The first release was Miracle Space Race, I can't for the life of me remember the other game's names. Merlin Racing was actually broken up by types of racing vehicles and sold as four different games, if I recall. That was an interesting time to be a video game nerd and collector, that's for sure.Įdit: If you're wondering how some of the games play, Iron Soldier 3 and Merlin Racing were later ported to the Playstation 1. It was kind of a last gasp of Atari, seeing that most of the people involved were ex-Atari engineers and programmers. It was a DVD player that could also play games, right before the Playstation 2 would get released and take over that market. The Nuon is a niche console in every sense of the word. Apparently the more recent versions of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes has the properly corrected Nuon features, although I don't think I'll ever buy another one to find out. You can sometimes come across new copies of Bedazzled, and they're still mastering it with Nuon features even though that hasn't been a thing in a decade and a half. One nice thing I found was that you could fast forward at 128x on the Toshiba model and 256x on the Samsung model, and had better slow-motion options than ordinary DVD players. The added stuff wasn't exactly groundbreaking, so you aren't missing a whole lot. And one of those, the horrible Planet of the Apes remake by Tim Burton, was mastered wrong and it was incredibly hard to access any of the Nuon features. There were only four movies released with Nuon-specific content. It also didn't help that Logitech's controller had analog issues meaning the stick couldn't travel as far as the other analog controllers that were made for Nuon (which were not easy to find back in the day). is a promising concept but never played well enough for me to really get into. The same with The Next Tetris game (exclusive to the Toshiba console as a mail-in title) and Space Invaders X.L. Ballistic is pretty good but can be played on just about anything nowadays since it's a common type of game. I have always wondered if there was a lowering of quality going from dedicated console hardware to DVD MPEG decoder.Īs far as the games go, Tempest 3000, Iron Soldier 3 and Merlin Racing are my favorites. It was originally going to be a game console before the tech was repurposed into a DVD decoder chip that could also play games. The game's graphics are better than the N64 but not as good as a Dreamcast. I have two different models, one Samsung and one Toshiba model.
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