Worst console you ever owned?

Barcode Battler, sounded great but it sucked. Walking around with the console and a tin of peas as the tin of pea's had a high rating :rolleyes:

Retr0gamer

cloud493 wrote: »

I remember when I was 12, the day the 360 came out, some kid on a morning breakfast show crying cos he'd traded in like all his stuff, GC, PS2, original xbox, games, to get a 360 and it was broken out of the box*

*random side note

CiDeRmAn

The 2600 is similar with me, I have one, I've had a few over the years, I've also owned collections of the games as well for various formats, as have we all, but so so few of them have aged well at all, even at the time the machine quickly became home to lousy arcade conversions and tons of sh1te-ware, just released to make a fast buck on gullible kids.
That said, Defender II is amazing on the machine, I quite like Pole Position myself and Pitfall is still a classic, Ms Pacman fixes all the wrongs of the incredibly bad Pacman conversion and is a real winner.

Re: 360, yes it was unreliable, yes Dublin airport had to ask me to turn it off as it was drowning out the sound of the landing jet planes, but it still played host to an undeniable array of outstanding games, and continues to do so.
Plus the pad takes everything right about the Xbox pad, itself having learned a few apparent lessons from the Saturn analogue and DC pads, and is fantastic, aside from the useless D-pad.

PyeContinental

I love Pole Position. It may be my favourite game of all time. It just was so disappointingly bad in comparison on the 2600. The sit-in arcade version with the speakers behind your head and the glass panel behind you so people could look in, and of course the HI-LO gear stick was brilliant. There used to be one in "The Trap" under the Arts block in UCD.

ET was probably the most infamous of the disappointing 2600 games, one of the first games done to cynically cash in on the success of a movie. Wasn't that the game where thousands of cartridges were sent out to be buried in the Nevada desert? [Edit: It was ET, but buried in New Mexico]

I agree the Xbox 360 has many good games and has a well designed controller. It's just that the box itself is so surprisingly unrefined.

CiDeRmAn

Fair enough, but I never let the aesthetics or smooth mechanics of a console impinge on my enjoyment.
Plus, where it might have had hardware issues the software experience was, by and large, superb.

chopperbyrne

The Gameboy Advance is the worst console I've ever owned.

You just couldn't see the damn screen.




Thankfully I upgraded to this as soon as possible and it is arguably the best console I've ever owned.

Retr0gamer

I don't like either to be honest. I think the first GBA is a much better designed console and is the perfect shape. The SP is too small for me but you have the added benefit of being able to see the screen. However I find the colours are washed out on the front lit consoles and it doesn't look great. The backlit SP is much better but even still I don't think it's perfect.

o1s1n

Its such a shame that original GBA had no light, the shape was indeed great. I installed an after burner type light and although it did work, it was washed out terrible.

From the SP on, nintendo proved to me that they are determined to break my hands with badly shaped shoulder buttons.

briany

PyeContinental wrote: »

I never had a Sega Game Gear, but I liked the Atari Lynx. It was colour when the Game Boy was still B&W. Its styling also looked like something from the Alien films. There was a surfing game on it I remember playing a lot.

Ah yes, the Lynx's port of California Games. A fine one it was too iirc. I have a soft spot for the Lynx but it was always doomed to fail, just like the Game Gear was doomed to fail. Why do hardware developers keep on trying to foist battery drinking hunks of plastic upon the general public? Portable and efficient devices win out over feature rich, power hungry ones imo.

LoGiE

Clearly nobodies owned a Commodore 64 Games System here. That's like waking up on Christmas morning to a kick in the the balls.

MrVestek

LoGiE wrote: »

Clearly nobodies owned a Commodore 64 Games System here. That's like waking up on Christmas morning to a kick in the the balls.

I had one, I quite liked the C64 actually. That Ocean loading music for a batman game that I had years ago is heaped in nostalgia for me.

Myrddin

Achilles wrote: »

I had one, I quite liked the C64 actually.

You had a C64, or a C64GS? The GS served its owners with a specific & fatal kick to the groin as Logie mentioned

Andrew76

EnterNow wrote: »

You a C64, or a C64GS? The GS served its owners with a specific & fatal kick to the groin as Logie mentioned

Aye, C64 was a great machine. Never owned a GS thankfully.

Tipsy McSwagger

Had a Spectrum and it was a piece of crap.

heffomike54

I can vaguely recall the commodore 64, my cousin had one when I was young and I can always remember how weird it was with the cassettes!

Not sure if it qualifies or not, but the Nokia N-Gage was god awful! The second was a bit better but the first one made you take the battery out to change games ha ha

That said had some great games of FIFA with my mate, playing against each other wirelessly while waiting for the train. It was a crap phone too ha ha

elfy4eva

heffomike54 wrote: »

I can vaguely recall the commodore 64, my cousin had one when I was young and I can always remember how weird it was with the cassettes!

Not sure if it qualifies or not, but the Nokia N-Gage was god awful! The second was a bit better but the first one made you take the battery out to change games ha ha

That said had some great games of FIFA with my mate, playing against each other wirelessly while waiting for the train. It was a crap phone too ha ha

I wholeheartedly agree with this, Quite possibly one of the worst pieces of Tech i've ever owned. Got slagged as "Big ears" in school cos I had one.

jay1988

Has to be the SEGA Dreamcast for me.

CiDeRmAn

jay1988 wrote: »

Has to be the SEGA Dreamcast for me.

Christ on a bike, that was a great console, what on earth disappointed?

heffomike54

jay1988 wrote: »

Has to be the SEGA Dreamcast for me.

God I remember playing the Dreamcast on holidays and thinking it was amazing! Looking back on it now, it was utter muck!

briany

LoGiE wrote: »

Clearly nobodies owned a Commodore 64 Games System here. That's like waking up on Christmas morning to a kick in the the balls.

At first I just saw Commodore 64 ........kick in the balls and I was like, "aw, hell naw!"* ((goes to reply)) and then I saw the Games System part and thought "....huh..". To Google.






*Does not actually use that phrase.

heffomike54 wrote: »

God I remember playing the Dreamcast on holidays and thinking it was amazing! Looking back on it now, it was utter muck!

Rubbish how, though? If it's graphically speaking, all consoles graphical output will eventually pale in comparison to newer ones. Even besides that, I always thought the DC has a bit of a cult following. It was very cutting edge for it's time with proper network support and that VMU pack thing. Some decent looking games for it too. I always wanted one but then I wanted all the consoles that came out during the 90s. Had I gotten my way I would have had a Jaguar, a CDi, a 3DO, a Dreamcast and a Saturn. Would have made for broke parents then but good collection boasting now.....

Mr.Saturn

Those awkward moments when the A&R forum pops up on the 'latest posts' bit of the main Boards site.

PyeContinental

The Sinclair and Commodore names have been mentioned, but not yet Amstrad, so I'll throw the Amstrad CPC into the ring as far as worst console/games machine goes. I never owned one, but one of my friends did, so have at least experience of it.

I'm nominating it more for the brand, than the machine itself, which to be fair was alright for what it was at the time - a competitor to the Sinclair and Commodore machines.

AMSTrad, standing for Alan Michael Sugar Trading, was a brand synonymous with "value" and "affordability". That was the marketing speak, which in reality meant cheap tat. They'd stick the name on any crappy radio, plasticy music centre or PC knockoff. These were Alan Sugar's equivalent of Bill Cullen's "Penny Apples". :pac:

Tipsy McSwagger

heffomike54 wrote: »

God I remember playing the Dreamcast on holidays and thinking it was amazing! Looking back on it now, it was utter muck!

The Dreamcast is easily one of the top 10 best consoles of all time.

MrVestek

jay1988 wrote: »

Has to be the SEGA Dreamcast for me.

BANNED.

Myrddin

Some bizarre posts on this thread You know when you see the Dreamcast mentioned in a worst console you ever owned thread, that you need a bigger boat.

MrVestek

heffomike54 wrote: »

God I remember playing the Dreamcast on holidays and thinking it was amazing! Looking back on it now, it was utter muck!

Also BANNED.

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

Some bizarre posts on this thread You know when you see the Dreamcast mentioned in a worst console you ever owned thread, that you need a bigger boat.

Stop the world, I want to get off!

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Stop the world, I want to get off!

Yeah, I'm thinking there's a spot of trolling here.
And the DC was a great machine and hosts a massive collection of arcade perfect conversions.
With all due respect, if your opinion is that the Dreamcast is the worst console you've ever owed, you are completely and utterly wrong.
Not my opinion but the global objective opinion of commentators everywhere.

And as for the Amstrad, it was a great machine.
It was well built, the colour monitor was nice and the version of Basic shipped with it was excellent, a lot better and faster than the version with it's Z80 powered contemporary the ZX Spectrum.
Unlike that machine the CPC 464 also hosted a full keyboard and a built in cassette and two joystick ports.
Due to its architecture it hosted a lot of ports from the Spectrum but they were, mostly, enhanced and looked great.


Browned off with people holding personal opinions they don't understand, sharing them with conviction despite not owning the machine.
Basing opinions on mere here say.
Any more of that and the thread will be locked

The Last Bandit

I suppose if you're replying specifically with the title " Worst console you ever owned?" in mind, then its possible the DC/PS2 could be the worst if that's all you've every owned...

But that just highlights the fact you've not owned enough consoles to make an educated opinion

Retr0gamer

The Last Bandit wrote: »

But that just highlights the fact you've not owned a CDi to make an educated opinion

FYP