This Console Would have Changed Gaming Forever | Nostalgia Nerd

I remember seeing this in the gaming mags at the time and thinking "interesting", but that was about it.

I'm pretty sure I had exactly this steering wheel as an accessory to the PC in the early 1990s. It was absolutely horrendous. I bought it cheaply at a local games expo and immediately regretted it upon trying it out. Maybe it was some cheap knock-off, but it looked exactly the same. But it obviously wasn't a stand-alone console.

i hated them konix joysticks, but i will be honest i hate most joysticks.. always prefer keys and mouse.. have a logitech force feedback joystick think i used like 10 times.. have a gaming wheel i used 4 times since i got it.. and flight sticks that i have used a lot but so much hassle to setup.. this would been so handy though think i would prefer a metal version.

My take away from this is plastic gaming tat.

E X P E R I E N C E THE R E A L I T Y

I have heard of it, but was under the impression that it never made it to market.

So much for that theory…

I remember hearing that most of the software for that system was ported to the Atari Jaguar such as Cybermorph.

So…..mo money + poor communications = nad time

1. As a child i or my brother would have broken that controller on the first day it just looks incredibly fragile.

2. Who the hell had the room and table setup for that contraption by the family tv, its ridiculously impractical for how most kids or families used a console.

30:22 I'm DYING! 🤣

Weren't these the same guys behind the "Handy" or Lynx? I believe they built the Atari Jaguar as well.

So close yet so far. It was all over the mags back in the day. Always wondered what happened. Great vid, many thanks.

"State of the art Graphic Performance"
Mate, this looks like fugging Pole Position

Before I watched films about Tetris and Pinball (really trivial things) I wouldn't even entertain the idea that it was partly political sabotage. But now I am of the state of mind that in most cases back door deals and politics have their hands. Shame.
The problem was it was a new company with no record and they wanted everything at the same time. That's crazy expensive. I love the controller, it was way aahead of its time and even today would make sense. From today's perspective they should've made the controller and (made or order) 5-10 bespoke games (car, jetski,motorbike, bike,plane, spacecraft,speedboat…) that could play on an off the shelf 8bit system. then if you sell a couple of thousands you get money and reputation and show game developers that it makes sense to develop games. then you develop bespoke system and can just upscale those existing games. It is one thing to develop games for a new system but for a new system and a unique controller that's harder and tougher sell. that's why today there isn't any diversity on the controller market like in the 90is. not because what we have is the best design.

Sorry. This was/is/will be always , shit .
That demo of the car , it's just going in a straight line and there are no curves .
Pole position had curves and it'll show the side of the car while turning .
The plane game, it's the background that was going fast while the plane itself, had no detail. Same with the bike game , going straight .
The announcer was the one who was scared shitless, describing everything with lies and no wonder the investors said no.
And yes, I played alien on the jaguar until alien trilogy came out for PSX. Also, tempest 2000 until tempest X3 came out as well. And what did a British mag wrote in one of their articles about X3?
" Now we can set our jaguars on fire! "
Future games publishing.

I was a game programmer back then and even had one of those Konoix SPeed King joysticks.
I would of never seriously even considered writing games for any console.
TIt would of been like going backwards… why.. I got a computer right here, I'm writing for computers…
Consoles were like neutered computers missing a keyboard, and therefore of zero appeal to hacker like me.

No it wouldn't.

It only offered better colour abilities and sprite handling than the ST and Amiga, a more flexible approach to coding than the SNES and Mega Drive.

Fred Gill of ATD said about the systems 3D abilities..

"I reckon you'd have gotten about 5fps with Starwing / Fox"

Running on it.

I had a Racing Wheel for PC back in the early 2000s, with the brand MANHATTAN, that is exactly the same shape as that thing.

Great video. I was saving up for this but it never came to life.

No matter how good your product.
If you dont have the money to protect it, produce it and support it. Your doomed.

Takes money to make money in most cases. Lots of money

Tht is pretty legit

1:22 wow thanks mate, I live in a place exactly like that 😂 I can't deny, it is indeed bleak.