{"id":581,"date":"2009-08-11T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2009-08-11T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:15:45","slug":"15-classic-game-console-design-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/581\/15-classic-game-console-design-mistakes","title":{"rendered":"15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/08\/10\/fifteen-classic-game-console-design-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/freelance\/gc_mistakes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Game Console Mistakes on Technologizer\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Up now on Technologizer is my latest <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-related freelance work: <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/08\/10\/fifteen-classic-game-console-design-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes<\/a>, a non-exhaustive analysis of various hardware and design goofs in video game consoles. In it, I discuss the Intellivision, Sega Saturn, NES, Atari Jaguar, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This latest article is a follow-up of an earlier Technologizer piece I wrote back in June: <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/06\/14\/fifteen-classic-pc-design-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">15 Classic PC Design Mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this latest piece is proving to be far more controversial.  I suspect it&#8217;s because people have had more up-close experiences with video game systems than with semi-obscure computers, and because game consoles inspire quite a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/169842\/are_you_a_fanboy_19_signs_to_look_for.html\" target=\"_blank\">unflinching loyalty<\/a> in the general populace.<\/p>\n<p>I came up with many more flaws than I listed, but I couldn&#8217;t keep writing forever.  So feel free to share your ideas for game console design flaws either here or over at Technologizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up now on Technologizer is my latest VC&#038;G-related freelance work: 15 Classic Game Console Design Mistakes, a non-exhaustive analysis of various hardware and design goofs in video game consoles. In it, I discuss the Intellivision, Sega Saturn, NES, Atari Jaguar, and more. This latest article is a follow-up of an earlier Technologizer piece I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}