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"The revolution will be televised."

The Ouya is an Android-based microconsole, famous for being financed by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, and for crashing E3's parking lot on a guerrilla marketing campaign.

It became quite controversial, however, for a flawed launch: many backers did not receive their units in advance, early controllers had issues with lag (since patched) and buttons getting stuck (requires a very simple hardware mod), poor wireless performance (the fix can be a setting on your router), and some games had performance issues for not being properly optimized for the Tegra 3 chip.

On the other hand, as it's dead-easy to port from Android (in fact you can just install most Android .apks without modding), it quickly amassed a library of hundred of titles — mostly mobile games, but also media players and emulators for several classic systems (most up to PS1 run well, but N64 is very hit-and-miss). For a $99 machine, it was not a terrible deal.

The list

Title	Genre	Description
Another World	Action-adventure	An Amiga classic, one of the most brutally hardcore games ever. An accident teleports a scientist to a world where everything is out to kill him.
Beast Boxing Turbo	Fighting	It's like Punch-Out!, but with monsters.
Chronoblade	Beat 'em up	A brawler with RPG elements, from the creator of Lemmings and GTA.
Final Fantasy III	RPG	Updated remake of the Famicom classic (not to be mistaken for the SNES game that is actually Final Fantasy VI).
Flashout 3D	Racing	Futuristic racing/shooting a la Wipeout.
Giana Sisters	Platformer	A damn good old school platformer, sequel to a classic European rule-63'ed Mario clone.
Maldita Castilla	Platformer	Spanish homage to the Ghosts 'n Goblins series. So deliciously old-school, you could easily believe it's a late 1980s arcade under emulation (and the music was actually produced by emulating the YM2203 sound chip, which many arcade boards used back then).
Order & Chaos Online	MMORPG	Gameloft's generic WoW. Quite impressive for the system.
Ravensword Shadowlands	Action-RPG	Very reminescent of Elder Scrolls and Fable.
Saturday Morning RPG	RPG	A comedy/nostalgia RPG inspired by 1980s cartoons and pop culture, with music by Vince DiCola (Transformers, Rocky IV).
Shadowgun	TPS	A very badass sci-fi third person shooter.
Sine Mora	Shooter	Beautiful shmup with time-manipulation elements and character designs bound to please the furfags.
Sonic the Hedgehog 4	Platformer	Does this even need much of a description? It's Sonic, it's 2D, it's good. Both episodes are available, as well as Sonic CD.
Towerfall	Platformer	You and 3 other archers shoot arrows at each other in this fast paced multiplayer platformer, also has a 1-2 player campaign, tons of fun.
Vendetta Online	MMORPG	A mix of online RPG and space simulator. Similar to EVE, but more streamlined and action-oriented.

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 <center>''"The revolution will be televised."''</center>
-The Ouya is an [[Android]]-based microconsole, famous for being financed by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign.
+The Ouya is an [[Android]]-based microconsole, famous for being financed by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, and for [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2420328,00.asp crashing E3's parking lot] on a guerrilla marketing campaign.
 It became quite controversial, however, for a flawed launch: many backers did not receive their units in advance, early controllers had issues with lag (since patched) and buttons getting stuck (requires [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8NONPw86Is a very simple hardware mod]), poor wireless performance (the fix can be a [http://ouyabrew.com/improve-ouya-wifi/ setting on your router]), and some games had performance issues for not being properly optimized for the Tegra 3 chip.
-On the other hand, as it's dead-easy to port from Android, it quickly amassed a library of hundred of titles — mostly mobile games, but also media players and emulators for several classic systems (anything up to [[PlayStation|PS1]] runs well, but [[Nintendo 64|N64]] is very hit-and-miss). Also, you can easily install most Android apps as well, without modding. For a $99 machine, it was not a bad deal.
+On the other hand, as it's dead-easy to port from Android (in fact you can just install most Android .apks without modding), it quickly amassed a library of hundred of titles — mostly mobile games, but also media players and emulators for several classic systems (most up to [[PlayStation|PS1]] run well, but [[Nintendo 64|N64]] is very hit-and-miss). For a $99 machine, it was not a terrible deal.
 ==The list==