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Post by wanderingshadow on Jan 8, 2007 8:05:24 GMT -5
www.screwattack.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3878I saw this on a forum that I frequently visit, and I'm interested to know exactly what it is. It doesn't look like any of the American NESs that I've seen or like a Famicom. Anyone have any idea what this machine is?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jan 8, 2007 9:42:39 GMT -5
Looks like a cross between a Famicom and a NES. Obviously a pirate. No idea what though.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Jan 8, 2007 11:31:49 GMT -5
The one in the picture was my "NES" . Mine had another brand than the one shown there, which means it was just one of many pirated NES systems... Names that come to my mind were Micro Genius, Micro Chip, Family Game, Super Miatenro (this one may probably have been Super Famicom piracy, but I'm not sure) and Polystation 64. Many cartridges for those systems used to include many primitive games in one, most of them pre-1986; they also included games that didn't make it out of Japan or Europe, like Devil's World, Xevious, and Japanese M.U.S.C.L.E. Later NES games that didn't use battery backup were also "ported", like SMB3 or TMNT3. Curiously, I even saw once an editted Tiny Toons game which had Mario as one of the character transformations. Often those systems also offered you a pirated gray-colored Zapper. The quality of the hardware sucked; the A button of the controllers used to get stuck if you played long enough, and they were not resistant to hits. BTW, I take it the guy on that message board wasn't asking about the system in the picture, but about one which looks similar to it (no clue about what is he asking, though). Edit: here's a whole article about "famiclones".
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