Pocket Rockers - 1980s endless loop tapes for kids

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
  • In the late 1980s all the cool kids were wearing mini Genesis tapes as jewellery - well at least that's what Fisher Price hoped would happen.
    NOTE 11 Seconds of audio muted due to content match.
    Thanks to Databits for the tip on the hidden Pocket Rockers screw
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  • @Techmoan
    @Techmoan  4 роки тому +594

    *HitClips video now available here* : ua-cam.com/video/X8568_3amO4/v-deo.html
    Also sorry about the muted audio on this PocketRockers video. You know how it is, Auto Content Match to the artists rescue.

    • @HarryMudd
      @HarryMudd 4 роки тому +16

      Figured as much 🌕

    • @theantithesis1
      @theantithesis1 4 роки тому +62

      Well, no one has listened to Cutting Crew for thirty years, why would we start now?

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 4 роки тому +66

      It's kinda funny that the Pocket Rocker's speaker was so bad that Content ID didn't even recognize the song.

    • @Sylusssss
      @Sylusssss 4 роки тому +20

      0:29 "put hitclips to one side"
      2 years later

    • @PunakiviAddikti
      @PunakiviAddikti 4 роки тому +28

      Of course. God I hate UA-cam's copyright bot system. Remember folks, 2 strikes at once and your channel is deleted.

  • @FruityGroovy
    @FruityGroovy 4 роки тому +2574

    "Have a listen to a direct feed I have of it"
    *solid 10 seconds of silence due to copyrighted music being cut out*

    • @GustavoMaciel
      @GustavoMaciel 4 роки тому +246

      so that's why it sounded so absolutely clean!

    • @Theindiegamer2000
      @Theindiegamer2000 4 роки тому +128

      "Now you might've noticed..."

    • @funnimanexe
      @funnimanexe 4 роки тому +106

      Replace 10 seconds of silence with “Never gonna give you up” by Rick Ashley.

    • @onefastslimjim
      @onefastslimjim 4 роки тому +117

      Thanks for nothing UA-cam 😑

    • @FeylordTAEKE
      @FeylordTAEKE 4 роки тому +117

      UA-cam needs to grow the heck up.

  • @Jongii1980
    @Jongii1980 5 років тому +4527

    I wanted one of these and then my parents got me a Walkman - I think I won out on that.

    • @gurgy3
      @gurgy3 5 років тому +486

      You had wise parents

    • @ForceMaximus84
      @ForceMaximus84 5 років тому +104

      You’re parents are the anti-average parents. Lol

    • @sergej2850
      @sergej2850 5 років тому +234

      you have great parents, i wanted a PSP and got a 1000 in one chinese knockoff

    • @SawyerIque
      @SawyerIque 5 років тому +37

      +Sergej 2 Then you have the opposite of great parents, I never got any horrible bootleg console or any lame stuff.

    • @smkyqrtz
      @smkyqrtz 5 років тому +24

      @@sergej2850 I see those EVERY WHERE in my yt recommended page, and there cheap so probably your parents thought that it was really 1000 games in one thing sooooooo that's probably why they got u that
      tl;dr they believed there were actually 1000 games in one consol

  • @machinegunangel
    @machinegunangel 5 років тому +1881

    These were huge when I was in 3rd grade. My friend had “Walk Like An Egyptian” and she was really popular at recess.

    • @rickylovesyou
      @rickylovesyou 5 років тому +19

      Where are you from? Ive never seen these before.

    • @tuvieja1697
      @tuvieja1697 5 років тому +160

      That song fucking bangs of course she was

    • @Bscott1
      @Bscott1 5 років тому +126

      Yare yare daze

    • @amersaidat1905
      @amersaidat1905 5 років тому +59

      Wayoh wayohh wayy-ay-yoh-wayohhh.. walk like an Egyptiannnn

    • @krissy846
      @krissy846 5 років тому +52

      Oh Ho! Your approaching me ? instead of Running away , Your coming right at me!

  • @kek23k
    @kek23k 6 років тому +225

    The graphics on the front of the player are 100% pure 80s

  • @sirlobotomy4539
    @sirlobotomy4539 4 роки тому +1100

    That face when youtube cuts out a ton of the song due to copyright even though this is fair use. Great company and business model!

    • @Wombattlr
      @Wombattlr 4 роки тому +114

      He's allowed to use it because it's an educational video. So not only is it fair use, it's within youtubes ToS

    • @sleepi-nouth-laureltine-8108
      @sleepi-nouth-laureltine-8108 4 роки тому +24

      @@Wombattlr But it appears that this has also happened to me while I was watching this video.

    • @paticusmaximus12
      @paticusmaximus12 4 роки тому +33

      Yep censored here in the US...

    • @ddspixelrush6848
      @ddspixelrush6848 4 роки тому +16

      @@paticusmaximus12 in switzerland too!

    • @and1488ify
      @and1488ify 4 роки тому +10

      @@ddspixelrush6848 in Russia also censored

  • @ElectricKindergarten
    @ElectricKindergarten 3 роки тому +37

    “It’s doubtful I’ll ever use this again, but at least it’s working perfectly now”.
    This is the way.

    • @matthewb5364
      @matthewb5364 2 роки тому +1

      I didn't even notice this quote the first time I watched, but now I'm like "Yes 😌"

    • @treetopjones737
      @treetopjones737 2 роки тому +1

      He could resell it on ebay to a collector.

  • @baremetalHW
    @baremetalHW 6 років тому +2545

    lol.. searching for "Pocket Rockers" in ebay gives back mostly small "Personal Massagers" for females...

  • @nitrous36
    @nitrous36 6 років тому +767

    That always disappointed me as a kid. Ads marketing gadgets to kids always showed them enjoying them at school, on the bus, or in class. But that wasnt the reality. Most places where they werent allowed and adult staff with hands out ready to snatch them.

    • @ThatWolfWithShades
      @ThatWolfWithShades 5 років тому +32

      You couldn't use a walkman in the school bus?

    • @你老婆-c5l
      @你老婆-c5l 4 роки тому +13

      Yeah man, like taking my Pokemon cards at recess. Ugh! fucking adults. I HATE THEM I HATE THEM IA HTE THEM!

    • @ironsnowflake1076
      @ironsnowflake1076 4 роки тому +15

      @@你老婆-c5l at least you don't have any lingering bitterness 😁
      I had this one teacher, if she thought you had gum, she would call you up to smell your breath (so you couldn't pull the ole sneaky swallow) she was a savage 😭

    • @sabrinatscha2554
      @sabrinatscha2554 4 роки тому

      Andrew Woo: yeah they suck

    • @J.DeLaPoer
      @J.DeLaPoer 4 роки тому +33

      Half the point of public school is to dominate children and push them around in order to instill the idea that 'authority' can do whatever it wants and there's nothing they can do about it. "Confiscating" possessions on the grounds of some arbitrary policy is an integral part of that process. After all those formative years of subjugation, you'll make a good little drone when you grow up, never questioning what your boss or the government says. Anyway rant aside, you're absolutely right. I was too old for this when it was popular, but nonetheless at my school pretty much any sort of toy or game was banned anywhere on school property, including buses which were considered part of the school. If you let a teacher see you had something like this, let alone actually have the nerve to use it, you'd have it taken away at once.

  • @gummybread
    @gummybread 4 роки тому +170

    They had a chance to put The Song That Never Ends on it, and they blew it.

    • @nessamillikan6247
      @nessamillikan6247 4 роки тому +15

      I haven’t heard that song since I was a tween, and the damn thing is STILL in my head, tune, words and all, perfectly intact.

    • @randomprimary
      @randomprimary 3 роки тому +3

      @@nessamillikan6247 same

    • @treetopjones737
      @treetopjones737 2 роки тому +4

      Put Mana Mana on a tape loop, you'd never notice the difference.

  • @meatpockets
    @meatpockets 6 років тому +201

    This looks like something you would find in the front window of that antique store in Back to the Future Part II.

    • @TorreFernand
      @TorreFernand 5 років тому +10

      Well, the song that plays at 11:05 IS "The power of love" from Back to the Future

    • @Kai0nTheMoon
      @Kai0nTheMoon 5 років тому +5

      They also did release a Pocket Rockers "Johnny B. Goode" tape by Chuck Berry (*Lip Syncing Michael J Fox Not Included)

    • @kimmykimko
      @kimmykimko 5 років тому +2

      As true as that may be, I loved these.

  • @captainvalor9997
    @captainvalor9997 6 років тому +629

    1980s - Pocket Rockers
    2000s - Hit Clips

    • @m8sonmiller
      @m8sonmiller 5 років тому +7

      It's like poetry, every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one.

    • @okovermekeamglight4563
      @okovermekeamglight4563 5 років тому +7

      were due for a 2020's one as well lol

    • @moparmanicgarage
      @moparmanicgarage 5 років тому +8

      2010's- TikTok

    • @RyanSchweitzer77
      @RyanSchweitzer77 5 років тому +4

      For sure--Hit Clips were the later-day solid-state tapeless version of the Pocket Rockers.

    • @whoismarkjones9283
      @whoismarkjones9283 5 років тому +1

      Hit clips only had like 15-30 seconds if I remember correctly

  • @Bondubras
    @Bondubras 4 роки тому +76

    Haha. I remember that Hit Clips thing. I used to have one for "Who let the dogs out?" and drove my parents absolutely nuts with that thing.

    • @bland9876
      @bland9876 4 роки тому +3

      My parents had a cookie jar shaped like a dog that would play that song every time you opened it I would open it just to listen to the song and annoy my parents they never actually kept cookies in there well at first they did

    • @VeeTwoPointOh
      @VeeTwoPointOh 2 роки тому +2

      Had the same one!

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 2 місяці тому

      we never did find out who let the dogs out…

  • @R0n8urgundy
    @R0n8urgundy 6 років тому +244

    Think that advert might be the most 80’s thing ever

    • @HereComesPopoBawa
      @HereComesPopoBawa 6 років тому +7

      In 1988, all the cool kids were into Credence Clearwater Revival

    • @ram89572
      @ram89572 6 років тому +4

      Popo Bawa Well at least the kids who saw that commercial wouldn’t have been saddened by the terrible bastardization of CCR. Oddly enough though, why weren’t kids from that era into them? I was born in ‘89 and still found my way to enjoying music that old.

    • @HereComesPopoBawa
      @HereComesPopoBawa 6 років тому

      Redneck Ram's Parlor - "Oddly enough though, why weren’t kids from that era into them? I was born in ‘89 and still found my way to enjoying music that old." - I was half-joking. I think that a bad CCR cover was a doubly-bad marketing move. But hailing from '72, many of my peers were into older popular music. In my region, the early 80s was when we got "oldies" (50s-60s) and "classic rock" (60s-70s) radio stations. Not to mention that some of us started out by combing through parent's record collections.

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 6 років тому +366

    The artwork on the player, that just screams 1980s, I don't think there was a single product or TV show that didn't use that design back then... :P

    • @TheBrokenLife
      @TheBrokenLife 6 років тому +13

      Real electronics brands tended to keep it classy, save for the "My First Sony" campaign, which I think steered more kids to the "It's a Sony" campaign than the goofy kids colored stuff. It did for me anyhow. My first quality Walkman and Discman were both mid-line Sonys, both black and silver.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl 6 років тому +1

      As soon as I saw the graphics on the player I thought “ did they copy the Philips Moving Sound players or did Philips copy them? “ The Philips came with stickers so you could personalise your equipment.

    • @killerbee2562
      @killerbee2562 6 років тому

      Funny that the one in the commercial is so ordinary looking by comparison, black with blue over the speaker.

    • @Voeris1
      @Voeris1 6 років тому +5

      So THAT'S what it was called, THAT'S where it came from!!! Thank you so much. I've been looking for a name to pin on this style since forever. It's very charming, and I wish we could go back to it on some level.. But looking at some of that furniture... Yeah I couldn't live more than 2-3 months in a house styled like that... probably. It's fascinating to me how it took off, and then faded away..

    • @LittlePixelTM
      @LittlePixelTM 6 років тому +4

      That style comes from the 'Memphis' style originating in graphic and interior design in the early 80s if you're interested - massively influential! [edit - what he said above me!]

  • @mememachine1219
    @mememachine1219 5 років тому +489

    Guardians Of The Galaxy but instead of a Walkman, Quill has one of these.

    • @PsionicMonk
      @PsionicMonk 4 роки тому +61

      "You shouldn't have killed my mom, and smahsed my Pocket Rocker"

    • @CEddyAV19
      @CEddyAV19 4 роки тому +50

      My favourite scene would be where Quill tries to listen to The Chain but it always fades out just before the guitar solo

    • @whtwolf100
      @whtwolf100 4 роки тому +3

      Starlords offbrand sunking

    • @bland9876
      @bland9876 4 роки тому +6

      The movie is only the first half and then it fades to Black

    • @dguy0386
      @dguy0386 3 роки тому +1

      lol

  • @kanjosidr
    @kanjosidr 6 років тому +618

    *but first, a word from our sponsors*
    made me automatically fast-forward 30 seconds before I realized it wasn't an ad

  • @MoeAji
    @MoeAji 6 років тому +85

    Crazy how the 80s fashion and style seem like an alternative universe.

    • @gavincurtis
      @gavincurtis 6 років тому +7

      Pink and powder-blue confetti universe.

    • @MrFredHoogendoorn
      @MrFredHoogendoorn 6 років тому +2

      Mohamed Alfalo I don't know where you live, but in the Netherlands there is definitely an 80's comeback with clothes, watches and shoes.

    • @user-vi4xy1jw7e
      @user-vi4xy1jw7e 6 років тому

      I love it

    • @user-vi4xy1jw7e
      @user-vi4xy1jw7e 6 років тому +1

      synical13 What? Most fashion today isn't that outlandish

    • @Kholaslittlespot1
      @Kholaslittlespot1 Рік тому

      I was young but I'd like to go back tbh

  • @jonathanjoestarsmainhoe5604
    @jonathanjoestarsmainhoe5604 4 роки тому +62

    I showed my mum this video and she laughed and said she remembered having one of these, she had the Cindy Lauper tape. She was given it on her 8th birthday in 1989, apparently they weren't cheap either ripp.

    • @i.a.rodriguez8994
      @i.a.rodriguez8994 4 роки тому +9

      Damn reading this made me feel old af cuz i remember these and your saying you showed your mom this so obviously u werent around when these were created

    • @Sarah-sd8pp
      @Sarah-sd8pp 4 роки тому +2

      I.a. Rodriguez lmao that’s exactly what I said!

    • @i.a.rodriguez8994
      @i.a.rodriguez8994 4 роки тому +2

      @@Sarah-sd8pp i miss the 90s

    • @robc4191
      @robc4191 3 роки тому

      @@i.a.rodriguez8994 hell, i miss being able to remember the 90's

    • @dguy0386
      @dguy0386 3 роки тому +2

      @@i.a.rodriguez8994 there are currently people who weren't even born yet when 9/11 happened that graduated highschool a couple years ago and will start families in the next 5 or 6 years or so, i repeat, in 2033 your average second grade class will be full of kids saying "my dad was born in 2002", as someone born in 2003 i am just as terrified of that future as you are

  • @ISoloYouRelax
    @ISoloYouRelax 5 років тому +340

    The biggest problem with these was the same problem as everything marketed towards kids.
    Kids don't have money and have to get their parents to buy them.

    • @ARCtheCartoonMaster
      @ARCtheCartoonMaster 5 років тому +12

      Damn you, child labour laws!!!!
      (Nah, just kidding; we shouldn't make kids do strenuous manual labour just for a quick buck.)

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 4 роки тому +8

      I doubt that's a problem considering advertisements for toys still exist.

    • @eastlynburkholder3559
      @eastlynburkholder3559 4 роки тому

      What I said but not as well I said it.

    • @silentj624
      @silentj624 4 роки тому +4

      How is that problem? Is it supposed to marketed to adults instead?

    • @gloomyblackfur399
      @gloomyblackfur399 4 роки тому +5

      And yet, kids seem to be exceedingly effective in liberating their parents' cash.

  • @Longlius
    @Longlius 5 років тому +73

    I think the appeal was in the relatively simplicity and durability of the device. You could hand one to a young child and not worry about them damaging a cassette player or a (relatively) expensive full album cassette. As for the music selection well, what eight year-old child has a taste in music beyond "that stuff mom and dad listen to?" :P

    • @HaswellCore
      @HaswellCore 3 роки тому +2

      maybe 8 yo kids in the 80s were like that but nowadays....

    • @ronindebeatrice
      @ronindebeatrice 2 роки тому +8

      @@HaswellCore kids are still like this. Listen to music with your children and they'll learn and love the stuff. Don't just turn them loose on TicTok, or the absolute lose gutter music on radio and they'll be fine.

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 2 роки тому +3

      I mean I have warm memories about songs that uhhh, were about suicide I think.....
      In my defense, the artist really did a good job with the song and it just sounded banging.

    • @Outcast115
      @Outcast115 2 роки тому +1

      @@ronindebeatrice Oh god nobody cares about your boomer music

    • @treetopjones737
      @treetopjones737 2 роки тому +1

      @@HaswellCore I think I was age 11, 70's, bought first album, best of Beatles ( the red cover, the other one was blue, both with picture of them looking down from balcony ). My parents did not listen to rock music.

  • @databits
    @databits 6 років тому +720

    Today will be a day long remembered. Wow...greatly appreciate the credit!

    • @ninjamaster3453
      @ninjamaster3453 6 років тому +4

      databits I followed u

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 6 років тому +11

      I follow both of you already. It’s still a great thing to see.

    • @DownassMusic
      @DownassMusic 6 років тому +7

      databits I’m on my way to your channel now!

    • @electronash
      @electronash 6 років тому +13

      databits
      Especially nice shoutout, after your mild grumble about "that guy across the pond" a while back. lol
      I've been subbed to you for years, btw. Anyone who enjoys Techmoan should enjoy databits as well.
      (databits was doing this stuff well before it starred puppets. :p )

    • @OdionProductions
      @OdionProductions 6 років тому +1

      databits nice

  • @Kadekuru
    @Kadekuru 4 роки тому +496

    “And first, a word from our sponsors...”
    Me: Oh no
    “POCKET ROCKERS”
    Me: :)

  • @Medude24
    @Medude24 2 роки тому +23

    So excited to find this video because I distinctly remember having one of these for a while as a kid. My tape was "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears. Probably the first time I ever heard those songs actually and might be why I still love them now.

  • @SudosFTW
    @SudosFTW 6 років тому +46

    I had a Pocket Rocker with that Cutting Crew tape. by the time I got it in the 90s, the belt inside had worn and I fondly remember having to hit it to continue playing.
    Never remembered what happened to it. I miss it.

  • @WooferCooker
    @WooferCooker 6 років тому +57

    Wow! Pretty good quality for a novelty kids toy from the 80's. Way better quality than the early 2000's "HITclip" that I grew up with!

    • @ModestVejar
      @ModestVejar 6 років тому +3

      Woofer Cooker I forgot all about the hitclip.

    • @danwood1121
      @danwood1121 6 років тому +5

      I have the radio tuner thing for the HIT clip player somewhere, lol. Never gave those things another thought until now.

  • @metalmugen
    @metalmugen 6 років тому +57

    The art on the tapes is pretty cool though

  • @htomerif
    @htomerif 5 років тому +90

    Jesus. 35ish years ago? I never had one or saw one that I remember but I remember the ad jingle like it was yesterday. I can't remember what my first dog looked like, but I remember the Pocket Rockers theme. Thanks, brain, excellent use of neurons there.

    • @skunk12
      @skunk12 4 роки тому +2

      Do you remember any adults touching you inaporoproately?

    • @MichaelJOneill333
      @MichaelJOneill333 4 роки тому +6

      skunk12 wtf dude? what even causes you to make a comment like that? 😖

    • @skunk12
      @skunk12 4 роки тому +1

      @@MichaelJOneill333 its common for vicims of trauma to mentally block out their childhood.

    • @M50A1
      @M50A1 3 роки тому +2

      @@skunk12 that was a stupid question either way

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 6 років тому +80

    I still use mine everyday. I mean it goes so well with my denim jacket.

  • @electronash
    @electronash 6 років тому +287

    8:37
    "Huey Lewis has lost his sponge." - The new album, out now in Our Price.

    • @DanaTheInsane
      @DanaTheInsane 6 років тому +11

      Huey Lewis has lost his hearing sadly.

    • @electronash
      @electronash 6 років тому +10

      Dana W
      "I'm sorry, but you're just too darn loud." (BTTF)
      Yeah, I saw on the news (ironically) that he had to cancel a gig recently.
      Shame, as it happens to a lot of musicians. Makes you think more about volume levels and ear protection.
      It's mainly the high frequencies that damage hearing, of course. May be worth more live gigs taking a bit more off the top end?

    • @TheBrokenLife
      @TheBrokenLife 6 років тому +3

      Oddly, Huey lost is hearing due to some sort of a rare disease and not just "loud music".

    • @electronash
      @electronash 6 років тому

      Maxwelhse
      Oh.
      I hadn't read that part. :(

    • @georgeprice7922
      @georgeprice7922 6 років тому +1

      ElectronAsh not just a gig was cancelled, his entire tour was cancelled.

  • @starrybubble3632
    @starrybubble3632 5 років тому +83

    At 11:06, if you plug in headphones and take off one ear, you hear one track, the other ear the other track. I just thought that was rather cool.

    • @ddiyana9925
      @ddiyana9925 4 роки тому +2

      Starry Bubble woah thanks!

    • @WildVee
      @WildVee 4 роки тому +3

      What are the songs that play?

    • @MichaelJOneill333
      @MichaelJOneill333 4 роки тому +1

      😮 Thank you! I didn't even think to do that lol.

    • @MoofEMP
      @MoofEMP 4 роки тому +9

      that's how stereo works yeah

    • @i_lost_my_bagel
      @i_lost_my_bagel 4 роки тому +2

      That never occurred to me
      I usually watch these videos on my phone and it's mono speaker

  • @billmyke746
    @billmyke746 6 років тому +69

    80's overdose. Feels good.

  • @leogrievous
    @leogrievous 6 років тому +319

    Wow the tape is pure 80s

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 6 років тому +3

      BucketsAMF I think he meant this specific format.

    • @leogrievous
      @leogrievous 6 років тому +8

      5Rounds Rapid no, I mean the Cutting Crew tape.

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 6 років тому +1

      leogrievous Definitely!

    • @cloudzack1090
      @cloudzack1090 6 років тому +1

      leogrievous pure an hero

    • @tonyharrisson6823
      @tonyharrisson6823 6 років тому +3

      It reeks of 80’s..... love it!!

  • @bobbym3155
    @bobbym3155 6 років тому +42

    I remember listening to Walk like an Egyptian on that thing like it was yesterday. I was probably 5 and was impressed :)

    • @guitarofdestiny
      @guitarofdestiny 6 років тому +3

      Bobby M oh yeah, I had that one too. And bon jovi, Debbie Gibson and a few others

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 6 років тому +1

      A girl at school had that tape. Due to rights issues, it was a knockoff and not The Bangles.

    • @Zulf85
      @Zulf85 6 років тому +1

      One of these things would have blown my mind at 5 years-old lol

  • @i.m.evilhomer5084
    @i.m.evilhomer5084 6 років тому +88

    This reminds me of the Mini DVDs and Game Boy Advance video, two other products for kids from the early 2000s that didn't last long.

    • @GeneralNickles
      @GeneralNickles 6 років тому +11

      Josh I
      Don't forget the UMD movies on PSP.

    • @i.m.evilhomer5084
      @i.m.evilhomer5084 6 років тому +8

      maxie fuqua
      I don't think UMD movies were strictly for kids, as there plenty of films and shows for adults released on that format. However, it's still an interesting forgotten format.

    • @GeneralNickles
      @GeneralNickles 6 років тому +4

      Josh I
      I really meant more that it failed because it didn't know who it was martketing itself to.
      Movies that can only be played on a video game system. makes no sense.

    • @fruitypeebils
      @fruitypeebils 6 років тому

      and VideoNow

    • @jamiem8086
      @jamiem8086 6 років тому

      OH MY IM 12 AND I HAVE A GAME BOY ADVANCE SP 001 WITH A JIMMY NEUTRON VIDEO THINGY AND A MARIO KART SUPER CIRCUIT. i think you can guess which one i use more

  • @eduardosouza5077
    @eduardosouza5077 4 роки тому +47

    5:01
    Techmoan: Have a listen of the direct feed I've taken of it.
    UA-cam Copyright: How about no?

  • @CamoRanger1205
    @CamoRanger1205 5 років тому +587

    It’s night time and I’m learning about 80’s toys.
    Help

  • @paulb1953
    @paulb1953 4 роки тому +11

    "its doubtful ill ever use this again but at least its working perfectly now" I love this mentality

  • @umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731
    @umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 6 років тому +25

    I'm 38 and remember these...they were quite the novelty but music selection was limited and they didn't have the hip-hop acts of the day like run- dmc or eric B and rakim it was pretty much jus pop...it was hot for the summer and that fall for school, but after that xmas it was pretty much forgotten..
    Thanks for the review! 👍🔥

    • @OneOfDisease
      @OneOfDisease 6 років тому

      John Smith dude Im 38 as well and don't recall these at all. I had spent some Birthday money to buy a cheap walkman knockoff like he showed in the picture. I used to make mixed tapes by listen to the radio and hitting record whenever a new song came on.

    • @umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731
      @umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 6 років тому +1

      Oneofdazzz
      Yeah man i mean honestly this only stuck out due to my younger sister. I mean i wasn't rocking it on the recess yard...lol. 😁

    • @richardquintrell8273
      @richardquintrell8273 6 років тому

      pocket rockers did have the fat boys available. Kind of pop or kid friendly act, but no question they were hip-hop.

  • @Exhaustedhighlighter
    @Exhaustedhighlighter 6 років тому +212

    I want a Pocket Rocker.

    • @Exhaustedhighlighter
      @Exhaustedhighlighter 6 років тому +27

      It’s so effin cute.

    • @nm-yuki-p
      @nm-yuki-p 5 років тому +6

      You know you can edit your comment right

    • @karan007x
      @karan007x 5 років тому +1

      You do have it, just with a screen now a days🤣

    • @bibasik7
      @bibasik7 5 років тому +13

      Just select “repeat one song” in your iPod settings, then select a song. Boom, pocket rocker.

    • @elti6747
      @elti6747 5 років тому

      @@Exhaustedhighlighter Mee too

  • @agnastthrower5212
    @agnastthrower5212 4 роки тому +5

    Even though I was born in the mid 90s, 80s tech feels so nostalgic because of how much I used it. My grandparents didn't even upgrade from VHS to DVD until like 2005.

  • @tigergumby
    @tigergumby 5 років тому +14

    I had one of these as a kid and absolutely loved it! I'm sure my sister and I drove our parents crazy with Tiffany, The Bangles, and Kim Carnes playing endlessly. I do remember for the time period, the sound was really good. We didn't wear them or the cassettes anywhere. We just played the heck out of them. Thanks for the review!

  • @tyrgoossens
    @tyrgoossens 6 років тому +38

    I love watching the belt-replacement-channel.

    • @5Detective
      @5Detective 6 років тому +10

      tyrgoossens Last year, one of my uncles collapsed while he was staying with us. It was tragic. The family was devastated. Everyone thought he was dead. But, after watching Techmoan for years, I just opened my uncle up and replaced the belt. He was good as new.

  • @codyofathens3397
    @codyofathens3397 5 років тому +5

    It wasn't this exactly, but at some point between 98-02ish my local library used to host this thing in the summer for kids, where if you made it through their whole summer reading list, you won a little prize bag, and then they have extra books for extra prizes. One of the prizes I won was a little portable tape deck that came with 3 tapes. They weren't endless loop, but they each had 2 songs on them, and they were absolutely tiny. The player itself was worn around the neck like a necklace, and was maybe the size of a pack of cigarettes (american, if they're different in other places), of a little smaller. You got 3 tapes with it, but the only song I remember was TLC waterfalls. I had that thing for *years* it was solid blue, and only had an eject button for the tapes. No pause, no rewind, nothing else. They also had a little fm radio that clipped onto your belt loops, but I didn't get that one.

  • @AirborneSurfer
    @AirborneSurfer 6 років тому +432

    "How many kids that age were really into Genesis and how many of them could correctly answer trivia questions about Boston?"
    *raises hand*

    • @kasperdomagala4544
      @kasperdomagala4544 6 років тому +16

      Matthew Eargle - AirborneSurfer you could ask me anything about Rush, Genesis or Creedence Clearwater and I could answer it at that time.

    • @fedvvvv
      @fedvvvv 6 років тому +13

      Same. I was a MASSIVE Genesis fan when I was about 7. Played the hell out of Invisible Touch.

    • @porko882
      @porko882 6 років тому +5

      Probably a lot in 1988.

    • @geckoo9190
      @geckoo9190 6 років тому +1

      I will guess that you weren't around back then, men now im old, in my times you had to walk though snow and mud in order to get old, anyways I had a folder that played music, it was loud and pretty noisy you could barely distinguish the words still I loved it until the battery ran out, back then I didn't know how to change a clock battery.

    • @polygondwanaland8390
      @polygondwanaland8390 5 років тому +1

      Genesis is the one big classic prog band I haven't got into yet. Should definitely get on it.

  • @wildbilltexas
    @wildbilltexas 6 років тому +52

    Too bad they didn't make these stereo or used all 4 tracks to hold 4 songs. I was a radio DJ in the 80's and there were plenty of grade school kids who called me all the time that loved Huey Lewis and Genesis thanks to MTV. "Can you play the Power of Love? I want to record it on my boombox".

    • @IrishKeshiHead
      @IrishKeshiHead 6 років тому +2

      I would agree on this, getting the system to be slower and reading 4 tracks would have been a better system to get at least part of an album onto the set.

    • @musaran2
      @musaran2 5 років тому +1

      I was baffled it used only half the tape. Double-side heads were common, an doubling capacity is not to be scoffed at.
      With a little ingenuity it could even seamlessly switch side to double duration.

  • @lankey6969
    @lankey6969 5 років тому +311

    A man in a van asked me if I wanted a pocket rocket in 1982.

    • @Zylonity
      @Zylonity 5 років тому +13

      are you joking? did you say no?

    • @doomguy4238
      @doomguy4238 5 років тому +6

      Hahah damn dude

    • @lankey6969
      @lankey6969 5 років тому +42

      @@justvaper Wise men say "Man with hands in pocket feel cocky all day".

    • @j_man7573
      @j_man7573 4 роки тому +13

      Just asking do you still want the pocket rocket.... signed man in van

    • @nadafro3116
      @nadafro3116 4 роки тому +3

      It's vampires

  • @joebeastyg5686
    @joebeastyg5686 6 років тому +17

    How can people give these videos dislikes? How??? The money, time, and effort invested are a labor of love and informative. What's wrong with people?

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 6 років тому +3

      joe beastyg Maybe some people watch UA-cam standing on their heads.

    • @krtekcyberpunker
      @krtekcyberpunker 6 років тому +1

      The money, time, and effort invested and than 3 sec. sample of playing..

  • @MeatPopsycle
    @MeatPopsycle 6 років тому +43

    I had one of these. I remember having a Bangles tape with "Manic Monday" on it.

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 4 роки тому +7

    Looking at the list of songs featured on these, I'm impressed at the variety, it feels like they have a wider range of genres than hitclips did. More oldies, more current hits that aren't just pure pop. Also I love the custom art they've made for each cassette, it's really 80s and looks awesome

  • @teacfan1080
    @teacfan1080 6 років тому +15

    Just when you think you've seen all the different tape formats out there, Techmoan comes along with a new one I've never seen!

  • @G36UK
    @G36UK 6 років тому +69

    Is anyone else reminded of the Action Replay toys?
    They were small battery powered things that you held up to one eye and played about 20 to 30 seconds of film from a circular cartridge.
    I remember owning one with the Terminator 2 cart and loving it. Dunno why really.
    Interesting concept but really limited.
    Ever seen one Techmoan?

    • @IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT
      @IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT 5 років тому +13

      I thought Action Replay was a brand of video game cheat devices

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 5 років тому +5

      Fisher-Price sold a hand-cranked thing like that in the 1970s. I don't think I ever encountered the battery-powered version.

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 5 років тому +6

      (I vividly remember the Sears Christmas catalog pushing a film loop for it from... Alien! It's amazing how much kid marketing there was for that R-rated horror film.)
      correction: That was apparently for Kenner's competing model...

  • @kurisu7885
    @kurisu7885 5 років тому +36

    I freakin love the artwork on those things and their packaging.

  • @kiloohm
    @kiloohm 6 років тому +174

    I remember those. Only stupid kids had them because owning this was an intelligence test. Why would you want a device that had half songs and only a few albums when a nice walkman would do so much more? As you can tell from my punctuation I had a Pocket Rocker.

    • @geIoeschterBenutzer
      @geIoeschterBenutzer 6 років тому +3

      KiloOhm 😄

    • @kitsunekid16
      @kitsunekid16 6 років тому +7

      Last sentence needs a comma

    • @Wok_Agenda
      @Wok_Agenda 6 років тому +10

      As long as you don't buy Apple products you are ok

    • @JimBob_Joe77
      @JimBob_Joe77 5 років тому +1

      @@Wok_Agenda I think you mis typed and put Apple in instead of PC (of shit)

    • @bt3743
      @bt3743 5 років тому +14

      Matt Nes'heim Oh yes I love owning products with no usb ports and laptops that cost over 2000. Let's not forget the utter lack of gaming potential

  • @LordSandwichII
    @LordSandwichII 6 років тому +17

    0:35 I wanna go back in time to the '80s! It seemed like so much fun!

    • @DuckAlertBeats
      @DuckAlertBeats 6 років тому +7

      Lord Sandwich No joke, it actually kind of was

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 6 років тому +1

      It was so much simpler. Earlier generations said that to us, but this time it’s really true.

    • @JimJWalker
      @JimJWalker 6 років тому +1

      I was 18 in 1988. I'll take 2018, thanks.

    • @karlsebastiansollenhag8802
      @karlsebastiansollenhag8802 6 років тому +1

      Pook365 Internet? Did you have internet in the 80s? I sure didn’t...

    • @Abu_Brandino
      @Abu_Brandino 6 років тому

      That’s all I was thinking, I just wish I got to experience all that fun. The 21st century is honestly terrible.

  • @telengardforever7783
    @telengardforever7783 5 років тому +1

    I'm traumatized by Pocket Rockers. Back when they were new, a young girl on my military base got one for her birthday. A few months later, she left out outside under a tree. I saw it, and I knew I should have picked it up and held it for her. Well, I didn't and someone else found the Pocket Rocker and kept it. She cried for a good few hours and spent a few days trying to figure out who took it. I remember her face and how destroyed she was when she lost it. Man, I really wish I just picked it up and gave it back to her later that day.
    Back in the 1980's, if you lost something as a military brat, you lost it for good. I don't know why military families were like that. Her father was an E-5 and could have easily afforded another Pocket Rocker- no harm, no foul. But he never got her another.

  • @joshbacon8241
    @joshbacon8241 6 років тому +581

    Were they *really* wearing them as jewellery in the 80’s?!

    • @microbuilder
      @microbuilder 6 років тому +94

      probably, it was a different time lol

    • @dcvk6250
      @dcvk6250 6 років тому +196

      People also wore silly bands in the 2000’s

    • @lutello3012
      @lutello3012 6 років тому +7

      Hell no! (Not this one, anyway.

    • @guitarofdestiny
      @guitarofdestiny 6 років тому +15

      Josh Bacon a few of us had these but nah, no one wore them as jewelry. Haha

    • @grochomarx2002
      @grochomarx2002 6 років тому +39

      I remember kids wearing these in the late 1980's.
      Another clever fisher price product.
      We need to see the fisher price camcorder reviewed Mr. Techmoan!

  • @VeeTwoPointOh
    @VeeTwoPointOh 2 роки тому +1

    Never had this but I did have hit clips and this is so much cooler and that sound of inserting the mini cassette is SO satisfying

  • @cellokid5104
    @cellokid5104 6 років тому +14

    I knew my Mobius loop had a place in life😍

    • @joseph_b319
      @joseph_b319 6 років тому +1

      Trekky On some cars the serpentine belt is s Möbius strip.

  • @statinskill
    @statinskill 6 років тому +316

    The non-recorded side of the tape was used by Soviet intelligence to smuggle the machine code of the Minuteman ICBM's inertial navigation system into the USSR. Each cassette had 200 bytes of that code encoded on the unused half of the tape encoded as two short bursts of data after a very short synchronization pattern and a checksum. Agents used an early American homecomputer with cassette deck interface and a modified pocket rocker drive that had it's read head replaced by with a conventional audio cassette head. The reader in Moscow is on display at the GRU's Museum along with a TTL simulator of the American Minuteman's navigation computer running the exfiltrated software. The tapes were carried on board an Aeroflot flight by the unsuspecting teenage children of a number of Russian diplomats on their way to a two week long Pioneer camp near Chelyabinsk. On the train from Moscow to Chelyabinsk agents retrieved the tapes from the children after slipping them a weak sedative.

    • @b0b0-
      @b0b0- 5 років тому +45

      I've got some very important work for you. I've waited so long for you to contact me in exactly this way.

    • @merickbrother2122
      @merickbrother2122 5 років тому +13

      I want to believe...

    • @alexUnder45
      @alexUnder45 5 років тому +4

      Пиздец

    • @SpiderGames420YT
      @SpiderGames420YT 5 років тому +3

      wow

    • @snoopdogg9490
      @snoopdogg9490 5 років тому +5

      BRAIN.EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING

  • @estebanrios4418
    @estebanrios4418 5 років тому +72

    POCKET ROCKERS... the name sounds like a bad anime from the 2000's

    • @lamelane2762
      @lamelane2762 5 років тому +1

      Steven Ryoter wtf is your pfp

    • @tannert8361
      @tannert8361 4 роки тому +5

      Like there such thing as a good anime

    • @stiky5972
      @stiky5972 4 роки тому

      ROCKET POCKERS

    • @IdontKnow-nm8bz
      @IdontKnow-nm8bz 4 роки тому +2

      @@tannert8361 yes, hentai

    • @tannert8361
      @tannert8361 4 роки тому +2

      @@IdontKnow-nm8bz you gotta point I cant even lie

  • @pancakebob553
    @pancakebob553 2 роки тому +1

    I find it kinda funny how despite being decades older, these are 3x the length, 2x the songs, and way higher quality than hitclips

  • @Rosie-Redstar
    @Rosie-Redstar 4 роки тому +4

    I remember playing with a couple hit clips when i was little and wondering how they worked internally... I have no idea how I ended up with them in the first place however as I was very young at the time... To this day that tiny toy boombox is still what i associate the company with...

  • @Cylume.
    @Cylume. 6 років тому +119

    Pocket Rockers... I choose You!!

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 6 років тому +1

      Speaking of which, there’s a “Don’t Say You Love Me” Hit Clips if I recall correctly.

    • @FriedEgg101
      @FriedEgg101 6 років тому +2

      Poket Rockers: Unite!

    • @johndevito2384
      @johndevito2384 6 років тому

      Cylume Pokerok???

    • @professoroak3411
      @professoroak3411 6 років тому

      Cylume
      true

  • @Starius65
    @Starius65 2 роки тому +2

    Wow, that direct audio feed sounds so high quality! So much so that UA-cam ContentID thought so as well!

  • @DrumWild
    @DrumWild 6 років тому +7

    The artwork on the front is radical and totally 80s. Excellent!
    I have Trout Mask Replica on my smart watch. Can't stop progress.

  • @dyllantillman
    @dyllantillman 5 років тому +40

    10:31 "Hail Satan, he has come."
    Pocket Rockers is trying to indoctrinate the kids.

  • @stolin4039
    @stolin4039 4 роки тому +1

    I still have my pink and black one, I got it and a case to carry extra tapes for Christmas one year. I'll be 44 in March. My kids had hit clips.

  • @Uncleharkinian
    @Uncleharkinian 6 років тому +26

    1980s corporate office" lets rewrite CCR!" classic lol

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 5 років тому

      Willy and the Poorboys and their Pocket Rockers

  • @MrVolksbeetle
    @MrVolksbeetle 6 років тому +7

    I remember seeing these in the stores. I had been making my own dubs of LP's for years. Other than seeing them in the store, about all else I can remember is the genuinely annoying commercials making a shambles of CCR's Down on The Corner. Still, I do very much enjoy your videos. Thank you!

  • @mynameisntimportant9341
    @mynameisntimportant9341 3 роки тому +1

    I remember carrying actual tapes... in fact I still listen to my led zeppelin tape that I remember listening to every day walking from school

  • @squiggle2054
    @squiggle2054 4 роки тому +3

    this just makes me appreciate my walkman even more

  • @ikeyasector
    @ikeyasector 4 роки тому +1

    I grew up in the 80's (I was 10 years old in 1987) here in the States and at my school, we were all listening to Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, older albums of Van Halen, RATT, etc... and that style of rock was very popular from ages eight on up to folks in their 20's. The reason why kids in my area liked music intended for older audiences and teen clothing styles was that we were the kind of kids that wanted to be cooler and act older. That was a thing in my area so allot of that music was actually a good choice for kids back then because of it. However, we all had conventional walkmans/tape decks at the time, so I never knew of anyone who had a Pocket Rocker. But I do remember the commercials when I was 11 (I think).

  • @geobasket
    @geobasket 5 років тому +25

    still waiting for that hit clips video...

  • @megazenn22
    @megazenn22 6 років тому +8

    I cant imagine a world where kids listen to Phil Collins, the past blows my tiny mind!

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 6 років тому +3

      megazenn22 I watched MTV when I was 7!

    • @gutierrezpablod
      @gutierrezpablod 6 років тому +5

      I listened “in the air tonight” when i was 7 with an old westinghouse portable radio. Was pretty awesome

    • @blinski1
      @blinski1 6 років тому +6

      I got my first walkman for my 7th birthday in 1990 and Tina Turner, Rolling Stones and Phil Collins tapes with it. Guess what, I listened the shit out of Phil Collins. My mother couldn't stand me screaming 'susussudio!!' from the top of my lungs.

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 6 років тому +2

      We were the MTV Generation!

    • @ryanyoder7573
      @ryanyoder7573 6 років тому +2

      I did. Didn’t even wear a jacket outside while listening either.

  • @pauldavis6356
    @pauldavis6356 2 роки тому +1

    I've never seen one of these. I've watched several of your videos, enjoyed them all, and am always amazed that these ancient devices actually work. Thank you for all you do.

  • @spartansfan1026
    @spartansfan1026 4 роки тому +20

    Can't lie, I like the sound of that commercial's cover of "Down on the Corner".

    • @eastlynburkholder3559
      @eastlynburkholder3559 4 роки тому

      It was a great commercial in its day and even now. However, marketing that to 8 year olds doomed it. Had it played whole songs, been slightly bigger, and been marketed to kids a bit older, it would have been the poor teen's Walkman. Walkmsm was still the better choice.

  • @custardo
    @custardo 6 років тому +44

    Hmmm. there didn't seem to be any satanic messages at all. Bummer.

    • @ucitymetalhead
      @ucitymetalhead 6 років тому +3

      custardo well there's a blank side so you could put something special on the cassette for others to find.

  • @BlockBlazer
    @BlockBlazer 2 роки тому +1

    You could say
    Pocket Rockers in the house tonight.
    Tracks gonna loop over and over all night.

  • @AlbertSiegel
    @AlbertSiegel 5 років тому +10

    Imagine the multi tape set you would need just for "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".

    • @RayTheClown69
      @RayTheClown69 4 роки тому +2

      *Iron Butterfly?*

    • @ShamrockParticle
      @ShamrockParticle 3 роки тому +1

      And redo the lyrics like with "down in the corner. Out in the street!" 🤣

  • @Ur2ez4me81
    @Ur2ez4me81 4 роки тому +9

    Lol I had one & it played that song that goes “Heaven is a place on Earth...”. Thank you for this video I completely forgot about these...

    • @MathewWoodard
      @MathewWoodard 4 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/NOGEyBeoBGM/v-deo.html

    • @MiseryDesigns
      @MiseryDesigns 4 роки тому +1

      You just have to put on smooth.fm these days in australia, they play it like twice a day 😂

    • @JasmineSurrealVideos
      @JasmineSurrealVideos 4 роки тому

      Belinda Carlisle, ex of the GoGos!

  • @Poisonjam7
    @Poisonjam7 2 роки тому +1

    “What kind of kid would’ve been into Genesis?”
    A cool kid with excellent tastes, that’s who!! 😎

  • @LordSandwichII
    @LordSandwichII 6 років тому +12

    6:07 It's like a cute baby 8-track!

  • @veggieh8r
    @veggieh8r 4 роки тому +1

    I remember these in grade school. EVERYBODY thought they were stupid. Most kids had a walkman or a small boombox for cassette.

  • @LaskyLabs
    @LaskyLabs 6 років тому +19

    Huey Lewis and the News?! Sign me up!

    • @fryode
      @fryode 6 років тому +1

      Downside is "I Want A New Drug" is missing.

    • @fryode
      @fryode 6 років тому +1

      They had Ghostbusters. I never saw Weird Al. His work would have been a killer app for the platform.

    • @edised71
      @edised71 6 років тому

      Huey Lewis and the Bad News!

    • @LaskyLabs
      @LaskyLabs 6 років тому

      Flat ED WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?!??!?! ILLHAVEYOUKNOWTHATHUEYLEWISANDTHENEWSISONEOFTHEBEST80SBANDSEVERANDKRKAMFITJRNSKDDMYOPIONIONISBETTERTHANYOURSYOUCANTWINSIALPTKDJSIBETYOISTENTOJAKEPAULYOUTAATLESSWINE!!!!!!

    • @edised71
      @edised71 6 років тому

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAVERYFUNNYHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAYOUGOTMEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @c.james1
    @c.james1 6 років тому +143

    Yeah, surprised you gave Databits a shoutout after he accused you of stealing from him.

    • @SwampCeeMcGee60
      @SwampCeeMcGee60 6 років тому +3

      Chris James Well, damn. Lol.

    • @pepperjeanne1566
      @pepperjeanne1566 6 років тому +41

      Because he's British hahaha. They're always so nice, or passive aggressive.

    • @EvaluateAssimilate
      @EvaluateAssimilate 6 років тому +14

      Pepper has it right; quietly polite in retort and commit murder through kindness! Carry on.

    • @edbadyt
      @edbadyt 6 років тому +47

      Chris James he probably doesn't give two shits. It would look a bit silly if a man his age cared about what somebody said about him on UA-cam

    • @darknes4150
      @darknes4150 5 років тому

      edbadyt ehh but being petty is always a bit more fun besides no one would ever have known he watched the other guys video

  • @JerryEricsson
    @JerryEricsson 4 роки тому

    1970, I was in the US Army, at a training center, learning how to climb telephone poles and string wire through the jungle, with the goal of going to Vietnam and hooking up commo wire to phones or carrying a radio through the jungle, both of which I did a bit later on. I was the kid fresh off the farm with little knowledge of what "real" folks owned, we were dirt poor and the closest I had to a hifi was a little transistor radio my uncle gave me when he returned from the Army. One of my fellow soldiers in the same barracks had this little music player that looked like a half an 8 track but smaller. It came with several cartridges, each with a couple songs on them and played rather well. I became intrigued and eventually purchased it from him. I really liked it, but never figured out what the hell it was called, and by the time I returned from Vietnam, my wife had given it to her brother, who had taken it to college where he traded it off for a bag of weed or some such shit. Still, I wonder what that thing was. I am quite sure of the year (Who wouldn't remember the year you wen't to war?) and the place, only the name of the device has been changed to protect my brain cells. Any thoughts?

  • @PandaMan02
    @PandaMan02 4 роки тому +12

    you know what else has endless looping music? a radio.

  • @alfr83
    @alfr83 6 років тому +14

    Best sponsor ever !

  • @TreacherousFennec
    @TreacherousFennec 2 роки тому +1

    i can't overlook the fact that it loads like an M1 Garand, even ejects lol. Would be my favorite fidget toy

  • @NekoWinters
    @NekoWinters 6 років тому +10

    Thanks to the internet memes I'm always expecting you to play "never going to give you up" on the media you are showcasing :P

  • @GeorgiaRidgerunner
    @GeorgiaRidgerunner 6 років тому +5

    Ahh simpler times back then...am I the only one who finds these obsolete tech videos relaxing...

    • @crazyrobotlady3391
      @crazyrobotlady3391 6 років тому

      No. You’re not the only one. I like listening to them too. I have this sort of nostalgic despair when I think about all the innovations people came up with before our beloved iPhones became the Swiss Army knives of our current age. I’m not hating on Apple here. They have done more than any other company to make their products useable for people with various disabilities than anyone else before them. I just think sometimes their products have swallowed the market for other potential compact dedicated devices that do one job and do it well

  • @rouleigh
    @rouleigh 5 років тому

    Wish I had one of these when I was a kid. I'm one of those people who listens to the same song over, and over, and over. Great video!

  • @CommodoreFan64
    @CommodoreFan64 6 років тому +8

    One of my younger female cousins had this with a few of the tapes, but I always laughed at her since I had a normal cheapo portable AM/FM Tape deck with a built in speaker, and shoulder strap. Man I truly miss that thing.

  • @Cyancat123
    @Cyancat123 4 роки тому +13

    5:07 Wait, so it just plays nothing? I didn't hear anything!

    • @Wombattlr
      @Wombattlr 4 роки тому +17

      He had to cut the audio because UMG, Sony or whoever else struck his video.

    • @anonymus-2005
      @anonymus-2005 3 роки тому +1

      I was confused as well

  • @Bradensmommy0219
    @Bradensmommy0219 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for making this video. I was obsessed with my pocket rocker and it’s still one of my favorite items from my childhood. I had the same Cutting Crew tape. I also remember having Huey Lewis and the News, The Bangles, Tiffany, and Taylor Dayne.

  • @jtmichaelson
    @jtmichaelson 5 років тому +28

    That is funny. How many kids were into Genesis? So true. Although I do have to say, I was 12 when Abacab came out and was rather fond of it. But not yet into Peter Gabriel. That had to come later. He was too advanced for me before I was 15.
    Excellent video, as usual. I end up binge watching your videos. You're like that horrid rabbit hole that I can't seem to get out of until I've had enough and seriously have to finally go to bed.

    • @StreetFighterIIFeb
      @StreetFighterIIFeb 3 роки тому +3

      genesis does what nintendon't

    • @jakublulek3261
      @jakublulek3261 3 роки тому

      Invisible Touch is as old as I am and it still is my most favourite record, since I can remember. I still have my father's original LP. But I went into Steve Hackett's direction rather than Peter Gabriel's.

    • @UncleRuckuss
      @UncleRuckuss 3 роки тому +1

      I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums.
      Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist

    • @robc4191
      @robc4191 3 роки тому +2

      @@UncleRuckuss wow, maybe its intentional, but you really sound like Patrick Bateman bro.

    • @uziXwraith
      @uziXwraith 3 роки тому

      GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS WAS A JAM WHEN I WAS A KID

  • @mwbgaming28
    @mwbgaming28 5 років тому +40

    Meanwhile in 2018 I have a microSD card in my phone with over 2500 songs on it
    And it's less than half full

    • @Ridcally
      @Ridcally 5 років тому +9

      Aaand some people would say it is as outdated as pocket rocker, because all the cool kids stream it nowadays

    • @mwbgaming28
      @mwbgaming28 4 роки тому +12

      @@Ridcally Perhaps, but when the zombie apocalypse happens, il still have all my music while I'm hiding in my bunker

    • @jeffkardosjr.3825
      @jeffkardosjr.3825 4 роки тому +2

      Here in 2020 there's a micro SD double the capacity and lower in cost than one from last year.

    • @ilmmazum
      @ilmmazum 4 роки тому +4

      MWB Gaming everybody gangsta until your microSD card gets corrupted

    • @mwbgaming28
      @mwbgaming28 4 роки тому

      @@ilmmazum and il restore a backup from my NAS

  • @gasmaskdav9155
    @gasmaskdav9155 4 роки тому +1

    God I miss the 90s. If I could relive the whole 90s again I would in a heartbeat

  • @microbuilder
    @microbuilder 6 років тому +195

    holy nostalgia overload batman...

    • @thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154
      @thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154 6 років тому +2

      nostalgia isn't what it used to be

    • @andrewabraham2858
      @andrewabraham2858 6 років тому

      It is if you had one of these really weird little things I knew exactly what it was the instant I saw the thumbnail!

    • @microbuilder
      @microbuilder 6 років тому

      Andrew Abraham I didnt have one, but my neighbor did...i very distinctly remember it and the commercial...hadnt thought of it probably since the early 90s. Good times!

    • @microbuilder
      @microbuilder 6 років тому +3

      Duncan F. Why so triggered?

    • @common_c3nts
      @common_c3nts 6 років тому +1

      Not compared to a pocket rocker.