The V Smile TV Learning System: Big Brain Time | Billiam
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The V. Smile was an early educational console developed by VTech in 2004. The V.Smile had a lot of licensed games, particularly by Disney, IT'S PRETTY BAD!
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If you grew up with this. You're a real gamer
HELL YEA MAN LETS GOOOO
Pog I did!
I still have it....
@@arandomguy2616 I'm clearly not worthy of your presence
@@arandomguy2616 I just found mine again we are a different species of perfection
This unlocked hidden memories for me. I've legitimately been searching for this for YEARS.
SAME!!!
I was just thinking about this the other day, then when I found this channel, I saw this and was like "YOOOOOOOO!!!!! THATS THE THING!!!!!!!"
bro holy shit same, when i saw those cartridges and on and off buttons it immediately clicked
Me too bro
Same I thought it was made by leap frog
My daycare had one of these bad boys. Everyone would be gathered in the corner, staring up at a small wall-TV. You wouldn't believe how competitive the Dora Videogame got.
Dora PVP sounds like a fantastic game reboot
No lie, that sounds like a fun experience
Ah nostalgia
I had one of these at home and I'm glad I at least got to play on a gamecube at daycare and not one of these with other kids😂
Oh my god this was such a central yet foggy part of my childhood.
Yes I couldn't agree more
This and the N64 were reallyy early on for me
I KNOW! Stuff like that Alphabet Park thing looked so familiar, but still I remembered nothing.
Same
FR!! At first I thought it was like aa vivid dream
"you'll never get into college if you don't play your video games!"
Sounds like a line I'd expect in something like Ready Player One.
WOAH TRACER AND THE IRON GIANT, REFERENCES ARE STORY
Endgame: The most ambitious crossover in history.
Ready Player One: Are you sue about that?
Or South Korea
Well considering there are colleges now that give e-sports scholarships...
the movie or the book? the book was amazing, the movie was meh
I had the Dora game as a child and I would literally run away from Boots. Like, I made Dora go so far that Boots wouldn't be on screen for 5 minutes until he caught up. My sister and I thought it was the funniest thing ever back then
Ooh I should try that, thanks!
Dora is arrested for animal abandonment
Even though she’s probably 7
The ABC park game holds such nostalgic horror for me, hearing the sounds from it sends me into a state
Coming back to this- the falling noise!! It haunts me!!
@@_gremlinboy THE CLOWNS ON THE TRIPWIRE LAUGHING AND THE LITTLE DUCKS TALKING
Yeah I know what you mean
I loved that game except for the fact I was scared of literally any possible enemy in it, so when we’d play it together I’d make my younger brother get past the enemies
Are you kidding i loved that game Indeed, My sister and i played it so much we both play 2 players for V-Smile Alphabet Park Adventure (2004).
Watching that first game unlocked hidden childhood memories I didn't know I lost. The sound of the kid getting hit SENT me back
Same!
"Historically speaking, baby intelligence has always been very low"
I had to pause & rewind just to hear that gold medal of a line once again
"I was a gamer kid. She said there's no lamer kid."
That fucking got me.
This is one of the most forceful and happiest trips through memory lane I've ever been through. I love my vague memories of that silly thing and I appreciate this look at them.
Me too
The V smile was definitely a height of my
childhood. My family was poor at the time so I thought it was the best thing to exist and I have some pretty fond memories of playing on the console with my siblings
I remember when I played this years ago as well ah the early 2000’a
holy shit the nostalgia combined with long-lost memory is causing physical trauma
Right?
I'm tripping too brother... it's been too long
It literally punched me in the gut seeing the thumbnail then proceeded to beat me to death as i watched the video
I thought I hallucinated this thing omg?? I had the Care Bears game and it annoyed the hell out of me lmaooo
I hate how I used to have one of these and I forgot about it
Collectible junk perfectly describes his channel and that's 100% why I'm here for it.
Two collectible world's colliding, holy shiiit
Wow, seeing my favorite Yu-gi-oh channel comment on one of my favorite RUclipsrs.
Amazing!
Sums up why I watch your channel too 😂
Woah I haven’t whatched you guys in years
Holy crap, never expected you guys to show up here! Haha
The anticlimax of Dora just saying "Swiper no swiping" even with no color pressed made me guffaw IRL
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS. The second I saw the thumbnail I was in such a happy shock. Though, I never remembered this as a learning game. In my memory, these were just REALLY hard games that required a lot of skill. Then again, I have dyslexia lmfao.
During my childhood I used to literally speed run the Dora game.
Run a speedrun for games done quick webpage.
I can already see the title now "The progression of the Dora the Explorer World Record."
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 *Home- Were Finally Landing plays in the distance*
@purificationthroughputrefaction From the statement they were implying they were trying to beat the game as fast as they possibly could. Which is the definition of a Speedrun in reference to video games. In this instance they meant "literal."
@purificationthroughputrefaction To add emphasis to the sentence. It is extremely common for English speakers to add adjectives to make a sentence more dramatic or hyperbolic.
I could totally rewrite this radically cool sentence to have just of half the totally tubular vocab by just cutting out the mega-awesome adjectives. Or: I could rewrite this sentence to have zero adjectives. They mean the same thing but one is more eccentric.
If you want to be pedantic about "literally" and "figuratively" there are at least a million better comments or phrases to pick on about it.
I had a VSmile as a Young Boy, I was born in 2005, I haven’t heard anyone whisper the name VSmile ever & I honest to god thought I imagined it
Me too and back then I thought it was cool since most educational games where on the computer but this is before I got my nintendo ds.
I was a weird kid back then who loved education gaming stuff (like vsmile and leapfrog) but now I'm meh about it...
SAME
I was born in 2001, and I also have not heard this system be mentioned since
is... ur channel name a homestuck reference
Same, I was born in 2006.
Seeing the Alphabet Park main menu just brought back a fucking tsunami of memories for me. Thank you for this.
“I stink, therefore I am” made me laught too hard
Fun Fact:
The portable edition also has a left - handed button on the back.
Fun fact: they also made a version that doesn't
HOLY CRAP what a throw back, I used to have the V-smile. literally had it until I was about 8 and it just stopped working completely but my gosh what a blast it was.
I loved the Winnie the pooh and the lion king game so much
That's why I own three of these things! I used to own a 4th one, but that one died on me so I don't have it anymore.
Same! I played on mine every day until it just quit.
SAME
I would get one and it would break shortly after. My parents got me 2 or 3 different ones until we just gave up
I'm pretty sure this is what got me into gaming. Who could've known that I would go from a VTech kids system to a PS5!
My god, I had this as a kid, and I blame it for my love of video games today; the Winnie the Pooh game was my favorite, especially the winter level, which is burned into my brain, and I still absolutely love them today
I thought the winter level was so cool because you left footprints in the snow
Can confirm. Played this at my mom's friend's house like 14 years ago and now I'm a software engineer major
Is that because of what the game taught you or because you wanted to ensure this crap wasn’t ever put in any other child’s hands by well meaning but misguided parents?
@@UnluckyOctopus ye
Damn must be hard being selected to be promoted to that high of a status in the software engineering army
Holy shit, you've unlocked some hidden nostalgia here
IKR
Seriously. Remember playing Alphabet Park with a friend, and going through Toy Story 2 near daily.
I know right
Yeah, I had the winnie the pooh game and alphabet park, I still have them today
i remember having all of the consoles and accessories becuase i liked playing video games as a kid, and i kid you not there are like 8 different consoles you can buy and i had all of them.and litterally the only difference was that there was original, original with microphone, original with drawing pad,big drawing pad, handheld, handheld with microphone, hand held with drawing pad,and original with motion controls. And all of them were advertised as new consoles
Seeing commercials (specifically the line “you’ll never get into college if y don’t play your video games”) for the v smile was the first time I felt academic pressure.
“He was a gamer kid she said there was no lamer kid” is genius
I love Avril's music!!
Gosh this brings back memories, though my kid brain remembered the animation better. I use to play the Alphabet game a lot, but there were two stages I was terrified of 1)the one with the robotics alligator that chased you, 2) the bees that would cause you to fall while floating on the balloon.
bro exactly. I was always scared of the robots and I would always take the path where no robots were 🤣
Yeah I know
I had the Nemo game as a kid and cars 2
@@ledo2509 cool for you
The soccer game was my fav
You had the perfect opportunity to use the Socrates quote, "All that I know is that I know nothing" for Baby Socrates
True, instead he shows alter Descartes.
I had a Vsmile when i was younger, it was my first ever game console. I felt like a baddie when i played on that thing.
Me who now ten years later has a nintendo switch lite wich is small and compact, thinks it looks like a brick. It was badass tho.
They do seem simple, but these are things kids really need to learn. You'd be amazed what kids-and adults- who have never been exposed to video games, or even writing or different types of visual media can deal with intellectually!
oh look, the scooby do man is doing something else
Kinda pissed he'd didn't review the Winnie the Pooh game, it was in the background!
Kinda pissed he didn't review the zayzoo games
Same
Same with Spider-Man and Scooby doo
It’s one of the best ones too...smh..
that shit was my jam. i played it before i was old enough to read so i didn’t know how to do anything, so i just walked around the maps and used my imagination to make up stories. it was nice.
Thanks to the V Smile, i learnt to spell "Embarrassing" in 1st grade
Edit: Thanks to the V Smile, i became way smarter than the other kids in class, mostly because of the Scooby Doo game
Same but because of the alphabet game
I am absolutely devastated you didn’t cover the beautiful timeless cult classic that is Scooby Doo Funland Frenzy, a pillar of my childhood
OMG I LOVED THE PART WHERE YOU SWAM IN THE OCEAN I FORGET WHAT THE LEVEL IS CALLED BUT I ALSO REMEMBER ONE WHERE YOU FLEW ON A PARACHUTE OR SOMETHING AND IT WAS CALLED SKY SAIL I THINK
"Two roads diverge in a yellow wood. And I took the one with the gazelle."
-Baby Robert Frost
And that has made all the difference
Growing up with learning disabilities the Dora game was literally prescribed to me to help me learn spatial skills.
Would you say it helped?
@@zanpakutoman4225 The games were to easy. I probably learned more from playing more complex games. Tetris, Chess, Total War, ETC
That’s really interesting! Most reading I found sort of dismissed the console. I would definitely be interested to try and find if this was common, but I can’t find anything with immediately
@@billiam I think I have heard about some study that showed kids with dyslexia improving their reading skills, after regularly playing mario 64 for about an hour a day. Stating that playing a healthy amount of the game indirectly helped train their brain to concentrate or something. I didn't look too far into it and this was like almost a decade ago.
@@billiam I remember the games being too easy. I can't say for certain what ultimately worked helped me overcome my learning disabilities. Spatial skills are used in visualizing math equations, using equipment, navigation, Organization.
This was my favorite thing for YEARS. I still miss to this very day. I played all the Disney games constantly, specifically Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast
Oh boy I remember this thing. This was actually the 2nd console that I ever had access to, the first being the LeapPad (not sure which one, apparently they made a few different ones which i had no idea about when i was a kid). I specifically remember my favorite game was the Go Diego Go "platformer." As a child I would even sometimes choose this over my PS2 because it was easier to set up and was a lot easier to navigate, for obvious reasons. I'd kill to have a life as simple as that again lol
I had my V-tech until I discovered club penguin secret agent missions. Those were a lot more complex and enjoyable. Ugh I miss those times
Broo, the alphabet park section didn't just take me back, it THREW me back, my god, it's been so long, i spent so much time on this thing as a kid
I swear I’ve seen alphabet park as a term for something lgbtq+ related. Then again it may be bcs most are “alphabet ___”
This must been the game where it randomly showed fuck
Same i hate the Game Alphabet because These fucking mini games 😂😂😂😂😂
I had Alphabet park as well, but i feel like the characters were different? im not sure why. maybe a regional thing?
Holy moly. I spontaneously remembered my blues clues game on an orange and purple gaming system. While watching a how to prepare wine for formal drinking. This is so surreal. Oh my god... the alphabet part... that gives me the chills. I loved the noises. I would just fail for the point of hearing. I remember the noises and colors and fun, but I don’t ever remember the things I “learned” but then again I read stalin in my free time... so I guess I wasn’t a normal kid. I was also a really dumb kid who couldn’t understand how to finish a lego game. Nor had the patience to do so(undiagnosed adhd). Once as a kid I completed the Star Wars one, but didn’t have the patience to try to collect everything. So I was always broke and couldn’t buy anything because I would get like 10k coins when a character costs like 100k when realistically anyone with more than five brain cells would get about 75k per level. Back the the games, I remember blues clues too loved the sounds, the marvel marvel one loved the sounds, and idk more but it’s too hazy and fuzzy. And honestly bruh, I might now be cognitively capable without it. Like I wouldn’t of even been able to get to 10% in more advanced games like that sponge bob game. But still keep in mind I practically couldn’t read when I should of. This is really too surreal. The colors are still very... nice... they are very colorful. And that sponge bob one I couldn’t figure it out. I just played the picture games. I also have dyslexia. But the colors are so nice. Their graphics are compelling. As if it’s a game some modern kid would wish they had. Like I see some of the things kids grow up now with and it’s so... gross. It’s just watching coco melon and other really capitalist hellscape things like tiktok.
Other games: Choose a different path, there are different endings
V Smile games: Choose the correct path, learn something
God this was locked so far in the back of my memory
Same
sams
Sameee
"You'll never get into college if you don't play your video games"
Gamer college 30 years later be like
The fact my college has an eSports team this sadly isn't too far off at this point.
Lol
i was at college, but i didn't play video games
I remember having one of these when I was a kid!
I actually had all three! The original V Smile, the V Motion and the V Smile Pocket!
There was this one Pixar Cars game I remember playing _ALL_ the time!
Specifically the one neon sign puzzle minigame. I absolutely loved it.
I actually still play puzzle games like that to this day! Such as Power Line.
I had the Motion and I still have my pocket to this day! I am planning to give it to my little brother who is turning 3!
So, at my local Target, they had this on display in the toy section for YEARS, along with things like Teddy Ruxpin. I played it a lot while my mom was shopping. It was... fine.
I like how "Digimon World: Virtual _Baby_ Simulator" is the "Up Next" video in the recommended section.
“Madden 09”
*Scott the Woz has left the chat*
As a man named madden I can confirm.
I watched Satan forge it myself!
Madden 16, 17, 18! Not as good as 08 pretty blatantly
Oh my god. My very first "playthroughs" were all Vtech games. Not on this, I had 2 hand-held portable consoles that I still have today but.. Holy shit.
My childhood flashed before my eyes...
"Historically speaking, baby intelligence has always been very low."
Delivering this line with such serious fact delivering tone lol
Oh god I had one of these when I was a kid.. legit managed to break it within an hour cos I was klutzy af
Bruh me too
I had one of the newer models that could be played portably, I had most of these games too
Same... mine broke so I got the handheld version for Christmas
It's made for kids, yet it can break easily. I believe that's what would either be called a "failure" or just cheaply made.
How were these made when the first one was easy to demolish?
Everyone ignore this comment so he doesn't know I'm here. I just want to help his algorithm.
But I read all
No
@@billiam you're falling off
Collab when?
@@kainhighwind2 in the past
Dude literally every niche toy or show you talk about is straight from my childhood, LOVE this channel.
Me and my brother had a vsmile! We had Alphabet Park, Spongebob, and Finding Nemo. This brought back some good memories of my first sunny days spent inside.
"but I like wanted to know somebody who had a little sibling who had one, I wanted access to it just to see what it was for a minute" I'm glad I wasn't the only kid to think stuff like that 😂😂
Unlocking lost memories, thanks so much Billiam.
Oh wow, I just felt a wave of nostalgia. Had one of these things when I was 4 years old until I was around 8, and I had a BUNCH of games for it. Alphabet Park, Scooby-Doo, Winnie The Pooh, Lion King, honestly if it Disney I prolly had it lol.
We had this old VCR TV that used to be in my parents' room, but it somehow ended up in mine with the VSmile. I have this distinct memory of sitting on the side of my bed in this really soft sleeping bag playing Winnie The Pooh early in the morning. At some point, my mam came in with a plate of toast for me, and sat down with me to watch me play for a bit while I basically chatted away about it. I think Winnie The Pooh was a mild special interest game for me at the time, because I played through it so much I still remember the ending image of all of the characters eating a meal together lol.
But yeah, I played this thing to death, and if it weren't for it, I don't think I would have my special interest in video games at all tbh. In a way, I can thank this little orange and purple brick for helping me decide a career path.
A lot of V Tech toys were part of my childhood, but the V Smile was my favorite out of all of them. My favorite games included Simba's Big Adventure, Winnie the Pooh's Honey Hunt, and Backyardigan's Viking Voyage.
Alternative title: Billiam Attempts to Regain the Knowledge Lost From Watching Years-worth of TV
"The illusion of education is the power of the Dick Smith Wizard. He lives on in the V Smile."
This is the most fever dream thing I've heard all day. Make it into a shirt.
The nostalgia just slapped me in the face! I had one of these but the only games I could remember from it were the Nemo and Dora ones. I do have a slight memory of a spongebob one but I'm not quite sure.
Kind of sad that he didn't about the Winnie the Pooh game. I remember it being a pretty chill and calming game for me as a kid since I loved Winnie the Pooh a lot. It was really wholesome from what I can remember.
This channel feels so cozy. I cant explain. I guess it’s sort of like a kid waking up to watch morning saturday cartoons. Thanks for all the hard work Billiam.
I get that same feeling from his videos. 2000s nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Yeah I know what you mean
I just got this in my recommended and I am almost crying because my big brother and I played V-Smile all the time when we were little. We even had the Lion King game in the thumbnail! And the Dora the Explorer game, and the Mickey Mouse one, and Bob the Builder, and Spider-Man, and Scooby-Doo. I think Alphabet Park Adventure came with it.
Omg, I had one of these as a kid. Like no one ever knew this thing existed. I'm glad to see finally someone made a video about it.
man loved this thing as a kid it was so cool and the controller could be left handed or right handed which was super neat to me back then haha love to see it
The infinity vsmile controller
“Reality can be whatever I want”
Well Simba's a lion so clearly he should go down the path with the gazelle because gazelle is lion fuel.
5:43 “phonics, i hear kids get hooked on that stuff”
about a million rimshots went off at that very moment.
OMG the nostalgia for this console is coming back to me.
"It used three C batteries" That explains why I had this thing as a kid but never played it
We had the power cord and we just used that
“I don’t have that baby reaction time I used to have”
Currently playing megaman battle network series for nostalgia. I swear I had better reflexes as a kid.
I remember playing these games for ages, specifically the Elmo, Sesame Street, Cinderella, and Winnie the Pooh games. I remember Cinderella being hard, too! I don't remember learning but I remember having fun. When my sister was old enough, I backseat gamed bc she was a toddler and not "playing right" lol. I played way longer than I probably should have. Also, I just now realized that I would change the orientation of the controller set bc I'm ambidextrous lol. Best of all, we had the mobile version which existed
Oh my god I grew up with the VSmile! Some of the titles I remember playing as a kid are Care Bears, Dora, Spongebob, Barney, The Wiggles, Finding Nemo, The Little Mermaid, Elmo, The Lion King, and Toy Story 2
0:43 Madden 09? This is a disgrace to Scott The Woz. Madden 08 is far superior.
but that’s like your opinion bro
I'm more of a madden 13 guy myself
I remember the console but no memory of playing with it. :0
Same!! I completely forgot it existed until I saw the video
The only times I saw this were in elementary school. like, 2nd/3rd grade. I would be going to the bathroom, and one of the classes had one, and they would play it a lot.
Never got to actually use one though.
I just discovered this channel from YT recommendations and I absolutely love it!
6:46 I was hit with so many flashbacks. I had one of these growing up and couldn't remember the name of the game I played most often on it. It was this.
I kinda want it now-
Also imagine configuring that thing as a switch controller for smash
when you combo an upgreen into a dyellow
“Hey watcha doing”
**intense v-smile controller spamming**
“Imma come back later”
@@anthonyvaldes6070 I’m not sure the cheap controller could handle some high level smash play.
Uh that’s how your meant to play smash... did you not see the direct?
I still remember when I got mine on Christmas, I still have it, it´s in the closet with a bunch of cartridges.
*cough* smartridges *cough*
Easily one of the best videos you’ve ever made.
I'm genuinely concerned about Billy's mental health but at the same time, the deeper he sinks into madness, the funnier his videos get
These consoles haunt my local goodwills. I see them ALL the time.
You just unlocked hidden memories within me. Thank you.
This brings back old memories back when I was a "wee-lad" The Spider-Man & Friends games were some of my favourites. I remember the Scooby-Doo game being super hard.
To anyone who had one as a kid, does anyone remember zazu’s adventure? Or whatever it was called, with the lil alien dude?
Yes! But only barely...I remember a level where they're at a playground and thats about it.
I only vividly remember a Shrek game where it used the lost woods song from Zelda
Yeah zayzoo actually
Best game on there
I remember the lion king
I loved it
The way he pronounces Descartes is.... interesting.
This was legitimately my favourite gaming system as a kid. I remember being allowed to take it into the hospital to share with the kid next to me when I had one of my surgeries. It was so much fun.
I absolutely loved the wall-e and Cinderella one (and alphabet Park) so much!
big brain moves out here
no.
Great that you’re here!!!
What is this, a crossover?
Derrick Puppan Indeed it is.
Omg this must be a crossover lol
6:45 I haven’t heard this audio in 14 years. The faint music in the background, the damage noise. bILLiam, this is too nostalgic
USE YOUR JOYSTICK TO MOVE! #nostalgia
This brings back way to much nostalgia
I used to play this at my babysitter's place... I thought I made that experience up. Turns out I was playing an actual game for kids. I remember playing the lion king one omg 😳
I owned one of these as a kid, I believe it’s currently at my uncles house, I loved that thing so much
How could they not know "the dick smith wizard" would be a hilariously awful title? 🤣
I never remembered a memory this far deep into my past, I would tear up right now if my eyes weren’t to dry from the edible I ate. I missed this feeling, nostalgia isn’t the word for it even. This felt like the new center of my universe and life became to happy, I love it. This was my life.
U unlocked a memory I forgot I had. Loved this thing when I was little!