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Old 11-25-2005, 10:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Has anybody heard of the Phantom (console)

ive seen something while i was looking for games and i came across a console called the phantom. Its suposedly a console that plugs into your TV and the broadband then you download the games from some type of on demand service. from what ive read it sounds like the company just disapered i was wondering if anybody actually has one.
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Old 11-25-2005, 10:51 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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it was supposed to come out before these next gens and be better then the previous consoles..but no one really like the idea of downloadng the games and it never really took off....
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Old 11-25-2005, 11:14 AM   #3 (permalink)

 
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It was an investment scam.
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Old 11-25-2005, 11:39 AM   #4 (permalink)
 
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really?
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Old 11-25-2005, 12:28 PM   #5 (permalink)

 
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really?
It's a widely-believed fact! Seriously though, there is quite a bit of evidence that they took investors' money and all they produced was enough marketing material to get more investors.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTEy
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Old 11-25-2005, 12:46 PM   #6 (permalink)
 
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Yea, nothing ever materialized from it.. just a bunch of vaporware, unless you count some sort of prototype/demo unit at E3 2004. The SEC is looking at them now, and the CEO stepped down this week, after less than 6 months. As one of those Slashdot articles mentions, their killer title is to be Duke Nukem Forever
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The ineffible wisdom of Penny Arcade

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