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
@@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.
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.
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.
Definitely should have bought whatever you wanted. Airport customs workers aren't inspecting passengers' videogames to determine if they're officially licensed or not. As long as you're not obviously trying to bring in a whole truckload of pirate games to resell. They're too busy looking for guns, bombs, drugs, and dangerous exotic animals hidden in people's suitcases.
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! 🤣🤣🤣
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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👏
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Here is a story I learnt that no one talks about: So back in like in the mid 90s or so samsung a popular electronic company from south korea produced some bootleg copies of snes games but they did not do bootleg they officially released sega consoles in south korea due to a boycott that prevented japanese products from coming from south korea but this boycott ended around in uh 1998 or 2002 but nintendo sued them for piracy violation but samsung learned their lesson and destroyed all of the bit of bootleg snes game copies they had in their stock so nintendo teamed up with samsung to stop bootlegged games from coming in areas like eastern europe, south amercia and across asia and this is one of the extremely instances where a company is sued from making bootlegs but learnt their lesson and destroyed their bootlegged copies/games and helped with the company that sued them to stop other bootlegs sorry for that repeating I'm commenting this late at night.
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 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
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
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.
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 😅
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
There was a video game ban in China? I grew up there and I did not know that. I could swear that I saw playstation and xbox in video game stores back in 2000s. I really wanted them but I had to study and my family very likely could not afford them.
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.
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.
This is exactly why I love Xplay! So glad you are back doing your thing Sessler! The whole Xplay crew is an awesome group of people, and it just makes this 90's kid happy to see content from you guys again.
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.
Amazing, informative, and entertaining video! I’m really sad to see Jefferson leave, he really brightened up my day every time I got to see him in a video. This was an awesome way to go out tho, awesome vid
Ha! My first console was due to my high grades in Elementary School. Dad promised me to buy a "Family Computer" if I could show him good grades and I did. The following Sunday, after church, we went to electronic shop and I could still remember tune 📺 TV's that plays demos of colorful Famicom games. The endless array of colorful game cartridges. I was expecting the red and white Famicom console like I saw in my friends' house, but the sales lady said they ran out, so I ended up getting the gray Famiclone that I was hugging the whole time we were on the bus ride heading home. On the of endless joy I was experiencing, we had Jollibee after shopping. I was the happiest kid. Now, that I can afford to buy latest and greatest console(s), nothing can match the buying experience I had with the "bootleg" console. Buying another game console is not the same, let alone playing games.
I remember in Cebu in the Philippines my aunt bought my cousin a famicom, the weird thing is the famicom has detachable controllers and famicoms don't have detachable controllers. The famicom controller has two buttons which is a and b I think, and the controller on it has four buttons instead of just a and b
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.
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 grew up on those bootleg games. In the Philippines, i had my PS1 jailbroken. It was a requirement or else you would have to pay 10 times the amount for a ps1 game.
More likely 100x of original game if you were in Indonesia around late 1990s to early 2000s. No joke. The price of bootleg PS1 CD in 1999-2001 was IDR 5.000 while the price of original games could be IDR 500.000.
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!!
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.
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
Definitely should have bought whatever you wanted. Airport customs workers aren't inspecting passengers' videogames to determine if they're officially licensed or not. As long as you're not obviously trying to bring in a whole truckload of pirate games to resell. They're too busy looking for guns, bombs, drugs, and dangerous exotic animals hidden in people's suitcases.
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! 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
Loved Jefferson’s Filipino Auntie impression! 😆👌
EDIT: And if this is truly the end of Jefferson, take care brotha! From one Filipino to another! 🤙
I've been learning about Video Game history for 10+ years and I never knew the history of bootleg games! Great video guys!
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:/
@@WildBerryAura 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 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.
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
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...
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.
It is sad that these countries make our systems but couldn’t afford ones themselves! So good on them for making bootleg games!
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.
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.
After Jefferson bears his heart "Lets talk about Pokemon!"
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.
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.
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.
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
Lmao visiting family in the Philippines, bootleg games were so fascinating. It was like a whole new world.
Makes me wonder how many of the games I played growin' up in the Philippines were bootlegs
he's not leaving right? Like Ovalee < can't spell so fire me! Come on I like them!
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.
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.
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
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
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.
So, ETA on the Polystation review?
Here is a story I learnt that no one talks about:
So back in like in the mid 90s or so samsung a popular electronic company from south korea produced some bootleg copies of snes games but they did not do bootleg they officially released sega consoles in south korea due to a boycott that prevented japanese products from coming from south korea but this boycott ended around in uh 1998 or 2002 but nintendo sued them for piracy violation but samsung learned their lesson and destroyed all of the bit of bootleg snes game copies they had in their stock so nintendo teamed up with samsung to stop bootlegged games from coming in areas like eastern europe, south amercia and across asia and this is one of the extremely instances where a company is sued from making bootlegs but learnt their lesson and destroyed their bootlegged copies/games and helped with the company that sued them to stop other bootlegs sorry for that repeating I'm commenting this late at night.
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.
18:58 That's one vicious looking Tokomon. As a big Digimon fan, part of me wants to try these.
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
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
These obscure gaming dives are top tier
As a kid i only played these bootleg games , i couldn't afford playstation and other legit consoles
if I can't buy sketchy stuff from the internet where else can I buy it
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.
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 😅
As a Gen Z born in South East Asia, I can confirm getting an official NES game console and game cartridge is very difficult
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.
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
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!
"This isn't even my final form"... Said every DragonBall Z character ever.
Love this kind of stuff. Xplay has been stepping it up!
The effort and writing into these videos is appreciated ❤️
it was so unexpected to see xplay talk about bootleg games. man I wish this didn't get cancelled from comcast.
1:02 How about I'll buy whatever the hell I want? You are not my dad and JAGIELSKI is PERFECTION.
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.
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
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.
Jefferson really killed the Filipino impressions! I feel like I have a different view on Bootlegs now bc of this vid too!
How could one mention bootlegs without the infamous 7 GRAND DAD?
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.
I turned this off before I got to 4:00 because I had 4 commercials over 3 commercial breaks. Insane!
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.
These things are still in circulation in some malls in the Philippines. 🤣
Minions is an Adventure Island reskin. Which is already an official reskin of a hypothetical NES version of Wonder Boy.
I just wanna know why the polystation box was censored
It had spiderman on it
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
I remember seeing those red and white bootleg consoles in Chinese malls in Toronto.
Love this!! Great job y'all! Super interesting.
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
Awesome upload!🙌🎮 Adam and Jefferson, great Xplay combo . Anything better and it would involve Morgan Webb. That's all I need. 👍
This was a pretty fun and enjoyable video! I would have missed it if it weren't for a recommendation by Vito.
I have Mortal Kombat Trilogy on NES/ It doesn't really work well with only 2 buttons
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
There was a video game ban in China? I grew up there and I did not know that. I could swear that I saw playstation and xbox in video game stores back in 2000s. I really wanted them but I had to study and my family very likely could not afford them.
You can't escape it.
Chip & Dale with guns fighting gorillas is hilarious
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.
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.
Xplay has been fun so far, but this is now my favorite video by you guys.
Was Digimon Ruby made using one of Atlus's Devil Children games? It kinda looks like a non-isometric version of Digimon World DS.
This is exactly why I love Xplay! So glad you are back doing your thing Sessler!
The whole Xplay crew is an awesome group of people, and it just makes this 90's kid happy to see content from you guys again.
The "NES Minions" game you are talking about at 15:35 is an actual/official NES game from late 80s "Adventure Island".
Wonder Boy is technically Adventure island.
If they just keep doing content like this maybe this channel would still alive
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.
Amazing, informative, and entertaining video! I’m really sad to see Jefferson leave, he really brightened up my day every time I got to see him in a video. This was an awesome way to go out tho, awesome vid
The minions game is a reskin of adventure island 1 or 2, which was the NES port of segas Wonderboy.
What is the purpose of the Internet if not buying sketchy crap from it?
Ha! My first console was due to my high grades in Elementary School. Dad promised me to buy a "Family Computer" if I could show him good grades and I did. The following Sunday, after church, we went to electronic shop and I could still remember tune 📺 TV's that plays demos of colorful Famicom games. The endless array of colorful game cartridges.
I was expecting the red and white Famicom console like I saw in my friends' house, but the sales lady said they ran out, so I ended up getting the gray Famiclone that I was hugging the whole time we were on the bus ride heading home.
On the of endless joy I was experiencing, we had Jollibee after shopping. I was the happiest kid.
Now, that I can afford to buy latest and greatest console(s), nothing can match the buying experience I had with the "bootleg" console. Buying another game console is not the same, let alone playing games.
You know, Kart Fighter COULD actually work as an official game quite frankly.☝
Great episode! Thank you for sharing your video game childhood story Jefferson.
I remember in Cebu in the Philippines my aunt bought my cousin a famicom, the weird thing is the famicom has detachable controllers and famicoms don't have detachable controllers. The famicom controller has two buttons which is a and b I think, and the controller on it has four buttons instead of just a and b
Too bad this channel got cancelled. I have many fond memories of the old G4 channel
Ah man I grew up watching XPlay on tv and it’s crazy to still be watching it in 2022
I had no idea that it was still around 20 years later. The last time I had watched it was when it was on TechTV before the G4 merger.
bruh the Jollibee joke
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.
4:35 Why is spiderman censored?
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.
I grew up on those bootleg games. In the Philippines, i had my PS1 jailbroken. It was a requirement or else you would have to pay 10 times the amount for a ps1 game.
Ikr. It was the age of piracy
More likely 100x of original game if you were in Indonesia around late 1990s to early 2000s. No joke. The price of bootleg PS1 CD in 1999-2001 was IDR 5.000 while the price of original games could be IDR 500.000.