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Strange and forgotten consoles

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|style="text-align:center;"|A 1983 console pulled from shelves very quickly. Like many others, its titanic failure makes it a rarity nowadays. Good support in MESS.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_Games_System Commodore 64 Games System]
|style="text-align:center;"|Good
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|style="text-align:center;"|Hacked up console version of the regular C64, released only in Europe. Failed hilariously due to its outdated tech (1984 hardware in 1990!), the fact that the normal C64 was already a sufficient game console, and a bad case of the nogaems. Good MESS support.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV Commodore CDTV]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_%28console%29 Dendy]
|style="text-align:center;"|Decent
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|style="text-align:center;"|The NES, but for slavs. Only [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kne6AKyYUuM Kinaman] can properly explain this one (turn on CC). Has decent support in MESS, and its status as an NES clone means its "exclusives" can be played on NES emulators that support broken pirate carts.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns_Marty FM Towns Marty]
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|style="text-align:center;"|An early fifth-generation console released by Fujitsu in 1993. It failed due to its astronomical price. Another version called the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQs7zyn4uVQ Car Marty] was also released, designed to be a GPS for automobiles. Preliminary MESS support for both.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperScan Mattel Hyperscan]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Something you would expect to see under a bargain bin at Wal-mart, the Mattel Hyperscan was a card/disc based system released in 2006 to appeal to some poor child's aunt at Christmas. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2-M78m_qI CGR Review] No known emulators.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Video_Information_System Memorex VIS]
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|style="text-align:center;"|A beautiful monster sold only at RadioShack in the early 90s. No known emulators, but its software may be playable on Windows 3.x emus, as the console's OS was an altered version of that.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQue_Player Nintendo iQue Player]
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|style="text-align:center;"|An official Nintendo game console released in China in an attempt to stop piracy in the region. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work. It's basically an N64 clone with no original titles. No known emulators.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuon_%28DVD_technology%29 Nuon]
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|style="text-align:center;"|A hybrid NES/Famicom arcade box distributed to hotels in Japan. The hotel would set the amount of time you could play on one token, and choose the games available. There was also the Super Famicom Box, for playing SNES. No known emulators, but the Super Famicom Box ''may'' work in MAME, as its BIOS is available.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaydiaPlaydia]
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|style="text-align:center;"|A disc based system released in Japan by Bandai in 1994. Notably, it had a wireless controller and all of its titles were interactive movies like Dragon's Lair. No known emulators.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon_%28console%29 RDI Halcyon]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeI5zKeGELA Demonstration]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Pico Sega Pico]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Child's edutainment console released in 1993. Was actually fairly successful. Has good support in [[MESS]].
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_A%27Can Super A'Can]
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|style="text-align:center;"|An extremely rare Taiwan-only console released in 1995. Some preliminary support in [[MESS]].
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master_Interactive_Vision View-Master Interactive Vision]
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|style="text-align:center;"|1988 edutainment VHS console that used two audio tracks on each tape, the player choosing one of two options on screen, to create interactivity. No known emulators.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemmix Zemmix Series]
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