thaddius' Console Roast 2014 Edition - Round 14 - Handheld Semi-Final

Worst Handheld Semi-Final

  • The Watara SuperVision

    Votes: 41 10.7%
  • The Tiger R-Zone

    Votes: 164 42.8%
  • The Nokia N-Gage

    Votes: 125 32.6%
  • The GamePark Wiz/Caanoo

    Votes: 28 7.3%
  • The SNK Neo Geo X

    Votes: 25 6.5%

  • Total voters
    383
  • Poll closed .

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I'm also curious why anything but the R-Zone gets a vote. The N-gage may not have been what it promised it would be, but I honestly cannot believe that when giving someone the choice of playing with the R-zone or the N-gage, they would pick the former. This shouldn't even be a contest but a given.

But...c'mon, guys. Please explain your vote a bit, will you? I scrolled through the entire page wondering why the N-gage is relatively close, but found nothing...
 

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Tbh, if it weren't due to AVGN/James Rolfe I'd not know how bad the R-Tiger Zone was of a gaming system, if you can call it this.

N-Gage bad? Nope. Whenever I'd play on it I'd enjoy it a lot and it felt like a portable gaming console like GBA or such which is awesome, except the screen of N-Gage wasn't intended for games as it seemed (wrong AR).
 

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Does anyone have a N-Gage emulator, I want to check it.
(tbh I would pick the R-Zone if someone said to me "R-Zone or N-Gage" because I am crazy as heck and I would love to check how it plays. :P)
 

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Poor open consoles! Somehow the Dingoo or the Pandora didn’t win this prestigious honour, while we weren’t too surprised to see the DS and PSP skate by unscathed.

I think this was just a misunderstanding of what the Wiz and Caanoo are. Both are great, better than the Dingoo anyway as far as emulation machines go. And the Pandora is more powerful, but manufacturing problems throw it into the fray.

I guess you had a Wiz or Canoo then...!

I really don't think they were 'better' than the Dingoo. They were probably more powerful but the Dingoo was about half the price (maybe even less), fitted neatly into just about any size pocket, had a sensible button configuration, and had a battery that just went on forever; I took mine on a 12 hour flight and after having it in use for the majority of the time - a mixture of watching videos, playing games, and listening to music - it still had battery enough to watch a couple of episodes of Family Guy when I arrived at my guest house.
 

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The Supervision and R-Zone were widely available in catalogs and stores even outside Asia. The Wiz/Caanoo were really the only ones on the list that were only available from import/Asian shops.
 

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I guess you had a Wiz or Canoo then...!

I do own a Wiz, a Caanoo, and a few Dingoos. And I can say they're all great.

As far as emulator machines the Wiz and the Caanoo can do a bit more. The SNES, Genesis, GBA, and even PSX emulators are much better than the Dingoo's (even the Dingux ones) and the touch screen made for some interesting/varied homebrew.

As far as buttons go the L and R buttons on the Wiz and Caanoo were much better than the Dingoos. The Wiz is the only one with bad A, B, Y, X buttons (they're a segmented D-pad).

They're all hard to compare to each other. The Dingoo is a great budget console, while the Wiz and the Caanoo are much better at being emulator machines, but are just barely worth the extra price. Luckily I never paid for a Caanoo and merely won it in a contest. Otherwise I probably would never have bothered.
 

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That was easy. Will probably even win out against whatever console wins the home console semi-final as well.
Not sure what the outcome would have been had it not even been included, though (it only borderline qualified, anyhow)
The poll will be "R-Zone vs an okay console comparated to the R-Zone", so yeah, the final result is obvious. :/
 

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The fact that it's called the R-Zone also reminds me of the fact that the electronics/video game section of Toys R Us stores used to be called the RZone... and guess where they were heavily promoting the Tiger games?

I seriously wonder if it was just like that that enabled Toys R Us and Tiger electronics to come up with that name...

In any case, we had some genuine stinkers in the handheld side. I can't wait to see what it boils down to.
 

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