Why The Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy Failed! - Japanese Console History
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2019
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Today Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of the Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy and why it failed!
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A man in a top hat, with a dashing moustache or a highly distinguished beard, reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life! Top Hat Gaming Man travels around the globe, playing the best games for the handhelds around the world. The best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of the Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy and why it failed.
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Pardon me but was that hot anime babe, clickbait ?
Still trying to figure out what's Erza Scarlett doing in the thumbnail.
It's called clickbait.
She’s there to reel you in
No one covers these obscure consoles except you. I had no idea there were so many. Great stuff!
Where do you keep finding these long forgotten systems Top Hat Gaming Man? I must say I always look forward to seeing what you dig up next.
That means you don't know Techmoan?!
UK's finest channel! I recommend it warm-heartedly
Or Boojakascha
, who shows lightgun systems that aren't covered anywhere else. Oh wait...
A small nitpick but when you were showing the Cassette Vision Jr cart library, those were all Super Cassette Vision carts, a completely different system.
Hello, Top Hat Gaming Man! Please scroll down for the stuff that you might find curious.
Thanks for covering stuff objectively and for not being focused on one particular gaming market (you know which one I mean), which most of your "competitors" do.
You're doing a great job; I watched a dozen of your videos today and I'm totally enjoying it!
+ I absolutely love your selection of soundtracks (Michelle Chang's theme from T2 and FF soundtracks) and games. Love your taste!
A content suggestion: in the Hyundai Comboy video you mentioned the Famicom knock-offs. Actually, in the post-Soviet space -- around 90s and up to the early 00s -- the households were flooded with Famicom clones coming from... Taiwan, I guess? Basically the Famicom/NES had never made its way to the CIS market officially, yet it didn't stop it from gaining fame in this region. Yet, people never knew it was a Nintendo product whatsoever -- most of the clones came under the brand name of "Dendy", with a small elephant on the logo I believe. Therefore, the NES/Famicom is STILL referred to as just Dendy in modern Russia. "Dendies" didn't go out of use until the PS2 era! (NB: SNES wasn't even present in CIS, or at least didn't gain popularity; there were some Megadrive knock-offs, referred to as just "Sega", but the Dendy things were the real deal.)
Interestingly enough, Nintendo was never doing really well in the CIS market (I believe it was around in the CIS since the Gamecube or N64 era? Totally unheard of a single person in Russia owning those though, everyone had PS1 or PS2). In the handheld sector, the GBA (especially GBASP, usually gifted by parents to their children) and NDS were more or less common, BUT the CIS market definitely was the one that had PSP as a dominant handheld. You guessed it -- of course Russians, which always were masters of software piracy, preferred the PSP; but I believe there were other reasons for PSP to prevail. Another fun fact: the extremely easy homebrew installation procedure was even sold as a service in the electronic markets, costing around 15 dollars in the 2010 currency rates. That did make some sense in the PSP 100x (Fat) time, but since the PSP Slim was released, the procedure stopped being tricky -- and yet this kind of service offers did not cease. These lousy bastards were accumulating money from the unaware teenagers, meh... I used to break this vicious circle and raise awareness on the actual procedure among my fellows; I also often homebrewed my friends' (and enemies', lol) PSPs for free or for a bar of chocolate.
Hope this info catches your eye. If you ever think of making a video on the CIS gaming market of the 90s and 00s, please leave a comment, I'll share my contacts in case you need any more insight.
wow
How do you keep coming up with these consoles I have never seen is incredible. Love you movies man!
What is Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail doing in your video thumbnail?
Hot anime women can grab attention ;)
Well you're here commenting aren't you? Answered your own question bro lol.
@@Fanuc_Operator1990 Ironically I myself have known about the Gakken Compact Vision a lot longer than I have know about Fairy Tail and would click on the video cause of that : P
Hmm.....Gummi Bears shout out at the beginning. Very nice.
Cody, Kenny, and the Bucks need to sign Richard Parliament to AEW
The Gakkan EX System looks awesome! When I was a kid, I had similar kits from Radio Shack, but they weren't nearly as high-tech, as the components were permanently mounted and had spring terminals to allow jumper wires to make the circuit.
When I was young I remember some extremely advanced electronics kits in the Netherlands.
I don't think they were quite as easy to use as these, but they sure were impressive.
To give you some idea, one of the highest end kits involved about half a dozen experiments that involved a laser module, including building a functional CD player...
I have no idea what these kits were called anymore, but they were amazing.
OMG I had that Gakkken kit. Between them and the Elenco kits I got very comfortable with electricity and how it works.
This looks like a very interesting channel, showcasing stuff that isn't just the usual, well-trodden stuff from the US or Japan. I better check out your other stuff now. :)
Hey, I recently discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying it - especially these vids on old dead consoles. But then, of course I'd like your channel. That you fill your videos with music from Ys demonstrates that you are indeed a gentleman of breeding and taste. :-)
Good stuff dude. I found your content. It was in my UA-cam recommendations. I'm a new fan and subscriber
Good series. Please make more Top Hat!
Wow man that's fascinating! Yet another footnote in digital interactive history. It's "phone" design reminds me a lot of _Bandai's Terebikko_ system, which actually _is_ a phone and even featured a Mario game called _Super Mario World: Mario to Yoshi no Bōken Land (or Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land.)_ Surprised you haven't covered it yet, but I know you will eventually.
Did I hear the one of the closing themes to Ys Book II in the background at the end there? ;)
raydeen2k
You’re right! 👍
What's amazing is your quality of videos is stellar! I seriously cant believe you dont have like 3 million subscribers
I'm amazed how many systems I've never heard of, on this channel!
Man you have no idea how often I've thought that I'd like a video game console that looks like a weird telephone answering machine with a gear shifter stuck to it.
If only I had known....
The t-shaped joystick looks like a dynamite plunger like from the old Looney Toons cartoons. Would be hillarious if it actually blew stuff up. I also thought that the handle on side also looked like an old landline phone.
Quality content as all way, Richard.
I mostly know Gakken from their MOSPEADA toys from back in the day.
Fun fact Gakken pronounced in german "Gacken" means to take a dump. another reason it could not get a foothold in the market maybe ;-)
Enjoy ur videos from USA
Very well researched. You keep pulling these obscure machines out the bag. Is there many left!?
Top Hat Gaming Man used "Dig" its super effective, another obscure game console found!!
Ok thumbnail, you got me.
Oh wait, its the Top Hat Gaming Man - I think I'll stay :)
Ahh, the lovely Tawny Little at 1:52.
Mike Matei mentioned on a 'James and Mike Monday' that his mother was a flight attendant and he ended up getting Mario 3 before it was released in the USA. I guess he might also have had a Japanese Famicom to play it on since the cartridges are different. Japan uses the NTSC video format which is what we use in the USA. Japanese power supplies are the same as USA. The electric itself is slightly different but they work fine with USA power.
Love these obscure systems, interesting stuff!
What was with the picture of the A-10 Warthog?
More videos? Yeaaaaaahhhh!
I can't find the video for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision? Searching for relevant stuff just shows me the Atari 2800 video, and I don't think you went into it in-depth in that one.
I have not done standalone videos on the Epoch range just yet, I have just consistently touched on it in my recent depth videos.
@@TopHatGamingManChannel Ah, that sounds about right, thank you for clarifying.
I got a German Facebook ad under this video, and it says that it appeared because of the content of the video. I wonder how that worked
Hello from Florida, USA! I am enjoying this series immensely, but I hope that you have been able to borrow some of the really obscure consoles and haven't had to get them all from Ebay. The most obscure system I own is a Vectrex. I bought it at the local independent video game store. It was only the second one they had ever acquired and sold. The first was purchased by a 10 year old boy.
As mentioned in a few of the previous videos, most of the consoles featured in recent videos belong to Quang of Asobi tech, the UK'S largest console collector (probably the world).
Thought I knew a lot about console history, yet I have no recollection of these consoles.
Then again, my knowledge of consoles doesn't really go back beyond the NES/Famicom era. Doubly so for failed Japanese/Chinese products. Good show, and nice beard.
I have a pechant for useless knowledge anyhow, so I guess I'll drop a sub too. Keep up the nice work. And the beard. Especially the beard.
Would you consider this system more of a 2nd or 3rd generation?
I had that Coleco Pac-Man game in the 80s. I had no idea it was based on a knock-off from Japan.
Also, why is it named after the sound you make when you sneeze and cough at the same time?
Interesting. I mostly know Gakken for all the games they made for the Japanese Sega Pico.
Not surprised it bombed , it looks more like some crazy train simulator controller than a games console
Kinda like that electric block toy, I had a similar idea of a toy when I was a kid. Instead of being in blocks, you had various diodes, capacitors, resistors, etc, fitted on a board with spring-pegs. You had a manual and various lengths of colour coded wire with it, and would simply lever the wire ends under the spring to make connections between various components to configure any number of whatever electronic machines there were in the manual. It was clearly less versatile, but I had a great deal of fun with them. Anyone else remember these sets?
Yes indeed, the RadioShack 150 in 1 project kit (there was also a 50, 100, and 200 project kit, the 150 is what I had though). Loved that thing so much as a kid, used to love wiring up the door alarm to my door so when my sisters tried to intrude on my room they'd get scared by the noise and leave. Ah, memories.
@@dragonlibrarian7982 Yeah, that's the one. Seems to me I did every project that would work. Mine were always used and had failing components. Eventually the whole thing would just stop working.
Really great if i were you i would hug myself!
What do you do when you run out of consoles to talk about?
Have a wank? Either that or talk about games series/individual games.
WOW!!! Yet another console I never knew existed.
my oh my, this ADHD and Manic run sure makes it hard for me to stick to watching the whole thing just now, but I will return,... I just noted that this machine from the Look of it seems also to have side dish feature such a Telephone and a Faxing Machine.
I remember Trojan Horse, played it as a kid in the 80's
I'm guessing the left part of the console was meant to hold it steady, since spazzing around with that controller handle would have knocked it all over whatever surface you had it on.
nice
I fear the day I've seen every obscure gaming system out there :/ So long I'm still lucky.
I have never seen that before. It looks really weird.
So...you are a fan of Fair Tail.
Man. This is one different looking console. Phone and a T shaped joy stick.
Great video I had the Atari 2600 beginning in the early 80's and it sucked compared to others
I clicked this video because of the Erza thumbnail.
Why is Erza Scarlett in the thumbnail??? False advertising
You got some massive thumbs my dude lol. You should take up pro thumb wrestling or marbles lol
Haha my friends when I was a kid said I had "Megatonne thumbs". All that gaming I suppose.
dose anyone now of an emulator for this console
+100 for collection of rare goodies. -10000000000 for Billy Mitchel pic....
Ti 99 would be a good one.
What!! A gaming guru like youself has never heard of Gakken..... shoot me now
You need a cravat, man.
How can you call that a failure? Change the title to, "The bizarre triumph of the Gakken TV Boy".
Erza
THGM please upgrade your mic.
Nothing wrong with my mic. My ability to record sound in the issue. I am only professionally trained in video editing.
Even though I know better the primate in me always clicks on your videos because PRETTY GIRL
I like your videos lol I was just pointing out that there’s never a pretty girl in them
Does that thing have a freakin phone on it?
The reason why the Gakken TV Boy flopped is because it couldn't keep up with the competition against the Famicom.
I'm gonna guess the name is why it failed. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
System too old to feature some obscure "Fairy Tail" based game.
0:03 Console Abuse Is No Laughing Matter
Join the Save the System Charity to save a poor gaming console from abuse like depicted here
戦後の日本史のところはアメリカ人のステレオタイプしかなくて実際の日本とは関係ないと感じました 普通にゲーム機の説明と学研の説明で十分じゃないですかね？
with a name like that how could it fail?
Not a super-regular viewer, so sorry if I'm behind the curve here, but I find it difficult to believe that an obscure video game console from 1983 has anything to do with Fairy Tail. ;) You're just in the habit of sticking anime girls in your thumbnails for no (related) reason, aren't you? ...It worked.
Wow they couldn't even be the best at failed knock offs... Literally couldn't win for losing
00:02 Console Spanking Gaming Man. Lady Decade approved.
I can't get over the tophat. The gimmick does nothing for me but make me slightly cringe every time you cut to you holding another console. I couldn't stop. You're at 37k and asking for patreon? Good luck with that.
Video gaming did not die or cool off in America in 1983. Atari died because we were all pirating games on Vic-20's and C64's. I don't know why you UK boys can never acknowledge that America had micro computers? Just not the spectrum, the spectrum was crap man!
Please never call yourself an influencer ever again, you most definitely are not
So...it's a piece of shit. The End.
Because it was one of the 9 trillion other consoles that was dumped on the market in the early 80s and nobody wanted it