For those of us who grew up in Bosnia in the 90s, bootlegged games were the only way we could play video games. I have a clear memory of playing Street Fighter II on a console, and then someone told me that SF2 didn't exist for the NES. How could that be? I played it! We didn't even know what a bootleg was at the time. It was completely normal, and we played all our games on a Terminator console. th-cam.com/video/JTFOLnQag2k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=aHAbOSzCDJKaraQW
Essentially, what happened is that some resourceful engineers figured out how to make something reasonably close to a Famicon/NES as cheaply as possible (on a single chip in the end, which is what powering most of these) and then sold these so-called Famiclones in markets where regular publishers had zero presence and people could only afford official consoles if their parents had been part of the Communist nomenklatura and had become really rich in the chaotic and corrupt transition to a market economy. Eastern Europe moved on to the PC soon after Famiclones like the Denny, with bootleggers transitioning to selling copies of PC games, but elsewhere in the world, clone consoles remained king for much longer. Polish publisher and developer CD Projekt actually started out in this environment, by the way, but as a legitimate publisher of Western titles. They managed to be successful by having both low prices and by stuffing boxes with all sorts of impressive goodies that you wouldn't get if you were buying your games from dodgy sellers at flee markets. We're talking cloth maps, figurines, full-color manuals, basically what publisher today are letting you pay 120 bucks for without actually including the game. That's why gog has extras like artwork, music and maps as a free bonus with most games. Brazil is another interesting market. They had and still have very high import tariffs on certain foreign goods like cars and electronics in order to prop up local manufacturing. This worked quite well with cars, since international car makers set up shop in this huge market - but gamers did not eat well for decades, since the country's ability to produce electronics is limited now and was even more limited a few decades ago. Similar bootleg consoles to the ones that you experienced in Bosnia were also made there, but Sega actually decided that Brazil was worth the effort and set up production of their Master System in partnership with local toy company Tectoy. Starting in 1989, the console is still being made and sold there. They shipped 8 million since, just in Brazil. You can have a new Master System for the equivalent of 60 USD.
I never get tired at just how over the top and cartoony all of their expressions are at the reveal of "7 Grand Dad". And Scott's frozen, blurry face at 7:54 is beautiful.
Its similar to Amazon free returns, Nintendo can't sue tens of thousands of random company names and sellers on Amazon (it's too large a scope and even if one is caught they will just change their name it's already a fake name anyway 😂 )
@@Schwarzornthey wouldnt have a case as amazon isnt producing these. The most they could do is get them to stop selling them which would not get them out of circulation, especially in a world with temu
My childhood in Argentina, in a market flooded with pirated reproductions of consoles and games since official products were almost nonexistent or extremely expensive, was shaped by playing everything that came through the pirate market from China, Hong Kong, or Russia. Nowadays, access to games is nearly universal, but back then, it allowed us to have our entry point into the world of video games and imagine we were playing Street Fighter from the arcades on our "Famiclon" (Famicom Clone).
6:06 Family Pocket have some good stuff in their line honestly. I love their FC3000 handheld. It can only handle up to Genesis but its a gorgeous little console for like 15-20 bucks.
My favorite bootleg I have is called Terrifying 9/11. It's a remake of Metal Slug but all the cut scenes have been changed to make it like you're hunting down Osama Bin Laden. For the Game Boy Color.
I have several bootleg Atari games, from either Argentina or Hong Kong. I also have a Sega Game Gear bootleg, something I randomly came across and had to have because I've seen thousands of GameBoy bootlegs but never a Game Gear one. It has a few oddball Game Gear titles, some Sega Master System games, and strangely two or three SG-1000 games. Those don't work well with the frame rate of the Game Gear, so they're virtually unplayable. Still, they made an attempt. I appreciate the effort.
Live in China and I never see these fake consoles here. A proper SNES and Genesis classic and even PC Engine mini were easy to find here online when released.
You should be able to sell anything on the free market according to capitalism. Bootlegs can never be illegal unless you live in communism. It's so simple! 🌈
Is Eric's arm okay? He had a black sleeve kind of thing on one arm. If he has fore-arm pain, gua sha is the fix. Basically a deep tissue massage. I bought a metal gua sha stone off Amazon and fixed up my tendinitis. Years of pain I didn't have to suffer. I wish I'd known about gua sha sooner.
Who needs the game awards
Whatever Jeffy boy’s got going on is gonna make me wanna stop making games; it happens every year. I’d rather watch an Ohioan blow a gasket.
Apparently, cd projekt red.@firesd7306
Imagine Scott hosting a SEGA game…
The Grime Awards
We all need the game awards 🏆
7:34 the jump to 7 GRAND DAD is hilarious LOL
I play this every year to celebrate the nniversary.
7:35 FLEENSTONES!?
GRAND DAD???
*WHAT THE SHIT?!*
I'm just trying to figure out how were this so normal in my childhood back in my third world country and nobody talks about it. Thank you Scott!
0:22 "how impressite iv is"
I hope they caught that and just left that in anyway.
Holy sh*t, finally some good games
For those of us who grew up in Bosnia in the 90s, bootlegged games were the only way we could play video games. I have a clear memory of playing Street Fighter II on a console, and then someone told me that SF2 didn't exist for the NES. How could that be? I played it! We didn't even know what a bootleg was at the time. It was completely normal, and we played all our games on a Terminator console. th-cam.com/video/JTFOLnQag2k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=aHAbOSzCDJKaraQW
Essentially, what happened is that some resourceful engineers figured out how to make something reasonably close to a Famicon/NES as cheaply as possible (on a single chip in the end, which is what powering most of these) and then sold these so-called Famiclones in markets where regular publishers had zero presence and people could only afford official consoles if their parents had been part of the Communist nomenklatura and had become really rich in the chaotic and corrupt transition to a market economy. Eastern Europe moved on to the PC soon after Famiclones like the Denny, with bootleggers transitioning to selling copies of PC games, but elsewhere in the world, clone consoles remained king for much longer.
Polish publisher and developer CD Projekt actually started out in this environment, by the way, but as a legitimate publisher of Western titles. They managed to be successful by having both low prices and by stuffing boxes with all sorts of impressive goodies that you wouldn't get if you were buying your games from dodgy sellers at flee markets. We're talking cloth maps, figurines, full-color manuals, basically what publisher today are letting you pay 120 bucks for without actually including the game. That's why gog has extras like artwork, music and maps as a free bonus with most games.
Brazil is another interesting market. They had and still have very high import tariffs on certain foreign goods like cars and electronics in order to prop up local manufacturing. This worked quite well with cars, since international car makers set up shop in this huge market - but gamers did not eat well for decades, since the country's ability to produce electronics is limited now and was even more limited a few decades ago. Similar bootleg consoles to the ones that you experienced in Bosnia were also made there, but Sega actually decided that Brazil was worth the effort and set up production of their Master System in partnership with local toy company Tectoy. Starting in 1989, the console is still being made and sold there. They shipped 8 million since, just in Brazil. You can have a new Master System for the equivalent of 60 USD.
I never get tired at just how over the top and cartoony all of their expressions are at the reveal of "7 Grand Dad". And Scott's frozen, blurry face at 7:54 is beautiful.
7:56 This smear frame had me CACKLING
😂 6:10 The wording. "308 nostalgia game which let you back to happy time."
Its similar to Amazon free returns, Nintendo can't sue tens of thousands of random company names and sellers on Amazon (it's too large a scope and even if one is caught they will just change their name it's already a fake name anyway 😂 )
That's when Nintendo would sue Amazon...if Amazon wasn't too powerful to fight.
@@Schwarzornthey wouldnt have a case as amazon isnt producing these. The most they could do is get them to stop selling them which would not get them out of circulation, especially in a world with temu
@2-Way_Intersection Well, that's what they'd sue them for: for having them in their store.
Boy do I love games! Bootleg ones too!
First law school exam of the semester in the morning, went to watch my boy Scott before bed, new video drops. Legend😊
7:34 HAHAHAHA!
My childhood in Argentina, in a market flooded with pirated reproductions of consoles and games since official products were almost nonexistent or extremely expensive, was shaped by playing everything that came through the pirate market from China, Hong Kong, or Russia. Nowadays, access to games is nearly universal, but back then, it allowed us to have our entry point into the world of video games and imagine we were playing Street Fighter from the arcades on our "Famiclon" (Famicom Clone).
I don't know why, but I have an unrequited love for Mario World NES. It's just so simplistic and impressive in its own way
"vodka..." *screen cuts to black*
Vodka can do that to ya!
I ❤ bootlegs. Started with the 31-In-1 bootleg cart for the NES.
9:15 HILY SJIT NO FUCKING WAY YOU CAN DO THAT😂
This video has a very classic jontron vibe to it and I love it
I remember I had a Gameboy cartridge that said it was "150 games in 1" turns out it was just 16 basic games repeated with different names
6:06 Family Pocket have some good stuff in their line honestly. I love their FC3000 handheld. It can only handle up to Genesis but its a gorgeous little console for like 15-20 bucks.
"Is meth vegan?"
Officer, these were people I thought to be my friends, tried to sell me products I didn’t want.
Scott your jokes are 👌🏾
My favorite bootleg I have is called Terrifying 9/11. It's a remake of Metal Slug but all the cut scenes have been changed to make it like you're hunting down Osama Bin Laden. For the Game Boy Color.
1.44 New Zealand Story, usef to love that game
He said 83 percent recycled. The box or the game had me dead 💀 lmao 🤣
Could you imagine if this was just the actual video on Scott's main channel?
2:07 Looks fire though
Bootleg or now, I would’ve taken this when I was 8
I love super Mario 14 and Somari
I have that exact CRT television
I played super mario 16 on one of these. Best unofficial sequel ever. Mario became a ninja.
You never played a mario game untill you've played super mario bros 7
I have several bootleg Atari games, from either Argentina or Hong Kong. I also have a Sega Game Gear bootleg, something I randomly came across and had to have because I've seen thousands of GameBoy bootlegs but never a Game Gear one. It has a few oddball Game Gear titles, some Sega Master System games, and strangely two or three SG-1000 games. Those don't work well with the frame rate of the Game Gear, so they're virtually unplayable. Still, they made an attempt. I appreciate the effort.
Pooyan yay😂
10:54 I have no idea why they stuck with the Mighty Final Fight stage 1 theme.
fun fact, the word "somari" in italian means "pigs"
13:02 Timestamp for future me. I wanna know the name of this track.
0:25 fire emblem reference
How is there braile PRINTED on the box lol. It wasn't embossed, was it?
Live in China and I never see these fake consoles here. A proper SNES and Genesis classic and even PC Engine mini were easy to find here online when released.
Wondering who are the unknown devs who actually programmed all these bootlegs 😂
I’m so early those two guys I see in every Scott the woz video haven’t commented yet
I keep going back to this video because of "Making Love"
Does anyone know what those dots below the title mean? It doesn't seem like Braille since it only uses 4 dots instead of (afaik) standard 6.
I was more of a bootleg DVD Kid growing up
"Poke-a-mon"
I Love Grand Dad And Somari
Came here after Game Awards
looks intresting
You are a Bootleg Game lol
*THOSE AREN’T FISH!*
hi scott
I really want a mod some of these remove 90% the original games and just put the game I want
Oh yeah, this is getting a yellow border for player’s choice
You should be able to sell anything on the free market according to capitalism. Bootlegs can never be illegal unless you live in communism. It's so simple! 🌈
What does Gumption mean Scotty2Hotty?
D.A.R.E.? Dugs Are Really Excellent?
Are they really bootlegs if they actually do the thing there supposed to replace
If the product also contains strait ahead originals then the word to apply is stolen.
Is Eric's arm okay? He had a black sleeve kind of thing on one arm. If he has fore-arm pain, gua sha is the fix. Basically a deep tissue massage. I bought a metal gua sha stone off Amazon and fixed up my tendinitis. Years of pain I didn't have to suffer. I wish I'd known about gua sha sooner.
Sorry can't watch at the game awards