The Illegal World of Chinese Bootleg Games | Xplay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2022
- Xplay dives into the bootleg bonanza that was the 1980s in China. Nintendo was out of reach for Chinese families, so knock-off game consoles exploded leading to unauthorized Tekken 3 in 8-bit, a Pikachu platformer, Final Fantasy 7 for the NES, Pokemon Jade and Pearl, and a new Sonic The Hedgehog game featuring Super Mario?? Jackie Chan was even the face of a giant keyboard that played Nintendo games! This video is an absolute multiverse of madness of games that should not exist.
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What game mash-up is your dream bootleg abomination?
Resident Evil, Bioshock
Guitar Hero demade for the bootleg SNES but with DDR arrows and the virtual crowd from Punch-Out . It's called Instrument Savior and has a stretched jpeg of Angus Young for the boxart
so . . .are Frosh and Blackhokage still review the 9,999,999 bootleg games on the polystation?
Shadow the Hedgehog and GTA.
Somehow I think this exists somewhere in Russia as a bootleg mod disc of San Andreas.
Is Jeffersone actually leaving?? Answer us XPLAY!!
As an 80s child who often visited my parents' native country of Vietnam, I saw TONS of these systems/compilations/modifications/add-ons. Storytime: my mind was blown as a SNES kid. On my Asia travels, they had a SNES add-on that was fed 3.5" floppys. I always wanted to bring these back to the US with me but was told customs wouldn't allow it. Now I know I should've brought ALL OF THE ADDONS with me.
Here it is even not allowed to make copy's of your own files. Really a grey zone because it not always depends if you go around a copy protection....
On the other hand you get this games regularly over Amazon.
So for private use nonononono... If you earn money at best not in the country with that... Oh we are not in the mood.
@@Nordlicht05 You are allowed to record TV shows on VHS for personal viewing.
My friend had one of these his parents bought him back from a trip to Asia. I live in Australia and we have very strict customs on bootlegs but I think this would have been fine as it's not pirate software....yet.
In Brazil Bootleg lives until today also. It was so awesome to see bootleg and even some official bootlet stuff here
As a filipino kid during the 90s to 00s I laughed at the sight of the Polystation and immediately remembered when my aunt gave me one for Christmas! 🤣🤣🤣
Great video guys.
*Rick Dalton point*
DYKG!!
@@TheReasonsImBroke I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!!!
Opinion on Frosk?
@@mrbransformer4184 frosk is a person who works at g4. Your point?
@@jeewalk I feel like her rant from before really hurt the channel. I get where she was coming from, but now they are all probably gonna lose their jobs. That sucks cause I really wanted this channel to succeed.
Just stumbled on this.. dude I can't believe Adam is still making content. I used to watch Extended Play and X-Play on TV when I was like 11-12 years old to figure out which PS2 games I wanted to buy w my allowance lol. This is nostalgic af for me rite now just to see him still doing game commentary
This and cheat were my favorite shows on g4 BITD
I literally just discovered this too and was like…is this really Adam Sessler, making XPlay videos on TH-cam…in 2022?! Holy crap!
Yeeeeeeah…about that.
This was so good. Deserves a feature-length extended edition. There are multiple stories to tell within this video. Each can be explored more in depth.
And a lot more amazing and insane bootlegs.
That Minions game you were unable to tell if it was an existing game, it's Adventure Island. I'm surprised you didn't know that, considering that it was way more popular and mainstream than some of the games you did know.
Came here to offer the same correction.
as a brazilian kid growing up at the early 2000s, this video is oddly nostalgic to me lol
Love the deep dives on history that Xplay does, and Jefferson’s personal stories really took it over the top. Also I would definitely play Kart Fighter.
Is Jefferson leaving xplay ?
Honestly, this Adam Sessler series is rhe only thing worthwhile on X-Play to watch. And Drunk Link. We need more Drunk Link. 🥴
Deep dive? LOL the dude had never heard of Heavy Barrel and they couldn't tell Minions was Wonder Boy. That's pretty sad.
well now xplay isn't good as used to be at all since they a feminist instul there aduince and went fully down hill from there
Really weird to see someone narrating and then someone acting. interesting
Shoutout to Jefferson's awesomeness in this episode. This is oddly fascinating, i was not aware of how wild of a rabbit hole Bootlegs Games was and still is.
Sad to see Jefferson go!
He's fulfilled his mission.
Frosk needed to be paid more
@@punklover99 Maybe she will be elsewhere as she's been canned.
@@Hotlog69 it was a joke i hope she never works in the industry again
Loved Jefferson’s Filipino Auntie impression! 😆👌
EDIT: And if this is truly the end of Jefferson, take care brotha! From one Filipino to another! 🤙
It is so nice having editorial segments like this just delving into odd corners of gaming. I love retrospective gaming history videos
When the NES Classic and other mini consoles started popping up, Famiclones also saw a bit of a resurgence. For some parts of the world, those truly were the face of retro gaming.
Glad to see Jefferson back. As a Filipino, I am happy to see some Asian Filipino representation! And of course, what an awesome topic. Well done X Play👏
Uh…did you make it to the end of the video? 😭 it appears he’s leaving..
@@DuskWolf99 man why do they keep losing employees?! it makes me sad seeing them go
I'd like to see more Hispanic representation, too:/
@@gamernerd1992 looks like Jefferson only had a 1 year contract with G4TV
@@DuskWolf99 i did! Whattheheck?? It must have not dawned on me on my first watch!
It's great seeing Adam Sessler with fresh new faces like Jefferson. It brings a re-energized sense of nostalgia. Jefferson and Adam bounced off each other really well. Adam Sessler is a legend in videogame reviewing and I feel like Jefferson has a bright future with his unique gaming experiences from his part of the world. Well done episode gentlemen.
Sadly it's not. Twitter really shows how ugly some of those you look up to are. The show isn't the same.
@@Jebbreh Elaborate...
Lmao visiting family in the Philippines, bootleg games were so fascinating. It was like a whole new world.
I collect chinese emulator (handheld) and there's some AMAZING handhelds now for under 40$ US. I have 3 that play Playstation 1, GBA, 32X,Arcade and every sega and nintendo product that are less than 64 bits.
To play Tekken 2 or Final Fantasy 7 flawlessly on a 40$ handheld is crazy impressive to me.
he's not leaving right? Like Ovalee < can't spell so fire me! Come on I like them!
Makes me wonder how many of the games I played growin' up in the Philippines were bootlegs
Yall should do more docs like this! This was super interesting and I remember seeing weird pokemon games that I never saw before at flea Markets so it makes sense now! Lmao
I remember seeing Pokemon Jade and other titles online as ROMs for GB/GBA, as well as seeing a physical copy of Jade when I was little. However as for 2022 I wouldn't mind getting some specific GB/GBA cartridges, since some of the genuine ones are way out of my budget 😅
It hits too hard with that Filipino auntie bit..
One of my godfathers (I have a lot of them), got me NBA2K 2006 in 2008, for PS2. I had a fun time, but like... Yeah... Lol... NBA2k 2006, the one with Shaq on it when he was in the Miami heat. Lol, 100% he definitely tried
Also, the Pokemon jade also hits... Goddammit... I remember being at a family party and one of the other kids was like "hey, I have this new Pokemon game" *pulls out Gameboy advance SP* "look at how cool this is"
It was weirdly enough a super cool experience basically believing that Pokemon jade was a new Pokemon game, lol...
This video is too stupidly relatable
After Jefferson bears his heart "Lets talk about Pokemon!"
As a Southeast Asian, it is quite common to come across bootleg consoles and modded games. Additionally, it is frequent for us to purchase a single game that contains an entire library collection of games from specific video game titles or even old consoles.
Fun fact: the NES Clones were even avilable in Germany :-D my friend had a SNES look alike NES clone with a Zapper gun and over 200 games included (ok it was maybe 40 or so the games were repeated and started at different levels or had other power ups as standard. Contra for example had one version were the spread gun was the standard) ... you mostly got these consoles on flee markets
Damn this was an amazing history lesson to bootleg games of the past. Hell even there’s hella representation of Asian and even Filipino experience especially to video games. Also bravo to jeff being on camera once again, can’t believe he’s no longer there.
MAN i just realized how much bootleg playstation games i would get from the philippines only to realize my parents or relatives going "hey why won't these games work" and then going through the whole modding my playstation. oh man how much further can you explore this topic lol
I've been learning about Video Game history for 10+ years and I never knew the history of bootleg games! Great video guys!
I had one of those famiclones! In my country a real NES was too expensive bc we didn't yet have trading with countries like the US so imports were incredibly expensive yet Chinese products (which were contraband at the time) were really cheap! I loved my famiclone, it was identical to an original Famicom down to the Nintendo branding. The only thing that didn't work was the speaker on the 2nd controller.
People here didn't call it Nintendo or NES, they called it Family due to the prominent name on the machines and boxes. Even the original NES were called Family and some kids even thought the NES was *the* fake one 😂
And nowadays, Famiclones can and are openly sold around the world, because Nintendo's copyright protection on the hardware has run out. They sell decently, too: it's easier to find old cartridges on the market than the consoles that play them.
That was a mic, not a speaker.
Really loving these longer in-depth episodes of Xplay. It's some of your best work. Not as limited as it was than back in the TV days.
So, ETA on the Polystation review?
As a self-admitted FFVII zombie I must say that bootleg NES version of that was impressive. Bear in mind, as long as some key likenesses were used and a battle system like the FF series' was used the developers could have just thrown together whatever lame game they felt like. But instead it looks like the three-disc Playstation blockbuster was heavily researched, then carefully pared down and retrofitted into the best NES adaptation the developers could manage.
If FVII was legitimately remade nowadays by Square-Enix in a retro version using NES-era programming and sprites, I'd *LOVE* to have it. It would be so deliciously novel to see and play the most famous FF title, the first to be 3d, in that manner.
You guys hit the nail right on the head! For youngsters living in poorer countries, these bootlegs were often the only viable and/or available option for gaming. While things have since improved, console (and PC) gaming is still a pricey hobby. That's why I won't knock mobile gaming too hard; poor people need to have fun like everyone else.
First time in this channel but I love how it hits so much PH childhood.
I don't remember as much with Polystation but that GLK-2010 along with VCD 300 DVD players. Bruh.
These things are still in circulation in some malls in the Philippines. 🤣
Wow how did I not know China was barely able to buy consoles by 2015?! That is actually insane.
I spent my high school years in China and while you could barely buy consoles at home, if you knew someone then you could import consoles through them whenever they went to a nearby country since personal items brought back were perfectly fine. As someone who traveled to Japan a lot while studying abroad in China, I was that someone for some of my local classmates.
China has full replicas of the Eiffle Tower and full cities too so I'm not surprised they were able to replicate games from the ground up. Pretty incredible
The Filipino Auntie impression is SO SPOT ON!!
Thank you to my aunties sure they were bootlegs but I effin loved playing them systems and games
My childhood was awesome filled with both authentic and bootlegs all those memories
Thank you for this informative video that was fantastically written, edited, and acted!
You know what makes this video perfect? I grew up in the Philippines with jailbroken PS1 and PS2s. I didn't have magazines to learn about games BUT, my family had cable that aired ZDTV, TechTV, and G4TV. So, I learned about new games...from a young Adam Sessler.
Indonesian here. I grew up with modchipped PS1 and PS2, also used to own official Sega Megadrive but with bootleg 19in1 cartridge. I saw PolyStation in late 1990s to early 2000s but never bought that. But we had local video games magazine like Hotgame, Game Station, and Ultima here up to 2010.
These obscure gaming dives are top tier
The ones I find cool are the Digimon bootlegs. Since it never got as popular as Pokémon in America I've always felt slim pickings. I'd love a Pokémon style Digimon game, technically Cyber Sleuth but I didn't really care about the small confines of the story/world.
digimon games on the wonderswan are kinda like the catch'em all style of pokemon. I enjoyed them and they were translated like this year
It is sad that these countries make our systems but couldn’t afford ones themselves! So good on them for making bootleg games!
Chip & Dale with guns fighting gorillas is hilarious
In the early 2000s in Bulgaria, I bought a famiclone that looked like a psone, but had genesis 6-button controllers.
1:02 How about I'll buy whatever the hell I want? You are not my dad and JAGIELSKI is PERFECTION.
The effort and writing into these videos is appreciated ❤️
In my childhood playing this clone console and bootleg games here in the Philippines. Im surprise i did not encounter this knock off mixed characters in one title of another game as some sequel.
Same here. In the Phils, original consoles were too expensive so bootleg or what we call "pirated" games were all we got afford but it gave a chance to play a variety of games we wouldn't have been able to.
Jefferson really killed the Filipino impressions! I feel like I have a different view on Bootlegs now bc of this vid too!
Yeah my family here in the US didn't have enough money for a nintendo when it first came out. Eventually I got my first game console. Even though it wasn't a nintendo but a sega master system it was still one of the best Christmas's ever.
New G4 keeps getting better and better. You guys are growing into your own style and personality while keeping what made G4 so integral to our lives back then, an honest blend of knowledge and comedy.
Excellent performance from Adam and Jefferson, and big ups to the research team on this one.
As a Gen Z born in South East Asia, I can confirm getting an official NES game console and game cartridge is very difficult
ohhhh yeah famicom bootleg games.... getting into emulation in the mid 90s I definitely saw my fair share of ROMs from these carts. I'm so glad y'all covered that version of heavy barrel they reskinned as a CHIP AND DALE sequel?! oh to be the fly on the wall when that meeting happened, hahaha. and yeah I recognized the minions game as an adventure island hack.... somehow not surprised to see them show up here, haha.
Minions is an Adventure Island reskin. Which is already an official reskin of a hypothetical NES version of Wonder Boy.
Man, seeing those sprite hacks of Super Mario Bros brings me back to my early emulation days, where I downloaded some massive pre-made zip file, full of SMB sprite hacks. I definitely remember some of the ones mentioned.
Unlike the Filipino aunties who buys Famiclones for their kids because it has a familiar character they know about, at least I can give my relatives in Mexico any video game console or game give to them, and not just some cheap Famiclone console or NES game, it also helps that Mexico continues to have a large supply of official consoles.
I have one of those mini NES knockoffs. My wife "won" it for $12 online somewhere. It was actually worth the $12 shipping in my opinion though. Its loaded with over 600 8-bit games, some authentic like Blaster Master and Excite Bike and others generic clones of Super Mario and Ninja Turtles and stuff, but they're still fun. I didn't expect what I ended up getting.
Love this kind of stuff. Xplay has been stepping it up!
Mine's bootleg brand was "Good Boy" and it had Christmas lights blinking while I'm playing it. I had together it together with my Sega Mega Drive and Gameboy. Good times!
This was a pretty fun and enjoyable video! I would have missed it if it weren't for a recommendation by Vito.
Pokemon Jade version unlocked a memory in me! I remember really enjoying that game inspite of it being not a Pokemon game at all and finished it. I remember also that I begged my father to buy that game for me in Toy Kingdom, Festival Mall at Muntinlupa, Philippines. Haha.
This is also where I bought the Gameboy Color Version of Pokemon Ruby (Another bootleg one). It retained the Pokemons in it but it didn't feature the Gen 3 Pokemons and all of the attack moves were wack! And the letters were just a jumbled mess. I also finished this game. Haha.
The minions game is a reskin of adventure island 1 or 2, which was the NES port of segas Wonderboy.
I remember seeing those red and white bootleg consoles in Chinese malls in Toronto.
I like how the Chip n' Dale box art isn't even the titular characters. It's Fievel and some random teddy bear with a headband.
Watching Adam takes me back to going to my cousin's every weekend as a middle school and high schooler. Skate all day , game all evening and G4 at night.
Wonder Boy, aka Adventure Island! I recognized the movement of the minion and the throwing motion INSTANTLY!
Ive been looking for the english name for the fema clone for a long time. I played these before I immigrated from China. They were so awesome. Thank you dad for the childhood.
19:08-19:35 That's some pretty funny hilarious gobbledygook engrish in that Digimon opening cut scene :D :P
~16:35 That 90,000,000 in 1 is piping hot with waay tooo many zeros
Damn, I didn’t know the world of bootleg games was this deep. My only experience with this world were those weird looking handheld devices with dozens of games on them
this make me think of my Abibas bootleg t-shirt i got in Gambia, gotta love bootlegs no matter what it bootlegs. Great video and impressive production quality
Awesome upload!🙌🎮 Adam and Jefferson, great Xplay combo . Anything better and it would involve Morgan Webb. That's all I need. 👍
I swear as a kid in the 90s I had the bootleg pokémon game from the thumbnail it was very hard to get it to boot up on my game boy color but once in awhile it would work and it was actually kind of cool
Just stumbled upon the X-Play yt channel, all my G4 memories as a kid just came rushing back
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When you were going through all those Mario fakes, I thought I would finally hear someone other than me mention Super Dicker Bros., which is a game I have on my NES emulator disc for my Dreamcast. So close.
Minions is a hack of Adventure Island, a game that had 3 original versions released on the NES. They just changed the background and "boy" sprites. The fruits and etc remains the same.
Both Adventure Island 1 on NES
and Wonder Boy 1 on Sega Master System / Arcade
have virtually the same maps / levels.
Ah yes, buying bootleg Chinese videogame consoles in Isetan Recto or Harrison Plaza is the rite of passage of every poor Filipino kid from the 90's till the early 2000's.
More videos like this!!! talk about Culture as well as game releases
Yes forreal love these videos
Yup said the same!
I have a Super Pretendo and a Sega Fakesis!! They're so great!!!!
As a Singaporean kid i remember in the 2000s knockoff consoles were popular as they were cheap and many parents here tend to go for the cheaper alternative. Funny thing i recall i had a gameboy knockoff the console was so bad it is unplayable. I also recall having GBA cartridge with like 999 games but with three main gba games that you can't even saved the game progress. The rest were just NES games and clones
I remember the Family Game (NES bootleg) that was sold in South America for a long time, it used to come with thousands of titles in one cartridge, mostly 9-10 games and their hundreds of thousand alternated copies, that even came with Super Mario Bros. I haven't seen one of those in the US or even online, but I knew a lot of people who had the Family Game when I was a kid.
I can’t believe I’m finally watching this after seeing my grandpa watch this in his living room
I know its been awhile but I have to say again im so glad to have xplay back
"This isn't even my final form"... Said every DragonBall Z character ever.
The Minions bootleg is a rom hack of Adventure Island. It was a platformer series by Hudson that was abandoned by the company after the two SNES games in the series didn't sell well enough. Sometimes a series just doesn't catch on, sad.
I thought so too, but it turns out Wonderboy is the original and Adventure Island was the NES port of it.
See you in space, Jefferson. Do well.
Stay gold, bang!
There is one bootleg and that game is Mario 14 aka Jackie Chan action Kung fu what makes it fun all move item you get are limited for actual game but in bootleg version you get infinity move
How could one mention bootlegs without the infamous 7 GRAND DAD?
I was one of the buyer of those 9 million in 1 game cartridge.
I remember they have "Konami" logo on the cartridge and they cost like US$ 15 each
Love this!! Great job y'all! Super interesting.
The cool thing about the bootleg cartridges/consoles with a bunch of games on them is that some of the games are bound to be good just by probability. I mean, that's definitely true with Super Console X where most of the games are true to the original. At least most of the ones I've played.
Great video! The arcade machine running a bootleg 60-in1 PCB was an interesting choice of backdrop 🤔
What is the purpose of the Internet if not buying sketchy crap from it?
I think I want a Polystation now. These Knockoff games really intrigue me. I bet this video will make the price of these go up on eBay.
The Minions game is using the 80s Sega game WONDER BOY. It looks like both the game engine and many of the graphics/assets are unchanged from Wonder Boy on the Sega Mastersystem.
@Xplay Adam Sessler OMG man, you're a freaking legend!!! I miss your shows on G4 back in the day. Just wanna say I've been a huge fan since then. My favorite episode is whenever you'd talk about the DBZ games and rating games Out of 5!! XD
As someone from Pakistan, I had to buy a bootleg Chinese Famicom Console which has the inbuilt games which were legit. but a large part of games on cartridges was bootleg. in Pakistan, only one of our cousins had the original NES from the US and his father had dubious means of income. If someone had an original NES or FAMICOM either these people's source of income was questionable or they were businessmen's kids. Not a lot of middle class people could afford the original NEX/ FAMICOM or even genuine cartridges.
if I can't buy sketchy stuff from the internet where else can I buy it
It's not illegal. Its just free minds making wacky matches. I love that. Vídeo MUITO interessante
I got to say i grew up with gen 3 Pokemon aka Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald versions as a kid and i loved em and i still do over 20 years later, and yes i love the 2014 3ds remakes of gen 3 as well.
Wait....is Jefferson actually gone?
Yes sadly 😞