Dommyboy:
Anyone here actually bought a Virtual Boy?

Did anyone anywhere actually buy a Virtual Boy?

I know no Next Gen consoles. But, I have to give my award to the 360. I had 9, yes 9, of them in 4 months. So I got out my sledge hammer and that was the end of it.

SgtSPECTRE:
I know no Next Gen consoles. But, I have to give my award to the 360. I had 9, yes 9, of them in 4 months. So I got out my sledge hammer and that was the end of it.

Wow that was stupid, you could have just sold it.

The Atari Jaguar (and its stupid JaguarCD) is one of the wost consoles ever. Apart from Aliens vs Predator (the original FPS) and Tempest 2000 (woop-de-fraggin'-doo, a fun game, but you must be kidding me), there were only incomplete mortal kombat clones, Fight for Life (a bad Virtua Fighter-like game), Rayman (ok that was great), Bubsy (16-bit era game), and more crap. DooM looked fine, but that's the end of it...

Anyone ever played on a Tiger game.com ? this looked like one of the worst things ever.

I played two games on the N-Gage, I think they were Tomb Raider and Sonic, well it's nothing to write home about, and the first model was not en argonomic phone at all...

The GP32 was quite uninteresting, apart from emulators, Korean untranslated games and demos, what was there to play ? Homebrew ? meh, most of it were half-assed project for contests and nobody gave a crap, plus the analog was imprecise and unsteady... Overpriced too...
GP2X is equally uninteresting to me, but I tried a Genesis emulator, the analog is of a better quality, and it's advertised as a development platform, so well, maybe people will code some fun stuff...

So many strange, unknown consoles out there. I never really liked the PS1 (this was when I was younger) because the control was so weird and practical compared to the Nintendo 64 controller. Also that in the PS version of sarges war everything looks better :/ Young fanboy-ism that is.

I didnt like the N64 controller. Everything was in an annoying spot.

SgtSPECTRE:
I know no Next Gen consoles. But, I have to give my award to the 360. I had 9, yes 9, of them in 4 months. So I got out my sledge hammer and that was the end of it.

Or you could of burn it and put a video of it up on youtube.

Tessy:
I didnt like the N64 controller. Everything was in an annoying spot.

Its the N64, does it really matter how you button-mash? Man I liked that console.

I'd say for the handheld market the Sega Game Gear was pretty high on my list. That thing was a battery monster and was about as comfortable as the old xbox controllers.

The Playstation 1, and the XBOX.

Tessy:
I didnt like the N64 controller. Everything was in an annoying spot.

Though while the controllers was quite impractical, the games were made of win.

Cyclomega:
GP2X is equally uninteresting to me, but I tried a Genesis emulator, the analog is of a better quality, and it's advertised as a development platform, so well, maybe people will code some fun stuff...

I recently got one of these on the cheap. Emulation of most of the older gen systems on it are great. You can even play DOS games. Try and give it another shot. I'd say its one of my favorite handhelds.

And no mention of the Nomad? Does anyone even remember that one? It was essentially the "portable" Genesis, although its about as portable as a compact car. And you would need a nuclear reactor to power that thing.

Most video game controllers are now all the same except for the Wii. You can see why they called the Wii as a whole revolution.

Worst franchise is the franchise that asks stuff like this.
Everybody has their opinion and some virtual people TYPNG LIEK DIS!!! are not going to make an impression. At least, I hope so. Frankly, anybody who takes advice from people TYPNG LIKE DIS!!! should probably be shot. Does it show I had a bad day at uni?

maddog015:

Cyclomega:
GP2X is equally uninteresting to me, but I tried a Genesis emulator, the analog is of a better quality, and it's advertised as a development platform, so well, maybe people will code some fun stuff...

I recently got one of these on the cheap. Emulation of most of the older gen systems on it are great. You can even play DOS games. Try and give it another shot. I'd say its one of my favorite handhelds.

And no mention of the Nomad? Does anyone even remember that one? It was essentially the "portable" Genesis, although its about as portable as a compact car. And you would need a nuclear reactor to power that thing.

I don't like the ergonomy, not comfortable enough to play Neo Geo games (my PSP suits that better), and the SNES emu is still not 100% stable. Plus I couldn't be arsed into caring enough as of now, but thanks for the suggestion. As for DOS games, I am tuning DOSBox and SCUMMVM on my laptop, so it's not a big incentive...

Well the Nomad, as far as I could understand, was almost exclusive to the US market, and as such it's something of a collector item in Europe, but yeah I heard the battery ran so fast it was worse than a Game Gear (surprisingly enough the Lynx always ran quite fine and ate the batteries a bit slower than the GG).

Wilson> Try the Lynx I (the Lynx II is a bit more comfortable), you'll love the GG. I've sold my Lynx II to a friend a couple years back because he was a huge fan of Chip's Challenge when he had one. Good ideas, but basically a terrible console with nigh-impossible games (Kung-Food and Batman Returns, for instance).

[quote=[zonking great] post=9.72894.777410]Worst franchise is the franchise that asks stuff like this.
Everybody has their opinion and some virtual people TYPNG LIEK DIS!!! are not going to make an impression. At least, I hope so. Frankly, anybody who takes advice from people TYPNG LIKE DIS!!! should probably be shot. Does it show I had a bad day at uni?[/quote]

But CAPS IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL PEOPLE. Actually that is right about how you should avoid people like that I tend not to listen to anyone who deems themselves to be "cool". Erhem, *Cough* Macintosh *Cough*.

Argh, curse your user name and it's quoting interfering abilities.

Dommyboy:

zonking great:
Worst franchise is the franchise that asks stuff like this.
Everybody has their opinion and some virtual people TYPNG LIEK DIS!!! are not going to make an impression. At least, I hope so. Frankly, anybody who takes advice from people TYPNG LIKE DIS!!! should probably be shot. Does it show I had a bad day at uni?

But CAPS IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL PEOPLE. Actually that is right about how you should avoid people like that I tend not to listen to anyone who deems themselves to be "cool". Erhem, *Cough* Macintosh *Cough*.

Argh, curse your user name and it's quoting interfering abilities.

BUT EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU HAVE TO STEER !

Cyclomega:

BUT EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU HAVE TO STEER !

HAVEN'T YOU SEEN ENCYCLOPEDIA DRAMATICA? COOL PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO STEER!
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/CAPS_LOCK_IS_CRUISE_CONTROL_FOR_COOL
Careful though, it contains a HUGE amount of capital letters.

Okay enough of that. It's like I am yelling at people point blank. Back on topic, ey chaps?

Spectrum +3

Just because I couldnt have one and had to setting a spectrum 128K...

32X or Sega Neptum maybe?

flatearth:

Dommyboy:
Anyone here actually bought a Virtual Boy?

Did anyone anywhere actually buy a Virtual Boy?

I still do. And it still works

Dommyboy:

Cyclomega:

BUT EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU HAVE TO STEER !

HAVEN'T YOU SEEN ENCYCLOPEDIA DRAMATICA? COOL PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO STEER!
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/CAPS_LOCK_IS_CRUISE_CONTROL_FOR_COOL
Careful though, it contains a HUGE amount of capital letters.

I read ED daily, but unless they rewrote the article again, they remind you that steering is mandatory, at least in the pix gallery.
Anyways it's blacklisted at work... :/

Darkrai:

flatearth:

Dommyboy:
Anyone here actually bought a Virtual Boy?

Did anyone anywhere actually buy a Virtual Boy?

I still do. And it still works

I remember being like 6 years old and wanting one..Never got it. I still want one just for sake of hving it.

what was that SEGA handheld that mainly featured a dolphin? Ecco wasn't it? That's my vote.

Syphonz:

what was that SEGA handheld that mainly featured a dolphin? Ecco wasn't it? That's my vote.

Wikipedia says it was called the Game Gear, and one of the games was called Ecco.

no no, there was something else I swear. Because i liked the Game Gear, there was something smaller...

Decoy Doctorpus:

Indigo_Dingo:
If you'll notice I didn't say anything about current trends (I did mention the RROD, but come on, thats pretty much universaly recognised by this point.

You almost made it Indigo. You almost made it.

Now this is not fair. My feelings towards the product itself should not mean that I am not allowed to talk about a widely accepted problem. This is like saying that I shouldn't be able to say that John Howard looks like a Bridge Troll just because I'm not a Young Liberal.

You are allowed to share your opinions and dislikes on the internet, it is not that much of a suppressive regime on The Escapist. If a person says they hate pie, they can add to a conversation about it with why they hate it.

Darkrai:

flatearth:

Dommyboy:
Anyone here actually bought a Virtual Boy?

Did anyone anywhere actually buy a Virtual Boy?

I still do. And it still works

Is it entertaining and fun? I have never got to play one of them. I have just heard from past experiences that it was an abomination of some sorts.

Also, is it true there is a new N-Gage in creation or am I just turning insane?

I heard there is a N-Gage 2 indeed, they are already 2 models for the first one (very first model having awkward mouth- and earpiece positioning).

Dommyboy> probation ? but why ? I don't see what caused it.

The Apple Game system.

Cyclomega:
I heard there is a N-Gage 2 indeed, they are already 2 models for the first one (very first model having awkward mouth- and earpiece positioning).

Dommyboy> probation ? but why ? I don't see what caused it.

It looks a lot more practical than the first and may have better emulations on it. They are trying to move it into being a smart phone, rather than a large object to haul around and look like a freak. I don't really see why a phone company would attempt at a gaming mechanism though, especially one that was as far fetched as the last.

I dislike DDR, or are we just talking about consoles?

Eldritch Warlord:
I dislike DDR, or are we just talking about consoles?

No anything with gaming. Even the faintest relation to gaming if you want. I also dislike DDR, it is too fast paced and I get confused if people are either talking about a dancing video game or a type of computer RAM.

removing the obvious and most mentioned Virtual Boy and NGage, I would have to throw in...
Magnavox Odyssey
Atari 5200
Philips CD-i
Neo Geo (mainly cuz of the price back then)
Atari Jaguar

Dommyboy:

Eldritch Warlord:
I dislike DDR, or are we just talking about consoles?

No anything with gaming. Even the faintest relation to gaming if you want. I also dislike DDR, it is too fast paced and I get confused if people are either talking about a dancing video game or a type of computer RAM.

I am actually a big DDR fan and it's not as hard as everyone makes it out to be. Everyone's gotta start somewhere.

Anyway, I'd probably say the PS3. Sorry to say but any console that could spontaneously combust and has like no decent games for it isn't really worth anyone's time or money.

SgtSPECTRE:
I know no Next Gen consoles. But, I have to give my award to the 360. I had 9, yes 9, of them in 4 months. So I got out my sledge hammer and that was the end of it.

That is a great use for the system, its always fun to just take something that sucks and smash it.