In this video I said the Atari 2600 was the first home console to use cartridges. Many people pointed out that was incorrect and the Fairchild channel F was the first home console to use cartridges. I’m sorry I’ll do better research moving forward :(

FYI, The back of the Pokémon Stadium 2 cartridge was Silver.

@lordsquid6652

8 күн бұрын

And has glitter

@Semudara

4 күн бұрын

Yup, it was a dual-color cartridge, which was so cool! I was disappointed he didn't cover that.

90's console and cartidge design was so heckin' cute and iconic that all of this stuff is going to be in museums 200 years from now.

@Gameprojordan

7 күн бұрын

It really was awesome. I'm slowly building a collection of GB/GBC/GBA era pokemon games specifically because of that. Sadly it lost that charm by the DS era; everything just started looking like SD cards.

The black Pokemon cartridges had IR for communicating with the Pokewalker, I think they definitely count. I think there were also [other] DSi-enhanced and DSi exclusive DS games with special cart colors. The DSi exclusives were a lighter gray color.

@CommanderWiggins

9 күн бұрын

The Gen 5 Pokemon games were also translucent for IR capabilities, since you could use IR to trade with people. Which I don't blame anyone for not knowing because it's such an obscure feature.

Brief sidenote: The first console to introduce cartidges for its games wasn't the 2600, but the Fairchild Channel F, though it's true that it was the 2600 that made cartridges popular.

I like that homebrew and rom hack and reproduction developers have continued this trend of colorful or themed carts.

There's plenty of colored cartridges for the Atari 2600. Possibly the rarest of all is "Air Raid" and it happens to be a sky blue color and even has a handle. Tiger Electronics made games for the system and their cartridges were different colors. For example, "Jawbreaker" was bright red and "King Kong" was a light blue (both tiger games).

If I remember correctly, Pokemon Stadium Gold and Silver was only half gold. The back half was silver.

@Jacks_game_room

18 күн бұрын

Oh yeah you’re right! Forgot to mention that.

@Gameprojordan

7 күн бұрын

Yum I'm looking at my stadium 2 cartridge right now lol

Blue famicom disk were for competition. You would take the disk to a kiosk with your high score to see if you had a score high enough to win different prizes.

I always thought the red color for maximum carnage was because a)Carnage and b) the games tagline in advertisements was, "Paint the town red!"

Topsy Turvy is dual molded. It has Green on the front and white on the back.

I was always fascinated by alternative color cartridges. I'm sad the switch era hasn't brought them back. Hopefully the switch 2 brings the rare alternative coloring back

Nice job on this video, I liked it quite a bit! Hope it reaches more people. The Famicom cartridge- rainbow is honestly pretty sick.

@Jacks_game_room

24 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! :D

You actually can have colored CDs; not just in the label on top, but the dye on the bottom can be colored certain things. It's pretty cool.

Your humour and video style is genuinely like Scott The Woz and that’s why I love it

@Jacks_game_room

22 күн бұрын

Thank you! Scott’s videos are a big inspiration for my work

air raid on the 2600 had a baby blue cartridge

The video was a real fun watch, Can't believe this amount of quality is from a channel of only 20 subscribers.... Oops... 21 subscribers now ;)

@Jacks_game_room

23 күн бұрын

Aww thanks! :D

You missed boktai 1 to 3 cartridges that used solar panels for gameplay

@2yoyoyo1Unplugged

13 күн бұрын

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@Masupups

10 күн бұрын

Nice call, glad some of us are still out here

@zachtwilightwindwaker596

7 күн бұрын

I had to mod my rom in order to play it.

2:42 Tbh, the deadpan, monotone feel your voice gives off describes actually how I feel about NES World Championships on Switch lol

The DS cartridges for Pokemon Heartgold/Soulsilver (as well as Black/White/Black 2/White 2) are actually a dark transparent red and not a darker grey, because they have an IR sensor in the cartridge. As far as other fun facts about colored cartridges, I actually made a "custom" Pokemon Stadium that's half Red and half Blue to match Stadium 2 being half gold half silver. 👍

@Jacks_game_room

11 күн бұрын

Oh that red and blue cartridge sounds so cool!

The gold GBA Camera was also different internally - it had Zelda stamps to put on photos. Edit: Pokemon Stadium 2 wasn't a gold cartridge, it was a gold and silver cartridge (the back half was silver.)

Its funny cause the comic version of maximum carnage had doom amounts of violence but they couldnt just make an m rated spider-man game lol

The first home console to use cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F, a year before the Atari 2600 Funnily enough, if I remember correctly, it had bright yellow cartridges

@Jacks_game_room

24 күн бұрын

Oh cool, thanks for telling me. I’ve never heard of it before lol

I believe we are supposed to call them cartridges of color now.

Tony hawk pro skater had a blue cartridge. Its sequel was yellow.

Tbh I missed when Nintendo had colour in general. The N64, gameboy colour, gba, even the DS have a varity of colour but today most of the colours are limited to special releases of consoles or games; not the normality. Same with a lot of things today; for a really long time I saw cars only come in greyscale locally and colours like red, blue and green were rare. There are a few more now but it was scary that for around 3-4 years there was just nothing. If Nintendo sold the nintendo switch in colours like red, blue, green, yellow, purple, etc.. on release it would definitely sell even more than it already has. Especially with xbox and playstation stuck on that black design (or black and white with those fins).

@Jacks_game_room

16 күн бұрын

You’re so right. I remember when the switch first came out I wanted a blue left and right joycons. I thought it would be a matter of time. But here we are at the console’s end and we have like what, 7 joycon colors. Hopefully their next console will embrace color.

I consider the cases of the games to be the cartridges when it comes to disc based games so for example when you see a red Wii game you know it's a Mario game. They never made a gold plastic case for a Zelda game though and Breath of the Wild doesn't come on a gold cartridge for the Switch sadly.

There definitely was something sort of cool and special about the colored games especially the gold zelda carts

Pretty good video Jack, I enjoyed how well researched and presented it is, I really want pick up some red colored cartridges, there’s something crazy about them, they make the games faster for sure 😂

@Jacks_game_room

2 күн бұрын

Thanks! :)

My cousin’s friend has a Zelda cartridge that’s grey like a regular NES cartridge

Would have been neat if N64 Spiderman was a hybrid of red and blue. They had the pieces to do so.

I keep forgetting how expensive Pokemon Emerald is. I have one in really good condition, minus the battery being shot. If I'm ever out of a job for a month I know what I'm doing.

0:54 the first game console to use cartridges was actually the Fairchild Channel F

I think the coolest one you missed was that Japan got a totally unique yellow rumble cartridge for Pokémon Pinball. It's yellow like Pikachu!

as an active colored cartridge collecter i love this

@Jacks_game_room

14 күн бұрын

Thank you! :)

The best game boxes are the Wii U ones. That light blue color just hits different

Hey! Nice video! I remember seeing colored cartridges and thinking "uau! these are special!" If you don't mind me correcting something: 0:54 the first home console to use cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F. Great story behind that console and its creator! You should look it up! 😉 Keep up the great work!

@Jacks_game_room

20 күн бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I’ve been told a lot about the channel F since I made the video, dumb mistake on my part.

@CronicasVideojogos

20 күн бұрын

Oh man, don't worry about it. It was never a well known console, it's easy to forget about it. But once you search about it you never forget the Channel Fun. 😁 But the rest of the video is good! Nice theme. 🙂

@Jacks_game_room

20 күн бұрын

@@CronicasVideojogos thanks again! :)

nice vid, I like how you have the gameplay in the background

@Jacks_game_room

19 күн бұрын

Thank you! :D

Great video! Definitely something I had noticed about cartridge games but never thought to look into why some were certain colors. Now I am going to hold on to the slimmest of hope that the Switch gets a random colored cartridge.

@Jacks_game_room

24 күн бұрын

A scarlet and violet cartridge would’ve been perfect for Pokemon.

on the note of ds releases, black 2 and white 2 had a pure black housing instead of the dark grey usually seen on ds games

The pokemon stadium 2 cartridge was gold in the front and silver in the back

#BringBackColoredCartridges

I wonder if anyone saw a yellow Gameboy cartridge thinking it was the Pokémon Pikachu (might have spelled that wrong) game but it turned out to be one of the Donkey Kong Land games

The acceptable name is "cartridges of color".

The DS Pokémon cartridges for Pokémon Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Black, White, Black 2, and White 2 are not dark grey or black. They are translucent dark red. Hold them up to a light and if you can see red in the cartridge it is an original cart. If you can’t it’s a pirates copy

Star Wars: Battle for Naboo on the N64 had a yellow cartridge. Majora's Mask had a gold cartridge for some releases. Rayman 2 on N64 had a green cartridge.

@Jacks_game_room

18 күн бұрын

Rayman 2’s green cartridge is one of my favorites.

I miss the days where i was the coolest kid on the block having super smash bros anf Majora's mask holographic edition My friends would come over and play all the time,then i grew up now its just me playing these games 🎮 its not 2002 anymore lol

I think there was at least one orange cartridge for n64

loved this video!!!! hope you make a video about disc art and when they made those shiny discs with shades of color

personal trainer walking and pokemon typing adventure also had black cartridges! i imagine they all are black because they come with bluetooth functionality inside the carts themselves (pkmn hgss had a pokewalker, personal trainer walking had two podometers and pokemon typing adventure had a whole keyboard)

@m2pt5

18 күн бұрын

Pokemon HG/SS didn't have bluetooth, they had infrared for the pokewalker.

@tinathecyclopsgirl

18 күн бұрын

@@m2pt5 ty for clarifying 🙏

I have a game called Big Nose The Caveman and it was a bootleg cartridge by the Camerica (might have spelled that wrong) company and it’s gold

nice. ive been at work. nice to see uploads when i got back :D

Only the front if the pokemon stadium 2 cartridge was gold, the back half was silver, matching the 2 gb carts

Is it irony that they showed one of the supreme examples of Super Game Boy colorization as the example for having no color data @4:07?

@Jacks_game_room

13 күн бұрын

Haha yeah I guess it is!

The blue disk system disks were simply the later ones in production, with the cover on the tape window ;)

Donkey Kong for Atari was off white.

Nice video dude 👍

@Jacks_game_room

9 күн бұрын

Thank you! :)

Sadly, Europe missed out on gold carts for N64 Zelda titles. Maybe that’s why our box art was black instead of gold for OOT.

@Jacks_game_room

20 күн бұрын

Not all American carts were gold either. There’s plenty of standard grey ocarina of times, mine is. All majora’s masks were gold except for the not for resale variants.

@belstar1128

13 күн бұрын

Nintendo really hated Europe or really any country apart from japan and the usa

I always wondered why some game cartridges were not in different colors besides the Famicom, SNES, N64, or Gameboy systems. I believe they should've made every game cartridge a different color. Like the Super Mario Bros trilogy. Make the 1st game red, 2nd blue and 3rd yellow.

@Jacks_game_room

13 күн бұрын

That’s a good idea!

I think zelda was gold for cartridges was because of the tri force.

Bro the blue border is encroaching on this channel too, somebody get that man out of there

Going back to gba pokemon... japan released a pokemon green.

4:11 those games didn’t work on all handhelds they didn’t work on the DS

I'm going to call BS on that emerald cartridge at the end of the video back in 2020 or 2021 I sold my copy of emerald for $60

You say black colored GB cartridges add color when played off a GBC, but I own 2 early era grey GB cartridges (Mario Land 1 from '89, and Kirby's Dreamland from '92) and they both add an albeit extremely basic color palette (black, white, pinkish red, faded blue) when played off my GBA/SP

@Jacks_game_room

7 күн бұрын

The gameboy color does give all original gameboy games color but the games were not programmed with color so the GBC just swaps between random color palettes. You can actually change the color palette with button combinations on the start up screen!

Another colored Gameboy cart is the Japanese version of Pokemon pinball, it's half yellow half black and the battery cover is black as well, also I thought hg/ss and black and white and their sequels were colored differently because they were meant to work with better on the DSI because of increased internet connectivity? But I'm probably wrong cause I can't think of any other carts that have that color

@Jacks_game_room

19 күн бұрын

Oh the Japanese Pokemon pinball is so cool! Also you’re probably right about the DS Pokemon games.

Daffy Duck goes to Hollywood on Sega Genesis has a grey cartridge and case variant exclusive to Australia

Doesn't Pokemon Stadium 2 have silver on the back side?

good stuff!

The word cartridge refers to the housing around the media. Floppy discs are cartridges because of the plastic case around the internal disc.

@Jacks_game_room

20 күн бұрын

Oh that makes sense. Honestly I just wanted an excuse to talk about the famicom disc system lol

@todesziege

7 күн бұрын

They're not ROM cartridges though.

0:54 erm, actually, *COUGH COUGH* channel F

@Jacks_game_room

20 күн бұрын

Haha yeah I was very wrong on that

UNDERRATED AS FRICK!!!!

@Jacks_game_room

19 күн бұрын

Thank you so much :D

Just fyi poltically correct name is african-american cartidges

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Wasn't there a Bible game on NES in a Baby Blue Color? I think the AVGN had it. 6:41 FUCK THAT! 8:54 GASP! That's why I emulate them.

@Jacks_game_room

7 күн бұрын

Yeah the blue one is more common to my knowledge

Good idea for a video

@Jacks_game_room

18 күн бұрын

Thank you! :)

I didn’t know about not being able to watch GBA movies on Gamcube, I never owned one of the movies myself but I had the player. That’s pretty silly you can’t haha.

@nutmegthedog6907

20 күн бұрын

One other thing, I was expecting you to go into Turok Rage Wars NTSC grey cart in the vid. I’m guessing you do know about it, but If you don’t know about it give it a search.

@Jacks_game_room

20 күн бұрын

I believe the reason the GBA movies don’t work is that either Nintendo or whoever made the movies worried that people would record them on a VCR and return them. But I doubt there was ever much of a black market for SpongeBob episodes in the worst quality possible lol

Colored huh

0:52 ! Do some more research man, the fairchild was the first home console that used carts.

Come to beazil

My LoZ OoT cart isn't gold :'-(

@Jacks_game_room

13 күн бұрын

neither is mine! :(

@mRahman92

13 күн бұрын

@@Jacks_game_room cue the obligatory scene from Austin Powers Gold Member where that Dutch guy says something.

how old are you, young man?

@PabloJunior-ot6mv

5 күн бұрын

bro what kind of question is this lol

@PabloJunior-ot6mv

5 күн бұрын

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@PabloJunior-ot6mv

5 күн бұрын

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@PabloJunior-ot6mv

5 күн бұрын

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@PabloJunior-ot6mv

5 күн бұрын

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interesting video premise. consider yourself subscribed to

@Jacks_game_room

18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! :D

Come to brasil

Look on the bright side. Maximum Carnage isn’t a steaming pile of fucking shit

Be more pc. Say "cartridges of color" instead.

I'm not sure how you're defining your temporal constraints here, but cartridges with special colors haven't really gone away as much as they've become as niche as physical releases on cartridges have become. That is, they usually have a small, limited release. Limited Run Games, for instance, frequently releases physical versions of games both new and old in colorful editions alongside standard-color carts. A translucent purple Gameboy Advance cartridge for WayForward's Shantae: Risky Revolution is being released relatively soon through them. I think they might make the special carts both to eek out more cash from collectors and as a means to differentiate their carts from old, official releases. As you said, to "stand out." Decent video. I would have liked to have heard more elaboration on which N64 games were released under which colors beyond what you mentioned.

litearlly naything but pokemon is cheap lol