10 consoles you've never heard of

We have now got used to a videogame market dominated by a few big brands as regards the production of gaming hardware, except for any special initiatives that have regained a certain vitality also thanks to crowdfunding, but it has not always been this way. In the past, when video games were still largely unfathomable terrain, it was easy to witness the birth of projects and machines destined to emerge, arouse a certain curiosity for even abstruse gaming solutions and often fail miserably in the space of a few months, leaving behind a faint trace made up of a few thousand "toys" left to age on some dusty shelf.

They were real pioneers conquering an unexplored frontier, launched into a potential gold hunt that led more often to oblivion than to success, in a panorama that was however much more restricted than today's, from the point of view of the target audience: in this article we want to pay homage to some of these unknown soldiers of the console war ante litteram, recovering from the past 10 of the strangest and most unknown consoles that have tried (often with little conviction) to establish themselves on the market. They range from cutting-edge technological solutions, for the time when the devices in question were launched, to ideas halfway between video game and toy, which in some cases touch the status of a real scam, but always maintaining a discreet charm. vintage.