Playing The Ouya In 2022 - New Updates
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
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The Ouya is often regarded as one of the biggest failures in recent gaming history, and the console and servers were discontinued several years ago, but there is a strong fan community who have brought the Ouya back to life!
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▬ Contents of this video ▬
0:00 - Intro
0:22 - PCBWay Sponsor Message
0:47 - History of The Ouya & Mistakes
05:38 - Power On & Test
08:15 - Reviving The Ouya
10:00 - Testing The New Servers
11:30 - Community & Conclusion
Sources used in this video (with permission or under fair use):
OUYA - Official OUYA Kickstarter Video: • OUYA - Official OUYA K...
OUYA - Developer Console Unboxing: • OUYA - Developer Conso...
OUYA - TowerFall Ascension Launch Trailer: • OUYA - TowerFall Ascen...
OUYA PRESENTS: PINBALL ARCADE: • OUYA PRESENTS: PINBALL...
OUYA - Party Golf Trailer: • OUYA - Party Golf Trailer
OUYA - Amazing Frog - Update Version 1.3 Trailer: • OUYA - Amazing Frog - ...
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How to revive your Ouya:
Here are the resources I mention in the video:
Ouya World: ouya.world/
Christian Weiske's server & guide: ouya.cweiske.de/
Ouya World Magazine: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22OuyaFuture+Staff%22
I'm the guy who makes the Ouya Mags. Cheers for the shoutout mate!
Dan! I backed the kickstarter and frankly I think that the Ouya team did everything right .... except figuring out how to keep a revenue stream. I haven't plugged my Ouya in in years but I know exactly where it's at and in the coming weeks I'm going to break it out and see if I can get it going again. Thanks for the video!
super! Definitely going to dig into this. I really enjoyed the Ouya, really liked it's controller too.
If you have a file explorer on your ouya, you can copy and paste the text file for the new store dns from a usb drive to internal storage. A tad bit easier if you’ve never plugged it into your computer.
Ouya can only work for NES to SEGA genesis consoles.
As an Ouya developer who poured 2 years of my life into developing a game for this platform (called “Nub for Ouya”), I’m glad that our work hasn’t gone into an endless oblivion, and reassured that our fans can still get what they paid for 😊
@@randomguydoes2901 In terms of user-count, hemorrhoids are way more popular than the game I made 😅
@@randomguydoes2901 I’m with ya buddy
@@nickbolton9435 thats a sad truth.
i just looked it up, looks fun, isnt Ouya just android based? Couldnt you port it to phones now?
An Ouya developer is just an Android developer, no?
As an an old developer of Ouya games it's amazing to see them working again. Hope people are still enjoying our titles.
@@bWWd0 I'm so confused by this comment lol. I loved my Ouya as a player and as an indie dev.
@@bWWd0 ??
I think I recognize your name. Monster Finger Games? Didn't you guys make a rather well known title for it?
@@bWWd0 fuck off lol. Game preservation is a huge deal right now and the Ouya is an example of that.
@@SonicBoone56 Hiya, not sure our stuff was that well known if I'm honest lol, but in my opinion the best games we did was Rush Hour Mayhem and Mr Monocles Travels
I'm not gonna lie. When I first saw the Ouya on store shelves, the idea of a 99 dollar console running a highly moddable OS like Android was almost magical to me at the time. I didn't pull the trigger tho and I felt so bad when I learned how rough things had gone for the little guy, so it makes me so damn happy to see some people getting some use out of them.
I’ve had one since launch and it was quite a decent console. It had cheap/free games so at $100 it was a no brainer.
I'm glad that there's a way around the DRM that keeps people out of their purchases. I really hate this mentality corporations have where customer purchases are dead when the company says so.
People mock the Ouya hardware, but I'm sure plenty of people made purchases that they 100% should access to & shouldn't have to result to cracking to get their games.
It will take a couple of corporations dying an ignominious death at the hands of their customers before the rest of them change tack, let's face it.
I mean we're all used to games as a physical medium that can't be taken away from you unless your house gets robbed, and now we've given up on the idea of a owning a physical object because it's backward and inconvenient, we have to find a way of restoring the inalienable right to use a digital product you have paid for no matter what happens to the company that sold them
@@rorychivers8769 Which you can with pretty much any game now and I bet going forward, it's not hard to get around and systems will be hackable eventually it's only a matter of time.
@@lothar71 Sure, but it still falls short of acknowledgement by the industry that you should be able to use what you paid for no matter what happens.
Toys Я Us went bust, but it didn't suddenly stop my LEGO from working until I found a workaround
I'm glad it's at least legal to crack a game if you have to in order to play it.
I bought an Ouya in 2013 and wanted to make a game for it since I had used Multimedia Fusion 2 for years and could make Ouya games with the Android exporter. What put me off in the end was frame rate issues I could'nt solve and the tons of shovelware being released for it overall.
I've never thought it's a bad little console but I do wish people didn't keep throwing bad quality games onto the store.
Tho i agree. I kinda like digging through "free" shit to find gems.
Playing knockoff elder scrolls was neat.
There was a mystery game I kept eyes on.
Ironicly the 2 KS games for "Ouya" I funded never released on ouya haha, but on other devices.
The Ouya just didn't really have any games of its own, or any unique IP. Most of the games were just shovelware, bad ports, or knockoffs of games that were already succesful elsewhere.
me and a small team spent many months developing the game "chardor" im glad people can still play some of my old games :)
Took a shot every time Ouya was said and now I'm that pissed I went and bought one
I hope you checked into a hospital for suspected alcohol poisoning and a brain scan to be sure you have one as should anyone else who bought an Ouya.
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@@Alexander_l322 Hey I like my ouya. It's a good emulator box.
I feel a genuine "wow" watching this, even though previously generally unaware of the device being discussed before now.
Got my first OUYA as a present without knowing first what to do with it, but it quickly became a fun obsession of mine, my guilty pleasure. Made lots of videos showing the good and entertaining games and I was always thinking about how to save the library. My OUYAs all worked when the network was gone, but some games couldn't check their license anymore and the turned to trial mode... so I was very happy to be able to perform the hack. My OUYAs are all alive and well and we still enjoy the couch multiplayer games from time to time.
I've still got mine in its box gathering dust (somewhere) so I'll be digging it out and getting it configured! I was gutted that this system didn't catch on but after watching this I feel I'm not alone. Many thanks, Dan. - Dave
I wanted to buy a Ouya back in the day to plug into a HD CRT TV that only displayed 480i/p and 1080i. But since the Ouya didn't support 1080i, I decided just to stick with a Xbox 360 since its scaler could output 1080i pretty good. The biggest competition this little cube had was the Raspberry Pi which could be used to learn programming on a cheap little board. In hindsight, the Ouya could be considered the precursor to the Nvidia Shield TV and those Android TV boxes coming from China.
It honestly was. I installed Kodi early on in 2014 or 15 and used it as a tv box up till server shutdown. (Well till kodi unsupported the android version ouya runs)
With retro emulation mixed in.
A lot of people complained about the controllers and especially the lag. I also experienced the lag, but I also figured out is was because of wireless reception. Sometimes I could only get a controller to work good within about 8 feet of the Ouya. Also the system will lag if you are downloading other games in the background.
I have like three of these in a box labeled “too many Ouyas” 😂
I might have to check this out!
Wanna share lol
Oddly i have 3 as well. Not sure how many work at this point, but i might just dig them out and have a look.
I knew I kept my Ouya for a reason. Never played it to be honest, but now I think it's finally time.
I was developing indie games at the time and kickstarted one of the developer tiers planning to make a game for it. When I got the dev unit (mine wasn't delayed) I was so disappointed with the controllers that I hardly played the unit and didn't bother making a game for it. I know they said they were going to improve the controllers but I was so put off that my Ouya journey ended there.
Great because the last thing we needed was another shitty indie game. 👍
@@SVW1976 Oh I still made a game - but for a different platform and it did really well. As for shittiness, well that's in the eye of the beholder 😉
Agreed. The final controller wasn’t much better
@@Auxilla thankfully you could connect other controllers fairly easily.
@@SVW1976 Now that's just not cool. For every indie game that is 'low quality', there's usually one to be found that is a modern classic. Without a vibrant indie scene, we wouldn't have games like Shovel Knight, Rogue Legacy, Pier Solar and the Great Architects, Hades, CrossCode, Timespinner, and many other great games.
Gaming companies: Cloud based and "always online" gaming is the future to prevent pirating
Customers: - *pirate games on systems that can no longer be supported* -
They just don't get it, do they? You can't have a non-physical media on a cloud somewhere and tell people it'll never go away.
Mine went into an arcade cabinet full of emulators for my nephews and nieces when I thought it was dead.
And just like that, my ouya is working again. My youngest is now playing Minigore 2. Thank you for making a shelf decoration useful again.
Excellent - thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. I had found a set of games somewhere on the web which I had downloaded for the future but this is a much better solution. I have packed up my OUYA but it's in it's original box with power supply and cables ready to go at any time. Keep up the good work on The Retro Hour. Loved the recent Christmas Quiz.
My Ouya still has a side-loaded version of android release of Shadowrun (2013) on it, which sadly was pulled from the store a good few years ago. Ran pretty well from what I remember.
do you mean "Shadowrun" or "Shadowgun"? Would be interested in the "Shadowrun" thingly
@@FolkerHQ yeah Shadowrun Returns, the isometric reboot
I remember it having PS6 graphics
Oh this is awesome, I was a big supporter of the Ouya. The fact it's back to being usable again is AWESOME! I'm going to have to do all these updates.
I still love this little guy. I actually have two of them. One at my house, one in my rv. It's a great little, one-stop-shop for everything media in my RV when I'm traveling, whether it's watching movies, playing games, or flipping through pics and videos I took that day while sight seeing. I also love that the community has kept it alive. There were alot of fun little indy gems out there.
Great video Dan. I have my fingers crossed you'll make some more Commodore videos, however!
this video just got me playing my Ouya again! thank you so much..
Played my OUYA tonight !! Still loving it
Great video! Never bought the Ouya as I already had my eyes set on getting the Shield Portable.
I bought into that and due to some damage in shipping wound up with two of them. I eventually got my money back selling the two after the company went down. It was a good idea but also it would have been more fun if just an Android computer so we could just use the Google Play store.
Was cleaning up and found my Ouya in a box. Thanks for the video!
Enjoyed the video- I hope the Ouya lives on for many years- will have to check out the online game server. :)
Mate your timings mint. Just got our hands on one of these 👍
Followed the instructions and it worked perfect feels like time travel back to 2013😁
Brilliant post Dan. Always great to see a potential use and revival for an "old" lol, system
I bought one of these not long after the initial release because I thought, with a little work, it could be a really great retro machine. Never got around to that, and other things came along that largely removed the need, but I also never bothered to try and sell it because I figured I'd find something to do with it sooner or later. Thanks for these resources. I may just dig the funny little thing out and give it a go.
Im thinking to buy the xbox one for retro gaming
Neat. I might have to try this out since I did an "offline patch" in 2019 and this looks cool.
Ace video Dan. Coincidentally I found my ouya just the other day! Time for a revival.
Great video, nice to see my terrible game in the magazine again. Rerez did a video slamming the console 2 months ago and you could clearly see he'd connected to the new server to download the games. No mention of the community and the latest game jams though. Just jumped on the bandwagon of "it was a massive failure". Unless you actually sit down with the console and play some of the strange and interesting titles that released you won't get anything out of your time
Absolutely looking into this. I love my Ouya. Was a backer originally and still regularly play it.
This doesn’t work and I am not sure why he made this video. I tried it several times for hours and got nowhere which brought back all the sadness of them killing off support and breaking all my favorite games.
@@Super_Bros. I got it work almost immediately
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I’ve tried every listed method including changing my dns…
@@Super_Bros. weird. It worked awesome for me. Are you on the latest firmware version and all that good stuff?
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I tried to turn on my OUYA just a moment ago and now it won’t even load. So yeah, cheap stuff often goes dead. Maybe it was on its last life last I used it?
Oooh, I have one of those (uh... somewhere).
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Awesome video! I bought and ouya and and extra controller the day it launched. I still have it and I think I'll have to bring it back out
Finally! A purpose for my OUYA! Thank you for bringing this to our attention. :)
Fun video, thanks! Personally my media streaming PC, also running this type of simpler games is about the same size (it is a Chuwi LarkBox Pro), or perhaps even smaller than the Ouya.
I made a game for OUYA. It was called IronWalker and was definitely an amateur effort but it's the nearest I'll ever get to releasing a game on a 'console' so I was pretty happy.
I'm going to check this out. Thanks!
I bought the Ouya and extra controllers way back when and had a TON of fun in college playing casual games, especially TowerFall and BombSquad. Recently my kids have gotten old enough to learn it and were having a blast until...they uninstalled TowerFall. 😭
This guide gives me hope of getting it back, even if I've lost years of stats (and specifically my character's win ratio 😁).
Never thought I'd get to use an OUYA console until this video has perked my interest .. perhaps just like the C64, older consoles will indeed experience a 'revolution'! The OUYA box wasn't lying! :D
I have one of the special edition Kickstarter Ouyas as well as 4 of the custom engraved covers for the remotes. It may not be the most powerful little console, but it is still neat to whip out and play all kinds of neat fun games on it still as well as reasonable emulation. Do wish it had a Tegra 4 rather than the Tegra 3, but eh.
Just saw this and now I’m digging for my Ouya
Bomb squad:) still one of my fav multiplier games that I found on it. And its controller compatibility was just awesome.
The problem with the ouya, aside from the project looking an awful lot like a money laundering stunt, its 'ceo' being an obvious grifter and the unforgivably stupid name, was the same problem as most single board computers today (such as raspberry pi) .. as a platform for a game console, there is no practical advantage to the formfactor. It's _too_ small for its own good; its size and shape is a gimmick that neuters its performance. Even in 2013, a low powered x86 mini-itx system would run circles around any arm based products. If you're hooking it up to a gigantic TV, why does the system need to be smaller than the controller? It made absolutely no sense.
@@pikachulovesketchup666 don't really understand why you keep calling stuff trash just because it's not computationally powerful lmfao, some of the most fun I've had was playing scummvm games, went back to broken sword yesterday and enjoyed it just as much. Will definitely play Simon the sorcerer again sometime soon.
Even the switch is running on a Tegra btw, but botw is still mechanically better than 100% of the games coming out today and also more appealing to look at than most of them
@@pikachulovesketchup666 Pi is "trash", but it's absurdly inexpensive and competent enough for emulation, which is what mostly used it for when it comes to gaming (not to mention the plethora of useful non-gaming related stuff you can do on it)
I think you miss the point of the pi... it's a computer that can run a full operating system and it costs (for the pi zero) ~£10 and it's low power.
@@pikachulovesketchup666 you do know nintendo switch uses nvidia tegra right
@@thearmyofiron He prob gonna say the switch is trash
Fascinating stuff. It's also timely with the recent news about Nintendo closing the Wii U and 3DS eShops - games that could disappear forever without preservation or sideloading/emulation. In some ways the Ouya was lucky and unlucky with its timing. The recent rush of emulation boxes tends to suggest it was onto something.
Great Vid again Dan! Now I want an Ouya🤣
This is really cool, well done to the people giving this box a second chance. =)
I also have an Ouya. I'll have to give this a try.
Huh... Will you talk about the Ouya on the next episode of the Retro Hour Podcast? 👀
I enjoy every episode of it!
Had high hopes for the Ouya too and for similar reasons you mentioned I think it's fine.
This is great, worked like a charm! This vid made me brush the dust off my old OUYA. Nice to have "the store" available again! I also have many emulators on it that I run from the "Nostalgia" front-end. These factors combined, makes this a little box for hours of fun!
Hi, when I plug the usb in my pc, the ouya device doesn't show up. ??
@@tgsweets Did you power the ouya? It needs it's seperate power cable, it wont get it from the usb.
So much hype on the Ouya still remember Rich from Review Tech USA going on about it
Glad it’s still got a use in 2022 and games are still available cheers Dan
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My favorite thing about the Ouya was the indie multiplayer games like Hidden in Plain Sight. Still love the two Towerfall games. Plugged it in a few days ago and the games still worked, I'll be applying the fix you mention to keep it going longer. While real gamers may complain about the console for a casual gamer like myself it was good enough, especially at the $99 price point.
Great video as always Dan! I was *this* close to backing the Ouya back in the day, I actually kind of regret missing out on it. It looks like they're pretty reasonable on ebay so I'm very tempted to pick one up now off the back of this video 🤔
I always liked my ouya and was very disappointed I could no longer play the games I bought.
For sure will give this a go. But I do now have a Pi 400 and really love the spectrum oric feel of the thing, like going back in time!
Thank you for making this video. I literally found this system in my closet and was about to throw it out but decided to check youtube to see if there was any use for it now. Found your video and now i'm going to keep it and use it!
Great video
The Ouya was a fantastic idea but with a delayed and underwhelming implementation.
Back when android was spreading like a wildfire, it was a great idea to make an affordable device that would play android games on TV. Not that there were any good games back then but the Android ecosystem was growing. The problem was that by the time it was released, Sony had announced PS4 and public interest shifted to the new Sony console.
I think what really killed it also came out right with xbox360 and ps3 started. making self publishing way easer. Steam greenlight as well. While when it was announced on ks it was extremly restricted.
Damn, maybe I'll hook mine up tomorrow and give this a go.
Great video. I completely missed this when it was originally released. If I happen to cross paths with one on the cheap I'll pick it up, but for now I'm spending my time playing on my Raspberry Pis.
I was a KS backer but never really used my Ouya much. Sold it 2 or 3 years ago. Decent piece of kit let down by the its ecosystem.
Oh a further worth while footnote for this video. At the time Razor took over, they started work on the ForgeTV, that was supposed to be a updated Ouya with access to Google store and Cortex and such. They even gave Ouya console owners a store credit to get it at a discount. I was swayed enough to buy the device. However I quickly returned it, since any of the rooting type stuff was completely removed, and even though you had access to the Ouya store, it was highly filtered with only a handful of games accessible, and no save transfers at all from the Ouya.
I quite liked my Ouya. It is now a showpiece too in my room.
It’s completely ethical and right that Ouya owners can still download games and use these features. Piracy laws be damned.
68k subscribers... noice!!
thanks for the video - have my 'doorstop' also sitting around here
I admittedly found the Ouya to be a joke, but it’s pretty cool that there were people who weren’t gonna let it go to waste and found legitimate uses despite it failing it its original purpose. Stuff like this is always commendable and I’m here for it.
Your windows must be magical because mine doesnt show up OUYA. did you instal a driver ? do you need to plug the power cable also? I tried both.
2:29 Correction: As you can see in the video, there is only one USB port on the back of the Ouya. The other one is HDMI.
Did any money go missing or was the entirety spend on the project.
Great vid Dan
First Kickstarter I supported and got the Bonze founders version. I would call it a failure as it didn't do what it was designed to do. With that said it did much more then it was supposed to do and mine got lots of use. Today people wonder why anybody would want this with Raspberry Pi and all the Android Boxes available, back then they were not as well known as they are today. Mine was much like this video, a file server for videos and Kodi and emulators. I enjoyed it so much i picked up several when people were dumping them for $5-10 each and setup them up for people i knew, a few are still being used today. I have moved to a tiny windows server to replace it , but it was great for the 2-3 years I used it.
People fail to realize just how shitty the Raspberry Pi was to use back then. And all these emulation handhelds and boxes just weren't much of a thing back then.
Cheers for this info mate! I'll have to dust off my Ouya and give it a go 👍
Man that's wholesome
I bought one since it wasn't that expensive but I never actually bought a game for it. I knew if the servers ever went down I would be SOL and sure enough they did. I did have some of the emulators on there and I personally found they didn't work that well. Maybe they got updated later on but N64 didn't work at all and even NES/SNES had alot of input lag.
I might have to give this a go one day looks pretty interesting. Still don't think it will replace my Raspberry pi 4 though.
I quite like the ouya. It's a good small little box.
"You have a relationship with the television"
"its a 2013 spec tablet or phone"
Ouya: 4x cortex A9, 1GB ram, usb2, 8-16GB storage
2012 Galaxy S3: 4x cortex A9, 1GB ram, usb2, 16-64GB storage (+microSD)
2013 Galaxy Note3: 4x Cortex A15, 3GB ram, usb3, 16-64GB storage (+microSD)
It's a 12 month old phone at launch.
Oh wow! Your the guy from the Retro Hour Podcast.
I still love my OUYA - it's so much fun to just mess with emulators on it
My biggest gripe with the console is the weak signal strength between the console and the controller. Random amount of input delay, sudden loss of connection at all and interference when using two or more controllers made it completely pointless for any form of "serious" gaming. Try 1CC-ing a shmup or have any sort of competition on there and the crappy input signal will drive you nuts. And I tried ALL the workarounds... I put it on its side, I sat no more than one feet away, I made sure no other devices were close, I soldered an extra piece of antenna to the controller circuit board, I updated its firmware, I tried both my launch controllers and the later revisions, even recieving one directly from the fellas from Ouya. Nothing made it even slightly better. A crying shame!
it was the aluminium case iirc.
I think there's actually been some mainline Linux kernel work, if I remember correctly? It's either that or postmarketOS is working on it, or some other project. There's definitely some work being done.
Nice work Dan. I like mine, not used for a while, but used to take it on holiday for games and movie playing. The Amiga emulator was good and got developed quite a bit for some time.
Nowadays we're spoiled for choice for ARM+android devices... I got rid of my Ouya once I realized the awful controller lag was a hardware issue and not something that could be fixed with a software update. It could have been really great, though.
I was one of the original backers. I think my experience summarized some of the problems they had. Originally I payed for one console and 4 controller (one was included so +3) and yes I was worry because it took forever to get to me. Once it actually did I actually what I god was 2 console and 7 or 8 controller. I don’t know how such an error was made but if I wasn’t the only one that could make them run out of money pretty fast.
I was one of the people that never got my OUYA (though I vaguely remembering that I did get my 2nd controller). It wasn't until 2 years ago when a friend and colleague was "Hey I got this, but I never use it, do you want it?" as he knew I had been purchasing old consoles that I had never got to play as a child (don't worry, I had a PC and played plenty of games). It wasn't until after we learned that the services had shutdown and that the device was essentially a brick. Still, I'm fairly certain I never threw it away. Who knows, maybe I'll dig it up and, for the first time ever, I'll press the power button of an OUYA (even though I was a backer xD)
Thank you for this wonderfull discovery :) Now I need to get the OUYA out and try this:)
I mean the Shield Tv Pro was basically like the Ouya if it was actually kind of good
Thank you so much for this! I was pretty upset when I wasn't able to access the games I paid for anymore. It's really a shame how it went down. I knew it was pretty much over after the Razer baton switch. I still have the Razer Forge TV too. I wonder if this works for the Cortex version?
Awesome :) I was thinking something like this would be possible. Did not expect it to work this well. I bought the Ouya and always considered it a great idea and a great device.
It is unfortunate that there were so many issues with it. Early backers getting the first developer versions had several issues, but I got the second batch and it worked fine for me. I also got 4 controllers for it. I wish they would work better with other devices, but I am pretty happy about them. Also loved the games, I had a LOT of fun with Towerfall and Duck Game. Played them with some nephews and we had a lot of laughs :)
I even released a game on it myself. A two player game. I do not remember its named though, it was about UFOs stealing ressources from each other and having to stack them as high as possible and there were ressource creates that kept dropping from the sky and some of them were bombs that you could use to disrupt the other players stacking of crates... not a great game, but we had fun making it at a game jam, so I decided to release it for free on the Ouya store just to try doing that. Oh yes... it was called something with "Alien"... Maybe Alien Ressource Battle or something like that.
Hey Dan. Posting this video on a subredit. There's alot of people showing interest.
Great, thanks!
Id be as likely to attempt to start my own airline as I would to create my own games console. Just too difficult, too expensive to make work and too much well established competition. Wouldnt go near the idea.
Makes me wish I still had my ouya
I had no idea towerfall started on the ouya. What a legendary game
Yup and I remember playing it 2 years before it ever got released onto any other platform. Legendary!
OOH-YEAH!!
I think this console gets shot of unfair flack. While it's somewhat a business failure
they designed a console and made it to production. I actually think it's a nice design and it was an inspiring concept. It seems very easy to criticize the misteps of others these days. They tried something new, something different and I think that in itself is worthy of praise.
Exactly
Might give it a look. What systems are playable on it?
Had to get one after seeing this... wow, its great having such a big catalogue now at disposal..! But some games are demo and need code/credit card, can this be bypassed or are those games to remain as demo's? Some of those look pretty good.