Worst ever console? And the just plain bad or not very good ones.
We've discussed the popular consoles at length on here, but what about the unpopular, or at least badly selling ones, or the ones that never got many good games to make them worth buying? Which is the worst console ever, either by it's own physical drawback(s), or it's lack of good games?
I've never saw a Virtual Boy, but I've heard it could cause headaches, and also hurt your eyes? I've never saw a real Neo-Geo, but I've played it under emulation, and some games (such as the Metal Slug series) seem great, but weren't the games amazingly expensive, like ?200 each, and this was in the 1980s?!?
So which consoles were bad, and why, in your opinion?
I've never saw a Virtual Boy, but I've heard it could cause headaches, and also hurt your eyes? I've never saw a real Neo-Geo, but I've played it under emulation, and some games (such as the Metal Slug series) seem great, but weren't the games amazingly expensive, like ?200 each, and this was in the 1980s?!?
So which consoles were bad, and why, in your opinion?
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The Neo Geo looked amazing but the prices were just ridiculous back then.
My mate bought a Megadrive CD which was dire, the games were crap and just had crappy wooden acting video intros to a fair few games, dont think many games were released for it.
The Saturn looked good and seems to be the 'cool' one to go for nowadays but back then it seemed to be the 'Amstrad' out of all the consoles, eg the forgotton one.
the sega saturn, the world crapiest console, with the worlds crapiest games. and the people who bought it always seemed very thick to me.
Commodore had a history of making crap consoles. During the time of the Megadrive they released one based on the C64! The CD32 was pretty crap too - you'd have been much better off getting an Amiga A500.
Amstrad's GX4000 was a shocker - based on CPC hardware, again around the time the MD came out.
I think NEC's PC-FX (successor to the PC Engine) was a bit pointless. About all it was good for was watching MPEG cd's.
Just wait !
A homophobic nazi loving poster who loved the Sega Saturn will join in and then its world war 3 all over again !
we haven't had world war 3 yet. :grin:
:-) Wonder if he'll come back - expect a few more heated replies if he does tonight after I've sunk a few!
The Sega Saturn one of the worst!!! It was an awesome machine, but Sony annihilated it by making the PSX cool.
yeah, ha ha, but its friday so i wont get to join in till monday. :(
no its not one of the worst, it is the worst, all the other are great in comparison. :-D
Someone needs to keep you away from the evo-stik kiddo!
The Saturn was a helluva lot better than some of the other turd that was on offer at the time, the CD-i, the 3DO, the Jaguar, the CD32, all inferior to the Saturn in every way.
You'll be telling me you thought the pocketstation was better than the Neo-Geo Pocket next :lol:
Don't you mean Amiga 1200 as that is what the CD32 was based on, but with add on keyboard etc you could turn it into an A1200 anyway.
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I remember in about 91/92 they had one of these in HMV I think, and one of the guys who worked there was getting really excited that nobody could get past the first boss on the Terminator 2 game for it. I think they had the NES version running as well, and more people seemed interested in that one (even though it's equally as crap).
Kind of like a CD-i, but a DVD player instead, the games were crap and there were only 4 movies that used the technology released before they went bankrupt.
EDIT: Oh my god! hahaha! Just looked at the wiki page for it, according to that one of the main software developers was Jeff Minter :lol:
Minter also made games for the ill-fated Atari Jaguar. Maybe he's the kiss of death for any console he touches?
Kind of ironic given that two of Minters games, Tempest 2000 and Tempest 3000 on the Jag and Nuon respectively, were the best games on either machine!
Yup, did mean that, thanks for the correction. I never owned a miggy (was an ST boy) and the A500 was the only one I could remember :-)
The GP32 had no big games at all - yet had a really dedicated following of people - I suspect the GP2x and the Pandora are the same or will be.
I don't think homebrew consoles count as bad consoles as they were never intended to compete with sony or microsoft to begin with.
A bad console is surely one that aims clearly at a specific market .... and fumbles the ball in every way possible.
The original N-gage (before they updated it) was one such machine in my eyes. You had to practically disassemble the damn thing just to change games, and you looked a right pratt attempting to talk to someone on it...
Apart from Night Trap. And Silpheed. And Dune. And The Terminator. And Flashback. And Batman Returns. And Sol-Feace. And Pitfall the Mayan Adventure. And Sherlock Holmes Investigates. And Thunderhawk. And Shining Force.
But you're right. Apart from those the games were crap. :smile:
I've still got an original Mega-CD in the loft. Doesn't work but I think that's due to the AC adapter. Prince of Persia on it wasn't bad either. It was a decent idea by Sega, just released too late *and* was far too expensive.
The 32X add-on for the MD was an utter disaster though. They screwed up massively by announcing it at the same time as the Saturn. Only 34 games were released for it and after only a few months it could be picked up for a pittance. Apparently they only sold 200,000 of them.
Has anyone mentioned 3DO or CD-I yet?
It wasn't until the N64 that I became impressed and interested in Nintendo games/consoles.
I still hate the Amiga... though I secretly have a fantastic emulator and an actual C128(boxed) with a diskette drive and dozens of games.
I think three categories are needed here - bad consoles, badly supported and badly timed......
I say this because the Saturn was a cracking console with bad support........as was the MD with the 32X stuck on it(Bad timing....)
I thought the Gameboy color was a pretty poor machine but it had amazing support from developers due to every kid in the world having one..........so it ended up with some great games like Toki Tori(A game that could and should be Speccied.......)
More recently......dare I say it..........the PS3 is one reason I have lost faith(and Interest) in the future of gaming(until the right thing happens and we stop using controllers as we know them.....)
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... dare I say it ... Wii?
Yes you may - it's time for change and whilst I admire Ninty going touch screen with the DS and motion-ish sensing with the wii - it's not enough - but I believe they are pushing in the right direction at least........
I want full blown(and affordable) lawnmower man - and I want it now :)
I hear that makes people, and by people I mean people named Jobe Smith, go somewhat completely over the edge of insanity into full-on, surreal megalomania.
No VR for me ... I'm sticking to my Speccy like hot wax on an Austin Mini.
I'd call "FREE" affordable.
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I'll still be punching the, erm.............what do you hit in VR?? A virtual telly?? :lol: