The main purpose of this toy, for most children, was not it's predetermined function as a "race simulator", but as a convincing control panel for the cardboard spaceship that you constructed.

I got an extremely old record player from my grandpa when he got a new one, and years later when I was more curious about inner workings of things, and got bored, I opened it up only to find an old wrapped cigar and nudie playing card. By then he had passed on but I always wonder if those were his or from someone who had it before him.

@jaymesyt

8 жыл бұрын

What if he put that there for you?

6 жыл бұрын

Wasn't the cigar rotten by then?

@alisterbaker-lowe

6 жыл бұрын

0_0

@THEremiXFACTOR

6 жыл бұрын

You discovered grandpa's wank bank.

I'll wager that's a pine needle from a christmas tree good Sir!!

The "blade of grass" is actually a pine needle. Some sorry sap got this for Christmas.

@randomtutorialstuff

8 жыл бұрын

Was the sap part a intentional pun?

@kort7367

8 жыл бұрын

+josh whitwell oh yus

@batlin

4 жыл бұрын

@Sassy The Sasquatch I was wondering what that was!

@MaxmadV8

3 жыл бұрын

But how did it get inside? The mystery continues...

@DOSRetroGamer

Жыл бұрын

You mean some super lucky kid. This thing was the tits. If you had no video games.

Stuart Ashen, can he break it? Stuart Ashen, HE ALREADY HAS!! #MyJam

@futurealarms121

9 жыл бұрын

***** Fixed it. Thanks by the way.

@grategoogleemooglee

9 жыл бұрын

in a way some toys are cooked

@futurealarms121

9 жыл бұрын

Elijah Shafi Haven"t we had a comment war with each other once?

@grategoogleemooglee

9 жыл бұрын

+Brenden White don't remember. I am not even sure.

@ToastedAlmond98

8 жыл бұрын

+Brenden White Next Number 1 in the Charts right there!

4:37 I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat

@superhamz7

8 жыл бұрын

thanks i couldnt be bothered

@Pandatar

8 жыл бұрын

But.. WHY

@wolfyboy

8 жыл бұрын

so we would spent time and effort trying to pause it at the right moment.

@cavegamer5989

8 жыл бұрын

+wolfy boy lol like I did

@superhamz7

8 жыл бұрын

I'm looking at this comment 31 weeks later and I forgot why

Wow, it's actually working BETTER than it did before.

It's the hospital stop! It's the crematorium stop! It's the grief counseling stop! Oh, Stuart, you never cease to amaze me.

@DMessham

8 жыл бұрын

its the morgue stop

@MrYuck-ec5do

7 жыл бұрын

regularflurfy who's Stuart? I thought this was the Simon Pegg eats nasty stuff and plays with toys channel?

@andymadden8183

5 жыл бұрын

Discount Simon Pegg, actually.

@sahhull

3 жыл бұрын

Its the usual moron in the comments quoting the part they thought was funny. because......????? reasons????

@smb-c3po

2 жыл бұрын

Or to turn us all on, basically Dr Stuart Ashen is a total daddy.

It's like he dismantled my childhood, then fixed it and put it back together again. This is epic.

I remember Playdays. There was a dopey brummy cat, a condescending bird and a little girl who forgot to take the pegs off her clothes when she took them off the line.

@Tofticus

9 жыл бұрын

and the guy who clearly had some kind of sexual relationship with a carousel.

@dancoulson6579

3 жыл бұрын

The "condescending bird" lmfao :D

0:58 Say it, don't spray it, Ashens.

@paladinsplace5072

8 жыл бұрын

you made my day

@silixtuhibiski95

4 жыл бұрын

@Sassy The Sasquatch Dude you watch old Ashens videos. One cool person right here

@SouthParkStudio

5 ай бұрын

​@silixtuhibiski95 how about me? Watching in 2024 lol

@silixtuhibiski95

5 ай бұрын

@@SouthParkStudio You're an omega-level human

@samholdsworth420

3 ай бұрын

​@@silixtuhibiski95who was sassy the Sasquatch?!?! 😢

I used to have something similar as a kid, but way more shite... but at the same time, it was probably more reliable. It had none of these weird tacho-fuel-speed things, it only had a key, the wheel and the "screen". It worked slightly differently too. The car was a sticker on the actual screen, and the wheel moved the ENTIRE ROAD side to side instead.

@staplehead3

9 жыл бұрын

I had one like that too. The one I had didn't have any of the grid on the side of the road or the car on the left. It was just an empty black road with some back lighting. It looked like the car was driving down a never ending road at night. I always found it kinda spooky.

@Gasoline85

9 жыл бұрын

I think I had one of those too, at one point.

@Jayfeather298

9 жыл бұрын

FokkerBoombass Sounds like the Playmates Fun to Drive Dashboard. I had one of those as a kid and and the pop-up lights mechanism would get stuck, It was based on a corvette.

@Ryan96se

9 жыл бұрын

FokkerBoombass you most likely had the same one I had as a kid. It was called the playmates fun to drive. It was a corvette with the car painted on the screen and the steering wheel moved the light inside which in turn made the projected road move back and forth on the screen

@kevinm5940

5 жыл бұрын

_instead of driving a car, you were _*_changing the fabric of reality itself_* I wonder why there aren't more driving simulators where you play as God

I know I'll always be here You know it makes my heart beat

@TheStygian

9 жыл бұрын

+Garfi Duper I paused the video to look at it too... What is it? What does it mean?Its kinda dark and eerie to me.

@samishadaydeh7462

9 жыл бұрын

+Tommy Jansen ikr

@XD4Lifeington

8 жыл бұрын

+Sami Shadaydeh gotta be a song lyric, yeah?

@XD4Lifeington

8 жыл бұрын

+Sami Shadaydeh gotta be a song lyric, yeah?

@samishadaydeh7462

8 жыл бұрын

XD4Lifeington idk

text at 4:37 says "I know I'll always be here You know it makes my heart beat"

"That's the end of that?", My ASS! You may have not noticed (while playing with it or replaying the footage), but at least the latter is preserved for all to see. The light that lights the screen flashes when you "hit" an object. It is very clear and repetitive, and is obviously not the unit cutting out. I assume that's why your brain filtered out the rhythmic flashing: it's a piece of crap. Not only this, but the reason it stopped working at the end would be clear if you looked at the dashboard. It engine had overheated! Keep in in high gear and the heat goes up. Look at the other gauges, they're all functional. I had one of these as a kid and my dad modified it with a bigger screen, a MUCH longer/swappable road tape with different difficulty/terrain, and a day/night headlight function. Don't be fooled by the complexity of strictly mechanical devices, they can be quite impressive. I also had a 'robotic arm' toy from radio shack. It was completely mechanical, yet featured a fully articulate arm controlled with two twistable joysticks. It had full rotate/elbow/wrist/grip functionality with two speeds for each articulation, but was only powered by an always on, constant rpm motor with only gear and lever mechanical connections diverting power. Now THAT was an impressive toy. I had lots of fun with it, especially when I decided to dissect it.. and I couldn't re-assemble all it's gears and sprockets, LOL!

@xkromas

8 жыл бұрын

+MrGingerOFFICIAL I do! I literally scrolled through the comments trying to find someone who thought the lights were flickering like I did.

@KeanKennedy

8 жыл бұрын

Awesome. yeah we have a tendency to dismiss yesterday's technology with little thought, but it can as a result highlight the ingenuity of humans. Automata from several hundred years ago are a good example, some of which do things that you wouldn't imagine attempting without computation now (like a mechanical boy that draws pictures and handwrites text which is programmable). Obviously the Tomy toy is no work of genius, but a slightly less patronizingly dismissive look at it would have been nice IMO.

@SkyGameZZZZ

7 жыл бұрын

Mr3Kidneys

@thegardenofeatin5965

7 жыл бұрын

I had an armatron as well. The 8-Bit Guy repaired one recently on his channel.

@toasTr0n

7 жыл бұрын

Not only is there the flickering when you hit the side of the road or parked car, but the trip counter also stops advancing for a couple of seconds every time you do. So there is actually a goal and some scoring going on here, and you can keep replaying to beat your previous score. When the fuel runs out, the game is over. To refill your fuel, you have to clear your score by pressing the counter reset button.

Glad he got it working, quite impressive for it's day.

This is pretty neat! TOMY toys always seem to have pretty cool mechanisms. I've got an Astro Shooter table top pinball game by them that I really enjoyed tinkering with when I was younger. Ive actually had to go and fix it a few times as well. Everything on the game is powered by a single motor, and there are plenty of gears and mechanisms to "power" everything around the playfield. Kind of impressive design honestly, if not completely convoluted! :P

the flashed text: "I know I will always be here. You know it makes my heart beat." ...why?

@lapinsky91

9 жыл бұрын

i caught on as well, dissapointed nobody else has as well?? much confusion

@johnm9263

9 жыл бұрын

Very Science

@johnm9263

9 жыл бұрын

he might be trying to tell us something that his government or any other government doesnt want us to know BUT, its in code...

@johnm9263

9 жыл бұрын

another thought: he just wants to give us something to think about

@KirbyMario12345_939

9 жыл бұрын

Baker Field He likes to put subliminal messages in his videos. Not sure why though.

A long, LONG time ago my family went to the beach and there was a little arcade there. Other than pinball, the games were almost entirely mechanical; some cost a nickel, some a dime.There was a game quite like that car where you "flew" a little airplane past obstacles. I think that was the first arcade game I ever played.

1:03 - It was called Playbus at first, and then Playdays later on. Even when the name changed, it still said "It's the Playbus" in the intro.

I had a corvette style driving toy with similar mechanics, but with the addition of functioning turn signals/indicators and headlights on the front of the toy that could be mechanically flipped up. I certainly did try to imagine that road being longer, the simulation more interactive, etc. Thanks for breaking it apart; works almost exactly as I always expected.

@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!! that was mine the corvette version i remember the pop up headlights the batteries also laid down sideways. but i remember the turn signals and pop up hesdlights. I wonder who made it i thought i had the tomy one.

Damn blades of grass. Always ruining childhood toys.

I know I'll always be here. You know if makes my heart beat.

I had a later version, which had indicators and a more realistic road layout. Absolutely loved it!

@BadgerNipplesChannel

9 жыл бұрын

until i read your comment i thought i had this version. Thinking about it, i seem to remember indicators on mine too. Ahh nostalgia.

@SabreXT

9 жыл бұрын

Thomas Williams I don't remember the indicators. But I remember having one that had a "realistic" road, in so much that it was a cartoon of a winding road in a feild instead of this tron looking thing.

@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi

2 жыл бұрын

mine too had the indicators and pop up headlights. I thought it was a bit bigger too but maybe i was just small lol

i know ill always be here, you know it makes my heart beat

I just finished repairing my old one of these I got back from my father after nearly 35 years. Was a buzz playing the game again after sooo long 😁

am i the only person who would get one of these now and play with it for weeks

@benvnvideos

9 жыл бұрын

No

4:37 That´s lyrics from the song "Happy Up Here" by the band Royksopp. Just putting that out there :)

Why do I find this so satisfying ?

That was great that you got it working! Fun to watch. Thanks Stewart!

You know,i would love to have this toy back in the days.I would go into my dads car really often and pretend to be driving,this thing wouldve been perfect

@tjhill0110

8 жыл бұрын

I remember doing the same thing in my dad's old 850. Ahhh, memories.

@wolfyboy

8 жыл бұрын

me to! XD lol me and my friend! we would travel to other galaxies, and saw a house made of CHEESE! (my dad was painting the house yellow. XD)

the playbus intro was removed for copyright

@wolfyboy

8 жыл бұрын

i know. sad. :(

@PunakiviAddikti

6 жыл бұрын

It was? Damn you abused copyright system! KZread's job is to prevent people from making copyright strikes!

@infiltrat0rn720

5 жыл бұрын

The show was originally called Playbus, but the BBC were made to rename it Playdays because an organisation called Playbus complained and kicked up a fuss back in the 80s. There's still plenty of Playdays clips on KZread including the intro.

For fixing other parts you kinda broke the fuel display.

Thank you so much! We had that thing back in 1987. It didn't even seam to make much sense as a toy when I was 5. But it was fascinating. Now I know how it worked. Thanks!

@stevenholt5692

8 жыл бұрын

I had this when I was younger, it was also a toy I didn't get? Still don't.

"It's the hospital stop" My mind suddenly dug up and used the Play Days voice for that...

In the old day...when things are broken people fix it. Today...when things are broken...they are simply thrown away...Yay! Consumerism!! ==

@punch3322

10 жыл бұрын

I think it's because in the past,it was easy to take something apart and NOT HAVE IT BLOW YOUR FACE OOF!

@ALPHAHXCORE

10 жыл бұрын

this crap was not worth fixing.

@shrinjaymukherjee7297

10 жыл бұрын

***** or void your damn warranty

@shrinjaymukherjee7297

10 жыл бұрын

even a ipod screen? or a ipod battery?

@shrinjaymukherjee7297

10 жыл бұрын

ahhhhhhh like your face!! (ba da thash)

Steven Ashens Can he break it?! Steven Ashens He aleready has

@lifemythanimations6606

7 жыл бұрын

Finn Townhill Stuart, But close

@JomasterTheSecond

7 жыл бұрын

STUART

@trunksrocks1

7 жыл бұрын

Who the fuck is Steven?

OMG! I had one of these too. And I was trying to remember its name for years. Thanks a million.

that road could make a lovely light for a kid :)

I had one as a kid but it was a lot better and had a lot more detail and turns and the track was at least three times as long

@gilbertplays

9 жыл бұрын

mine was a plane that is much bigger than this.

i had 1 of those when i was a kid... it sucked so hard my vacuum cleaner felt ashamed

the video I was waiting to see, Thank you Ashens. 0:21 I like that idea of the teardown of toys show. Cool that you were able to fix this.

That is awesome that you got it working that is my favorite toy when I was a kid

Well I guess I was imagining the off-road detection mechanism thingie. No.. wait, I still have the toy, it still works, and it still detects you getting off road. Is this magic?

@itszutak

10 жыл бұрын

There's plenty of room for collision detection on that thing. Doesn't have to use the canister; in fact, it's probably much easier to use something completely independent of the canister and just assume the canister's positioned right for it to work (which it would be, brand new from factory)

@tails142

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I have one too and it flashes when you go off the road. You can see it happen in ashens video when he has it fixed. Mine makes a lot of noise the whole time which I don't remember, I wonder if it only made the noise when you were off road originally

Royscopp - Happy Up Here

@MotherSoren

10 жыл бұрын

skopp*

@WekkTF

10 жыл бұрын

Ashens Couch The only good thing about this comment is your name and pic

@TheGamerWithMore

10 жыл бұрын

Ashens Couch Are you a real ashens certified channel or a false account

@MaxSmartable

10 жыл бұрын

Röyksopp to be precise. Had to コピペ that.

@lillydoye7418

9 жыл бұрын

For anyone interested the Japanese characters are ropupe. They are in katakana so should be an English word, but the pronunciation makes no sense and none of several sources give any translation.

My cousin got one of those for his birthday when I was a baby and when I got older it got handed down to me and I got to say I really loved that thing me and my step brothers would setup joking playing Super Nintendo and taking turns driving that I really want that machine you have there because it brings back pleasant childhood memories

loved playdays when i was little and when i was in secondary school i always watched the intro but stayed for the stop with the bird

That PhD in Psychology is finally paying off!

Nostalgia, crap innit lol.

Tomy made the best toys back in the day. Who had a Tomytronic 3D? Still got mine.

4:37 - "I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat."

Playdays is also playschool, i remember it, used to watch it as a kid myself, was very good for preschool children and it was also still on tv when my younger brother was born so i watched it again with him and he learned his numbers and colours through it also his squares and triangles as it was also watch with mother lets go through the square window.

I had this toy too. Loved it. Had to go up in the attic and find it after this video.

This is the best video you ever uploaded.

pretty cool bit of kit actually

This gave me ASMR tingles.

Aaaahh... child memories :') I wish I still had mine. I loved it. I remember that I always had it with me in our car, and pretended that I was driving :') That was 12 years ago.

*I know I'll always be here. You Know it makes my heart beat*

That's not a blade of grass, that's a pine needle from the christmas tree that this was played with underneath back in 1986 when a happy kid had just ripped it out of it's packaging. Nice find!

I had one of those! I used to love it ^^

I had one of those! when I used to be a kid that thing was the most amazing in my memories...but just in my memories

I had one of these :D Played it for hours.... 12 years ago...

i had this toy \, used to really love it, thanks!

I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat

" I know I will always be here .. You know it makes my heart beat" :)

The frame message: "I know I'll always be here You know it makes my heart beat" Excellent choice of music you seem to have there. (Royksopp, Happy up here)

I know I'll always be here. You know it makes my heart beat.

Dude, that was the playbus. Always used to think the same about the driving. Very funny!

Yes I've been waiting for this vid!

That toy is amazing. I don't think I have seen any toy like that recently. I want it!

The pause was I know I'll always be here, You know it makes my heart beat xD

I remember my grandmother having something like this if not this same toy when I was a kid

Thank you so much , i didt ask, i was thinking of it and you did it for me ! Bonus videos rock!

Interesting. I always thought these sort of games were achieved with some sort of scroll spinning inside, but instead it's a take on the old spirit lantern parlor trick. Neat.

when stuart is wearing his white gloves you know that the video is going to be awesome^^

Awesome toy! It may seem unimpressive today but i made good cash with it back in the days lol Kids in my street loved it!!!!!

@andrejbencic8882

8 жыл бұрын

+Andrej Bencic I still have it to lol

I know I'll always be here, you know it makes my heart beat

Did this myself with my Tomy Racing Turbo when I was around 10 years old. Ashen, you have accurately captured the disappointment I felt in this video.

i remember having one of those when i were 3-5 years old I loved it :D

I'm surprised it didn't spontaneously combust. Good job, Ashens!

I've still got a very good torch that uses those battery's. We had that toy as kids but never played with it working as mum never had the battery's for it and they were expensive. We just pretended to drive with it, probably more fun than the actual game! And I remember play days: "its the why bird stop!"

Oh and I remember Playdays! ;) The theme tune always gets stuck in my head. And the unrealistic bus driver moving the steering wheel left and right when the bus is still going forward.

Ashens you ruined my childhood showing me the real road...I loved that toy as a baby :(

I know i'll always be here, you know it makes my heart beat.

You know I'll always be here You know it makes my heart beat hahaha

That playbus video gave me a major nostalgia rush!

i loved this toy as a kid!

Ashens, a Royksopp fan? Yet another pleasant surprise out of this guy!

i loved this as a child ^^

I love the tag you have there. I love you too Ashens!

That looks great

There are many reasons I chose to subscribe to you all those moons ago. This is most of them.

I know I'll always be there. You know it makes my heart beat.

That was a good one; you earn a thumbs up.

you know ill always be here you know it makes my heart beat?

Now it runs properly, that's actually pretty impressive for an entirely mechanical "video" game. Even has a 3D effect!

I fuckin' fell on the floor laughing when you said "It's the hospital stop"

Good job! Good as new!

You know it makes my heart beat.

Loved this thing as a kid .