Posts tagged jaguar

Today's most failure-prone video: Console duds

by Zack Stern (May 7th 2007 12:00AM)

In today's video pick, GameTrailers counts down its list of the top ten console failures, including the Jaguar, Virtual Boy, and 3DO. We were tortured by watching footage of these console failures, yet we couldn't turn away, wishing that the hardware had succeeded while laughing about all the ...

Console evolution in pictures

by James Ransom-Wiley (Jan 4th 2007 11:25PM)

By Knuttz's count, it's taken 70 steps, including many retreads, to get from Odyssey to Wii. You can view each of these steps -- all 71 consoles -- in this scrolling gallery. (Note: handhelds have been omitted.) ...

Top 10 custom-built consoles

by Christopher Grant (Jun 6th 2006 1:00AM)

TechEBlog has assembled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Custom Gaming Systems." It should come as no surprise that more than one of their selections was created by console hacker-extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn. In addition to variants of popular consoles like the NES and Genesis, the list includes ...

Games that pushed the limits, parts 2 and 3

by Christopher Grant (Feb 28th 2006 2:15PM)

Racketboy has returned, as promised, with the second and third installments of his look at games that pushed the limits. We're not talking about games that pushed the limits of decency, like Sega's Night Trap, or the limits of human patience, like any version of last year's Charlie and the ...