Someone should invent a system that is like a square and on top there is a place for cartridges and in the front is a disk tray and you can play any cartridge game from any systeem on it and any disk game from any system on it. It would ne the ultimate console

Yeah that would be cool, but sadly it would never happen.

someone should make a system that looks like a purple lunchbox.

Not to mention in realistic terms, impossible.

weren't they going to do something like this that would play PC games of any make?

Hacked Apextreme loaded with emulators FTW Baby!

The Apextreme was going to be the world's first true console computer hybrid. Sadly every prototype of the system wound up being more expensive than originally hoped. The system wound up being $500 and even that model was under powered, and wasn't able to run enough games to justify it's price tag. The $700 3DO problem haunted the Apextreme's every step until it was finally shelved with a release being very unlikely.

The Apextreme was a late idea. Even though the concept of a standardized console-computer was still a strong concept. Normal computers were coming out of their crash happy/plug and pray/incompatible hardware days. There were a whole mess of reasons why the Apextreme didn't turn out, and not enough reasons that would make it cool. Maybe one day though it will be released when it's not too expensive to release.

Yup ya gotta think.


NES: Would sue em.


Xbox: would sue em.

Playstation: Um dont know if they could.lol But there game developers would!!

Sega: Defintly would.

Atari: I aint sure... They might!

So yea, if they could some how get legal permistion from every game developer, and every console maker, as well as get the patent rights for the cartridge reciever technology, and the rights to use the D pad, among other various copy rights, they MIGHT be able to do it, but in the end it would still end up costing more then the system would be worth.lol

On the EMU idea thou: I dont see why do that, I got my computer hooked up to my tv so to me when I play a EMU on full screen it looks exactly the same (Some times even BETTER!) as if I were using a console.lol


Oh lets not forget it would either have to have some way of converting memory card saves onto a HD, or it would have to have seperate ports for all the various type of memory cards.lol


What system was it that used a punch out card system for saved worlds??

Came with like ten cards that had holes in it and you had to slide one in if you wanted to start from a certain world..It wasnt really a save since you could start from any world without even playing a previous one..but yea.. I cant recall it..*mumbles and thumps head on desk.* It was really ancient I only know of it from talking to a old old friend of mine who used to work in a computer bank room.lol Yea back in the days where a computer literatly took up a twenty foot by twenty foot room with a eight foot high cieling, every wall was the computer, and in the center was more... Lil lights would blink, and if you wanted to make calculations you had a huge box that held twenty or more metal cards that had holes punched in them simply to tell the computer. "Yea I want you to start calculating first, now then here is this card that tells you that I want you to calculate two numbers, this card says what the first number is, this one the second number, this one says ok start, and this one here is just cause I feel like it>" LOL

Mann u kno they would

its called a computer. emulation station