I'm glad that KZfaq gaming has an entire category for Astro Wars.

I used to own a Super Kong and I loved it. My sister lent it to a cousin without my permission who lived miles away and so I didn't get it back for well over a year. When I did get it back my cousin had managed to blow vacuum fluorescent display, making it a useless, unplayable beeping piece of rubbish. My aunt tried to compensate for it by giving me my cousin's Simon machine, you know, one of those rubbish round things with four different coloured flashing buttons. I was gutted.

The 80's Jingle is just pure awesomeness !

another unsolicited technical note: vacuum fluorescent displays, much light fluorescent lights, internally generate light in the near ultra-violet which is then converted to green by the fluorescent material. A decent amount of the ultra-violet light light escapes unmolested by the phosphor, however, and can pass the blue filter on cmos detectors and CCD's, thus the blue color in recording, but green when viewed with eyeballs.

Bambino looks like something out of the Fallout universe.

Stuart mate, I could watch you review postage stamps and would still laugh until my spleen burst. Which reminds me, I really should go get that seen to..

"You are different to me and therefore must be eradicated" The bus driver tells me that everyday.

The worst part is that these games are better than the much more modern popstation games...

You words paint such vivid pictures, Ashens. "It's like looking at a Cylon's minge." "The music sounds like a Dalek giving birth." *standing ovation*

"Who knows? Who cares? This is VERY beige!" I lost my shit. My god that was funny.

Wow! That was a spot-on impression of the Silver Skull!

Is it just me, or are those VFD beautiful!? Really like the glow they give off. I want those on all my electronics now.

Your channel is the only channel where I don't skip any of your intros. I love them. I love the way you say hello. It puts me in a good mood. Thank you for being you, Ashens!

What primitive technology. The boxing characters can take their own arms off, but they can't throw them at one another! D=

This is the most clever April Fools' joke I've ever seen. Subverting our expectations of a joke video by just posting a regular video. This just goes to show Stuart's brilliance as a youtube chessmaster. His cunning is of the highest caliber.

I played the shit out of Astro Wars at my nan's house because she kept my uncle's one from when he was a kid. Love that game.

I love his 80's endings!

Tabletop games on a sofa. Rebel.

The Astro Wars one surprised me. I was expecting it to be horrible.

***** I think the Super Kong game is made to be played at an angle. You'll notice that the ladders align with the floors when you play with the screen tilted (as if it was laying flat and you were viewing it at ~45 degree angle. I'm guessing Mode A was used for the power adapter, and that's why it didn't work?

I'm diggin' that 80's-esque ending screen, Ashens.

You can really see how far gaming has come today, those gold games though.....Must have been the best things back in those days.

I would assume if you sat the Kong game on an actual surface like it was meant to be on, the ladders would line up a bit better.

fucking lost it at Cylons Minge.. hahahaha

Love the VFDs on these, always reminds me of the early digital dashboards in older cars.

All I can hear in my head in the boxing game is Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star screaming ATATATATATTATATATATATATA.

Astro Wars was the first game I ever "clocked" (80s kids will get the reference), it went absolutely mental. Happy days.

Seeing the arms flying everywhere in the Boxing game reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Hokuto no Ken a bit. ORA-ORA-ORA-ORA-ORAAAAAAAAH Astro Wars looks damn brilliant for an early portable game. Cool screen, nice color visuals, and it's designed like a piece of high-tech science equipment or something. Super Kong looks a bit neato. Well, Super Kong himself, the game looks a bit eh.

astro wars was great back then , thanks for the memories!

The Astro Wars cabinet was released in the states under the name Galaxy II(if there was a Galaxy I, I have no clue.) Ah, both the joyous and painful memories associated with the one my mom gave when I was a kid. The joyful because it was a fun system for an 8-year-old not allowed to have a Game Boy, who actually managed to get 9999 points and beat the game, which his mom never did in all her years of playing the game. ...And the painful memories of accidentally crushing the machine and having a mom who's still angry at me to this day about it...

'It's like looking up a Cylons minge or something...' Ashens, I do love you!

Bambino Boxing: The world's earliest representation of every anime fighting scene. Many blurred hands colliding.

he brought back the outro THANK YOU ASHEN

3:25 "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA" "MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA"

Used to have Scramble made my Grandstand, used to love playing that thing.... memories... coming back..... oh the joys of childhood and not knowing about this future life of having to work and pay bills and be responsible

Galaga, Frogger, and Dig Dug are my favorites. 🥰 I loved Namco Museum PS2 growing up, we also had a plug n' play of Frogger. 😊🐸💖 Please have a wonderful day. 😻

Boxino Bambling.

Astro Wars looks like a Galaga inspired game.

I have Astro Wars! I'm 25, but it used to be my dad's and my grandad gave it to me. I had a little wave of nostalgia hearing those horrible noises it made in the video.

I love Ashens' super 80s outro.

I think for games that can be 2 player you should bring in Dan or Barry for a 2nd player

Super Kong - Meet the Kong who can't be stopped!

The Bambino Boxing commercial IS on KZfaq Turns out, their slogan was: "Beat a Bambino, and you've beaten the best!" I don't think the first half of that slogan would go over very well in Europe

"It's like fighting an angry metronome." I died right there xDD

Late 70's still inspired *CURVES*.

Looking up a Cylon's minge? Well now. Wouldn't mind doing that with the one played by Grace Park...

if you set the super kong game on a table and played it, the ladders would be in the right position.

"like pheasants and such?" killed me

The ladders in Super Kong do seem to be in the right positions - remember, you're supposed to play it with the display on an angle.

lol "words were but candy in the minds of fools"

CYLON'S MINGE - I am crying, that's amazing, you bastard!

This is the best April Fool's joke ever! In that it's not a joke at the viewer, it's fun to partake and ultimately helps Ashens clean up the backlog!

"A'raight lads, 'ow ya doin'?" -Super Kong, 1985-2014.

my brother got Astrowars one christmas and played it non-stop (he's 37 now) I think its still in the loft!!

'Is like fighting an angry metronome or something...' This is why I subscribe to this channel! XD

Oh man, I had Astro Wars. It was a xmas present from my folks some time around 1981 or so :D Such memories.

A Cylon's Minge. Not an image I'm going to forget for a while, one for the terribleness of a robot minge, and two for the sheer bliss that would be Tricia Helfer's.

That ending was so 80s it hurt.

You are the Best Ashens, keep doing what you do (cracking me up)

The ladders are drawn for the angle of tabletop play, so they look wrong when played with a more direct angle.

Need...more...ashens...can't....go...on

"We've won the war...And now we're flatulent." Funniest line ever!

The Astro Wars game did a decent job of recreating the various levels of the arcade game Moon Cresta in LED form. I was surprised to see those four ships/aliens at the top come to life, as well as the docking procedure. Pretty clever and playable for the technology! And you just have to love that "Air Traffic Control" case. Too cool.

I had Astro Wars as a kid!!! First piece of old electronics I've seen on the Ashens channel that I had and properly loved as a boy! :D

The ladders didn't line up straight on because it's meant to be viewed from an angle.

I am filled with sadness to realize I was a (young) adult when these came out.

Oh man hearing that Astro wars music took me on a weird nostalgia trip, I loved that game, I remember my joystick broke and I sent it to the manufacturer and they fixed it lol

"Words were but candy in the minds of fools..." Truly poetic

Happy new month everyone!

It'll turn instantly awesome when you start screaming "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!" while you box. XD

I lost it at "maybe we're both bees and fighting in a bonnet." I love the reference. I can always rely on Ashens for my healthy dose of sarcasm and dry humo[u]r. And a bit of tat induced rage from time to time.

I got an Astro wars console circa '81. Loved it. It was a portable games console which coincidentally I wasn't allowed to take out of the house.. Work than one out. Preferred this to our Intellivision. My dad worked for Radio Rentals. And they had a deal with Mattell. Great video again. Batteries were expensive then, so you had to use the mains.

OH Ashens, you spoil us.

Sugar Ray Robinson was a kid, and then was a squid?

Astro Wars was sold in the US as Galaxy II under the Epoch brand.

I had an AstroWars when i was 7-8 years old. Bloody loved it!

Waitress tipping? Sounds easier than cow tipping, but much ruder.

Still better than ipad/tablet games.

I still have my Firefox-F7 Grandstand tabletop somewhere. I loved that game!

Astro Wars was THE tabletop game to have. It was awesome.

Any plans to do a Neo Geo Pocket Color episode?

"It's just like fighting an angry metronome" ahahaha

I played my astro wars machine whilst watching this video. So meta

I hate these videos, but every time I come to your videos, I suddenly find myself watching everyone I come across. Keep up the good work man

CYLON'S MINGE ahahahaha! XD

4:45 As a point of interest, most cultures (especially Asian) don't really make a distinction between blue and green.

I owned a few Table-Top games back in the day including ,Astro Wars,Scramble & Caveman ,loved them all

The super kong ladders do align properly to the levels when you hold the machine at an angle.

That Tekken joke tho

Astro Wars was loud. Very loud.

Amazing. A boxing game from the late 70s has a far superior display than a POP Station

Ashens I love when you do videos like this it makes me think what childhood would of been like back in the day. plus could you do more food videos they are amazing!

Just out of interest, what is that song at the end?

"to be honest their is no skill at all and you're just mashing buttons in the hope of winning. Ya' know, like Tekken!" *grabs popcorn* *scrolls down to comment section*

Damn... Astro Wars... I remember that. We got those here in NZ too. Was really fun for a kid to play back then.

And to this day, the boxing game remains the backbone of every Popstation containing City Fighter where everyone tosses their arms at each other.

The Italian phrase for children is bambini, not bambino.

Still better than Call of Duty Ghosts

I had forgotten about Astro Wars. I loved that thing.

The boxing controls for player 2 were inverted if you notice. The punch controls are on the right, not left like player 1.