Funniest Fun System

[Exo]

I know most people have been collecting and have ran across lots of strange and interesting system. What system do you keep around for a werid aspect such as that it was unpopular or something that could of been but wasn't something like the virtual boy.
I like the Sega Master System since tried alot of interesting things such card and carts in the same system, also 3d-glasses.
What system do you keep around just for novelty or because it’s a little silly?

[TNTPLUST]

RCA Studio II because it just is horrible...horrible..

Worst Console ever!





I love it!

[Ed Oscuro]

Those Sega MyCards were just the product of half a decade's worth of Sega experimentation with various types of media for the series of systems beginning with the SG-1000 back in 1983.

I might collect systems that are odd - usually, I go for the obscure or really cool/high end. Bragging rights I guess? Some stuff I have I won't likely be playing for a while (for example my purchase just this last week of a Tandy Color Computer 3 isn't likely to send me off on a CoCo3 game buying binge. Right now I have a couple things I'm looking at and as always I've got in mind the large pile of games NeoGeoMan has been keeping for me in Japan that I need to complete and have sent over ;)

[Nez]

My power base coverter for the Genesis. I cant find enough master system game in the wild.

Goldstar 3DO road rash is fun. So is dragonslayer but that damn porno game i have creeps me the hell out.

[Cmosfm]

I'd have to say I have un ungodly love for my Game.Com collection. Sometimes, I take it out and play it knowing GOOD AND WELL that I wont enjoy it. But I do anyways, I play frogger knowing I can play arcade perfect versiions on other systems, I play Sonic Jam knowing I can play the real thing on the Saturn, I also play Resident Evil and hate it. But I still play it.

Why? God I dont know why, I just like the Game.com

[-hellvin-]

channel f

god




god....
I hate that thing

[Duncan]

I'm actually very big on hardware - if it's cheap and video game related, I figure I'll probably own it soon.

I own a Lynx 2 only because I found one for three whole dollars at the flea market. Six bucks of repair work later (the cost of a new battery cover) and it's almost as good as new. So I do a little surfing on California Games every now and then - beats the hell out of Game Boy Tetris, far as I'm concerned.

I've got my Studio II because it was the first kind of video game I ever played.

I just recently picked up an Intellivision II because it was the second.

I own a Master System and a Saturn because I never knew anything about them until very recently. (Love 'em to death now that I've got 'em, too!)

[Stringfellow]

I keep my Atari 5200 around even though I can't seem to find a working joystick for under $60. I just can't part with it since it was the first game system I ever owned and I hold out hope that I will be able to play it again someday.

[MarioAllStar2600]

All my famiclones. I love the ones that look like an xbox, and ps2.
I never play my ti-99/4a or Aquarius either. I just keep them for looks.

[Algol]

I don't really have any systems that I plan on keeping for no real reason. However, I do keep six Famicom games and two Neo Geo games that I found in the wild for cheap, just because they're different.

[Jibbajaba]

I'm gonna have to go along with Duncan and say my Atari Lynx II. It is definitely the red-headed stepchild of handhelds, but I think it's great, and way better than the game gear, and I'll never part with mine.

[rxd]

I keep my Atari 5200 around even though I can't seem to find a working joystick for under $60. I just can't part with it since it was the first game system I ever owned and I hold out hope that I will be able to play it again someday.

Dude, Best Electronics sells rebuilt 5200 controllers with gold plated flexboards and buttons for $38. This is straight from their website...

Upgraded Best Electronics Atari CX52 Joystick with New Lifetime Gold Metal Dot Silicone Pads and Gold Flex Circuit $ 38 (Out right buy, No Exchange / Core required)


http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/5200.htm

[Sanriostar]

No systems per se, but I do keep some gaming things for this purpose:

2600 Rampage: No non-collector belives it exists unitll I show it to them.
Famicom Muti-carts
my Pac-Man Phone
My sealed Inty1

[ManekiNeko]

I guess I'd have to say that the Astrocade is the most lovable oddball in my collection. The controllers alone are enough to leave you scratching your head... they're joysticks, but they're also paddles, and they look kind of like pistol handles. Who came up with that design, anyway?

JR

[Pantechnicon]

I stumbled across an Entex Socrates at the thrifts one day and couldn't say no. While not necessarily a "game" system it had some ahead of time innovations like a wireless keyboard and an add-on mouse-based drawing tablet. Bear in mind this was years before Mario Paint.

So you see the reason I keep it is because it's weird, innovative, and nobody pays much attention to it. I like that...