# Which home video game console had the smallest library of games?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [September 30, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126 "2009-09-30T17:28:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Transistor\_Rhythm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Transistor_Rhythm)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/1 "2009-09-30T17:28:21Z")
The question is in the title. I know that the CDI and 3D0 were major failures that didn’t really move many units - but what’s the worst?
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### Author:  [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/2 "2009-09-30T17:39:02Z")
I wonder how many the Atarii 5200 had, I’m guessing not that many. Though I wouldn’t know for sure. It was also the only system we had when I was younger.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/3 "2009-09-30T17:55:40Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#):
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> I wonder how many the Atarii 5200 had,
> **[List of Atari 5200 games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_5200_games)**
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> The Atari 5200 is a home video game console released in October 1982. Marketed as a successor to the Atari 2600, internally the console is almost identical to Atari's 8-bit computer architecture released 3 years earlier. The console was a commercial failure and was discontinued after less than 2 years on the market. In total, 69\[a\] games were officially released for the Atari 5200. The vast majority of these titles were also released on other platforms, especially the Atari 2600 and Atari 8 ...
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/4 "2009-09-30T17:59:14Z")
The [Virtual Boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_boy) had only [22 games.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Boy_games)
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/5 "2009-09-30T17:59:40Z")
In modern times, the Virtual Boy had a grand total of 22 games, of which only 14 were available in North America. Perhaps you might not consider that to be a “console” per se, so let’s see…
Pong had… Pong. That’s it. So the record low is one game.
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### Author:  [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/6 "2009-09-30T18:14:09Z")
I think the [Game.com](http://Game.com) could be in the running. Wikipedia only lists [20 titles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com). It could be an incomplete list. But the library was unimpressive.
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### Author:  [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/7 "2009-09-30T18:17:05Z")
And the Sega 32X-CD only had [5 games](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_32X_games), but there were 34 for the 32X without a SegaCD.
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### Author:  [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/8 "2009-09-30T18:49:40Z")
There were only 14 released [Gizmondo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gizmondo_games) games.
As “home consoles” go, as opposed to portable, this Wikipedia [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin#Software) suggests there were only 18 US releases for the Apple Pippin.
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### Author:  [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/9 "2009-09-30T19:32:48Z")
[Entex Adventure Vision](http://www.adventurevision.com/) had only 4 games. I don’t know of any non-dedicated console (i.e. not counting stuff like a Pong arcade machine where you can’t swap the game out) that has fewer.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-home-video-game-console-had-the-smallest-library-of-games/512126/10 "2009-10-01T01:25:48Z")
The RDI Halcyon had only two games.