Sidebar - Gizmondo – Worst System Ever? (2005)

What qualifies a system as being the "worst ever"? The SuperGrafx, with its measly seven game library, goes for hundreds of dollars on ebay now. It's a prized collectors item in spite of its commercial failure (or maybe because of). Will the Gizmondo ever be a system people drop wads of cash on? Doubtful.

I think I actually despise the Gizmondo. It represents everything you can do wrong with a game system:
-Focused on hardware capabilities over game quality
-Created by people with no game industry experience who figured they could buy a place at the table
-Poorly conceived features that are unrelated to gaming, i.e. SMS capabilities but no keypad, if you think a numeric pad is annoying for SMS just wait until you have a control pad and six buttons to work with
-Launch library that didn't appeal to any gaming demographic
-Optional ad-sponsored hardware available

It really just comes down to one thing though - I can't think of a system I want to own less than the Gizmondo. Think of every game system you don't own and rank them in the order you'd like to acquire them. What goes beneath the Gizmondo? Based on that alone I will happily label it the worst system ever and defend that position if the one Gizmondo fan on earth ever reads this.

Oh, so what's the last game for the Gizmono? Trick question, it had eight games in the stores for its US launch and none after that. The world never got to learn if "Momma Can I Mow The Lawn" was really as crappy as the name sounded.