Based within early 2000 by John Gildred, Indrema's goal was to create the video game console based on common PC hardware and a open-source Linux operating system. A console would keep close at hand been a merely open-source console on a market, when well as the exclusively modern console to allow loose software package to become written for it.

A console was required to exist as freed per holiday year of 2000, however like than an official announcement, victims take Indrema's mailing names received instead the "top ten" listings in the style of David Letterman. By this period, humans were beginning to suspect that a console was vaporware; Indrema had produced nothing however handout therefore far.

Deficiency of the product & sufficient capital contributed to Indrema's dying. Fallowing existence unable to raise plenty capital to keep a company alive, Indrema fold in April 6, 2001. Witharound his go Indrema chat session, Gildred revealed that a company required to a higher degree $10,000,000 in capital sequentially to prove my point & gave a as punishment advice to the next streaming video game startup: "finish product before talking about it."