I used to own a Super Kong and I loved it. My sister lent it to a cousin without my permission who lived miles away and so I didn't get it back for well over a year. When I did get it back my cousin had managed to blow vacuum fluorescent display, making it a useless, unplayable beeping piece of rubbish. My aunt tried to compensate for it by giving me my cousin's Simon machine, you know, one of those rubbish round things with four different coloured flashing buttons. I was gutted.
I hope many different kids of shit were beaten out of the guy shortly thereafter. Cause yeah, I've never even owned Simon and I can pretty much tell it'd be inadequate compensation.
another unsolicited technical note: vacuum fluorescent displays, much light fluorescent lights, internally generate light in the near ultra-violet which is then converted to green by the fluorescent material. A decent amount of the ultra-violet light light escapes unmolested by the phosphor, however, and can pass the blue filter on cmos detectors and CCD's, thus the blue color in recording, but green when viewed with eyeballs.
***** I think the point was it was that it recorded more blue than it was supposed to. Much as I like watching ashens videos, Im not going to watch the whole thing again to fact check this though.
***** I think he has probably more than rudimentary video editing skills and equipment. It would probably be insulting to say he at least bother to color correct for whatever lighting he uses. Most non-extremely-expensive studio lighting doesnt show up white on non-extremely-expensive cameras. (caution, contents of comment may contain partial or complete factual or logical errors)
***** It would be insulting to insinuate that he doesnt :P I maybe should have made that more clear. He talks about color correcting all the time in his videos.
Your channel is the only channel where I don't skip any of your intros. I love them. I love the way you say hello. It puts me in a good mood. Thank you for being you, Ashens!
Stuart mate, I could watch you review postage stamps and would still laugh until my spleen burst. Which reminds me, I really should go get that seen to..
Galaga, Frogger, and Dig Dug are my favorites. 🥰 I loved Namco Museum PS2 growing up, we also had a plug n' play of Frogger. 😊🐸💖 Please have a wonderful day. 😻
Not really. Astro Wars worked well enough, but the other two where no real step up up from popstations. And these where made with some attempt at quality, not the stamp-out cheapness of the poppies which are no more 'modern' than the features here.
AgentTasmania Thats because 30 years ago the technology was less advanced, it was very hard to make something like that... it was top of the edge of game technology... nowadays people can even make these things themselves and still some popstation games are worse than those of 30 years ago when it was very hard to make something like that
Takahashi Yuuki Actually Vacuum Fluorescent Displays are nice, bright and accurate. (often used in audio equipment at the time) While I'd prefer actual "needle" meters on recorders, VFDs stomp same period LED meters. IDK if it's the best choice for battery operated equipment, as they use way more power than LED.
This is the most clever April Fools' joke I've ever seen. Subverting our expectations of a joke video by just posting a regular video. This just goes to show Stuart's brilliance as a youtube chessmaster. His cunning is of the highest caliber.
***** I think the Super Kong game is made to be played at an angle. You'll notice that the ladders align with the floors when you play with the screen tilted (as if it was laying flat and you were viewing it at ~45 degree angle. I'm guessing Mode A was used for the power adapter, and that's why it didn't work?
Oh man hearing that Astro wars music took me on a weird nostalgia trip, I loved that game, I remember my joystick broke and I sent it to the manufacturer and they fixed it lol
Astro Wars. I estimate About 150 hours of my precious childhood was spent on that little plastic box. And I loved almost every second of it. Fantastic colour. Waves of aliens that reminded you of the Arcade "Galaxian". The Bonus Games. The sound. A really fantastic game. I know it would have cost my parents a lot of money back in...1981?
The Bambino Boxing commercial IS on UA-cam Turns out, their slogan was: "Beat a Bambino, and you've beaten the best!" I don't think the first half of that slogan would go over very well in Europe
I have Astro Wars! I'm 25, but it used to be my dad's and my grandad gave it to me. I had a little wave of nostalgia hearing those horrible noises it made in the video.
The Astro Wars cabinet was released in the states under the name Galaxy II(if there was a Galaxy I, I have no clue.) Ah, both the joyous and painful memories associated with the one my mom gave when I was a kid. The joyful because it was a fun system for an 8-year-old not allowed to have a Game Boy, who actually managed to get 9999 points and beat the game, which his mom never did in all her years of playing the game. ...And the painful memories of accidentally crushing the machine and having a mom who's still angry at me to this day about it...
Seeing the arms flying everywhere in the Boxing game reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hokuto no Ken a bit. ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORAAAAAAAAH Astro Wars looks damn brilliant for an early portable game. Cool screen, nice color visuals, and it's designed like a piece of high-tech science equipment or something. Super Kong looks a bit neato. Well, Super Kong himself, the game looks a bit eh.
I lost it at "maybe we're both bees and fighting in a bonnet." I love the reference. I can always rely on Ashens for my healthy dose of sarcasm and dry humo[u]r. And a bit of tat induced rage from time to time.
Galaxian predates Galaga...because Galaga is the sequel to Galaxian. In fact, near as I can tell, Astro Wars/Super Galaxian predates the arcade release of Galaga by just a couple of months.
I got an Astro wars console circa '81. Loved it. It was a portable games console which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to take out of the house.. Work than one out. Preferred this to our Intellivision. My dad worked for Radio Rentals. And they had a deal with Mattell. Great video again. Batteries were expensive then, so you had to use the mains.
A Cylon's Minge. Not an image I'm going to forget for a while, one for the terribleness of a robot minge, and two for the sheer bliss that would be Tricia Helfer's.
Used to have Scramble made my Grandstand, used to love playing that thing.... memories... coming back..... oh the joys of childhood and not knowing about this future life of having to work and pay bills and be responsible
Ashens I love when you do videos like this it makes me think what childhood would of been like back in the day. plus could you do more food videos they are amazing!
The Astro Wars game did a decent job of recreating the various levels of the arcade game Moon Cresta in LED form. I was surprised to see those four ships/aliens at the top come to life, as well as the docking procedure. Pretty clever and playable for the technology! And you just have to love that "Air Traffic Control" case. Too cool.
"to be honest their is no skill at all and you're just mashing buttons in the hope of winning. Ya' know, like Tekken!" *grabs popcorn* *scrolls down to comment section*
Sorry mr hans. But I'm pretty sure I look better than you in your picture. Who even are you anyways? Some 47 year old who by the sounds if it likes to stalk 16 year olds face books then just point out what I already know. Yeah I do you use my Facebook and I know what my friends have commented on the pictures and I'm not arsed.
I'm so sorry for offending you and your narrow mind. I think I'm just gonna have to go and sit in a corner cutting my self because I really value your opinion.
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I'm glad that UA-cam gaming has an entire category for Astro Wars.
They do?
The 80's Jingle is just pure awesomeness !
***** DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE ^_^
***** That's 90's. Not early 80's.
*****
Radical!
I used to own a Super Kong and I loved it. My sister lent it to a cousin without my permission who lived miles away and so I didn't get it back for well over a year. When I did get it back my cousin had managed to blow vacuum fluorescent display, making it a useless, unplayable beeping piece of rubbish. My aunt tried to compensate for it by giving me my cousin's Simon machine, you know, one of those rubbish round things with four different coloured flashing buttons.
I was gutted.
I hope many different kids of shit were beaten out of the guy shortly thereafter.
Cause yeah, I've never even owned Simon and I can pretty much tell it'd be inadequate compensation.
TheApachacha
Guy? It was a girl!
But you hunted down and murdered your cousin in cold blood. So everything was eventually even.
another unsolicited technical note: vacuum fluorescent displays, much light fluorescent lights, internally generate light in the near ultra-violet which is then converted to green by the fluorescent material. A decent amount of the ultra-violet light light escapes unmolested by the phosphor, however, and can pass the blue filter on cmos detectors and CCD's, thus the blue color in recording, but green when viewed with eyeballs.
***** I think the point was it was that it recorded more blue than it was supposed to. Much as I like watching ashens videos, Im not going to watch the whole thing again to fact check this though.
***** Yes! laziness, to the.. something.
***** I think he has probably more than rudimentary video editing skills and equipment. It would probably be insulting to say he at least bother to color correct for whatever lighting he uses. Most non-extremely-expensive studio lighting doesnt show up white on non-extremely-expensive cameras.
(caution, contents of comment may contain partial or complete factual or logical errors)
***** It would be insulting to insinuate that he doesnt :P I maybe should have made that more clear. He talks about color correcting all the time in his videos.
"You are different to me and therefore must be eradicated" The bus driver tells me that everyday.
That's pretty much how YT comment wars start, as well.
May the comment wars start
bitty burks I HAT3 U CUSS U NO LIK BLUBURRYS!
Dwarven Pony Berries are for losers.
Kaine Boyko you're a loser. You just don't like berries because you have no life. Grow up.
Your channel is the only channel where I don't skip any of your intros. I love them.
I love the way you say hello. It puts me in a good mood. Thank you for being you, Ashens!
Stuart mate, I could watch you review postage stamps and would still laugh until my spleen burst.
Which reminds me, I really should go get that seen to..
Galaga, Frogger, and Dig Dug are my favorites. 🥰 I loved Namco Museum PS2 growing up, we also had a plug n' play of Frogger. 😊🐸💖
Please have a wonderful day. 😻
The worst part is that these games are better than the much more modern popstation games...
I was just thinking that too, heh.
Not really.
Astro Wars worked well enough, but the other two where no real step up up from popstations.
And these where made with some attempt at quality, not the stamp-out cheapness of the poppies which are no more 'modern' than the features here.
AgentTasmania Thats because 30 years ago the technology was less advanced, it was very hard to make something like that... it was top of the edge of game technology... nowadays people can even make these things themselves and still some popstation games are worse than those of 30 years ago when it was very hard to make something like that
"modern"
Ok I've heard so much about this popstation I feel compelled to try it, where can I find it, and it is so bad it's good ⁉️
astro wars was great back then , thanks for the memories!
The closest I ever got to it was GALAGA!
This would have tided me over until my next arcade visit 👍🕹👍
You words paint such vivid pictures, Ashens.
"It's like looking at a Cylon's minge."
"The music sounds like a Dalek giving birth."
*standing ovation*
Is it just me, or are those VFD beautiful!? Really like the glow they give off. I want those on all my electronics now.
VFD are also good at starting and putting out fires depending on the type
Well, at least my stereo would shine like a diamond as it burned into coal.
lol that was a reference- idk anything about vfd lol
I think the camera exaggerates it a bit.
Takahashi Yuuki Actually Vacuum Fluorescent Displays are nice, bright and accurate. (often used in audio equipment at the time) While I'd prefer actual "needle" meters on recorders, VFDs stomp same period LED meters. IDK if it's the best choice for battery operated equipment, as they use way more power than LED.
Bambino looks like something out of the Fallout universe.
fuck my friend only showed me that game yesterday and that's one of the first things I thought of upon seeing this video
"Who knows? Who cares? This is VERY beige!"
I lost my shit.
My god that was funny.
This is the most clever April Fools' joke I've ever seen. Subverting our expectations of a joke video by just posting a regular video. This just goes to show Stuart's brilliance as a youtube chessmaster. His cunning is of the highest caliber.
Wow! That was a spot-on impression of the Silver Skull!
***** I think the Super Kong game is made to be played at an angle. You'll notice that the ladders align with the floors when you play with the screen tilted (as if it was laying flat and you were viewing it at ~45 degree angle.
I'm guessing Mode A was used for the power adapter, and that's why it didn't work?
Usually on those games, Mode A and Mode B were simply different skill levels.
lol 11:53 drater
Define "ladders".
I had an AstroWars when i was 7-8 years old. Bloody loved it!
Love the VFDs on these, always reminds me of the early digital dashboards in older cars.
Oh man hearing that Astro wars music took me on a weird nostalgia trip, I loved that game, I remember my joystick broke and I sent it to the manufacturer and they fixed it lol
What primitive technology. The boxing characters can take their own arms off, but they can't throw them at one another! D=
CYLON'S MINGE - I am crying, that's amazing, you bastard!
I'm diggin' that 80's-esque ending screen, Ashens.
Astro Wars. I estimate About 150 hours of my precious childhood was spent on that little plastic box. And I loved almost every second of it. Fantastic colour. Waves of aliens that reminded you of the Arcade "Galaxian". The Bonus Games. The sound. A really fantastic game. I know it would have cost my parents a lot of money back in...1981?
Tabletop games on a sofa.
Rebel.
Tabletop games two a sofa.
Rebel.
What an odd typo. Thanks for pointing it out!
Astro Wars was THE tabletop game to have. It was awesome.
The Bambino Boxing commercial IS on UA-cam
Turns out, their slogan was: "Beat a Bambino, and you've beaten the best!"
I don't think the first half of that slogan would go over very well in Europe
Bambino Boxing: The world's earliest representation of every anime fighting scene. Many blurred hands colliding.
I love his 80's endings!
astro wars was sold here in the u.s. by epoch its called galaxy II. its the same game i proudly have it in my collection.
I played the shit out of Astro Wars at my nan's house because she kept my uncle's one from when he was a kid.
Love that game.
XMenOrangesTangerine
Your comment is really old, but so did I! My nan had kept my dad's one.
Your comments are really old. 😢
3:25
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA"
"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"
THD *"IS THAT?"* y'know screw that t
you know it
THD I
Oh you're approaching me?
Instead of running away your coming right to me?
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD
he brought back the outro
THANK YOU ASHEN
Astro Wars was the first game I ever "clocked" (80s kids will get the reference), it went absolutely mental. Happy days.
I would assume if you sat the Kong game on an actual surface like it was meant to be on, the ladders would line up a bit better.
TXF haw haw wit who tha fuck dae ye hink ye ur
"like pheasants and such?" killed me
You can really see how far gaming has come today, those gold games though.....Must have been the best things back in those days.
I have Astro Wars! I'm 25, but it used to be my dad's and my grandad gave it to me. I had a little wave of nostalgia hearing those horrible noises it made in the video.
The Astro Wars one surprised me. I was expecting it to be horrible.
I had Astro Wars and loved it
All I can hear in my head in the boxing game is Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star screaming ATATATATATTATATATATATATA.
I have Astro Wars except it's called Galaxy II by Epoch Co., Ltd.
The Astro Wars cabinet was released in the states under the name Galaxy II(if there was a Galaxy I, I have no clue.) Ah, both the joyous and painful memories associated with the one my mom gave when I was a kid. The joyful because it was a fun system for an 8-year-old not allowed to have a Game Boy, who actually managed to get 9999 points and beat the game, which his mom never did in all her years of playing the game. ...And the painful memories of accidentally crushing the machine and having a mom who's still angry at me to this day about it...
I appreciate the vacuum display information :)
Super Kong - Meet the Kong who can't be stopped!
Hot fuzz?
Yes!
okay the tekken bit actually got me lmao
Seeing the arms flying everywhere in the Boxing game reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hokuto no Ken a bit.
ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORAAAAAAAAH
Astro Wars looks damn brilliant for an early portable game.
Cool screen, nice color visuals, and it's designed like a piece of high-tech science equipment or something.
Super Kong looks a bit neato. Well, Super Kong himself, the game looks a bit eh.
This is the best April Fool's joke ever!
In that it's not a joke at the viewer, it's fun to partake and ultimately helps Ashens clean up the backlog!
"We've won the war...And now we're flatulent." Funniest line ever!
"Oh look, a place for a sty-geuahahahah"
"Go go gadget copter!".
I lost it at "maybe we're both bees and fighting in a bonnet." I love the reference. I can always rely on Ashens for my healthy dose of sarcasm and dry humo[u]r. And a bit of tat induced rage from time to time.
Astro Wars looks like a Galaga inspired game.
Hence the "Super Galaxian" name in Japan.
Galaxian predates Galaga...because Galaga is the sequel to Galaxian. In fact, near as I can tell, Astro Wars/Super Galaxian predates the arcade release of Galaga by just a couple of months.
"It's like fighting an angry metronome."
I died right there xDD
"A'raight lads, 'ow ya doin'?" -Super Kong, 1985-2014.
I had Astro Wars as a kid!!! First piece of old electronics I've seen on the Ashens channel that I had and properly loved as a boy! :D
my brother got Astrowars one christmas and played it non-stop (he's 37 now) I think its still in the loft!!
All that was missing from the boxing game was the screams of watatata and ora ora ora ora.
3:22
ORA ORA ORA!!!!
MUDA MUDA MUDA !!!!!
I got an Astro wars console circa '81. Loved it. It was a portable games console which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to take out of the house.. Work than one out. Preferred this to our Intellivision. My dad worked for Radio Rentals. And they had a deal with Mattell. Great video again. Batteries were expensive then, so you had to use the mains.
The ladders in Super Kong do seem to be in the right positions - remember, you're supposed to play it with the display on an angle.
'It's like looking up a Cylons minge or something...' Ashens, I do love you!
Happy new month everyone!
Finally, a review of these "Retro Delights"! Yes, I saw the video on blip of you unboxing them. Excitement levels were high.
Looking up a Cylon's minge?
Well now.
Wouldn't mind doing that with the one played by Grace Park...
The super kong ladders do align properly to the levels when you hold the machine at an angle.
That ending was so 80s it hurt.
Floating limbs. Is this the true predecessor of POP-Station Street Fighter (City Fighter)?
A Cylon's Minge. Not an image I'm going to forget for a while, one for the terribleness of a robot minge, and two for the sheer bliss that would be Tricia Helfer's.
Kerrigan! She ghosted me, once...
...either that, or it was the starcrack...
I hate these videos, but every time I come to your videos, I suddenly find myself watching everyone I come across. Keep up the good work man
Boxino Bambling.
Used to have Scramble made my Grandstand, used to love playing that thing.... memories... coming back..... oh the joys of childhood and not knowing about this future life of having to work and pay bills and be responsible
lol "words were but candy in the minds of fools"
The ladders are drawn for the angle of tabletop play, so they look wrong when played with a more direct angle.
OH Ashens, you spoil us.
I still have my Firefox-F7 Grandstand tabletop somewhere. I loved that game!
FireFox F-7 was *AMAZING*.
I think for games that can be 2 player you should bring in Dan or Barry for a 2nd player
Oh man, I had Astro Wars. It was a xmas present from my folks some time around 1981 or so :D
Such memories.
fucking lost it at Cylons Minge.. hahahaha
Ashens I love when you do videos like this it makes me think what childhood would of been like back in the day. plus could you do more food videos they are amazing!
Any plans to do a Neo Geo Pocket Color episode?
Holy Hell, I actually owned one of those with Sonic Pocket Adventures on it! I'm with this guy, review that!
Surely, assuming he has one.
Jordan Harris Yes it does.
The Astro Wars game did a decent job of recreating the various levels of the arcade game Moon Cresta in LED form. I was surprised to see those four ships/aliens at the top come to life, as well as the docking procedure. Pretty clever and playable for the technology! And you just have to love that "Air Traffic Control" case. Too cool.
Need...more...ashens...can't....go...on
'Is like fighting an angry metronome or something...' This is why I subscribe to this channel! XD
The ladders didn't line up straight on because it's meant to be viewed from an angle.
The boxing one reminds me of the old Tiger Electrics games
Waitress tipping?
Sounds easier than cow tipping, but much ruder.
I love Ashens' super 80s outro.
"It's just like fighting an angry metronome"
ahahaha
Damn... Astro Wars... I remember that. We got those here in NZ too. Was really fun for a kid to play back then.
"to be honest their is no skill at all and you're just mashing buttons in the hope of winning. Ya' know, like Tekken!"
*grabs popcorn*
*scrolls down to comment section*
That was obviously a joke though, the tone he used clearly gives it away xD
Popcorn is for fucking losers. Kek.
Ashens you don't mean it you can't hate us
3:19 jojo be like
Oh that punching effect becomes normal if you watch enough Dragon Ball Z.
I am filled with sadness to realize I was a (young) adult when these came out.
I owned a few Table-Top games back in the day including ,Astro Wars,Scramble & Caveman ,loved them all
Sugar Ray Robinson was a kid, and then was a squid?
+Tommy TwoTacos So that's where the Idea of Splatoon came from..
"It's like looking up a cylons minge" 😂😂
Bow ties are cool. Seriously.
Sorry mr hans. But I'm pretty sure I look better than you in your picture. Who even are you anyways? Some 47 year old who by the sounds if it likes to stalk 16 year olds face books then just point out what I already know. Yeah I do you use my Facebook and I know what my friends have commented on the pictures and I'm not arsed.
I'm so sorry for offending you and your narrow mind. I think I'm just gonna have to go and sit in a corner cutting my self because I really value your opinion.
I'm not listening to them either. I honestly don't care
Late 70's still inspired *CURVES*.
Love these old games to bits! Great start to the 80s these were...
4:45 As a point of interest, most cultures (especially Asian) don't really make a distinction between blue and green.
+TBF Salem Interesting how that works, seeing as we didn't really see orange as its own colour for a long time as well.
Ashens, love the channel. I love the subject matter of your videos, and I love your dry wit. Respect from Canada!
*Doubt*
Jeremy Masters
The fucks that supposed to mean?
Yes Ashens Canada loves you! :)
John Marston NewFlesh's avatar is from L.A. Noire. You can doubt things and shit in it.
Jeremy Masters
Err... True. I'll go true.
Oh wait. Wrong game.