Early Consoles

So I don't know why early consoles all decided that even though you're going to plug this into your TV, you're not going to include a power adapter, but instead use a bunch of big ass batteries. It only says Nintendo here, which I guess makes sense because if you think about it, no one knew what Nintendo was, but Nintendo was like, you know, they made like toys and games and stuff. They weren't really an massive household name. So the Color TV Game Six was the name they had for the great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandfather of the Nintendo Switch.

So when it comes to the Nintendo Color TV Game Six, the problem is that because this is sold and so foreign to a US-based television, we have to go through a series of adapters, which as you can see, works, but has completely destroyed the image quality. So this is good as we got, but let's give it a try nonetheless. So it is essentially Pong, from my understanding. Oh wait, where's the ball? Oh, I saw, I saw, I saw it. Ah, yeah. All right, here's the thing. This is not very playable. I wish we had sort of better image quality for it, but ultimately this does work.

And someday if we can find a better way to get an actual video signal out of it, we can enjoy Mario Pong like 10 years before Mario was invented. All right. What? Oh, it's this stupid (quacking sound). Okay. So this is a thing I should not have bought. It's weird. It's not even that old. So this is the Konica Minolta Kunkun. It tells you if something is stinky. I love Japan.

Sure, we'll just go with it. So after struggling with the Kunkun for quite a while, we now have it properly paired and ready to test to see how stinky I really am. - To calibrate it, we took it to a Magic The Gathering tournament. (laughing) - So I'm gonna put it really close. I'm going to see if my breath stinks. Ready, and. (blowing sound) - Does the score go over 200? - We were able to detect mouth odor. Wait, what? Oh, we were able to measure mouth odor.

Okay, my results are three out of 100. - That's very good. - That's pretty good. - Yay. - Who wants to smell my breath? - No. (laughing) (blowing breath sound) (indistinct) All right, I'll be real. That was pretty neutral. I didn't actually... I was sniffing. Wait, what if I chew gum and then try it again? I'm gonna see if by chewing some gum, if it can improve my neutral smell.

(upbeat music) - Oh, the noises. - I've got to aggressively chew. So clearly, my breath now smells like gum. If it detects the odor, then I actually should have a higher number. - You sound like a dudethat found out how to beat a breathalyzer test and are like making a TikTok about it. (blowing breath sound) Oh my God.

Oh my God, I got up to a 49 of 100. (laughing) So it is. It's just detecting smell. Not good or bad. It's not distinguishing that, it's just smell. So I went from a three with no gum to a 49 with gum. This is science right here, I tell you, science.

All right, so now it's going to tell me if my head smells. Okay. The answer is my head is, oh, oh, oh, oh my goodness. I just got a 93 of 100 for my head smell. (laughing) So I'm wearing deodorant right now. So I'm theoretically thinking that it's gonna smell that deodorant and give me a high score. Yep, we got it.

Okay. The score is... Wow, it's pretty good. 39 out of 100. And again, it is that same, quote unquote, sweat odor that it's seeing. I'm a little worried about the smell. The smell of sweat seems to be relatively strong. Use deodorant, idiot. (laughing) So you know what? Kunkun body odor tester remover 9000. I now feel more confident that I can walk into a room and not pull a SpongeBob of... and everyone just fainting.

Do you guys want to hear a bathroom joke? - You trying to kill us? - And thank you again to Acronis for sponsoring this video.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- A huge thank you to thesponsor of this video, Acronis.Welcome back to part two ofour odyssey through Sendico,the best spot on the internetto get some weird, wackyand wild Japanese tech.Oh my God, is it full of tungsten cubes?- I wish.- This is our NEC PC-9821 CU16.It's not broken or at least not shattered.The size and the heft of this thingis absolutely unbelievable.I don't have an enormous amountof information about the system.I believe it's from the mid-90s.It is a full PC.It's got a Pentium processorand originally it ran Windows 95.It has floppy disc, CD.It is quite yellowed, butin generally good condition.So this is the moment of truth.Did I spend $35 on thisPC in junk conditionand then a subsequent $200to have it shippedhalfway around the worldjust for it to not functionor did I spend a lot of money to get avaguely functional Windows95 Japanese computer?Let's find out, shall we?Oh, CRT's coming to life.Whoa.Oh, oh, there are a lot of cracksand maybe slightly more...(cheering)It works.It works.640 kilobits of memory.30 megabyte hard drive, I assume.All right, let me goand find myself a PS2 mouse and keyboard.See if I can get thisthing somewhat functional,but it does actually look like it works.The CRT is very blue,but I might be able tojust tweak the colorand I just need to get itto boot into Windows 95 and not safe mode.But I think we've got ourselvesa functional computer.I think we might be okay.So to get our NEC PC to work,we have a couple of extra items.First of all, we grabbedourselves a voltage stepper.So this is gonna take US 120 voltsand give you 100 volts out.Technically, most Japanese electronicsactually work on US sort of power suppliesjust because 100 and 120 volts,like a lot of things will havelike a switching power supply.We also tried to use a PS2 keyboardbefore we realized that thisis even older than that.So we bought a Sun keyboard from the 90sin hopes that this actually functions.So let us see if our NEC PC is going to bethe easy peasy way to PC with me.(cricket sounds)Well, the screen immediatelylooks better, I think.It looks sharper.It's not doing thatweird like glitchy thing.Windows 95, okay.Oh no, no, that's stillblue, unfortunately.There's one color and it's blue.Do you see that?It's like the whole screenlike jumps in and out.It feels like this maybe on it's last legs.A device file is required to run Windows.The registry references thisfile, but it does not exist.Press any key to continue.I'm pressing any key.Okay, you know what?I think sometimes in lifeit's important to takean L with grace.To make me feel better edit team,can you just make this looklike it's on fire right now?(yelling)(fire sound)Oh my God, it's on fire.Oh God.This is something that I haveno idea what I'm looking at.It's like a smallhandheld of some variety.A PC Engine GT.If you're asking what's a PC Engine GT,this is the chunkiest of chunkers.It might not look big, but I have handsand this is what itlooks like in said hands.It is huge.How much did I pay for this?Because I remember I got a little feistywith some of the bids on this one.- We ended up paying55,500 Yen for this, whichtranslates to about $371.- Look, they're reallyrare and really cool, okay?But I basically paid as much as a PS5for this weird obscure Japanese handheldthat no one has ever heard of.So let's get somebatteries, get some gamesand see if this actually works.A big reason why thisis so heavy and chunkyis that this kind of has more in commonwith the actual home console,maybe like the arcade machines,than it does withsomething like a Game Boy.This has essentially the full performanceand in fact, compatibility,with full home console gamesin the portable form factor.Do you know how much thesewere when they were new?They must have been enormously expensive.- So it was roughly around 45,000 Yen.It was not a cheap thingway back in the day.- Yeah.So with the batteries installed,this weighs 565 grams or over one pound.So it is truly, forsomething so small, dense.But it should give ussome great performance.Am I stalling right now because I'm afraidto hit the power button to make surethat our very expensive system works?Yes, I am.So you can see that thegames for the PC Enginecame in a couple of different forms.Even though this looks like a CD,it actually has a card inside.This doesn't seem like somethingthat's 30-year-old technology.Like especially compared tolike a Game Boy cart or something,like that's quite impressive.There we go.(mellow music)All right.Here goes nothing.I didn't mean thatliterally here goes nothing,I meant it more like metaphorically.(laughing)Oh wait, hey, it's coming to life.It just takes a minute to warm up.(laughing)It literally takes a minute to warm up.- Yeah, because it's a full fat console.- Oh my God.No, but the screen was like dim dim.It just takes like 30seconds for the pixelsto remember how to pixel.It's gonna be hard to get on camera,so let me actually sit down sowe can get a nice tight shotbecause this is gonna be real hard to see.You can see here over herewe have actually some information.So we have gear, we have thetire, we have a bunch of stuff.This looks shockingly good.Like honestly, if I putmy head back in the 1990s,we're talking over 30 years ago,this running on ahandheld is unbelievable.I think it's clear thatthis was expensive,but way, way ahead of it's time.And this game is actuallykind of playable.When you talk about stuff thathas like historical value,when you talk about stuffthat is just incredibly cool,the kind of tech that we had,like keep in mind thatthis was released a yearafter the original Game Boy.That went from a fourcolor non-backlit displayto a full color 60 hertz backlit panelthat's running proper console games.Am I saying some of this stuffto make myself feel betterthat I spent so much money?Yes, yes I am.But I am so happy we got this thing.It is just so, so damn cool.A huge thank you to thesponsor of this video, Acronis.Acronis Cyber 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identity theftall in one, easy to use dashboard,Acronis has your back.Use code AustinEvans2023for a 40% discount,which can be used forall home office products.And thank you again to Acronisfor sponsoring this video.There's so much stuff in here.I don't even know where to begin.It all looks really old.Okay, let's start with this one first,which is Pulse Missile.What is Pulse?Wait, what did I buy?Oh, it's from our big lot ofall the weird stuff, isn't it?- Yes.- Oh.Okay, so I got a ton of these things.So we'll just go throughthem one at a time.These are video games, bordering on toys,would be the way I would describe it.So we'll start out with Pulse Missile.Oh, that's adorable.That is actually adorable.Look at that.I'm gonna have some confidencethat this is gonna workbecause this thing lookslike it's in good shapeand what could have possiblygone wrong in the last 40 yearsof sitting around someone'sattic or garage somewhere?The missile shows up whenI hold the fire button,(mellow music)but I turn left andright, nothing happens,and fire and I press thebutton and it just turns red.Vaguely functional is the wayI would describe Pulse Missile.I'm gonna take the batteries outso nothing else gets corroded.And let's find some moreof these little toysand see how many of them actually workversus how many of themhave succumbed to the ages.Boy, there's a lot.Okay, even if these things don't work,the original boxes are so dope.We just like talk about likesort of 70s and 80s, like retro cool.So the idea with this one seems to bethat it is not Space Invader,but an analog, cheaper, morebasic version of that game.It's a sort of more standalone thing.And there we go, our invader from space.Okay, we have batteries,let's hit power and see what happens.Oh yeah boy, start.(beeping sound)Oh my God, that isreally obnoxiously loud.What happens is like thescreen just turns on and off.It's really hard to play.- That's kind of dope.- That is really cool.I got a score of 105.I didn't do very well.This is neat.I will give this two giant thumbs up.I mean as a very early analog toy,an electronic game as youmight say, that's dope.Oh wow, we got a big one here.This is Scramble by Tomy and Konami.Interesting.All right, let's see what we've got here.So this is the astronomic war game,dynamic multi-screen with an LSI CPU.We've got some switches here.It looks like it is in phenomenal shape.But this is actually kind of wild.Let's plug it in and see what we got.So it's a scrollerand I'm also trying to shootall the stuff along the way.Okay, we'll try again.This is actually really cool.This is much closer to a video gamethat I would say in amore traditional sense.Scramble gets two enormous thumbs up.The fact that this thing is 40 years oldin a nearly flawless conditionwith the original boxfor the power supply and everything,all right, all right,I'm feeling this now.I'm feeling this now.This is so cool.And then we've got ourselvesa Game and Watch Gold with Manhole.Now, this is a little bit moreof the classic Game and Watch,so I know that we have abunch of these style games.How much did I pay for the lot?- Yeah, so for the lot,it was a little bit onthe more expensive side,but seeing as how we dug upsome like actually neat things,like I feel a littlebit better about that.It was 27,500 Yen, whichis roughly around $184 US.- I mean, so far I'mactually pretty happy,especially because theyall have like the boxesand mostly work short of Pulse Missile,which is a little bit sort of scuffed.So let's fire it up and see.This copy is definitelynot in great shape.Oh boy, yeah, that screen's rough.You can see what it'ssupposed to look likeand what it actually looks like.And that screen is, well,it saw better days probablyin like the 90s or the 80s.So next up we have the Sega SG-1000 II.All you need to know is that this isone of the very first home consolesthat Sega ever made from the early 80sand it looks incredibly cool.How much did I pay for this?And please tell me that I paid for thisin good working order,and I didn't buy a junk console.(laughing)- Okay, well, let's start with the price.- Lie to me, please.- The price is 18,000 Yen,which is roughly around 122 US dollars.(upbeat music)- That's fine, that's fine.This is much more similar to a consolethat we would considerto be an actual video game consolecompared to some of these earlier things,which were, let's be honest,a mixture of toys and electronicsand a little bit of actual tech.Oh snap.That's actually in good shape, isn't it?Oh my God, that's in amazing condition.Hold on.I don't think this was used very muchand it's certainly been keptin incredibly good conditionover the last 40 years.Let's try these controllers.So it's funny.So the controllers, they do detach,but they have these little like homesthat you can sort of poponto the side of the SG-1000.I guess you slide it?How do you get the controllers off?I know there's a way of doing this.So you pull it.Oh, you pull it, okay.I don't want to break it, okay?So we've got ourselves two controllers,the Sega SJ-150s.Boy, that is sure a D-pad, all right.I was able to find anSG-1000 II original game,which theoretically will work.Again, this stuff is incredibly old,so half of this might not work at all,but this is GP World for the SC 3000or the SG 1000 series from 1985.It looks really cool.Time to activate our seriesof adapters, shall we?Okay, GP World for the SG-1000 II.This interface is truly something special.And this is your actual gameplay.You've got all your data up here,your huge map and your veryquestionable controls here.Wait, is it like auto steering for me?Look, I'm not even touchingit, I'm just holding the gas.And if I hold the brake, I can slow down,and hold the gas, I'llspeed up, and I crashed.(laughing)Considering what thiswas for back in the dayand the fact that it works,I would consider that to be a win.So when I saw a boxedcopy of Pokemon Emerald,I couldn't say no.I mean, how could you say no to this?Now, I don't know if itactually came with that adapter.I don't remember what the listing said,but let's take a look, shall we?All right, so...Oh, we got it.Oh, it came with the adapter.Yes.You would take it and hookit up to your Game Boy.Now, this was made for Game Boy Advance.I think it works with the SPas well as the normal Game Boys.You attach it here, there you go.And then you press this to release it.So with that, I could wirelessly battleand trade with my friendswithout needing to dealwith the link cable.All right, only one thing left for it.Let's actually makesure our game functionsand then let's see what we got here.We got Sceptile.Sometimes a Wailord,that's a questionable move.So this is fully functional.Now, of course, how comfortable you arewith playing a Japanese copy of the gameis gonna depend on how much youhave brushed up on yourreading Japanese skills.I'm clearly a kanji expert.I can read three to fourcharacters in the whole world.(beeping)How much did I pay for this copyof Pokemon Emerald complete in box?- So it was just under 10,000 Yen,which is roughly 66 US dollars.- If you want to buya complete in box copyof Pokemon Emerald, I betthat would cost you like $300.I'm not even exaggerating.So the fact that we canget this for a fractionand it comes with more stuff, it's cool.Plus this holo patternmakes me feel something insidethat I haven't felt since the year 2005.Joy.Next up we have yet another large box.Oh snap.We're going old school yet again.Nintendo has a long and storied historyof making toys, sus things,sus places and Mario.But in between some of that,in the late 70s and early 80sbefore the NES that we all know and love,Nintendo were out here makingsome interesting stuff.You know, there's obviouslythe Game and Watch.There's also this.This is the Nintendo TV Game Six.Now, you could largelyargue that this is the firstproper Nintendo console.This is much more similarto something like Pongor the Odyssey.And that is a proper portable-ishconsole designed for your TV.How much was this again?It's like not that much money, right?- Well you will be happy to knowthat it is one of ourcheaper items at 8,500 Yen,roughly around 57 US dollars.- Brilliant.And there you go.Oh, it's actually pretty nice.So I don't know why earlyconsoles all decidedthat even though you're goingto plug this into your TV,you're not gonna include a power adapter,but instead use a bunchof big ass batteries.It only says Nintendo here,which I guess makes sensebecause if you think about it, no one...Well, I don't want to sayno knew what Nintendo was,but Nintendo was like, you know,they made like toys and games and stuff.They weren't really amassive household name.So Color TV Game Six was the name they hadfor the great, great,great, great, great, great,great-grandfather of the Nintendo Switch.So when it comes to theNintendo Color TV Game Six,the problem is that because this is soldand so foreign to a US-based television,we have to go througha series of adapters,which as you can see, works,but has completelydestroyed the image quality.So this is good as we got,but let's give it a try nonetheless.So it is essentially Pong,from my understanding.Oh wait, where's the ball?Oh, I saw, I saw, I saw it.I saw it, okay.I finally saw it.Ah, yeah.All right, here's the thing.This is not very playable.I wish we had sort ofbetter image quality for it,but ultimately this does work.And someday if we can find a better wayof getting an actualvideo signal out of it,we can enjoy Mario Ponglike 10 years before Mario was invented.All right.What?Oh, it's this stupid (quacking sound).Okay.So this is a thing Ishouldn't have bought.It's weird.It's not even that old.So this is the Konica Minolta Kunkun.It tells you if something is stinky.I love Japan.Sure, we'll just go with it.So after struggling with theKunkun for quite a while,we now have it properly pairedand ready to test to seehow stinky I really am.- To calibrate it, we took it toa Magic The Gathering tournament.(laughing)- So I'm gonna put it really close.I'm going to see if my breath stinks.Ready, and.(blowing sound)- Does the score go over 200?- We were able to detect mouth odor.Wait, what?Oh, we were able to measure mouth odor.Okay, my results are three out of 100.- That's very good.- That's pretty good.- Yay.- Who wants to smell my breath?- No.(laughing)(blowing breath sound)(indistinct)- All right, I'll be real.That was pretty neutral.I didn't actually...I was sniffing.- Wait, what if I chewgum and then try it again?I'm gonna see if by chewing some gum,if it can improve my neutral smell.(upbeat music)- Oh, the noises.- I've got to aggressively chew.So clearly, my breath now smells like gum.If it detects the odor,then I actually shouldhave a higher number.- You sound like a dudethat found out how tobeat a breathalyzer testand are like making a TikTok about it.(blowing breath sound)Oh my God.- Oh my God, I got up to a 49 of 100.(laughing)So it is.It's just detecting smell.Not good or bad.It's not distinguishingthat, it's just smell.So I went from a three withno gum to a 49 with gum.This is science righthere, I tell you, science.All right, so now it's gonnatell me if my head smells.Okay.The answer is my head is,oh, oh, oh, oh my goodness.I just got a 93 of 100 for my head smell.(laughing)So I'm wearing deodorant right now.So I'm theoretically thinkingthat it's gonna smellthat deodorant and give me a high score.Yep, we got it.Okay.The score is...Wow, it's pretty good.39 out of 100.And again, it is that same, quote unquote,sweat odor that it's seeing.I'm a little worried about the smell.The smell of sweat seemsto be relatively strong.Use deodorant, idiot.(laughing)So you know what?Kunkun body odor tester remover 9000,I now feel more confidentthat I can walk into a roomand not pull a SpongeBobof (blowing breath sound)and everyone just fainting.- Do you guys want tohear a bathroom joke?- You trying to kill us?- And thank you again to Acronisfor sponsoring this video.