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The Absolute Worst Video Game Consoles of All-Time (Part 4)

Description: This list will rundown the worst home gaming & portable devices of all time. Some you may have played, many you 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.

20. BBC Bridge Companion-Right off the bat, even if the games were entertaining (which they aren't), i'm not sure what the designers were thinking when they decided that the controller and the console itself should be the same unit and it takes big thick ass cartridges too, so you can only imagine how uncomfortable this is to play. There are quite a few consoles that were all-in-one this gen and you could maybe forgive it if the games offered some amusement but there aren't many redeeming qualities here. The graphics are ugly as hell and most of the games are card games. It's basically a slightly advanced calculator with games on it. There isn't even any sound and this came out in 1985, so it was beyond unacceptable for this console to be so far behind the curve.

19. Nichibutsu My Vision-A console that plays virtual board games with simplified graphics is completely pointless. That's about all I have to say about this. You could have more fun just playing the actual board game and interacting with other human beings. I never got the obsession in Japan with Mahjong games any way, and more importantly board games already are what they are on their own, you don't put board games in a video game format, that's stupid. Some of them like Chess and Monopoly work but for the most part unless you don't have any friends why would you play a board game on a console?

18. Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy-Pretty much anything that COULD be wrong with a game console WAS wrong with the Gakken. The device itself looked like a clutch from some type of cheap vehicle-based toy but it was attached to a box with handle, so already they don't seem to care about presentation. The Gakken company's wheelhouse was educational electronics so you can imagine how that translated to recreation. It doesn't have detachable controllers, it was one of these systems from Generation 2 where the console and the controller were the same unit. It only had 6 games and the only one you will probably recognize is Frogger but this version of it was far too primitive even for 1983.

17. Tomy Pyuuta Jr.-Tomy Tutor-The "Tomy Tutor" as it was known in the States was a failure pretty much due to the fact that it was sold to us as an educational toy and that's what it was. It wasted it's superior processing power to it's competition with games that didn't take advantage of those graphical enhancements. Tomy produced several different versions of this console in attempts to continue competing with the hot items in the market but as you will notice with a lot of entrants on this list, the existence of the Famicom & NES made it hard for a lot of early developers to carve out some space for themselves. Nobody buys a game console to learn.

16. Casio Loopy-The Casio Loopy is barely a console, it's basically just a dress-up sim and sticker maker for girls. Why it has such a well designed and elaborate joystick is beyond me because you pretty much don't have to use all the buttons. I get who this was aimed at and how it works but the only reason i'm not completely trashing this is because of the fact that it's a console that produces it's own stickers and that's actually a pretty neat idea, it just doesn't really have the game library to justify it's existence though. Maybe if they could have gotten the property license for Sailor Moon or Barbie or some other popular media that is aimed at girls and maybe had some games made based on those characters to give the system more of an edge, but they didn't seem to think girls actually valued gameplay.