Maybe everybody already knows about this, but this website has information on over 600 consoles!!! i had no idea there were so many games out there that needed to be played. I know some of them are clones and stuff, but the 80's and 90's produced a TON of original consoles that hardly saw daylight. There is some really interesting stuff here.
http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/
Ultimate Console Database
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Adamant1
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Haha, I actually own a console that's not on the site, the Super Mega Joy II (yes, different from the Super Joy II and Mega Joy II)
Looks like an N64 controller, has a D-pad, a reset button where the N64's start button was, start and select buttons where the the A and B buttons were, and two sets of A and B buttons with no difference between the two where the four C buttons were. Comes with a second controller that looks like a Playstation controller for two-player games and an extremely inaccurate light gun.
Comes with a slew of built-in games (Soccer, Tennis, Mickey Mousecapades, Tetris 2, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, M.U.S.C.L.E., F1 Race, Track & Field, the Tekken 2 pirate NES port and some crappy Pokemon platformer that's either a pirate original or a hack of some obscure crappy game), and a port for Famicom games the games have a tendency to fall out of a lot.
Pretty crappy, but it's not on the site, so yay.
Looks like an N64 controller, has a D-pad, a reset button where the N64's start button was, start and select buttons where the the A and B buttons were, and two sets of A and B buttons with no difference between the two where the four C buttons were. Comes with a second controller that looks like a Playstation controller for two-player games and an extremely inaccurate light gun.
Comes with a slew of built-in games (Soccer, Tennis, Mickey Mousecapades, Tetris 2, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, M.U.S.C.L.E., F1 Race, Track & Field, the Tekken 2 pirate NES port and some crappy Pokemon platformer that's either a pirate original or a hack of some obscure crappy game), and a port for Famicom games the games have a tendency to fall out of a lot.
Pretty crappy, but it's not on the site, so yay.
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Paul Campbell
Ultimate Console Database
My parents gave me an Action Max for my birthday back in the 8-bit days. It was a VHS-based shooter. It was retarded. The acting was atrocious, and all you did was sit there and shoot at a red dot on the back of a jet plane about a thousand times.
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Alienblue
Ultimate Console Database
The two consoles mentioned were not really CONSOLES in my book, because you couldn't buy extra game carts for them. However, the VGC does not have several important consoles from the 8-bit era, including APF, Channel F, Astrocade and Arcadia 2001. I think VGC should at LEAST get Astrocade and Arcadia since the games WERE covered by some magazines back then (and astrocae aka the Bally home arcade is pretty good, too!)
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Adamant1
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As I said, the Super Mega Joy II took Famicom carts, so you could very much buy games for it.
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Paul Campbell
Ultimate Console Database
[QUOTE=Alienblue]The two consoles mentioned were not really CONSOLES in my book, because you couldn't buy extra game carts for them. However, the VGC does not have several important consoles from the 8-bit era, including APF, Channel F, Astrocade and Arcadia 2001. I think VGC should at LEAST get Astrocade and Arcadia since the games WERE covered by some magazines back then (and astrocae aka the Bally home arcade is pretty good, too!)[/QUOTE]
Just so you know, the two consoles mentioned do not in any way represent any kind of majority of the consoles represented on the site. There are a ton of cartridge-based systems from the 8 and 16 bit eras that barely saw the light of day. And apparently alot of them are available on Ebay. I just think it's exciting to think that there are games and consoles out there that practically nobody has heard of or played. Think of the lost gems that could be found.
Just so you know, the two consoles mentioned do not in any way represent any kind of majority of the consoles represented on the site. There are a ton of cartridge-based systems from the 8 and 16 bit eras that barely saw the light of day. And apparently alot of them are available on Ebay. I just think it's exciting to think that there are games and consoles out there that practically nobody has heard of or played. Think of the lost gems that could be found.
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