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Whaaaaat, oh my god. Rambo is my first game console! I’m from Mykolayiv (Ukraine), so when I was child my parents worked very hard to collect some money, and they present this Rambo console to me and my brother for New Year Holliday, we were so happy, you cannot imagine. Previously we could only watch how other guys playing games in “game clubs” or in some sort of stores (or shops). And from this moment I started to play games and love it for this very moment.
Ps: sorry for my English, I guess I did a lot of mistakes
You've got perfect English! Even most English natives can't do that!
Your English is fine. Like the previous commenter said, even most native English speakers don't write as well as you do!
Anyway, I was wondering how things were for you in that period as a child. Both parents working, I imagine? And you must have been spending a lot of time with this console, seeing as you said you were very happy with it.
Do you recall the picture being as bad as seen in the video here? Or was it clear(er)? And did it ever break on you?
This is wonderful! I hope you guys have many great memories playing games together.
Glad you enjoyed your gaming, that's what it's all about. The cost of the box or the badge on it matters little, as long as you had fun. PS, Your English is fine. It's a very forgiving language. You don't need to be perfect with grammar to be understood, and being understood is all that matters :)
Fascinating post. Thanks. Its all too easy to assume that such a console would be unwanted after 1985 or so. But that is only to consider things from a western viewpoint.
In my country, in 90s, we had the TERMINATOR game console :D It was just NES clone, but i loved it
mi smo imali rambo, obozavali smo ga svi, komsije su visile kod nas, keva i cale pikali, predobre uspomene :D
computers with yellowcasets
We had them here in argentina too they sold pretty well
@@spaceharrier9303 Yeah! They were quite popular! My father used to sell those consoles and game cartridges, so i tried shitload of games :D Every week new games
@Wesley Swafford probably because of the word "pikali" :D
This console should have been called, "Rambo: First Dud."
Rambo first dud, I love it! 😂
Rambo: First Turd Part II
Don't forget it's thrilling sound track: the fail horn! (womp, womp!). i have had a couple of other knock off consoles like this in the past 10 years that worked ok for nes // snes // genesis games, but eventually both overheated and turned into junk thanks to their amazingly awful electrical components, with neither being replaced through their warranties from the manufacturers. Playing the games is fun, but melting or setting them on fire is anything but.
12:44 channeling your inner AVGN
I had exact one of these, back in the 90's. That was in Romania. And although, you *could* get a NES, a SNES, or even a Saturn at the time (given you knew the right shady characters who sold them, due to the fact that they weren't sold in stores around the country), cheap clones like "Brick Game" (Tetris handheld), "Rambo" (Atari 2600 clone) and "Terminator" (NES/Famicom clone) were prevalent. Everybody knew what they were, but we still bought them, and we had quite some fun with them. Most of the time, even if you knew whom to speak for an official console, the cost of a Saturn, for example, would've exceeded the monthly pay of an entire family. They were incredibly expensive, the price was set by scalpers/hustlers.
I had a Terminator, never had a money to buy a real console, and that was in the early 2000s. My friends had the Rambo. Romanian here as well.
I also had this Rambo clone but it had Super Mario
I am from Ukraine and I had this console when was a child (some 90s).
It was my first game console.
For the most of games I had no idea what is happening on the screen 😂.
But as I remember I very likes Pitfall.
In year or two after that, parents bought me Famicom clone with name Lifa (at least as far as I can remember :) )
And there when is my nerdiness begins! 😄
Don't know why, but your story makes me happy. 😊
Whaaaaat, this story absolutely as mine. I’m from Mykolayiv (Ukraine), so when I was child my parents worked very hard to collect some money, and they present this Rambo console to me and my brother for New Year Holliday, we were so happy, you cannot imagine. Previously we could only watch how other guys playing in “game clubs” or in some sort of stores (or shops). And from this moment I started to play games and love it for this very moment.
@@MorFey911ua
Hehe nice!
I from Poltava (at least lived there back then).
My Rambo was gifted to me by my cousin. It belongs to him before that so it was noticeably used already 😄.
And yes remember those times of video games clubs, we with friends were constantly watching from the crowd.
And from time to time, when we can gather enough money, plays ourselves. Wild times :)
@@Perun42 right, absolutely wild times
@@BRUXXUS Probably because it's an honest story about simple moments of happiness of a child :)
We had one of these back in the 90s, the joysticks never lasted more than a week. Still a lot of fun (because we didn't know any better in post-communist eastern Europe). The picture was pretty clear as I remember.
@Константин Родчанин My classmate had one in 1993 Russia just months before Dendy hit us.
@@saratov99 omg, poor sod
This is what I was about to comment also
Yeah, with videogames if you don't know any better you will be satisfied with what you have. I remember spending countless hours on gaming on a 286 pc as a little kid in the late 90s. If you gave it to a kid today, they wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I imagine having Atari 2600 must have been tons of fun for people growing up in the 80s. Maybe in 2050 we will be laughing at how primitive today's games were.
My 2600 could be tuned on two frequencies. One being some strange clock that looked like that, and the other one being clear as it gets. I feel like you're on the wrong frequency...
Oh I remember this one very well. Never had enough money to buy it in the mid-1990s, because most of us, Ukrainians were terribly poor in those times. However, I recall that console very well. We got that monumentally-looking Soviet-style kinda-supermarket that presented on its three storeys pretty everything. The first storey offered both Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on vinyl and Phil Collins' Face Value on audio cassette and Tetris monochrome handhelds and VHS's with moderately unclothed ladies and this console that you mention, as well. I got the Tetris handheld console produced in China, but never got anything else from what I've depicted above.
If I recall right, I've once seen an additional game cartridge for that system, probably sold separately at the very same shop where the console was sold in my native city. It was circa 1995, so I can't say 100% correct.
Thanks for sharing your story. I grew up in the US of A in the 1970s and we were poor-ish. I feel fortunate that my parents and grand parents were able to pool resources to buy an Atari 2600 in 1978 or 1979. I spent time in Afghanistan so now I know the real meaning of poor.
@@billschlafly4107 Yup. I grew up poor too and thought it was pretty bad until I saw poverty in third world nations. Even the homeless in America don't have it as bad as some people In these places.
@@billschlafly4107 My family's story was pretty average for the USSR. My parents were engineers, the mother had to leave her job for health issues, so only my father worked and we never felt any traits of poverty in the Soviet times - according to Soviet standards even with only father working we still got enough money. After the end of the USSR in 1991 the father's factory came into decline and in 1996-1999 he practically got no money, at all. He got some shoes and cereals and stockings instead of money at work. Then we tried to sell all those goods to somebody... In result, I couldn't even buy Dendy - famous in our lands clone of NES. Only one boy in our class at school had Sega Mega Drive (aka Sega Genesis in North America) and he tried to keep it in secret for as long as he could. Several boys had various NES clones. SNES or 3DO or PS1 were absolutely unreachable for us.
So, for the post-Soviet children of the 1990s, there were two cult consoles: Dendy and Sega Mega Drive. 8bit and 16bit cartridges were all pirate. It means, no batteries for saves, no Virtua Racing available, and worst of all no cartridge booklets... So, there were lots of books that basically published the info from the booklets, though the authors did not claim that openly. I bought those books and usually wondered where did the authors find info on the names of the bosses, and so on... Had they asked the creators of the game by phone or how else?
In the Soviet times, unfortunately, foreign video game consoles were not sold inside the USSR. Although, possibly, some native amateur and professionally-made consoles existed, and knowing the constant unpredictability of all things Russia, I may not even deny something from Japan or the USA could get to the USSR - but, in any case, in very tiny quantities. Perhaps, the Communist elite's children could buy something like Atari 2600 or the kind. Not us in the provincial city.
Sega Mega Drive was my huge dream in the 1990s. I even wrote an SMD anthem with refrain: "We're loving you, oh Sega Mega Drive / We're living you, oh Sega Mega Drive" (meaning that we live thanks to it and with thoughts all around it). I wrote it in like 1996 when I had not even heard about Sony PlayStation 1 yet...
It sounds like there's a good book in that story, or at least a video series. It would be really interesting to hear about it and perhaps even important for posterity. My mother grew up at the height of the terrorism in Northern Ireland and her perspective on such earthshattering events as an ordinary member of the public are just as important as knowing the politics and diplomacy going on 'upstairs'.
"THIS CONSOLE DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE MUJAHIDEEN FIGHTERS OF AFGHANISTAN"
Underrated comment. 😂
LOL! That's a good one, hahah
"Whadd'ya say John"?
"F**k 'em"
"Whadd'ya say John"?
"F**k 'em"
I bought an NES clone from the mall with Christmas money one year (maybe 2002?). It looked like an N64 controller and came with a pretty decent light gun! All the NES Mario's for $30 had me flipping out as a kid.
I mean, the trigger broke off the gun and the whole thing eventually died but it was fun while it lasted.
EDIT: I looked into it and it was called the Power Player Super Joy III and was apparently infamous enough to have its own wikipedia page.
Mostly because a man got a spell in prison for selling them lel.
Mine never worked.
Holy crap... From the Wiki:
_Nine days after Cohen's guilty plea, 40 FBI agents arrested four Chinese nationals working in an international copyright infringement ring and seized 60,000 Power Player consoles in searches in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Maple Shade, New Jersey._
*40* FBI agents vs four counterfeiters from China? Slow day at the office or what?
I still see these particular NES clones show up in thrift stores all the time
@@onometre i got one at the thrift store for a few bucks. It still works, and it's actually not terrible.
Honestly, as bad as this console is, I'm actually pretty impressed that the blurb on the packaging was so perfectly written. 😆
I'm guessing a lot of these clones were targeting those who couldn't afford the cost of proper consoles at the time.
They spent the entire budget on hiring the best writer.
That was my thought... It was actually coherent.
This was before Google translate. Thats why. They HAD to have someone who spoke English write it. Couldn't just paste Chinese and get Engrish
To be honest, most couldn’t even afford this!!! (In eastern Europe)This was in post communist era so people were broker than broke. This was considered a luxury item if you could afford it. As crappy as it is. Most were so poor food is what mattered, entertainment was most likely the last thing on there minds.
Lol, you think?
I remember this kind of stuff in Poland around the time it came out. It adorned tarp-covered sidewalks bazaars the capital city over.
I can't believe you're holding one of the legendary Rambo consoles. Forget the Sega 32X, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, upcoming Sega Saturn, and Sony PlayStation (I live in the US)...this was the console we couldn't stop talking about.
Fun Fact: Nintendo was so afraid of the Rambo they held back the Ultra 64 for an entire year...it just wasn't ultra enough. ;)
I had this as a kid. Bought it in Egypt & brought it back to the US
That was my first console as a kid. It was very cheap, so my father bought it to me as a surprise. I played all the games, some I liked, but some were just really bad. I played so much that the both joysticks broke, but that wasn't a problem, I opened them and used them that way, instead on pressing the buttons, I directly pressed the contacts (there were some metal sheets that would connect to the contacts). It was nice, but, at the same time, I was a bit sad, because the graphics were really bad, compared to modern consoles and PCs from that time. I saw Doom on a PC just a while back, that was so awesome... and this console had no first person shooter game... Oh well, it was fun times anyway.
Oh, my GOD! I used to have this one as a kid, and then the TERMINATOR as well!
Finally I made one decision right back in the 90's... & my TvBoy still works & has all the classics I played on my big brothers Atari.
One of my mates came around to have a go on it, felt sorry for me & sold me his MegaDrive & games for a tenner... looking back that was good business too!
The picture quality might be because of difference in broadcast standards. I believe the East Germans used SECAM PAL instead of just PAL. A PAL television would not be able to display color from a SECAM PAL signal.
...and as far as I remember will result in static noise as well.
"It's like putting a bow on a turd. Where the bow happens to be carved out of a turd itself!"
That...seems to summarize the system as a whole succinctly.
Many in “eastern” Europe and camera zooms in on my birthplace of “Austria,” which technically is the most eastern part of Western Europe, well during the time period of when this thing was sold at least.
But it’s all good mate. Love your show and humor.
I remember the NES Clones from the 90's, either sold from an lorry Driver or the get it right behind the border of Hungary we're they sold Fake Brand clothes at markets
Da vergisst man mal die Umlaut-Punkte in Österreich, und schon wird Ost-Erreich draus... :P
@@KernelLeak Hahaha. Living in North America and being too lazy to write the Umlaut also works, but your response was brilliant on top of that.
I remember this was the main console in Romania... Was everyware. I remember saveing money for it, but I buy, in 97,a Sega Mega Drive II 😁
Smart move
Mega drive 2?
The original Atari Stick: Buttery and silent.
The knockoff: Creaking death noises.
Had those in Slovakia as well. Got it on christmas 1994/5 :D veeeery happy memories! Nostalgia triggered for sure!
"Some" of those kids was me :D Growing up in Poland early 90's that was my first ever touch with gaming. Such great memories :) I mostly remember river raid and having no idea what those switches do (except reset and change game), but I figured if you delicately played with all of them at once you could glitch the console into having twisted games combination (mostly memory errors) or different color pallette.
We had the same one in Serbia, I remember the smell after 30mins of gaming 🤣 We had to glue joysticks millions of times until glue melted the plastic... Good old days...
Hearing those joysticks gave me the same feeling as hearing sombody eating with their mouth open.
Ha!
0:30 The look on your face is like "... send help... *gulp* "
Damn, I wish I had seen this in 1994, I would definitely picked one up. Rambo AND 2600! SCORE!
This was my first console, back in mid 90's. My friend had some clone of NES and used to make fun of Rambo system. Gosh, life in Croatia always sucked in the best possible way.
Lol. In the 90's we had the "polystation". A NES clone almost identical to a real Playstation 1. A lot of parents bought the polystation thinking it was a authentic ps1.
Gosh, i remember seeing that thing around well into the 00's.
Yeah, I remember how a lot of those cheap NOAC Famiclones were sold in so many parts of Latin America during the first half of the 2000 decade: eventually the console getsfried by itself, but at least you could conserve the cartridge, even when it had a lot of games repeated in the menu.
I had a Dynavision III, I like it a lot because when they mean "101 built in games" they ACTUALLY MEANT 101 built in games! Yep, no repeats at all, all the classics by Nintendo and others are in it
5:00 using an headphone style plug for power is a genius reuse of a plug and will never lead to accidental frying of a device if plugged by mistake in an headphones jack right?
When the Atari was designed, barely anything had a headphone jack, maybe small pocket radios. Most audio equipment used 7.5mm audio jacks, so it wasn't that big of a problem then. Walkmen came around and got popular in the mid 80's, 10 years after the Atari was designed. The Chinese just copied what Atari did, it was cheap and nasty.
@@EmergencyChannel tape recorders had
@@EmergencyChannel the 3.5 TRS connector was created in the '50s and started on transistor radios and became the defacto connector on portable radios before the Walkman.
I looked up and the Atari 2600 seems to be one of the only consoles using this jack for power, but indeed apparently some cheap devices did use it including few portable audio devices which make me double facepalm.
Meh, to be honest, it probably wouldn’t matter much. Most electronics with a 3.5mm audio jack would have coupling capacitors in-line. That would block DC, resulting in not much of anything at all happening if you plugged this in. In theory, anyway. Wouldn’t recommend trying it. ;-)
I love the soldering iron burn mark on the bottom, when you start the teardown!
It's not caused by a soldering iron, but by long term contact with the RF cable. The case is made of polystyrene, which can be melted by the plasticiser fumes outgassed from PVC cable insulation. You wrap the cable on the console and/or the controller, and the cable eats itself into the plastic over a few years of storage. I've seen this happening on C64 Datasettes, different remote controls, etc.
Here in Asia and from what I herd in the former USSR and eastern Europe.
We got Famiclone console called Terminator 2 Ending Man.
It had Megadrive 2 Japanese box design.
This console's controller was inspired by Super Famicom and was miles better than what NES and Famicom came with.
I am from eastern europe,got ending man from thailand,best console ever! Gamepad even had a headphone jack
Least it has the genuine Atari 2600 setup experience. I learned how to program the vcr at 4 years old myself sitting in front of a TV and my uncles atari all day. Technology babysat me as a toddler.
SMOOTH ad placement. A 2600 clone was my first console. But it was from the mid 80's.
Whoa the patient shaking as he died *shiver*
I had an early 2600 and it had 6 switches. The two extra was for left and right difficulty.
My first game console bought by my father back in '95 here in Romania. I had great memories with that playing around with elder brother. We always wondered if it could play games from the diskettes or the socket was just for display purposes :)
I live in eastern europe and this was my first console, I was still in kindergarten.
OMG ! we have the sema exact console !!! our father bought it for us (me and my brother) because we were good at school !
that was great because with it you can play all Atari games at ones ! so I made a culture of Atari games at this time ! after that he bought us Terminator called 8-bit console (famiclone...) ! and finally we had the SNES a real official console ! damn that was good times ! 😀
That reminds me.. I still need to test out this C64-in-a-joystick thing I bought at a flea market a decade ago..
tell me all about it
I tore apart one of these :D Back in 92!
I had this in the mid to late (can't really remember) 90's since i live in Croatia. And i loved it back then.
I also had the Pegasus console (NES clone) which was black and had dark blue buttons on the console and controllers. Although the controllers where terrible, i kept one hull of a controller with no cord, (i cut it) as a memento LOL.
EDIT: Actually, i didn't have a Pegasus game console, i had Ending-Man TERMINATOR console (also a NES clone), i checked just now. The reason i didn't know was because i only remembered i had a NES cone and that it was black and blue. I never bothered checking if that's true until now, thanks to SAM's comment. Good thing i checked. Sorry for unintentionally misleading those of you that have read my comment.
Ah Pegasus i had the late version soap bar style that originally came with golden 5 cartridge( Dizzy Caveman Micro Machines Stuntman) but sleazy salesman tended to "upgrade" it to cheap 50 or 100 in 1 and sell golden 5 at ridiculous prices
@@MegaNinjaMonkeyZord Interesting, i have never heard of that version before. I'll have to find out more about it. I didn't even know there where other versions of the Pegasus console. Yeah some of the salesman where sleazy indeed... Those 50/100 in one cartridges where garbage, most of the games where the same games over and over with a different name.
@@MegaNinjaMonkeyZord Actually, i didn't have a Pegasus game console, i had Ending-Man TERMINATOR console (also a NES clone), i checked just now. The reason i didn't know was because i only remembered i had a NES cone and that it was black and blue. I never bothered checking if that's true until now, thanks to your comment. Good thing i checked. Sorry for unintentionally misleading you.
"What are you?"
"I'm your worst nightmare"
I remember Rambo console being peddled on muddy town markets in early 90's Poland. Luckily my grandma got me a NES clone instead :D
A few days ago while watching some video about retro consoles, I remembered this console, and literally thought how nice it would be if someone make a video about this console.
And here it is.
I had this console and only thing i can remember is that i was deeply disappointed with realization that games from the images on the box are not games in the console, and I've got bored with this garbage after a few days. I was little kid and didn't know anything about cheap clones and false advertising.
Thanks for the video and Greetings from Serbia.
There was a dude at a local flea market in the US selling knockoff game systems (mostly famiclones in different shells) as "A-TRY systems."
He had a poster saying "The A-TRY has all of the fun and none of the cost of the NINTEN-DONTT'
Yeah, he couldn't spell.
He'd shout, "WANNA GIVE IT A-TRY?!" to kids.
I only noticed him the one time before his booth had an "Available for rent" sign on it.
“They forgot they were dealing with Rambo” 😂😂😂😂
My first gaming console. I think it had multiple game banks. After some time, when pressing the game switch, it went passed the point where it should have looped around and got to a new set of games, and then, a few months later, it happened again, so we had 3 banks of games in it, I guess, but they looped back to the first bank when we got to the end of the third bank.
I regret giving it away, as it is now buried in a landfill.
This was also my first TV console in Greece in the late 80s or very early 90s or so. Or a version of it anyways because I don't exactly remember the Rambo name. The GameOver 2600 looks more likely. The image was clear though, didn't have problems with static. I don't know how many games it really had but they seemed like endless. As others mentioned, most of us at that time could only see the "proper" consoles at toy stores, TV commercials or some kid with "rich" parents if you had such friend anyways. We would draw platform levels like Mario on a piece of paper, put numbers in like Snakes and Ladders and play by rolling the dice. Good designs would get photo printed around. At best, some of us would only have one of those Chinese Tiger-clone-clone-clone at the time in case some nice auntie got one for us for Christmas / Easter instead of clothes. So, those 2600 clones were a huge upgrade for many of us. The equivalent of parents back then buying a proper console to their kid would be for parents now buying a brand new convertible car for their high school or college kid. Pretty rare. Things thankfully changed rapidly throughout the 90s and we could afford at least a Game Boy or Master System, eventually SNES and so on.
We came from an era where video games were Tiger electronics handheld, DOS Games, Watch games, etc... so yes I agree back then this was pretty cool, we had a bunch of cool toys in the 80's and 90's it was all fun while they lasted...
Awesome content as always. This one sparked a forgotten memory of tuning an old television to play PS1 when I was about 7 or 9. I vaguely remember the telly having a row of (not sure what to call) wheels for you to tune channels. I think I thought it must be possible to tune into what would be the AV channel on other TVs and somehow it was.
It might've been a nes it's a very vague memory
Edit to remove second vague and then decided to leave it.
Drunk
Great video this, nice work sir!
Oohh the componentry...^^
You wordsmith you... love it! :)
Rambo console....Every kid in Poland had it back then:) great days...Oh and the picture quality wasn't that crappy at all...you just needed a proper joystick and you had a blast
This was a crap.
Laughs in Pegasus
Bro, this console was so popular here, in Poland:D almost as Pegasus:D I think I still have Rambo somewhere:)
My first game console. Got this for Christmas 1991, it cost more than a third of then-average monthly salary in former Czechoslovakia.
The antenna connector of the device is faulty. When they connected the Famicon clone of my aunts, who lived next door to our house, to the television, we watched it in the same way at our house. I think there is an RF transmitter in them 😊
This thumbnail is my new home screen.
A very popular console. They even made 3 movies about it.
Damn, that segway to the Sponsor was sweet! 🤭
I didn't know Strike Commando existed... Looks like I have a movie to watch this weekend.
They sold similar clones in Yugoslavia, wild times.
My first console was a variation of this (I'm from Croatia, by the way). I found an add in the local newspaper about a game system with over 900 games built in, and at a price that my parents found acceptable. And when it arrived, it looked like 2600 jr console and came with 999 games built-in if I recall correctly. Now, I got it at a time when my friend already had a SNES. You can imagine my disappointment with that thing. Of the 999 games, there were maybe 30 or 40 unique games, and the rest were just the same games with different colors or something. The only good thing about it was that it worked perfectly and it could play regular 2600 cartridges. But it was a small consolation when my friend was kicking ass in Street Fighter 2 or having oodles of fun with the Super Mario Bros 3.
Nice to see an original 6 switch Atari VCS...such a quality made machine. My reason to purchase the Rambo would be for the case itself, which looks like an original Atari case. I would repaint it and add a Raspberry Pi or something to it I suppose. However, after seeing that Ebay sellers want $200 Canadian for this console from Croatia with $76 shipping? I think I will pass.
My god that box blurb is insanely cheesy...I love it.
Woooow, my first ever console!!! Childhood memories 🤗
Epic! Great vid!
I had it year or two before Panasonic 3DO. And it was amazing. Berzerk was the scariest shit i've ever played (or at least i thought so back then). One of my friends had Dendi (clone of NES) and other Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) so i could play all the range but nobody wanted to play Rambo with me. Then i got Panasonic 3DO and didnt tell nobody as i didnt wanted to play with anyone. :D
I'm from the Balkans and this console brought me more childhood trauma than all the wars we had
I love how the controller port moves each time he uses the power and search switches. Quality.
I don’t turn on notifications for TH-cam as I find it super annoying to get those on my phone with the exception of this channel. The second I get one from Nostalgia Nerd I’m there! Keep it up man!
What an awesome hoodie! Oh and the video was great as well 😁
5:27 is that an ol' UK "BLOKE" chiming in for Sylvester's lines? I swear on everything that isn't Stalone talking! (Now must rewatch 'First Blood'!)
You just gotta love Bruno Mattei. As good as Strike Commando is, imho Shocking Dark takes the win. A true original, in absolutely no sense of the word.
Rambo was very popular console in Poland, early 90' :) the same as Pegasus ( NES clone ) and others clones
This was already over a decade out-of-date when it came out in 1994...
How backward was my part of the world that I got my SNES in 1994 and I thought that was amazing.
У меня в детстве в один день появилось две консоли: Денди и Рембо.
Рембо нравилась сильно и по сей день нравится, но Денди больше времени уделял, потому что на Рембо сломался блок питания. А сейчас у Рембо проблема со встроенными играми, при включении какие-то помехи. Пришло время на прокачку, давно этот план в голове зрел и пылился. Кастомный корпус сделать, по возможности восстановить встроенные игры.
Groovy
Cool set, wish I had it back then. Hel I wish I had one right now!
The "Yo Adrian! 2600" :P
Worth it for 'Bumbo' alone.
My uncle used to own one of this gems. I think its actually the first gaming setup i played.
Just imagine being a kid in school talking to your mates about games consoles
"I got a '360",
"Yeah I got a PS2"
"Love my N64"
"My mum just got me a RAMBO"
had one :) maybe not a rambo one, but it looked as the atari 2600,
but picture wasnt snowy goodness, it was perfectly clear and no static noise either
"Where are the missiles?"
Rambo: "near.... in your @$$"
Rambo:"you dont just turn it off" (you throw it in the bin)
I like the idea of using Reagan-icon Rambo to sell a console in post-modern Clinton-era 1994, the year of Pulp Fiction.
Nice video Dude :)
I love how this game console has you playing, "Circus Atari" and "Breakout" with joysticks. The absolute WRONG controller that you're supposed to play them with. You can't play those games properly with joysticks. At all.
Didn’t stop AtGames from
putting paddle fames on the handheld 2600
Funny fact, Rambo console in eastern Europe was not an Atari case, but a Sega case. Of course it was an 8 bit as well, worked with most of pirated diskettes. The build in 9999.. games were often between 20 or 30 in the best, and all the rest were very strange mods of the game. For example we had a mario mod with unlimited lives, or the best of all had enormous high jump so you can fly to the end of the stage from the start. The biggest problem was that the joystick (again a Sega clone) had the wrong connectors so it was not possible to hook up the cloned Nintendo joystick, and yes... They brake so easy that you may be lucky to get a full day of play time at times.. was fun...
Oh here in Panama we never saw this ones, we had a lot of famiclones, good video, you earned muy subcription
My cousin had one of these. I had something much better: a Terminator, which was a NES clone that looked vaguely like a Sega Mega Drive. Still behind the times, but at least you could play Super Mario Bros, Contra and other cool NES stuff. It actually wasn't awful, but the gamepads were quite dodgy.
11:24 looks like they didn't even bother to clean off the flux after soldering the board. Wow.
This was sold in Eastern Germany around 1993, usually at those markets run by mostly Vietnamese people that popped up after the reunification. Sometimes you could also find them being sold at Christmas markets or given as prizes at those funfair tombolas where you could usually Win these huge cuddly toys. A neighbour of mine had one with a more interesting set of games, including Donkey Kong, River Raid in funny colours (an NTSC ROM on a PAL console) and also that fire fighting game. I remember the joysticks being of better quality though.
Oh, and where did you get that AIM hoodie?
I love the fact that when you move the switches, all of the ports move as though it's been held in place with some weak double sided tape.
Can we just take time to appreciate what I'm assuming is his AOL shirt
Was still Sega Genesis'in the MiG-29 Fulcrum game and Golf in 1994. Day late and dollar short, always.
Those controllers' noises are ghastly
Love it. Amazing XD