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They are too, shall we say, "dedicated" to make this list. It has to play more than one game, and it has to use some sort of interchangeable material to make it on this list.

Don't dis Channel F! It was the first digital cart based system released! I have one and it's my...My...MY PRECIOUS! But seriously, don't dis it. After all, there are much worse systems that came after [cough]RCA Studio II[\cough].

Hold on while I put those in the list. I'll be right back. :runs off to main post:

My thoughts exactly. It's even worse when you play it. I could find very little on it that I liked, and most games on it were slow, plauged with flickering, and had terrible music that sounded like someone just had an infent bang on a Casio and called the resulting cacaphony music.

So... an Emerson Arcadia 2001 is better than the Jaguar and 32X? I don't know enough about it to judge it yet. This is only including systems that I've researched extensively. When I get more play time on the Arcadia, then it will have a chance of qualifying.

Come now, at the time the Channel F debuted it blew the socks off its competitors. It didn't retain its edge for long, but I hardly think a console that successfully started a revolution(*) deserves to be in a "worst-10" list. (*)Yes, I know the Atari 2600 was in the pipeline when the Channel F debuted, but I believe the Channel F was the first such machine to establish the 'razors and blades' marketing concept. Though come to think of it, had the razor companies really taken off with that concept yet, or was everyone still using the interchangeable standard-size razor blades? Well, actually there were analog systems before it that used the same concept. Channel F, however, WAS notable for being the first digital system to use it.

Well, there's also Jumping Flash. That's worth a look. It's hella fun, especially if you get "Super mode". Then you can run a lot faster and jump a lot higher than you can normally(which was already ridiculously high to begin with.)

The Mattel Hyperscan has nearly all those attributes. And the ones it does have, it does much worse than the XEGS ever could. Refer to this thread.

Too high a percentage of awesome games to qualify. I'm only judging the systems based on how low a percentage of good games there are. The only way to truly judge a system is by it's games. Not by how much of a weird and terrible idea it was or how well the controllers worked. The 5200 is an exception to this rule, however. Maybe that should be an honorable mention. As the Angry Video Game Nerd has said: "What's the point of owning a f*cking console if you aren't able to f*cking play it?"

Well, there weren't enough truly bad systems in the market to make this as good a list as it could've been. Tell you what, I'll make this into a top 7. Then you'll agree with me on everything. I'd put the Gamate on here, but I don't have enough information to truly judge it yet. Did you agree with me on the Hyperscan, though? I tried as hard as I could with this list.

Every hardcore gamer may have seen these at least once. Those lists that go on about how incredibly crappy these systems are and why they shouldn't have been released. But there is a problem with these lists. Every single one of them are crap. Chances are, if you find one of these lists, you're going to disagree with almost everything on it. This list is different. This has been compiled through more or less extensive research, and the desire to do it right. I won't add descriptions, because with my writing skills, they would probably suck anyway. So here goes the list of the TRUE top ten eleven perpetually changing in number worst game systems ever made. update: The Hyperscan has been kicked off the top spot as worst game system ever. ALL HAIL ACTION MAX! You're next, Jaguar & 32x! update: true to my word, I have banished Jaguar and 32x from the list. Only the truly bad survive. update: Game Boy Color in no more on the honorable mentions list! update: due to a brilliant post describing how great the Creativision was, it is no longer on the list. 11. Gizmondo(An awesome media player with really crap games) 10. CD-i 9. Game.com 8. Watara Supervision 7. Memorex VIS 6. Pippin 5. RDI Halcyon(If purgatory exists, then it is a world that forces you to play Thayer's Quest and NFL Football until you snap. Those were the only two games that came out on this crappy laserdisc based system.) 4. R-Zone 3. RCA Studio II 2. Mattel Hyperscan (The "Hyper" in the name is probably to say how quickly it lost it's popularity. ) 1. Action Max (It plays VHS tapes, for crying out loud. VHS TAPES!) Honorable mentions: Atari XEGS(Nobody wants to play Mario Bros. or Choplifter anymore. WAKE UP TO 1987, ATARI!), Playdia, PC-FX(any system that has 90% dating sims has to suck. I mean, Where's the variety?) So, what did you think? Wasn't that a bit more reputable than most of those other lists out there? If anyone can offer me suggestions or corrections, that would be greatly appreciated. Also keep in mind that I've never even played most of these systems before, so if anyone can tell me where I can get the Systems and their games on the cheap, that would also be appreciated.

I'm hoping it gets released on a limited edition "Megaman X collection gold". That would be almost as cool as a cart release. If there isn't so much as a binary released, I will be very put out.

The US ads are almost as bad. "OMG TEH PS3 KAN LEVITATE EGGS N TEH AYR!!!!111!!!11!!!!1!" They don't make you want to buy the PS3, they just make you scratch your head as you try to figure out what the hell that was supposed to be. PS2 did those types of ads before, and did them well.

This should be the "Good Atari" commercial:

I've got a dead Sonic 3 cart. Those ones are hard to find in good condition! I got a replacement from Goodwill once, but that had a dead save battery. I don't know where that one is anymore. I think my genesis copy of Sonic 3D Blast might be on It's way out as well. Good thing I have the Saturn version.

Yeah, I need to work on my comedy skills. I am great at slapstick acting, though.

One time, I saw 5 Wiis and 5 PS3s stacked next to each other at a Gamestop. This was at some mall somewhere in New Hampshire with glitz overload. That was pretty cool.

This isn't the worst game I've ever played, but Mario's Time Machine for the SNES is probably the worst Mario title ever created. All those people who think Hotel Mario was horrid, they do not know true pain. The main flaw of this game is that they make you do homework to get further in the game. That's right, HOMEWORK. And the actual levels aren't any good, either. You just walk around and talk to people. That's it. No koopas to bash, no coins to collect, no pipes to enter, no nothing. In fact the only part of the game that's actually fun is the surfing part that you go through before you play the actual level. This is an insult to Mario, video games and even educational games everywhere. Even the boring filler educational games by MECC on the apple ][ were tolerable compared to this elephant f*ck. More hate of this game can be found on Wizwar100(of youtube)'s .

Next up, a port of Mega Man: The Power Battles to the Fairchild Channel F! I REALLY hope this game appears in binary form. By the way, the music sounds great.

I have a black "Sega Sports" DC too. Yes, it came with NFL 2K and NBA 2K. Both great games. It also came with a black controller that reads, "Sega Sports." AWESOME!! I'd like to get one of those some time. Just cause the Black is cool looking. Black controller too huh? I bet there aren't to many of those around at all... Hey, Sonic was awesome on the Dreamcast. Could have been better, and my Revisit to it showed it just didn't hold up in the long run, but I played through the first game quiet a few times in early 2k. What's the other one BTW? Soul Caliber. Pretty good one.

Holy (insert name, place or anything the crap else here) Batman never seems to get old, does it?

So whaddya guys think? Should I close this topic or leave it open? I find your comments hilarious, but they do seem a little embarrassing.

Wod up Jim technical difficulties, everything has been moved to NESgalaxy.com. Go to forums. Soon nes-geek.com should redirect you here. You can still go directly to ericbookout.com/nes-geek/forums if you like the older style. Let me know what you think. I will be emailing everyone. Nice work, but could you consider making the site (www.nesgalaxy.com) a little more NES friendly? Sites with flash homepages usually slow down my computer. I also support the any browser campaign for making websites accessible to all, so there's two reasons. Number three, There's a web browser for the NES called contiki, and it would be really cool to see this on a real NES.

Huge numbers do not always equal comedy. Well, It's an attempt. I just had this idea that I thought would be superhilarious and just had to put it here. I crack myself up.

It seems Nintendo heard about my concepts. More information here.