#atari xegs

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Megalextoria: Crossbow (2600, 7800, XE)

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Necromancer (Atari XEGS)

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Atari XEGS video game system at the Evercon Side Quest event in Rothschild Wisconsin last month. The Atari XEGS was the last Atari 8-bit computer, stylized as a video game machine. The idea was that between this system and the then-new Atari 7800 and their glut of legacy software support, they could reassert Atari into the video game market Nintendo had taken over in the late 1980's. It didn't work, though not because the machines weren't any good. The game here is "Return of the Jedi" which in this level has the player pilot the Millennium Falcon at the battle of Endor.

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The Absolute Worst Video Game Consoles of All-Time (Part 6)

Description: This list will rundown the worst home gaming & portable devices of all time. Some you may have played, many i’m sure you have not because either they were complete market failures or they folded under the weight of other much better products at the time.

30. Philips CD-i-The only reason this isn't higher on the list is because it's such a nostalgic and legendary failure that it's very existence IS the entertainment. It's like a cheesy movie that you loved back in the day and in hindsight is something you kind of still enjoy ironically. I remember watching infomercials for this before it was released and seeing that Zelda game and thinking, " Oh this is going to be awesome!", only to find out that most of the games on this console are barely playable at all. They are almost fun BECAUSE they suck, it's a weird thing.

29. Action Max-The Action Max console was basically created for light gun shooters, I was never a fan of those because I sucked at them but this console wouldn't have changed my mind because I like actually winning at games I play and alot of the games on this console seem like a continuous loop and there is no way to actually beat them. Basing an entire console around one style of gameplay is also just a stupid idea. It will take nothing for me to finally get bored of playing these type of shooters and want to move on to something else, too many consoles at the time had such a wide variety of games that there was no reason to own one of these.

28. VM Labs Nuon-I'm not going to be so hard on the Nuon because it successfully produced an interesting piece of technology. Nuon was basically a DVD player with added features most notably the ability to play games which would basically become the standard in the industry but in reverse. Instead of making DVD players that could play games, Sony & Microsoft made game consoles that could play DVDs. So they were ON TO something here they just didn't have enough of a vision for the actual gaming part of it that they did for the hardware.

27. Apple Pippin-Considering that Apple computers even now suck for gaming, you can only imagine how bad an actual console produced by the company was especially in 1996. Macs are good for a lot of things, and Apple's iPod, iPad and iPhone are great representations of what the company was capable of, but this just wasn't a good move for them. Just like any of the systems on this list the developers were so wrapped up in adding internet functionality and all of these other capabilities while pretty much ignoring the fact that game consoles are purchased to play games on. There isn't a single good game for Apple Pippin, not one, which literally defeats the purpose of it existing at all.

26. Atari XEGS-Atari was pretty much done in the gaming market after 2600 and not because they stopped making consoles but because that was really the only one that was worth a damn. Pretty much nobody ever had a XEGS, most gamers have not even heard it. The XEGS for some reason was basically presented like a computer with a keyboard and all that jazz but they actually had the nerve to market this as some type of superior to the NES and it was anything but.

People were going to compare and contrast it to it's competition any way but making that competition part of your marketing actually puts unnecessary pressure on you to produce and of course this wasn't anywhere near as entertaining as the NES. Sega used the same marketing with the Genesis but they succeeded and actually had something to offer, i'm not sure what the thought process was here. It didn’t have the QUALITY of games it needed to have in this generation and actually i'm not even sure the games even looked as good although it was also an 8-bit console like the others.

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Henry’s House

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Final Legacy

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Zorro

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