I guessed it.
The only place I ever saw it (and played it) was in a Radio Shack in the Baldwin Place Mall. I did sort of like Blackjack on it...sort of.
But hey, it was 1977. Any such game was cool. Guess you had to be there.
In a way, a close second had to be Coleco's Telstar Arcade. It had a cheap quality to it, and was rather limited in what it could do- although ironically, 2/3 of the kinds of games it could play were the ones that dominated the 1990s arcade scene and beyond!
Last edited by Aswald; 09-03-2010 at 02:50 PM.
Interesting stuff, here (COMPLETELY unbiased opinion, hehhehheh):
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The Socrates was pretty bad.
Well I'm a Sega fanatic so I really enjoy the Sega CD and 32x for what they are (I actually prefer the 32x to the Sega CD but that's just me, I really LOVE Knuckles Chaotix, and all the arcade ports on there, especially Star Wars Arcade, and Sega CD has Sonic CD, Eternal Champions, Silpheed, and Snatcher along with some great RPGs) and the Virtual Boy is also a very enjoyable system for me. It is a tad straining at times and hard to see what's going on sometimes, but nonetheless the games are very good.
I'm not sure if the Jaguar had as many good titles as the 32x, but I think it had a lot more bad ones in comparison. 32x did have some crappy games, but Jaguar has some of the WORST games of all time, namely Club Drive.
Would it really be fair to post a pre-Golden Age "Pong System" from some nobodies as a "Worst"?
I kinda feel like part of the "worst" aspect is not just how bad it is on a purely objective scale (If we went by that, certain Tiger Handhelds and hardly-working duds would be easy tops), but also the more subjective "disappointment" factor - the thing that keeps things like the Sega 32x and the Nintendo Virtual Boy at the tops of many people's lists is how there were many "high expectations" that were not realized, not just among the companies but the general public.
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How embarrassing!
I have been collecting game systems since around 1984.
Of all the systems I purchased,,,several were soo bad that I threw them
in the garbage can. I did not want to continue the pain of
playing these systems, or selling them to another nice gaming person.
R-Zone,,,,,,,Virtual Boy,,,,,,,,,,Odyssey2,,,,,,,,
all 3 were sent to the land fill,,,,and I sleep better for doing it.
Rick
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Odyssey 2 is great, has great games, second best selling console in Europe
I loved Club Drive! Sure, it was a little glitchy from time to time. I still think it's a lot of fun. The art style is awesome, and its mechanics are actually pretty good. It's not the kind of racing experience you get from something great like Sega Rally, but it's fun nonetheless.
The Odyssey 2 is amazing. Chances are, Rick, that you just played some really crappy games. You should really try emulation and give it another shot. K.C.'s Crazy Chase is out of this world fun. Best maze game ever. K.C. Munchkin is also awesome, as is Killer Bees. There's a bunch of other good stuff too. You just gotta find it. Avoid junk like Blockout!/Breakdown! and Alien Invaders Plus! There's some cool homebrew stuff like Amok and Mr. Roboto, if you're into that. There's even a cheapish multicart available with (outside of some of the most recent homebrew) every Odyssey game, which I recommend highly.
It is not really fair to include the M2 in this conversation, since an actual console version was never released to the public. Besides the 3-4 arcade machines, the FZ-35S is basically the only functional, standalone M2 system that was available to the public (kiosk unit used in car dealerships and similiar). Dev units and the like were available (FZ-21s, FZ-DR21, FZ-55, etc.). No M2 games were released for it, though enthusiasts have developed/released some games in the past few years that will run on the FZ-35S.
Well I've heard a lot about the Atari 2600 Jr. Compared to the original model it seems that it was really cheaply made and breaks really easy.
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Hello Ryaan1234
My console must have been on the verge of failure. I had soo
much screen interference that my games were unplayable.
The controllers were hard wired to the console and were very difficult to use.
I also had a Huge add on piece that fit over the unit. It was some sort of
typing/voice module if I remember.
Nothing worked,,,,,,, so in total frustation I dumped the whole system along
with about 12 games in the garbage. I payed $15 for the console and around
$5 for 12 games. GOOD RIDDANCE. It was a waste of space in my game closet.
I have no regrets.
Rick
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Your list is probably pretty accurate, rbudrick, if you're excluding 80s gaming computers, but I feel I should probably defend the CD-i because I think it's still 100x better than a game.com. The CD-i has a single AAA (top twenty five of all time, easy, in my opinion) game in Dragon's Lair II. Also, a lot of the other stuff is pretty darn good, like the Zelda side scrollers, Voyeur, and various other fmv-heavy games that often get overlooked.
In fact, I think I might rank it above the Jaguar in terms of overall library of games. The worst thing about the CD-i was the terrible infrared remote that made most games near unplayable unless you find a lucky spot close to the console from which to aim the remote. The wired controller is much harder to find. That remote totally doesn't compare to the Jaguar's surprisingly amazing pad.
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I'll let you defend much of the other things with the CD-i without comment, as I didn't get to explore the library too much, but... I tried playing the CD-i Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon and got so frustrated at the -very start- of them that I could be driven to violence by them. The main problems with it are the controls being just barely able to work, and terrible difficulty and lack of balancing. I feel these are as bad as much of the NES catalog with "LJN" marked as publisher, and can't understand how anyone could think these games are better than Zelda 2 on the NES, as some would say; In Zelda 2 I at least feel like I can control Link.