A look at a PC Engine LT | Ashens
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Forgot to mention: LT stands for laptop! Yay!
Quang's got a game coming out soon, have a gander: • MaoMao Castle Gameplay...
The PC Engine LT - a big chunky clamshell that won't run off batteries! Like a giant Game Boy Advance SP that you can't play on a bus. But it's a great way to play Air Zonk in bed! (You'll need an adapter if you have the Turbografx-16 version.)
#PCEngine #LT #Ashens
The fact that those nubs that cover the controller ports etc. haven't gone missing is amazing to me.
The cover for the bus port looks like it just loosely clips into place.
Yeah, totally removable port covers were a great idea, NOT! I remember that there seemed to be a cottage industry supplying battery covers for the Gameboy advance....
Ohhhh myyy god!
@@lovecastle7154 Oh nooo!
@@DavidLee-df888 I never actually lost any battery covers for any of my gameboys.
To put the insane quality of that screen in perspective, the PC Engine LT came out only 2 years after the release of the Game Boy, and 7 years before the Game Boy Color.
Atari lynx came out the same year as the GB and was actually portable.
The LT screen looks close to the GBA SP 101 which came out... 14 years later. What else as a 14 year difference? The last year of the PS1 and the first year of the PS4.
And compare that screen to the Game Gear. The LT screen is like a OLED at the time.
I remember looking in the Computer and Video Games mag in the late 1980s, (C&VG), it ran ads for the PC engine. I so much wanted one, games were £50 each then and I think the console was £450!. But the games that C&VG reviewed looked amazing. Never bought one, but have a emulator, and the games, for the 1980s, are the best.
@@ihave7sacks Wasn't the Lynx screen kind of an awful smeary mess?
Sofa Store Owner: How about this one?
Ashens: Hey, that doesn't look too bad. Mind if I try it out?
Sofa Store Owner: Of course not, have a seat... ...wait, what are you doing...?
@Samson Themighty hm.
I will never grow tired of the design of 80s and early 90s electronics
Man, the Gameboy Advance SP looks way different than i remember...
Chonk
Gameboy Advanced SP Blue Edition
I had an SP in Ice Blue 💙
@@CSTRSK I have too many SPs... I got two blue ones, two black ones, and two silver ones. I think I might have more lying around somewhere.
@@JackFoxtrotEDM But my family could barely afford gold
To quote a legendary geek:
"Pc Engine sounds like a computer on a train"
James rolfe! I was watching that video yesterday
_"ALL YOU HAD TO DO..."_
On the L train.
@B3ro1080 It was from a James and Mike video, I think.
Fm Towns Marty is the only thing that rivals it in terms of weird names.
PC Engine line was ahead of its time. You could play your games on your desk with the LT, in handheld with the Express, or on your television with the 16. A synergy that only recently became mainstream.
>handheld CD-i
You can't just say that and expect to not have to review that at some point, Stu.
( *googlegoogle* ) Holy crap, he wasn't lying.
part of me wants to build a handheld C64 with tape drive. Like a huge walkman ...if only i had the time.
@@Boemel Something for Ben Heck, maybe?
@@PuffyRainbowCloud iv looked around the forums and its not done yet and could not be done due to limitations of the pcb.
@@Boemel That's too bad.
"Handheld CD-i"
GREAT! I'LL GRAB MY STUFF!
THERE IS NO TIME! YOUR SWORD IS ENOUGH!
Works on so many levels.
MAH BOI
SQUALALA!
All my teeth fell out of my head when you opened it and I saw the glory of its insides
This is like a super early HUGE Nintendo Advance SP
my father said i could never make a living sat on the ground in front of the couch. thank you for being my inspiration
The day Ashens covers the Neo Geo Pocket Color is the day he ascends to godhood
ngpc is surface shit, i want to see him review the wonderswan
@@LieseFury he already did
The fact that you can actually see the screen is impressive
It's like something Ripley would pull out of a backpack and use to diagnose the command line operating system of an android.
I received an email from Sideshow Collectible a few days ago promoting a replica of the motion tracker from Aliens and it sure does have the same esthetic feel as this PC Engine. The sort of dark grey squareish plastic with round corners.
This thing is like the unholy bastard child of Gameboy Advanced SP and an early laptop
Man this must have even more processing power than a pop station!
You better believe it.
You know what doesn't though? The AtGames consoles.
But do does a packet of cheese and onion crisps.
Yea that screen is fabulous for the era. I want one but I'm not a rich vampire like Quang. Come on, look at his collection, he definitely drinks the blood of the living in his spare time.
Jason Salisbury only those that deserve it. 😈
6:48 Hey, Ashen's on channel 4!
Looked more like Pipes to me...
*insert Fourscore in*
Such a cool design! Thank you Quang for being such an awesome guy and letting you have a look!
Yay, it's Quang to the rescue again. If you want to borrow old, rare or eye wateringly expensive electronic devices, he's your man. You sir are a legend :-)
Mark Caswell Hello. I try to help the community as much as I can.
No caswell no
This is such an amazing and rare machine. It looks so cool
I'm glad you pointed out how the LT looks like a GBA SP, I would have if you didn't.
The clamshell design of LCD screen was quite widely available from various manufacturers for the PSOne, the small mid noughties redesign. I almost bought one for our PSOne.
I believe it was actually released in 1999, or maybe 2000. Right before the PS2 came out..
2000 or 2001, and it went alongside the SCPH-9001 on store shelves until the PS1 phased out
I loved the Barshens with Quang DX. Seems like a fun fella to chat with. I love hearing Ashens talk about the handhelds!
ourDreamcatcher awww great to hear that. I was crazy nervous on Barshens.
It’s 2019 and over 100 thousands of people watching Ashen unboxing vintage computer. You are damn good.
6:06 That game looks like a more advanced version of *Oriental Hero* from your Terrible Old Games video series. No music with a beighbor banging on the walls though.
It looks truly beautiful in its way: combining the charming chunkiness of early 90s laptops with advanced 8-bit tech. Kinda reminds me of the laptop that Chandler had in one of the earlier episodes of Friends, where he rattled off the then-impressive specs of his new business machine, and then admitted that he'd be using it for "games and stuff".
Dear Ashens: Is there a handheld that you haven't owned?
Besides this one, of course.
this one, it was loaned to him
I don't think he's ever shown off any Game & Watches
I don't think Ashens has a virtual boy
I heard getting the GameChild was hard, almost like a full-on quest
Melissa Hedges that would make a good title for a film....who am I kidding it would never work
It's like an incredibly massive wide dense thicc GBA SP from a distance.
If I worked a desk job in the 90's, I could see that being ultra useful for downtime. Heck, if I made enough, it might even be worth the bazillions of yen it'd cost.
Reminds me of the PSOne with the LCD screen, actually.
Knew about the PC Engine, knew about the TurboGFX16....had no idea that they were the same thing. Learn something every day.
When it's closed it looks like a GBA sp on steroids.
"feel the powah of the PC Engine" Legit made me jump! Friggin subwoofer nailed me.
Ahhh... Akihabara. Tokyo's home of geeks and Maid Cafes. I visited for the first time in May when I went to Japan for a holiday for the first time. I stayed in Ueno which is just a quick trip by train to Akihabara. When I arrived there were tons of gachapin machines, crane games, Game centers and small shops selling small electronic parts, not forgetting vending machines all over the shop. Fantastic place to vusit.
Athens I’ve been Subscribed to your Channel for over 7 Years a Fantastic Channel.
I wonder who manufactured that screen, insanely capable for the time.
Stuart! I can see your wonderful mug reflected in the screen.
The world needs more beauty.
Damn, that's a thicc Gameboy Advance SP
Classic how you always show your wares off in front of that old school drab lounge
I've lived in Osaka for 15 years now and I pop by Denden Town a few times a year but I've never seen it in any of the retro shops. Never knew it existed till this video.
This reminds me, I need to finish Hi Score Girl sometime
You should finish HI score girl NOW especially since second season is coming out
this looks like how you thought tech would look like in the future
That was released in the 80s??? Amazing! I recently looked up inventions by the decade and was very surprised about how early fairly advanced tech existed before it got into use. Laser storage in the 60s? Wild!
This device is a great example of why that happens, because it shows that while it was perfectly possible to make a quality portable TV/video game system in the very early 90s, it wasn't possible to do so at a price people were willing to pay.
@@ProjectThunderclaw Yeah. That was a harrowing price tag for the 80s!
@@LordSenile The game said 1987 so I assumed the unit predated the game.
@@Psychol-Snooper The LT is a later version of the PC engine. It's like comparing the first GBA to the GBA Micro. Same games and hardware but very different tech.
@@chamoo232 It see. It's not nearly as impressive as a 1991 release. It was really quite a strange creature.
my memories of pc engine hardware was a unit that you had to violently thrust that cart into 3 times before it would work and a cable interface that would fail and be replaced every 3 months.....
I'd definitely buy it if NEC did a remake now!
There's a mini console on the way that I'm hoping we get
I have to get to work, Im already running late.. *Ashens video pops up* ...Well, if Im already late..
When I was younger I wondered if this was a stripped down personal computer, made up to run PC games really efficiently.
I had to wait for the Xbox One for that.
*Original Xbox
Okurka nah, this joke doesn’t work
They look great in the place of the Core GraFX in the "briefcase" Interface Unit and function as a self contained PC Engine CD unit with its own screen.
Man, only those with money and have connections inside Japan can even have a small chance of getting one of these.
Mao Mao Castle is pretty damn amazing. Can't wait for it to be released!
Come all without
Come all withang
You'll not see nothing like the Lovely Quang
WoodstaS thank you.
I've never seen this before, or even heard of it. Given my love of old, chunky electronics, that's kind of amazing. I would've loved having one of these dumb-looking bricks! That game is called China Warrior, I believe. Or, if you've got the Japanese version it's THE Kung-Fu, with 'the' being in English and Kung-Fu being in kanji.
Reminds me of this ancient Toshiba T5100 "laptop" I got from someone's leftovers. No batteries in that either, you'd connect it with a standard computer power cable like you use these days still.
4:43 the moment i lost no nut November
but youtube commentor tammy, it's no name november! where we all have no name!
I had no idea this existed.
Wow this thing is impressive!
This is so cool! Can’t wait for you to review the PC Engine Core Grafx Mini from Konami.
I like how the card sits right between your thumbs for the controls instead of in back.
FANTASTIC FOR THE TIME
It really looks like an oversized GBA SP. Never knew this existed Really neat!
The Turbo Graphix 16 was amazing for the 90's still love Bonk.
If the PC Engine LT was around today, you could imagine Poundland selling replacement port covers
You never connect your audience, but you connect with your audience.
Never heard of this. Fascinating. I actually bought a TG16 in 89 based on the China Warrior screenshots
Stuart's right. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is coming out in March for $100. Hopefully the emulation will on par with actual hardware. I remain cautiously excited even though I have no nostalgia for the system whatsoever.
Looks great, toasted cheese sandwich maker transforming into a portable gaming device when opened!
this looks like the perfect building block of a cyberdeck
You can get composite a/v output from the pc engine portion through the expansion port on the back via cheap passive DIY cables / adapters, if you want to. There was an official adapter sold for that in the states called the "turbobooster". There are now also various enthusiast doodads that plug into the expansion slot and give you scart/rgb/whatever.
If you only had some good PC-Engine games, I'm pretty sure this would've been a blast to have back in the 90s
I found three of these brand new in the box in a storage unit. Wow.
SzymczykProductions sell two for a mint
What I love to do is hook up my entire briefcase PCE CD setup to my LT and play like that. It's a unique experience for certain.
A Neo Geo Pocket Color review would be the cat's pajamas.
Briefcase? What do you mean
@@sebastiann.8088 for the PC Engine, the first CD unit came in an actual fold out plastic briefcase that was used as a dock. But you can play almost any PCE variation with it still.
That couch will survive the apocalypse
Honestly that screen still looks amazing. Hot damn
Jesus, that LT complete with box would have cost you a quid!! $$$$
Lucky you have a trusting friend to lend you one!
May I point you to the Game and Car Navi HiSaturn, Hitachi's take on the PC Engine LT but with the Sega Saturn.
@Stan Brule The same Hitachi that also makes nuclear reactors
@Stan Brule Yes, the same one. They have quite the diverse range of products. Let's just be thankful they had not implemented vibration motors into joypads during the Saturn's life.
Stan Brule They also make self-propelled artillery, projectors, hydroelectric generators, mining equipment, elevators, and the bullet train, but sure.
Just the depiction of this device on my monitor raises its value.
Awesome! I have wanted one of these for ages
I have a console similar to this, the PSonewith the little screen and battery pack, it's awesome and it's also clamshell, you should get your hands on one of those
Oh look it has a headphone jack! Wish my brand new 2019 iPhone had that!
Now you just need one of those Aiwa bombox Megadrives
Schule04 I’m still looking for one at a “reasonable” price
When this was introduced, I had my c64 running on a 12 inch B&W TV. I know what you mean by high tech display for the time. ;)
I think I finally figured out who this is meant for. If you were in your early 20s, in the 90s, in Japan, and you were moving into a new place. Bit scarce on space on money, you could buy this and get a TV, a Tuner, and a PC engine in something smaller than a gamecube.
I actually never knew this existed...wow.
Luv the small console and compact hu cards.
Need to get one of these at some point!
You'll pay over €2,000 if you want one.
@@iaincowell9747 Nah, you can pick them up for as low as £500, there's one needing recapping on eBay now for £700
@@GadgetUK164 I forgot to change Item location to International. Still £700 = €800, I wouldn't pay that.
Ashens....this would be a great series... Do a Panasonic Gamecube next!! That was gorgeous too
Wow, I haven't seen an NEC product since my first computer with a color monitor, Christmas '96 a what a time it was.
I can't wait for the advent calendars I just hope you picked some better ones this year.
Shitty advent calendars is the appeal. Although I do kind of miss the lego and playmobile days
Love the channel bud, good one!
Imagine if they used that console in Enemy of the State instead of the TurboExpress
I don't see how this is any more impressive than the Atari Lynx or Sega Game Gear.
Look at that chunky GameBoy Advance SP.
Always wanted to see one of these in action.
Genuinely interesting to see. Like most people, my ONLY knowledge of PC engine games come from seeing them advertised for 400 quid each on the mail order pages of Your Sinclair. Then weeping, because I didn't even have the pocket money left to afford the 4.99 copy of Seymour at the Movies, and had to make do with playing a taped copy of Atic Atac I got off that weird kid who ate poster glue under the table in maths. Never did find out where he got that glue, but if you're out there, Nigel, please tell me.
It's like an extra jumbo Gameboy Advance SP!
Ashens just casually dropping the existence of a fucking handheld CDI into the middle of a tangentially related review like he didn't just disprove the existence of god.
DJMouthwash there are about four different models if I remember correctly, from different manufacturers as well.
Can we get a "reprint" of these? I love how clunky it is. I mean I know for its time it was super duper sleek and awesome...
I love my pc engine. I'd love one of these versions... also the handheld version.
As a gamer born in the mid nineties, this was quite a weird handheld. Love the vids Stuart!
FappleJackity I was born in 87 and never heard if this thing. I have heard of the turbographx 16 but not this. I would love to have the turbo express though.
I was born in v.early 1986
I'd love to hear Ashens do The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as an Audiobook.