Philips CD-I hah worst!? Check out these retarded consoles.

Yeah, this is what I was saying before with "consoles that no one has even heard of because no one bought them", I just couldn't think of any examples at the time because they're so NOT MEMORABLE.

Although now that it's not held up to the standards of what should have been CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY and wasn't, I must say the Vectrex looks really neat.  I just really like old-timey vector graphics though, so that doesn't make it a good system by any means, just NICE FOR ME TO LOOK AT.

All I remember about the cdi was that I saw it on display at sears next to minidisc players

Emulation my friend, however my uncle has a phillips CD-I with the two zelda games and those are the two game I played on the system when I went over to visit recently. I emulated hotel mario before I played that though and I still think it plays alot better than the two zelda games I played(possibly because I am using a keybord but others said it controls a bit better than zelda)

your uncle sounds fuckin rad man

Velfarre, the vextrex is really neat. For all it's graphical limitations it was the first console with 3D support. Everything had that really primitive look, but it was really cool.
http://www.retrobase.net/pages/show.php?platform=gce_mb_vectrex&title=3D+Crazy+Coaster
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/narrowescape3d.gif
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/spike.gif
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/hyperchase.gif
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/fortressofnarzod.gif
And has the prettiest football game ever released
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/headsupsoccer.gif

Plus it seems to have a cool homebrew scene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex#Homebrew

speaking about the copy protection thing it's cool to know that if I ever did find a Sega CD game somewhere and it was worth playing, I could get it and play it without needing the system. Well if I cared that much I could just find ROMs too but I dunno

could the Sega CD even play music CDs btw?

Edit: man I forgot it was an add-on to the Genesis

yeah it could play music CDs. I think even videocds or some shit, y'know the ones before DVD that sold virtualy nil.

Velfarre, the vextrex is really neat. For all it's graphical limitations it was the first console with 3D support. Everything had that really primitive look, but it was really cool.
http://www.retrobase.net/pages/show.php?platform=gce_mb_vectrex&title=3D+Crazy+Coaster
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/narrowescape3d.gif
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/spike.gif
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/hyperchase.gif
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/fortressofnarzod.gif
And has the prettiest football game ever released
http://www.vectrexnews.com/games/screens/headsupsoccer.gif

Plus it seems to have a cool homebrew scene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex#Homebrew

That sounds cool as hell.  I feel like the store I was talking about earlier has one of these too, up on a high shelf behind the counter.  Part of me wants to work there just so I can play with these things (they do a lot of internet sales otherwise they would hardly be in business because there aren't a lot of people going in there).

Also, I don't know what all the Sega CD can do, but the 3DO can be used for karaoke (displays the lyrics and shit from karaoke cds), which was probably the only reason it wasn't lost a long time ago, since my family used it for a karaoke machine for many years.  My dad is thinking about buying me a 3DO just so he can have a karaoke machine again, since my brother reclaimed ours (I guess it's technically his but when you spend $700 on a game system for your kid, even if it was more than 10 years ago, and the kid you bought it for doesn't use it AT ALL, I think you should be allowed to keep it in the house years later)