My family's first console was a 7800 that our grandmother bought us for a chirstmas gift when I was very young. Looking back it had to be fairly late in it's life because it came with 6+ pack in games and I can just imagine how happy the salesman was that he talked some old lady into buying it.

Gotta hand it to you bro. You keep coming up with good retro topics for your channel. Keep it up man!

The PS Vita was another system that showed so much promise, but Sony neglected it right from the beginning (and the less said about the memory cards the better). Thankfully the fan community has kept it alive and transformed it into a really awesome handheld ^_^

As a kid in the 90’s, I spent a summer in Portugal, and the Saturn was HEAVILY advertised there. Made it look amazing. Since all my friends had a PS1 or N64, I figured I’d get the Saturn so we could experience it. After a few months the friggin laser broke and I ended up playing other consoles at my friends house😅

One thing I like about the Wii U was the fact that it was the console to have the indie game "Freedom Planet" released for it, especially since, at the time, I didn't even know about the game being released on Steam the year before (mainly because I don't play games on PC). Thankfully, it was eventually released on other consoles including the Switch and PS4, and I'm still looking forward to when or if "Freedom Planet 2" will finally come out as well.

Please do not ever change that intro to your videos. Thank you for the amazing content and God bless!

I didn't own any of these so personally the biggest let down for me was Sega Saturn. I remember feeling pretty low when Playstation took off and Saturn just kinda fizzled and died. Only 1/2 the video shops even rented Saturn Titles and those that did didn't seem to get many games.

To be honest, maybe the biggest letdown in console history (for me) would be the rise of PlayStation against Sega and Nintendo, after the great 16 bit era I couldn't wait to live another great battle between them, and while the PSX didn't have "failure" written all over it before its launch (like 3DO, Jaguar and CD-i did) it didn't look like a serious contender against two well stablished brands. Everything changed when both 32 bit systems launched, Sega's failure to deliver more polished versions of Virtua Fighter and Daytona led people towards Sony's machine, and Nintendo delaying the N64 did the same... My letdown was seeing how this new machine got ahead just because Sega's and Nintendo's failures.

When all of my friends had an NES, I got an Atari 7800 for Christmas of 1988. Only 3 games I ever owned for it was Pole Position II, Ms Pac-Man and Mario Bros. All fun games, but when my friends had Zelda, Megaman, Castlevania, etc, Ms Pac-Man was not cutting it

The Wii-U mainly suffered from poor marketing - the similar name and the way it was advertised had many people think it was just an upgrade to the Wii instead of a brand-new console, and as such they didn't bother with it. Thankfully, most of the best Wii-U exclusives got a second chance at life on the Switch.

My number 1 has to be the early death of the dreamcast. It seemed to come out of nowhere. I was gutted at the time.

The Saturn was my biggest letdown. Mostly because it had no Sonic game to compete with Mario 64 and it seemed like Sega had lost their way. Little did I know they just kept most of the good stuff in Japan

I was one of those young folks whose parents got them the Atari 7800. But then I asked for one specifically because while I had played the NES quite a bit, the 7800 appeared to have some arcade ports coming to it that I hadn't seen on any other system and looked great as well. I never really regretted getting my 7800 back then, but once we got our first computer, it was all over for console gaming in my life for quite a number of years to follow. That said, as a retro gaming enthusiast and collector, the Atari 7800 is now my favorite of the Atari released consoles and systems from back in the day. The current home brew games being released for it really show the power of what could have been had Atari invested more into it.

I grew up in LA where the 7800 was test marketed and a friend had one. If Jack Trammell had not been an idiot and paid the people that designed it and released it in 1984 instead of trying to force Warner to pay them it could have gotten a foothold a full year before the NES was Test Marketed in NY and LA in 1985

Being a saturn pal owner was very tough. Easily number 1 for me.

The Dreamcast for me. The Console was great, but it was dropped so quickly. I got mine in 2000 and it was dropped by 2001.

for me the biggest console letdown was Also my fav console of all time Sega Saturn. i wanted it to crush Playstation as a kid. Heartbreak but still my most cherished gaming memories

The Wii U had the opposite problem from the Wii. Wii got so many terrible shovel ware games. Wii U was actually a pretty good system, and the number of classic Nintendo games released on it’s estore was great.

Personally, I was never disappointed by a console I own. I still love all and use most of them. The Wii U even is one of my most played systems, especially with its backwards compatability and the stellar virtual console. The only disappointments I had were when I found out that a console wasn't backwards compatible and that the games were region locked.

1) PS2 had very blurry graphics that ruined it for me. Plus, it had all the best games like Street Fighter III 3rd Strike and presented them so badly. My beloved Genki switched all their Shutokou Battle games to PS2 and the graphics quality was abysmal compared to Dreamcast VGA. They were unplayable. 2) Saturn. I got my import machine on launch day and was excited to get the CPS1 and CPS2 ports. But, it took so long I lost interest and swapped the machine for a Neo CD. About a year went by before any CPS2 port. It was baffling. 3) Megadrive. The system didn't get the best 3rd party games or many top games in the arcades.

Game Sack just did a Nintendo 64DD ep last week. Very interesting. Love both your channels!

Waking up to a new SLX video is like waking up to your favorite cartoon on TV as a kid. Keep doing what you're doing, and long live SLX!!!! *SEGAA!!*

For me, the biggest letdown would be the Nokia N-Gage. It Seems like an awesome premise: combining a handheld device with a Cell phone. It was an idea way ahead of it's time

For me it was the Nintendo 64. I was really looking forward to those silicon graphics and arcade perfect Killer Instinct, but looking back it was a crap console, I should’ve jumped to PlayStation with it’s massive library of games. I only really liked Perfect Dark & Ocarina of Time, but as a kid at the time, I had no money, so couldn’t afford two consoles.

I never had any real letdown... the only childhood consoles I had were the SNES and PlayStation, and financial restrictions did not allow me to really get into anything more than PlayStation consoles for the longest time. Still, I recall being absolutely excited for the 32X based on EGM and GamePro coverage. Atari was barely a blip here in Malaysia... the video game market was mostly dominated by Micro Genius (high quality NES clones made in Taiwan), and later with PlayStation, which remains the only family of consoles to be officially released here.

To cut some slack to Philips, CD-I was not designed nor marketed as a video game console. It's intended application was interactive player & multimedia presentation device. Being used for an actual video games was an afterthought and it's specs are showing.

There were rumors about the sega 32x that it might damage the system. We really wanted to buy put those rumors were persistant. Then we waited sega saturn tol launch but our neighbour bought PS1 and that was so amazing console we had to get one too

I think my biggest disappointment was the Turbo Grafx / Turbo Express. I was mind blown by the Express, it had a beautiful screen and played your home console games on the go. Not that I could afford it. What made it really bad was seeing all the support the PC Engine had in Japan and virtually no support in the US. It was heartbreaking.

“If you’d like to see me cover some of these consoles let me know down in the comments” Bro I want so much content from this era it should resemble that Surge hose in the old commercials

I'd say the North American launch of the TG-16 was the biggest letdown. All the magazines were showing us all the great PC Engine games that would/could be coming here but it quickly became hard to find soon after it's launch. I remember trading my TG-16 for the 32X which I would've had at #2 on my list. Then the massive disappointment of the Sega CD would be 3rd. The fact that they were REALLY pushing FMV games and ports of existing games with minor audio tweaks was such a waste of the platform. I would put the PS Vita on here as #4 as that system had so much potential but didn't have many of the games and franchises that people expected to be on it. They should have released ports of later PS2 games. Should've gotten a version of Street Fighter 4 or a SF Collection instead of SF x Tekken. Just feels like Sony made this great system and didn't really know what to do with it after launch. Just look at what the homebrew scene has done with it lately.

NEC PC FX looks like a really interesting case of attempting to pursue peak 2D gaming instead of the market’s shift to 3D. Wonder how much farther it could have gotten with a bit more support and interest

My biggest console letdown was during my teens, when I got into old game collecting. I finally got my hands on a Sega Master System after years of looking for one, and I was having a blast playing Choplifter and Zillion on it...and then the thing completely crapped out on me after a week. I got a refund for it, but you'd better believe I was bummed out about that.

0:55 Hey don't knock the Casio Loopy, that's Adam Koralik's second favorite console!

I'm actually going to Japan Friday and will be ecstatic as heck to find a PC-FX. It's just so interesting to me.

I remember playing alien vs predator in 1993, in a jaguar kiosk. That was so awesome.

For each blue screen announcing each entry, I kept hearing the Price Is Right losing horn

I also remember all the M2 hype back in 1995. According to the reports from E3 95, the machine would be capable of moving 1 million polygons per second. That would have been like having a Dreamcast-like machine in the PS1/N64 era, absolutely crazy. Personally, my biggest gaming letdown has been and will always be the lack of a Vagrant Story sequel, let alone a remake.

Great list of consoles SLX! I also had several of these or wanted them and they were disappointments for sure. I like the idea of individual videos covering these consoles and their titles.

It makes me sad that the Sega CD always gets crapped on. I fell completely in love with the Working Designs games (the Lunar games, Vay, Dark Wizard, etc). If I ever break out any old system, it's the Genesis (Shining Force series are my favorite on the Gen) and the Sega CD for the Working Designs titles. Love them!!! Love your channel brother, thank you! Keep bringing back the great memories 👍👍👍

14:36 Wait! Darkstalkers could have been a 32X port at one point?!!! Now this is what I call a broken heart 💔

The M2 looked awesome. Closest Sega product was D2 for the Dreamcast which would have been the launch title.

Definitely up for some PC FX or SuperGrafx coverage. CDI & Jaguar, not so much... And I share your sentiments on the Wii U exactly. I had a fantastic time with it because the competition had abandoned local multiplayer, while off tv play let me game without monopolizing the living room. But it's hard not to be disappointed by how brief its lifespan was, and how many titles went to the 3DS instead. Not even getting a Fire Emblem game was pretty rough, for example.

The Sega Dreamcast in my opinion is the biggest letdown for me. I bought the console on 9/9/99 and am still super pissed Sega pulled the plug on that console so early. They had a great library and could have had an even better one if they stuck with it.

Biggest letdown for me was the PS2. They really bluffed about how powerful it was before release. Sega might’ve still had a hat in the ring if people didn’t believe the hype. Once the OG Xbox came out, I never owned a PlayStation again (okay, I had the PSP, but it sucked at the time). This is my personal opinion.

Ay nice, I haven't heard your opinion on a lot of these consoles. I really liked hearing your take on the jaguar, I've wondered for a while how it compared to the 3do in your view

Would like to see you cover some more Wii U stuff sometime x

Great to see you mention the Jaguar here, and quite high on this list as well. A good point you make: the Jaguar started like a good contender to the race, but there were just too few games worth having. The controllers, however, I like. The worst decision about them was not to include six face buttons. The later PeoPad corrected that, but that was too late - and then there were still no real system seller games. Too bad really, as I think Atari could have made something very enjoyable out of this as well.

Failures like the Apple Pippin and CD-i are legendary, but I legitimately did not know NEC ever made a follow-up to the PC-Engine. I've never heard anyone ever talk about it. Same with that other Phillips system.

Great video. Your perspective on these videos is what makes them stand apart from others in thr like. Good job!!

I think my biggest letdown was more of a time based thing than a library quality issue. The Dreamcast was cancelled so fast. The PS5 and Xbox Series consoles have been on sale longer than the Dreamcast was in the US. I bought a lot of games for the DC, but when I realized that 3rd party support was already dying in mid 2000, I was genuinely worried about its future.

*For me the biggest let-down* .... *by far , had been the SEGA Saturn ,and that's because as a SEGA MegaDrive fan/owner i had huuuuuge hopes for SEGA's upcoming console* . But seeing the 32X 's games destroyed my dreams about SEGA's upcoming 32-bit era. I was seeing 32X's games being totally unimpressive ,perhaps ... very slightly better than what i was already playing with my MegaDrive (*so why to move to the 32bit Saturn ?) . That was strike No1. Then i start noticing Saturn's advertising: they were focused heavily at many 2D beatem'up games(i was perfectly fine with my MegaDrive's Mortal Combat and StreetFighter) and many 2D space-shooters ...which .. again ,i've been playing a ton of them with my MegaDrive and i had no intention to buy a new console in order to play ...similar kind of games . But for me , the "death-nail" for Saturn was the cancellation of Diablo(although it had been announced) ,while Playstation released Diablo. I wanted to play that game so much that i instantly decided that i must abandon my hopes for Saturn and buy the Playstation. It was a decision that i never regretted ,moreover when i later heard the news about Saturn being discontinued.... so sad , so many hopes and such a huge let-down.

wow, talk about a "flood of memories" in this one. i haven't thought about the M2 in years! i remember seeing some article about how games would have real-time day/night cycles, NPC's would have schedules they followed, etc. none of that was impressive by the time Morrowind came around but that wasn't until years later. it would've been absolute madness to see that so early on. thanks for another great video!

Awesome Video. Why was there never a Sega Saturn Collection?

I reamber seeing the 3DO and the Apple Bandai Pippin in a magazine ad Closest thing to a Console letdown is having a use NES with tech issues

Love to see how many of these are now rare and the possibility of going up in price in the second hand market

I'm glad you didn't mention 3DO I've been recently getting into it and find it pretty underrated and has its share of great software.

I love your contents so much! Keep up the good work "SEGA Lord X"!

Awesome idea for a video. Have to say a lot of stuff I thought had potential was when I was really young so I had no clue what actually made something successful. Tons of great memories reading gaming magazines covering the tons of now obscure consoles I knew I could never afford.

My biggest letdown will always be the Saturn. Not because it's bad, quite the opposite, but because of its limited support by the company who made it. I mean its like SEGA TRIED to fail with the thing, and according to Occom's Razor, they literally did, seeing as they were the one's who manually pulled the plug (prematurely I might add).

For me the 32x and the Sega Saturn. Sega made me lose interest in video games for a while during that time. Until Sony's playstation bought me back.

Thank goodness that I did not get the virtual boy for Christmas when I was a kid.

I remember that M2 shit show... Back when you fantasised on 3 screenshots in the magazine and low-fi VHS videos...

Absolutely cover some of these in future vids man! I would dig a dedicated episode on that red screen monstrosity Virtual boy.....my eyes strain at the memory alone lol(thanks to Blockbuster back in the day🤣)

32X was my second Sega system after the Genesis released. I remember renting Knuckles Chaotix and my parents making me return the 32X to ToysRus after it couldn't work without having to buy a additional wire from Sega for $19 which my parents refused. I had paid like $80 and had gotten it for my birthday around 1995.

Of all the consoles listed, the SuperGrafx represents the most wasted potential. There's actually no reason the extra hardware couldn't have been put in a CD add-on as the expansion port would have supported it

As someone who grew up with Nintendo, as you would say Sega Lord X, "you can't talk praise about something in the industry without acknowledging the pain or dissapointments that follow it". The Wii U, Virtual Boy, and the N64 DD are prime examples of what you had just discussed already. But here's a fun fact about the N64DD. The 64mgs Disks + the 64 mgs of internal N64DD memory + the cartridge slot that could've been used for other things like maybe some extra memory and RAM, we actually would've been able to play N64 games from as high as 128 megabytes to 160 megabytes if you could believe it. I argue that had the N64DD actually been bundled with the N64 right from the get go, it only would've cost no more than $249 at launch. Especially since the N64DD would've ran off the exact same power as the N64 console itself without it's own power supply or any other internal enhancements(something that plagued the Sega CD, 32X and Jaguar CD)!

Great video Sega Lord x yes most definitely we want to see your ideas for future videos

I thought the 64dd was vapor ware for the longest time. But the games it does have look interesting at least. The SimCity looks really fun

It's no coincidence that almost all of these are from the 90's, an era dominated by talk of bits and other such hardware specs. Trying to have the most powerful console on the market was never a winning strategy.

My biggest console letdown was the Sega Saturn. It was rough being the only kid in the neighborhood with one of those, I would get picked on a lot on the schoolyard. I wouldn't mind seeing you cover the Virtual Boy. I remember trying one out in a Kmart kiosk back in the day and being blown away.

Thanks for the great video! Brought back some memories

Man, I wish I had bought that Virtual Boy when I saw them on clearance at Hill's. They were $9.99 for the system, and $2 each for the games, and I remember counting 7 or 8 different games in the bin. I had already rented the system and discovered how bad it was, so I had no interest of buying it then. Unfortunate.

Without a doubt the Sega Saturn. It's no even close. This will be a rather long comment so feel free to punch out now if you're in a hurry. When the Sega Saturn was released I was working for the now defunct Babbage's. I was a junior in high school and had an SNES, a Genesis and saved up for a at the time blazing fast Pentium 60 with 8 MB of RAM, a 540 MB 5200 rpm hard drive and it even had a double speed CD drive! I was a "3rd key", meaning I could either open the store by myself or close it by myself. Babbage's had a policy that employees could take home a few games a week and return them after I think 4 days. The thought being they could sell games better if they'd actually played them. At the time I had a girlfriend I'd been dating for two years, played football and ran track, on top of my schoolwork and 20 hours at Babbage's every week didn't leave much time for gaming, so I cherished every hour I could get with any game or system. We weren't supposed to take home systems, but being 17, having the keys to the store and being rather stupid a few months after the Saturn released I grabbed one of the five systems we had and brought it home on a Thursday night. I was going to open the store on Saturday so I figured two nights and one full day was no big deal. I could sneak it back in without anyone noticing. The games I grabbed to play were Panzer Dragoon, Nights and Daytona USA, mostly because that was about all we had and those games had multiple copies. I'd planned to just stay up all night playing a cutting edge gaming system. I played the thing for about three hours and shut it off. You can only get so much enjoyment out of Daytona, so that lasted about 30 minutes. I didn't expect much from Nights and it didn't change my mind. I hated the look of the game and nothing about it grabbed me. I saved Panzer Dragoon for last, thinkng it would be the game I'd be up playing. I was expecting revolutionary gameplay and "holy shit" graphics. What I got was Star Fox with a better frame rate, not even half the charisma of that game and jagged polygons with ugly textures. To be fair I was really more of a 4x, RPG and would rather play Panzer General than Panzer Dragoon, so the games weren't really my genres in the first place, but I stand by my assesment of those games. Star Fox was cool because it reallt was cutting edge for a console but it's basically a rail shooter, so is Panzer Dragoon, and I hate rail shooters. I like to have as much control over the game as possible, which is probably why I'd take slower paced strategy games and RPGs without flashy graphics over something that looked great but was very limited in how you could interact with it. The day after I brought the console back I was met by my manager at the store entrance. I was supposed to open it alone so I knew something was wrong. He fired me on the spot for taking the Saturn home, which I thought was a but harsh. I never even considered keeping it. I just wanted to see what it could do. So not only did the console let me down it was also the catalyst for losing what was the best job a high school gamer could have. I'm pretty sure he took inventory every time he was there which is how he noticed the missing Saturn. He either checked the security footage or just deduced I was who took it since I was the only other employee with keys. Oh well. I got a job at Media Play (anyone remember those) right after Babbage's. Now that place I did take stuff home never to return it, but that's another long story. Needless to say stealing is bad and it's just a scummy thing to do. Don't do it and I regret ever doing it myself.

I wanna hear about any topic that you want to do a video on. Keep em coming!

The M2 will always be one of the biggest "what ifs" in gaming. It was supposed to blow it's competition out of the water. It apparently had tons of games being developed for it. But then it was delay after delay and they finally killed it. I've been going through old gaming mags for the last little while and one of the most interesting things has been the previews. More specifically, what never released. I remember one I read, it had 10+ games that never released. 8 of them on Sega consoles!

Great video!! I think I remember being disappointed in the Sega CD back in my youth, but I never bought it. Decades later I've grown to love it.

I was a senior in high school when the 3DO M2 was announced. I was committed from day to buying it. At the time Matsushita was a bigger company than Sony, so knowing the financial backing that they would have had was very exciting at the time. It's a shame it never came to be.

Another great vid! I would like to see a flip-script version... biggest console surprises? for me it was the Nintendo Dsi... I was using it for everything...it was camera my internet my notebook my game machine wow at the time no one had this crap it was so fun...then the games were shockingly good loved that thing

i remember when Sega had a so called console civil war with 32X Neptune and The Saturn which lead to Sega's decline.

Solid list. WiiU was definitely a "Omg I want my money back" console for me, but so was the original Wii at the end of the day. First-party titles on both were great, but that came down to only seven or eight great releases for either system. At least the Wii had enthusiastic (if not sorely misguided) third-party support, but the only reason I still own one is for the Gamecube backwards compatibility.

This was a good video. I'd like to see Wii U videos. I completely skipped it and went from PS3 to PS4 to Nintendo Switch

I wanted a m2 so bad back in the day.

Hats off to you, you’re one of the best kind of “legacy/retrospective” gaming channels that I’ve seen that hasn’t fallen into the cesspool of overindulgence in negative bullshit.

64DD was a big letdown, but even bigger letdown by Nintendo was the Gamecube ETHERNET attachment (which only had online for 2 SEGA GAMES!) and limited LAN support and the headset for the Nintendo DS (which touted voice chat for its online games) Both were huge kicks to the balls.....

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Sega CD for me, as a Sega Kid I was expecting much more than just Mega Drive Games with a good soundtrack, even there are great games still my biggest let down in gaming

My friend had a Jaguar with the CD attachment back in 1998 and we used to joke that it looks like a toilet and functions like the stuff you leave in the toilet lol

Square leaving Nintendo as the N64 was about to come out was a major disappointment for me as I was a big fan of FF3 (FF6) and Crono Trigger. I remember seeing magazine articles showing FF7 on the N64.

Man, I totally forgot about the M2 being a thing. I think I read a couple articles about it in EGM or something back then.

Have you been working on a top 50 Saturn games (50 - 26) video? Would love to see it

Much like how ''The Simpsons'' used to boast back in 1998 that it had many more stories for episodes for years to come and it did, this channel is following in the same way. I'm amazed SLX how you can create all these new gaming topics for episodes and they're all 100% entertaining as the last. You always have my undivided attention. I'm not a fan of American accents but I really love the sound of your voice. Well done man!

Man, I remember all these systems, especially from gaming magazines. I still enjoy reading about them every now and then. M2 and Virtual Boy would be my 2 biggest disappointments from back then. I would have loved to rent the Virtual Boy at Blockbusters to at least see what the games looked like.

Nintendo's release of the 64DD was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. A disc based add-on that drastically increased storage capabilities...and they released NOTHING for it? What the heck???

Great video, I was surprised to see the M2 on there, almost nobody else talks about it, and there isn't a great deal of information about it out there. I'd love to see you do a video on the M2, and its cancelled games. I really wanted to see D2 on the M2

The Dreamcast is the one that let me down the most. It started off so promising with some awesome games, many of which I still play today. But its death was painful to watch, especially when it had so much potential. As a Brit my other let-down is the CD32. I remember reading in some Amiga mags that because the CD32 would have much more storage and also had a new special chip inside it so porting PC games to it would be very easy. I naively hoped for games like Doom and Day of the Tentacle. But apart from a few games like Simon The Sorcerer and Beneath a Steel Sky, what we got instead was a flurry of crappy floppy disk ports with maybe n added soundtrack if we were lucky. And for this privilege we got to pay 3 or 4 times as much. And the controller sucked ass as well lol.

The Wii U is criminally underrated. Switch is still porting over Wii U titles to this day. Also the modding capabilities of the Wii U are great too.

The scary thing is, when I was pretty young I saw a CD-I demo thing in ... I think it was a Sears? And I wanted it sooooooo bad. I think I even asked my parents if I could get one. Luckily, in their wisdom, my parents helped me dodge that bullet. I ended up with an Amiga 500. Thanks Lordster! SEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAA!

I loved the 3do megacd and cd32. Had them all

I don't want to, but I have to put the Saturn on mine. Outside of great fighting game ports it was soooooo under utilized from a hardware and IP perspective. Hit even harder after the CD and the 32X.

I've had the pleasure of owning several home consoles and I can honestly say I've never been disappointed with any of them. I even break out the wii u on occasion sometimes.