There's something really depressing about a single-player mode in a chat room game.

Fun fact: "Bootleg Mike Myers" from pretty much all of the shovel ware Shrek games also voices the Jarl of Whiterun from Skyrim and the main villain of Resident Evil 4.

I like the part where Shrek Baby Simulator's music turns into the MGS2 theme for a few bars.

oh god, I remember begging my mom for ping pals when I was a kid for some reason, and when I finally got it, the realization that it was only for people who had friends to use it with was just too saddening man

In middle school somebody in one of my classes stole my DS LIte and I knew exactly who it was. I confronted him, and he would only give it back if I let him keep Pokemon Dash; I had no objection.

Ping Pals solo chat is... Oddly depressing

0:26 - Pokémon Dash 11:16 - Ping Pals 23:49 - Peter Jackson's King Kong 35:44 - ATV: Quad Frenzy 43:10 - Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 52:00 - Dino Master 1:01:33 - Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp 1:08:59 - Sudoku Mania 1:12:48 - Charlotte's Web 1:19:26 - Superman Returns 1:31:16 - Wiffle Ball 1:39:51 - Chicken Shoot 1:43:31 - Shrek the 3rd: Ogres and Dronkeys

Early DS times were rough.

I know this as old as piss, but as far as 4:25 is concerned, Pikachu's face is canonically extremely stretchy like a rubber band, it's great

Fun Fact about Ping Pals: WayForward were hired to work on that instead of making a DS Shantae sequel. for Nintendo. They had assets and everything, but Nintendo offered them this shit instead.

35:44 Oh boy... This game. Alright, let me tell you a story. WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD It was 2005. Before the recession. I was a carefree child who loved video games. We lived in a modest house, we had some cool video games, and some people were excited about Halo 2 and the Xbox 360. Life was good. My 2005 summer was spent playing old Dreamcast games right until the time I was introduced to the Nintendo DS. I was amazed. You have to realize that back then, people couldn't imagine a handheld handling 3D graphics in an even remotely playable way. However, this was different. I saw gameplay footage of Super Mario 64 DS, and my mind was blown. A handheld is processing a fully 3D game? "It's like a Nintendo 64 in your pocket!" I said, "and it has two screens! You can touch the bottom one!" It was great. I was so excited, but my parents couldn't afford it at the time. I was crushed, but such was life. I had to be patient. Winter 2005. My grandmother, who could actually afford an entirely new gaming system, asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I thought "Here's my chance. A Nintendo DS! Finally in my hands!" So I confidently told her, "Nana, I want a Nintendo DS. It's a handheld gaming system. It's real cool, and I want some games for it!" And you know what she said? "OK." It was done. I was about to get my very own Nintendo DS. A whole new world of gaming. I was about to be welcomed to the future. Christmas 2005. Hot chocolate, Christmas specials, winter break, and a snowy day outside. There were presents under the festively lit tree. Three of them for me, stating that they were "From Nana". One was a decently sized box, and the other two were smaller jewel-case sized boxes. I opened the big one first. Inside? An electric-blue Nintendo DS. How excited was I? Well, remember that video you watched of that kid screaming that he got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas? Yeah, it was like that. But, a system was useless without games, so I opened the two smaller presents. Then, suddenly, I realized that I made a tremendous mistake. I said to my grandmother that I wanted "some games" for it. I wasn't specific enough. I was relying on my grandma's taste of games (read, none) to pick out those that she thought I would enjoy. Now, it's coming back to bite me. The first game? Madagascar for the Nintendo DS. My first game for my brand new handheld was a damn movie tie-in shovelware game. The Madagascar movie was popular at the time, so I can understand if she picked that one up. And besides, the game was OK. Nothing worth talking about. The other one? I shit you not, a decision that still continues to baffle me to this day, even considering the circumstances. ATV Quad Frenzy. I thought "She had to have looked at the box and thought 'No, that's too shitty'. She had to. Her taste can't be that bad." Nope, there was the game, in it's full garbage splendor. That footage you're seeing at that timestamp? You're looking at a broken child's dreams. The awful controls. The broken trick system. The horrendous user interface. This game made me a man. It made me realize what disappointment felt like. The silence and disappointment was palpable. My mom even went "Oh, that game. OK. At least you have a DS!" No one in the house liked it. My father hated it and said that it was trash. My mom wanted nothing to do with the game. My younger sister grimaced at it. It was the redheaded stepchild of the house, except without the charm. And can you blame them? It was one of the lowest rated games ever. I would never forget it. My first ever Nintendo DS, my very own cutting edge handheld, and I christened it with this complete waste of silicon. The worst part? It was all I had. That and Madagascar for the first few months. Eventually I got some great games for it (Super Mario 64 DS, New Super Mario Bros, Nintendogs, Animal Crossing Wild World, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy IV), but the first few months were rough. And I have that piece of near-unplayable shovelware to thank for it.

I heard Vinny say "Chicken Shoot" and saw that title screen and for a solid minute I refused to believe the game was real. The entire thing was so shitty I thought he was pulling people's legs and putting up a video of some Scrimmy Bingus-style thing. Even the title sounds like a fake name Vinny would just make up on the spot.

Amazing how WayForward went from Shantae, to Ping Pals, to Risky's Revenge, all in the span of about six, seven years. The entire spectrum, from shit to classic. Impressive.

-Shitty DS Games -Opens with one of my favorite games as a kid

22:00 Yopyop is the emulators default ds name.

35:30 "so that was king kong's peter jackson"

Wayforward, the company behind Mighty Switch Force, and my favourite game franchise, Shantae, also made a bunch of shovelware shrek games for the DS. Outstanding.

I swear those Tomogachi tones were used by the CIA at some point to torture prisoners

No vinny those gnomes are keemstar

I remember when they pimped the hell out of Munchlax before Gen 4. One even cameoed in the original Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (which is not a shitty game at all). Such a bizarre choice to show off so much.

Fun Fact: Those sounds in Pokemon Dash were soon used in Pokemon Rumble Blast and Rumble World for the 3DS.

Pokemon DASH came out in the US. That or my mom somehow imported a copy which I doubt. The one kind of cool thing is that if you plugged in either of the gen 1 remakes (and probably any GBA main pokemon game) it would generate courses based on the sprites of your current party. This is neat until you realize that it's a horrible mishmash of slow tiles and impassable hazards sometimes. Also maybe it was just a lot of premade levels for each pokemon and not generating them.

"Hi diglett. I caught you in my toilet today."

Yopyop is the default system name in DeSmume, the emulator that vinny’s using.

The fact that I actuallyremember Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi makes me extremely infuriated at myself as a person.

Without the graphics I would assume the chat one was a 16-year old's school project

I actually love how despite serving that orange Tamagotchi nothing, the green duck tamagotchi still charges them.

Can you believe Wayforward developed Ping Pals

I just realized that Ping Pals solo chat is like Façade, where you can say "Yes" over and over again and win.

29:58 so here's this giant enemy crab

The Charlotte's Web game is actually a port of an identical Gameboy Advance game. I own the GBA version, and I've always hated it. Also, I own a SuperMan GBA game which, if I'm remembering correctly, is basically Bejeweled with SuperMan crystals. I guess SuperMan is doomed to never have a good game.

Pokemon go has the harshest perma-death system

These are IGN's ratings Pokemon Dash: 5 Ping Pals: 3.5 Peter Jackson's King Kong: 3 ATV: Quad Frenzy: 4.8 Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop: 6 Dino Master: 2.5 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp: 3.5 Sudoku Mania: 3 Charlotte's Web: 6.5 Superman Returns: 5.3 Wiffle Ball: 1.5 Chicken Shoot: 2 Shrek the 3rd: Ogres and Dronkey's: 7 Yes, Shrek got a fucking 7

Pokémon Dash, I swear to god, has to just be a tech demo they pushed as a game... That's all it could be.

dudes mystic messenger is just a ripoff of ping pals

1:18:57 - 1:19:18 for the sounds of a broken gamer.

Not even notification squad, I just refresh the channel page over and over waiting for Kirby...

The 2000's were pretty much the dark ages for Nintendo (in terms of games). All of their consoles released in that time were essentially used as a dumping ground for shitty shovelware games.

Tamagotchi Corner Shop 2 & 3 are actually good. The first one is shit though.

Vinny finally commited sudoku

YES shall be a new meme...

seeing puffy amiyumi again after all these years makes me strangely nostalgic... ..and quite scared to say that i liked it because ill probably get torn apart here

Yes - Roundabout

51:59 Dino Master was my favorite DS game, thanks for the nostalgia.

Have you ever been on a roadtrip? THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MAT- YES.

i live in the US and pokemon Dash came with my DS. It did come out here but i think it only came with the system

After watching GPM play Hey You Pikachu, anyone else suspect they reused that tech in the touch screen Pika-molestation or just recreated it fairly accurately?

Even as an 8 year old I wasn’t a fan of Pokémon Dash, the constant rubbing on the screen got old pretty quick. But being able to import sprites of your Pokémon from the Gameboy Games was kinda neat.

Vinny, you had me waking myself up at my own laughter with this one. Not even kidding. I'll never get the image of Sonic bathing in baked beans out of my head now. *shudders*

The return of Yop Yop

Fun fact: "Pica" (pronouced exactly like Pikachu's "Pika") is slang for Penis in Brazil. You're welcome Vinnysauce crew.

I've honestly got some nostalgia for most of these games, and it's the absolute worst kind of nostalgia.

I used to genuinely like the Tamagotchi game when I was younger lol

The ping pals sprites were made by nexon... nexon is the same company the made maplestory. ._. The resemblance between the sprites are uncanny. O_O

I loved that tamagotchi game when I was younger

"theres trading on the way in pokemon go" -july 2016 oh man

please don't let YES become a meme

Munchlax is a real friend. He's just happy to be there and let you win

That music loop and the fog everywhere with the low graphics makes the King Kong game like a fever dream

This was the sane hand-held console that had Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skys

When that giant bug thing showed up, I let out a loud, single laugh.

I'd like to say that the Puffy Ami Yumi GBA game was actually pretty alright though... It was a typical platformer with a grappling hook mechanic that worked fairly well.

45:00 statistically you're right, vin. i still have that tamagotchi game and have some nice memories with it. one of those games your grandparents buy you because they hear you bought into that tamagotchi craze a few years back. you spend a summer with it and it's like that delicate childhood feeling of experiencing a summer fling. or something else gay like that.

That Puffy game is pretty trash-looking but it at least looks like something I could play for more than five minutes. There was a Puffy "game" for the PS1 in 1999 or so that was really just a collection of super-compressed music videos, but they threw in a couple quick light gun minigames with no replay value to make it look like effort happened.

I really love the art style in the pingpals game, it reminds me of early 2000's anime shows, i wish more games would have that nostalgic art style UwU

I like how Vinny turned into the younger D'Arby brother from JoJos Yes yes yes yes yes

Munchlax, as well as Lucario, are interesting cases where they are gen 4 pokemon, but they appear in gen 3 games. Those games being Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red(GBA)/Blue(NDS) Rescue Team

"pinnochio or toad?" i am dead as i speak

IN THE SUPERMAN GAME VINNY SAYS "SUS OUT THE ROBOTS" AND THEN THE NEWSPAPER SAYS AMONG US !!!

I just woke up from getting the wind knocked out me after coughing my lungs out after laughing so hard I couldn't breathe at 1:37:00. Thanks Vin

If you want to corrupt Shrek baby, all you need is a sizable amount of modern MTV!

Every time I see a professionally (or "professionally") published game use Comic Sans, a small part of me dies.

Oh my god! Ping Pals was my childhood! My sister and I used to play it for hours and neither of us know why we liked it so much because it's basically a chat room. I recently sold that game with a bunch of other old games. Kinda miss it now even though I hadn't played it in years, but it was for a good cause. My sister needed enough money/store credit to buy a PS3.

the more i hear kuchipatchi's theme in tamagotchi the sadder i feel bc it's so nostalgic to me gd

I was hoping that he would yell "YEHS!" in the Waluigi voice from the last Mario Kart 8 stream

The tamagotchi game isn't bad or shitty.... It's so good to play it

When I saw the Wayforward Logo when you played Ping Pals I died a little inside I guess this was before they became popular and made good games

Why is the art in the shrek game so damn good? I mean the 2D art, all else is shit.

I like that that ping pals game was just reusing a bunch of nexon's maplestory assets, just slightly tweaked lmao

i remember watching this stream, it doesn't feel like it was 5 months ago

ATV: Quad Frenzy is actually a Gameboy game, i still have it. I remember I got it from my grandmother when i was 7 :D

My friend gave me ping pals for free since it sucks and since i have no friends with a ds i just sit around talking to myself

These shrek games... Vinny, it truly never is ogre.

as someone raised on the Beatles thanks so much for showing me Swag John Lennon

I remember playing the ogres and dronkeys games. BUT.. it was an entirely different skin? anyone know what it could of been? It had all the same items and objectives. maybe it was that. Also IGN gave that game a SEVEN out of 10, jesus.

YES

Watching Vinny play Ogres and Dronkeys gave me PTSD from when I played it as a kid

I never thought I'd see the day. The day when Superman 64 actually looked good.

Yes

For the record Pokemon dash did get released in the Us, I have a copy of the Us version for shit's sake (also I am in Pa so you can't say that I'm not in Us)

I gotta say it's pretty impressive they got a fully voiced cutscene on a DS game with that shrek game.

the fucking king kong game was actually really fun on consoles but on DS that game looks like alone in the dark LMAO

Yes.

I liked Pokémon Dash...

"Put the beans on it."

The Shrek game is too god damn happy that it's making me cry.

Why cory in the house isn't here?

bippity boppity give me the zoppity

I used to watch Hi Hi Puffy Vulva Show all the time. Don't know how well it holds up nowadays, tho...

I just realized in the shrek game the dronkeys are a mix of a dragon and a donkey.