This is actually a great product, as it teaches two important lessons: for children the invaluable skill of lock-picking, and for parents the value of not wasting money by simply putting the controllers somewhere out of reach.
My mom tried to tAke the internet away when she wasn't home by taking the power cable to the router with her. Turns out my PS2 power cable was the exact same plug type and worked perfectly. Kids'll figure out ways around things like that, so you might as well just do it the hard way. Take the whole system and leave it with someone you trust.
Meanwhile I was stripping the components out of the controller to smuggle contraband at school! I even left a controller with a bag of weed hidden inside with my science teacher at 3rd period to give to my friend who had her 5th period! I got searched 5 times in the principals office and they never questioned the controllers lol!
@@AM-uh7mv We all did that, but it was kind of bad for the cartridges so we shouldn't have. Thankfully, the common types of damage on NES cartridges and the cartridge slot are pretty easy to fix.
@@TroIIingThemSoftly I mean the difficult of a puzzle literally does not matter now since anyone with a functioning phone can just pull it out and google for the walkthrough for the puzzle anyways. The only difference between now and back then was that pulling out a phone and googling for the solution wasn't an option and the walkthrough was usually on some magazine or something which is a lot harder for a kid to get ahold of than information on the internet.
This reminds me of a custom lock that was installed by Dad on the power supply of my Amiga 500 when my schoolwork suffered. It just disconnected one power lead. Wasn't long until I had the power supply screws loosened and a jumper wire was used to re-connect the circuit whenever I wanted to play. That was part of my introduction to electronics that lead to a rather successful electronics career.
Mum thought she was keeping my brother and I off the internet by taking the computer power cord with her when she left the house. (Yes, really.) We quickly figured out that the kettle had an identical plug.
@craftsman_yt i think you misunderstood. He meant the power cable for the kettle was a heavier gauge therefore it can handle a higher current load compared to the ones PCs have. Basically the kettle had a higher quality chord.
I wonder how many kids simply realized that their parents forgot to take the game cartridge out before locking it and played with the lock still on the system because they didn’t feel the need to change the game that was in there.
@@spasecookeeGood, lol, blowing on the carts just rusts the cartridge connectors and you only got a benefit because sometimes spit and moisture from your mouth bridged a connection The real solution was to not press down the cartridge so that pins dont get bent, it's a totally unnecessary step that doesnt affect the function of anything and was only added to make the system more VHS-like and easier to sell post videogame crash (vhs did that because it needed to btw). If your carts aren't working anymore on your system I highly suggest you check if the pins are clean using a cotton swap (you can use isopropyl alcohol or just wipe it while dry) and consider replacing the pins on the console, as they may have bent out of place from years of pressing the cartridge down onto them after insertion
@@dooplon5083on my NES, I had to push the cart all the way in, and then pull it back a bit. It worked perfectly so long as it was in the perfect position
My dad used to tear out the ethernet ports from the wall. So as a 10 year old I looked up a diagram and re wired it. You can't stop a gamer from gaming.
I’m just imagining some middle aged dude watching this video and running straight to his parents’ house, cackling all the while because he will now FINALLY be able to unlock that NES on the shelf that’s been silently mocking him for 40 years…
The same result was attained by just locking the gamecarts away. But this system taught children how to decode these, and probably how to decode their mate's bike locks at school too.
The method shown for opening this lock worked on bike locks when I was a kid, decades before Playstation was a gleam in anyone's eye. Kids already knew the technique, guaranteed. What's interesting here is that parents would be oblivious to this fact, having once been kids themselves.
@anothersquid I recall making lock picking tools from the street sweeper bristles that I found along the roads between age 7 and 19. In that same period of time I had figured out how to decode barrel locks without ever having access to information on how to do so. We were a lot more crafty back then with physical objects, monitor screens aside from the television and perhaps a really really nice calculator were not something that would hold our attention for very long.
@@anothersquid Actually, most of us were concerned with many other things. Locks were there to secure something, so we "respected" that. We didn't need a lock to keep us out of our fun stuff, we just did our homework and obeyed our parents. If you had a dad like mine, you would have respected whatever he said, not because he was a big guy, but because he constantly demonstrated his love for us.
“I asked Mrs. LPL to change it for me. You’ll have to take my word on that.” With your reputation, I absolutely believe you on that. For a parental control lock device, my dad would have just taken the controllers, the games, and/or the power cable and let me just look at the console. It was a little extra jab to my punishment to have see something I couldn’t play. Granted the NES came out a year before I was born, so this punishment method started to apply during the N64/PS1/Dreamcast era.
@@antiphon000 when I saved enough to get the Dreamcast, it actually came with 2 controllers. The extra one I hid. I would play it late at night with my door locked. Though the noise of the Dreamcast used to make me paranoid that my parents could hear it turning on. As for my PlayStation, I had 3 controllers. 1 of them was also hidden. It was great because they would never have found my controllers if they tried. I would have taken this punishment over my younger siblings punishment anytime. Though the constant hounding and down talking didn’t help me long term. Took years to get past it and realize my true worth. Hopefully you’re in a better position with your social anxiety and depression nowadays.
Reminds me of the time I was forbidden to play on my 286 so I gave my parents the "key to the computer". All this key did was locking the case but I told them that it is impossible to start the computer without this key 😂 It worked. Good old times 🙂
"Now to start up the computer, ya gotta pump the gas twice, pull the choke, start cranking and after the third crank pump the gas again and then it should fire up. Keep the choke on for about 2 minutes and she should be good to run the Oregon Trail"
Yeah I could remember when I use to get in trouble and lose the privileges of losing TV and video games boy the year 2007 sticks out like a sore thumb I was punished for trying to tell my parents I was being bullied I was getting in trouble trying to tell the teacher a kid was bullying me but they never helped me I never felt so much hatred in my life as a kid for one single bully that it was just unfair justice that's why people like me is so screwed up in the head years later it's like half of the time I just want to take my anger out on everything it gives me the reason why I'm introverted these days and why I belong at home and why I'm a aloner in real life
My mom used to require me to get permission to have her type in the password for me to get on the Internet back in the day. She would come and hide the keyboard from view while she typed in the password. One day a friend and I set up a camcorder (old VHS style) from a different angle, hid it between some clothes in a closet, and recorded her entering the password. Played it back and got it right away. I still remember that it was "blue123" -- and Master Lock thinks THIS is going to keep kids out of their cutting-edge gaming systems??! HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I used to delete the password set by my mom in safe mode (Windows XP). Then I booted normally, installed a keylogger, and told her that "some bug has deleted the password, it's weird, I don't know" to make her set a new password while the keylogger was on.
@@Full1600 Heck, reading people doing this totally brings me back to my nerdy childhood. Never really took an interest in games, and finished my homework. My parents never did any sort of thing like this to me. 🤣 The worst I've done is probably forgot about the time video chatting with friends over Skype, and only getting our homework partially done, and very slowly.
Dude me and brother did the same thing! We put a camcorder in a basket with a hole cut in it above the desk on a shelf. We were some evil geniuses. Haha!
I remember my parents used to lock the family pc (in those days PCs had keyboard locks) so I couldn't play games unsupervised. This was great for my education, as I learned how to bend a paper clip into a makeshift lockpick.
Yes, we did figure it out. A neighbor’s single mother thought it a foolproof way to keep my friend from accessing the game console until after she came home from work. We did exactly what you did once, and knew the combination. “Mom” was none the wiser, as the lock would be reattached and those who were present would vacate the premises before she came home (roughly 2.5 hours after we were home from school). The irony: the lock picking gamer is a clever contract game programmer and app builder. Maybe mom knew exactly what she was doing! … Not!
As a programmer by trade, I don't think the skills would translate at all. That case just seems like a coincidence. I guess the "figure out how to solve the problem" mindset applies to both, but that's something he clearly already had.
one thing parents who used this forgot, is that one thing that kids have too much, is time. it was a matter of trying every combination until the correct was reached.
While the lock itself was probably well within the capability of any moderately smart child to decode, they wouldn't do it by trying every possible combination as that lock has 10,000 possible different combinations.
@@skilletborneAs a kid I had a master lock combination padlock similar to this and I'd be able to brute force the combination in about 15mins with no tools. They're really not secure even for kids.
No it wasn't. It was $79.99 for the base with just Mario Bros. The one with the Zapper and Dunk Hunt/Mario was $99.99 and the one with all that plus ROB and Gyromite was I think $129.99. The Genesis, however was $189.99 on release with Altered Beast and the SNES was $199.99 two years later with SMB.
Funny thing is the SNES came out almost at the same time when the Homework First NES lock came out. So the last NES game came out sometime between 1993-1997.
@@defpally2954 No. When the NES launched in 1985 it was priced at $149.99 and came with Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, a light gun accessory for Duck Hunt and an extra controller.
That was on par with the average bike lock at the time. It was easier to just pick your own bike lock rather than trying the combo. And more amazing is the easily pickable bike locks did help discourage bike thieves.
Wow a GamingHistorian / LPL crossover? I didn't think I'd ever see that. For those curious, Norman's channel is brilliant. Very underrated and always enjoyable to watch.
@@ucarouenI've been fortunate to only find his channel recently, have pretty much wiped the inventory. A lot of videos are sharing information too. Still an A+ in old gaming history!
His channel is awesome, but the garbage YT algorithm does him dirty. Whenever he uploads, I eventually get lucky and stumble across it several days later.
I don't know that channel, but he's crossed with Donut Media, Stuff Made Here, Adam Savage has mentioned him and used thing he bough from Covert Instruments...
@@seanj3667if you like learning about gaming history and grew up on early morning PBS (optional, just nostalgia) you should check him out. He does indepth gaming documentary style content that is very light hearted and family friendly.
@@prestonbruchmiller497 old school internet things (which other than 1337/LEET, is not used much nowadays) specifically Leet speek (drived from elite speek) 1337 translates to LEET (1 = L, 3 = E, 7 =T) wikipeadia has a decent article on the history of this if your interested
@@prestonbruchmiller497 check out the Wikipedia article on "leet speak" for some history/examples. It's essentially just replacing letters with numbers or other symbols (LEET, short for elite, indicated by 1337 is the most common). In particular wiki has a good example for the phrase "I can’t understand your writing. It’s confusing." Apparently it didn't really originate with gaming, but it quickly found its way there - really any area you'd find early tech savvy folk. It was *sorta* like talking in a code that a bunch of friends in a treehouse made as kids, just for the heck of it. A "secret" handshake for the cool kids club that no one ever took seriously, just for random dumb fun. One could argue the word 1337 itself was often used like Pogchamp is today? Maybe. I saw it creep up as I went into online gaming in the Everquest, Diablo 1, starcraft days etc, but it goes further back to early hackers, scripters, or in particular BBS in the 80s according to wiki.
@@prestonbruchmiller497It comes from leet-speak, gamer slang from about 20 years ago. Leet came from “elite” and described someone who was a skilled gamer, but some or all of the letters would get replaced by numbers giving l33t or 1337.
If I were a parent, I would have doubled down. Five padlocks, each from a different company with a different code, and a digital lock (if that existed in the 80s)
My parents only had a TV in the living room, and would not allow us to have our own TVs in the bedrooms, so it'd be impossible to play any game in secret. We didn't have doors for our bedrooms either, just so they could regularly check and make sure we weren't breaking any rules. Also not allowed to hang our with friends outside, since we might break a rule then too. Fun times.
My parents method was that more effective: “If we catch you playing with this before your homework is done you’re going to lose the entire gaming system.” And they backed up their words with action. All it took was one time.
My youth predates the NES - I was an upperclassman in highschool when the Magnavox Odessy was released and the Atari 800 came out while I was in college - so I never had to deal with this sort of thing, however when I was in college, the sophisticated electro-mechanical calculators were protected by a single cable lock to keep students from removing them from the Math/Physics library. (The LA36 printing terminal that was connected to the PDP-11/40 minicomputer, one of around 20 scattered around campus was not secured). The cable lock used a key, and students quickly figured out that a paperclip could be used to pick the lock if one wished to crawl under the table. There was no likelihood that any student would want to steal one of the quite obsolete and very heavy calculators, but practical jokes centered on removing the calculators and strapping other things in their place were common. I was always surprised that nobody in the administration ever bothered to replace the cable lock with something more secure, and when someone stole the cable lock itself, it was not replaced. I half remember that those calculators were retired during my senior year, but it was a *long* time ago.
i have one of those so called dinosaurs not the exact ones from your school but a true trilobyte one by today's standards a dell 333d manufactured in 1990 designed for cad software for use in a architectual firm catalogs from the 1990's list that exact computer for 8,000ish dollars and when i mean $8,000 i mean $8,000 +more the computer needs a key and only runs ms-dos it still has that lock mount screwed to the side of the case. that computer back then would be worth stealing and now i am one of the few people keeping it alive actually saw a few for around $600 to $800 at various online shops but that was for just the computer. i have the monitor, the original keyboard and the computer. i keep it around because it is the only computer i own with a working 5 inch floppy drive and a standardized 3 inch drive if you could not tell i was born 6 years after that computer was created and in that time dell changed their logo i think twice.
"There was no likelihood that any student would want to steal one of the quite obsolete and very heavy calculators" "I was always surprised that nobody in the administration ever bothered to replace the cable lock with something more secure" I don't see why you were surprised. Why should they spend the money?
The first lock I ever picked as a kid was a Tubular lock that came on our first PC back in 1993. It was designed to not let the computer boot up, but as you can imagine it was more of a selling gimmick. My mother would lock it while she was at work to prevent me from playing games when I should be doing chores. little did she know that only a missing paper clip kept me from opening it. If I had my trusty paper clip I could pick it in seconds and enjoy hours of gaming. To this day she never figured it out. 😂
I absolutely would have figured this out in the 80's or 90's. I learned how to pick simple locks with paper clips while at my mom's office, along with other less-than-savory skills which would benefit me years later. Thanks for sharing this!
There was a new in package “Homework First” NES lock at a local flea market for years. When it finally disappeared, Norman’s old video about it showed up making me wonder if it somehow made its way to him. Now I have to wonder if it made its way here. :) I’ve also seen a similar device for PlayStation 2 but it worked with the power jack and was easy to bypass.
I remember using this same exact method on those cheap bike locks from the 90's when we were kids. The dials on those things left HUGE gaps between each other to let you know you were on the right track.
When I was in high school, my parents got something called a "time machine" for my 360. It was essentially a signal interrupt mechanism that the AV signal passed through. You had to put proprietary coins into it for pre-arranged time allowances. My parents gave us kids coins for doing chores and homework. The back had a very basic tube lock, and I very quickly figured out how to pick it with a single paper clip. It was the first lock I ever picked. I'd take the coins back out and never got greedy, and so was never caught. My parents only found out when I told them a year or two ago. I swear, devices like these are really better for providing educational scaffolding for children to learn life skills than they are for their intended purpose. . .
I feel like masterlock is really befitting of their name, since they've constantly managed to make locks that even the youngest master (under the historic definition) could eventually get into. I remember buying a cheap masterlock just for practice picking when I was just getting into it, and the raking tool in my cheap set was able to put the pins in the right position to unlock it before I even started raking them.
Most combination bike locks back in the 1980s were defeated by exactly that technique. When we were 10 years old, we used to pick each other’s locks and ride each other’s bikes 😂
This reminds me of when I was grounded and my mom took the power cable to my desktop as a means to make sure I couldn't play on it without having to take the entire thing. Little did she know that the power cable for a pc and a monitor is the same, and I had 2 monitors XD
lol, I did the same thing. One day they took the entire monitor though, so I just took my entire CPU and hooked it to the TV in the living room while everyone was asleep.
@@OliverUnderTheMoonno he put the CPU in the CPU slot on the TV, which allowed it to connect to the solid state drive of the random access memory chip, thus overwriting the firewall which allowes him to play games. Easy stuff really
@@snailtan4332 aha, yes, that makes sense now. Those x86 HTML firewalls aren't even even using hexadecimal strength encryption most of the time. It really tickles my buffers.
I would have loved this as a kid. I used to pick locks on all my parents candy machines, so this would have been a fun challenge for me back in the day. LOL
As a child who's only friend was the NES and later SNES... 100% I would have figured that out. I would have brute forced it until I got it or found some other way to defeat it. Sooner or later I'd have a system and never be locked out of that sweet, sweet video game brain chemicals.
I feel like there's a conceptual problem with this lock. In most cases where you would lock something, the value of what's behind it is opaque enough that the average thief would probably not even bother trying to go after it. However with this lock, you're intentionally barring a child from one of the most valuable things to them; a form of entertainment. Thus the child is outright encouraged to find a way to get rid of that lock whether it's through covert or destructive means. This doesn't teach the child anything other than picking locks and breaking things is how you get what you want. What a good life lesson to teach just by spending $20 on this cheaply made lock.
@@anenigma8378 I had a lock we could pick on a whim. It never turned me into a thief. It's up to the parents to teach the morals that you need in life.
I never knew something like this existed but I’m not shocked at all. Back in the Nintendo days, there was always some 3rd party product trying to attach itself to the success of the Nintendo. From controllers, to locks, to gloves that protected your fingers from getting blisters. It was a wild time.
Two of my favorite channels! Seriously, if anyone is interested in documentaries of video game history, there isn’t any YT content with higher quality than TheGamingHistorian .
This is the lock that taught me how to pick this kind of combination lock. My uncle got it for my cousin, but in typical fashion for my family never actually used it so we would just goof with it.
In terms of just documenting and preserving gaming history, this is very very cool. I know there are preservation groups for games but stuff like this should be included in my opinion.
Oh yes, I'm certain children could figure this out. My whole life I'd imagined lock picking something like this to basically consist of pulling on it and feeling when the wheels fell into place. It never worked for me on combination locks, but sure enough, here's a lock where that's exactly how it works.
@@SeraphsWitness I lived with my grandparents growing up. Grandma was the worst to get spankings from. Not only would she spank you, she would cuss you out while doing so. Imagine the nicest woman you know just using language you didn't know existed. I learned some colorful words. Grandpa would laugh historically in the background as well. Humiliation and fear? Well played old timers, well played.
@@SeraphsWitnessmany of us wouldn’t have gotten a childhood in any capacity if we didn’t lie. You have to look at the trade off. How much enjoyment could I get by doing it vs the punishment if found out? But I’m biased, I’ve been dating my partner in secret for years now, lying has unfortunately just had to be part of my life.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 Literally, parent your child and they’ll listen.
I certainly learned to open locks of this type around the age that this would have been relevant. Something with a key would have provided more challenge. Though, if it stood between me and my Nintendo, I'm sure I'd learn how to pick locks a lot earlier too. One of my friends had a BIOS password on parents' computer for much the same purpose, and I managed to get through that one with some educated guessing and brute force trial and error. Kids have a lot of time and really like games. You have to get way more sophisticated.
The way I was brought up, parents didn't need a lock, they said no, we listened, because if we didn't , they would just take the game away. No way they would spend 20$ on this. Cool retro look back, LPL !!
Yep, the 80s were a different time, if I effed up I got the belt. I messed up quite a bit thinking I wouldn't get caught. My ass was sore and lessons learned.
Y'all talking about "the 80s were different, we listened to our parents or they'd beat us, this wasn't necessary" on a video about a console literally released in the 80s
80s kids...without the ease of instant information from the internet, were very very intuitive and devious . We figured things out or ways to work around obstacles.
This is a case for, those who would not try to crack the lock, would do their homework. And those who definitely want to play before or instead of homework... well, they don't have much of a challenge.
this is about as productive as that one time my mom tried the same thing by bringing my computer's power chord with her to work. to this day i dont remember how i figured out the treadmill has the same plug.
Collaboration with Master Lock 😭😭 that’s all you have to say. I’ve been playing video games starting from intellivision to the PS4 and this is the first console lock I’ve ever seen and to be partnered up with the equivalent to the red ring of death but with locks is as sad as it is funny.
This style master lock was also on some of their bike locks back in the eighties. I figured how to unlock it the exact same way you did so we would take a friend's bike and lock it back up in really random places! Locked one to the front door handle of the school one time. Fun times.
Never seen that before. I’m pretty sure Super Mario Bros or Zelda would have been enough motivation as a kid to figure that lock out. Lol. Thanks for the nostalgia 😊
I remember when I was a teenager, my parents would try to lock me out of the workshop, to keep me from doing electronics projects at certain times in their house with a generic Kwikset KW1 key-in-knob set. It wasn’t long that I realized that the latch wasn’t properly set when the door was closed, so I was able to shim the latch to get in.
My Dad bought a very similar product back in '81, but for the VCR. but after a few minutes, I'd learned to decode it. (Almost as quickly as I realised how to make phone calls without using the keypad or wheel dial on the landline phone!) 😂😂😂
I love your skill and variety LPL. I saw a vid of someone that integrated a parking meter into the power supply of a game system. The "child" would "earn" parking tokens set to 30 minutes each by doing yard work, homework, or other chores. I suppose that could be defeated too, but a better concept than this lock. As always thank you for creating high quality entertainment. I wonder when ML will get the idea that it's time to improve their lock design? Perhaps they just gave up when they realized that nothing can stop the LPL!
Four decades ago, when my parents told me not to do anything until my homework was done, I took them seriously because I knew they’d check and there’d be repercussions for not doing as I was told. Then again, back then we didn’t even lock our doors.
It seems like many people here are praising kids for not doing homework before playing. Guess what they would say about parents going on vacations before making money for their bills.
@@DuskTheBard Please explain what 'one of you people' refers to. I don't seem to know enough about current affairs to know what you mean. I'm humbly asking as I am absolutely clueless.
I was a kid back then. We had different parental controls, it was go outside and play. There was no arguing with that, you didn't want the consequences.
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This is actually a great product, as it teaches two important lessons: for children the invaluable skill of lock-picking, and for parents the value of not wasting money by simply putting the controllers somewhere out of reach.
My parents did the latter, so we saved our allowance and bought an extra controller we kept hidden, good times 😂
jokes on you, we just bought a extra controller
My parents just hid the TV cable which was a box with a cord
My mom tried to tAke the internet away when she wasn't home by taking the power cable to the router with her. Turns out my PS2 power cable was the exact same plug type and worked perfectly.
Kids'll figure out ways around things like that, so you might as well just do it the hard way. Take the whole system and leave it with someone you trust.
Meanwhile I was stripping the components out of the controller to smuggle contraband at school! I even left a controller with a bag of weed hidden inside with my science teacher at 3rd period to give to my friend who had her 5th period! I got searched 5 times in the principals office and they never questioned the controllers lol!
When NES games had harder puzzles than the locking mechanism 😂
those of us in the know used tape deck cleaning swabs... and were informed that the spittle would corrode the contacts...@@AM-uh7mv
Anyone who actually played games on the NES knows this is true. Kids have it so easy now.
@@AM-uh7mv We all did that, but it was kind of bad for the cartridges so we shouldn't have. Thankfully, the common types of damage on NES cartridges and the cartridge slot are pretty easy to fix.
Actually, most of them just became impossible. It's hardened us, much like many a shackle in these videos.
@@TroIIingThemSoftly I mean the difficult of a puzzle literally does not matter now since anyone with a functioning phone can just pull it out and google for the walkthrough for the puzzle anyways. The only difference between now and back then was that pulling out a phone and googling for the solution wasn't an option and the walkthrough was usually on some magazine or something which is a lot harder for a kid to get ahold of than information on the internet.
This reminds me of a custom lock that was installed by Dad on the power supply of my Amiga 500 when my schoolwork suffered. It just disconnected one power lead. Wasn't long until I had the power supply screws loosened and a jumper wire was used to re-connect the circuit whenever I wanted to play. That was part of my introduction to electronics that lead to a rather successful electronics career.
Your desire to play on the computer got you a job instead of losing you one. Truly an inspirational tale lol
Damn, the setup worked better than your parents thought possible by not being functional enough. Did you ever tell your parents that?
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I never did
@@jcmilleker5449 You should, if you still have the chance.
Reading about the Amiga 500 makes me Feel Old got one in 94 with a Crapload of Games.
Mum thought she was keeping my brother and I off the internet by taking the computer power cord with her when she left the house. (Yes, really.) We quickly figured out that the kettle had an identical plug.
Higher rated current draw i bet too lol.
@@TatsuZZmagetheir computer probably had the power supply built-in so that most likely wasn't an issue
Those 3-prong females are practically universal (in the US, Europe might use something else)
@craftsman_yt i think you misunderstood. He meant the power cable for the kettle was a heavier gauge therefore it can handle a higher current load compared to the ones PCs have. Basically the kettle had a higher quality chord.
My brother and I just got really good at figuring out dad's windows passwords until he gave up and used a computer randomized one 😂
I wonder how many kids simply realized that their parents forgot to take the game cartridge out before locking it and played with the lock still on the system because they didn’t feel the need to change the game that was in there.
Plot twist: the game inside was always Fester's Quest
@@GrandCorsairI was thinking Bible Adventures.
Wouldn't be able to remove the cart, blow on it and put it back in when it inevitably starts going wonky.
@@spasecookeeGood, lol, blowing on the carts just rusts the cartridge connectors and you only got a benefit because sometimes spit and moisture from your mouth bridged a connection
The real solution was to not press down the cartridge so that pins dont get bent, it's a totally unnecessary step that doesnt affect the function of anything and was only added to make the system more VHS-like and easier to sell post videogame crash (vhs did that because it needed to btw). If your carts aren't working anymore on your system I highly suggest you check if the pins are clean using a cotton swap (you can use isopropyl alcohol or just wipe it while dry) and consider replacing the pins on the console, as they may have bent out of place from years of pressing the cartridge down onto them after insertion
@@dooplon5083on my NES, I had to push the cart all the way in, and then pull it back a bit. It worked perfectly so long as it was in the perfect position
LPL is the Game Genie to Masterlock’s whole franchise
Sweet reference
Wow! I forgot about that.
😂😂😂😂 nice one!
Wasn’t “Game Shark” another one of the ‘Cheat Code’ modules too? Or was that later on the PS1?
@@ETC_Rohaly_USCG later
edit i think they got their start on genesis. but it could have been ps1
Out of my nine children one came out as cisgender. We’re putting him up for adoption
My dad used to tear out the ethernet ports from the wall. So as a 10 year old I looked up a diagram and re wired it. You can't stop a gamer from gaming.
How'd you look it up without internet access?
@@shrillethencyclopedia?
@@shrillethwe had this printed out version of the internet then you got from these public buildings.
Jokes on you: he'd been needing to replace those ports for months and tricked you into doing it.
@@shrilleth I used my iPod touch to Google it
I’m just imagining some middle aged dude watching this video and running straight to his parents’ house, cackling all the while because he will now FINALLY be able to unlock that NES on the shelf that’s been silently mocking him for 40 years…
Don't underestimate how long spite can last.
An uneducated middle aged dude, because he didn't do his homework, which is why the lock is still on his NES.
Thanks LPL! I've been waiting 38 years for this video. Now I can finally defeat Zelda. No stopping me now, MOM.
comment of the day IMO.
Promise you do your homework after that!
Lol!
I went lookig for this comment! Thanks!
I mean, how much homework did you have?! 😮
The same result was attained by just locking the gamecarts away.
But this system taught children how to decode these, and probably how to decode their mate's bike locks at school too.
Or more simply taking away the power cable 😂
The method shown for opening this lock worked on bike locks when I was a kid, decades before Playstation was a gleam in anyone's eye. Kids already knew the technique, guaranteed.
What's interesting here is that parents would be oblivious to this fact, having once been kids themselves.
@anothersquid I recall making lock picking tools from the street sweeper bristles that I found along the roads between age 7 and 19.
In that same period of time I had figured out how to decode barrel locks without ever having access to information on how to do so.
We were a lot more crafty back then with physical objects, monitor screens aside from the television and perhaps a really really nice calculator were not something that would hold our attention for very long.
@@anothersquid Actually, most of us were concerned with many other things. Locks were there to secure something, so we "respected" that. We didn't need a lock to keep us out of our fun stuff, we just did our homework and obeyed our parents. If you had a dad like mine, you would have respected whatever he said, not because he was a big guy, but because he constantly demonstrated his love for us.
@@anothersquidWhich makes this all that much more amusing considering it isn't a PlayStation 🤣
My parents had the ultimate control. They simply didn’t buy us a gaming system. 😂
LOL
No, my parents had the ultimate control. They beat me when I disobeyed, and I learned to listen when they spoke. ;)
@@Elmojomoah yes, fear, very effective. At teaching stealth.
@@ralexcraft990 Yes, that too. ;)
Your parents were playing 3D Chess
“I asked Mrs. LPL to change it for me. You’ll have to take my word on that.”
With your reputation, I absolutely believe you on that. For a parental control lock device, my dad would have just taken the controllers, the games, and/or the power cable and let me just look at the console. It was a little extra jab to my punishment to have see something I couldn’t play. Granted the NES came out a year before I was born, so this punishment method started to apply during the N64/PS1/Dreamcast era.
If you had the tamagotchi memory card you could still play lol
@@UnknownGamer40464the pocket station?
This sort of punishment led to my major depression and social anxiety.
@@antiphon000 when I saved enough to get the Dreamcast, it actually came with 2 controllers. The extra one I hid. I would play it late at night with my door locked. Though the noise of the Dreamcast used to make me paranoid that my parents could hear it turning on. As for my PlayStation, I had 3 controllers. 1 of them was also hidden. It was great because they would never have found my controllers if they tried. I would have taken this punishment over my younger siblings punishment anytime. Though the constant hounding and down talking didn’t help me long term. Took years to get past it and realize my true worth. Hopefully you’re in a better position with your social anxiety and depression nowadays.
@@antiphon000 LMFAO you sound spoiled.
Reminds me of the time I was forbidden to play on my 286 so I gave my parents the "key to the computer". All this key did was locking the case but I told them that it is impossible to start the computer without this key 😂 It worked. Good old times 🙂
Chaotic evil.
"Now to start up the computer, ya gotta pump the gas twice, pull the choke, start cranking and after the third crank pump the gas again and then it should fire up. Keep the choke on for about 2 minutes and she should be good to run the Oregon Trail"
what a legend
@@Neamerjell Dat's da joke
-Rainier Wolfcastle
Yeah I could remember when I use to get in trouble and lose the privileges of losing TV and video games boy the year 2007 sticks out like a sore thumb I was punished for trying to tell my parents I was being bullied I was getting in trouble trying to tell the teacher a kid was bullying me but they never helped me I never felt so much hatred in my life as a kid for one single bully that it was just unfair justice that's why people like me is so screwed up in the head years later it's like half of the time I just want to take my anger out on everything it gives me the reason why I'm introverted these days and why I belong at home and why I'm a aloner in real life
My mom used to require me to get permission to have her type in the password for me to get on the Internet back in the day. She would come and hide the keyboard from view while she typed in the password. One day a friend and I set up a camcorder (old VHS style) from a different angle, hid it between some clothes in a closet, and recorded her entering the password. Played it back and got it right away. I still remember that it was "blue123" -- and Master Lock thinks THIS is going to keep kids out of their cutting-edge gaming systems??! HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I used to delete the password set by my mom in safe mode (Windows XP). Then I booted normally, installed a keylogger, and told her that "some bug has deleted the password, it's weird, I don't know" to make her set a new password while the keylogger was on.
@@Full1600 you filthy criminal 😁
@@Full1600 Heck, reading people doing this totally brings me back to my nerdy childhood. Never really took an interest in games, and finished my homework. My parents never did any sort of thing like this to me. 🤣 The worst I've done is probably forgot about the time video chatting with friends over Skype, and only getting our homework partially done, and very slowly.
Dude me and brother did the same thing! We put a camcorder in a basket with a hole cut in it above the desk on a shelf. We were some evil geniuses. Haha!
Our internet password was just '1nternet' lol
I remember my parents used to lock the family pc (in those days PCs had keyboard locks) so I couldn't play games unsupervised.
This was great for my education, as I learned how to bend a paper clip into a makeshift lockpick.
Legend has it you’re probably a burglar now in the absence of any qualifications.
@@MrSupercar55legend has it you have the qualifications to be a licensed lockpick
Yes, we did figure it out. A neighbor’s single mother thought it a foolproof way to keep my friend from accessing the game console until after she came home from work. We did exactly what you did once, and knew the combination. “Mom” was none the wiser, as the lock would be reattached and those who were present would vacate the premises before she came home (roughly 2.5 hours after we were home from school).
The irony: the lock picking gamer is a clever contract game programmer and app builder. Maybe mom knew exactly what she was doing! … Not!
As a programmer by trade, I don't think the skills would translate at all. That case just seems like a coincidence. I guess the "figure out how to solve the problem" mindset applies to both, but that's something he clearly already had.
one thing parents who used this forgot, is that one thing that kids have too much, is time. it was a matter of trying every combination until the correct was reached.
While the lock itself was probably well within the capability of any moderately smart child to decode, they wouldn't do it by trying every possible combination as that lock has 10,000 possible different combinations.
@@Matt_Alaric as a child I absolutely would have
Even more pointedly, the parents forgot they could just take the power cord, controllers, or the game cartridge and hide it somewhere up high..
@@Matt_Alaric I've played enough games with the same puzzle and brute forced them fairly easy
I bet most kids would have it open in a couple of hours
@@skilletborneAs a kid I had a master lock combination padlock similar to this and I'd be able to brute force the combination in about 15mins with no tools. They're really not secure even for kids.
The NES launch price was $180(well $179.99) It had probably been discounted to $90 by 1990 though(when the Homework First lock was introduced)
Maybe more like when the SNES came out.
No it wasn't. It was $79.99 for the base with just Mario Bros. The one with the Zapper and Dunk Hunt/Mario was $99.99 and the one with all that plus ROB and Gyromite was I think $129.99.
The Genesis, however was $189.99 on release with Altered Beast and the SNES was $199.99 two years later with SMB.
Funny thing is the SNES came out almost at the same time when the Homework First NES lock came out. So the last NES game came out sometime between 1993-1997.
@@defpally2954 No. When the NES launched in 1985 it was priced at $149.99 and came with Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, a light gun accessory for Duck Hunt and an extra controller.
@@Vgp-rp4iu the prices might have been different, but that's the three packages Toys R Us had when it first came out.
That was on par with the average bike lock at the time. It was easier to just pick your own bike lock rather than trying the combo. And more amazing is the easily pickable bike locks did help discourage bike thieves.
They knew a bike protected by a $15 lock was probably not worth much.
Wow a GamingHistorian / LPL crossover? I didn't think I'd ever see that. For those curious, Norman's channel is brilliant. Very underrated and always enjoyable to watch.
The only downside is he rarely uploads. Maybe a couple times a year now. But when he does, it's pretty solid stuff.
@@ucarouenI've been fortunate to only find his channel recently, have pretty much wiped the inventory. A lot of videos are sharing information too. Still an A+ in old gaming history!
His channel is awesome, but the garbage YT algorithm does him dirty. Whenever he uploads, I eventually get lucky and stumble across it several days later.
Oh my god Lockpicking Lawyer crossed with Gaming Historian? Love it.
I don't know that channel, but he's crossed with Donut Media, Stuff Made Here, Adam Savage has mentioned him and used thing he bough from Covert Instruments...
It’s called collaboration.
@@maxmotors9497 You're showing your age :)
@@seanj3667if you like learning about gaming history and grew up on early morning PBS (optional, just nostalgia) you should check him out. He does indepth gaming documentary style content that is very light hearted and family friendly.
It's a mashup, boomers. 🤣
Weird to think that for a couple of minutes at least, this lock functioned as the LPL Entertainment System :)
The LPLES
Norman setting the intial combination the lock had to 1337 makes me smile (it's shown on the letter).
What is the significance of 1337? I assume it’s some reference to old school gaming I don’t recognize.
@@prestonbruchmiller497 old school internet things (which other than 1337/LEET, is not used much nowadays)
specifically Leet speek (drived from elite speek)
1337 translates to LEET (1 = L, 3 = E, 7 =T)
wikipeadia has a decent article on the history of this if your interested
@@prestonbruchmiller497 check out the Wikipedia article on "leet speak" for some history/examples. It's essentially just replacing letters with numbers or other symbols (LEET, short for elite, indicated by 1337 is the most common). In particular wiki has a good example for the phrase "I can’t understand your writing. It’s confusing."
Apparently it didn't really originate with gaming, but it quickly found its way there - really any area you'd find early tech savvy folk. It was *sorta* like talking in a code that a bunch of friends in a treehouse made as kids, just for the heck of it. A "secret" handshake for the cool kids club that no one ever took seriously, just for random dumb fun.
One could argue the word 1337 itself was often used like Pogchamp is today? Maybe.
I saw it creep up as I went into online gaming in the Everquest, Diablo 1, starcraft days etc, but it goes further back to early hackers, scripters, or in particular BBS in the 80s according to wiki.
@@prestonbruchmiller497 reference to leetspeak, very old part of internet culture
@@prestonbruchmiller497It comes from leet-speak, gamer slang from about 20 years ago. Leet came from “elite” and described someone who was a skilled gamer, but some or all of the letters would get replaced by numbers giving l33t or 1337.
Mom used to stuff my things into a suitcase with a padlock. Never underestimate a kid with time and determination
Time, determination, and an extended-at-all-times middle finger, at least in attitude.
If I were a parent, I would have doubled down. Five padlocks, each from a different company with a different code, and a digital lock (if that existed in the 80s)
@@lockl00p27 You wanna create a super-villain in real life, or something?
@@Lycan4 I want to be the reason this world ends.
My parents only had a TV in the living room, and would not allow us to have our own TVs in the bedrooms, so it'd be impossible to play any game in secret. We didn't have doors for our bedrooms either, just so they could regularly check and make sure we weren't breaking any rules. Also not allowed to hang our with friends outside, since we might break a rule then too. Fun times.
Nice to see that Master Lock was always consistent in quality.
My parents method was that more effective: “If we catch you playing with this before your homework is done you’re going to lose the entire gaming system.” And they backed up their words with action. All it took was one time.
ah, supervision, the greatest deterrent to youthful hijinks.
Damn, just one time? That's harsh bro! Always give kids the opportunity to earn it back.
My parents just hid one of the cords. Easy.
@@attackofthejiggli Your analogy is bad and you should feel bad
@@kenbrown2808Technology can't surpass the power of a parent who cares and prioritizes being present in their child's life. GG rich parents GG 😂
As a kid I would have had more endurance in developing lock- picking skills than in doing my homework 😂
The reward for picking the lock was getting to play games, the reward for doing homework was… more homework.
The NES might have been 90 bucks in 1991 a few months before the snes launch, but that bad boy was 200 dollars at launch in 86.
Nes did not launch in 86. one of its launch titles, Super Mario Brothers, came out in 85
Specialized locks like these are always cool because they are often just too easy to bypass
It depends
If the company who makes it is like master lock then yes
My youth predates the NES - I was an upperclassman in highschool when the Magnavox Odessy was released and the Atari 800 came out while I was in college - so I never had to deal with this sort of thing, however when I was in college, the sophisticated electro-mechanical calculators were protected by a single cable lock to keep students from removing them from the Math/Physics library. (The LA36 printing terminal that was connected to the PDP-11/40 minicomputer, one of around 20 scattered around campus was not secured). The cable lock used a key, and students quickly figured out that a paperclip could be used to pick the lock if one wished to crawl under the table. There was no likelihood that any student would want to steal one of the quite obsolete and very heavy calculators, but practical jokes centered on removing the calculators and strapping other things in their place were common. I was always surprised that nobody in the administration ever bothered to replace the cable lock with something more secure, and when someone stole the cable lock itself, it was not replaced. I half remember that those calculators were retired during my senior year, but it was a *long* time ago.
i have one of those so called dinosaurs
not the exact ones from your school but a true trilobyte one by today's standards
a dell 333d manufactured in 1990
designed for cad software for use in a architectual firm
catalogs from the 1990's list that exact computer for 8,000ish dollars and when i mean $8,000 i mean $8,000 +more
the computer needs a key and only runs ms-dos
it still has that lock mount screwed to the side of the case.
that computer back then would be worth stealing
and now i am one of the few people keeping it alive
actually saw a few for around $600 to $800 at various online shops
but that was for just the computer.
i have the monitor, the original keyboard and the computer.
i keep it around because it is the only computer i own with a working 5 inch floppy drive
and a standardized 3 inch drive
if you could not tell i was born 6 years after that computer was created and in that time dell changed their logo i think twice.
"There was no likelihood that any student would want to steal one of the quite obsolete and very heavy calculators"
"I was always surprised that nobody in the administration ever bothered to replace the cable lock with something more secure"
I don't see why you were surprised. Why should they spend the money?
The first lock I ever picked as a kid was a Tubular lock that came on our first PC back in 1993. It was designed to not let the computer boot up, but as you can imagine it was more of a selling gimmick. My mother would lock it while she was at work to prevent me from playing games when I should be doing chores. little did she know that only a missing paper clip kept me from opening it. If I had my trusty paper clip I could pick it in seconds and enjoy hours of gaming. To this day she never figured it out. 😂
she is probably reading this right now
@@Elliottblancher She's probably dead.
@@CodeguruX Wtf
The f is wrong with all your parents guys... why would they not just let you have happy childhood?
This product is the origin story of the lockpicking lawyer and nobody can change my mind.
I absolutely would have figured this out in the 80's or 90's. I learned how to pick simple locks with paper clips while at my mom's office, along with other less-than-savory skills which would benefit me years later.
Thanks for sharing this!
so are you now a locksmith or a career thief?
@@sweetypuss the latter; I'm a govt employee 🙃
There was a new in package “Homework First” NES lock at a local flea market for years. When it finally disappeared, Norman’s old video about it showed up making me wonder if it somehow made its way to him. Now I have to wonder if it made its way here. :) I’ve also seen a similar device for PlayStation 2 but it worked with the power jack and was easy to bypass.
I remember using this same exact method on those cheap bike locks from the 90's when we were kids. The dials on those things left HUGE gaps between each other to let you know you were on the right track.
When I was in high school, my parents got something called a "time machine" for my 360. It was essentially a signal interrupt mechanism that the AV signal passed through. You had to put proprietary coins into it for pre-arranged time allowances. My parents gave us kids coins for doing chores and homework. The back had a very basic tube lock, and I very quickly figured out how to pick it with a single paper clip. It was the first lock I ever picked. I'd take the coins back out and never got greedy, and so was never caught. My parents only found out when I told them a year or two ago. I swear, devices like these are really better for providing educational scaffolding for children to learn life skills than they are for their intended purpose. . .
I feel like masterlock is really befitting of their name, since they've constantly managed to make locks that even the youngest master (under the historic definition) could eventually get into. I remember buying a cheap masterlock just for practice picking when I was just getting into it, and the raking tool in my cheap set was able to put the pins in the right position to unlock it before I even started raking them.
I mean, if a master key is a key that can open any lock, is a master lock just a lock that can be opened by any pointy key-like object? LOL.
When I was a kid I loved picking combination locks. If my parents would have bought this it would have worked about 10 seconds as well.
of course my parents would of been stupid enough to use their anniversary or birthdates
Most combination bike locks back in the 1980s were defeated by exactly that technique. When we were 10 years old, we used to pick each other’s locks and ride each other’s bikes 😂
Ever since the Video Game Historian posted his video on this lock, I've been waiting for LPL to do his video. Awesome!
This reminds me of when I was grounded and my mom took the power cable to my desktop as a means to make sure I couldn't play on it without having to take the entire thing. Little did she know that the power cable for a pc and a monitor is the same, and I had 2 monitors XD
lol, I did the same thing. One day they took the entire monitor though, so I just took my entire CPU and hooked it to the TV in the living room while everyone was asleep.
Had a box of power cables in the garage and when presented with the same scenario, I hid a bunch around the room.
>CPU
*PC, I assume
@@OliverUnderTheMoonno he put the CPU in the CPU slot on the TV, which allowed it to connect to the solid state drive of the random access memory chip, thus overwriting the firewall which allowes him to play games. Easy stuff really
@@snailtan4332 aha, yes, that makes sense now. Those x86 HTML firewalls aren't even even using hexadecimal strength encryption most of the time. It really tickles my buffers.
I almost choked on my OJ when he said Norm sent the lock. My worlds are colliding in the best possible way right now
I almost feel like reading the letter from The Gaming Historian took longer than it did for you to decode the lock itself.
I would have loved this as a kid. I used to pick locks on all my parents candy machines, so this would have been a fun challenge for me back in the day. LOL
As a child who's only friend was the NES and later SNES... 100% I would have figured that out. I would have brute forced it until I got it or found some other way to defeat it. Sooner or later I'd have a system and never be locked out of that sweet, sweet video game brain chemicals.
I feel like there's a conceptual problem with this lock. In most cases where you would lock something, the value of what's behind it is opaque enough that the average thief would probably not even bother trying to go after it.
However with this lock, you're intentionally barring a child from one of the most valuable things to them; a form of entertainment. Thus the child is outright encouraged to find a way to get rid of that lock whether it's through covert or destructive means.
This doesn't teach the child anything other than picking locks and breaking things is how you get what you want. What a good life lesson to teach just by spending $20 on this cheaply made lock.
@@anenigma8378 I had a lock we could pick on a whim. It never turned me into a thief. It's up to the parents to teach the morals that you need in life.
@@anenigma8378 Adjusting for inflation, the life lesson actually costs $50, so it's an even "better" deal.
Get help!
@@GonzoLarrybut they did tho, they watch lol regularly to sate their combination needs
I never knew something like this existed but I’m not shocked at all. Back in the Nintendo days, there was always some 3rd party product trying to attach itself to the success of the Nintendo. From controllers, to locks, to gloves that protected your fingers from getting blisters. It was a wild time.
two of the best creators on youtube!
My first experience with lockpicking was my parents locking my PS1 controllers inside one of those document lockboxes.
Norm genuinely has one of the best video game channels. Happy to see this unlikely collab
Two of my favorite channels! Seriously, if anyone is interested in documentaries of video game history, there isn’t any YT content with higher quality than TheGamingHistorian .
As soon as I saw the Thumbnail my first thought was Norman/Gaming Historian did a video about this
white content is awesome. @@000blocks000
LPL and Gaming Historian is the crossover I never knew I needed
Wow. Never expected Gaming Historian of all people to be sending you locks. Good stuff!
The Nintendo accesory you didnt want for christmas.
This is the lock that taught me how to pick this kind of combination lock. My uncle got it for my cousin, but in typical fashion for my family never actually used it so we would just goof with it.
In terms of just documenting and preserving gaming history, this is very very cool. I know there are preservation groups for games but stuff like this should be included in my opinion.
The work Gaming Historian and other groups like NoClip ae doing to preserve video game history is priceless.
I found this channel because of this video. I'm such a video game nerd, lol
So thank you and have a nice day.
Oh yes, I'm certain children could figure this out. My whole life I'd imagined lock picking something like this to basically consist of pulling on it and feeling when the wheels fell into place. It never worked for me on combination locks, but sure enough, here's a lock where that's exactly how it works.
Great starter kit to get your kid interested in lockpicking. I'd say well worth the twenty dollars
No locks were picked
@@RealMTBAddict correct, but it still is a good way to get interested in that. I started out that way
I can imagine some parent thinking they really outsmarted their child with this one
The key of course was to act depressed so they don't suspect anything.
I can't imagine decoding this and not living in terror of my parents finding out. Was I the only one who was actually disciplined as a child? Lol
@@SeraphsWitness I lived with my grandparents growing up. Grandma was the worst to get spankings from. Not only would she spank you, she would cuss you out while doing so.
Imagine the nicest woman you know just using language you didn't know existed. I learned some colorful words.
Grandpa would laugh historically in the background as well.
Humiliation and fear? Well played old timers, well played.
@@Diaphat lol I wouldn't recommend cursing at your kids while doing it, but discipline is good.
@@SeraphsWitnessmany of us wouldn’t have gotten a childhood in any capacity if we didn’t lie. You have to look at the trade off. How much enjoyment could I get by doing it vs the punishment if found out? But I’m biased, I’ve been dating my partner in secret for years now, lying has unfortunately just had to be part of my life.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
Literally, parent your child and they’ll listen.
Took you more time than modern masterlock
LPL has taught me that master locks are basically good for paperweights and that's it
That Lock is just a bonus level before gaming :D
“You’ll have to take my word on that”
You’re literally the only lawyer I trust.
I will always take you for your word. You radiate the energy of a genuine person and I've been a fan for a long time. Thanks for being you.
Master Lock never fails to depress.
A LockPickingLawyer-TheGamingHistorian crossover?! That’s another one off the bucket list.
That’s a cool piece of gaming history
I certainly learned to open locks of this type around the age that this would have been relevant. Something with a key would have provided more challenge. Though, if it stood between me and my Nintendo, I'm sure I'd learn how to pick locks a lot earlier too. One of my friends had a BIOS password on parents' computer for much the same purpose, and I managed to get through that one with some educated guessing and brute force trial and error. Kids have a lot of time and really like games. You have to get way more sophisticated.
The way I was brought up, parents didn't need a lock, they said no, we listened, because if we didn't , they would just take the game away. No way they would spend 20$ on this. Cool retro look back, LPL !!
Yes, the more physical restrictions become, the worse is situation in the family (or society at large).
My parents just hit me instead
@@bobbybologna3029When you gonna do it back?
Yep, the 80s were a different time, if I effed up I got the belt. I messed up quite a bit thinking I wouldn't get caught. My ass was sore and lessons learned.
Y'all talking about "the 80s were different, we listened to our parents or they'd beat us, this wasn't necessary" on a video about a console literally released in the 80s
If only 80's kids could've seen this video
80s kids...without the ease of instant information from the internet, were very very intuitive and devious . We figured things out or ways to work around obstacles.
@@gbgentleman now they're just as stupid as everybody else. Shocker.
That was just pure fun; great entertainment! Thank you for those few minutes of happiness
A nice way to keep the console open and let dust and moisture peel away the mechanical connectors for the cardridge.
This is a case for, those who would not try to crack the lock, would do their homework. And those who definitely want to play before or instead of homework... well, they don't have much of a challenge.
Keeps the studious kids studious.
This lock is an abomination.
Truly, this is the "locks only stop honest people" principle, but applied to children.
@@HaloInverse Exactly.
this is about as productive as that one time my mom tried the same thing by bringing my computer's power chord with her to work. to this day i dont remember how i figured out the treadmill has the same plug.
omg. so funny you got a hold of this product to test out. Thank you to whoever sent that to you and thank you LPL for doing this video.
Collaboration with Master Lock 😭😭 that’s all you have to say. I’ve been playing video games starting from intellivision to the PS4 and this is the first console lock I’ve ever seen and to be partnered up with the equivalent to the red ring of death but with locks is as sad as it is funny.
Thank you so much! I've been stuck playing Action 52 for the last 25 years!
I forgot the combo for the padlock for the yard at work. This is how i got in without calling my boss at 2 AM. Thanks LPL
Thanks, I really needed this
You know the video is going to be short when Masterlock is involved.
🤡🤡🤡
This style master lock was also on some of their bike locks back in the eighties. I figured how to unlock it the exact same way you did so we would take a friend's bike and lock it back up in really random places! Locked one to the front door handle of the school one time. Fun times.
Never seen that before. I’m pretty sure Super Mario Bros or Zelda would have been enough motivation as a kid to figure that lock out. Lol. Thanks for the nostalgia 😊
Nice! Good to see _The Gaming Historian_ reaching out for a collab.
LPL and Gaming Historian.. just two of the greatest channels on CZcams 🤯😁
A lock purely formed around "plausible deniability", how novel.
Ahh. The good old days. The early 1990s were the best.
I remember when I was a teenager, my parents would try to lock me out of the workshop, to keep me from doing electronics projects at certain times in their house with a generic Kwikset KW1 key-in-knob set. It wasn’t long that I realized that the latch wasn’t properly set when the door was closed, so I was able to shim the latch to get in.
My Dad bought a very similar product back in '81, but for the VCR. but after a few minutes, I'd learned to decode it. (Almost as quickly as I realised how to make phone calls without using the keypad or wheel dial on the landline phone!) 😂😂😂
Ah, yes. The old pulse-the-hookswitch method. Good times.
@@johnopalko5223oh yes indeed!!! 📱
Been locked out of mine for 28 years since my dog ate my homework.. Thanks LPL!!
I love your skill and variety LPL. I saw a vid of someone that integrated a parking meter into the power supply of a game system. The "child" would "earn" parking tokens set to 30 minutes each by doing yard work, homework, or other chores. I suppose that could be defeated too, but a better concept than this lock. As always thank you for creating high quality entertainment. I wonder when ML will get the idea that it's time to improve their lock design? Perhaps they just gave up when they realized that nothing can stop the LPL!
Love these short right to the point video s
Four decades ago, when my parents told me not to do anything until my homework was done, I took them seriously because I knew they’d check and there’d be repercussions for not doing as I was told. Then again, back then we didn’t even lock our doors.
It seems like many people here are praising kids for not doing homework before playing. Guess what they would say about parents going on vacations before making money for their bills.
Oh, it's one of you people. Don't you have a social networking site to ruin? There's a variety to pick from.
@@DuskTheBard Please explain what 'one of you people' refers to. I don't seem to know enough about current affairs to know what you mean. I'm humbly asking as I am absolutely clueless.
Honestly, I think the bottom of the NES is slippery enough that you might be able to slide the lock off. 😋 Great video as always, LPL.
There was a tap, fitting a hole in the bottom of the NES, probably a screwhole.
Hope you and the wife are all good. Thank you for your videos. UK
I successfully picked my first lock yesterday! It was a cheap "Globestar" padlock but it was still my first one....
I was a kid back then. We had different parental controls, it was go outside and play. There was no arguing with that, you didn't want the consequences.
Exactly
And if you didn't come back on time, and you heard your mom yelling your first and middle name up and down the street, you went straight home NOW!
"I was a kid back then." well thank goodness you said that I would've assumed you were a lizard back then 🤷♂
Now we know how LPL honed his skills when he was a teen with a NES 😂
I appreciate the throw back on this one :)
Who else did a double take when he said that it was sent by Gaming Historian? That channel is awesome too
Thanks LPL! Finally I can unlock my NES and play games while mom is not home!