Failed Game Consoles: Phantom, Gizmondo, N-Gage & Ouya | S13E27

Um, but I, and I'm also not going to talk about the first one that was on my list because I want to talk about that one with, with, um, with jack so i'll go ahead and do one that he might not care about talking about um and that is the nec pc fx um so this console there's another one we're gonna talk about later the super graphics which um you know you have the pc engine which was enormously successful in japan it challenged the famicom it beat the famicom um, beat Nintendo, you know, in sales and did extraordinarily well there.

Um, did not do so well in the United States as Jack's going to talk about later, but did extraordinarily well in Japan.

Um, the super graphics was an attempt to make a, um, system that would compete with the more modern systems, but still not quite as advanced as it needed to be.

We'll talk about that later.

And then the PC effects was the one that came out in night in, uh, 1994.

And this one had the CD drive, um, and it was supposed to be competitive with the PS one.

Um, but it was not, um, it supposedly did really good 2d.

Um, but the problem with the PSC effects was that basically no games were made for it.

You had anime FMVs and then visual novels, um, that were made um which you know whatevs and it ended up just being as you know i i would love i was mentioning this on the discord yesterday to fenris and the folks but i would love could you imagine if hudson and nac would have been able to last to this gen um and continue to be successful after the pc engine or just you know successful in america ever um we'd have some pretty cool stuff now because they always had the quirky, really cool stuff.

As you know, I love, I love those particular systems.

So.

And my cords drive me crazy.

But the PC effects, it's, it's one of those things to look up.

It also, I'm not going to say the word because the algorithm will attack us.

Um, it rhymes with corn.

Um, there are a lot of those type of games on the PC effects as well as, you know, it pretty much was clear that it wasn't going to be able to do well in the mainstream.

So whatever, just, you know, go, go nuts, go nuts with it, go nuts with it.

All right, Jess, take it away.

So I actually didn't really play any of the failed ones.

And so I thought maybe I could more kind of ask questions for this one.

That works.

That works.

So I'm trying to think.

I guess I can also ask him of Jack once he gets here.

But my first one is out of the ones that you've played, were there any that you were like extra disappointed by, like you thought were going to be awesome and then just weren't?