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Shishio said:The game gear was dope... I don't know what Nintendo's fear of cds is/was. I bet if they had made the N64 a cdrom system they would never have lost so much ground to sony.
Nintendo did have a plan to release an add-on system to the N64, called the N64 Disk Drive. It never left the initial planning stages, however.
Nintendo doesn't really have a phobia of optical media (look at the Gamecube), but they did for a long time. I think they've finally realized that optical = good, even if it is on mini-DVDs.
As for optical on the mobile platform, it's not really good. Optical drives have moving parts, and consume much more battery life than cartridge-based systems.
Krusty: I've heard of what you're talking about. I've only ever seen one of it's kind, however. It's very rare, and fetches a high price at auction.