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My local flea market, only one store is selling it, back then before covid last time I came there was some stores couple of it was selling sad that its only one store soon none of the store are gonna sell them anymore 😔
My guess is unlike this, the owners of the mall kisosks are being more careful in making sure the bootleg NES Classic consoles packed with lots of games do not get popular enough that they end up in Nintendo's C&D crosshairs (as it seems the company only goes after fan games and products pirating their games if they get coverage on sites like IGN and Gamespot).
This thing was my childhood. Love it or hate it, it was many’s first introduction to classic video games. I’m sure it holds a special place in certain people’s hearts as it does to mine.
This little game super joy stock tv game is what introduced me to the mario game series cuz i played super Mario bros 1 and Mario bros on this console and may other classic games on it
Agree! So many classics I wouldn't have been able to play otherwise. The different stage ones let me see parts of the game I never got to! I still have mine, as busted as a 10 year old can make it.
I have two of these, they are awful but they do have a functional famicom cartridge port. The local mall still has a kiosk selling fake NES classic systems, this kind of thing never went away.
This was my introduction to the NES, my mom & dad would tell me stories of how these were the games they'd always play when they were kids. It's how I got into retro gaming, without this bootleg console I probably wouldn't be as much into unlicensed games as I am right now. I love that it happened & still have one today in its box stored away.
I remember my uncle got this for me on Christmas funny enough. Had no idea about bootlegs or emulators at the time but it was interesting. Got introduced to a decent amount of NES games even if in hindsight it’s obviously bootleged and false advertising at its finest
MLP, they've been making variants of these garbage NES clones for decades. I lived in the MIddle East in the 80s and there was a 'popular' variant of the Famicom called the 'Pegasus' around that time. Interestingly it came with a 1000 in 1 cartridge that was was essentially the same games you showed - maybe 8 'original' games and 992 extremely poor ROM hacks. Videogames were really in their infancy back in those days, but in today's society it's mindboggling how junk like this is still being consumed.
I had quite a few of these. They used to sell these in Downtown LA. in the Fashion District. They were like 12 to 15 bucks. I want to say that probably three or five or eight of these that we bought completely did not work out of the box. Maybe one or two actually did work. For the ones that did work, this was a pretty decent system. Even though it was a Nintendo on a chip, you could still play cartridges in the back. And we actually had a bunch of famicom games we used to play with it. The light gun actually worked too. I still have one of these I can put my hands on it right now..
I think I remembered seeing these for sale at my local mall in Boise (around Christmas time iirc) when I was younger but I didn’t get one. But once I went to a trip to LA they were sold everywhere in Santee Alley/Fashion District. My parents bought me one and once we got home and played it was crap. I played with it for a while still till it somewhat melted. My parents threw it away and ended up buying a ps3.
Wow, this is so crazy. I just saw one of these in a thrift store earlier today. I didn't know anything about it and didn't bother picking it up. It clearly didn't seem like a quality device lol. Nice video as always.
Plot Twist: Yonatan didn't learn his lesson and now lives in Israel and is the KingPin scalper that's been causing the PS5 and Xbox Series X shortages.
9:46 My entire life, I thought that game was Tekken because I actually owned that system. Only now I realized that was actually a game called "Karateka".
I remember seeing stuff like this at “Super Malls” or “Mega Malls” as they’re called where I live. These malls don’t have name brand shops but are mom n pop stores in an open bazaar setup.
I had one of these in 2002 Keep in mind it was ahead of it’s time 72 games were a lot back then . It was one of the first tv plug n play games and one of the first emulation game systems ever made I have many fond memories with TV game
So before there was Soulja Boy,this guy existed!??? Hahaha,Yea I remember seeing that system in my Teens @ the Mall but never knew of this back story with "Pre-Soulja Boy"
I did got that Power Player console from a mall in California years ago. I think I got it around 2000s. I did played Nuts and Milk due to it didn't officially came to the West.
Oh, the nostalgia. This was all over downtown LA. lmao I remember begging my mom for one. Didn't knew it was a Famiclone at the time, but it was my first exposure to games like Devil World and Ice Climbers, the one with the seal clubbing.
Ebay is all fucked up. They repeatedly removed my auction for an ST Key.... it just bypasses region lock on Sega Saturn games/hardware.... doesn't even enable bootlegs!
I used to see these at local Swap Meets a lot and even uses to own one until it broke. I even used to own another one that was shaped like a 360 controller.
Oh dood. That takes me back to those days when my dad, older brother and I trolled around at swapmeets. We saw those all the time and they looked like ass back then. They didn't change the look. Lmao!
I remember stating at home hotels and they had wired n64 controllers hooked up to the TV. Games like ocarina of time, Mario 64, wave race and others. I believe it was 10.00 an hour to play it lol.
I remember going to my local mall and seeing kioks with real NES systems set up for ppl to play and a guy would try to sell players a bootleg NES. I noticed these kiosks in my mall from 1999 to about 2005. I would pass them by like look at those old games consoles, now i play more retro than current gen.
I just saw one of these at a mall near me when I was there a couple weeks ago! Sometimes I like to stop and play them if I'm waiting around but the kiosk vendors always make me feel awkward and uncomfortable when I play for more than 2 or 3 minutes lol
Collecting these things is like the equivalent of collecting garbage (or maybe beanie babies?). Still it is interesting to see the games they had. I do remember seeing them at the local mall back in the day. Glad I never got one.
I was suckered in getting one back when I was finishing high school. I though it'll have the Mega Man series and many more poplar NES games. That thing went straight to the donation bin.
At least 20 yrs ago, before these were everywhere, I saw one running at a mall kiosk with my GF and commented something like, “Oh, neat!” She got one for me that Christmas, and I quickly discovered how crappy it was! 🤣 But I made the most out of it (since I wasn’t about to hurt her feelings), and played a shitload of Duck Hunt. The d-pad is garbage, but the gun is actually not bad! LOLOL
Does anybody have a video of one of the kiosks at the mall. Ide love to see it. I always passed these and was so jealous. Then one day the guy selling them dumped HUNDREDS of these in the dumpster at my apartment building after christmas. I spend the entire night bringing them home taking a bunch in a stack and walking them back. Every time one would break i would just open a new one 🤣. I loved the dumpster at my apartment. It was like a big treasure box of wonders. My room was fernished with crap i got from the dumpster. I got this massive entertainment center that was press board garbage 🤣. Being poor was so much better than being rich. Rich kids wouldnt have cared about the dumpster of wonder. For me it was a great memory!
Nice Pixel was waiting an hopeing you would review one of these .... Please do a review on The Pollystation as well hope you get your hands on one soon .
Not only have I *heard* that story (there was a spread in EGM about those systems I think they paid for ad space to talk about how much trouble he was in?! but I remember that very ad!) but I *owned* one of those! (it was the orange one on the back of the box there) I found it at a convenience store that sold that type of bootleg stuff, those systems, bootleg beyblades, stuff like that. But I saw it and I figured 'well, I wouldn't mind at least owning one of those clone systems just for the hell of it' I've played many of those pirated multicart ROMs so I kinda knew what I was getting, but I just wanted it as a neat piece of gaming history. (although I DID use it to play my FC versions of Dragonbuster 1 and 2, they wouldn't fit on the adapter I found in my copy of Pinball...)
Man … I remember getting one of these around 98-99 around the Tennessee mall ….. brought it back home .. played well for a couple months … then a couple of my friends came over … and THAT ThING started smelling like Burning Rubber! … the thing done burnt up and rendered useless! Much like this comment ! Cheers
I had another 64-in-1 gamepad also shaped like a N64 and MegaDrive controller back then. Obviously also a Famiclone which they sold via home shopping channels and stuff. Enjoyed that thing, sadly lost it by the time I heard about what the slot on the back actually does.
I've always wanted one of these. Didn't get one because my husband was convinced it was a rip off. Then the wii came out and the virtual console and emulators
This video if anything is a testament of how nice the Retrotink2x Pro can even make a piece of crap device like this look decent and the back story of the dude going to jail was also interesting.
What I can't believe isn't the people selling these things in the mall...no, it's the guys selling them right here on TH-cam. As I type this there is a guy selling an custom arcade stick with over 8,000 ROMs that includes just about every retro console on the market. The guy straight up has made a full video advertisement that runs quite often here on TH-cam. You know there is no way in Hell he got the rights to sell all of that for a couple hundred bucks, no way. I'm not suggesting we rat him out or anything but it seems like the only time anything happens is if one of the property owners gets aggressive about it. Cops aren't doing a damn thing about it, they can't be.
Arcade sticks are usually filled with MAME arcade ROMs from companies that are either long defunct, or with no international presence. It's pretty easy to fill up a stick with 8,000 of a mix of golden-age retro arcades, "knockoff" arcades like Crazy Kong, arcades from Chinese and Korean companies, arcades that are multi-party licensing hell with too much legal red tape to actually chase people down over, and companies that folded their arcade divisions and thus aren't really in the market to make money off these anyway. Perhaps even MORE if you're willing to dig outside arcades specifically, since a lot of retro-PC stuff produced in Japan was still fairly rooted in arcade gameplay. Most of these bootleggers get in trouble when they directly provoke Nintendo's ire specifically. That's why you're way more likely to see a takedown over a Switch knockoff than an arcade stick - Nintendo has very little stake in pandering to arcade gamers compared to Capcom, SNK, or Namco-Bandai, who presumably don't have the funds to chase these sorts of devices legally. The most notable examples of takedowns in relation to arcade clone devices come from Konami, and even then the examples were all DDR-related, not stuff like Vigilante or Sunset Riders.
I love the Super Joy Power Player III. I got my first back when I was a kid. A few years later it died (blown capacitors). Many years later, at a thrift store, I found a boxed version for like 2.99. Bought it. Few weeks later...blown capacitors. A year or so after that? Found a third. This one still works!
Still have a Blue & a Green one I got from a flea market for cheap growing up. Ended up finding a Famicom cartridge a few months later for $2 & put it in the cart slot...it was alot better than the games built in lol
This takes me back. I used to see a kiosk stand at my local mall with the person playing the Power Player to demonstrate how it worked when I was around probably 8 y/o. Finally, I was able to get one for my birthday! Couple years later, I stumble upon another one at a Flea Market during a Florida trip with the family and I instantly purchased it. At the time, I was too young to realize that it was just basically one of those plug-in play consoles with a built in NES emulator and the whole "7600 in 1" selling point was just a repeat of games already on there, just named different lol. I even realized that the menu sound effects were ripped straight from Action 52's menu sounds (though I'm sure those sounds were not created by Active Enterprise themselves since they apparently stole a lot of songs/sound effects as well) around the time AVGN did his review on Action 52. Pretty interesting backstory on these things nonetheless!
i saw a bootleg nes mini and bootleg arcade being sold in a mall cart with nintendo games on it today at the mall the have been there for months. they had mario and donkey kong country running on it and people stop and play it all day
I had a blue Super Joy III and my brother and I bonded so much over video games. I grew up with them but my brother 5 years younger didn't know much of them. I like to think I fostered it because now he gets to hang out with his friends over games and it makes me so happy :D This was also when I was able to play different parts of other games that were too hard for me at the time; we had a 12000 in one where the same 120 games (including different stages) repeated. I still remember seeing Super Mario World 8 for the first time wondering what I was missing out. My brother beat Super Contra all on his own and it was a great memory! It was also when I discovered games can look different/have different versions XD. I wondered for years why our Super Mario looked different, and I realized before I busted our SNES at 5 yrs old, I was playing the Mario All Stars version! Everything is so nostalgic, and we grew up broke using hand-me-downs a lot so to have something like this was a great thing, even if it was not a great practice. My parents made it work for us and I buy my games legitimately now :)
I remember my dad came home with one of these. I played it a lot. Interesting enough it was my introduction to classic games in the early 00's. This was before I knew or had access to emulators and buying old games/ consoles.
You'd think Nintendo was doing this to set an example, but if it took 20 years to FIND OUT he got in legal trouble, that didn't exactly work out. And he's definitely not the only one who did this, just the poor sap who got caught....
Amazing that manufacturers who make those unlicensed clone consoles and controllers that look like official products get away with selling them. Even bundling them with official licensed games.
With the outro music you have, maybe you better change it before Nintendo attacks you like they did to GilvaSunner. Maybe take something from a SEGA game, provided it's not exactly Sonic.
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This guy musta made a KILLING as long as he did it. I'm sure by the time he got caught, there were dozens of other people stealing his idea. Imagine that? Pirates pirating each other.
I can confirm seeing bootleg NES mini consoles in a mall that i visit now and then. The funny part is they have a big sheet of paper that lists the games and I looked at the list and yup! Famicom clone wars lol
My brother bought 6 cases of those for 100.00 and made over 1000.00 at the fleamarket. He sold them for over a year until everyone was selling them and could barely make his money back. They sold really well the first few years,then there were so many people selling them or ones like it. It's funny now, Nintendo only goes after people who uploads roms that are downloaded free, they never go after Amazon for selling their pirated games on knock off systems
I'll never forget my Aunt gifted us a red one. But it overheated as time went one. One year, there was a seller at a local mall, I was laughing my ass off playing Balloon Fight for the first time while it was playable on display. A family friend had a bootleg multicart game, but one in the shape of an orangw gameboy advance. Same games and whatnot. Best little devices for $20
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Funny thing is I still see people selling bootleg NES classics in the mall.
I know I saw those like 6 years ago at my local mall. Some kid was playing contra with a fake controller.
just bought one lol
My local flea market, only one store is selling it, back then before covid last time I came there was some stores couple of it was selling sad that its only one store soon none of the store are gonna sell them anymore 😔
My guess is unlike this, the owners of the mall kisosks are being more careful in making sure the bootleg NES Classic consoles packed with lots of games do not get popular enough that they end up in Nintendo's C&D crosshairs (as it seems the company only goes after fan games and products pirating their games if they get coverage on sites like IGN and Gamespot).
Nintendo taking the L again with their pointless lawsuits.
This thing was my childhood. Love it or hate it, it was many’s first introduction to classic video games. I’m sure it holds a special place in certain people’s hearts as it does to mine.
This little game super joy stock tv game is what introduced me to the mario game series cuz i played super Mario bros 1 and Mario bros on this console and may other classic games on it
Me too! My mum had the red one and it was my introduction to Super Mario and so many other amazing, and not so amazing video games haha
Agree! So many classics I wouldn't have been able to play otherwise. The different stage ones let me see parts of the game I never got to! I still have mine, as busted as a 10 year old can make it.
A lot of things they don't tell you for $20 you can't go wrong with this thing
I have two of these, they are awful but they do have a functional famicom cartridge port. The local mall still has a kiosk selling fake NES classic systems, this kind of thing never went away.
I still own it and love it. Yeah its a bootleg but its a Famicom with a cartridge slot that runs off batteries. I think that's awesome
I remember seeing these a lot when I was a kid back in the early 2000s. Ive always seen the blue and red varients of these systems.
This was my introduction to the NES, my mom & dad would tell me stories of how these were the games they'd always play when they were kids. It's how I got into retro gaming, without this bootleg console I probably wouldn't be as much into unlicensed games as I am right now. I love that it happened & still have one today in its box stored away.
I remember my uncle got this for me on Christmas funny enough. Had no idea about bootlegs or emulators at the time but it was interesting. Got introduced to a decent amount of NES games even if in hindsight it’s obviously bootleged and false advertising at its finest
MLP, they've been making variants of these garbage NES clones for decades. I lived in the MIddle East in the 80s and there was a 'popular' variant of the Famicom called the 'Pegasus' around that time. Interestingly it came with a 1000 in 1 cartridge that was was essentially the same games you showed - maybe 8 'original' games and 992 extremely poor ROM hacks.
Videogames were really in their infancy back in those days, but in today's society it's mindboggling how junk like this is still being consumed.
Terminator ending man
dude a fleamarket vendor in my city sells these....booth is always packed with them
I had quite a few of these. They used to sell these in Downtown LA. in the Fashion District. They were like 12 to 15 bucks. I want to say that probably three or five or eight of these that we bought completely did not work out of the box. Maybe one or two actually did work. For the ones that did work, this was a pretty decent system. Even though it was a Nintendo on a chip, you could still play cartridges in the back. And we actually had a bunch of famicom games we used to play with it. The light gun actually worked too. I still have one of these I can put my hands on it right now..
I remember hearing these were sold on QVC and HSN... funny that. :)
I think I remembered seeing these for sale at my local mall in Boise (around Christmas time iirc) when I was younger but I didn’t get one. But once I went to a trip to LA they were sold everywhere in Santee Alley/Fashion District. My parents bought me one and once we got home and played it was crap. I played with it for a while still till it somewhat melted. My parents threw it away and ended up buying a ps3.
Wow, this is so crazy. I just saw one of these in a thrift store earlier today. I didn't know anything about it and didn't bother picking it up. It clearly didn't seem like a quality device lol. Nice video as always.
You should've set an appointment with Dr. HAMMER
Plot Twist: Yonatan didn't learn his lesson and now lives in Israel and is the KingPin scalper that's been causing the PS5 and Xbox Series X shortages.
Israel is a mess now with their 4 jab nonsense.
9:46
My entire life, I thought that game was Tekken because I actually owned that system. Only now I realized that was actually a game called "Karateka".
I remember seeing stuff like this at “Super Malls” or “Mega Malls” as they’re called where I live. These malls don’t have name brand shops but are mom n pop stores in an open bazaar setup.
I had one of these in 2002
Keep in mind it was ahead of it’s time 72 games were a lot back then . It was one of the first tv plug n play games and one of the first emulation game systems ever made
I have many fond memories with TV game
Sad to say this is the first time I played NES/Famicom games as a small kid...
Memories man.
So before there was Soulja Boy,this guy existed!??? Hahaha,Yea I remember seeing that system in my Teens @ the Mall but never knew of this back story with "Pre-Soulja Boy"
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I did got that Power Player console from a mall in California years ago. I think I got it around 2000s. I did played Nuts and Milk due to it didn't officially came to the West.
according to my 110-games on one cart NES game... it's NUTS AND MLIK
the typos are golden
Oh, the nostalgia. This was all over downtown LA. lmao I remember begging my mom for one. Didn't knew it was a Famiclone at the time, but it was my first exposure to games like Devil World and Ice Climbers, the one with the seal clubbing.
Yup. I put up a game copier device on ebay for snes/Gen and Nintendo shut me down and got me suspended for copyright and unauthorized item. Lmao
Ebay is all fucked up. They repeatedly removed my auction for an ST Key.... it just bypasses region lock on Sega Saturn games/hardware.... doesn't even enable bootlegs!
It's an absolute piece of garbage clone system.
What? No detailed teardown of this device with a hammer?
I used to see these at local Swap Meets a lot and even uses to own one until it broke. I even used to own another one that was shaped like a 360 controller.
Oh dood. That takes me back to those days when my dad, older brother and I trolled around at swapmeets. We saw those all the time and they looked like ass back then. They didn't change the look. Lmao!
How does TH-cam have advertisements for illegal arcades? Your channel had one before this video. An 8000 in 1 arcade stick here is USA.
I remember stating at home hotels and they had wired n64 controllers hooked up to the TV. Games like ocarina of time, Mario 64, wave race and others. I believe it was 10.00 an hour to play it lol.
I saw these sold back in the day at my local dollar store
The famous Ben Heck used one of theses to make a portable hand held NES back in the day.
And then knockoffs of said portable started being sold, certainly.
I remember going to my local mall and seeing kioks with real NES systems set up for ppl to play and a guy would try to sell players a bootleg NES. I noticed these kiosks in my mall from 1999 to about 2005. I would pass them by like look at those old games consoles, now i play more retro than current gen.
I just saw one of these at a mall near me when I was there a couple weeks ago! Sometimes I like to stop and play them if I'm waiting around but the kiosk vendors always make me feel awkward and uncomfortable when I play for more than 2 or 3 minutes lol
Those pirate console have an memory integrated microship. How was it saved the game's informations?
This reminds me how much I miss my old flea market.
Collecting these things is like the equivalent of collecting garbage (or maybe beanie babies?). Still it is interesting to see the games they had. I do remember seeing them at the local mall back in the day. Glad I never got one.
I was suckered in getting one back when I was finishing high school. I though it'll have the Mega Man series and many more poplar NES games. That thing went straight to the donation bin.
At least 20 yrs ago, before these were everywhere, I saw one running at a mall kiosk with my GF and commented something like, “Oh, neat!” She got one for me that Christmas, and I quickly discovered how crappy it was! 🤣 But I made the most out of it (since I wasn’t about to hurt her feelings), and played a shitload of Duck Hunt. The d-pad is garbage, but the gun is actually not bad! LOLOL
And yes, I still have the damn thing, 20 years later! 🤣🤣🤣
Lucky! My gun didn't work.
On what planet is Tekken easily confused with Karateka? At least the lightgun looks cool.
Does anybody have a video of one of the kiosks at the mall. Ide love to see it. I always passed these and was so jealous. Then one day the guy selling them dumped HUNDREDS of these in the dumpster at my apartment building after christmas. I spend the entire night bringing them home taking a bunch in a stack and walking them back. Every time one would break i would just open a new one 🤣. I loved the dumpster at my apartment. It was like a big treasure box of wonders. My room was fernished with crap i got from the dumpster. I got this massive entertainment center that was press board garbage 🤣. Being poor was so much better than being rich. Rich kids wouldnt have cared about the dumpster of wonder. For me it was a great memory!
Nice Pixel was waiting an hopeing you would review one of these .... Please do a review on The Pollystation as well hope you get your hands on one soon .
Yes sir. I remember seeing those all the time at the mall
Not only have I *heard* that story (there was a spread in EGM about those systems I think they paid for ad space to talk about how much trouble he was in?! but I remember that very ad!) but I *owned* one of those! (it was the orange one on the back of the box there) I found it at a convenience store that sold that type of bootleg stuff, those systems, bootleg beyblades, stuff like that. But I saw it and I figured 'well, I wouldn't mind at least owning one of those clone systems just for the hell of it' I've played many of those pirated multicart ROMs so I kinda knew what I was getting, but I just wanted it as a neat piece of gaming history. (although I DID use it to play my FC versions of Dragonbuster 1 and 2, they wouldn't fit on the adapter I found in my copy of Pinball...)
They went after this guy; but they still sell these kind of consoles at the mall. I got one through Amazon; Nintendo will never go after Amazon.
Man … I remember getting one of these around 98-99 around the Tennessee mall ….. brought it back home .. played well for a couple months … then a couple of my friends came over … and THAT ThING started smelling like Burning Rubber! … the thing done burnt up and rendered useless! Much like this comment ! Cheers
A jewish man did this lol. *EVERY SINGLE TIME*
I had one of these when I was younger. Mine was Digimon-themed for some reason.
I feel so bad for the footballer who has the same name hahaha
I had another 64-in-1 gamepad also shaped like a N64 and MegaDrive controller back then.
Obviously also a Famiclone which they sold via home shopping channels and stuff.
Enjoyed that thing, sadly lost it by the time I heard about what the slot on the back actually does.
I've always wanted one of these. Didn't get one because my husband was convinced it was a rip off. Then the wii came out and the virtual console and emulators
This video if anything is a testament of how nice the Retrotink2x Pro can even make a piece of crap device like this look decent and the back story of the dude going to jail was also interesting.
The last time I saw these at the mall was back in 2017.
Oh my God I remember seeing those in the mall and I thought nobody buying them but they and I lost them I was laughing so hard back there
Had a stroke reading that
I remember playing some bootleg ass SF2 clone/hack thing in the mall with this crap.
Super Joy 3 Video Game Piracy is a serious crime, needs to be stopped. The Nintendo would not very appreciated that.
What I can't believe isn't the people selling these things in the mall...no, it's the guys selling them right here on TH-cam. As I type this there is a guy selling an custom arcade stick with over 8,000 ROMs that includes just about every retro console on the market. The guy straight up has made a full video advertisement that runs quite often here on TH-cam. You know there is no way in Hell he got the rights to sell all of that for a couple hundred bucks, no way. I'm not suggesting we rat him out or anything but it seems like the only time anything happens is if one of the property owners gets aggressive about it. Cops aren't doing a damn thing about it, they can't be.
Arcade sticks are usually filled with MAME arcade ROMs from companies that are either long defunct, or with no international presence. It's pretty easy to fill up a stick with 8,000 of a mix of golden-age retro arcades, "knockoff" arcades like Crazy Kong, arcades from Chinese and Korean companies, arcades that are multi-party licensing hell with too much legal red tape to actually chase people down over, and companies that folded their arcade divisions and thus aren't really in the market to make money off these anyway. Perhaps even MORE if you're willing to dig outside arcades specifically, since a lot of retro-PC stuff produced in Japan was still fairly rooted in arcade gameplay.
Most of these bootleggers get in trouble when they directly provoke Nintendo's ire specifically. That's why you're way more likely to see a takedown over a Switch knockoff than an arcade stick - Nintendo has very little stake in pandering to arcade gamers compared to Capcom, SNK, or Namco-Bandai, who presumably don't have the funds to chase these sorts of devices legally. The most notable examples of takedowns in relation to arcade clone devices come from Konami, and even then the examples were all DDR-related, not stuff like Vigilante or Sunset Riders.
10:34 BRO MARIO WENBT INVISIBLE! THAT'S CRAZY
I love the Super Joy Power Player III. I got my first back when I was a kid. A few years later it died (blown capacitors). Many years later, at a thrift store, I found a boxed version for like 2.99. Bought it. Few weeks later...blown capacitors. A year or so after that? Found a third. This one still works!
Still have a Blue & a Green one I got from a flea market for cheap growing up. Ended up finding a Famicom cartridge a few months later for $2 & put it in the cart slot...it was alot better than the games built in lol
Dat "light gun." Color that orange tip and you could rob a bank with it lol.
And yet we all now have rom packs of these games 🤣🤣🤣
This takes me back. I used to see a kiosk stand at my local mall with the person playing the Power Player to demonstrate how it worked when I was around probably 8 y/o. Finally, I was able to get one for my birthday! Couple years later, I stumble upon another one at a Flea Market during a Florida trip with the family and I instantly purchased it. At the time, I was too young to realize that it was just basically one of those plug-in play consoles with a built in NES emulator and the whole "7600 in 1" selling point was just a repeat of games already on there, just named different lol. I even realized that the menu sound effects were ripped straight from Action 52's menu sounds (though I'm sure those sounds were not created by Active Enterprise themselves since they apparently stole a lot of songs/sound effects as well) around the time AVGN did his review on Action 52.
Pretty interesting backstory on these things nonetheless!
Used to see these at mall kiosks back in the day.
This is definitely......something!😐
You been Souljain' it up lately 😆
Using that on the retro tink 5x pro, hilarious
Don't be getting any ideas. I don't want to see your picture on any Nintendo's Most Wanted posters!
I laughed so hard at the terrible use of the retrotink 5x 🤣
i saw a bootleg nes mini and bootleg arcade being sold in a mall cart with nintendo games on it today at the mall the have been there for months. they had mario and donkey kong country running on it and people stop and play it all day
I got the GBA version of that, was a basic LCD game you could find anywhere but it was also a NES on a chip like this one
I had a blue Super Joy III and my brother and I bonded so much over video games. I grew up with them but my brother 5 years younger didn't know much of them. I like to think I fostered it because now he gets to hang out with his friends over games and it makes me so happy :D This was also when I was able to play different parts of other games that were too hard for me at the time; we had a 12000 in one where the same 120 games (including different stages) repeated. I still remember seeing Super Mario World 8 for the first time wondering what I was missing out. My brother beat Super Contra all on his own and it was a great memory! It was also when I discovered games can look different/have different versions XD. I wondered for years why our Super Mario looked different, and I realized before I busted our SNES at 5 yrs old, I was playing the Mario All Stars version! Everything is so nostalgic, and we grew up broke using hand-me-downs a lot so to have something like this was a great thing, even if it was not a great practice. My parents made it work for us and I buy my games legitimately now :)
I remember my dad came home with one of these. I played it a lot. Interesting enough it was my introduction to classic games in the early 00's. This was before I knew or had access to emulators and buying old games/ consoles.
You'd think Nintendo was doing this to set an example, but if it took 20 years to FIND OUT he got in legal trouble, that didn't exactly work out. And he's definitely not the only one who did this, just the poor sap who got caught....
Amazing that manufacturers who make those unlicensed clone consoles and controllers that look like official products get away with selling them. Even bundling them with official licensed games.
Damn, the person behind this got sent to the Gulags lol
Mall kiosks, flea markets, and even rest stops in New Jersey all sell those NES/SNES/Genesis mini knock offs right out in the open. 😂
With the outro music you have, maybe you better change it before Nintendo attacks you like they did to GilvaSunner. Maybe take something from a SEGA game, provided it's not exactly Sonic.
I still have a cib Power Player that I bought ages ago. lol
I wonder if the lightgun will work on NES hardware
Yes. I believe it would.
Hey MadPix, could find a way to see if this may be consolize into a MECHANICAL KEYBOARD...OR BETTER YET, wipeout clean its roms set and reload it with a new roms set plus SD card slot !? thanks your channel rocks
Definitely not Tekken, that was Karateka.
Both my cousins Romeo Stevens and AJ Franklin used to have that during our Grade School Years in the Mid 2000's was DOPE.
This guy musta made a KILLING as long as he did it. I'm sure by the time he got caught, there were dozens of other people stealing his idea. Imagine that? Pirates pirating each other.
I had a red one, it was my introduction to Japan-only Famicom games.
I got this as a Christmas gift back in the early 2000s. I still break it out every once in awhile for space invaders and bird week
I have a similar clone console without FC socket, wich de N64 pad has the gun, and the other pad has N64 desingn
I can confirm seeing bootleg NES mini consoles in a mall that i visit now and then. The funny part is they have a big sheet of paper that lists the games and I looked at the list and yup! Famicom clone wars lol
"Gee! What do I call this thing" GARBAGE is what I call it!!!
There was no joy with the super joy, no joy at all.
I wish emulators had an option for famiclone audio. Played alot of this clone!
Fceumm (a Retroarch core) has that option as "swap duty cycles". Mesen has it, too.
Who else here was hoping that Ron was going to try putting a cartridge in the back slot of the Super Joy controller?
My brother bought 6 cases of those for 100.00 and made over 1000.00 at the fleamarket. He sold them for over a year until everyone was selling them and could barely make his money back. They sold really well the first few years,then there were so many people selling them or ones like it. It's funny now, Nintendo only goes after people who uploads roms that are downloaded free, they never go after Amazon for selling their pirated games on knock off systems
Hahaha 😂 that guy used to be my boss. Damn small world
This isn't the exact version I use to see back in the day but still nice to see a review on z similar product
Dude made $10 million, paid $2M in fines... not bad...
Legend has it that Ben Heck turned one of these into a Portable NES
Is this the new Soulja console?
I'll never forget my Aunt gifted us a red one. But it overheated as time went one.
One year, there was a seller at a local mall, I was laughing my ass off playing Balloon Fight for the first time while it was playable on display.
A family friend had a bootleg multicart game, but one in the shape of an orangw gameboy advance. Same games and whatnot.
Best little devices for $20
Nintendo should let people pirate older games they no longer care to offer they have to much money for their company