Despite its obvious limitations, the Nomad blew my mind in the 90s. Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time.

@MitsuhashiTakashi

8 жыл бұрын

unless you had a turbo express or a master gear converter for your game gear

@PacoCotero1221

8 жыл бұрын

Nintendo need to do a SNES portable like ds

@PacoCotero1221

8 жыл бұрын

***** the ports were bs

@PacoCotero1221

8 жыл бұрын

2l84me

@chaoticcranium

7 жыл бұрын

"Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time." Yes, my dear 2015 chaoticcranium, and it would remain all but entirely unheard of until just now with the Nintendo Switch! Nintendo owes some sort of homage to the Sega Nomad, the console that did it first!

"dont shoot lazers out of your face its weird." great advice for life kids

@ToyoTheFox

7 жыл бұрын

THErepare man16 lol

@DrBachur

7 жыл бұрын

Who says Stuart Ashen isn't a real role model?

@stagpie6449

7 жыл бұрын

dont tell me what to do mum

@h0td0gwater

5 жыл бұрын

I read this just as he said it Very spooky

"You are Soapy Mctavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go!" I died xD

@Journey_to_who_knows

Жыл бұрын

And history repeats

I had a Nomad back in the day. I liked that you could plug in a controller for a second player instead of needing two Nomads. The battery pack was never difficult for me to get on and off though. It's probably only harder for you because it's old. The thing is, getting the rechargeable battery pack for the Nomad was a *must*. It gave you longer play time and didn't eat batteries like a glutton that way. It had a nicely back-lit screen though, and even though there was a blurring problem, I was still able to adjust to it. All-in-all, I had fun with it, and I was glad that I bought it.

@RichardCraig

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, too bad those battery packs were $70 when they were new! I wanted one so bad, but I just couldn't justify spending as much for a battery as I could for a couple new or a handful of used games.

@OutrightRegent4

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit. First on therunawayguys and then on ashens. Seeing xelger on here is quite the gem

Oddly enough, the alien in Alien looks strangely like the final boss from Ecco the Dolphin.

The aliens jump on too fast to see as you're playing a PAL game on an NTSC system, so you're actually playing the game 17.5% faster than it's supposed to be!

@Mentski

10 жыл бұрын

Alien 3's US and EU carts contained identical code, that's the speed it ran in the US, no matter the cart. I guess you could argue with the developers being Probe and obviously based in the UK that they didn't optimise the game to run at a playable speed on a 60hz Genesis. Regardless, It was a VERY rare occurrence that any Mega Drive game was optimised for the different hz rates, outside of maybe making sure the music played at the right speed.

@Lazyguy22

10 жыл бұрын

The aliens have VAT? I KNEW IT WAS YOUR FAULT DELORS

@BehindTheRides

10 жыл бұрын

Mentski PAL frequency is 50Hz, NTSC 60Hz. When you use a PAL cart on a NTSC system it is much faster because the difference in hertz in their frequiency, no matter what the code is, is hardware side.

@chocolatethunder4883

10 жыл бұрын

Please dumb down your response for me.

@UltimaKeyMaster

10 жыл бұрын

And I thought Shadow of the Beast was ridiculous with that massive fuck-up.

The screen reminds me of the Atari Lynx screen

The reason you can't shoot the aliens is because it's a PAL cartridge running at a higher speed (i.e. 60hz rather than 50hz). This effectively speeds up the game, making it bloody hard!

@tyedyejedi

2 жыл бұрын

Genesis does what Nintendont

@MoundN

2 жыл бұрын

That's not the issue. The issue is that the character can tun past 70% of the screen before the camera catches up.

@hotelmario510

9 ай бұрын

@@MoundN It's a combination of bad game design and the game running too fast.

@samholdsworth420

8 ай бұрын

​@@tyedyejediballs to Picasso

@samholdsworth420

8 ай бұрын

​@@MoundNyes because it's running faster than it should be

Loved those old genesis cases. If only nintendo had something like that for N64 games. You so much as breathed in their direction and those boxes fell apart.

@coffinfeeder7732

5 жыл бұрын

Somehow, all the boxes that came with me and my brothers’ N64 games were inexplicably lost. For a time, I actually believed N64 cartridges weren’t packaged since I’d never seen a box for them until I was 13. I just find it odd none of the boxes for the games survived. My guess is that a lot of the games were traded by my older brothers, but the other trader lost the box for his game and we were left with only the cartridge. In fact, it’s possible out of the dozen or two games that I currently have, Hey You Pikachu! is the only game that wasn’t exchanged to a friend or family, and it’s the one that was included with our Pikachu N64. That sucks, I suppose.

I will definitely second that Streets of rage 2 being one of the finest beat em ups as well as one of the finest Sega games in general

@tompreston5784

10 жыл бұрын

Wow Alpha is an Ashens Fan? Never expected that!

@tompreston5784

10 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah that did sound like fanboying. Was just more not putting them two together

@henrygerard2315

5 жыл бұрын

You angry pissbaby

20 years later the Turbo Touch 360 is reborn as the Steam pad.

@whispersmusic6173

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and Nomad reborn as Steam Deck

@EvilTurkeySlices

Жыл бұрын

@@whispersmusic6173 that is very true.

I firmly believe the Nomad was way ahead of its time (so far ahead of its time that the technology didn't even exist to do it properly). If they could have made this smaller, with better battery life, and a screen that wasn't a blurry ghosted mess (the Game Gear had the same problem with its screen and similar battery life issuse)... this could have changed Sega's destiny.

Ah, Wrestle War. I remember that racking up a shit tonne in late Blockbuster fees.

@clytaemnestra

10 жыл бұрын

oi

@RossOriginals

10 жыл бұрын

Ah, rental stores, those were the days.

@Larry

10 жыл бұрын

Would have been cheaper to buy the bloody thing :D

@ExplosionRadius

10 жыл бұрын

***** I don't know about that. Renting a game had an appeal all of it's own. Knowing you have a limited time with a game made you enjoy it a lot more.

@Anex952

10 жыл бұрын

they're still over here in Australia since there is no Netflix or Hulu. *****

The Nomad is based on the Sega Mega Jet, Which was a handheld device Sega sold to Japanese Flight companies so they could rent games and the system to them during flights. The only difference was it didn't have a screen. But I bought a brand new one about 10 years ago when had my art job, so would buy any old shit anime or gaming shit. I'll have to dig it out and do a video on ti some time!

@maxwelsh6121

6 жыл бұрын

Not quite 'nomad minus screen' but dimensions and color do seem to be the only other differences, it's shorter etc, plus runs in Japanese I assume - looking at it tho, especially noting the second player controller port placement , I'd say it more then likely is the same circuit board inside of course that's modified to run a screen too, extra transformer , or a bigger one with separate windings, whatever I'm being very pedantic and not trying to be a dick or troll, just anyone look them up and see he's totally right- but so am I and details matter to historians

@h0td0gwater

5 жыл бұрын

God bless you Larry. That is all

For some reason seeing the sonic european box art again has really inspired me to wanna dust off my old childhood consoles, buy new shelves and turn my flat into my own personal mini-gaming museum. I have so much gaming history shoved into drawers doing nothing. Each shelf could house one console, a controller and 3 games on display. Add some lcd lights and really snaz it up. Ohhhh, I'm going to go to poundland... Thanks Ashens!

"Go Ecco! You dolphin faced fucker!" God damnit, I had to pick the one moment he drops a precision f strike to drink some coffee...

Man with all other collectors I can imagine them having big rooms where they have all the stuff. With ashens I just imagine everything he shows is on a huge pile to the side of that sofa xD

blowing in to the cat ridge is how we fixed things in the 90s lol

@PenisGabber

6 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the cat ridge. I️ remember those...

@IanC14

6 жыл бұрын

You blew your cat?

@PenisGabber

6 жыл бұрын

obviously he's some sort of furry

I've been watching Ashens since 2006 when I was 12 years old and have watched every single video up to this day. Streets Of Rage 2 is my favourite game of all time and to hear Dr. Stuart Ashen call it "One of the finest games ever etched by man onto cartridge" makes me love him even more. Never stop what you're doing you sexy man!

So Sega released this portable console in 1995? The Nintendo Switch is a bit late then.

@seven0779

7 жыл бұрын

Kyle Sorenson nice

@anthonys4788

7 жыл бұрын

obviously

@shadoom

7 жыл бұрын

the switch will only last 2-3 hours playing zelda

@rexon31

7 жыл бұрын

shadoom actually the switch will use any portable battery charger so you can extend that 😉

@Soraking007

7 жыл бұрын

actually that was a misnomer its gonna last playing BotW it will last between 3-5 hours. the max its battery can be is around 8-9 hours, also you can use a power blocik which you can get for dirt cheap that are really good. ive got two of the damn things.

Omg the ghosting is INSANE. I’ve never seen live video of anything running on the actual Nomad screen, and dear god is it insane. No wonder it didn’t sell!

@thisthingmint250

4 жыл бұрын

The game gear has the same crappy screen design too.

The funny thing with the back of the cartridge boxes or in the manual is that they're transalted so awfully in languages other than english that it becomes funny.

@Siphonay

10 жыл бұрын

That's totally the type of sentences that can be found. Thay can also be grammatically correct but making absolutely no sense at all. It's really a hobby to read Master System or Megadrive games manuals.

@GamersBrainStorming

10 жыл бұрын

***** Empire earth cheat codes FTW (Fuck That Whale)

The Turbo Touch 360 was designed for fighting games, specifically. The big draw was that some versions of it were programmable, so if you knew what you were doing you could program a tricky-to-use special move into it, and then, using the program feature, use that move essentially on call.

I seriously can't believe ive been watching you review random crap on a brown sofa for years and still love it

Coincidently, the only Genesis/Mega Drive game that won't work is the X-Men game. In one of the Computer levels, you have to reset your console. But, the Nomad doesn't have a reset button.

@CastleFsUczN5nnK

10 жыл бұрын

What about powering it off and then on?

@DaChazSterTV

10 жыл бұрын

Nope. Only the reset option works.

@RandoMuTuberMaowlick

10 жыл бұрын

DaChazSterTV You're sure there isn't a button combination that can make it reset?

@DaChazSterTV

10 жыл бұрын

Nope. It's the only Genesis game that won't work on a Nomad.

@callsignjuggs5248

10 жыл бұрын

DaChazSterTV some one has been watching avgn

He summarized the crappy call of duty series amazingly towards the beginning of the video.

@BaxzXD

7 жыл бұрын

Benny Collela "crappy call of duty series" I guess you just base your opinions on what everyone else says.

@his_purpose3

7 жыл бұрын

DoomGhoul, the series is the same fucking trash every year

Finally. This was one I was waiting for!

An excellent description. Seriously, this is one of the best.

'you dolphin faced fucker'..... Had me in stitches

Sonic should have worked on Nomad, as the first Sonic was not region locked. But anyway, cool video. It was nice to see Nomad in action.

@RAMChYLD

10 жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, aren't the first two Sonic cartridges region free? Anyways, I wonder if Ashens is aware that there are region bypass adapters for the Mega Drive out there. Sure, it's a bit ugly since you lock-on a cartridge on top of it (and it looks ridiculous when you have a Sonic 3 cartridge locked on Sonic and Knuckles locked on to a Game Genie on it), but well, it works.

@gold_lightning

10 жыл бұрын

RAMChYLD Yes Sonic 1 and 2 (and Sonic & Knuckles) are region free. Oddly enough, the only game in that series that WAS region locked is Sonic 3 (alone).

@DJCube1701

10 жыл бұрын

He mentioned that it wasn't working due to the screen, rather than the region lock.

@RAMChYLD

10 жыл бұрын

+Dean Jones unless I'm mistaken, he mentions it's because his games are all 50Hz? The worst that will happen is that they run faster on the Nomad.

@RAFMnBgaming

7 жыл бұрын

+RAMChYLD and are thus rendered unplayable by ludicrously low reaction time exacerbated by LCD input lag.

i had a nomad as a kid and this video brought back so much nostalgia. i used to play a game called vectorman i really miss this.

As someone who had one when they weren't terribly old, and with a huge library of games, I can confirm that they were pretty damn nice at the time to have even with the battery issues.

I'm puzzled now, coz I've played quite a few Mega Drive games on my Nomad. Either I'm very lucky, or you're very unlucky... or have dirty contacts on your carts. Sonic 1 most definitely works. I have it running as I type this.

@ExeDist

10 жыл бұрын

He is going on that he has a NTSC console and only PAL cartridges. I never had a problem with my drive as I just went in side and modded the hard jump configuration, so I could switch it when I pleased (I also f***** with the port slightly!). Question? could you possibly have a chipped Nomad? (I don't know if that type of chip existed for something that old, but heck, they must of appeared at some point!)

@SimmyBassline

10 жыл бұрын

is there a lot that dont work? i have been looking into gettin one recently

@SteveBenway

10 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. I know Virtua Racing doesn't work, but it's the only one in my collection that wouldn't play.

@carbon1255

9 жыл бұрын

SimmyBassline I would not put money on it, there may unknown variables at work.

@TheSonnyworld

9 жыл бұрын

***** He has a pal cart it won't work

"No don't shoot lasers out your face, its weird." Going to put that gem in my pocket for s rainy day ;-)

I still have this. It was an awesome protable at it's time.

THANK YOU for showing the street rage game! i finally now know what the very first game i ever played was named! (played it at my cousins house when i was 6 or 7)

The Streets of Rage series will always be my favorite games

@thewiccalady7386

8 жыл бұрын

Omg yesss!! But you have to admit streets of rage 1&2 was a lot better than 3. I found 3 a little disappointing, but maybe that's just because I haven't been able to finish it yet!!

@BrySkye

8 жыл бұрын

+CrazySweetGirl The Japanese version (Bare Knuckle 3) was a LOT more fun to play. They managed to suck most of the fun out in changing it to SoR 3. The thing to really go for now though is to track down Streets of Rage Remake v5.1 and play it on PC, ideally with a Mega-Drive or Saturn v2 Controller. It basically merges all three games into one as well as a ton of new stuff.

@thewiccalady7386

8 жыл бұрын

+BrySkye sounds cool, but its so hard to find these types of games now :/ rather sad really. I love well to me they are retro games, but I do know to alot of other people they are no where near retro XD but If I do see it, I will definitely try and get it!!

@BrySkye

8 жыл бұрын

CrazySweetGirl It shouldn't be much harder than typing it into google ;)

@thewiccalady7386

8 жыл бұрын

+BrySkye ahhh cool, I dont know why, but I was thinking it was going to be in cartridge form XD

Mr Ashens? (holds up hand at back of the class) Can you tell us why the Mega Drive in the US was named after a prog rock band from Surrey? Nowhere on the web has a solid answer.

@GT6398

10 жыл бұрын

No, "Genisis" is the book in the Bible where everything is created, and it is a reference to this. The band just so happens to have the same name.

@TheFutureIsPrimitive

10 жыл бұрын

Mega Drive was a legally protected name in the United States, so it could not be used. It was then called the SEGA Genesis, because it was the genesis of the 16-bit console generation. The Genesis was massively popular over here and SEGA of America was very successful. That's why millions of people call it the Genesis.

@kerbal666

10 жыл бұрын

Hmmm I wonder who had the rights to Mega Drive?

@cassthenerd6023

10 жыл бұрын

kerbal666 Its a company who makes car parts I think or a brand of car parts.

@kerbal666

10 жыл бұрын

Daniel Castaneda Nice one!

We needed a Blueglass cameo for this video.

Thank you. So much for using the Turbo Touch. I bought one of those because I was convinced it would make me awesome at Street Fighter Champion Edition, and had completely forgotten what it was called. It did not, in case you were wondering.

Sega Nomad: An Airbender's favorite console.

@tuxcup

10 жыл бұрын

*Favourite

@tuxcup

10 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks a lot, captain obivous. *facepalm

The most surprising thing about the nomad is that it has no japanese release, when u think that would be the very reason they made it, to cater to the japanese market with their small homes and commute times

The ost for alien 3 is some of my favorite gensis/megadrive music

@neil2905

8 жыл бұрын

alien 3 is my favourite soundtrack on the megadrive. it's on the same pedestal as Streets of Rage 1&2 and Revenge of Shinobi. check out the soundtrack to the excellent rare japanese game Battle Mania Daiginjō. Bloody brilliant.

My jaw literally dropped when you pulled out the turbo touch. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.

I thinks your channel is amazing, Ashens. I had one of these growing up. I traded it for a carton of cigarrettes (stupid). Now you can buy the with new digital screens. Not that this is obscure, but your channel and boogies are the first channels that i ever saw such obscure stuff being reviewed. I thought it was a joke at first. But i think its amazing.

And it is impossible to complete the first X-Men game on this thing since it requires you to reset the console as part of the gameplay.

@ejej3000

10 жыл бұрын

No, it is not.

@Crowley9

10 жыл бұрын

Really? That game requires you to press the reset button at a certain point, and I thought Nomad doesn't have that. How can you finish that game?

@ejej3000

10 жыл бұрын

Crowley9 You cannot finish it. I just read your first comment wrong :)

5:24 Handsome fish This part made me die of laughter when I was young

This episode is quite relaxing for some reason

I'm starting to question whether that Sonic box had a copy of the game inside it, because that *should* have played fine on a 60hz device, at its proper speed. Aside from the few later on that locked you out based on region settings in later years (Like SoR II), Most games were completely cross compatible... Developers never bothered to optimise gameplay for different hz rates and most of the time the carts contained exactly the same code on the ROMs - An NTSC cart would just play slower on a PAL machine, and a PAL cart would play faster (or how us purists like to say: it's proper speed) on an NTSC machine. There are even some earlier carts that have the code for the western and Japanese versions inside, and will run in all 3 territories and change the title screens and language accordingly based on region settings (Japanese cartridges were a slightly different shape though so wouldn't fit in a US/EU slot without cutting the slot a bit, and a US/EU cart wouldn't fit in a JP machine unless you removed the cart lock bar in the console) Stupid piece of trivia about the region lockout on SoR2: The EU version and the Japanese version are identical and work on either machine, and even changes it's title screen to Bare Knuckle II an a JP MD, but won't work on a Genesis. The Genesis version only works on a Genesis because it's a stupid billy no-mates, has a different sprite for Blaze's jump kick so you cant see her pants, and has had the title screen changed to "Streets of Rage 2" instead of "Streets of Rage II" because apparently Sega US didn't think Americans understood Roman numerals.

@anthonywebber8152

2 жыл бұрын

post 1993

My Sega Nomad story: So, it was around my birthday last year. I was in the mall's one of two retro game stores and noticed their Sega Nomad for sale. Seeing how I had a bunch of cash and a bunch of Sega games, I bought it. The guy advised me that the contrast knob didn't work, so he sold it to me for $70 instead of $80. I take it home, plug it into the wall, and the screen doesn't work. I can plug it into the TV just fine, but the screen on the portable console didn't work, making it as portable as a regular Sega Genesis. I return it to them, and instead of them refunding my money, the say they can fix it. A few weeks go by, and I call them up, they say that they're waiting on some parts, so I wait for another couple weeks. When I call them up this time, they say their repair guy quit and they're trying to find a new guy to replace him with. I say fuck it and demanded my money back, and they did. That store is bullshit overall, they buy games from other stores and sell them for more.

That Ecco music... mmmm.... good memories. I recorded that music on to a tape back before I knew what an internet was and used to listen to it on the bus ride to school.

I remember the Nomad although it was never released here in UK I used to have Sega magazines & they had an article about it in one once, I remember wanting one at the time but I was super addicted to my Mega Drive for ages which I still actually have in full working order & have all my games still too :)

*Echo the Dolphins secret rape cave of Sexual pleasure.* Best sequel ever.

@BigBimbo

7 жыл бұрын

ChaosWaffle ?

@encycl07pedia-

5 жыл бұрын

Ecco* Also WTF is wrong with you?

I love Ecco the Dolphin!

@zebimicio5204

9 жыл бұрын

Charjune ecco is by sega

@Charjune

9 жыл бұрын

I already know that. What's your point?

@zebimicio5204

9 жыл бұрын

"Different than sega version" What dies that supposed to mean?

@Charjune

9 жыл бұрын

Because Ecco the Dolphin has also been released for Windows 95 in 1996. That's the one I first played and the one I grew up with. The soundtrack is different than the Sega release and what I also noticed is that there are actual CGI cutscenes in the Windows version, something that I never saw in the Sega consoles (a friend of mine had the same game back then and I played the Sega version online to notice the differences). If you google or search on KZread for "Ecco the Dolphin PC" (or "Windows") you may find playthough, cutscenes and soundtrack of the Windows version. I totally love the PC soundtrack of the game.

@zebimicio5204

9 жыл бұрын

Tl Sooo U meant other then the console version?

The Nomad is hands down my favorite system that I own. Love the Game Gear as well

I remember hearing about this but I was to young at the time to remember until I saw this video kind of surprising that it's us only that unheard of

Is the steam controller the reincarnation of the Turbo Touch 360?

@Channel9iNE

8 жыл бұрын

+DOSRetroGamer Steam controller is a better version of it by having TWO touchy things

@pazzoeo

8 жыл бұрын

you can set it to require click

@Tea-vi9ey

8 жыл бұрын

What a twist!

@mind_combatant

7 жыл бұрын

the Steam Controller at least gives a bit of feedback, so there's that...

@Channel9iNE

7 жыл бұрын

BUT ITS GLOSSY.For some reason gamers hate gloss

Good thing I pulled an all nighter. :D

@MeowingCookie_

10 жыл бұрын

Lol same!

& now a PSP can do the Nomad's job incredibly well.

Had one back in the day, still have it. I was king of the bus well into when the GBA came out, especially since I could play Streets of Rage 2 with another guy, with 1 console.

I swear when you blew into that cartridge part of me died just then.

@jekblom123

8 жыл бұрын

everyone does that.

@UltimaOmegaZero

8 жыл бұрын

jekblom123 Yeah, I know. It's just that it slowly corrodes the cartridge.

@usernameDataText

8 жыл бұрын

He's right, just use 90 degrees alcohol !!! >

@diamondfailer11

8 жыл бұрын

+Malik Walik I have 80 degree cologne. Would that work?

@usernameDataText

8 жыл бұрын

Aperture Science technically yes, but you'ld rather get some alcohol to prevent your cartridge to smell too good. :)

I'm probably alone on this... But I envy the Europeans for having gotten the mega drive and not genesis... Mega drive just sounds more badass.

@unverifiedbiotic

8 жыл бұрын

+PsychoticBastard I think you meant MEGA DRIVE.

@yourepostedinthewrongneigh1545

8 жыл бұрын

Michał Pawlak Well fuck me! XD I didn't notice!

@patrickroche4183

8 жыл бұрын

the games ran a lot slower though. I think they ran 17% slower. after playing the USA version, I found it to be much better, like with the sonic games

@RWL2012

8 жыл бұрын

+Patrick Roche they can be modified to play in 60Hz NTSC

@encycl07pedia-

5 жыл бұрын

Patrick Roche America, fuck yeah!

"Go Ecco! You dophin faced fucker!" I came for the highbrow wit and was not disappointed! That really did genuinely make me laugh out loud!

I lol'd when he realized everything was orange. The way he views his own work all through the viewfinder makes for great accidental meta humor.

Ecco always freaked me out. The music was eerie as fuck.

@NaokisRC

10 жыл бұрын

The moment when all the dolphins got sucked up scared me as a kid. Nice cute and cuddly BAM ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE GONNA BE EATEN.

@Mentski

10 жыл бұрын

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE.

@nobel11

10 жыл бұрын

I love it. Eerie and badass!

@maria_remedios

10 жыл бұрын

Mentski FOR PIGS.

@OdaSwifteye

10 жыл бұрын

Oh good that wasn't just me. I think the music was supposed to simulate the atmosphere or at least the ambiance of the deep sea but it was weird. I always expected something to come out and kill me but it was never that aggressive.

DAMN YOU SOAPY MACTAVISH!!!!!!!!

For a rare system, we have 3 of them. They appear to be much more common in the US. And the best use was as a portable genesis/megadrive with the output-to-tv. It also, yes, works just fine with the master system converter, though you might as well just port around a proper genesis in a gym bag or a backpack. No, it will not work with a 32X because of the strange layering that used on the video signal.

I had a Turbo Touch 360 and absolutely loved it for fighting games but not much else.

Sega: "Our handhelds are super awesome with all the hardware they have! Battery life? What's that?"

A shame it never got a Sega CD add on.

@RichardCraig

10 жыл бұрын

Ha, that'd be fun to carry around! ...and imagine the battery life!

@RRW359

9 жыл бұрын

That would be the CDX.

@RichardCraig

9 жыл бұрын

RRW Eh, not really since the CDX didn't have its own screen or controls like a portable system... all it could do on its own was play audio CDs. It would've been neat if there was been a way to plug the CDX into the Nomad to have a portable Sega CD, but I'm pretty sure Sega was well aware by that point that the Sega CD was old news and almost a total flop.

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi

5 жыл бұрын

Or a Sega 32X add-on.

To this day I still regret accidentally busting the screen to my Nomad. It was a power hog, but it was one of the greatest "handhelds" ever.

Recently came upon one of these in a resale shop with the AC adaptor, battery pack and original box. Absolutely love this thing. Yeah, battery life is a joke (two hours or so) but I love being able to play it in short bursts when traveling or just to kill time at home. Cool little thing to own as there aren't really a ton out there to buy.

Is the Turbo Touch 360 a warning for the Steam controller?

@mcsruler

10 жыл бұрын

I believe the Steam Controller is supposed to have Haptic Feedback though.

@TheGuyWhoIsSitting

10 жыл бұрын

Techcraft2 mcsruler Didn't they say they were ditching that idea and going more for the conventional game pad that is like the XBOX controllers instead?

@davidfgranger

10 жыл бұрын

mcsruler The Xperia Play is similar, the touchpads are ok when the game is properly optimised, albeit in a nowhere-near-as-good-as-an-analogue-stick kinda way.

@carbon1255

9 жыл бұрын

mcsruler Haptic feedback is a load of shite. It is a trackpad that vibrates.

I think Mega Drive is a cooler name than Genesis. Coming from an American.

@joeygreathouse3029

8 жыл бұрын

+TBrizzle01 It always puzzled me as a Mater System owner. I thought "But...it isn't the Genesis at all...it's like their third or fourth gaming computer." haha

@annother3350

3 жыл бұрын

Mega drive sounds 80s to me - like "check out this djs mega master mix"

@Liamthewaldo

3 жыл бұрын

@@annother3350 that sounds way more 90s then 80s

@annother3350

3 жыл бұрын

@@Liamthewaldo The "dj mega master mix" type of thing came about some time after the invention of the 12-inch single in the late 70s

This is the cleanest Sega Nomad I've ever seen

I got a SEGA ad during this video XD

Fun fact: This was originally called the Venus, and it was one of a whole series of planet-themed names: Mercury: Game Gear Venus: Nomad Mars: 32X Jupiter: I think it was a Genesis with a built in CD and 32X Saturn: Sega Saturn Neptune: Genesis with a built in 32X Pluto: A Saturn with built-in internet My names: Earth: Genesis Uranus: Genesis with a Sega CD Eris: Dreamcast Ceres: Master System

@powersonic0123

8 жыл бұрын

Funny how all of the consoles with planet names ended up being a commercial flop for SEGA, just like all consoles with cat names were shitty for Atari.

@thatdudegaming3501

8 жыл бұрын

+powersonic0123 XD calico

@charly88888888

8 жыл бұрын

Practically every Sega console flopped.

@Felamine

7 жыл бұрын

Nintendo had some company codenames for their consoles as well... Dot Matrix Game = Game Boy Project Reality = Nintendo 64 Dolphin = Game Cube Revolution = Wii Iris = Nintendo DS

@HaydenX

7 жыл бұрын

The Genesis, Game Gear, and Dreamcast were the only non-flops in the west (the Game Gear and Dreamcast both were profitable...though not as much as Sega was hoping). The Saturn did quite well in Japan. The 32x was by far the biggest flop Sega ever had their hands in...

Better battery life than my IPhone...

@CastleFsUczN5nnK

10 жыл бұрын

Then you should have a shitty Chinese knockoff :P

Certain people mentioned this console to *a certain Let's Player* - where he plays Sonic Game Gear games. "The Game Gear ate the batteries, the Nomad DEVOURED them!"

I found one of these in the free bin at a bookstore nearby. The screen has some dead pixels, but other that that it's pretty neato

There is actually a handy mod for replacing the Nomad's screen with a modern LCD that uses less battery and looks much brighter and sharper. Not the cheapest thing in the world to have installed, but well worth looking into if you are into the Nomad. There's also services to mod the old burned out rechargeable battery packs with fancy new lithium so you can play for much longer than the original battery pack allowed for even when they were new.

@sonichockeyaug

10 жыл бұрын

Nice! Can you send me a link?

@ImTheKingOfHyrule

10 жыл бұрын

I don't know of any storefront websites offering the service, but ther is a guy on the Racketboy forums who does the screen and battery mods for $70 and $60 respectively. www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17415

@AgentTasmania

10 жыл бұрын

That much trouble just to play some dull, frustrating, vanishingly brief old games? My experience has barely been worth the time to set up emulators.

@ImTheKingOfHyrule

10 жыл бұрын

AgentTasmania I bet your first game was Call of Duty.

@AgentTasmania

10 жыл бұрын

Timstuff Nope. PSOne, and even going back to the stuff I loved as a kid is just frustrating and dull now. Spyro, Chrash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater all dissapointed me when I got the station out after about a ten year gap. The rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia don't fit my prescription.

Doesn't the Steam console have two of those touch pads instead of joysticks, like the Turbo Touch 360? Dang, wonder how that turns out.

@dennett316

10 жыл бұрын

I'd imagine they're a lot more sophisticated than an early 90's 3rd party Megadrive controller.

@AdvancePlays

10 жыл бұрын

Paul Dennett I suppose, but an iPhone screen is a lot more sophisticated too yet a lot of people despise that.

@3lloGuvner

10 жыл бұрын

wee1owen12 Don't confuse sophisticated technology with sophisticated design. There's good reason people despise touch screens for most games; most games genres evolved without the consideration of a control scheme that required you to cover half the screen with your fingers and thumbs.

@AdvancePlays

10 жыл бұрын

'Ello Guv'ner I wouldn't necessary count that as large an area of contempt as you think, considering games like Slayin exist, where the controls aren't on the play area yet still receive scorn.

@3lloGuvner

10 жыл бұрын

wee1owen12 Well there's other things wrong with touch screens. No tactile feedback is a big one depending on the genre. As for Slayin, i don't know anything about it so i couldn't say whether i think the hate is deserved or not.

"You Dolphin Faced Fucker" - Best thing I've heard, possibly this year.

I used to play Japanese and U.S games on a UK Megadrive.. just adapted the cartridge. Ran with no issues from what I remember.

Ashens grab a Qtip, get some drops of windowcleaner on it and rub the catridge contags clean. Then you grab your creditcard and some clean piece of cloth. Wrap an edge of your creditcard with the cloth and apply a little bit of windowcleaner on it and stuff the clothwarped card in the cartidge slot and carefully jiggle it up and down to get all the dust out it has collected over time. Blowing the catridge or slot will damage it, the contacts will rust and your game/ console will die a painful death.

@KingCorny93

9 жыл бұрын

***** I just noticed that my cellphone autocorrected nearly every word I wrote.

@Rouz102

9 жыл бұрын

+KingCorny93 The best way to clean the games is to open up the cartridge and clean the contacts with an eraser. It'll remove all the gunk on it. Windowcleaner or any liquid will also eventually damage and cause rust, as will any amount of liquid. Although I did have to settle for this method recently because the cartridge had weird screws in it for some reason that weren't standard gamebit screws.

@coropixel4975

8 жыл бұрын

+Mario Rodriguez +KingCorny93 *facepalm* Windowcleaner corrodes. You use isopropyl, nothing over 97% or it will damage the contacts.

@coropixel4975

8 жыл бұрын

***** Gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8

@KingCorny93

8 жыл бұрын

CoroPixel my 1983 Famicom games still run properly.

3:46 "you are soapy mactavish man, you must shoot brown men GO! and then next year do the same again but slightly more expensive dlc" -Stuart ashen

I have always wanted to get my hands on one of these. For those concerned with poor battery life a backlit LCD screen mod greatly improves image quality and battery life.

I couldn't FIND any of these! I saw it in magazines, and never saw it in a store ever. I wanted one, too.

Ashens is the new YSG

@RantiMess

10 жыл бұрын

Dan.

@ELSEIFedm

10 жыл бұрын

I knew someone would say it.

@sudo451

10 жыл бұрын

who's ysg?

@CryoDragon

10 жыл бұрын

Who is YSG?

@empire0

10 жыл бұрын

Cryo Dragon Yellow Shirt Guy aka Blueglass. He's a speed runner that speed runs this game. He's got a ridiculous laugh, look up some of his videos.

I'll give you £5 for the nomad

@fuppetti

10 жыл бұрын

I'll give him £5.01 :P

@tuxcup

10 жыл бұрын

Deltaexio with a hint of lemon... £5.02

@LazarouDave

10 жыл бұрын

tuxcup guess what....i'm not bidding :P But if i was, it wouldn't be £5.03

@micajoeh0

10 жыл бұрын

Dan Arthur $9.55 CAD I don't know the exchange rate.

@tuxcup

10 жыл бұрын

$9.56CAD.

Ahhh, the days when portable gaming was a novelty, and not something just anyone could do on the now omnipresent smartphone. I spent many an hour huddled up next to the wall-outlet with my Sega Nomad, playing Comix Zone, Vectorman, and Sonic & Knuckles.

I bought one of these years ago, the Nomad system I mean. It has terrible blur for action games but for TYT RPGs like Phantasy Star 2, 3, and 4, it's just wonderful to play. Curiously I never put batteries in it and only carried it from place to place so I could plug it in the wall socket as I didn't like the oversized battery pack in the back.

And yet it's still more advanced than the Xbox one...

@SebastianQ2003

5 жыл бұрын

Mydogeatsshit um no its not😂

@hypnotised-clover

5 жыл бұрын

@@SebastianQ2003 It is.

Has anyone told you that you sound like the narrator from The Stanley Parable?

@Haggy

9 жыл бұрын

fireclaw316 OMG... really :D

@mramir1238

9 жыл бұрын

fireclaw316 not even fucking close just because he is british lol

@KittenoftheBroccoli

9 жыл бұрын

MrAmir I dunno. He at least reminded me of him when I first started watching.

@venstoma

9 жыл бұрын

+WallE since when did you get thumbs?

@computerman789

8 жыл бұрын

+MrAmir "British" is vague as he wouldn't sound very much like the guy from Stanley Parable if he had a Scottish or Welsh accent seeing as the Scottish and Welsh are also British...

I remember playing Alien 3 on the Genesis way back when. Super hard.

I totally had this, but mine was bought along with a rechargeable battery that was slightly thicker than the 6 AA battery pack. From what I remember the rechargeable battery had better life (when new at least) than using AAs.

Hello guys, I'm ashens and I'm about to attempt my longest sega ever.

@annother3350

3 жыл бұрын

Sega saga

Turbo Touch 360 - like today touch screens :D I hate playing games on touch screen!

@kvarnerinfoTV

9 жыл бұрын

***** Goat mud sallad!

@kvarnerinfoTV

9 жыл бұрын

***** Me neither :D

@Mackaber

9 жыл бұрын

Linus Magnus or the steam controller

@kvarnerinfoTV

9 жыл бұрын

Mackaber Witckin I hate anything related to steam :D

I was partially hoping you'd play Ecco juuuust long enough to be able to joke about dolphin abductions. Also it is amazing seeing how even back then there were such huge jumps in the gaming industry, one moment you have your handheld Sega Genesis, six years later you have the GBA which was I believe twice as powerful than the Genesis itself with so much less space taken up!

Considering the tech at the time, it was rather impressive as a portable game system. I used my nomad during the daylong car trips(used a dc adapter for power) or when I spent the summer with my grandparents when I was a kid.