Everyone, activate captions. This should help.

@tiqosc1809

4 жыл бұрын

no need if you can hear both 😂

@just-mees

4 жыл бұрын

[speaking chinese] ahh so helpful

@astersworld6169

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, great help

@kaboter2k785

4 жыл бұрын

Turn on auto-generated captions

@jayeaaaaa

4 жыл бұрын

You fool This doesn't work anymore The captions are actually helpful now

This took me a while, but here’s the translation: [Speaking Chinese]

@MelTheHal

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks i needed it

@mick5055

4 жыл бұрын

Make the comment (edited) so it looks like you put a lot of work into it

@madden8021

4 жыл бұрын

It's more of Cantonese

@BIGBOIKIWI

3 жыл бұрын

in other words the translation is in the subtitles

@demodertf2

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Hong kong

me: aw man I better turn on captions captions: *speaking chinese*

@DE23

3 жыл бұрын

I checked and they changed it.

Here's another fact. The narrator in the Cantonese Nintendo ads is none other than Eric Kok (葛民輝). You may have seen him in such movies as Jackie Chan's City Hunter. He's one of the two who sang that Kala Kala Happy song.

I was preparing to watch an entire 16-minute video in Chinese, without knowing anything about what was being said! I was pleasantly surprised.

@PleaseUnsubscribeHaha

4 жыл бұрын

@Layne Krusz Yes! I didn't even notice the missing i, thanks for correcting me!

@compitalc

3 жыл бұрын

I hope to see that someday.

@roboticdreamer

Ай бұрын

You have more patience than me. The only reason I didn't click off of the video was because I was confused why the title's in English if the video is in Chinese, so I clicked to a random spot further into the video to see if that's in English

Captions: [speaking Chinese] Thanks!

@HeliosimWorld

4 жыл бұрын

Also Captions: *[Chinese Narrator]* Me:Woah these captions are so accurate

@procopischristofi9158

4 жыл бұрын

There are english caption in the settings

@user-lv6rn9cf8m

4 жыл бұрын

Way better than when youtube captions with "speaking in foreign language". Like, what. How do you know what my native language is? Maybe English is the foreign language to the viewer?

@DE23

3 жыл бұрын

The captions have changed.

@pokkohopper

2 жыл бұрын

the caption is simplified chinese hes fake Hong Konger

7:29 " I learned that the hard way." OOF

@GamingKing-jo9py

4 жыл бұрын

me too

I always remember recieving a Hong Kong copy of Zelda: Ocarina of time on N64 back in the day, as it was the first place in the world to recieve an English language version.

ADDENDUM: I want to add in some new/revised info, partly courtesy of Twitter user @MegaManSec. Thank you! -Simon & Toys and Mani are the same company! It was a renaming that happened around September of 1990. -The rarest Hong Kong NES release was Mahjong, due to it not receiving an NES release anywhere else in the world. I knew about this before the video was published, but time constraints led me to leave it out. -Hong Kong Famicom releases were indeed a thing! The cartridges looked a little like this: pbs.twimg.com/media/EWf3s3KWoAI8ffi?format=jpg -The GameCube was officially released in Asia as an import of the Japanese version like the GBA! There are photos of Japanese GameCube boxes with Chinese stickers attached denoting that it uses the Japanese voltage standard and plays Japanese games. Further context for the folks who are watching this video for the first time in the future: This was originally uploaded on April Fools Day 2020, hence the intro bit. I don't know if I'll do any more Chinese stuff in the future though considering that's not my main demographic. :P

@TFD500Official

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, a Chinese QNA couldn't be too bad >w I saw a korean rhythm game player who also speaks English, but he did his QNA in Korean with English subtitles. So it wouldn't be too bad to do it, I guess :3

Super interesting history, and cool to hear some Cantonese too.

The joke is that it's actually a video in english

@KirbyMaster

4 жыл бұрын

[speaking English]

@jerkfacefuckasaurusrex328

4 жыл бұрын

YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT! I CAN UNDERSTAND THIS MAN! IT JUST TOOK AN MINUTE FOR MY BRAIN TO CATCH UP!!! 😭

Thank you for making this video. I live in Taiwan and ever since the DS era, Taiwan just followed whatever Nintendo of HK decided to do. The only thing I would like to add is how Taiwanese and Hong Kong Wii region is like a mini sub-region of NTSC-J. All Japanese games work on Taiwanese consoles and all the different modification shenanigans like homebrew and letter bomb that worked on Japanese consoles works on the consoles too. However, the Taiwanese consoles have no access to the e-shop. And all games that use the Nintendo wifi connection would recognize the TW-HK-Macau consoles as a distinct region. Back in the good old days when I still used to play Mario Kart Wii competitively, Taiwanese consoles had its unique regional leaderboards. In online multiplayer, every region also had a different color indicator under the player name. For example, red for Japan, Blue for NA, Green for Europe, etc. The color for Taiwan, however, was White. Some people would even hack their Wiis so they would get the white border. I was one of the two only Taiwanese people in the community when I was playing the game, and many people thought I was using an iso to get the White border. (And therefore asking me how I got the iso, when I was in fact just using my Wii regularly.) But man I do miss HK and its game shops and arcades. I am studying in HK and this is supposed to be my last semester here, but I am not able to go back to HK due to "insert term here".The video definitely brings back good memories of exploring Mon Kok and Shum Shui Po's narrow and crowded game shops.

@RicciChoi1109

4 жыл бұрын

thundersharkpanda I miss those “international system” CRT TV sets. (PAL with compatibility for NTSC-based A/V equipments)

@RaysGamingChannel2003

4 ай бұрын

Was the DSi Released in Taiwan?

大家好，對於所有難以理解的英語使用者，請嘗試打開字幕！ :)

because of kanji I'd assume playing Japanese games as a Chinese speaker would be like playing German games as an English speaker a few things can be understood because of similarities between languages

@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess

4 жыл бұрын

Taiwan is the real China.

@siggonometria

2 жыл бұрын

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess 9999999999999999- Social Credit 😠👎

@Adamlol642

2 жыл бұрын

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess yes

@reboxtherapy

9 ай бұрын

Japanese should be official language in China and Hong Kong and English should be official language in schlengden countries and the german states.

@Bowling4986

8 ай бұрын

​@@giovannieich7487english speaker here, at best the most I can gather is "english speaker", "on", and something about the internet.

While I have listened to my grandmother speak Shanghainese for many years as a kid, I still can't distinguish different Chinese dialects.

@RicciChoi1109

4 жыл бұрын

Emm Bee Sea There’s actually a lot of dialects in China. Also, dialects have slight differences on wordings, like Cantonese used in Hong Kong is slightly different from Cantonese used by folks in Guangzhou.

@GumSkyloard

4 жыл бұрын

@@RicciChoi1109 Plus, the term "Chinese" is akin to the term "Romance" when it comes to languages. Cantonese, Shangainese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, so on and so forth, are all different.

So if this is technically NOT an April Fools video, are we also getting an English title for it soon?

@Ruby-oq3kd

4 жыл бұрын

That's what I was going to ask, but I have to agree - I actually hope we get an English title, the Chinese language honestly freaks me out. Heh.

@Jiozak

4 жыл бұрын

It's likely that the title and thumbnail will be changed into English come tomorrow

@Blaze5857

4 жыл бұрын

What would be funnier is if that AK did the same video with the beginning as _English_ and the rest of the video in Chinese.

Man, with all these restrictions, I can't imagine being a gamer in Mainland China, must be hell.

@shrimpshufflr7745

Жыл бұрын

At that point I would just not be a nintendo fan anymore

What a cool history lesson! Keep up the great work. My only question? Was Hong Kong's Super Mario Bros. 2 The Lost Levels or USA?

@roxynano

9 ай бұрын

Good question! I would like to know the answer. I have a feeling it would be both knowing the time period, like how Hong Kong had both Famicom & NES systems.

The 3DS situation made me cry

The automated captions at the beginning are a thing of beauty

Okay I was ready to turn on subtitles, got pranked there and was ready to leave, good thing I stayed lol. Didnt know about the whole Hong Kong/China difference so I always assumed all you got there were bootlegs. Learned a lot today!

This Title Name in English: Nintendo sales history in Hong Kong

My thoughts on your current intro: So when I first heard the Rhythm Heaven count-in, I was super hyped. But then it also played the usual half-audible start up, which broke the mood. I thought the count-in would replace that first part, instead of the equivalent of a bass drop leading to music at the same level as before.

Personally I'd say the Tencent Switch is among the most unique thing in gaming history period. They actually fully acknowledge that many people would just import a foreign console (and in fact, foreign consoles are usually on par or even cheaper) and/or foreign games, and they thought, well, softcore gamers and non-gamers might want a console that has better warranty and online connection to just play those few games. Also, my personal theory is that half of the sales for the Hong Kong region Switch games were purchased by mainland gamers. The player base of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan combined is probably still getting outnumbered by mainland gamers that would actually buy games.

I always find specifically Chinese/Hong Kong releases to be fascinating to me. I created a PSN account to access the Monster Hunter MMO released in Asia and thiught it was crazy, looking at the Hong Kong Vita PSN store. Seeing the same game twice on the store in different languages, sometimes gettin access to Japan-only titles the West never got in Japanese (a big enough deal seeing as you could only register one PSN with the Vita), just the random-ass selection of super-duper-niche titles you could get, it was like stepping into another place entirely.

Glad I watched beyond the intro! That was some wild history there!

I remember when my aunt bought me Smash Ultimate in Hong Kong a day before its initial release but I ended up getting it on Dec 9 cause of my aunt’s delayed flight.

Nice 你終於講廣東話啦😭😭😭

I was just recently made aware of your existence and just wanted to say I'm calling it right now: you will make it big on this platform. Your videos exude quality. Keep up the great work! You're already one of my favorite content creators on the site

Pokémon Sun and Moon and the Pokémon series getting official Chinese name and support was the important moment of Nintendo begin to push Chinese localization for its games, also the moment foreshadowing the later Switch era. And inside the whole story of Nintendo’s Chinese localization history, iQue played major role as well, even till today as they basically involved in every first party game for the localization.

thanks those captions really help

Can I say that I love the black and white transitions for each Nintendo console? You've got to use that again sometime! Especially with the little jingles from certain games, it adds to the retrospective feeling of the video!

This is really cool! My grandfather and that side of the family come from Hong Kong and I'm getting more interested in learning about that country since I apparently have quite a bit of family history there. Even if this was an April fool's video, I actually found this pretty informative. Subbed!

Even though it must be frustrating for a person living in hong kong, this is a very interesting video overall. Good job! :)

First time seeing this channel and it was really interesting. Thank you for sharing this.

What an interesting topic! Thank you, AK!

That “1234” is from Rhythm Heaven. I don’t know whether to be sad or happy that I can tell that.

@pikksen7905

4 жыл бұрын

The Golden Carrot I mean, if you’ve played Fever it’s pretty obvious.

@chromadeline578

4 жыл бұрын

Pixel Furret Well I dunno, I feel a normal person would at least spend a few minutes thinking about where it’s from.

@pikksen7905

4 жыл бұрын

The Golden Carrot ...honestly, I probably don’t count as a normal person though

I don't really have anything to say, but that was a good video, and the most attention-retaining one I've seen in a while.

0:04 Me: lemme turn on captions real quick English captions: *I tHiNk I jUsT ApOtHeKe a pEnIs*

It's so strange seeing actual translations in the captions, now...

Everything’s chill until AK talking like Hyness from Kirby

feels wierd being able to hear him speak chinese

@cherryred6804

3 жыл бұрын

Cantonese*

Oh my gosh... I was not expecting the captions at the beginning. That was just beautiful.

This was a great video. Thank you for the history lesson.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing :D

as a sucker for regional variations especially among "non-major" (that is, not america, europe or japan) regions i loved this video. was always fixated by hong kong having both (s)nes and (super) famicom

Damn captions really helped!

Really enjoyed that video!

Thank you AK! Very Cool!

正呀喂~ 出多啲廣東話片😂 (After watching the video) Should've just spoke in Canto and properly subbed the whole video lol

Learning both world history and gaming history? That's really amazing!!

¡Buen video amigo, lo entendí bien!

Randomly stepped upon your video, nice channel you got here! #正呀喂

Hahahahaha the Wii U in HK, hilarious. Greetings from a Cantonese American Nintendo fan :) I hope you put out a full Cantonese video about Nintendo games that isn't an April Fools joke sometime!

Hey! HongKonger here. Oh wow. Never knew that NES was sold here before. (Literally i am just a minor aka 13+ lol) 多謝您de講解! (Thank you for your explaination!)

Great video! What about we should also a get a video about the history of Nintendo releases in China?

Can we just appreciate the start of the description for a second

Hong Kong's console and handheld gaming scene were pretty much all about imports and piracy from the 90's up until the 2010s when the firmware could actually by updated, which stopped a large portion of piracy. Also, online gaming became a thing. 5:20 我估超任PAL版應該係後期由歐洲版主機改過黎？睇番維基，歐版都比美版遲大半年先出，到後來有PAL機再攞佢地進口都唔出奇

@SamsonatorYTP

4 жыл бұрын

Onionion Did you forget to speak English for the second part?

Great video man!

0:39 Aww...I wanted to hear this whole episode in Cantonese. I was getting into it with, reading the subtitles and everything...

Cool video!!!

Lol, cool April fools gag. I thought it was just a normal video judging by the intro, but then you just start speaking English. Wasn’t expecting that 😂

9:34 OMG SGT FROG

Thanks subtitles

Fascinating topic to cover.

This has to be the coolest april fool's video ever

Wow!! What an interesting video! Good job on all that research! Not sure if you were ever into Sega and their consoles,but do you know anything about how they distributed the Mega Drive over there?

"Lemme show you how to scratch it."

great video i would like to see a video on the playstation & sega in hong kong

this ended up being an extremely good gaming history video!! I'm glad Honk Kong gamers got some justice in the switch era

The localization thing with the Switch also happened here in Brazil! Although my Nintendo account is from the US.

Here in brazil we use to get some chinese switch games too, they are way cheaper than the US version or even the Brazilian version, and at the end of the day is the same game with all languages supported by the game included so it's a win-win situation, and I like the typography too, it's rly cool

Strong contender for the best April fools vid ive ever seen

Quite interesting, though I do wish there was more info on Nintendo's earlier home consoles. Especially the Super Famicom as I recently acquired one, and aside from a couple of pics of the boxes there is nothing online about them.

There goes Asian Derek Alexander (HVGN/SSFF). Anyways awesome video. Judging by the content you put in the video, this imagines back before HK's fall on 2019 with conflicts descent into political madness.

fun fact: i’m cantonese, and my dad (who is cantonese) got his first console in 1986, and it was, believe it or not, the hong kong edition family computer. he was 16.

The Cantonese hooked me into the video. I was prepared for the entire thing to be that way!

I kinda laughed when you skipped over the virtual boy.

@SamsonatorYTP

4 жыл бұрын

Did you really expect it was released there though?

@Rehncohro

4 жыл бұрын

@@SamsonatorYTP I'm not surprised at all tbh.

@cst1229

3 жыл бұрын

N o .

@bewearstar9462

2 жыл бұрын

It only came out in japan 🇯🇵the usa 🇺🇲 and Canada 🇨🇦

In 2010 I bought what I thought was a "region exclusive" color DS Lite from Hong Kong on eBay. It was a matte black body with a glossy pastel pink lid- NOT the metallic pearl pink that everyone else had. The listing also said it would come with like 40 games. I don't remember what I paid but I remember thinking it had to be such a good deal for such a rare, unique variant and so many games. It was a reshell with an R4 card. But dangit, I love my weird looking DS. The touchscreen went bad so I had the internals swapped with that of a real DS so it works fine now. I keep it on display with my Pokémon merch collection, since I put a Pokémon Center sticker on the lid lol.

I actually recall seeing those burned DVDs in game stores, but not just of Wii games, but also PS3 and XBox 360 games. Thankfully, this pretty much ceased when the next gen rolled around...

Hey AK, can you visit the Hong Kong 3DS eShop in 2021? It would be a very interesting video for your 2nd channel!

終於見到你在視頻里講廣東話啦!www 本來以為你在KZread只講英語來的

thanks for actual captions lol

The English Auto Generated subtitles in the Cantonese beginning are a gem.

正呀,加油

I actually own one of those NES’s (mine says Asian Version but it has the exact same grey stripe). Essentially it was owned by friends of my grandparents who in the 80s won an NES in a competition whilst at Disneyland California, it wouldn’t work on their British PAL television so when they were in Thailand they swapped it for a local PAL version. It came with a SuperVision cartridge of Kung Fu too

Hey I know this isant a topic you do a lot about but how’s Hong Kong handling the virus? I haven’t heard anything about hk since right before this virus

This is my first time seeing this channel and i legit went to the channel to see if this dude solely spoke Cantonese

nice to see another english speaking hong kong channel

The NES & SNES era in Hong Kong is similar in Indonesia

You make valid points

I thought April Fools was cancelled

@wrmoose6542

4 жыл бұрын

@raffle baffle new horizons had bunny day but no april fools as of i know of.

They had us in the first half not gonna lie

4:54 Useless Fact unrelated to the video: Mani means hands in italian

@tibethatguy

4 жыл бұрын

It also means 'hands' and 'of the hand' in Latin.

@CanalAleblasco77

4 жыл бұрын

Useless fact too, Maní in Spanish is Peanut

@dianaloayzat4975

3 жыл бұрын

I hold my 3ds using my mani.

With the Super Famicom PAL version, can you play Japanese and PAL games ?

I have a super famicom and an original gameboy in their original boxes from hong kong that i found from a thrift store in Canada!

Did Okami HD come out in Hong Kong on physical release?

Where did you get the jingle for the GBA title card?

Does anyone know if there is still wireless hardware in the Hong Kong Japanese 3DS, and, if so, if there is a homebrew utility that re-adds the cut features?

Oh well now I guess you can do that now, as KZread has the voice channel option