The DCEmu Interview - Question 27 - Whats The Worst Console/Computer You Have Owned?

[JDvorak]

I do agree the Amiga CD-TV(32) was a bad iteration of the Amiga, but it did have the best damn game of Pirates Gold on any system. It had full cd audio which made it heads and shoulders above the Sega Genesis version (the same version without the cd audio). The other versions of Pirates Gold on the PC, Mac, and Amiga (all disk based) were terrible. The DOS version was better than the barely installable Windows version.

I agree the Tiger.com was a terrible system, ended up giving mine to a neighbor kid after having it two weeks with most of the games purchased.

The least favorite off all the systems and computers I have owned though would have to be my Atari 5200. I have had no less than a dozen controllers break. I have ordered controllers off of eBay and bought systems and controllers at thrift shops but after a week or two they always quit.

I really love my 2 Dreamcasts but have to say they were poorly made as the controller ports on both of them quite working after a while. I have to open the systems up and short out some connectors to get them the work. But then they don't work with the light gun, fishing controller, arcade stick, keyborad, etc. They only work with the dreamcast controllers that came with the system (or third party ones). That alone makes the system blow. I do agree it was one of the best systems for the shear amount of good games.

[Malksta]

The original Xbox. I only owned two games for this system before I gave it to my friend.

[WhizzBang]

At times I hate my XBox 360 (e.g. dreadful noise, Microsoft being a pain to deal with, XBox live subscription fees, terrible dpad, stupidly expensive hard drive, the awful new avatar characters which you have to use, media centre not worth bothering with) but Oblivion makes up for all this. Now that you can install the games to the hard drive, the noise levels are tolerable and I would now say it is a decent-but-not-great machine.

[booradley1212]

Malksta, you, my friend, are an idiot. Do you know how valueable the orig xbox is as far as emulation goes? That system is a treasure and will always have a place in my entertainment system. Not only do I play games on it but any movie I watch I load on to it to use as a video jukebox. I love that system.

And I take back my dis of the Atari 2600.

The worst game console I ever owned was a little piece of tech called the Virtual Boy. Nintendo discontinued it and EB was clearing house and I got the system and like 5 games for $49.99. No refunds. I got ripped off!

[jamotto]

The Wii is the worst console I have owned.

[Justinistheman]

The Wii is the worst console I have owned.

what are u mad the Wii is kick ass

[wed5366]

my neo card player it took 6 AAA battery's
it would die after 60 minutes of game play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! and it would die faster with the back lite on

[Eviltaco64]

I don't have any video game consoles that I hate especially.. And I have 32X!

I have a big stack of Dell desktop pcs from around 1996/1997. They weren't that bad either, but doing some simple $#@! (like running Windows 98 and overclocking an i166 to 200 mhz) caused one to overheat so badly that the processor actually melted into the socket.

[HousePlant]

Once a ways back in my teen years I owned a computer that had no latches on the side of the CPU port to hold the fan on; I had to use 2 screwdrivers wedged into the 5.25bay from the fan grill to hold it on and underclock it slightly to control the heat. As a result of the original fan breaking and heat damage it could not be turned off. Ever. If I turned it off I would get 1000 failed bootups before I got it to start into windows. I remember spending 2 days straight whenever someone turned it off to get it back on again.

[Triv1um]

My Atari Jaguar.