A video game console from 1984 with a small Parker Brothers logo. The shape of the console is trapezoidal. The console is black with silver...

The Parker Brothers LUDO (1984) Upon realizing that they'd accidentally gone and released some of the best games for the Atari 2600 and 5200, esteemed board game company Parker Brothers decided to just go ahead and make one themselves. After all, Coleco made one, and what do they even know about games? They make Cabbage Patch Dolls. We're the ones who make games, they thought.

And so they developed the LUDO, which had a lot of board game adaptations and came with Montezuma's Revenge as a pack-in, but basically only did okay. However, the large number of board game adaptations, card games, etc. made the console slightly more popular among older players.