"Ben, turn off the Hyperscan right now. This mission is a failure."

Mattel really asked, "what if a Flash game cost $70?"

The most egregious part to me is that the Hyperscan was actually killed before all the cards could be released, meaning that half of all the games are permanently locked

I feel like the reason the spiderman game was so competent in comparison was the dev team didn't have to spend a bunch of time figuring out and modeling like 30 different characters and messing with gimmicks as you are just spiderman.

Over 10 times more people have viewed this video than how many Hyperscans were ever made.

I love the idea that Ben says "fuck this" and just beats the shit out of Vilgax with his bare hands.

As a kid, I remember wanting the Hyperscan for the Ben 10 game but I don't think I ever tried getting one because I knew in the back of my head that it was going to just be ass.

The hyperscan is the type of console you see people playing in movies and tv shows

One of the most unappealing consoles I’ve ever seen. Amazing.

This is the world nft bros wanted

I've read about ZX Spectrum owners having to wait forever and a day to load games from cassette tape, and they weren't guaranteed to run. This console feels like a throwback to that, minus the actually fun games.

Another thing that didn't help console sales is the fact it was put in the toy isle rather than the video game isle. "Guess Walmart doesn't have this video game system."

this whole thing screams "play with me December 24th, throw me in a landfill December 25th"

There was a very small homebrew development effort for the system about 10-15 years ago. Never reached too far beyond the point of "Hello World" due to the complexities and poor documentation of the chipset. But tech-wise with enough developer ambition the system "should" be capable of producing something between PS1 and Dreamcast. I spent time trying to reverse engineer the RFID cards including on a multitude of brute force scanners and approaches but never succeeded to get them dumped.

What do you mean Ben beats the shit out of vilgax with his bare hands

Dude almost died to him WITH the omnitrix

I'm suprised that any of reviewers of this thing don’t accidentally call it Hyperscam...

That's less games than the VirtualBoy.

Ironically, the HyperScan's discontinuation was such a joke, the X-Men game for it was rendered unfinished and abandoned. So the cards you have for X-Men is all you have.

I remember seeing a print ad for this and thinking "Oh its kinda like Nintendo's e-reader"

Hyperscan tripped and fell so Skylanders, Disney Infinity and amiibo could run.

Had one of these as a kid. Little did I know you were basically soft locked in the ben ten game unless you dropped 20 bucks on cards

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