The Mystery of the Scorpion 16 | Nostalgia Nerd

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[mikec.]

the necklace gives you:
+3 poison resist

[michaelpassmore]

I'm in awe at just how much detail you have found for this video. I was impressed at the backlog info found in magazines but going to Violet and Bad influence team is simply astounding. You sir are a legend of the gaming scene and I take my hat off to you!.

[seamusoblainn]

Shout out to Andy Crane, Violet Berlin, and all the people who brought us Bad Influence 🤠

[philjohn]

Gary Smoke, Golden Scorpions…this episode has it all including a genuine 16bit banger of a tune.

[SonicDcer]

Here in Argentina, they sold a clone identical to that one there, but it was called SONGA, the only difference was the front label, few of my friends still have it, tested sega cd and virtua racing on it and they work fine.

[DenilsonSa]

That console gives an opportunity to see the secret message in Mickey Mania, when the console somehow turns into another region.

[lewbaloo]

Damn, Streets of Rage has amazing music

[JonGallon]

2:33 The presense of Sega via Tectoy here in Brazil didn't stopped Dynavision (a well known Atari 2600 and Nes clone manufacturer here in the past) to sell the Megavision, a Mega Drive clone that probably shares the same hardware of the scorpion one.

[nodarkthings]

Always a good day when a new Nostalgia Nerd video drops. Bought the Master System when it was released here in the UK. Same with the Mega Drive and they hold a great deal of nostalgia for me. Indeed, I have just done a shop around Waitrose with the Streets of Rage soundtrack on my headphones, longing for simpler times. Never heard of the Scorpion 16 so looking forward to watching this tonight!

[adamsfusion]

I think the Scorpion was probably stopped at import rather than SEGA going out to meet them. They probably filed a complaint noting that their intellectual property was being violated and the company likely didn't exist in in the Companies House registry. The importer would have been required to show up and claim the goods in addition to making some legal statements that they aren't selling those products. They probably didn't do that, so the UK held onto them for some period of time and then sent them to be destroyed.

[josephfranzen]

Woke up feeling like death this morning, this is the first thing all day that has made me smile

[eclipse.Alkosoof]

that street of rage intro. OMG how good it is! my eyes teared up.

[blackhawksH]

Dude, your video topics are incredibly meticulously researched. Being well presented doesn't hurt either. Thanks for the work you put in.

[mattburkey]

Incredible, I actually remember watching (and still have on VHS somewhere) this episode of Bad Influence. This really was a trip down memory lane :)

[Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer]

27:48 At that point most TVs sold in the PAL countries took 60hz just fine. Some didn't take NTSC color making it black and white, but that wouldn't be a problem if you used RGB anyway, and most of them did take NTSC color.

[channel]

I remember seeing a piece about these on Central News, I guess around 1994. A guy in Leicestershire was somehow responsible for either making or distributing them, I can't remember which. He was a proper garden shed empire, and he had struck a deal with Beatties to stock them. Indeed, they were on the shelves in my local store. They were retailing for an amazing £39.99 for a base unit without a game, don't know if it came with any controllers for that price. There was some hoo-ha over them, and they stopped selling them after a few months. But a nearby rebel indie store struck a deal to stock them, which featured in a second Central News report, and you could find them there for a couple of years or more.

[moserfugger]

The 90's were such a great anything-goes-era. So much new exciting stuff being developed and talked about. Even those bootleg consoles, which always had this aura of mystery surrounding them. It simply was an amazing time to become a videogame fan.

Greetings from Germany :)

[jumhig]

I have a Scorpion in the original "simple" box, so this story is interesting to me.

[spectr__]

Funny, here in Brazil we had a strong official Sega presence... but before that, my first videogame was a DACTAR. Basically the same thing but cloning an Atari 2600.

[Unnamed]

The second connector in the Kw-501 was allways unpopulated when it was fresh from the fabric, actually King Wei never put the second cart connector to make the console for cheaper, if the retailer wanted to sell the console with built in games, they had to solder the cart slot by themselves, thats why is very uncommon to see the second cart slot, aslo the Trap door was a later feature, aswell as the hole in the back, these where implememted later for future board revs that had the switch for the 50hz/60hz mod and to make the built in games feature easier for the retailer.