ITT: Obscure consoles

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Poland represent.

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Talk about obscure, the company behind Halcyon went bankrupt days before the official release. It sold for $2500 in 1985 money and that's with the company taking a big financial hit with every console produced. While there are a good hundred of these things circulating due to store owners keeping their limited stock of consoles, they may have never officially sold a single unit.

It only had 2 games, a meh football simulator and one great game, the definitive version of Thayer's Quest.

>>3669626
That's just a Famiclone though, isn't it? That doesn't count.

>>3669626
Famicom clones are so adorable.

>>3669626
I don't consider clones to be obscure.

>>3669793
k

>>3669692
How exactly did the FM Towns Marty worked?

dreamcast...

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MEGA DUCK

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Apples only Video Game console. It had an excellent port of the first two Marathon games if my memory serves me correctly, and it even had that awful American made FMV Gundam game. Interestingly, it was literally a Macintosh Performa 6300 CD in a different case, and when some games booted up it would show the desktop for Mac System 7 for a split second. Rumor has it that you can even softmod it to boot into the Mac System 7 normally and install standard Mac games on it.

The Pioneer Laseractive... Also known as the Rich Kid's Sega Genesis/Turbografx-16 which also has their own Laserdisc games.

>>3669609
Why does it have a coin slot?

>>3670021
It's a sticker printer.

>>3670021
Arcade perfect ports

>>3670021

That's where the stickers come out.
Yup, that thing PRINTS MOTHEREFFING STICKERS. Everything else is irrelevant already.

>>3670139
>MOTHEREFFING
don't worry dude
your mom isn't here

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The Adventure Vision, it's like a vectrex, but it uses LEDs instead of vectors.

>>3669886
It's a computer with little RAM and only one floppy drive.

>>3670315
dudes don't play Casio Loopy.

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gah mah tay

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>>3669609

Zoga

http://www.sgshop.com.my/taobao/tao-bao/searchdetails?tbid=539090961458

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>>3670741

I wonder, are clones ever as accurate as the original FC/NES? Even clones made today?

Might just get one of these $10 for NES games, instead of playing on shitty Android, though I doubt most of the games included are in English.

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>>3670139
I thought you guys were memeing me but it really is a sticker printer.
I want one (for my wifes daughters).

>>3670746
The only clones designed to be accurate rather than cheap are the recent expensive ones. (RetroUSB AVS and NT Analogue mini)

>when you get vibrators instead of controllers
I really like the name though besides the Channel F part

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>>3671889
shit forgot pic

>>3671893
That looks classy.

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>>3669609
This thing is so obscure no-one has heard of it. I remember seeing it at Radio Shack and thinking it was neat because it used CDs and played videos, but that was all I ever saw of it.

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>>3672798
https://youtu.be/y73XriwHJxQ

How could it fail?

>>3672821
i love this shit

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>>3672798
>looking for info on this thing
>"Radio Shack store employees jokingly referred to the VIS as "Virtually Impossible to Sell".[3]

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I was one of the 10 or 15 people who actually had one of these

>>3670747
>2016
>to not trust anons

>>3672840
We have one of those at my store.

>>3672868
Do you have any of the five games you could get for it?

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>>3672836
>>3672798
They should have just made a Violent Clown With a Gun game

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Has anyone even seen one in real life?! Didn't think so!

>>3672924
I did! Woohoo!!! I think they did mediocrish in Germany, UK and the Netherlands and totally failed anywhere else.

>>3669687
That looks exactly like my Pioneer laserdisc player if it had the extra stuff on the top. Apparently there's some add on I can get to emulate at least Dragons Lair

>>3672924
I grabbed one of these up for like £15 back in 2014. Sucker thought it was a CD player.

>>3669609
this is probably the best console ever made. Not even the ps4 can create stickers.

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Shame it didn't sell, the games look shockingly good by 1977 standards.

>>3672840
Seen on of these at Goodwill before years ago

Still kicking myself for not buying it

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>>3672840
it's beautiful.

>>3672924
I used to have one ,fucking great system as it was an Amiga 1200 and could play most Amiga games if they were on CD ,never played Amiga cd32 games on it

>>3670741
Does Zoga do what Nintendon't?

>>3672924

Saw it in shops (UK) as a kid. Edge magazine gave it a positive review of "Liberation" and some other Starfox type shooter.

>>3670795
If I'm not mistaken, aren't those cannibal consoles though? With bits of hardware recovered from old NESs?

I can't be assed to check but the only Famiclones being made that are 100% accurate are South Korean machines like the Super Bus?

>>3674817
The Analogue NT was a limited-run cannibal console. The Analogue NT Mini and the AVS are high-end clones (FPGA-developed).

>>3672919
I'm still amazed the support this thing got.
It has fucking Resident Evil 4.

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Nuon, the video game console secretly installed into a bunch of DVD players.

Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lpViVaMtrM

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>>3675086

Also noticed this on the same YouTube page. Color TV Game 6 or Nintendo's first console release.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbRt-AdzGI

Xavix Port with Jackie Chan. Turn out this was the first motion control system pre-dating the Wii. This guy has tons of footage of it. There is also a bunch of Jackie Chan games on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-NtDspHS4

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>>3675092

This guy is loaded with obscure tech. This is called Sega Pods and it's some kind of motion control console from Sega.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a43vv34PG_s&t

>>3674817
Almost all Famiclones to-day (not couting boutique things like AVS and NT) are based NOAC based (NES on a Chip). They are tolerable if you just want some actual hardware and are insanely cheap (and legal now too). The only truly accurate Famiclones were 80s-90s clones that used actual CPUs and PPUs that were compatible with the Famicom. Usually they are totally discrete, straight up hardware cloens rather than a glop-top pre-fab design. It's cheaper to buy an actual Famicom than those older clones though, they're pretty sought after. That said, you can grab a Yobo for like %15 and it will play almost everything at a passable level and can use real NES controllers which is nice.

>>3675104
Wow sorry for garbage editing

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>>3675101

Another one he made a video on. Nintendo's iQue Player, a china exclusive console never released in Japan or anywhere else.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ry41IBG4&t

>>3675112
Isnt it basically an n64 tho?

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>>3675112

Another video. SNES counter tester? This I've never seen before. How common are these?

No gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIeNscn1uPQ&t

>>3675117

It's an N64 reduced to the size of a controller with downloadable games that was released around the time of the gamecube. That's crazy.

>>3675120
Tbh, would be really cool to have for my console/nintendo collection

>>3674817
>>3674892
Cannibal consoles are honestly the only purpose of NESes. That and repairing Famicoms.

>>3675118
It's not a console, it is a test bench for consoles. They were used at authorized nintendo service centers.

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>>3675118

So this here is called brown box and it's what most people consider to be the first video game console made. It was never released for public but the pieces inside eventually made the magnavox odyssey. Atari stole pong from this system.

Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44i4LQbCIzM

>>3674892
Is it equal to an NES/Famicom or is it just a high quality approximation?

>>3675941
The NT has real PPU and CPU, so it's the real deal, but grossly, grossly over-priced. Comically so. The AVS is FPGA based, so it's a full-on clone. It has generally solid reviews but I guess it has some actual design issues, YouTube has a ton of videos about it. USGamer did the best overview and stream.

>>3675952
That price point isn't a lot for me. Fuck it, I'll buy one.

>>3676063
The original models with real PPU and CPU are sold out forever afaik; the new 'mini' version is going to be FPGA based like the AVS is, just a heads up.

>>3675095
I remember seeing commercials for these when they came out. My local Radioshack had them if I remember correctly.

What about the radioshack console?

>>3676063
Buy the AVS

>>3674892
Why would you spend so much on a clone when you can just buy an NES?

>>3676282
I think it's the convenience of not having to get it modded, or in some cases a 'native' digital video out.

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All good choices especially: >>3675130.
I actually owned pic related. "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was kinda a fun game. It was kinda weird seeing games made out of cassette tapes.

>>3675086
I was just about to post this. I really want to play tempest 3000

>>3675130
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44i4LQbCIzM

So PONG and SIMON are just rip-offs

Bummer

>>3676557

That's crazy how they stole from each other.

>>3669609
Wonderswan

>>3675101
> dat pic

It looks like 3 frowny faces staring at you.

>>3669609
laseractive

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you are now forced to remember how this thing had Bonk <i>and</i> also had color

>>3669692

This guy

>>3675086
>>3675092
>>3675101
>>3675112
>>3675118
>>3675130


That's a pretty small channel to be pumping out all of these videos. Has he made anything else like this?

>>3676801
Looks beautiful, do you have more pictures like that?

>>3676801
That took six batteries and lasted for 2 hours.

>>3672924
I've got one which is almost exclusively used to play Exiled until I finish it anyway

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>pic related, my collection minus a couple of DSs & PSP

I guess mine would be the "Grandstand 6000 Color"

>>3679397
I really need to photograph my collection sometime. I also need to calculate its total value for my homeowner's insurance, because I know it would cost me several thousand bucks to replace (I've been at this my whole life).

>>3679397
What's your opinion on the LeapFrog?

>>3672710
That's so 70's-early 80's, with the wood grain and high contrast keys that are for some reason reminiscent of the original Star Wars. I bet Clint would like that.

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>>3669609
If I was a little girl I'd by psyched about a sticker printer.
>>3669626
The NES is as popular as you can get, even in bootleg form.
>>3669687
Now that IS an obscure one.
>>3669692
I don't think the computer variant was too obscure.
>>3669980
I can only see this appealing to dads whose kids want a Game Boy but he doesn't want to pay for one, but he knows that a Tiger handheld won't do.
>>3670003
Wasn't the whole multimedia craze nearly dead when this came out?
>>3670114
Just a SNES for hotels, a precursor to those Lodgenet things you sometimes see.
>>3670353
Expensive as fuck these days.
>>3670526
A consolized MSX, quite popular in Korea.
>>3670731
Same as the Mega Duck.
>>3670741
Famiclones don't count, padre.
>>3670746
Early clones used reproduced parts and were A-OK even if a bit fragile, but NoaC stuff is junk.
>>3670773
A consolized CPC, not sure why they went for it.
>>3671893
God damn I love woodgrain, and those controllers are weird.
>>3672840
Once again a consolized computer.
>>3672919
Glorious Brazilian engineering, reminds me a lot of the OUYA.
>>3672924
Shame this never came stateside.
>>3673827
I don't even know what to think of this one.
>>3675086
They took the 3DO approach but failed even harder.
>>3675092
So many different Pong machines out there, if it wasn't by Nintendo nobody would care.
>>3675112
Didn't this have a Mandarin dub of Star Fox where everybody sounds really pissed off all the time?
>>3676324
A computerized console that wiped tapes. Not Coleco's finest moment.
>>3676801
Sodomized your wallet but damn if it wouldn't make you the coolest kid in town.

Try this on for size. Came out in '94 to surpass the PC-Engine but NEC consciously decided to put no 3D hardware inside because they didn't think it was good enough yet. Had a ton of ecchi games and died in four years. Apparently it was very expensive.

>>3679487
Yeah you should bro. If a good sum was invested, its worth protecting and insure. specialy if you have boxed stuff, it just goes up in value

>>3679981
I thought the external design of the PCFX was cool just because it had a kind of retro-ugly but cool thing going for it, and it was a game console that resembled a tower PC. Too bad the hardware was kind of shit and way overpriced with no games.

>>3679832
p good, child-intuitive. the tap pen's chord sucks though

>>3679981
I think you accidentally didn't reply to at least 2 posts ITT.

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Lemmie show ya'll the "Action Max" system. I'm not sure I'd describe it as a video game console, per se, but they sure as hell tried to market it as one.

This thingie was meant to be hooked up to a television with a VHS player. A number of VHS tapes were made for the console, and they were the "games" for the system. It also had a lightgun. The gun was the only controller it had, and was the whole selling point of the system.

When you played a tape the movie had "targets" on the bad guys of our story. Shoot lightgun at targets. Pretty simple. Action Max had a red LCD counter on the top of the unit that would keep your score. (Not so dissimilar from the way the "Captain Power & The Soldiers of the Future" toys would interact with the weekly television show, if you're old enough to remember that one. Except that the bad guys there could actually "shoot back" at the toys, an extra interaction Action Max didn't have, but I digress.)

If I recall correctly, it only went up to 99 so I suppose you could argue that you'd "beaten" a tape/game if you could get the score to roll over.

I never owned one of these stinky piles of shit, but my best friend growing up did. Funnily enough, his father got WAY more mileage out of the thing than we ever did. We had Atari 2600's and a Commodore 64 between us. No contest there.

For the truly trivia minded, Action Max here was the brainchild of the "Worlds of Wonder" company. These were the people that brought you Teddy Ruxpin, Lazer Tag, a slew of other eighties-era toys, and were the original distributors of the NES in North America.\

Anyway, I vividly remember "Pops Ghostly" as one of the tapes we watched his dad play through regularly, although his favorite one was a sort of "Top Gun / Iron Eagle" inspired fighter jet shooting movie, the name of which escapes me after all these years.

The Action Max. Weird stuff from my youth.

>>3676801
I had one... remember watching Goof Troop with the TV tuner

It had terrible battery life as anons noted...

>>3676801
I grew up extremely poor as a child. I mean literally was homeless for several years, but I somehow had one of these. I don't even know how we got our hands on it, but I had it and Keith Courage. I think some guy my mom was trying to get with gave it to me and my brother.