The PS5 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X are goofy looking consoles to say the lea꧅st. That is to say the memes with these puppies are strong. Even the name of the new Xbox console isꦓ worth ridiculing. However, they are not the worst looking consoles on the market.
In celebration of the new generation almost here, let’s take a back at some of the more silly console designs. It would be way to easy to fill this list with everything from the 70s and early 80s. There is wood paneling aplenty before the NES’ rele😼ase, but in order to broaden the market, their inclusions were limited.
10 Telstar Arcade
Coleco released this console in 1976. It was designed around four cartridges, each having a collection of several games on them. The games utilized one of the three sides of this triangle shape including the revolver light gun and the steering wheel. This looks like the car Homer designed in The Simpsons episode “💧Oh Br🔴other, Where Art Thou” which is to say it looks like a disaster.
9 WonderSwan
This is the WonderSwan Crystal, the third iteration, but whether one is talking about the original portable, or the WonderSwan Color, they all look the same design wise. That is to say they all have the two D-Pads on the left and the two face buttons on the right. The screen looked good but the button layout was anything but ideal even if it was in support of a Tate mode. The original, to note, was released in 1999 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in Japan only. It tried♔ to chase the Game Boy and didn't 🦩get too far.
8 N-Gage
Before Apple’s App store revolutionized gaming on phones, Nokia tried their hand at conquering the market in 2003 with the N-Gage. These weren’t random games like Snake or Solitaire either. These were wide known console series including 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty, Tomb Raider, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell just to nam♈e a few. It was supported until 2005 which isn’t bad but in this time it was also ridiculed for i🔯ts design and turned into a .
7 Virtual Boy
Even big names in the gaming industry made mistakes like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo’s Virtual Boy in 1995. Who would want to set this thing on ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚa table and hover over a screen like that?
It was uncomfortable to say the least and it was discontinued less than a year on the market. That is a clear sign th꧋at this was a failure if ever there was one and Nintendo s🦋till hasn’t lived it down.
6 Apple Pippin
Going back to Apple, before they made big waves in the phone market they too tried to make a home console. The Apple Pippin released in 1996 for a whopping $600. That price made it unpopular let alone the lack of game support. Design wise the weird thing here is the controller which looks like a boomerang. It looks like Sony may have copied that for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its PS3 prototype which it thankfully changed later.
5 Sega Genesis Complete
The Sega Genesis released in 1989 in North America. On its own it is a fairly standard looking system, but the complete version is like an Akira monster smooshed together. First there was the Sega CD add-on in 1992, which was followed by the 32X in 1994. This was the same month, November, as the Sega Saturn’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:launch in Japan.♎ Needless to say these were all poorly planned decisions.
4 Atari Jaguar
The Atari Jaguar hওad a similar add-on plan as the Sega Genesis. The original console launched in 1993 with the Jaguar CD following in 1996.
Try as they might Atari could not recapture the hype that the Atari 2600 received. In terms of the design, the controlleဣr is the craziest part of this collection from the 🍷insane amount of buttons to the jagged square shape.
3 PC-FX
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X is getting a lot of flack for looking like a PC tower, which it does indeed look like. However, prior or to that, there was the PC-FX, which was smaller but also similarly shaped. This console was a joint effort between NEC and Hudson Soft and it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:launched in Japan only in 1994. That might be why it isn💮’t as f🐽ondly remembered.
2 View-Master Interactive Vision
This 1989 “console” was basically an interactive way to play with VHS tapes. Players used a remote to play games based on Sesame S⛄treet🃏, other Muppet tapes, and a Disney one too. There were seven games altogether before it was let go. Besides the Lego like plastic brick, which is just wild, it also required a VCR so everything wasn’t even built in. It looks like a fire hazard waiting to happen.
1 Game Wave
The Game Wave has a similar play model to the previous console except that it used DVDs. It was released first in Canada in 2005. The left side of this console looks okay, but the other half is where things truly get craz🐭🃏y. It has a plastic case that can house six colored remotes. Having a controller bubble to keep dust off of controllers is a neat idea, but also adds to the goofiness.