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|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 Failed hilariously due to its outdated tech (1984 hardware in 1990!), the fact that the normal C64 was already a sufficient game console, and a bad case of the nogaems.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_(video_game_console) Dina]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Hybrid clone of both the [[SG-1000]] and [[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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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_%28console%29 Dendy]
|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.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_XEGS Atari XEGSDina_(video_game_console) Dina]|style="text-align:center;"|PreliminaryGood
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|style="text-align:center;"|A repackaging Hybrid clone of existing hardware, marketed as a game console. Notable for having possibly both the worst physical design ever[[SG-1000]] and [[ColecoVision]]. It has preliminary support in MESS, Sold by Telegames as does the 65XE computer itTelegames Personal Arcade, allegedly with permission from Coleco themselves. The console's based build quality leaves a lot to be desired, not to mention that games for the aforementioned platforms can be played onmost ColecoVision emulators anyway. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2gF5wWns0E Overview]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns_Marty FM Towns Marty]
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|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; consoles based on other chips produced by Sunplus, however, do have emulators made for them, though.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Video_Information_System Memorex VIS]
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|style="text-align:center;"|An extremely rare Taiwan-only console released in 1995.
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vii Vii]
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=vii Preliminary]
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|style="text-align:center;"|A rather poor excuse of a response to the 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] 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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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master_Interactive_Vision View-Master Interactive Vision]
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