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If you could bring back ONE console maker back from the dead, who would it be?

Atari just because the brand name is classic. It would be fun.

People joke about Nintendo, but I just can't give a shit about the WiiU and that makes me sad. I'm so lucky theyre releasing Smash for 3DS because I do have that. I hope to get a Nintendo console during their next generation.
 
PJV3 said:
Yeah I would like Clive Sinclair to get back in the game, there's not enough foam buttons this generation.
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Couldnt agree more. Imagine the challenge of an FPS where you cant go in 1 direction because the button is stuck. Epic
 
Leondexter said:
None of them. I'd kill Sega all over again. They were terrible, and their last console, the Dreamcast, was the worst one. Ahead of its time, my backside. Not remotely. It had every problem the Gamecube was knocked for, but worse, and some of its own. Not enough buttons. Only one stick. Tiny disc capacity. Tiny memory card capacity. No component support. No DVD support. Ridiculous gimmicky nonsense (VM units).

Wow, it had a modem...2 years after I'd thrown my last one away.

The only really nice thing about the Dreamcast was its excellent graphics output - not just the power, but the image quality. Very slick.

The rest of the candidates are even worse, of course. How about we lose one instead?
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1998
 
If your answer is anything other than Sega, you're dead to me.

DocSeuss said:
Sega came back to life as Microsoft, so they don't count.
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Joseph Merrick said:
xbox1 kind of really was dreamcast2
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I can understand the logic behind these two posts. The problem though is that outside of Xbox Live and a handful of games (Project Gotham / Dead or Alive 3), the real reason the Xbox felt like a Sega console, was because of Sega themselves. Microsoft could hardly be seen as a Sega replacement if you still needed Sega to actually provide the games.

Leondexter said:
None of them. I'd kill Sega all over again. They were terrible, and their last console, the Dreamcast, was the worst one. Ahead of its time, my backside. Not remotely. It had every problem the Gamecube was knocked for, but worse, and some of its own. Not enough buttons. Only one stick. Tiny disc capacity. Tiny memory card capacity. No component support. No DVD support. Ridiculous gimmicky nonsense (VM units).

Wow, it had a modem...2 years after I'd thrown my last one away.

The only really nice thing about the Dreamcast was its excellent graphics output - not just the power, but the image quality. Very slick.

The rest of the candidates are even worse, of course. How about we lose one instead?
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Holy shit... I think I hate you.
 
Bring back the Conneticut Leather Company, you fucks!!! *shakes fist violently*
 
Honestly, none of them. Sega as a hardware company departed from this world because their 16-to-32-bit transition was beyond wonky and the company was financially a mess. I loved the Dreamcast, but it was too late to reverse the damage. The software was tremendous, but a lot went wrong there. A lot of the others, like 3DO and SNK, asked too much for the market beyond their small hardcore base or didn't really have a compelling case to make for consumers in a competitive market (Philips et al).
 
sega was a really good company had some reasonable games just need to upgrade the graphics and bring it up to standard.
 
I'd be interested to see what would happen with Sega now since I doubt SOJ would be actively trying to sabotage the company still.
 
Synth said:
I can understand the logic behind these two posts. The problem though is that outside of Xbox Live and a handful of games (Project Gotham / Dead or Alive 3), the real reason the Xbox felt like a Sega console, was because of Sega themselves. Microsoft could hardly be seen as a Sega replacement if you still needed Sega to actually provide the games.
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Indeed outside what you've said I don't understand how anyone can cite Microsoft as the Sega replacement. The games they've produced are completely different. Even the Xbox1 is a dodgy argument as Sega made some great games for PS2 and GC too.

I do think Sega botched thier move to third party at the time, there should have been at least one console with all the Sega titles so fans knew where to go next. Instead they scattered their fan base.
 
Sega without a doubt - Things would still be getting localized as they would be necessary in the process of adding value to a system's library. Well, assuming that if they were alive in the console business today that they understood "Five Star Games" policy only serves to decrease a system's value.
 
Gotta go with SNK (assuming they were back to what they were pre-2000 shuttering).

The Neo Geo itself needs no introduction, but the Neo Geo Pocket Color was such an awesome piece of hardware and had great games to match.

That thumbstick was still the ideal solution for portable fighting games.
 
Does Hudson count? I feel like they're the only one who's actually dead among those who used to make consoles I loved (Sega, Hudson/NEC, SNK).
 
Probably SNK.
The thing I'd like to see most is a modern day successor to the NeoGeo Pocket (Color). I miss their output of awesome arcadey games, especially in these times where games have become so convoluted and bloated.
 
The alternate dimension Sony that was going to build this thing:

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gelf said:
Indeed outside what you've said I don't understand how anyone can cite Microsoft as the Sega replacement. The games they've produced are completely different. Even the Xbox1 is a dodgy argument as Sega made some great games for PS2 and GC too.

I do think Sega botched thier move to third party at the time, there should have been at least one console with all the Sega titles so fans knew where to go next. Instead they scattered their fan base.
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I can see why people say this though (I even agree with it mostly). The OG Xbox felt like an extension of the Dreamcast, gaining both games that intended for it (Toejam&Earl, Panzer Dragoon, GunValkyrie, Shenmue II US), follow ups (Crazy Taxi 3, Project Gotham, Dead or Alive 3, Jet Set Radio Future, House of the Dead 3 etc), games that blend seamlessly with the DC lineup (like Outrun 2). It had a joypad that felt like the logical evolution to the DC's controller. It had Xbox Live which carried the torch from SegaNet/DreamArena whilst everyone else was still basically ignoring online.

The PS2 comparatively bore more resemblance to Saturn era Sega, with their output mostly being more Japan-centric. Less people would focus on these games, for the same reason that most people didn't bother with the Saturn's lineup. The Gamecube was pretty much just Sonic Team really, and much of that content hit all three, so it's barely worth mentioning in comparison imo.

I think another factor was that the Xbox had a far less diverse third-party selection, so Sega's content on that machine stood out a lot more in the library. It felt like a first-party's output still, even though they were third-party.

... but yea, it was still pretty much all Sega at the end of the day. Microsoft was basically the replacement for Sega's hardware division only, which was hardly the most important arm of the company.
 
Synth said:
I can understand the logic behind these two posts. The problem though is that outside of Xbox Live and a handful of games (Project Gotham / Dead or Alive 3), the real reason the Xbox felt like a Sega console, was because of Sega themselves. Microsoft could hardly be seen as a Sega replacement if you still needed Sega to actually provide the games.
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The controller also vaguely resembled the Dreamcast controller (and was bad for that reason :()
 
Mattel's Intellivision division (released by Bandai in Japan) as that was my first game console I ever owned as a kid (all my friends had the 2600, my parents took us to Toys R Us to get one only to go with Intellivision instead. We also went with Betamax instead of VHS, so...) and I really enjoyed it.

Then I remember burning out of games after the crash... and playing the PC Engine at a friends place and picking one up which revived my love for gaming.

Note: SNES CD and PC Engine FX shared the same chipset inside.
 
jesu said:
Amiga.

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Commodore I suppose that should be.
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Joseph Merrick said:
commodore yep. amiga forever
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I remember back in the day I went to a store to buy a floppy disk with printer drivers for the Amiga (this sentence sounds kind of ridiculous these days). The shop clerk told me that you can't connect a printer to the Amiga because it's a game console. I insisted, he checked in the back, and sure enough, they had the disk, and I could print out my school essays and reports. Sure, I also played a lot of games on it (duh), but to call it a game console is really underselling it. I still miss my Amiga...
 
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