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Strange and forgotten consoles

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|style="text-align:center;"|A repackaging of the Atari 8-bit computer line, marketed as a game console. Notable for having possibly the worst physical design ever. It has preliminary support in MESSMAME, as does the 65XE computer it's based on. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2gF5wWns0E Overview] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IVK3ukQmMA CGR Review]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PV-1000 Casio PV-1000]
|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 MESSMAME, 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/Dina_(video_game_console) Dina]
|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/Sega_Pico_TOSEC_2012_04_13 TOSEC]/[https://archive.org/download/No-Intro-Collection_2015-03-03 No-intro]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Child's edutainment console released in 1993. Was actually fairly successful. Has good support in [[MESSMAME]].
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Pioneer LaserActive]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Apple's attempt at being relevant to games. It failed.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv0uHVSMz2A Vintage review] Currently, there is only preliminary [[MESSMAME]] support, but some of its games may be playable on other Apple emus.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Loopy Casio Loopy]
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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 MAME support for both.
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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;"|[http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=gameking Preliminary]
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|style="text-align:center;"|A rather bastardized attempt at making a Gameboy-esque handheld, manufactured and marketed by TimeTop (aka Guangzhou Daidaixing Tec. Electronics Co. Ltd.) in 2003. Strangely enough, this one's even more primitive than the Supervision, Gamate and Mega Duck consoles before it, as it uses a lower-resolution 64x32 screen, and that's despite companies such as Subor (i.e. that Chinese company who gained notoriety for developing the NES version of Final Fantasy VII) releasing workalike clones of the [[Game Boy]], and more recently, GBA clones. MESS MAME support for it is preliminary at best.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamate Gamate]
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|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, that it wasn't until December 2014 when preliminary support for the handheld was added in MESSMAME, and ROM dumps were made.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo Gizmondo]
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|style="text-align:center;"|A very downgraded Game Boy. Only Pokemon related games were released, and it's catalogue of games is also very limited. It's also very rare nowadays. Decent support in MESSMAME, though there are other choices to play these games on other emus.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage_%28device%29 Nokia N-Gage]
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