The Idiotic Truth Behind The Lost KONIX MULTI SYSTEM - Console Gaming History Documentary

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The Idiotic Truth Behind The Lost KONIX MULTI SYSTEM - Console Gaming History Documentary

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Lady Decade looks at the history behind the Konix Multi System, a lost game console developed in the UK during the 1980's that was at one point planned to be the first ever true 16 bit game console developed outside of Japan. How did this plan go wrong? Lets find out
For more info on the Konix Multisystem visit this great information source
www.konixmultisystem.co.uk
Edited by Ryan of
Exploding Music Syndrome - / explodingmusicsyndrome
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• Konix Multi-System (Pr...
Konix Multi-System (Prototype Footage)
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• Konix Multi-System at ...
Konix Multi-System at the PC Show 1989
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• Attack of the Mutant C...
Attack of the Mutant Camels by Llamasoft (Konix Multisystem, 1989)
Emucamp, video captures.
• Konix Multisystem Prom...
Konix Multisystem Promo Video Part 1
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• Konix - Multisystem (1... ultisystem
Konix - Multisystem (1989)!
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• Konix Multisystem Prom...
Konix Multisystem Promo Video Part 3 The Last Ninja Gameplay
Konix Multisystem
• Bit För Bit S01E04
Bit För Bit S01E04
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• Match of The Day a cla...
Match of The Day a classic Belfruit Machine JACKPOT !!!
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@novelezra 2 жыл бұрын

The very fact we have an emulator for a system that never got released is just incredible. Nintendo are being blasted for struggling to show that they can pay respect to their history by providing accurate emulation of their previous works. Yet, here we have people doing better for a system that never left the factory. Astonishing.

@SmoMo_ 2 жыл бұрын

I had the chance to play on this at a computer show in London, I think it may have been a PCW show at Earl’s Court. I sat in the chair and played a motorbike game, the chair was moving as I played. Then I turned around and saw someone from Konix was actually controlling the chair directly with a joystick! They had one of their Konix speedking joysticks plugged into the chair and were watching what I was doing in the game and just trying to match it manually!

@InsanityPrevails 2 жыл бұрын

It's seriously incredible how you manage to make so many videos, so quickly, on topics that I had never even heard about before. You're amazing!

@LinchpiN777 2 жыл бұрын

Years of research from a real hobby I bet. : )

@greenkoopa 2 жыл бұрын

*BACK CATALOG CONFIRMED*

@TheCunningStunt 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty easy these days, just go find videos others have made, remove the parts that contain the person who made them then edit yourself in between. It's becoming super common on youtube.

@chuckcobb2392 2 жыл бұрын

She has others that do the work & all she does is insert herself. Same as newscasters do.

@LinchpiN777 2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckcobb2392 Any proof of that?, or are you just being an incel. Her husband's channel has been around for many years too. Pretty sure they put in the work themselves.

@jamesburchill7522 2 жыл бұрын

Being a spry, 43 years of age, I've seen most of all this before...well. Before there was a KZfaq. Damn ICQ threads...however. I really enjoy seeing different takes and presentation of familiar subjects. Great Vid..Cheers. *Also..the Welsh got a bad rap. During that time, the penalty for stealing sheep was losing a hand, where as the penalty for screwing them was far less. So. When caught red-handed and taken to trial, the common defense was that they were engaging in carnal relations with the fluffy critters.*

@eadweard. 2 жыл бұрын

For real? That's so interesting.

@AcornElectron 2 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work lass and stay safe. No one is making this stuff with this level of detail. It’s a ringing endorsement of your research and scripting.

@Sevenigma777 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously Lady Decade in just a few months of me being a sub has actually shown me more things I've never seen then other channels I've followed for years. Great vid as always m'lady

@matthewbarrios1028 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! A few things I knew or had seen before in my past. But she has shocked me with a bunch of these videos. I've learned more in just a couple months of watching her videos. It's actually awesome. I like the format of the videos too!

@barry-allenthe-flash8396 2 жыл бұрын

Have you done the Hasbro "VR Toaster" (a.k.a. The Hasbro Rush?) yet? I love these mini docs about cancelled consoles, especially when there's a lot of media to show off, and I gotta say Hasbro's '90s VR system is one of my favorites but I didn't even know about it until stumbling upon some good stuff over at Unseen64 a few months ago. The mad lads over at Hasbro were all set to go with a '90s VR headset and a 64-bit console by all accounts; they had a launch lineup of games, publishers and devs onboard, there were even promotional materials like ads ready (with the slogan, "GET THE RUSH" which is both obvious and super '90s. I kinda love it)... ah, its so interesting. I think the Rush should be worthy of getting the Lady Decade treatment in a future video

@salva_75 2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading about the Konix back in the old days of C+VG, The Games Machine and ACE, I was so looking forward to it then suddenly all the news dried up. Great video as always, Lady Decade.

@jeremybowers3181 2 жыл бұрын

Such a crazy concept(yet novel) the 80's were indeed a strange time for gaming peripherals. 👊💥✌️

@mikesilva3868 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 😊

@MadsterV 2 жыл бұрын

I had a PC wheel with this design.... I think the brand was Konix, too. I've had little to no luck finding images of it online and back then it wasn't so easy to take pictures so I don't have any. It had a gameport connector and that is the reason I sold it for next to nothing. Also it was tiny, but to think I could have modded it for USB nowadays.... It had a couple of buttons at the side of the wheel that would let the top of the wheel loose, so it looked like a yoke.... and then you could turn the sides around backwards so it became bike handlebars. Genius. Played Moto Racer with it. It didn't center right, like all wheels of that era.

@customsongmaker 2 жыл бұрын

Yes that was the controller released by itself and called the Multisystem

@Banderpop 2 жыл бұрын

I saw this at a computer show in London, running a motorcycle game. I didn't get to play it though, the stand was far too busy. The most interesting aspect of the hardware to me was that chair. If Konix had just ditched the console and instead made their peripherals like the chair and convertible wheel work with other systems, they perhaps could have done well. But, as a piece of engineering I don't think the chair ever got close to being ready for the mass consumer market. Over 30 years later and nobody else has managed it either. Although people throw stupid amounts of money at 'gamer' chairs that are just ordinary office chairs with stripes on...

@dtester 2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading about this in the early issues of EGM way back! It sounded like a power house on paper at the time ^_^

@aztecwhistle9122 2 жыл бұрын

It might have failed, but that was one of your best thumbnails ever. Apologies to Top Hat Gaming Man

@XR1000 Жыл бұрын

Another brilliant history lesson in our wonderful world of consoles. I was 10 years old and was so excited for this console. I was heartbroken and had to live with playing the worst version of outrun ever on my my Amstead cpc:( lol. Keep up the great work.

@boboscar99 2 жыл бұрын

you do awesome vids of old school entertainment, thank you for that and I love your accent too. Please keep making these as it brings back great memories and lets me see how things were happening on your side of the ocean :)

@MAGA_Patriot2024 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for another amazing video! What a shame this never got off the ground....it was clearly before it's time.

@PNNYWZEPRODUCTIONS 2 жыл бұрын

I love your content and I love watching your channel grow! Onward to 100k my lady!

@TheDawnofVanlife 2 жыл бұрын

I stumble back into gaming…I stumble on Lady Decade’s channel…win all around. So much entertainment in seeing this odd stuff that passed me by.

@gdclemo 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot the other Welsh home computer, the Sam Coupé. Made in Swansea and also not a success but a nice little 8-bit machine all the same.

@dodgydruid 2 жыл бұрын

I cut my teeth on programming and building prototypes for JPM and Bellfruit in my first ever job which was a YOP Computer and Electronic Engineering course at a college in Redhill. I met one or two of Team Flares er Flare although they did wear flares, that was at one of the Westminster Computer fairs, I also pissed off a Mr B Gates who was showcasing one of the MS-DOS's at one of them fairs hehe I did love ol' Llamasoft's crazy camel games, I had Attack of the mutant camels on my Atari 400 it being one of the rare 400/800 tape games and it was super chaotic :D

@Ubersnuber 2 жыл бұрын

Almost every video I learn some new stuff from this channel. And I eat games news for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And I like the John Cleese no-you-fucking-didnt gif.

@brianoconnell6459 2 жыл бұрын

I can just imagine that Konix set up in the living room, and every owner smashing their toes on the stand.

@torres61179 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve just discovered your channel. Think you are brilliant. Learning a lot of new things. Keep up the great work

@CannonKnight 2 жыл бұрын

LOL. You nailed that Ric Flair "wooo".

@baroncalamityplus 2 жыл бұрын

The 1980s were the wild west of game console development.

@jeff97ish 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Always a good time with a Lady Decade video!

@levijohnson6404 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know half of this stuff existed. I'm glad i came across your channel. It's very interesting.

@Riz2336 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that would fly even now a days

@remka2000 2 жыл бұрын

My first joystick (Amstrad CPC) was a Konix speedking. I loved it for several years (I also didn't know better) until I discovered the NES pad...

@Lake_be 2 жыл бұрын

Easily my new favorite gaming channel!

@XR1000 Жыл бұрын

This channel is an absolute gem.

@Hologhoul 6 ай бұрын

Interesting vid, good work! You showed Mutant Camels 89 while referring to arcade games but later you put the game in context. It will be playabe with the forthcoming Jeff Minter doc/games thing by Digital Eclipse. Tempest was converted by Jeff, not designed, that was Dave Theurer. Curious and a pity how this all ended, one shouldn't take the piss too much though, many talented people must have worked hard and been really gutted.

@j.goggels9115 2 жыл бұрын

KONIX are still in business. I've got Konix controllers on my Dreamcast Mini.

@mrmojorisin2901 2 жыл бұрын

I remember wanting this console so bad back in the day and I was gutted it never got a release

@yandman26 2 жыл бұрын

Another cool video, but rumble and force feedback are not the same thing. I remember seeing this in a magazine and instantly being sent into a spin. The thoughts of an arcade experience at home.

@nathanmerritt1581 2 жыл бұрын

Too much ambition can be a detriment.

@juksie 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for the consistent and quality videos

@TheCgfgrg Жыл бұрын

I loved this video and did not even know about this! Thank you so much Lady Decade!!!!!

@anasevi9456 2 жыл бұрын

another lovely little mini-doco, thanks again! love to you and tophat!

@elnico135 2 жыл бұрын

5:42 ❤️

@leonkent1365 2 жыл бұрын

I remember an article on this console in C+VG, great vid

@headbangersworld 2 жыл бұрын

265 Colors... I don't think so :D That's probably 256 Colors :D But a great documentation about this unknown system. Thanks :)

@juicek566 2 жыл бұрын

Just recently discovered your channel and I absolutely love the content. Is there any chance you would do a showcase of your collection? It looks like you have a nice collection and I’m sure a lot of us would love to hear about it! Anyways keep up the amazing work!

@cdoty Жыл бұрын

I have one of the Konix Multiblaster joysticks, and wondered what it was. This video solved that question. Thank you.

@mikethetowns 2 жыл бұрын

Old school UK rich tech people had the coolest names.

@AcornElectron 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed we did

@ROBLOGNICK 2 жыл бұрын

Another interesting video and a cracking accent! Never heard of this system before, it’s wild!

@joesshows6793 2 жыл бұрын

I love these videos as I lived through the video game magazine golden years and always wondered about these systems. We need to hunt down the people behind these failures for the ‘truth’.

@suntannedduck2388 2 жыл бұрын

Always wanted to hear more about this system. Most KZfaqrs that do even talk about it only briefly bring it up and move on but glad can rely on the in-depth research and finally hear more about it from Lady Decade. :)

@rwentfordable 2 жыл бұрын

NostalgiaNerd has a long video on it.

@defmike5580 2 жыл бұрын

I like the music back round choices you played on your videos.

@nsignific 2 жыл бұрын

I feel convinced Top Hat Gaming Man is writing these videos.

@JeromeDoyle 2 жыл бұрын

the dragon 64 might just be the greatest console name ever. well done wales.

@electronash 2 жыл бұрын

The Konix did originally use a Z80, but it was replaced with an 8086. I believe the 8086 version is what Jeff Minter's "Attack Of The Mutant Camels" was ported to. Good vid, btw. ;)

@Banderpop 2 жыл бұрын

I remember it being 80286-based. Certainly it can be seen in the magazine clipings that it was 16-bit though, so definitely not a Z80 by the time it was getting press coverage.

@carywise6291 Жыл бұрын

I have a question did the konix multisystem have a built in z buffer?

@electronash Жыл бұрын

@@carywise6291 I don't think it did. I think it was just a simple framebuffer (probably double-buffered). So it would draw with brute-force, maybe some DMA involved. I don't know if it had hardware sprites or not.

@electronash Жыл бұрын

OK, I was mistaken. lol I just had a quick look at the Technical Reference Manual for the "Slipstream" custom chipset. I did read it a long time ago, and forgot it had quite a lot of extra goodies, like a DSP etc. So yeah, probably not a hardware z-buffer as such, but more a line-based rendering thing. The Konix chipset was known as the Flare One. The Jaguar was kind of based on the Flare Two tech, so they share some similarities in the way they render lines and "sprites".

@electronash Жыл бұрын

The Konix had the DSP, palette, and Blitter. Which could technically render sprites line-by-line, but I don't think it had a hardware Z-buffer. If you wanted to do any 3D rendering on it, it would probably have to do the Z-sorting in software, and use the Painter's Algorithm, like the PS1 did. But I played on the very few games on the Konix emulator before, and it didn't seem too powerful, tbh. lol Maybe those games weren't really taking full advantage of the chipset, but I don't think it would have been that great for 3D.

@tonyspike4492 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome ric flair reference wooooooo

@carldiamond4234 2 жыл бұрын

Once again Lady Decade makes me question whether or not I can call myself a gamer. Another great video. 👍

@greenkoopa 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 you put Sally on the credits!

@AlvaroTalavera 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos!! such quality content!

@roymerkel8008 2 жыл бұрын

just finished section about weird console add-on attractions and can say this, before I get to the rest of the issues: all those add-ons were BOUND to make that console unaffordable in the late 80s, so even IF all the things I suspect are comming don't come, this thing would have been dead on arrival, I suspect...

@marcraygun6290 2 жыл бұрын

Am I right in saying cheetah were Welsh too , making control periphals as well as synthesisers etc

@neophytealpha 2 жыл бұрын

Plenty of that is ambitious and easier to pull off now than then. Plenty of good ideas

@scottthemediahoarder 2 жыл бұрын

The Flair WOOOOOO? gave me a chuckle.

@retror.d.1630 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I would like to get my hand on one of those to make a home driving arcade lol

@Run187 2 жыл бұрын

My family had the dragon 32 was our first PC. Loved going to the library to get carts for it with my late mother. Don't think we got one till like 88 after it got discontinued though, as we bought ours from a second hand store ( we had limited funds due to personal reasons ) ..

@deepakmorar7747 2 жыл бұрын

I do like watching your channel, it's fun and lots of facts that didn't now about. Carry on good work.

@rayceeya8659 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know the Peleton was invented in Wales.

@gorexwmr 2 жыл бұрын

5:42 - Nailed it!

@newtongeorgeburrell252 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love a clickbait thumbnail. You got me!

@geoffreyshepler4954 Жыл бұрын

1:59 I had that joystick! Or at least a 🇺🇸of one. I remember it be really smooth.

@VB-3 Жыл бұрын

I remember when this console was getting press in print mags like EGM. Seemed like a stupid idea even back then. All that proposed hardware with zero software.

@moeresse8812 Жыл бұрын

We gotta work on that Ric Flair Woooooooooo!!!

@rievaulxlucienne1176 Жыл бұрын

Lady Decade, do you know, is this Konix at all related to the Konix which makes digital musical instruments today? I was recently pondering a Konix DC02. It is sort of an electric recorder.

@tonyspike4492 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a vid on acclaim or the action gamesmaster console

@milkapeismilky5464 2 жыл бұрын

Hey sunshine, at least the Welsh can tackle that thorny "th" sound....

@colinewan2320 2 жыл бұрын

Sterling Work as always Lady Decade. Bravo!!

@AcornElectron 2 жыл бұрын

The determining factor was investment.

@britneyspearsvillarosa 2 жыл бұрын

The Dualshock was a little before the Rumble Pak

@TheHexyBeast 2 жыл бұрын

this is how we count sheep in wales... "1... 2... "Waves"...4..." lol

@redfoxbennaton Жыл бұрын

Nowadays it would be a children's toy by Jungletak.

@paul2062 2 жыл бұрын

you remind me of the days of bad influence, infact your show is so similar. id love it if you had your own studio where you and a few other youtubers hosted a show just like they used to do... if watch that all the time!

@darrancoyle8394 2 жыл бұрын

I never even heard of this thing! Thanks for bringing this to my attention, my lady of decades!🕹️

@Stu2be2 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for yet another great video lady decade

@ukkev7290 2 жыл бұрын

Wyn Holloway went to George Lucas' ranch to discuss Lucas having the manufacturing and distribution rights in the US. To his surprise, Sony were also there to discuss Sony manufacturing and distributing the console in Japan. Neither Lucas nor Sony would offer money upfront for the manufacturing and distribution rights. Hence no deal occurred. I reckon that if Lucas and Sony got the distribution rights, they both wouldn't have released the console. And because they had the distribution rights, no one else could have released the console in those countries. Sony were already invested in the SNES CD add-on and probably wanted to stop this possible competition.

@JaredConnell 2 жыл бұрын

Ya but what would've happened when Nintendo blew off Sony for Philips? They might have just wanted to jump on the konix instead of developing the PlayStation if they already had a deal put together and the konix multi system was already in development. Hmm, what could have been?

@ukkev7290 2 жыл бұрын

@@JaredConnell The Konix was dead by 1990. Sony later was on board to be a 3DO partner until the last minute. They pulled out when it was time to put pen to paper.

@zmbdog 2 жыл бұрын

Do one on the RCI Halcyon.

@zmbdog 2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't _Attack of the Mutant Camels_ released on Jaguar?

@jacobbaranowski 2 жыл бұрын

oh yeah, I didn't know it failed.

@KeyAndrew 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting... I have the modern equivalent of this.... a VR Racing Simulator... I've spent many thousands of dollars on it... (it's totally worth it)

@simonbutterfield4860 2 жыл бұрын

Ah Chuck Rock, loved that game on Mega CD abd a good tune to close out with.

@danpae288 2 жыл бұрын

Always something new to view and know. . .

@ageg3572 2 жыл бұрын

Love you L.D. shout out to B.D.T.H. He da man!

@_-martin-_ 2 жыл бұрын

At least back then they promised to only use their technology for good! :D

@eddiegesch8645 2 жыл бұрын

Lady decade should still have the intro she did a couple years ago.

@BikerBenny 2 жыл бұрын

5:34 🤣🤣 obviously can't stand Flair

@AcornElectron 2 жыл бұрын

2:31 disappointed in that accent, unless you were going for my local Indian takeaway 😂😂😉🕹🕹🎩

@redkoopa1878 2 жыл бұрын

Lady Decade: greetings from California I love all your videos. Keep up the amazing 🤩 work 🙏🏼

@barrywallace2744 2 жыл бұрын

10 out of 10 for the bad Welsh accent very funny.😂😂😂

@lancelnce 2 жыл бұрын

It's the first time I've heard of this thing lol Nice video Lady Decade.

@thetezz0001 2 жыл бұрын

Looking classy lady decade

@csolisr 2 жыл бұрын

Konix is basically the Homermobile of video games, promising everything and the kitchen sink and failing spectacularly because of it

@SRPC21 2 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail 😍

@derek-64 2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's one way to get your attention.

@trzarector 2 жыл бұрын

I remember salivating over this proposed machine and followed it closely as a kid. Way too ambitious I guess.

@paulsavage2020 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your videos plus wiiu would love to see the video