Thank you for the wonderful 8 bit homage to "Tom Sawyer" in the middle. I had no way of knowing i'd be feverishly pounding away at air drums before I started watching, but here we are, and yes I did.
I got SuperVision (v2) when I was a kid. I got it at Dixons (The Netherlands) at my hometown. I got Hero kid, Crystball,Chimera, F1 race and some shoot em up. I got my games at Dixons in those clamshell cases. They cost 35 gulden (about 30 euro) 2 years later I got a Gameboy ;)
I wasn't sure how I'd feel about your next video after the obvious heel turn last go with "Why I hate retro game collectors" but I've found this handheld fascinating ever since it was a prize on morning game shows. Good work!!
I think I read somewhere some time ago the story about the port. I believe it was official, but I don't remember the source, so don't quote me on that.
Always enjoy watching the intro, reminds me of some of my favourite Britcoms. The background music seemed a bit loud during your excellent commentary. Thank you for playing these games so that I don't have to :-D
Have you considered doing a video on the Bitcorp Gamate? It's a handheld primarily released in Europe, although I got my (CIB) from a seller in Australia. It was also released in North America and Asia. There were approx. 74 games released for it. All of the games that I have for it I have CIB. I happen to have C1-001, which is a Tetris clone called Cube-Up. It has a green monochromatic screen like the Game Boy has. Like the Lynx Model 2, the headphone jack outputs Stereo. Build quality is surprisingly very good. If you need something to play on it I have two CIB copies of C-019 (Dino Ball), which is a Pinball game.
I love bizarre stuff like this ,)I actually like the supervision, although its another good solidariedade prof that games sell the system, and not the concept of it.Very inovating for the time, and a cool alternative to the gameboy, with a solid 3rd party support, this thing could have been a hit.
Finally got to watch this today, was interesting to me as my youngest brother had one but I don't remember much about it except for the Tetris rip-off and an Excite Bike clone he had (was looking for it in the footage). Loved the Robocop outro tune!
Scrolling shooters are one of the easiest types of game to programme. After pong and breakout the first game I made when learning to programme was a vertically scrolling space shooter :). I had much less skill and knowledge than my other programming friend at the college but Giant flashy explosions bring more punters to the keyboard than efficient rotation and scaling engines. The subsequent game was bomberman. It was fun seeing you describe the 'classic' game designs ( that are always fun even when made by rank amateurs) that appeared on the system in their order of programming complexity :).
Unless you have no scrolling and sprites/blitter hw support nor a fast enough CPU to compensate (and even with a fast CPU, there's a lot more programming if you have to code it all from scratch).
I found one with the gameboy looks, but it's dead. Looking for info about the system I found out you had this video. Thanks for clarifying what pierce of hardware I found.
On the school bus I had an original game boy, many others had a gameboy as well, 1 girl had a game gear, 1 boy had a supervision (the non-bending version), and 1 older 5th grader had a turbo express. I was always fascinated with the other handhelds and felt my gameboy was lackluster, perhaps I was bored with the games I had already played tons of times.
I had a Game Gear back in the day, and while the games where really nice, the battery life of it was fucking horrible, and you could barely get 3 hours out of 6 AA batteries, plus now days if you can find a GameGear where the screen still works without it having a recap job done then you are damn freaking lucky, I got my GameGear the Christmas it came out, and by 99 the screen was so fracked from the bad caps it was unplayable. yet I recently found an OG GameBoy at a GoodWill with Super Mario Land stuck in it along with some batteries, and it fired up like it was new despite the scratches it had on it.
That chimera game looks familiar, I had a game of the same name, with very similar graphics and gameplay on the spectrum or c64 (twas a long time ago). It also had speech, screaming the games name at the start. It was a budget firebird game iirc.
I remember seeing ads for this in game magazines back at the time of its release. It always appeared to be a cheap cash-in clone of the Game Boy, and as you've demonstrated, that's essentially what it was. I'd still like to acquire one, at some point, but I certainly won't be too excited to pay much for it.
I remember this being advertised in magazines and might had been interested in it if I had ever seen it any where. Might had been interesting at the time. Now a days, I'd not bother unless I could get it really cheep.
I had this. I could never afford gameboy and this was quite cool given the circumstances. the handheld was sold with the crystball cartridge. there were a few cool games, something like olympic trials and a brain games thing.
I know it's good footage to put in, it's a good aesthetic. However, now all I can imagine is some random people watching you pet a gameboy into a camera on a lava beach. Good video!
I saw one at a gaming store for $45 almost a year ago. The employee who worked there was surprised I knew of it(considering my age, was 14) and I thought of buying it cause of it’s oddity.
I think a childhood friend of mine used to have one of these. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that was a "Gameboy knock-off" in such an extent, that even the startup was the same. You know: Turning on the thing and a logo would come down to the middle with a "gling" noise, like the Game Boy would do...
i remember violet berlins constant advocation of the supervision. she was flogging a dead horse with that one lol. you can watch all the bad influence episodes on youtube. in hindsight its a hell of a lot more childish than gamesmaster though. the word rad realy hasnt aged very well lol
Indeed it was always too 'rad' for me personally. In fact this is a good video topical in its own right. As a child the whole 'radical' marketing campaign aimed at children, use to really get on my nerves, I just use to see the whole thing as brash and pretentious. I was raised with manners and etiquette, so why would I want an 'attitude'.
The amount of bloody gaming videos I watch lately where I think I've got one of them, what do you mean youve never heard of it etc, god it makes me think I should get in on this lark too, doesn't seem to be many ladies doing vids about the things, yes I have a supervision in a carry case with a tonne of games, they kept showing the bloody thing on Bad Influence back in the day, shocked I am that people don't remember that violet berlin was bloody playing one at the start of every show and I think it was £39.99 in Beaties with games starting at £8.99.
THGM has a great work ethic, but people don't seem to care much for his uploads. I think they need more gameplay footage as opposed to merely stating technical/historical facts.
Watching some of these old advertisements, I kinda miss the old days of where video game advertising was given a real "hip" atmosphere. Now they feel no different to movie trailers some of them and it starts to feel desensitising and same-ish. Exception to this I guess is Nintendo, where I suppose the nature of the games show more gameplay than just "cinematic" footage or showing people playing games, so when they advertise, what you see is what you play. So there's that I guess.
Im gonna be honest as I can be, systems failed based on the following. Availability. America is a large country and a large spread out. So systems like the Jaguar, Lynx, 3DO initially, CDI, and others were only available at toys r us or a specialty store. The other systems. Nintendo, once sega had the genesis sega, were at all retail stores. The consoles that failed in the States was all distribution. If the stores were lined with atari Lynx displays it would have won hands down.
Now get a gamate, or a game com, they were truly shit, I nearly bought a supervision, they looked cool as back in the day had a lovely screen as well, cheap games , there was a lot to love about the system, shame Nintendo killed it off
I had a friend who was unlucky enough to have gotten a Game.Com for his birthday, and I can remember trying to play resident evil on it, and not being able to a damn thing on the screen because it was blurry. The only game I can remember being able to see proper was Light Out as it was just a static screen with little movement, but to be noted Tiger did try to fix the Game.com problems with the rare Game.com light with a better screen(not by much though), front light, smaller system with only 1 cart slot, & cooler looking transparent case designs. Now that model of the Game.com I would not mind owning, just to say I have it, but the Gammate I would not touch that POS with a 10 foot pole lol!
Also really dig that 8-bit RUSH track. Nice.
Oh, i had one of these. I asked my mom to buy a gameboy+tetris pack and she went with a pack with a supervision + a breakout clone. The dissapoint.
David Somoza Domenech same thing happened to my uncle
Where are you from? Just wondering cause I want to know if this was sold in places I didn’t think would be sold at.
People who are deceased due to being hella old can't post comments on UA-cam vids... That's illegal!
I got stuck with the Tiger Electronics Radica version... UGH!
haha, i know that feel
That Panzer Dragoon Saga soundtrack really evokes a sense of adventure!
Thank you for the wonderful 8 bit homage to "Tom Sawyer" in the middle. I had no way of knowing i'd be feverishly pounding away at air drums before I started watching, but here we are, and yes I did.
I got SuperVision (v2) when I was a kid. I got it at Dixons (The Netherlands) at my hometown.
I got Hero kid, Crystball,Chimera, F1 race and some shoot em up. I got my games at Dixons in those clamshell cases.
They cost 35 gulden (about 30 euro) 2 years later I got a Gameboy ;)
16 euros, not counting inflation.. nowadays, it would certainly be 30+.
A friend of mine had this thing! he won it on a quiz on tv, the bastard.
lol the retro rush music!!!
you just earned more respect my friend
Tom Sawyer?
@@JacaboBlanco Indeed!
I wasn't sure how I'd feel about your next video after the obvious heel turn last go with "Why I hate retro game collectors" but I've found this handheld fascinating ever since it was a prize on morning game shows. Good work!!
Who did that excellent 8-Bit version of Rush?
Chimera was originally a Spectrum game, there's even a homage to it in Lumo on the PS4!!!
I wonder if it's official or they stole it?
This should be a fact hunt segment
Hello You!; Seems every other video Ive watched for weeks has a comment from Larry Bundy Jr
I think I read somewhere some time ago the story about the port. I believe it was official, but I don't remember the source, so don't quote me on that.
8 colors, whoopdy frickin doo
Always enjoy watching the intro, reminds me of some of my favourite Britcoms. The background music seemed a bit loud during your excellent commentary. Thank you for playing these games so that I don't have to :-D
I really can't escape seeing Peter Molyneux on UA-cam. Curse you Larry.
Mwahahaha >:D
unforgiven Peter who?
he has such smallface :(
@@salud7432 Well done (wink).
You know a system's bad when the best games in the library were made by Sachen 😂 Fantastic review! I'm so glad I found this channel.
What's the song that plays at 10:30 ? It sounds so familiar (like from a 16 or 32 bit RPG?) but I can't put my finger on it.
Paper Mario TTYD theme in the background. Thumbs up
Have you considered doing a video on the Bitcorp Gamate? It's a handheld primarily released in Europe, although I got my (CIB) from a seller in Australia. It was also released in North America and Asia. There were approx. 74 games released for it. All of the games that I have for it I have CIB. I happen to have C1-001, which is a Tetris clone called Cube-Up. It has a green monochromatic screen like the Game Boy has. Like the Lynx Model 2, the headphone jack outputs Stereo. Build quality is surprisingly very good. If you need something to play on it I have two CIB copies of C-019 (Dino Ball), which is a Pinball game.
Stopdrop&retro was the one who first brought this system to my attention. It's interesting to see a portable from a different land.
I love bizarre stuff like this ,)I actually like the supervision, although its another good solidariedade prof that games sell the system, and not the concept of it.Very inovating for the time, and a cool alternative to the gameboy, with a solid 3rd party support, this thing could have been a hit.
Laughed so hard at the gaming montage...genius haha good work as always
4:13 The italian commercial for the Watara Supervision ?!
I’m a simple man. I hear Rush, I upvote.
Finally got to watch this today, was interesting to me as my youngest brother had one but I don't remember much about it except for the Tetris rip-off and an Excite Bike clone he had (was looking for it in the footage). Loved the Robocop outro tune!
Both were in there.
Sachen has a lot of great games. You should take a look at some of their Famicom and gameboy games.
There was an episode of SeaQuest DSV that used a Super Vision (v.2) as a handheld computer interface.
That background music at 0:35 is familiar, like it's from Mario Golf or Tennis.
Scrolling shooters are one of the easiest types of game to programme. After pong and breakout the first game I made when learning to programme was a vertically scrolling space shooter :). I had much less skill and knowledge than my other programming friend at the college but Giant flashy explosions bring more punters to the keyboard than efficient rotation and scaling engines. The subsequent game was bomberman.
It was fun seeing you describe the 'classic' game designs ( that are always fun even when made by rank amateurs) that appeared on the system in their order of programming complexity :).
Unless you have no scrolling and sprites/blitter hw support nor a fast enough CPU to compensate (and even with a fast CPU, there's a lot more programming if you have to code it all from scratch).
Seems all roads, or in this case, all obscure consoles and gaming references, lead to Guru Larry.
He may not be fat, but he does have an orbit.
Your Rocky montage is awesome!
this series is brilliant :)
I found one with the gameboy looks, but it's dead. Looking for info about the system I found out you had this video.
Thanks for clarifying what pierce of hardware I found.
Great video - I never knew anyone happy to own one of these in my youth!
this show is so awesome, thank you thgm!
Was that F1 Racer I spotted from the Gameboy?
On the school bus I had an original game boy, many others had a gameboy as well, 1 girl had a game gear, 1 boy had a supervision (the non-bending version), and 1 older 5th grader had a turbo express. I was always fascinated with the other handhelds and felt my gameboy was lackluster, perhaps I was bored with the games I had already played tons of times.
I had a Game Gear back in the day, and while the games where really nice, the battery life of it was fucking horrible, and you could barely get 3 hours out of 6 AA batteries, plus now days if you can find a GameGear where the screen still works without it having a recap job done then you are damn freaking lucky, I got my GameGear the Christmas it came out, and by 99 the screen was so fracked from the bad caps it was unplayable. yet I recently found an OG GameBoy at a GoodWill with Super Mario Land stuck in it along with some batteries, and it fired up like it was new despite the scratches it had on it.
What is the song at 12:33?
I know that Thing as Hartung SV100 or so. Allways called it Hartung.
Would you recommend that I acquire a Watara Supervision for my collection my good man?
I have one. It still works but i dont have the battery cover.
Awesome vid!
That chimera game looks familiar, I had a game of the same name, with very similar graphics and gameplay on the spectrum or c64 (twas a long time ago). It also had speech, screaming the games name at the start. It was a budget firebird game iirc.
Anyone know the song that is playing during the end credits?
SuperDoobyDo I believe it's from RoboCop on the Amstrad CPC 464
The intro screen to be precise
That Panzer music had me sitting here wondering what it was for MINUTES
I remember seeing ads for this in game magazines back at the time of its release. It always appeared to be a cheap cash-in clone of the Game Boy, and as you've demonstrated, that's essentially what it was. I'd still like to acquire one, at some point, but I certainly won't be too excited to pay much for it.
14:11 to skip montage
You should do the Mega Duck!
I remember seeing reviews of Supervision games in the old gaming magazines.
Joshua Berry tbh I can't remeber, I suppose it depended on the game.
Is that Tom Sawyer around 13:00? lol nice.
He really needs to credit the source on this.
Whoa, Jon Pall Sigmarsson sighting at 4:57!
I remember this being advertised in magazines and might had been interested in it if I had ever seen it any where. Might had been interesting at the time. Now a days, I'd not bother unless I could get it really cheep.
I want one!!11
3:41 still frame from Ashens' Yes Prime Minister remake 😂
Freaking sweet Rush rendition! \m/
that was some quality chiptune Tom Sawyer 12:32
It looks like the games were developed by Active Enterprises.
for my money the neogeo pocket was the best attempt at trying to make a competitor to the gameboy.
How did you get the gameplay footage?
There is an emulator for this system, which runs on PC. I captured that way.
Was enjoying the video already, but once I heard YYZ my face broke into a huge, silly grin. Excellent review BTW
Do you mean "Tom Sawyer" or did I miss something?
I had this. I could never afford gameboy and this was quite cool given the circumstances. the handheld was sold with the crystball cartridge. there were a few cool games, something like olympic trials and a brain games thing.
I know it's good footage to put in, it's a good aesthetic. However, now all I can imagine is some random people watching you pet a gameboy into a camera on a lava beach.
Good video!
Best question Ive ever been asked while filming, 'why have you bought a Virtual Boy to the Grand Canyon?'
Please tell me you replied with "Why *wouldn't* you bring a Virtual Boy to the Grand Canyon?"
Pug Hoof Gaming is it not a normal thing to do?
That's when you ask them 'how else am I supposed to get the full experience?!'
That is a Lynx II.
When do we get your review of the Switch?
Hard to review a system people only play Zelda on lol
This man have the same face and eyes than Ron Jeremy
Wow, that is a interesting Pre switch, Switch.
Used to love legends of the hidden temple
I had never heard of this system before. Pretty interesting
Have you met Ashens personally, I heard he's quite a good bloke.
I saw one at a gaming store for $45 almost a year ago. The employee who worked there was surprised I knew of it(considering my age, was 14) and I thought of buying it cause of it’s oddity.
Love the panzer music
I think a childhood friend of mine used to have one of these. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that was a "Gameboy knock-off" in such an extent, that even the startup was the same. You know: Turning on the thing and a logo would come down to the middle with a "gling" noise, like the Game Boy would do...
it does indeed.
Holy crap I thought you Guru Larry and Ashes were the same guy
chiptunes Tom Sawyer? I don't know how to feel about that.
Nice use of Tom Sawyer THGM
mr hyde doesnt have a cane in the nes game that is dr jekyll
What a shame! I've always been fascinated by this thing. At the very least, it's higher quality than the Game.com!
"Makes the NES look good", that is the ultimate put down.
i remember violet berlins constant advocation of the supervision. she was flogging a dead horse with that one lol. you can watch all the bad influence episodes on youtube. in hindsight its a hell of a lot more childish than gamesmaster though. the word rad realy hasnt aged very well lol
Indeed it was always too 'rad' for me personally. In fact this is a good video topical in its own right. As a child the whole 'radical' marketing campaign aimed at children, use to really get on my nerves, I just use to see the whole thing as brash and pretentious. I was raised with manners and etiquette, so why would I want an 'attitude'.
its rather disgracefull that 90s rad youngsters dont even know what spoon to use with their angel delight lol
Top Hat Gaming Man To be like the cool American kids.
SteamMachine What happened to her ?
The amount of bloody gaming videos I watch lately where I think I've got one of them, what do you mean youve never heard of it etc, god it makes me think I should get in on this lark too, doesn't seem to be many ladies doing vids about the things, yes I have a supervision in a carry case with a tonne of games, they kept showing the bloody thing on Bad Influence back in the day, shocked I am that people don't remember that violet berlin was bloody playing one at the start of every show and I think it was £39.99 in Beaties with games starting at £8.99.
THGM has a great work ethic, but people don't seem to care much for his uploads. I think they need more gameplay footage as opposed to merely stating technical/historical facts.
SW has its version of everything.
looks like the early gameboy games... now I want one
?huh? I like very old and simple computer games... even if they are crap
I don't play games on my phone
You forgot the neo geo in the competition, but all in all a nice overview
The NGPC competed with the Gameboy Color, not the original Gameboy.
True
I was one of those kids that wished I got the neo geo though, it looked way cooler than the gameboy
I wasnt arguin with anybody so i left it alone, kinda drinkin at the moment so it aint deep
+anarchyisneato That was still released after the Gameboy Color.
Watching some of these old advertisements, I kinda miss the old days of where video game advertising was given a real "hip" atmosphere. Now they feel no different to movie trailers some of them and it starts to feel desensitising and same-ish. Exception to this I guess is Nintendo, where I suppose the nature of the games show more gameplay than just "cinematic" footage or showing people playing games, so when they advertise, what you see is what you play. So there's that I guess.
I cannot bear to see Pepe cry
The game at 13:24 rather looks like motorcross madness
To high jump in that game need press up +jump
There is a dumb stunt motorcycle game on it i used to play all the time, don't know the name, but i broke it just playing that as a teen.
Has anyone told you you're the dead spit of Wario? Definitely one for cheap cosplay on Barshens!
I see a Pepe, I like the video
I guess you could say you had to RUSH a bit during that montage ;D
...I'll be quiet.
they tried riding the wave without first learning how to swim. Gotta respect the effort though.Even if it started as a ripoff.
Im gonna be honest as I can be, systems failed based on the following. Availability. America is a large country and a large spread out. So systems like the Jaguar, Lynx, 3DO initially, CDI, and others were only available at toys r us or a specialty store. The other systems. Nintendo, once sega had the genesis sega, were at all retail stores. The consoles that failed in the States was all distribution. If the stores were lined with atari Lynx displays it would have won hands down.
Tom Sawyer gets high on the Supervision
i have a super vision that looks like a game boy
Now get a gamate, or a game com, they were truly shit, I nearly bought a supervision, they looked cool as back in the day had a lovely screen as well, cheap games , there was a lot to love about the system, shame Nintendo killed it off
I had a friend who was unlucky enough to have gotten a Game.Com for his birthday, and I can remember trying to play resident evil on it, and not being able to a damn thing on the screen because it was blurry. The only game I can remember being able to see proper was Light Out as it was just a static screen with little movement, but to be noted Tiger did try to fix the Game.com problems with the rare Game.com light with a better screen(not by much though), front light, smaller system with only 1 cart slot, & cooler looking transparent case designs. Now that model of the Game.com I would not mind owning, just to say I have it, but the Gammate I would not touch that POS with a 10 foot pole lol!
Lol @ 8 bit Rush tunes
my little brother was gifted the first model back in the day and even at that time this thing was not the worth ( we alredy have a gameboy).
This video caught my eye because you look like Nostalgia Critic
Nice Monster Hunter 3DS.
9:11 Violet Berlin was so hot!!!!!! wish she had let her hair longer but whatever lads.
Wow, most LJN games aren't this bad.
you mean game and watch?
Game and Watch? In reference to what?