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Strange and forgotten consoles

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Tired Beneath the clean and successful exterior of gaming giants like the same old high-selling commercialized crap? Do you yearn for Super Nintendo and Playstation lies the unnatural, unloved, and potentially unholy world '''Gap of knockoffs Vidya''': a realm populated by unwanted and failed forgotten consoles? Well of old, immortal in their plasticity. Here we have just the section for youmay receive knowledge of their eternal fate. Note that not Not everything on this page can be emulated. If it exists and technically classifies as 's a video game console from gen 3 the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28third_generation%29 third generation] and beyond, it's on this page for your viewing pleasure.
==Consoles==
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* [[Philips CD-i emulators|Philips CD-i]]
* [[3DO emulators|3DO]]
* [[Pioneer LaserActive]]
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==Handhelds==
* {| class="wikitable"! scope="col"|Name! scope="col"|[[MegaDuck/Cougar Boy emulatorsMESS]] support! scope="col"|[[Need Games?|MegaDuck/CougarBoyROMs]]* GP32! scope="col"|Description* Gizmondo|-* Tapwave Zodiac|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_Game_Pocket_Computer Epoch Game Pocket Computer]|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"|Yes|style="text-align:center;"|Only 5 games exist for this handheld. All can be found [http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Epoch/Game-Pocket-Computer/Cartridges here].|-|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamate Gamate]|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"|No|style="text-align:center;"|Another attempt to capture part of the Game Boy market, the Gamate was released in the early 90s by Bit Corporation. The magnitude of its failure makes it and its software obscenely rare today, with prices over 500 dollars for the handheld alone on ebay. It's so obscure, the developers of MESS don't even list it as having preliminary support, and no known ROM dumps exist.|-|style===Tiger Game"text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.comorg/wiki/Gizmondo Gizmondo]|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||-An infamous piece of shit, with quite possibly the worst screen on any handheld ever. Somehow still had a port of Resident Evil 2. Preliminary support in MESS. |style="text-align:center;"|[https://wwwen.youtubewikipedia.comorg/wiki/watch?v=wfxzVFzvizE CGR reviewGP32 GP32]|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||-|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Master_%28console%29 Hartung Game Master]|style="text-align:center;"|Decent|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|A German Game Boy knock off. Also distributed in the UK. Decent MESS support.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9dZ-RBpQA Demonstration]|-|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Duck MegaDuck/CougarBoy]|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"|Yes|style="text-align:center;"|Chinese knockoff Game Boy that was branded with various bizarre names, despite each version being exactly the same. Used cartridges. Roms are out there, surprisingly.|-|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage_%28device%29 Nokia N-Gage]|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Nokia's attempt at making a cell phone/handheld system hybrid, before mobile gaming really took off. Although it was the most powerful handheld in its time, it failed due to a high price, a terrible button layout, numerous design flaws, and its underdeveloped cell phone component. Had a redesign called the QD, but it was only slightly better. Most of its games were ports, either from the GBA or from the PS1 and Saturn. While it didn't have any standout titles, it still had a few odd original entries from big franchises such as Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey and SSX: Out of Bounds. No known emulators.|-|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapwave_Zodiac Tapwave Zodiac]|style="text-align:center;"|None|style=Watara Supervision"text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||-|style==An attempt at making a real competitor for the "text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_com Tiger Game Boy. Has some support in [[MESScom]].|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style=Epoch Game Pocket Computer===Good MESS support"text-align:center;"|An infamous piece of shit, with quite possibly the worst screen on any handheld ever. Only 5 games exist for this handheldSomehow still had a port of Resident Evil 2. All can be found [httphttps://www.theoldcomputeryoutube.com/roms/index.phpwatch?folderv=Epoch/GamewfxzVFzvizE CGR review]|-Pocket|style="text-Computeralign:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridges hereWatara_Supervision Watara Supervision]|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|An attempt at making a real competitor for the Game Boy.|}
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