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When I was a kid my grandpa bought me one of these for Christmas (Circa 2009) from a grocery store. This little bootleg console was one of the first ways that I had experienced a lot of retro NES games. A friend and I even managed to beat Contra with these terrible controllers. I sadly have genuine nostalgia for this exact unit 😂
That's awesome. I've never seen any of those consoles anywhere. I love bootleg systems. Lol. They're so bad they're fun. But man you make me feel old lol. Not mad or anything but in 2009 I was 28! 😂😂
Let me just say this.... If I saw this "all in one" system with two controllers, one of which looks like an N64 controller, one Genesis controller AND it also comes with a gun.... when I was a kid in the late 90s... it literally wouldn't even matter what games that it had. This would be the greatest thing I'd ever seen.
I bought one for my kids as a travel system. We already had a couple PlayStations and a Game Cube. Not wanting to damage those, we bought this to use in hotel rooms. It was a serviceable alternative to the pay per hours games offered at hotels at the time.
NO WAY! This thing was the reason I got into videogames! If it weren't for it I probably wouldn't appreciate NES games and retro gaming in general as much as I do today. Watching this video was like going back to 2011 for a moment. Thank you!
same here. My parents bought this for me when I was 4 years old(back in 2002). I remembered I had a clear blue one that would light up when you would press any button.
I know this comment is old. But if you search for Kevtris Portendo you can find a portable made this thing. Kevtris later went to work for Analogue Inc.
This thing was one of the weirdest impulse buys from my dad back in 2003. He and I went to the mall and saw this kiosk dude playing old NES games. My dad listened to this dude's pitch, spent twenty dollars, and grabbed the box. I still have this thing, box and all
@@yamigekusu Did you throw them out?, those things last forever, i have like 8, a big 32 inch that i use for old consoles, two 27 inch, four 21 inch and one 14 inch, all working till the day i wrap them up in plastic and stash them, mostly sony and samsung
@@enriquedossantos3283 I had to leave my old CRT TV s at my old place as I couldn't pick them up, or have them at my fiance's place. Man, do I wish I could play some of my older games on those TVs
As much as I do hate this thing, I have to be pedantic. 1942 always starts you on "Last 32 Stage"; it counts down from 32 to tell you how many stages are left, not what stage you're on. So it is running correctly here.
You can plug a famicom to NES adapter into it and then plug the larger NES cartridges into that adapter and have the most monstrosity you can think of.
I remembering buying one of these at a random kiosk at a mall when I was teenager out of pure curiosity since by that time I was already well into my Playstation years (Atari 2600 and NES was my life as a kid lol) Played it once. 15 years later, I found it in storage and gave it to my cousin who has since become quite the video game collector so at least it went to a good home.
You have no idea how much this console meant to me. Thank you for making this video, it's hilarious to see the first impression of a knowledgeable Nintendo guy. There was all kinds of quirks and hilarious duplicates. I spent a lot of time playing this system with my brother.
Omg I remembered I went to swap meets and seeing those, that's how I got into Super Mario Bros and other NES/famicom games. I miss the late 2000's so much
@@Whkixsbukb How did any of this get past customs? It doesn't matter if they give the gun a stupid orange tint at the end of the gun, it's still a gun, some border guard will see this as a gun and will confiscate it!
I remember I got this for Christmas one year. When I opened it I thought it might play n64 games. When I hooked it up I was disappointed to see that it didn’t. None the less I still had a lot of fun with it this was actually the first way I ever played super Mario bros. I played it nearly every day for a month then out of nowhere it stopped turning on. This was back in 2012 and I have no idea where it is now so it was nice to see you make a video on it!
And there were more models to this Shockingly. You had this version (made in 2001) The original one (which said 76 in 1. And had music in the background) You had the final one which was slightly improved with the cartridge and had no letters next to the title. And some came with PAC-MAN and some came with mappy with a Nuts sprite (from nuts and milk) in the place. So me living in NYC this was everywhere and only $20 on 14th Street. And it was like hoping for PAC man or not. I owe it to this console it helped get me through my parents divorcing as a child. Great video btw
Also Walgreens sold something like this back in 2009 called Senario 101 in 1 for $9.99! there's other versions with fake games but this one had the real nes games they were pulled quickly from the shelves once Walgreens found out they were bootleg
Me and my cousins shared this console as kids and quickly realized what it was. However, it gave me an opportunity to experience a lot of these older titles that I had never seen as a kid and developed a fondness for them. Now as an adult I collect for the NES. Without the Super Joy I might never had experienced some really great games. Thank you for finally talking about the Super Joy 3!
I had one similar to this called power-joy it had the gun built-in to the main controller and it came with a 84 in 1 game cartridge with a weird panda Mario game they were sold at the mall sometime in the mid 00s for around $30
I actually had this as a kid growing up around 2005 or so the Blue Model with a Sega 6 button this was before I had an NES I found that someone was throwing out
This brings me back. I got this as a present while in elementary school from some relatives who weren't knowledgeable in games. I had some fun with it especially using the light gun. I didn't know much about the games since i had a PS1 already, but thought it was cool to experience retro gaming. I had this buried in my mind until this video popped up on my feed
One of my favorite titles was Golf EER. Also, I love how you basically said, "I'm sorry if you went through that trauma, but if you have, please say more."
Thanks for actually showing the Famicom slot in use. I had a very similar Famiclone system as a kid which they sold through local catalogues but instead of a second MegaDrive style controller mine had its own unique shape whereas the N64 style main controller lacked the fake analogue stick and had a silver colour. Also the C buttons were in their actual position. The games were basically taken from the black box series i.E. Pinball and some lesser known ones like Battle City.
My parents saw a guy selling these at a fairground once. There was a guy who saw that it had Burger Time, and he freaked out yelling something like "IT HAS BURGER TIME! I NEED IT!" and bought one. My parents bought two of them just because. It was how I played Wild Gunman for the first time. Be glad you didn't try to use the battery cartridge, my brother tried to use it and it got so hot the plastic melted off
I remember back over 10 years ago these being sold in little stands in the mall. Then they moved onto the Flea Market, and finally I would find them in various states of repair/completeness at the local thrift stores. Thanks for the awesome coverage of an item I remember well.
So I've researched these extensively from buying many. A number of them can be moded to support expansion audio for vrc6 and other chips. A smaller percent have correct audio in Mario and the like, where the duty cycles aren't swapped. But I haven't found any with both.
Glad to see a video on this. While I never bought it, I distinctly remember seeing these all over the mall near me for a solid time. So it's always what I imagine first when someone says "Bootleg Console"
my parents owned a gift shop when i was a pre-teen and they brought this home for me to play. they sold it in their shop. i was really into games (obviously still am) so i just played anything. i was very aware of how bootleg it was and got my retro gaming fix through roms and emulators on pc, but still played it every now and then. it must still exist somewhere in my parents house
7:16 : Not to mention that, for whatever reasons, the battery pack is too small for the batteries. I remember having a tough time removing the battery pack AFTER trying to boot the console on battery.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to comment this but I own multiple versions of this. I actually find the other one better because it has a working joystick that is kinda like a neo geo pocket joystick but less noisy. Also it has the light gun built into the N64 controller. So images a space ship sticking off the front. I'd have to go grab both of them again but I want to say that the other one is more comfortable in the hand.
17:34 me going to my town's swapmeet/flea market in the late 90's before getting a hand me down n64 one week before Christmas thinking this was going to play n64 games
It came with a flash gun and you "don't have the patience to break out the CRT" to fully use it's features. I had one, it was red and the gun was black with brown grips. I played Wild Gunman all the time, and loved it. Our small CRT TV was actually placed at chest height normally, so it worked out quite well for me when playing it.
I remember walking in Bryant Park's pop up shops in NY years ago and seeing kiosks running these freely like nothing was wrong. I always wanted to buy one but never got around to it.
Fun fact: The power player super joy II and III were produced and created in italy and had many commercials Edit: I found the commercial th-cam.com/video/wtAWmTqfa5o/w-d-xo.html
That's take me back when Romeo my cousin had that in the 8th Grade at Davis Middle School in Bessemer, Alabama and AJ had that too when he started Kindergarten at Elementary School in Bessemer, Alabama during the 2005-2006 season. While I had Extra Controllers for the GameCube, Memory Card, True Crime NYC, didn't had DOR 2 until Early February 2006.
An italian youtuber called "the phantom castle" made a video on this console too. They actually broadcasted a telemarket advertisement for it all they time in Italy during the 90s
My parents bought me a Super Joy III set back in 2003 or 2004 (because I had obviously saw it in the mall at a pop up kiosk) and when I opened it on Christmas morning I was the happiest kid ever and I loved playing it!! At the time I didn't know they were NES games but I had only just realized it into my teen years that they were LOL. This thing brought me hours of fun! My parents had also bought my oldest sister a soccer game and my younger sister a knock off DDR pad (that had licenced 16 bit music on it lmao) all from the same kiosk that was in the mall. Seeing this video brings me back SOOO many good memories I still have my Super Joy III set today and it still works just like it did back in 2003/2004.
I actually bought one of these way back in the late 90's or early 2000's, I can't remember. I saw this at a mall kiosk and was baffled how this worked and had all the games built in. Fast forward to today, I still have it and it still works...
I had this thing when I was younger because it had so many old unlicensed classic games on it . I played it like a regular console so much the wire would make the controller start to smell like burning plastic ( I can still remember the distinct smell just by looking at the controller and the ports ) I had to replace it with a couple different AC adapter wires but the console would usually end up burning because it had no builtin fan
8:33 - Oddly enough, I like the sound of this unofficial soundchip. It’s like an alternate soundfont that might be less grating than the original/correct one.
One cool fact about this thing is it can be powered by batteries! It has a little holster in the expansion pak slot where you can insert AA batteries to power the device. If you have some sort of external display it makes for a decent way to test games on the go. Great for scalping enthusiasts on the run lol.
I remember these things being EVERYWHERE around like… 2004-2005ish. I eventually got one. I was really excited about it being able to play NES carts through a FC adaptor because I always wanted an NES as a kid. But I never actually got any carts anyway. I finally got a real NES later in life as an adult who could afford such things
i recall one of these i had contained a DB game. I believe it was a Famicom version which would of likely been non translated. As much people hate famiclones I find them rather cool. If they were more truthful about numbers rather than suckering people in they would be alright.
When I was about six my family bought a similar bootleg at a mall. It had "60,000 in 1" when it obviously didn't. Even if it was trash, we loved it. That's how little we got involved with electronics at the time. I remember the first one being The Flintstones, 80 was Popeye I believe and the 60,000th was some kind of long jump game. Ours wasn't as fortunate as Drew's though, as you had to plug in a chip to the Famicom port (We had no idea it had other use than that) and you had to cover it up with the casing that it came with or it would freeze if you even touched the chip. It was really bad but considering my dad told me the GameCube was around $300 at the time, we were happy with this.
I bought one of these from a local flee market about 12 years ago. Didnt care much for the preloaded games, but I loved playing all my famicom games on it!
I used to love this thing when I was younger, this thing and a SEGA Genesis is what got me into retro gaming. The one I had was a 16,000-in-1 with different games, however. Unfortunately my old Super Joy died and started putting out smoke because it was made so cheaply. EDIT: Funny you mention Warpman being similar to Bomberman too, since on the 16,000-in-1 Super Joy model lists Warpman as Bomberman!
I haven’t finished the video yet but I had to pause at 6:23 because that is quite possibly the most insane place to put a cartridge I have ever seen on anything. I was reeling from laughter upon sight.
3:02 : You don't need to hide it. I did get a PPSJIII in a flea market a couple of years ago, back when I had no idea how Illegal these bootlegs where.
I remember these being offered in a mall in 2004 / 2005, for $40. That was before the Wii Virtual Console was available, & Steam hadn't really shot up in popularity yet, so NES and SNES games were pretty easy to get at times. Retro gaming was a niche thing, and I often got retro games for dirt cheap, because I was looking. Even EBGames / Gamestop had just stopped selling NES, SNES, and Genesis games in 2004, I think.
I had this growing up, but weirdly enough, my version only had 76 games, not 76000 After watching your video, it looks like it was just like your version, but without the duplicates. Loved the darned thing.
These are available in red; I have one in that colour. This model was sold at retail here in Canada -- I can remember seeing the kiosks at various malls -- and so they appear with some frequency at thrift shops. Sadly, mine will not play the only Famicom cartridge that I own; I just get a garbled title screen.
I had one of these and if you scroll far enough you get some crazy romhacks. I played some version of super Mario Bros where Bowser was flying through the screen and you were swimming but you were on land, it was super crazy.
I remember my parents bought me and my siblings one of these from a mall kiosk back in the early 00's. Despite having a Gamecube at the time, we loved this thing until the day it died. Thinking about it, I can safely say I credit this thing for having inspired my love of retro gaming
Had this exact bootleg N64 Famiclone 20+ years ago. Shopping mall stores definitely did carry these to trick young kids into thinking they got something good. I didn’t know the MemoryCard/battery thing was removable. Never messed with that back then.
I remember seeing this Power Player set at the local swapmeet and mall, and at some rinkydink discount store in the hood. Same exact bootleg set, too (with Contra and everything). There was another controller set just like this sold at said swapmeet, mall, and discount store...except it didn't have these "76000 games in 1". And Contra was swapped out for Gradius (woo hoo 😊)
I spent many a 2-hour car ride as a kid playing one of these on the way to/from visitation with my bio-father, so seeing this is like a wave of nostalgia! Side note, I've always wondered how well an FDS would work on one of these, plugged in via a slot extender or something.
(16:46) Those game ideas made me laugh in my mind!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (17:04) I was picturing a mix of 'Tetris' and 'World of Goo'. Thanks for making this video! As a teen, there was a "3Stars" shop at an outdoor shopping mall in the neighbourhood I lived in at the time, that sold cheap and off-brand household products, and right at the (wide) entrance, on the opposite end to the cashier counter, there sat a few Power Player boxes, and one set up and connected to a small 14" CRT TV. At the time, I didn't realise it was a knockoff of the Nintendo 64 and Mega Drive controllers, as I hadn't yet seen photos of what an actual N64 looked like. I also didn't realise that the weird slot was a Famicom game cartridge slot, likely only designed with bootleg cartridges in mind, and I was a very different person back then, to the point where NES game graphics in some games used to creep me out.
I owned the Power Player Super Joystick & Power Gun/Super Joystick TV Game/Super Joy III when I was a kid. I had the blue one with the gray and brown light gun, as showcased in this video. I also had a version that came with a green and brown light gun instead of gray. Like most people here in the United States, I got mine at a mall kiosk, sometime in the early 2000s. Seeing all these NES games being included on one device that I could just plug in and play without having to swap cartridges was very appealing to me at the time (this was before I knew about emulators and flash cartridges.) My mom paid $40 for it if I recall correctly, which looking back at it now, was a rip-off because these were being purchased at wholesale for around $6 - $7, but hey, I understand they had to make a profit. Anyway, the blue one I had fried on me. I plugged it in, heard a loud pop and it wouldn't work after that. I was pretty sure I was using the correct adapter that came with it, so maybe the device itself was just a piece of crap. Once I figured out NES emulation, I eventually thew away all my Power Player crap. What a colossal waste of money.
My grandparents got me this one on that same color, funny enough this is how I first got to play Duck Hunt, I did have some fun with it until I got a Wii.
I'll never forget my aunt who took a literal bus trip to drop off this game set and I was sike as hell. So many NES games and discovering the rest of the gsmes were re-hashed, BUT, the rehashed games had alittle cheats or changes. I remember a 1000 - in 1 allowed you to play the minus worlds and even other levels in different themes. Castle 4-4 underwater, I'll never forget that. The original we had burned up and stopped working. But I found a used one in a garage sale. I might buy a new set on Ebay. Assuming this video or a sudden boom of bootlegs demand the price higher. I remember a booth selling these packages and got arrested in front of me while I played the gamepad laid out for bystanders to try. Shit was wild, Nintendo actually contacted the police for their arrest.
This is the first game console that my parents bought me and this is where I got my first taste of 8 bit games I still remember how the controller felt when I was 3 or 4 and looking at where the power switch I remember resting my finger on wanting to flip but I couldn’t because it powers the game off and I remember playing the nes games in a emulator like I was relieving my childhood when I was 9
It's so cool to see you review this! I bought the same exact Power Player at a Goodwill a few years back (except mine has black controllers) and I have another Power Player whose main controllers were a ripoff of the Sega Dreamcast and a sort of Super Nintendo-esque controller with standard controller grips. The Dreamcast one seems to be an older model judging by the box design and the fact it advertises 128-in-1 games rather than 76,000 (even though I'm pretty sure it most likely contains the same games. I never tested out the Dreamcast model due to the power supply box being partially cracked open and I don't wanna take any chances. This N64 Power Player though, I've just been lazy to test out, but after watching the video, I feel a bit inspired to take some time and plug everything in and check the console out for myself.
My favorite bootleg systems are the Feihao 4.3" HDMI Famicom handheld from Ali-Express with the KryzsioCart Flashcart from Ebay and the Retroad 5 Plus with the GB/GBC Extension Converter from Ali-Express and the Everdrive GB X7. I use a 8bitdo SNES or NES dongle and my NES/SNES Online controllers. I did need a 9 pin to NES adapter I got from Mayflash for my NES Classic Mini controller adapter to make the Feihao Famicom work.
My nephew got one of these, and I think he was smart enough to know it wasn't an actual N64. It had some interesting ROM hacks that I'm not sure if you found on yours. There were supposedly two Ninja Turtles games, but one was just a hack of NES Lode Runner and the other was Donkey Kong Jr (although Junior did look surprisingly good as a ninja turtle!) It also had one of Mario Bros. with the main characters turned into Teletubbies and Nuts & Milk with Pikachu. This thing is definitely interesting if nothing else!
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😂 i have that very console. Some of the games are fun and playable, but others don't water to an older BL console that let me play better.
that noise it makes, maybe the power supply is DC and it needs an AC power supply? that's what it sounds like to me
I'm just shocked that this video was sponsored by Ninjala, as it's one of my favorite games on the Switch !
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When I was a kid my grandpa bought me one of these for Christmas (Circa 2009) from a grocery store. This little bootleg console was one of the first ways that I had experienced a lot of retro NES games. A friend and I even managed to beat Contra with these terrible controllers. I sadly have genuine nostalgia for this exact unit 😂
That's awesome. I've never seen any of those consoles anywhere. I love bootleg systems. Lol. They're so bad they're fun. But man you make me feel old lol. Not mad or anything but in 2009 I was 28! 😂😂
@@blackenedheart9592 ME TOO! I was having so much fun with the games that 8 year old me didn't even notice the horrible button placement
You know you didn’t have to say circa 2009.
You just said just say 2009.
@@nillazilla22 You must be fun at parties.
Let me just say this.... If I saw this "all in one" system with two controllers, one of which looks like an N64 controller, one Genesis controller AND it also comes with a gun.... when I was a kid in the late 90s... it literally wouldn't even matter what games that it had. This would be the greatest thing I'd ever seen.
I bought one for my kids as a travel system. We already had a couple PlayStations and a Game Cube. Not wanting to damage those, we bought this to use in hotel rooms. It was a serviceable alternative to the pay per hours games offered at hotels at the time.
I still own the Super Joy. I love it because it plays actual famicom cartridges
Bro, finally, gonna buy me a hacked mother 1 cartridge
I'm sorry, it can WHAT?
Now someone has to test if it accepts everdrives
NO WAY! This thing was the reason I got into videogames! If it weren't for it I probably wouldn't appreciate NES games and retro gaming in general as much as I do today. Watching this video was like going back to 2011 for a moment. Thank you!
Same thing, but with the Atgames Genesis.
Dude yeah actually kinda same for me
No
God you make me feel old, I was a kid with the ORIGINAL Nintendo Entertainment System was released LOL
same here. My parents bought this for me when I was 4 years old(back in 2002). I remembered I had a clear blue one that would light up when you would press any button.
Legend has it, that Ben Heck turned one of these NES clones (I believe this one in particular) into a fully functional NES portable
You know what? I can believe it too. Anyone with some skill with programming and probably DIY could make it work.
I know this comment is old. But if you search for Kevtris Portendo you can find a portable made this thing. Kevtris later went to work for Analogue Inc.
This thing was one of the weirdest impulse buys from my dad back in 2003. He and I went to the mall and saw this kiosk dude playing old NES games. My dad listened to this dude's pitch, spent twenty dollars, and grabbed the box.
I still have this thing, box and all
Plug it into a CRT and have a little fun.
@@Chaos89P i don't have a working CRT tv anymore :(
Same here, only my parents bought two of them
@@yamigekusu Did you throw them out?, those things last forever, i have like 8, a big 32 inch that i use for old consoles, two 27 inch, four 21 inch and one 14 inch, all working till the day i wrap them up in plastic and stash them, mostly sony and samsung
@@enriquedossantos3283 I had to leave my old CRT TV s at my old place as I couldn't pick them up, or have them at my fiance's place. Man, do I wish I could play some of my older games on those TVs
As much as I do hate this thing, I have to be pedantic.
1942 always starts you on "Last 32 Stage"; it counts down from 32 to tell you how many stages are left, not what stage you're on. So it is running correctly here.
Found these 10 years ago, some of the most ridiculous bs I ever saw lmao.
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Lol fax. This is one of the craziest bootlegs I've ever seen. 💀
Pretty sure I had this thing once when I was a kid. Never knew what that port thing underneath the joystick was until you told me. Thanks. 👌
You can plug a famicom to NES adapter into it and then plug the larger NES cartridges into that adapter and have the most monstrosity you can think of.
@@bland9876 That reminds me of Sonic and Knuckles. 🤣
@@thazkid lol 😂
@@bland9876 Are you sure?
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I remembering buying one of these at a random kiosk at a mall when I was teenager out of pure curiosity since by that time I was already well into my Playstation years (Atari 2600 and NES was my life as a kid lol) Played it once. 15 years later, I found it in storage and gave it to my cousin who has since become quite the video game collector so at least it went to a good home.
You have no idea how much this console meant to me. Thank you for making this video, it's hilarious to see the first impression of a knowledgeable Nintendo guy. There was all kinds of quirks and hilarious duplicates. I spent a lot of time playing this system with my brother.
Omg I remembered I went to swap meets and seeing those, that's how I got into Super Mario Bros and other NES/famicom games. I miss the late 2000's so much
You know your console is good when it comes with a gun.
"As An Added Bonus Inside We've Included A Gun
How Is This Allowed?"
This is not a joke. It's true.
I would just make a Joker cosplay.... just make a mask for the cosplay
Doesn't even look like a controller gun its just a regular gun
@@Whkixsbukb
How did any of this get past customs?
It doesn't matter if they give the gun a stupid orange tint at the end of the gun, it's still a gun, some border guard will see this as a gun and will confiscate it!
That buzz is the 60hz from the mains, common on crap electronics with poor shielding/grounding/filtering.
Adds to the crappy charm!
Could also be from the video encoder bleeding over to the audio.
12:06 Actually, this is the Championship version of Lode Runner.
I guess the game was popular enough to warrant a contest and made a harder version.
I remember I got this for Christmas one year. When I opened it I thought it might play n64 games. When I hooked it up I was disappointed to see that it didn’t. None the less I still had a lot of fun with it this was actually the first way I ever played super Mario bros. I played it nearly every day for a month then out of nowhere it stopped turning on. This was back in 2012 and I have no idea where it is now so it was nice to see you make a video on it!
Man I used to have this exact thing, I remember the box and everything. Mine was red, but came with the silver gun.
And there were more models to this Shockingly. You had this version (made in 2001)
The original one (which said 76 in 1. And had music in the background)
You had the final one which was slightly improved with the cartridge and had no letters next to the title.
And some came with PAC-MAN and some came with mappy with a Nuts sprite (from nuts and milk) in the place. So me living in NYC this was everywhere and only $20 on 14th Street. And it was like hoping for PAC man or not. I owe it to this console it helped get me through my parents divorcing as a child. Great video btw
Whenever i see a bootleg i just think, “someone had to take time out of their day to make this. they were probably paid.”
Also Walgreens sold something like this back in 2009 called Senario 101 in 1 for $9.99! there's other versions with fake games but this one had the real nes games they were pulled quickly from the shelves once Walgreens found out they were bootleg
Me and my cousins shared this console as kids and quickly realized what it was. However, it gave me an opportunity to experience a lot of these older titles that I had never seen as a kid and developed a fondness for them. Now as an adult I collect for the NES. Without the Super Joy I might never had experienced some really great games. Thank you for finally talking about the Super Joy 3!
I had one similar to this called power-joy it had the gun built-in to the main controller and it came with a 84 in 1 game cartridge with a weird panda Mario game they were sold at the mall sometime in the mid 00s for around $30
I actually had this as a kid growing up around 2005 or so the Blue Model with a Sega 6 button this was before I had an NES I found that someone was throwing out
This brings me back. I got this as a present while in elementary school from some relatives who weren't knowledgeable in games. I had some fun with it especially using the light gun. I didn't know much about the games since i had a PS1 already, but thought it was cool to experience retro gaming. I had this buried in my mind until this video popped up on my feed
9:44 I don't know why, but this 10 second sequence just killed something deep inside me
I got a once famiclone, played this game, and it also killed something inside me
Truly, a metaphor of our fragile existence.
@@starkmouth Well said mate
One of my favorite titles was Golf EER. Also, I love how you basically said, "I'm sorry if you went through that trauma, but if you have, please say more."
But that title doesn't compare to Magic Jewelry DIO
Thanks for actually showing the Famicom slot in use.
I had a very similar Famiclone system as a kid which they sold through local catalogues but instead of a second MegaDrive style controller mine had its own unique shape whereas the N64 style main controller lacked the fake analogue stick and had a silver colour.
Also the C buttons were in their actual position.
The games were basically taken from the black box series i.E. Pinball and some lesser known ones like Battle City.
I used to love this thing when I was a little kid. I remember begging for it at the SI Mall.
My parents saw a guy selling these at a fairground once. There was a guy who saw that it had Burger Time, and he freaked out yelling something like "IT HAS BURGER TIME! I NEED IT!" and bought one. My parents bought two of them just because. It was how I played Wild Gunman for the first time. Be glad you didn't try to use the battery cartridge, my brother tried to use it and it got so hot the plastic melted off
I remember back over 10 years ago these being sold in little stands in the mall. Then they moved onto the Flea Market, and finally I would find them in various states of repair/completeness at the local thrift stores.
Thanks for the awesome coverage of an item I remember well.
Never bought one, but I have fond memories of walking up to the booth at the fair selling these and playing Mario until the guy kicked me off
I saw this a couple times and always wished I could have gotten it. I realize now I didn't miss much
So I've researched these extensively from buying many. A number of them can be moded to support expansion audio for vrc6 and other chips.
A smaller percent have correct audio in Mario and the like, where the duty cycles aren't swapped.
But I haven't found any with both.
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"I have several questions!"
(if you get the reference, you're awesome 👍)
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Glad to see a video on this. While I never bought it, I distinctly remember seeing these all over the mall near me for a solid time. So it's always what I imagine first when someone says "Bootleg Console"
Glad someone covered this console, I’ve had 2 in my possession for at least a year. And the story behind them is just insanity.
my parents owned a gift shop when i was a pre-teen and they brought this home for me to play. they sold it in their shop. i was really into games (obviously still am) so i just played anything. i was very aware of how bootleg it was and got my retro gaming fix through roms and emulators on pc, but still played it every now and then. it must still exist somewhere in my parents house
I remember my dad bought me this back in 2002 and it was pretty great because I got into a lot of NES games
7:16 : Not to mention that, for whatever reasons, the battery pack is too small for the batteries. I remember having a tough time removing the battery pack AFTER trying to boot the console on battery.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to comment this but I own multiple versions of this.
I actually find the other one better because it has a working joystick that is kinda like a neo geo pocket joystick but less noisy. Also it has the light gun built into the N64 controller. So images a space ship sticking off the front.
I'd have to go grab both of them again but I want to say that the other one is more comfortable in the hand.
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While it might not play well, that Snowfield Shot actually doesn't look too bad, like a more recently made (i.e. 90-92) NES game.
17:34 me going to my town's swapmeet/flea market in the late 90's before getting a hand me down n64 one week before Christmas thinking this was going to play n64 games
I had one of these as a kid. Duck hunt was awesome to play. Good times
I'm convinced that this game is going through an identity crisis.
I own tons of Bootleg systems, I have probably played them for 2 hours combined
I actually have this same exact pack all in the box unopened! Crazy that you made a video about it haha, I think I found it at goodwill or something.
It came with a flash gun and you "don't have the patience to break out the CRT" to fully use it's features. I had one, it was red and the gun was black with brown grips. I played Wild Gunman all the time, and loved it. Our small CRT TV was actually placed at chest height normally, so it worked out quite well for me when playing it.
I remember having one of those when i was 11 and i was hooked on it until my mother told me it had broke
“The Power Player Super Joy III”
Yeah, don’t even get us started on the previous versions.
Power player super joystick and gun" welp...
I, I guess that's a name.
I remember walking in Bryant Park's pop up shops in NY years ago and seeing kiosks running these freely like nothing was wrong. I always wanted to buy one but never got around to it.
Fun fact: The power player super joy II and III were produced and created in italy and had many commercials
Edit: I found the commercial th-cam.com/video/wtAWmTqfa5o/w-d-xo.html
That's take me back when Romeo my cousin had that in the 8th Grade at Davis Middle School in Bessemer, Alabama and AJ had that too when he started Kindergarten at Elementary School in Bessemer, Alabama during the 2005-2006 season. While I had Extra Controllers for the GameCube, Memory Card, True Crime NYC, didn't had DOR 2 until Early February 2006.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who reads this
An italian youtuber called "the phantom castle" made a video on this console too. They actually broadcasted a telemarket advertisement for it all they time in Italy during the 90s
My parents bought me a Super Joy III set back in 2003 or 2004 (because I had obviously saw it in the mall at a pop up kiosk) and when I opened it on Christmas morning I was the happiest kid ever and I loved playing it!! At the time I didn't know they were NES games but I had only just realized it into my teen years that they were LOL. This thing brought me hours of fun! My parents had also bought my oldest sister a soccer game and my younger sister a knock off DDR pad (that had licenced 16 bit music on it lmao) all from the same kiosk that was in the mall. Seeing this video brings me back SOOO many good memories I still have my Super Joy III set today and it still works just like it did back in 2003/2004.
I actually bought one of these way back in the late 90's or early 2000's, I can't remember. I saw this at a mall kiosk and was baffled how this worked and had all the games built in. Fast forward to today, I still have it and it still works...
The return of the bootlegs!
I had this thing when I was younger because it had so many old unlicensed classic games on it . I played it like a regular console so much the wire would make the controller start to smell like burning plastic ( I can still remember the distinct smell just by looking at the controller and the ports ) I had to replace it with a couple different AC adapter wires but the console would usually end up burning because it had no builtin fan
8:33 - Oddly enough, I like the sound of this unofficial soundchip. It’s like an alternate soundfont that might be less grating than the original/correct one.
One cool fact about this thing is it can be powered by batteries! It has a little holster in the expansion pak slot where you can insert AA batteries to power the device. If you have some sort of external display it makes for a decent way to test games on the go. Great for scalping enthusiasts on the run lol.
I remember these things being EVERYWHERE around like… 2004-2005ish. I eventually got one. I was really excited about it being able to play NES carts through a FC adaptor because I always wanted an NES as a kid. But I never actually got any carts anyway. I finally got a real NES later in life as an adult who could afford such things
"Lode Runner 2" is just Championship Lode Runner for Famicom.
i recall one of these i had contained a DB game. I believe it was a Famicom version which would of likely been non translated. As much people hate famiclones I find them rather cool. If they were more truthful about numbers rather than suckering people in they would be alright.
When I was about six my family bought a similar bootleg at a mall. It had "60,000 in 1" when it obviously didn't. Even if it was trash, we loved it. That's how little we got involved with electronics at the time. I remember the first one being The Flintstones, 80 was Popeye I believe and the 60,000th was some kind of long jump game. Ours wasn't as fortunate as Drew's though, as you had to plug in a chip to the Famicom port (We had no idea it had other use than that) and you had to cover it up with the casing that it came with or it would freeze if you even touched the chip.
It was really bad but considering my dad told me the GameCube was around $300 at the time, we were happy with this.
Ah yes, my favourite game of all time, Ice Climber Simulator!
My's monkey cereal.
I bought one of these from a local flee market about 12 years ago. Didnt care much for the preloaded games, but I loved playing all my famicom games on it!
Haven't watched... liked already... never doubt Drew.
I used to love this thing when I was younger, this thing and a SEGA Genesis is what got me into retro gaming. The one I had was a 16,000-in-1 with different games, however. Unfortunately my old Super Joy died and started putting out smoke because it was made so cheaply.
EDIT: Funny you mention Warpman being similar to Bomberman too, since on the 16,000-in-1 Super Joy model lists Warpman as Bomberman!
I haven’t finished the video yet but I had to pause at 6:23 because that is quite possibly the most insane place to put a cartridge I have ever seen on anything. I was reeling from laughter upon sight.
3:02 : You don't need to hide it. I did get a PPSJIII in a flea market a couple of years ago, back when I had no idea how Illegal these bootlegs where.
I remember these being offered in a mall in 2004 / 2005, for $40. That was before the Wii Virtual Console was available, & Steam hadn't really shot up in popularity yet, so NES and SNES games were pretty easy to get at times. Retro gaming was a niche thing, and I often got retro games for dirt cheap, because I was looking. Even EBGames / Gamestop had just stopped selling NES, SNES, and Genesis games in 2004, I think.
I had this growing up, but weirdly enough, my version only had 76 games, not 76000
After watching your video, it looks like it was just like your version, but without the duplicates.
Loved the darned thing.
These are available in red; I have one in that colour. This model was sold at retail here in Canada -- I can remember seeing the kiosks at various malls -- and so they appear with some frequency at thrift shops. Sadly, mine will not play the only Famicom cartridge that I own; I just get a garbled title screen.
I had one of these and if you scroll far enough you get some crazy romhacks.
I played some version of super Mario Bros where Bowser was flying through the screen and you were swimming but you were on land, it was super crazy.
My mom bought this for me and my 2 brothers because she was poor from a mexican bazaar. i loved it then and i love seeing it now. love you momma
I always thought nuts and milk was referring to the fact that guys have nuts and girls produce milk. This game feels kinda like donkey Kong
I love playing Circus Chablie!
I remember my parents bought me and my siblings one of these from a mall kiosk back in the early 00's. Despite having a Gamecube at the time, we loved this thing until the day it died. Thinking about it, I can safely say I credit this thing for having inspired my love of retro gaming
I remember seeing this as a kid, it's like exactly the same one my great grandma had for her house whenever I visited.
Had this exact bootleg N64 Famiclone 20+ years ago. Shopping mall stores definitely did carry these to trick young kids into thinking they got something good.
I didn’t know the MemoryCard/battery thing was removable. Never messed with that back then.
I remember seeing this Power Player set at the local swapmeet and mall, and at some rinkydink discount store in the hood. Same exact bootleg set, too (with Contra and everything). There was another controller set just like this sold at said swapmeet, mall, and discount store...except it didn't have these "76000 games in 1". And Contra was swapped out for Gradius (woo hoo 😊)
Power Player: exists
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An Italian TV actually showed a commercial for this many times, it kinda went viral online some years later.
I spent many a 2-hour car ride as a kid playing one of these on the way to/from visitation with my bio-father, so seeing this is like a wave of nostalgia! Side note, I've always wondered how well an FDS would work on one of these, plugged in via a slot extender or something.
(16:46) Those game ideas made me laugh in my mind!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
(17:04) I was picturing a mix of 'Tetris' and 'World of Goo'.
Thanks for making this video! As a teen, there was a "3Stars" shop at an outdoor shopping mall in the neighbourhood I lived in at the time, that sold cheap and off-brand household products, and right at the (wide) entrance, on the opposite end to the cashier counter, there sat a few Power Player boxes, and one set up and connected to a small 14" CRT TV. At the time, I didn't realise it was a knockoff of the Nintendo 64 and Mega Drive controllers, as I hadn't yet seen photos of what an actual N64 looked like. I also didn't realise that the weird slot was a Famicom game cartridge slot, likely only designed with bootleg cartridges in mind, and I was a very different person back then, to the point where NES game graphics in some games used to creep me out.
This black model of this was gifted to me about……a decade ago if not longer. It is insane they still are out in the wild lol
I owned the Power Player Super Joystick & Power Gun/Super Joystick TV Game/Super Joy III when I was a kid. I had the blue one with the gray and brown light gun, as showcased in this video. I also had a version that came with a green and brown light gun instead of gray.
Like most people here in the United States, I got mine at a mall kiosk, sometime in the early 2000s. Seeing all these NES games being included on one device that I could just plug in and play without having to swap cartridges was very appealing to me at the time (this was before I knew about emulators and flash cartridges.) My mom paid $40 for it if I recall correctly, which looking back at it now, was a rip-off because these were being purchased at wholesale for around $6 - $7, but hey, I understand they had to make a profit.
Anyway, the blue one I had fried on me. I plugged it in, heard a loud pop and it wouldn't work after that. I was pretty sure I was using the correct adapter that came with it, so maybe the device itself was just a piece of crap. Once I figured out NES emulation, I eventually thew away all my Power Player crap. What a colossal waste of money.
My grandparents got me this one on that same color, funny enough this is how I first got to play Duck Hunt, I did have some fun with it until I got a Wii.
I'll never forget my aunt who took a literal bus trip to drop off this game set and I was sike as hell.
So many NES games and discovering the rest of the gsmes were re-hashed, BUT, the rehashed games had alittle cheats or changes.
I remember a 1000 - in 1 allowed you to play the minus worlds and even other levels in different themes. Castle 4-4 underwater, I'll never forget that.
The original we had burned up and stopped working. But I found a used one in a garage sale.
I might buy a new set on Ebay. Assuming this video or a sudden boom of bootlegs demand the price higher.
I remember a booth selling these packages and got arrested in front of me while I played the gamepad laid out for bystanders to try. Shit was wild, Nintendo actually contacted the police for their arrest.
This is the first game console that my parents bought me and this is where I got my first taste of 8 bit games I still remember how the controller felt when I was 3 or 4 and looking at where the power switch I remember resting my finger on wanting to flip but I couldn’t because it powers the game off and I remember playing the nes games in a emulator like I was relieving my childhood when I was 9
It's so cool to see you review this! I bought the same exact Power Player at a Goodwill a few years back (except mine has black controllers) and I have another Power Player whose main controllers were a ripoff of the Sega Dreamcast and a sort of Super Nintendo-esque controller with standard controller grips. The Dreamcast one seems to be an older model judging by the box design and the fact it advertises 128-in-1 games rather than 76,000 (even though I'm pretty sure it most likely contains the same games. I never tested out the Dreamcast model due to the power supply box being partially cracked open and I don't wanna take any chances. This N64 Power Player though, I've just been lazy to test out, but after watching the video, I feel a bit inspired to take some time and plug everything in and check the console out for myself.
Sometimes I wonder if these kind of bootleg consoles inspired Nintendo to make the NES Classic.
When I was a kid, my brother and I tried to get my mom to buy this abomination when we were at the mall. We had just come from SoftwareETC.
My favorite bootleg systems are the Feihao 4.3" HDMI Famicom handheld from Ali-Express with the KryzsioCart Flashcart from Ebay and the Retroad 5 Plus with the GB/GBC Extension Converter from Ali-Express and the Everdrive GB X7. I use a 8bitdo SNES or NES dongle and my NES/SNES Online controllers. I did need a 9 pin to NES adapter I got from Mayflash for my NES Classic Mini controller adapter to make the Feihao Famicom work.
i remember being young going to a flea market and my dad buying this for me a couple times, i have fond memories of consoles like this
My nephew got one of these, and I think he was smart enough to know it wasn't an actual N64. It had some interesting ROM hacks that I'm not sure if you found on yours. There were supposedly two Ninja Turtles games, but one was just a hack of NES Lode Runner and the other was Donkey Kong Jr (although Junior did look surprisingly good as a ninja turtle!) It also had one of Mario Bros. with the main characters turned into Teletubbies and Nuts & Milk with Pikachu. This thing is definitely interesting if nothing else!