Gonna kick out the Sega CD and 32X mainly cause if anything, they were failed from the lack of games on them. They're solid otherwise.
I'm going with the Atari Jaguar CD. This add-on did legitimately nothing for the console. Nothing. The SEGA CD had original games made for it. This didn't. Nuff said.
You’ve seen Nintendo butcher Wi-fi…
You’ve seen them disappoint you with plastic guff…
Now, come one and come all, as you watch Nintendo SOMEHOW manage to mess up a microphone! Give them a round of applause everybody! They really did use a whole eighth of their ass to design this thing, so they deserve it.
(For real, this thing had zero support aside from Animal Crossing, but it’s also WILDLY worthless since there was no effort even attempted to mute non-voice audio, so you’d get this horrible electronic echo most of the time. Which, for the Animal Crossing fanbase (which has many folks with sensory issues who like a more relaxing and less explosive game), I’m sure they must’ve just LOVED that one!)
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So, okay, after all the seriousness it’s time for some good, old fashioned, making fun of Tiger. A time honored tradition. I’m the kind of person who can cite a couple of Tiger games that are not bad and can be pretty fun to fiddle with! And, when Tiger stays in their lane and makes more toy than game, I think they can come up with some fun stuff.
The R-Zone… is too funny to hate for me. It’s completely objectionable, yes, but it’s so far in the direction of insanity and trend chasing that it loops back to being adorable. A Virtual Boy competitor that does nothing the Virtual Boy does other than have a head strap. A completely impractical way to play games, which is good, since no game made for the R-zone was good enough to be played anyway. All said, it’s actually a super cute toy and something that, for a low price, I wouldn’t mind owning specifically to show people what an actually bad video game system is.
And then they went and got rid of all of the R-Zone’s charm. The XPG (Xtreme Pocket Game) is a model that stands tall as a “well now you’ve just ruined the whole thing” staple. Without the horrid head mount, the R-Zone is just a lesser Tiger handheld but now with swappable games and more components that can break. Which, this thing absolutely will, as it’s made of cheap and flimsy plastic from the year 1996.
The XPG is no fun allowed. They took the one thing that made the R-zone notable (being a ridiculous eye piece that you play games on) and they took it away to turn it into one of the cheapest feeling handhelds I’ve ever held. I have actually held one of these in my hands before, and the term “cheap” is all that comes to mind. Like, the D-pad rattles when you shake the system. I think that should give you a good idea.
The R-Zone is a stupid toy. You take the toy part away, try to make it fit in with actual handheld systems, and suddenly all my initial (warped) respect for the project is now gone. It’s an upgrade… that’s worse! It’s the R-Zone: Xtreme Pocket Game.
(If only Sonic X-theme had come out. That way we could have had the chance for an X-treme Sonic game on what is CLEARLY the most Xtreme of handhelds.)
For me it's the PC-FX easily. Does literally nothing to stand out from the other better consoles of the time and only has two worthwhile games on it (Heiki Zeroigar and a Kishin Doujin Zenki game). Rest of it's library is hot garbage that gives the Philips CD-I a run for it's money. The 32x is also p garbo, but that at least has 3 or so gems on it like Zaxxon motherbase and Kolibri, and it's library isn't 80% consistent of softcore hentai games.
For me it's the PC-FX easily. Does literally nothing to stand out from the other better consoles of the time and only has two worthwhile games on it (Heiki Zeroigar and a Kishin Doujin Zenki game). Rest of it's library is hot garbage that gives the Philips CD-I a run for it's money. The 32x is also p garbo, but that at least has 3 or so gems on it like Zaxxon motherbase and Kolibri, and it's library isn't 80% consistent of softcore hentai games.
That’s a very good pick. The PC-FX is just depressing. Most people don’t know it exists, those who do are disappointed in it, and it’s just… not interesting. Or notable. Especially seeing as it’s the follow up to the awesome PC-Engine.
The PC-FX is to Japanese gaming as the modern XBox is to U.S. gaming. Just full of all the games you would overlook intentionally at a store because they are all worthless experiences, with only one or two actual video games you’d want to play sticking out in the library.
SEGA 32X, I literally just wrote multiple paragraphs about how awful it is, but it also has an awesome port of Virtua Fighter, the best old home port of Virtua Racing, the best old school ports of After Burner and Space Harrier, the weird and wonderful exclusive games like Kolibri and Tempo, and the bizarre Knuckles Chaotix to at least give it a lot of identity. Also it has a pretty neat version of Mortal Kombat 2.
The PC-FX has…next to nothing. Hudsonsoft would put most of the games that they probably would have put on the PC-FX onto the Saturn, which was a far more capable machine, a far more interesting machine, and a machine that was far more valuable to have in your life than the PC-FX. And then even the Saturn was squashed by the mighty Sony PS1, which had everything you could ever want out of a home console in many ways. The poor PC-FX is what happens when a company gets a successful home system almost as a fluke and then proceeds to make all the most boring and worthless decisions when designing the follow up.
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Even the design is horribly boring. I can think of several other systems that do the same ”desktop computer” look better than this thing.
Not the least of which being actual desktop computers. If you want this form factor, that kind of thing already exists and is far less restrictive.
Many people don't think about it because it has a slight cult following thanks to the AVGN and Smash Bros., but the Robotic Operating Buddy or ROB worked for only two games. Both are considered some of the worst that the NES had to offer and came out at the start of the console. So imagine being a little kid getting this thing for Christmas in 1985 thinking it's the future of video games when it barely functioned, was slow, did the equivalency of pushing a button on the second controller, and your dad had to mortgage the house to buy one because they were expensive as hell. Also, the thing's cameras don't work too well with modern TVs. So for the most useless add on of all time. Not because it was supposed to be a grand expensive deal that was going to change video gaming forever, but because it was defeated by simply pressing the A button on controller 2.
Okay, all of that is true and verifiable, and no doubt my friends parents would have sooner put that money towards a car payment.
I just want to lightly push back with, "Now my friend had a robot in their room, and I *didn't*, and I thought about stealing that robot every damn day".
The PC-FX also has a handful of untranslated RPGs, so it's not completely worthless.
NEC & Hudson Soft really struggled to follow-up the PC Engine in a spectacular way. It's not even just the PC-FX, they had the CoreGrafx first which was completely stillborn, then basically switched to banking on the PCE-CD (which had been released all the way back in 1989) around 1993, then finally put up basically no fight with the PC-FX. But still, the market was very saturated at that time with all those different consoles and there just wasn't going to be enough room for everybody. Someone needs to make the games. So at some point if the libraries are weak it's because the devs are busy on other systems, not because it was the company's intention to have like 5 good games total.
Okay, all of that is true and verifiable, and no doubt my friends parents would have sooner put that money towards a car payment.
I just want to lightly push back with, "Now my friend had a robot in their room, and I *didn't*, and I thought about stealing that robot every damn day".
Implemented geometry shaders New save data folder and naming (old saves need to be manually transferred) Support for loading the original shared font and mii resource files dumped from a 3DS Suppor...
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