OWNERS OF FAILED SYSTEMS UNITE!

[Anonymous No.618792]

Those who owned systems that failed, what was it like?

Whether it was practically begging your parents for a VIrtual Boy and having to deal with getting nothing more than 15 games in it's entirety, or somehow getting your hands on a 3DO and finding nothing worth much besides Road Rash and Need for Speed?

After much crying did you end up dealing with it or getting it traded in for a successful system?

[Anonymous No.618851]

I still have my virtual boy. I feel kind'a bad about it because my parents did indeed get it for me the Christmas season it came out. They even got Wario Land to go with it so I pretty much had the best game on the console right out of the box.

And yeah, I kept waiting for better games but it never came. I did eventually get Red Alarm when toys R us was selling the games for $5-$10 in the bargain bin. I really hate myself for not getting more from that.

I also got Water world about a year ago, so now I have both the Best and worst game for the system.

[Anonymous No.618857]

>>618851
What's so bad about Waterworld? It seems like a fairly innocuous arcade-style game about picking up people from the water

[Anonymous No.618870]

>>618792
It was fucking tough seeing the dreamcast sink, especially since i was the only one who had one and could see how superior it was. I had preordered it, was pumped for months. I still have the free Electronics Boutique "Sega Dreamcast" t-shirt that came with my preorder. No longer have my dreamcast, sold it when I was getting ready for my first apartment. Someday I'll buy another, and get my favorite games -- shenmue, crazy taxi, rainbow six. I've always wanted Seaman but never got it.

[Anonymous No.618869]

Owned a virtual boy with Teleroboxer, Mario tennis, panic bomber, and Wario land.

I'm pretty sure i got it after they went on clearance and I loved it, even though I didn't have many games for it. So yeah, my ending isn't as bad as other people I think.

I still have the games and virtual boy, but it wont turn on for some reason. I've been meaning to fix it but haven't gotten around to it.

[Anonymous No.618889]

Got really psyched for the wii u when it released.

[Anonymous No.618890]

>>618792
>somehow getting your hands on a 3DO and finding nothing worth much besides Road Rash and Need for Speed

Soooooo...I guess Star Control II, Return Fire, Shockwave, Shockwave II, Twisted, Out of This World, Killing Time, Gex, Star Fighter, Wing Commander III, and Total Eclipse were just "nothing much"?

I loved Pataank.

[Anonymous No.618893]

3DO guy, wasnt too bad for me. Managed to find a few good games
Gex, Crash n Burn, Road Rash, Rebel Assault, Space Hulk, Need for Speed, Samurai Shodown, Twisted, Demolition Man

my 3DO broke down though recently so thats depressing

[Anonymous No.618895]

>>618870
Be sure to get a pre-October '00 DC for dem burned games

[Anonymous No.618898]

>>618890
oh yeah I had Starfighter too! great game. I always liked the fact that i could just blast through a mountain. The later levels were kinda silly but i loved that game

[Anonymous No.618906]

>>618889

9/10 dog
9/10 battlestation

I'll give you 10/10.

It's more than the sum of it's parts.

[Anonymous No.618918]

>>618890
>>618893

Another 3DO guy here adding BladeForce, Alone In The Dark, and Immercenary to the list.

[Anonymous No.618919]

>>618890
I forgot Guardian War. Anyone ever play this? Amazing RPG.

[Anonymous No.618928]

>>618919
was that released in the US?
i dont remember seeing any rpgs for the 3DO

[Anonymous No.618938]

>>618928
It was. I think it was on a combo disc, though it's been years, so I'm not sure...

[Anonymous No.618946]

I actually knew someone who owned a fucking Neo Geo with one game (some fighting game, who the fuck knows which). Goddamn white elephant

[Anonymous No.618952]

>>618890
And Braindead 13

[Anonymous No.618979]

I never owned any truly failed systems(Like CD-I, 3DO, Virtual Boy etc.) but I did stick with Nintendo during the 5th/6th generation when the PS1/2 were much, much more popular over here. I was practically the only one that owned a N64/GC, although others did like it when playing multiplayer games. Never felt like I missed something back then though, both libraries were good enough to get me through those years.(Especially Gamecube's)

I recently got a PSX to play those games I missed, damn does it have a shitton of great titles to choose from.

[Anonymous No.619005]

I had a GameGear and a Intellivision/Colecovision (I forget which.), but I'm unsure if either of those failed really. I had games for them I liked, so I guess I didn't care much if at all.

[Anonymous No.619021]

>>618979

Same vein, I was given a knockoff NES clone when I was near the end of the 5th gen of consoles, and my first real console was a modchipped PS1 circa 2001 aronnd age 7, when PS2 was dominate. I still had to buy my bootleg games (much lower price, but still) because the internet was total dogshit at the time.

I enjoyed it bitterly to say the least. I loved the games I had for it (Crash games, Pepsiman, Metal Slug), but was jealous of my friends with their PS2s and Gamecubes.

In a way, it gave me the tolerance to look past a game's aged look for what really matters, the gameplay.

Since then I've used my own money to buy old systems, including ones I never owned, like the Saturn and Master system. I bought a chipped PS2 and played all kinds of games I missed out on, both PS1 and 2.

In a way, having a shitty old outdated system helped me appreciate retrogaming, the simpler stuff.

>>619005

GG did fairly well, I believe. So did the CV before the game crash of '83

[Anonymous No.619049]

I got a SegaCD when it came out.
I got a 32X when it came out
I got a Saturn when it came out
I had my Dreamcast 9-9-99 baby...

[Anonymous No.619057]

>>619049
Jeeeeesus, talk about betting on the wrong fucking horse

[Anonymous No.619082]

>>619057
I felt like a battered wife.
Sega going third party was the best thing that ever happened to me.

[Anonymous No.619097]

>>619057
>implying Sega hardware wasn't the best and didn't have the best exclusives
Sure is dumb in here.

[Anonymous No.619114]

>>618792

Not /vr/ related but I've waited 2 years for 3DS games to come out, hell I haven't even played them yet since the wait was so long.

As for old-school systems, I was never disappointed.

[Anonymous No.619137]

>>619021
>In a way, having a shitty old outdated system helped me appreciate retrogaming, the simpler stuff.
True that. For most people who only played 3D games growing up it's much harder going back to 2D. It was the reverse problem with my dad though, he stopped gaming on consoles when I got my N64, since the controls got more complex/3D was hard to get into. He did love handhelds/PC games like AoEII though.

[Anonymous No.620842]

I almost ended up with a Sega Saturn when it was out. Had a Genesis and loved it to death so when the Saturn was out I wanted one for Christmas but my mom got me a Playstation instead. In the end she made the right decision I guess since Saturn support in America was balls. Did finally get one later in my life and love it.

[Anonymous No.620987]

>>618870

I was pretty young and didn't really understand what was going on, but when my older brother told me Dreamcast was dying and Sega was going third party i got pretty mad. I held against Xbox for awhile, although it really was the PS2 that put the nail in the coffin for the 'ole DC.

[Anonymous No.621041]

>>619057
Atleast he got a genesis. That was good. Could had gotten a Jaguar or something.

[Anonymous No.621068]

Did anyone here got back in the day a CD-i?, at least consoles like the 3DO and Jaguar had some games, but that thing had literally no games.

[Anonymous No.622389]

>>618890
and lucienne's quest

[Anonymous No.622435]

>>621068

Used to have one, best game was Micro Machines, followed by Dark Castle

[Anonymous No.622450]

My favorite failure was the Sega Nomad.

I say failed because the battery life was about 10 minutes. And it took a lot of batteries.

[Anonymous No.622542]

>>619049
I can only imagine your reaction at each Sega console launch up

>BUT THIS TIME THERE WILL BE GAMES!! ;_;

[Anonymous No.622563]

>>622542
Sega Consoles were never lacking in good games.

[Anonymous No.622575]

>>622563
I've only said "games", not "good games".

[Anonymous No.622582]

I consider N64 a failed system from what I expected of it after owning a SNES. Can I join?

[Anonymous No.622663]

>>622582
7 or so in 1989
Rarely played video games, kids in my neighbourhood would play with action figures, ride bikes, general outside stuff kids used to do.
My clueless father buys me an Atari 7800 for xmas as my first console. Never knew that it was outdated the instant it was released, a few years prior to me getting one. Only ever had 4 games; the built in Asteroids and the carts Donkey Kong Jnr, Mario Bros and Karateka.
Got by on those and a few hand me down 2600 games for the few years till I unwrapped a Megadrive for my 11th birthday.
I still have a softspot for those 7800 games and count them among my favourite of all time except of course for Karateka

[Anonymous No.622667]

>>622663
Disregard the accidental quote

[Anonymous No.622827]

>>622582

Technically no. That said, I had an N64 when I was a kid and was perfectly content with it. In retrospect though, the PS1 was easily better. Had I been a teenager with more disposable income, I would have been dying through the N64's constant droughts.

Whatever one may say about the Gamecube, it's first year and a half or so on the market (2001-2002) was WAY better than the N64's first year and a half (1996-1997).

[Anonymous No.622835]

I've owned both an R Zone. I had fun with it as a kid. Looking back on it, it's horrible. However, when you get a new system as a young kid you don't really look at it in the same way as you do as a cynical adult.

[Anonymous No.622836]

I actually got a Dreamcast a few months AFTER Sega had announced the end had come. I had intended to get one for a while and that was the incentive for me to do so.

To this day, I still think the Dreamcast could have made it in the long run. It sold about 10 million systems in two years or so, compared to 24 million Xboxes in five years. Had it kept along at the same pace, it's sales wouldn't have been too different from the Xbox or Gamecube.

[Anonymous No.622845]

>>622836
SEGA was just too afraid of the PS2, also, all the lost money and poor sales of Shenmue made SEGA discontinue the Dreamcast.

People say that the Dreamcast wouldn't have made it because of the format it used, but Gamecube discs had a similar capacity of the GD-ROM ones, and that console sold good enough actually.

[Anonymous No.622852]

>>618895
This is moot. All Dreamcasts except for the Hello Kitty special edition can run MIL-CD. The vulnerability wasn't really found until it was already a commercial failure. Then came Bleemcast and CD-r rips...

[Anonymous No.622856]

>>619057
To be fair it turned out the Saturn was an amazing console. Just outside of America and Europe sadly.

[Anonymous No.622857]

>>622836
Plenty of people bought DC after Sega announced that they're killing it because prices of consoles and games plummeted. One has to wonder if lowering the price of console in the first place wouldn't have saved DC.

[Anonymous No.622861]

>>622856
Even Europe got better treatment with more copies of games being printed and few exclusives, not to mention better marketing. Sega America just didn't know what to do with Saturn.

[Anonymous No.622867]

>>622861
>Sega America just didn't know what to do with Saturn.

That and Sega of Japan being pissed at America and treating them like shit. Just look at that one canceled Sonic game. Only reason why it never got finished was Sega of Japan being a dick.

[Anonymous No.622895]

>>622836
Difference being that Microsoft and Nintendo could afford those kind of sales, Sega couldn't.

[Anonymous No.623062]

>>622867
That, and Naka basically made them throw out their initial game because they were using his NiGHTS engine. The development of Sonic Xtreme and the fall of STI is a sad story.

[Anonymous No.623068]

>>623062
That'd be Sega of Japan being dicks.

[Anonymous No.623105]

>be SNES/N64fag
>only buy Saturn when it gets bargain binned
>this gives me enough faith in Sega to purchase a DC after its first price drop

Although most of my favourite games of all time are from those two

[Anonymous No.623143]

Does Dreamcast count? Because, if so, I was sent one by my father the year it came out because my parents had just gotten divorced and he felt bad about it (not a sad story, really. He was a piece of shit and I was glad to be out.) I hadn't asked for one.

Anyway, I loved that thing. I would never trade it in, even for just Illbleed alone.

[Anonymous No.623713]

>>623143
>Illbleed

My nigga. Fucking love that game with all my heart.

[Anonymous No.623726]

>>623143
>>623713
It is a strange day when there are as many as two people who owned Illbleed.

[Anonymous No.623737]

I dont think you can really classify systems like dreamcast or saturn as "failures", at least for the consumer perspective. there were plenty of great games to enjoy.

Something like the CDi would be a failure imo, for everyone involved

[Anonymous No.623752]

>>623737
Well outside Japan and maybe EU, you can classify them as cult consoles. They were both dropped pretty early in their cycle, a failure in a business sense, not in popularity. I own a Saturn and DC and love the damn things, but honestly, the Saturn was lacking in more than the usual lineup of lauded games people recommend, and the DC's best games were only (good) arcade ports, and many other titles were mostly bad ports of 5th gen games with poor controls.

[Anonymous No.623865]

>>623752
They might have failed in US but if the console does well and even better than competition EVERYWHERE else then it's not really a failure. 3DO or Jaguar were duds everywhere so it's fair to call them failures.

[Anonymous No.623879]

>>623865
I was referring to business failures because although they may enjoy renewed cult status now, they were dropped in support back then and lacked the luxury of becoming popular homebrew/retro machines

Owning a console that failed initially in it's era is the point of this thread

[Anonymous No.627403]

>>622435
>Dark Castle one of the best games on the system

I'm so sorry.

[Anonymous No.627415]

>>623105
What the fuck are you doing Henrietta

[Anonymous No.627817]

>>623713
That's one of my favorite games. My mom, my aunt (who we moved in with after the divorce who was like a second parent to me, RIP,) and I would play that game together ALL the time. It's really funny seeing two female family members getting so excited about getting a female character naked in-game.
>>623726
>owned
>implying that shit isn't still in my possession to this day