I know one he many not have the Discover console. I was just DVD video player running Windows XP at 1st; "With all Windows XP games". Never happened so daied in the saem year it cam out in "2004".
I remember hearing about the Nuon from anti-PS2 folks back in the day who used it in console war debates. Nuon was supposed to serve as too good of an alternative to PS2'S DVD support and would cost Sony customers. Its fun to think back on how passionate we all were when it came to our favorite systems back in the day.
My first Toshiba DVD player looked just like that. I remember the Circuit City salesman basically yell at me for pushing on the disc tray instead of using the load button.
My uncles old DVD player looked just like that right after I watched this video I asked him what he did with it he said he had it in the attic but he tossed it long ago
2:28 "If you took the PlayStation 2, the Philips CD-i, the Atari Jaguar, and the 3DO, and put it in a blender, [the VM Labs NuOn] is what you get" *blendtec: will they blend? **_CHALLENGE ACCEPTED_*
This console is the reason why I waste time looking at DVD players at garage sales and thrift stores. Maybe someday I’ll get lucky and find one. Great video by the way! It was very interesting to hear this history of this console.
thanks youtube for reminding me that channel exists, ah the nostalgia from just seeing that intro after so many years lmfao ahahaha, happy that you seem to still make videos :D
The generation recap videos are amazing. I'll listen to you for as much time as you want to take. Learning about retro gaming and especially obscure retro gaming is so satisfying! The details and research that go into these videos are something to be admired! Thank you Adam!
I seem to remember reading about this "console" back in the Dreamcast/PS2 days on Gamespot. I remember them saying Project X is now Nuon or something like that, and then it disappeared. I assumed it got cancelled, but nope...
It's honestly hilarious that the Nuon was the technical successor to the Jaguar CD, and somehow ended up failing harder. How do you fail harder than the Jaguar CD? It just doesn't seem like that should be possible.
Especially ironic given that the whole premise was "They screwed up on the Jaguar. We're not going to do what they did." Well, I suppose they were right... just not how they intended.
Cool to see another Recap episode. Very obscure console, hadn't heard of this until today. Interesting to see that repro games exist for this on eBay too
@AdamKoralik --- Is there a list of Nuon DVD exclusives? *Also, did Nuon DVD have better menus and special features on the discs?* Or did the players have better functions?
11:41 "it plays VCD's, which I don't have any to test" I can hardly wait till someone sends you some to play on the Nuon if I ever get around to pulling them out of storage lol
I love that you did this. I only knew of it from being a big Jaguar fan, but even I didn’t notice it missing from your 6th gen recap lol. And yes, I’ve always kept an eye out for the logo on goodwill dvd shelves, no such luck (yet :)
I very much remember Nuon getting coverage in various magazines and online. Not anything significant mind you, but people definitely did know about this thing at the time, they just didnt care.
I remember it getting a decent amount of coverage as rumors back around 97 or 98 when no one knew what it was really going to be, and it was speculated that it might be really powerful compared to other consoles. But by the time it finally release, the magazines were like, "Oh yeah, this is a thing..."
I remember reading about this in the games mags back in the day. Never seen one, but I remember a big deal being made of Tempest being made by Jeff Minter
Pre Thanks for the Love Adam! youre the best. ive never heard sanyo pronounced the way you do it :) it sounds classy. i pronounce it like you say SA part in samsung.
I swear there was some systems that came out in the mid 2000's that failed. This isn't the last one like this. It will take me some time to figure out.
2TB Sandisk Extreme coming in as well as some blu ray shows. I have little time to rip the blu rays with MakeMKV. Once I do, I'll have every show to postprocess/encode/downmix into each of my consoles capable of media. Sega JVC Saturn, Xbo... Yeah I'm not doing that, Wii, and most of all-Xbox 360. I don't have an AV receiver that decodes WMA Pro 768 5.1 audio, so I'll use Xvid AVI for the 5.1 stuff and VC-1 for everything stereo.
I had no Idea the Nuon came out before the PS2! I always thought it was from around 2004 for some reason (maybe they were trying to get rid of excess stock?) Great and informative video as always.
Great episode Adam! You are the only guy in history to use a Retrotink and upscale a Nuon probably, nice touch there... But i was expecting (jokingly) to see you bring out a Pippin for a comparison. But seriously, love the video
i think I remember EGM had one issue where they reviewed 4 nuon games at once, including Tempest 3000. that was the first and only time I heard of it. what a throwback!
Only 8 games and Tempest still managed to squeeze in there. :D Tempest is the only video game series that went from the arcades to the Atari Jaguar, to the Nuon, to the Playstation 4. Respect.
I think I vaguely heard of this in magazines in the early 2000s? definitely seems like one of those ones that came and went and barely anyone noticed. Don't know that I'd go out of my way to collect for that though, lol. But that Tempest game does seem kinda cool, I'll give it that. awesome videos as always!
I knew about this console back in the day from Next Generation magazine. I still have the issue where it was on the magazine cover as "Project X". This thing did get hyped for a short while back then, mainly due to it being touted as the spiritual successor to the Atari Jaguar early on.
11:09 although I haven't used this exact controller,I have used a Logitech controller from that era that had the exact same D-pad and buttons, and it was HORRIBLE, and the rubber under the D-pad disintegrated after a few months of gaming making it useless.
Project X, which later became the Nuon was in magazine publications like EGM and Gamepro for quite some time though Dreamcast, PS2 and GBA news seemed to stuff those publications. The first time I actually saw a Nuon was in a fingerhut sales magazine as a DVD player which will play games.
this thing has tempest 3000 on it, which, as a huge jeff minter fan, is my personal holy grail of gaming. i definitely need to own one at some point, even if it's just for that game.
An HDCD is one with various enhancements like peak extension and stuff. The recording was also done with a specific ADC, I believe made by Philips. Technically TooL's Lateralus is an HDCD as it used this ADC, even though it didn't use any of the enhancements and no HDCD players/plugins will acknowledge it as such. Lots of Mark Knopfler’s early solo output was properly HDCD-encoded with peak extension, meaning that until the (slightly inferior) 2021 remasters it was impossible to hear those albums properly without having a capable player or jumping through hoops on a PC.
It's one of those formats where regular Redbook playback is gimped as an "unintended" side effect, making the HDCD enhanced playback sound better. It's not technically snake oil since the enhancements do work, it's just a pain in the ass
I wanted one when they originally released, but the players were just too expensive. About a year and a half ago myself I found the Toshiba model at a Goodwill for $6. My friend was absolutely clueless as I was stunned to see the Nuon logo. I only own Tempest 3000 myself for it, but the same story, no controller.
I tagged along to CES with a friend in electronics and came away with a Nuon press kit, it was back when CES was becoming much less about video games and more about things like DVD players, digital cameras and the first generation of MP3 players. I had just gotten a G3 Mac with DVD drive (almost nobody had a DVD player then) and started collecting movies to watch on my Mac display so the idea of dvd players that could play games did genuinely appeal to me. Dreamcast was so far beyond anything Nuon could have done let alone other consoles on the horizon. PS2 selling so well because it was most people's first DVD player is the legacy of Nuon's brief promise imho.
Dude I have that Planet of the Apes DVD NEXT to me as I watched this, I flipped it over and got to see the Nuon logo firsthand, which is almost cool lol
"Nuon. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time." I remember seeing these in best buy back then, and thinking "why, and it's gonna bomb". I had forgotten about the whole thing too.
Geez, how many companies that make relevant electronics nowadays, actually made video game consoles back in the day? You had Bandai, Casio, Apple, Philips, and even Samsung, which I didn't even know existed until this video. I always look forward to these videos when you have another console to talk about, but still.
The Saturn was released in North America May 11, 1995 which is spring. The Playstation was released in early September 1995, summer. The Dreamcast was also released early September 1999, though it had a marvelous marketing campaign. The Turbografx-16 and Sega Genesis were both released in August 1989, which is summer, though they both had a slow start...Gameboy was also released in summer that year which was probably the exception.
Nuon apparently did have one success, that ironically probably killed it. Apparently one of the people in the audience when Samsung demonstrated their first Nuon dvd player, was Ken Kutaragi. He was impressed by the idea of a console that could play dvds, so went back to the ps2 design team, who, rather reluctantly, added that functionality to their ps2 designs.
The company Batteries Plus Bulbs sells a line of different kinds of batteries with the trademarked name Nuon, I wonder if they bought that name from VM Labs?
My friend got one of these from a goodwill just like you said. Someone needs to make some kind of controller adapter for these, it cant be that impossible
It's unlikely since there is a custom Polyface chip inside the controller that communicates directly with the Nuon BIOS. The system is so obscure that the few who possibly could replicate this chip to make new controllers aren't interested in doing so.
The Sixth Generation of console is my favorite generation, I wish to have all 8 console, I have 5 of them, I really hope you can get a hold of a Xavix and V.smile.
I found one at my local goodwill by total chance. I think I saw a video by rerez on it and the logo stuck with me, so as I was doing my goodwill sweep i took a second to look at dvd players (being a movie machine collector hd-dvd players come up and get mixed in all the same) and so happened to see the logo on the machine. After a very abrupt double take i picked it up and brought it home. Very happy with it and maybe one day I'll find a game or controller, or anything really. Edit: where would I find the owners group? I'd love to join it if I can find it.
In a sense every dvd player is a game console. Dvd has java machine in it. It is mostly used for dvd menu but there are some games done with the technology.
The other thing I now remember about this machine was it was hyped because it was supposed to use NURBS for rendering. The Internet gaming community went crazy about this announcement. But then the party ended some months later once the PS2 was revealed with the "Emotion Engine". Where EE was probably a bigger scam than "blast processing", yet no one brings that up nowadays.
I love how there is a Korean Crayon Shin-Chan game and since the Nuon is region locked you need a South Korean Nuon to play that single game, maybe some hacker can look into region modding it 🤣
@@AdamKoralik You did mention the Amico and the Ouya specifically in this video but not the Hyperscan. However....you did mention surprise console manufacturers that were one and done. Since Mattel is the company that released the Hyperscan, it would not fall into the one and done category....so the that console is exempt. Since the Game Wave was a product of ZAPiT Games, it would fit the bill. The only question is "Was it trying to compete?". It's initial price point of $99 and it's release date seem to hint at it. The fact that it was sold at a major chain like Toys R Us did give it some visibility as well. In fact, that is how I purchased my Game Wave console. To be honest, I believe the Game Wave tried harder to compete than the Nuon did. With the former, the advertising emphasis definitely was on gaming unlike the latter. In the end, it didn't matter though as both failed and neither of them had a library of games that even reached 15 titles.....sad.
Out of curiosity I went looking to see how much Nuon controllers cost. On the UK eBay you can get one for only £400! There's one in Switzerland whose auction is currently at 90 euro; everything else, both Europe and the States, is absurd. I know you said they were expensive but this is nuts.
Not going to lie a few months ago I low-key wanted to try and get one of these just because why not. The only reason I didn't was because I couldn't find a controller for it, those things are incredibly rare apparently.
I found mine at a Salvation Army. In my head I was freaking out but externally I had the calmest demeanor.
Nuon and 3DO had a lot of reason to succeed but failed, neo geo had a lot of reason to fail but succeeded. Game consoles were so unpredictable.
The 3DO had one good reason as to why it didn't succeed:
*$699*
@@LaskyLabs more than the ps3 at launch and more than a decade earlier. Legendary price point
@@sarahdidntwantthischannel6071 mmmhh, PS3 at launch...
@@sarahdidntwantthischannel6071PS3 or do you mean *PS5* ?
Every time you think Adam has covered every console he owns he says "Hold my beer! I've got another one!"
LOL isn't that the truth!
I know one he many not have the Discover console. I was just DVD video player running Windows XP at 1st; "With all Windows XP games". Never happened so daied in the saem year it cam out in "2004".
Anticipation of this video is probably the most excited people have ever been about the nuon
I've never been so excited to see something about the Nuon
Same here.
I remember hearing about the Nuon from anti-PS2 folks back in the day who used it in console war debates. Nuon was supposed to serve as too good of an alternative to PS2'S DVD support and would cost Sony customers.
Its fun to think back on how passionate we all were when it came to our favorite systems back in the day.
Congrats, after 2 hours this video is now the top result for "VM labs nuon" on youtube
Hahahahaha.
The following comment is a comment of some kind and I hope you enjoy it:
Looking forward to the review of the Nuon Optical Drive Emulator Adapter.
What about the NuonDigital HDMI mod? :P
Or how about the NuonMeister? Those manufacturers gotta go for the niche i tells ye
Or how about PS5 emulator with 60FPS ray tracing upscalar for the VM Labs Nuon
I never had a Nuon DVD player. Just a PS2, which I still have to this day.
I love how much information your videos have!! And there’s so many for me to watch, when I binge I’ll never run out!!
This is one of my favorite series on UA-cam, and the series that got me into retro gaming. Thank you.
To the untrained eye it looks like any old DVD player from early 2000’s
That's why I like call it the hidden in plane site game console .
My first Toshiba DVD player looked just like that. I remember the Circuit City salesman basically yell at me for pushing on the disc tray instead of using the load button.
My uncles old DVD player looked just like that right after I watched this video I asked him what he did with it he said he had it in the attic but he tossed it long ago
2:28 "If you took the PlayStation 2, the Philips CD-i, the Atari Jaguar, and the 3DO, and put it in a blender, [the VM Labs NuOn] is what you get"
*blendtec: will they blend? **_CHALLENGE ACCEPTED_*
This console is the reason why I waste time looking at DVD players at garage sales and thrift stores. Maybe someday I’ll get lucky and find one. Great video by the way! It was very interesting to hear this history of this console.
thanks youtube for reminding me that channel exists, ah the nostalgia from just seeing that intro after so many years lmfao ahahaha, happy that you seem to still make videos :D
The generation recap videos are amazing. I'll listen to you for as much time as you want to take. Learning about retro gaming and especially obscure retro gaming is so satisfying! The details and research that go into these videos are something to be admired! Thank you Adam!
The only dude that understands the Nuonces.
Heyooooo.
Oooo, another Sixth Generation Retrospective DLC Video, I love it
I seem to remember reading about this "console" back in the Dreamcast/PS2 days on Gamespot. I remember them saying Project X is now Nuon or something like that, and then it disappeared. I assumed it got cancelled, but nope...
Thank you for making this video. I admire you for making these obscure finds.
It's honestly hilarious that the Nuon was the technical successor to the Jaguar CD, and somehow ended up failing harder. How do you fail harder than the Jaguar CD? It just doesn't seem like that should be possible.
Especially ironic given that the whole premise was "They screwed up on the Jaguar. We're not going to do what they did."
Well, I suppose they were right... just not how they intended.
Love watching these videos and the history of video games/consoles. That’s what brought me to your channel Adam love your work keep it up dude.
Thats crazy!! I was just randomly thinking yesterday when you were going to cover another console lol! Good episode man. Thanks! 👍
A friend ive known since school has had a samsung one since the early 00's, I remember playing tempest on it when he first got it.
Thank you for sharing this obscure platform! I had never heard of it before.
Cool to see another Recap episode. Very obscure console, hadn't heard of this until today. Interesting to see that repro games exist for this on eBay too
@AdamKoralik --- Is there a list of Nuon DVD exclusives? *Also, did Nuon DVD have better menus and special features on the discs?* Or did the players have better functions?
Yeah, there's only like four of them. I think the Nuon-Dome website has all that.
And yes, the menus and features are different.
@@AdamKoralik--- Any Nuon releases better than HD DVD or BD releases?
@@antiWhiteism777 I can't imagine they would be.
@@AdamKoralik--- I mean as far as special features.
A great video Adam. I love these obscure consoles.
8:19 just imagine how successful the Nuon could be if the exclusive features had a bunch of Elizabeth Hurley lewdpics 😈
11:41 "it plays VCD's, which I don't have any to test"
I can hardly wait till someone sends you some to play on the Nuon if I ever get around to pulling them out of storage lol
I have some
I love that you did this. I only knew of it from being a big Jaguar fan, but even I didn’t notice it missing from your 6th gen recap lol. And yes, I’ve always kept an eye out for the logo on goodwill dvd shelves, no such luck (yet :)
I very much remember Nuon getting coverage in various magazines and online. Not anything significant mind you, but people definitely did know about this thing at the time, they just didnt care.
I remember it getting a decent amount of coverage as rumors back around 97 or 98 when no one knew what it was really going to be, and it was speculated that it might be really powerful compared to other consoles. But by the time it finally release, the magazines were like, "Oh yeah, this is a thing..."
I remember reading about this in the games mags back in the day.
Never seen one, but I remember a big deal being made of Tempest being made by Jeff Minter
Pre Thanks for the Love Adam! youre the best. ive never heard sanyo pronounced the way you do it :) it sounds classy. i pronounce it like you say SA part in samsung.
I bought 7 of these. One for each day of the week. Love this console. 5 Stars!
I swear there was some systems that came out in the mid 2000's that failed. This isn't the last one like this. It will take me some time to figure out.
Never heard of it until today!! I knew you’d have vids! :D
I have a Toshiba DVD player from 1999 that looks just like that console.
2TB Sandisk Extreme coming in as well as some blu ray shows. I have little time to rip the blu rays with MakeMKV. Once I do, I'll have every show to postprocess/encode/downmix into each of my consoles capable of media. Sega JVC Saturn, Xbo... Yeah I'm not doing that, Wii, and most of all-Xbox 360. I don't have an AV receiver that decodes WMA Pro 768 5.1 audio, so I'll use Xvid AVI for the 5.1 stuff and VC-1 for everything stereo.
the samsung nuon dvd units have quite good cd audio playback.
Never even knew this existed. If I go to a goodwill I will see if they have one.
17:25 Nuon controllers "are so obscenely expensive and uncommon"
Gotta get Raphnet-tech to make a Dreamcast-to-Nuon controller adapters!
I had no Idea the Nuon came out before the PS2! I always thought it was from around 2004 for some reason (maybe they were trying to get rid of excess stock?) Great and informative video as always.
If Nintendo successfully made that deal with PlayStation, the current console wars would be Nintendo-PlayStation Switch VS. Sega Series X/S VS. Nuon 4
Great episode Adam! You are the only guy in history to use a Retrotink and upscale a Nuon probably, nice touch there... But i was expecting (jokingly) to see you bring out a Pippin for a comparison. But seriously, love the video
Also added an mClassic!
@@AdamKoralik the true Adam style!
If I ever get to go to a Goodwill again, I'll keep an eye out
I thought the Nuon was so cool and fascinating when I first heard about it, I finally got one last year with a controller for a pretty good price
Could have been worse, the dad could buy a DiVX DVD player in the late 90s, because "The discs are cheaper".
"It's almost impossible to believe DIVX will go under!"
i think I remember EGM had one issue where they reviewed 4 nuon games at once, including Tempest 3000. that was the first and only time I heard of it. what a throwback!
I feel as if I've probably seen one or two of these without realizing it was more than just a DVD player.
I never knew of it , your channel is teaching me new stuff 👍
I need that handheld retrospective in my life.
On that DVD, how would you notice the Nuon logo? When you look at that area of the box, all of your attention goes to "Wait, Harold Ramis made this?"
Yesssss. Ugh I wanna play tempest on that thing.
...it was on a publication. I remember reading about it back in the day.
That's why I showed them.
Only 8 games and Tempest still managed to squeeze in there. :D
Tempest is the only video game series that went from the arcades to the Atari Jaguar, to the Nuon, to the Playstation 4.
Respect.
I think I vaguely heard of this in magazines in the early 2000s? definitely seems like one of those ones that came and went and barely anyone noticed. Don't know that I'd go out of my way to collect for that though, lol. But that Tempest game does seem kinda cool, I'll give it that. awesome videos as always!
I knew about this console back in the day from Next Generation magazine. I still have the issue where it was on the magazine cover as "Project X". This thing did get hyped for a short while back then, mainly due to it being touted as the spiritual successor to the Atari Jaguar early on.
11:09 although I haven't used this exact controller,I have used a Logitech controller from that era that had the exact same D-pad and buttons, and it was HORRIBLE, and the rubber under the D-pad disintegrated after a few months of gaming making it useless.
17:29 - "Man, 23, gives birth to triplets"
So they knew were we are going lol
Project X, which later became the Nuon was in magazine publications like EGM and Gamepro for quite some time though Dreamcast, PS2 and GBA news seemed to stuff those publications. The first time I actually saw a Nuon was in a fingerhut sales magazine as a DVD player which will play games.
this thing has tempest 3000 on it, which, as a huge jeff minter fan, is my personal holy grail of gaming. i definitely need to own one at some point, even if it's just for that game.
It's odd to think that in an alternative universe the CDi and Nuon actually might have been on top of the PS1 and PS2.
I’ve been so excited for this
An HDCD is one with various enhancements like peak extension and stuff. The recording was also done with a specific ADC, I believe made by Philips. Technically TooL's Lateralus is an HDCD as it used this ADC, even though it didn't use any of the enhancements and no HDCD players/plugins will acknowledge it as such. Lots of Mark Knopfler’s early solo output was properly HDCD-encoded with peak extension, meaning that until the (slightly inferior) 2021 remasters it was impossible to hear those albums properly without having a capable player or jumping through hoops on a PC.
It's one of those formats where regular Redbook playback is gimped as an "unintended" side effect, making the HDCD enhanced playback sound better. It's not technically snake oil since the enhancements do work, it's just a pain in the ass
I put the Nuon in the same category ad the CD-i and CDTV, where they weren't designed for games but had them.
Cheers Adam! Now I know what as Nuon is and strangely want one 🤣
I got this same Toshiba last week at my goodwill for $6.99, haven't tested yet but looks like it's in good condition.
Freefall 3050 has one of the longest intro i‘ve ever seen, it felt like watching it 5 minutes o.o.
I wanted one when they originally released, but the players were just too expensive. About a year and a half ago myself I found the Toshiba model at a Goodwill for $6. My friend was absolutely clueless as I was stunned to see the Nuon logo. I only own Tempest 3000 myself for it, but the same story, no controller.
I remember reading about this in edge magazine and being quite excited for it!
I tagged along to CES with a friend in electronics and came away with a Nuon press kit, it was back when CES was becoming much less about video games and more about things like DVD players, digital cameras and the first generation of MP3 players. I had just gotten a G3 Mac with DVD drive (almost nobody had a DVD player then) and started collecting movies to watch on my Mac display so the idea of dvd players that could play games did genuinely appeal to me. Dreamcast was so far beyond anything Nuon could have done let alone other consoles on the horizon. PS2 selling so well because it was most people's first DVD player is the legacy of Nuon's brief promise imho.
Dude I have that Planet of the Apes DVD NEXT to me as I watched this, I flipped it over and got to see the Nuon logo firsthand, which is almost cool lol
I'm not convinced that Adam didn't just put a regular DVD player on the table and passed it off as a video game console.
And you never will know!
Great video, do you plan on doing handheld recap videos?
Eventually.
Nice nice, Mr. Koralik! Nice nice!👍
"Nuon. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."
I remember seeing these in best buy back then, and thinking "why, and it's gonna bomb". I had forgotten about the whole thing too.
Geez, how many companies that make relevant electronics nowadays, actually made video game consoles back in the day?
You had Bandai, Casio, Apple, Philips, and even Samsung, which I didn't even know existed until this video. I always look forward to these videos when you have another console to talk about, but still.
A lot.
Did you get any more Nuon games since the recording of this video?
I got the Iron Soldier 3 reprint.
The Saturn was released in North America May 11, 1995 which is spring. The Playstation was released in early September 1995, summer. The Dreamcast was also released early September 1999, though it had a marvelous marketing campaign. The Turbografx-16 and Sega Genesis were both released in August 1989, which is summer, though they both had a slow start...Gameboy was also released in summer that year which was probably the exception.
Nuon apparently did have one success, that ironically probably killed it. Apparently one of the people in the audience when Samsung demonstrated their first Nuon dvd player, was Ken Kutaragi. He was impressed by the idea of a console that could play dvds, so went back to the ps2 design team, who, rather reluctantly, added that functionality to their ps2 designs.
Tbh I just heard about/read the wikipedia article on the Nuon yesterday
The company Batteries Plus Bulbs sells a line of different kinds of batteries with the trademarked name Nuon, I wonder if they bought that name from VM Labs?
A new AK recap video? Merry xmas...
My friend got one of these from a goodwill just like you said. Someone needs to make some kind of controller adapter for these, it cant be that impossible
It's unlikely since there is a custom Polyface chip inside the controller that communicates directly with the Nuon BIOS. The system is so obscure that the few who possibly could replicate this chip to make new controllers aren't interested in doing so.
I have never heard of this console but interesting find
The Sixth Generation of console is my favorite generation, I wish to have all 8 console, I have 5 of them, I really hope you can get a hold of a Xavix and V.smile.
I found one at my local goodwill by total chance. I think I saw a video by rerez on it and the logo stuck with me, so as I was doing my goodwill sweep i took a second to look at dvd players (being a movie machine collector hd-dvd players come up and get mixed in all the same) and so happened to see the logo on the machine. After a very abrupt double take i picked it up and brought it home. Very happy with it and maybe one day I'll find a game or controller, or anything really.
Edit: where would I find the owners group? I'd love to join it if I can find it.
facebook.com/groups/939616439566472/about
In a sense every dvd player is a game console. Dvd has java machine in it. It is mostly used for dvd menu but there are some games done with the technology.
I'm surprised you haven't gotten the FM Towns Marty yet. Is that a possibility?
Been trying every time I went to Japan, never found it.
The other thing I now remember about this machine was it was hyped because it was supposed to use NURBS for rendering. The Internet gaming community went crazy about this announcement. But then the party ended some months later once the PS2 was revealed with the "Emotion Engine". Where EE was probably a bigger scam than "blast processing", yet no one brings that up nowadays.
I love how there is a Korean Crayon Shin-Chan game and since the Nuon is region locked you need a South Korean Nuon to play that single game, maybe some hacker can look into region modding it 🤣
😎 nice.. The HD/cd is an improved music format. Higher frequency range and yes picture support and Windows like screen saver 😊
20:00 Hey Adam, what about the Game Wave and Hyperscan?
I believe I referenced the HyperScan specifically and why it doesn't count.
@@AdamKoralik You did mention the Amico and the Ouya specifically in this video but not the Hyperscan. However....you did mention surprise console manufacturers that were one and done. Since Mattel is the company that released the Hyperscan, it would not fall into the one and done category....so the that console is exempt. Since the Game Wave was a product of ZAPiT Games, it would fit the bill. The only question is "Was it trying to compete?". It's initial price point of $99 and it's release date seem to hint at it. The fact that it was sold at a major chain like Toys R Us did give it some visibility as well. In fact, that is how I purchased my Game Wave console. To be honest, I believe the Game Wave tried harder to compete than the Nuon did. With the former, the advertising emphasis definitely was on gaming unlike the latter. In the end, it didn't matter though as both failed and neither of them had a library of games that even reached 15 titles.....sad.
Out of curiosity I went looking to see how much Nuon controllers cost. On the UK eBay you can get one for only £400! There's one in Switzerland whose auction is currently at 90 euro; everything else, both Europe and the States, is absurd. I know you said they were expensive but this is nuts.
Same goes for the games
Awwwww yess my man made a Nuon generation recap. Time for popcorn
Hey Adam, do you think you'll do a 8th gen recap on the Xbox One, PS4, Wii U? Now that pretty much 9th gen has started? Just wondering.
Yeah, the Switch remains a factor though.
Loved that freefall vid.
Not going to lie a few months ago I low-key wanted to try and get one of these just because why not. The only reason I didn't was because I couldn't find a controller for it, those things are incredibly rare apparently.