Nintendo's LOST Hardware
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
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In this compilation we take a look at an entire hour of Nintendo 's LOST harware, including multiple lost Game boy add-ons that took decades to be found, and an assortment of cancelled peripherals for Nintendo home consoles such as the GameCube and Nintendo 64.
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truly amazing gaming journalism!!!
Did he get to keep the WorkBoy?
I am curious as well if you borrowed or kept the WorkBoy. Either way, it was amazing to see you with one and use it as intended.
Your content is amazing.
@@pustulioyo q,
The Workboy retrospective and recovery was such a fascinating story. I almost can't believe you managed to not only acquire but activate an unreleased 30 year old one-of-a-kind prototype that was near guaranteed to never function again. It was a lucky break thanks to the Gigaleak but you yourself never gave up on the conviction to run the add-on and I greatly respect your tenacity. Amazing video.
Thanks Omar!
It really reminds me of a Nick Robinson video!
Well i personally cant make it thru 3 minutes of this pointless video.. let alone 60.. who cares about this? ..must have a boring life.
I think the Workboy video is my favorite DYKG video. It was cool to see something that only lived for a brief moment as a dream that was almost accomplished. Seeing the software suddenly start working as intended with both the cartridge and the keyboard gave me nostalgia about something I never held in my own hands.
Thank you so much for that! I appreciate it a lot.
@@LiamRproductions I felt the same way and I only saw the video for the first time now. Did not expect to be captivated by the fate of a GB accessory as much as I ended up being; a true testament of your great writing and incredible journalism!
@@dracquiteur.4730 Thank you so much :) more on the way
It's always fascinating to see new or unreleased tech from this era coming to light.
@@LiamRproductions Same, you gripped my heart with that story. I bet the creators were thrilled to hear you found a ROM and got it working!
The Workboy is unironically really cool, it's kind of a shame it never made it to market
Well obviously a few of it's functions made it to other systems. The DS lite has the alarm clock function.
I'm impressed that they could create so many add-ons for a simple GameBoy!
It had a huge userbase so it isn't that surprising they tried a lot. Nintendo has also always been big on innovation...not always successfully though.
I still can't believe the Workboy cartridge ROM was miraculously contained in one of the giga leaks; like what are the odds some small oddity like that would be retrieved? Crazy! Fortuitous indeed, but crazy!
The Workboy video is definitely one of your best. Truly an amazing work.
Thank you so much!
It's still really cool that DYKG got a hold of a Workboy after all these years.
*yeahs
And got the rom to make it work... f****** lucky lol
So workboy question: curious as to what countries it has in the world map with the 1992/93 release planned. Does it still have a yugoslavia, or had they already updated it? How about the rest of the former soviet satellites that were still finalizing themselves around that era? I find all the tech from that era a fantastic time capsule of how rapidly the world changed - like how two versions of the same shareware Risk clone had two different sets of countries, or things like the Workboy that are forever trapped in a world that doesn't exist anymore.
okay, so when I was very little I remember seeing and ultimately owning a cartridge for some sort of organizer software for the game boy, it had a calculator, word processor, date organizer, etc... I remember my mom and dad explicitly protesting "that's not a game, you wouldn't like it" but I wasn't interested in it being a "game" I was interested in something new for me, a piece of software...
I owned something like that, I swear! I cartridge for my game boy, particularly a game boy pocket, that was sort of like a home computer, it didn't have any kind of keyboard add-on but I could still do all of the things the beginning of this video says. It was some sort of "home computer on the go" type of thing.
does anyone here know what I'm talking about? I just want to find the rom so that I can confirm that I'm not crazy! it was just some random cartridge I found at target probably....
Commenting so I can know if anyone finds a lead on this, it seems really interesting
Confabulation.
@Blind Kid didja ever figure it out
any updates?
the applications of the Work Boy probably seem laughable to someone today who has a smartphone but in 1992, before the internet was a household thing, before computers were even portable, this seems like a cool gadget to a traveling businessman. I'm actually amazed.
Great work, DYKG. Considering this is literally the only one in existence, you guys did something phenomenal
When I was a kid, I always wondered why the bottom of my Gamecube had so many weird connection ports. I know that some of them were used for various things like the Gameboy Player, but I wonder if some of them ever went completely unused.
This is absolutely insane, you guys have been going above and beyond lately. I appreciate all you do to preserve and document gaming history
The amount of work put into this by liam, and the actual workboy he got to use makes this an absolute masterclass of a video
Thank you, Brian!
when you pulled that workboy out, I was like, "no he didn't...NO HE DIDN'T!!!! HE DID!!!!!!!"
I am very curious as to what Liam did with the workboy keyboard after everything was said and done. Like, did he donate it to a video game conservation group, or does he have it kept safe and sound? Nonetheless, very interesting piece of history, and seeing it actually work right and proper is incredible.
I'm gunna guess he sent it back so it was in the original creators hands kept safe and sound. Although I'm gunna go ahead and say there could be some spoken contract that if he ever went to get rid of it that Liam would be it's next caretaker of sorts lol
Those PageBoy ideas would have been revolutionary in a product, doing what PDAs and cellphones would later gradually start doing...
Also, that presentation with Mario is adorable!
So many things Nintendo worked on being standard today is amazing. Surprises me that 8 bit systems could handle the idea
This is seriously the best channel ever.. I love the lost or rare consoles lore and you guys are always so professional and thorough, it's really awesome! I've been with you guys since the beginning and hope to be there for many years to come, great job guys!
What an incredible video. Amazing research! Huge find for video game history. Thank you so much for sharing.
Even today, there’s always room for
low end, low cost computers. Comparing a Gameboy paired with Workboy to the more expensive portable PCs of the time, i think the feature and hardware differences (screen resolution, processing power, memory and storage) are similar to say, a chromebook and a mid to high-range Windows laptop. Maybe a Gameboy can play better games than a Chromebook though!
That Workboy story fascinated me. A one of a kind technology who had very low chances of running after 30 years worked! Pretty wild, this shows always take your chances with things, you may never know.
That's awesome that you not only found and documented the WorkBoy hardware, but you were also able to pair it with the software and find out what it really could have been. Thanks for sharing and documenting this piece of video game history.
I did not know there were this many pieces of lost nintendo hardware. Great video DKYG. 👍
All my local drug dealers used Beepers and Workboys.
We need more video journalists like you! Thank you for this brilliant video! I just love this long form stuff and I can’t even imagine how much time it takes!
It amazes me just how far ahead of their time Nintendo was. Who knows where we'd be if they actually came out with those products
Dude this video was absolutely insane. You tracked down the only one in the world????
Mindblowing
all workboy and no playboy makes jack a dull gameboy
Liam has been a great researcher throughout the yares.
The page boy would've been revolutionary, I wonder if the future cell phone market would have evolved differently had it been released
Didn't someone make this video already? This is all super familiar....
It's a compilation of older videos on the main channel.
So crazy to think that the game boy had a lot of accessories some crazy and weird
Handy Boy was the best accessory!
you should have been there at the time, it was INSANE how many odd and obscure accessories it had, even YEARS after the GBA SP, and even into the DS OGs cycle.
So interesting. It continues to blow my mind how there are many pieces of hardware that I’ve never heard about.
Thank you for not only finding these pieces of history but, preserving them, and explaining the lore behind them. Never would've guessed the the original Gameboy would have keyboard, that seems like something Sega would've pushed for back then. I learned something new today. Love the history keep em coming! Best of luck with the new channel. Peace.
58:22 Tetris Effect: Connected laid the groundwork, so Nintendo can try with this now. Same with the Labo VR, but that one's a different story...
The Workboy? Oh boy
Thanks for this video. I feel that this is REALLY good video game journalism on your part. 👍
Listen closely and in the distance you can still hear the Angry Video Game Nerd yelling "I WANNA BE SEDATED WITH A GAME BOY!"
Leaving these videos on in the background while farming in Monster Hunter is an experience for sure
This is probably the best documentary I’ve seen. Hands down. Thank you
Wow that's high praise, indeed. Thank you!
@@LiamRproductions You’re very welcome. I love the details and lengths you went to and it’s a fascinating topic with an amazing ending
Gameboy's quickly became eldritch horrors with the amount of add-ons you could buy.
The wii zapper sux cuz it's not help like a submachine gun either. That's not how u old any gun. U dont hold the end of the stock. The RE umbrella chronic one was super great had a knife too. I also used a off brand one that looked more like a pistol.
Nintendo: We need accessories for our consoles
Also Nintendo: What if you could do your banking, send emails, and just do business from your snes or gameboy?
The work boy was so ahead of its time. No one had even said the word apps at that point. And a thermometer and clock?! Crazy
Looking at what could have been really gives a new appreciation for the things that we have, which could just as easily have been lost too.
The workboy story and presentation legit made me cheer wtf lol
It is quite fascinating to hear stories about old "addons" for the Gameboy! Love your work guys!😊
Would love to see a timeline where the Workboy became a reoccurring accessory for the handheld. Like Workboy Advanced or something
Wow. The Workboy story was a huge win for gaming history conservation. Thanks for putting in all the effort.
You all are definitely one of my favorite gaming trivia/fun fact channels!
Frank chasing that bag by getting a 35-40% raise is incredibly based.
The fact the WorkBoy was fully functional with its software after all these years of being so elusive is really interesting
This video is frankly amazing.
What fantastic work.
This was very well done. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for all your hard work :)
Well done. Its great that the software is already dumped, using this video it should be possible to emulate and build a mock keyboard if someone wanted.
Quite impressive the amount of peripheral devices they created/attempted for the gameboy given it's limited screen.
35:55 These are some unforgivingly early 2000s mockup graphics, true UX design
The work boy is honestly one of the more interesting stories in gaming I’ve heard but l don’t think it would’ve sold well as it has very niche features most people wouldn’t use.
The hands on thing with the work boy was awesome
I lost my DS as a kid, does that count as lost hardware?
The story about the workboy is so fucking cool
the handy boy was awesome!!! loved the light feature on it with the magnifying glass and boosted speakers
Considering how popular electronic organizers and later palmtops were at the time, the idea of the Workboy isn't that far out. And the UI on the GB was way above of said Organizers.
Great research! Workboy was such an amazing add on for its time.
Cell phones years before cell phones…well, closer to a PDA, really, but this truly was ahead of its time.
This is all information I didn't know I needed in my life but god i'm glad you found it
Its like a pre-internet travel thingie. To use on vacations.
that Work Boy story was absolutely wild
I missed my original Nintendo gameboy I got it for Easter when I super young, that thing ate batteries like crazy. I had to use the power adapter more often than not.
These long vid have been a god send for my insomnia
The workboy looks interesting, especially with a GUI portable device at that accessibility
What makes one Nintendo fact "better" than another?
God
@@napoleonfeanor That's more of a who then a what.
The workboy story warms my heart ❤️
the workboy is the kind of thing I would've begged my mom to buy for me when I was a kid even if it wouldn't be of real use for me, just for the sake of the novelty
I just love the workboy story, probaly my favorite discovery of you guys
wow I had no idea this video was an hour long when I clicked it but I watched the whole thing lol
The Workboy video feels like a nick robinson video
I love that Nintendo inadvertently helped bring rise to one of their biggest rivals by breaking off their deal with Sony.
These are so good to listen to while mindlessly strip mining in Minecraft
its kinda crazy how many times Nintendo attempted to make their consoles multi purpose and then gave up right as it would have made since to start(lack of streaming services and no internet browser on switch)
I wonder if there are other unfinished/canceled projects we don't even know about. crazy stuff
The Wii Vitality Sensor is basically a consumer-grade oximeter, I don't think much development would have been required even if it would have been released.
I love the 10000 extra add-ons Nintendo consoles had.
Holy crap congratulations and this is absolutely amazing.
The "work boy" is an interesting idea, but with that screen I just can't see it catching on, but who knows.
The fact that you got the prototype is absolutely insane!!!
"Wild Coincidence"
I'm excited for the new WorkBoy
It is channels like this that makes UA-cam still worth it 😃👍
The Workboy is incredibly impressive and even feels like a precursor to the smart phones we all enjoy today. It is a shame it was never released a product truly ahead of it's time.
I hope Nintendo finds his lost hardware soon 🙏
What happend to the Ponémon "Mew Machines" used to distribute Mew at events to players and afterwards they were also used to distribute Celebi! In Belgium we got our Celebi event before we even got a Mew event! 😁
What a journey to recover the Workboy...
Even if the market eventually became more of a grey spot after PCs got more mainstream, or it QUICKENED PCs becoming mainstream, the WorkBoy still would have gotten a lot out of parents that wanted their kids to get into all its uses and applications, just as I used to in our old Windows 98 pc haha. Its GBC repercuted sequel really actually captured a market that could have been held, It's almost as a wireless phone medium as was achieved later but for gaming and would have never been seen as "fighting with THAT industry" if it came out. Kinda ironic as that same bubbled social media for THEIR users and interactivity with games was later tried heavily with Miiverse, but this time they weren't the first.
Pretty cool stuff. Awesome insight
Blimey mate, what a scoop. Fascinating story.
I hope they were able to donate the work boy to some video game history conservation museum or something. It would be ashame for the basically last one end up braking or something it's an amazing find.
man, that WorkBoy would have been so cool! Shame that never came to the market.
Once he tried the keyboard I was like "But where is the cart that goes with it? Just plug-in the keyboard wont work"
The workboy part was amazing
I wanted to hear two things:
1)Japan's anthem
2) for it to be the dq theme
Am glad the workboy wasn’t released because it made the gameboy hardly portible and since the screen was also not backlighted and not sharp,it would,ve be very impractical to use it for serious work, yes it did had forward features for it’s time in 1990 but that’s it.