Intec Interact

The Intec Interact is the only game console ever released by Intec, which is well known for creating accessories for the Xbox, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS. It is a Wii rip-off and has several accessories for games.

Why It Flopped

 * 1) The design of the console is a pathetic attempt to copy the Wii. It was also used in the MiWi, another Wii rip-off.
 * 2) * It is supposed to be standing upright like the Wii, yet it also has a cartridge slot on the left side, meaning the console is best placed lying on it's right side, which defeats the purpose.
 * 3) The console is only slightly bigger that a SNES cartridge and is also very lightweight, which signifies poor build quality.
 * 4) The audio output is mono only, much like the NES which was released in 1985.
 * 5) Despite being made around the time of the Wii U, it has graphics that output at a 4:3 ratio and are similar to a 16-bit console, like the SNES or Genesis.
 * 6) The controllers are all shoddily made. There are very small, making it difficult for adults to hold, and the D-Pads are very poorly designed and don't register your inputs very well. The standard controller (which resembles the Wii's Classic Controller Pro and a Sega Saturn controller) has two pairs of A and B buttons.
 * 7) The package includes a bunch of accessories that can be attached to the top of the Genie-Con (the equivalent of a Wii Remote), which are the heads of a baseball bat, golf club, two ping-pong paddles, and tennis racket, but these do absolutely nothing to the games and are only for cosmetics.
 * 8) Poor marketing. The Interact wasn't even advertised on Intec's website.

Why the Games Suck

 * 1) Unlike other clone consoles, the games actually come in cartridges, but only two are included with the system, 8-in-1, which consists of sports games, and 32-in-1, which mainly consists of "arcade" games. There was another cartridge which had music games on it, and there was one more that combined all three of these, but they haven't been found.
 * 2) The games range from being painfully generic to soulless ripoffs of other games:
 * 3) * 8-in-1 is an obvious rip-off of Wii Sports. It even has games based on all five sports from the original.
 * 4) * Most of the games in 32-in-1 are based on classic video games:
 * 5) **Apex Gun is a clone of 1942, but without the looping mechanic.
 * 6) **Aqua Mix is a clone of the Puyo Puyo series.
 * 7) **Bee Fighting is a clone of Galaga, but the rays that capture your ship are replaced with laser beams that blow up your ship.
 * 8) **Boxes World is just the same "box game" found in almost every clone console.
 * 9) **Diamond is your typical Breakout and Arkanoid clone.
 * 10) **Edacity Snakes is your typical Snake clone.
 * 11) **Farm Keeper is a clone of the Game & Watch game Fire, but with the goal of bouncing falling peaches from a tree to the other side of the screen as opposed to bouncing falling people from a burning building to an ambulance.
 * 12) **Fish War is a clone of the Intellivision game Shark! Shark!.
 * 13) **Golden Gate is a clone of Bang Bead.
 * 14) **Hammer is a clone of Don Doko Don.
 * 15) ** Harry is loosely based on Flipull.
 * 16) **Highway Racing is a clone of Road Fighter.
 * 17) **MX Motor Storm is a clone of motorcycle games such as Mach Rider andHang-On.
 * 18) **Over Speed Racing is a clone of several 3D racing games from the 1980s like OutRun and Pole Position.
 * 19) **Pets Crossing is a clone of Frogger, but with a green bunny instead of a frog.
 * 20) **Pro Crack and Shooting Ballons are clones of Buster Bros.
 * 21) **Rugged Hammer is a clone of Columns, but has the same controls as the NES game Wrecking Crew.
 * 22) **Smart Bomber is a clone of the Bomberman series, just without any power-ups.
 * 23) **Square and Maze Pac are your typical Tetris clones, except that Maze Pac has bombs and single pieces.
 * 24) **Tank is a clone of the NES game Battle City. A game commonly found in Famiclones.
 * 25) **Tiger Man is loosely based on Intellivision game Buzz Bombers, but with the goal of shooting helicopters with a machine gun as opposed to shooting bees with a spray can.
 * 26) **Welcome Zuma is a clone of Zuma.
 * 27) While the Wii has games designed for actual motion controls, you can play most of the sports games in 8-in-1 with just the buttons, and shaking the Genie-Con only counts as pressing the A button, making motion control utterly pointless. This is further emphasized in Tennis Exciting where there's an onscreen graphic instructing you to press a button to return the ball.
 * 28) Many of the games suffer from glitches and horrendous game design:
 * 29) *Tennis Exciting and Ping Pong are the same game, just based on a different sport.
 * 30) **The same technically goes for Highway Racing, MX Motor Storm, and Over Speed Racing, as they share the same music and sound effects as well as the objective of racing to the finish line. Both Highway Racing and MX Motor Storm also start with three vehicles in front of the player vehicle rushing off as soon as the countdown ends and share the same fuel truck mechanic explained below.
 * 31) *Place Kick Master: The game is designed to be played with not the Genie-Con, but a strange accessory called the Soccer Transmitter, which you attach to your leg and do a kicking motion to emulate kicking a soccer ball, but like the Genie-Con, the accessory only functions as pressing the A button.
 * 32) *Master Golf:
 * 33) **The player has to press the Start button to begin their swing as opposed to the A button.
 * 34) **At the results screen, you have to press the Select button to go to the next hole even though the screen says "Push any key to next".
 * 35) *World Series:
 * 36) **After swinging the Genie-Con and hitting the ball, the following events are played in cutscenes.
 * 37) **The character designs are inconsistent, the player on the title screen is realistic, and the in-game players frequently switch from being anime-esque to muscular.
 * 38) *TV Boxing:
 * 39) **The fighter's age is included in their stats (and as a meter), which isn't very important.
 * 40) **The controls are not explained, which makes the game very confusing to play.
 * 41) **Whenever the player is hit, the screen turns red for less than half a second.
 * 42) **Whenever the opponent faints, they supposedly collapse to the floor, but the poor animation makes them look like a giant collapsing into the city.
 * 43) *Lawn Purge: There's a glitch that plays the animation of mowing on a flower even if you never actually hit one.
 * 44) *Boxes World: At the bottom of the screen, there is a graphic for an "S" button you must press to head to the next level, then though there is no such button on any of the controllers.
 * 45) *Tank: Hitting a tank that takes more than one hit plays an off-putting guitar note.
 * 46) *Shooting Ballons: The balls are replaced with slow-moving balloons, making the game rather sluggish, and some of them take two bullets to pop.
 * 47) *Harry:
 * 48) **You can only grab blocks from the right side.
 * 49) **There's a cake that appears on top of a ladder every now and then, but you can't collect it since the character can't climb the ladder to the same height as the cake.
 * 50) *Smart Bomber:
 * 51) **Enemies will respawn ever after they've blown up, which breaks the tradition of a Bomberman game.
 * 52) **Instead of implementing a proper hitbox, the character will be blown up if the explosion touches the player's sprite, thus making hiding from explosions rather difficult.
 * 53) *Tiger Man: If the player dies, they can still keep shooting.
 * 54) *Apex Gun:
 * 55) **The D-Pad isn't capable of registering diagonal directions, making the game a bit harder.
 * 56) **While the background for Stage 1 is fine, Stage 2 has a much simpler moon-like background with craters, and Stage 3 just has red bricks.
 * 57) *Over Speed Racing:
 * 58) **The game plays in a third-person perspective, but there is also a car frame (where the HUD is located) to emulate a first-person perspective. It comes off as unnatural and absurd as a result.
 * 59) **If your car hits the same car twice, the car burns to the point where only the wheels remain yet it still drives fine. In addition, if the player hits the car again, it explodes and the player supposedly loses 1000 points (as indicated by the "-1000" text), but the score remains perfectly fine. However, hitting the fuel trucks only once causes them to disappear and earn the player 1000 points.
 * 60) *MX Motor Storm:
 * 61) **The scaling is way off. Once a vehicle reaches the finishing gate, the sprites don't shrink enough making it look like the vehicle is driving into the gate. The arrow signs also don't grow big enough when the player is closer to them.
 * 62) **Some slowdown happens here and there.
 * 63) *Highway Racing: After completing the third stage, the game takes you back to the title screen before it crashes. This is not only a sign of a rushed game, but also lack of playtesting.
 * 64) *There is a game with a title screen showing a girl riding a dandelion, but the name of the game is neither in the title screen or in the main menu, hence making the game unnamed. (In his review, ProJared called this game Pixie Princess Dandelion Of The Death Knell).
 * 65) **The same title screen is used as the picture to clean in the game itself, which is nothing but lazy.
 * 66) Some games contain assets stolen from games.
 * 67) *The Bowling game in the 8-in-1 cartridge stole Dr. Wallace Breen's face from Half-Life 2.
 * 68) *Master Golf uses the golfer sprites from Neo Turf Masters.
 * 69) *The "Oh no!" sound effect in Lawn Purge is taken from Undo Guy from the Kid Pix series (Deluxe 3 and up).
 * 70) *The enemies in Bee Fighting strongly resemble the enemies from Galaga. The shooting sound even sounds similar.
 * 71) *The rainbow circle in Shooting Balloons is stolen from the Tiny Toon Adventures logo.
 * 72) * The Boxes World title screen contains 2 bounce crates and one question mark crate from Crash Bandicoot, and the placement for the 3 crates is from the latter game's first level.
 * 73) *Tank uses the same design for the base from Battle City.
 * 74) *The MX portion of the MX Motor Storm logo is stolen from the MX vs. ATV logo.
 * 75) *Shooting Ballons uses the same player sprites as the first Buster Bros. game.
 * 76) *The background music in Welcome Zuma steals the main theme from the game it was copying.
 * 77) *The kid in the cover screen for Page 2 of 32-in-1 is being chased by a bullet that heavily resembles a Bullet Bill from the Super Mario series.
 * 78) *Over Speed Racing has the same title screen as Thrash Rally.
 * 79) Some games straight up cheat to make you lose:
 * 80) *In the unnamed game, even if you clean the entire picture and the life bar isn't empty, you still lose.
 * 81) Lots of typos and awkward phrases. For instance, in Place Kick Master, if your opponent successfully blocks the goal or the ball doesn't reach the net, the phrase "No Goal" pops up.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Compared to the other clone Wii consoles (Wireless 60 and so on), this one is a little bit better.
 * 2) The games are so bad, they're good at times and can be funny to make fun of.
 * 3) A few of the games are OK at best like Tank and Apex Gun, even though the controls mess things up.

Reception
This console has gone down as a cult classic amongst gamers for its sheer awfulness. Jared from the YouTube channel ProJared gave it the rating of a Broken Marriage out of 10.

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