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Strange and forgotten consoles

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|Originally released in Japan by Bandai in 1984, another short-lived console from the early 80s. Only had around 4 to 6 games released for it. The console was released in Europe by an unknown company and in Russia as the Elektronika NM 26, both sometime in the late 80s.
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|C2: Color & Card
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|Released in China by Baiyi Animation, The extremely rare, C2 was made to bank on the popularity of Roco Kingdom films but ultimately it was a flop, Only 6 games were made for it and was discontinued shortly after released.
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|[[wikipedia:Cybiko|Cybiko/Cybiko Xtreme ]]
|[https://archive.org/download/TOSEC_V2017-04-23/Cybiko/ TOSEC]
|The Cybiko is a Russian handheld computer introduced in the U.S. by David Yang's company Cybiko Inc. as a retail test market in New York on April 2000, and rolled out nationwide in May 2000. It is designed for teens, featuring its own two-way radio text messaging system. It had over 430 "official" freeware games and applications.
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|[[wikipedia:List_of_commercial_failures_in_video_gaming#digiBlast|DigiBlast]]
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|The DigiBlast is a Linux-based console from 2005 that was meant to compete with both the GameBoy Advance and the VideoNow series of portable video players, Unfortunately despite having a solid launch lineup, The system was a major flop and quickly became one of the worst selling consoles ever released, only selling about 100,000 units in its short lifespan.
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|[[wikipedia:Epoch_Game_Pocket_Computer|Epoch Game Pocket Computer]]
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|Have you every played a poor Game & Watch clone and said to yourself "I Would Love to Play This On The Big Screen"? Then the Light Games from 1988 is for you. It has a built-in projector and less then 10 games released for it. Its unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued.
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|Giochi Preziosi My Life
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|Released in Italy in 2007, My Life was marketed towards young girls Five to Thirteen years of age, A Simple life simulator Serves As the Built-in Game and As the Main UI, How many units sold, number of games were released and when it was discontinued is unknown.
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|[[wikipedia:Game_Master_(console)|Hartung Game Master]]
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|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.
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|M&D Monon Color
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|Like the C2, The Monon Color from 2014 also tried to bank on the popularity of Roco Kingdom films and was only slightly more successful then it, its unknown how many games were released for it or when it was discontinued.
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|[[wikipedia:Pokemon_Mini|Nintendo Pokémon Mini]]
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|Released in 1984, Super Micro was a handheld console similar to the Milton Bradley Microvision in design. Bad timing, a lack of advertising, and issues with its design and quality (the plastic body is vary fragile) resulted in failure. Palmtex sold less then 37,000 units and discontinued the console the same year it was released. Only three of the eight games announced were released.
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|[[wikipedia:Pixter|Pixter]]
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|Released in 2000 as Fisher-Price's first (and only) Video Game Console, The Pixter was one of many consoles from the 2000s sold in the toy aisle and marketed towards children, around 25 to 50 games were released for it before being discontinued in 2007.
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|[[wikipedia:Romtec Colorvision|Romtec Colorvision]]
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