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Strange and forgotten consoles

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|[[wikipedia:Philips_Videopac_Philips_Videopac%2B_G7400|Philips Videopac + G7400]]
|[http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=g7400 Decent]
|[https://mega.co.nz/#!MRMCGKSJ!x8Mk78ClxL5y2Js3IdRts0GiY8U9TS46JcuXbTx9S1c No-intro]
|A rare Europe-only console, first released in early 1983. Philips designed the Videopac+ to be a backwards-compatible successor to the [[Magnavox Odyssey² emulators|Videopac/Odyssey²]], and was even planning to partner with Magnavox and release an American version called the "Odyssey³", but they reconsidered after a poor showing at that year's CES. Then the 1983 crash happened, and Philips quickly axed the whole thing. Limited support in some Odyssey² emulators.
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|[[wikipedia:Grandstand_(game_manufacturer)#Projector-based_'Light'_games|Playtime Projector Mega Video Game]]
|Designed and Manufactured by an unknown Chinese or Taiwanese company, Elan is one of the older [[wikipedia:System on a chip|SOC]] still used in Chinese products, dating back to around the late 90s to early 2000s. Elan is usually used in bootleg or original plug and play games / systems.
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|[[wikipedia:FM_Towns_MartyFM Towns emulators|FM Towns Marty]]
|Preliminary
|Trurip
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|[https://archive.org/details/ZAPiT_GameWave_Redump_2017-12-23 Redump]
|A failed attempt to steal sales from the upcoming Nintendo Wii, the Game Wave was an obscure console released in 2005 by ZAPiT Games that only had trivia games. It also had a VeggieTales family party game: Veg-Out! Family Tournament.
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|GoGo TV Video Vision
|A rather poor excuse of a response to the [[Wii emulators|Wii]], made by JungleTac, KenSingTon, and a dozen or so manufacturers churning out shoddy variants of it. Emulators have recently been made for the platform, with several projects aiming to provide support for Sunplus' rather oddball architecture, such as [http://www.maxconsole.com/maxcon_forums/threads/280551-MuchimeX-v0-5-has-been-released! MuchimeX for the original Xbox], and [http://hackmii.com/2010/04/sunplus-the-biggest-chip-company-youve-never-heard-of/ Unununium], the latter being the basis for a [[MESS]] core. The same goes for VTech's [http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=vsmile V.Smile], the [[wikipedia:Xavix|XaviXPORT]] and most [http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=batmantv Jakks Pacific] TV games including those [http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=walle Disney tie-in ones].
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|[[wikipedia:Zeebo|Zeebo]]
|[https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/zeebo_qualcomm_adreno130.cpp Preliminary]
|[https://ia801409.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/28/items/no-intro_romsets/no-intro%20romsets/Zeebo%20-%20Zeebo%20%2820190815-004208%29.zip Yes]
!colspan="4"|2001-2010
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|[[wikipedia:Apple iPod|Apple iPod (Classic/Nano)]]
|None
|Yes [https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6123135/Ipod_Click_Wheel_Games] [https://macjunkie.org/?p=705]
|None
|No
|Release sometime in the early 2000s by Excalibur Electronics, Bible Challenge is a educational game handheld console made to teach kids the bibleBible. It was re-released as "Bible Quest" at some point but its unknown when this variant was released. Around five games were released for the system and it's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued.
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|[[wikipedia:List_of_commercial_failures_in_video_gaming#digiBlast|DigiBlast]]
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|[[wikipedia:Gameking|GameKing]]
|[http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=gameking Preliminary]Good
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|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 an AMD-based gaming PC/console hybrid) releasing workalike clones of the [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy]] and, more recently, GBA clones. MAME support for it is preliminary at bestseems to emulate well all known carts.
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|[[wikipedia:Gizmondoemulators|Gizmondo]]
|Preliminary
|Yes (No-intro)
|Preliminary
|Yes (No-intro)
|The Leapster Learning Game System (Released in late 2003) is an educational handheld game console aimed at 4 to 10-year-olds (preschool to fourth grade) and made by LeapFrog Enterprises. Its games teach the alphabet, phonics, basic mathematics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), art, and animal facts to players. It featured a touchscreen and games from various licenses from Thomas & Friends to Sonic X. Its software seems to be based on Macromedia Flash. Oddly enough it's successors, i.e. the Didj, Leapster Explorer, and LeapPad series of tablets which run on the Pollux and NXP3200 platforms along with a customized Linux distribution has a homebrew scene that even features some emulators.
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|[[Pokémon mini emulators|Nintendo Pokémon Mini]]
|A very downgraded Game Boy (But also the tiniest cart-based handheld device made by Nintendo). It was first released in NA and then Japan on late 2001. Only Pokemon related games were released, and its catalog of games is also very limited. It's also very rare nowadays. Decent support in MAME, though there are other choices to play these games on other emulators.
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|[[wikipedia:Cellphone emulators#Symbian and N-Gage_Gage (deviceNokia)|Nokia N-Gage]]
|None
|Yes
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