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Billiam never fails to dig deep into the back of my memory and find a toy I completely forgot about

When I was 8 or so, my parents told me I could have a GameBoy or a Pixter Color. 8-year-olds should not be trusted to make decisions like that.

I had the pixter. My mom emailed the company to complain about the pen placement because I’m left handed. Their response was basically “where else would we put it?” Sigh

Turning Barbie into a Jojo, Now that is something I've never seen before, lol.

when he says "what can I say, im baby" I jumped off the roof

I'm fully expecting to see the LeapFrog on here at some point. Edit: literally seconds later: "we'll get to them someday"

billiam: **full hotwheels computer setup at a very young age** me: *still asking my parents for a 200$ laptop*

Therapist: Jojo Barbie does not exist. Jojo Barbie:

wacom? more like WHACKOM real artists do their work on the pixter

Things from the early 2000s just feel like a fever dream that i'm always surprised exist. Also I do remember this, but I never got it cuz we had the leapster. And if my brother and I learned anything from it, it was "play the piano" in german.

11:10 Little Girls: I'm gonna make Barbie beautiful! Billiam: I'm gonna make Barbie Jojo-ful!

I remember the thing. For one Christmas season parents were convinced it’d make their baby smart. I remember there being an entire section of the toy store being dedicated to it and being alongside the Leap Frog. Even as a kid I felt like it was snake oil and it was pretty clear from the outset that Leap Frog would be more popular.

11:07 Me: Is that... is that what I think it is? 11:12 Me: Yare Yare Daze.

Never owed one (I was a teenager when they came out), but I was working in a toy store at the time they were on the market. So I was quite familiar with them. I handled them in their packaging, I stacked them behind the counter, I sold them to parents, I may have even play a store demo of one (though I'm not entirely sure). They looked cool for a kids toy at the time, but I was rocking the Game Boy Advance back then and felt that it be a waste of money to buy one.

I had a pixter. I remember really liking it at the time. I felt so cool, probably because I didn't know any other game consoles existed other than maybe the v-smile or leap frog stuff. I remember a dinosaur video for it that I remember thinking was cool at the time.

I had one of these when I was little! Totally forgot about that thing! (Also since I have a jojo icon I’m legally required to mention that I liked your jotaro barbie makeover)

Does anyone else remember Skannerz? That was a thing right? I do have fond memories of me and my buddies getting into collecting and battling with those neat little monster things. And we did often went to our local supermarket just to scan stuff and look exceedingly suspisions for those who worked there. Good times.

You could probably steal LGR's Hot Wheels PC

The drawing sound is so nostalgic my grandparents used to buy us a lot of toy tech.

You just awakened an ancient memory. I forgot I had one of these.

I like the look of the pixter color and its cartridges; it's like a fusion between hippy flower power and space age.

So basically this is a cyberpunk Etch-A-Sketch, right?

Oh my god, i HAD the original pixter! I loved the hell outta that thing. Then i forgot all about it and also tried googling for it a year or two ago to no avail. When you don't know the name of it, it's literally impossible to find. I had no clue they made later versions of it, that's kinda wild. Dang, thanks for the memories! I wonder how cheap they are to get nowadays? It'd be awesome to have one again for the novelty of it.

This video made me think of my old Vtech smile! My sister had a pixter, and we would play in the back of the car during the many 8 hour+ trips my family made.

You're like a 2000s nostalgia king. I remember this!

I have never heard of this until now. Also, these early-to-mid 2000’s kids tech products are so fascinating to learn about because they’re so odd and unique, it makes me realize how little innovation there is in current tech products.

Dude I actually also forgot the name of this until one day I spent an hour googling old systems from the 2000s. The reason was that the music sounded a lot like a riff in harder, better, faster, stronger and I couldn't think of wtf the game was called

I COMPLETELY forgot about this thing. This video unlocked memories I forgot I had. I must have been 4 years old when I got that original model. I remember picking it out at Toys R Us and deciding which of the cartridges to choose.

Nobody: ... Not a single soul: ... Billiam: I’m gonna reach into your brain and pull out a deep rooted memory you didn’t even know you had

Holy cow. When I saw the thumbnail for this video, a part of my brain woke up that has been asleep since 2001. I had the original Pixster and loved drawing on it. Also if you left it on, it would start playing music. :)

"Ken, you made one fatal mistake in our relationship, you pissed me off"

I'm so glad you made this video! I've been trying to remember what these things were called for a while now. Me and my brother each had the original! Mine was purple with green trim while his was blue with green trim. We didn't have any cartridges, but they were still a lot of fun! We mostly used the stamps to either stamp in a scene or a face, rather than free hand anything. We made all sorts of creative and interesting scenes and faces, just to crack up when we used the explode animation to blow them up. It also had a feature that allowed us to send creations back and forth between the devices. Sometimes we would steal each other's devices just to sabotage each other's most coveted saved art work. It was a lot of fun

I remember very vividly having this as a kid. I haven't seen it in like a decade. But that sound- that sound it makes. It brings me back.

You should do a video on Adventure Quest. That 2D side scrolling anime style RPG. It was all browser based. I'm sure a lot of kids played this back in the day.

You take notes on your iPad with your Apple Pencil? No no, I take my med school notes on my Pixter

This video dug up an obscure childhood memory of being on a super long road trip and playing with my Pixter in the back seat. I only remembered tic tac toe and being able to erase drawings with the lady bug effect. I also remember having to cover my head with a blanket because the screen didn't show up in bright sunlight.

When you do old leapfrog learning toys, theres one I vaguely remember. It was this handheld one where you twist the ends of this cylindrical toy to answer trivia or math and they have a multiplayer where you toss it to someone else hot potato-style. It also used cartridges with different games on it. I had fun with it with my brother when we were in grade school.

A new Billiam video already? It's our lucky month lmao

I remember watching my sister play the Pixter color. I have small snippets of memories playing this one Clifford game back in the mid to late 2000's. When you played the sound effects for the drawing game, I got a huge wave of nostalgia, good lord lmao.

GOOGLE PAGE 3?!? *I LITERALLY CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I WENT PAST PAGE 1*

"That wasn't just cold brew, that was cold brew concentrate. That was alot." 9:36 *Goes for second sip*

I loved the Pixter, it was so cool as a kid. I especially remember the Dinosaur cartridge

The Pixter was great! Man did I waste so much time on that thing growing up. I had so many game cartridges. I would haul them around in a gallon ziplock bag wherever I went lol! I had the silver and green Pixter Color. Now that I think about it, I'm almost positive that spending so much time on the Pixter growing up is what has led me to love making 2D and 3D graphics along with video editing to this day! Thank you for allowing me to unlock this realization! I would have totally forgotten about all of my memories with the Pixter. Eventually, the Game Boy and DS took over for me haha.

11:12 Jotaro! Wow so great much good 11/10 amazing

Well, Nintendo likes to pretend that DS thing is still around. But also the idea that (basically full) Switches are about to become a thing every kid has is........kinda weird feeling. Like I'm happy about how wide spread tech has become but it feels a little off.

Holy cow I had been looking everywhere for this!! It was a distant memory that I only knew how it looked like thanks to an old xmas pic

I saved up my money for daaaaayyyys to get this. I can remember the commercial so clearly. I also remember playing with it for like 1 week and then adding it to my bin

I had this toy!!! Secondhand of course, it had an animation program that I spent countless hours in the car playing with. It was really fun for an extremely poor kid like me who couldn't afford a gameboy advance. :( Thanks for reminding me of the name!

My baby game system of choice was the LeapFrog DIDJ. It had full blown 3D games on it like Star Wars The Clone Wars. I got the bundle with Sonic 1 on it. It was Sonic from the Genesis, except you had to do simple math problems to get checkpoints.

My favorite KZfaq hipster

Your search for this toy was similar to mine. I remembered it, had no idea what it was called, searched the internet, asked my family who had no idea what I was talking about, and then I accidentally discovered the name because I was just watching your video on leap frog where you mentioned it 😂😂😂 thank you, this has been driving me insane 😂😂😂

Incredible, watching this was like unlocking a memory. I always saw commercials for these when I was a kid but I'm glad my family got the Gameboy Advance/ Nintendo DS rather than one of these knowing their capabilities. However, the Pixter did remind me of one piece of tech I had when I was a kid. It was a blue and silver toy which was interactive in the same way the Pixter was - it was not backlit and could only do one color. The "power" button also "opened" the toy and would push a cover screen open. I wonder what that one was called...

OMG do a video on the Leap Start tablets and games ASAP that like the only thing that I ever had before my DSI

Can I suggest a "Was Weird"? topic? Creatures Was Weird? They were a franchise (it still technically exists but it's not really the same). There were three mainline games for the PC.

Not only do I remember the Pixter VERY fondly, I actually had TWO of them! One for me and one for my sister. Not only that, we also had SEVERAL cartridges for it, some of them are even duplicates of each other! I especially had a lot of fun playing on that thing... while it lasted before my parents gave them away. I'm genuinely surprised this thing isn't getting any info online AT ALL! Some examples of cartridges I enjoyed were a safari game, an frame-by-frame-based "action" cartridge, a racing game, and even the Rescue Heroes cartridge!

I have literally been trying to remember the name of this for over a year now! THANK YOU for the reassurance that I'm not insane and making it up

I would like to see a video about Humungous Entertainment and JumpStart games. :) I loved those as a kid!

I managed to dig up my old original pixter with some type of dinosaur game in it. Also you should do the tiger electronics handhelds from the late 90's.

AHHH I had a Pixter color and I forgot it even existed until this video. When I think about it I can vividly remember a specific sound effect for certain drawing tools! Great video as always :)

You've unlocked memories I didn't even know I had..

You never fail to create good content. Keep up the work man. Maybe you could cover Shaman King, Xiolin Showdown, Megaman NT Warrior or Mucha Lucha.

bro i was OBSESSED with the fairly odd parents cartridge for this omg. i mean i feel like i was obsessed with this thing in general. i remember being in the back seat of the car in my own world playing pixter

I distinctly remember this on interactive display at Walmart for several years. I kept wanting to buy it just to take it apart. XD

Not going to lie, I never buy youtuber merch, but I would buy a Big Coffee Energy shirt.

I kinda remember this, maybe my younger brother had this? But I had a GB/C/A growing up. So I never felt the need to get another "system".

I remember my cousin having the Pixter and I played with it when I would visit. I forgot all about this! It was my first introduction to drawing tablets.

THANK YOU I had this distant memory of this thing, and for the past like 6 months i have been searching like crazy thinking i had some leapfrog thing as a kid but nope i had a pixter. The amount of satisfaction and relief i feel finally knowing im not compleatly insane is just amazing

Lol I love how they launch the pig and then immediately launch a cannon ball right after without changing the angle or trajectory... RIP Pig

Just so good Jumpstart DvD was great so remember crying at the end of the 2nd Grade Disc you know the one that you could make your own character. (Bro that deep research I forgot there was more then just one Google page 😂😂)

I had troubles figuring out what this toy was since my sister had the same toy when I was little. After watching one of her video diaries, I finally found out what the toy was called, the Pixter.

I remember this! I remember playing the dinosaur one all the time when I was younger, but I haven't thought about it much in years. Thank you for reminding me of my childhood.

ah, this was one of my favorite toys when i was a kid! i always loved the sound effects lol

WAIT A SEC I HAD ONE OF THESE!!!! I bought it at a yard sale and it came with the Barbie Fashion Show game that I played once (wasn’t into Barbies despite the other boys in my family liked Barbie). The screen ended up getting pressed too hard and it wouldn’t show the actual image anymore.

I had one when i was a baby but i barely remembered it. I knew i had "some game console esque toy with a color screen" but i didnt know what it was at all until now. Thanks billiam!

I had one of these and my parents got me the Dora game for it. You could create your own episode using scattered clips and I just filled up all the slots with Swiper saying “Oh man.” A bunch of times

This video bring back weird memories. Like I know I had one when I was younger but which one? I look at the regular one and the color and I remember seeing these images but???

The reason I even am subscribed is because you jogg my memory for a lot of these 90's toys

I had one like the first one you tested! Purple with green :) I wonder what happened to that thing. I had a dinosaur game and I loooooved it. Also had a weird fascination with coloring the whole screen black lol

It's not forgotten in my household, me and my sister had one when we were little. It was a color Pixter, it was so fun for little me. I had Teen Titans, Disney Princesses, Dinosaurs, and more. But my favorite one was Spongebob :). I'm pretty sure mine was Lime with Purple.

Dude love your videos!! Very well researched and really funny, keep up!

Anyone remember the jumpstart for grade 1? With robot character. Good times

This video dug 10+ year old memories up from my childhood. (21 y.o rn) I loved the pixter color a lot but eventually it got pushed aside by the Nintendo ds. Me and my brother both had pixter colors and I'm pretty sure we wore them out near the end. I definitely remember playing the Barbie Doll cartridge a lot along with Scooby Doo, and Spongebob. By wore out I mean it was just old, no amount of AA batteries could help it any longer. Eventually I remember having a hard time even drawing on it because the touch lag was so bad, or it just stopped registering that it was even touched at all. I'm pretty sure that's why my parents just ended up getting me and brother each a ds. We loved Pokemon more anyways lol I'm pretty sure my parents gave us the pixters in 2004 because we were still in touch with my uncle. (Not deceased, we're just choosing no contact for reasons)I have good memories of playing the pixter for entire car trips to his house.

I had the original Pixter and I remember playing with the animate cartridge. The workflow and latency was frustrating so I ended up just listening to the music half the time

Holy shit in just finished rewatching your old bionicle video!? I mean LITERALLY JUST FINISHED then you upload!? *WHAT'RE THE ODDS*

Thank you for reminding me that this was a thing that existed

My sister and I shared a purple Pixter color! I have such fond memories of that thing. I ran into my sister's room when the video got to the part about the Pixter color. Despite her trying to sleep for work in the morning she watched the video with me just remember the Pixter. That ticking noise it makes when you draw made me so happy.

6:51 Don't feel bad about your drawing skills Billy, that Knuckles you did is actually pretty good!

I want hotwheels computer now

I used to have the Pixter Multi-Media System when I was little. I didn’t have any games, so I just messed with the apps that were already in there

I remember the pixter commercials and making fun of it on the bus with my friends but none of us ever had one, lol

The thumbnail of this video was a huge nostalgia bomb! I had totally forgotten about my Pixter though I played with it constantly when I was 8 ish! I'm pretty sure I had one of the Pixter 2.0s, but it totally could have been one of the originals. Definitely not the color one though. I never did get any of the cartridges for it, or if I did it wasn't very memorable. I do remember chewing on the ridges of the drawing stick, and the sounds effects have definitely stayed buried in my brain, hearing them again was wild. So, thanks for making this video. I definitely would have completely forgotten about this decently large part of my childhood if you hadn't!

NEED me some review of that Leapster with the stylus! and if you have time the art program game for it (cough)

“Oaxis Sucks,” indeed.

It's so strange to think one obscure toy/gamepad was one of my favorite things growing up. Then I remembered that my dad was a complete technophile and he wanted most things related to games just as much as I did (hence why I stood out for being one of the only kids in my school having an OG Xbox).

I had one of these and it was my favorite thing I'd take it everywhere to keep myself entertained as a small adhd child

Yoooo is that a mothafacking jojo reference!?

So weird that even I don't remember it 😑

I had the fashion Pocket Pixter growing up, and while it was very annoying, I did love this thing, and happily brought it with me when I went to Disneyland for my 8th birthday.

I used the heck out of this as a kid! This and the Leapfrog stuff. The music cart for the original was a ton of fun, and the Color Pixter had some really nice games for the age range. Like the world explorer and spongebob games I especially remember. I think if it still works by the time I have kids the Pixter will be a great way to introduce them to handheld tech without needing to worry about youtube autoplay or the, getting scammed.