Tetris is pretty good. Not a lot of pixels in the pieces and no drop shadow, so it can be hard to tell where you’re dropping. Also, no ability to stash pieces. But it has hard drop and soft drop, making it a very capable (albeit basic) Tetris experience. 👍
@@StarmanDX I'm writting from one right now, the lenovo ideapad10, sorry to say this but a netbook is far more enjoyable as a retrograming pc than a full blown laptop, especially when it does not have a fan.
@@alen2937 but that isn't a netbook. it's a convertible laptop, tablet machine. Your laptop has a far better keyboard than what came from true netbooks.
@@mickeymouse12678 There is a demand for them on the used market for those who just want to do the simple things and lightweight. I sold one two years ago that I fixed up. I loaded up Xubuntu on it and it was an reasonable experience to be able to go on youtube with SD resolutions.
I love tiny working versions of things. But this? it's a text based game with a difficult-to-read font on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Some things don't work miniaturized.
Did you see the Game Gear micro? That's even worse. And they have a mini-arcade version of TMNT. I took one look at it and said to myself, that joystick's going to snap off a minute into intense game play.
No need. The oregon trail one is a $20 version of the arduboy. You can buy one at arduboy.com and for $50 it comes with 200 community made games and you can program your own
I have the 3 game Missile command, Centipede, Pong version one. I can tell you in that form factor it works better but I find myself playing Pong constantly as it really is playable on the little card but you do need good vision or reading glasses if your older. Still hard for me to believe it is now 5 years old , almost ancient technology since the Arduboy FX came out.
So, this is like a stupid combination between the awfully tiny size of a Game Boy Micro and the versatility of a Tiger LCD-game? Winning combo to be sure.
@@lionsandmoon Then you must have smaller hands than I do, My hands are quite literally too big to hold the Micro comfortably in any position for any length of time.
I'm addicted to your voice, it soothes me. I usually do my chores while listening to LGR in the background. Recommended especially if ur speakers have good bass!!
Definitely a case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should." Yes, it can play a very pared-down version of Oregon Trail on a business-card-sized device, but it's not going to be any fun and it won't recreate the experience properly.
I went and bought the Tetris one while watching this because it's the game I'll absolutely play the most and the form factor seems to make the most sense
Shouldn't John Moschitta Jr. be promoting this? So, _The Oregon Trail_ is now the size of a watch-that's some 90s nostalgia there, a watch that does more than display time/date (in addition to the Micro Machines reference). (5:46) Proofreading failure. ^_^ It's like they couldn't decide between "is dead" or "has died".
Oregon Trail is definitely a bizarre choice. I have a few of these, namely Tetris, Pac-Man, and Centipete/Missile Command/Pong 3-in-1, and they're fantastic for just throwing something in your pocket when you go out, just in case you end up having to sit around for 5 minutes in a waiting room, or on a bus.
The tiny computer needs a Micro SD card slot or micro USB so it's possible to load games. It's got bags of potential. ? The ZX81 used to be the smallest programable computer. Thanks.
Hi, at work with spare time ** oops down time - personal time ** we developed a excel version of this nifty game The screen was just a section of cells on the excel sheet, the random pc decision was a random number generator and it looked up a list of choices every time you press something F8 or click the "Next Turn " button Was probably 80-85% OK running Regards George
There's a lot of wasted space. They could've made the screen a lot larger while keeping the overall device roughly the same size. That said, given that you can have this or any other game on a smartphone, this device was never going to go past being a cheap novelty. If you actually want to play, you use a phone, a tablet or a computer.
Back in the day, this game used to be on every school computer for some reason. So a lot of people, including people who never subsequently got in to gaming, have fond memories of this game. From a business standpoint its a no brainer. Its a videogame you can sell even to people who don't buy videogames
These little machines are so neat, I'd love to collect them all just to have them but I feel I'd never touch them after I unpacked them for a quick play.
Too small of a screen for Oregon trail for me. I suspect early arcade games would work great though! I wonder if the screen similiar to the micro gamegear thing that came out in Japan?
What is surprising me about that Oregon Trail port is the font is distinctly from Kemco 8-bit games. If they didn't use the typical 1980s arcade game font, they used that one. I thought I remember it one point in recent years being ported to NES format (if because the Chinese have made Famiclone hardware a cheap and abundantly-available plug 'n play platform).
Micro card. The best game I have seen on the micro card series is an officially licenced Tetris. I think the microcars was originally designed for Tetris if my facts are correct 😀
I've seen a much bigger one of these at the store before, with a better looking display, now i'm curious how well it works compared to this little guy! Thank you for sharing!
Check for solder points... some of these arcade handhelds have all the games on them but a different solder point bridged selects which game is active.
you can select options by pressing the white button and to back press the white button to scrolls text, press the white button and to hunt press the white button along with the white button to win the game, press the 3 white buttons in the following order: white, white, white
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is based on a really old mobile phone version of the game. I think I remember seeing it back in the day, I can't seem to find any proof of its existence now though.
I could understand the orientation of this handheld if it was a horizontal shooter but this is Oregon Trail! It's not an action game, they should have designed the A and B button and directional control pad to be on the same side (you don't need two hands for Oregon Trail) and installed a larger 4:3 screen. Interesting format "LGR Blerbs" at first i thought this was someone else and was gonna complain in the comments about using LGR's lgr! =P
I’m honestly surprised that things like this aren’t sold more often. Having a little handheld with a modded version of Pokémon would be awesome. And the perfect thing to scam money out of people that don’t realize you can buy any 30 dollar handheld or use your phone.
I was gonna say this seems a lot like the arduboy thing... didn't know it's an offshoot that they list on the arduboy site, woops. Maybe the Arduboy FX might be worth a look?
I backed the original Arduboy and the RPG Arduboy they came out with as well as the original B&W Tetris version from a couple years ago. Really a fan of the Arduboy concept. I saw these new ones in the store and I was hoping they were licence built (they are, thankfully). I doubt that they are as hackable as the Arduboy is.
Great video as always, but I gotta say that, I agree Oregon Trail is an awfull idea for that device. The screen might be too small for it, but Load Runner might be good on it, or maybe Zork.
I was thinking it would be great if you could flash tetris in it but then I saw they already done that, officially licensed too it seems. I do love me some credit card size gaming thingie
Definitely not the same port the previous version used. I need to do some reverse engineering of the original version - the front end is written in FPBASIC and the back end is written in 6502 assembler.
So, I have the Tetris version of this. I absolutely love it. Is it the premium way to play this game? No. Is this convenient and fast and small and fun? It is. Absolutely it is. It’s a fun novelty but I use mine every time I work. It doesn’t bother my hands or my eyes. Tbh I’d like some other titles and I wish I could figure out a way to make that happen. I would even try to upgrade the buttons to be quieter just for more stealth. But yeah. I love this little thing.
Sooooo I ordered the Tetris version, heh.
I think that'll work _far_ better with this form factor and button layout. Guess we'll see though!
Great channel really underrated
@@gp3328 underrated?
@@bepowerification too few subs
Think I’d need to play this under a magnifying glass
Tetris is pretty good. Not a lot of pixels in the pieces and no drop shadow, so it can be hard to tell where you’re dropping. Also, no ability to stash pieces. But it has hard drop and soft drop, making it a very capable (albeit basic) Tetris experience. 👍
LGR, are you telling me I can get MICRO DYSENTERY?!
Why is this comment so funny?
xD
These days that’s called ‘Intel 14nm’.
Microsentery.
Stop drinking out of mud puddles damnit!
Waiting for "Running Doom on The Oregon Trail Micro"
"But can it run Crysis?"
Running Half Life on the Oregon Trail Micro
I've never seen anything that can be both an eye strain AND carpal tunnel aggravator. Truly ingenious.
You've never seen a netbook?
@@StarmanDX I'm writting from one right now, the lenovo ideapad10, sorry to say this but a netbook is far more enjoyable as a retrograming pc than a full blown laptop, especially when it does not have a fan.
@@alen2937 I'm just amazed that there are any netbooks alive in 2020
@@alen2937 but that isn't a netbook. it's a convertible laptop, tablet machine. Your laptop has a far better keyboard than what came from true netbooks.
@@mickeymouse12678 There is a demand for them on the used market for those who just want to do the simple things and lightweight. I sold one two years ago that I fixed up. I loaded up Xubuntu on it and it was an reasonable experience to be able to go on youtube with SD resolutions.
I love tiny working versions of things. But this? it's a text based game with a difficult-to-read font on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Some things don't work miniaturized.
As for your last sentence...thats what she said. lol
@@microbuilder This is the second comment refering to genital sizes I have read today. Is there some awareness day of some sort going on?
They make other titles which might be suited better. superimpulse.com/micro-arcade/
tremorist Yes, it’s called the internet.
@@tremorist every day is awareness day
*This* is what oddware feels like before it's forgotten.
Translucent plastic on video game stuff always has my attention because it's pretty.
YES! Translucent eletronics are the best!
Micro Oregon Trail: Your window to amazing eye strain.
Also dysentery
Lol
Go look up the gameboy micro.
Did you see the Game Gear micro? That's even worse. And they have a mini-arcade version of TMNT. I took one look at it and said to myself, that joystick's going to snap off a minute into intense game play.
@@mightyfilm game gear micro is more for the Japanese market... I like allot of the other ones this is bad like the ps classic lol
Obviously when your two oxen die from a wagon fire your available food rations should increase by quite a bit.
I watched the whole thing and now I has a dysentery.
You is Died
This would be nice to hack and put Nokia-Snake on.
No need. The oregon trail one is a $20 version of the arduboy. You can buy one at arduboy.com and for $50 it comes with 200 community made games and you can program your own
@@OFF10HOT Arduboy is black and white. A bit more limited than just putting Oregon Trail on it.
@@vidagogo9829 it's open source, porting snake is not a huge barrier. What is limited is your ingunity!
hard to tell from the size of the screen but if what I saw was correct we should be worried LGR took down a 500lb Rabbit
Well if he didnt take it down, id be worried that there is a pissed off 500lb rabbit still out there.........
@@poptat1 its a rabbit doubtful it is the only one best to stock up on holy hand grenades
600lb!
My hopes for this being a reasonably playable, non-frustrating port is dead.
Is sad :(
Dead*
@@highpineapple Thanks, fixed.
It's not that bad.
I have the 3 game Missile command, Centipede, Pong version one. I can tell you in that form factor it works better but I find myself playing Pong constantly as it really is playable on the little card but you do need good vision or reading glasses if your older.
Still hard for me to believe it is now 5 years old , almost ancient technology since the Arduboy FX came out.
I rate this ewaste/10.
Maybe you can put some other game on here?
Ewaste lol love it adding it to my vocabulary
I have a sneaking suspicion that the ROM on board with the game can probably be jumpered to see other games that are released on these lil guys.
I have a thing of that brand that has pong, missile command, and centipede and it is actually pretty good
So, this is like a stupid combination between the awfully tiny size of a Game Boy Micro and the versatility of a Tiger LCD-game?
Winning combo to be sure.
The Game Boy Micro is surprisingly playable for most GBA games.
@@lionsandmoon Then you must have smaller hands than I do, My hands are quite literally too big to hold the Micro comfortably in any position for any length of time.
I'm addicted to your voice, it soothes me. I usually do my chores while listening to LGR in the background. Recommended especially if ur speakers have good bass!!
Definitely a case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
Yes, it can play a very pared-down version of Oregon Trail on a business-card-sized device, but it's not going to be any fun and it won't recreate the experience properly.
I went and bought the Tetris one while watching this because it's the game I'll absolutely play the most and the form factor seems to make the most sense
Me too!
They actually do sell these in stores, my Walgreens where I work has them, they have the Oregon Trail one and an arcade version of Tetris.
"You have died from dysentery..." That's probably the ONE single quote that keeps coming up from the game after all these years.
Shouldn't John Moschitta Jr. be promoting this? So, _The Oregon Trail_ is now the size of a watch-that's some 90s nostalgia there, a watch that does more than display time/date (in addition to the Micro Machines reference). (5:46) Proofreading failure. ^_^ It's like they couldn't decide between "is dead" or "has died".
when were u when A is died
i was at home wtchng clint
when game beep
"A is died"
"No"
underrated comment
My life has gotten 90% better since discovering the blerbs channel
"I'll never use it again" yep I say that about most the things I collect
Oregon Trail is definitely a bizarre choice. I have a few of these, namely Tetris, Pac-Man, and Centipete/Missile Command/Pong 3-in-1, and they're fantastic for just throwing something in your pocket when you go out, just in case you end up having to sit around for 5 minutes in a waiting room, or on a bus.
Mini Missile command would be cool.
The Atari Collection literally has better controls than any other port.
The early blerb gets the worm.
or... is it the bagels?
@@KingLich451 weegee
but it is the second mouse who enjoys the cheese
You spelled “eye strain” wrong. :)
I wonder if this, like the mini arcade cabinets, has all the games in the range on it and the only difference is the location of a jumper resistor.
The tiny computer needs a Micro SD card slot or micro USB so it's possible to load games. It's got bags of potential. ? The ZX81 used to be the smallest programable computer. Thanks.
Hi, at work with spare time ** oops down time - personal time ** we developed a excel version of this nifty game
The screen was just a section of cells on the excel sheet, the random pc decision was a random number generator and it looked up a list of choices every time you press something F8 or click the "Next Turn " button
Was probably 80-85% OK running
Regards
George
There's a lot of wasted space. They could've made the screen a lot larger while keeping the overall device roughly the same size. That said, given that you can have this or any other game on a smartphone, this device was never going to go past being a cheap novelty. If you actually want to play, you use a phone, a tablet or a computer.
I actually wonder if this is made from cheap mobile phone parts, especially the display.
I like the attention to detail on this thing especially given its price point, but the screen is just way way too small
Considering the game's context, it should've been available in aged wood grain with faux wrought iron buttons and caps for the screws.
We all is died one day.
Tomogatchi, now with more dysentery!
_It's a dysentery world_
Bubble Bobble, Digger, Bombjack yes. Perfect for a machine like this. But Oregon Trail? lol
Back in the day, this game used to be on every school computer for some reason. So a lot of people, including people who never subsequently got in to gaming, have fond memories of this game. From a business standpoint its a no brainer. Its a videogame you can sell even to people who don't buy videogames
@@simex909 The should have named it Micro-Schoolcomputer then. :)
I have never heard of Oregon Trail
planetX15 Are you American?
they do have Galaga version too apparantley
"Let's be awful." *>picks the guy from Ohio*
I wouldn't consider The Oregon Trail an "Arcade Game." But yeah, this looks pretty cool.
These little machines are so neat, I'd love to collect them all just to have them but I feel I'd never touch them after I unpacked them for a quick play.
lol "NOW I NEED ALL OF THEM" CHUCKLE CHUCKLE
Too small of a screen for Oregon trail for me. I suspect early arcade games would work great though!
I wonder if the screen similiar to the micro gamegear thing that came out in Japan?
Eyesight is DIED
Rational me: It's just a little OT micro.
Collector me: LET ME IIIIIIINNNNNN!
What is surprising me about that Oregon Trail port is the font is distinctly from Kemco 8-bit games. If they didn't use the typical 1980s arcade game font, they used that one. I thought I remember it one point in recent years being ported to NES format (if because the Chinese have made Famiclone hardware a cheap and abundantly-available plug 'n play platform).
"If only this could be flashed to something else"
Arduboy : well funny you say that-
Which foreign country was this made in "A is died".
I have like all of these and this one IS available in stores although I’ve only seen Oregon Trail in Walgreens
"A is died" is the earliest death in any game ever
Micro card. The best game I have seen on the micro card series is an officially licenced Tetris. I think the microcars was originally designed for Tetris if my facts are correct 😀
Read this as Oregano Trail. Thought Clint had found a weird pot-based knock off
This is so small and adorable
Hard for me to be impressed with this. For less than half the price you can get a Gameboy clone with 500 games in it!
LGR gets all the cool stuff
I've seen a much bigger one of these at the store before, with a better looking display, now i'm curious how well it works compared to this little guy! Thank you for sharing!
Neo Geo micro comes out, and LGR gets Oregon Trail micro. Love it!
Blerb challenge mode: beat a run of this game on camera!
Check for solder points... some of these arcade handhelds have all the games on them but a different solder point bridged selects which game is active.
Make the LGR Trail of LGR trying to get to the thrift store.
A Lemmings model would be sick.
A, old buddy, old pal, we hardly knew ye.
you can select options by pressing the white button and to back press the white button
to scrolls text, press the white button
and to hunt press the white button along with the white button
to win the game, press the 3 white buttons in the following order: white, white, white
They sell Frogger in this form factor, which should work way better since moving in the four cardinal directions is all you do in that game.
Never thought I’d live to see a version of The Oregon Trail designed for a tate display
Sometimes you can minaturize things *too* much.
How many blerbs could a LGR blerb if a LRG could blerb blerbs?
As many blerbs as a LGR could blerb if a LGR could blerb blerbs.
They should sell these systems at every bus stop and train station. They would sell like hot cakes! Perfect for a few hours of public transportation 😁
I'd buy that for a dollar.
They’d be nice at airports, too. You can die horribly of dysentery, exposure, and starvation while waiting for your phone to charge.
@@Benzene265 Ha ha 😂 So true!
All the dysentery, in the palm of your hand!
1:52 “Now I need all of them”
Everyone: Looks like more stuff to review later on ☺️👍🏻
That's amazing --- it looks like it's almost POPstation quality!
Can remember playing Oregon Tail in Junior High in the schools computer lab. Didn't make it very far.
I also bought the mini from Target as will.. I've yet to open it lol its been a year or more
I could've sworn there was an open source ATMEGA thing extremely similar to this, the only difference being it had a monochrome OLED display.
It's an Arduboy with a color screen. The original Arduboy have over 200 open source game.
Well this just makes me wish someone would release a handheld pc clone that had a cartridge slot to change games.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is based on a really old mobile phone version of the game. I think I remember seeing it back in the day, I can't seem to find any proof of its existence now though.
Traumatic experiences have never been in a package so small!
Can this be hacked to play other DOS games? It's a cool device
good god why
@@swettyspaghtti why not?
put Doom on it XD
probably not, there may not be a hard drive
Oh, last year I bought pocket-size Tetris device from that company, still playing it from time to time!!
I wish I had a precision rubberband system.
I could understand the orientation of this handheld if it was a horizontal shooter but this is Oregon Trail! It's not an action game, they should have designed the A and B button and directional control pad to be on the same side (you don't need two hands for Oregon Trail) and installed a larger 4:3 screen.
Interesting format "LGR Blerbs" at first i thought this was someone else and was gonna complain in the comments about using LGR's lgr! =P
I’m honestly surprised that things like this aren’t sold more often. Having a little handheld with a modded version of Pokémon would be awesome. And the perfect thing to scam money out of people that don’t realize you can buy any 30 dollar handheld or use your phone.
LGR can be surprisingly dim at times.
Would been cool if you opened it to see what's inside. Little Raspi or AVR microcontroller?
I was gonna say this seems a lot like the arduboy thing... didn't know it's an offshoot that they list on the arduboy site, woops.
Maybe the Arduboy FX might be worth a look?
I thought that thing was just a bare circuit board from the thumbnail.
I backed the original Arduboy and the RPG Arduboy they came out with as well as the original B&W Tetris version from a couple years ago. Really a fan of the Arduboy concept. I saw these new ones in the store and I was hoping they were licence built (they are, thankfully). I doubt that they are as hackable as the Arduboy is.
Open it up please! I want to see the other side. Perhaps there's a programming header or something.
Great video as always, but I gotta say that, I agree Oregon Trail is an awfull idea for that device. The screen might be too small for it, but Load Runner might be good on it, or maybe Zork.
I was thinking it would be great if you could flash tetris in it but then I saw they already done that, officially licensed too it seems.
I do love me some credit card size gaming thingie
Made by “Super Impulse”? So this was a ... super impulse purchase?
Neat lil gadget. I would have loved for you to open it up and check what processor it was running tho o.o Follow up video ?
Well... did A died?
Definitely not the same port the previous version used.
I need to do some reverse engineering of the original version - the front end is written in FPBASIC and the back end is written in 6502 assembler.
It broke my heart when FAXXXZ was died.
I don't know why but to me this looks like a color version of the Arduboy Tetris Microcard.
That would be extremely cool if there was a Wolfenstein 3D version of this! I think that would work perfectly in that setup!
So, I have the Tetris version of this. I absolutely love it. Is it the premium way to play this game? No. Is this convenient and fast and small and fun? It is. Absolutely it is.
It’s a fun novelty but I use mine every time I work. It doesn’t bother my hands or my eyes.
Tbh I’d like some other titles and I wish I could figure out a way to make that happen. I would even try to upgrade the buttons to be quieter just for more stealth. But yeah. I love this little thing.
Mini-dysentery simulator, or, as the AVGN would have put it, "I'D RATHER HAVE A BUFFALO TAKE A DIARRHEA DUMP IN MY EAR!"
Why they make them so small is beyond me.