1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,600 Did you know that North Korea made a clone console of the Nintendo Wii? 2 00:00:03,929 --> 00:00:10,200 [music] And did you know, ladies and gentlemen that we got him? 3 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:18,960 Wait, what is UNOS? And why is everything in Chinese instead of Korean? 4 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:20,240 Dancing with the Stars, Frozen, NBA. 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,480 Actually, that last one kind of makes sense. But the rest of this is very 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,880 confusing. What exactly makes this console North Korean? Are North Korean 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:33,520 games unique or are they just same same but different? [music] What I know is 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:38,320 unique is the segue to our sponsor, Hetner. Hennner offers GDPR compliant 9 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:43,120 higherformance cloud servers which consists of ondemand cloud computing 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:48,480 platforms and APIs on a metered pay as you go basis. Don't miss out and use 11 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:52,360 code LTT24 at the link down below to get 12 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:52,360 €20 off. 13 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:04,960 North Korea might not immediately spring to mind when you think of gaming or even 14 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:09,760 technology for that matter, but the hermit kingdom surprisingly has a fair 15 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:14,240 bit of history in the space. In 2012, British travel company Coro Tours 16 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:19,920 commissioned Nok Information Technology to make a game to promote their packages 17 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:22,479 of tours of the DPRK. The result was a 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:27,040 title called Pyongyang Racer, a flash game that plays a little bit like Crazy 19 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:31,360 Taxi if there were no people, no money, and barely any cars on the road. You 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:36,159 basically collect barrels of oil and try not to crash. That's it. That's the 21 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:41,759 whole game. Pong [snorts] racer time. Let's go. Game rules. Do not hit cars or 22 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:47,439 vans. If you hit 10 vehicles, you will be stopped for bad driving. Are you 23 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:50,880 kidding me? Huh? Am I supposed to be able to tell 24 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,200 where the people that I'm supposed to pick up are? 25 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:00,240 What? If you drive on the grass, you 26 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:05,040 immediately die. Okay. What What is this? I collected a barrel of oil. Okay. 27 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:09,920 What if I hit a car? Are these other cars even moving? Are they just 28 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,440 stationary on the road? It's like the only purpose of this game is to 29 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:17,840 reinforce that you better stay in line or the experience is over. Do you pick 30 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,920 people up? I don't even understand what's happening right now. Drive 31 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:25,920 straight on. Don't stare at me. I'm on duty. Well, where is she? Am I supposed 32 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:31,280 to pick her up? I can't even approach a driveway. Is 33 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:35,360 that because that building is like a building people are not allowed to go to 34 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:40,080 or what? Yeah, this is enough weirdness for me. I think I expected to play a lot 35 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:44,080 more, but I think I'm done here. It's creepy. It's kind of like that footage 36 00:02:42,239 --> 00:02:48,400 we saw recently of North Korea. There's no traffic lights. There's no other cars 37 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:54,319 on the road. You're just by yourself in a weird Steepford Wives too perfect 38 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:56,800 city. Despite what Wikipedia might say, 39 00:02:54,319 --> 00:03:02,959 that is not the first and last of North Korea or even Noex games. In 2007, they 40 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:07,440 were contracted by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to assist in the production of Java 41 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:11,680 based flip phone games, The Big Labowski Bowling, and Men in Black Alien Assault. 42 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:16,000 They're also rumored to have worked on a Wii game of some sort shortly afterward, 43 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:21,040 though we don't know for sure if it was for an actual Nintendo console or if it 44 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,319 was more like this. First up then is 45 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,720 bowling, which Oh, [music] okay. It's 46 00:03:24,319 --> 00:03:30,720 meant to be oriented this way. When you navigate the menu, [music] there's no 47 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:34,000 crowds cheering. This is not your decadent capitalist bowling. Wait, do I 48 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:39,599 get to Yeah, it's got to go through. It's Everything in this has unskippable cut 49 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:43,280 scenes. I can't explain why. Got it. We only got one remote working, so 50 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:47,840 unfortunately Tanner can't join me. Oh, okay. I can be either of these Miis. 51 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:52,879 I love the frame rate on everything in this. What is that, like 18 frames per second? 52 00:03:50,959 --> 00:03:58,959 Oh, if you're lucky. This really is just an outright clone of 53 00:03:56,959 --> 00:04:04,000 of Wii Bowling, isn't it? [music] Pretty much. Wow. And the physics is just as good, 54 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:08,560 which is not a compliment. Oh, wow. They give you a zoomed-in view. You basically 55 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,239 can't miss. So, you know how you say you basically can't miss? 56 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,400 Yeah. On this next shot, I want you to do something a little different. Okay. 57 00:04:12,879 --> 00:04:19,519 I want you to move your character all the way over to the right, and when you throw the ball, I want you to hook far 58 00:04:18,479 --> 00:04:22,320 to your left. Okay. Wait, that's as far as I can go. 59 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,642 Yep. Uh, okay. Now, hook far to the left. [music] 60 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:32,479 And that's a strike every time. Oh, I win. 61 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:37,919 This will get you right on your way to the perfect game of 270 points. 62 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:41,040 Um, [music] you mean 300? Oh, 270. You do not get those extra two 63 00:04:39,919 --> 00:04:44,320 balls in the 10th frame. Do they not have bowling in North Korea? 64 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,160 Like, they don't know how the rules work or what? The only place that you can really find 65 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:53,360 a lot of video games in North Korea is the bowling alley, ironically. 66 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:57,680 Uh, okay. I'm actually a little surprised at how not that bad it is. 67 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:01,360 Yeah, a lot of it is. Look at that. It's had that disco 68 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:06,080 bowling lighting effects and everything. Overall, the games lack maybe a little 69 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:11,199 bit of polish, but they're not what you would consider to be complete an utter 70 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:14,000 shovel wear every time. They're getting close, but I want to try the badminton 71 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,800 game. Yeah, go for it. Okay, this looks like it could be fun. 72 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:22,400 Oh, it's really too bad we didn't get the second controller working. Do we 73 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:26,479 have a second controller, but it just We have a second controller. The dongle 74 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:28,800 got lost in my pile of dongles at some point and I think fell off the table. 75 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,798 Oh, okay. It's really disappointing. [music] 76 00:05:35,919 --> 00:05:44,479 Okay. The um [music] presses are very much just suggestions. 77 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:51,360 Yeah. [music] Why am I hitting it to the back right every time? Stop. 78 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:54,960 Oh my god. How about anywhere other than there, please? Oh, for the love of all, 79 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:59,280 it is good. There is no strategy here whatsoever, as far as I can tell. [music] 80 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:04,479 That is the case with a lot of these games. If you're dependent on the gyro, 81 00:06:01,759 --> 00:06:09,919 it's going to let you down. This would be exhausting to play. Again, 82 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,199 with a little bit more polish, this could actually be fun. 83 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:17,919 Somebody put some work into this. Yeah. I may or may not have used a number of 84 00:06:16,479 --> 00:06:21,280 work hours playing this. It's fun. It really is. 85 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,560 You tried the badminton one specifically? This was the first game I played because 86 00:06:23,919 --> 00:06:31,360 it's badminton and I know what company I work for. 87 00:06:27,039 --> 00:06:34,000 It's actually fun. Whoa. 88 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,080 Okay. It has mouse pointer support in like their fake Wii. 89 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:41,840 Yeah, that's actuallyly not bad. And this one doesn't require that you 90 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:44,800 have I an IR bar. [music] So, cuz it's just purely gyro. 91 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:51,600 Yeah, exactly. Oh my god, that yoga game. Who is that 92 00:06:48,479 --> 00:06:53,280 flexible? Where are her hips? The one 93 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,360 leg looks like it's coming out of the other leg. Oh my god. 94 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:02,560 Oh, it's really too bad we didn't get the dance mat with this. Yeah, I would 95 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:04,639 not want to play Twister with her. So, 96 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:09,680 the only thing we can say for sure is that we don't know for sure what games 97 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:13,199 North Koreans have or haven't worked on. Sanctions against the country mean that 98 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:17,759 services purchased from them are often brokered through middlemen or even 99 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:22,560 entire middle companies in places like China or Hong Kong. And in some 100 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:27,360 industries, these workarounds are a particularly open secret. Pyongyangs 101 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:33,919 animation powerhouse Seek Studio has been around since 1957. Is estimated to 102 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:35,919 have 900 employees and has worked on 103 00:07:33,919 --> 00:07:40,800 French animated series like The Ranch, Spain's Cursed Titanic movie, Stan Lee's 104 00:07:38,319 --> 00:07:44,160 Mighty 7, and even The Simpsons movie. They're even rumored to have worked on 105 00:07:42,479 --> 00:07:49,360 some Disney films like The Lion King, which could explain this scene where the 106 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,960 dust in the sky appears to spell e K. 107 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:57,039 Yes, I'm choosing to believe it's a K. If I'm going to have a conspiracy theory, it's going to be the deepest 108 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:59,759 one. With all of that said, the games on 109 00:07:57,039 --> 00:08:04,080 this version of this console probably didn't come from North Korea. In the 110 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:07,980 initial 2019 news release about the Moren Bong game console posted on this 111 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:13,039 recently defunct propaganda news outlet, [music] the logo on the front doesn't 112 00:08:10,319 --> 00:08:17,919 quite match up to what we got. That's in Korean. This is in Chinese. Though if 113 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:22,160 you kind of cross your eyes a little bit and try to make out what the pixels are, 114 00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:27,840 the Korean seems to roughly match up with the Hungul for Moram Bong. While 115 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:32,959 the Chinese logo here reads Xiao Ba Wang, better known outside of China as 116 00:08:30,479 --> 00:08:38,159 Subor. Oh, I know Subar. That's right. They made that Z plus console that we 117 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:39,519 reviewed back in 2019. And outside of 118 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:44,560 that, they actually have a fairly storied past. They began producing 119 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:48,959 Famicom clones in the early 1990s. And within a few years, they were the most 120 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:52,720 popular Famicone brand in China and the second most popular in Russia with a 121 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:56,959 contract to manufacture Russia's most popular Famicom console, the Dendi. They 122 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:03,519 also had a pretty recognizable spokesman, Jackie Chan, who I will be 123 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:05,120 channeling in this next segment. Wait, 124 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:08,640 does it use the camera? It does. Why would it even need that if it's got 125 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:12,399 a gyro? Well, because it shows you on the screen 126 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,440 and then you can be in the game. No. Yeah. 127 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:22,320 Okay, I guess you don't even need this. But here you go. 128 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:24,399 This is such a high quality camera. What just [music] happened? 129 00:09:23,279 --> 00:09:30,959 I think we might have accidentally selected something. Um uh 130 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:35,360 wait. Oh, wait. I don't even need the controller then. No. Oh, okay. 131 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:41,560 You You can hit them multiple times, by the way. Oh, really? 132 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,560 Oh, sick. 133 00:09:41,839 --> 00:09:46,800 You know, it works surprisingly okayish. 134 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:53,200 Yeah. Now, imagine if the camera were better on this. Yeah. If it wasn't like 15 frames per 135 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:57,040 second. That's actually kind of a cool game. It's like if the Connect was a 136 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:02,480 piece of As opposed to what? 137 00:09:59,519 --> 00:10:07,200 Got him. This would actually be really fun with a competitive mode. Like I I 138 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:10,160 would I would play this I'd play this with my kids. [music] Oh, that's 139 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:13,839 interesting. If you look closely at the oranges, you can actually see where the 140 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:18,240 model is glued together. Oh, yeah. Look at that. [laughter] 141 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:25,040 Oh, actually that one too. It looks I think we can see it on all of them. So, yeah, three sections on each one. 142 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:28,800 Okay, we lost. Coming back to Subor's role in all of this. It's not the logo 143 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:33,120 on the front that makes a console. It's the software. And Subar has their hands 144 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:37,600 in that as well. Have you ever used one of those consoles with the 501 game 145 00:10:35,839 --> 00:10:42,480 cartridges only to discover that they're filled with weird dmakes, resp-rites, or 146 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:46,959 sequels to games that have no business existing? [music] Well, that probably came from Subor's 147 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:52,720 frequent collaborator and possible parent company, Wing. Since 1993, Wing 148 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:58,079 Science and Technology Company has produced such legally dubious titles as 149 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:00,240 Super Contra 7, Tunnel Warfare, and 150 00:10:58,079 --> 00:11:04,079 Pokemon Goldish. A fun fact, by the way, in 2001, they 151 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:11,200 were involved in a copyright infringement lawsuit [music] as the plaintiff [snorts] and won. Oh, 152 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:15,839 China, you so silly. [music] Anyway, sometime in the late 2000s, they ditched 153 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:21,279 the Famicom to focus primarily on making games for Subor's various Wii clones. 154 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:25,240 What exactly are these Wii clones? LTD Screwdriver, drum roll, please. 155 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:35,200 Wow. And congratulations. If you guessed old 156 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:39,200 Android TV box with a camera, you win. The circuit board printing suggests it 157 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:44,880 was manufactured in May of 2014. It uses a rock chip processor, 512 megs of RAM, 158 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:50,480 8 gigs of storage, and well, it's about as simple as any old Android TV [music] 159 00:11:46,959 --> 00:11:52,560 box. And like most Android TV boxes, it 160 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:57,760 runs Android, or at least sort of it does. Yun OS was the original name for 161 00:11:54,959 --> 00:12:02,959 Alios, Alibaba's version of Android. And as for the games, well, why don't we try 162 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:07,839 comparing some Wing titles to the games that eventually found their way into 163 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,680 North Korea. This game is interesting. Okay, 164 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:15,600 this is the correct version of table tennis that we want. This red court is 165 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:21,839 seen in one of the ads that was posted to Ari Rangi for the North Korean Wii. 166 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:26,160 So, this is a game that would have theoretically gone to North Korea. 167 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:33,040 Uh, it's a tutorial right off the bat. Everything is unskippable. 168 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:38,720 That controller is not the same as my controller. They did have a couple Oh, wa. 169 00:12:36,079 --> 00:12:41,120 That's a Wii controller with one button. No, no, that's not a Wii controller. 170 00:12:40,079 --> 00:12:47,200 There's still four buttons down the bottom. Yeah. So, it's somewhere in between cuz 171 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:52,240 it's got the D-pad markings on it, but it's only got a single button here. So, 172 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:56,880 it could be that that is an early mockup or it could be one of the varieties of 173 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,959 this that Subor released because they did have a number of them 174 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:04,959 on the market. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you I'm good. 175 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:09,360 Get in the game. Sorry. It's a skill issue. 176 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:14,959 So, basically all this thing has in it is just an accelerometer and like no 177 00:13:12,079 --> 00:13:22,079 gyro, I guess. Just are you moving it? Great. Okay. and only the game, the 178 00:13:18,399 --> 00:13:24,720 actual device does. This is essentially 179 00:13:22,079 --> 00:13:28,399 an air mouse. You can take the dongle from this and 180 00:13:26,399 --> 00:13:32,480 plug it into a computer and it will be detected as a standard HID device. You 181 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:36,959 can immediately start using it as an air mouse. So, if you wanted to use this 182 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:42,160 with a Wii emulator, you absolutely could. Oh, that's super cool. There's 183 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,560 concrete evidence then that Wing made at least some of the games that were 184 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:52,000 promoted in advertisements for our North Korean Wii here. Table tennis for sure 185 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:56,639 is a match. The rest are not so clear. This next image appears to show some 186 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,480 kind of running game on a mat. We're not 187 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:02,560 sure which one or if it's a real game at all. We do know Subor did sell several 188 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:06,560 dance mats that pair with their Wii clones from a company called Blavore, 189 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:10,880 but this looks less like a game peripheral and more like a solar panel 190 00:14:08,959 --> 00:14:15,519 on the floor, which kind of checks out given what Blavor is up to these days. 191 00:14:12,959 --> 00:14:19,920 Um, it is possible though that it's real and it was just designed so simply to 192 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,120 allow for assembly within a North Korean factory, something that Pyongyang has 193 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:28,320 been doing with Android phones for over a decade. The final image from Aryang 194 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:32,160 Mirie is maybe the most ambiguous but also the most interesting. It 195 00:14:30,079 --> 00:14:36,480 prominently announces educational kids games with a number of examples. And of 196 00:14:34,399 --> 00:14:41,440 the 20 pixels that are not obscured by the watermark, we can make out two big 197 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:42,800 clues. The first is this raccoon dog 198 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:49,600 looking character that appears to be interacting with a piece of paper on the ground. This is likely Neoi, the main 199 00:14:47,199 --> 00:14:53,920 character of Clever Raccoon Dog, one of North Korea's most popular cartoons. If 200 00:14:52,079 --> 00:14:57,440 this were a device solely made for children, Clever Raccoon Dog might be 201 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,839 the extent of the local cartoon properties used. But Two Space is over, 202 00:14:59,839 --> 00:15:06,320 we can see what very much looks like the lead character of the much more dark and 203 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:10,880 gritty series, The Boy General. North Korea has three very popular cartoons in 204 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:14,480 its history. And if two out of three are featured, it's a safe assumption that 205 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:19,360 there were plans for a game based around the dark, gritty war drama Squirrel and 206 00:15:16,959 --> 00:15:23,279 Hedgehog. Top of a few murky details about a Squirrel and Hedgehog mobile 207 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:28,160 game from 2018 called Brave Soldier, there have been some photos posted to 208 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:32,240 the Fandom Wiki depicting gameplay and pitch meetings for a rail gun shooter 209 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:36,480 arcade game supposedly for use in the Golden Lane bowling alley attached to 210 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:41,440 the Yangakto Hotel, the primary hotel that foreign tourists tend to get placed 211 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:45,120 in. But why make a one-off arcade machine of your most popular series only 212 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:50,720 to show it to foreigners who might confuse it for a Sonic the Hedgehog knockoff? Which, by the way, it isn't. 213 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:54,560 In fact, Squirrel and Hedgehog predates Sonic by well over a decade. A fact that 214 00:15:53,120 --> 00:16:00,079 makes more sense when you have the context of North Korea's media industry. 215 00:15:56,959 --> 00:16:02,800 Between the late 1960s and the 1980s, 216 00:16:00,079 --> 00:16:06,959 Kim Jong-'s first major role in the DPRK government was creating film and 217 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:11,199 television for use as propaganda. He famously kidnapped South Korean actress 218 00:16:08,959 --> 00:16:15,920 Cho Yunhi and her husband, director Shinsang O for eight years in order to 219 00:16:14,079 --> 00:16:20,079 make this happen. But when he wasn't using human trafficking victims to make 220 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:24,399 anti-Japanese shame pieces, he pushed for a variety of cartoons to be created, 221 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:29,120 almost all of them involving talking animals, making Kim Jong ill, 222 00:16:26,639 --> 00:16:32,320 effectively then history's most despotic furry. 223 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:36,000 In the years following his death, production of these cartoons slowed 224 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:39,680 significantly. Where they used to produce one to two episodes a year, 225 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,880 Squirlland Hedgehog hasn't seen a new episode enter production since Kim 226 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:46,880 Jong-'s death. And there's been virtually no new or continued 227 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:50,480 productions of Seek Properties in that time. As far as we know, the only 228 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:54,480 exception to this seems to have been Kim Jong-un's favorite show, The Boy 229 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:58,639 General, which got a reboot in 2015, nearly 20 years after originally going 230 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:03,279 off the air. The reboot lasted 50 episodes and concluded in 2019, right 231 00:17:01,279 --> 00:17:07,706 around the time this Wii clone was announced. See, we got there eventually. 232 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:13,120 Let's try another game. All right, [snorts] there were a couple other ones that caught my eye. I thought I saw a 233 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:17,439 curling game. Yep. Let's see if there's actual differences in how hard you go, 234 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:23,120 cuz this would be the first game that managed to like That's not a bad little 235 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:27,919 like village thing they made. If this were paired with wonderful gameplay, all 236 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,760 of this would be easily forgiven. I noticed the word if there. 237 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:36,400 Every one of these games has a little caveat to it. [music] Okay. All right. 238 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:42,000 Part of the journey of discovery. All right. Okay. So, I hold the D 239 00:17:39,802 --> 00:17:46,480 [music] button. Short. 240 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:50,240 What just happened? Uh, push push. Do that. 241 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:56,080 And now it's going to go all the way down. You can actually see on the right side. That's going to tell you how far 242 00:17:53,600 --> 00:18:00,799 that shot is going to go. And if you wave back and forth, it's it'll sweep. 243 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:03,840 And normally that will actually uh fill up a little bit more. 244 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:07,200 Oh, I see. Okay. I haven't figured out how to get it to 245 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,960 properly curl. Yeah. But I know that you can at least go over 246 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:15,760 to this left and right like you would in bowling. Okay. Well, that was a bad shot. 247 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:19,919 Like I put it right on the button. No. No. They're going to completely miss 248 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,400 just like me. Okay. Well, hey, at least we both suck. See it filling up. Filling 249 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,919 up. Push forward. I overshot it again, didn't I? Damn it. 250 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:32,202 Hey, you're still in the area. You can't tell from the physics at all. 251 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:37,840 Like, it's it's not slowing down, dude. [music] It just moves at a constant rate. Like, 252 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:42,480 that looks like I keep thinking, oh, it's almost slowed down. Oh, wow. It 253 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:46,799 just lands exactly where you get it. See, I thought it'd be like Wii Golf 254 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:51,520 where it like goes to there, but then there's some fudge factor, but no, it's 255 00:18:48,559 --> 00:18:55,679 just just press it right when the thing. All we've got is four more minutes left. 256 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:59,120 Why don't we get out of this game? And I believe it's I believe it's darts. I I 257 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:04,240 want to show you darts. Unskippable cut scene. 258 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:07,760 Okay, now hold on just to gosh darn. Oh. Oh, okay. So you just So you just 259 00:19:06,263 --> 00:19:11,000 [music] have to get it in the right spot and then 260 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:18,000 What just happened? Well, there's gravity. So you're aiming. 261 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:23,160 What's the point of the freaking target then? Well, I don't know there then. 262 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:29,520 That was actually really close. Yeah, that that was much closer than I got it yesterday. 263 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:34,039 And then it Well, it leaves my thing in the same spot. So theoretically, I could 264 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:34,039 just 265 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:40,960 What was that? Too hard, dude. 266 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:43,600 Not cool. It It gets more frustrating, though, because you're playing 500, 267 00:19:43,039 --> 00:19:49,760 right? [music] Yeah. And even if you get the exact correct 268 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:54,000 amount of points, it'll still tell you you're wrong. I could not get this game 269 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:57,679 to finish. Coming back to our wordy history lesson 270 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:01,760 that I assure you does have a point. In January 2020, all the borders of North 271 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:06,480 Korea closed. And in the past four years, no one has legally come in or 272 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:09,840 out, not even Dennis Rodman. The US Treasury has begun imposing sanctions on 273 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:14,480 companies found to be working with North Korea, even for animation. And at the 274 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:18,480 start of 2024, Kim Jong-un began shutting down radio stations, TV 275 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:22,720 broadcasts, and websites that served as a link between the DPRK and the rest of 276 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:26,559 the world. He made the unprecedented statement that a unified Korea would be 277 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:31,200 impossible. So whether the North Korean version of this console ever got made or 278 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:35,280 whether our title is total clickbait may never be known. Instead, with 279 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:39,520 willingness to outsource IT work to North Korea at an all-time low, it 280 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:44,640 appears that whatever sector workers might have worked on this or in the past 281 00:20:41,919 --> 00:20:48,559 worked on white hat IT services have shifted to botnet creation and 282 00:20:46,799 --> 00:20:53,440 ransomware attacks on hospitals for Bitcoin. As for Subor, unfortunately 283 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:57,840 both they and Wing seem to have succumbed to the pandemic. Subor is 284 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:01,840 adamant that they are not dead yet, but Wing's website is essentially gone with 285 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:06,400 only a file server remaining that hosts all of their software dated up until 286 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:10,159 2016 and a bunch of ROMs. If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out 287 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:15,919 the AllChina PC where we briefly look at how Corsair power supplies keep ending 288 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,919 up in [music] North Korea.