[General Discussion] The Nintendo Entertainment System is in real danger

I stumbled upon this page the other day and jumped up and down on the spot "MY TOE, MY TOE" like in Turtles in Time.


What a cool kid!

Have any of you actually bought one of these hilarious pirate systems? There's bajillions of them around, each claims to have like a hundred or so games built in but there's really only a handful repeated over and over again. Although personally I haven't seen one as high class as this SUPER MEGASON IV. I mean seriously, its own power supply? A light gun? Man. That's like a Royal Crown Cola level of fancy! Maaany years ago I was in Fiji, and came across the magic of a weird pirate console. Only worked out at a mere $15, and it was before they burst on in and became a common thing here (like every second store on main street sells them now... Right next to their fish tanks filled with plastic fish that glow in the dark and 1996-ish Tamagotchi clones for a buck each). So it was vital that I have it for the novelty value!

It was shaped like a Nintendo 64, with a PlayStation-ish controller (the shoulder buttons didn't even work, they were just for decoration). The controller couldn't be unplugged from the machine, and it ran off six AA batteries that lasted about as long as a snail fighting a falling anvil. Two cartridges were included. The first one had a pretty impressive amount of games with classics such as Super Jump (Super Mario Bros.), Racer Bike (Excitebike) and Space Man (Metroid, I kid you not). The other was a head scratching one. The sticker on the cartridge was a blurry Krusty's Super Fun House, yet it'd only bring up a blank menu box when turned on. Greatest game ever? I think so!

Of course being a very high tech device, it died weeks later. Probably good that it was only $15, because flying back over to get a refund would have made me produce a concerned look on my face. I still have it SOMEWHERE though. Precious memories of greatest game ever combined with Space Man you know, can't let go of those!

I've never seen one with clones of 16-bit stuff though, guess that might just be far too advanced! It's mostly always NES. One of these cool companies should shove every Atari 2600 game into a Virtual Boy designed system. It'd shoot real lasers into your eyes. I'd buy that SO BAD. As in, I'd most likely drop the money in the process of handing it over, then I'd slip over and cause a fire someone. "Wow you're pretty shit at this whole exchanging money for goods thing!"


I don't remember bullet time in Smash TV!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Whoa, Commodore! =o TVBoy knows its stuff! I've only seen the official Commodore plug 'n' plays before, but they're a joke ($50 with only 15 games).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I hope Capcom ports that Neo Double Games version of Street Fighter to a current generation console. Those rich, detailed graphics are being held back by the small portable screen!

How ya doing, buddy?

I'd buy one for each hand! =o

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