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#1 Ninty64X

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:29 PM

Have you ever thought that there was a system that seemed good, but never got what it truly needed to be successful? For me, I always felt the cd-I had lots of potential to be revolutionary. It could play movies, music, AND games. Pretty big for the time. It just never had the promotion and good software to kick it off. How about the rest of you, any thoughts?

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:34 PM

DREAMCAST
Ethernet compatible, Internet Browser, screen on controller, good graphics for its time, exclusives, nice controller, CD, small, 4 player compatible...

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:38 PM

System failure is in the eyes of the beholder. A lot of people say the Dreamcast and Saturn were failures, but are my 2 favorite consoles of all time. I rather view them as under appreciated. The 3DO however wins my vote. I owned one and it had a decent library of games while it was around. The most powerful system of It's time, had tons of upside...except the price...I remember when I first saw it at my local electronics store....played it, loved it, but at $699.99 it was a monster investment and didn't sell well. Who knows what could of been back in 1993- 2 full years ahead of the Saturn and 3 before the PlayStation.

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#4 Hari

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:41 PM

forget what I said, Vectex is the real deal!

#5 Ninty64X

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Posted 28 December 2012 - 04:18 PM

Starts chanting: VECTREX VECTREX VECTREX WOO! :laugh:

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#6 AndyG

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 12:27 AM

The virtual boy in THEORY was a good idea, however it's horrible red graphics and constant feelings of nausea after short sessions of play lead to it being discontinued.
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#7 taz546565

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 01:10 AM

n-gage why nokia should stick to phones never a good idea also im with everyone on the dreamcast my favourite console too.

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#8 alan123

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 03:04 AM

The Atari Jaguar !

First 64bit console & also had a GPU that could be used as a CPU, not long after it's release it had a CD unit for CD based games.

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 05:08 AM

Jaguar, cd-i , dreamcast and Amiga cd32 are ones that spring to mind, never really had a chance to shine. Jaguar had some cool games, and the cd add on might've helped it but was released too late that nobody actually noticed it was out there, cd-i was woefully underpowered when it was released, Philips never really knew what to do with it, again some cool games for it (Burn Cycle was cool), the dream cast had loads of cool titles but people seemed to be more into Sony by then so it's life was cut short, and the cd32 could've been so much more, it could do 3d graphics (kinda) & had a fair bit of grunt under the hood for the time, but all devs did was release standard Amiga 600 and 1200 games on it with maybe a fancy intro tacked onto it! I owned each of those systems and loved them all, shame they didn't last a bit longer.
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Posted 29 December 2012 - 05:24 AM

I came here to post my opinion which was the Virtual Boy but I see I was already beaten.

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 08:26 AM

PlayStation Vita lol ;)





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