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Historical Consoles Paved the Way... Even the Dead Ones.

post #1 of 8
7/22/06 at 11:42am
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Interesting article on the influence of past consoles:
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=3471&Itemid=2

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How the Console 'Failures' Finally Won
Gaming history is littered with failed consoles - from Vectrex to Dreamcast - and yet each have made such profound contributions to gaming today as to be well worth celebrating, sometimes more so than the more commercially entrenched machines. The legacy of history's failures is tomorrow's successes, including innovations like Nintendo's Wii.
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post #2 of 8
7/22/06 at 10:44pm
I don't know why people call the Dreamcast a failure.

It wasn't a bad system at all, it was just launched at the wrong time.

I'd consider a failure something that people purchase only to regret it later. I dont think any Dreamcast owners regret their decision.
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post #3 of 8
7/22/06 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by Vader
I don't know why people call the Dreamcast a failure.
Call Sega. They might offer some insight.
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post #4 of 8
7/23/06 at 9:49am
Financially, yes. Creatively, no, unlike their other, actual failures, especially the 32X.
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post #5 of 8
7/24/06 at 12:24am
Before MAME, though, the 32X was the only place to get my mostly-unfucked-with, original-unexpurgated-Sega-arcade-version After Burner fix.

...But otherwise, yeah.
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post #6 of 8
7/24/06 at 8:39am
It also had the enjoyable Knuckles Chaotix, the only console Doom worth owning until the PS1 release, and a surprisingly great Virtua Fighter port that was better than the one they put on Saturn. Other than those, my hate for ever owning that system knows no limits.
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post #7 of 8
7/24/06 at 8:36pm
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Originally Posted by Crow
It also had the enjoyable Knuckles Chaotix, the only console Doom worth owning until the PS1 release, and a surprisingly great Virtua Fighter port that was better than the one they put on Saturn. Other than those, my hate for ever owning that system knows no limits.
Ever play Virtua Cop with a gun in each hand? Woo-tastic!
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post #8 of 8
7/24/06 at 8:46pm
The article reads like and add for the Nintendo Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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