How VHS Gaming Conned Us | Nostalgia Nerd

Please remember to SmAsH tHaT bElL <3 Also I forgot to mention in the video, but the average length for a Video Challenger video is about 7 minutes. 20 for the Action Max. 10 for the Sega Video Driver. 30 for the Interactive Vision and the Toby Terrier bundled video is 3 minutes... THREE. Basically, you're not really getting a lot for your money in terms of "game material".

It's the same feeling of giving a unplugged controller to your small brother while you play.

This is like the advanced version of giving your little brother the broken controller so he can think he's playing too.😆

My Aunt Ann and Uncle Larry got me one of these for Christmas in 1988. Everyone was super excited to try it out and quickly realized that it was not fun at all. I'm still grateful for the gift, they couldn't have known how bad it would be.

I remember we got an action max for Christmas one year. I had to wait till the older siblings got bored of it before I could try it. That was about 20 minutes.

The amusing thing is that it tries to trick you into thinking you are actually pointing and hitting what you are shooting at when in reality you are just following the target.

Ah the 80s where the toys did everything you wanted provided you have a high quality television studio to edit out the frustration

Just an extra note: the captain power toys in the U.S. would actually respond to the TV show as well as the VHS. There were several other toys along with the ship that all had the small video sensor in them, so if you were watching the show on TV while holding the toys they would do things like flash, play audio clips, or let you shoot at the enemies and react to the events in the show. And every single one of the captain power toys would go absolutely ballistic during the 'armor up' scenes (aka:magical girl transformations)...

So far I haven't had a personal connection to any of the technology being discussed in any of Nostalgia Nerd's videos that I have watched, but the quality of research, writing, editing, etc. keeps me coming back for more. I don't have any of the nostalgia, but the nerd is fascinating!

“He started going to the air force base every day, for work. Time and again, military base officials had to break the news that he wasn’t actually a pilot.” 😂🤣

I was born in the early 90s and up until now I thought I had imagined the bear from the library that told me stories for hours.

Watching the section on the ActionMax made me want to cry for all the children who received it and the parents who bought them.

That captain power toy was pretty genius. An arcade game that allowed pvp multiplayer. I would’ve loved it as a kid. Especially the cockpit flying open and ejecting to give you an actual consequence. Pretty sick.

Im realizing that as a child playing our Action Max, we never once hooked up that red light. My childhood was a lie.

The way they used the vhs frames to hold scenes for Night Trap like that is actually pretty ingenious

Had all 5 games. Loved this as a kid. My dad wasn't super tech savvy but he would play this with me. Great memories

I was born in '84 and just the sound of you sticking that tape into the VCR astral projected me straight back to my childhood, my god.

Why hasn't ActionMax developed a lively homebrew scene? Imagine the possibilities... "Nana's 80th Birthday: The Game"

I still remember playing this as a kid and figuring out it was a con and getting really angry at my mom. Forever.

My family found Atmosfear in the early 2000s at a second hand store. We found the audio hilarious. We never got into the actual board game so sometimes we'd just play the VHS in the background as every few minutes a character pops up and says funny things.