The "AP" on the Hyperspace game's price tag actually reads "ΔΡ" and it stands for Drachma (Δραχμή), which is the old Greek currency. 3200 Drachma would be about 7 British pounds, if you're wondering.

@AgentTasmania

8 жыл бұрын

+A Thought I saw a delta. The scientist in me wants to make a joke about the change in pressure represented by Delta-P, but it's 2AM.

@FrostRashouto

8 жыл бұрын

+A Ah no wonder I felt like ive seen this ΔΡ thing. Though I find it funny that these stuff were sold in Greece...

@GIKAS123

8 жыл бұрын

+Neko Well here in greece we had many of those stuff in stores...XD

@FrostRashouto

8 жыл бұрын

GREGG DIMITROLL I know right? I live there :D A GBc game costed way too much back then...

@GIKAS123

8 жыл бұрын

Neko Are you Greek?

Great Ashens. I tried to remember 1990 and now there's a crack in my wall.

@thecodingethan

8 жыл бұрын

+The Captain There isn't an eye looking through it is there?

@poisonberryeatingaleks5780

8 жыл бұрын

it's a glory hole

@SarkyBrit

8 жыл бұрын

+Poison Berry Eating Aleks Anything is a glory hole if you try hard enough.

@acetylen42

8 жыл бұрын

+The Captain Prisoner Zero has escaped?

@bloodied_reaper1510

8 жыл бұрын

You're gonna need a Doctor for that headache the Rift... I mean Crack will cause you.

64x64 pixels is a single boss sprite in RPG Maker.

@Boogie_the_cat

Жыл бұрын

O.G. game boy was only 160 X 144 Game boy advance was only 240 X 160 with 256 kilobytes of RAM. Nintendo sure knows how to squeeze the most out of low powered hardware. But then we run into problems like Tears of the Kingdom chugging away because Nintendo also refuses to admit when it's hardware needs upgrades. Good old Nintendo, they're like my nonexistent uncle who still uses answering machine cassette tapes.

@samholdsworth420

6 ай бұрын

​@@Boogie_the_catNintendo is evil stop giving them money 🤑

@hamzasultan96

5 ай бұрын

​@@Boogie_the_cat You know it's being cheap and not resourceful when even the thing made exclusively for your tech can't run properly.

@samholdsworth420

2 ай бұрын

​@@Boogie_the_catwhy are you everywhere and you never respond to anyone calling out your bullsh!t 😂 Please boogie off and shut the hell up

@samholdsworth420

2 ай бұрын

Also my penis is bigger than that Sprite!

are you serious did they seriously use havah nagila for the knockoff tetris's music

@MagisterMalleus

8 жыл бұрын

It's no worse than Tetris itself using Korobeiniki.

@Chronoteeth

8 жыл бұрын

+HypnoLama +Badatstuff its just so jarring, like it feels more like "ok so tetris had a traditional russian song that often has religious ties we gotta find one for OUR game" and they just did it

@Caldella

8 жыл бұрын

+Chronoteeth It weirded me out, mainly because it took me a few seconds to place it for some reason. Then I just got confused.

@marymoonchild2801

8 жыл бұрын

like when i first heard it i was trying to remember the 90s so i thought that i broke the universe ( since i was born in 1992 ) and caused hava nagila to be a tune played in tetris game lol...but yeah its really weird that they used this melody

@jamiewilliamson9829

8 жыл бұрын

+Badatstuff How is Tetris using Koribeiniki bad though. It's a Russian song used in a Russian game.

I'm a German official because our population of 83 million consists entirely of officials and I can neither deny or confirm we are secretly building a space castle. On our continent in space. That can jump to hyper space if you solve a maze. Nope, neither deny nor confirm.

@benpaul7923

8 жыл бұрын

+Aaron Idstein the americans wanted to build a real death star

@TheBokkelul

8 жыл бұрын

+Ben Paul Said *as if* the Americans didn't actually build a Death Star.

@thekingsman9773

8 жыл бұрын

Like how Russia consists entirely of bears on unicycles?

@JoshIdstein

8 жыл бұрын

josh kirby Bears on unicycles armed with nuclear weapons. But I've heard they are working on a weapon based on dropping colourful cube-based shapes at people.

@archaeopteryxgallopade2199

8 жыл бұрын

+Aaron Idstein As an American, I can ALSO not deny or confirm that we are building a giant Game Child to live in after we destroy the earth.

The position of that D-Pad makes me retch.

@SuperDerpio64

3 ай бұрын

Agreed

The tune is Jewish Klezmer classic, Hava Nagila.

@TheCobraLord

8 жыл бұрын

+JeridanCork A shitty, speedy, digital version but still Hava Nagila.

@sleepy_jean

8 жыл бұрын

Hava Nagila

@fomoran

8 жыл бұрын

+AngelusBarney possibly mind control by the Elders of Zion...

@vladalexan

8 жыл бұрын

That was the first thing I noticed about the game!

@ThePoptartster

8 жыл бұрын

"This isn't music. This is a child slapping on a keyboard." Will the persecution never end for the poor Jews? XD

Refreshing the sub box is a monotonous but eventually rewarding way to waste your finite time in existence.

@thecaptain6148

8 жыл бұрын

Better than spending all your time here in your garage.

@JiantJames

8 жыл бұрын

+James Barker Not as rewarding as knawledge tho.

@HarlemHusky

8 жыл бұрын

But do you know what I like more than materialistic things? Nothing, ha! I'm rich, did you really think I cared 'NAWLEDGE'?

@GlassesnMouthplates

8 жыл бұрын

+James Barker I'm still waiting for you to sell your property in Beverly Hills to me, Tai.

@TheSniper9752

8 жыл бұрын

+Fluff Oh gawd

The music on the Tetris clone is actually a version of Hava Nagila. It's pretty close (if not spot on for what it is) too. The part you thought was random is actually in the song.

insert the partridge......

@harrylonsdale3142

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@krakmunky69

8 жыл бұрын

+ScottishGeeks came looking to see if anyone else noticed this, was not disappointed.

@c0wqu3u31at3r

8 жыл бұрын

+ScottishGeeks AHAAAAAAAAA

@TheDapperLynx

8 жыл бұрын

Into the pear tree.

@murfyandjug8961

8 жыл бұрын

+ScottishGeeks Ladyboys

Here I am in 1989. Pre order cancelled.

I am living in Berlin and I actually know that company. It is amazing they published stuff like this back then. I newer knew they did something like that. They are actually a quite traditional toy company selling wooden hand made toys like swords, shields and miniature castles and stuff. If you ever get to visit Berlin make sure you check out their store. It's located conveniently close to the city's centre and the main touristic attractions.

@maxheadroom22and26

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't Hartung also make chess computers? Auf jeden Fall nicht nur Holzspielzeug!

"There was the MegaDuck, which had the greatest name of any console." WonderSwan says "hi."

This is what I'm talkin' about. Some good old fashioned crap handheld reviews. Love it

@YeeMacghyee

8 жыл бұрын

It's like we've stepped into the ghost of ashens past

@chrismac4441

8 жыл бұрын

Yee Macghyee I know! Reminds me of the good old days when I first stumbled upon this channel

@TheKahzam

8 жыл бұрын

do u work at boston pizza?

'"Falling Blocks needs some music that sounds russian folk songy" "Sure thing, boss. Hava Nagila will do the trick"

Why the fuck is that game called Hyper Space?! What does it have to do with Space or Hyper in any form, apart from literally existing in our universe?!

Ya know...This system didn't seem THAT bad, at least the screen had minimal ghosting lol. Great stuff Ashens, always super interesting to see obscure goodies like this!

Sees "Continental Galaxy 2020" in 2020, wonders why we are still not in hyper space

@txzk26

2 жыл бұрын

instead we got covid

You must get the other supervision model? You bloody had my one for over two years :D

@Bukkarooo

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Bundy Jr And I swear the other model is the one he used in his video on the system! Must've been yours in that video, then.

@jubuttib

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Bundy Jr Yeah, and it's not like he didn't already make a bloody video with it 6 years ago. :D

@Chris-yz7cs

8 жыл бұрын

Hi guru Larry x

@David315842

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Bundy Jr Who knows? he may end up buying a version that isn't by Watara? :D

@Larry

8 жыл бұрын

David315842 Mine is a quickshot version.

"Slide the game pack partridge into the Game Master Unit..." Does it have to be in a pear tree, as well?

is it just me or does the Systema/Game Master look like a game boy in a game gear shell?

@Eevee_133

7 жыл бұрын

Looney Bird exactly what I was thinking

The "Action Points" Are Greek Drachmas and 3200DR which is a whopping £6.40

@neoniakitsama

7 жыл бұрын

gingergreek that's 6.40 more than it should be

@gingergreek

7 жыл бұрын

The product? I agree

I do appreciate your instant recognition of Soviet animation!

Wait Ashes has uploaded at a sensible time for the Uk?! Yes!

The music to 'Falling Blocks' is the jewish folk classic 'Hava Nagila'. You'd probably be glad there's a headphone jack when you're sitting in a public transport with this console.

Those are some exciting sounding games on the back of that one's packaging... "Go Bang Game" "Pin Ball" "Dungeon Advanture [sic]" "Continental Galaxy" LOL.

The irony of having Hava Nagila playing on a German system wasn't lost on me ;)

@LeSarthois

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyla Hislop It's funny how everyone wanna attribute that thing to Hartung, when there is no evidence whatsoever that they were involved in this thing. Aside from the obvious fact that they sold it. The first to have sold this monstruosity could have been Systema, or Videojet, or who know else.

@TheEvilViolin

8 жыл бұрын

+LeSarthois Haha ok. I was just cracking a joke. I don't know the ins-and-outs of this console's history :)

@LeSarthois

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyla Hislop Oh yeah, I kinda got it now :p easy joke ^^

@sweetasbloodredjam

6 жыл бұрын

Incidentally I don't think any german would fail to reconize Hava Nagila though. I grew up with that song, my parents learned how to sing/play it in school. While a lot of that is post war education making sure to make judaism relatable in order to prevent anything like the horrors of Nazi Germany happening again I'm glad that jewish culture remains a part of modern germany.

My Brother and I had one of these! I can remember having the games you showed. I was starting to think I imagined it! Thanks for the video!

This console came out at the same time as the Atari Lynx. *Think about that for a minute.* The resolution is marginally higher than a Sinclair ZX81 and the games are of comparable quality. In fact, the whole thing has an incredibly "early 80s" feel to it; not just the specs, but the amateurish feel to the games. It probably would have looked impressive in 1983; next to the Game Boy in 1990... not so much. Let's not even compare it to the Lynx. The packaging, artwork, everything about this screams cheap and nasty. It makes Jack Tramiel's shoestring marketing of the Lynx look positively extravagant. FWIW, I suspect Nintendo secretly funded this to make the Game Boy look better. (#) Hint for those who weren't around at the time; the ZX81 was *not* considered a red hot games machine even in its heyday.

@IvanovIvanAKrutoi

8 жыл бұрын

+NotATube Plus, this handheld looks like it was made in the Soviet Union rather than Germany.

@mothra__13

7 жыл бұрын

Ivan Simpson i keep thinking it must've been east germany

@AgentTasmania

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think the ZX80 and 81 really had a heyday

@anthonywebber8152

2 жыл бұрын

didn't nec turbo grafix and gamegear come out in 1990?

@maxheadroom22and26

2 жыл бұрын

In 1991 a Game Boy was 160 DM with Tetris, the Game Master was 100 DM with a pack-in game. A Lynx was 200-300 DM, don't really remember, with Blue Lightning(?). A Game Gear sold for 250 DM with a 4-in-1 Cartridge in 1994. I think, the Super Vision was sold for 130 DM. The exchange rate with Euro was 1,95583, so just divide the prices by 2. That's without inflation, of course!

Pretty sure the unknown currency is Drachmas which was the Greek currency before the euro was introduced back in 2000 or so. The "game" today would cost around 8 euros or so without inflation adjustment.

This popped up on my suggested video lists. I'm glad it did. :D Quite entertaining!

Sitting down to eat and realising you have a new video out is one of the best feelings ever

He went on a quest to find this 😂

@devinstanley3384

8 жыл бұрын

wrong handheld

Wondered if maybe Ashen has uploaded a new video. Checked up the channel. New video was uploaded 45sec ago... Telepathy is a hell of a gift.

Nice to see a new "Pop Station" for Ashens! Well done, friend!

Glad to see you're doing this again.

"It's like being in Bjork's refrigerator or something."

The guy's hat in Hyper Space cover made me think about DEVO, and that's PEP!

An oldskool Ashens video? Brilliant!

I like the little bags the games come in. Pretty neat.

I just realized solder is actually pronounced solder in British English. Good, when I discovered as a kid it was pronounced sodder by America I was slightly annoyed, I always thought it was supposed to be actually pronounced the way it was spelled. I'm Canadian by the way.

@TheBokkelul

8 жыл бұрын

+Caldera11 Muricans pronounce 'solder' as 'sodder' even though it clearly says 'solder' ?? silly Americans ☺

@gmun

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBokkelul we have to rebel against the english anyway we can u see

@TheYouTubeGame

8 жыл бұрын

+The Gmun Too bad we speak the same language...

@gmun

8 жыл бұрын

+The KZread Game (Null Void) we are also too lazy to adopt a different language

@TheYouTubeGame

8 жыл бұрын

The Gmun Ah yes, America: home of the free, land of the lazy I forgot, and I _live_ here...

Did they seriously use Hava Nagila?! hahaha

This is the type of game console you’d see a character playing in a cartoon or something

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Congrats on a million!

The music in "Falling Blocks" is a traditional Jewish tune. "Hava Nagila". So when they thought "traditional Russian tune", they at least got "traditional" right... Hmm...

The song from falling block is an israeli folk song "Hava Nagela" XD look it up!

So far, for my birthday, all I have gotten is a video from Ashens.

You started playing Falling Block and I got Vietnam-style flashbacks to my Bar Mitzvah. Thanks for that!

I LOOKED BACK TO FAR I BROKE THE UNIVERSE EVRYTHING IS FROZENWE ARE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIIIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hyper Space, reminds me of Mazogs on the ZX81 or Maziacs on the Spectrum.

@Nostalgianerd

8 жыл бұрын

+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) Why is it even called Hyper Space?!

@SteveBenway

8 жыл бұрын

Beats me :S

I do wish you would do more reviews, Stuart, you're very good at them.

"No! You will come!" I lost it there, but I love seeing those old handhelds from the past, great bit of nostalgia and a nugget of info.

German Tetris with "Hava Nagila" as background music. Amazing. So is the Space Castle French or is the player in a French spaceship?

@Fuzy2K

Жыл бұрын

And if you actually try to *sing* Hava Nagila to the version in that game, you'll probably run out of breath and pass out...

That finny price is probably Greek. Delta Ro standing for Drachmas?

@AndGn41

8 жыл бұрын

Correct!

He adheres to a rather impeccable "Mint in Package" regime collectors would be proud of.

The cover pictures are beautiful.

Falling Blocks was using Jewish song Hava Nagila oddly enough. Most of the notes were correct, just the spacing was odd.

The stuff on Steam Greenlight is certainly improving.

I woke up at 5:30 school. - sees ashens uploaded - well, going to be late again.

I noticed the first castle in Space Castle had the Uranus symbol (♅) on it. Are these levels supposed to take place at different planets?

Jesus, what horrible things have they done to that d-pad? Is that ergonomically designed for the elephant man? That design should be illegal. Although the resident evil chainsaw controller did something sorta similar.

Hmmm, a system i haven't heard of, very interesting indeed. I know you mentioned it but the carts really do look identical to Supervision ones, as does the packaging right down the the little bags the carts are in, i wonder if they just bought the moulds etc to save money? If that's the case it's suprising they didn't just rebrand the hardware too keeping the games compatible. The system seems to have a number of game gear esque styling cues aswell, very interesting, i shall add it to my list of wants, curse you Stuart Ashen for wasting even more of my hard earned currency! And how did you miss the words "slide the game pack partridge" in the hyperspace instructions! good lord man, you're slipping After a little research i think the upright version you mention at the end is the Game Plus, it's software compatible but the plastic of the carts is slightly different so they don't actually fit, despite the boards being identical

@yoymate6316

8 ай бұрын

i am pretty sure that the supervision and the game master are done by the same company. a large number of supervision games are made by a company called bon treasure. while the game master was not released in america, it was trademarked by a bon treasure industrial co. ltd. a few game master games also bear a copyright screen crediting bon treasure. finally, there are indications that watara was actually just a brand name, since the only thing they seem to have ever done and/or marketed is the supervision hardware itself. maybe i’m wrong, but i’m pretty sure watara = bon treasure. hartung, just like videojet in france and systema in the uk and virella in italy, was just a licensor. they just happened to be the first ones to license it.

Lol the background music to falling blocks sounds like an old folk song called hava nageela... awesome video

Congrats on 1 million!

Why in hand held gaming gods name does this require 4 double A batteries?!?! The tomagachi that came out a couple of years later used the same dot matrix screen...and ran on WATCH BATTERIES! The way this screen works is insanely simple actually, and this system most likely has no processor of any sort, it's all just signals going to sections of the screen and that's it.

Action Points? No no no.. That's obviously a Δ. So it'd be Delta Points, which is even more heinous! **

@cruzmatt22

8 жыл бұрын

What do you think about airplane gourmet meals

@YeeMacghyee

8 жыл бұрын

"Gourmet" that word, i believe airlines don't know what it means. Then again with all the air pressure your taste is messed up, so maybe airline food tastes good, on the fuckin' ground

@SoraHjort

8 жыл бұрын

Yee Macghyee They actually design those meals with the altered tastebuds in mind. So apparently there is only so much they can do. Especially since they have to take various variables into consideration, like the enclosed cabin with no air flow (Those air nozzles do nothing!), so they can't have very aromatic foods since they can be nauseous in closed spaces. Though personally, I think they still smell quite a bit. I'm not big on flying... especailly in recent years where I've been actually getting airsick, which is a bizzare experience. I went from a little kid that would yell cowabunga on lift off and enjoying looking out the window. To a shambling mess ready to throw up at no given notice. Even if it is two hours after landing during a shuttle ride (Good thing I take some airsickness bags with me when I get off the plane)... where was I going with this? Oh right, food smell. The smell does not help at all with airsickness.

@0error.389

8 жыл бұрын

Ryanair.

Always good to see another obscure old handheld

"It's like being in Björk's refrigerator." Best Ashens line ever. :)

"Continental Galaxy" - does it make sense if transliterated to German? Nein. Nein, it does not... :)

6:26 More like taking an old traditional Jewish song and remixing it while on crack.

Those German boxes are pretty cool; I could see collecting those like the Odyssey 2 boxed games.

Finally a video that wasn't uploaded AT NIGHT!!

The D-pad is angled like that because Nintendo patented the D-pad, and every other game console maker had to find ways around it.

@neyoid

6 жыл бұрын

Nintendo patented a certain type of d-pad. Having a d-pad that is a plus shape is not patented.

I actually used to own this pile of crap.

@wiibrockster

6 жыл бұрын

TheMarkedOne Really? Did you enjoy it?

I cast my mind back to 1990, and now there's an inter dimensional portal in my room. Thanks Ashens

If you were wondering, Δρ stands for Δραχμες(drachma) 3200drachma is approximately 4471.91 Cambodian riel

Any Notification people here?

@braydendudley57

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel Bagahansol nah bro im a twitter g

@naqie5599

8 жыл бұрын

i am

@naqie5599

8 жыл бұрын

Zen Masta Killa​ we are

@mark5126

8 жыл бұрын

Finally came through. My phone is really slow.

5:58 Replace Russian music with Jewish music. No one will notice, trust me.

Popstation Watch has lowered my expectations so much I'm just amazed/happy that these games appear to be mostly functional.

I have had one of these since I was a kid, with quite a few of the games. I still have it though it only works intermittently now. I remember it cost $80 when a Gameboy at the time was $200. Hyper Space was actually my favorite game. Continental Galaxy and Space Castle were also good. I'm pretty sure when you finish Space Castle the completion screen says 'CONGURATION'. Bubble Boy is a playable Dr Mario clone, and Car Racing wasn't too bad. Go Bang is broken, there's a sequence you can play and the machine responds the same way every time which means you can't lose. Kung Fu is just dreadful. The Gameboy price dropped to $150 some time later and I remember frantically getting my mum to call around town and drive me miles to pick up literally the last one in stock. It was like upgrading to an Oculus Rift.

2 minuets in and someone already disliked. I hate the internet.

@DG_427

8 жыл бұрын

So you hate people having their own opinions?

@pomfric

8 жыл бұрын

+Digital its just random haters that dont have an opinion

@DG_427

8 жыл бұрын

CROpunisher!™ How do you know?

@espurious

8 жыл бұрын

Hava Nagila is not a minuet.

@DG_427

8 жыл бұрын

Luuk Tijssen Maybe they dislike ashens, systema 2000 or something.

Eeep, 666 views!

"Go Bang!!" With a picture of a panda that looks to have just been banged.

Thank you Ashen for going back to dodgy games system videos :) I have missed these...though please don't stop those videos where you torture yourself by eating obnoxious food stuffs.

...*ANYWAY*... Fantastic, as always, Stuart!

Hoping you do more of these Asian handheld videos, I've seen them more times than I'd like to admit 😅

The good thing ist, that I can understand you speaking English AND read the game instructions in German. The bad thing is, that it doesn't make that thing any better. ;) Didn't know anything about the Hartung. Thanks for introducing it!

Thank you for not swearing Ashens :-)

For anyone who is wondering, Ashens is claiming that the cover of Continental Galaxy looks like Andrei Khrzhanovsky's "Glass Harmonica," a film that was made in the late 60s and generally circulated post-Glasnost. You can find it on KZread.

Loved telling my parents to look out for the game magazine that should be arriving in the mail every month

I kind of just realized Ashens' videos always has civilized youtube comment sections, shoutouts to all of you.

fuck i cant think of somthing witty ah well i love your content ashens! always makes me happy :D keep it up

The song in the Tetris knockoff is Hava Nagila, a Hebrew folk song. The German title of "Continental Galaxy" reads Alarmstufe Rot: Invasion im Sonnensystem - Red Alert - Invasion in the Solar System. Mighty creative translation that.

Ashens gotta show his entire tat collection one day...

As an American, I can actually understand you quite clearly, but when as you try to be funny with you're British vernacular, you sound pretty outrageous and get me started laughing uncontrollably! I really enjoy you videos. :)

@GhostHax0r

8 жыл бұрын

Also as an American, you have shit grammar and can't tell the different between "you're" and "your!"

@robertgaines-tulsa

8 жыл бұрын

Typo. My bad.

When I watch such reviews, I remember what Ashens is really the best at- reviewing electronic tat! Not food, not novelty shit, but this!

"I just got killed by a load of corruption"... oh politics...

You are extremely entertaining !

when you described the maze bit i had flash backs of little britains " look in the eye the eyes not around the eyes"

Man I am loving that german box art!