Snake Roy: the really obscure continuation of fire emblem 6

The title music for Pile Wonder (4:10) reminds me for just a moment of the AVGN theme. Freaky, it's like it knew.

Direction buttons = Tic Tacs A&B buttons = Skittles

Why does it have Tic Tacs for a control pad? :D

I like the way they called the dot matrix screen " high resolution ".

Ant Soldiers looks really, really good, and they seem to have put a lot of effort into it! I love the music.

'Pile Wonder', sounds like a healthcare product that's advertised during daytime quiz shows.

Heh... The Cougar Boy. What was the top selling game for it again, MILF hunter 2000?

some of these games actually have pretty good music

I have a super vision in box with a bunch of games boxed, if you want them I guess.

The opening start of the chip tune sound from Pile Wonder sounds just like the AVGN theme song lol.

Considering all the Popstations I've seen on here this honestly looks pretty damn good XD

They trademarked Mega in "Mega Duck?" BRB making a game called MEGA CANDY SAGA.

Little did we know that we would eventually experience the joy of Snake Roy later down the line, with the Mad Witch Jada telling Roy to "be wanderer" after turning him into a snake.

The title screen for the box push clone thing BGM reminds me of the AVGN theme song.

heres a fun fact that will probably get lost in the comments: the company behind this thing later went on to produce a few movies in HK including one called "MicroSex Office"

Can it compete with chanticleer hegemony?

I'm actually impressed they managed to make beeps and boops sound like a stereotypical Chinese song.

Is there a name for the Pile Wonder genre? I actually kind of like those games, and I want to know what to search for.

Holy crap. I played the Game Boy version of Ant Soldiers as a ROM that came with a GameBoy emulator back in the mid 1990's, little did I know I was playing a ported Mega Duck game! Fun Fact: The Game Boy version actually shows the ants exploding when you press the nuke button.

Searched Puppet Knight on Google. Went to images. Picture of an actual puppet knight. Looks like Chef Excellence. Was not disappointed.

I read the title as mega drunk and am mildly disapointed

The video in which Stuart confirms that he does, indeed, have uncles. SHU confirmed.

Snake Roy had me laughing longer than the length of this video.

It looks like each part of the dpad is a mint tic tac

Thank you for this. Your videos that don't feature yelling help calm my panic attacks and get to sleep at night. Thank you so much for years of great content.

For something I've never heard of it sure looks impressive, not your average crap.

Lost it when he was telling about his uncle dressed as a leprechaun in a funeral. Like, wtf lol

"Roy" or "Roi" (pronunced "ro-a") means King in french.

The title screen of Pile Wonder sounded suspiciously like the AVGN theme.

i didnt think game box art could get any better than Megaman 1. then i saw Snake Boy.

Puppet Knight and Beast Fighter actually have some pretty good music. Way better than they have any right to be.

Curse you Stuart Ashen! curse you with the curse of a thousand burning gypsies! curse you with the power of supernova, cu . . . . ok i'm bored of that, i was literally starting work on my own review of this little thing today as it's been sat on my shelf for a while, but now you've gone and bloody done it first, oh bother! oh well i shall meet you on the field of battle sir! or maybe i'll get a cup of tea and review something else Nice to see a review of this though in all fairness, i love obscure little systems most people haven't heard of and this is certainly one of those

Looks quite nice. And the Lemming game looked pretty playable to be honest ;)

Srsly Ashens you have taken me on such a fulfilling gaming history adventure. Idk how you aren't more popular for how unique these videos have been since a your first videos.

The MegaDuck logo is still better than my handwriting

*Lights go off* "And there we are." Says Jimmy. "Fiddling has occurred." *He says cheerfully as he hands the a button saying 'Jim Fixed It' feeling rather chuffed.*

Weirdly the music is great on this o_o

Car scratch removal products may help with that screen - I've used Meguiars ScratchX 2.0 on similar screens before with good results. They're usually safe to use on plastics

I was like 70% asleep when this video was playing, but then I heard a TMBG reference. I'm now fully awake.

I can't believe I just got the inside joke about the "Mega Duck" name... NEC WonderSwan - Creatronic MegaDuck. Because while a swan is rare, elegant, and beautiful, a duck is...uh...significantly less so? (Unless it's of the Mega species, I guess.)

Oh no Ashens, The lights were out!

Holy Crap. I saw a picture of this thing on wikipedia next to the wonderswan, but I never thought you'd actually review it. My wish came true...

It does look like a lot of work was put into this system compared to a lot of the other generic hand helds you have shown. Props to you ash and to the hard working children that made the mega duck!

To me the title screen music on Pile Wonder sounds like a variation of the Angry Video Game Nerd theme song. If you use your imagination a little you can hear a couple notes that sound like it.

Oh man, the original GBA screen. Horror stories of squinting at Pokemon Ruby in the dark via the power light...chills me to my bones

0:57 I'm fairly sure the Wonderswan is a few years newer than the mega duck. I sort of want a mega duck because its quite interesting and the name is funny. the only other old handheld i have is an Atari Lynx which is of course another very interesting bit of kit. I once owned a Quickshot SuperVision for a few days that i bought from ebay before returning it because it had lots of battery contact rust problems and we couldn't get it to work consistently. i only discovered it because of that ebay listing as it was another item being sold by someone also selling a couple of lynxes. We did get it to start up once though and i played a bit of Crystball. the Megaduck looks to be superior hardware wise thanks to the scrolling (with two planes too) and the Z80 CPU (they are supposedly better than 6502s though I am only familiar with 6502s. They have 16 bit registers and many more registers in general with instructions that allow you to work only with registers as far as I know, while the 6502 only has 3 8-bit general purpose registers and almost all instructions working on data use only one register and take the other value directly from memory), though the sound judging by the specs looks to be completely software based unlike the supervision with some specialised hardware, and the Duck has slighty lower resolution that the Supervision but barely. Also don't you hate it when a Wikipedia page just says its "from asia" as if that is specific instead of telling you what country it actually originated in? it says that on the wiki page from the supervision but the mega duck it does tell you is from Hong Kong i think. Great video, also great to see someone who actually shows themselves to not know certain things rather than pulling information of Wikipedia and stating it as if it was general knowledge. Also good to see someone actually recognise these funny machines as their actual own designs which they are instead of just calling them "gameboy knockoffs".

I am from Hong Kong and also a long term ashens fan since his first review of the POP station. It is indeed very interesting for ashens mentioned the place that I live and its really cool for watching.

Thank you for letting us know what to send you every Christmas, obscure Chinese handhelds that were not built by Tiger Electronics. :D Oh BTW, the WonderSwan came after the Mega Duck, not before.

Walking Dead AND Ashens tonight!? Tis shaping up to be a great night!

Ya know: dying by falling from too great of a height makes no sense when you're an ant.

Finally it has come......a new ashens video

I have somewhat big hands and I wish handhelds were as chunky as the mega duck.

Still has a better screen than the Game.Com.

My brother had a Sachem Game Boy 4-in-1 cartridge when we were really young and Ant Soldiers was one of the games on it! I was definitely not expecting to see that today, I've Googled Sachem a few times over the years to try and find video footage of at least one of the games and now I've got a good lead in 'Mega Duck'. Thanks a lot Ashens!

I love you ashens!!! And your videos mann, I hope you become famous

Man I was hoping that ant game was a Worms rip-off :/

no valentines video?

Dear Ashens, your people need more Terrible Old Games we've probably never heard of. Thanks.

Pile Hunter sounds like a hilarious medical complaint from Theme Hospital... Or even, the person who is an expert in Heaped Piles.

Just happened to open youtube and see this was uploaded a minute ago, me gusta :3

Mmm wintergreen Tic-Tacs. Oh, it's a d-pad.

We're doing the history of video game consoles in college. I've seen so many on this channel that we are learning about, so thanks Ashens :) I know years of watching your vids would come in handy one do! ;)

I had completely forgotten about this product until this video! Thanks for the review :)

The music sounds like a symphony electronically played by being partially hooked up to a fucking killer and his victim

LOL, I had a game like that on my graphing calculator when I was in school. It was called "Block Dude". Pile Wonder and Block Dude, long lost twins.

And now for the new film, ashens and the quest for the mega duck

a handheld that could play lemmings in the early 90's would have been a hot commodity

Pile Wonder's title theme is worryingly similar to the AVGN theme.

Hey Ashens, you know that Sachen made a ton of unlicensed games for the NES, Genesis / Mega Drive, and Game Boy? You should check them out if you can get your hands on them. They're terrible, but hilarious.

Oh wow, I found one of these in a thrift store several years ago, awesome to see it on your channel

Goddamn. They even had Boxxle on a Mega Duck. Boxxle being the GameBoy's version of Pile Wonder. You know, I used to think that game was obscure. Until I heard that it was on every electronic device to have ever existed in the history of ever.

XD roy in old french means king so basically its "king snake"

Lots of videos has been getting a black screen lately. I don't know what KZfaq is up to, but it's not very nice. Bad KZfaq, baaad!

Felt obligated to look up that painting because I study art. Thanks for inadvertently making me do extra-curricular work, Stu.

I found ur channel today and watched your videos from 11am-6pm

pile wonder theme....angry video game nerd theme... coincidence?!!! I THINK NOT!

It's always cool to see Sachen games, the king of the crappy Taiwanese games. As Ashens pointed out, they were absolute whores with their clone games, publishing the same stolen games on NES/Famicom, Game Boy, Mega Drive, and as shown, the Mega Duck and Supervision Taiwanese handhelds. For those curious though, DO NOT track down Sachen games on GameBoy - they're buggy, slow and awful - not to mention expensive due to rarity. You can play them through emulation, but even that's a waste of time. The only marginally interesting games they made are on Famicom.

Ashens, I've been watching you for a few years and I still can't believe you can turn these pieces of crap into something entertaining. But you do! Good video haha

Fun fact: There is no Lemmings game available for the iPhone (not sure for iPad,) but there is a Lemmings like game called "Ants." (period included.)

This is going to be very vague, but there used to be a Blues Brothers game on the PC on a floppy disk and I used to play it when I was young. As far as I can remember you had to collect vinyls. That's all I can say but I'd love if you found that and reviewed it! Nostalgic for anyone else or just me?

Try switching it straight to 720p, that worked for me

Cool, I never knew about Mega Duck. I too have a soft spot for handhelds and would love to own Mega Duck someday. Thanks for the video. :)

I was drinking juice when you put up the cover for Snake Roy and now I have to clean my clothes

I thought my eyes went cloudy when the auto-focus acted weird o.o

Fix for Black Screen: 1. Switch Quality to 240p (Press the gear, Quality, select 240p) 2. Change it back to your desired video! 3. Enjoy the hilariously bad tat! :D

Ashens, you are probably the best KZfaqr I've seen for surviving the century egg and those crappy game consoles. I applaud you! *Claps* Please keep me entertained! 😊

My face was not prepared for the mighty Mega Duck!

I know these cheapo consoles always suck but I'm still find myself watching every damn review. Ashens should sell used cars.

angry video game nerd theme ? 4:15

"Your death brings joy to my heart!" - Laughed out more than I should have.

I like the way it says 'High Resolution' printed on the console.

That title song for the Pile Wonder seems so familiar. Does anyone know the song name?

4:09 AVGN theme?

Just knowing that there's a product out there called the 'Megaduck' fills my heart with joy . Thank you , hong kong. Thank you.

Gotta love that electronic interference when you turn a early 90's handheld on.

Yep, I had a 161 games in 1 cartridge for the game boy (although it only had 27 games, the rest were just hacked version with more lifes, or things like that), and that first game was in there, but with a different name. It was not in the other 2 "x games in 1 cartridge" games that I had though, so I guess there were a lot of different tittles for this console, and other similar ones... because some of the games in those cartridges... man, they were WEIRD...

Wonder if the green suit leprechaun uncle is the one and only uncle derek?

This predates the WonderSwan by 6 years, so no idea why they named it the Mega Duck.

Can't wait for you to read the contributor's names. I thought you had forgotten about that perk!