I own the Atari Jaguar, Lynx, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast, Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Turbo Grafx. I do still actually play these. Except the Lynx, I don't have enough batteries to play it.
What is with this madness that is saying that the Gamecube is a failed console? The Gamecube is my second favourite console-don't see how people can find it that bad when there are some truely great games on it.
All due respect to the amazing, ahead-of-its-time Dreamcast, one of my favorite consoles ever, but explain to me how that did not fail, I mean, being pulled off the market after TWO YEARS??
@RiotBananas: Dayyyyyyuuuummmm also fuck you since I was about make this exact joke post. Now I'll be hyper edgy and say the PSP (I actually did have a go at one point and that has been a miserable failure no?). As for something real(er) I own a Dreamcast but it's rad so I don't care if it failed.
" All due respect to the amazing, ahead-of-its-time Dreamcast, one of my favorite consoles ever, but explain to me how that did not fail, I mean, being pulled off the market after TWO YEARS?? "
Eh, I'm more one to consider a console a failure if it has a bad or harshly limited library of games. The Dreamcast just had the misfortune of the PS2 existing, otherwise it probably wouldn't have gone under. Plus, if I put Dreamcast and Saturn on the poll than everyone would pick them, and my original intent to see how many GB users own shitty failed consoles.
Of those listed I own an Atari Jaguar (on which I still play Tempest 2000!) and a Sega CD (which I keep in a very dark place). Looking back, these were both probably more expensive than a release PS3 if you take inflation into account.
The Turbo/PC-Engine was no less a failure than the Dreamcast and Saturn, so your logic is already flawed. The PC-Engine lasted longer than both consoles combined in Japan.
I have a Sega Gamegear, Atari Lynx (First edition) and a Amiga Cd 32. Though they failed, i still loved them at the time. And my Amiga CD 32 still tickles my bone when i fire up Alien Breed, Worms, Heimdall 2 and Heroquest 2: Legacy of Sorasil.
I own many. I have 2 Saturns, 2 Dreamcasts, a Master System, a NeoGeo Pocket, a NeoGeo CD, a Jaguar, a 3DO, a CDi, a Gizmondo, 32x, Sega CD and a Virtual Boy! I have owned multiple Game Gears in the past.
I will eventually own them all... I'm generally more interested in the obscure than the common.
I suppose the Dreamcast is considered somewhat of a failed attempt to reboot the Sega console life but it sure kept me occupied for quite a long while until some games I actually wanted to play came out for the PS2. I did skip out on the Atari Jaguar as they flip-flopped on how the console was supposed to be rolled out (larger than normal pricetag on the console but with very cheap software), but I did get an Atari Lynx which was quite an amazing handheld system for its time with some solid games such as Todd's Adventure in Slimeworld and Xenophobe. Too bad about that massive battery consumption but I usually played it sitting in the living room anyways and I just kept it plugged in so no biggydealie for me.
The features were shit, the DSi store was a complete joke, internet browser was useless and the cameras were terrible. The only games I had were GTA chinatown wars and Mario Kart which after completing just got boring to play. What pissed me off were all the RPGs I wanted to play were either a ridiculous price or never came out in the UK.
Im glad I sold it and didn't make to much of a loss.
" Apparantly i have good judgement, and don't buy crappy failures. Though i was close to getting an N-Gage...oh man, i'm glad i didn't. "
If you ever even came close to getting an N-Gage, then you cannot claim to have good judgment. :P I do not own any of the listed failures, nor any other that I would consider a failure. I sure would like to though. "
I guess that's true... But came close to getting is also an exaggeration...More like, i wanted one, cause i didn't have a phone, or a console at the time.
I own a 32X. At the time I was way into Doom even though I did not own a PC and since my family could not afford one this was how I got my fix. I had a cousin and a friend who introduced me to Doom on their PC's and once I read about it in EGM that it was coming to this device I had to have it.
Putting those metal plates into the Genesis was a bitch the first time though to connect the 32X. Doom had cheat codes but if you wanted to see the secret levels you had to beat it without them from what I remember with this version. Sadly it would be the only game I would own for it. I rented a bunch of the other ones but nothing I liked more than Doom at the time.
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