What video game console has the dumbest name in your opinion?

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For me it's the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. If you didn't know what Nintendo was you'd think it was some sort of high-end luxury vehicle infotainment system. Dishonourable mention to the X-Box Series X or whatever.

Game Cube is the best named console.

[L1qu1dator]

X-box whatever.

[crunchyfrog]

RRW359 eredeti hozzászólása:

crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

Nope it isn't I said I GRANTED you them, but you said it's a majority on the PS, so a small market IS relevant.

So again those other games mentioned, please demonstrate how you are able to play them with minimal input.

The original claim was that PS is more movie-like then PC, not that they have less input.

Oh fair enough in that case, my apologies on that matter.

But still it bears demonstration because how on earth are games like FTL movie like? Or the rest of those small number of exmaples listed?

[crunchyfrog]

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

Actually there was a video game system for cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5MoNBWZ04&ab_channel=RMC-TheCave

There were more than one. This was a specific one made for cars, but there have also been the ones for various portable nature - like hotels (the Ique for the Chinese market too), aeroplanes and so on.

There were also some kits to make certain consoles adapt to cars too.

[Faster With Feeling]

I just love quirky things like this, gaming in a car.. It's quirky and fun

[crunchyfrog]

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

I just love quirky things like this, gaming in a car.. It's quirky and fun

Oh defo.

I love the weird options and ideas that have beenb thrown out there over time. I have tons of video games history books (if you are interested I have a small list of recommended books on my profile listed).

There's quite a few weirdo things in there.

And I have a number of my early computers that are quite weird and wonderful. Computers like the Jupiter Ace. When every computer was doing it's own version of BASIC, this computer went it's own way and used a language, Forth.

Completely unique and frankly, puzzling.

[Masque]

Forth!

There's a language I forgot about entirely. Dead like LOGO.

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I ha a freaking Jupiter Ace and a machine that had Fortran

[crunchyfrog]

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

I ha a freaking Jupiter Ace and a machine that had Fortran

It's one of my least used machines, but I truly don't want to get rid of it. It's a weird thing indeed.

Masque eredeti hozzászólása:

Forth!

There's a language I forgot about entirely. Dead like LOGO.

Oh hell yeah. It definitely had it's plus points, but on it's own with BASIC already established, it was going nowhere sadly.

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The thing is the Jupiter Ace was a nice looking machine despite the odd operating system. They nailed the looks.


Also had a Tandy Model 3 and model 2 but that one was like lugging a wheelbarrow full of bricks

[crunchyfrog]

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

The thing is the Jupiter Ace was a nice looking machine despite the odd operating system. They nailed the looks.

Yes they certainly did, although they defo copied the Spectrum a hell of a lot.

I found the membrane keyboard marginally better for some reason.

Oh I hear you about the Tandy model 2. On of the earliest computers I got a lot of use of was a friend's dad's Commodre PET. He was an accountant and we'd go round his offices at lunchtime and play on them. He had a couple at home too. Jesus they were built like tanks.

Unfortuantely they weren't that reliable though, being built to cost.

There's one POKE you can give them and it causes them to run faster, and pop a certain chip out of it's socket. That's amusing.

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crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

The thing is the Jupiter Ace was a nice looking machine despite the odd operating system. They nailed the looks.

Yes they certainly did, although they defo copied the Spectrum a hell of a lot.

I found the membrane keyboard marginally better for some reason.

Oh I hear you about the Tandy model 2. On of the earliest computers I got a lot of use of was a friend's dad's Commodre PET. He was an accountant and we'd go round his offices at lunchtime and play on them. He had a couple at home too. Jesus they were built like tanks.

Unfortuantely they weren't that reliable though, being built to cost.

There's one POKE you can give them and it causes them to run faster, and pop a certain chip out of it's socket. That's amusing.

That sounds hell fun, was that on the Commodore machine or the Tandy. BTW the model 2 was also built like a tank it was a heavy thing 2 person job to move around

[crunchyfrog]

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes they certainly did, although they defo copied the Spectrum a hell of a lot.

I found the membrane keyboard marginally better for some reason.

Oh I hear you about the Tandy model 2. On of the earliest computers I got a lot of use of was a friend's dad's Commodre PET. He was an accountant and we'd go round his offices at lunchtime and play on them. He had a couple at home too. Jesus they were built like tanks.

Unfortuantely they weren't that reliable though, being built to cost.

There's one POKE you can give them and it causes them to run faster, and pop a certain chip out of it's socket. That's amusing.

That sounds hell fun, was that on the Commodore machine or the Tandy. BTW the model 2 was also built like a tank it was a heavy thing 2 person job to move around

Yeah I used I think the first Tandy (the breadbin like one) and the third one in work. They were quite lovely frankly. I always liked typing on them and aside from the occasional crash (but what computer didn't do that back then?) it was solid.

It was the PET that did the funky things like that POKE. I can't remember the exact address but I'm sure it's documented online somewhere. It was hilarious as it'd just make it run faster, and even would hit the screen pretty bad and brightly (I'm sure if you managed to keep it runing long enough it would burn in the screen too).

There were a lot of weird corner cutting things on the PET as Commodore were pretty notirous for it. I can't remember more offhand though.

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crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

Cyanide Muffin67 eredeti hozzászólása:

That sounds hell fun, was that on the Commodore machine or the Tandy. BTW the model 2 was also built like a tank it was a heavy thing 2 person job to move around

Yeah I used I think the first Tandy (the breadbin like one) and the third one in work. They were quite lovely frankly. I always liked typing on them and aside from the occasional crash (but what computer didn't do that back then?) it was solid.

It was the PET that did the funky things like that POKE. I can't remember the exact address but I'm sure it's documented online somewhere. It was hilarious as it'd just make it run faster, and even would hit the screen pretty bad and brightly (I'm sure if you managed to keep it runing long enough it would burn in the screen too).

There were a lot of weird corner cutting things on the PET as Commodore were pretty notirous for it. I can't remember more offhand though.

One thing I love about the Pet was the fact you could open the whole top part like a car to remove parts or fix things. Such a neat design.


Here you go, only the POKE isn't a real chip killer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bMJ0NIuWU0&t=282s&ab_channel=TechTangents

[Tsubame ⭐]

Any of the Atari consoles. Just the corporate name plus a bunch of numbers.

NES' name was probably designed to avoid calling it a "video game" console, because of what happened in the 1980s video game crash. Its Japanese name was Famicon, short of "Family Computer".

Funny that not knowing what Nintendo is was mentioned, as the NES/Famicon was its first home console, and before it was released in North America, unknown in the latter.

[Faster With Feeling]

Interesting that Nintendo didn't start as an electronics company too, but they made playing cards