that car where you "flew" a little airplane past obstacles. I think that was the first arcade game I ever played.
text at 4:37 says "I know I'll always be here You know it makes my heart beat"
You know,i would love to have this toy back in the days.I would go into my dads car really often and pretend to be driving,this thing wouldve been perfect
I remember doing the same thing in my dad's old 850. Ahhh, memories.
me to! XD lol me and my friend! we would travel to other galaxies, and saw a house made of CHEESE! (my dad was painting the house yellow. XD)
"That's the end of that?", My ASS!
You may have not noticed (while playing with it or replaying the footage), but at least the latter is preserved for all to see. The light that lights the screen flashes when you "hit" an object. It is very clear and repetitive, and is obviously not the unit cutting out. I assume that's why your brain filtered out the rhythmic flashing: it's a piece of crap. Not only this, but the reason it stopped working at the end would be clear if you looked at the dashboard. It engine had overheated! Keep in in high gear and the heat goes up. Look at the other gauges, they're all functional. I had one of these as a kid and my dad modified it with a bigger screen, a MUCH longer/swappable road tape with different difficulty/terrain, and a day/night headlight function.
Don't be fooled by the complexity of strictly mechanical devices, they can be quite impressive. I also had a 'robotic arm' toy from radio shack. It was completely mechanical, yet featured a fully articulate arm controlled with two twistable joysticks. It had full rotate/elbow/wrist/grip functionality with two speeds for each articulation, but was only powered by an always on, constant rpm motor with only gear and lever mechanical connections diverting power. Now THAT was an impressive toy. I had lots of fun with it, especially when I decided to dissect it.. and I couldn't re-assemble all it's gears and sprockets, LOL!
+MrGingerOFFICIAL I do! I literally scrolled through the comments trying to find someone who thought the lights were flickering like I did.
Awesome. yeah we have a tendency to dismiss yesterday's technology with little thought, but it can as a result highlight the ingenuity of humans. Automata from several hundred years ago are a good example, some of which do things that you wouldn't imagine attempting without computation now (like a mechanical boy that draws pictures and handwrites text which is programmable).
Obviously the Tomy toy is no work of genius, but a slightly less patronizingly dismissive look at it would have been nice IMO.
Mr3Kidneys
I had an armatron as well. The 8-Bit Guy repaired one recently on his channel.
Not only is there the flickering when you hit the side of the road or parked car, but the trip counter also stops advancing for a couple of seconds every time you do. So there is actually a goal and some scoring going on here, and you can keep replaying to beat your previous score. When the fuel runs out, the game is over. To refill your fuel, you have to clear your score by pressing the counter reset button.
the flashed text:
"I know I will always be here.
You know it makes my heart beat."
...why?
i caught on as well, dissapointed nobody else has as well?? much confusion
Very Science
he might be trying to tell us something that his government or any other government doesnt want us to know BUT, its in code...
another thought: he just wants to give us something to think about
Baker Field He likes to put subliminal messages in his videos. Not sure why though.
1:03 - It was called Playbus at first, and then Playdays later on. Even when the name changed, it still said "It's the Playbus" in the intro.
"It's the hospital stop"
My mind suddenly dug up and used the Play Days voice for that...
am i the only person who would get one of these now and play with it for weeks
No
Aaaahh... child memories :') I wish I still had mine. I loved it.
I remember that I always had it with me in our car, and pretended that I was driving :') That was 12 years ago.
In the old day...when things are broken people fix it. Today...when things are broken...they are simply thrown away...Yay! Consumerism!! ==
I think it's because in the past,it was easy to take something apart and NOT HAVE IT BLOW YOUR FACE OOF!
this crap was not worth fixing.
***** or void your damn warranty
even a ipod screen? or a ipod battery?
ahhhhhhh like your face!! (ba da thash)
THANK YOU. It's like the curtain of my childhood illusions have been pulled back, revealing a vast wasteland of fragile plastic and decaying electronics.
Why do I find this so satisfying ?
That was great that you got it working! Fun to watch. Thanks Stewart!
4:37 That´s lyrics from the song "Happy Up Here" by the band Royksopp. Just putting that out there :)
At first I would say that the gloves are creepy but the inspection and correction of the machine made up for and exceeded that! YAY! Good Job Grand Pa!
For fixing other parts you kinda broke the fuel display.
This gave me ASMR tingles.
Well I guess I was imagining the off-road detection mechanism thingie.
No.. wait, I still have the toy, it still works, and it still detects you getting off road. Is this magic?
There's plenty of room for collision detection on that thing. Doesn't have to use the canister; in fact, it's probably much easier to use something completely independent of the canister and just assume the canister's positioned right for it to work (which it would be, brand new from factory)
Yes I have one too and it flashes when you go off the road. You can see it happen in ashens video when he has it fixed. Mine makes a lot of noise the whole time which I don't remember, I wonder if it only made the noise when you were off road originally
I remember my grandmother having something like this if not this same toy when I was a kid
I had one as a kid but it was a lot better and had a lot more detail and turns and the track was at least three times as long
mine was a plane that is much bigger than this.
OMG! I had one of these too. And I was trying to remember its name for years. Thanks a million.
That PhD in Psychology is finally paying off!
4:37 - "I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat."
i had 1 of those when i was a kid... it sucked so hard my vacuum cleaner felt ashamed
That's not a blade of grass, that's a pine needle from the christmas tree that this was played with underneath back in 1986 when a happy kid had just ripped it out of it's packaging. Nice find!
Steven Ashens
Can he break it?!
Steven Ashens
He aleready has
Finn Townhill Stuart, But close
STUART
Who the fuck is Steven?
Did this myself with my Tomy Racing Turbo when I was around 10 years old. Ashen, you have accurately captured the disappointment I felt in this video.
the playbus intro was removed for copyright
i know. sad. :(
It was? Damn you abused copyright system! RUclips's job is to prevent people from making copyright strikes!
The show was originally called Playbus, but the BBC were made to rename it Playdays because an organisation called Playbus complained and kicked up a fuss back in the 80s. There's still plenty of Playdays clips on RUclips including the intro.
Playdays is also playschool, i remember it, used to watch it as a kid myself, was very good for preschool children and it was also still on tv when my younger brother was born so i watched it again with him and he learned his numbers and colours through it also his squares and triangles as it was also watch with mother lets go through the square window.
Royscopp - Happy Up Here
skopp*
Ashens Couch
The only good thing about this comment is your name and pic
Ashens Couch Are you a real ashens certified channel or a false account
Röyksopp to be precise. Had to コピペ that.
For anyone interested the Japanese characters are ropupe. They are in katakana so should be an English word, but the pronunciation makes no sense and none of several sources give any translation.
loved playdays when i was little and when i was in secondary school i always watched the intro but stayed for the stop with the bird
Nostalgia, crap innit lol.
Awesome toy! It may seem unimpressive today but i made good cash with it back in the days lol Kids in my street loved it!!!!!
+Andrej Bencic I still have it to lol
I love that he found a 25 year old pine needle, presumably from a christmas tree.
The frame message:
"I know I'll always be here
You know it makes my heart beat"
Excellent choice of music you seem to have there. (Royksopp, Happy up here)
I had one of these, I think my Grandpa bought it for me. Even with my naive pre-teen brain I knew it was a pile of crap and must have used it a couple of times at most. That noise is so evocative though, thanks for this.
" I know I will always be here .. You know it makes my heart beat" :)
I had this toy too. Loved it. Had to go up in the attic and find it after this video.
Dude, that was the playbus. Always used to think the same about the driving. Very funny!
the video I was waiting to see, Thank you Ashens. 0:21 I like that idea of the teardown of toys show. Cool that you were able to fix this.
that road could make a lovely light for a kid :)
Now it runs properly, that's actually pretty impressive for an entirely mechanical "video" game. Even has a 3D effect!
Interesting. I always thought these sort of games were achieved with some sort of scroll spinning inside, but instead it's a take on the old spirit lantern parlor trick. Neat.
The road does bend. They do it by moving the light bulb so the projection on the screen shifts from left to right. Don't know about the score though.
The pause was I know I'll always be here, You know it makes my heart beat xD
"I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat." Ashes just got deep
My cousin got one of those for his birthday when I was a baby and when I got older it got handed down to me and I got to say I really loved that thing me and my step brothers would setup joking playing Super Nintendo and taking turns driving that I really want that machine you have there because it brings back pleasant childhood memories
The number of times I had to pause the video just to see the subliminal message. It was all worth it.
I had one of those! when I used to be a kid that thing was the most amazing in my memories...but just in my memories
Tomy made the best toys back in the day. Who had a Tomytronic 3D? Still got mine.
That is awesome that you got it working that is my favorite toy when I was a kid
It may be the poundland pizza snack of toys, but I always wanted this as a kid! Thanks Ashens
As a game for a neo-toddler, that thing is awesome. Keep them amused for hours.
I’ve still got that exact same one 😂. My brother got one similar it was a cop car with a little radio attached
Oh good lord Stuart, What have you done?!?! [6:00] The grass masks have now infiltrated the past in an attempt to change the fates of the heathen mortals!
That toy is amazing. I don't think I have seen any toy like that recently. I want it!
I don't see why people don't like these. After watching this I would honestly be willing to pay for one or one such similar device.
when stuart is wearing his white gloves you know that the video is going to be awesome^^
goodness me, didn't realised I'd seen playdays before until I just clicked the annotation, brings back some memories. lol
I'm surprised it didn't spontaneously combust. Good job, Ashens!
I remember having one of these growing up. Except mine was a Corvette.
I figured out quite quickly that the road was just an endless loop. Except mine didn't seem to pivot left and right, so if you just left it going down the street it would never have an "accident" ever.
You Know I will always be here. You know it makes my heart beat.
You've literally just taken apart my childhood dreams with nothing more than a Phillips screwdriver...
Oh and I remember Playdays! ;) The theme tune always gets stuck in my head. And the unrealistic bus driver moving the steering wheel left and right when the bus is still going forward.
Ashens, a Royksopp fan? Yet another pleasant surprise out of this guy!
I know I'II always be here.
You know it makes my heart beat.
Better Version
well that tripped me out, when he said "Off! " the street lights outside went out. Creepy synchronisation or what
At the mention of playbus, I went on a goddamn childhood nostalgia rush. I miss being 5.
"I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat".
Oh, geez, I used to love Play Days, and I used to call it Playbus, too. It was that exact intro sequence that caused me to think that you were supposed to use steering wheels like that for years.
Ashens you ruined my childhood showing me the real road...I loved that toy as a baby :(
I fuckin' fell on the floor laughing when you said "It's the hospital stop"
"i know i'll always be here
You know it makes my heart beat"
the handheld version had several strips each of which represented a seperate lane. it was pretty damned sophisticated for the early eighties
I know I'll always be here.
You know it makes my heart beat.
I know I'll always be there.
You know it makes my heart beat.
Damn blades of grass. Always ruining childhood toys.
I had one of these :D Played it for hours.... 12 years ago...
I know I'll always be here. I know it makes my heart beat. That's the thing that showed for like 3 frames.