Watara Supervision - Is It Worth Playing? - History, Review and Retrospective!

Watara Supervision - Is It Worth Playing? - History, Review and Retrospective! - Top Hat Gaming Man

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A man in a Top Hat with a Moustache reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life. The Top Hat Gaming Man is currently traveling around the globe, playing the best games for the handheld around the world. The Best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today Top Hat Gaming Man looks at The Watara Supervision, the budget competition of the competition of the Nintendo Game Boy and the Sega Game Gear.

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@RevJR 7 жыл бұрын

Also really dig that 8-bit RUSH track. Nice.

@davidsomoza 7 жыл бұрын

Oh, i had one of these. I asked my mom to buy a gameboy+tetris pack and she went with a pack with a supervision + a breakout clone. The dissapoint.

@Gaspe19 6 жыл бұрын

David Somoza Domenech same thing happened to my uncle

@eugeneketaminekrebs3403 5 жыл бұрын

Where are you from? Just wondering cause I want to know if this was sold in places I didn’t think would be sold at.

@misteridiot 4 жыл бұрын

People who are deceased due to being hella old can't post comments on KZfaq vids... That's illegal!

@vguyver2 4 жыл бұрын

I got stuck with the Tiger Electronics Radica version... UGH!

@andriiburka 2 жыл бұрын

haha, i know that feel

@SuperKokuJin916 7 жыл бұрын

That Panzer Dragoon Saga soundtrack really evokes a sense of adventure!

@MrFixer1983 7 жыл бұрын

I got SuperVision (v2) when I was a kid. I got it at Dixons (The Netherlands) at my hometown. I got Hero kid, Crystball,Chimera, F1 race and some shoot em up. I got my games at Dixons in those clamshell cases. They cost 35 gulden (about 30 euro) 2 years later I got a Gameboy ;)

@Xavier-ii5kn 5 жыл бұрын

16 euros, not counting inflation.. nowadays, it would certainly be 30+.

@ColpoRosso 7 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine had this thing! he won it on a quiz on tv, the bastard.

@loustandards2827 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the wonderful 8 bit homage to "Tom Sawyer" in the middle. I had no way of knowing i'd be feverishly pounding away at air drums before I started watching, but here we are, and yes I did.

@JacaboBlanco 7 жыл бұрын

lol the retro rush music!!! you just earned more respect my friend

@JacaboBlanco 7 жыл бұрын

Tom Sawyer?

@RetroDawn Жыл бұрын

@@JacaboBlanco Indeed!

@Aegelis 6 жыл бұрын

Always enjoy watching the intro, reminds me of some of my favourite Britcoms. The background music seemed a bit loud during your excellent commentary. Thank you for playing these games so that I don't have to :-D

@A3rgan 7 жыл бұрын

Great video - I never knew anyone happy to own one of these in my youth!

@theangryaustralian7624 5 жыл бұрын

Laughed so hard at the gaming montage...genius haha good work as always

@DoubleCola 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid!

@charlesanthony6368 7 жыл бұрын

this show is so awesome, thank you thgm!

@NicksHellHole 7 жыл бұрын

Sachen has a lot of great games. You should take a look at some of their Famicom and gameboy games.

@DanielHuman1996 7 жыл бұрын

Your Rocky montage is awesome!

@MrMegaManFan 7 жыл бұрын

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about your next video after the obvious heel turn last go with "Why I hate retro game collectors" but I've found this handheld fascinating ever since it was a prize on morning game shows. Good work!!

@charlesbukowksi6497 5 жыл бұрын

this series is brilliant :)

@Drewbe821 7 жыл бұрын

Stopdrop&retro was the one who first brought this system to my attention. It's interesting to see a portable from a different land.

@awildelliottappeared2026 7 жыл бұрын

You know a system's bad when the best games in the library were made by Sachen 😂 Fantastic review! I'm so glad I found this channel.

@kingmonkey25 7 жыл бұрын

Finally got to watch this today, was interesting to me as my youngest brother had one but I don't remember much about it except for the Tetris rip-off and an Excite Bike clone he had (was looking for it in the footage). Loved the Robocop outro tune!

@RetroDawn Жыл бұрын

Both were in there.

@Gaspe19 6 жыл бұрын

Paper Mario TTYD theme in the background. Thumbs up

@unforgiven665 7 жыл бұрын

I really can't escape seeing Peter Molyneux on KZfaq. Curse you Larry.

@Larry 7 жыл бұрын

Mwahahaha >:D

@salud7432 7 жыл бұрын

unforgiven Peter who?

@Spolodaface 6 жыл бұрын

he has such smallface :(

@pferreira1983 5 жыл бұрын

@@salud7432 Well done (wink).

@cygnusnj 5 жыл бұрын

I’m a simple man. I hear Rush, I upvote.

@Russianbro777 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, that is a interesting Pre switch, Switch.

@tommynguyen8555 6 жыл бұрын

Freaking sweet Rush rendition! \m/

@fathersongaming9765 7 жыл бұрын

I had never heard of this system before. Pretty interesting

@JC_Chappy 3 ай бұрын

There was an episode of SeaQuest DSV that used a Super Vision (v.2) as a handheld computer interface.

@user-zo9dc1lu3q 7 жыл бұрын

4:13 The italian commercial for the Watara Supervision ?!

@justanotherguyfromthenorth5791 7 жыл бұрын

Who did that excellent 8-Bit version of Rush?

@ohbaby4life 6 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this stateside in a finger hut magazine

@RetroRaider 7 жыл бұрын

I love bizarre stuff like this ,)I actually like the supervision, although its another good solidariedade prof that games sell the system, and not the concept of it.Very inovating for the time, and a cool alternative to the gameboy, with a solid 3rd party support, this thing could have been a hit.

@cessnaace 6 жыл бұрын

Have you considered doing a video on the Bitcorp Gamate? It's a handheld primarily released in Europe, although I got my (CIB) from a seller in Australia. It was also released in North America and Asia. There were approx. 74 games released for it. All of the games that I have for it I have CIB. I happen to have C1-001, which is a Tetris clone called Cube-Up. It has a green monochromatic screen like the Game Boy has. Like the Lynx Model 2, the headphone jack outputs Stereo. Build quality is surprisingly very good. If you need something to play on it I have two CIB copies of C-019 (Dino Ball), which is a Pinball game.

@bjs71285 6 жыл бұрын

Love the panzer music

@TheRealAmericanMan 4 жыл бұрын

That Panzer music had me sitting here wondering what it was for MINUTES

@rvbrexer 7 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing reviews of Supervision games in the old gaming magazines.

@rvbrexer 6 жыл бұрын

Joshua Berry tbh I can't remeber, I suppose it depended on the game.

@themcfaceman 5 жыл бұрын

that was some quality chiptune Tom Sawyer 12:32

@partofthetribe3277 3 ай бұрын

Used to love legends of the hidden temple

@Ripplin 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa, Jon Pall Sigmarsson sighting at 4:57!

@joshdieckmann595 7 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing ads for this in game magazines back at the time of its release. It always appeared to be a cheap cash-in clone of the Game Boy, and as you've demonstrated, that's essentially what it was. I'd still like to acquire one, at some point, but I certainly won't be too excited to pay much for it.

@salud7432 7 жыл бұрын

I know that Thing as Hartung SV100 or so. Allways called it Hartung.

@SNARC15 7 жыл бұрын

Seems all roads, or in this case, all obscure consoles and gaming references, lead to Guru Larry.

@misteridiot 4 жыл бұрын

He may not be fat, but he does have an orbit.

@RoboBlue2 7 жыл бұрын

You should do the Mega Duck!

@Larry 7 жыл бұрын

Chimera was originally a Spectrum game, there's even a homage to it in Lumo on the PS4!!! I wonder if it's official or they stole it?

@TopHatGamingManChannel 6 жыл бұрын

This should be a fact hunt segment

@coreytopper7763 6 жыл бұрын

Hello You!; Seems every other video Ive watched for weeks has a comment from Larry Bundy Jr

@DullBull 6 жыл бұрын

I think I read somewhere some time ago the story about the port. I believe it was official, but I don't remember the source, so don't quote me on that.

@TanukidLeaf 5 жыл бұрын

8 colors, whoopdy frickin doo

@DoctorBHSwift 7 жыл бұрын

Is that Tom Sawyer around 13:00? lol nice.

@Sh1nySp00n 6 жыл бұрын

He really needs to credit the source on this.

@meetoo594 6 жыл бұрын

That chimera game looks familiar, I had a game of the same name, with very similar graphics and gameplay on the spectrum or c64 (twas a long time ago). It also had speech, screaming the games name at the start. It was a budget firebird game iirc.

@RonRose 7 жыл бұрын

Was enjoying the video already, but once I heard YYZ my face broke into a huge, silly grin. Excellent review BTW

@saskatoonguy 7 жыл бұрын

Do you mean "Tom Sawyer" or did I miss something?

@GendoFM 7 жыл бұрын

That background music at 0:35 is familiar, like it's from Mario Golf or Tennis.

@helenFX 7 жыл бұрын

Scrolling shooters are one of the easiest types of game to programme. After pong and breakout the first game I made when learning to programme was a vertically scrolling space shooter :). I had much less skill and knowledge than my other programming friend at the college but Giant flashy explosions bring more punters to the keyboard than efficient rotation and scaling engines. The subsequent game was bomberman. It was fun seeing you describe the 'classic' game designs ( that are always fun even when made by rank amateurs) that appeared on the system in their order of programming complexity :).

@RetroDawn Жыл бұрын

Unless you have no scrolling and sprites/blitter hw support nor a fast enough CPU to compensate (and even with a fast CPU, there's a lot more programming if you have to code it all from scratch).

@JimGiant 6 жыл бұрын

It looks like the games were developed by Active Enterprises.

@FIXTREME 3 жыл бұрын

3:41 still frame from Ashens' Yes Prime Minister remake 😂

@d2d2505 6 жыл бұрын

I had this. I could never afford gameboy and this was quite cool given the circumstances. the handheld was sold with the crystball cartridge. there were a few cool games, something like olympic trials and a brain games thing.

@PunkNDisorderlyGamer 7 жыл бұрын

On the school bus I had an original game boy, many others had a gameboy as well, 1 girl had a game gear, 1 boy had a supervision (the non-bending version), and 1 older 5th grader had a turbo express. I was always fascinated with the other handhelds and felt my gameboy was lackluster, perhaps I was bored with the games I had already played tons of times.

@CommodoreFan64 7 жыл бұрын

I had a Game Gear back in the day, and while the games where really nice, the battery life of it was fucking horrible, and you could barely get 3 hours out of 6 AA batteries, plus now days if you can find a GameGear where the screen still works without it having a recap job done then you are damn freaking lucky, I got my GameGear the Christmas it came out, and by 99 the screen was so fracked from the bad caps it was unplayable. yet I recently found an OG GameBoy at a GoodWill with Super Mario Land stuck in it along with some batteries, and it fired up like it was new despite the scratches it had on it.

@kandutery 5 жыл бұрын

This man have the same face and eyes than Ron Jeremy

@njp2k914 6 жыл бұрын

My Nan got me one of these in a charity shop for like £2 with three games when I was little!! I even knew it sucked a bit at age 4

@draketerrell4309 Жыл бұрын

I want one!!11

@benzo12 7 жыл бұрын

for my money the neogeo pocket was the best attempt at trying to make a competitor to the gameboy.

@wirlogx 4 жыл бұрын

I found one with the gameboy looks, but it's dead. Looking for info about the system I found out you had this video. Thanks for clarifying what pierce of hardware I found.

@Winter_337 5 жыл бұрын

Nice use of Tom Sawyer THGM

@TanukidLeaf 5 жыл бұрын

14:11 to skip montage

@JWG.LLC_The_Artist 5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap I thought you Guru Larry and Ashes were the same guy

@eugeneketaminekrebs3403 5 жыл бұрын

I saw one at a gaming store for $45 almost a year ago. The employee who worked there was surprised I knew of it(considering my age, was 14) and I thought of buying it cause of it’s oddity.

@vguyver2 4 жыл бұрын

Was that F1 Racer I spotted from the Gameboy?

@GeoNeilUK 7 жыл бұрын

Have you met Ashens personally, I heard he's quite a good bloke.

@cyrus649 7 жыл бұрын

looks like the early gameboy games... now I want one

@cyrus649 7 жыл бұрын

?huh? I like very old and simple computer games... even if they are crap

@cyrus649 7 жыл бұрын

I don't play games on my phone

@ShinjuNLG 6 жыл бұрын

I have one. It still works but i dont have the battery cover.

@DamnRightDamien 5 жыл бұрын

I see a Pepe, I like the video

@MrSammersELsoho 4 жыл бұрын

SW has its version of everything.

@RevJR 7 жыл бұрын

I know it's good footage to put in, it's a good aesthetic. However, now all I can imagine is some random people watching you pet a gameboy into a camera on a lava beach. Good video!

@TopHatGamingManChannel 7 жыл бұрын

Best question Ive ever been asked while filming, 'why have you bought a Virtual Boy to the Grand Canyon?'

@PugHoofGaming 7 жыл бұрын

Please tell me you replied with "Why *wouldn't* you bring a Virtual Boy to the Grand Canyon?"

@TH3awesomeVID30 7 жыл бұрын

Pug Hoof Gaming is it not a normal thing to do?

@RevJR 7 жыл бұрын

That's when you ask them 'how else am I supposed to get the full experience?!'

@RetroDawn Жыл бұрын

That is a Lynx II.

@threadthathasnoend1212 7 жыл бұрын

chiptunes Tom Sawyer? I don't know how to feel about that.

@ethacade 4 жыл бұрын

Would you recommend that I acquire a Watara Supervision for my collection my good man?

@max__pain 7 жыл бұрын

I cannot bear to see Pepe cry

@ldrelick 7 жыл бұрын

What's the song that plays at 10:30 ? It sounds so familiar (like from a 16 or 32 bit RPG?) but I can't put my finger on it.

@theboone3848 6 жыл бұрын

Lol @ 8 bit Rush tunes

@Petemel 7 жыл бұрын

I think a childhood friend of mine used to have one of these. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that was a "Gameboy knock-off" in such an extent, that even the startup was the same. You know: Turning on the thing and a logo would come down to the middle with a "gling" noise, like the Game Boy would do...

@TopHatGamingManChannel 7 жыл бұрын

it does indeed.

@VonCreeperTv 3 жыл бұрын

To high jump in that game need press up +jump

@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029 4 жыл бұрын

"Makes the NES look good", that is the ultimate put down.

@indioallinson8242 7 жыл бұрын

mr hyde doesnt have a cane in the nes game that is dr jekyll

@foxsux6000 6 жыл бұрын

There is a dumb stunt motorcycle game on it i used to play all the time, don't know the name, but i broke it just playing that as a teen.

@StuffWePlay 7 жыл бұрын

What a shame! I've always been fascinated by this thing. At the very least, it's higher quality than the Game.com!

@udcintegrated 7 жыл бұрын

You forgot the neo geo in the competition, but all in all a nice overview

@RoboBlue2 7 жыл бұрын

The NGPC competed with the Gameboy Color, not the original Gameboy.

@udcintegrated 7 жыл бұрын

True

@udcintegrated 7 жыл бұрын

I was one of those kids that wished I got the neo geo though, it looked way cooler than the gameboy

@udcintegrated 7 жыл бұрын

I wasnt arguin with anybody so i left it alone, kinda drinkin at the moment so it aint deep

@RoboBlue2 7 жыл бұрын

+anarchyisneato That was still released after the Gameboy Color.

@unconbentional2044 7 жыл бұрын

When do we get your review of the Switch?

@TopHatGamingManChannel 7 жыл бұрын

Hard to review a system people only play Zelda on lol

@mr.jackgek54 Жыл бұрын

i have a super vision that looks like a game boy

@GreatSageSunWukong 5 жыл бұрын

The amount of bloody gaming videos I watch lately where I think I've got one of them, what do you mean youve never heard of it etc, god it makes me think I should get in on this lark too, doesn't seem to be many ladies doing vids about the things, yes I have a supervision in a carry case with a tonne of games, they kept showing the bloody thing on Bad Influence back in the day, shocked I am that people don't remember that violet berlin was bloody playing one at the start of every show and I think it was £39.99 in Beaties with games starting at £8.99.

@ValentinesEve1996 4 жыл бұрын

What is the song at 12:33?

@davidmorin2818 3 жыл бұрын

Tom Sawyer gets high on the Supervision

@SuperDoobyDo 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone know the song that is playing during the end credits?

@darkevocator4043 6 жыл бұрын

SuperDoobyDo I believe it's from RoboCop on the Amstrad CPC 464

@darkevocator4043 6 жыл бұрын

The intro screen to be precise

@OnnieKoski 5 жыл бұрын

How did you get the gameplay footage?

@TopHatGamingManChannel 5 жыл бұрын

There is an emulator for this system, which runs on PC. I captured that way.

@KetwunsGamingPad 7 жыл бұрын

Watching some of these old advertisements, I kinda miss the old days of where video game advertising was given a real "hip" atmosphere. Now they feel no different to movie trailers some of them and it starts to feel desensitising and same-ish. Exception to this I guess is Nintendo, where I suppose the nature of the games show more gameplay than just "cinematic" footage or showing people playing games, so when they advertise, what you see is what you play. So there's that I guess.

@steammachine3061 7 жыл бұрын

i remember violet berlins constant advocation of the supervision. she was flogging a dead horse with that one lol. you can watch all the bad influence episodes on youtube. in hindsight its a hell of a lot more childish than gamesmaster though. the word rad realy hasnt aged very well lol

@TopHatGamingManChannel 7 жыл бұрын

Indeed it was always too 'rad' for me personally. In fact this is a good video topical in its own right. As a child the whole 'radical' marketing campaign aimed at children, use to really get on my nerves, I just use to see the whole thing as brash and pretentious. I was raised with manners and etiquette, so why would I want an 'attitude'.

@steammachine3061 7 жыл бұрын

its rather disgracefull that 90s rad youngsters dont even know what spoon to use with their angel delight lol

@rvbrexer 7 жыл бұрын

Top Hat Gaming Man To be like the cool American kids.

@bdel80 6 жыл бұрын

SteamMachine What happened to her ?

@Stilgarsan 6 жыл бұрын

The game at 13:24 rather looks like motorcross madness

@strain42 7 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say you had to RUSH a bit during that montage ;D ...I'll be quiet.

@welshfinn1 7 жыл бұрын

Has anyone told you you're the dead spit of Wario? Definitely one for cheap cosplay on Barshens!

@Diamhea 7 жыл бұрын

THGM has a great work ethic, but people don't seem to care much for his uploads. I think they need more gameplay footage as opposed to merely stating technical/historical facts.

@zamsaraguth 7 жыл бұрын

Nice Monster Hunter 3DS.

@brucewayne-px4lv 7 жыл бұрын

they tried riding the wave without first learning how to swim. Gotta respect the effort though.Even if it started as a ripoff.

@valley_robot 7 жыл бұрын

Now get a gamate, or a game com, they were truly shit, I nearly bought a supervision, they looked cool as back in the day had a lovely screen as well, cheap games , there was a lot to love about the system, shame Nintendo killed it off

@CommodoreFan64 7 жыл бұрын

I had a friend who was unlucky enough to have gotten a Game.Com for his birthday, and I can remember trying to play resident evil on it, and not being able to a damn thing on the screen because it was blurry. The only game I can remember being able to see proper was Light Out as it was just a static screen with little movement, but to be noted Tiger did try to fix the Game.com problems with the rare Game.com light with a better screen(not by much though), front light, smaller system with only 1 cart slot, & cooler looking transparent case designs. Now that model of the Game.com I would not mind owning, just to say I have it, but the Gammate I would not touch that POS with a 10 foot pole lol!

@zaadbaad541 4 жыл бұрын

Just bought this for 2 euros with crystball

@PsychomachineryEBM 6 жыл бұрын

So this is the original Switch, uh...

@codyandfriendsplay12 5 жыл бұрын

There’s one thing you don’t try with Nintendo, and competing with their handhelds is a mistake. A good amount has tried to take them down in the handheld market but they are the king of handheld gaming lol.

@user-vg5rv5xf4u 2 ай бұрын

Snaaaaaaaaaaaake

@CommodoreFan64 7 жыл бұрын

I can remember seeing the Watara Supervision in the Harriet Carter sales catalog my grandmother use to get in the mail each month(most of the items in it are a honest fucking ripoff in my book) back in the day, and even as a kid I looked at it thinking what a fucking POS as I already had a SEGA GameGear at the time lol!