"...it's not worth hearing about." Yet I'm going to sit here for 20mins to listen about it.. I think that _that_ speaks volumes about my liking for your content, Adam!

I actually prefer the videos on the obscure consoles, just because with the popular ones, everyone already has some understanding of their stories. I knew that the Playdia existed in Japan only, but other than that I knew nothing, so I really like the videos on the obscure consoles as there isn't alot of information on them. The Generational recap videos are my favourite videos on the channel and it's grear to see new ones being made.

Playdia >>>>> Stadia

The most famous thing on the Bandai Playdia is Dragon Ball Z: Plan to eradicate the Saiyan's which was a OAV that never saw a US release, until it was remade and placed as a bonus on the PS3 game Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2.

The Power Rangers SEGA CD "game" would have been better served to be on the Bandai Playdia

Adam because the Bandai Playdia is so painful to talk about, here is a story for you: I know you don't like sports but there is a baseball player named Adam Kolarek.When I 1st heard his name I misheard it & was like "Wait... Adam Koralik plays baseball for the Tampa Bay Rays?"

I loved these extensions to you're console retrospective.

Another great generational recap video on a relatively unknown console. I love it!

Adam, loving these videos coming out for the console recap series! Great video mate!

Man, super love this series. Really glad we're getting all these retroactive episodes.

The Dragon Ball Z ones are actually interesting! Its a 2 part OVA, and it was released as 2 VHS tapes to be a companion to the Famicom game release, and those tapes got fansubbed and traded on VCDs through the 90's and early 2000's. -Matt

Again my favorite series of videos from you. Thank you.

Love how you’re really cranking these videos out lately!! Keep up the great work Adam!

Pretty much nailed it with that thumbnail with the look on your face. I was like, what is this guy holding?

Casio Loopy must be coming as well, it'll be quite hilarious to see how you can describe that.

Your channel is gold, love your content!!!

Great vid, can’t wait for one on the PCFX

Again adam I'm loving how your adding to the series!

Thanks Adam! This vids cool. Love the obscure consoles that no ones heard of. Very cool! Oh Merry Christmas too!!!!!!🎄✨👍👍

it kinda looks like a mishmash of a Dreamcast, Famicom and a GameCube

Alternate History:: I can’t wait for the Playdia 5 to get released next year!!! New games will allow you to connect to the internet and pound through a collection of KZfaq ads! And the skip button still only kinda works...

These videos are really cool. Thank you for taking the time to review this console and it's history, albeit short.

I meant to watch this sooner, but Im glad to see someone going away from the norm and talk about lesser known consoles.

18:40 lesser of two dumbs? I like that, I’m stealing that phrase btw

You... did not miss your calling in life! You're a great story teller, Adam! Happy Holidays!

Another Excellent Video 👌 Keep up the great work! 🎮🖱️🕹️

Great video, Adam. Thanks for shedding light on a console I've never heard of! Pretty cool.

I remember around 1993 to 1995 there were a wave of new consoles that came out of no where. They offered CD playback, 3D graphics, and were often pricey. Sony Playstation was the only winner. I was confused in 1995 when I first encountered the Playstation at the video store. Why would I buy a game console from a company that makes Stereos, TVs, and Walkman's? It didn't feel right to me at the time. Which is why waited for Nintendo 64 instead. What a odd time in gaming history.

10:27 Portable/Handheld Retrospective Recap Series or whatever I want to call it hype? If so, I’m calling it! I know you hate handhelds, but if your previous videos are ANYTHING to go by, I KNOW you can make it work, Adam! I got faith in you!

the gifts keep coming...Happy Holidays!

Never knew about them being reused in those video devices!

Bro because of you I am playing Shenmue, keep up the great videos. 👍

Thanks to you I learned about so many consoles that I didn't know existed.

I adore how you take garbadge as this piece and make a beautiful doco out of it just for the sake of it and for the history aspect of it. i loved the series, and really hope you'll be able to get hold of rare pong machines and oddisy (the 1st one) and get the opportonity to do 1 gen recup. above all, thanks. also, as model 82 myself, its so much fun to relive all that.

You keep pumping out Recap Series videos and that's really cool! Great video 👍 Will you do a game room tour? Or showing us your game collection?

It is now your destiny to start the Playdia homebrew scene!

This is just hillarious, love the playdia

It must be Christmas. Adam has done Two Retrospectives in one month. 🙌

cool video tech talk adam

The Bandai Playdia. It's a thing. Great video as always.

Never heard of this. Though by that generation I wasn't as mad on reading the mags as I was in the 8/16-bit days. NIce video.

This is for you Adam= ❤

Cool vid, Adam. I once had one of these. Back around the late 90s and early 2000s I was focused on collecting every single Dragon Ball video game out there (because I was obsessed with the show lol). I found this console and the two DB games on eBay for a fairly decent price, but the console didn't work. I never got to actually play it, but it was still cool owning it for a little while. Lol

Thank you for going out of your way to showcase such a weird "console" haha no seriously I don't think I would of ever heard of it if it wasn't for your effort.

"The playdia is the dumbest console" The Memorex VIS, Envision,Loopy: laughter hardware noises

best part of this video was when you mention transformers the movie soundtrack disc!

This reminds me of the Memorex VIS that we got here.

I know nothing about this system, are the discs playable/ compatible via a regular standard DVD player?

Have never heard of that console until watching this video

My uncle worked for the playdia men and he used to get me as many super mario games i wanted, I had Mario Galaxy in 1992 :)

WOOOHOOOO my favorite console!

This series is great.

WaitWaitWaitWait! Did you tease a PC Engine FX episde? I think I skipped a heartbeat, that's the type of nonsense I love. Also, that audio bllue screen sounds pretty funny.

I'm a pretty big Chogokin Damashii collector and if you'd like whatever little insight I might have on the subject I'd be happy to shed some light on the toys Super Robot Wars of course was the massive crossover series that Bandai Namco/banpresto went full force behind with releases on pretty much every system imaginable

Hey Adam been watching your videos for a long time this may be off topic but I just wanted to ask did you like this generation of gameing more than the last To me I enjoyed the PS3 and Xbox 360 more than ps4-xb1

I remember reading in an old CVG magazine back in the day there was talks of Sega making a console with Bandai called the Black belt. I'm not sure if that was one of CVGS classic April fools jokes or not. At that point though loving Sega so much I obviously had to start showing love to Bandai.

on the companies releasing stuff in Japan thing, that would explain Capcom of all people publishing GTA overseas in Japan. Sounds about right for the backstory I bet it was installed in one of those demo kiosks for playing videos, I'm sure. Neat piece of videogames history, if nothing else.

Adam, does Japanese composite work on NTSC tvs?

The Bandai Playdia looks like someone took a Gamecube, melted it down and tried to pour it into the Atari Jaguar mold used for making Imagine System's dental machines :P Also, 8:58 - Mika Kanai - Jigglypuff in Pokémon Rica Fukami - Sailor Venus Aya Hisakawa - Sailor Mercury, also the new Bulma after the original seiyuu passed away in 2017 Yuri Shiratori - Alice Sakaguchi from _Please Save My Earth_ Mariko Kouda - can't think of anything she's in at the moment :(

You compared the disc's functionality to LaserDisc but it makes me wonder; maybe it uses VCDs? Also, thank you for talking about the Sufami Turbo. I've never seen anyone on KZfaq mention that before.

Adam, in our hearts we are all still Japanese kids in 1994. This is especially true if we watched anime once. Also, this might have a lot in common with the Stadia. Also it seems like a dumb down PS2, my first and last DVD player.

I own one of these. Still in box.

Also, I love the choice of the Power Rangers shirt in honor of Bandai :P

Love the video man. I have an crappy console like this. I bought it at a thrift store in the box. Its called a Game Wave. I have the controllers and some "games". Idk what to do with it, and I doubt you would want it. Ive been keeping it just for the history

Oh the video now of gaming consoles.

You deserve a second like for having the Transformers the Movie CD

I tried so hard on my dial up internet to find a Playdia with DragonballZ lol.. those anime Quick Time Events looked cool juxtaposed next to 2D Sprites lol

You’re really selling this machine , fella...I’ll take two!

From the description this doesn't even sound like a console, more like a Fisher-Price DVD player. Was it designed this way to fool people into thinking it's more than it actually is? (Just out of curiosity I looked up images of a Fisher-Price DVD player, and what I saw wasn't too far off from the Playdia, except it was portable.)

Will it play vcd's?

I got one of these on ebay cib with 9 games all new unopened. I have tested it and mine works. It even came with all the sailor moon games

At least it's not the Hyperscan. I think that's going for 5 to 10$.

Wow ! A bargain at 40 bucks. Its something very cool to own and look at . That all I do with most of the videogame consoles i own.

Are there any home-brew games for it?

Kinda looks like a Dreamcast sorta. Like the shape

Apple is actually an exception to the rule that Japanese don’t like to buy non Japanese brands. It pretty much broke the neck of domestic cell phones which were fully under control of telecom providers

My opinion is that no one could have done what Sony did before Sony itself... because all the other lacked what Sony had: Its People, and the people had a huge motivation to make it work.

What a useless blue box. A very cool, very interesting... useless blue box

Wow I just saw a store in Paris selling a Paydia with some games !!!!!!!! I might have been just one game but still !

If I remember, the Dragon Ball Z episodes were made specifically for this console. They would later remake it into one movie for one of the later Dragon Ball Z games as a bonus feature. Ultimate Tenkaichi I think?

Is this the first VideoGame console with wireless controller?? I know that it is infrared, has to be aligned perfectly etc, but still...

As far as I know, the DBZ Playdia “games” are original side stories made for the console, fully voice acted with the Japanese cast. I assume the Sailor Moon “game” is the same way, but your guess is as good as mine, since I’ve never watched it.

I only heard about Playdia was due to hearing about a few Sailor Moon games being in there (as of DBZ games). And to be honest, while the idea was good for those, I honestly wished the FMVs were in better quality

The only notable thing this console did was make a mythical ova for Dragon Ball Z. Good job Bandai.

Hey, thanks Japan :) We all buy and love the nice stuff you create, might be nice if it worked both ways!

Adam what about the Sega Pico?

Perhaps “software” might be better than “games” for this

Lol, that’s my new favorite phrase, “which is the lesser of two dumb.”

Casio loopy vs bandi playdia What would you choose

God I wanna hear that “music CD”.

Handheld retrospective next?

Wouldn't a smaller laser disc be vcd?

Adam spending his time violating video game consoles instead of torturing Aaron.

Nice that the Personal Computer RX-78 has a tie to the Gundam RX-78-2 which is also owned by Bandai and Sunrise lol

When are you going to make a video on Bandai's Terebikko/See n' Say system? It actually has a Mario "game" on it.

I know a lot of weird and obscure tech, especially retro tech, and I didn't even know this was a thing. Surprisingly, this is typical of Bandai not really understanding the market they are getting themselves into. They were constantly doing this up til the late 2000s to pretty much nearly bankrupt the company.

Which is "better"? The Bandai Playdia or the Casio Loopy?

totally worth it getting it for sailor moon

There's a complete in box playdia at the hard-off near my house for about 7000 yen.

it would hv been more interesting if u show a little gameplay of each console you talk about. I was eager to see what the games look like gameplay wise but was a bit disappointed when it wasn't shown.