How Many 'failed Consoles' Did You Go Along With?

[Fishbong]

- Alex

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This is actually a very sucessfull system, it still gets produced and millions of people bought it.

 

[xrti]

- Alex

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I`ve had numerous variations of those handhelds,£0.20 a time from car boot sales

 

[Axeman]

S.A.M Coupé.

Trooper

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Hurrah! Another SAM fan

I've still got two of those..!

Was very into them - supported the company to the very end, including visiting the HQ quite a few times, and getting in with Alan Miles, Bruce Gordon and co..!

Oh! The nostalgia!

 

[Alex.]

- Alex

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This is actually a very sucessfull system, it still gets produced and millions of people bought it.

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I agree, and when it comes right down to it you get more than what you pay for, they're simple fun games after all I wish mine would still work, but its battery connectors are all rusty (orange-brown).

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I wish mine would still work, but its battery connectors are all rusty (orange-brown).

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take a brillo pad to it and get the rust off

 

[rabbits with hats]

r yes the good old brick game. the true home of tetris

 

[aQwaBlaz3]

Dreamcast
Game.com

was going to buy the Linux powered Indrema if it came out.

 

[Rayek]

Sega Genesis. Just bought it, and though it was Sega's best success, considering Sega's state of existence now, perhaps it should be in this category

 

[Jarska333]

You know, concerning Microsoft's usual modus operandi, the X-Box is a complete and total failure. Why? MS still has competition on the console market.

 

[remowilliams]

 

[Ravnos]

You know, concerning Microsoft's usual modus operandi, the X-Box is a complete and total failure. Why? MS still has competition on the console market.

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Well, that and they lost about $4 billion on it.

 

[shinneri]

Game.Com
GameCube
Dreamcast (bought that after it was on its way out, though)
Game Gear
PSP h34r:

 

[jislizard]

A Philips G7000

http://www.videopac.org/G7000/

No one ever came round my house to play on this one

I even got the computer programing cart, for all the good it was.

Next up was the Vic 20 followed by the C64 (with add on disk drive),still no mates beating a path to my door.

 

[Alex.]

How exactly was the C64 a commercial failure?

- Alex

 

[PSyMastR]

I dont consider the dreamcast a failed console, but what ever.

It sold over 4 million, it has many games. Therefore, it didn't fail.

 

[jislizard]

How exactly was the C64 a commercial failure?

I only got ten quid for it on a boot fair, I paid way more than that, therefore it was a commercial failure, for me at least.

Plus if it was such a sucess where is the Commodore 128 ?

(my apologies if there was a commodore 128 or 256 or if they changed their name from commodore to Microsoft and are in fact a massive sucess but that is as much research as I want to do)

1992

Last Commodore 64 is pushed off the assembly line

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1994

Commodore goes bankrupt and the Commodore 65 prototypes and documentation are auctioned off as part of the liquidation

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[challenger3]

Gamecube and the gizmondo

 

[Ravnos]

How exactly was the C64 a commercial failure?

I only got ten quid for it on a boot fair, I paid way more than that, therefore it was a commercial failure, for me at least.

Plus if it was such a sucess where is the Commodore 128 ?

(my apologies if there was a commodore 128 or 256 or if they changed their name from commodore to Microsoft and are in fact a massive sucess but that is as much research as I want to do)

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There was a Commodore 128 IIRC, but that's not the real C64 successor. That would be the Amiga. And that was also pretty successful. Commodore made a ton of bad business decisions after that, though. Also, the C64 was in production for near 10 years. There are very few consoles or computers that had that kind of lifespan. They sold over 30 million C64s, making it the best selling computer of all time. I have no idea where you get that it's a commercial failure from all this.

 

[trooper]

How exactly was the C64 a commercial failure?

I only got ten quid for it on a boot fair, I paid way more than that, therefore it was a commercial failure, for me at least.

Plus if it was such a sucess where is the Commodore 128 ?

(my apologies if there was a commodore 128 or 256 or if they changed their name from commodore to Microsoft and are in fact a massive sucess but that is as much research as I want to do)

1992

Last Commodore 64 is pushed off the assembly line

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1994

Commodore goes bankrupt and the Commodore 65 prototypes and documentation are auctioned off as part of the liquidation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

A bit of C64 info.

Trooper

 

[remowilliams]

How exactly was the C64 a commercial failure?

I only got ten quid for it on a boot fair, I paid way more than that, therefore it was a commercial failure, for me at least.

What kind of logic is that exactly?

Hmm, this car isn't worth what I paid for it ten years ago - it must be a commercial failure!