I find it funny that a game where half of the characters look different only in color scheme is available for systems with monochrome displays.

@Boogie_the_cat

3 ай бұрын

I know, why did they ever think Sonic would be suitable on a mono display? Trolli Gumi Bearz

The "eastern european" music from the Sonic Jam title screen is the music from the Sonic 3 load/save screen slowed down and made into ear piercing pain

@rushhq7640

3 жыл бұрын

Hello. I know that this is old, but when you also get into a game it plays mushroom hill slowed with quite a few note in the wrong tune entirely.

Classic Ashens episode! Just want to say you've brought me immeasurable joy throughout the years. Thank you.

Well, if anything that Resident Evil game was at least TRYING. It was certainly ambitious. I mean, at least it wasn't just a generic sidescroller like what the back of the box looked like it was going to be.

@thomasjenkins7506

8 жыл бұрын

it could have been fine had they made the controls at least somewhat intuitive.

@DmitriyK12

4 жыл бұрын

🙄🙂😓😋

@DmitriyK12

4 жыл бұрын

Mortal Kombat: Senior Citizens edition ; joking aside, the frame rate and screen tearing really did need to be addressed before MK: Trilogies hit store shelves or yard sales. If only Tiger Electronics LLC waited a few years and released / made or created a newer Pocket Pro DX (coloured sprites over a larger display/screen) then it would have been a true competitor to the other handheld devices of the 1990's - 2000's...oh and if the ram was increased, and CPU/motherboard included a faster processing CPU !!!🙈☹️😰🤐😊😍😬😵😱😲

It's called Sonic Jam because Sonic moves like he is stuck in an endless ocean of coagulated jelly.

@Clarissa_Star

8 жыл бұрын

No blast processing here, sadly.

@marshallperry2446

8 жыл бұрын

There is blast processing. it processes for a few seconds if its on before you chuck it next to a cartoonist.

@eptio9849

7 жыл бұрын

i thought jelly was supposed to be coagulated

@gestaposantaclaus

7 жыл бұрын

Our jelly is what you call jam. Its not a solid.

@foxerboxer2123

7 жыл бұрын

Anubis I thought it was because Sonic's brain was mushed into a jam-like paste.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who ever had to suffer through the RE2 port on there lol

"Click here now!!" RIP annotations

@-throat-

10 ай бұрын

you think THYAT'S bad? I have a Chrome extension that actually restores annotations so you can see them again! But for some reason this video's annotations didn't get saved...

This dude is the best! This is an old video, and the comments are probably dead by now, but he cracks me up

At 1:06 when his face reflects in the screen it looks like he is wearing some kind of elephant mask, quite creepy!

@mephistosprincipium

8 жыл бұрын

the awkward moment when you see yourself in a reflection

@JR-gl1nx

7 жыл бұрын

Knut Kniffte Yes, that is why I put the word "mask" right there in my comment... Perhaps you should properly read a comment before posting your redundant, smug little replies.

@KnutKniffte

7 жыл бұрын

Alex R Thanks 4 the reply brrrrrothaaaa

@fauxcuss

7 жыл бұрын

+Knut Kniffte Why are you deleting things brrrrrothaaaa?

@levicassidy9312

6 жыл бұрын

hey it's better then the shit you millennials come up with today like phrases such as "i'm dead" wen things are funny or "it's Lit or stay Lit" wen trying to sound cool or bruh or boi wen someone makes a stupid comment and last but not least the most dumbest move i have ever seen become a thing that spread like wild fire that refuses to die out is the DAB move where it looks like your covering a sneez ...... but how we talked in the 90's is weird? hmm i think you need to look at the shit you kids do in today's age cause wow just wow LOL!!

"THERES NO SUBZERO OR SCORPION! YOU CAN'T HAVE A MORTAL KOMBAT GAME WITHOUT SUBZERO OR SCORPION!"

@Ben-in3sb

8 жыл бұрын

Maybe they were the secret characters

@Seawolf.Gaming

8 жыл бұрын

+Cat Burger my comment was a quote from AVGN, and no they were not the secret characters.

@LoponStormbased

7 жыл бұрын

I know this is a year old comment, but, they probably didn't have them cause... it's monochrome... hopefully you understand why that'd be a problem haha.

@MrSnake-dh3hu

5 жыл бұрын

Loponstorm Your comment is now also a year old, but Scorpion and Sub-Zero were included in the Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat. And no, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell them apart.

@thekungachunga4578

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, technically you can have a MK game without Scorpion or Sub Zero. It just won't be a very good one.

I was hoping to see Duke Nukem 3d as mentioned in the other video.

@15-Peter-20

2 жыл бұрын

Try retrez channel

It might have been ill-conceived but you have to agree that putting RE2 on this thing was a pretty crazy accomplishment. Id buy this just to look at that, actually.

@SK33T2000

9 жыл бұрын

Same

@BIaziken2

9 жыл бұрын

AustinofEarth too bad you wouldn't be able to see it.

@Metalfacejoel

7 жыл бұрын

It's not even the same game. There are like zero similarities outside the basic aesthetics and plot.

@hypersilver1111

7 жыл бұрын

they also somehow managed to force sonic, mortal kombat, and duke nukem onto this thing doesn't mean they work.

@meowistforlife

6 жыл бұрын

??? Look at it, yes. See, no!

Damn, congratulations. You deserve an award for such a daring, courageous lifestyle. One could only dream of the heights you've reached.

"Completely collapsed into a jerking mess" Sounds like one of my average Saturday nights.

1:06 What the hell are you wearing in that reflection? It's creepy as hell. It reminds me of the Grand high witch in "The Witches".

@wazfallout3pokey

10 жыл бұрын

That look incredibly creepy.

@Bugsaresocool

10 жыл бұрын

I'm watching at night and I think i shat my self

@wazfallout3pokey

10 жыл бұрын

Bugsaresocool It looks like he stuck a tea pot on his head.

@somekindoflandcow

9 жыл бұрын

probably the noseybonk mask

@JeanMarceaux

3 жыл бұрын

@@somekindoflandcow most certainly

Awesome video ashens, your videos are always entertains me and makes me laugh, keep up the good work

I used to have one of these when I was a kid. I left it out in a tent for an hour and the heat literately turned it demonic. It would rarely turn on and when it did, it would make really loud noises and the screen would be all messed up.

It is incredibly sad when even vintage Sonic Team can't produce workable music for your system.

Did he have a mask on or is the reflection fucking with me

GAME-COM ACTIVE !!!!

@Ccoolty

7 жыл бұрын

that's the soundbyte that plays when you enter the gates of hell.

@unwelldanny7108

5 жыл бұрын

"Grid... online."

@AAAAAAAAA403

3 жыл бұрын

GAYCOM ACTIVE!!!

Now I remember why I still used my original Game Boy from the late 80's to the late 90's. Eventually replaced by a series of Palm Pilots, though the first two were black and white, they did have a very clear screen and some pretty good games to download. We are massively spoilt for choice now.

I wonder if you could technically hook up a better screen to that.

@mustangmckraken1150

9 жыл бұрын

Bär Honigfeld There's an emulator for it, too, it doesn't look half bad on a monitor lol.

Awesome once again Mr. Ashen! Thank you! Love your videos!

Ashen's laugh near the end made my day.

02:49 Did the console just say "Fuck you"?!

@MiiMaker

8 жыл бұрын

+Flix The Soulless "Game com Fuck You" xDDDD

@istealmemories4091

8 жыл бұрын

I heard active which is what it really said but uhh I guess I can see why you would hear that

@MaximilianBrandt

6 жыл бұрын

Literally everything in this console says "fuck you", starting from the screen and ending in games.

ahhh so it was tiger who started the .com boom!

@Sb129

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, makes me think of the .Com bubble

@emolgatheelectricsquirrel6734

7 жыл бұрын

Radical Edwards it's the illuminati😱😱

@unwelldanny7108

5 жыл бұрын

That was 1995, Tiger made this in 1997.

Not even my mutated roommate with fucking lazer vision can see this screen.

@JudgementPlays

7 жыл бұрын

Kris Bailey sure

@YuukiTakemoto1996

3 жыл бұрын

Is he in the X-Men?

6 minutes in and I've lost the will to live. I commend you and your perseverance to battle through.

If you screencap at 22:31, it makes for a brilliant reaction image!

Christ! That clip at the end scared the shit out of me!

@AgentTasmania

10 жыл бұрын

I love it when he does something a bit silly and pre-planned. Spontaneity is good, but even the best improve is limited.

Cool story bro, and I must say; your ability to stay on topic is truly excellent.

That last clip is what i currently feel like on a daily basis. 6 hours of sleep sure is delightful!

So was the screen originally this bad? As he does mention it's damaged?

_"He's not my favourite hedgehog, anyway. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is my favourite hedgehog, get your facts straight!"_

@jrwizz

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf is tiggy winkle?

i loved watching this when it came out and when avgn did an episode on tiger products i thought of you and now im back here.

Ashen's I love your videos so much!

The games are actually not bad, especially considering they were all done in house by Tiger. The reason they look so bad is because of the terrible screen.

@killlannisters7195

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, and because every game runs at 5 FPS

@Holothurion

10 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Played on the emulator available, on a PC monitor, both graphics and gameplay are improved a lot. On the downside, the emulator's FPS is a tad slower than on real hardware.

@robloxmaster6816

9 жыл бұрын

If I where to put an actual LCD screen on it or Liquid Crystal Display do you think that it would display better or do you think that it's the hardware

@Holothurion

9 жыл бұрын

With a better LCD screen than the one featured on the system, the output would be more crisp and defined, and a lot less blurry (the Pocket Pro version has a slightly better display than the first model, on par with the Game Boy Pocket's, with less of a ghosting problem). Still, the machine's hardware is seriously underpowered, and the games were too ambitious for it. Considering the system's limitations, Resident Evil 2 is good, easily the best game for the console. Duke Nukem is not that bad either, but a lot of content and animations had to be cut. Both William's Arcade Classics releases are also acceptable (some of the games included are seriously affected by the screen's blurriness, though). On the other side of the scale, Mortal Kombat Trilogy has good graphics, but most of the animations consist of only two frames (easily noticeable in the fighters' stance), the AI is predictable and very easy to beat, and the gameplay is really slow. The later also applies to Sonic Jam which, of all the bunch, is also the most hurt by the screen's ghosting, with both issues rendering it almost unplayable. The rest of the library falls somewhere in-between. All of them, with no exception, present control lag to a greater or lesser degree.

@Holothurion

9 жыл бұрын

Indeed (I assume you're referring to the emulator's FPS, right?).

I stole one of these from Toys R Us when I was little.... I took it back!

@TiberianFiend

3 жыл бұрын

You should've burned it.

I actually played the heck out of a handheld of the mortal combat game that my grandma had, I can't believe I remembered that!

You made my whole year. Thanks.

0:20 "Click here now, too late now it's gone" You just had to make fun of annotations disappearing forever eight years before it happened, huh?

22:30 My reaction to most things on this internet.

@gunfuego

7 жыл бұрын

if you saw half the stuff I've seen you'd be stuck that way lol

And a surprisingly true-to-the-original sprite based recreation of Resident Evil! These are true gems.

i love your background this chair ;d PS. which year that console came out ? xd

lol @ "Sonic Jelly"

Did you know that in American supermarkets at the time of the Saturn version's release, there were actual jars of "Sonic Jam" being sold? Tails was orange flavored, Knuckles was strawberry, and I think Sonic was grape. >_>

That Sonic Jam boxart is actually from Sonic R. Weird wild stuff.

10:25 - That screenshot is from the first Resident Evil game yet Tiger used it for this game. There's also a second model Game.com which came with a built-in light I believe that has only one cartridge slot. I think that one was much better but the light it use tend to cause glare so it's not as good either way.

@VOAN

8 жыл бұрын

***** Like I said, that screenshot is from the first RE game yet Tiger used it for this game. This game was not made by Capcom.

This thing is terrible, and might be the reason *nothing* has a C and D buttons nowadays. The title should be changed to "A 'Look' at some Game.com games" Also, this is pretty irrelevant, but on the other versions of Resident Evil 2, the face that displayed in the opening cutscene was the stuff of my younger nightmares.

@Enderfreaksgames

9 жыл бұрын

***** Actually I got one from my grandma once and it worked pretty well it may have been garbage but it functioned and I had never experienced trouble seeing the screen.

@THENAMEISQUICKMAN

9 жыл бұрын

***** Neo-Geo had C and D buttons...

@bearlyismyname

8 жыл бұрын

+Shinku Quickman >nowadays

@pferreira1983

8 жыл бұрын

+Ailuri Catbear The player movements in Resident Evil 2 were more or less like the console and PC versions except slightly slower.

@SomeBlokeOrWhatever

7 жыл бұрын

A thing that doesn't often get mentioned about these old handhelds -- _Cheap LCDs are Ink Based, and they rot_. It's very likely that the GameCom wasn't _that bad_ back then. It _became blurrier_ over time and exposure to the elements.

What was that reflection?! 1:07 Looks like an elephant nose and mustache, ha

The brownness of your couch is truly epic.

I remember the commercial with the midget insulting the audience.

You thought Sonic Boom was bad? Sonic 06 being the worst Sonic game ever? Naw! Sonic Jam for Game com is the worst.

@sternleiche

9 жыл бұрын

at least the soundtrak is great

@oldemail5568

9 жыл бұрын

Well actually Sonic Jam for Game.com Did not count as a real Sega Game,It was a port so Tiger could make a few bucks.But u are true the port was crappy

@Error52QFG

9 жыл бұрын

It's a port of Sonic 1 somehow worse than the GBA version...

@duckwantbreads

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Tucker it's actually not a port, they couldn't get the whole games to work so each of the games only has 4 levels that have no resemblance to the originals other than tile sets and enemies, the final boss in Sonic 2 according to Sonic Jam for the Game.com is the very first boss of the mega drive version.

@hypersilver1111

7 жыл бұрын

I dont think they included sonic 1

I think this thing could've been half decent if they'd just put a colour backlit LCD screen on it. It would've suffered the same battery life issues as the Game Gear, but at least the games would've been playable. It actually looks like it had a fair bit of power inside it for the time.

@T3KNUG3T5

4 жыл бұрын

The SM8521 is a pretty capable CPU. It just required a arse load of programming to get things to be at a decent speed.

@AAAAAAAAA403

3 жыл бұрын

It would have helped if tiger wouldnt develop the games in house

What is this amazing state of the art contraption, where may I purchase one is it from the future? :P

The reflection in the beginning is gold

Could one modify this game system replacing the screen with a modern LCD screen to get the games to look better?

@Silver_wind_1987_

Жыл бұрын

Yes.

sadly i think this is tigers best work

@LadyBloodyWrists

9 жыл бұрын

Logan Thresher what about Furby or the robo babies and chi pets?

@tacaloking4

9 жыл бұрын

ok there best work when it comes to video games

@hexyko4850

5 жыл бұрын

They made interesting virtual pets but it seems like the rest is shite.

@AAAAAAAAA403

3 жыл бұрын

@@LadyBloodyWrists KEEP THOSE CREATURES OF HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!

Would make a great gag gift. "Sorry kids this is all daddy could afford this year"

@JacksonJacoy

8 жыл бұрын

I would take that gift. I actually want a game.com.

that T-Rex seems happy to meet the player...

"You can pretend something is happening" xD

Deadly force will be required, to see the damn screen.

i still have one of these games con consoles still boxed! :D its been stuck under my bed for 2 years, i hope to keep it that way

15:52 This music gives more of a "Michael Myers is going to kill me" vibe than a "Raptors are going to kill me" vibe....

Tiger is like the Seegson to Nintendo's Weyland Yutani.

@TestaBottleZ

7 жыл бұрын

Aric Dilbeck click the link in this guys comment to see some weird shit

the stegosaurus sounded like a pullback car dying!!!(^-^)

looking at shir like this amazes me on how far weve goe. its like the original psvita/nintendo ds

this videos over 4 years old. I remember this video coming out

"Rayden" though...

was this stuff even tested? its virtually unplayable.

@StriderOwO

7 жыл бұрын

jekblom123 The question is, was the Game.com ever tested?

@shannettgoddett9086

7 жыл бұрын

jekblom123 nope never in my prediction

@jekblom123

7 жыл бұрын

Shannett Goddett isn't that, like, law that you have to have testers though?

@Silentsam90

7 жыл бұрын

jekblom123 outside of anything to do with health and safety, not really. There's no law requiring QA, as long as you dont misrepresent your product.

i was dying for another video of yours!!!

That sonic game reminds me if you would of played sonic and he was carrying cinder blocks over his shoulders.

Can't-see-a-damned-thing-.com

19:41 - If you listen closely, you can actually hear Game.com saying, 'F@CK YOU'.

So weird getting this recommended in 2023. It's like he's not changed :) still as good as ever!

@Dahk

7 ай бұрын

This video could literally be released today and no one would realize its a decade old lol

watching this video, I can see what's on the game.com screen, along with your reflection, along with my own reflection of my own monitor

It's a glorified pop station

If you knew how to play the games it would not have been soo irritating watching this. Since some of the things you where blaming on the game/system where actually your own doing > Not saying this version of the games you showed here is not shite ( or the system itself ) just saying that.. a fair amount of misrepresentation is there..

@robloxmaster6816

9 жыл бұрын

Oh my god it's actually resident evil 2 not just some nock of with the same name

@nogidoki3325

6 жыл бұрын

did you really... just tried to defend that piece of crap in some way? lmao

WOAH! I'M DETECTING MASSIVE SARCASM LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! YOU'RE MAKING IT GO OFF THE CHARTS! :P

Ashens is the only KZreadr i could sit through a whole 22:36 worth of video

Impressive. At around 24 seconds Resident Evil 2 for gamecom is a solid contender for your list of games with the fastest game over.

The "Sonic Jelly" line absolutely slayed me.

The graphics on this system reminds me quite a lot of something you'd see on a TI graphing calculator.

I think you did a Jurassic Park Lost World blind bag that had the same image on it as the front of this games box.

I pretty much just found a Tiger Electronics "Chess and More" 8 in 1 LCD game, with a manual for every alternate language they translated it to.

nice video ashens, but somehow your voice sounds different, did you switch microphone?

Hold on... Is the Sonic Jam cover art the exact same as Sonic R's? I don't think Sega expected this to be a major hit, huh? Smart...

6m17s That was almost as good as the Mel B/Eddie Murphy gag from the Kinnect games video. Bravo sir.

They did make a Sonic Jam for the Saturn, it had a 3-D overworld and all the classic 2-D platformer Sonic games on the Mega Drive. BTW Tiger's best product was the TALK BOY! :D

The reference to The Lawnmower Man was quite apt

I’d like to see what these graphics look like on a pc screen, presumably they were designed on old massive monitors. Is it possible?

@blodguizer

3 жыл бұрын

There is an emulator available for PC.

When the "YOU DIED" part came out PFFFTTT

The Jurassic Park intro music reminded me of the Halloween theme.

I had a similar reaction as this when I discovered that Vince Vaughan is doing a Brady Bunch reboot. I know your pain, I truly do.

Why would you want to play Sonic on a Game.Com when the Game Gear was such a better choice? I had a Sega Game Gear from about 1994 up until the early 2000s and then lost it somehow while moving. I actually enjoyed playing that thing. I had Sonic and some Power Rangers game that was a one-on-one fighting game (a la Street Fighter).

i used to play this as a kid but all it brings back to me is depressing nostalgia

If I where to actually put a real screen on it like I buy an actual LCD or Liquid Crystal Display if you want to go into technical terms and then shaped them out do you think you would be able to see mortal combat as sumthing besides blurs or do you think it's just the hardware

I had one in the 90s and kept going into Argos to see how many they sold. Not many and I was a very sad child.

Is the theme music for the lost world game the theme from Halloween...?

The ending is actually terrifying