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Famicom Dojo Podcast: Failed Console Treasures

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Oct.26, 2012

There are so many consoles on the market that it’s easy to forget that there used to be so many more. Not only have big players like Sega come and gone, but Atari has gotten out of the hardware race, as well as Bandai (now part and parcel of game publisher Namco).

Vinnk and Sean reminisce about their favorite failures, from the Dreamcast to the Lynx, and the Wonderswan to the 64DD.

Leave your own voicemail at 608-492-1923, or just share your thoughts in the show notes at FamicomDojo.TV:
http://famicomdojo.tv/podcast/63

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Tags: 64DD, Atari, Bandai, Dreamcast, Jaguar, Lynx, Nintedo, PS Vita, Sega, Sony, Wonderswan

Crade Lit

Dear famicom dojo,

I heard you dissing the “cards” for the intellivision. I would just like to correct you and let you know that the *overlays* for the intellivision were a fine idea, and allowed for very interesting gameplay with games like utopia and space spartans. The intellivision was/is awesome in every way. I never had issues with losing the overlays when I was young, as the overlays that were important to the games were important! It would be like losing your cartridge. I do not remember a single time that I needed an overlay and couldn’t find it.

The overlays are also great for making the intellivision one of the few great systems to actually own physically since emulation is pretty useless for it.

/ end PC engine nerd voice

BumblebeeZ3

While I can’t recall losing any overlays, I do know a few got kinda frayed at the edges from changing out games. Then again I’m one of those people who still has the cases for most of his games.
If the Intellivision is considered a “failed system” then consider it my favorite.
(I kinda want to dig it out to play Demon Attack now.)

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

Hahaha, well, to be fair I don’t think we trashed the Intellivision directly, just the Intellivision-like overlays that the Jaguar employed. 😉

I’d love to delve into the “pre-8-bit” systems, like the Atari 2600, Intellivision/Colecovision, MSX, and SG-1000 series. So many great systems that just weren’t a part of my nostalgic experience, but obviously affected everything that came later.

Crade Lit

Yes, the intellivisions overlays I think could be seen as the predecessor for the WiiU’s new controller 🙂 – Real time menus without having to pause the action!

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

That sounds like a skit waiting to happen…

Crade Lit

Good point, they do get frayed.. In fact a few of mine got so bad they wouldn’t fit in the controllers anymore and I had to just have them sitting on the floor as reference. But thats only because I played that system so much. It’s definately one of my all time favorite systems, since thats what I grew up with.. I still have my intellivision 2 hooked up at all times, usually with Tron Deadly Discs in it!

uglyjoe

How about the Tiger R-Zone? I loved this thing because of how convoluted the entire setup was.

You have a controller, and you plug it into the portable console. You then take your game cart, which has its own LCD panel and logic — essentially a Tiger handheld game without the controls and battery compartment — and you insert it into the portable console. The portable console is attached to an elastic headband, so you put that on your head and adjust the eyepiece so that it’s in focus in front of your eye. Then you turn the whole thing on and play a red LCD game.

Man, I hope I saved this thing in my parents’ attic!

Check out the commercial for the full effect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIS2G9271qU

http://www.famicomdojo.tv/ Sean “TheOrange” Corse

HOLY CRAP.

http://www.facebook.com/daniel.hathcock Daniel Hathcock

1 word. Game.com. Or is that 2 words?

http://www.facebook.com/jacknife451 William Talley

two. it was intended to be pronounced Game Com by its creator.

vomitHatSteve

Vinnk’s issues with fading in and out were really bad this week! What’s causing that? It sounds like it happens when you speak loudly, so are you overloading your audio chain?

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