This episode even has a end credits scene, this means I have now Marvel level production values now, right, right ?

As a 38 year old male, you had me at sticker printer...

“I'll explain why the Loopy did not fail as hard as the Jaguar. And the short answer is; Casio are still here.” - Ouch! 😆

"Jaguar is the now SI unit for failure' 🤣🤣🤣

This is told through the lens of a game console, where you need to sell millions ho be a 'success'. The loopy is more accurately a niche gamified printer. They may have very well only expected to sell a few thousand units, and done so with a bit of a profit. If it met their expectations, they may have even considered it a success. Casio made many oddball products for small markets. There are millions of products that target young girls, I don't think this is that unusual.

Good Video... But background music though good for the video its TOO DAMN LOUD

that rotary phone (non)dialing hurts

This is all part of our plan to drive all other retro content creators mad so we get the entire market - Johnny

That "film" in the cartridge presumably indicates it's a dye sublimation printer. The paper also needs a special coating. This is clearly great for designing proprietary cartridges around, but it also doesn't require a moving print head, doesn't involve liquid ink, etc. so it can be more reliable while still offering good print quality.

Good god man, that twirling the phone cord !🤣

Casio have always seemed a little unsure if they want to make consoles. They've had a couple of goes, but never really seem to have committed to it. Yes, it might seem a little odd that a company known for calculators and watches branched into consoles, but is it really that much more of a stretch than someone who is known for TVs and Hifis (Sony) or someone who is known for software (Microsoft)?. Even Commodore (who were initially known for calculators) had a good go at Computers.. I think if Casio had properly committed to either of their consoles, done their research and employed talented studios, we could be talking about their consoles in the same breath as those from Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo. Perhaps with Casio making a console that beats both the PS5 and Xbox Series X on specs. Still, it's easy to say if.. Casio could have done all of the above, and still failed, possibly taking out the company, like Atari.

That is an extraordinary amount of jumper wires for a production unit console, one that was clearly not yet ready for prime time.

Such an amusing and informative review! :D

I totally agree with your failure rating on this thing. Great video

Great to see. Having been to japan a couple of times, and bought random crap from Akihabara, I’m not at all surprised how weird this is. But the PV-1000 is another level of internal bobbins!

Love your channel man!

So glad that the song popped up!

Love these videos. Very interesting.

I can't believe you didn't print a sticker....

Casio should have just stuck to calculators and wrist watches.... to be fair, i did and still do own the gameboy printer, which is.... shocker! a sticker printer! Japan must have had a thing for stickers.

Next product … The DYMO GAMESTATION! 🤣

Thanks for a informative and entertaining video! Now I want to print stickers 😀 I like that you use Djangos legendary music in your videos 🙂 If you're a guitarist and this music talks to you, you might appreciate names like The Rosenberg Trio, Joscho Stephan, Adrien Moignard and Birelli Lagrene. I got into this kind of jaz from a random KZfaq video, and now I'm playing la pompe an oval hole guitar in a gigging duo 🙂

All children want sticker printers. That sold Game boy printers.

To be fair to Casio -- Sticker printing arcade cabs where incredibly popular for girls in Japan at the time.

No - really? They SHIPPED it with all those wires on it? Oh my God... They weren't even neatly installed.

If they had done a focus group they may have done better.

I'd run my webserver on it. It currently runs on an HP thinclient with a 400mghz processor and 112K of usable ram. Yep, less RAM than a C128. And has been running non stop on that solid state little hotel bible sized box for the last... 10 or more years. 8 watts, about as much power as a nightlight.

I would have loved a sticker-printing console when I was a kid, if there were one aimed at boys. Or how and one aimed at adults. Grown ups like stickers too. Casio seemed to be leaving a lot of money and potential on the table when they marketed this with only very stereotypically girly games.

It's funny how when I worked for PowerVR nobody ever mentioned this thing in the big list of stuff that had one inside...

I kinda like it and the concept is cool

Could you normalize your volume, please? Some parts I had to boost the volume way high to hear, and some parts I had to rush to the remote to turn it down because it's late, and I don't want to wake anyone, especially myself who's trying to sleep... Most of it is normal, but some parts are extremely low, and some parts are extremely high, like the main voiceover is normal, and the "exaggerated boring" parts are too low, and the "exaggerated fun", and the sound effects like pops, bells, and such are way too high, even from normal...

The shojo manga inspired pixel art is nice. Larger palette and resolution than the SNES. Not quite at saturn level, though. These days pixel art holds up way better than the polygonal graphics of the time.

Cool

0:39 - 24V DC Positive Center Pin?! 🤯

depressing

I'd say main mistake with Loopy is that Casio missed the general business idea of a console entirely. You don't build a whole console for a specific market; you make games and peripherals. Console should cover as big market as they possibly can. It would probably be much more prudent of them if they made a SNES/N64 peripheral printer and had games made that used it. Would sell much better because of how big Nintendo was at the time (of course, PlayStation dominated that era, but Casio couldn't predict just how massive success will Playstation be in 1994).

Shouldn't that scale be the apple pippin? From what i found it sold 42000 to jaguars 250000

Mmmilky Princess!

I've beaten every loopy game ama

Oh, mat,e in Japan, imn the 90s, that market DID exist, and how! Printed stickers were (still are in a way now) HUGE. YOu can't ask a Brit about whether that was what girls wanted back then, because, and I can't stress this enough, THE LOOPY WAS NOT MADE FOR THE WESTERN MARKETS. Repeat those words with a clap between each word. There.

pls drop the music. completely.

It's so hard to understand you over the music. :/

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Such great videos, dry humour, and interesting content.... Totally ruined by obnoxiously loud and distracting background music. Honestly, there's no need. The video stands alone WITHOUT the music. At the very least, please turn it down in future videos (and yes I know this is a year old, but hopefully the author will see it!). I'm just tired, but for many neurodivergent people, this would be a deal-breaker!