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JVC/SEGA Wondermega, which is a Megadrive and MegaCD in one rather flashy expensive unit with extraordinary build quality!

posted by : trevorpj, 25 June 2008 Complain about this comment
fairchild f8 is really...

actually, the fairchild f8 video game is really named the Fairchild Channel F, (the sorry part is the looking up fairchild f8, in wikipedia, which reminded me of the fairchild channel f.
I bought one approx 30 years ago in a blow out sale.(usa)...

posted by : pas, 19 June 2008 Complain about this comment
they forgot the f8...

fairchild f8. had a cool 3 axis joystick... (twist is the third)

posted by : pas, 19 June 2008 Complain about this comment
More consoles...

Wasn't there a console by Fujitsu, the FM Towns? And the Philips CD-i.

posted by : errol69, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
More

Besides the above, there was the TRS-80. It had catridge games and was a console for the TV.

Famicom, Super Famicom - Japanese consoles I rank them as different as they had different hardware then the NES.

There also are all the 5 in 1 games out there, like the Namco Series 1, 2 and 3 of pacman, ms. pacman, etc.

Virtual Boy

posted by : Stucco, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
back to the past

The FM Towns Marty.

And how exactly does Moores Law work if the size of the chips changes? Are mobile 'Core 2's not really the same speed as their exactly-the-same-speed-rated 775 socket versions, for example?

Isn't 1.2GHz for example, the same 1.2GHz per core, whether the CPU is mobile or desktop / 775 / 771 etc sized? Ye-es, there'll be cache differences & so forth, but what I am getting at here is that Moore's Law used to be invoked to claim that it'd be impossible to ever make a 5GHz silicon chip, because you can't cram that many transistors onto that surface area without them ceasing to be operational as the different paths would leak into one another.

But that's happened, so what if there's more than one core....it's still one chip.

posted by : shroomy mcbee, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
How could you all miss...

A classic: TRS-80

I miss playing Poltergeist the most.

posted by : GW, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Everyone forgot

The Bandai WonderSwan (color), the bestest portable ever

posted by : geoff, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
how could they forget...

... the dodgily named WonderSwan?

I'm sure it had a dodgily named brother or sister too, but I'm not going to look it up, as per the rules.

posted by : bluesxman, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Thomson TO7

That piece of crap went so fast from the store shelf to the bin that it made dragonflies dizzy.
And nobody else has quoted it either.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Noone Mentioned...

The Vetrex! Did anyone here ever have one of those? Kind of like an apple II I think. Cartridges, mono CRT screen (built in) with plastic inserts to make it "Colour", cabled controller... Wow!

posted by : phil, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Vectrex

I used to love mine, playing games with the wrong coloured screens added a whole new dimension to escaping homework.

posted by : Kane, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
You are all callow youths.

What about the Philips G7000?

posted by : Horridbloke, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Wasnt there

an Amstrad GS too?

posted by : Nez, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
pre-cd32

Nice too see some people finally remembered the CD32, Before that was the CDTV and before that the C64GS.

posted by : MrJDGaF, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Everyone tries to forget

the Dick Smith Wizard. Hopefully only sold in Australia & NZ

posted by : DavidI, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
And if we count the Neo Geo

We should count the Neo geo pocket!

posted by : Nez, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
bloody heck

just go to the MAME site and read through the supported systems list...?!

posted by : Jean Chevreuil, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Amiga

They missed the amiga cd 32

nice little console that

posted by : Jamie P, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
hmmm

how about a Sega megadrive or the Commodore CD32 (or their previous 1 which i cant remember the name of lol)

posted by : Alan, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Don't see mentioned

The Amiga CD32! What a fool I was for buying that, and then to compound matters I replaced it with a 3DO...

posted by : Phil M, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
A1200-In-A-Box

Everyone had forgotten about the Amiga CD32, which was a A1200-based console.

Wacky Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32

posted by : Adnoctum, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Ah Hah! They missed a big one...

It only took me three seconds to realise that they had actually missed quite a big and important console...

Neo Geo.

And how could they? The Neo Geo had cartridge sizes so large they could've easily competed against the sizes of entire consoles by Sega or Nintendo...

posted by : Entrope/S.S., 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Super Famicom

I think it's missing the Super Nintentdo, the best colsole ever made. The one that give birth to PlayStation (The SNES SoundChip ASIC, the SPC700 was made by a single man: Ken Kutaragi)

posted by : Alvaro Kuolas, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
A few come to mind

NES
SNES
TI-99/4A... It used cartirdges and surported sprites
The home version of the Neo Geo
Atari 5200
Atari Jaguar
Virtual Boy

posted by : noboby, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Got one!

They forgot the odyssey 2. I had one because my folks couldn't afford to get me the atari back in those days. It was fun but kinda generic when it came to games.

posted by : Joe, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Hear RhinoHead Roar!

How about the Atari Jaguar or the original Nintendo instead of 2 Nintendo 64s, Doh!

posted by : RhinoHead, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Pong?

Where's pong? Or even the Neo-Geo?

posted by : mat, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
only two that spring to mind

original Nintendo and the Gameboy

posted by : Who cares, 18 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Consoles...

Nes, Snes, Sega Master System, Atari Jaguar, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy (+ colour + advance), Atari Lynx, Neo-Geo, Panasonic 3DO.

that's about all i remember off the top of my head :)

posted by : ILikePooters, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Consoles

What about the Fairchild Grandstand?

posted by : 99flake, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Nintendo 32? Gameboy?

If I win, I want to improve world piece by touring Smithfield, a walkaround with the butcher. Does anypunter know the going rate for bronze salvages? Blighty sounds like an adult Dizzy World. 

posted by : Karlsbad Grousswourd, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Turbografx

Atari 5200, Atari 7800, PC-Engine, SuperGrafx, Magnovox Odyssey

posted by : Jimmy, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
My entry

Let's see...

1. Nintendo
2. Sega Master System
3. 3DO (I bought one, sadly)
4. Jaguar
5. CD-i
6. Super Nintendo (almost missed this one)

Probably missed a ton, that's all I can think of though.

posted by : MLS, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
here's two not on the list

The Atari Jaguar 64bit gaming system and the Atari 7800 gaming system.

posted by : lilben, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Forgotten-

I assume that mentioning the Nintendo 64 twice was a typo (a peculiar one, if you ask me), and that you meant Super Nintendo. Then add the original Nintendo. Atari Jaguar (the erstwhile "64"-bit system) is out. The 3DO (and it's countless variants) hardly counts, I suppose. You might count Apple's abortive Pippin platform, but the company that made the only production model (whose name escapes me) only punted them in Asia, I believe. Magnavox Odyssey.

That's off the top-o-the-head.

posted by : Michael Jarve, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
I'm givin away my entry

N64^2?

By the looks of it, they were shy on Nintendo's representation.

NES
Super Nintendo
3DO
Atari Jaguar

Handhelds:

Atari Lynx
TurboGrafx CD
Sega Game Gear
Game Boy
Game Boy Pocket
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Micro
Game Boy Advance + SP
Nintendo DS + Lite
That one weird Japanese one that had a lot of RPGs on it
Sega Nomad (handheld Genesis FTW)
Nokia N-Gage
Microsoft Bob (it held your hand, at least)

posted by : amazing thing, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Wham!

The hammer is really POWERFUL. If you use it to swat a fly and it lands a hit, that little flying critter is DEAD.

posted by : pixie, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
they forgot...

...all of the handheld consoles. the far to numerous gameboy incarnations, the game gear, the lynx, neo geo pocket, there was even a sega handheld that played genesis cartridges but i forget the name...

oh and also, HOW COULD THEY FORGET THE NES?????

posted by : matt sqz, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
i am a winner

well i see that the nintindo and super nintindo are missing .

porta-consoles
game boy, game boy color, atari lynx,
turbo express. ok i am head hurts, thats the early ones i am sure some one will pick up hte torch

posted by : Dr Hook, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment
Answer

The consoles on the bridges of all the Starships Enterprise, of DS9, of all the ships in the Whitestar Fleet, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

posted by : hoohoo, 17 June 2008 Complain about this comment

AMD makes a claim, we make a contest

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