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RPadholic smartguy brought up a fantastic idea for Coffee Talk, so let’s use it today! What’s the worst console you’ve purchased? Surely some of you have been burned by the likes of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, Nokia’s N-Gage, or Tiger Telematics’ Gizmondo. Now’s the time to let your frustrations out and totally trash the one gaming system you wish you never spent money on! It’ll be cathartic. Give it a go.
As for me, I can’t really think of any console that I hated. I didn’t have every system growing up, so I dodged a lot of bullets. I also try to find something good about everything, so it’s hard for me to get angry at inanimate objects. If I try real hard, I think I’d be disappointed in Sega CD. It was expensive and most of the games weren’t that good. Then again it also had Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher, which is pretty damn cool.
Okay, I suck at this. Why don’t you guys and gals give it a shot? Go off on the worst console you ever bought (please)!
I didn't buy it because I was a child at the time but I remember my father coming home with an Atari Jaguar. I have very fond memories playing one of two games, AvP and Doom. We killed doom on the PC and SNES so it was redundant at this point, however Avp was awesomely awesome and totally scared the beejesus out of my and my younger bros. I guess the lack of support for cool games and it got stolen from us is why I think it was one of the worst. Then we got a Sega Saturn and then MGS came out for PS1 and the rest is history lol.
1) 32X what a load of crap machine/addon. I received this and was also given VF and DOOM for it. VF performed no better than the supposed lesser version and DOOM was short as hell. I think the SNES version was better and longer.
2) NEO-GEO. I got one of these for xmas and my family decided it was up to other people to get me games. As luck would have it, nobody got me a game that xmas. My parents then told me they couldn't afford to buy me a game since they were close to $100 each. So finally in mid to late January we took a trip to the Babbages in NOLA and they had no games for it. I felt so robbed. I had asked for a Neo-Geo since I saw it given away as a prize on that show Nick Arcade. Now I had one and couldnt play it.
3) Virtual Boy. If you need an explanation please youtube Virtual Boy gameplay.
@BB
Jaguar was good at the time. I really enjoyed Tempest 2000 and AVP. I remember when the system folded and I saw them at close out prices of $60. The real big gripe I had was that the controller had 30 buttons on it. That was too much.
@smartguy
neo geo belongs nowhere in a list of worst consoles ever….i never had one but i wanted one soooo god damn bad…i did have a 3dO and that was the one of the best consoles ive ever owned, it still holds up
yeah i get how that would suck with no games though..lol
i cant really say ive ever bought a bad console…never had turbografix 16, never had 32x, never had the jaguar, never had the virtual boy
i did own the power glove though, and that was a whole new level of suck, a new world, even
hold up, hold up
i did have the sega saturn, and other than virtua fighter, that thing was god awful
and i had the atari lynx…wow, disregard last post
@Thundercracker
The Stynx huh? Amazing that the green scale gameboy never lost market to the likes of those kinds of machines.
The biggest problem with the Neo Geo was that the games were $100 at Babbages. I'm just assuming that it was the normal price. I honestly would never have bought a system where the games were $100.
Never got the 3DO.
Xbox 360, only console to ever break on me, 3 times…
I haven't had the privilege of having the money to buy the systems above. thank my lucky stars i had a friend that bought a turbo grafx 16 and i thought it was pretty kool at the time but i think it was because i didn't have it. now that i look back it must've been pretty lame because none of those games interest me now that they are available for download on the wii virtual console.
@TW game
maybe now that he's divorced he can go out and have many mistresses again and get his game back.
@UFC
he was dominating Silva until the end. I can't believe he tapped. i still say it was a questionable tap. i can't wait for the re-match and i can't wait to see Toney in 3 weeks.
Mine has to be the Sega Saturn. I had the demo discs it came with and never got any games for it. I liked the demos though, there was just virtually no games for it. I was too young to have bought it myself and there was no way I was old enough to buy games for it. I honestly don't even remember where it is.
Gamecube. I hardly every played it and ended up trading it in after about 6 months of collecting dust. I ended up marrying back into one later on, so we've still got one laying around the house here. I can count on one hand the number of times I've touched it, and that includes the two times I've moved since my wife and I got married.
@nightshade
you know i was going to nominate the gamecube but i started remembering all the hours i logged into mario kart, mario baseball, and mario golf then i couldn't do it. i still play those games but on the wii now because it's backwards compatible.
@tokz_21 He only tapped once before the ref stopped it, but it looks like he did indeed tap. Great fight though! Also enjoyed Old Man Johnson showing Tavoris Cloud how it's down. Devon Alexander…I'm not sure he won that fight. Either way, Tim Bradley wrecks him.
@smartguy On the plus side, the Genesis + Sega CD + 32X combine to form Voltron.
@rpad
oh i'm not arguing it since sonnen didn't make a fuss that he didn't tap. it did look like he was just flailing his hand, oh well. in other news i forgot there was boxing on this week because of the lackluster schedule that was up. i'm going to have to catch a replay or dl sometime.
@Rpad
Luckily a friend of mine got the SegaCD (don't you find it odd that the 32X came after the CD system??) and I played Ground Zero Texas. I thought it was perhaps the worst game I had ever played. I didn't want one after that. However, having the sega stack would have been nice just to have lol.
@ UFC
I missed it but I see the Spider is still the king, no?
@Big Blak He was getting beat for four rounds and pulled a submission in the fifth. Some say he was getting dominated.
I say he was getting dominated. i can't believe he pulled off that submission with a 130 left in the 5th round.
I had Video Art… that was terrible. So terrible, I struggle to even consider it a console.
@tokz: You know what game I spent the most time on with my Gamecube? The Legend of Zelda. You know, the original one that they rereleased as part of the prorder bonus of one of the newer ones (I don't remember which one). It was easier to pop that in than dig my old NES out of a box somewhere. Other than that, I really hardly ever played it. I had Rogue Squadron, Tiger Woods and one of the NBA games too, but in the end I just tended to keep going back to my PS2 or XBOX last gen. My wife is really into the Metroid games, as well as anything LoZ, so it makes much more sense for her to get the Nintendo consoles than me at this point.
@ UFC
What submission did he get him with if anyone knows?
@nightshade
oh yeah i remember that game. i think i lost it but the cover was pretty sweet. i wonder if i can find that at gamestop???
@big blak
the million dollar dream!!!!
no seriously idk what it was he went from an armbar to an ankle lock to an armbar again. i think. memory is kind of hazy. it happens when you drink all day at an italian fest then go to a bar.
@ Tokz
Lol thats all I needed to know!
@Big Blak It was a triangle.
@smartguy Wasn't that just a proposal from Google and Verizon? Nothing is set yet.
@all Sorry I couldn't post at lunch today. Had to go to the bank. Have a really important story that's only important to peep that read this site. Stay tuned!
So Google just stifled future network innovation today. Amazing that if this were any other company redefining what the Internet is it would cause an uproar. So since wireless isn't the Internet it shouldn't be held to the same fair consumer principles. Amazing and disappointing at the same time.
So I guess when LTE is pushed to rural areas and then consumers opt for it in slow dsl markets they will be restricted from using certain things.
Important reminder for everyone — it will soon be 05:06:07 (Hours:Minutes:Seconds) on 08/09/10. Cool.
@Ray
It is a precedent set in motion by a very large and very influential non-ISP. I also think the 2 million fine is laughable.
I know it is out of character for me, but I do hope that the FCC creates a new set of rules for data providers. Putting them under title 2 is too drastic but they should force them to compete.
I've never really bought one of the dud consoles like the N-Gage, Lynx, Sega Saturn, Sega CD, 32X, Virtual Boy, etc.
I've been a long-time Nintendo fan and I did like the N64 and Gamecube because I didn't have any other consoles and I liked the first-party titles. The N64 did have weaker offerings than the Gamecube in my opinion, but I still got to play Mario 64, Ogre Battle 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Rush, Zelda (both), MK3, and others that helped me get good mileage out of it. As far as Gamecube is concerned, I feel for you, Nightshade, but I can't hate on a console that gave us Rouge Leader, Killer 7, Paper Mario, Eternal Darkness (Sanity's Requiem), Wind Waker, Super Smash Bros., Resident Evil 4 and Metroid F'ing Prime. I played the hell out of that little black box.
Physically, the worst console I've ever had has to be the Xbox 360 for hardware issues (I think I've had five or six since 2006… I've lost count) like Redtailman mentioned. But, hot damn, does it have some great games and a kick-ass controller that feels right (minus the crappy D-Pad).
-M
Technically, I never bought a console I didn't like. I was, however, given an xbox 360 as a gift. After the 8th or 9th time Microsoft sent it back to me without successfully fixing it, I decided to forever swear off the xbox 360. Not too tough since I'm perfectly happy with my PS3, DSi, Wii, modded PSX, modded GBA, SNES, Game Boy, and my (rather dusty and infrequently used) PSP. Not sure if the iPhone counts as a console yet, but I've been enjoying alot of games on that one too. I suppose the moral of the story is that I prefer consoles that play games without crashing after a few minutes.
@dmt
the sdf is taking applications
@Iceman: My intention was not to knock the GameCube. It certainly had some great games, many of which came out after I gave up on the system I bought and sold it back. But I took the question quite literally, which meant I was limited to systems that I had bought (for me) with my own money. So that list was the PS2, XBOX, GameCube, XBOX 360 and PS3 (I've also bought a DS and a PSP, but those were for my wife so they didn't count). Anything prior to last console generation was a gift from someone, and even then I was lucky enough not to get gifted a Saturn or NGage-like flop. So if those are the 5 systems I had to choose from, I've gotta pick the one system I traded in after 6 months.
Also, I've noticed a lot of people using console failures as a determining factor in this discussion. So for the record I'd like to point out that the PS2 was the worst offender for me with regards to console failures. Here's the current breakdown:
PS2: 3
XBOX: 2
360: 2
Now before someone chimes in about how I've "never had a PS3 burn out," on me and thus, "Sony is teh win," or whatever, it should be noted I've had my PS3 for 7 months and really only use it for exclusives. So I really haven't used it enough for it to burn out on me. But give it time. It'll happen. That's my luck with these things. As Ray referenced in Coffee Talk #29, I'm Magneto or something when it comes to this shit.
https://rpad.tv/2009/11/19/coffee-talk-29-how-many…
@NIghtshade
I agree. My PS2 was the worst reliable console for me that I have ever purchased. The infamous disc read error hit 3 of the fat systems I had and then hit again on a slim model my girlfriend bought for herself. Hell, you had to turn my ps1 upside down to get it to play a game.
I hardly ever use my ps3. I wish I had opted for the cheaper model instead of the MGS bundle. I hate how it seems that everytime I turn it on, which for me is once or twice per week, it needs a damn firmware update….which will take too damn long to install. Honestly the most use my ps3 gets for me now is streaming my itunes library to my surround.
The only thing I can complaint against the PS2 I have, is that I lost over like 10-15 memory cards, That alone cost me an extra system or two. but nothing beats my 360- 5 times for red ring and once for a hard-drive, Hell its broken now. Like 4 months after they sent me another one to replace my red-ringed one, the disc drive goes out. And they want $100 to fix it…. I was pissed. But not as pissed as when they sent me a Live card with no code on the back. -.- Which I then had to go Morris Bart on freaking customer service in order to get another card.
Other News- Jason Frank aka The Green Ranger, is now 5-0 in his MMA career, does Zordon know how to pick them or what?
I apologize for the grammatical issues in my last post. Its early. Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
LOL, Morris Bart.
for any that do not know that is the name of the local lawyer who runs ads to get you to call him to sue anyone over anything. We all have them in our areas.
Stephen Hawking says the human race is teh doomed, if we don't conquer space exploration!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012990-71.htm…
@tokz_21 I saw that yesterday. Apparently the Cuban Missile Crisis was a big part of his argument.
@Smartguy
Its pretty awesome someone caught that.
@Hawking
He's doomed if he runs into some stairs. Zing!
@rpad
yeah i read that. i find it funny that there are thousands of nuclear weapons but it will take 1 or 2 to completely destroy the planet.
@arguello
Ha!
Wow I bought Just Cause 2 from Amazon last week (first ever Amazon purchase) and HOLY CRAP Amazon Spams the hell out of you. I have gotten 15+ e-mails since I placed the order. Finally decided to read one of them and Opted out of all future e-mails. It was a bit crazy though how many they send out.
@Slicky;
Welcome to the club.
-M
I don't think I ever bought a "bad" console. I skipped all the Sega systems completely growing up on Nintendo then Sony. As for bad games….well I bought and rented a few of those, lol.