In six weeks time, I am making the terrifying jump to going full time on KZread! As a result, I am looking to bring you more regular, even more in-depth content than ever before! If you fancy an end credit seen by tens of thousands of people and want to help give a Tuber you enjoy watching, a running start as a professional, then support the channel on Patreon! www.patreon.com/user?u=4432923

@pdeaky

5 жыл бұрын

Has the wrestling dried up? :-(

@chiroquacker2580

5 жыл бұрын

For the amount of content you put out, I assumed you were already full time LOL. Count me as +1 subscriber and I wish you the best of luck. Gaming history in Europe is more interesting than the 99% market share the poorly designed blinking light constantly glitching out NES that we were stuck with over hear. Great games, terrible hardware. I've been toying with the idea of starting a channel, but not about video games or technology. People like you have that covered much better than I ever could.

@gex581990

5 жыл бұрын

Invest in things as a back up plan. You never know when ad-pocalypse 2 will come

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

I have procured Masters levels qualifications last year and teaching qualifications. I will always be able to find work, anywhere in the world!

@gex581990

5 жыл бұрын

Top Hat Gaming Man smart man!

For being a Sailormoon-fan I heard about the Playdia thanks to the fact that the Sailormoon-games where in there. Thanks for covering the story about the Playdia, it was really interesting

@CommodoreFan64

5 жыл бұрын

Same here, I remember reading about it back in the late 90's on a few different websites covering import gaming.

@stevenbowen8098

5 жыл бұрын

I grow up with sailor moon and Dragon ball too in the 90s

as the intro plays im hearing "Go Go Top Hat Gaming Man, you console appreciating top hat gaming man"

@cliffjumper1984

5 жыл бұрын

It needs a "yeaaaaaaaa" in there haha

10:25 These weren't J-Pop idols, but an even more select niche: Japanese voice actresses. I had a Playdia and the Aya Hisakawa (Sailor Mercury voice actress) "game". These so-called games were tasks such as "Push a button 100 times over the course of five minutes to progress through some screenshots. If you complete the task within five seconds before or after five minutes, you unlock an exclusive music video!" Within two hours you'd have extracted all of the content, dubbed them onto a VHS, and thankfully never had to play the actual CD again.

@otaking3582

3 жыл бұрын

If only this lasted long enough for Rie Kugimiya to get one...

@list3058

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like buying a new car, then doing your best to get home before it inevitably breaks down.

My cat and I love your work. Thanks, dude- I look forward to hearing more about the Pippin, too!

Very informative , as usual TopHat . I always look forward to your videos .

Love this content can’t wait for your full time stuff

Obscure consoles we never heard about are always great to make videos of, keep working on it! I am excited to see more about Bandai's and Apple's jointventure.

You know, I already know about most of the consoles/topics you cover on this channel. However, what I really appreciate is just how deep of a dive you take in your videos. The first part sets up the system with the basic info most people already know. Then the second half covers the good stuff. The position in the market, relation to other systems, marketing, failures and successes and on and on. You really do a great job covering your chosen topic/console. One suggestion though, maybe a breakdown of the componentry and bespoke chips/tech if any, Just a thought. Keep up the good work though man, I'm really enjoying what you're making and plan on backing you on patreon as soon as I can. Cheers mate! 👍👌

So far I've enjoyed looking at these obscure consoles you've reviewed. Glad I subscribed now :)

Awesome content, thank you. You really dig deep with the history.

Excellent video, can't wait to see your take on the Apple Pippin, I was interested to hear about the Tandy Information System as I haven't heard of it before. Is it the same as the Tandy/Memorex Video Information System, if so I'd love to see a video on that system too

This channel is really informative- I had no idea that so many obscure video game consoles were made produced over the years! Good stuff, man.

I'd love to see a video on the Daewoo Zemmix if you're ever able to procure one. There's very little content out there about it at the moment, even though it had a 10 year lifespan in South Korea, so presumably it did reasonably well.

@list3058

2 жыл бұрын

Daewoo made a game console?! Makes me wonder if Misubishi did, too.

Hey top hat gaming man, I wanna see all the og openings for those different systems :)) Like how the play station 1 has an opening with that deep sound and orange logo, game cube has those little squares with the xylophone playing ect.. I've only ever seen the Xbox, ps1, ps2 and game cube opening b4 :C

Excited for next week!!! Cheerio!

I was going to ask if the Pippin was to be the subject of the next video but the end of the video answered that for me. I look forward to your perspective of the system.

Great vid, I love obscure consoles! The Interon-4000 is the European made console I find most interesting. I LOVE the way it looks and it seems like it had a respectable library too. The Fairchild Channel F is interesting too, It is obscure but if it were just slightly less obscure then it would no longer be obscure LOL. It was the first cartridge based system but was much better in every way than the second cartridge based system. I think the Atari 2600 was the third cartridge based system. The Fairchild was advanced for it's time, but the 2600 with Solaris or Jungle Hunt in the cartridge port looks like a PS4 Pro by comparison.

I see Sailor Neptune I click. I watch and sub.

How does the commodor64, Sega Saturn, dream cast, playdia, Atari systems, look and sound when you turn them on?? :Cc

Mr. Top Hat Gaming Man, what is your opinion on the retro styled gem that is called Shovel Knight?

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

Love it!

Can't wait for the Pippin video. Make it as long and as in-depth as you can because there's just not that much info out there on it. Thanks!

Please go into more detail about the actual Hardware. It would be nice if you could open the box and show us the console, and even inside the console. The motherboard, the CPU Ram Etc would all be fascinating to have a look at.

Does the Billy Mitchell pic play DK on MAME as well?

Were you able to secure any software for the Playdia at the show?

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

No but the system has no copy protection so you do not need to buy any software...Come to think of it, I should have mentioned that!

Great video as always. You could cut down on the 'subscription begging' though.

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

No thank you, I would rather as much money as possible!

@Evilkingus

5 жыл бұрын

@@TopHatGamingManChannel I know, I know - it still is irritating though.

@mmkm78aaa

5 жыл бұрын

Should my next video be a 6 minutes one dense with info or a 13 minutes one with subscribe begging for more then half the time? That's why I almost always skip your content. You could get the exact opposite effect.

How about a video on the Action Max?

Awesome video

Is that SNES Ultraman Towards the Future music I hear in the background ??

@shawnwellman3718

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

have you ever heard of this system I dont think it was ever really produced but it was hyped up in 1999 Indrema Entertainment Systems I think the system was gonna be called the l600. I remember seeing on an episode of The Screen Savers on ZDtv back in the day. It was going to be an open source linux based system.

The terrible script reading is now my favourite part of your videos! Keep it up THGM! Cheers!

@pdeaky

5 жыл бұрын

Hope you can make it to Blackpool again buddy!

I need to go to the London gaming Market at some point and buy weird, obscure things. :)

Great Video....

6:52 I'll make sure never to call you during recording hours again, sorry about that

Dragonball Zed, god, you make me proud to be British 😂

@Koisheep

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't even realised he didn't say Dragonball C...........

@johnaziz4464

5 жыл бұрын

@@Koisheep He's definitely trolling the Americans with it.

@amirulalias2104

4 жыл бұрын

and Malaysia also use to call Z as Zed and not zee🤣

@tonybigbananas

4 жыл бұрын

John Aziz I call it zed. Think most brits would

Over the last few months, I have been watching a lot of your videos. All are fascinating and entertaining. You are doing a great job!!! I would love to see you cover the not-video-games-but-supposed-to-be games and toys of Tomy Handhelds, both electronic and not. I know these are not exactly video games or consoles, but I feel in the early days, these items were competing directly for video game dollars at the point of purchase and were both reacting to and being reacted to by the market: handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/index.html

You posted Neptune?

It's good to start wrestling this Tuber thing full time then? Well I am looking forward to the new content style

Would you ever do a collab video? I think you would get along with gaming historian and chadtronic

@LyingSecret

5 жыл бұрын

He has done collab video in the past with 'Top hats and champagne' and also 'Since spacies', they were rather good :) He has also had Quang (asobi tech) and Trista Bytes too.

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

@@LyingSecret Do not forget Slopes Game Room, Guru Larry, Żarki Zakaron, Retro Man Cave, Ashens, Kim Justice, RGT85, Octavuis Kitten, St1ka, Nostalgia Nerd and Dreamcast guy to name a few more who have been on here.

@LyingSecret

5 жыл бұрын

@@TopHatGamingManChannel I don't remember all of them, but yeaaaaaahhhhh!

Power rangers snes music in the background? Fighting edition? I recently got done watching super sentai jetman. It was good

Yay, the top hat pullover made an appearance :D

She’s a beautiful game console. They need to bring her back.

I thought you quit KZread or sold your channel?? I remember seeing videos from random people on this channel lately........

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

You must be thinking of Top Hat Chat. My secondary channel in which I have not had time to run.

Honestly my favorite obscure console, mainly because of it's game line up. Also, I know next to nothing about it. I look forward to your analysis of this.

there wasn't an e3 in 1993, that would start 2 years later. Are we talking TGS? CES? Spaceworld?

@Gorilla_Jones

5 жыл бұрын

I was at the first E3 in a professional capacity and verify that 95 was AWESOME!

I would had prefered Venus or Jupiter myself, but aw, well.

Why were there so many education-based consoles in the 90s? Very very few people wanted to spend hundreds of dollars on digital encyclopedias and every single one of these systems flopped hard. If people wanted information back then, libraries were still popular.

@zigmeisterful

5 жыл бұрын

With that said, it's mind blowing to think that back when libraries were your only source of information, the reality was that the information that you got was often incredibly out of date. Now that we are in the information age, not only is most of the information that you read up to date, but it is also available at our finger tips at any given time.

why's top'em hat naked in that little screen?

I forgot how good and informative your videos are. Fuck me when I listen to the American KZreadrs it's just a Nintendo Switch echo chamber 😂

U are a pro! Wow!😱👏👏

Lucky ass owns a Wondermega. I wonder how much that cost him?

I love Sailor Neptune!

very interesting

8:45 - 9:16,ARE YOU HALF NAKED DURING THAT TIME?!!! o_0

Hey man had my first baby a week ago. How's fatherhood been treating the top hat gaming man?

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! It is a tough yet rewarding job.

I think that the Bandai Playdia controller, the inability to decide whether it wanted to be a video game system or a multimedia system, its clear lack of direction, its poor advertisement campaign overall, a lack of third party support, a lack of an initial killer library in comparison to its competition, possibly inferior hardware, as was the case with both the Bandai WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color, in comparison to its competition, a lack of confidence in the system, a lack of focus on the system, and the fallout due to the failure of the Apple Pippin, are all the reasons on why the Bandai Playdia failed. Coincidentally, there is a computer and mobile video game company that is called Playdia now. I wonder if they got their name from this obscure console video game console? Finally, what are the statistics on the Bandai Playdia? Thanks for responding to my post, Top Hat Gaming Man.

8:44 See you like "reaction" videos as much as I do. :P Yeah pretty dodgy era of "interactive" FMV that apparently everyone was trying to be part of. ;) I actually think the cheaper route of that console made more sense than the expensive CD-i or Pippin.

or a dapper digital denzion :D

I have a Playdia. Played one game and put it back in its wrapping. So tedious.

Woh This is like a preminition of Googles Stadia consoles future ...It even rymes ..Playdia

BandaiNamco Playdia Mini and WonderSwan Clasic anyone?

These failed obscure systems never end! Years of content ahead :)

My favorite oddball in a sexy hat

this game is so brand new, looks like nobody ever played it. I'm not surprised.

Is this the new PS5?

>Power Rangers soundtrack

@shawnwellman3718

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed it lol and ultraman too

The playdia logo looks like playmobil logo freking Copycat xD

What’s the deal with the ecchi girls?

I really like Sailor Moon and Ultraman Franchises

Hey Richard

Why the Commodore MAX Machine failed! You already have one

No E3 in 1993. You must have meant CES

Say "Top Hat Gaming Man Gentleman Club" three times fast!

uh.... perhaps you should demonstrate the machines you are covering, and not just pose with them? Just throwing that thought out there.

The Mattel of the east

8:54 Naked Hat Reaction Man!

@royhoughton443

5 жыл бұрын

LyingSecret I know a little creepy when he was looking at the kids.

@LyingSecret

5 жыл бұрын

@@royhoughton443 Not really, it's no creepier than any other Japanese console advert, as a LOT of them did that.

You are here for 2:02 in this video.

8:14 No wonder why it flopped. It's games are boring as heck. This console needs good playable games and some games that pushes the hardware.

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The all new Apple pimpin. New console in 1996. Go get it folks.

fan service console....yeah

Gundam ?? I’ll just have to say that I’m a Gundam

playdia=stadia? 🤔🤔what do you guys think?

6:47 So that's why it looks like a cheap machine lol But it looks nice though.

In 13 minutes there are 5 minutes of content and the rest is spam about other videos, future videos, be sure to subscribe. That's not how you get me to subscribe.

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

Not too concerned about you when I am getting 2000 new subs a month!

Playdia rhymes with Stadia...

4 dislikes? Why? Seriously what is not ro like about Top Hat Gamer videos? Seriously what is wrong with your life that you come on here to downvote Top Hat?

Oh no, that controller looks like an IR thing like those garbage atgames genesis ones

Love the Channel but there WAYYYY too much Sub begging and redirecting to your stuff going on in this video

I dont like the way you said growth stop

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching to the show's climax!

What happened to this 'not buying any more games stuff' lifestyle choice you made a few months back then? That didnt last long did it 😂

@TopHatGamingManChannel

5 жыл бұрын

I said games. I need to buy consoles! Speculate to accumulate!

@cabbusses

5 жыл бұрын

@@TopHatGamingManChannel so you burned CD-R copies of those Playdia games, I take?

Clickbait I came for the thumbnail what happened jk

Bandai double failed in console Market coz it produced Playdia and Pippin.

8:25 :O blasphemy! :P db ZED O:

adult are the real gamers not the juvenile

What is up with the anime girl clickbait thumbnails?

@nettack

5 жыл бұрын

You answered your own question: it's a thumbnail with an anime girl acting as clickbait.

@hamstrungharry259

5 жыл бұрын

@@nettack Alright, what's up with THE anime girl clickbait thumbnails?

@nettack

5 жыл бұрын

@@hamstrungharry259 That's Michiru Kaioh aka Sailor Neptune. Oh, thumbnails as in plural? Well that's pretty obvious, innit? Anime is quite popular for 20+ years now in the western civilization. Putting one in your thumbnail of course will make the video more clickable (for most... there will be more liking than detesting it). Another thing is, that the contrast between anime and real world in one pic automatically let's you do a double take.

trying to hard with that british accent i grew up with dragon ball z and nobody called it dragon ball "zed"

nice use of a lesbian icon for pride month

Go go power rangers

Get rid of those anime characters get rid of Sailor Moon characters please