I had the magnavox version of the 220 including that dv card for those games and other videos. I honestly have to say I'm kind of tired of people just doing the cool thing of shitting all over the system. Let's get one thing clear people in general fail to want to address and will find any way to dodge when it's thrown out there -- it's not a gaming console, it's a multimedia box. If anything it's a forefront internet lacking version of the shit being shoveled now by far more competent people to keep it alive. Take online out of the equation and throw that up against the PS2 generation forward. Movies, music, games, and some educational junk for various ages. The problem is, they didn't focus more on games like the stuff in the 21st century has, had no internet to crutch it along either, and it was in a period of transition of cart to disc, pre-dvd no less, attempting to do something new.

Place games to the side for the moment. What was the thing? Well for starters, it has 100s of movies in VCD format, one that got tanked by the DVD, just like HDDVD got whacked by the blu-ray format (or beta vs vhs.) Second to that, it had a strong educational package which was meant for the little kids through the teens...The Manhole, learning tools, even a full on encyclopedia with a lot of pictures, animations, sound and movie clips of important moments. And yeah finally games. The thing was primarily and evenly made for doing audio and video, didn't leave much in the hardware to do much else. So due to that what you got with it were a good many games that were only there to play to the strengths of the thing, and in that era it was alive and even doing its best, it excelled better than the others. Find a better version of those arcade games of Dragon's Lair 1 and 2 or Space Ace at that point -- PC versions blew, the console games were licensed shat that didn't even try to be a copy. Then you had some other older computer and arcade conversions that were pretty solid like Little Divil, some bland though (like Tetris), but others were perhaps the best release (like Lords of the Rising Sun.) And finally there were quite a few games that did what it could within the confines and strengths like all the rail shooters like Chaos Control and Burn Cycle which were fantastic, and there were other sadist Dragon's Lair likes such as Escape from Cyber City. Some unique stuff popped up like Kether and The Apprentice, but also even a final fight (mutation nation neo geo more so) clone called Mutant Rampage Body Slam which was a blast. The thing had little memory to store data, it streamed much, that's where things would lack, or you'd get loads all over. In the end the shitty licensing deal where Nintendo let some C-team twits do their best with their 2 best franchises seems to get all the internet blowjob rage over crapping on the system because supposedly Mario and Zelda violate their nostalgia corn holes. I'm not going to lie and say I owned them all, but I did have Hotel Mario and Link Faces of Evil. While both had rubber monster awful/funny terrible cartoon bits to tie the story/stages together the backbone games while a bit stiff were still solid. Had they NOT been licensed games and branded as sub-par (duh) to Nintendo's efforts you could have done far worse. Hotel mario was a very solid and pretty smootnly playing mix of Elevator Action and Super Mario World and it worked. Link Faces of Evil had some odd weapon choices but it was basically a sequel off of what people knew from then (so few games) of Zelda 2 -- though took the zelda 1 angle of no hints so you had to just run around a lot to figure it out or die doing so. I finished both, don't regret owning them, do regret still not owning them just for some random self abusing fun now and again but the prices suck. Sure they're not A games, very few were on there, but it had a solid line of B and C grade stuff that wasn't miserable. I know I don't post much anymore on here due to the vacationing dictator, but it needed to be said.