9 Canceled Video Game Consoles That You Will Never Get To Play

[@Paradigmfusion]

Remeber that "holorgram" arcade game Sage had back in the 90s with the Time traveling cowboy? that was awesome!!

[@AlmostSomething]

I do! That was a cool game.

[@customsongmaker]

I played that in an airport, I guess it was brand new because pilots were stopping to watch me play and a small crowd gathered. Very wooden controls, since the characters were basically FMV

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

The Action Gamemaster handheld would've been an overpriced battery hog with bad power consumption and the NES, SNES & Genesis adapters would've had glitches in their hardware.

[@johneygd]

If all those consoles were released, then they would,ve flopped anyway because of it’s high price. The philips CDI was actually a powerful console but it was also waaay too expensive. So i don’t think the story would,ve been different now.

[@TheTurnipKing]

the cdi wasn't actually all that powerful. Despite the name the 68070 in the CDI wasn't actually some super powerful processor, it was just a weird derivative of the normal 68k processor in the Mac, Amiga, ST & Megadrive. It was also intended as a multimedia system, not a games machine, so it had some very unwise omissions in design. All sound effects had to be cd audio, there was no easy way to generate ui sound effects, for example. In practice, it wasn't even really quite as capable as the old Commodore CDTV

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

The Cd-i wasn't powerful by any definition lol.

[@GermsOilCotten]

I love how every KZbin video acts like they are breaking the unknown news of the Nintendo play station like its not well known. Its literally the first fun fact anyone says when talking about Nintendo or Sony. The rest of these were far less known but nothing was really obscure.

[@GermsOilCotten]

I should clarify, I mean no shade in my previous comment. I absolutely love the video and the channel. One of my favorites actually. I didn't want to seem like I was hating. Looking forward to the future videos.

[@AlmostSomething]

Totally get it! Just seemed to fit the video. And you'd be surprised at how many people still go "Wait, what?" - I'd also argue there's an extended version of the story that I wanted to cover - like how the deal lead to those awful Zelda games.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Tbf I knew nothing of any of these systems

[@JaredConnell]

That and "did you know super Mario 2 was really doki doki panic?!?" 😂

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Hey did anyone know that ET on 2600 caused the 1983 video games crash? No? Never heard that err...not exactly true rumour per say? ...well surely you know tonnes of copies of said game was found in a landfill in the navada desert right? ...again...no? Damn... I know my stuff!!

[@pepsipoint]

the neptune played saturn games?

[@AlmostSomething]

Sigh. No. I'm an idiot. I meant 32X and Genesis.

[@JaredConnell]

Well technically it didn't play anything cuz it never saw the light of day lol

[@mattkidroske]

I've never even heard of most of these! Very interesting

[@AlmostSomething]

Thanks so much!!

[@System_Sega]

7:16 First, The Saturn was the first Sega console to allow online play, not the Dreamcast. Sega released the Netlink for the Saturn, a Modem which plugs in the Cartridge port. A few games supported it including Duke Nukem 3D, Virtual On, Virtua Fighter Remix, Daytona USA CCE, Bomberman and Sega Rally. The Sega Pluto was basically a Saturn with the Netlink built in. 9:04 Second of all, The Sega Neptune was going to play Genesis and 32X, Not Saturn as stated in the video. Am not sure would play them as it clearly does not have a CD drive.

[@customsongmaker]

The Genesis allowed online play with the Xband modem

[@System_Sega]

@@customsongmaker Your Right, I forgot about the Xband. I believe Sega also released a Modem for the Japanese Mega Drive in 1990, a few years before the Xband.

[@customsongmaker]

@@System_Sega The Saturn also played Video CDs with the RAM expansion cartridge (Asia only), and it's better quality than the Dreamcast Video CD playback with a bootdisc swap.

[@System_Sega]

@@customsongmaker That was the Video CD card that allows Video CD Playback (the RAM Extension Cartridge was slightly different).It did release in Europe as well as Asia.

[@jamescarter3196]

I heard about the Konix Multi-System in 1988 or 89 in an article which I'm pretty sure was in Games magazine, where they were describing the potential upcoming systems (also the first place I heard of Turbo Grafx 16 and PC Engine, and I'm pretty sure they said something about Sega developing a new system but they weren't calling it Genesis or Mega Drive yet). I don't think I've heard mention of it since then, so it's nice to finally find out what happened with it. It was exciting that there were big leaps of technology happening with each generation of consoles and computers at that time, even though it also meant a lot of great stuff had a short shelf life it even got to market at all.

[@TheGuyATX]

I applied to be a beta tester for the phantom, probably around 2003-2004, I was still in college. I never heard anything back from them and I wondered for years what ever happened to it and why it never released until I finally forgot what it was even called. Then I saw this video today and mystery solved lol. Thanks!

[@AlmostSomething]

That's so cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@inceptional]

Some pretty interesting systems there.

[@AlmostSomething]

thanks so much!!

[@jmp01a24]

The Phillips CD-i was a minor success here in Europe. The games was actually good when the developers finally managed to use it's hardware and CD storage system. It's going for very high prices today. I had a friend who owned one back in the day and even if it was few games for it, there were some that excelled or at least matched other games at the time. This was 5 year before Sony would release the Playstation.

[@figureheaduk]

@1:24 I've worked on the Rassau Industrial Estate in Ebbw Vale for the past 13 years - I never knew that Konix (whose Speedking joystick was one of my favourite controllers) was based there!

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

I worked for Atari in the last VCS assembly building in sunnyvale, on weekends sometimes a crew would come in and built prototypes. Coming in one monday there were boxes of 5200 parts and systems, this was in fall of 81, another time monday morning found boxes and piles of Cosmos parts, the build for the toy fair, with pieces scattered around on the floor and in boxesand on the floor was one of the holograms, it seems to have come off the end of the roll. I picked that up and still have it. A bit crumpled, but it's still ok considering it's over 40 years old now. I need to find some Atari collector who wants it in his collection.

[@AlmostSomething]

That's really cool! Absolutely may be worth something.

[@pauliedibbs9028]

AWESOME video. Perhaps some of these did occur in one of those other dimensions :P

[@AlmostSomething]

Ha! Thank you!

[@pashalisterzis]

Another great video mon ami... Greetings from Greece...

[@AlmostSomething]

Thank you, my friend, and hello from Pennsylvania!!

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

I wanted the phantom and followed it's development at every step. If it had released I probably would've gotten scammed (dumb kid at the time). I had forgotten it until now, thank you.

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff, as always!

[@AlmostSomething]

THank you!!

[@popixel]

I was working for Game Stop when the Phantom was making steam. I was so excited about it, but saw the writing on the wall as it became a phantom.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

One downside of the Sega Neprune...apparently if you liked Sega CD games, especially the less than a handful of 32X CD titles, you'd have been screwed.

[@luisreyes1963]

Had Taito made their "WoWoW" console similar to the NEO-GEO CD, it might have given PlayStation & Xbox a run for its money.

[@AlmostSomething]

It's true!!! Just never got there - company has to have the resources to pull one like that off.

[@demonology2629]

Thank God Nintendo told Sony we're not interested in making movies. We're interested in to make a video games and turned SONY down on a joint attachment on compact disc unit. Now got the beloved NINTENDO 64, Basically the last dedicated home console cartridge unit ever.

[@flashmusicarchive9584]

the issue with the ultravision was that it became a victim of the 83' crash and suspected high cost. while the TV option was fascinating for a lot of people especially a color TV, console, and computer people found it's cheaper to buy these 3 things all separately.

[@TheGemini5]

Great video! I was really expecting to hear more about the M2 as well. That one REALLY had everyone excited.

[@AlmostSomething]

Didn't see that one! Now I have to look.............

[@TheGemini5]

@@AlmostSomething Yea, it was supposed to be the next big thing since sliced bread!

[@charlesballard5251]

I am a 58 year old PC gamer. I had an Atari 2600 that I think I got the day after christmas 1980. I was 14. My mother played it more than me because I couldn't get my hands on it. She was busy playing a slot machine game. Press the joystick button 5 times, jog the stick, the slot machine wheels spin. You win or you don't. She'd sit there all day doing NOTHING!!! And she enjoyed it. It took no skill. That was the only cartridge she ever bought for herself. Eventually I just got out of the desire to touch the damned thing. Then I got my first PC and the bug infected me. I've never looked back. Now I build my own computer when I need a new one. I have never understood the console gamer and I never will.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

Sounds like a potential gambling addiction that thankfully didn't happen because it was sublimated into a video game. I guess your family dodged a bullet there. And she kept you from catching the console bug, I suppose.

[@deceptisean77]

Great video! Real informative. Hasbro's failed late 80s system comes to mind (codenamed Sliced Bread or Toaster; working title: Control-Vision or NEMO). Remember reading about it in the '98 book "Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them" by G. Wayne Miller. Using VHS tapes in place of lazerdisc tech would've been cumbersome, but apparently we eventually got Night Trap and Sewer Shark out of the failed project. Again, great video. Cheers!

[@AlmostSomething]

Thank you! And that book sounds awesome...another to the pile. Much appreciated for the kind words!!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

9:00 onwards... Err...Neptune wasn't to play Saturn and 32x games...i really hope you meant 32x and genedrive/megasis !! Or....damn these 'youngsters' know nothing 😅

[@PhilipMurphyExtra]

Great interesting systems there

[@AlmostSomething]

Thanks as always!!

[@namco003]

I own a PHILLIPS CD-i.(Sorry this is long, but ADHD anyone?) I used to work at a BLOCKBUSTER GAMES test location in Virginia in 95, which I still live. One of three stores, but our policy was play before you buy and we had game stations with all the current systems, 32x, 3D0, SNES, so we were encouraged to play every game while working. When we finally shut down, we basically liquidated our inventory, and sold games for up to 75% off, of EVERYTHING. Last day, any game was $5. After we closed, I found we had two CD-i systems in the back, both with the MPEG card for movies. I took most of the demo software like Zelda and Burn Cycle(which was an incomplete beta that froze at the same spot), but my main reason for getting it was, it had the best quality Dragon's Lair 1 and 2, and Space Ace, which Is my holy grail, which I have actually a replica and an original. I'm an arcade/electronics tech and arcade collector, and I own about 30 arcade machines. Worked for most companies, Gameworks, Chuck E Cheese, Dave and Busters, Namco, Family Entertainment Group aka Great Wolf Lodge. Great vid. I love seeing rare stuff like this. I actually have stuff too, but I haven't bothered going through any of it, but I will with my twins soon. SUBBED

[@AlmostSomething]

Damn! That's really cool - what an awesome collection and great story. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the kind words!

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

that's not long. Sometimes I write longer missives than that. A lot longer. I wonder if I have ADHD? I've never been diagnosed, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Could explain many things. Like why I've never really been able to keep a job for very long? Or that I get bored really easily. Or engrossed easily, as well. It depends on what it is. Also, I sometimes stay up too long, throwing any semblance of a sleep schedule I might have had, completely off. And I tend to be a night owl if left to my own devices. And I repeatedly edit my posts before hitting Reply. I'm going to keep this one (somewhat) short on purpose, though. No need to ramble and speculate. Oops, too late. Oh well.

[@AllCoolThingsStoneMountain]

The SEGA Saturn was the first disc based video game system that had internet play, but even the Nintendo Entertainment System had online gaming, stock market monitoring, and gambling.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

IIRC, the Atari 2600/VCS had a very limited system to download games that never really took off.

[@Nookdashiddole]

Literally

[@MrClawt]

That Atari Cosmos looks cool to be honest.

[@Eternyl_bliss-nj9se]

Many years pillaging garage sales / flea markets / thrift stores - i never got to find any prototype stuff - I guess I am a collector poser. Maybe...maybe not..... but I do have a custom built? maybe something special? Commodore computer and I believe I own an odd Odyssey 2 system along with brochures and info direct from company. I should dig those out a research them. Its too bad Sony / Microsoft / Nintendo dominate the market and other systems really don't have a chance. Still waiting for Atari to take over again. but... I do own that Phillips CDI jealous?

[@ianpatrickclarksr4074]

“Damn you Firrips !”

[@dangerotterisrea]

Everybody was excited for the Konix Multisystem when we were in school.....even though the company made some slightly terrible 3rd party controllers!

[@GamerSpencer]

HA! I've played on the Sega Pluto! It was at Revival Retro Events earlier this year! And I have pictures of me holding it! :D

[@AlmostSomething]

Awesome! Glad it's getting out there.

[@BrettDulaney-hf8yd]

Dudes all over the place with his wrong info

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

10:15 ....you do understand what these "holograms" were like right? Not exactly tupac performing on stage hologram.... This is far more simplistic lol The colours were wild and very static! I mean you even showed the pictures of what these static holograms look like.

[@fluoriteheals]

ACTION 52, Sega 32X... they should forever be banished to the PIT!!!

[@jsmith3946]

Atari had a game download streaming service in the 80 its not that big a deal and credit cards go as far back as the 40 they didn't create them they just help improve them

[@hupekyser]

Surprised you didn't mention the M2

[@AlmostSomething]

That's one of the one's I've heard of!

[@0xm]

The ultravision sounds awesome

[@DOI_ARTS]

Nintendo turn their back away from Sony then Sony made the greatest revenge of Console history

[@alpzepta]

No wonder PlayStation gave more Nintendo feeling than the Xbox when the PS2 came out and it’s still is in PS5. Xbox Series X/S feel more like PC but it’s used to feel like SEGA console when original Xbox came out out

[@mrpositronia]

America put far too much importance on games consoles. Its like they were blind to all the amazing microcomputers that were available, that offered games at much cheaper prices, not to mention all the other functions a micro could perform.

[@garyclouse4164]

I was expecting the tandiran Zodiac . but it was sold for a short time

[@customsongmaker]

Tapwave Zodiac? It was a Palm Pilot

[@garyclouse4164]

@@customsongmaker It was a Palmos based multi system handheld console

[@customsongmaker]

@@garyclouse4164 Yes, and it had an excellent NES emulator as well as DOOM. I kept a gem clip on the leather cover, for the frequent system resets when the emulator crashed.

[@JustB3NJI]

It's 1980 and Nintenddo have Published the NES?!?!?!?

[@Goat_Sass]

ALL computer games used to come on the 3.5" floppy disk (till 95ish)

[@VulpisFoxfire]

...Somebody forgot about the 5.25" format.. Only a couple of computers had cartridge format games, though, the Commodore and Atari lines in particular.

[@Goat_Sass]

@@VulpisFoxfire that came out after the 3.5

[@VulpisFoxfire]

@@Goat_Sass Er, not hardly. The 5.25" (and the lesser known 8") floppy disk formats were around well before the 3.5" format was. And so were the the Commodore and Atari systems. (I'm not as familiar with the Atari lineage, but on the Commodore side, look up the 1541 and 1571 disc drives, as compared to the..1581, I think it was.) Not to mention both the Apple and IBM PC lines used 5.25" for a long time before 3.5" was even invented. Maybe you're confusing it with the optical formats like CD?

[@KellyLChambers]

I want one.

[@BrettDulaney-hf8yd]

The Saturn played games online

[@fluoriteheals]

CDI..... UGH

[@everestcomputer]

how can you mention Infinium Labs' Phantom and not HardOCP?! kyle smashed one on stage at quakecon '04.

[@AlmostSomething]

Never heard of it! The next version LOL

[@livejay9062]

Your dates are off about the Nintendo Playstation

[@Dragonfire511]

Gizmondo: XD.

[@GlensRetroShow]

Lots of misinformation in this video

[@WholeBibleBelievers2]

Is this Tucker Carlson?

[@canalsenhorpe]

Sega neptune is in dev on Brazil 😊🇧🇷 in 2024

[@AlmostSomething]

It's crazy!

[@chrisgardiner2215]

I know I'm an old head as the young guys like to say, but every time this Guy says "the WOW-WOW",it reminds me of Barbara Walters 😊

[@AlmostSomething]

HA! I kept struggling to say it.............

[@yakadoodledongywongy8718]

Is it just ne or does the wowow look like s PS3?

[@johnm7838]

Is this guy using an AI voice model based off of Tucker Carlson?

[@AlmostSomething]

::weeps:: In all seriousness, my actual voice. At least the 5th time I've read this one?

[@DEF50703]

I didn't even notice, but now that I read your comment it's all I can hear.

[@jerrystern8821]

More like James Corbetts voice

[@jodicieszkowski7077]

Who is narrating this. Sounds like Tucker Carlson

[@AlmostSomething]

::weeps in not Tucker Carlson::

[@TheCod3r]

Lightyears measures distance, not time!!! Video stopped, disliked and channel blocked, and I'm only 6 seconds in. That's a new record 😂🎉 You should probably have AI check your script before you decide to try and use stupid phrases to make yourself sound smarter...

[@AlmostSomething]

Are…are you ok?

[@PROPHETS-BAIN]

​@@AlmostSomethinghes a weirdo..fixa ps5s thinks he's a celebrity..just a bellend yamma

[@MotownBatman]

I WAs STUPID EXCITED for the Phantom! I was Searching YAHOO! Far & Wide trying to find what happened to it LOL Never got Any Work Done, that T1 High Speed Internet was AWESOEM~!