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Strange and forgotten consoles

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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Loopy Casio Loopy]
|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)|style="text-align:center;"|A Japan-only game console designed for girls, focused on printing stickers. A '''Magical Shop''' add-on allowed for the printing of any screenshot, not just Loopy games. Preliminary support in [[MESS]].[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaW6EB1poxM Drunken Printing Demonstration]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PV-1000 Casio PV-1000]
|style="text-align:center;"|Good
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)|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 Failed hilariously due to its outdated tech (1984 hardware in 1990!), the fact that the normal C64 was already a sufficient game console, and a bad case of the nogaems.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]
|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Pico Sega Pico]
|style="text-align:center;"|Good
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)
|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]
|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)|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]
|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo Gizmondo]
|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP32 GP32]
|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)
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|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;"|Yes (No-intro)
|style="text-align:center;"|A German Game Boy knock off. Also distributed in the UK. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9dZ-RBpQA Demonstration]
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|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;"|Yes
|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.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapwave_Zodiac Tapwave Zodiac]
|style="text-align:center;"|None[http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Tapwave/Zodiac Some]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_com Tiger Game.com]
|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)
|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. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxzVFzvizE CGR review]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watara_Supervision Watara Supervision]
|style="text-align:center;"|Good
|style="text-align:center;"|Yes (No-intro)
|style="text-align:center;"|An attempt at making a real competitor for the Game Boy.
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