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Strange and forgotten consoles

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Tagged some wikipedia links. More info for V.Smile.
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|[[wikipedia:Grandstand_(game_manufacturer)#Projector-based_'Light'_games|Playtime Projector Mega Video Game ]]
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|An educational console released by Lico around the early to mid 90s. Little is known about the CAI System other then than it was only sold in Taiwan. It's unknown how many units were sold, when it was discontinued or how many games were released.
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|[[Philips CD-i emulators|Philips CD-i]]
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|Released in 1998 by VTech, The Unlimited is a Console-Computer hybrid akin to something like the Coleco Adam or the Odyssey 2. the Precomputer brand dates back to 1988 with the Modal [[wikipedia:VTech PreComputer 1000|model 1000]], and was your typical educational computer of the era. The Unlimited's main OS was heavily influenced by Windows 3.1 and the system it self included 45 programs built-in. Basic features and oddities that came standard on most late 90s and early 2000s VTech educational computers can be found on the PCU as well. this includes a cartridge slot for more programs and games, a parallel port for printing and an odd mouse that plugged into an RJ11 port. It is unknown how many units were sold, how many game were made for it or when it was discontinued.
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|[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Video_Buddy Video Buddy]
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|Released around 2004, the system is the result of a partnership between Cadaco Toys and NTN Network (Now known as [[wikipedia:NTN Buzztime|NTN Buzztime]] after 2005); and, as the name implies, the console was designed around playing trivia with family and friends. It's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued.
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|[[wikipedia:Nuon_%28DVD_technology%29|Nuon]]
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|[[wikipedia:V.Smile|V.Smile]]
|[https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/vsmile_cart.xml Decent]
||Yes [https://archive.org/details/VTechV.Smile ✓]
|An educational game machine by VTech. It derived from Sunplus' 16-bit SPG-series CPU architecture, which had similar peers including most [http://pnp-info.angelfire.com/ Jakks Pacific TV games] and Vii. The XaviXPORT was similar but had its own custom XaviX CPUs. Several variants of the V.Smile console are sold including handheld versions, or models with added functionality such as touch tablet integrated controllers, microphones or motion sensitive controllers. 69 unique V.Smile games were known to have been released. Since [https://twitter.com/TheMogMiner/status/1282712009142829059 July 2020], every dumped V-Tech V. Smile Motion game now runs in MAME. So, too, do all V. Smile games that use a standard controller, apart from one bad dump (Italian version of Toy Story 3) (Same month Nintendo's [[Game & Watch]] titles were fully compatible for v 0.223).
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|[[wikipedia:XaviXPORT|XaviXPORT]]
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