Best Ill-Fated/short lived console/handheld/gaming peripheral

Vote/discuss.

I’ll have to go with the TG16/PCE, as it is the only one I owned(besides VB, which damn near killed me to play)

Honestly, the PCE wasn’t all that ill fated in Japan, so I wouldn’t put it on this poll myself, but since it’s there, I had to vote for it. I honestly would have voted for Atari Lynx.

Lync was cool but doomed from the start IMO, especially as it went up against the might of the Game Boy. I’m personally going for the 3DO- great games, great technology, just released far too early for far too much and by far too stupid people.

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Neo Geo was neither short lived or ill fated. Unless of course you’re talking about the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

And, really, what good games were on the 3DO? Road Rash?

Of course not short-lived, but ill-fated? Yes. Unless we are talking about MVS (which i wasn’t), it was very ill-fated.

I’ve always considered Neo arcade hardware and Neo console hardware to be two halves of the same whole. If you’re just referring to the console, then yes, it’s ill-fated.

Yea, i meant AES, sorry.

Crisis averted :stuck_out_tongue:

Sat beat me to it (in reference to the PC Engine).

But I’d like to nominate the Atari 7800. Man, I love that thing. Great arcade ports of old classics, the ONLY home system to have a Food Fight port, and it had a Zelda-esque game with Grandpa Munster (Midnight Mutants) and a game called Ninja Golf, where you’re a NINJA playing GOLF. How awesome is that? Too bad the VG Crash pretty much sealed its fate (It was completed in 84, but never released until after the NES was released and became popular in America… I don’t think the 7800 was actually released until 87 or something). PLUS it was backwards compatable with the Atari 2600, which has merits that go without saying. Yeah, the controller (like most Atari controllers) sucked, but you can always just plug in a Genesis controller. =D I only wish it was backwards compatable with the Atari 5200 too…=(

Ooh, I didn’t even think of the Atari 8-bit. I had an Atari ST back in the day. It had the same hardware as a 7800, but without the cartridge port. Most games were ported over to floppy, anyway, and I still had (have) a 2600. Unfortunately, the monitor on the ST died, and by the time that I learned that any CGA monitor would have worked with it, we had long since sold it at a garage sale. :frowning:

I’ve never played it, but I’ve heard that the NeoGeo Pocket Color was a really good system, though it didn’t last long over here. So I’ll have to vote for the TurboGrafx 16. I’ve got the portable one (Turbo Express), and I love it!

NGPC is awesome, but if I had to make a vote to best underappreciated handheld, it’d go to either Lynx or Swan Crystal. The Turbo Express was sexy, though. Nothing like playing Neutopia on the go.

Not to get off topic, but you’ll be pleased to know that I started playing Neutopia yesterday (I was playing around with my…cough registered version of Magic Engine, and for some reason, the only TG16 ROM I had on my hard drive was Neutopia).

Man, that game is the biggest Zelda-ripoff this side of Golden Axe Warrior… I love it! =P

Yeah, it’s awesome. Try Neutopia 2. :smiley:

The only reason I’m playing the original is because my computer (which isn’t hooked up to the internet) just happened to have it on its hard drive. The chances that I play the sequel any time soon are next to nothing. Sorry. :kissy:

NeoGeo Pocket Color > all++LOL