A TV Console that runs PC Games? [Retro]

[egparadigm]

My friend tells me this story about a TV console that ran PC games every time I see him. It was much like any other TV games console, but it could load windows games.

I saw him today and he gave me the following info: it may have been called the "Puma" and he said it could have been made by Panasonic. This was something he read in a US games magazine some years ago (probably around the turn of the millennium.)

Google has turned up nothing very illuminating, so I thought I'd just throw it out there. God knows how they'd ever have got permission for such a thing, but it sound like an interesting curio.

Thanks for any info.

[neoboy259]

There was the Discover and the Phantom. Dont think either of them were released for consumer use though.

And lol at your mate's Panasonic Puma. Think he's stroking his chin a bit there.

[Psyduck]

You'd need no permission for it at all unless I'm very much mistaken

[egparadigm]

There was the Discover and the Phantom.

Phantom it is, I think. I seem to recall him using the name in past conversations. I actually knew of the Phantom, but it must have been one of those articles I always skipped past in EDGE, as I didn't know it ran PC games.

Thanks.

[wakka]

It was never released, it was just vapourware.

[fallenangle]

There have been others apart from the Phantom - I remember reading details of some other STB system in the US with which it would be possible to download and run PC games on a TV. Never reached the market as far as I'm aware.