What is the most obscure game console ever made, /vr/?Years ago, I used to browse a site called the Ultimate Console Database and there were two consoles listed on there that I can't find a single mention of anywhere else on the internet - the Pasago and the Tomy Kiss-Site:https://web.archive.org/web/20120206033558/http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/portables/pasago_go.htmhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120322131620/http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/golden/kiss_site.htmIf there is anything more obscure than these, I definitely can't think of what it could be.
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>>12495390Any of the ones that the great internet sleuth underage redditanon didn't find in it's 30 seconds of googling?
The first one is on here as PasoGo: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/List_of_consoles
Funsation Off-the-Wall Projector.
>>12495390>PasagoI think the issue here is that they misspelled the name.
>>12495764This was actually an awesome idea for a game console. A shame it never took off.
There seems to be a paradox where something becomes so famous for being obscure that it stops being obscure. Remember what happened with Garage?
>>12496283>Remember what happened with Garage?I missed this. What was it?
>>12495390>What is the most obscure game console ever made, /vr/?sega saturn
>>12496587>i missed something that happened before i was born
>>12496842I was born in 1995.
>>12496587Weird ass point-and-click adventure game from Japan. Was potentially lost media at one point, with people not even sure it was a real game until a copy went up for auction. Word spread about it from there and now it's been officially rereleased on various platforms; hence what I meant about it not being obscure anymore, but its obscurity was the whole reason it was noticed in the first place.
>>12496889I somehow hadn't heard about this before, but kudos to /vr/ for rescuing it from the abyss.
>>12496860>i'm young and retardedWell good for you
>>12495764I had something like that as a kid, very similar but it didn't have the sticks for controls. That racing game was on it though
>>12497176a friend of mine had what you are talking about i think, but yeah not as fancy. wild to see it again
>>12496587Viral marketing. People thought they had to "save a shitty old game it or it will disappear." Of course, this occurred right before it was translated and released on Steam. Some people learned from this others "omg! I gotta save another garbage game." Then it gets released on Steam again.
>>12497176Do you remember what it was called?
>>12495390Those Tomy Go games were mass produced for the Japanese market. I am sure you can find them in Japan.Something hard to find is early 20th century mechanical games. Many of them were made in runs of 100. And far fewer lived past their deployment. They were wood, paint, some sort of mechanisms sometimes the mechanisms were wood. That stuff didn't have a good shelf life.
>>12497210Games like that were dime a dozen. Many were electro mechanical like the series Tomy made. LCD came later.
>>12497223No, not the Tomy Go games. The one that I posted in the OP is the Tomy Kiss-site, a karaoke-based game console. The system looked like a boombox with a microphone attached, and controller buttons were on the microphone.Here's a snapshot where the images display: https://web.archive.org/web/20220512172623/http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/golden/kiss_site.htmI can't find any other mentions of this console anywhere on the internet.>>12497235I know that LCD games were a dime a dozen back in the day, but not projector-based games.
>>12495764Im a huge lcd game fag and this is one ive wanted for a while.
>>12495390>I can't find a single mention of anywhere else on the internetYou must not've tried very hard. 727,116 people have found what you couldn't.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfJLBbNgvM>>12495428There already is one ^
>>12495390Had one of these back in the day
When I looked years ago, there was nothing about the Tomy Kiss-site on the internet other than that one site. I've now found that several videos are on YouTube. For example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyGAkER9q5A
>>12497308Hmmm, I just did a search for Kiss-site and found dumped media on all the usuals, for the Anglosphere. In the Nipponosphere Amazon.co.jp has media for it... I am seeing a lot for it actually. It doesn't seem to be rare at all. Probably just a flop, looks like they have over a couple dozen titles for it. Which is probably just the launch titles plus a few months. Oh how, the mighty have fallen Tomy made so many cool toys.
The Bible Challenge portable console from Excalibur Electronics, which was re-released as the Bible Quest at one point.
>>12497210No I can't annoyingly and searching online isn't going well. I imagine my parents have thrown it out / given it to a charity shop. It was shaped more like a mini projector with a dpad and 2 other buttons on top instead. Think it was blue, red and white. Those carts were fascinating as a kid, I always wanted more games. Good times sitting in the cupboard under the stairs in the dark playing that
>>12495850Yeah. holding a projector as a controller sounds amazing.
