What piece of popular technology came and went the fast

[#1 pick]

Iomega floppy disk

 

[#1 pick]

I just learned so much about the other Sega just now.

Gamepass is just Sega Channel from Sega Genesis. I was always team Sega. I had the Genesis, Dreamcast, Game Gear, and Genesis. I wanted Sega CD. All of their systems were great but lacked gaming bad after Genesis.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

I ain’t gonna front if Sidekicks made a comeback I’d probably cop

 

[Turbulent]

I say blue ray.

 

[#1 pick]

The game gear is another black sheep of the sega lineup that shouldge been more successful. It had a great library, made gameboy look like a joke hardware wise. It even had a working TV tuner at one point. The Nomad wasnt so bad either.

I cant evrn imagine what the portable gaming market would be today is Sega if they beat Game Boy and had success to fall back on there. They wouldve been big.

Sega was better at everything but actually having good marketing and depth of games. shyt is tragic when you think about it.

 

[Metal Face]

3D televisions

Hands down
that shyt came and went with ease

Curved TVs too

 

[Metal Face]

Same of ya'll are naming shyt that had decent runs

iPods were around for a good 6 or 7 years

 

[feelosofer]

You can make an argument for Blu Ray.

 

[bnew]

CueCat was ahead of it's time.. they were giving this out for free at every radioshack back in 2001, i still have one somewhere. people use their smart phones to read QR codes now.

 

[#1 pick]

Ima go ahead and add the Windows mobile phone to the mix.

Microsoft really tried hard to compete with those phones, and truthfully I thought the Windows 8 style interface was pretty cool. But they got greedy with that trash "Microsoft store" that no 3rd party supported or was even courted to support. Mostly first party Microsoft "games" apps and software no one used. Didnt even have a Snapchat app or fukking Subway Surfers at the height of that popularity.

Microsoft has a strange history of throwing their hats in rings and picking and choosing when theyre gonna fully back something or just dip their toes in see how it does and cash out.

Microsoft abandanoned Zune, Windows phones, Windows PDAs and Kinect pretty quick, but they stuck with Xbox and the Surface no matter how much it cost.

I used to work for their store. They fired me for avoiding selling those wackarnold phones. I could sell the hell out of the Xbox and Surface.

 

[downtheline]

BetaMax. Their reign on the top was shorter than Leprechauns.

fukk Betamax. The selection of videos was terrible. Had a Beta growing up, no way in hell would my parents have bought a VHS. That is when I would go over to a friends house and enjoy the luxury of VHS.

 

[Formerly known as...]

Mini discs

 

[Sterling Archer]

Sega was better at everything but actually having good marketing and depth of games. shyt is tragic when you think about it.

Sega was the innovators of the industry. They just never learned that it doesnt pay in that particular industry to be the innovators. All you are doing is giving someone else with more money the blueprint on how to do what you did. Thats why Apple has been all about optimization vs innovation. They wont create the tech and processes that change the game, theyll just copy and make it a little bit more efficient and more polished.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Gameboy Micro

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

I still had a plasma up until last year and it was still showing great. Only thing it was crazy heavy and made my room hot but the colors were amazing

Heavy

We were hype when those came out. I worked there the last phase of tube tvs. We were carrying out 70” the tvs