When it debuted (competing with consoles like the Playstation 1), it cost $599. The Pippin was one of their mid ’90s flops that pushed the company toward the brink of extinction. It’s hard to remember, but before everything Apple touched turned to gold, everything Apple touched turned into flaming piles of garbage. It may be the worst-selling video game console of all time. Sounds like a pretty sweet system… if only it hadn’t debuted in the U.S. The Pioneer LaserActive could play Laserdiscs, CDs, Sega Mega System and Genesis cartridges, TurboGrafx 16 cartridges, and karaoke discs. Laserdiscs were so unpopular they don’t even have much of a cult following today, and EVERYTHING has a cult following today. By “everyone,” I mean companies - obviously not consumers. This console was developed during that very, very brief period where everyone was betting on Laserdiscs. Here 11 of the video game industry’s most massive flops.

Let’s take a journey into the cave of frozen memories for a look at some video game consoles that really flopped.

Perhaps it’s a 7-Q offsuit pre-flop, but still a pre-flop. Once they actually release some games for it and it’s selling against the new Xbox and Playstation, then we’ll see if it’s a flop. I’d say it should get a grade of Incomplete. I was reading about the Wii U this week and saw someone describe it as a flop. From ColecoVision to Sega Nomad to Apple Pippin, here are 11 video game consoles that crashed and burned.

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