Welcome back to thaddius’ Console Roast 2014 Edition. For those of you who are not aware this is a poll where you, the GBATemp user, get to vote on what GBATemp thinks is the worst console ever is. For more information check out the Rules section below.
Recap:
No huge surprises here, right? Last week’s winner is:
The Phillips CD-i! Congratulations Phillips!
The Phillips CD-i is officially GBATemp’s least favourite console!
This one wasn’t even a contest; almost half of you voted for it! Unlike the first semi-final round there was nothing that could catch up to the CD-i, and for good reason! Congrats Lady-Temps and Gentle-GBAs, you made a good decision.
Anyway: rules!
Rules:
Enough of that crap, time to get started!
Intro:
We whittled down through the generations, through 39 consoles, through 25 handhelds, met some we’d never heard of, championed those we favourited, lambasted those we reviled, and bickered over which is the best of the best. We saw some surprising victories, some obvious defeats, and we argued a whole lot about an entertainment industry.
Now we will pit the console and handheld victors against each other to find out what video game platform GBATemp really loathes above all else!
This Week's Challengers Are:
The Tiger R-Zone
I can’t complain enough about this head rot or a system. This festering wound of a handheld captured the imagination of GBATemp and soundly defeated all before it in past polls. And need I say it again? This beat the Virtual Boy!
What can essentially be boiled down to LCD one off games that were built into cartridges, the games were nothing to write home about. And while the head mounted display didn’t make any necks sore like the Virtual Boy would have if the head attachment went through, it was only because there was not much tech to speak of inside…
In the semi-final the R-Zone was in stiff competition with the Nokia N-Gage for a little while, but eventually won by a large enough margin to solidify the R-Zone as the definitive least favoured handheld.
So GBATemp, is the R-Zone the worst thing ever?
The Phillips CD-i
After abandoning Sony for Phillips, Nintendo figured out the hard way that they’d made a mistake. In one failed venture they simultaneously spawned their worst rival and a horrid monster of a console. And they were stupid enough to license Zelda and Mario to Phillips too! And it’s those licenses that probably put the CD-i here in the first place. It matriculated to the top of this console roast for tarnishing what is otherwise a rather robust series.
In the semi-final the CD-i won by an absolute landslide - 47% of the vote! This means the CD-i was a much easier choice for y'all than the R-Zone was.
So GBATemp, it the CD-i worse that the R-Zone?
Outro:
And that is it, folks. We’re done. 16 rounds of unadulterated video game history madness.
All I have left to do is announce the winner next week! There we'll reminisce and get sentimental, etc. It'll be fun.
See you in the comments!
Current Standings:
Recap:
No huge surprises here, right? Last week’s winner is:
The Phillips CD-i! Congratulations Phillips!
The Phillips CD-i is officially GBATemp’s least favourite console!
This one wasn’t even a contest; almost half of you voted for it! Unlike the first semi-final round there was nothing that could catch up to the CD-i, and for good reason! Congrats Lady-Temps and Gentle-GBAs, you made a good decision.
Anyway: rules!
Rules:
There can only be one!
Each week I pit each console generation against itself to determine what the worst console of that generation was. Updates will hopefully be up every Friday now.
We’re going to work our way up through consoles and handhelds until we reach the current generation. Once that’s all done, we’ll determine the worst console and the worst handheld. From there we choose the definitive GBATemp-approved WORST CONSOLE EVER.
Your only job, Mr. or Ms. GBATemper, is to cast your vote for what you think the worst of the generation is. Please try to do some research, watch some videos, maybe play a few of these games on a (completely legitimate) emulator, and you just might learn a little about the weird amorphous blob that is video game history. But I can't (and won't) keep you from just shooting from the uninformed hip. You're also encouraged to explain your choice in the form of a response to this topic.
In the event of a tie, I (Sir thaddius prigg) will cast the deciding vote. It is my Roast after all...
The Generations are taken from Wikipedia as I've deemed that to be an appropriate neutral third party. I understand if you might have some concerns that I've put things in the wrong generation in your opinion, but I'm not too concerned about that. Generations are murky constructs at best and are based on arbitrary distinctions made by outsiders as post hoc rationalizations that don't mean anything to anyone anyway.
If I left out/included a certain console/handheld you think does/doesn't belong there I'm probably not going to include/not include them anyway. Basically don't take any of this too seriously. I'm not going to change the polls based on your opinion of them. I also can't change the polls once I've created them. The fact that people keep telling me to change things means that no one reads this but whatever. It's not like anyone cares about what I have to say.
Aggressive discussion is allowed, but please try to keep within the rules of the forums. Just try to have fun and don’t be a jerk, k?
Each week I pit each console generation against itself to determine what the worst console of that generation was. Updates will hopefully be up every Friday now.
We’re going to work our way up through consoles and handhelds until we reach the current generation. Once that’s all done, we’ll determine the worst console and the worst handheld. From there we choose the definitive GBATemp-approved WORST CONSOLE EVER.
Your only job, Mr. or Ms. GBATemper, is to cast your vote for what you think the worst of the generation is. Please try to do some research, watch some videos, maybe play a few of these games on a (completely legitimate) emulator, and you just might learn a little about the weird amorphous blob that is video game history. But I can't (and won't) keep you from just shooting from the uninformed hip. You're also encouraged to explain your choice in the form of a response to this topic.
In the event of a tie, I (Sir thaddius prigg) will cast the deciding vote. It is my Roast after all...
The Generations are taken from Wikipedia as I've deemed that to be an appropriate neutral third party. I understand if you might have some concerns that I've put things in the wrong generation in your opinion, but I'm not too concerned about that. Generations are murky constructs at best and are based on arbitrary distinctions made by outsiders as post hoc rationalizations that don't mean anything to anyone anyway.
If I left out/included a certain console/handheld you think does/doesn't belong there I'm probably not going to include/not include them anyway. Basically don't take any of this too seriously. I'm not going to change the polls based on your opinion of them. I also can't change the polls once I've created them. The fact that people keep telling me to change things means that no one reads this but whatever. It's not like anyone cares about what I have to say.
Aggressive discussion is allowed, but please try to keep within the rules of the forums. Just try to have fun and don’t be a jerk, k?
Intro:
We whittled down through the generations, through 39 consoles, through 25 handhelds, met some we’d never heard of, championed those we favourited, lambasted those we reviled, and bickered over which is the best of the best. We saw some surprising victories, some obvious defeats, and we argued a whole lot about an entertainment industry.
Now we will pit the console and handheld victors against each other to find out what video game platform GBATemp really loathes above all else!
This Week's Challengers Are:
The Tiger R-Zone
I can’t complain enough about this head rot or a system. This festering wound of a handheld captured the imagination of GBATemp and soundly defeated all before it in past polls. And need I say it again? This beat the Virtual Boy!
What can essentially be boiled down to LCD one off games that were built into cartridges, the games were nothing to write home about. And while the head mounted display didn’t make any necks sore like the Virtual Boy would have if the head attachment went through, it was only because there was not much tech to speak of inside…
In the semi-final the R-Zone was in stiff competition with the Nokia N-Gage for a little while, but eventually won by a large enough margin to solidify the R-Zone as the definitive least favoured handheld.
So GBATemp, is the R-Zone the worst thing ever?
The Phillips CD-i
After abandoning Sony for Phillips, Nintendo figured out the hard way that they’d made a mistake. In one failed venture they simultaneously spawned their worst rival and a horrid monster of a console. And they were stupid enough to license Zelda and Mario to Phillips too! And it’s those licenses that probably put the CD-i here in the first place. It matriculated to the top of this console roast for tarnishing what is otherwise a rather robust series.
In the semi-final the CD-i won by an absolute landslide - 47% of the vote! This means the CD-i was a much easier choice for y'all than the R-Zone was.
So GBATemp, it the CD-i worse that the R-Zone?
Outro:
And that is it, folks. We’re done. 16 rounds of unadulterated video game history madness.
All I have left to do is announce the winner next week! There we'll reminisce and get sentimental, etc. It'll be fun.
See you in the comments!
Current Standings:
