What kind of world do we live in when a flooring company can't make a decent handheld gaming console?

@GreatSageSunWukong

6 жыл бұрын

Roadstar1602 I don't know a company that made playing cards did pretty good, as did a company that makes theme park rides, one that made PC operating systems and one that made TVs and audio players

@rcmero

6 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind that according to my sources this was competing with the N-Gage of all things. At least that thing let you make phone calls.

@jessjudd

6 жыл бұрын

Roadstar1602 Even the Connecticut Leather Company was able to sell a few million ColecoVision consoles. How times have changed.

@strangevision99

5 жыл бұрын

John the Crossover Master N-Gage was a little earlier as I remember it competing and dying alongside the GBA, maybe the redesign lasted until 2005. I think there was some vague N-Gage successor mentioned around this time but I don't think it ever released.

@johnbarnes1122

5 жыл бұрын

Roadstar1602 😂

I love how the only one with a happy ending was the car that got split in half.

@emperorfaiz

4 жыл бұрын

And then, the car was restored and sold. What a happy ending.

@daniellez417

4 жыл бұрын

That means that technically, Gizmondo was worse than a car crash.

@Mkhwlani

4 жыл бұрын

if he was a friend of Phil swift the car could've stayed one piece

@orangetangyvideos

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mkhwlani Phil swift could've made him a new car outta flex tape

@Bootystank99659

3 жыл бұрын

Lord English doesn’t know what a panini is

The fact that the only Gizmondo commercial uses the same fact about bees as the intro to the Bee Movie makes me want to believe the Gizmondo exists in the Bee Movie universe, and is canon

@Rabbitlord108

9 ай бұрын

If DreamWorks made a sequel to that film nowadays. I can totally see them referencing this thing.

Gizmondo had the most extravagant “booth” at E3 2005. They literally built a recreation of a town and just parked a Porche Carrera GT in the middle. There were also scantily clad booth babes everywhere demoing the system. Spared no expense. Ill never forget it.

@T80Delta

Жыл бұрын

No wonder my dad came back looking energized after that - I was too young to remember the details, but I love the imagery😂🤣

@Lurker1222

4 ай бұрын

@@T80DeltaE3 2005 is considered by many to be the last “true” E3. It was a show to be sure.. and the after parties were crazy. I worked for Alienware at the time and was invited to a couple. Good times indeed.

I remember wanting this so badly when I was 12 years old, I saw it in a magazine that was comparing the gizmondo vs the psp, I thought the psp was stupid and that the gizmondo was the coolest damn thing ever made. I'm glad my mom got me a psp for Christmas a year later

@BajaToxic

4 жыл бұрын

@@0wthothman301 i'M dRuNk!!111

@jaimeeedwards6121

4 жыл бұрын

Same. If they had used a better control stick and had enough games on launch day me and a ton of my friends would have got one. But by the time we saved up enough there was already reviews in magazines about the bad controls and lack of games, so we all just got PSPs 🤷‍♀️

@bigbrassballs

4 жыл бұрын

@@0wthothman301 lmaaooooo sanmme drunk af watching old tech stuff is dope as hell

@BeatlesOasisFan

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, you were dumb when you were 12. xD

@sparkpenguin

4 жыл бұрын

@Din Ding maybe he's an uzbek, i hear they party hard

The unsold Gizmondos were all turned into 7-11 security cams.

@GamerBoy705_yt

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@gjtrue

2 жыл бұрын

Really?

@SpideyfanX

2 жыл бұрын

Each with built-in ads?

@swoll1980

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpideyfanX of course

@bastardjokemen8518

2 жыл бұрын

I believe you

"Let's see what 400 dollars got you in 2005!" A DS and PSP. That's what you could a got instead. 2 MUCH better handheld game systems!

@thebestcentaur

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously. This is like whiffing BADLY in a sports draft.

@jesuszamora6949

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebestcentaur Ryan Lief level bust.

@keybyss7671

2 жыл бұрын

And cheaper too. You could get a DS and a bunch of games for $400. Same with the PSP.

@hayato1886

2 жыл бұрын

@@keybyss7671 If you got all games for 35$, you could get a new DS and 7 games for less than this things asking price, assuming this was back when the DS was still hot shit

@j0an-07-arc6

2 жыл бұрын

Cough cough you forgot the Gameboy advance

I refuse to believe someone actually published a game and named it Sticky Balls.

@Louis-wp3fq

Жыл бұрын

"Fathammer Classics" isn't much better...

@TheDavidish

Жыл бұрын

@@Louis-wp3fq doesn’t sound as absurd tho

@CraigStCyrPlus

Жыл бұрын

11:30 It also has WAP 2.0

@2Scribble

Жыл бұрын

Apparently we live in the bad timeline...

@matt.willoughby

Жыл бұрын

It's the name of an English dessert. It's a bit like spotted dick or bread pudding but it tastes more like creamy stick or sweaty egg sacks

The story behind the device is even more interesting than the system itself

@friedchicken297

6 жыл бұрын

I hope you don't live in Sweden, if you know what's good for you paisan...

@shuntaro2408

6 жыл бұрын

lol threats from retards on the web. Never change YT never change

@friedchicken297

6 жыл бұрын

I was talking about the Swedish Mafia's connection to the gizmondo but okay

@GIitchclan12

6 жыл бұрын

It's not scary.... until you find out how they make the meat balls.

@supersmashbro596

6 жыл бұрын

suddenly the swedish chef got a lot scarier.

Just FYI. Most rear engine super cars are designed to break in half in a crash to separate the driver from the engine.

@bandombeviews6035

5 жыл бұрын

Jason Brewer That’s actually really interesting, I didn’t know.

@maltheIDM

5 жыл бұрын

That is actually pretty clever

@TerryMcKean

5 жыл бұрын

I was just wondering how did they EVER manage to repair that utterly shredded car and turn it around and resell it for 1.4 mil when I saw your comment... mystery solved.. lol :-D Thanks, Jason

@richsurtees87

5 жыл бұрын

Came here to comment this

@goofboy413

5 жыл бұрын

@Roborav That's not being built "shoddily", that's being built with safety in mind. Nearly all cars are designed to do similar things in the event of a crash to increase the safety of the driver.

I remember going to a Gizmondo store in central London. I was using my PSP to listen to music and the staff said PSP was crap and going to fail.

@Palkia8-Bit

2 жыл бұрын

It sold 81.09 million though?

@diabeto1216

2 жыл бұрын

🤡

@alchemistofsteel8099

Жыл бұрын

The 2000s version of NFT Bros

@HiNRGboy

Жыл бұрын

that's hilarious looking back now

@cryptocsguy9282

Жыл бұрын

@Rayray what could you even buy in the Gizmodo stores? Their system didn't have many games & barely anyone bought the console

"getting children to keep a GPS tracking device with them at all times was a tough sell" Well that statement hasn't aged well

@megami215

2 жыл бұрын

It’s all internet there phone

@charlesgoldt7943

2 жыл бұрын

@@megami215 Hä?

@DimT670

2 жыл бұрын

Why? Phones have gps capabilites but you can just... Turn em off. Not so here

@iwannabethekid34xc

2 жыл бұрын

@@DimT670 that's a huge misconception and the most telling sign you've never worked in cybersec lol if people knew how vulnerable modern technology was, we would have a massive growth in Mennonite and anti-tech society.

@azugn5739

Жыл бұрын

@@DimT670 all phones with sim cards ping their locations to cellular towers pretty much all the time.

"Getting children to keep a GPS tracking device with them at all times was a tough sell." Oh how times have changed...

@Hacker-at-Large

6 жыл бұрын

Sharing your info with the Swedish mob or Facebook. Tough call. Not sure we got it right.

@RyTrapp0

6 жыл бұрын

I'd feel safer if the Swedish mob had all of my info that FB does...

@BilisNegra

6 жыл бұрын

Well, children -and many adults- want people to know where they are and the (so they believe) interesting places they visit using social media, yes, but ONLY when they want to. Nobody wants to be PERMANENTLY controlled, and any young person specially refuses to be controlled by their parents at all times, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, so no, things have not changed that much.

@BlownMacTruck

6 жыл бұрын

This is just a dumb comment. If that GPS device had all the software and connectivity phones have today, of course they’d carry it around. Likewise if you told someone to carry a GPS device today that did nothing else, you’d still have no uptake.

@patm2145

6 жыл бұрын

BlownMacTruck you're really overthinking 5 words

gizmondo camera actually looks good because it makes everything look like a hipster album cover

@beckyquin8365

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I genuinely liked. It makes for cool late 90's and early 2000's type of pics. But other than that, it's trash all around.

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

Early 2000s were the most hideous era in the history of photography. Everything looked like complete shit for the better part of a decade.

@riddell26

2 жыл бұрын

@@pearz420 whatever kid, you're too young to understand.

@wayge

2 жыл бұрын

@@riddell26 im old enough to know we had no business transitioning to digital at the time. We didnt have the hardware to outclass a shitty little disposable camera and "affordable" camcorders would record at like 12fps and a 3 digit bitrate. It was stupid. 1890s footage looks better than a video of someone in 2006

@CWINDOWSsystem32

2 жыл бұрын

@@pearz420 That's part of the charm.

I remember I went to the store in London. I already had the psp and ds, but when you’re a serious gamer, you have to have ‘em all! Anyhow, I went to the store, just a few weeks after the opening, and oh man. There was no one there, the place was absolutely dirty, the staff was walking around like a herd of zombies, and most if not all of the machines were off. I walked out after 30 seconds thinking ‘if this is the Gizmondo experience, then I want none of it’.

My dad was involved with this company. He helped tiger telematics secure funding, and I still have 2 of these from before they were publicly available. So much nostalgia! I have all the sample games too. Full of glitches because they were never finished for final production. One of the most interesting things about the Gizmondo was the fact that they intended to sell 2 different devices - one at a higher price with no ads, and one at a lower price with location-based ads. In 2005!! I remember being able to plop in my SIM card from Cingular to send texts! Truly ahead of it’s time. I could go on and on

@RileyBanksWho

Жыл бұрын

ok

@lineialquantum

Жыл бұрын

@@RileyBanksWhodon’t be a hater

@tommylight1312

Жыл бұрын

“Umm my Dad works at, Tiger Telematics.”

@RileyBanksWho

Жыл бұрын

@@lineialquantum stop making assumptions and stop hating on my comment.

@ryukami404

Жыл бұрын

@@RileyBanksWho May I have a sip of your Haterade kind sir?

So every picture of Bigfoot taken as been on the Gizmondo. This makes sense now.

@PsionicMonk

4 жыл бұрын

DoubleD1978 The true cryptozoologists device of choice

@grim_reaper1960

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@cupcakethesabertooth6802

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, you gotta use a 0.1 megapixel camera

@dguy0386

4 жыл бұрын

im pretty sure that there are more pictures of Bigfoot then Gizmondos out there XD

@crusader2.0_loading89

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😆

So yeah, I used to work for Gizmondo. There is even a Swedish short documentary about the whole mess. At least I got to promote the god damn thing at E3 :)

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

I salute your place in history, sir

@Nikorasu69

5 жыл бұрын

LGR Thanks, it really was a fun time in a way.

@bandombeviews6035

5 жыл бұрын

What did you do at gizmondo? I’m curious

@memovilmx6239

5 жыл бұрын

@@bandombeviews6035 x2

@feminist098

5 жыл бұрын

Can I Sue you for 600$. ?

I remember a kid in my high school had one and I was so confused because even at the time it came out it was considered a complete obscurity

@menopriezvisko94

2 жыл бұрын

It is obsurity in all times tbh

@nthgth

Жыл бұрын

I recall the Sidekick the same way. One friend had one, and I was always like - does your normal phone not work anymore? And have you not heard of Game Boy Advance or DS?

For 2005, the hardware seems impressive. Like it's actually doing 3D pretty well, around or maybe better than the DS, has a camera, load videos and musics, and has a GPS. Although with a $400 price tag, none of that is really enough to make people buy it

@robadagamer

Жыл бұрын

the screen was too small, the audio quality was very low and the controls... that thing was too small.. who tf designed it ? The psp was at least 100 times better.

@abomala1607

6 ай бұрын

3D is much better than a DS . this thing was easely twice the power of the DS.... but nintendo nether sell console with power since gamecube . They sell with good game and good gameplay

I was lent a Gizmondo by the company to showcase on TV, but I held on to it for so long they went bust and didn't need to give it back :S

@BilisNegra

6 жыл бұрын

I feel for you having to keep this pile of trash then! If you still have it, you can now sell it for like 150 bucks bc of its rarity though. You may have to wait for some time, but yes, there are a few dudes that will pay that for junk like this.

@futonrevolution7671

6 жыл бұрын

Did it come with a membership card for their anti-terrorism task force?

@dgproductions4686

6 жыл бұрын

Hello, you!

@mightydegu

6 жыл бұрын

It's just a pile of goo now.

@heathercramer8966

6 жыл бұрын

Are you a youtuber

I remember when that guy crashed that Ferrari. What a crazy story. My friends worked for a video game company that was actually a front for the owners to embezzle investor funds. The early 2000s were a crazy time for electronic companies.

@Objectorbit

6 жыл бұрын

What company was it?

@SuperNicktendo

6 жыл бұрын

I don't remember the name since this happened in 2003-2004. I'll have to reach out to him to make a video on it. I just remember that they would get paid but their checks would bounce and it was later revealed these guys were just looting money from investors.

@yellowblanka6058

6 жыл бұрын

Super Nicktendo - your friends worked for Atari? ;)

@SuperNicktendo

6 жыл бұрын

Yellowblanka lol nope.

@lewzero

6 жыл бұрын

This was the same criminal who was running MotoRex! Selling r32, r33 and r34 skylines illegally imported. Scary how things are related sometimes

fun fact: richard burns rally is recognized as one of the hardest and most realistic racing games EVER. imagine trying to play that on a gizmondo

@Maximus20778

Жыл бұрын

your not wrong its hard

Stefan Eriksson spent so much time working on sponsorships for vehicular sports one would think he’d want to be a racing team owner or something and just got saddled with making a game console.

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

Well the one commercial they made looked exactly like a car commercial...

@FMecha

Жыл бұрын

If only he sponsored (or owned) a NASCAR team - S1apSh0es would have also addressed this.

That TTA boot screen you get before the GIZMONDO one is actualy a software mod, a hack, to boot pirated games on standard SD cards. Legit unhacked systems will only show the GIZMONDO boot screen and won't play games unless they are on a Gizmondo official SD Card.

@Dd-gi5lm

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

Also, my brain going "Wait, 2005? But that was just - *_THIRTEEN YEARS AGO_* ." Kind of catches me off guard like how I still think of "1995" as just a few years ago - and yet some of you good folks were probably not even alive back then when I was wrapping up college :O

@user-74652

6 жыл бұрын

If it makes you feel any better, I was alive in 1995, but I grew up in the 2000s, and I still feel like 1995 was more recent than it actually was.

@Fazeof1p

6 жыл бұрын

I'm old enough to remember the 90s, but it was mostly full of things like Bubsy, Dialup Internet, pogs, Tomogatchis, and Netscape Navigator. It was a strange time.

@thedungeondelver

6 жыл бұрын

the 1990s were a great time to be a young adult. I don't wanna get all weepy and nostalgic about it, but being in my 20s in the 90s was a really great time.

@Arashi441

6 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1993 and this happens to me all the time. From 2000 onwards I'm like "but 2006 wasn't that long ag- OH SHIT".

@imnotmattdamon

6 жыл бұрын

It just means you're young at heart, yet still became an old fart. Just ride the wave dude, i'm there with you...

So this was basically a way for the owners of Floor Depot to finance their racing team and write it off. Well played.

The rubber that thing is made of reminds me of the early 2000’s Volkswagens interiors that smelled like crayons Isidro and had the same issue with the rubber breaking down and melting leaving a gooey feeling on a hot day.

I forgot you were even reviewing a product. What a journey

@psiangel

4 жыл бұрын

This is a review?

They made a bee movie script meme in their one and only tv ad before the bee movie even existed. At least they succeeded at *something*

@KieronQuinn

6 жыл бұрын

According to all known laws of retail, there is no reason the Gizmondo should be able to sell

@hobbified

6 жыл бұрын

and 20-some years after Robert Cormier's The Bumblebee Flies Anyway...

I remember hearing about this thing, had my interest at the time. Never seen it in stores and ended up getting a DS and forgetting about it.

Back when WAP meant "Wireless Application Protocol", and nothing else.

"He doesn't care much about principles" Seems quite fitting for the founder 😂

@user-xr3rb6pn9m

4 жыл бұрын

@Gernot Schrader you didn't spend 7.5 years in jail like that guy, did you?

I remember having My DS and seeing all these neat systems come out, PSP, Gizmondo and Tapwave. and Almost regreting getting my underpowered DS at the time. But then most of those machines disappeared and the DS started getting REALLY good games and I was pretty happy with it. Got a PSP years later and loved it too.

@hitkid2456

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, I remember the Zodiac too. Along with other failed efforts for home, like Nuon.

@fran5678can

3 жыл бұрын

Had LBP PSP?

@radiioo

3 жыл бұрын

the PSP is really good, games are fun and the system isn't bad. i only have 6 games for it but i would get more

@collinhennessy6558

3 жыл бұрын

@@radiioo Hack the psp. You can emulate everything up to snes

@radiioo

3 жыл бұрын

@@collinhennessy6558 i don't have a computer, only 1 laptop and i don't know coding and stuff

OMG, I remember going to the Gizmondo Store on London's Regent Street back when it was new (it was a few doors' down from the Apple Store at the time, what a different experience!). What a bizarre device. I had no idea it was so rare, I feel fortune to have played with one!

13:18 that soft plastic/hard rubber was very popular on cheap electronics for most of the 90's and 2000's. It breaks down quickly and is mildly toxic, but was inexpensive to produce. A lot cheap game controllers were covered with it. You can scrape it off but the layer below starts breaking down as soon as it touches air, so its pointless.

I went to the London launch party for the Gizmondo, it was absolutely ridiculous how much money they had thrown at the event. I remember talking to one of the game Devs who was certain this system was going to have a big impact and got pretty annoyed with me when I said I felt it didn't have much of a future 😂

Eric: I'M PART OF A ANTI TERRORISM TASK FORCE! Bus company: Dude we're just giving old people rides

@Kyanzes

4 жыл бұрын

Aunty Relocation Transport

@pseudonayme7717

4 жыл бұрын

I'm here for the Sticky Balls lolz 😄

@TheEpicDiamondMiner

4 жыл бұрын

Technically Eric (Erik) is his father's name. In Scandinavian countries, the child does not have the same last name as the parents. The child's last name is their father's first name (possessive), combined with either "son" or "dotter". So the last name of the son of Hjalmar would be "Hjalmarsson", and the daughters would be "Hjalmarsdotter". Also, the spelling of dotter varies, it's either dotter, dottir, dóttir, or datter.

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

*makes game console called ISIS* ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)

@harleyspeedthrust4013

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheEpicDiamondMiner The search party has returned from Sweden. They were unable to find who tf asked.

Forget this entire story, let's talk about the fact Ferrari managed to fully repair that thing

Heard the soft rubber used on the Gizmondo ended up atrophying, and most of the ones still around today look like they were left in front of a space heater too long.

16:10 Stephan Erjksson - jail@prison Clint, you savage

@Clarence.Boddicker

6 жыл бұрын

Stefan Eriksson..

@crass340

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, it's regional dialect

I did some design and photography work for Gizmondo. I went to their HQ when it was all falling apart. What a shabby set up. Full of miserable half-hearted staff. Amazed I got paid.

@kazutama3902

4 жыл бұрын

Please detail!

@legendfpv

4 жыл бұрын

How much did sony pay you for this comment?

@beeman4266

4 жыл бұрын

Everything about this product says "We put in the absolute least amount of effort." If you can't even get an ergonomic button layout right on a portable system then you have no hope.

@weaponofmassconstruction1940

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. If you called in sick they got the Swedish mafia to shoot your knee caps.

@TheRaggedyDandyRandy

4 жыл бұрын

@@legendfpv How much did Microsoft/Nintendo paid you to write this comment?

I had one of these and loved it! (Regretably sold on ebay a few years ago :( . I had the cheap Smart Ads version, in the UK, good value considering there weree no ads! Many fond memories of the community on the Gizmondo Forums, and as the company collapsed all of the games were freely available online from the staff who just wanted fans to enjoy the games they were working on. I used to call is my "Swedish mafia console" lol.

I'm actually surprised at the graphical capabilities of this thing! That Colors game at the very least looks decent

Would like to point out that the Ferrari wreck is perfectly normal at even small speeds and even when impacted IN TO by other cars at an angle in the rear quarter of the car. It's a design element meant to save the cockpit of the car (or habitacle) from the potential death inducing forces that would occur in a normal (rear engine) car when the motor remains on the cockpit during the crash. There's various design elements that allow it to simply shear off rather than enter the passenger space. Similarly, modern cars with front mounted engines are designed to have the engine and transmission shear off the mounting points and 'slide' under the car along the drive shaft tub (on front engine rear drive cars) or simply shear off completely (on front engine, front drive cars). Just my two cents on this, to some, the Ferrari wreck, seems incredible, it is not, it's a safety feature. A similar, but older car (in design aspects and distribution) like a Lancia Stratos, would probably kill the passenger in a similar crash and the engine would not detach (strong mounted).

@sellingacoerwa8318

6 жыл бұрын

That's not what Porsche Girl told me...

@jessjudd

6 жыл бұрын

aserta Fascinating. Thanks for the info!

@humiecrusher

6 жыл бұрын

To be honest it still sounds pretty incredible

@nilus2k

6 жыл бұрын

High end sports cars are built more like race cars then standard road vehicles. In the event of a high speed crash the car break apart around you transferring as much of the crash energy to blowing the thing apart. Makes for spectacular looking wrecks but it keeps the crew compartment safe.

@Chaos89P

6 жыл бұрын

aserta That makes a lot of sense really. I don't remember what my reaction to it was, except "Was he trying to commit suicide?"

13:08 Oh god I hate that kind of rubber plastic so much, aging horribly by getting greasy and sticky... Such a despair to find it in so many places.

@magmakun9277

4 жыл бұрын

10:27 Jevil

@magmakun9277

4 жыл бұрын

They predicted it

@MOS6582

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah like Thinkpads (IBM and Lenovo). Why do they keep using it?

@EpicB

3 жыл бұрын

Is there a good way to get that kind of sticky rubber off? I've got a wireless keyboard with the same kind of rubber coating on the handrest. Aside from the coating it's a perfectly fine keyboard.

@MrPoeGhost

3 жыл бұрын

The sticks on my PS3 controller are doing the same thing and it sucks ass.

I love Ashville, NC. Always appreciate your photos of the area.

I've been watching you since 2012 or so, love your videos Clint! Keep it up 👌🏼

I know this video is from 2018, but I just wanted to say thank you for putting in the effort of adding closed captions to all of your videos. It helps in so many ways and it doesn't go unnoticed. :)

@Karlach_

2 жыл бұрын

agreed

@realitybeneathveils5687

Жыл бұрын

I believe it's automatically generated

Seinfeld watched the Gizmondo commercial and that's how he got the idea for The Bee Movie.

@henriquedematos

6 жыл бұрын

O shit, how can it be you're in the comments for this video and no one noticed you in the past 30 minutes?

@stu1701E

6 жыл бұрын

Greetings, and welcome to a Tales From 4Chan thing, the 29th one?

@XanCrews

6 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah Brendaddy, I could listen to you talk about Bee Movie for hours.

@adj789

6 жыл бұрын

he had to bee

@TonyMelon

6 жыл бұрын

henriquedematos idk who the hell this guy is who the hell are you?!

Sticky Balls... In my head canon, someone did give a good read to that name and still approved it. Great video as usual!

I bought one from my local EB games back in the day. They were selling these out for about 99 bucks back in 2006-2007 i think. It´s opened but almost never used and in superb condition.

I remember actually being pretty excited for this thing. Heck, I even went to a Swedish Gamestop (Live in Denmark) to get one. Only ever used it once, maybe twice before completely losing interest in it tho. Looking at the sale numbers, it would seem that I alone am responsible for about 1% of the total Swedish sales of the damn thing.

@joaothemage1631

5 жыл бұрын

@Captain N What happend to yours?

@joaothemage1631

5 жыл бұрын

My bad Adam; I meant to tag the original poster

@lindleywalter-smith9911

Жыл бұрын

Hnbj h mvvvvh

“So I got some pizza, stepped in front of a subway train, and died.” I want that on my gravestone.

@keithbrown7685

6 жыл бұрын

damn rights! : )

@adenowirus

6 жыл бұрын

"Good"

@jessragan6714

6 жыл бұрын

What do you want on YOUR tombstone?

@adenowirus

6 жыл бұрын

Jess Ragan "Well, that's a bummer"

The widescreen version had potential and could have been a good little console during the early 2000's.

To give everyone an idea of how small 14 games is: Counting the Japan-exclusive games, the Virtual Boy had 22. Gizmondo had fewer games than the VIRTUAL BOY.

From the ad, what is apparently Stefan Eriksson's personal motto: "He doesnt care much about principles, do you?"

I actually love the aesthetic of the pictures this thing takes. If you showed me a photo from this thing and asked me what decade it’s from, I would say the 1990’s for sure!

@NoReplyAsset

5 жыл бұрын

agreed. the photos have a good natural vintage aesthetic to them!

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

We had film in the 1990s. These takes are scary to me. It looks exactly like when it from. Get your eyes and/or memory checked!

You review videos are very well made and also very interesting to listen too as well.

I honestly never thought I would find a console that sold fewer units than the Zeebo.

That built-in camera is 100% vapourwave ready, it has that low-res charm.

@TruFalco

5 жыл бұрын

effluviah YES I was just thinking that.

@incognitoburrito6020

5 жыл бұрын

+Cody Khaos Make sure not to cut yourself on the edge there buddy.

@x-fun3149

5 жыл бұрын

don't worry he's just a swedish mafia man, the worst he can do is throw a meatball at you

@codykhaos4987

5 жыл бұрын

Incognito Burrito I know man, its so crazy. If Im lucky, the edge will be so sharp that I kill myself too... I got a first class ticket to hell and I have no fucks to give ya... Santa Muerte will have her bounty... Adios sucker...

@codykhaos4987

5 жыл бұрын

X-Fun P.S: Your youtube channel is lame as fuck, lol...

That's some crazy history.. Also the whole "doesn't care about principles.. do you?" sounds like it carries quite some extra meaning given the guy's history...

@kaistephens2694

2 жыл бұрын

“It doesn’t care much about principles. Do you?” “You like jazz?”

I didn't expect the rattling off of increasingly outlandish parts of the tale of this thing at the beginning to actually turn out being true, I thought you were BS-ing lol

I sold the Smart Adds Gizmondo I received from a PR friend, in 2016 on eBay before I moved to Japan. Weird to see one that looks just like it! Can’t be a lot of them around these days. I also sold the 3 games I got in a separate lot: Trailblazer, Hockey Rage 2005 and Richard Burns Rally.

Just keep in mind, the same year the PSP launched! This thing is a big joke.

@saleplains

4 жыл бұрын

it really is a bizarrely awful product. kinda sad that it had the computing power to actually run games but the rest of the hardware was so incredibly terrible.

@abohsukampret

4 жыл бұрын

My local game magazine did a side-by-side comparison of Gizmondo vs. PSP vs. NDS. I remember thinking "why would anyone want to buy this?"

@schoolshooter6105

4 жыл бұрын

The psp can even play ps4 games with remote play the gizmondo is a fucking joke honestly

@maximkonechno8742

4 жыл бұрын

School Shooter you are fuckin joke ,psp can’t remote play ps4

@eduardwithau

4 жыл бұрын

@@schoolshooter6105 PSP and PS Vita are different consoles.

i actually like how the pictures came out, give me so retro feels

@P1nkR

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah you are right. Modern phones need lame filters for those same feels.

@kaisoundz

4 жыл бұрын

I would buy this just so I could take aesthetic pictures

@voidpriestess8339

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too. It's nice

@chompythebeast

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's been enough time now that the early digital camera aesthetic has its own appeal, it definitely places the photos they take in time

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

I can't relate to this at all. It's objectively shitty photography in every category. Why not get retro feels from actual film? This is maybe the most desperate nostalgia I've ever encountered.

As someone that bought a Zune on launch... I've learned to wait about a month past a consoles release before making the jump lol!

This was a great video. I didn't know anyone who owned one. Loving these trips down memory lane.

You can't get more 2000s than a Chalupa-shaped gaming device.

@RyTrapp0

6 жыл бұрын

Zzyzx Wolfe Surely there was a Taco Bell promotion at some point - Taco Bell is to go to miss a PR collaboration like that

@Zizzily

6 жыл бұрын

They certainly missed out.

@CarbyGuuGuu

6 жыл бұрын

This, the original Game Boy Advance, and the Nokia N-Gage. The early 2000s were like Tex-Mex for handheld systems.

@ThePandaAgenda

6 жыл бұрын

George Vasquez don't forget the psp. It gets sad when you forget about it ;(

@jasonblalock4429

6 жыл бұрын

Were any of the PSP models chalupa shaped? I just remember them as rectangles with rounded corners.

The technology here really takes me back. Around this time, I was working on mobile operating systems, and it really took a while for the industry to realize that a multifunctional handheld mash-up device like this really wanted to be sold as a smartphone. Both of the companies I worked for in that sector originally didn't realize that, and lost some time thinking of their product as the OS for a sort of jumped-up PDA and messaging device before realizing "oh, it has to be a phone". I think one of them died in part because it took them too long to make that mental shift. (On the other hand, realizing it is no guarantee: witness the Nokia N-Gage.)

ironically the same launch price as the Valve Steam Deck of $399 but OMG what you get for your money back then was so little compared to what we get today from Valve!

I've had to get rid of so many things with that rubber coating in the last year. NARS blush compacts, a flat iron...

The first loading screen is loading the second animated loading screen...

@hanselmanryanjames

6 жыл бұрын

hingeslevers Loading the loading screen! Me and my friends used to joke about that on a few ps1 games that seemed to do the same thing.

@bunnydexter7178

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, good times:) I could literally cooked a pack of noodles by the time the console fully loaded.

This thing is just so wierd. I wouldn't mind a Full Tech Tales on this.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

It's definitely worth a full documentary of some kind. I was overflowing with crazy details making this video, was hard to keep it concise!

@brycevo

6 жыл бұрын

LGR I hope you have fun making one. I can't wait for the next video. Thank you.

@RyTrapp0

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, PLEASE a Tech Tales! It's been too long, and this is a PERFECT subject!

@emdotrod

6 жыл бұрын

This would be a good crossover episode with Norman from Gaming Historian

@IndygoEEI

6 жыл бұрын

Agree and doubling down on it needing a Tech Tale episode. If there's more to the story, I wanna hear you tell it.

This period of time - 2004 to 2006 - and the release of Gizmondo, Tapwave Zodiac, and NGage feels like a gaming fever dream. I remember the buzz when these came out, just as GBA's lifecycle was winding down and Next Gen handhelds from Nintendo/Sony were on the horizon - so these filled that few year void perfectly. I recall a Game Informer article at the time which pitted the three aforementioned consoles against each other, asking "which will come out on top"? I think they leaned toward Tapwave in the article, but the true answer of course was "None of them". 😅

Got oddly emotional and nostalgic with that late 90's-2000's camera quality aesthetic, and I'm only in my early 20's.

Fun fact: If a GPS receiver has been off for a long time, the first thing it has to do I find one satellite, and then receive the almanac from that one satellite. Based on how message data is encoded, it takes 12.5 minute to download the almanac. Once the device has the almanac, it then knows roughly where to look in the sky for other satellites, and can start acquiring more. More modern receivers can either download the almanac from cell networks, or have enough channels (one channel can track one satellite; Gizmondo looks like it can track 12) and processing that they can all just keep searching and eventually find enough.

A home furnishings company turned technology company with a history of wasted money and unscrupulous business practices. I wonder if Aperture Science wasn't inspired by this company.

@cissi9671

5 жыл бұрын

Mord podd

@johnfrancisdoe1563

5 жыл бұрын

Zoshi Well they might have had access to the needed time travel tech ...

You know it’s a good Oddware video when it includes a mini Tech Tales.

Those pictures are pretty aesthetically pleasing; if low resolution

@drgncabe

Жыл бұрын

Yea it feels like those pictures were taken in the late 90s thanks to the way that camera looks. lol

The Souljaboy console of its time!

@zyzzy-ko4ww

5 жыл бұрын

Even Souljaboy consoles are better than this crazy joke.

@wolfgangvan-uber6515

5 жыл бұрын

I'm more reminded of the OUYA, even though this was a stationary console

@Impostor39890

5 жыл бұрын

Souljaboy console has way worse specs than this, it can't even play emulated GBA games at full speed.

@bullsfan2021

5 жыл бұрын

souljaboy at least had name recognition / marketing.

@kingcobrajfssepaboosterclub

4 жыл бұрын

Except with an actual gangster 😂

10:38 I can’t believe bee movie memes existed in 2004. My life had truly been fun.

@SonicBoone56

4 жыл бұрын

I fucking lost it when I saw that lol

@magmakun9277

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@magmakun9277

4 жыл бұрын

Dont forget Jevil 10:27

@magmakun9277

4 жыл бұрын

He also pronounces it like Jevil

@thescreemregular5168

3 жыл бұрын

HAND H E L L D

I remember this device and it’s screen was really easy to see in direct sunlight back when I had it in 2007

OMG The Giz! I was heavily involved in the community. I sold peripherals and software after it went bust that the ex-devs provided. The profits went back to the devs who had been made redundant. It had so much promise :( If you ever want any more info for a tech tale, I have lots :)

Ahhhh.....the 2000's. Full of hope's, dreams, and failure. Good times!

@chriscros13

6 жыл бұрын

How lol

I wonder if the GPS not working has something to do with the "GPS week number rollover" event, where any device that didn't receive an update to compensate for the week number reset would straight up stop working. I know this vid was shot in 2018, and the rollover happened in 2019, but there was some reports of devices that didn't include the whole list of original week numbers and had failed early. Maybe the people behind the Gizmodo skimped on the whole list and that's why it doesn't work even back in 2018. Age shouldn't be a factor. I have a GPS receiver from the late 90s I picked up at a thrift store that worked right up until the week rollover happened.

6:07 "I mean, come on. Of course they did." Damn thats ice cold.

For some reason I always end up returning to this video. This machine is so just interesting and I always enjoy having Clint talking in the background.

Fun fact: That Ferrari (as well as numerous other supercars) were designed to be split in half in a high speed crash. This transfers the energy of the impact away from the occupants which is why he managed to walk away.

@meowmocha12

9 ай бұрын

That explains how it broke apart in such a weird way.

@nsf001-3

7 ай бұрын

@@meowmocha12 No point having a car like that if you're not gonna drive it 200mph

As a Floridian, I see Floor Decor everywhere here. This is a pleasant surprise to me.

What a great deep dive.

As a young child, I thought it was “Scamdanavia” and that’s where scams were invented.

@firepower7017

6 жыл бұрын

chibi hungary He is closer than you think

@zanegandini5350

6 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, a Hetalia roleplayer on KZread in 2018? Never saw that coming.

@LoftySkinner

6 жыл бұрын

Scamden* Only the Swedes do this shit. Getting people trapped in IKEA because they can't find the exit (that's why they sell meatballs) and Ericsson being notorious for making phones that broke 1 day beyond warranty.

Stefan's pics are the most 2000's photos I've ever seen in my whole life.

I vividly remember that "nobody told the bumblebee" ad. It’s a line that has stuck with me.

The elephant in the room that you didn't really mention Clint, is the name Gizmondo was just dumb and "uncool". Around the time this released (I remember seeing that commercial all the time), I was between 8th and 9th grade. Something called Gizmondo was a hard sell to a teen boy, meanwhile we were coming off the GBA and excited for the Nintendo DS or the PSP. Their marketing and design team shot themselves in the foot. The device design itself is also extremely goofy.

14:40 "Mid 2000s skins" Gaming peripheral manufacturers are still stuck in that time period.

@arnantphongsatha7906

5 жыл бұрын

You say that like it's a bad thing.

"Gizmondo Isis"... Well, that name didn't age well at all, did it?

@Doncornuto

5 жыл бұрын

Just ask poor Isis (godess) how she feels about it.

@PsylomeAlpha

5 жыл бұрын

Also, such an insult to the goddess Isis.

@GiuseppeDongo

4 жыл бұрын

Grow up.

@PsylomeAlpha

4 жыл бұрын

@@GiuseppeDongo stop being a dick, Austin.

@GiuseppeDongo

4 жыл бұрын

Melissa The Rotund My apologizes Melissa. I’m sorry you feel that way.

LGR: "The Worst-Selling Handheld Console Ever" 2.3 Million People: *Interesting*

I like the thought of sending this thing back in time with only this video saved on it.

Damn, that camera makes for a great 80's aesthetic.

@lemon-mint2700

5 жыл бұрын

vintage polaroids are relatively cheap. i'd suggest the real deal :P

@jpsplat

5 жыл бұрын

i was thinking someone should use the gizmondo for their mixtape art

@MayerEO

5 жыл бұрын

just get any Android device loool

@hackscracks3454

5 жыл бұрын

Galactic Punt Burn

@cristylivefr

5 жыл бұрын

The LG G6 has a good camera but a lot of android phones have crappy cameras and let’s be honest almost all android tablets have terrible cameras