Consoles - Biggest Failures (US releases)

[J.M. Vargas]

What, no FM Towns Marty love on your "dogs" list?

[Marriott_Guy1]

The FM Towns Marty was never released in the US, but I would probably include it in rating the failed systems outside the US, even though the system did have a pretty good arsenal of games due to it's parent.

[Alienblue]

You don't seem to have any "classic" 80's failures on your list:

APF MP1000
Arcadia 2001
Channel F
RCA Studio 2
Microvision

Some would add the entex Adventurevision, which only had four games, but I don't think they ever planned to MAKE any more, as the system stored 4 carts at top. I didn't include Astrocade because 100's of games on tape were made by a hugely supportive underground community!

[ZetaX1]

The Coleco Telstar Arcade couldn't have sold too many copies.  Not one of Coleco's Pong-clones, this one was the weird 3-sided (gun, steering wheel, and paddle knobs) console that used triangular cartridges that plugged into the center/top.  I've got one, and it isn't too spectacular, but the carts are funky looking.

- Mark

[Marriott_Guy1]

Alien - I agree - the Adventure Vision should have definitely made the list along with probably the APF Imagination machine.  The Arcadia and Channel F enjoyed moderate success, which spurred a few US revisions/releases for each console, along with multiple releases of the respective system worldwide through third party developers.  The RCA Studio II was indeed a flop as well (kind of like the Worlds of Wonder Action Max system).

[steven rainwater]

The Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982)

This link here pretty much explains it all, the Arcadia was in bargain bins almost from the moment it hit the store shelves....

http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/arcadia/index.shtml