Despite its obvious limitations, the Nomad blew my mind in the 90s. Playing CONSOLE games on the go? Completely unheard of at the time.

"dont shoot lazers out of your face its weird." great advice for life kids

"You are Soapy Mctavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go!" I died xD

I had a Nomad back in the day. I liked that you could plug in a controller for a second player instead of needing two Nomads. The battery pack was never difficult for me to get on and off though. It's probably only harder for you because it's old. The thing is, getting the rechargeable battery pack for the Nomad was a *must*. It gave you longer play time and didn't eat batteries like a glutton that way. It had a nicely back-lit screen though, and even though there was a blurring problem, I was still able to adjust to it. All-in-all, I had fun with it, and I was glad that I bought it.

The aliens jump on too fast to see as you're playing a PAL game on an NTSC system, so you're actually playing the game 17.5% faster than it's supposed to be!

Oddly enough, the alien in Alien looks strangely like the final boss from Ecco the Dolphin.

The screen reminds me of the Atari Lynx screen

The reason you can't shoot the aliens is because it's a PAL cartridge running at a higher speed (i.e. 60hz rather than 50hz). This effectively speeds up the game, making it bloody hard!

20 years later the Turbo Touch 360 is reborn as the Steam pad.

Loved those old genesis cases. If only nintendo had something like that for N64 games. You so much as breathed in their direction and those boxes fell apart.

For some reason seeing the sonic european box art again has really inspired me to wanna dust off my old childhood consoles, buy new shelves and turn my flat into my own personal mini-gaming museum. I have so much gaming history shoved into drawers doing nothing. Each shelf could house one console, a controller and 3 games on display. Add some lcd lights and really snaz it up. Ohhhh, I'm going to go to poundland... Thanks Ashens!

Ah, Wrestle War. I remember that racking up a shit tonne in late Blockbuster fees.

I will definitely second that Streets of rage 2 being one of the finest beat em ups as well as one of the finest Sega games in general

Man with all other collectors I can imagine them having big rooms where they have all the stuff. With ashens I just imagine everything he shows is on a huge pile to the side of that sofa xD

I firmly believe the Nomad was way ahead of its time (so far ahead of its time that the technology didn't even exist to do it properly). If they could have made this smaller, with better battery life, and a screen that wasn't a blurry ghosted mess (the Game Gear had the same problem with its screen and similar battery life issuse)... this could have changed Sega's destiny.

So Sega released this portable console in 1995? The Nintendo Switch is a bit late then.

"Go Ecco! You dolphin faced fucker!" God damnit, I had to pick the one moment he drops a precision f strike to drink some coffee...

blowing in to the cat ridge is how we fixed things in the 90s lol

Omg the ghosting is INSANE. I’ve never seen live video of anything running on the actual Nomad screen, and dear god is it insane. No wonder it didn’t sell!

The funny thing with the back of the cartridge boxes or in the manual is that they're transalted so awfully in languages other than english that it becomes funny.

I've been watching Ashens since 2006 when I was 12 years old and have watched every single video up to this day. Streets Of Rage 2 is my favourite game of all time and to hear Dr. Stuart Ashen call it "One of the finest games ever etched by man onto cartridge" makes me love him even more. Never stop what you're doing you sexy man!

Coincidently, the only Genesis/Mega Drive game that won't work is the X-Men game. In one of the Computer levels, you have to reset your console. But, the Nomad doesn't have a reset button.

I seriously can't believe ive been watching you review random crap on a brown sofa for years and still love it

The Nomad is based on the Sega Mega Jet, Which was a handheld device Sega sold to Japanese Flight companies so they could rent games and the system to them during flights. The only difference was it didn't have a screen. But I bought a brand new one about 10 years ago when had my art job, so would buy any old shit anime or gaming shit. I'll have to dig it out and do a video on ti some time!

He summarized the crappy call of duty series amazingly towards the beginning of the video.

'you dolphin faced fucker'..... Had me in stitches

An excellent description. Seriously, this is one of the best.

Finally. This was one I was waiting for!

Sonic should have worked on Nomad, as the first Sonic was not region locked. But anyway, cool video. It was nice to see Nomad in action.

Sega Nomad: An Airbender's favorite console.

i had a nomad as a kid and this video brought back so much nostalgia. i used to play a game called vectorman i really miss this.

I'm puzzled now, coz I've played quite a few Mega Drive games on my Nomad. Either I'm very lucky, or you're very unlucky... or have dirty contacts on your carts. Sonic 1 most definitely works. I have it running as I type this.

The Streets of Rage series will always be my favorite games

Mr Ashens? (holds up hand at back of the class) Can you tell us why the Mega Drive in the US was named after a prog rock band from Surrey? Nowhere on the web has a solid answer.

As someone who had one when they weren't terribly old, and with a huge library of games, I can confirm that they were pretty damn nice at the time to have even with the battery issues.

5:24 Handsome fish This part made me die of laughter when I was young

"No don't shoot lasers out your face, its weird." Going to put that gem in my pocket for s rainy day ;-)

Good thing I pulled an all nighter. :D

"Go Ecco! You dophin faced fucker!" I came for the highbrow wit and was not disappointed! That really did genuinely make me laugh out loud!

I still have this. It was an awesome protable at it's time.

I love Ecco the Dolphin!

I swear when you blew into that cartridge part of me died just then.

This episode is quite relaxing for some reason

"go Ecco...you dolphin faced fucker" Made me lol quite a bit

And it is impossible to complete the first X-Men game on this thing since it requires you to reset the console as part of the gameplay.

My Sega Nomad story: So, it was around my birthday last year. I was in the mall's one of two retro game stores and noticed their Sega Nomad for sale. Seeing how I had a bunch of cash and a bunch of Sega games, I bought it. The guy advised me that the contrast knob didn't work, so he sold it to me for $70 instead of $80. I take it home, plug it into the wall, and the screen doesn't work. I can plug it into the TV just fine, but the screen on the portable console didn't work, making it as portable as a regular Sega Genesis. I return it to them, and instead of them refunding my money, the say they can fix it. A few weeks go by, and I call them up, they say that they're waiting on some parts, so I wait for another couple weeks. When I call them up this time, they say their repair guy quit and they're trying to find a new guy to replace him with. I say fuck it and demanded my money back, and they did. That store is bullshit overall, they buy games from other stores and sell them for more.

This is the cleanest Sega Nomad I've ever seen

The Nomad is hands down my favorite system that I own. Love the Game Gear as well

Is the steam controller the reincarnation of the Turbo Touch 360?

The most surprising thing about the nomad is that it has no japanese release, when u think that would be the very reason they made it, to cater to the japanese market with their small homes and commute times

"You Dolphin Faced Fucker" - Best thing I've heard, possibly this year.

I lol'd when he realized everything was orange. The way he views his own work all through the viewfinder makes for great accidental meta humor.

I'm starting to question whether that Sonic box had a copy of the game inside it, because that *should* have played fine on a 60hz device, at its proper speed. Aside from the few later on that locked you out based on region settings in later years (Like SoR II), Most games were completely cross compatible... Developers never bothered to optimise gameplay for different hz rates and most of the time the carts contained exactly the same code on the ROMs - An NTSC cart would just play slower on a PAL machine, and a PAL cart would play faster (or how us purists like to say: it's proper speed) on an NTSC machine. There are even some earlier carts that have the code for the western and Japanese versions inside, and will run in all 3 territories and change the title screens and language accordingly based on region settings (Japanese cartridges were a slightly different shape though so wouldn't fit in a US/EU slot without cutting the slot a bit, and a US/EU cart wouldn't fit in a JP machine unless you removed the cart lock bar in the console) Stupid piece of trivia about the region lockout on SoR2: The EU version and the Japanese version are identical and work on either machine, and even changes it's title screen to Bare Knuckle II an a JP MD, but won't work on a Genesis. The Genesis version only works on a Genesis because it's a stupid billy no-mates, has a different sprite for Blaze's jump kick so you cant see her pants, and has had the title screen changed to "Streets of Rage 2" instead of "Streets of Rage II" because apparently Sega US didn't think Americans understood Roman numerals.

I thinks your channel is amazing, Ashens. I had one of these growing up. I traded it for a carton of cigarrettes (stupid). Now you can buy the with new digital screens. Not that this is obscure, but your channel and boogies are the first channels that i ever saw such obscure stuff being reviewed. I thought it was a joke at first. But i think its amazing.

The Turbo Touch 360 was designed for fighting games, specifically. The big draw was that some versions of it were programmable, so if you knew what you were doing you could program a tricky-to-use special move into it, and then, using the program feature, use that move essentially on call.

THANK YOU for showing the street rage game! i finally now know what the very first game i ever played was named! (played it at my cousins house when i was 6 or 7)

*Echo the Dolphins secret rape cave of Sexual pleasure.* Best sequel ever.

Ecco always freaked me out. The music was eerie as fuck.

My jaw literally dropped when you pulled out the turbo touch. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.

That Ecco music... mmmm.... good memories. I recorded that music on to a tape back before I knew what an internet was and used to listen to it on the bus ride to school.

Sega: "Our handhelds are super awesome with all the hardware they have! Battery life? What's that?"

DAMN YOU SOAPY MACTAVISH!!!!!!!!

The Nomad is amazing. I wish those were still around.

The ost for alien 3 is some of my favorite gensis/megadrive music

A shame it never got a Sega CD add on.

Is the Turbo Touch 360 a warning for the Steam controller?

I love the "In all its ---------- Glory" thing

We needed a Blueglass cameo for this video.

Better battery life than my IPhone...

I think Mega Drive is a cooler name than Genesis. Coming from an American.

I remember the Nomad although it was never released here in UK I used to have Sega magazines & they had an article about it in one once, I remember wanting one at the time but I was super addicted to my Mega Drive for ages which I still actually have in full working order & have all my games still too :)

& now a PSP can do the Nomad's job incredibly well.

I'm probably alone on this... But I envy the Europeans for having gotten the mega drive and not genesis... Mega drive just sounds more badass.

3:46 "you are soapy mactavish man, you must shoot brown men GO! and then next year do the same again but slightly more expensive dlc" -Stuart ashen

Certain people mentioned this console to *a certain Let's Player* - where he plays Sonic Game Gear games. "The Game Gear ate the batteries, the Nomad DEVOURED them!"

Had one back in the day, still have it. I was king of the bus well into when the GBA came out, especially since I could play Streets of Rage 2 with another guy, with 1 console.

There is actually a handy mod for replacing the Nomad's screen with a modern LCD that uses less battery and looks much brighter and sharper. Not the cheapest thing in the world to have installed, but well worth looking into if you are into the Nomad. There's also services to mod the old burned out rechargeable battery packs with fancy new lithium so you can play for much longer than the original battery pack allowed for even when they were new.

Doesn't the Steam console have two of those touch pads instead of joysticks, like the Turbo Touch 360? Dang, wonder how that turns out.

I have one of these, and they are a must-own for any Genesis/Mega Drive fan!

Thank you. So much for using the Turbo Touch. I bought one of those because I was convinced it would make me awesome at Street Fighter Champion Edition, and had completely forgotten what it was called. It did not, in case you were wondering.

Ashens is the new YSG

Fun fact: This was originally called the Venus, and it was one of a whole series of planet-themed names: Mercury: Game Gear Venus: Nomad Mars: 32X Jupiter: I think it was a Genesis with a built in CD and 32X Saturn: Sega Saturn Neptune: Genesis with a built in 32X Pluto: A Saturn with built-in internet My names: Earth: Genesis Uranus: Genesis with a Sega CD Eris: Dreamcast Ceres: Master System

4:30 Damn, you bring the classic gamer memories back xD

Tis my number one favourite intro ever. It's decided.

Has anyone told you that you sound like the narrator from The Stanley Parable?

Ashens grab a Qtip, get some drops of windowcleaner on it and rub the catridge contags clean. Then you grab your creditcard and some clean piece of cloth. Wrap an edge of your creditcard with the cloth and apply a little bit of windowcleaner on it and stuff the clothwarped card in the cartidge slot and carefully jiggle it up and down to get all the dust out it has collected over time. Blowing the catridge or slot will damage it, the contacts will rust and your game/ console will die a painful death.

I got a SEGA ad during this video XD

Ahhh, the days when portable gaming was a novelty, and not something just anyone could do on the now omnipresent smartphone. I spent many an hour huddled up next to the wall-outlet with my Sega Nomad, playing Comix Zone, Vectorman, and Sonic & Knuckles.

I'll give you £5 for the nomad

And yet it's still more advanced than the Xbox one...

IT'S A MONSTER! Seriously, it is HUGE! And, yes, I was lucky to witness this once. in my hands.

I was partially hoping you'd play Ecco juuuust long enough to be able to joke about dolphin abductions. Also it is amazing seeing how even back then there were such huge jumps in the gaming industry, one moment you have your handheld Sega Genesis, six years later you have the GBA which was I believe twice as powerful than the Genesis itself with so much less space taken up!

Hello guys, I'm ashens and I'm about to attempt my longest sega ever.

Turbo Touch 360 - like today touch screens :D I hate playing games on touch screen!

I remember playing Alien 3 on the Genesis way back when. Super hard.

Loved the Nomad.

"You are Soapy MacTavish man, you must shoot brown men. Go." Am I the only one that got the COD reference?

late 1995? .....but they had the gamegear by that time....

Love when Ashens reviews electronics!

To this day I still regret accidentally busting the screen to my Nomad. It was a power hog, but it was one of the greatest "handhelds" ever.