Videomaster Enterprise

Videomaster Enterprise | Ashens

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@BenCol 5 жыл бұрын

10:10 “It does genuinely have more gameplay opportunities than a lot of modern mobile games, which just exist to- [AD FOR MOBILE GAME STARTS PLAYING] -suck your cash like a demonic bastard.” The timing was exquisite.

@samholdsworth420 10 күн бұрын

How poor are you? Buy premium 😂 KZfaq with ads is horrible and unusable

@lockonandfire 5 жыл бұрын

An advert for Headspace popped up right as Ashens was saying "bastard". It was the greatest ad break ever, because it went like this; "...like a demonic bas-" "Here at Headspace, we-" *skip ad* "-tard!" *end credits play*

@theantithesis1 5 жыл бұрын

The manual for this is available online. "The select American Pontoon press 'Blackjack'..." Apparently they weren't sure what they were going to call Pontoon right to the writing of the manual.

@user-st7rq3sn7v 5 жыл бұрын

It's as old as me and more broken..... this pleases me!

@johneygd 5 жыл бұрын

Or open it up and cleat it with alcohol ,

@imperialpresence3331 5 жыл бұрын

@@johneygd if you do that..you end up with an old calculator that will rarely ever be used...do it my way and it's a trendy hipster accessory sold in an overpriced boutique

@fastbreak333 5 жыл бұрын

Forget TI-83s, this is the real gaming calculator.

@AiOinc1 5 жыл бұрын

The nSpire CX CAS would be a better option, though You can emulate GBA games and run real Doom WADs!

@NuclearBoi2nd 5 жыл бұрын

AIO inc. r/wooosh

@bozokdraaf5996 5 жыл бұрын

@@AiOinc1 r/WOW r/kid you just got r/WOOOOOOSHED!!!! 😂😂👀 “Wooosh” r/means you didn’t r/get the r/joke, as in the r/sound r/made when the r/joke “woooshes” over your r/head. I r/bet you’re too r/stupid to r/get it, r/IDIOT!! 😤😤😂 r/My r/joke was so r/thoughtfully r/crafted and r/took me a r/total of r/3 r/minutes, you r/SHOULD be r/laughing. 🤬 r/What’s that? My r/joke is r/bad? I r/think that’s r/just r/because you r/failed. I r/outsmarted you, r/nitwit.🤭 In r/conclusion, I am r/posting r/this to the r/community known as “R/Wooooosh” to r/claim my r/internet r/points in your r/embarrassment 😏. r/Imbecile. The r/Germans refer to this r/action as r/Schadenfreude, which r/means r/harm-joy 😬😲. r/WOW! 🤪 Another r/reference I r/had to r/explain to r/you. 🤦‍♂️🤭 I am going to r/cease this r/conversation for I do r/not r/converse with r/simple r/minded r/persons.😏😂

@toastersmaketea937 5 жыл бұрын

@@AiOinc1 Casio Prizm is probably better only because of the buttons and the price being far less. It is less powerful, but you can overclock the CPU and memory bus

@user-ok8yq6nc6x 5 жыл бұрын

@@bozokdraaf5996 Thank you for this

@PhilShary 5 жыл бұрын

This is the Ashens I subscribed to 12 years ago! Love the tech content!

@JohnSTF72 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe Ashens can make a movie out of this: *Ashens and the Videomaster* . Then, he must presss the '9' button to win :)

@collectingonthecheap56353 5 жыл бұрын

It's definitely not Merlin, but it's not bad for such an early device. Fascinating fact, Gunpei Yokoi saw a guy playing with a calculator while riding the subway, and it inspired him to create the Game And Watch series, and eventually Gameboy.

@TheRealColBosch 5 жыл бұрын

I'm genuinely impressed by the thing. I'd love to open it up and see how it ticks.

@tncorgi92 5 жыл бұрын

Send it to Big Clive, he will fix the 9 button and while he's at it will probably replace the display with warm white LEDs.

@TheRetroFuture 5 жыл бұрын

Looks similar to the Mattel electronics games such as Football.

@MissAshley42 5 жыл бұрын

"Calculator's not a game." Maybe not the way _you_ play it.

@brentfisher902 3 жыл бұрын

If you can spell upside down then it can be a game...

@faenethlorhalien Жыл бұрын

I too like to live dangerously.

@Boogie_the_cat Жыл бұрын

@@brentfisher902 exactly. Nobody can tell me that 80085 is not funny in math class. It's practically a game.

@UberNeuman 5 жыл бұрын

I'm old enough to remember calculators that were powered by one car battery.

@Tridd666 5 жыл бұрын

Remember when calculators were powered by slaves? Pepperidge farm remembers

@nslouka90 5 жыл бұрын

I was a janitor years ago and recall that some of the hand towel dispensers were powered by 8 D cell batteries and 1 AA battery.

@Silver_wind_1987_ 5 жыл бұрын

@@nslouka90 O.o dear Hades that's insane.

@FordGTmaniac 5 жыл бұрын

Ah, the Curta calculators. Those are valuable I hear.

@tncorgi92 5 жыл бұрын

I once owned a slide rule but never fully learned how to use it. It was more fun to hit my little brother with.

@KingOfTheBeyond23 5 жыл бұрын

"it sounds like the world ended but we won, yay" I laughed

@paulgascoigne5343 5 жыл бұрын

Nice avatar

@KingOfTheBeyond23 5 жыл бұрын

@@paulgascoigne5343 much obliged brother

@spiteful6494 5 жыл бұрын

Ah, shame. I've only ever played Calculator 2: Lord of the Credit Crunch.

@spiteful6494 5 жыл бұрын

@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN Ah. I don't believe there was a Japanese release.

@accountwontlastlong1 5 жыл бұрын

@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN Do you sell sushi? If so I'll buy in bulk!

@accountwontlastlong1 5 жыл бұрын

@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN What's yaoi gotta do with sushi?

@clearlypellucid 5 жыл бұрын

"I know how to play Blackjack!" >Immediately gets the rules of Blackjack wrong by thinking an Ace is worth 10.

@PvPene 5 жыл бұрын

aces are wild

@michaelturner4457 5 жыл бұрын

Aces can be high or low in blackjack.

@jacksonpercy8044 5 жыл бұрын

Yes but Conundrum means that Aces are worth 11, not 10

@PlakeFilmmaker 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe he thought it was hexadecimal, hexadecimal goes as letters after 9 so A would be 10.

@michaelturner4457 5 жыл бұрын

A high ace is worth 11, and together with a picture card(J, Q or K) is 21, or a blackjack. And if having an ace is going to bust you, that's when it goes low.

@TwiGGSTicK 5 жыл бұрын

finally some real tat again!

@benbaselet2026 5 жыл бұрын

@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN You must be new here

@charlesdegaulle7558 5 жыл бұрын

@FRIENDLY JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN tat literally just means junk. and it's the meat and potatoes of ashens.

@MisterCasket 5 жыл бұрын

Yes! My first thought exactly! Miss the popstation reviews.

@charlesdegaulle7558 5 жыл бұрын

@@MisterCasket don't forget about the AirPhone 4. I absolutely love all the knockoff crap Stuart's reviewed. The food stuff's great, too.

@maxscardanelli6185 5 жыл бұрын

Nice Megadeth profile picture man!

@greenhowie 5 жыл бұрын

This is clearly from a parallel dimension where Gunpei Yokoi just stuck with calculators and never made the Game and Watch. Skyrim port when?

@AlexSpalex1 5 жыл бұрын

At first, I thought Ashens was showing us an old cable box remote.

@chicagorilla4983 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve always loved your videos before bed, took a month break and I’m back all in

@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp 5 жыл бұрын

I've still got the grandstand version of this, which is silver, which I received one Christmas in the 70s. To be honest, I still think it's fairly awesome for it's time. :) As far as I can tell, it's all still working as it should too. :)

@AerinRavage 5 жыл бұрын

*tries to add 59 and 2* ” No we can't because the nine doesn't work. On the plus side...” Uh huh... I see what you did there.

@KillerSpud 5 жыл бұрын

When you are done with this thing you should send it to Dave Jones at the eevblog. He would absolutely love it, and probably fix the bad buttons.

@GlassesnMouthplates 5 жыл бұрын

This is the type of gadget that makes you wished you get the actual Mastermind board game, or a regular calculator instead for Christmas.

@catharticc 5 жыл бұрын

i am the operator with my pocket calculator *bweep bwoop BWOOOM*

@TheLarryburns84 5 жыл бұрын

by pressing down the special key, it plays a little melody *cue the terrifying noises this machine makes*

@Ryusuta 5 жыл бұрын

Anytime I see an Ashens review of something obscure video game related, I knoiw it's gonna be a fun day.

@Liggliluff 5 жыл бұрын

Ad right before the end credits? Who are you, Larry Jr. Bundi?

@wimwiddershins 5 жыл бұрын

Heh. I would've loved this back in school. Speedway was better than expected.

@VoidHalo 5 жыл бұрын

11 digits is pretty fancy. Even my dollar store scientific calculator I use for my amateur electrical engineering needs has just 10 digits. I'll get a TI one day, I swear.

@amadeus484 5 жыл бұрын

PacJack was probably one of the many games Midway were going to make before Namco took the rights from them.

@johneygd 5 жыл бұрын

And so later on pacman was born,haha.

@eduardofontes8399 5 жыл бұрын

The .com removed from the intro feels off

@MrDrokkul 5 жыл бұрын

Oh MAN! I have been waiting YEARS for you to cover the Versiolaser Energize or whatever it is you said. Thumbs up! Way up!

@Gestersmek 5 жыл бұрын

It feels so empty without the ".com" in the intro.

@maxscardanelli6185 5 жыл бұрын

Same here man.

@capness1228 5 жыл бұрын

At the very least you can use it for some Star Trek cosplay.

@patch-fm 5 жыл бұрын

Yay

@BenCol 5 жыл бұрын

Well it is called the Videomaster Enterprise.

@coolpinguin3624 5 жыл бұрын

-The borg have adapted to all modulations exept nine! Quikly set phasers! -We cant, away team has only one tricoder and nine button doesnt work. -At least you all wear red uniform.

@bwc1976 Жыл бұрын

Love those glowing red displays they used to use (even if they used more battery than an LCD)! Reminds me of the TI "Datamath" calculator my mom had when I was a kid. Pretty cool name, that.

@EffendiChung 5 жыл бұрын

Send it to Big Clive, He'll made a video fixing it, you get another video playing it after being fixed.

@fishnutter5219 5 жыл бұрын

It'll be Fanny Flambeaux all over again...

@PATTHECATMCD 5 жыл бұрын

Replacement LED display? Tricky. Have to make one from scratch.

@Dragonfire511 5 жыл бұрын

Ashens uploads on my birthday. this just got even better!

@nickdraco8435 5 жыл бұрын

Happyyyyy birthdaaaaaayyyyyyy stranger!

@Dragonfire511 5 жыл бұрын

@@nickdraco8435 thanks!

@swanningabout 5 жыл бұрын

Well done on fishing for likes

@Dragonfire511 5 жыл бұрын

@@swanningabout but it failed lol

@spidermcgavenport8767 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, ashens, for this much appreciated Videomaster Enterprise review.

@spidermcgavenport8767 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you could send the Videomaster to GadgetUK164, for repair or replacement of that display.

@navalenigma 5 жыл бұрын

My class mate had one of these in around 1980, can remember being a bit jealous at the time, and yep, still am.

@rbandboy 5 жыл бұрын

Triple-A games on a double-A handheld? Intriguing.

@theodorerelic2718 5 жыл бұрын

Have to say, when the school started allowing us to have calculators in math class (would have been around 1977, when I was in 9th Grade), I would have loved this device. Sadly, I think much of the class decided their favorite pastime using them was probably typing in 58008 or 7734 :)

@wombleking 5 жыл бұрын

That is the most comically small display font I have seen in some time.

@SilentReflection101 5 жыл бұрын

Videomaster, the master of videos with no video. Such simpler days.

@rayceeya8659 5 жыл бұрын

WOW, so that's how kids played video games in math class before the TI-82. I used to write games for the TI-82 back in the 90s by the way. It was more interesting than math lectures and I probably learned more.

@OhMyGadd 5 жыл бұрын

I got bored and decided to how long I have been subscribed... Turns out I have been watching you for 5 and a half years at least. Ashens, thank you for staying true to you.

@moosegoose3159 5 жыл бұрын

ryangadd130695 I’ve been watching since the PS3 wasp video. Ashens feels like an old family friend at this point.

@OhMyGadd 5 жыл бұрын

@@moosegoose3159 He really does! I admit that I no longer watch uploads instantly with work and adult life, but I go through them at least one month and catch right back up. I think I have watched every video to feature him at this point lol.

@gabuks1 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the day we had real video games like Speedway and BrainDrain.

@BlazeFox89 5 жыл бұрын

Those red displays with the really thin lines are really early LED hex modules. If you give the keypad contacts a clean inside with isopropyl some of the elements may start working again. The screen and keypad often share the same lines so dirty keys will affect the screen. May or may not help.

@Arrowdodger 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice blast from the past. Sorta surprised you've never looked at the Game Gear, unless I am forgetting a video, given your love of chronicling handheld systems.

@ikmnification5737 5 жыл бұрын

The story of Gunpei Yokoi seeing a salaryman so bored on a long train ride he was playing with his calculator like it was a game and being inspired to design the Gameboy would sound less inspirational if it was actually a literal calculator with games on it.

@pastaman64 5 жыл бұрын

I've a pong console from these guys, the Videomaster Colourscore. I got it from my dad, who had gotten it as a Christmas present around the time it had been released. He said he gave it to me since then he knows it'll be taken good care of. My dad and I play on it occasionally, and it's a fun lil' console.

@jakubosiejewski9859 5 жыл бұрын

Even better than many mobile games that... -cut to empires and puzzles ad-

@maxscardanelli6185 5 жыл бұрын

Same for me man except it was for Clash Of Clans...

@10willdude 5 жыл бұрын

Speedway squad was my favourite 70's detective show

@10willdude 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, it was 1965*

@zeikjt 5 жыл бұрын

Matt Parker would have a field day with this one.

@johneygd 5 жыл бұрын

That’s interesting, and i bet once gompai yoko saw an man playing with this calculator during a train trip,he came up with the idea of a game & watch series handheld, haha.

@MrDudeInTheSuit 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, Ashens video in a glorious 50 fps? Brown couch now looks more realistic than ever!

@fkthewhat 5 жыл бұрын

I actually think Speedway is quite a clever idea - its like... minimalist top-down racing... lol

@SaNjA2659 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure this uses a bubble LED display, not a VFD. Also, the ridiculousness of this thing's name made me think whether Videomaster Enterprise was actually the name of the company who made it, which they decided to print in full, rather than the name of the product. And yeah, one does not simply use melodic combinations of sounds as far as these ancient games are concerned.

@christinecreasey2342 5 жыл бұрын

Oh Stuart, I gotta get me one of theses, looks like so much fun, and you can fix the 9 key in it lmfao

@nikoappsmuggred7220 5 жыл бұрын

the intro is soley the reason i subbed.

@Lumibear. 5 жыл бұрын

Cheers fella, now when ever any kid tells me I’m so lucky to have lived in the 70/80s when everyone had everything I can show them this and ask them if they’d like to swap it for their Nintendo Switch. ;)

@K4RN4GE911 5 жыл бұрын

The two broken eights on the left look like devil horns! \m/ Yeah, rock on! \m/

@itsMe_TheHerpes 5 жыл бұрын

an escaped bear roaming freely on the street, is no laughing matter. it's quite deadly

@dorelle 5 жыл бұрын

can't wait to get home and break out the late 70's Mastermind board!!

@AFarmerCalledChicken 5 жыл бұрын

My mom used to have a couple of those. She also had those sports game things, like football (American) and baseball.

@Tom5TomEntertainment 5 жыл бұрын

An enterprise that was doomed from the start.

@cattman987 5 жыл бұрын

The lack of '9' functionality reminded me of the Dick Emery Show calculator sketch lol

@darkfent 5 жыл бұрын

Wait...calculator is not a game? I pre-ordered the sequel

@lovelyheiferdev 5 жыл бұрын

I preferred the prequel

@MrSnake-dh3hu 5 жыл бұрын

@@lovelyheiferdev Yeah, but what about the crossover with Spyro doing his taxes? That one was awesome!

@greenhowie 5 жыл бұрын

I got the season pass with exclusive Countdown decals. First confirmed DLC is a button dedicated to "5318008" but the roadmap promises an online multiplayer battle royale mode by 2020.

@UltimatePerfection 5 жыл бұрын

Popstations are back. Seriously, saw some in Poland recently. New games too.

@TommyDeonauthsArchives 5 жыл бұрын

Ashens talking about an obscure gaming console thing? Sign me up!

@johnw2026 5 жыл бұрын

I remember growing up in the 90's and playing my dads old handheld soccer game that was just like that.

@diamondarrow4567 5 жыл бұрын

When will they remake calculator for the switch SMH

@fattesttitsincairo 5 жыл бұрын

Speedway car for Smash 6

@turi9867 5 жыл бұрын

Waiting for the day Brain Drain gets remastered for the PS4 tbh.

@carln1463 5 жыл бұрын

I think Nintendo used the Videomaster as inspiration for the Switch online service

@bentramer682 3 жыл бұрын

How could you? Calculator was my favorite game to play in school!

@Oma_Ender 5 жыл бұрын

Oh good, I'm early to the crazy doctor that reviews tat.

3 жыл бұрын

"Farty noise." "We got gas." I see...

@wisteela 5 жыл бұрын

That's rather impressive for the time, with Speedway being especially clever considering the limitations of the display. It would be really nice to get it working properly. I'm going to see if I can get one of these for my calculator and other tech collection.

@pstuff 3 жыл бұрын

I had one of these, bought from argos in 1979-1980 time period. Cost was about 20 iirc. For my birthday that year I had enough money to buy an electronic game. Went to argos and got a space war thing which looked great from the box (it was shaped like a computer console and had spaceships flying around). Got home and discovered that it was basically 16 leds where you controlled one and had to find the hidden assailant. It was unbelievably rubbish. Luckily argos agreed to swap for a different game and I chose this one because I already liked electronic mastermind and liked the idea of a pontoon game too. It worked well but had terrible battery life and failed after 3 months or so due to the display. I got a replacement from them, that also failed after a few months - they had stopped selling them by that point so got money back.

@RoyalRecordsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

You should send this thing to My Mate Vince and get him to try and fix it

@Numbingbird 5 жыл бұрын

"Hey videomaster whats 9 + 10?" *Videomaster:* "21" "You stupid"

@THEmuteKi 5 жыл бұрын

Video ended followed by an ad for the Harry Potter phone game which I think is a hilarious juxtaposition

@Tylonfoxx 5 жыл бұрын

Speedway is basically a prehistoric version of Subway Surfers :P

@FeatherWait 5 жыл бұрын

Did anyone else get an ad in the middle of Stuart savagely saying the word 'bastard'?

@nameless5413 5 жыл бұрын

nice, with the recent episodes looks like both Ashens and Oktavius went with classic tat. i like to see that, hope for some tat off will eventually take place as crossover between these two creators.

@spokehedz 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if one of the various KZfaqrs could repair this to get it in "full working order"

@RetroGamesBoy78 5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same!

@nikitanugent7165 5 жыл бұрын

People pointing out that Ashens mis-remembered the value of an ace in Blackjack, but not mentioning that both times he claimed there was "probably a nine" in the Mastermind games there was actually only a 1/9 chance of that being true. (It's more likely that one of the other numerals was used twice in the code. He eliminated the possibility of there being more than one zero in the first game, and more than one eight in the second game.) From Wikipedia: "If there are duplicate [numerals] in the guess, they cannot all be awarded a [correct guess] unless they correspond to the same number of duplicate [numerals] in the hidden code." But also, who cares? Apparently I care too much, so that was a stupid question.

@kf8876 5 жыл бұрын

I forgot you existed for a solid year

@bengrocott1265 3 жыл бұрын

Safe to say whoever designed the hacking system on fallout 4 must’ve played the brain game on this

@trekadam30 5 жыл бұрын

That Pontoon game seemed to play more like Baccarat, instead of Blackjack, because the jack(?) it got wasn't added to its final hand score (10's & face cards are worth 0 in Baccarat, however, the biggest score you can achieve is supposed to be only 9). Maybe it was a weird hybrid of the two games, hence the strange title of the game itself.

@MuchWhittering 5 жыл бұрын

And yet this is still better than a Popstation.

@pengwin_ 5 жыл бұрын

lol, loved the simpsons reference.

@yesindeed5998 5 жыл бұрын

Calculator is a game...for when you’ve completed a maths test 15 minutes before the end of the exam.

@anathema7687 5 жыл бұрын

We had a Casio calculator which had a piano function, which was pretty cool at the time

@bwc1976 Жыл бұрын

"I'm the operator with my pocket calculator!"

@joshlunt7827 5 жыл бұрын

Those look like Ikea batteries, but I could be wrong :P

@PATTHECATMCD 5 жыл бұрын

Seem to recall the same people doing a pong clone. Very cheap, quite cheerful.

@BBC600 5 жыл бұрын

Shame the display and the “9” no longer works properly. Wonder if Bigclive could do anything with it? I bet this came at at premium cost when compared to a regular calculator. 💷