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Added some more consoles: I also want to say thanks to users ObiKKa and Azure Fang for fixing mistakes I've made and didn't notice while adding consoles.
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|Hybrid clone of both the [[SG-1000 emulators|SG-1000]] and [[ColecoVision emulators|ColecoVision]]. Sold by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade, allegedly with permission from Coleco themselves. The console's build quality leaves a lot to be desired, not to mention that games for the aforementioned platforms can be played on most [[ColecoVision emulators]] anyway.
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|Family Driver\Video Driver
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|Sega also had a go with the VHS-Based console market with the Family Driver from 1988 and unlike most of these type of consoles, this did not play Light-gun games but instead played driving games, Only three games were released for the system, it's unknown when Sega discontinued it.
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|[[wikipedia:My Vision|My Vision]]
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|A notorious "educational" console made by the notorious LJN released in 1985. It was meant as a paint program type system that was meant to compete against television rather than mainstream consoles at the time. It flopped hard. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neURIc_A3js Commercial] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zEhhTqdvg AVGN Review]
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|[[wikipedia:Video Challenger|Video Challenger]]
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|Released in 1987, this VHS-Based console only had around 8 games released for it and like most systems of this type, it only played Light-gun games, It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued.
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|Apple's attempt at being relevant to games. It failed.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ln_CmNtbvQ Vintage review] Currently, there is only preliminary [[MAME]] support, but some of its games may be playable on other Apple emulators.
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|Arcadia Skeet Shoot
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|Released in October of 1998 by Toymax (The makers of the Creepy Crawlers and My Pet Monster toys), this Projector-based console that only played Light-gun games sold 435,000 units in the first 18 months before being recalled after reports of projectors overheating, melting, smoking and in a few rare cases, causing burn injuries (Faulty cartridges were to blame). after about three revisions, the system was discontinued sometime between 2000 to 2001 with only 5 out of the 9 games advertised known to of been released, It's unknown how many units were sold once the console was relaunched after the recalled.
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|[[wikipedia:Casio_Loopy|Casio Loopy]]
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|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.
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|Video Buddy
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|Released in November of 1999 by the Interactive Learning Group, This VHS-based console was designed for children ages 3 to 7 years old and had about 20 games were released for it, a revision of the Video Buddy that used DVD's instead VHS's was released in 2003 and while both version's were initially successful, A crowded "Children" console market led to it's downfall, it's unknown when it was discontinued or how many units were sold.
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