This Console Was DISCONTINUED After 24 Games

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The Game Boy was a primitive console, but still won against other handhelds despite them having better hardware. Better hardware does not mean a better console. But one company had a much different approach with their handheld. You’ve probably never heard of this thing. Does it hold up against the Game Boy, and why was it created in the first place?


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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:02 Game Boy
1:43 Atari Lynx & Game Gear
3:12 Mega Duck Hardware
3:55 Release
4:36 Third Party Support
5:17 Competitor or Knockoff?
5:40 Arctic Zone & 2nd Space
7:02 Magical Tower & Zipball
8:02 The Brick Wall & Suleiman’s Key
9:06 Summary of Games
10:24 Conclusion
11:01 Outtro


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コメント (21)
  • @The-E-Base
    I'd like to make a major correction. Sachen and Commin are the exact same company. That's right, Sachen made all but one game.
  • @smash461986
    "Battery life was abysmal. Only 5 hours." *Looks down at Legion Go.
  • @gswanson
    A lot of these systems with the LCD screens had a TON of ghosting, so if you had any scrolling happening it turned into a blurry mess. I imagine most of the games were single screen arcade style titles because they wanted to limit the ghosting.
  • I remember that thing. The exact reason I didn't bother with it was that it didn't have enough games. And seeing that it disappeared without any sign was a good decision not to buy it.
  • @Leahi84
    Ashens did a video on this one many, many, many years ago. If I remember correctly he didn't hate it, and thought it wasn't bad compared to the many Popstation, Game Child, LCD screen trash gaming handhelds he had seen.
  • @safebox36
    It's worse noting that the best selling console of almost every generation has been weaker than the competition. It's not your tech, it's how you use it.
  • I have an original Game Boy. But one day, my grandmother got me one of those myarcade consoles full of unlisenced famicom games. I would like to see you make a video about those consoles. This reminds me of them.
  • Sachen released unlicensed Game Boy games too. Only a few were ports or sequels of their NES games, which were also unlicensed. My guess is that they would publish any functional game they could get their hands on and that their NES programmers didn't want to do handheld stuff
  • Honestly I’m impressed that the derivative games have a unique spin on them. Combining Pac-Man and Snake, or Pac-Man and the Taito picture reveal game that I can’t think of the name of, at least gives the games some flair. I was expecting 100% arcade clones, but now I want Zipball and Brick Wall remade with good controls on modern systems.
  • @BlueMSX.
    what a weird little system, just goes to show you how much gets released that just falls under the radar. great work Pojr!
  • @kevin12567
    Suleiman's Treasure is a clone of the arcade game Anteater.
  • @istaffa
    I am Brazilian and not even heard about cougar boy. Nintendo was selling the game boy but with partnership of gradiente. Oficial releases were (and still is) rare so piracy was (still is) always happening. Actually piracy was legal in 1964 here and first console here "telejogo" was a clone from pong and it was made by ford (the car company)
  • I'm still waiting for the Mega Duck Compilation for PS5 Xbox and Switch lol
  • pojr this is excellence! great work. Will you also cover the Watara Supervision in the future? it's REALLY similar yet entirely different at the same time
  • @skRapKlan
    Awesome video! I'm a huge Sachen fan, as we owned quite a few of their games on NES back in the 90s. I think "Super Pang" and "Rockball" would have been perfect games for them to port over on the MegaDuck.
  • @The-E-Base
    oh yeah, and another major note: Sachen would eventually re-release ALL of their Mega Duck games on the Gameboy, thus meaning the Mega Duck currently has far fewer exclusives than the PS5.
  • @tomrow32
    Fun fact, the Mega Duck is so similar to the Game Boy, that its CPU is practically the same (both use microcontrollers that contain a Sharp SM83 processor).
  • You said "hey it's pojr" and I said "Hey poje" out loud and now I feel weird.