15 years in the future. Thank you for this much needed review.

Hey, Ashens! I can tell you what the pitches of some of the beeps are! Barcode Processing/Number Change: Bb-Eb Barcode Unreadable: C# X3 Cannot use Item: E-C (Gradual chromatic scale downwards) Power-on:D-F# (Wavy sound) Power/Battle Button: F#-High F (Chromatic upwards) Winner: F-High F (Wavy sound) Confirm Selection (C-Select): G-Bb-Eb Etc.

How does one crystallize time?

Ashen: "... Something popular in Japan." Me: "Tentacles?" Ashen: "No, not that..."

Ahhhhh KZfaq videos from 2007, looks like it was filmed on a Barcode Battler!!! here have a like :)

2:50 "this thing eats batteries faster that a big battery eating thing" I guess 1 more thing in common with the game gear

quickest gameover ever. PART 3!!!!

It would be cool if someone could develop a similar thing but with QR codes for phones or handhelds, if done the right way, it could go really well.

Wow I own one of those haha It's actually pretty fun when you finally figure out how it works (and figure out that you should NEVER insert those enemy cards or you're dead hehe). I believe C-1 actually had a single player mode in which you'd level up after you'd slain an enemy, but it got really hard later on. Also, you really need to collect barcodes because you wouldn't get far with the cards included in the package.

Being trapped in a burning lift with a corpse is one of my favourite activities. Dunno what you're talking about.

I'd actually enjoy seeing a better version of that concept.

omg i used to have this as a kid of 8 years old and even WITH the instructions it makes NO sense. i used to try my hardest to conquer it but everything was so over powered so theres a reason mine stayed in mint condition- because it inevitably ended up back in the box and popped back under my bed after about 20min until the next time i tried.

Hi Everyone. I actually own two of these and have all the cards for it. Also the manual which comes with a complete guide of interal enemies on the console with visual representations. You can choose to fight by cards or by an internal enemy system up to lvl 100 I believe it is. Whats so awesome about this game is that you can make your own characters, enemies and items based off barcodes you tape to the customcard which you can add your own artwork to. Me and my brother had a lot of fun with these devices as kids.

These were pretty damn fun, but sadly there were no graphics outside of those cards, and a huge array of random art on the back of the instruction manual. I'm sure i still have it all around though. It was though of the age of my school years, and marketing games or consoles wasn't really a thing. The barbirian you fought was one of the bosses. It's sort of an RPG thing of fighting through other characters and lower tier enemies powered em up and so forth. The idea is also that you pit pretty much random items against eachother. I really never had any problems making it recognize codes.

thumbs up if you are here in 2020 cause ya can't sleep and cause 2020 makes us nostalgic for even THIS kinda old content XD take us back in time with this wonderful tat, Ashens, my good man

Back in the day when Mr S Ashens recorded with a potato

holy crap i actually remember this thing i always thought this was something i imagined as a kid

Apparently they even sold a cable to connect this to a famicom or super famicom in japan.

I'm watching through a random playlist of stuff and just been watching some Not the Nine O'Clock News. You have the same dry delivery as one of those amazing comedians. Go Ashens! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Ahhhhh, 2007. The year of 240p.

I personally think that if that product would be made today but with graphic updates it would sell quite well.

I got one of them for christmas in 1991 and at the time it was awesome! Without the instructions and guide book though it's almost useless. There was a single player mode with a whole story and everything explained in an accompanying book, very much like D&D. I really did love this and went through just about all the barcodes I could find over a year or so trying to find decent stuff. Oh the days before 3D graphics and the SNES ;)

"im going to have the power sword, because it was on the top of the pile" epic!

Thanks so much for your reviews. They always make me laugh! xD You're awesome.

"Thats it" LOL

Cool concept, poorly implemented. 10/10 -IGN

I was absolutely laughing uncontrollably by the time we got to the 5 minute mark... this review is one for the hall of fame!

This review is awesome! You are like Alan Partridge crossed with Gamesmaster. I literally cried with laughter at some of your delivery! Thank you sir, thank you all to hell!

You tend to forget just how great HD is until you watch an old video like this. Good old 480p.

This remind me of another game thing like this called scannerz. I saw an ad for it many years ago.

2:40 Change the Batteries! Finest level of comedy.

Hehe, great review. I used to have one of these when I was younger and didn't really have a clue what I was doing (even with the manual!) but loved nicking barcodes off items around the house.

We should bring this back.

They should make an app that's a mixture of supermarket sweep and pokemon GO, where every week you need to find certain items of varying difficulty and scan the barcode... I know I'm the only one who would probably use it but it kinda sounds like fun...

Oh ghod... The painful memories. I received one of these as a gift in 1994 when I had to spend some time in hospital. It appears you had more fun with it than I did, as I don't recall instructions either, and ten year old me at the time wasn't as patient to attempt to figure it out.

I had one of these some years ago, was fun about 4 days or so.. The barcode battle box made a great equipment! Cool review, made memories (good one) come back actually.

Just when you thought you hit the bottom…

Well decided to watch some classic Ashens (aka that's why I am here :P) Watched this Video and wished I still had my Bar code battler I really need to go on Ebay or something and buy one again lmao

You have a brilliant way of deciding things.

your reviews are the best. keep doing them.

Ahhhh the days of 240 p

"It takes four batteries for some reason" - Maybe to provide power to the machine... just saying.

Ok, he can't have a rocket gun, apparently. lol XD I love your reviews, man, keep em coming!

There is something so therapeutic about seeing retro Ashens videos in glorious 240p!

Vintage, background-buzz, fuzzy-camera, young-sounding, delivery's-all-wrong Ashens sounds SO WEIRD from eight years in the future!

What is the game / thing from 2:40 ?

i had this some years ago, i loved the concept! :)

I had one of these. It was great fun, would love if they brought it back. Ashens is being incredibly harsh on this one!

The original Hearthstone

Is it female corpse?

had that thing and loved it so much! i got it gifted for easter when i was 5 y old and was my favourite game for a year or so

I remember they used to have segment on GameCenter CX where they would duel on one of these barcode scanners.

I had one of these, genuinely the worst christmas present i ever got lol. I felt bad for not playing it, probably cost my mum a lot but it was pure, 100% fucking shit!.

Barbirian is way too OP, Valve plz fix

i like your voice:-) this is the third of your videos i have watched, and i can already say that you have got yourself a new fan:). first the angry video game nerd, then the nostalgia critic and now you:-)

you are the coolest youtuber that i ever found

Damn this is old, his voice sounds higher because he was younger, sounds so cute :P

Looks like you really had to use your imagination for these "battles".

i love the way he is sarcastic and throws the consouls around

I received a Barcode Battler as a gift when i was a kid and it was a lot of fun chucking it out of then window.

When these things first came out, I wanted one so bad, and they were too damn expensive. I still have my Mortal Kombat Tiger bar code fighter handheld, though.

I had one, It was great! Tried it couple years ago and it was as fun as looking a drying turd.

Has made me want to try and find my old barcode battler again

I had the 90s equivalent of this thing. It was basically the same except the barcode scanner wasn't swipe based so you didn't have to turn every scan into a scrapbooking project.

OMG, I couldn't stop laughing when you yelled MEDIC, MEDIC!

aww. i used to want one of those so badly. now looking at it, as you have said before, the batteries in that thing are the most exspensive part.

This thing was so popular in Japan, that kids used to que up in the morning at the local foodstore waiting for them to open. Rushing in grabbing the new cerial box only to get the new barcode and hope they got a better character than the friends they were going to battle with it. Kind of like hunting for the strongest pokemon. The creative element of the day was pretty good I guess. But it did require to have a bit involvement to be a thing. A friend had one of these, and we fooled around with it, and if memory serves me right, it was pretty expensive for us kids, I think it was something like 80~90 euros. So very expensive for what it did. My friend imported his, so it was never a thing that anyone else had heard of.

I remember having that! I can recall using the barcode off the Barcode Battler's Box to create a boss!

I remember this tat. I allways wonder how it can be use, but nobody bought it, even when there were massive adverts every where back then.

I think we had a Scannerz when I was a kid. I remember them being a lot of fun and working with most barcodes. didn't even have to clip them off products because it had a proper scanner built in. Lots of fun ^_^

Rush'N'Attack jump cut, ah I love you.

I had one of these lol. My uncle got me it at a car boot sale. It was surprizingly fun.

My nephew had something similar Difference is, the one my nephew had was smaller, and actually fun.

I recall this thing! Sadly back in the day it wasn't very cheap... I could only see how a few of my friends had this console system (If I may call it console). It was even possible to use barcodes of any products you can buy in a shop (It must be put in one of those cards) and you may find strong foes, so there is a huge library of foes/heroes. Awesome!

hahah ashen, i had one of those, it was REALLY fun. If only you had the instructions. Firstly the C-X the C stood for the type of stage you wanted (this was explained in the instructions). each stage had a different boss that dropped items. Secondly the first "unique" barcode that you tried didn't work because it was an enermy, (barcodes are seperated into heros and enermies".

I chuckled heartily at the slightly disturbed/incredulous way you denounced "beast feast".

Wow! I had one of those. I forgot all about it! Going round the house cutting barcodes out of loafs of bread and cereal boxes. Which half of didn’t work if I remember correctly.

The ring tone in your phone reminds me of one of the menu / level select screens in Megaman Xtreme, for the Gameboy Color.

Ahh, this takes me back

Me and my uncle had a type of these, and they were amazing We would sit in my grandmothers pantry to find strong enemies and monsters it was EPIC

Best review ever. Bar None. Thank you.

ya i agree with u man, its cool to have videos games that interact with real things

I remember seeing commercials in the early 2000's for a barcode battler thing. It looked like one of those barcode guns stockboys at a supermarket use, and the kids in the commercial were running around a grocery store scanning boxes of cereal and such. It looked really cool, but I never saw one in any store, and have since never been able to find anything like it on Ebay... Maybe it was just a dream...

i would love to see this revisited

I had one. I remember that I got a barcode from a cereal package. My cereal fighter was AWSOME!!!

I used to have one of those. Never was very good with it. D: I wish I'd still had it though, it was very fun to read different barcodes with it and make own cards.

Well, at least in a burning lift, you can get the corpse to cook up nice.

I had a more recent version of this when I was a kid that came in three different flavors and let you fight your friends monsters over infrared ala a crappy Poke'mon / Monster Rancher knock off. It let you scan any barcode, but it seemed to just randomly generate monsters. It sounds way way better than it was.

aah, I remember. my very first ashens video. great one!

They remade this as Skannerz in the late nineties. It was actually fun, as they made the different models produce different monsters. Might check that out.

I had that thing (might still have it somewhere) It was actually pretty fun for an LCD game, RPG-ish battling

This is a classic example of something that's far more fun in theory than in practice! the adverts were very misleading, made it look fun to play! they must have been mad thinking this would succeed in the west, I bought one for a couple of pounds and it was virtually mint condition!

really like your reviews

In Finland, they had a similar thing. You had a green, red or blue little machine. You had to find a barcode, then scan it. Sometimes, an monster comes, sometimes, you find an item, or you find nothing.

I had something like this called Skannerz. It wasn't much in terms of graphics, but at least you got monsters that were worth a damn and it gave a nice graphic while searching for monsters in bar codes. If a monster was found, it then showed a neat little assembly line thing that created the monster it found. Quite interesting little game.

I had this. The barcodes from products in shops never ever worked. I didn't realise it was from 1991 though. It's made me realise I don't have as long left to live than I was hoping

Haha i use to have one of these, seeing those cards brought back memories.

Yeah, I remember that. I had one in 2005. To be honest, I only liked it because of the highly detailed monsters that were covering the bar-code cards. Some of them were very interesting and quite colourful. I think I may have sold the original scanner module and the cards may have been thrown away due to mistakes, when my room was being cleared out. It was good though, sort of like the mutated monster version of Tamagotchi.

I cracked up @ the instant-kill part xD

God....I remember being excited because this was "a new ashens video!" 13 bloody years...sigh