1977 – 1992retired
Atari 2600
“Fifteen years, one joystick, and a cartridge slot that never said die.”
“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
The Amiga CD32 was Commodore's home video game console, released in September 1993 across Europe, Australia, Canada, and Brazil and marketed as the first 32-bit games console. Under the hood it was essentially a keyboard-less Amiga 1200 with a CD-ROM drive in place of a floppy and a modified Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset for better graphics. Unlike the CDTV before it, it was designed specifically as a games
Its end came swiftly: sales in European markets were merely average, many games were ports of older Amiga titles that never used the CD's capabilities, and when Commodore filed for bankruptcy in April 1994, the CD32 was pulled from sale after only a short run. It remains the final piece of hardware Commodore ever developed — a last, spirited swing from a company that had more love than luck.
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“Fifteen years, one joystick, and a cartridge slot that never said die.”
“A CD player that dreamed of being a computer, a decade too polite to say so.”
“First of its kind, gone by New Year's Eve — Marty left the party early.”