Game Boy Knock Offs | Nostalgia Nerd
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⌚Timings⌚
00:00-01:19 Introduction
01:19-06:06 Hartung GameMaster
06:06-06:48 SqSp
06:48-12:10 Bit Corporation GameMate
12:10-16:02 Watara SuperVision
16:02-18:32 Mega Duck
18:32-19:32 Other Handhelds
19:32-20:21 The Friends we made along the way
20:21-20:53 Credits
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Ashen’s Mega Duck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUSqVTUmbR0
Badly Drawn Hawk Tuah: https://badlydrawncelebs.com/products/badly-drawn-hawk-tuah-girl-original-drawing-a3
SuperVision TV-Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15K5hU-PbeU
SuperVision Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQbpYw1Iz8
GameBoy Adverts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy0Ts5jRMQ4
Insect War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_LUeNWIjo
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@Nostalgianerd
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Some of you have been waiting two years for the next video I'm working on: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAVnfmkIstC/
@ryanbrackenboro5236
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
WATARA seal of quality😂
@Jupuluu
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
DID YOU JUST SAY HARTOONG?
PLEASE IF YOU'RE TRYING TO SOUND GERMAN, LEARN GERMAN
also i think it means hardening in german or maybe just harden like the metapod move wait no, that would be Härtung.
argh, whatever. It doesn't matter.
@stripeback2024
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
The fact these systems all cost less than a Game Boy tells me they probably also cost less to make, which might be why they were so ass.
@darayavaus4566
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Its not that bad the game master. Plus it has a futuristic design
@DorkyJennySpam
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
16:17 the wonderswan was released in 99 bruh
@TikiShootah
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Tiger electric did fine. 😂
@arjunauvacha
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
The game packages shown in the video are from the Italian market, distributed by Gig, a historic game manufacturer and distributor in the country. The price shown, 32,200 lire, is equivalent to approximately €30 today, adjusted for inflation.
@lelsewherelelsewhere9435
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
I wonder if the crooked D pad was an attempt at avoiding Nintendo's dpad copyright, maybe calling it an Xpad or something. If I remember right, this is why sega and PlayStation had their own radically different dpads.
@spartonberry
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
I can't remember if it was the Gamate or the Supervision that I looked at the library and nearly all of it was clear knockoffs of Game Boy games. That's the problem, not attracting devs making more original works but merely making legally-distinct copies of what was on Game Boy.
@tremorist
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Mortal Kumbaya rocks.
@vonheer7418
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
As a name, Mega Duck fucks hard.
@markrix
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
First Sega handheld = dead AAs and BLURRR. Absolutely unusable
@bland9876
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Any system with Symphony of the Night on it must be good right?
@bland9876
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
160:160 is actually a square 1:1 ratio for the screen. People (including me) keep calling the gameboys 160:144 and also CRT 640:480 as "square" but its not.
It being higher than the Gameboy is also a good thing. Idk of the guts ate better but at least the resolution is
Edit: forgot about the 64:64 screen thats also a perfect square.
@davidb1412
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
The game mate looks rough.
@MATomaso
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
I'm italian, funny to see the italian boxes and commercials out of nowhere
@syntaxerror9994
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Supervision wanted a port of Elite? That might of moved a few units.
@Gsoda35
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
about a year ago my misguided brother bought a weird wannabe Gameboy that has 200 games but the device is so badly designed that you must suffer to enjoy the cheap games.
@OldManTheseDays
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
A moment of silence for the unlucky kids whose parents got them this shit for Christmas thinking it was the same thing as a Gameboy.
@theadamtron
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
While the gamate isn't amazing. I'm actually surprised at how 'good' it is. Exceeded my expectations. To be fair they were pretty low 😂
@NguyenQuyen-n2h
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
I just noticed something. Why didn’t the LGBT community come after the GameBOY?
@sporkafife
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
I was thinking about Ashens the whole video, knowing he'd reviewed most of these in the past… Then at the end it became obvious why 😅
@torgo_
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
My mum got me the Supervision for christmas one year. I had asked for a Gameboy, but the lady at the toy store talked her into getting the supervision instead. At first I was excited, it looked cool on the box.. but then slowly the horror revealed itself. The device sucked, the games were shit, and there were hardly any games for it. My childhood was permanently ruined and I've never recovered.
@rightwired
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
In 1998, showed my 52 year old dad how to play DS Tetris…then headed out to work. Can home 9 hours later, he's sitting in the same spot, DESTROYED ALL MY HIGH SCORES. OMG ahhah I still have them saved…still boot it up, to make sure they are still there.
@Gazulolima
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
i am from Argentina. I when i was a kid in the 90 i allways want one of those machines but we were poor.
Now i have one of my own, and thank god i did not have back when i was a lad.
@oliverbyrne3209
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Lame boy
@KaiserMattTygore927
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
"Box Forum!"
"Is a game."
@tsartomato
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
4:38 90s were peak battery tech in 00s all civilized countries went rechargables. these days all batteries are cheap chinese garbage to import into barbaric countries that still don't use accumulators or rechargeable
@tsartomato
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
tetris had no music the song about sexual assault was added by japs in their half-legal port
@Casp3r.aka.Droid.
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Well, there were kids like me and that’s all they had so it was the best thing in the world even though I didn’t even have one of these, but I understand with other technology I didn’t have the latest and greatest, but I still had fun knowing that other kids have more money their parents have more money they live in a better house. They don’t have holes in their socks and shoes, but I loved the holes in my socks and shoes. I love my family unconditionally, even though we didn’t have much I would do anything to go back and love those days over again. I miss my family.
@GreenTeaViewer
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
nice to finally find Sargon of Akkad's second channel
@BezzaGuy
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
I can't tell if you genuinely believe the GAMATE is pronounced 'Gam-a-tay', or whether you just keep saying it 'for the lolz'.
@eleanorburns8686
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Lousy as they look now, I still think I'd have been well happy with one of those after years of LCD games being the closest I could hope for.
@sws12347
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
seriously, as a Taiwanese, I never knew that my country had produced such a copycat handheld console, this really surprised me and made me feel ridiculous.
@bluespartan076
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
reminds me of the iPod mp3 player craze, alot of them could get close but they couldnt topple the iPod
@michaelsasse8427
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Ok, Why are you wearing a scruchie around your wrist? @6:00
@rusty8ucket
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 pm
Fantastic video Peter – great to see you back in the small screen .
Almost caught up now with your back log .
Keep the retro love going
🕹️👍🏻
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