Leapster

The Leapster (marketed as the Leapster Learning Game System) is a handheld edutainment console released by LeapFrog in 2003 and discontinued in 2014.

Why It Flopped

 * 1) The design of the console is just a poorly made mh:awesomegames:Game Boy Advance. The original version in particular has some of the ugliest console designs.
 * 2) It's games such as Sonic X and Math Baseball are pretty boring.
 * 3) The audio and visual quality are abysmal, it could give the Game.com a run for it's money.
 * 4) * Speaking of the visual quality, when these games are played on a Leapster TV, the visual quality is worse.
 * 5) The Leapster cartridges of Letter Factory and Talking Words Factory don't even qualify as games, they are rather just like those FMV games from the 90s with barely any interactivity.
 * 6) It has bad battery life, while it could last 6 to 11 hours, charging it lasts up to 3-4 days depending on usage, which is a very long time.
 * 7) Many of the games aren't that challenging.
 * 8) Because of how easy the games are, they are also very short.
 * 9) The sound effect that plays when you get an answer wrong is very abysmal.
 * 10) Some of the games only result in the console turning itself off once the game's over.
 * 11) It doesn't use rechargeable batteries, unless you use a battery pack. The Leapster 2, however has one.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) To be fair, it did have some good games such as Letterpillar, SpongeBob SquarePants: Through the Wormhole, Get Puzzled and Kindergarten.

Trivia

 * The Ficreation Discord Server by GabrielGarciaDiscord is trying to start meme spread for the console. It also has it's own meme server for Leapster memes.
 * Its games run on Flash, meaning it's theoretically possible to emulate the games on a computer.