 Hey Classic Replay fans, I just wanted to share this moment with you all, it's a collector vision Phoenix. I've waited since February for this and so here goes, pair of scissors always come in handy so let's cut through this. I probably should have done this beforehand so apologies in advance Don't think much of the box design, let's hope there's something better, more special inside. Just one more to go there, very very exciting. I've kind of got the microphone set up in a weird place and the camera so apologies. Here we go, let's have a look. Well that was the actual box unfortunately. So look you've got a HDMI cable, a Phoenix memory card, well Phoenix branded memory card which is pretty cool and I think that says two gig, don't know if you can see that two gig for the memory card. We've got the manual, the arcade quality video game system. Now it does show a controller on there but there isn't actually one with it, just show you that, what you can, how you set it up, where the controller goes, you can use the original controller as well but you can also use your favorite SNES controller also I'm led to believe so and there's a variety of games that come with it on the SD card and then all the instructions on how to play them but look at this, tiny little thing, sorry I'm really excited. Can you see that? Hopefully you can see that, the camera's not, the light's not the best but you've got controller one, controller two and the logo at the front there and then the model number, this is 951 so they've sold quite a few. So you've got an expansion slot on the back, I'm not sure what that's for, you've got expansion slot, you've got HDMI and then obviously you power in and then that's for your Super Nintendo controller I think on the side there but don't quote me on that, I was a Sega Mega Drive fanboy. So you can plug apparently a keyboard, a PS2 keyboard into it, wow I've never seen that before in a console and then the SD card goes in the front there, I don't know if you can see that, just goes in the front there. So yeah really impressed, really compact, it plays games as well, you can plug the cartridges in there. So let's get on and see what these games are about and let's also play some, let's load some onto the SD card and see how we get on. So I just wanted to do a little re-edit at the end of that video and I'll show you why. As I was putting the console back in the box, look what was in the box, look what I found. So if you see that, Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death. So and I think this is from 2019, I know nothing about this game but so let's get this show started with Phoenix, nice little intro there. Now I'm using a really crappy gamepad, I don't know if you can see that, it's from the 1990s, well I don't think it's a crappy gamepad actually but most people think it is, it was for the ill-fated European Amstrad GX4000 console and if you've never heard about it, check it out, honestly there's some really good games on it, it's sold about 15,000 units so I'm not sure why this isn't starting, there we go, so let's have a quick look, well Atari 2600 apparently, yep just place the ROMs there so I'm going to do that later, that's another video, I think it's the same there, you can put Colecovision, the original game ROMs in there as well, only if you own them and the Phoenix games which is why I'm here, chess, that's yeah, right I saw a video of this, Mecha 8 and I must admit I really liked what I saw, so if you don't already know I'm a big massive shoot em up nut, mad for it, I like this, you've got normal veteran and destroyer, now most shoot em up games don't come with this, you just have to go in there and the programmer has already set the difficulty level and you don't just go into a boxing gym or a dojo and expect to face off with the best fighter in the club, you work your way up it's like levels and so having this I suspect I can get the family involved, the kids and then myself as well as I get used to the game I can step up in levels rather than just go in at bloody destroyer level, so despite everything I've just said let's go for veteran, published by team pixelboy, so emergency reminds me a little bit of chase HQ and Nancy, so really good so far, yep I'm here I'll pilot it for you, I've been piloting ships since I was eight years of age, yep, all right come on Metal Gear Solid, yep I like that these bastard aliens, come on, ooh and autofire as well, lovely, so many games admit autofire and then some games or some programmers think oh you can't include autofire because that's cheating, oh the box, one it saves the gamer, two it saves you bloody fingers, ooh never chase an upgrade and it's exactly what I'm doing, so I'll do that again, ooh I've got firing, spewing out two weapons there, lovely vertical scroll and everything seems really well detailed, fast moving, like the enemy sprites as well, they're simple but they do their job, the enemy fire is a bit psychedelic, you probably don't want to play this if you suffer from epilepsy, it's not too, doesn't seem too difficult, it's definitely no bullet hell shooter, which is not a bad thing in itself because I'm not in the mood for a stressful shooter, I just want to, it's been a hard week at work so I just want to take it, not saying this is leisurely in any way, I've still got a thing but I've got to talk and concentrate, whoa, very nice so far, what would be really, we'll top it off is if you've got an end of level boss as well but I suspect they will be able to fit that into a clicker game, these are bloody out, look at this, whoa, whoa, trying to stay between the beams, four beams of light that shoots down, there we go, I think, seems like I've such the, yeah I've such the pattern, this one should, oh bugger, game between, that's it, go on, the main protagonist sprite is a bit big and although it's detailed it's not coloured in, it seems monochrome, you don't, you hardly notice once you're in on the action and everything's visible, that's one of the big things so far I can take away from this, you can see everything coming so if you get hit it's your own bloody foals, I imagine with a bit of practice I'll whiz through this, no problem, look at that, lovely, I like the fact you've got the energy gorge as well and you can see the enemy gorge, ah so speed and power are the pickups, I should have read the manual, sorry and I've got the camera mounted in a stupid place again so I don't know where to put it, I just can't do the whole eye level thing, I need to get used to that, so this one it looks like he's not flying now, he's running across the landscape, there's little goblins, ships there, oh I need that power, I need that pick up because it's not having much of an impact when you fire on the enemies, what do people think of this game, are I so far, I think it's as good as pretty much anything I've played, good sound effects, nice music, spot effects, oh look at that, that's it, that's, this is it now, I like it, you've got this weapon, or this power, power increase, so what does that give me, I think you get only two is the maximum and then the rest just helps your energy when you pick it up because I think those help up your energy, so you get hit once by a certain type of enemy and it's back to single fire, it's another thing that I didn't realise but and be good if somebody could explain to me what can the calico vision display, how many colours can the calico vision display on screen at any one time, it seems to be, it seems to be quite a few colours here, maybe 16 colours or something and it's no slouch, I think it's, I think the console uses the z80 cpu which is different to the c64 and probably not too dissimilar to the amstrad cpc computer and the z-expection because they use they use that chip set as well but what, what graphics, graphic display does it have, is it, because it seems to be, it looks like it's got hardware sprites, has it got hardware sprites and hardware scroll, I don't know, so hopefully there's somebody out there who understands the hardware and can explain that to me, from what I've seen it can pretty much handle anything really, any type of arcade conversion, I mean look at zaxxon, that's absolutely brilliant I think that's better than the Commodore 64 version personally and although it doesn't look as good as the arcade version, okay it's just in here really struggling, I don't think I'm going to survive this, and I can't continue because I don't have the original calico vision controller where you can click that supposing button, so I need to order one of those but so far so good let's move on, anything the zombies in, that sounds good, let's have a look at that the mega cart, seems like this pixel boy has done quite a few, one player, I don't know what that means let's just go for that one, nice sprite, oh I like it, I've played lots of games like this back in the day, so I take it I've got to do something with that computer or telephone and rescue that woman, do these things fire back, steal that flask, what's that some sort of right okay, do you want to think what it reminds me of? I mean in theory, I mean everything looks like Gauntlet when it's top down but um but something different, controls aren't, don't feel that tight but it could be the controller I'm using as I'd expect, I don't want to miss anything, the enemy sprite there that he's, this must be the age of zombies, they're all zombies but I wouldn't have known they're zombies unless the game had the zombie in the title, yeah I like this, it's good, is that blood on the floor there, these computers are they all need taken out or do they need powering on, uh maybe they all need powering on to go back, I'm not going to do that, I wonder if shooting gets you know more, even more zombies come, is that yellow one it's a bit difficult to, it's good, atmosphere, oh he's got me, it's all right, I'm not sure I'd want to play it too long, it's probably work out what it is that I've got to do, much intelligence there, I just got to rescue people, see it just doesn't go down when you want it to, you know so they're a bit dumb that they didn't follow me, it's good, it's a big game, find out we're on our three lives, so in a supermarket or a school or a library or something, I don't like how you walk through the door and the zombies just there waiting for you, you have no choice but to even walk back or get hit, he hasn't followed me, somebody else there waiting to be rescued, quick say there, seems like there's lots of different floors, you die pretty quickly if you come into contact with them, oh is that it, am I free, oh no maybe I've got to, that's the way out but probably, but I've got a little bit more to do, I feel like I've been this way, I don't like to just flash through the games, I like to give them a good plague and I like the calico vision so much that I like to play the games, you have been this way, I remember that green light at the top, so I've probably got to map this, I've got one life left, I wish these games just held your hand a little bit more and told you where you had to go, it wouldn't hurt much just to put an arrow to say you've got to go this way, a map on the bottom of the screen, nobody wants to sit there mapping things these days, oh well let's move on then I'm obviously rubbish at that game, I like that sprite there, oh let's just quickly see what that's all about, oh let's play it too, so yeah this is emulating from the Phoenix hardware through a Elgato HD 60s, so we're actually capturing the game footage from the console, look at tank mission, very impressed with the sound, I won't be able to start this one because I don't have the joystick, apologies about that, I'll have to look on eBay later, let's have a look at Armageddon, 2011 wow, I love anything Missile Command, I even love the new one from Atari on the iPhone, where you use your finger, oh something's not right, it's not firing, it fired for the first shot but not, it hasn't fired since, let's see if it's any better this time, is it fires, fires for the first couple of shots and then doesn't fire, what's all that about, that's a shame, I obviously need the bloody original controller, I'm definitely going to play that one, I love anything Missile Command and that looked really good chess, so straight in, no messing, oh that's easy, normally on chess you've got to type in what square you want to go to, that's bloody easy, that's really good, I'm definitely going to play this, that is really good, I like it, I really do, yeah well I'm not going to bore you with chess but that looks like a really good version and there's a timer as well, so let's move on to the next one, not really into these light grid racing games, I think I know what it's going to be, player one versus player two, now I'm going to play the sleepy you, let's try that, like I said I'm not a fan of these games, I had quite a few back up back in the day and Tron was alright but I can take and leave it, the clips are a bit slow, oh you press the fire button it speeds up, there you go that's easy, I'm sure it'll increase in difficulty but it's probably more of a tomb battle game this, oh did I just warp from one area of the screen to the next, so let me try that again, so perhaps you do that coming down the other one and it looks like you can have four players, if you can that's a game changer especially for the family, because you really want to get your kids involved in this sort of stuff as well because like dad what are you playing, what are you doing, so we'll move on in the air from that one because like I said I'm not a fan, Mr. Turtle final, looks alright, okay I can only select, I wish they'd let you select up and down rather than press the button because that means you've been forced to use the original pad, I can't even select, but yeah right on to the next, I'd have paid bloody extra for the controller if they chucked it in, why not chuck the bloody thing in, the legend says that a beautiful princess was born to give happiness to a true knight, wow those days are gone, in with magical powers kidnapped the princess, taking her away to a denomic kingdom, princess quest 2012 and it's pixel boy again, there he is, keeping the calico vision alive, how platformer, can I jump hold on a sec, I recognise this, he's got some goblins, he even climbs the ladder like Arthur, oh lovely scroll, that's lovely, oh I can't jump, how do I jump, how do I jump over these things, oh I've got to get the controller, so anybody watching that's thinking about buying the phoenix, the collective vision phoenix, this is the big problem that you're going to come up against, if you don't have the original controller you're in trouble, as far as I can see, it'll work for some games but not for all, so that looks really good, that's definitely my sort of game and I'm absolutely gutsy that I can't play it, golden chalice, yeah that's it, why not let people select rather than bloody type of number, hold on a sec, what's this, Zelda, and I can't pick up the bastard kid because of the controller again, this is massive, this looks like it's massive, I've been chased, I've been pursued by the dragon, ah okay that looks good, sacred tribe developed by exceedy, see that and it's quite a recent one really, hold on Sydney Hunter, I've got this one, I'm not sure if it's the same one but I've got that, I like it so far so good, they've put the effort in, very Indiana Jones, even got the hat on, oh maybe Rick Dangerous, oh greeting stranger, we don't want to hurt you, our people are in trouble but we're keeping you here against your will, I will let you go if you carry out a death defying almost impossible mission for us, jump, I like this, this is good, what's going on there, that's quicksand, hold on let's just go back a sec, what was over here, so you've got to be pixel perfect, oh goodness, pointless going across there, anyhow it looks like it's a dead end across the quicksand, out that door, ah you are kidding me, you died, so I think this one's a different one, the one I've got is Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death, so maybe this is the second one, bonus, we'll have a look at that in a sec, don't seem to be able to press the button to continue, yes I'll help you come on, let me go, hurry up, I do like, I like the graphics, I like the style of the game, I'm not going to go back and try and get that diamond, probably got to get them all as well haven't I, just want to see a little bit about the game, oh he's changed colour, this is brilliant, this is right up my street, definitely my cup of tea this one, oh you bastard, wrong piece of spider, so I'm not going to be able to get past that guy am I, oh goodness sake, no, I'm not going that way, I think to go that way you've got to find a way to put the flames out first, jump across there, I couldn't do it, so I'm my trap now, so if you fall down there you're screwed, I don't know how to, you can climb down here, it feels a bit like Rick Dangerous, you know, are you bloody idiots, you can't just jump straight up in the air, right I'm going to play that one a lot, so let's move on to the next, very impressed so far, Spunky No Resale, what a Kiwi, Spunky Supercar, okay I like racing games, so this is a remake, oh here we go, I've got to press the bloody number one, it's really pissing me off this, it's the only negative so far, the only negative I can think of, play Tank Mission, there we go again, I think I tried that didn't I, it wasn't, it didn't work, all right let's try this one then, let's try a real real life cartridge, so we turn the power off, plug it in, back on, deep in the waters of the South Pacific lies the mysterious Sundar Island, love these little intros, I'm not going to wait for that boat, so let's press the fire button, there he is again Sydney, old Sydney Hunter, a geologist and an adventurer, let's go Sydney, come on then, that looked nice, I'm a massive fan of the 8-bit graphics on the Colecovision, really do like them, oh it's a bit, the shades of Kirby, oh look at that Indiana Jones, fingers crossed the boulder is going to chase us, I mean this is the Colecovision just showing off now, it's really good, this is a great 8-bit, let's just see what the options are, so just easy and hard okay, so I'm going to go for easy on this just, so this is a 2019 game, I'm really chuffed that I've got this, it came as a pack in a free game, so there's a password system as well, so that's good, all right it's already better than the other game because the problem with the other game you jumped and you couldn't change direction, this you can do, you can change direction, so somebody somewhere must have complained and they fixed that, let's see if I can climb up here, yeah, oh no, no, no, so this very much reminds me of Rick Dangerous and I see it got the gold, just got to get used to it, that water rising, lava, ah that thing's lifted up so I can get through, brilliant game, I'm looking forward to this and if you haven't played it you've got to get it, it's really good, let's see if I can play another section and I like the password system because that means I don't have to go back, oh brilliant game, are you bastard, oh well I'm going to play that one another time, so that's it really, I just wanted to show my, a new prized possession of mine which just happens to be this wonderful Collector Vision Phoenix console, it's a lot smaller than I thought it would be, I kind of thought it would be like the old one, you know VHS shape and size but I'm still pleased with it, I think it's good, in fact I prefer that it's this size because I can just pop it on the shelf next to all my other consoles, you know I can fit it on there and play it through the big TV, so I can't think of any negatives other than the controller, why didn't one come with it, I mean it was expensive enough, but hopefully they're affordable enough that I can source one off eBay and happy days, so until next time, bye!