<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="25">0:25</a> Number 30 PlayStation 3 controller with a screen <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="106">1:46</a> Number 29 Ouya <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="198">3:18</a> Number 28 Apple Bondi Pippen <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="270">4:30</a> Number 27 Nintendo Virtual Boy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="357">5:57</a> Number 26 Game Gear Micro <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="436">7:16</a> Number 25 Phillips CDI <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="517">8:37</a> Number 24 Zebo <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="595">9:55</a> Number 23 Nokia N-Gage <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="699">11:39</a> Number 22 ZX Spectrum Vega+ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="787">13:07</a> Number 21 Sega Genesis Flashback <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="874">14:34</a> Number 20 Super Wonder Boy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="959">15:59</a> Number 19 Zone 3D <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1023">17:03</a> Number 18 Tiger Gamecom <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1096">18:16</a> Number 17 Commodore 64 Games System <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1170">19:30</a> Number 16 Batman N64/Xbox hybrid <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1229">20:29</a> Number 15 PX 3600 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1283">21:23</a> Number 14 Power Player Super Joy 3 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1340">22:20</a> Number 13 Game Wave Family Entertainment System <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1414">23:34</a> Number 12 3Dio Interactive Multiplayer <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1487">24:47</a> Number 11 Advanced Game Player <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1543">25:43</a> Number 10 RDI Hon <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1635">27:15</a> Number 9 Wireless Air 60 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1676">27:56</a> Number 8 Mattel HyperScan <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1732">28:52</a> Number 7 Atari Jaguar CD <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1799">29:59</a> Number 6 Newon <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1871">31:11</a> Number 5 Aiga CD32 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1934">32:14</a> Number 4 Tiger Gizmondo <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2017">33:37</a> Number 3 Action Max <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2057">34:17</a> Number 2 LJN Video Art <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2092">34:52</a> Number 1 RZone
I had Stadia. The infrastructure was great. Controller was cool (I use it to play my PC games now). Low input latency, and it did exactly what it said it was going to do. The problem was paying full price for games that you could easily get for cheaper on consoles and, y'know, you could actually own those games. I just couldn't understand the business model. And neither could Google, apparently.
@@joink25 I also used Stadia for two years. Absolutely loved the service, and it pretty much saved my sanity during the lockdown. We had the best version of Cyberpunk too. Unfortunately, it was a flawed concept. They should've taken the Game Pass route but Google didn't have enough pull in the gaming market. The free controllers that came with certain game purchases were a nice touch though.
I absolutely loved my stadia, playing metro at work on my break was a ton of fun. I was really sad to see it get shut down. My stadia gets used as my main controller on my pc now
My confession: In 1992, I sold someone's Grandmother a CDi. I was the worst salesman in the world, it was a filler job when I got out of college and my boss was going to fire me if I didn't sell something to someone. To whoever got that, I apologize. If it helps, I still have nightmares sometimes.
In Brazil, we have the PoliStation, which looks like a PSOne and just has a bunch of emulation roms. A lot of kids that wanted Sony's first console got betrayed. 😂
I think those were quite common in all of Latin America during the late 90's and early 2000s. I had one of those, and had another bootleg console that looked like a Sega Genesis (that one could read both NES and Famicom cartidges)
I bugged my parents for weeks to rent a Virtual Boy from Blockbuster when I was a kid, I remember laying down and just placing it on my face. I recall a horrible headache after a few hours and all I got from it was Mario Tennis. Wish you could still walk into a store and rent a video game.
We still have one in my town where we can do that... It's a Family Video... The manager and I joke that I'm tyne only one keeping them in business and if I would stop going he would be able to retire early... He always seems happy to see me though and still let's me know when they get new games in...
Back in the 90s, dad worked for Toys R Us distribution. Whenever demo consoles got discontinued, they gave them away to staff. I got a Virtual Boy display. Only had 2 games. No one could play it but me because it made them sick.
About Zeebo, tectoy, the company that made it, is trying to launch a new console in the steam deck style named Zeenix (zeebo+phoenix, as a rebirth). As a Brazilian i hope it works, Tectoy was the company that brought us SEGA consoles in the 90's
I had been a frequent patron of a local game rental store for some time at this point, but one day, the owner asked me "Hey, do you want some stuff?" Being a young teen, I of course said yes. He LOADED me up with things. A Panasonic 3DO, an Atari Jagur, an SNES (I only rented Genesis games, at the time), a 32X, a SegaCD, a Game Gear, a Game Boy, my pick and as many as I wanted of games for each of them. I was a kid in a candy store... He let me go ham, and packed up everything I asked for, smiling the whole time. I went back the next week to tell him about all the fun I had with what he'd given me, and the store was out of business... Still to this day, I wish I could thank him for that... I never seen him again.
@@JoshuaJacobs83 Yup, and that's only actual usable consoles he plugged in. The worst knock offs + good emulation handhelds etc. (which I guess he didn't use) exist on mass. Hell, if someone would want to emulate gameboy advance games specifically and look for a handheld there's god knows how many that fill that role at this point - probably like 60 actually useable models alone, we've even got a few with which you can emulate PS2 on the go (altho only like 2-3h of battery life) at this point.
Boomerang design sounds like a genius way of stopping a tv being destroyed by a rage flung controller by looping it back and slapping the anger out of the one who threw it
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1765">29:25</a> - One year, I would watch the Highlander cartoon before heading to the bus stop. It was perfect, because I could finish the show, and if I left as the credits started, I'd get to the bus stop with around 5 minutes to spare.
Jokes on Falcon, Highlander is still a somewhat known expression in Brazil for whenever you're mocking someone as if they were invincible. I know only really old folks use though lol - I, for once, used it a lot but was too young to know what that was about.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1974">32:54</a> The worst part about this 'cheaper model with ads' thing was that the ads were never turned on before the console was dead on arrival. So in case you felt bad about buying the Gizmondo, imagine how utterly buttblasted you must have been if you spend 400 dollars for the ad free version just to have the exact same version as the people who bought the cheaper one.
N-gage owner here. This metal gear is years later on Nokia “ngage” game “engine”, you can’t play it on normal n-gage. If my memory doesn’t fail, it came Between 2008~2009
I loved my Ngage for everything but making calls. Though they fixed that with the Ngage QD but it was too little too late. I had a real good times playing a few of the games with friends multiplayer. One was called FloBoarding Feels like a lifetime ago
N-Gage got lots of PC games like Half-Life, Doom and lots of other games. It were popular for a long time and got new software/games daily on IRC for at least 2 years. Symbian OS were popular to make things for. I still own 2 real N-GAGE's in 2 different colors and i own a bunch of physical retail games for it.
Tiger handhelds were awesome. 90's commercials for kids were the best. That Conan skit was hilarious. And I absolutely remember watching that Highlander cartoon.
I actually had an Action Max when I was a kid. When you actually shot a target in a game, your score counter would increase and the box would say "Target Hit!" One of my favorite stories from my childhood was pointing it at Dan Rather's face one night while the news was on and squeezing the trigger. To my surprise, the box yelled "Target Hit!" My brother and I looked at each other and absolutely lost it laughing. Tried to get that to happen again for years to no avail.
My first console was a model 1 Sega Genesis, it was a retirement present for my grandpa. I have great memories of visiting him during the summer. He'd get Sega Channel, when I'd visit. I still remember when he gave me it to me, I've kept it safe.
In the Netherlands, the home country of Philips, the CD-i was heavily marketed as an interactive information and entertainment centre instead of a game console. They even had tie-in marketing with TV programs that heavily emphasized the "Interactive" part. "Interactive" was one of the biggest buzz word in the early nineties and Philips was hoping to cash on that.
I thought my kink was Falcon saying the f bomb in 7 year old gameranx videos.. but this last week has shown me that it’s his 30 minute plus videos instead 🫡 a voice we never get sick of hearing
The one system I remember coming out when I was a kid that I was excited about was the 3DO. Because there was nothing like it anywhere. It was graphically miles ahead of any console or pc really at the time. But it's price tag was way beyond the average households at the time and that killed it.
Probably just a joke, why else would falcon make a point about him being a billionaire... I'm sure "falcon" doesn't dislike rich people or something like that... right? I mean, what is he, a Marxist-Leninist?
This is fair. The emulation quality was meh and not including Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider or Gran Turismo out of the box is unforgivable. You shouldn't have to load your own ROMs to make it worth buying. And if you're willing to do that, there's dozens of objectively better options.
@@T00DEEPBLUE More then likely that was due to licensing, but the games it had not even running that great was just unacceptable! And I know Gran Turismo is Sony, but as I've found out more recently with many racing games being de-listed, the licenses for the real world cars used in the game can expire.
@@scottthewaterwarrior And even if licensing was a serious issue, all that would suggest is that the PS1 Classic was not a viable product for Sony to make to begin with. GT1 & 2 were two of the most popular and influential games the PS1 ever had in it's history. Franchises like Forza literally owe their existence to GT's success. To omit those games on the PS1 classic as though they were irrelevant is unbelievable.
I actually bought the OUYA. I thought it was the coolest thing because of the premise of it. I honestly had a good experience owning it and thought it had legitimate promise. I understand why it failed though.
@@cowboycinema8648 I couldn't care less about the doubt cast by an internet random whose opinion means less to me than the dirt on the bottom of my shoes.
@@cowboycinema8648 if you think a reply on social media counts as caring, I suggest seeking professional help. You replied to my comment, I replied to yours. It's how conversations work. Try to keep up, sport.
Pretty sure I’ve seen almost every gameranx video ever posted, and I believe that this holds the record for being the longest. I fall asleep to these videos a lot so I appreciate a longer video every now and then 😂🤙🏼
I feel legit sorry for anyone who at one point own these consoles and only for them to collect dust over the years . Their ultimate fate being to only to be throw away or to be donated
This is the first time I've heard Falcon go for 40 minutes. We'll done and thanks for the throwbacks, especially the Highlander cartoon, I used to love that as a kid!!
I had the R-Zone. It looked like the scouter from DBZ.That thing’s only redemption was the R-Zone Super Screen, which was released later. It allowed you to play R-Zone games on an actual handheld.
I worked for Staples from 2008-2014 and I hated SD cards. Almost all of the tech used them back then, and there were so many variants, customers were constantly confused about which size their particular phone, or other electronic used. PC’s had to have a different port for every size and it was just a mess. I’m glad that era is over
I can’t believe this was your number 1 pick. When you chose this as your number 1. I laughed so hard. I truly didn’t see that coming. I bought a R-Zone with my own money. Thank you good old Tiger Electronics. Thank you Falcon this was a great video.
Literally one of my biggest childhood memories was that I actually owned a Tiger R-Zone. Had a Panzer Dragoon title for that that I played NON-STOP. The headset weighed about a pound, and had a cheap elastic headband that didn't even hold up the weight of the device, so it would slide down over your ONE EYE you had to use to see the screen with. The screen was bright af all the time, and your eye would start to get burned in to that bright red, so when you took the thing off, you couldn't see colors correctly for a good 10 minutes. Never mind the fact that the thing gave you a massive headache from the bright screen and the vice-like grip on your dome. Man, what a shit show. 9/10.
This episode is a straight up history lesson, and I’m loving it. I haven’t heard of a majority of these consoles probably for good reason. Honorable mention room should go to the Soulja Boy Console.
I don’t remember the Highlander cartoon, but I fondly remember the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, where these kids went to an amusement park and were transported to the world of D & D on a roller coaster. Saturday mornings used to be the best part of the week.
The kid staying up till Christmas morning just to open a bootleg console and trying not to be disappointed really took me back to my childhood. Anybody else?
You just brought back memories of playing the Sonic the Hedgehog version of the Tiger handheld at my grandparent's house when I was little. 😂 I totally forgot about those things.
I was extremely fortunate that whenever a console came into my house it was the genuine article. We couldn't afford it but my brother got gifted our first console in the original PlayStation back in 99. And that is what launched both of our gaming adventures.
The Hyper Scan was Skylanders long before Skylanders. I never played it but I worked in an Amazon Warehouse for a few months and a whole lot of Skylanders minis got sold. Those Minis had a base that you connected to the game system. Insanely predatory practice considering marketed to very young children.
The CD32 were sold for 5 years in Norway, Germany, UK, Sweden etc. until year 1998 when the stock ran out. CD32 got support from developers for 3+ years. CD32 console had full Amiga OS with no limits, so the console never became useless as 1000's of Amiga games worked on it. A week ago i played on some of these failed consoles at a retro show. Virtua Boy and Pippin. N-Gage did at least get ports of Half-Life, Doom and lots of other games.
One of the primary goals of the Ouya was to create a platform that gave indie developers a foothold in the gaming industry, addressing the significant challenges they faced in getting their games published on the major consoles at the time. While the Ouya itself didn't achieve widespread success, its impact on the industry was notable. Following its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, policy changes soon followed, making it significantly easier for indie developers to bring their games to market on major platforms. Because of this, I don’t believe the Ouya was as big of a failure as people often claim.
Excuse you, Falcon, I actually did remembered the Highlander cartoon a few weeks ago, before completely forgetting about it again. Back when they made "Jr." of everyone, including James Bond Jr.
I had an R-Zone when I was a kid. Funnily enough I have zero memories of playing it other than I couldn’t see anything on the screen once. It deserved its spot on this list.
Those Tiger games handheld things were a fundamental part of my childhood when I was on long road trips. I needed those batteries to plug into the Gameboy for Pokemon Red >.> The slander is insane here.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="630">10:30</a> fun fact about the N-Gage. One of the designers was agitated with all the changes they were wanting, so he made a design inspired by Goatse (if ya know ya know). And that was the design they chose. The N-Gage design is based on Goatse.
I was so disappointed by those tiny Game Gears. When I first heard about them I was assuming it would be a normal sized Game Gear with a ton of classic games pre-installed. These days, they could put in the entire catalog in English and Japanese with no issues. I was planning to import one. Then we got... what they released. Yeah... That's a "no" from me.
FUN FACT: The Taco N-Gage's button layout is based off goatse because one of the designers is getting frustrated by the execs who can't make up their damn mind, until they found out the Goatse layout and they accepted that. Basically, the Nokia designers didn't even want to design a console in the first place. There's also an updated model that fixed the infamous cartridge placement.
CAUTION: Red and blue 3-D glasses can permanently damage/altar your vision if worn for too long. Using my “Rad Racer” (NES) glasses to read a Batman 3-D graphic novel, I found the last page had a pair of cardboard glasses you could punch out. It also had a warning to not ware them for more than fifteen minutes. I’d been wearing mine for two hours. To this day I can close one eye and everything will look artificially reddish and rosie, while if I close the other, everything turns dull blue and dreary.
