10 Obscure Consoles You've Probably Never Heard Of
8. Funtech Super ACan
As far as failures go this has to be one of the biggest, the story goes that manufacturer Funtech lost over six million US dollars before they pulled this console from the market only a year after its launch. The Super ACan was based around the popular Motorola 68000 chip seen in systems like the Atari ST, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive SNK Neo Geo. A good start you might think, the problem was that in 1995 when it arrived on the market, we had already moved into the next generation with the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, 3DO and Atari Jaguar. A 16-bit cartridge based console just wasnt going to cut it against this kind of competition, as people now wanted 3D and polygons, something the poor old Super ACan just super a'couldn't. A grand total of just 12 games were released for the system, with its most famous being a version of popular RPG Dragon Force and the Taiwanese Street Fighter 2 rip-off, Sango Fighter. This console is now extremely rare and highly sought after by hardcore collectors.
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