Boy oh boy.

I was going to come up with a doozie of a crappy game as the best of the worst but I got sidetracked. Truth is there were way too many bad games to pick a clear winner. What I did discover though was how many truly odd/unfortunate names for game systems there are out there. I give you my list, in no real order. They are-

APF "TV FUN" from the mid 70's. An odd little Pong type game console sold mainly in the UK. APF made a really cool home computerish gaming system called the Imagination Machine then too. That was a way better name.

Also out about the same time was Nintendo's Colour TV Game, Colour TV Game 6 and 15 and Colour TV Game Block Kizushi (what?)You think the marketing department might want to jump in right about now?

That's OK, because we have the era of the "Boy". Here goes. TV Boy, TV Boy 2, Super TV Boy,Cougar Boy (aka Mega Duck), Virtual Boy (not sure there), Wide Boy 64 (honest) and of course the actual Game Boy.

This fixation on naming handheld video game rigs boy is curious. Wide Boy 64 was actually an adaptor for their Game Boy to attach it to a TV, never sold to consumers.