Which Classic Video Game System Sucks the Most

[gamesnat]

This is a tough one boyz and grrrrlz???

[supercat]

This is a tough one boyz and grrrrlz???

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There were some good games for the Odyssey 2.

[+remowilliams]

Dude you forgot the Bentley Compuvision - that sucks more ass than all of those combined!

[Lost Monkey]

Dude you forgot the Bentley Compuvision - that sucks more ass than all of those combined! 

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Not as bad as the Emerson Lake and Palmervision...

[gamesnat]

Dude you forgot the Bentley Compuvision - that sucks more ass than all of those combined! 

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Point well taken, my bad!!! It's pretty hard to argue with that.

[+remowilliams]

Not as bad as the Emerson Lake and Palmervision...

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Palmervision - cool that sounds like some sort of on demand streaming porno company.

 

Seriously though you know you were a very, very bad child in 1982 if Santa dropped that Compuvision pile of sh*t under your tree!

Edited October 21, 2005 by remowilliams

[JB]

The choice is clear. Crystal-clear. Ever-clear, even!

Studio 2 for the lose.

[ubersaurus]

Studio II so had no redeeming qualities.

[dogcorn]

Yeppers a toughie. I voted for Intellivision. NOT because it was a horrible system. It was a very intelligent one. It's just that it was TOO intelligent for my 8 or 9-year-old brain to handle. All the Sea battle/Armor battle games just had waaay too many buttons. And Space Armada was too fast for my taste. It was a perfect challenge for a teenager, but for the younger crowd just about any other system would have been a more pleasant choice.

[JB]

Yeppers a toughie.  I voted for Intellivision.  NOT because it was a horrible system.  It was a very intelligent one.  It's just that it was TOO intelligent for my 8 or 9-year-old brain to handle.  All the Sea battle/Armor battle games just had waaay too many buttons.  And Space Armada was too fast for my taste.  It was a perfect challenge for a teenager, but for the younger crowd just about any other system would have been a more pleasant choice.

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So the INTV is the worst because it was too good?

[Jess Ragan]

Dude you forgot the Bentley Compuvision - that sucks more ass than all of those combined! 

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Not as bad as the Emerson Lake and Palmervision...

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I dunno... I kinda liked the game where you drove around an armadillo on tank treads. Didn't quite give me the rush that this one game starring a snow dog did, though. Man, was THAT a progressive gaming experience!

 

JR

[liquid_sky]

the emerson.

[Flojomojo]

I voted Channel F, but am ashamed to be participating in such negativity. Let's talk about the good games instead, shall we?

[joeybastard]

Gotta go with the Studio II. There is just nothing good about it. The Channel F is a close 2nd though. I like some of the Emerson Arcadia games, I think it's better than the O2 any day. The O2 is the only system I regret having spent money on. If it didn't cost a fortune to ship that POS, I'd sell it but it's just not worth the hassle/expense.

 

I can't believe anybody voted for the Genny or the SNES. Are those people on crack?

Edited October 21, 2005 by joeybastard

[n8littlefield]

I voted Virtual Boy - but to be fair there are a couple that are high in the votes that I never played.

[Gabriel]

There wasn't an option for the N64 on the poll, so I found myself forced to vote for RCA Studio II.

[RangerG]

Studio II is pretty easily the worst console, but you should have divided this into major and minor consoles. Among the major consoles, I personally would vote the Intellivision.

[Room 34]

I've never actually played it, but from what I've seen and read, I had to go for the RCA Studio 2.

[maibock]

I can't believe anybody voted for the Genny or the SNES.  Are those people on crack?

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One can only imagine that the people who voted for those, have never played the other systems..

[joeybastard]

I can't believe anybody voted for the Genny or the SNES.  Are those people on crack?

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One can only imagine that the people who voted for those, have never played the other systems..

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Yeah I guess that would have to be the case. The 16 bit generation of consoles were ALL good in my eyes.

[phaxda]

02, hands down. I have a loose one, along with some boxed games for anyone who wants one cheap.

 

man that system sucks.

[sega saturn x]

This poll got some crazy results, the genesis snes and even the nes got at least one vote, what's even more surprising the 2600 got a vote! But surprisingly enough the lynx didn't get any votes, so according to these results the lynx is better than the 2600.

[JB]

This poll got some crazy results, the genesis snes and even the nes got at least one vote, what's even more surprising the 2600 got a vote!  But surprisingly enough the lynx didn't get any votes, so according to these results the lynx is better than the 2600.

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So's the 5200.

[supercat]

02, hands down. I have a loose one, along with some boxed games  for anyone who wants one cheap.

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There were a lot of crummy games for the O2, but also a few very good ones. UFO is a very respectable space shoot-em-up (like Asteroids, but with its own twists) and Killer Bees is an awesome game ulike anything on any other system I know of. KC Munchkin is not exactly a Pacman clone (there are only twelve dots, but they move) but is an excellent game in its own right.

 

I think the Channel F deserves some credit for being the first programmable video game system; it didn't attract the programmer interest that the Atari did, but it's not exactly a hopeless platform.

 

Actually, the Atari 2600's goodness is probably more a result of serendipity than anything else. Lots of design decisions, like the VDEL latches, which could have been done other 'more sensible' ways that would have been disastrous for the system. Also, it's interesting the philosophical difference between the 2600's video and that of many other systems. The other systems' documentation decreed "Thou shalt not touch video registers while the screen is showing, or weird things may happen". The 2600's says "Thou shalt put thy fingers all over video registers while the screen is showing,lest thy displays be otherwise very boring".

[supercat]

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Edited October 21, 2005 by supercat