The Top Ten Portable letdown?

Are you familiar with Modojo.com? Not quite? Well, we’re on the same page but it just so happened that we came across them today. Actually, it is a website dedicated to gadgets which include gaming handhelds. To our amusement, they have there a feature article that lists the top ten portable flops ever.

While we don’t agree 100% and we’re having some reservations ourselves, we thought it would be well to put it out in the open. In that way, we can all discuss it, compare notes and have the decision made among ourselves. It seems well to us that Modojo holds the Gameboy and the DS in such high esteem. The list furthermore, as their site claims, include noteworthy systems which either failed hard, or, well, failed really hard.

10. Atari Lynx – remarkably powerful with 16-bit graphics engine and a 4096 hue color palette; however it consumed batteries so fast, U.S. $189.99 entry price and the skateboard-like shape.

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Are you familiar with Modojo.com? Not quite? Well, we’re on the same page but it just so happened that we came across them today. Actually, it is a website dedicated to gadgets which include gaming handhelds. To our amusement, they have there a feature article that lists the top ten portable flops ever.

While we don’t agree 100% and we’re having some reservations ourselves, we thought it would be well to put it out in the open. In that way, we can all discuss it, compare notes and have the decision made among ourselves. It seems well to us that Modojo holds the Gameboy and the DS in such high esteem. The list furthermore, as their site claims, include noteworthy systems which either failed hard, or, well, failed really hard.

10. Atari Lynx – remarkably powerful with 16-bit graphics engine and a 4096 hue color palette; however it consumed batteries so fast, U.S. $189.99 entry price and the skateboard-like shape.

9. Sega Nomad – consumed batteries so fast, blurred images and unreadable texts.

8. Nintendo Virtual Boy – size and weight made it almost impossible to use in motion, took away the social aspect of gaming.

7. Game Boy Advance 1.0 – the “reflective” LCD was roughly as reflective as black construction paper.

6. Nokia N-Gage – so expensive that it could only be bought by someone in one of the upper two or three tax brackets.

5. Bandai WonderSwan – Bandai didn’t even release it in America.

4. Sony PSP – “a year and a half after, is this what we were expecting from it? most games are half-cooked PS2 ports.”

3. Tiger Game.com – a blurry display and horrendous software support marred this hopeful Game Boy killer.

2. Game Boy Micro – just another yesterday’s-tech Game Boy.

1. Tiger Telematics Gizmondo – exorbitant cost (U.S. $229 for a system which forced the user to watch ads or a U.S. $400 version with the ads removed), poor engineering and poor software.

Via Modojo