What are its best games?
>>12585731Smashing it with a hammer is pretty fun.
How the fuck were you supposed to play games with this thing
Phantom Hourglass.
>>12585731>sixth or seventh gen67! 67!
i prefer ouya
>>12585731The Phantom Pain
>>12585765Based zoomer discovering the past
>>12585765
>>12585765Is this the sixty seven thread?
>>12585765Incredible post, this gets a bump>>12585731Retard boomer thread
>>12585731>phantom>its vaporwareKINO
>>12585756Probably plug it in and start a game on it and use the mouse and keyboard to play the game.
>>12585765>six sevenGET OFF MY BOARD ZOOMY
>>12585765>>12585731>seventh genNOT RETRO
>>12585731Games?
>>12585835Yes.
>>12585731>Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier>The Phantom is a cancelled home video game console whose development was supposedly begun by Phantom Entertainment–then known as Infinium Labs–in 2003.
>>12585765can someone explain this 6 7 thing to an unc. i googled it a while ago but i still don't get it
>>12585849When you see 6 7 you say 6 7
>>12585731James Pond II
>>12585849unc seeing 6 7 and crashing tfooooo :skull::skull::skull:
>>12585849
>>12585849some sports nigga said it with a funny tone, retards found this fascinating. late to the party toktikfags make "music" video driving it to more popularity
>>12585945Wrong
>>12585731Scrimmy Bingus and the Crungy Spingus
>>12586150>Boomer “humor”
>>12586205found the bingus
>>12585765Based
>>12585849Neither do the people saying it either anon.
>>12585731A try
>>12585731What the heck I never even heard of this!
>>12585731It had the best version of doom
>>12585731Nada, because it never was released, nor did it have any studios making games for it. The thing was a laughingstock since it's inception, I remember webcomics that were made just to make fun of it. No, I don't mean a single panel in Penny Arcade or whatever, I mean an entire webcomic just for dissing the Phantom.It's whole gimmick was that it would be a download-only system and have 100% digital games. Ironically that is not at all unheard of these days, but back then it was considered a joke, back when people cared about ownership (and to be fair, internet speeds were not good enough). Thing is, even today this would not have gotten anywhere. It tried to have it's own digital games store, go ask the Ouya how well that ended up, Steam was already a thing by then.>>12585756That's from when they pivoted from making a """console""" to just making an overpriced keyboard intended to sit on your lap. That keyboard is about the only product they ever released I think, they never ended up releasing a console.>>12585791>Hardware joking about vaporware becomes vaporwareIt's more likely than you think
>>12585751Man Kyle was a dickhead but HardOCP was really, really useful. I wonder what happened to him - he went to work for intel very briefly but his son became and unwell (iirc might've been cancer) and that was the last I heard of him.
>>12585731What went wrong anyway?
>>12587029Why would internet speeds matter, it would just take longer to download things.
>>12587130He faded into obscurity. The forums are still up, but the main site is pretty much his personal blog now.
>>12585849literally babby's first in-joke. it doesn't mean anything
Kekroc
>>12588216not him but sure, they'll "just take longer", but that particular time period for me and many others is about the worst time to put downloadable games on the table. why? games had gotten much larger as they had mostly moved to DVDs, but internet connections were still dial-up to a handful of times faster than dial-up (i was still on dial-up)like a typical console game in 2004 was probably about 2-3GiB in size (based on my recollection of dumping ps2 games to it's hdd). lets say 2.5GiB as an example. downloading 2.5GiB over dial-up at a fairly generous average speed of 5.5KiB/s would take ~5.52 DAYS, that is full 24-hour days, which for dial-up specifically is impractical because that means you'll have no phone. i only did mass downloads overnight while sleeping. if i downloaded it for 8 hours a night that'd take ~16.5 days to download. imagine waiting half a month to download a game. needless to say i got my ps2 games through friends' copies and rentals, not by downloading them.
>>12588216>>12588670-- oh and yes i do realise that if they actually did this then i would expect games to be smaller in size than competing console games for this reason (and probably also to keep internal storage requirements down).still, i think the biggest game i ever downloaded over dial-up was Halo for PC, which was a single CD and even that took me 4 nights to download
>>12588216>it would just take longer to download things.You are heavily underestimating the "little longer".Don't forget, this thing was announced in 2004. In 2004 about half of households in the Us had any internet at ALL, and only about 35% or so had bradband. This was well into the 6th gen where all the consoles at the time use DVD-based media, and PC games came on if not a DVD then a set of about 5-7 CDs... which all needed to be installed anyway, this wasn't the 5th gen where you was swapping disks like in Final Fantasy 7.So only about 35% of people in the US (and likely smaller in other English-speaking regions like the UK) had broadband. 2004's broadband so each game would still take several hours to download. The rest of the internet users had dialup, meaning it would take several WEEKS to download... and they could not use the phone during that time unless they had a second line.... and 50% of people had no internet so they would be 100% unable to use this system at all.It's a lot more than "a little longer", for half the people it was "never at all", and others it was "several weeks with no phone", back when everyone still had a landline and a cellphone if they had one was no replacement for one yet.This is not even bringing up that back then the idea of digital-only games and not owning them physically was seen as a joke and a repulsive concept. Honestly, the fact that you didn't get any of this makes me wonder if you was even alive at the time.
Hopefully
>>12585731What could have been...
>>12585731Quake 3
>>12589964Mios dios
