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VG247 Forum » Topic: Most obscure game console you've owned? http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653 Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 19:27:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.vg247.com/forum/search.php quadfather on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38497 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:59:53 +0000 quadfather 38497@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Phillips Videopac G7000, which is the english name for it. I think the overseas one was called Odyssey. Needless to say, it was a strange console to say the least Dave Cook on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38229 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:58:38 +0000 Dave Cook 38229@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Barcode Battler deathm00n on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38228 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:54:44 +0000 deathm00n 38228@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @ManuOtaku The problem with this fake consoles is that for the poor people or people that don't have videogame as a hobby, they aren't a problem, they are a solution. But for us, it's almost a crime to sell it, it's fake advertsiment if you analyze it. Not saying I'm rich or anything like that! At the time of PolyStation I only used pirated games on my PS, and even by doing that friends were like "OMG he has a videogame!". You know how the prople from third world countries can suffer because of the prices of videogames right? But let the topic continue, this is talk for another topic. fearmonkey on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38215 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:18:26 +0000 fearmonkey 38215@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ I owned a Colecovision and a Bally's Astrocade - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade</a>. I had the first handheld gaming system that used cartridges, the Microvision - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision</a> ManuOtaku on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38208 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:40:18 +0000 ManuOtaku 38208@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Ok, got you, and it seems that we are not as clever as Brazilians are, well i was birth in Spain but raised in Venezuela, by the way, or that we dont care all that, what it did matters is that people got to their kids a very cheap playstation, and i guess it was all that did matter, darn economy problems and currency conversion issues :) deathm00n on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38207 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:30:10 +0000 deathm00n 38207@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @ManuOtaku in Brazil PolyStation didn't sold that well and were target of a lot of hate from people who bought it thinking it was some kind of cheaper Playstation. And people who bought it were target of jokes from the ones who had the real PS. Me and my friends have the saying "Holy s**t, more fake than PolyStation!" ManuOtaku on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38205 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:23:18 +0000 ManuOtaku 38205@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ No mostly was NES and SNES emulated games , it did came with a cartridge with 10 to 50 games or something like that. edit: i change disc for cartridge, i did asked my nephew in law she has one, the poor thing, her daddy is just an stubborn for gaming related things, he do not consider my advices, she comes to my house to play the real wii almost every day. p.s : you see i learn something today, every time i modify something for now on, i will put edit with what i did change and the reasons why i did change it, iam not a ninja, i prefer samurais instead :) monkeygourmet on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38204 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:59:00 +0000 monkeygourmet 38204@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @ManuOtaku Wowser! What a machine!!! Did it actually play Wii games? ManuOtaku on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38203 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:56:18 +0000 ManuOtaku 38203@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Here also came the miwi, the wii knock off, really funny and did also sold well. <a href="http://www.google.co.ve/imgres?imgurl=http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/%400_mall/nishikido/cabinet/00620082/img55601016.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_nexploit-especie-de-bannerbomb-para-wii-4-3_1577379_s120&h=637&w=700&sz=77&tbnid=Yzrg-tGkmmLJBM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=99&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmi%2Bwii%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=mi+wii&usg=__JE5ffRrqHYObv3ixGxYoqEe2ZHE=&docid=uZNzdNIEhxKe8M&hl=es&sa=X&ei=tFt8UNfeDoj20gGs-oDwDA&ved=0CCwQ9QEwAw&dur=1966" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.co.ve/imgres?imgurl=http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/%400_mall/nishikido/cabinet/00620082/img55601016.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_nexploit-especie-de-bannerbomb-para-wii-4-3_1577379_s120&h=637&w=700&sz=77&tbnid=Yzrg-tGkmmLJBM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=99&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmi%2Bwii%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=mi+wii&usg=__JE5ffRrqHYObv3ixGxYoqEe2ZHE=&docid=uZNzdNIEhxKe8M&hl=es&sa=X&ei=tFt8UNfeDoj20gGs-oDwDA&ved=0CCwQ9QEwAw&dur=1966</a> monkeygourmet on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38202 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:44:51 +0000 monkeygourmet 38202@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @Youngzero Did you have a Super Dendy after that? Then a Dendendo 64?! :) ManuOtaku on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38201 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:42:25 +0000 ManuOtaku 38201@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Deathmmoon, yes that one came also here in Venezuela and it sold a lot due price factor. YoungZer0 on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38200 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:37:19 +0000 YoungZer0 38200@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_(console)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_(console)</a> deathm00n on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38196 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:28:04 +0000 deathm00n 38196@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ The most weird console I've seen(didn't had it, one friend had one) was the PolyStation, you could buy it in pharmacies here in Brazil(I'm not joking, it's true! R$40,00 something like U$20,00). It was just a NES cloaked as a PSOne <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C7xAhoyxPZA/TmllJsyGCLI/AAAAAAAAABM/M0jWkrkhHpQ/s1600/polystation.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C7xAhoyxPZA/TmllJsyGCLI/AAAAAAAAABM/M0jWkrkhHpQ/s1600/polystation.jpg</a> It comes with one of these cartridges full of games but half of them were modifications of Super Mario, like Pikachu/Sonic instead of Mario I never had something I would call obscure ManuOtaku on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38189 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:50:22 +0000 ManuOtaku 38189@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ ^It did had three buttons that were primary use in games the keyboard numbers were for a security placement passwords and the like, if i dont recall wrong, i wasnt a fan of this controller, i barely remember it only for the alien game, that was great game for that time, it did had 64 bit graphics never before seen on consoles, that was the main attraction of this console. p.s and i do also remember shaq-fu, that game goes hand in hand with E.T the most horrible games ever made monkeygourmet on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38188 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:39:49 +0000 monkeygourmet 38188@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @ManuOtaku What did all the buttons on the pad do?! Always looked like a telephone to me! :) FabioPal on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38187 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:37:21 +0000 FabioPal 38187@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Neo Geo Pocket Color! Awesome! ManuOtaku on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38186 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:36:25 +0000 ManuOtaku 38186@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Like OG before, atari jaguar, but hey at least the aliens game was great, for me made the console worth it, but beyond that game nothing more, though. Ireland Michael on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38182 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:48:16 +0000 Ireland Michael 38182@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ I owned a PS2 once. daytripper on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38169 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:10:04 +0000 daytripper 38169@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ A toaster made into a NES DrDamn on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38168 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:23:33 +0000 DrDamn 38168@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @MG Chips challenge was the other main game I had on it. That was great. LuLshuck on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38166 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:59:40 +0000 LuLshuck 38166@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Dreamcast even though its not really a obscure game console monkeygourmet on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38165 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:46:43 +0000 monkeygourmet 38165@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ @DrDamn And Blue Lightning, Chips Challenge and Ninja Gaiden / Shadow Warrior! :) I loved my Lynx, was a beast of a machine size wise though! DrDamn on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38163 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:30:03 +0000 DrDamn 38163@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Back in the day when the cool kids were arguing Spectrum Vs C64 I had a Vic20, followed by a Commodore 16 then a Plus4. Console wise I had - and possibly still have - an Atari Lynx. Surfing on Summer Games was actually pretty impressive and fun. monkeygourmet on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38161 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:27:53 +0000 monkeygourmet 38161@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ I had one of these for my PC: <a href="http://www.3do.cdinteractive.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=179" rel="nofollow">http://www.3do.cdinteractive.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=179</a> It was a 3DO graphics card and pad. I had Road Rash, You don't know Jack and SSF2TX! Thought it was awesome until I couldn't find anymore games for it... Also, it was a complete bitch to install! Ended up giving it away, big mistake as I've seen them go for 250 plus on eBay! (I bought it for £25 at a car boot sale!) BraveArse on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38160 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:05:05 +0000 BraveArse 38160@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Embarrassed to admit I got a Gizmondo back in the day on the back of Richard Burns Rally, which actually wasn't bad for an early handheld racer. Still boxed and mint in my cupboard, hopefully to be sold at an profit in 30 years time. Lol. Way back when I was a kid though, I had a really obscure thing called a Memotech mtx512. <a href="http://www.retrogamingcollector.com/Retro-Computers/MemotechMTX512.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.retrogamingcollector.com/Retro-Computers/MemotechMTX512.html</a> It had versions of all the popular games. But I always really wanted a c64. OlderGamer on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38159 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:05:00 +0000 OlderGamer 38159@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Atari Jaguar CD. 'Nuff said. zinc on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38158 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:27:12 +0000 zinc 38158@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ Can't recall the name, but it was about the size of a VW engine block, the controller could have been used to beat baby seals to death, a dirty neon green spot in the middle & the only game worth playing was some tired old space marine corridor shooter... I bet it died a death! Digital Bamboo on "Most obscure game console you've owned?" http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6653#post-38157 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:35:28 +0000 Digital Bamboo 38157@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ There have been loads of consoles released over the years, & most of them failed. I'm wondering what the rarest console people have ever owned is. Mine is the Philips CD-i. Got it for Christmas '95(?) with about 10 games, including the infamous Hotel Mario & Zelda's Adventure. Later picked up Link: The Faces of Evil, which was marginally better than Zelda's Adventure, which is to say that it was just terrible. To this day I can't believe I finished Mad Dog McCree using that shitty controller: <a href="http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg</a> Also can't believe I finished games like The 7th Guest & Burn:Cycle without the aid of the internet, (didn't yet have a computer in those days). Burn:Cycle was by far the best game on the system, with a great soundtrack and setting. The Joker's Wild was a decent trivia game. Apart from those, the system was a disaster.