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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with text stuff from half

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Either we wanted Welcome to tex Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strickler and I'm Lauren Vocam, and today we're

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Speaker 1: going to take a look at the history of handheld

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Speaker 1: video games and electronic games. And it's um, it's a doozy,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, Lauren. Yeah. As it turns out, even though

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Speaker 1: this has really only been happening for about forty years now,

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Speaker 1: there have been many much developments, many different handheld gaming consoles,

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things have come out. This is

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Speaker 1: definitely going to be a two parter, but in the

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Speaker 1: interests of not going into exhaustive detail about too many things,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna try to keep it snappy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And also we've we're not going to mention every single

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Speaker 1: handheld device that's ever been made, certainly not that would

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Speaker 1: be very boring. It would also take like twenty episodes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to try to do like like a

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Speaker 1: bird's eye view of some of the technology that was involved.

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Speaker 1: But um, but we might branch a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the more in depth information about that kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: off into a different episode in the future, right, right.

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Speaker 1: Some of these, like friends instance, the I'm sure you've

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Speaker 1: heard of a little obscure handheld device called the game Boy.

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Speaker 1: Some of these could be their own episode from start

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Speaker 1: to finish, so easily a two part our episode all

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Speaker 1: on its own. So we are really kind of giving

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Speaker 1: an idea of how the whole how the whole industry developed,

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Speaker 1: how it evolved over time. We'll we'll give some technical

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Speaker 1: specs here and there, but really this is more of

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Speaker 1: a history lesson than anything else. And also we're going

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Speaker 1: to go ahead and skip any of the gaming devices

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Speaker 1: out there that were specifically made as unlicensed clones of

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Speaker 1: other gaming devices, right, that I think would make an

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Speaker 1: interesting sub topic, separate topic. But no, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to go into every single thing that has come out

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Speaker 1: of China illegally past thirty years. Right. And we have

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Speaker 1: talked a little bit about these sort of things, like

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Speaker 1: in our our episode about smart watches and digital watches,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned a couple that were able to play games.

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Speaker 1: One of those will pop up in this discussion, so

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert. Yeah, And and if you would like to

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Speaker 1: check out that episode about digital watches, it was a

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Speaker 1: two parter that we recorded back in July called time

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Speaker 1: for smart Watches. You can tell that Jonathan titles these episodes. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of time on my hands, so

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Speaker 1: that's what I do. Also, we are going to, uh

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Speaker 1: to have to address one other fact, which is that

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Speaker 1: in the beginning, these things were primitive, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: these were not like the kind of advanced graphics you

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Speaker 1: would expect with a handheld gaming device back in the day,

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Speaker 1: which was back in the late seventies. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: a blip that you would control two get around, or

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Speaker 1: fight or otherwise compete against other blips. Absolutely, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is the digital equivalent of monkeys banging bones on

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Speaker 1: the card. Yeah, it's pretty much like just kind of

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Speaker 1: the the You know, everyone has to start somewhere, right,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to be specific and say, well,

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Speaker 1: what was the first handheld game? And keep in mind

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Speaker 1: these games were coming into prominence around the same time

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Speaker 1: becoming popular. But here's the thing about a home video

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Speaker 1: game console, Lauren, It's not easy to carry around with you. No,

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Speaker 1: especially not in that day when miniaturization was not so

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Speaker 1: I know of parents who want to get their kids

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Speaker 1: actually by Mattel, which is crazy to me. And and

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Speaker 1: it was MATEL Electronics Auto Race yep. And in fact,

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Speaker 1: there are several different games that came out from Mattel.

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Speaker 1: And some people get the order a little mixed up.

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Speaker 1: Those represented oncoming traffic, and your job was to steer

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Speaker 1: just meant that's how fast the oncoming blips would come

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Speaker 1: ultimately palm. Yeah. And and it was just hard coded

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Speaker 1: would ever do. Now, nineteen seven marks the debut of

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Speaker 1: exist yet I did not. So this is Mattel Electronics Football,

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Speaker 1: And it had six control buttons, and again you would

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Speaker 1: fairly primitive. Now now, at this point they were starting

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Speaker 1: was a notable flop. So among the popular ones where

430
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: the Game Boy, which again one of the most popular

431
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: game consoles of all time, also Metroid one of the

432
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 1: most successful video game franchises, and then hey, the Virtual Boy,

433
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: which totally not successful. A Virtual Boy technically kind of

434
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: falls into the handheld category, depending upon whom you ask.

435
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: I didn't add it into our notes because I was like,

436
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: I don't really think that there's a handheld. I mean,

437
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: you think that was definitely a desktop anything where you're

438
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: wearing it and it's blocking your vision. I can't imagine

439
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 1: that being, you know, handheld. Plus that thing would make

440
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: you sick when you're just sitting still. Can you imagine

441
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: how you would feel after five minutes of playing one

442
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: of those in the back of a car. I would

443
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: certainly not want to wear it around like I kind

444
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: of want to wear the Oculus Rift around everywhere. I

445
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: would be yaking like crazy. You. So, anyway, the Nintendo

446
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: game Boy ended up using four double A batteries, and

447
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: it was actually a pretty good about not gobbling them

448
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: up immediately, right, I think that that like, like colloquially,

449
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: most people got about twenty hours again play out of it.

450
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: Nintendo claimed that you could go up to thirty five.

451
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I ever did that personal right, well,

452
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: but part of the reason why it was so efficient

453
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: was that it was a monochromatic screen and it was

454
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: not back lit. So in other words, if you were

455
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: in a dark room and you turned your game Boy on,

456
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: you wouldn't though you have to turn the light on.

457
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: In fact, there were there were accessories that were sold

458
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: where it was that little is like a book light exactly. Yeah.

459
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: So uh, but that meant that you didn't have to

460
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: spend extra power to keep a light lit, so that

461
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: helped conserve battery life. Sure, despite that, the resolution was

462
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: pretty good. It was one way better than that sixteen

463
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: by sixteen panel we talked about from a few years back.

464
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: A right for the time it was it was pretty shiny, yeah,

465
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: and it had four different shades of gray or by

466
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: by gray, you mean like green to black, but yeah,

467
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: they called it gray. But yes, it really was green

468
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: to black gray. And you could actually have the reports

469
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: where you could link game boys together. That was, I

470
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: mean incredibly forward thinking at the time. You're talking about

471
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: allowing multiple play, and it's not just I'm going to

472
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: take a turn. Oh my turn is over. Now, I

473
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: hand this device to you and you take a turn.

474
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: That's the way the old systems were. So to have

475
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: something like this as a dense is this where you

476
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: could potentially linked together two different systems and play the

477
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: same game, was pretty phenomenal. Now, the original game Boy today,

478
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: a lot of players call it the brick. It was

479
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: pretty large, yeah, and it h the way it was

480
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: laid out. If you have never seen an original game Boy,

481
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: imagine a rectangle and at the top of the rectangle

482
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: is kind of a squarish screen, and below the screen

483
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: is where you would find the directional pad and the

484
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: two Moneys, the B and the A, and so there

485
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: was there were some problems with people playing for a

486
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: long time and game their hands kind of cramped up

487
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: because the controls were right there below the screen and

488
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: not to either side the way we're used to now.

489
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: But still very innovative. And I think I think it

490
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: was the perfect storm in that there was a game

491
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: paired with game Boy that together it was an unstoppable force.

492
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: Do do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do

493
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do do do do do do do

494
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: do do do. Yeah, Jonathan of course is talking about

495
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: Tetris or singing about Tetris the case maybe singing is

496
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: very generous. I thank you for it. But yes, Tetris

497
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: one of the most popular titles in video game history.

498
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean, we should do a podcast just

499
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: about Tetris. At some point I talked about that you

500
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: have not already? Yeah, well, we could never fit it in.

501
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: Oh no, at any rate. Uh I even looked off,

502
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: like what would have been off camera for that? That's

503
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: how bad that pun was. Um. At any rate, the

504
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: fact that Tetris was so popular and that the Game

505
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: Boy was such a great form factor in the sense

506
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: you could take it anywhere. You have this incredibly addictive

507
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: puzzle game, this incredibly portable platform. It was a perfect match.

508
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: I mean when I think game Boy, that's the first

509
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: game I think of. You know, I also think of

510
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: some of the Mario games because those were really popular too,

511
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: but but Tetris is the one. I mean, anyone I

512
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: knew who had a game Boy that was in heavy rotation,

513
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,719
Speaker 1: no matter what other games they owned, so incredibly uh

514
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: forward thinking on that part too. It was also relatively inexpensive.

515
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: It retailed for a D nine dollars, so you know,

516
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: not not chump change. But still we're going to talk

517
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: about some game systems that came out, you know, either

518
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: around this time or shortly thereafter that were much more

519
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: expensive and not nearly as popular for multiple reasons, but

520
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: one of them is that you know, they cost more.

521
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, game Boy ends up being a huge hit.

522
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: It's it's, you know, compared to today's systems, not the

523
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: most powerful one. But uh, you know, they made some

524
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: great decisions. They they went with the cartridge based game systems,

525
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: which load instantly so you don't have to worry about

526
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, if you're used to an optical drive and

527
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: you have to wait for a game to load spin up. Yeah,

528
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: that's one thing, but if you're used to cartridge based systems,

529
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: you don't even know what load time means. So it

530
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: was really really fast, and um yeah, it got a

531
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: couple of updates, actually, probably half a dozen or so

532
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: updates before we get to the next true version of

533
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: the game Boy. Right. Over the next several years, there

534
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: would be a slimmer version that had a true gray

535
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: scale screen called the game Boy Pocket, and in Japan

536
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: there was a version called the game Boy Light that

537
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: had a backlit screen. Yeah, so it's l I g

538
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: h T not l I T right, but yeah, we um.

539
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: We wouldn't see a color screen update to the game

540
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: Boy for almost a decade, which gave a bunch of

541
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: its competitors a really good into the market. Yeah, or

542
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: at least it appeared that way for some of them.

543
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: They did a pretty good job. Others, like the one

544
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: we're about to talk about, had a rougher start. So

545
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: that same year that the game Boy comes out for Nintendo,

546
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: Atari releases their first handheld gaming system their first like

547
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: handheld cartridge based gaming systems ye L Y n X.

548
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: And so it's the first color handheld portable video games system,

549
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: and it also had multiplayer functionality. Now, this thing, if

550
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: you looked at it was very wide, the screen was

551
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: in the center, the controls were off to either side. Uh.

552
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: It was originally actually called the Handy or sometimes called

553
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: the Handy Boy, depending upon who you ask, were the

554
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: Handy Pack. That's because it was developed by this other

555
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: company called Epics. Yeah, and Epics started shopping it around.

556
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: They went to ce S way back in nine and

557
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: started to UH to meet with other companies and say, look,

558
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: we've developed this hardware. Are you interested. Nintendo said, you know,

559
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: we've got our own thing. We're gonna pass. But Atari said,

560
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: you know, we really want to get back into this market,

561
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: and this is this looks like it's a great way

562
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: of doing it. So they partnered together and they launched this.

563
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: Now they were billing it as being much more powerful

564
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: than the game Boy. It had had that color screen,

565
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: so that alone made it appear, at least on the surface,

566
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: to be a better system. But there were a couple

567
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: of things against it. Yeah, it was it was heavier,

568
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: it was more clunky. Um, it was almost twice as expensive. Yeah,

569
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: that was a big one. And also they had a

570
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: real hard time getting developers to make games for it

571
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: that really took advantage of the Links's abilities, which is

572
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: a story we've heard time and time again with various systems.

573
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I mean, you know, the specs on this

574
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: thing were pretty spectacular. It was on par with some

575
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: of the consoles that were coming out at the time,

576
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: but without the developers to make the games. Yeah. Then

577
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: eventually they would end up offering a basic links system,

578
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: which meant they didn't include all the connection cables you

579
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: could have UM and that was about but that was

580
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: too little, too late because the game Boy had had

581
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: such trounced it. Yeah, they had already had such a

582
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: big initial push. They were ahead of the game, and

583
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: they were. They would try one more time with the

584
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: with the links to in um, which which was more compact,

585
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: but but still didn't really ever make any headway and

586
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: would eventually fade out of production over the next couple

587
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: of years. Uh. Now, this was one of my favorite systems,

588
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: just for what it could do. I didn't own one,

589
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: I had a friend who owned one. I had a

590
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: lot of friends who owned games. I got a lot

591
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: of vicarious joy out of the friends who lived in

592
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. But this one was the ANYC Turbo Express.

593
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: So if you've ever heard of the video game called Soul,

594
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: called the Turbo Graphics sixteen, this thing was a handheld

595
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: gaming device that could play those games. Like you could

596
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: get the Turbo Graphics sixteen cartridge plug it into this thing,

597
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: which I guess you can make imagine was it was

598
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: a little clunky, you know, and also drained batteries like

599
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 1: nothing comments. Yeah, okay, so batteries were expensive back then.

600
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: They're still not cheap, so it would drain batteries really fast.

601
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: But but but at least the Turbo Express itself was

602
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: modestly priced at a oh two dollars never mind, I

603
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: don't know where I was going with that. Yeah, speaking

604
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: of expensive, but but but I did have a color display. Um,

605
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: it had a similar to the Nintendo model, the directional

606
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: pad in two yeah, very very much the standard game control.

607
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: And also, for an additional price, if you wanted to

608
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: spend more than the two fifty dollars plus the hundred

609
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: dollars or so in batteries to keep it going, you

610
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: could get a optional television tuner and turn it into

611
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: a portable TV. So I mean it was it was

612
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: interesting to me and that this was the first attempt

613
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: to build a a handheld video game system that could

614
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: play video game consoles like a television console games and

615
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: and not a port. I mean, I'm talking about the

616
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: exact same game that to me was really phenomenal. Was

617
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: also the year that the first serious competitor to the

618
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: Game Boy came out. And by serious competitor, I mean

619
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: they did a decent job. They didn't. It wasn't that

620
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: Game Boy was in danger, but they didn't just appear

621
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,959
Speaker 1: and then disappear, certainly not. This is the Sega Game Gear,

622
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: and at the time, the Second Genesis was the leading consoles,

623
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: so so it had some serious firepower behind it. Now,

624
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: originally it was it was when it was top secret,

625
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: it was still in development. It was not called the

626
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: game Gear. I know, it was called the Project Mercury. Yeah.

627
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: At the time, Sega was naming all of its different

628
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: projects after planets, which shouldn't come as a surprise if

629
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: you owned a Sega Saturn. Oh right, yeah, yeah, so

630
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: a lot of yeah, yeah, it's kind of cool. I

631
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: mean it's I love finding out like Apple calls all

632
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: their stuff after cats, are used to. But okay, so

633
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: this one cost less than the Turbo Express. It was

634
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: not trying to They were trying really hard to kind

635
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: of be competitive in that same space as the as

636
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: the game Boy. It was more expensive than a game

637
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 1: Boy because it was at a hundred when it launched.

638
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: But but that's but that's not as as much hundred

639
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: dollars less than the Turbo Express. Yeah, it had that

640
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: color screen, it was cartridge based. It came with a

641
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: single game kind of replicant of of Tetris columns if

642
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: you remember that it was. It was a puzzle based game.

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Speaker 1: So it was clear they they saw a game Boy

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Speaker 1: we have a license to print money. Uh. And actually

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Speaker 1: it did, like I said, pretty well. They ended up

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Speaker 1: like the game Boy. We didn't mention this, but the

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Speaker 1: game Boy and the game Gear both could produce stereo sound,

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Speaker 1: but only if you plugged in headphones. Because I had

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Speaker 1: just uh again, that price point seemed to be a

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Speaker 1: magic spot. Now, speaking of magic spots, we're gonna wrap

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Speaker 1: up this particular episode right here because we've got so

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Speaker 1: much more to talk about. I mean, we just got

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Speaker 1: phenomenal flops that we're going to be talking about in

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Speaker 1: the next episode. But if you guys have any suggestions

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