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The 10 Lamest Game Consoles Ever

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-jaguar dept.

GameDaily has an amusing piece looking at the 10 lamest consoles to hit the market. Older flops like the Jaguar and Action Max join the new graveyard-bound contenders likes the N-Gage and the Gizmondo. From the article: "Ignore, for a minute, manufacturer Tiger Telematics' financial woes, the former executive's much-publicized, million-dollar Ferrari crash and the Swedish Mafia ties. What really irked us about the GPS- and Windows CE-sporting handheld (capable of playing games, movies and music, plus wireless multiplayer) was its sixth-rate software library and similarly styled functionality. Some hated on 2005's biggest portable flop for its abominable games, like Colors or Momma, Can I Mow the Lawn? We just dug the fact that even after dropping $229 on one, you'd still get hit with online ads three times a day." And they're going to re-launch it. Again! Have to love their enthusiasm.

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  1. What a waste... by gnomeza · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *All* game consoles are lame.

    You Are Wasting Your Life.

    There are a squillion more useful (and enjoyable) things you could be doing:

    Contributing code to an open source project.
    Studying.
    Exercising. (this counts big-time later on)
    Reading something mind expanding.
    Building relationships with other humans.
    Think up your own dammit.

    The point is: no matter what you may enjoy doing, there's something more beneficial (to you or the ppl around you) and just as enjoyable to do.
    But there are few things worse than sitting on your fat ass playing console games.

    Just an example: You count Dance Dance Revolution as exercise?
    Loser. Pick a sport that's fun to play. Play with a friend so you build friendship. If it's a martial art you pick up some basic self-defence skills too. It's multitasking. And *that's* how you win at LIFE.

    1. Re:What a waste... by sesshomaru · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      This is without a doubt the stupidest comment I have ever read. Which would make you one of the stupidest people on Slashdot. Possibly the stupidest, I'm not sure.

      Oh, right, I have no reply argument, I just wanted to make that point.

      I would reply to you, but all my arguments would go right over your head. I could just see you there sitting at your keyboard, furrowing your brow and trying to understand them, puss oozing from the many open sores on your face.

      Then you'd come up with a reply that'd be a total non sequitur. Then I'd try to explain the non sequitur and you'd come up with one even more egregious and so on. Finally, it would end up just being you throwing lame insults at me in order to try to provoke a response.

      Oh and it's also pretty obvious that your comment is pure flamebait. Surprised it hasn't been modded down.

      --
      "MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."