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Strange and forgotten consoles

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* [[3DO emulators|3DO]]
* [[Pioneer LaserActive]]
* Commodore CDTV
* Amiga CD32
* Zemmix
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 {| class="wikitable"! scope="col"|Name! scope="col"|[[MESS]] support! scope="col"|[[Need Games?|No-intro collection]] ! scope="col"|Description|-|style="text-align:center;"|Action Max|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|VHS tape console released in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder. It relied on a light gun and score counter for all of its 5 games, which could not really be lost. There's an add-on for the laserdisc emulator Daphne called [http://www.singeengine.com/cms/node/6 SIGNE.] We're in murky waters here, so run this at your own risk.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj498-wkOz4 Cinemassacre Demonstration]
|-|style="text-align:center;"|Amiga CD32|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||-|style="text-align:center;"|Amstrad GX4000|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|A consolized PC. Has good MESS support. |-|style==="text-align:center;"|Apple Bandai Pippin|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||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 [[MESS]] support, but some of its games may be playable on other Apple emus.
|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Atari XEGS|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|A repackaging of existing hardware, marketed as a game console. Notable for having possibly the worst physical design ever. It has preliminary support in MESS, as does the 65XE computer it's based on. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2gF5wWns0E Overview]|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Casio Loopy|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||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]
|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Casio PV-1000|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Commodore 64 Games System|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style="text-align:center;"|Commodore CDTV|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||-|style="text-align:center;"|Dendy|style="text-align:center;"|Decent|style="text-align:center;"||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. |-|style==="text-align:center;"|FM Towns Marty|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary |style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Mattel Hyperscan|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Memorex VIS|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Nintendo iQue Player|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||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. |-|style==="text-align:center;"|Nuon|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|A hybrid DVD player/game console with enhanced movie-viewing tools. Only a few games were made for the system, as the cheaper PS2 slaughtered it. There was an emulator in production called Nuance, but its author died and he didn't release the source code.|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Nintendo Famicom Box|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||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. |-|style==="text-align:center;"|Playdia|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style==="text-align:center;"|RDI Halcyon|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|A terrifying machine based on HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring voice-recognition and AI learning. Its failure bankrupted RDI. There are no known emulators for the Halcyon, as mankind has yet to fully comprehend its awesome power.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeI5zKeGELA Demonstration]
|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Sega Pico|style="text-align:center;"|Good|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|Child's edutainment console released in 1993. Was actually fairly successful. Has good support in [[MESS]].|-|style==="text-align:center;"|Super A'Can|style="text-align:center;"|Preliminary|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|An extremely rare Taiwan-only console released in 1995. Some preliminary support in [[MESS]]. |-|style==="text-align:center;"|View-Master Interactive Vision|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||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.|-|style="text-align:center;"|Zemmix Series|style="text-align:center;"|None|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"| |}
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