The Mysterious Nintendo ''TERMINATOR'' Console - Gaming History Documentary
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- This horribly named console known as the Ending Man Terminator 2 sold so well across so many countries that in all likelihood there are more Ending Mans in the world than NES' or Famicoms. Let us look back at what we know about this odd console. #NES #Famiclones #GamingHistory
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ahh seeing these amazing, These types of clone Nes consoles were so popular in Turkey back in the late 90s early 2000s. You could find more than 100 different NES clones in big supermarket's electronic sections some of them use to come with keyboards and mice some of them shaped like alien heads, some of them were with weird color schemes, and came bundled with fake Tamagotchis, etc. I remember seeing this terminator case also. some of them were better than the original if you can find real hardware clones. We called all of them Atari back then probably because of 2600...
The T2 zapper is a repurposed Laser tag toy. Pretty cool.
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"I support the current thing" has got to be the lamest thing that ever existed.
Hoping on a bandwagon for no other reason than "Everyone is doing it" only shows how some people like any sense of self identity or pride.
"I need your clothes, your boots, and your famicom"
“You forgot to say please.”
@OB1 ..right? "Nothing clean, right."
LMFAOOOO!!!💀💀
I just cant let ya go with the man's Famicom!🔫
@@xx7secondsxx *BAAAD TO THE BONE* steals sunglasses..
Thank you for the shoutout to our episode, made alongside Stefan from the channel StefaNonsense. Happy to see you spreading the history of our beloved Terminator 2 console.
Have to mention that there was also a variant of the Terminator console, sometime in the late '90s, that had a box with Arnold from Terminator 2 on it, and the unit itself didn't come in black, but with a red top and a gray bottom. One of the gamepads was gray, the other one was red. Otherwise it was the exact same console, same shape, same buttons.
Unfortunately, I don't have that console anymore, and I haven't been able to track down any images of it, so at the moment it exists only in my memories.
Also, Urban Champion was the worst game ever.
As someone that wasted more hours that I would like to admit playing Urban Champion, I agree.
I had the red version with Arnold on the box. Everyone called this console Nintendo back then. Bought it in Hungary sometime in the 90s at a really cheap promenade style bazaar. My mom probably got rid of it years ago, I could not find it anywhere at their place. We had this game called 'Rambo', it was a shooter (obviously), there were 4 guys you could choose from. Other than Rambo himself (iirc a bald guy), one of them was called Bill, he had the ability to lie on his stomach and shoot from that position. Never made it past level 2.
To 'end' something is to 'terminate' it. Thus a 'Terminator' would be an 'Ending Man' in some languages. So to get the name "Ending Man", they first translated "The Terminator" to their own language, and then back to our language to get "Ending Man". Yet, somehow they managed to use both the native and the translated name in English. Wow.
The post-Cold War era of gaming in the former Eastern Bloc is so fascinating. This culture gave rise to some of the industry giants like CD Projekt and influenced their anti-DRM philosophy on GOG.
Greetings from Bulgaria. I can confirm these things were everywhere here together with a famicom replica design that just had the text "Computer video game" on front and nothing more. Back in the days I was very puzzled about the American NES seen in media. I always thought it was some sort of 16 bit system or something since the only Nintendo that I knew of at the time was a Japanese super famicom that a friend of mine had and it was 16 bit. I was very disappointed when I learned later that the American nes is no different than those 8 bit clones that I already had.
Yeah bro we were just like you I would love to have A terminator and a bunch of yellow carts lol I got a extra NES I'll trade lol
ah the memories , this was my first console back in the day , followed by the famicom clone with the power supplies that get so hot and blow up if you play for more than a few hours , or the pin layout of it was too short to actually plug in the wall so you had to use adaptors :D .. i think i recently saw few for sale in Ilienci :D
You talking about all clones or you just like that girl don't know a thng about gaming?
The funny part is that the Chinese cloned the Atari console years before that naming it Rambo and selling it in red box with Rambo’s picture on the front lol and they were also popular in Bulgaria.
I'm from Serbia, and yeah... I've had this one. It was an awesome system. I really enjoyed it. I remember one of my first games on it (if we exclude Super Mario and Duck hunt), were The Addam Family, TMNT, Dracula, Alien... ahh... what an awesome system.
This famiclone console was also sold in Zimbabwe and other African countries. It usually came with a 9999999 in 1 cartridge with first generation Nintendo games.
I can already hear the Rerez breakdown of how it's actually 38 games repeated over and over, and how most of them are poorly done hacks and none of them are licensed
There is only 700 some games made for the system. Was it 99 games?
That was my first ever game console
NES Terminator 2 package content from my childhood:
1. it came with a yellow cartridge with few buffed guys on car, on top of them there was label stating 99999 games (obviously a lie, repeated games).
2. a gun
3. 2 joysticks or gamepads, however you call them
4. earphones
5. 9 power adapter
Usual problems:
- Gray screen an loud buzz sound when the chip is dead.
- It was producing interference to another tv in the room, since the screen output was RF signal short transmitter.
- The power adapter was dying a lot, so we usually buy an universal one, and set it to 9 volts.
- The Joystick's buttons were getting dark, so I usually was cleaning them with alcohol dipped cotton sticks, until the circuit got white again, few times this trick could work, then a new joystick had to be bought.
Player 1 joystick had a sound jack so you can mute the TV's sound, I was usually joking to play Super Mario with earphone only like an early speedrun, since my family was watching boring news at weekends.
They unit fully costed around 10- 12$ (500-800MKD), so when one unit dies I had to beg my grandfather for a pocket money, and usually in few months I was able to save up for a new one.
They were imported either from Bulgaria or Turkey by unknown sources, and usually were sold on the flea market.
We gathered at friends houses to play Arcanoid, Super Mario Bros, Super Contra 6 and other games, like Wonder boy.
Other than the local renting NES cartridges, among friends we were lending new already played cartridges and we exchanged them equally, like 1 for one cartridges for a week.
Hope you like my NES adventures as a kid :).
Bought this device including a "99999999 in 1" Cartridge in Romania in the summer holidays of 1995 and took it with me back to Germany. Somehow everyone was fascinated by the included light gun. I guess the original light gun for the NES was not a thing in Germany? Anyway, every year I went to Romania in the summer, I bought some new games and was happy with it until 2002.
@videoluver7 I bought myself a Sega Dreamcast :D
I'm glad I found your channel. I'm facinated by video game history, and you do an excellent job with the more obscure side of it. Thanks!
This terminator console was very popular here in Algeria in the nineties due to its cheap price and great games list, i used to buy 2 or 3, the last one i bought had a strange problem, it appeared in the screen only in white and black, never knew why , i remember that all the units from the shop i bought it from had the same problem, and the box was also different , with a very cheap price. I played hours and hours on the terminator consoles. Thanks for this nice video.
I think this is my favorite video you have done. I’ve never heard of this piece of hardware before. Keep killing it Lady Decade!
I used to have this Terminator console (and many other nes ripoff gaming systems) when I was a kid. Basically every friend of mine used to have it in early/mid 90's. They were quite faulty, so you had to buy a new one after every 3-6 months (if you were lucky). Fortunately, they were quite cheap even back in the day.
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I've been absolutely fascinated by the various clones and odd consoles like this. I may live in the US, but I've imported a Dendy, along with a decent amount of obscure handheld games. Famiclones do pop up here and there in the US, though. I remember going to a mall and one of those pop-up kiosks had a Power Joy of some description for sale.
Pamida in Wisconsin and Fred's in South Carolina both carried a fami clone packaged as a psone lookalike in the early to mid 00's and it was titled the Poly station. Had a pistol and two controllers. I was the kid of parents who traveled for work and spent most my time at grandparents in the middle of nowhere, yet I passed them over for a Genesis second hand at a yard sale and a PlayStation.
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Another amazing video, Lady D. Love it!
The Terminator console does appeal to me aesthetically. It falls under what I call the El Camino factor. For the uniformed, the El Camino was a essential a car with a pick up truck bed in the back. The design of this console ends up looking sleek while still having a solid box shape and being accented by those ports in the front and the bold buttons on the top. The perfect mix, therefore the Elco factor. As to the light gun. That is a fantastic sci fi design and I love it.
The gun is a rip-off of the Worlds of Wonder Laser Tag gun’s design
Lady Decade, do not give the Terminator's creators too much credit for the design of their light gun. They clearly ripped off the molds for Starlyte Pistols that were part of the Lazer Tag line from Worlds of Wonder. In fact, Lazer Tag would be a great gaming topic to cover because Lazer Tag came about to test the waters for the Nintendo in the US.
I was going to post this but I figured someone else had surely gotten there first. Also I did not know about the Nintendo connection, intriguing
I was just going to say the same thing. The light gun looks exactly like the Lazer Tag pistols!
And it's SOOOOO realistic-looking, too!
I remember getting one for Christmas in 1988, those alarm sounds from hitting the target were terrible though.
I think it would be interesting to see you talking about the weird "keyboard" famiclones.
As for me, the only famiclone I had was a Funstation. There are a couple of the Funstation models, but the one I had looked like the original Playstation, down to the "cd drive" flap (except for the fact there was no CD drive and it had the cartridge slot there instead). I also remember being pissed that it came with a dummy zapper, which (after taking it apart) had the cable tied in a knot inside so it wouldn't fall off, no PCB at all.
That does a Touhou game have to do with a famiclone that looks like a PSX?
This was some wonderful commentary and perspective about a new dawn of piracy. Fantastic episode. I’m so glad to have discovered this channel recently.
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Gosh! I had this very console back in 1997. 8 bit gaming (and gaming in general) was new to my hometown in Dibrugarh, India at that time, and consoles like these were selling like crazy. Another popular model there was the Media Little Master System. My parents purchased this for me after I promised them that I'd study hard for my school exams. But unfortunately, the console died after a week and we had to exchange this for the Little Master.
The funniest part of this purchase was the free Yellow coloured '9999999999 in 1' cartridge that came with it. The storekeeper told me that this one has enough games to keep me entertained throughout my lifetime, only to later find out that it was actually 3 games repeated over and over again with different stages as the starting point :P
Thank you for this video.. This has brought me tons of memories!
This bootleg console was available in Poland as well. NES clone. This one has separate antena slot. Mine came with antena for back RF plug of the unit and another one for telly. It didn't work at all 😂
In 1996 my cousin had a Terminator 2 - he was 4. In 1997 I received my own, I was 8. I was so happy! Most of the kids on my street were using this console, in Romania. People from Moldova were bringing them in their flea market and the yellow cartdriges. We called those "diskettes". We were not familiarized with the word "console" so we called this "game on tv". The original "diskette" come with about 99 games or so, most of which were crap even back then... but we enjoyed some. Most beloved was Super Mario Bros, than Battle City (which we called tanks.... it is possible that the pirated game was called tanks, can't remember), we played Bomberman, something with motocross, car racing... and not many others... because back then we did not speak or read English, nor did our parents so all those texts relating the story of a game was just gibberish to us... and most of the games had such poor graphics with black background that we preferred to play outside... but for the few selected games I mentioned... wow, we were addicted. Back then we were not aware that something better might exist or that such games were 10-15 years old already. For us it was state of the art ultimate tech.
3 more mentions:
1) Terminator 2 consoles were notorious for being unreliabled braking the TV also... mine lasted maximum 2 years. Some kids on the street were changing more than one per year (rich parents). Some people were trying to send them to electronics service but with questionable rate of success as it was too digital for the primitive tech in Romania at the time.
Many people believed that such consoles contribute to failure of the TV itself. There were families which prohibited their kids to use this console on the TV or in the "main" TV if they had many for the fear of braking the TVset. My father heard that the pistol for the game Duck Hunt was dangerous for the TV so I was not allowed to play that (hence I did not even mention that game above). All these stories must have had something true into them because I was witness a few times at TV failures with Terminator 2 plugged in but it was not at my house so happy ending for me :) .
2) Neckermann. Back then (1992 - 1998) we were getting some big catalogues from Germany from their hypermarkets or malls (which we didn't know how they look). These looked like A4 books with about 300-400 pages and had shiny paper with high quality (for the time and place) pictures with every type of product that was available in certain German malls or hypermarkets. There were all kinds of pages with chapters for every type of product such as tools, clothing, sports, shoes, toys, electronics and YES, consoles. in those "neckermanns" we were looking at pictures with modern Sega and Nintendo consoles, and Play Station 1 (I keep those to this day) and we were noticing different types of "disketes" and we were always wondering what were those, how those consoles might work vs our Terminator 2 and why the hell the "neckermann" did not show any picture with the best console the Terminator 2. We did notice back then the similarity in geometry of the case of the Sega consoles.... we did not know about rip-offs at the time. But it looked similar.
3) for us an evolution came about in 1998 or so, in the form of another console, can't remember the name but it was in the shape of a keyboard. It was compatible with the same "diskettes" as the Terminator 2 but had more games, some of with were not working on the terminator 2 such as Piano music or typing. The controllers were gray and had a geometry similar to the PS1. Less kids had this keyboard console because about in early 2000's people started to afford second hand real computers with real windows from Germany or something and the kids were playing on the PCs for the next 10 years. I think that "diskettes" with all kind of 8 (or 16?) bits for such consoles were available in the flea market up until 2010 or something like this. On second hand sales local websites these are still available.
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Greetings from Bulgaria.
I personally had a few gaming consoles back in the 90s:
A replica/clone of the ATARI 2600 with a lot of built-in games. That one cost us quite a lot of money in 1992, even though the original ATARI 2600 was 15 years old by then.
In 1997 or 1998 - I can't remember exactly - a "Terminator 7". That one was probably a newer model of the "Terminator 2". My neighbors had a "Terminator 5". They all used "Famicom" cartridges. The "Terminator 7" one was in a box which, in my humble opinion, was brazenly trying to convince the unfamiliar buyers that it was a SEGA Mega Drive: there was a MD logo on the box; it stated with big letters on the front that it has, and I quote: "Briliant 16-bit graphics"; and if i'm not mistaking, Sonic was painted on the front as well. 😀 Unfortunately, the mounted on the back AV output did not work. The RF output did, but the signal was not that good through it. So that is why, our parents bought us the other console, which I'll mention below.
A replica/clone of the japanese "Famicom". That one even had a few built-in games. The AV output worked as well. That was the console I played the most until I bought my PlayStation 1 in early 2002. And I had quite a few cartridges for the "Famicom" and most of them were with multiple games on them.
The "Famicom" clones had some weaknesses. The included 9V/500mA AC power adapters failed pretty often. Same goes for the included and bought separately controllers - they very often stopped working adequately. On the other hand, both consoles had a light gun and it did work as expected.
Unfortunately, since the "Famicom" clones worked with "Famicom" cartridges, quite a lot of the games on them were in japanese. And that was not good, because in the 90s most people here in Bulgaria knew at least basic english, but they did not knew japanese. 😀
Thanks for another great video Lady. Cheered me up abit while having a 40 degree fever ♥️.
So, it's an NES Clone, but it looks like a bootleg Sega Megadrive, yet it comes with the Zapper, and it has a confusing name that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie???!!! Okaaayy, I'm sold! Should sit nicely next to the Retieval Mankind's Batman!
I can't believe they incorporated as Worlds of Wonder circa 1986 Laser Tag light gun into this system. Now I have to find one for myself!
I thought that gun looked familiar, but wasn't sure...
Nicely done and very timely
Romanian here. The picture at 4:45 made me cry a little. Happiest days of my life.
I just recently dig up my old Ending Man, and boy the memories. It was my first console ever, and i used to play it on an old black and white tv from the 40s that we had on our bungalow. I didnt even know games came im colour.
Ill never forget how I reacted when a kid on a buss lent me his OG Game Boy, and i was amazed that you could take games with you.
Keep in mind, i was born in 96, and this wasnt that long ago. So its even goofier thinking that when i would go on summer vacation with my family, that i carried the whole console, the power supply, controllers, light gun, and a small radio tv that was converted to work with the console as a form of entertainment.
Im planing on cleaning mine up, as it jas a big crack on the front from someone stepping on it during a sleepover hahaha.
This fucking got me man, I really appreciate your deep dive i to these things.
Btw, we used to just call all of these consoles just SEGA in Serbia, or atleast in my area. And anyone with a legit one was the weired one hahaha.
My cousins had one of these Terminator 2 consoles in the West Bank in the late 90s, I'd forgotten about it entirely until watching this! Much like grandma called every video game a "Nintendo" until "PlayStation" or "Xbox" became interchangeable, famiclones and video games in general were just "Atari" over there well into the 2000s. As a kid I always wondered why their Genesis Atari had Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt on it, and now I know!!!
They only had multi-carts for the things, and they were luckily all different colors. So "the neon green one" or "the piss yellow one" or "the Tang orange one" depending on what game you were looking for. The next time I visited them they had an entirely different famiclone that I don't remember much about, but the fact that this thing looked like a Genesis always stuck with me.
As a Bulgarian, I can confirm that the Terminator was in fact sold here, but it was a rather late comer. Probably after 1994-1995.
The first famiclones that appeared here, were pretty much exact replicas of the original Famicom. Red and white color scheme. Later we got different color schemes like light grey-dark grey or yellow-green (TMNT themed consoles). By the time the Terminator came here, most of us kids had already moved to the Mega Drive.
There is one particular famiclone that is most recognized here. It is named "Nintendo MT-999DX", and it too keeps the original FAMICOM design.
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So it's a NES in a Genesis like shell with the 80s Lazertag starlight gun as a zapper? lol
I had an ending man terminator 2. I got it for my birthday. I was living in Zimbabwe at the time. The NES clone that was popular during my day was called the "golden China" which was a much better quality console and one most kids had. My ending man was crap, it didn't work well at all, the pads would die all the time. My dad finally had enough and got me a second hand mega drive with a faulty left controller port. You just needed to wriggle the cable a bit at the port and the pad would work..... It was the best console I ever had. Every game I had was a 'hand me down' from a rich kid who got a Playstation. Because of this, I played so many mega drive games!!! The console holds a special place in my heart. Sonic was a masterpiece❤, I'm 38 now and I still game (I can now afford the latest consoles) but sonic 1,2 and 3 were life for me. And comix zone, that game was awesome.
That Terminator 2 "zapper" is a reshell of a lasertag blaster from WoW(Worlds of Wonder). I've got a few of them.
Wow that episode was really nice! I really like your channel for learning about foreign game system! Thank you for all the time you invest in here!!🤟
Romanian here, I can confirm that my whole childhood was about getting new games after we were gifted these consoles by our parents. I think we had the first one back in 1992 or something like that. I can tell you my dad obsessively played Tanks and Dr. Mario while I enjoyed discovering new games all the time. We were trading "cassettes" between friends to play more and more games. They were usually sold at the local "bazaar", I think they were brought from Moldova or Ukraine, not 100% sure. I owned and played this console up until 1998, if I remember correctly, when I got my first PC and discovered more updated games to play for the time.
I remember a childhood friend of mine having a laser tag set, the gun from that looked suspiciously similar to the gun that came with the "Terminator 2" system. This was in the late 80's though so my memory might be a bit off, but seeing as there was a laser tag set that used an officially licensed version of the "Zillion"-style Sega Light Phaser, it wouldn't surprise me if the pirates behind the Terminator 2 system would have copied an existing light gun design...
yep i had a Terminator 2 in the 90s, i had no idea Nintendo existed at that time
Awesome video, thank you!
In South East Asia, the Ending-Man had console box art that looks similar to Sega Master System game box, white box with grey lines. It came with RF antenna (the hole at the corner of the console) that allows you to broadcast the video signal to the TV, so sometimes neighbours living close by can catch the video game broadcast if they did any channel search.
wow, wireless projecting way back when! unreal!!!
Recently found this channel and am enjoying it, u should do a video about ur favorite control pads if u haven't all ready,
Never heard of this one. But it is fascinating, its story, and capabilities. Knowing it exists, makes it noteworthy
This was a big part of my childhood. I can still smell the plastic as it was getting hot. I had only played sone games on arcades untill I first saw this at my cousin's house. I spent a whole sumer playing Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers. Interesting times, the 90s in Romania.
Wooow. I had this as a kid... Greetz from Bulgaria. Ending man introduced me to gaming. Loved it
Those light guns are made from the molds of the original Lazer Tag guns made by Worlds of Wonder. I have 4 of them along with vest, helmets, etc.
Oh my Lord. This video brought me back to my childhood. Playing most of those games and more on both the Terminator 2 and Sega Mega drive at the time. I wish I still had them stored somewhere. 😊
I had a lot of these around 1996 in Hungary. Thay always broke down. The complete box with 2 joy, a zapper and a 9999 cart was around $3. And interestingly a loose cartridge with only 1 game was $5.
Üdvözletem honfitárs ! :D
Growing up in Romania, Terminator 2 was like a legend. I remember being a kid and how much fun I had playing on that game system. It was like a treasure trove of games, with new cassettes popping up all the time. I remember swapping games with other kids in my neighborhood and playing the same game over and over again until I was an expert.
Most of us were poor so we had to get crafty. We would go to the bazar and ask to try out new casettes, only to go somewhere near and swap the disk that was inside, then bring it back saying "aah, i have this game already, give me my money back" . With time, they started getting wise and some would check to see if the actual disk has been used and would catch us, but we would run away imediately, as kids would.
I had no idea about the Nintendo NES, so I was really excited when I could get my hands on a new game, not knowing who made it or what system it was actually made for. We used to play the pistol game, shooting virtual ducks and cowboys, and I still remember the excitement when I got a high score. My brother and I used to fight for the turn to play Double Dragon, and it was a constant battle until one of our parents decided the timetable.
Terminator 2 was a great part of my childhood and I still remember fondly the days when I would stay up late just to finish the game. It was an amazing experience and I'm glad I had the chance to "game" on that system. It's really cool to see how far gaming technology has come since then, but i still love the Terminator more.
Bulgarian here, had one of these bad boys as a kid, the controllers always had normal and turbo buttons. The cartridges were yellow/orange with bizzare art on them, resembling almost nothing from the actual game. I also had a different variation that looked like a literal keyboard. It was top loading and it came with unlicensed educational games. There were ones shaped like a famicom too. There was not any difference except styling.
YAY! That's the exact console I had back in my childhood. (This was my childhood's Pegasus ^^)
For reals?
Soon as she puts a video up people always be like yea I had those hahahaa
What a history behind a console like this..
I can be wrong did they not still sell that Ending Man in China ? 😳
Great video Miss. Decade and thanks for the shout out 😃
They did.
Hi, I'm from Slovak Republic and I can remember this console being sold on the so called " Vietnams markets" during 2nd decade of the 90's. It was the only one opportunity how to play Nintendo games, so the market was fed up with various clones. This console recieved the typical yellow cartridges sold for 300 crowns ( approx. 10 €) which contained more games. At that time, in USA, childern were playing N64, but we eere happy to play NES games. I have to mention, that all began in 1993, when the first Video game console, the clone of Atari 2600, appeared on Slovakia's markets. As a child I was absolutely impressed by such stuff I had never seen before ( taking into account, the USA HAD KNOWN 16 years this console). The 2600 was bunched with approx. 100 games embeded on the mather board via cartridge wirring slot. I have got the one at home in functional condition with both yoisticks and antena RF switch. Nothing has changed my childhood as this piece of cheap plastic box, that totally blowed my mind.
I'm from argentina and grew up with an ending man. Thanks for the blast from the past!
"Mega Drive 2 [...] it was one of the coolest looking consoles ever designed."
I always knew I liked you for a reason. Model 2 is the best!
Many of them sound terrible though. I had to have a Mega Amp installed in my Mega Drive 2 VA1.
It's always curious to see the history of famiclones around the world.
Well ma'am, I'm from Romania and I also grew up with this console, nowadays I play the games on the emulators, but trust me, the moments with this console and the games were the greatest moments from my childhood and also the only good ones, ninja gaiden, shadow of the ninja, batman the videogame, terminator 2(the game, not the console), just a few names, and after I discovered the emulators when I got my first touchscreen phone, I just couldn't get much happier, yet last year I discovered a secret that only americans that grew with the original NES console: GAME GENIE codes, again just last year I discovered them and heck I was in heaven, even nowadays even if now I use emulators I can't break up with theese awesome games, even if they don't have 4k ultra hd graphics they are soo precious for me, I love them from my deep soul and I'll play them untill my final days, anyway great video ma'am
My father bought me my first Terminator 2 for my fifth birthday, back in 1997. That machine brought me a lot of priceless memories, even though the build quality was extremely poor.
LOL i recognize that light gun... They stole that exact design from a toy that came out in 1986, called 'Lazer Tag'. Look it up!
Another awesome bit Madame Ten-years.
Thank you for another interesting video
Awesome video hun
Yes! I started with a Russian imported Dendy Junior (a Famicon clone, just with lots of grey), later upgraded to Terminator2, as my Romanian built ZX Spektrum clone was worse on games and the tapes required ages to load, if any. I still have it and some game carts in the storage unit.
This console was huge in my country Algeria , even if it was a knockoff but we had really a good time .
In Bosnia some years ago u could get it everywhere. People on streets would sell it for around 20 euros with 5 games disks.
A story from my childhood in Bulgaria. This truly was the console everybody owned, except for me.
A year earlier than it coming to the country, my father brought me one back from Russia - it was called "Dendy Lifa SM-888-II". It worked normally but the three main differences were: 1. the size (it was smaller, but somehow heavier); 2. the joypads and lightgun - the design of joypads was more slick and the lightgun looked very realistic; 3. Two or maybe three of around 100 different cartriges that I tried on it didn't seem to work.
Thinking back about it maybe there was some difference in the chipset used for the console.
The main problem with this console was the charger - it got hot after sometime and needed to be turned off to cool down
Later when it broke, I bought myself a Terminator 2 like everybody else. It was around 2-4 years later.
Yes I'd have this same one when I was kid, I spend so many hours playing games on this, so many of my happy nostalgic childhood memories are associated with this game console
I remember fama-clones used to pop up in my local mall here in the states. There always was so something wrong with them,gameplay speed, music was wrong or different, graphical errors. They were fun to try out though.
Greetings from Hungary! We had that console and enjoyed playin on it. :) But it was broken sadly. Is was the one of '90s console king! I like your contents Lady.
My cousin had one when I was little.
THIS is what got me into gaming.
As a person living in Kenya I can say this console was a much cheaper alternative to the other consoles, it was available in nearly every back street at a cost of roughly $10 around 1998 to 2000.
Ending Man 2: Day of Sentences For Crimes, directed by Jim Kameron.
Lady Decade that zapper gun looks like a direct rip off of the Laser Tag gun with an added round barrel tip.
I just said basically the same exact thing. I recognized it immediately! 🤣
I don't know anyone who cared or had fond memories of those consoles.
Instead many of the "Dendy".
In Soviet Russia, they cared very little that the console accepted PAL/NTCS.
They had SECAM.
They kept watching the games in B/W.
Great story telling♥️...plz make an Episode on Creation and Super Creation consoles plz...
I put this on Watch Later, I don't have the time right now, but man... I had an Ending Man Terminator 2! Can't wait.
Terminator was my NES back in the late 90s. That is all we had here in eastern Europe but it was fun. The joystick were pretty crappy but they worked most of the time. There were also some famiclones shaped like a keyboard. Still an NES.
From Turkey, we had the same retro console clone as Terminator or Micro Genius. We called the consoles as Atari. Loved the video. Thanks
We had in Macedonia (95 til 2005 I think), something similar like Block buster for renting NES cartridges for clone NES, few small shops in cities, but after 10 years they started renting CD's as well for PC games.
I grew up in Bulgaria and still have the ending man Terminator 2. At one point it broke, but I had enough time to have some great time with it. 90 % of the games on sale were bootlegs and mostly bizarre
I like how you say “Console gaming is a necessity for gracious living”
From Kenya here,We used to buy this at around 8USD (Current rate) That would include a 300 in one Catridge...That would feature Mario,Legend Kage(which was a best seller),Tank etc.... Then there were some very Rare games like Batman, Ninja Turtles etc
Congrats for your channel i really enjoy it! Humm funny! I remember this ones to be sold on Portugal! Very cheap even for the time, i guess arround 25€ on today money.
Ohh... "Terminator2" I was very young when I played with, I didn't even realize that NES console was existing 😂
It had a massive success on Algeria 🇩🇿 local markets greater than ps1 or ps2.
Another Famiclone console was very popular in my country we called it "keyboard console" on their boxes was written "learn and have fun" in Arabic (our native language) even the system and menus came in Arabic. We convinced our parents to buy for us those nes clones because they have a computer looking, so we tell them "we do our home work using those consoles" or even " write some computer programs" but actually we were only playing nes bootleg cartridges on them 😅
Great retro gaming topic ❤️
If you can do an episode on keyboard Famiclone consoles and their hidden features... that would be great 🙂
Hidden Battletoads track playing in the background. Clever! Also, you should check out the "Rambo" Atari 2600 clone.
My friend had this console. I myself had the Polystation 😅
I have now collected both and fire up them once in a while with a CRT tv. Good times, good times. ❤
(Estonia)
Cool! Can we see a video of your video games and consoles collection?
Cool beans
Another intriguing video. Russia easing the copyright laws could have a major effect on gaming, along with the difficulties facing developers in both Ukraine and Russia.
This was really interesting!
My father bought me one when I was a kid in the earlier of 2000s i remember that i spent hours playing pacman super mario contra... and that's how i started my trip in gaming ❤
The Terminator 2 console's zapper gun looks like a Lazer Tag gun.
In Argentina we also had these (as well as a lot of other types of clones) The most popular version of this particular clone here was the Electrolab Ending Man (there is an ad here on youtube that you watch) that as well as that ukranian model had the headphone jack on the joysticks (a feature that also Micro Genius clones had) Electrolab was known for another clone made by NTDEC, that was more similar to the famicom but it had a circular shape.
Like most clones you have different generations. The earlier ones had better hardware more similar to the original one. Then you have those first NOAC consoles that weren't too bad but in time they were getting cheaper.
I remember getting electrical shocks in my ears through the crappy earbuds on these, so i never really used the whole audio jack feature on the controller.