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5th Generation

The 5th generation of home game consoles, commonly considered as having began in the period between 1993 (release of the 3DO/Jaguar) and 1995 (release of the Saturn/PS1), and ending in the period between 1999 (release of the Dreamcast) and 2001 (release of the GameCube and Xbox). Easily the generation with the most missed opportunities for EOPs, as this period has hardware which isn't that far behind the 6th generation, yet it significantly lacks in a level of EOPs that the 6th generation definitively possesses.

Assorted

Potential:

n/a

No Potential:

Capcom CPS Changer (Motorola 68000)
Casio Loopy (cool printer/video input from VHS/TV though; Hitachi SH7021)

3DO Company 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

Amiga CD32

See Amiga CD32.

Apple Bandai Pippin

Atari Jaguar

Fujitsu FM Towns Marty

NEC/Hudson PC-FX

NEC's Japan-only followup to the TurboGrafx-16. Releasing on December 23rd, 1994, it's NEC V810 CPU, various other custom processors, and 16.77 million colors made it relatively capable but ultimately not enticing enough, despite it's ability to decompress JPEG images fast enough (30/sec) to create high fidelity FMVs. It received no followup, resulting in the end of NEC's presence in home video game consoles.

https://necretro.org/PC-FX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-FX

Operating Systems (NEC V810)

Stock BIOS

There's not much to do here. The BIOS appears to have Photo-CD and CD support, plus memory management/calendar settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgtmfXjBAQ8

Other

nCraft

An extremely simple framework of a Minecraft clone port to the PC-FX. Almost nothing in it's current state, but could become more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gblg_NdUoBw

Nintendo 64

Nintendo Virtual Boy

Sega Saturn

Sony PlayStation

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