14. The Red LEDs Were Cheaper
May 23, 2014•1 hr 18 min
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Episode description
Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland joins us to discuss the great failures in game consoles. We talk about our favourite doomed consoles, the story of Sega’s downfall, and Nintendo’s journey through the desert with the Wii U.
- The Apple Pippin
- TurboGrafx-16
- Console prices adjusted for inflation
- The heinously bad Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties
- Steven Frank’s Dragon’s Lair story
- Virtual Boy
- The Sega Saturn
- The Sega Dreamcast
- Nintendo lowering the bar for the Wii U and missing anyway
- Paying to Win Soul Calibur
- Shadow of Mordor preview
- The Atari Landfill
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