What are the most obscure game consoles you can think of?
Jan 10, 2021 7:06:16 GMT
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Post by extremewreck2000 on Jan 10, 2021 7:06:16 GMT
I thought this could be a fun thread to make since it can lead to some interesting information, & some nice little conversations about these really obscure consoles.
Here are the most obscure consoles I know of thanks to Ultimate Console Database:
Home consoles:
Bently Compuvision (A pong console)
Black Point (Another pong console)
MBO Teleball (Yet another pong console)
Dynacom Megaboy (portable Atari 2600 clone)
Interton VC 4000 (A German game console made before the Atari 2600 became popular in Europe)
Voltmace Database (A modified Interton VC 4000)
FM Towns Marty (A console version of the FM Towns. There's also a variant for use in cars called the Car Marty.)
Olivetti Envision (A console with a modified version of Windows 95 built in)
Kiss-Site (Apparently this was made just for KARAOKE games. J-just WHAT!?!?)
Apex Extreme PGC (Did this even see release?)
Buzztime Home Trivia System (Nevermind that it was only made for a niche audience...)
Discover (Really? Just "Discover"? Seriously, they couldn't come up with a better name for the console?)
Evo: Phase 1 (A PC aimed at the console gaming market. How lovely.)
Go Go TV (A console made for a young audience as evidenced by its colorful design. Heh.)
X Games Station (Sounds too good to be true. Probably some kind of hoax.)
Zapit Game Wave (A Canadian game console with games made for the whole family to enjoy. Oh, & the console has a wavy design, so the name of the console ain't lying.)
Handhelds:
Adventurevision (One of the first handhelds to use cartridges. Uses black, & red like the Virtual Boy, only about 12 years earlier.)
B'ngo (Again, did this thing even SEE release?)
Cenix GMP M6 (South Korean portable console meant to compete with the PSP)
Cybiko (Ashens did a video on this one.)
Digiblast (The name gives me serious Digimon vibes)
Franklin SET (A handheld made for SET as an advertisement for The New York Times. How lovely.)
Freeon (Almost no info on this particular handheld. Apparently 2 variants exist of it.)
Gamate (I made a Lost Media Wiki page for this one!)
Game Master (Ashens did a video on it.)
Game Pocket Computer (Another early cartridge-based handheld, this time by Epoch, & it's from 1984.)
Pasago (A handheld that specializes in Go. How lovely.)
Tapwave Zodiac (Lasted for a year with about IDK, 30 games!?)
Winbel (No info on this thing exists. Seriously.)
Clone consoles:
16 Bit Challenge Pack (A Genesis clone built in a steering wheel that also acts as the 1-player controller? Sounds kind of strange to do to be frank here.)
2600 TV Game (An Atari 2600 clone from the Middle East. Includes 2 buttons on the controllers, most likely so that you could play Omega Race with no problem.)
720 (Weird looking famiclone. Not to be confused with the skateboarding game.)
8-Bit Terminator (A famiclone with a controller. It'll be back.)
8-Bit Xbox Game Player (No, I'm not kidding around. That's an actual famiclone that exists.)
Aaronix (Sega SG-1000 clone from China)
AB Standard 8-Bit (Cool looking famiclone, but the name is rather generic.)
ABC-999 (A famiclone shaped like a car? WELL SIGN ME UP!)
Action+Super 6 (European/Japanese SNES-ish famiclone from Portugal)
Alien Famiclones (No specific names attached to them, they ALL look alien-ish.)
Arcade Action (Famiclone in an N64 shell. How original.)
Arcade Station (Another N64 shelled famiclone? A clone of a clone? What kind of madness IS this!?)
Argo Station (A famiclone, or "polystation" as they like to call these particular brand of famiclones, it doesn't look that much different.)
Asahi VCD (This famiclone is also a VCD player. Nice bonus I say!)
I could go on, & on about this, but I'll stop here. How about you guys?
Here are the most obscure consoles I know of thanks to Ultimate Console Database:
Home consoles:
Bently Compuvision (A pong console)
Black Point (Another pong console)
MBO Teleball (Yet another pong console)
Dynacom Megaboy (portable Atari 2600 clone)
Interton VC 4000 (A German game console made before the Atari 2600 became popular in Europe)
Voltmace Database (A modified Interton VC 4000)
FM Towns Marty (A console version of the FM Towns. There's also a variant for use in cars called the Car Marty.)
Olivetti Envision (A console with a modified version of Windows 95 built in)
Kiss-Site (Apparently this was made just for KARAOKE games. J-just WHAT!?!?)
Apex Extreme PGC (Did this even see release?)
Buzztime Home Trivia System (Nevermind that it was only made for a niche audience...)
Discover (Really? Just "Discover"? Seriously, they couldn't come up with a better name for the console?)
Evo: Phase 1 (A PC aimed at the console gaming market. How lovely.)
Go Go TV (A console made for a young audience as evidenced by its colorful design. Heh.)
X Games Station (Sounds too good to be true. Probably some kind of hoax.)
Zapit Game Wave (A Canadian game console with games made for the whole family to enjoy. Oh, & the console has a wavy design, so the name of the console ain't lying.)
Handhelds:
Adventurevision (One of the first handhelds to use cartridges. Uses black, & red like the Virtual Boy, only about 12 years earlier.)
B'ngo (Again, did this thing even SEE release?)
Cenix GMP M6 (South Korean portable console meant to compete with the PSP)
Cybiko (Ashens did a video on this one.)
Digiblast (The name gives me serious Digimon vibes)
Franklin SET (A handheld made for SET as an advertisement for The New York Times. How lovely.)
Freeon (Almost no info on this particular handheld. Apparently 2 variants exist of it.)
Gamate (I made a Lost Media Wiki page for this one!)
Game Master (Ashens did a video on it.)
Game Pocket Computer (Another early cartridge-based handheld, this time by Epoch, & it's from 1984.)
Pasago (A handheld that specializes in Go. How lovely.)
Tapwave Zodiac (Lasted for a year with about IDK, 30 games!?)
Winbel (No info on this thing exists. Seriously.)
Clone consoles:
16 Bit Challenge Pack (A Genesis clone built in a steering wheel that also acts as the 1-player controller? Sounds kind of strange to do to be frank here.)
2600 TV Game (An Atari 2600 clone from the Middle East. Includes 2 buttons on the controllers, most likely so that you could play Omega Race with no problem.)
720 (Weird looking famiclone. Not to be confused with the skateboarding game.)
8-Bit Terminator (A famiclone with a controller. It'll be back.)
8-Bit Xbox Game Player (No, I'm not kidding around. That's an actual famiclone that exists.)
Aaronix (Sega SG-1000 clone from China)
AB Standard 8-Bit (Cool looking famiclone, but the name is rather generic.)
ABC-999 (A famiclone shaped like a car? WELL SIGN ME UP!)
Action+Super 6 (European/Japanese SNES-ish famiclone from Portugal)
Alien Famiclones (No specific names attached to them, they ALL look alien-ish.)
Arcade Action (Famiclone in an N64 shell. How original.)
Arcade Station (Another N64 shelled famiclone? A clone of a clone? What kind of madness IS this!?)
Argo Station (A famiclone, or "polystation" as they like to call these particular brand of famiclones, it doesn't look that much different.)
Asahi VCD (This famiclone is also a VCD player. Nice bonus I say!)
I could go on, & on about this, but I'll stop here. How about you guys?