@@sebastianriz4703 it does hurt my ears a bit, I can't lie about that, but there's something so nostalgic about that noise that a CRT without that noise feels wrong. Even if it hurts my ears, it's a comforting noise that brings me back to childhood.
This is Mike at his best. I’m normally not at huge fan of videos without James in them, but this one was very informative and excellent. Keep up the good work!
You have no excuse. You are morally obligated to do a James & Mike Monday video with the Game Of Life controller. And if you only have the controller and not the game, that just means you need to get a copy of the game that controller was made for.
O.M.F.G.! Mike owns the Atari Computer, My first videogame system! (0:13 the gray console in the lower left with the big 5 buttons) Now I demand a gameplay of Bug Hunt!
I've barely played the original Zelda and I still recognized the different music right away. Granted I already knew about that particular feature of the FDS.
I first heard it on the Japanese OST releases from the 80's and 2004.Famicom Music Vol.2, Famicom Anniversary Soundtrack Vol.1 and Zelda The Music. Metroid and the Castlvania games have better sound tracks with the Sound Expansions also. I finally bought a Famicom this year with a couple of games and the Ram Adapter for the FDS. I didn't get the Disk System, instead I bought a device that runs the Game Disk Rom images like a multi cart.
You guys are the biggest video game console collectors, James and Mike Matei have so much room to collect all those consoles especially the obscure ones!
@1933OPCGuy he’s a weirdo, people who collect many gaming systems should just be show offs, they should show gameplay and what the system was intended.
3:40 I like using the original FDS RAM module + the FDS Stick (which replaces the diskette drive) So you are getting 1:1 accuracy, but with none of the hardware and disk errors, load times, or large size. Plus the RAM modules can be purchased for less than $20 and are as dependable as any Famicom cartridge. I use that in conjunction with a RetroUSB AVS and it works great.
9:05, I can't imagine how much that is worth.. The normal turbo graphic16 with bonk on the box goes for 2000 bucks, but a rare holiday version.. Oh man
Yeah, that was the 1993 Xmas TG16 bundle if I remember correctly, because my brother got his own console after I moved away for a few years. The TurboDuo deal at the time was a damn good one too!
No Casio Loopy? 🤣🤣🤣 As for the FM Towns Marty, it's basically a revamp of the FM Towns, a Japanese computer. IIRC, the 3.5" floppy drive is to play FM Towns games.
I never get tired of these. There's something about old technology that fascinates me. Hopefully we'll get to see you play some of them on future videos
From what I've heard the enhanced sound is muffled a bit on the twin famicom from the original with external drive. Both of those consoles are serious pieces of gaming history and I want at least one of them.
Picture is so great on those Commodore monitors! That's a great set, cherish it! Also love that you have one of those sets that's sitting inside a woodcase (I haven't seen one of those since the one we had at home when I was little, Wow, that's quite a flashback there). Very accurate with the Bally! pretty cool
I just remember Neo Geo being super expensive even when it was new. Which probably means it didn't sell very many, so hence the price stays high even all these years later. Nobody I knew ever had one.
4:41 Fun fact: you can play Mark III games on the Mega Drive using an adapter, much the same way you can play Master System Games on Mega Drive using the Master System Converter.
I would love to see you talking about obscure systems in detail in the future. That would be awesome
Chris 86 And the Gaming Historian to do it with would make it epic.
Was expecting cdi, 3DO and other stuff, but was pleasantly surprised
p c 9 8 ? ?
@@Mikebloke I had a 3do. Always liked that system.
You do realize that we now demand a James and Mike Monday with the game of life controller right? Fun vid, thanks for making it!
love that I can hear the high pitched ring noise from the CRT
I can't watch this vid cuz of it
I actually cant handle that noise from older TVs. The older the TV, the more I can't handle.
@@sebastianriz4703 it does hurt my ears a bit, I can't lie about that, but there's something so nostalgic about that noise that a CRT without that noise feels wrong. Even if it hurts my ears, it's a comforting noise that brings me back to childhood.
It's just electrons being excited and having fun, hahaha
@NPC #34254334 Response: I don't either. I think at a certain age you cant hear it any more
Wow, so many consoles and boxes in one video! Thanks, Mike! 😁
@@synical13 Who doesn't?? 😋
Wassup dude!! Your in Jays streams!!
@@joehdah5395 Heck yeah! I remember when Melvor made you mod! That was a good night. 😎 Hope you're having an awesome day, dude!
@@JonKratz Oh yeah, that was awesome hahaha! Im having a great day thanks!
@@joehdah5395 🤘
Everybody else: Gets the most popular consoles
Mike: Gets all the obscure ones
It's a shame the obscure ones are also expensive too :(
The obscure ones are the most interesting
Heck yeah!! Obscure consoles are AWESOOOOMMEE
How is the PC Engine and the Sega III obscure?
He got the popular ones like 20 years ago when they were cheap, or kept them from 30 years ago.
“Dragon Wang, one of my favorites” is a line I’d never be able to say with a straight face. Because despite being 27, apparently I’m 12 years old
I'm 38 and as soon as I heard 'Dragon Wang' I came straight to the comments to hear what people were saying.
'Came'...heh heh...
The character's name was shortened to D.Wang in-game, too
@@rhysperegrine5100 glad to see someone older than me did the same thing lol, im 33 and my brain is telling me nah, 9 at best.
when he said that i had to go see the comments lol.
More of this please.. great history lesson.
Love the old Commodore monitor. Those things were real workhorses.
Yeah Mike, Link Between Screens was my favorite Zelda game
Underated comment
Ryno Mclaughlin link between worlds if that is what you mean
@@leungzinwang4188 r/woosh
@@diskkun4120 Yep
I thought I missed a Zelda game for a second there
That is one hell of a collection Mike. Congratulations, this takes dedication!
Lone Wanderer and money.......lots of it
This is Mike at his best. I’m normally not at huge fan of videos without James in them, but this one was very informative and excellent. Keep up the good work!
You have no excuse. You are morally obligated to do a James & Mike Monday video with the Game Of Life controller. And if you only have the controller and not the game, that just means you need to get a copy of the game that controller was made for.
lol
It took only 2:20 seconds before a Zelda game was mentioned 🤣
Nope 0:23 because of the twin famicom box
I mean... If old games are being talked about.. Its pretty much a prerequisite. Like...you kinda just have to.
And? What's the problem with that?
WOW that's an awesome collection of consoles! I'm impressed!
Mike's enthusiasm is absolutely infectious.
Trueee
I thought I knew a lot about video games but it's like Mike just stepped out of another world with all these. Amazing video.
Another World or Flashback?
O.M.F.G.!
Mike owns the Atari Computer, My first videogame system! (0:13 the gray console in the lower left with the big 5 buttons)
Now I demand a gameplay of Bug Hunt!
I googled Dragon Wang at work. Terrible career move...
NSFW
"MCFLY!" "Ah, Fujitsu-san! Konnichiwa!" "McFly! I have just noticed you've not been promoting my system enough! You are terminated!"
Much respect to Mike Matei. After seeing his twitch streams, he is the ultimate retro gamer.
I've barely played the original Zelda and I still recognized the different music right away. Granted I already knew about that particular feature of the FDS.
This is pretty nuts I have watched a lot of collection videos and I haven't seen most of these consoles or controllers. Awesome!
It's super interesting, I wouldn't mind if you made a 2 hour long in-depth video about more obscure consoles!
Maybe I'll do a follow up to this someday and discuss more.
watching vids on this channel is like being forever young. couldn't imagine my grown up life without it ;)
Those bells on the Zelda theme made it sound way more epic than the original cartridge theme
Absolutely!
I first heard it on the Japanese OST releases from the 80's and 2004.Famicom Music Vol.2, Famicom Anniversary Soundtrack Vol.1 and Zelda The Music. Metroid and the Castlvania games have better sound tracks with the Sound Expansions also. I finally bought a Famicom this year with a couple of games and the Ram Adapter for the FDS. I didn't get the Disk System, instead I bought a device that runs the Game Disk Rom images like a multi cart.
Love these old school Cinemassacre 'Hanging out in the game room' Kind of videos 🙌🏻
LiverpoolRetroGamer Thanks!
Really cool idea for a video Mike. I've never heard of most of these and i'm around the same age as yourself and James. Great stuff!
You guys are the biggest video game console collectors, James and Mike Matei have so much room to collect all those consoles especially the obscure ones!
Not really lollll
@1933OPCGuy they’re hoarding lots of consoles. Most gamers don’t have room to put multiple systems on their closet.
@@Markimark151 take a look at Last Gamer collection and come back lol
@1933OPCGuy he’s a weirdo, people who collect many gaming systems should just be show offs, they should show gameplay and what the system was intended.
6:05 "Dragon Wang. One of my favorites." I bet 😉
Ayo 🤨🤨🤨
Good ole Commodore 1702 monitor. Yours even has the front panel cover. Great video!
That "Marty" system's shape kinda looks like the PS3, huh??
Thought it looked more like a dreamcast prototype, wonder if theres a link to those two systems...
Mike. I'm not sure if you realize this but there's a low frequency pitch coming from your audio.
Starts at 0:18
Worth getting yourself a Neo SD (or Neo SD Pro) for the AES there! You can play EVERY Neo Geo game then!
Had that Mario 2 glass on the shelf during your Bally's part. Wish I still had those. Love seeing stuff like that.
Yeah but we gotta remember Mike has Big Giant *DRAGON WANG*
One of my favorites!
Uuuhhhhh, Bevis, he said wang.
Yeah, but its like huge Dragon wang. Does that mean it pisses fire too??
Dragon Wang 😭
and here I was getting worried that there were no more comments about mike's massive wang
I forgot about mikes massive wang 😂😂😂
You should make this a series. Learned so much from watching this video Mike.
What's cool about the Twin Famicom is it doesn't turn into the color of pee 30 years later like the NES does
Yes maybe because it's not grey or white but red
Well they do fade in colour.
@@apfeltee34
..... You just couldn't let me have that one. Let me think things aren't pee colored, OK? It gets me through the day.
I love that snuff film ambient hum in the background.
....how many snuff films have you seen?
Eight.
You're the best mike always so enthusiastic and great attitude
8:36 It's got the retro future aesthetic down pat.
Game of Life J&MM would be cool!
3:40 I like using the original FDS RAM module + the FDS Stick (which replaces the diskette drive) So you are getting 1:1 accuracy, but with none of the hardware and disk errors, load times, or large size. Plus the RAM modules can be purchased for less than $20 and are as dependable as any Famicom cartridge. I use that in conjunction with a RetroUSB AVS and it works great.
I saw that un-torched CD-32. I shall renew my badgering for a J&M Monday with good CD-32 games like Chaos Engine or Super Stardust.
Jet strike is a must
Beautiful, my favorite game is ROBIN HOOD on Game boy color 😍😍😍
Glad mike gets the love he derserves these days
3:00 wow that gave me shivers, really cool!
"I'm a Nintendo kids!" "I'm a Sega kid!" "I'm a PlayStation kid!"
"I'm a Marty kid!" said no one ever
I am one! Ive learned about it when i was 11 and got it a year after. Im 14 now and i must say-the fm towns is awesome.
9:05, I can't imagine how much that is worth..
The normal turbo graphic16 with bonk on the box goes for 2000 bucks, but a rare holiday version.. Oh man
"They just don't do [wacky and weird] stuff like this anymore"
Nintendo Labo, and especially Labo VR, says HI. ;-)
Yeah, that was the 1993 Xmas TG16 bundle if I remember correctly, because my brother got his own console after I moved away for a few years. The TurboDuo deal at the time was a damn good one too!
Those of us who grew up with tape loaders (Speccy, C64 etc) never complain about loading times. It's all relative. :-)
Skyrim tho... ;)
The novelty of flipping the disks outweighs any inconvenience of waiting for the FDS to load ;)
I haven't really got into the classics yet, but this is awesome man. This video creates new interest for old school gaming.
No Casio Loopy? 🤣🤣🤣
As for the FM Towns Marty, it's basically a revamp of the FM Towns, a Japanese computer. IIRC, the 3.5" floppy drive is to play FM Towns games.
Jesus Zamora and incredibly expensive
I never get tired of these. There's something about old technology that fascinates me. Hopefully we'll get to see you play some of them on future videos
That opening shot is out of control. From the Sega Mark III to the Bally Astrocade, this was such a fun video to watch!
I want to get some more carts for the Sega Mark III. But for now you and I can play Dragon Wang
Mike Matei Can’t get enough Dragon Wang!
Pls make James and Mike Mondays with some of these obscure consoles!
Heck yeah mann, Awesome collection!
Great video Mike. Alot of stuff I never heard of. Very informative.
Wow Amazing collection
Thanks!
"Taking a home console with you... they don't really come out with crazy ideas like this anymore" HELLO - the Nintento Switch?
Yeah, but the Switch doesn't come with it's very own carrying case straight out of the box
I love how Mike spins it one more time before the video ends
lander77477 I did that just for you
Rad Video Game Consoles Collection Mike!
7:15 "Why would you take a homeconsole out with you? They dont make crazy ideas like that today.."
Ehm hello, Nintendo Switch?!
From what I've heard the enhanced sound is muffled a bit on the twin famicom from the original with external drive. Both of those consoles are serious pieces of gaming history and I want at least one of them.
That ps1 "wheel of fortune" controller at the end.. it's so.... majestic...
Jeez sony.
Picture is so great on those Commodore monitors! That's a great set, cherish it! Also love that you have one of those sets that's sitting inside a woodcase (I haven't seen one of those since the one we had at home when I was little, Wow, that's quite a flashback there). Very accurate with the Bally! pretty cool
Thanks For Making This Video Mike HOLY SH*T
A collection to be envied - no doubt... and well explained Mike 👍
Ever done a inventory of all your games, Mike??
I dont think there are enough gigabytes in the world to upload that video
You guys are great 😆
@mermaid Shh!! Don't tell him!
Super cool and interesting Mike! Thanks for making this!!
Now that's what I call a HARDCORE video game nerd.
Nice Commodore Monitor! I use to have one and loved it soooo much! The way it shows off the graphics is so cool.
I'm familiar with everything except that Game of Life PS1 controller. Of course I want one now. Thanks. 😣
I just remember Neo Geo being super expensive even when it was new. Which probably means it didn't sell very many, so hence the price stays high even all these years later. Nobody I knew ever had one.
Mike...I think Segata Sanshiro is going to come after you now for not mentioning the SEGA SATURN! You MUST PLAY THE SEGA SATURN, MIKE!
Why bother putting the Sega Saturn in with all these other lumps? Saturn is in a league of its own!
he did a AVGN episode on that u know
4:41 Fun fact: you can play Mark III games on the Mega Drive using an adapter, much the same way you can play Master System Games on Mega Drive using the Master System Converter.
Isn't the Neo-Geo 1:1 for arcarde ports, because it uses the same motherboard, or something?
17:14 you need to do a whole video based on that contorler thing.
Please select Disk B…
and insert to f***king box! Lol
Saw that one too?
I almost said the same thing
The Commodore monitors were built to last. Love 'em.
Wow! You're so lucky! I wish i had as many as you do!
That twin fam is awesome.
The Famicom Zelda sounds better than the NES.
What's a Famicom
@@GamerBoy870 🤣🇯🇵
@Jacob Cannon I could definitely tell by 👂 from this video, but didn't know that was a fact. Time for me to do some learning! 😋
That makes my 5 year old self very angry. I feel jipped.
The cartridge version is the same
Woah! just discovered some crazy consoles here! Nice video Mike!
Mike Matei loves dragon wang
Love the old video game glassware. Please do a video on the glass!
I feel the PCengine/Turbografx-16 is talked about/more recognized than you say.
Tophatgaming mentions them alot
Everyone around here are hype on that since past 5years easy
This actually so INTERESTING!! Never knew some of these consoled existed.
You have an incredible collection dude! Could easily get lost in all those games!
I love this. You should do more videos like this Mike.
"And i spend thing like 300 thousand of dollars on everithing"
That Commodore Screen is so amazing.
Haha lost it at the name dragon wang
does it ever strike you that you are the few people preserving video game history like this? very cool
dragon wang...jesus...
You cant make fun of of it its mikes favorite lmao
Can't wait to see the next gen of consoles. They might be out as early as Rayxanber.
I hold the world record for losing the most consoles
I really enjoy these kinds of videos, thanks Mike!
10:20 yo Mike you vape?!!?
Nice collection...lots of rare consoles! Game on Dude!