Game.com Review
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Nintendo's Gameboy may have cornered the portable gaming market in the early nineties, but that didn't stop Tiger Electronics trying to nab a piece of the pie.
By combining a touchscreen with a huge unwieldy case and woefully underpowered hardware, they created the Game.com! Which is pronounced "Game com" as the dot is silent for some reason.
Several high-profile games were ported over to the Game.com, including Resident Evil and Duke Nukem. There's even a version of the fairly obscure Sega game Fighters Megamix. All of them ended up as semi-playable messes.
Excitingly, the Game.com ramps up the excitement of action games by using its unique hardware to add motion blur to moving graphics! Which is a lie advertisers may have come up with to try and gloss over the fact that the screen is almost useless.
An modem attachment was made to allow the Game.com to access the internet. It was text only. You can imagine how well that worked, particularly as the manual gave wrong instructions for setting it up...
Пікірлер: 1 900
"One of the major problems with the Game•Com..." _-"oah"_
As a kid I knew nothing about video games. I really wanted one of these after seeing the ad on TV. The man working in the shop advised I get a Gameboy instead. There are some good people in the world :-D
Man I busted out laughing when I heard the Batman damage sound effect!
@swaghetta6032
9 жыл бұрын
It's not damage sound effect. It's Batgasm :D
@steelvenom330
9 жыл бұрын
Every time Batman gets hit, it sounds like he just got done taking a massive dump.
@MNanme1z4xs
9 жыл бұрын
Kasa KANAL I luv how kid's game turned out to be 18+ by design issue :D
@swaghetta6032
9 жыл бұрын
MNanme1z4xs Maybe it was meant to be an "issue"
@MNanme1z4xs
9 жыл бұрын
Kasa KANAL exactly because how else can they sell this game?
"Ah!Ah!" - Batman
@danellacullen4401
10 жыл бұрын
Words to live by! Never forget...
@EpicFichti
10 жыл бұрын
Amen!
@westy229
9 жыл бұрын
***** AH
@marksteel4489
7 жыл бұрын
TheThomasTT I
@lescitrons
7 жыл бұрын
I literally died of laughter when I heard this.
I love the start up, "gamecom, fuck you"
@FurbyMan
9 жыл бұрын
DjClayface "gamecom active"...
@blankbacon9931
9 жыл бұрын
Furby Man Shhhh dont ruin the comedy
@ravenknightvincent2722
9 жыл бұрын
Furby Man Doesn't sound like it though
@demir7920
8 жыл бұрын
LOL FUNNY
@owlxprss3688
8 жыл бұрын
+DjClayface Explains why only that kid that lives in the bush in your backyard owns one.
OMG I died when 'batman orgasm' happened......
@TheLarryburns84
8 жыл бұрын
"AUUUUUHHH" -Batman
@megabojan1993
8 жыл бұрын
+老刘 Batman can't stop orgasming at 15:08 and that's why Ashen switches off his game.com :))))))))
@andreww1212
8 жыл бұрын
+老刘 I had the Game.com and the game when I was a kid. Once my teacher looked over and said "what is that?!"
@KevTheGalaxybender
8 жыл бұрын
I almost pissed my pants lmao
@JustinJTime
8 жыл бұрын
He must be doing Robin in the Batcave.
Batman was about to climax before you turned it off.
@leothefox9524
3 жыл бұрын
I shit myself reading this xDd
@Boogie_the_cat
4 ай бұрын
He didn't want to get demonetized.
I'm always fascinated by how technology reaches mainstream appeal, which I increasingly realize is not about who did what first. If you had told me there was a handheld console in 1997 with internet access and a touch screen, I would have been completely amazed. But when you look at the console itself, you realize that those features mean nothing unless you can use them meaningfully.
@Coldcasereview
Жыл бұрын
I think the first Nokia communicator was out in 1997?
"Basically, AHone of the many AHhardware flaws of the gamecom AHwasAH the screen. You can't see AHwhat theAH hell is happening. AHI can't AHseem to controlAH anything. It's just a AHblurry mess AHand AHughAH AH AH" I am dying of laughter xD
@FanosSlapVt
5 жыл бұрын
14:56
@Turnbull50
4 жыл бұрын
GrimmyReaper why all the AH what’s the point of that please.
@jordirapper
4 жыл бұрын
@@Turnbull50 check previous reply
@David315842
4 жыл бұрын
@@Turnbull50 Batman orgasm sound effect, LOL.
@velvetpilot2008
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite part
I've been in hell, and I can confirm that the music from Lights Out is definitely the elevator music.
@AquaFan1998
6 жыл бұрын
Toxfrot i bet it stops on every floor with no one getting in for the 666 floors
@Boogie_the_cat
4 ай бұрын
Why does hell have an elevator? I'd think it would be more punishing if you had to walk up or down stairs. Elevators are pretty posh. I don't even have one in my hell house.
i NEED a 10 hour loop of that batman damage sound
@mortindurrex
8 жыл бұрын
*insert lennyface here*
@sodaddict
7 жыл бұрын
I have a loop of it on my SoundCloud, hit the loop button and enjoy: soundcloud.com/sodaddict/mystery-box-3
@LiviuDragon
7 жыл бұрын
TremendousPuppy funny
@fauxcuss
7 жыл бұрын
+TremendousPuppy that is beautiful.
@felagoncalves
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah... while some people need other stuff in order to feel fulfilled, we need Batman being damaged
That batman game. Between the whip cracking noise and the cries of pain/ pleasure... better use headphones. ///U_U///
@StriderOwO
7 жыл бұрын
ICUSeriously Close your eyes and enjoy... "Whopsh. Unh!. Whopsh. Unh! Whopsh. UNH!"
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
Now imagine Cyborg making those sounds
@speedweed683
4 жыл бұрын
Pleasure Island the game
"this is the music that plays on the elevator down" my favourite quote of yours yet
@Pillowcase
9 жыл бұрын
pillowcase1 the quote is at 10:21 btw
lmao. "that's called maths... or, math, if you're american, 'cause you're only allowed to have one over there due to a budget deficit or something."
@Boogie_the_cat
4 ай бұрын
I'm happy with one math. I would be happier with 0% math because numbers are for Plato and his freaks. Euro-Britian can have all the maths they want. I'm just surprised they didn't call it "mathz" with a zed. Because Heinz baked beans in England are called Heinz baked beanZ for some reason. Possibly they are not real beans.
@samholdsworth420
2 ай бұрын
UK is a shit hole
"if you die and go to hell this is the music they play in the elevator." IM DYIN
@Assassin026
8 жыл бұрын
oh shit waddup
@negativespace3233
8 жыл бұрын
+Annoying Doggo here come dat bad time
@Torvinoid
8 жыл бұрын
+Bold and Brash More like belongs in the trash!
@Assassin026
8 жыл бұрын
Takachi Roichi BOOM ROASTED
@Mush253
8 жыл бұрын
Sorry, I missed one.
I've never heard LESS Batman-ey music in all my days! And I watched Adam West reruns on sky as a kid!
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
holy dissonance, batman
*Looks at the modem port* I don't believe it myself. Imagine reading your email on this thing. And you'd have to hook it up to a modem so you couldn't leave your house anyways. Why not just use a computer? - AVGN
@thekungachunga4578
8 жыл бұрын
The only reason I could possibly think of to use this thing to look at my e-mail on it is if I had an e-mail from a drug dealer and I didn't want the government to know what I'm doing. They would just see that I'm using a Gamecom and say " Ah, he's just got one of those ass rocks, who gives a shit?" Then again I do have TOR...
@Zellio2011
8 жыл бұрын
+Violent Sparkle Eh, what if you were at a friends house? Also, those 90's pcs took forever to boot. If the game.com just let you check email fast, it would've been like a modern cell phone. But tiger fucked that up too.
@brandonglover8434
7 жыл бұрын
best comment ever
@JaredConnell
4 жыл бұрын
@@thekungachunga4578 gamecom opsec > tails + tor
@YuukiTakemoto1996
3 жыл бұрын
At least it served one purpose: teaching me how to spell. No joke, my dad owned one with the Internet modem and he would make me type the words into the search bar. I was 1.
"Everytime batman gets hit he sounds like he just got done taking a big dump" - AVGN
Nearly a decade old but still watchable. You have no idea how rare this is on KZread.
@2sdays
Жыл бұрын
what do you mean.. you cant watch any old videos?
@junkyardwulf2874
Жыл бұрын
@@2sdays He means that most gaming video review channels from that long ago have aged terribly (In that they are cringey and embarassing or awkward, or a rip off of AVGN)
@2sdays
Жыл бұрын
@@junkyardwulf2874 i haven't found one older review video i've found 'cringey' or embarassing, that's a zoomer concept
@jimmyhopkins1
Жыл бұрын
@@2sdays alot of the videos back then were incredibly amateurish as compared to what we watch now . KZread was filled with people just using their family cheapo camcorder to record various things while charming and fantastic for the time these days many may find it hard to sit through . Ashens is an outilier
@2sdays
Жыл бұрын
@@jimmyhopkins1 i could understand not wanting to watch some guy record his tv and ramble for 15 minutes, but that was a minority of videos. a lot of them were very concise and unlike today weren't blasted with sponsors and done purely for monetary gain
Best line? "If you die and go to Hell, this is the music that plays in the elevator on the way down."
The original DS had a slot for GBA Cartridges & DS card slot.
@Jay-uu5lu
6 жыл бұрын
Tonks Moriarty so did the ds lite
@Boogie_the_cat
4 ай бұрын
This last Christmas when I was walking around looking at Christmas lights, I pooped a little bit in my pants. I felt I should share that, since we are clearly in non sequitur territory with this comment. Farkle. Bizznutz Jinjo tastic Frojgle-sqez Biollante (that's a Godzilla villain)
Batgasm
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
Better than the Bat Credit Card?
@karlsebastiansollenhag8802
4 жыл бұрын
Batman likes fighting crime a bit too much...
Well I certainly wouldn't play that batman game in public as it might give wrong picture to other people as they would be wondering "what porn game is that pervert playing"...
@truegamursnetwork4678
10 жыл бұрын
Hero my friend made that mistake everyone was staring at him lol
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
It really doesn't sound like Batman orgasming to me. Now, if it were Cyborg making those sounds, I probably would think it sounded like orgasming.
omg batman's sound effect is amazing lol. imagine having that on a loop as a ringtone or something lol
I've never seen a man get even pretend excited over built-in solitaire
You are the most sarcastic person I’ve ever heard or seen in my life, and by sarcastic, I mean amazing
The Tapwave Zodiac had dual "game" slots in 2003 but they were actually just SD card slots
Tried playing Resident Evil 2 on this, cutting off my thumbs seemed like a good idea after a few minutes of playing
15:08 lmfao!!! I'm dying. sounds like someone is backdooring batman lmao!
It's pretty much the bottom screen of the original DS. You know, the fat chunky one. Only not in colour and not... you know... good.
i didnt know batman was a masochist.
" Yes, there'll be stomach-churning action, thats the blur from the screen... " That made me cry from laughter.
I remember having one of these, with the official Batman and Robin game. It was about as good as the movie itself.
You knowledge of Fighters Megamix is spot-on (aside from the gaffe about Janet). Good stuff. There's also another version of Bahn (Ura Bahn), Bean and Bark from Sonic The Fighters, an inflatable bear (I think that's what it was) called "Kumachan", a Mexican jumping bean called "Deku", and the game also had a playable version of the AM2 palm tree and a big slab of meat on two legs if you were real diligent about poking around.
batman gets fisted news at eleven.
15:08 is still one of my favorite Ashens moments.
The DS has 2 cartridge slots.
@Liamthewaldo
3 жыл бұрын
No it has 1 ds slot and 1 gba slot
@thisismyname5657
3 жыл бұрын
@@Liamthewaldo Both of which cartridges go in.
that lights out title screen music actually sounds pretty catchy haha :)
man oh man this thing was ahead of its time (for a little while) and it got supported by some good games and devs. If it had a backlight and color, and right off the bat, i wonder how far it would have gone.... it would have sold wayyy better
I used to get those stupid Tiger handheld games when I was a kid. In retrospect I really should have just gotten a Gameboy.
@andymadden8183
5 жыл бұрын
*Game Boy
@snapcountersteer
4 жыл бұрын
*game.boy
I'm reminded of Hotline Miami when I look at "Phone Book"
"Ah!" - Batman
I used to have one of those handheld lights-out things. I imagine it would have been a lot of fun, but since I was young, impatient, and stupid, I just pressed the buttons a lot and pretended I was controlling a starship or something...
Robins' "throwing birds" are actually called Wingdings, no idea why they're called throwing birds in this game.
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
Nope. What he throws are Birdarangs.
@patrickmccutcheon8860
7 ай бұрын
Wingdings is worse
"If you die and go to Hell, this is the music that plays in the elevator on the way down." LMAO!
"if you die and go to hell, this is the music that will play in the elevator on the way down" LOL!
i had this back in the day and the battery was so short you couldn't even get to the end of batman level 3 before it died
Dr Ashens' DJ impression was so accurate, he even peaked his mike mid-sentence.
I used to have one of these when I was a kid. The Batman and Robin music took me back, oh the pain.
My favorite was the startup (6:25 and 19:27). I finally get to hear it without the audio being warped slightly!
To the Fapmobile...let's go!
the original ds had two slots, one for a gameboy game and one for a ds game
@IvanovIvanAKrutoi
9 жыл бұрын
Enderknight27 So did the DS Lite.
@y2kaybug
9 жыл бұрын
Ivan Simpson No shit.
@y2kaybug
9 жыл бұрын
***** I wasn't trying to be. all I said was no shit.
@caco2532
9 жыл бұрын
Ivan Simpson Damn, beat me by a month!
@Niaroth
9 жыл бұрын
Enderknight27 I think he meant two of the same slots
14:34 is where the fun starts! "Aah! Aah--Aah!"
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
13:50 is where Batman's moan on the Game Com starts.
Hey Stuart. Just a bit of trivia regarding cartridge slots; I'm not sure if they were technically cartridges, rather than disks, but the Cambridge Z88 had slits for no fewer than 4 'cartridges' to be inserted at once. My father wrote most of the code for that device, so I grew up with one as my own personal computer.
Fun fact, Candy in Fighting Vipers was actually to be included in Sonic Championship/Sonic the Fighters, but as a mobian cat named Honey. Look her up. It's real. She was scrapped, but brought back in the PS3/360 ports
22:55 "A fighting game, unless you choose Janet, then you can just shoot the opponent to death" Why does that description remind me of LEGO Racers?
hahaha i got a big kick out of the discovery that the calendar is literally just a calendar
Oh Tiger Electronics. I'd say "nice try" but I don't want to lie to you.
"this thing sucks more than a professional ass sucker" LMAO
I can't believe Tiger actually made a handheld game console that would compete with the Nintendo Game Boy. And I remember seeing the Gamecom commercial where that dude is insulting the public. "it plays more games than you idiots have brain cells". That's what he said on the commercial.
I lost it when he said about the lights out elevator music.
I still have no idea why i keep watching Ashens videos... they are just... mesmerizing
Wow this brought back some lost memories...totally forgot i used to have this when i lived in Pinner! Thanks man haha
2:32 Heres a sad story about my first time with the gameboy pocket. I went to flea market one day and they had a small store full of retro games and consoles, i laid my eye on the only gameboy pocket they had (It was the same color btw). I decided to spend $28 in total for the handheld as well as a copy of Kirby's Dream Land. Once I stepped outside, I got excited and turned on the power. Nothing but a black vertical line appeared. I tried turning on the power with and without the cartridge but I still got the same result. So I returned it saying how they sold me a defective handheld. They apologized and gave me a gba instead for free.
15:07 "uhh uhh uhh uhh" LOL
@HavenMarches
8 жыл бұрын
totally me every time my middle school teacher says something
Honestly batman's "ugh" sounds more like he got a wrong order at Mc Donalds then he got hit by someone. Maybe they grabbed a intern and told him to go "ugh" and he just begrudgingly did it as quick as possible to get back to his desk.
@AgentTasmania
7 жыл бұрын
GrandCorsair no, that's too much work and quality for anything associated with Tiger
lol tone of voice when you go "tell you what you can do, your fucking job" love it
I got given this by my father, along with a Jurassic Park game. I returned to my old brick gameboy, and never went back.
"That's called 'maths'. Or 'math' if you're American, because you're only allowed to have one over there."
@QuakeEntertainment
8 жыл бұрын
Americans can't handle more than one. Just kidding :)
@feli3235
8 жыл бұрын
+Kvejk Entrtejnmnt no it's true we can't lmao
@levicassidy9312
7 жыл бұрын
but maths does not make sense math does soooooooo
@CPS2
6 жыл бұрын
Levi Cassidy Your complete lack of punctuation doesn't make sense.
"Aaaah! Aaaah! Aaaah!"
Oh, the day Ashens reviews the Leapster...
AVGN: "Everytime Batman gets a hit he sounds like he was just done taking a big dump."
I waited for 6hrs when this first came out game traders wouldn't even take it for £1.00 even though I paid about £168.99
"He sounds like a bad 70's porno."
"Everytime Batman is hit, he orgasms." Just like the real Batman.
Holy shit I had one of these way back then! I was just cruising around your videos and then stumbled into this. My favourite game back then was RE2, but I didn't own a lot of games, just a handful. It was pretty neat though at the time.
I've had one of these with the optional modem. Granted, it was only text but I could check my HoTMaiL account from a hotel. I felt like a baws. The only thing I never liked was the lack of a backlight. But hey, it was 1997...
i cried till i laughted duiring the batman part
@krymal2991
8 жыл бұрын
+VanillaSnake21 but there is no sound
@VanillaSnake21
8 жыл бұрын
Thomas Pavlick I hear sound, I think your speakers are off
@VanillaSnake21
8 жыл бұрын
Thomas Pavlick can't be, there's no music in the background. They can't copyright a sound. I think it's your device.
@krymal2991
8 жыл бұрын
+VanillaSnake21 i had some errors with my web browser errors fixed :D
@VanillaSnake21
8 жыл бұрын
Thomas Pavlick ok, great. Wasn't that groan hilarious?
"BUILT IN SOLITAIRE!" *shakes box violently*
I'll just write a famous quote while I'm here. "Every time Batman gets hit, it sounds like he just got done taking a big dump."
14:13 - "Eat punch, Evilton"?
@Kristoph_Gavin
3 жыл бұрын
This is the second comment I've seen that where the comment was made before you could click the time stamp..
@antiscp1087
3 жыл бұрын
14:13
I remember when this first came out. I wanted it SOOOOO bad that I got one for Christmas when they had a price drop (from fifty bucks to five dollars) I also had a bunch of games, though Duke Nukem and Solitare were the only two worth while games.
I'm just constantly thinking of Tyger Security from the Batman Arkham series! XD
@unwelldanny7108
5 жыл бұрын
14:34
@Kuraime hmm your right how could I be so blind, well either way you slice it he does beat up alot of people O_o
@squidiskool
3 жыл бұрын
ooo
The game.com...I remember this...this thing was going to be the next best thing to warm bread and butter. There even were Screenshots of a Symphony of the Night Port for this Thing - to bad it never got released and the Unit failed.
As soon as they wrote 'have fun!' down, I can imagine the writer just having a troll face.
Rocky horror reference, lol. Damn it Janet!!!
@LadyBloodyWrists
9 жыл бұрын
You got it too! I giggled in that part
Batmans last words: Uhuhuhuh.. WTF xD Btw, what does it say when you start the mashine? "Game come, fuck you" O.o
I believe the only good game on this thing is sonic jam.
Actually, Tiger was bought by Hasbro. You remember the Furby? Yeah, that was all Tiger Electronics. Even after being absorbed by a larger company, they still trolled the toy world.
The sound that played once you opened the calculator reminded me of Kraftwerk's Die Roboter.
"Imagine reading your email on this thing. You'd have to hook it up to a modem so you couldnt leave your house anyway! Why not just use a computer?!" - AVGN
Did anyone notice in the last game that every time you punch or kick the background music suddenly gets interrupted by the sound effects? Quite annoying if you ask me
@Aconcernedrifleman
9 жыл бұрын
Mer Feraine I don't think the system can handle bot the SFX and the BGM at the same time, which puts in on par with the rest of Tiger's products.
@krymal2991
8 жыл бұрын
+Mer Feraine theres no sound in the video
@LadyBloodyWrists
8 жыл бұрын
Thomas Pavlick huh?
@spartanfoxie
8 жыл бұрын
+Aconcernedrifleman neither could most handelds even the gameboy had trouble with it since the synthesizer chip can only play one of the same types of noises at a time playing pokemon and constantly running into a wall in lavender town was the most effective way of showing it since it turns it from a creepy song into a bunch of random beeps
@maxxdblade that's beside the point. It has "two cartridge slots".
7:37 Actually, that's very similar to the title screen in the Sims 3 DS
You need to get ahold of a Pixter or a Pixter color. This reminded me of on, tho the Pixter was usually used for drawing I do remember there being games, I had a spongebob one. The touch screen was the only way to control anything tho lol. There was another game I had but I can't quiet remember what it was
It is crazy that they had planned a version of Castlevania Symphony of the Night for this device O_o
@unwelldanny7108
4 жыл бұрын
I would play it!
Wow, I remember this, I had this when I was a kid and didn't know any better!
When Batman is hurt it sounds like he got done taking a heavy shit
I like how the manual for the fighting game tells you what food the characters like and dislike. How is that relevant?
@YuukiTakemoto1996
3 жыл бұрын
Japanese culture, my friend.