Your inflection has definitely gotten better, and I like your use of humor. Congratulations on your ever-improving series! Incidentally, I remember laser discs. My middle school or high school made the mistake of purchasing a player for the library. It was so frustrating to navigate through those things. You had to find the right area to click play, so you're not a mile away from your intended area of the disc. I can't imagine doing that on a console, nor can I imagine trading in ten or eleven ox 360 systems for ONE of those. Jeez.

Also, one of my friends actually has a Vectrex (or at least had one; he may have traded it to someone)!

I like this review but i refuse to agree about the PS3 and PSP. what makes it awesome is all of their abilities. hell, PSP might as well replace a phone if you could call with it. the music and such kicks ass and all their features so no on that one. I laughed at the rest though, nice job

Actually, you can call using the PSP. It runs Skype.

yeah, then it's an iphone with good games essentially

Holy crap :X

I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing at "costed".

In the verb form of the word "cost", adding an -ed for the past tense form is acceptable.

I'm afraid you're a bit misguided with the grammar thing. Go here and read, please:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080407111149AAG5bGS

Also...

What, no mention of the Neo Geo home system? That one was a financial monster as well.

Finally, laser discs were hardly a waste of time. The average retail cost of a movie was around $35, which was only about $10 more than VHS sell-through titles at the time. They also had far superior video, digital sound, random access capabilities, and invented the idea of putting extras into the package. Many early deluxe DVDs were essentially recycling material already made for LD box sets.

You're right, though. That Pioneer interactive system was ridiculous.

The NeoGeo was successful enough to have a 14 year lifespan of manufacturer support.

Please tell me if you can say that about any other console.

It was actaully the remains of a Mega Drive Laser Disc add on project that SEGA had with Pioneer. Originally in 1989, SEGA planned on building a Laser Disc attactment for MD. That was to both play LD games and movies, but Pioneer thought that the ides was too overruled and overblown and SEGA felt that it was way too expensive and too risky to do. So the "MD LD" project scrapped in mid 1990. This is why the LaserActive was compatible with SEGA CD/MEGA CD games because SEGA and JVC designed Mega CD instead.

NEC dissapeared from the video game industry never to be seen again in 1994 after the PCFX. Though they did plan to help SEGA design the Katana/Naomi Dreamcast, but bailed out at the last moment. It was actually the same power as 3D0.

The Fairchild Channel F predated the Atari 2600 by one year. It was released in 1976 and yes it was a very primitive and poorly designed Pong clone.

The Vetrex? The Vetrex was such a stupid for a console. So ridiculous, that people that brought ColecoVision laughed at it's stupid design and novel idea.

The Apple Bandai Pippin is so obsure that it's not even mentioned in the list of all time worse consoles. Hell I don't even remember people talking about it in 1996.

The Casio Loopy failed because Japanese gamers of both sexes went for the Saturn. It was a much better investment at the time. In 1994 you could just buy a Sega Saturn for 29,000 yen, girls didn't need to get a Loopy system. Pun Intended.

Actually, I thought that the past tense of "cost" was "cost."

No actually it is not. "cost" is present and past tense by itself.

ex: It once cost a dime.
ex: How much does that cost.

I respect your opinion BUT please stop bashing the ps3

Ahh....

Good to know that the truth is still hurting Sony fanboys to the point of still making them cry like 6 year olds, whenever someone dares to actually be honest about how much it truly sucks and how much money that the poor fools wasted on something so nearly worthless.

PSP still blows.

very vey nice vid man...man i have to admit the only 2 systems ive herd of was the ventrix and the nomad and sadly i used to own the nomad.....ya good thing it was a gift and who ever bought it for me wasted ALOT of money! :pinch: lol but really that laser disk? were they on f***ing crack with the price tags?? wow....2 words to sum that up/////

COMPLETE RETARDS :!:

Oh my. I had never heard about any of those consoles that you had on list.

Save for the Vectrix and the Nomad, I had never heard of a single one of those.

Kudos, Sage! This proved to be both funny and educational!

Tampon strings and the hopes of Ethiopian children. Brilliant.

Rape me once, shame on you...

Rape you twice...

Heh
"Oh PS3 you never learn..."

By "summarize", you mean "become incredibly butthurt by a barely 11 second reference to the truth, which you feel the need to whine about like a 6-year old", right?

Great summary.

I wish I could ignore the rest of the review, ignore all other 9 consoles on the list, as well as the point of the actual video in the first place, and focus entirely on 11 seconds of a barely related PS3 comparasion, like you.

Then, I could be a useless little whiner, putting their fingers in their ears and crying "la, la, la" in denial, too. We could make a special club and cry to each other like sad little emos! yay!

Oh wait.. I would never want to be like you. Because I have some self respect. Sorry.

But yeah. I get it.

You're another pathetic butthurt Sony fanboy crying themselves to sleep over hearing the truth. BAWWW.

Of course, that automatically qualifies you to summarize the rest of the video, aside from apparently the only several seconds you payed any attention to, to piss yourself and cry, right?

Another Sony fanboy gets the truth shoved down their face, and cries like a little bitch about it.

Awesome.

Because the greatest thing about it is that everytime it happens, they do all the work to make themselves look stupid, and people like me have only to laugh at it, to rub the public embarrassment in.

Now go off somewhere and be ashamed. xthxbai.

I know I'm 6 months late but goddamn dude calm down. Everybody likes to defend their $500 investments. What's with all this console hate? I just buy them all when the next gen stuff comes out lol

Personally I own the Nomad, the Sega CD, and the 32X! And I play them all the time. I guess you could call me a Sega whore, but honestly I love obscure systems and I need to hunt down some of these forgotten systems. I actually heard of most of these, in fact me and my uncle were just talking about the Vectrix before I watched this! Creepy!

I've actually heard of several of these, but it's still a great list.

Also, I don't think you're "cheating" with the Nomad. It's fairly well known, but it's usually not featured on a lot of "worst console" lists, so it's fine. Maybe a few spots too high, but it's fine.

Sage owns a PS3. He can say whatever he wants about it.

Is the Pioneer also known as the Halcyon? I was only aware of one laserdisc console, the Halcyon.

Its flagship title was Thayer's Quest - an adventure game with animation only slightly better than the CD-i Zelda game cutscenes.

No, the Halcyon was a different console, though pretty horrible in its own right. 2500 dollar price tag in 1985. Had its own computer and laser disc player attached, and only two games released for it, with Thayer's quest being one of it.

Hey Sage! Nice vid.

I knew the Vectrix from the Angry Video Game Nerd's Star Trek review.

But the Pioneer Laseractive...had those movies on disks ...woundt that be (sort of) DVDs?

oh and one more thing ...about the Loopy imagine giving a Loopy to a femenist and saying is a console for girls

Bye!!!
--LordOfAwesome95

:shock:

Someone should travel back in time and get us rid of those consoles forever.

These mistakes were made for a reason. Imagine such fallacies made on modern consoles... wait... PS3

Never mind.

It's easy to make jokes about PS3 due to the fact Wii outsold it upon their near simultaneous releases. But granted, for what it is... it's still a decent system.

But I will agree, X-Box 360 is worse. I never bought an X-Box upon it's initial release because I kept hearing from my friends that it broke down more often. And why Microsoft thinks they can price it at the exorbitant value they think it is... I will never know.

Go away fanboy!

You were not kidding when you said "Consoles You've Never Heard Of". The only ones I have heard about are the Nomad and the Vectrix.

Great review. Only one I had vaguely heard of was the Nomad.

Hilariously, some of my cousins actually had a Laseractive, I don't remember, but I think they had one of the other systems stuff

Of all those, I've only ever heard of the Nomad.

They all look and sound terrible.

Excellent and informative video!

Ps. My cousin owned a Nomad. I remember the mountains of empty batteries laying around everywhere in his room. Yeah, he doesn't believe in "recharge".

I think you ripped on the Vectrex to much. It was a nice system, but it had the misfortune of being released in 1982, also there was little 3rd party support. I own a Vectrex and it is one of the most interesting gaming expieriences you can get. And it gets you perfect ports of games like Asteroids and Armor Attack plus a library of other several games such as Clean Sweep and Scramble. Also, don't complain about no color because even vector graphix arcade games used overlays

Of all these consoles i indeed never heard of, i had the luck to own a Watari Supervision, i actually bought one of these at a flee market for about 10 bucks, including 2 awesome games.

Sadly however, it broke down after several years of service after which i bought a game boy.

This was an interesting review, definitely different from your usual reviews, i thoroughly enjoyed your review and i hope you keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Nice review, brought back some memories.

I liked the review, i seariously hadnt heard of any of the mentioned consoles.

Only draw back in the film for me was the "anti-PS3" Joke... was pointles :huh:

But I think you forgot the Bandai Playdia :P

Also, my dad had/has a laserdisk player and you could find laserdisk movies cheaper then fifty bucks pretty easily, but the problem was actually finding a retailer that would sell them (Tower Records I think was the only place we got them).

Hey, don't mock the Vectrex! I have one at home which my father bought before my time (yeah, the system is one year older) - and I love it. Insanely. Best. Console. Ever.

But anyway, great video, as usual!
(Though I'm hoping for some Fanfic Theater goodness soon)

Cynical and funny. I don't normally see you that way in review of video games, but I'd love to see it.

I love dark humor and the occasional self deprecating humor.

Interesting. Nice work with the review. I think I've only heard of the Nomad back in the day. Even then I knew it was not good. I had a Game Gear and that suited my purposes well!

Either way, good review. Wow, those other consoles just reek!

Heh, the only one of those consoles I never heard of was the Supergrafx.

Then again, I hang around Ultimateconsoledatabase.com way too much for my own amusement, so, bleh.

That site's pretty amusing if you're bored and want to kill some time.

Hey say what you want about the Vectrix. But it's fun to play. B)