Released in 1988 by the Hong Kongese company, Playtime Products. Limited support in some Odyssey² emulators. Then the 1983 crash happened, and Philips quickly axed the whole thing. Philips designed the Videopac+ to be a backwards-compatible successor to the Videopac/Odyssey², and was even planning to release an American version called the "Odyssey³", but they reconsidered after a poor showing at that year's CES. It was also released in France (and Germany?) by French toy company, Savie as the "Projector Jeu Électronique LCD"Ī rare Europe-only console, first released in early 1983. It's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Released circa 1989 by European company, Funsation (The Exact Origin is Unknown).This Projector based console somehow sold worse and is even rarer then the "Mega Video Game" (A similar console that also flopped). Only three games were released for the system it's unknown when Sega discontinued it. Sega also had a go with the VHS-Based console market with the Family Driver from 1988 and unlike most of these type of consoles, this did not play Light-gun games but instead played driving games. The console's build quality leaves a lot to be desired, not to mention that games for the aforementioned platforms can be played on most ColecoVision emulators anyway. Sold by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade, allegedly with permission from Coleco themselves. Hybrid clone of both the SG-1000 and ColecoVision. The main reason to use this over NTSC would be if some pirate game targeted PAL Famiclones, other than that there's hardly much difference to it than running in NTSC unless you're nostalgic for the unoptimised slowed-down versions from pirate multicarts. Quite a few Famicom emulators, such as FCEUX and Mesen, can run in this timing if set to do so manually. In technical details, it's basically the same as an NTSC-J Famicom running at 50Hz + SECAM colour mode and with the correct audio pitch (unlike the PAL NES, which has a bunch of other changes to the CPU and PPU that break timing-sensitive games) - this thread on nesdev explains more. The most well-known Famiclone - sold in Russia by Steepler, even likely outselling the official PAL model NES. It is supported in VICE, a widely used emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers. Failed hilariously due to its outdated tech (1984 hardware in 1990!), the fact that the normal Commodore 64 was already sufficient, and a bad case of the 'no games'. Like many others, its titanic failure makes it a rarity nowadays.Ī hacked up console version of the regular Commodore 64, released only in Europe. It is also supported on Altirra.Ī 1983 console pulled from shelves very quickly. It has preliminary support in MAME, as does the 65XE computer it's based on. Notable for having possibly the worst physical design prior to the Xbox One. We're in murky waters here, so run this at your own risk.Ī repackaging of the Atari 8-bit computer line marketed as a game console. There's an add-on for the multi- arcade LaserDisc emulator DAPHNE called SINGE. It relied on a light gun and score counter for all of its 5 games, which could not really be lost. VHS tape console released in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder.
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