As a kid I was saving up to buy a Gameboy, but then found the supervision for 20 gulden less. I could either save a little longer and get my Gameboy or go home with the supervision right then and there. Let's just say I learned an important lesson about patients and rash buying...

Thanks for this awesome video. I grew up with the Watara. My parents just didn’t know about this stuff, so they bought me a supervision instead of the gameboy. Still I loved it, I have a few and a nice collection of games. Hope someone will come up with a replacement screen.

Fun Fact: Assembloids, that I had also a pleasure to work on, is probably the only modern homebrew release for Supervision handheld ;) A bit pity that there wasn't any video of it included here but thanks for mentioning us!

Haha, coming from a modest family a Gameboy was too expensive, so I also played a lot on this Supervision. What a retro experience, thanks!

I've always had a soft spot for the underdog and/or obscure systems. I picked the Saturn during the 1995 Xmas season. Picked up a virtual boy about a year later when it was on clearance. Never had the opportunity to pick up one of these, but I did have a Tiger R-Zone at one point.

Great video! Loved my Supervision back in the day and still do. And still actively collect for it too, I’m only 5 carts away from a full set! Doubtful I’ll ever get the remaining 5 though.

Iremember the shells of theese were reused and fitted with that "brick game 99999999 in 1". You could find them in eastern europe on markets in the mid 2000's still

Wow that's a blast from the past. I remember these being in Intertoys (nl). I quickly brushed this system aside in favor of the mega duck, and later on the Gameboy. For a kid, there's nothing better than bike to the store after school and have a few rounds of mario and Tetris on the in-store gameboy with the big monitor. Me and my friends had a whole competition going. Good times. I'm glad to see there's still a community around this though. And woah, assembloids on such an obscure system, wow.. I have it for the C64. Didn't even know it was ported to handhelds O_o Thanks for sharing dude. Much appreciated!

Still have mine in mint condition I loved Tennis, Crystball and that Fighter jet game.

I need to buy one before AVGN makes an episode about this console.

my dad picked up one of these for me from a car boot sale for £15, he was too tight to buy me a gameboy. now these things are worth around £150

Actually the Atari Lynx (despite being far more powerful) actually had a lower resolution than the Gameboy, the the Game Gear had the same resolution as the Gameboy

the funny thing is if they just hire better devs and also hold out for tech to become cheaper it could have given a game boy a run for there money by just basically out pricing them, there was a reason why tiger handhelds refused to die out as the gameboy become cheaper and cheaper in the 90s because they was just dirt cheap

I saw this in a “Video Game Consoles” book and had never heard of it so I had to research it. Such an interesting device

Great video. I actually really like the art they used, and the output to television device is interesting too. I think it has it's own raspberry pi emulator now, but I could be mistaken.

I had tilt screen version back in 90's in Turkiye. It was almost impossible to find its games here. So could play only two games. Battery life was terrible. It used to drain all batteries within an hour or so. But it had a solid and good looking. I wished I could play it more.

1:00 lmfao that's the guy from My Name is Earl

the kick stand is for the external joy pad that you compleatly glossd over

I'm curious why Journey to the West originally couldn't run on the older models of the Supervision. I'm also curious how much RAM the Supervision had, if any. Wikipedia does not list that particular spec anywhere.

I really like the style of the game card package! It's called minimalist, looks very distinctive.

There's also the Hyperboy Hypervision (Argentinian Supervision).

I thought I knew all the systems from that era!

My mom bought a brand new super vision for me, because me cousin had an original Game Boy. I don’t use it anymore, but I have it still in the original case, adapter and a few games.

Interesting fact: Sachen, who was known to make unlicensed games on the NES, ported some of their games to the Watara SuperVision... as licensed games. They were made a vast majority of the games on said system, and went as far as having them be puclished by Watara themselves.

Neighbourhood kid had the first bricky model. I tried so hard to like it. But never got bored enough to spend more then 10 minutes with it.

I remember commercial where kid picks up stiff dead squirrel 🐿️ and whacks himself across head the picks up GameBoy and says "ooh colors" ,think it was GameGear Commercial 😸

7:00 - 7:35 re screen size, your conclusion of "the game boy can display a much more detailed image" is not really correct. With both a larger size and larger resolution, ignoring all other aspects, the Supervision screen is clearly superior by those metrics. They have different ppi, but comparing ppi is most useful when comparing two screens of the same size. For a wider example, consider the 2.6" 160x144 Game Boy screen with a ppi of 82.79. Compare that to an NES running on a 30" TV, running at 256x240, which would be a much much lower ppi of 11.7. There's no way you could consider the Game Boy screen superior using those metrics, disregarding color depth and ghosting etc. Another example would be to compare the NES on a 30" TV to a Sega Game Gear. The GG sports a 3.2" screen at a resolution of 160x144, with a ppi of 62.27. That's much higher ppi than the TV NES, but with a lower resolution and size, the GG can't display nearly as much information as the NES, just the pixels are smaller.

I used to have one of these, in lieu of a proper Game Boy.

Owned this gem for years

I had 2 wish I didn't lose them.

I really wanted one of these! I had a Game Gear at the time, the form factor and the look of pang.

Cool video ! I learn and had fun watching, it's so cool that you even have a scelled game !

I could've sworn I saw the middle version (with the tilting screen) being advertised on TV super late nights on obscure high cable channels in the US. The bad box art for the games deterred me thankfully, plus I knew my parents would be highly resistant to mail order from such a dubious source. I actually think it was the exposed contacts on the cartridges that sealed it, I'd been used to quality game consoles that hide the edge connector inside a plastic shell.

Your video was really interesting, suscribe

Great video as always. Keep up the good work! :)

1.48....That's music from Jaguar XJ 220 on Amiga!!!! I recognise that anywhere !!! Great video, did not know about this model

I'm curious what the soundchip capabilities were compared with the gameboy 🤔

Heel wat op dat eerste model gespeeld, voornamelijk P52 Sea Battle. Heb hem nog liggen. Al was het wel bagger natuurlijk.

Been playing some roms in the RG350 emulator and I have to say they're not bad at all, very simple games but fun nonetheless

Awesome video thank you!!

1:04 is that Ethan Suplee from Mallrats?

mijn vader had een supervision vroeger gekocht en ik heb em nu gekregen

Very nice video dude!!

when IPS mod of Supervision? :P maybe never.

Whats the song starting on 4:47?

What are considered the best home brew games? I'd be interested in screen replacement

1:04, isnt that the dude from that chainsaw movie?

Airbuds?

A new (and first ever) homebrew for this console is out now ;-) www.polyplay.xyz/Assembloids-Limited-Edition_1

You Dutch ? :-) great video

So does the screen replacement mod? Is there a supervison facebook group?

The analoug pocket can play supervision roms

sell this

from taiwan??

ik ruik een nederlander