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if you guys enjoy watching me get
absolutely fleeced by collectors this
is gonna be the best episode yet ladies
and gentlemen i am coming at you
with the one
the only
hot wheels pc the good news for me is
that the 1900-ish u.s dollars that i
spent to acquire this thing is
considerably less than the 6 000 bounty
that i offered on the wan show for a
full set including the tower monitor
keyboard mouse mouse pad and racing
wheel all
of which i've got the bad news
is that that ended up being just to
borrow it
i have to send it back when i'm done
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full disclosure guys i could have spent
the full bounty amount and gotten a hot
wheels pc and full set of accessories
that i could have kept but the main
reason that i didn't is because
i don't want one and
i'm not the only one both the hot wheels
computer and its cuter cousin the barbie
computer were colossal failures for a
number of reasons starting with
well the branding you see in 1999 it was
more common for families to have a
single desktop computer that everyone
shared so even though they were priced
quite attractively at just 600 us
dollars
the tackiness of the design inherently
made it a niche product because it was
really
only for families where junior or
little miss was going to have their own
computer in their room problem number
two
was the product i mean on the surface it
sounded pretty good intel cpu windows 98
a whole host of included educational
software and games i mean the hot wheels
one check this out
even came with a hot wheels branded
steering wheel and pedal for racing
games only the computers themselves were
sick a full 50 of the initial units
apparently suffered from bad power
supplies causing a rush of customer
service complaints and returns
um
let me just make sure this is the tear
down one hold on
making matters worse even if the quality
was perfect the product faced
significant criticism for being a pretty
underwhelming computer even for the low
price holy sh
patriot computers was based in canada
sorry all the disappointed children uh
on behalf of my fellow canadians then
wait what
okay
got our cd-rom drive floppy as well as a
hard drive in there i believe this unit
here was a celeron 333 model with a six
gig hard drive i want to say
6.4
the other one's got a 10 gig oh wait no
i think i get it it's all one big piece
here i think i actually do have to take
out this stupid screw on the bottom
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this is the for parts one
okay
wow it literally does not have a single
expansion slot i mean look at this rear
i o shield
two usb 2s
modem
speaker mic monitor out oh serial and
two more usbs that's it pop the id and
floppy cables off and let's see if we
can oh yeah there we go
slide the drives out get a bit of a
better look at that
supremely unimpressive motherboard
what the motherboard tray just like pops
up like that wow
well that mile that would make assembly
like pretty easy actually good idea
patriot computers too bad you never live
to see it through i wonder if they
actually did like a custom board for
this thing oh never mind this is from
back when intel made their own
motherboards
see there's actual intel branding right
there on the board definitely nothing
stand out about this machine other than
the failure rate apparently so many of
these died during the product life cycle
that the manufacturer patriot computers
was ultimately driven to bankruptcy
don't feel too bad for them though they
went down real ncix-like actually
accepting orders and people's money up
until the very end leaving thousands of
people with computers that they ordered
and were not going to receive mattel
ended up having to issue 100 free toys
and gift certificates to angry parents
who thought they were going to be
getting a hot wheels pc or barbie pc for
their kids for christmas but found out
last second that they were going to end
up with nothing
but did their kids really miss out
there's only one way to find out in
addition to this for parts unit i've
actually got what this particular
collector refers to as a museum grade
hot wheels pc that is fully functional
and for funsies i'm going to tell my
kids that i replaced their computer
with this and
see what they think of it
it looks good do you want to try it
okay
i'll press it harder
yeah there you go this button is to open
up the cd drive
oh well we got to turn on the monitor
too can you press power button on the
monitor you gotta give it a
little pushy push there
hey there we go
i missed that sound so it's got some
games already loaded on it when you just
move this a little bit it goes so far
um
yeah so this is a new technology
um it's actually a ball mouse it's for
ballers do you know what a baller is no
okay baller's someone who's just you
know they ball too hard right
um
so it's got like a ball in there so the
ball moves a little roller inside the
mouse and that's what moves the cursor
around pretty much what i'm trying to
say is there's no way to adjust that who
put napster on this uh why don't we try
why don't we try a game that it comes
with so
hot wheels actually
shipped the pc with a cd wallet and
a collection of software official
collector's guide
rally challenge tattoo designer
uh brian the electrician threw a few
things in here for me as well need for
speed two why don't we try lost vikings
too hmm can i try something new old tab
i actually do not know this app cannot
be run in a window uh okay
hey there we go
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what do you think does this seem better
than the yellow computer
we're looking for the big shiny metal
thingy that brought us here well
i know a spell that could send you there
of course you don't buy a hot wheels pc
to play lost vikings you buy hot wheels
pc
to play racing games please tell me
there's a driver cd in here all right
why don't you fire up the stunt track
driver okay
you want to do the goldfish bowl race
the room race sand castle race
i don't know
we'll pick one
fine
maybe slightly more cooperative
okay this one
thanks
okay do you know which one is gas this
one yep
okay here we go
wait is does this game even use the
wheel oh okay wow you sure wipe out a
lot kid i don't know but you gotta steer
a little bit
are you like you're supposed to use like
what are you even supposed to well hold
on but does this control it
it totally does you have to like crank
it though what the
oh you're going backwards that's a trick
what's wrong with this computer compared
to the old one i see lots of lines
scan lines well steering wheel doesn't
work much you know some people pay good
money to have scan lines on their uh on
their computer it doesn't work
okay let's try something else let's try
need for speed all right you know what
forget the wheel
it's hard why don't you just use the uh
keyboard
what do you think this game got pretty
good graphics
yeah are you sure
kind of
i like the old computer better what do
you think
is this a pretty cool computer yeah
okay i'm gonna uh quit this one is there
a minecraft on it minecraft you say
uh nope
it does have other games though do you
want to try some different games
there's magic school bus solar system
okay so you just click on stuff
maybe try clicking on liz uh you gotta
click on them why i want to cool facts
about uranus
cool facts about uranus
sure uranus let's go with that
uh something to click there 32 000 miles
across 84 years it's been
84 years
for one year at least 15 moons
oh yeah there's that cd-rom spinning up
gotta load that content you think pretty
good graphics
as good as minecraft
yeah
you know i think my kids uh
unironically probably wouldn't care if i
swapped out their existing computer with
this one i'll be right back go ahead and
cut for a sec
uh hold on i'll be right back can i cut
okay
is there a video here andy yeah i think
so okay
ow
okay well the whole kids react to part
didn't go exactly how i expected i sort
of thought they'd be like oh my
monitor's so big oh why is it so loud oh
why do the graphics suck they just
don't care at all i guess content's
still king right so
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