THE ENTEX ADVENTURE VISION - SUPER RARE CONSOLE | OCTAV1US
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5 жыл бұрынYis! The follow on from Entex's Select-A-Game handheld. Here's a gorgeous and quirky games console with such a limited run that they go for more than the rent in London.
Watch the Entex Select-A-Game video here • The Entex Select A Gam...
This console belongs to Asobi.Tech / asobitech
With thanks to Nostalgia Nerd / nostalgianerdvideos
And thanks to DJ Slopes! Sorry I made you bleed a bit. / djslopesroom
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@ErinPlays 5 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh, this console is adorable! I love discovering wacky rare consoles like this so I'm really into this video. Great job!
@Spitefire6 5 жыл бұрын
Same! I love stuff like these, even when they are not great :p do you watch Ashens?
@ErinPlays 5 жыл бұрын
No, but looking over his channel his content seems super relative to my interests! I'll have to check him out.
@Spitefire6 5 жыл бұрын
I so want an N-Gage! It would be cool to try and use one as a day to day phone for a week or something :P I tried it with a regular dumb phone and could barely make it! I don't have many weird consoles myself, only an old Pong system, and a couple of tiger handhelds :(
@ErinPlays 5 жыл бұрын
Octav1us yeah the N-gage is absolutely insane!
@natgrant1364 5 жыл бұрын
Erin Plays... and watches Octav1us! It's amazing how interconnected the community of retro KZfaqrs is. Anyway, I also love weird old consoles and computers. It seems like there's no end of stuff I've never heard of that just seems to pop up when I last expect it.
@benvisona4520 5 жыл бұрын
Long live the musical intro!
@sovietsniper6669 5 жыл бұрын
I've been noticing a lot of jokes about being lonely/not having friends and I just wanna let my concern be known. I'm sure they're just jokes, but I've seen enough examples of artists/entertainers passing off real struggles as jokes in an attempt to call for help. So, if you are really struggling with feeling lonely and isolated, please take care of yourself. Slow down your schedule if you need to. Do what you gotta do to make it better. No one wants a sad Octav1us. If you're fine and those really are just bits of comedy and nothing more, then keep on being you! I caught on to you from a collaboration you did and I've enjoyed everything you've put out since I've discovered you. So few game oriented youtubers bother to track down the hardware and present systems that aren't already well known the way you do. It's awesome!
@hicknopunk 5 жыл бұрын
The screen probably didn't jitter when it was new. Once these things get dropped or knocked over while the mirror was spinning they make a noise. That noise is the mirror being not aligned right.
@Lazy_eye_blobFish 5 жыл бұрын
I found you through Guru Larry, you were trying to cut a piece of paper with a video game handheld. I subscribed. Hope you have a blessed day!
@wolfgangervin2582 5 жыл бұрын
It was the tat-off with Ashens that was my discovery method.
@DystopianOverture 5 жыл бұрын
Octy appearing on Barshens was how I discovered her.
@Barry_Mmm 5 жыл бұрын
I first saw her on Ashen's Blockbusters video back in April 2018. Go check it out, it's fantastic.
@themeanestofgenes2409 5 жыл бұрын
@@Barry_Mmm Yeah me too. That was really funny.
@mastermarkus5307 2 жыл бұрын
@@DystopianOverture She was also on Cheapshow! Though I think she was on Barshens first...
@fffUUUUUU 5 жыл бұрын
10:32 I'd attend even complex math classes with this teacher :)
@5roundsrapid263 5 жыл бұрын
Franko She can teach me how to multiply anytime!
@corvus1970 4 жыл бұрын
The tech "centerfold" bit just earned you a new subscriber.
@strangulator42 5 жыл бұрын
If only I could find a lady that looked at me the way Octav1us looks at THE ENTEX ADVENTURE VISION... initial joy and optimism transitioning into vague disappointment, and finally into mild annoyance...
@bwarrent 4 жыл бұрын
Never heard of your channel until today when I started looking up old consoles I'd never heard of before and you had videos of them. It's great to have a look at these rare old machines. This one is especially unique!
@off2cdawizard 5 жыл бұрын
I've been binge watching your videos for the past couple of weeks, and I have to say your content is great. I always love learning about rare and unique stuff and you really cover the gamut. Products like this fascinate me. Thank you for the overview and the great video!
@MachinamaCaves 5 жыл бұрын
So just discovered the channel a few days ago and that intro song has been stuck in my head for days. Enjoy your style and humor, keep the videos coming if you enjoy making them!!!
@urkelheimer 5 жыл бұрын
Sarah, watching your videos always puts me in a good mood and calms down my anxiety. Thank you for your contributions
@Kumodot 3 жыл бұрын
weird and fun to see that the cartridge is in fact the Eprom socket itself. So you plug the eprom of the game directly to the socket. On cartridges they use a PCB to have a easier to manage (and harder to destroy) using a single slot style connection.
@UncleBoogieRF 5 жыл бұрын
I HATE channel intros longer than 5 or so seconds and yet yours I get sad when it’s not the long one. Glad this wasn’t one of them. Great video.
@Nomadic88 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always really enjoy these reviews of rare old consoles 👍👍👍👍
@Tormentadeplomo 5 жыл бұрын
Another great video about a machine that no one remembers and no one needs. Keep up the good work!
@ItsCrapContent 5 жыл бұрын
Omg... This channel and the nostalgic nerd channel are the best.........and yeah I have come from watching those digitizer shows..awesome stuff x
@MarcWeertsMusic 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent review - and with the usual Octavius hilarity! The explanation section with Nostalgia Nerd nearly had me in stitches! :-D
@thedeadstig123 5 жыл бұрын
I loved the teacher version of octav1us!
@Phoenix2312 5 жыл бұрын
I did too... In fat its all I remember... What was she reviewing again?
@danmann9116 5 жыл бұрын
Yep she sure rocks that look.... Nostalgia Nerd, I'm jealous of you sir!@@!!
@vgjhlgjhfuyfjhfjkhgyghj 5 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah
@TwoWholeWorms 5 жыл бұрын
Octeach1us! :D
@olafbuddenberg4787 5 жыл бұрын
Fun to see this pop up on your channel after I just bought a Vectrex from a friend. Thanks for reviewing it and bringing it to my attention. When you first showed the screen in action I actually thought that it was broken and somehow shrunk to quarter size. Apart from that the button layout might come in handy for right and left handed players. Keep it up, Octav1us. Your channel is highly entertaining and the cat posters on your wall are rad. All the best from Germany! Sincerely, me.
@jase7474 5 жыл бұрын
Video game history is always a fun topic. Have been gaming since the Atari 2600 and getting the nostalgia feel seeing games and systems I had and used to play. But this is one of the best things seeing the systems I never heard of through KZfaqrs like you. That red screen reminded me of the Virtual Boy. Thought it was cool that it looked like the top part of a arcade cabinet. Can't wait to see the next system you show off.
@realengland5841 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent Video Octav1us. You're great at what you do. Stay positive and you will with prevail in your successful career as a retro gaming channel. I've been watching it lately. And your very creative.
@theartisanrogue 4 жыл бұрын
I literally found my old Adventure Vision in my parent's storage unit, in fair condition. Glad to have found this video, great job on the video!
@mynameislevon 5 жыл бұрын
Still can't get over how I love your intro 😎😎 Great video! Please keep it up!
@SoftwareDocuments 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the heads up about the Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech book, added to my Christmas wish list.
@chinosts 5 жыл бұрын
You're so funny, talented and beautiful OctK. I actually laughed out loud watching this video.. it was also great to see the return of people getting hit with randomly flung objects! Thankyou for posting.. can't wait for your next video.
@cubeflinger 5 жыл бұрын
Wow. New one on me. Thanks. Come for the nerdgasm stay for the humour. Keep it coming x
@LeftoverBeefcake 5 жыл бұрын
Good golly, it seems like everyone and their brother and their uncle and their uncle's brother's cousin was putting out some sort of game system in the early 1980's. We're probably going to keep digging up obscure unsuccessful consoles until we're all in a nursing home. :P
@ColinJonesPonder 4 жыл бұрын
This brings back memories. Not of this console but the game Turtles. We had this (as Turpin) in a local chip shop and I was crap at it... until I ported it to the VIC20 in BASIC! After playing my port for a few days, my next go at the arcade machine I scored over 8000, and found out it had more screen layouts. I added them as loaded from tape. Those were fun days!
@twenty6hundred 5 жыл бұрын
When I was heavy into collecting I really wanted one of these! Great video.
@verficationaccount 5 жыл бұрын
Great video! Fun and informative - as it should be.
@Dr.Quarex 5 жыл бұрын
Always love your videos and all the work you put into them, and additionally "gubbins" has basically become my favorite new word. I pretty much cannot help but say it giddily out loud every time you say it.
@MizfitZer0 3 жыл бұрын
Bring back this intro in your newer videos??? It is so damn cute and makes me excited for the video lol x
@jamesheyworth3566 5 жыл бұрын
You are wonderful. Thank for the rare retro goodness.
@progbloke6655 5 жыл бұрын
That brief shot of the 2600 brought back a lot of happy memories. So many hours spent playing Adventure, even though it was shite. Happy days !!
@wulfspyder8381 5 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Octavius!
@SonicAlpha 5 жыл бұрын
It's good to see you survived the "attack of the half naked Larry." Dark, dark times... ^_^ Excellent video, as always :)
@spwolftech 3 жыл бұрын
Decided to do a 5 year Anniversary channel marathon so here is my HI to try and make the algorithm be nice. Fun no matter how many times i have watched them.
@mickmickymick6927 5 жыл бұрын
Such an interesting topic, thanks for doing this video, I never would have known about it otherwise.
@rayceeya8659 5 жыл бұрын
I knew it, it's using similar display tech to the Virtual Boy. *EDIT: The end result is flickery,, it gives you a head ache and a neck cramp... It really is the grandaddy of the Virtual Boy.
@Redhotsmasher 5 жыл бұрын
By the looks of it, it's like a giant Virtual Boy display but way worse. I mean, ow my eyes that thing is wobbly and flickery, and that's coming from someone who's tried the Virtual Boy once in a museum and thought its display wasn't nearly as terrible as people like to claim it is.
@thewiirocks 5 жыл бұрын
@@Redhotsmasher To be fair, this unit is nearly 40 years old. It's quite possible that the system's display was originally far more stable. In fact, it might be possible to improve this unit with some careful maintenance. Using the VirtualBoy as an example (which is practically half the age), most VirtualBoy systems suffer from degraded flex-circuit cabling that needs to be repaired in an oven. Thankfully it's a fairly easy repair or I never would have gotten mine back up and running!
@AdmiralBucock 5 жыл бұрын
Great video as always Octav1us. I didn't know anything about this before so it's really interesting to hear about it and see it working. I don't think I'll be featuring that Turtles music on my podcast anytime soon though, even the short clip hurt my ears. Looking forward to more awesome content!
@drazen1529 5 жыл бұрын
Great video, as always
@markiangooley 5 жыл бұрын
The display uses laser printer (crossed with LED printer!) technology: spinning mirror thing like a laser printer, row of LEDs like an LED printer. Fascinating... but sort of a kludge.
@FunkyM217 5 жыл бұрын
Someone was CRAZY enough to Actually Code a demo for this thing. It was the Highlight of that year's Revision Demo party. People actually fastcoded compo fillers, just so there were enough entries for a compo! The Demoscene is awesome. Look for CODE RED here on KZfaq, that's its name.
@SEGAZombie 5 жыл бұрын
Another awesome video great to see you focusing on these obscure consoles , though crappy I would love to one day get the chance to play on the adventure vision
@chadgarrett6947 5 жыл бұрын
Dat sexy librarian look tho. Great video as always Octav1us! Keeping that quality going up and up!
@iansun36don6 5 жыл бұрын
Loving your vids
@xotmatrix 5 жыл бұрын
Wow! Great to see pure unobtainium up close.
@zapplecore 5 жыл бұрын
Abundance of right angles lol
@thewassock 5 жыл бұрын
Rotating mirrors were first used in mechanical television systems. The 240-line Baird TV system, used for some BBC TV broadcasts in 1936, used a rotating mirror in its cameras.. The colour scheme of the Adventure Vision reminds me of vintage DEC equipment from the late 1960s / early 1970s, particularly the PDP-8.
@user-qs4ti1bh6e 19 күн бұрын
This thing was the TIT'S in the early 80's! I remember playing those Mattel "red dot" LED handheld games and this is leaps and bounds better than those things.
@gfmretro 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always! 👍 👍 👍
@PixelsLtd 5 жыл бұрын
Incredible video as always 😍 This is actually massively impressive for the time - if it wasn't so flickery. The way the screen works is actually incredibly similar to the Virtual Boy around 10 years later. Of course the Vectrex blows it out the water though. Those bit with Slopes were hilarious 😂 and the bit with Pete was amazing 🧐 and your cuddly Gengar is everything!! 😍😍
@iced_coffeelvr1069 5 жыл бұрын
So cool to see another console that I've never heard of!
@rexapis2125 5 жыл бұрын
Love the content, and you're pretty awesome too!! Keep up the great vids :)
@jantimmerby 5 жыл бұрын
Once again you make me laugh. Thank you, you are the best.
@paulrowe3250 5 жыл бұрын
Nice too have you back 😎
@mightydegu 5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the real Holy Grails of the video game world, particularly in working condition. I've always wanted one of these.
@randombarbarian5637 5 жыл бұрын
I've owned 2 in my life, and yes your screen is bad. Under normal circumstances you could look at it (and play it) for hours (which I did a lot of when I was 8). The Defender game was an excellent port and was superior than the Atari 2600, or just about any port at the time (mainly because it had most of the buttons). Adventure Vision was far ahead of it's time, so its easy to see why its archaic today. They pop up on Ebay every once in a while from about $1200-2400. There was only 50,000 produced, and last estimates there was only a few hundred still out there working. I sold mine in 2015 with all 4 games and box for $2400. I miss it but not sure if I would ever get another one due to the fact they're so fragile.
@longier3693 5 жыл бұрын
Grats your videos get better and better
@holnrew 5 жыл бұрын
I'd be scared to try something so valuable, Quang is pretty awesome to trust you with it so we can see what it's like
@Asobitech 5 жыл бұрын
She stole it from my house.
@nameless5413 5 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you for another insight into past, seeing your videos dose make me appritiate silly sometimes ingenious ways of past engeneering. And offcourse for puting your well being (hedache, possibly eyesight) is no small sacrifice.
@rosse119 5 жыл бұрын
Great to hear the original song is back :D
@popuptoaster 5 жыл бұрын
10:32 Blimey. :S :D Great review of a console I never heard of despite being old enough to have bought a Binatone Pong console when i was young!!
@ciphermatrix 5 жыл бұрын
I do love stuff like this. Might ultimately be crap but the innovation, working with the limitations of the tech of time, sees some very clever ideas from the engineers that are probably implemented poorly due to budget constraints. Very enjoyable video.
@Phoenix2312 5 жыл бұрын
Another excellent Video! What I remember of it anyway... Seriously, I was really loving it - Then you had Nostalgia Nerd in for a Cameo - You had your glasses on.. And my mind went blank again! :) What were you reviewing again? I was just thinking about those specs!!!!
@infesticon 5 жыл бұрын
"i got the password to unlock your heart" Yea that's pretty much true. KZfaqr celebretty crush go!! :P But yes love your contect a new video is always a treat.
@Phoenix2312 5 жыл бұрын
Preaching to the Choir my friend... :) Oh if only we were so lucky!
@jesspace4069 4 жыл бұрын
@johnbrown3155 5 жыл бұрын
Ok, bouncing stuff of DJ slopes head might now be my new favourite thing. The visual gag with NN's book was totally worth the time you probably spent dressing up for it.
@MechaFenris 5 жыл бұрын
I would assume the duplicate buttons are for rightys and leftys. (As a left-handed person who learned to play games in a right-handed world....) :) That would make more sense than 2 player (since there's only one stick)
@georgeadams6254 5 жыл бұрын
beat me to it.
@georgeadams6254 5 жыл бұрын
did u know, fun fact time: that arcade cabs originally came with sticks situated for right hand use, but arcade operators requested they were changed for left hand use to artificially increase difficulty, so people weren't as good. I heard that somewhere, so not really a fact... but fun if it were.
@memberberry6177 5 жыл бұрын
@@georgeadams6254 it's true.. My uncle used to be in the Arcade business and they did it to squeeze morey money out of the players. So it's a fact.
@sparkles122 5 жыл бұрын
George Adams yep. It is a fact. Eventually controllers copied. Until that happened the sick was for right hand, buttons left
@Redhotsmasher 5 жыл бұрын
That was my first thought as well, wouldn't be the only 80s console with that feature either.
@PercyPumpkinheart 5 жыл бұрын
Surprised I'd never heard of this one, despite its obscurity. It does seem like a cross between a Vectrex and a sort of early Virtual Boy prototype, what with the spinning mirror technology and the black and red screen. Anyway, thanks for introducing us to more obscure tech! I learn a lot on this channel.
@thedisabledalien 5 жыл бұрын
Love the new intro :D
@gekkomonster7837 5 жыл бұрын
Best Sunday morning!
@ghtallon 5 жыл бұрын
This thing would have given me RAGE. That flickering, tiny screen would have started up some nasty migraines. Great video. Xx
@NobletheSavage 5 жыл бұрын
I don't know what I find more visually pleasing , white board Octy or a literal battery aimed at Slopes . Good times .
@KickingJoub 5 жыл бұрын
That 5 second joke was so worth dressing up for!
@MiggyManMike 5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic use of "abundance of right angles" madam :)
@MiggyManMike 5 жыл бұрын
Oh and tell NN it's known as persistence of vision :D
5 жыл бұрын
You cannot understand just how wee escapingly exciting these things were to pre-pubescent boys in the late 70s/early 80s. I'd lost interest by 1982, as I'd played these, liked hand held games of the time and we had Intellivision. Just for reference, we only had Intellivision which came from Hounsditch and before that, a Grandstand or Ingersoll unit my uncle brought back from the Far East in about '78.
@AndrewNewZealand 3 жыл бұрын
That's such a charming intro song :)
@RetroCynical 5 жыл бұрын
Now that's a state of the art piece of technology.
@inquisitor229 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent find! I worked in the games retail market at this time (1982) selling all of the popular consoles, but this is the first time I've heard of this one. The underside of the cartridge looks like an integrated circuit socket designed for constant swapping during development, such as would be used for EPROMS and the like to be plugged into. I have to doubt the true longevity of such things though, they were not intended for the abuse of ham fisted children!
@yackablejohnson1485 5 жыл бұрын
I've never had an opportunity to play one in person. I have tried the games via emulation. This system ties back to the Virtual Boy and that LED array.
@chevyimp2808 5 жыл бұрын
Don't give up.... Great job will your channel. .. thanks..
@FoxyPiratess 5 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@Kumodot 3 жыл бұрын
That screen tecnology, based on a line of LEDs, called POV diplay (Persistent Of Vision) is the same tech you will encounter in the Virtual Boy. It's really ingenious.
@craigjensen6853 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Mat Moan of the channel 'Techmoan' did it with a reel-to-reel player, pretty neat!
@ChamplainValleyRailSnapshots 5 жыл бұрын
Love the theme song!
@Ale.K7 5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! :-)
@KasumiRINA 4 жыл бұрын
14:59 not to mention that vector graphics age like fine wine, while rotating mirror LEDs age like two-day old milk that someone spat in.
@ricardobornman1698 5 жыл бұрын
Yup, a console a collector would love.
@QunMang 5 жыл бұрын
First time I've seen one of your videos in my recommendations. For some reason I never visited even after seeing you in a few of Peter's videos, but here I am about to click the subscribe button. As for the buttons on both sides, it seems to me they just added redundant buttons for both right- and left-handed players.
@QunMang 5 жыл бұрын
@@octaviusking Ah, there is that then. Since there is only one joystick though it's possible it may just be a mistake in the instructions then. Who knows?
@SomeOrangeCat 5 жыл бұрын
Octav1us flinging heavy objects at Daniel is my new favorite thing.
@eduardopereira-gd7bl 5 жыл бұрын
love yours videos
@AdamCoate 5 жыл бұрын
I've wanted to try this one out for a long time. But every time I see the gameplay, I'm reminded that I'm not missing out on much. I've had a Vectrex for about 10 years now and never plan on giving it up. It has a thriving homebrew community which is almost as active as the Atari 2600 or NES homebrew communities. There is also a 32 bit expansion module called Vectrex32 with full 3D capabilities but unfortunately not many games have been done on it yet. Anyway, the point is, you should do a Vectrex video, and do one of your fun skits with the Spike and Molly characters.
@GlensRetroShow 5 жыл бұрын
Very good review nice job! .. Respectfully Glen Planamento
@voltaire2001 4 жыл бұрын
Damn, that intro just woke everyone up
@polishenglish8356 5 жыл бұрын
Witty, stunningly looking, awesome accent...I just cannot believe such goddesses exist!
@SashaThePrincessofDarkness 5 жыл бұрын
Yay! It's the full theme song... Even the "mew" at the end. If gives this ole girl a big smile.
@armstararmy 5 жыл бұрын
Most families had only one tv so the kids could play this without the parents could watch shows and the kids could play the game. Super huge advantage back them!
@ZombiWorkshop 5 жыл бұрын
The way that screen works is.... actually crazy. XD
@orderofmagnitude-TPATP 5 жыл бұрын
....frightening - that section with nastolgia nerd sort of looked like he was imagining some sort of...ahem... ultimate "fantasy" of his going on.... nevermind....great cameos.
@DrPlagueProductions 5 жыл бұрын
YOU'RE SUCH A WAIFU ;__; I admire the fact that you could handle the console for 10 minutes, im here kinda drowned because of the spinning screen x___x
@nogidoki3325 5 жыл бұрын
cant watch her kinda dont like her lol
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