I find it funny that a game where half of the characters look different only in color scheme is available for systems with monochrome displays.
@Boogie_the_cat3 ай бұрын
I know, why did they ever think Sonic would be suitable on a mono display? Trolli Gumi Bearz
@RobotnikIsSexy7 жыл бұрын
Classic Ashens episode! Just want to say you've brought me immeasurable joy throughout the years. Thank you.
@Rakshasa19868 жыл бұрын
It's called Sonic Jam because Sonic moves like he is stuck in an endless ocean of coagulated jelly.
@Clarissa_Star8 жыл бұрын
No blast processing here, sadly.
@marshallperry24468 жыл бұрын
There is blast processing. it processes for a few seconds if its on before you chuck it next to a cartoonist.
@eptio98497 жыл бұрын
i thought jelly was supposed to be coagulated
@gestaposantaclaus7 жыл бұрын
Our jelly is what you call jam. Its not a solid.
@foxerboxer21237 жыл бұрын
Anubis I thought it was because Sonic's brain was mushed into a jam-like paste.
@Mega_Umbreon9 жыл бұрын
The "eastern european" music from the Sonic Jam title screen is the music from the Sonic 3 load/save screen slowed down and made into ear piercing pain
@rushhq76403 жыл бұрын
Hello. I know that this is old, but when you also get into a game it plays mushroom hill slowed with quite a few note in the wrong tune entirely.
@MartKencuda8 жыл бұрын
Well, if anything that Resident Evil game was at least TRYING. It was certainly ambitious. I mean, at least it wasn't just a generic sidescroller like what the back of the box looked like it was going to be.
@thomasjenkins75068 жыл бұрын
it could have been fine had they made the controls at least somewhat intuitive.
@DmitriyK124 жыл бұрын
🙄🙂😓😋
@DmitriyK124 жыл бұрын
Mortal Kombat: Senior Citizens edition ; joking aside, the frame rate and screen tearing really did need to be addressed before MK: Trilogies hit store shelves or yard sales. If only Tiger Electronics LLC waited a few years and released / made or created a newer Pocket Pro DX (coloured sprites over a larger display/screen) then it would have been a true competitor to the other handheld devices of the 1990's - 2000's...oh and if the ram was increased, and CPU/motherboard included a faster processing CPU !!!🙈☹️😰🤐😊😍😬😵😱😲
@JomasterTheSecond5 жыл бұрын
"Click here now!!" RIP annotations
@-throat-11 ай бұрын
you think THYAT'S bad? I have a Chrome extension that actually restores annotations so you can see them again! But for some reason this video's annotations didn't get saved...
@Seawolf.Gaming9 жыл бұрын
"THERES NO SUBZERO OR SCORPION! YOU CAN'T HAVE A MORTAL KOMBAT GAME WITHOUT SUBZERO OR SCORPION!"
@Ben-in3sb8 жыл бұрын
Maybe they were the secret characters
@Seawolf.Gaming8 жыл бұрын
+Cat Burger my comment was a quote from AVGN, and no they were not the secret characters.
@LoponStormbased7 жыл бұрын
I know this is a year old comment, but, they probably didn't have them cause... it's monochrome... hopefully you understand why that'd be a problem haha.
@MrSnake-dh3hu5 жыл бұрын
Loponstorm Your comment is now also a year old, but Scorpion and Sub-Zero were included in the Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat. And no, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell them apart.
@thekungachunga45785 жыл бұрын
I mean, technically you can have a MK game without Scorpion or Sub Zero. It just won't be a very good one.
@theslushygoldfish8 жыл бұрын
This dude is the best! This is an old video, and the comments are probably dead by now, but he cracks me up
@JR-gl1nx8 жыл бұрын
At 1:06 when his face reflects in the screen it looks like he is wearing some kind of elephant mask, quite creepy!
@mephistosprincipium8 жыл бұрын
the awkward moment when you see yourself in a reflection
@JR-gl1nx8 жыл бұрын
Knut Kniffte Yes, that is why I put the word "mask" right there in my comment... Perhaps you should properly read a comment before posting your redundant, smug little replies.
@KnutKniffte8 жыл бұрын
Alex R Thanks 4 the reply brrrrrothaaaa
@fauxcuss7 жыл бұрын
+Knut Kniffte Why are you deleting things brrrrrothaaaa?
@levicassidy93127 жыл бұрын
hey it's better then the shit you millennials come up with today like phrases such as "i'm dead" wen things are funny or "it's Lit or stay Lit" wen trying to sound cool or bruh or boi wen someone makes a stupid comment and last but not least the most dumbest move i have ever seen become a thing that spread like wild fire that refuses to die out is the DAB move where it looks like your covering a sneez ...... but how we talked in the 90's is weird? hmm i think you need to look at the shit you kids do in today's age cause wow just wow LOL!!
@AlphaOmegaSin12 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I'm not the only person who ever had to suffer through the RE2 port on there lol
@AustinofEarth9 жыл бұрын
It might have been ill-conceived but you have to agree that putting RE2 on this thing was a pretty crazy accomplishment. Id buy this just to look at that, actually.
@SK33T20009 жыл бұрын
Same
@BIaziken29 жыл бұрын
AustinofEarth too bad you wouldn't be able to see it.
@Metalfacejoel7 жыл бұрын
It's not even the same game. There are like zero similarities outside the basic aesthetics and plot.
@hypersilver11117 жыл бұрын
they also somehow managed to force sonic, mortal kombat, and duke nukem onto this thing doesn't mean they work.
@meowistforlife6 жыл бұрын
??? Look at it, yes. See, no!
@datasilouk19959 жыл бұрын
I was hoping to see Duke Nukem 3d as mentioned in the other video.
@15-Peter-202 жыл бұрын
Try retrez channel
@DisturbedOneX12 жыл бұрын
Damn, congratulations. You deserve an award for such a daring, courageous lifestyle. One could only dream of the heights you've reached.
@glitchedoom12 жыл бұрын
"Completely collapsed into a jerking mess" Sounds like one of my average Saturday nights.
@FrontierJazz12 жыл бұрын
It is incredibly sad when even vintage Sonic Team can't produce workable music for your system.
@TheParkerizing5 жыл бұрын
that T-Rex seems happy to meet the player...
@TrueUndergroundStyle12 жыл бұрын
I used to have one of these when I was a kid. I left it out in a tent for an hour and the heat literately turned it demonic. It would rarely turn on and when it did, it would make really loud noises and the screen would be all messed up.
@CrabJock10 жыл бұрын
1:06 What the hell are you wearing in that reflection? It's creepy as hell. It reminds me of the Grand high witch in "The Witches".
@wazfallout3pokey10 жыл бұрын
That look incredibly creepy.
@Bugsaresocool10 жыл бұрын
I'm watching at night and I think i shat my self
@wazfallout3pokey10 жыл бұрын
Bugsaresocool It looks like he stuck a tea pot on his head.
@somekindoflandcow9 жыл бұрын
probably the noseybonk mask
@JeanMarceaux3 жыл бұрын
@@somekindoflandcow most certainly
@taffypoodle754810 жыл бұрын
GAME-COM ACTIVE !!!!
@Ccoolty7 жыл бұрын
that's the soundbyte that plays when you enter the gates of hell.
@unwelldanny71085 жыл бұрын
"Grid... online."
@AAAAAAAAA4033 жыл бұрын
GAYCOM ACTIVE!!!
@05Rudey9 жыл бұрын
Now I remember why I still used my original Game Boy from the late 80's to the late 90's. Eventually replaced by a series of Palm Pilots, though the first two were black and white, they did have a very clear screen and some pretty good games to download. We are massively spoilt for choice now.
@radicaledwards34497 жыл бұрын
ahhh so it was tiger who started the .com boom!
@Sb1297 жыл бұрын
Lol, makes me think of the .Com bubble
@emolgatheelectricsquirrel67347 жыл бұрын
Radical Edwards it's the illuminati😱😱
@unwelldanny71085 жыл бұрын
That was 1995, Tiger made this in 1997.
@RobotwarsKing10 жыл бұрын
_"He's not my favourite hedgehog, anyway. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle is my favourite hedgehog, get your facts straight!"_
@jrwizz2 жыл бұрын
Wtf is tiggy winkle?
@JudgementPlays8 жыл бұрын
Not even my mutated roommate with fucking lazer vision can see this screen.
@JudgementPlays7 жыл бұрын
Kris Bailey sure
@YuukiTakemoto19963 жыл бұрын
Is he in the X-Men?
@christophermcavoy253010 жыл бұрын
Did he have a mask on or is the reflection fucking with me
@BarHonigfeld9 жыл бұрын
I wonder if you could technically hook up a better screen to that.
@mustangmckraken11509 жыл бұрын
Bär Honigfeld There's an emulator for it, too, it doesn't look half bad on a monitor lol.
@JackOfHarts9610 жыл бұрын
Christ! That clip at the end scared the shit out of me!
@AgentTasmania10 жыл бұрын
I love it when he does something a bit silly and pre-planned. Spontaneity is good, but even the best improve is limited.
@BaronOfAnarchy7 жыл бұрын
I remember the commercial with the midget insulting the audience.
@MrPadman8212 жыл бұрын
Awesome video ashens, your videos are always entertains me and makes me laugh, keep up the good work
@blodguizer10 жыл бұрын
The games are actually not bad, especially considering they were all done in house by Tiger. The reason they look so bad is because of the terrible screen.
@killlannisters719510 жыл бұрын
Yes, and because every game runs at 5 FPS
@Holothurion10 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Played on the emulator available, on a PC monitor, both graphics and gameplay are improved a lot. On the downside, the emulator's FPS is a tad slower than on real hardware.
@robloxmaster68169 жыл бұрын
If I where to put an actual LCD screen on it or Liquid Crystal Display do you think that it would display better or do you think that it's the hardware
@Holothurion9 жыл бұрын
With a better LCD screen than the one featured on the system, the output would be more crisp and defined, and a lot less blurry (the Pocket Pro version has a slightly better display than the first model, on par with the Game Boy Pocket's, with less of a ghosting problem). Still, the machine's hardware is seriously underpowered, and the games were too ambitious for it. Considering the system's limitations, Resident Evil 2 is good, easily the best game for the console. Duke Nukem is not that bad either, but a lot of content and animations had to be cut. Both William's Arcade Classics releases are also acceptable (some of the games included are seriously affected by the screen's blurriness, though). On the other side of the scale, Mortal Kombat Trilogy has good graphics, but most of the animations consist of only two frames (easily noticeable in the fighters' stance), the AI is predictable and very easy to beat, and the gameplay is really slow. The later also applies to Sonic Jam which, of all the bunch, is also the most hurt by the screen's ghosting, with both issues rendering it almost unplayable. The rest of the library falls somewhere in-between. All of them, with no exception, present control lag to a greater or lesser degree.
@Holothurion9 жыл бұрын
Indeed (I assume you're referring to the emulator's FPS, right?).
@SKChek8710 жыл бұрын
I stole one of these from Toys R Us when I was little.... I took it back!
@TiberianFiend4 жыл бұрын
You should've burned it.
@nitori200512 жыл бұрын
Ashen's laugh near the end made my day.
@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire3 жыл бұрын
0:20 "Click here now, too late now it's gone" You just had to make fun of annotations disappearing forever eight years before it happened, huh?
@jomon32412 жыл бұрын
Did you know that in American supermarkets at the time of the Saturn version's release, there were actual jars of "Sonic Jam" being sold? Tails was orange flavored, Knuckles was strawberry, and I think Sonic was grape. >_>
@flix34978 жыл бұрын
02:49 Did the console just say "Fuck you"?!
@MiiMaker8 жыл бұрын
+Flix The Soulless "Game com Fuck You" xDDDD
@istealmemories40918 жыл бұрын
I heard active which is what it really said but uhh I guess I can see why you would hear that
@MaximilianBrandt6 жыл бұрын
Literally everything in this console says "fuck you", starting from the screen and ending in games.
@KirbyMario12345_9398 жыл бұрын
If you screencap at 22:31, it makes for a brilliant reaction image!
@dudewithahat52608 жыл бұрын
I actually played the heck out of a handheld of the mortal combat game that my grandma had, I can't believe I remembered that!
@DaTmadChannel9 жыл бұрын
You thought Sonic Boom was bad? Sonic 06 being the worst Sonic game ever? Naw! Sonic Jam for Game com is the worst.
@sternleiche9 жыл бұрын
at least the soundtrak is great
@oldemail55689 жыл бұрын
Well actually Sonic Jam for Game.com Did not count as a real Sega Game,It was a port so Tiger could make a few bucks.But u are true the port was crappy
@Error52QFG9 жыл бұрын
It's a port of Sonic 1 somehow worse than the GBA version...
@duckwantbreads8 жыл бұрын
+Nick Tucker it's actually not a port, they couldn't get the whole games to work so each of the games only has 4 levels that have no resemblance to the originals other than tile sets and enemies, the final boss in Sonic 2 according to Sonic Jam for the Game.com is the very first boss of the mega drive version.
@hypersilver11117 жыл бұрын
I dont think they included sonic 1
@yetiv21938 жыл бұрын
22:30 My reaction to most things on this internet.
@gunfuego7 жыл бұрын
if you saw half the stuff I've seen you'd be stuck that way lol
@thetradefloor12 жыл бұрын
That last clip is what i currently feel like on a daily basis. 6 hours of sleep sure is delightful!
@tomgrant0012 жыл бұрын
Awesome once again Mr. Ashen! Thank you! Love your videos!
@MrRussor10 жыл бұрын
I think this thing could've been half decent if they'd just put a colour backlit LCD screen on it. It would've suffered the same battery life issues as the Game Gear, but at least the games would've been playable. It actually looks like it had a fair bit of power inside it for the time.
@T3KNUG3T54 жыл бұрын
The SM8521 is a pretty capable CPU. It just required a arse load of programming to get things to be at a decent speed.
@AAAAAAAAA4033 жыл бұрын
It would have helped if tiger wouldnt develop the games in house
@voxlvalyx9 жыл бұрын
This thing is terrible, and might be the reason *nothing* has a C and D buttons nowadays. The title should be changed to "A 'Look' at some Game.com games" Also, this is pretty irrelevant, but on the other versions of Resident Evil 2, the face that displayed in the opening cutscene was the stuff of my younger nightmares.
@Enderfreaksgames9 жыл бұрын
***** Actually I got one from my grandma once and it worked pretty well it may have been garbage but it functioned and I had never experienced trouble seeing the screen.
@THENAMEISQUICKMAN9 жыл бұрын
***** Neo-Geo had C and D buttons...
@bearlyismyname8 жыл бұрын
+Shinku Quickman >nowadays
@pferreira19838 жыл бұрын
+Ailuri Catbear The player movements in Resident Evil 2 were more or less like the console and PC versions except slightly slower.
@SomeBlokeOrWhatever7 жыл бұрын
A thing that doesn't often get mentioned about these old handhelds -- _Cheap LCDs are Ink Based, and they rot_. It's very likely that the GameCom wasn't _that bad_ back then. It _became blurrier_ over time and exposure to the elements.
@ADubiiousTask11 жыл бұрын
i loved watching this when it came out and when avgn did an episode on tiger products i thought of you and now im back here.
@retropat36708 жыл бұрын
Would make a great gag gift. "Sorry kids this is all daddy could afford this year"
@JacksonJacoy8 жыл бұрын
I would take that gift. I actually want a game.com.
@tacaloking49 жыл бұрын
sadly i think this is tigers best work
@LadyBloodyWrists9 жыл бұрын
Logan Thresher what about Furby or the robo babies and chi pets?
@tacaloking49 жыл бұрын
ok there best work when it comes to video games
@hexyko48505 жыл бұрын
They made interesting virtual pets but it seems like the rest is shite.
@AAAAAAAAA4033 жыл бұрын
@@LadyBloodyWrists KEEP THOSE CREATURES OF HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!
@sr2127878 жыл бұрын
What was that reflection?! 1:07 Looks like an elephant nose and mustache, ha
@PhoneyGeek11 жыл бұрын
6 minutes in and I've lost the will to live. I commend you and your perseverance to battle through.
@AlekTheNerd11 жыл бұрын
Cool story bro, and I must say; your ability to stay on topic is truly excellent.
@ShiitakeWarrior10 жыл бұрын
lol @ "Sonic Jelly"
@EdgyShooter4 жыл бұрын
So was the screen originally this bad? As he does mention it's damaged?
@daftpunkking909 Жыл бұрын
So weird getting this recommended in 2023. It's like he's not changed :) still as good as ever!
@Dahk7 ай бұрын
This video could literally be released today and no one would realize its a decade old lol
@FrontierJazz12 жыл бұрын
And a surprisingly true-to-the-original sprite based recreation of Resident Evil! These are true gems.
@DragonUltraMaster10 жыл бұрын
"You can pretend something is happening" xD
@Lowmandavis10 жыл бұрын
Could one modify this game system replacing the screen with a modern LCD screen to get the games to look better?
@Silver_wind_1987_ Жыл бұрын
Yes.
@Nickwithneighbors9 жыл бұрын
That sonic game reminds me if you would of played sonic and he was carrying cinder blocks over his shoulders.
@t.c.b47223 жыл бұрын
The brownness of your couch is truly epic.
@VioletKasuga11978 жыл бұрын
Deadly force will be required, to see the damn screen.
@0lionheart8 жыл бұрын
Tiger is like the Seegson to Nintendo's Weyland Yutani.
@TestaBottleZ7 жыл бұрын
Aric Dilbeck click the link in this guys comment to see some weird shit
@whatamiwatching21837 жыл бұрын
15:52 This music gives more of a "Michael Myers is going to kill me" vibe than a "Raptors are going to kill me" vibe....
@JDster4ever12 жыл бұрын
i still have one of these games con consoles still boxed! :D its been stuck under my bed for 2 years, i hope to keep it that way
@justduncannohiro12 жыл бұрын
the stegosaurus sounded like a pullback car dying!!!(^-^)
@jekblom1238 жыл бұрын
was this stuff even tested? its virtually unplayable.
@StriderOwO7 жыл бұрын
jekblom123 The question is, was the Game.com ever tested?
@shannettgoddett90867 жыл бұрын
jekblom123 nope never in my prediction
@jekblom1237 жыл бұрын
Shannett Goddett isn't that, like, law that you have to have testers though?
@Silentsam907 жыл бұрын
jekblom123 outside of anything to do with health and safety, not really. There's no law requiring QA, as long as you dont misrepresent your product.
@JonathanRichardz12 жыл бұрын
Ashens is the only KZfaqr i could sit through a whole 22:36 worth of video
@Ps3GamerVideos12 жыл бұрын
Ashen's I love your videos so much!
@digipack7 жыл бұрын
"Rayden" though...
@JohnSTF7210 жыл бұрын
Can't-see-a-damned-thing-.com
@Dudebrotheguy7 жыл бұрын
The reflection in the beginning is gold
@Enigski11 жыл бұрын
I can't afford pasta anymore, since the spaghetti just fell out of my pants pockets too much. So I grow hats. Yeah, that's right, I'm living la vida Gaben. HL3.
@bartwardenn5559 жыл бұрын
It's a glorified pop station
@MrGlenbw7 жыл бұрын
19:41 - If you listen closely, you can actually hear Game.com saying, 'F@CK YOU'.
@glimdibby9 жыл бұрын
Sonic Jam will turn your brain into Jam.
@MrLousyninja11 жыл бұрын
You made my whole year. Thanks.
@UndyingZombie9 жыл бұрын
If you knew how to play the games it would not have been soo irritating watching this. Since some of the things you where blaming on the game/system where actually your own doing >< Not saying this version of the games you showed here is not shite ( or the system itself ) just saying that.. a fair amount of misrepresentation is there..
@robloxmaster68169 жыл бұрын
Oh my god it's actually resident evil 2 not just some nock of with the same name
@nogidoki33256 жыл бұрын
did you really... just tried to defend that piece of crap in some way? lmao
@DASyam-tb7qt8 жыл бұрын
"When I say punchy punchy, doesnt mean getting kickey-in-the-facey"
@VOAN8 жыл бұрын
10:25 - That screenshot is from the first Resident Evil game yet Tiger used it for this game. There's also a second model Game.com which came with a built-in light I believe that has only one cartridge slot. I think that one was much better but the light it use tend to cause glare so it's not as good either way.
@VOAN8 жыл бұрын
***** Like I said, that screenshot is from the first RE game yet Tiger used it for this game. This game was not made by Capcom.
@videooven12 жыл бұрын
watching this video, I can see what's on the game.com screen, along with your reflection, along with my own reflection of my own monitor
@TrueRandom9711 жыл бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Stuart Ashens' life! Playing crappy video games and burns other crap that he finds in bags.
@landnanners20117 жыл бұрын
this videos over 4 years old. I remember this video coming out
@Bittergamer188611 жыл бұрын
WOAH! I'M DETECTING MASSIVE SARCASM LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! YOU'RE MAKING IT GO OFF THE CHARTS! :P
@sonofagroove12 жыл бұрын
The "Sonic Jelly" line absolutely slayed me.
@jareroof15818 жыл бұрын
looking at shir like this amazes me on how far weve goe. its like the original psvita/nintendo ds
@unixfreak11 жыл бұрын
Haha. Used to have one of these as a kid... only ever had one game, was a batman side-scrolling platformer based on the film with the evil ice-dude. Can't say i've thought about the gamecom since i threw it out years ago. Gonna end up with blurry nightmares for years after watching this video....
@HolyGoddessMotherAnne2 жыл бұрын
Batman and Robin? Oh god.
@David31584212 жыл бұрын
They did make a Sonic Jam for the Saturn, it had a 3-D overworld and all the classic 2-D platformer Sonic games on the Mega Drive. BTW Tiger's best product was the TALK BOY! :D
@GeektressGalore12 жыл бұрын
I had a similar reaction as this when I discovered that Vince Vaughan is doing a Brady Bunch reboot. I know your pain, I truly do.
@DeadwingDork12 жыл бұрын
That Sonic Jam boxart is actually from Sonic R. Weird wild stuff.
@justanotherfreakinchannel90697 ай бұрын
Impressive. At around 24 seconds Resident Evil 2 for gamecom is a solid contender for your list of games with the fastest game over.
@Nayson12 жыл бұрын
6m17s That was almost as good as the Mel B/Eddie Murphy gag from the Kinnect games video. Bravo sir.
@TheLeadingCat6 жыл бұрын
Hold on... Is the Sonic Jam cover art the exact same as Sonic R's? I don't think Sega expected this to be a major hit, huh? Smart...
@ricksteina12 жыл бұрын
i was dying for another video of yours!!!
@MysteryD8 жыл бұрын
I found myself naturally moving my head around while watching this in a futile attempt to get a better view of the screen.
@bloodandsilver34409 жыл бұрын
i used to play this as a kid but all it brings back to me is depressing nostalgia
@cliffyk33808 жыл бұрын
What is this amazing state of the art contraption, where may I purchase one is it from the future? :P
@brantisonfire9 жыл бұрын
Why would you want to play Sonic on a Game.Com when the Game Gear was such a better choice? I had a Sega Game Gear from about 1994 up until the early 2000s and then lost it somehow while moving. I actually enjoyed playing that thing. I had Sonic and some Power Rangers game that was a one-on-one fighting game (a la Street Fighter).
@0utc4st19856 жыл бұрын
The graphics on this system reminds me quite a lot of something you'd see on a TI graphing calculator.
@AlkalineBatterien7 жыл бұрын
The ending is actually terrifying
@velvetpilot20083 жыл бұрын
The reference to The Lawnmower Man was quite apt
@MrTheMighty9 жыл бұрын
The Jurassic Park intro music reminded me of the Halloween theme.
@Maniaxe61310 жыл бұрын
8:47 - Sonic is moonwalking!
@ministervvardenfell3 жыл бұрын
i love your background this chair ;d PS. which year that console came out ? xd