Worst Console Ever?

Anything original on the virtual boy was ruined by the fact it was on the virtual boy.

@crithon said:

Atari Jaguar, even if I got it for Alien VS Preditor, why didn't they port over the Lynx games?

Fuck porting over, they should have added a cartridge that could play Lynx games a la Super Game Boy.

On a side note, was a Lynx emulator ever made? I've always wanted to try games for the platform.

The R-Zone was pretty horrific. And I actually own(ed) one.

Anyone who says the Vita or Wii U is the "worst console ever" has not used very many consoles from the past three decades.

Agreed. I'd go so far as to say these people are either raving fanboy idiots or way too young to be playing M-rated games. Fuckin' kids.

OH GOD YES! I remember when I was a lil' girl. They had a demo kiosk in my local Blockbuster (that's how big they were - you went THERE for the demo kiosks!) Within 20 minutes my eyes were watering and irritated and I had a killer headache. I'd play the games on an emulator or something if I could mute the SUPER BRIGHT RED a bit, but on the console, the answer is no.

Maybe it's not really a console in the academic sense, but the OUYA. Fuck that hipster box.

I use my Virtual Boy once in a while because I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all. The tennis game is actually not horrible if you can get past what feels like your eyes and the front of your brain being put into a vice.

@ungratefuldead:

I never did but I never didn't either.

@seppli said:

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH

Were there any worthwhile games for the 3DO?

Anyone who did not live through the gloriously bloated and insane console Golden Age that was the 1990s can't be taken seriously on this topic. None of the "bad" consoles of the 2000s can hold a candle to the steaming piles of silicon well-off gamers subjected themselves to in the pursuit of bits.

The Vita doesn't suck; it's just pointless.

@tourgen: sigh, those were my sega saturn importing days. I got a Jaguar to play Highlander, blah, and how fast did that just nose dive into the bargain bin at the local gamestop. I stand by the Jaguar being so bad because I just found my old Atari 7800 and damn, Atari could build a good console 30 years ago. It's ridiculious Double Dragon could be done on an Atari.

Yeah, the 90s were fucking awesome in this regard.

I liked Total Eclipse, that was pretty awesome for the time. It also was the only console to have Super Street Fighter II Turbo at the time, and was the console where Gex and Need For Speed made their debuts. Also, there was a pretty boss version of Wolfenstein 3D.

I don't know, while I won't debate that the worst stuff did come out of the 90's I think the Gizmondo and N-gage are not far behind.

yeah maybe, but I've held an Ouya controller and it's a sad joke. The Vita is at least a pretty nice piece of hardware.

For me of the ones I owned I'd say Gamecude, only game I liked from that thing was Luigi's mansion.

7800 was pretty sweet. I always liked the 800 and the ST too. I remember wanting the Jaguar when it first came around but held off.

What does not liking the N64 have to do with anything? I never said anything negative about the 3DS. Saying I prefer the Vita doesn't mean I think the 3DS is garbage. I've played a lot of the "important" games the 3DS and I think a lot of them are overrated. 3D land was pretty great but my next two favourite 3DS games are a port (Devil Survivor) and a DS game (999). The 3DS is not a system filled with "future classics" and even if it was how does that make the Vita shit?

Is this really just a veiled attempt to say you're down with the 3DS?

Virtual Boy, headaches + not a lot of games + not much fun

VIta or the PSP or the Virtual Boy.

Although, I feel the Virtual Boy had great games but it would give you terrible headaches.
I tried my first one at Wal-mart a long time ago.

Vita because it is a phone but a gaming device. Except, what's the library for it.

The PSP because it was a sacrifice for the DS and 3DS. The DS just should be praised forever. Again, the PSP's library is severely lacking. Sure there are some decent games but...eh.

I don't even know how you can compare a console that was actually painful to use to the psp and vita. while I'm not saying that they were incredible or anything but i am saying they are in a whole other league than the virtual boy.

out of the ones I've owned (not including add ones like Sega CD and 32X) Id say the two worst were 3D0 and the Amiga 32, and to be fair I bought them once they were "dead systems and I was buying them for the novelty. I never owned a Jaguar or Virtual Boy.

I know it's your opinion that the Vita is the worst console ever made, and you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is wrong.

I've read all this thread and all I can draw from it is that the OP has a serious issue against the Vita for reasons I can't quite figure out.

Unless he's 12 years old (quite possible considering) then there's something seriously wrong to claim the Vita is the worst console ever.

The Vita is a fantastic device, with a fantastic library of games. It's easily my favourite handheld I've ever owned and I've certainly owned my share.

The worst console has to be the Jaguar right? I have a fond spot for my old 3DO but I appreciate how bad it was. Virtual Boy might take the crown as well.

I owned a Jaguar as a kid, played a CD-i and a Virtual Boy as a kid... can I just say some of you have no idea what a bad game console is ACTUALLY like... hell the Vita launch lineup alone made it better than the 3 consoles I just listed.

Let me put this into perspective for your, I was 6 when I got given an Atari Jaguar and I owned a Megadrive/Nes/Commodor64 at the time and I'd play some shitty edutainment game on the C64 and be perfectly happy and even with that in mind I remember hating the Jaguar to the point I played it the first week I got it and then asked mum to trade it in for some games for my NES/Megadrive, no one does that when they're 6.... you love everything!

The CD-i was almost exclusively made up of incredibly stiff FMV games with the worst controller known to man

And the Virtual Boy was so awful that games were made worse just by existing on the system, it was impossible to make a good game for that thing because you couldn't play it for more than 5 minutes at a time without getting neck ache and eyestrain. It didn't help that the library of games were essentially just crappy Gameboy games with visual depth.

The Personal Computer.

@hauntingthedark: Saying it doesn't make it right. If the Vita is the worst system to you then your experience with gaming systems is extremely limited. EXTREMELY limited. Also, the Virtual Boy better than the Vita?

I love the Vita, because it gave me a chance to finally play Persona 4.

Xbox One.

NSA-box, DRMM!1, DAY ONE UPDAYTTTE, consumer rights, too many features I won't use!

In actuality, the Wii is the worst console I've ever personally owned. The worst (mainstream) console ever has gotta be the Virtual Boy.

The premise of this thread is obviously pretty dumb. The Vita isn't the worst console ever by a huge margin, not when something like the Atari Jaguar actually existed.

The Vita is anamazing piece of hardware. It's a powerful machine for its price and size, the OLED screen is stunning and the UI stuff is actually pretty good (I'm saying that as someone who generally isn't a big fan of how Sony handles that side of their consoles). But Sony never really got behind the console in a big way. It got some games in the beginning, P4G is obviously amazing (even if it's an update of a PS2 games, there's a lot of new stuff and balance tweaks), but that's about it.

I think Sony's problem is that they thought people still wanted a "handheld PS3 experience". That's what they more or less sold the thing as since day 1, when Nintendo (and smartphones) have proven that people want another kind of game on their handhelds. If you want to play a console game, why not play it on your big TV? The market for taking such a game "on the go" has always been small.

The Vita never sold well, and the 3DS getting Monster Hunter 4 as an exclusive was probably a sign that Sony had already given up on it being anything more than a niche product. Now, the Vita will be getting some sweet indie games and be a cool accessory to the PS4, but that's not gonna move many units. Sony has already all but confirmed that all their big studios are moving to the PS4, and the "coming up" section for the Vita for 2014 is a wasteland.

But it's not the worst console ever by any stretch of the imagination. It's just that I think Sony figured out early in its life cycle that they don't have the resources to support two consoles...so they didn't, and as a result the Vita is already almost dead as its own thing.

If the Vita is the worst console experience that you've ever had, then you're a very lucky person.

The Wii is the worst console I've ever owned. Wii Sports was the shit, but then I stopped caring once I played through SSBB.

Current? The Ouya.

In the past, I don't know... The Virtual Boy?

Well, hands down the one that gave me the MOST trouble, broke the worst and just was miserable to own on some days was XBOX 360. I mean come on, a failure rate in teh double digits? Scratching discs? A disc tray that would shoot out in one model or a 'on/off button' that you could brush past to activate. Oh, some of the games were great and I had a lot of fun when it worked...but functionally that system was hot garbage, or paying for every little thing that was nice through Gold...double hot garbage.

You must be pretty young for the Vita to be your "worst console."

Don't forget the travesty that was the N-Gage.

Give the Vita a bit of time. It's a really outstanding device. I bought mine a few days ago and Dragon's Crown is... something else. What a masterpiece.

You could try Handy. As far as I know the last version was 0.95 and worked fine. Not every game worked 100% (although I never played every game) but most ran ok.

As for games, I personally liked California Games, Chips Challenge, Blue Lightning and Rygar. A lot of the Atari arcade games received pretty decent conversions too (S.T.U.N Runner, Roadblasters and Klax, to name a few). There's also an unreleased version of Lynx Alien vs Predator floating about somewhere which is quite interesting.

The problem with the CD-i is that it wasn't really committed to anything. Even the Sega CD was a games device at the front (though it had CD and CD+G/karaoke support). The CD-i was attempting to be a multimedia box, and was also an attempt by Phillips to push VCD in the west. Yeah, I remember seeing a bit of Star Trek V in a Sears once, and it didn't look as good as the VHS tapes I was used to. That and most movies were either multi-disc or multi-sided or both, which was a pain in the ass that helped kill the CED format too. Put short, rather than having extra multimedia features, the CD-i was based around multimedia, and this was in a time when there weren't a billion cheaper ways to get into that stuff than game consoles.

Atari Jaguar, I saved up for that thing and then it was nothing but a giant turd. I still have it, in its original box and like new condition(because it sucked and I barely played it) along with the games and a Lynx that I keep meaning to put up on ebay.

@hauntingthedark: So like 4 months ago or something there was a guy in here wondering whether or not he should get a PSP. I had two so I PM'd him and just flat out mailed him one of mine. The guy was over the moon, thanked me multiple times and I felt mint for weeks. Still feel great about it.

You should do the same thing with your Vita, someone less jaded who is more interested in enjoyable gaming experiences than provocative forum threads would love to have that console. And you definitely need the personality brightener.

Also the 64 DD, it's an add-on but still. DAYUM.

The fact that the N64 received a port of Daikatana makes it irrefutably the worst console ever.

Honestly, if it weren't for Rayman debuting on the Platform, the Jaguar could have safely never happened.

It was also the worst version of Daikatana. They somehow made a piece of shit even shittier.

I had a CD-i. It was terrible.

Original Xbox was the only system I ever threw in the trash. In all honesty, it was a refurb, it was having problems, and the Xbox 360 had backward compatibility.

All of them and their kin.

CD-i is hands down the worst console ever and I was dumb enough to buy one..back then.

Nintendo Virtual Boy. I still remember playing the kiosk at a K-Mart in 1995. I was playing Red Alarm at the time for ten minutes. At first it seemed cool with the red vector graphics but I got lost and was feeling uncomfortable. I didn't know I was suppose to takes breaks during the play session. When I had enough and saw light again. I felt I was going blind. That was the first time I played a store video game kiosk that was not fun. In retrospective, it was dumb that the Virtual Boy was originally marketed as a portable device.

Pippin ain't easy

N-Gage was a hot mess. Also that Gizmondo thing.

I won't comment on systems that I've never owned or played more than 1 minute on, so Virtual Boy is out. From the systems that I personally owned, I would choose the Atari Lynx (Model 2) followed by the Game Gear. Those two had next to no games that interested me, and seemed too primitive by the time they saw release. (I was busy with Genesis/SNES & DOS games at the time.) Battery life is of little consequence to me, given that I tended to use battery packs or simply play around the house. (I can barely make out what's on a screen in sunlight anyways.) Having said this, I actually didn't mind those two portable systems that much.