Blog:My Top 5 worst video game platforms

NOTE: Unfinished

Another top list! This time, it's not about the worst video games, but about the 5 worst game platforms. By platforms I mean devices that are made to be able to run video games, including computers, mobiles and consoles. This means that this list will NOT include online platforms like G2A. It would also include unreleased consoles.

#5: Mindset
Coming soon.

#4: Wireless Air 60
Gee, now that's already a complete failure of "motion controls"! This is yet another console made by JungleTac and the successor to the also poorly received Wireless60, and I'd like to call it a "shovelware consoles", and this console belongs to that brand new category along with many Famiclones. Now, believe me, this was released in 2011, a year after the Kinect for Xbox 360, which was also poorly received. That's right, it was a rip-off of an already bad add-on of another console. What were they thinking when they made this up?

First off you got the aforementioned fake motion controls. The console doesn't actually detect your body's movements, and instead tracks pixel movements, which completely ruin the controls in the games, sometimes making them not work at all; in one of the games, the "YES" button at the Game Over screen doesn't work at all, but it's not. Secondly, even worse is that there just too many games that rely on the crosshair-shifting system, which means that you have to move your hands on each side buttons to control the game. So basically, you are playing games that use basic controls without a controller, but with your own body.

WTF? Haven't they thought of any good idea of games for the Wireless Air 60, and just milked crosshair-shifting games very often to get to the cap of 60 games? Everyone, meet Action 52 on a game console!

#3: Virtual Boy
Coming soon.

#2: Ouya
Coming soon.

Honorable mentions
Action Gamemaster: A handheld console named after the human from the story of the Cheetahmen that emulates other game consoles designed by the creators of the infamous Action 52, that would probably be extremely huge and underpowered and have a weak battery life.

#1: Chameleon
Okay, folks, I don't really know where to start with this loathsome concept of a retro-based console only made to pander nostalgia, and from company that uses the name "Coleco" solely for profit (originally the console was codenamed Retro VGS). And it's already the second microconsole on the list! At least that's what I could tell, since it was originally announced to be compatible with multiple platforms and available for indie developers to make games for it. Even those ideas were incredibly bad to begin with. You wanna know why?

Well, if you'd want to make games for it, keep in mind that this is a retro-styled console. It uses ROM cartridges, reminiscent of old game consoles such as the NES and Genesis. This means that this will be very legally problematic, because it actually requires the developer to bypass manufacturer lockouts, and even impossible from the point of view of designing an FPGA core that could do it. So, you know what? NO GAMES ON A GAME CONSOLE!!! Wow, what an amazing achievement! And the console would even originally cost $300 which is as much as a Wii U!

Now, what I said on the previous paragraph is only about the first concept of the console, and on this one I'll focus on the second concept. This one removed most of the advertised features on the original concept to bring down the price to $150, but even then, they actually made a "prototype" of the console that turned out to be fake. Even though it was said by the developers that it would have an FPGA system that could switch between various emulated platforms, it was never shown in a video presentation that the Chameleon could actually switch games, or even starting up! You see, it did not even have a working power light, and this led to accusations that that prototype was fake which already became confirmed.

Eventually they made a third "prototype" of the console with a new "motherboard" inside. And guess what? It's also all fake. This prototype did not even have a real cartridge slot and wasn't plugged in, and 3 days later, it was discovered by the owner of Atari Age that the motherboard was actually that of the HICAP50B CCTV DVR capture card. After the third prototype was also shown to be a scam, the project was then killed for good. Overall that the console NEVER came to existence at all, and all "prototypes" of the system were fake! The idea of the console is not even better than the Ouya, and for goodness sake, it was never actually made in real life at all.