Ooo, gives me N64 DD drives in terms of mystery. I just found your channel the other day and have been binging since, thanks for all the documentaries!
I cant even lie im not a gamer but your videos are so well put together I have to watch them all thank you for putting out such great content its has me super hooked on the history of retro gaming.
Another great video. I knew about the Datach, but had no idea about that card battle system. It would have been interesting to see that come to the states when I was in elementary school.
The rivalry between Epoch and Bandai in the barcode gaming sphere was certainly interesting. 1991 saw the release of the incredibly basic Epoch Barcode Battler. Bandai noticed this and created two barcode game systems in 1992 - the Datach Joint ROM add-on for the Famicom as you've presented here and the Super Barcode Wars handheld which was designed to compete directly with Epoch's offering. In the same year Epoch released their sequel handheld, the Barcode Battler II which featured connectivity to the Famicom (albeit for a single game) and the Super Famicom (via another add-on adapter which connected to a controller port). Epoch then went on to create 3 more handheld barcode gaming units, two of which had no barcode scanner and a third which was a football game (The J-League Barcode 11) which could also output to the Famicom and Super Famicom as it used the same data transmission protocol as the Barcode Battler II. Given the form-factor of the NES, a western version of the Datach Joint ROM would likely have functioned like the Aladdin Deck Enhancer in terms of the mini cartridge placement, but with the barcode reader sticking out of the front of the console.
Wonderful stuff! I love learning about new things, and l like how you present this new information. Keep up the great work! It’s perfect to have playing when I’m chilling and relaxing 😌 Thank you!!
OMG. I enjoyed the hell out of this. I'm in to anything NES/Famicom. Didn't know about this at all. Extra props for showing one of the Saint Seiya Famicom games. It's my favorite anime. You are increasingly becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs when you do stuff like this. 90% of what you upload, gets my attention right away!!!
I really don't get the insistence people use to have with combining cards with video games. Literally the only version of this concept that worked was the toys to life genre (Skylanders, Amiibo), and mostly that's from people who wanted figure merch
Holy heck, I had the barcode battler as a kid in the 1990s in Canada. I had a feeling you were gonna bring it up after talking about the barcode cards.
I was the proud owner of a Barcode Battler my uncle bought for me from Fenwicks in Brent Cross. Seeing that really takes me back because at the time I thought it was amazing and that it was going to be huge...I had a ton of barcodes and drove my parents mad cutting packaging up before stuff was finished to get the Codes 😆
I knew of the Barcode Battler, but I didn’t know about that ridiculous media outcry. If I were a parent in that time and place, I’d be more concerned with my kids making a mess of the pantry or (worse) hurting themselves by digging through public trash cans.
@@eadweard. Yes, but I just think that’d be the more realistic concern if the device were to cause me concern at all. Even thirty years ago, barcodes were on everything. Kids wouldn’t need their parents to buy them stuff to get more codes; the stuff already in the house would last them a while and incoming packaging would keep them going. I’d probably see it as mostly harmless fun if I were a parent in those days, but I might be worried that they’d go dumpster diving if we lived in town or walking distance to it.
Have you ever covered the Super Magic Drive for the Mega Drive/Genius loved having it as a kid back in the 90s was always getting new games every week thanks to my local blockbuster 😂 Also thanks for the amazing content Lady Decade love what you do 😁
Pretty cool to see something similar to the E-Reader, though I think I'd rather have this to that considering the E-Reader practically doubling the size of the GBA.
Did anyone else had an Epoch TV when watching the video? I don't recall if the ad showed up before the start or during the middle of this video, but I simply skipped it and didn't think much of it. However, when the video started to talk about the Epoch console, I realized that the EpochTV ad was likely shown because mentioned of the console in the video. I doubt EpochTV and the Epoch console are from the same company, but it just shows how certain ads are chosen to be shown - it likely showed the Epoch TV ad because the video talked about the Epoch console.
Another reason this did not make it to the West - it would have had to be redesigned to fit into the front of the NES rather than the top of the Famicom. The Sufami Turbo could have made it, but by then Nintendo were really emphasising region locking.
What about the top loader NES? Also, i guess if it would work with the Gradiente Phantom System (a brazilian famiclone, in case you've never heard about it).
That's really a nonissue. Bandai is a toy company. They more than have the capabilities to redesign the physical shell of a product for a foreign market.
@@ScooterinAB it's more than that, because of the locking mechanism in the original NES you can't just slot anything in. It's a lot of work for a limited market - because properties like Dragon Ball were not as widely recognised in the West there wasn't the impetus/demand to release it over here. You are talking a lot of money setting up a new production process for what would have been a small target audience.
@@merman1974 So how did the Game Genie work? Besides, Bandai wasn't some questionable Chinese bootlegger; they were a major company that had worked with Nintendo. It would have been easy enough, given their manufacturing capabilities and their ties to Nintendo, to figure this out. I doubt its lack of a non-Japanese release had anything to do with a small Western audience. Coming out at the end of the console's life and with only 7 games made for it, 5 of which were and still are nova-hot properties, the addon was most likely a complete failure in Japan. It being released in Japan not 3 years before the NES was continued in the US is a deathblow in Japan, considering that was functionally the end of its life already. A 12 to 18 month delay to test the market would have meant the Datach would come out when or after the NES was discontinued in the US. Already a failure in Japan and with a rapidly shrinking market, there would be no point in releasing it anywhere else. This has nothing to due with technical complications not brand popularity.
one of my elementary school buddies had a Barcode Battler. Probably due to the region no barcodes worked except the provided cards. Up until this day I remember it as one of the most bizarre electronic games, if you can even call it a game, since the best barcode always wins and it's the only significant player input that actually changes how the game turns out. As for me, I owned a famiclone DBZ/YuYu cart with all the barcode shenanigans replaced with in-game character selection (albeit primitive and very faulty) It was indeed a strange time to be alive
It was region free in terms of which barcodes it could read, but if the barcodes were attached to the blank cards the wrong way they became unreadable.
Ah the Barcode Battler. I remember them being given away every week on... Live and Kicking I think it was. One of the Saturday morning kids shows anyway.
I had one of those barcode battlers as a kid. It was $15 in the bargain bin at Kmart. Thought it was so cool until I tried to use it. It was such a horrible product and most barcodes from non card sources rarely worked. Amazing concept, horrid execution. Great video!
Same here.. Except I'm in Canada. And my kid brain didn't retain the store name. Everything else was the same though. Uselessness and disappointment for all 🙈
I was going to mention that point about most codes not working which I believe was a point made in Octavius's video. I honestly don't know how anyone really thought it was going to work in the long run given the variety of materials that codes come on. These days I could see someone making it an app where you read the code with your phone.
Yeah. It was a cute idea, but terrible in practice. It's also funny how often this idea has been revisited in video games, all the way up to that Monster Rancher CD thing.
@@ScooterinAB Monster Rancher actually did it well, though. 1&2 got a rerelease on Switch, so hopefully it’ll get more exposure and in turn new games. I’m kind of surprised they haven’t made a mobile game. A smartphone’s camera could be used to scan barcodes and/or QR codes to generate monsters.
Interesting all these devices they made, great video! For clarity going by the phonetic katakana written above the English spelling, 'Datach' is pronounced "Dē-Takku" ("Day-tack" with the last u whispered or un-voiced). Maybe a combination of data and tack🤔
It would have been really cool if the NES had an adapter for the Gameboy kind of like the link table but the end of it would plug into an NES so you could use your Game Boy as a controller
This is fascinating, so many ideas that gave it character. Never heard of this one before. But cool to know it exists, adding to games even more. 🤔Wait psychologists in the UK pondered the cost, and issues? Did not see that coming.
I remember hearing a story about Barcode Battler where a brand of soup got popular because it's barcode generated insanely high stats for your chacter.
I remember something like this Barcode Battler in the US where you could scan codes from random items and use it in a game. No idea what it was called.
Eyyy, got one of these yeaaaars back haha. Came with the lil Dragon Ball Z game thats in this vid too. Ended up getting that signed by the voice actor for Goku. Good times.
Fast forward about 20 years and Mattel releases the HyperScan. Self-contained, but very much the same concept. Just goes to show everything will come around again.
i remember seeing an streetfighter lcd game with a card reader when i was young. i wanted one so bad... barcode games should make a comeback. or QR scanning games maybe. its such a great gimmick.
i see you have a Skyward Sword Limited Edition Pack i have 2, one not been even opened . got every zelda game out . 1 of my all fab games every loved them all. + have every nintendo console . still love me gamecube
One other nail in the coffin of all the barcode games was the rise of quality home printers and computers. People were analyizing what the barcodes did and reverse engineering ones they could print out at home and thus max out stats and so forth. Making barcodes of your own was already easy anyway. So that blew up any sort of competition idea or need to scan anything from a store. You just print a million hit points and you are done. The play value rapidly dropped below zero and the card reader games ended up in bargain bins alongside the Cuecat, another device wrecked by barcodes. Who knew a barcode could be so powerful? Maybe somebody should make a game around that idea. Oh wait....
Weird thing there is the English on the unit says Datach, but the Katakana says De-Ta-Ku, which makes me think that maybe 'Datac' (without the H) would've been more accurate. I mean, I guess this never left Japan so it's not the world's biggest deal, but it does ultimately mean English speakers who don't read Katakana could be led to pronounce the unit's name in a different way. Certainly intriguing tho, looks like Bandai beat the GBA's e-reader by like a decade!
I honestly have a lot of trouble trying to think of a single add on (outside of the Super Game Boy) that had any degree of significant success. The 32x, Sega CD and 64DD were all colossal failures. The FDS was almost immediately made obsolete by the cartridges it was designed to replace. Then there’s obscure hardware like this. Oh, wait. The Playstation was originally a SNES add on, wasn't it? Guess that one beat the odds, if you want to count it.
Oh Japanese Romanization. It's more likely that this was meant to be "data" and "attack," but Japan really likes to make up Romanization rules and then over apply them to create complete nonsense.
I'd say that the Sega CD was well worth owning, even though Sega could have done better with game coding. (Soulstar shows how good a game could look, for example.) Sonic CD, Lunar 1 and 2, Shining Force, Flink, Final Fight, Snatcher, Eternal Champions (which blew away the cartridge version), Dark Wizard, The Terminator, and the previously mentioned Soulstar all come to mind as worthwhile games.
I'm assuming that at some point Nintendo was receiving a cut off this. That's the only way I can see it being really good for both sides. If people trusted the Bandai name, they'd be likely to buy the device. The company would probably make more then the cut to Nintendo would cost them and Nintendo would save on the cart costs while still having a control what happened.
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Great video! I'm legitimately jealous that I didn't cover this myself. At the same time, I'm glad I didn't because I learned a ton.
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Ooo, gives me N64 DD drives in terms of mystery. I just found your channel the other day and have been binging since, thanks for all the documentaries!
I'll bet it wasn't the content that hooked you. Lol
We didn't get the Datach Joint Rom System but we got the Aladdin Deck Enhancer.
There was something similar released in the US around 2000 called Skannerz whose marketing was targeted as being a Pokemon clone without the Gameboy.
I knew as a child that was not gunna last and I had a friend that got is parents to buy that stuff up.
I cant even lie im not a gamer but your videos are so well put together I have to watch them all thank you for putting out such great content its has me super hooked on the history of retro gaming.
Another great video. I knew about the Datach, but had no idea about that card battle system. It would have been interesting to see that come to the states when I was in elementary school.
The rivalry between Epoch and Bandai in the barcode gaming sphere was certainly interesting.
1991 saw the release of the incredibly basic Epoch Barcode Battler.
Bandai noticed this and created two barcode game systems in 1992 - the Datach Joint ROM add-on for the Famicom as you've presented here and the Super Barcode Wars handheld which was designed to compete directly with Epoch's offering.
In the same year Epoch released their sequel handheld, the Barcode Battler II which featured connectivity to the Famicom (albeit for a single game) and the Super Famicom (via another add-on adapter which connected to a controller port).
Epoch then went on to create 3 more handheld barcode gaming units, two of which had no barcode scanner and a third which was a football game (The J-League Barcode 11) which could also output to the Famicom and Super Famicom as it used the same data transmission protocol as the Barcode Battler II.
Given the form-factor of the NES, a western version of the Datach Joint ROM would likely have functioned like the Aladdin Deck Enhancer in terms of the mini cartridge placement, but with the barcode reader sticking out of the front of the console.
Wonderful stuff! I love learning about new things, and l like how you present this new information. Keep up the great work! It’s perfect to have playing when I’m chilling and relaxing 😌 Thank you!!
OMG. I enjoyed the hell out of this. I'm in to anything NES/Famicom. Didn't know about this at all. Extra props for showing one of the Saint Seiya Famicom games. It's my favorite anime. You are increasingly becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs when you do stuff like this. 90% of what you upload, gets my attention right away!!!
Thank you for another great video beautiful lady.I learn so much from your videos
I really don't get the insistence people use to have with combining cards with video games. Literally the only version of this concept that worked was the toys to life genre (Skylanders, Amiibo), and mostly that's from people who wanted figure merch
Holy heck, I had the barcode battler as a kid in the 1990s in Canada. I had a feeling you were gonna bring it up after talking about the barcode cards.
Very underrated channel and very interesting videos good job
Thank you for being the reason my partner finally took the bait and became a gamer. Honestly quality engaging content and easy to just dive in.
I was the proud owner of a Barcode Battler my uncle bought for me from Fenwicks in Brent Cross. Seeing that really takes me back because at the time I thought it was amazing and that it was going to be huge...I had a ton of barcodes and drove my parents mad cutting packaging up before stuff was finished to get the Codes 😆
I'd seen a picture of that online and couldn't remember anything about it for the life of me, thank you!
Really interesting ! 😊
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Fun-fact : That is the Italian commercial for the Barcode-Battler 😉
《1》Italia-uno
Your videos always make me wanna break out the snes mini and play some retro games.
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Is your brother Top Hat Gaming? You have such an enthusiasm for gaming and reviews are well produced.
Poor Yamcha, even playing cards aren't safe
Very sad!
I knew of the Barcode Battler, but I didn’t know about that ridiculous media outcry. If I were a parent in that time and place, I’d be more concerned with my kids making a mess of the pantry or (worse) hurting themselves by digging through public trash cans.
Well tbf parents can be concerned about more than one thing.
@@eadweard. Yes, but I just think that’d be the more realistic concern if the device were to cause me concern at all. Even thirty years ago, barcodes were on everything. Kids wouldn’t need their parents to buy them stuff to get more codes; the stuff already in the house would last them a while and incoming packaging would keep them going. I’d probably see it as mostly harmless fun if I were a parent in those days, but I might be worried that they’d go dumpster diving if we lived in town or walking distance to it.
What light gun games do you have? Amazing video like always!
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Wow that is so cool. I had no idea that thing existed. The pre-DBZ tenkaichi days. 😜
Have you ever covered the Super Magic Drive for the Mega Drive/Genius loved having it as a kid back in the 90s was always getting new games every week thanks to my local blockbuster 😂
Also thanks for the amazing content Lady Decade love what you do 😁
Okay, your Borat cracked me TF up!
Pretty cool to see something similar to the E-Reader, though I think I'd rather have this to that considering the E-Reader practically doubling the size of the GBA.
I thought I was a retro gaming nerd but im getting learnt every video
Did anyone else had an Epoch TV when watching the video? I don't recall if the ad showed up before the start or during the middle of this video, but I simply skipped it and didn't think much of it. However, when the video started to talk about the Epoch console, I realized that the EpochTV ad was likely shown because mentioned of the console in the video. I doubt EpochTV and the Epoch console are from the same company, but it just shows how certain ads are chosen to be shown - it likely showed the Epoch TV ad because the video talked about the Epoch console.
2:56 Saint Seiya! We got it on the French NES but never knew how to play that game on.
Another reason this did not make it to the West - it would have had to be redesigned to fit into the front of the NES rather than the top of the Famicom. The Sufami Turbo could have made it, but by then Nintendo were really emphasising region locking.
What about the top loader NES?
Also, i guess if it would work with the Gradiente Phantom System (a brazilian famiclone, in case you've never heard about it).
That's really a nonissue. Bandai is a toy company. They more than have the capabilities to redesign the physical shell of a product for a foreign market.
@@LuizMGRamos not enough ppl had the top loader. I mean alot of ppl did but much more had the old model nes or a snes. Top loader came out late.
@@ScooterinAB it's more than that, because of the locking mechanism in the original NES you can't just slot anything in. It's a lot of work for a limited market - because properties like Dragon Ball were not as widely recognised in the West there wasn't the impetus/demand to release it over here. You are talking a lot of money setting up a new production process for what would have been a small target audience.
@@merman1974 So how did the Game Genie work? Besides, Bandai wasn't some questionable Chinese bootlegger; they were a major company that had worked with Nintendo. It would have been easy enough, given their manufacturing capabilities and their ties to Nintendo, to figure this out.
I doubt its lack of a non-Japanese release had anything to do with a small Western audience. Coming out at the end of the console's life and with only 7 games made for it, 5 of which were and still are nova-hot properties, the addon was most likely a complete failure in Japan. It being released in Japan not 3 years before the NES was continued in the US is a deathblow in Japan, considering that was functionally the end of its life already. A 12 to 18 month delay to test the market would have meant the Datach would come out when or after the NES was discontinued in the US. Already a failure in Japan and with a rapidly shrinking market, there would be no point in releasing it anywhere else.
This has nothing to due with technical complications not brand popularity.
Another great video. THANK YOU, LADY DECADE!!
one of my elementary school buddies had a Barcode Battler. Probably due to the region no barcodes worked except the provided cards.
Up until this day I remember it as one of the most bizarre electronic games, if you can even call it a game, since the best barcode always wins and it's the only significant player input that actually changes how the game turns out.
As for me, I owned a famiclone DBZ/YuYu cart with all the barcode shenanigans replaced with in-game character selection (albeit primitive and very faulty)
It was indeed a strange time to be alive
It was region free in terms of which barcodes it could read, but if the barcodes were attached to the blank cards the wrong way they became unreadable.
banging content this year. amazing!
Always fun to learn about things I never used… this Datach however, I never even heard of before watching this….thanks
Also fuck NFTs and cryptocurrency
Always informative and entertaining! 👏👏👏
I remember when they tried to make bar code gaming a thing here in the states. It landed with a resounding thud.
8:46 That seems like a really fun idea
Ah the Barcode Battler.
I remember them being given away every week on... Live and Kicking I think it was. One of the Saturday morning kids shows anyway.
I had one of those barcode battlers as a kid. It was $15 in the bargain bin at Kmart. Thought it was so cool until I tried to use it. It was such a horrible product and most barcodes from non card sources rarely worked. Amazing concept, horrid execution. Great video!
Same here.. Except I'm in Canada. And my kid brain didn't retain the store name. Everything else was the same though. Uselessness and disappointment for all 🙈
I was going to mention that point about most codes not working which I believe was a point made in Octavius's video. I honestly don't know how anyone really thought it was going to work in the long run given the variety of materials that codes come on. These days I could see someone making it an app where you read the code with your phone.
Yeah. It was a cute idea, but terrible in practice. It's also funny how often this idea has been revisited in video games, all the way up to that Monster Rancher CD thing.
@@ScooterinAB You know what they say about history.
@@ScooterinAB Monster Rancher actually did it well, though. 1&2 got a rerelease on Switch, so hopefully it’ll get more exposure and in turn new games. I’m kind of surprised they haven’t made a mobile game. A smartphone’s camera could be used to scan barcodes and/or QR codes to generate monsters.
Interesting all these devices they made, great video!
For clarity going by the phonetic katakana written above the English spelling, 'Datach' is pronounced "Dē-Takku" ("Day-tack" with the last u whispered or un-voiced). Maybe a combination of data and tack🤔
it would have been a good business move to just call it the detach in ntsc regions anyways. since it describes it's function pretty well
Poor yamcha. At least he brought towels to the cell games. It was a scorcher that day
Great video!! Had no idea this even existed.
It would have been really cool if the NES had an adapter for the Gameboy kind of like the link table but the end of it would plug into an NES so you could use your Game Boy as a controller
This is fascinating, so many ideas that gave it character. Never heard of this one before. But cool to know it exists, adding to games even more.
🤔Wait psychologists in the UK pondered the cost, and issues? Did not see that coming.
What a great video for such a rare accessory never released in the US!
I remember hearing a story about Barcode Battler where a brand of soup got popular because it's barcode generated insanely high stats for your chacter.
Many thanks for the upload. X
2:17 "..let's start.. "
Famicon expansion, or the 32x of the Famicon
But it's more of a Aladdin Deck Enhaser
My mate had a barcode battler! That was a mad, mad idea!
I remember something like this Barcode Battler in the US where you could scan codes from random items and use it in a game. No idea what it was called.
It was called the Barcode Battler. It is really big in the 90s for a short time.
Reminds me of the Mattel Hyperscan
an item similar to the barcode battler was released in the usa
it was a digital pet style device in the late 90s
More videos about gaming history moral panics! :)
Eyyy, got one of these yeaaaars back haha. Came with the lil Dragon Ball Z game thats in this vid too. Ended up getting that signed by the voice actor for Goku. Good times.
How many takes did it take to get the Borat wa wa we wa? Very informative video Lady Decade.
i miss to play double dragon 1 And ninja turtles3 on nintendo famicom
i l😘ve the classic games
Fast forward about 20 years and Mattel releases the HyperScan. Self-contained, but very much the same concept. Just goes to show everything will come around again.
I saw this few years back going for 100yen in hard-off, had to google it back then.
You have an Amstrad Gx4000, my first videoconsole.
i remember seeing an streetfighter lcd game with a card reader when i was young. i wanted one so bad... barcode games should make a comeback. or QR scanning games maybe. its such a great gimmick.
I'm thinking Nintendo didn't mind since the games looked about on par with Aladdin Deck nonsense.
Datach, as in tachometer. K-sound
Katakana is spelled De-ta-ku
Still a criminally under subbed channel. The Lady is just killing it.
Bandai's game cartridges look like large n64 memory controller packs 😂
7:59 Is that a duck sound?
Duck Hunt?!
hahahaha how i didnt notice that on editing, i cant unhear it
Am curious if there were any enhancement chips inside it or not?
Sweet was waiting for this one!
Barcode battlers... Wasn't there something like that released in the US by tiger electronics
Well done, Little Lady!
I think Bandai has always had a unique relationship with Nintendo.
No! Not my Aladin Deck Enhancer!
i see you have a Skyward Sword Limited Edition Pack i have 2, one not been even opened . got every zelda game out . 1 of my all fab games every loved them all. + have every nintendo console . still love me gamecube
5:48 hilarious
There is also a famicom tape drive to play learning languages tapes.
I wonder if they thought of the Joint ROM System idea after sharing a joint together 🔥 ☁️
Emulators for this stuff get very interesting. Some modders have gotten really fun with it.
NFT gaming will actually create a new economy of players selling things to each other while the game developer takes a percentage.
One other nail in the coffin of all the barcode games was the rise of quality home printers and computers. People were analyizing what the barcodes did and reverse engineering ones they could print out at home and thus max out stats and so forth. Making barcodes of your own was already easy anyway. So that blew up any sort of competition idea or need to scan anything from a store. You just print a million hit points and you are done. The play value rapidly dropped below zero and the card reader games ended up in bargain bins alongside the Cuecat, another device wrecked by barcodes. Who knew a barcode could be so powerful? Maybe somebody should make a game around that idea. Oh wait....
I wanted the barcode battler so bad when I was a kid!!!
LOL I've played this back in the day and was so confused then I saw Playdia's DBZ game.
Cool video, Thanks :)
Wait, what was the version plugged into an NES?
card collection and video games? where have i seen that?
Weird thing there is the English on the unit says Datach, but the Katakana says De-Ta-Ku, which makes me think that maybe 'Datac' (without the H) would've been more accurate. I mean, I guess this never left Japan so it's not the world's biggest deal, but it does ultimately mean English speakers who don't read Katakana could be led to pronounce the unit's name in a different way. Certainly intriguing tho, looks like Bandai beat the GBA's e-reader by like a decade!
Even Lady Decade Yamchaed Yamcha!
I honestly have a lot of trouble trying to think of a single add on (outside of the Super Game Boy) that had any degree of significant success. The 32x, Sega CD and 64DD were all colossal failures. The FDS was almost immediately made obsolete by the cartridges it was designed to replace. Then there’s obscure hardware like this. Oh, wait. The Playstation was originally a SNES add on, wasn't it? Guess that one beat the odds, if you want to count it.
Aladdin had a one night fling with the Barcode Boy it seems
It says Datach but in Katakana it says Deitakku. Similar to Bleach being written as Buriki in Katakana
Oh Japanese Romanization. It's more likely that this was meant to be "data" and "attack," but Japan really likes to make up Romanization rules and then over apply them to create complete nonsense.
I'd say that the Sega CD was well worth owning, even though Sega could have done better with game coding. (Soulstar shows how good a game could look, for example.) Sonic CD, Lunar 1 and 2, Shining Force, Flink, Final Fight, Snatcher, Eternal Champions (which blew away the cartridge version), Dark Wizard, The Terminator, and the previously mentioned Soulstar all come to mind as worthwhile games.
This needs to be run through the AVGN QA test so it can receive the AVGN Seal of Quality.
I wonder if the Monster Rancher folks got any inspiration from this product...
N64 should have the 2 cartridges thing. Then rare could have done the banjo Kazooie and Tootie easter egg carry over better.
How do you play imported Japanese NTSC-J consoles on your British PAL TV?
You play consoles from anywhere on a British TV provided the console has an AV out. The Famicom was modified and has that feature added.
@@LadyDecade That shouldn't be enough. That would give you an unstable black and white picture. You'd have to have some kind of NTSC-PAL converter.
Bizarre? It is awesome.
The "Datach"?! I've never heard of it until now
I spent 6 years hitting game shops in Japan and I don't think I saw one of these. I can't imagine anyone heard of it.
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I'm assuming that at some point Nintendo was receiving a cut off this. That's the only way I can see it being really good for both sides. If people trusted the Bandai name, they'd be likely to buy the device. The company would probably make more then the cut to Nintendo would cost them and Nintendo would save on the cart costs while still having a control what happened.
What is the game at 12.58?