[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.

I saw some guy had a setup of those bootleg systems he was selling (not the SUPER MEGASON NUMBER FOUR mind you, just some similar one). A lot of the games on it were playing in the wrong speed and colors. It had Super Mario Bros. on it, but Mario ran twice as fast and it was impossible to do anything with any precision.

You might as well just download an emulator for your computer. It costs less and runs the game better (though you miss out on all the fun laughs and the ability to fly!)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I have a TVBoy, containing 126 Commodore games (no repeats).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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).

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Yes, I own a Pegasus Entertainment Series Computer Family Game MT-777DX. It served me well back in the days. Surprisingly it's not completely moronic, while it had a multi-game cartridge it was nothing idiotic like 1000000 games, rather something around 150. And while there were many weird, hacked and modified versions (Mario on speed, Mario where all the backgrounds were gone, Contra where you always had the best weapon and so on) it still had many of the cool games like Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Contra (my favourite of course), Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, Wild Gunman, Baseball, Mappy Land, Bomberman etc.

They lied on the package though, as there was no gun (had to later buy a cheapo one separately for like $3) and I'm still annoyed that the game cart didn't have Dizzy on it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystation
http://www.nesplayer.com/pirates/polystation.htm

Open it up for a nice, nice surprise! I saw this a long-ass time ago when I was in a night market of some sorts. I thought it was nifty. Hell, I even thought of playing Contra on such a system, or ROBOCOP.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I have the TV Console (I wrote about it in my journal before the last crash).
It's hilarious. Came with two controllers (which seems to fit my Megadrive) and a light gun. Instead of Super Mario Bros. we have Panda. And exact copy, except for some tinkering with the graphics and some really terrible music. It has Ballon Fight, which is pretty awesome.
It's just ridiculous it can't take power from a A/C adapter. Instead I have to buy batteries for it. Big honking car battery sized ones...

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Terminus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystation
http://www.nesplayer.com/pirates/polystation.htm

Open it up for a nice, nice surprise! I saw this a long-ass time ago when I was in a night market of some sorts. I thought it was nifty. Hell, I even thought of playing Contra on such a system, or ROBOCOP.

Hahaha. When I was in the Philippines in 2000, I saw something similar. It was called the GameStation or something I think. Similar description though. Hilarious!

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

That kid's smile scares the hell out of me... ::shudders::

Either way, you see these pretty often these days. Especially those ones with all those NES games repeated 10 billion times they sell at the mall. They charge you $50 for it when you could just download all the ROMS for free... I especially love their bootleg DDR. They're all MIDIs!

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Whatever happened to the Super Megason III? I MISSED ONE OF THE SYSTEMS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Blessings actually since Polystation has now a second generation! BEHOLD, THE POLYSTATION 2!



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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

PopStation!

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GameStation!

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Neo Double Games!

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Thank god I have money to buy real games otherwise I would have killed myself by now.

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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?

Speaking of hope.
I WOULD TOTALLY BUY THIS.



What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'd buy one for each hand! =o

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FELIPE NO

Shit, if there was any way I could rate you a 6 ='D

I've still got the original PC version, complete in box and all.
Only it's useless, because I safety copied disk 1... onto disk 2 .___.

Spoiler:

Anyone wanna trade disks, I've got two one's and a three =DDD

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

We need to send in the Reginator.



Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh haha. My first actual console was a Famiclone, one called LEVIS, SNES shaped, 255 games built in (repeats galore of course). The EJECt button had the secondary function of being a huge power-on led. Joystick was like the SNES too, but lacked the shoulder buttons, it had a shittastic dpad that wasnt a dpad at all - just a circle with 8 directions on them - and the x/y buttons functioned as Turbos for a/b. The lightgun however, was identical to the original NES one as far as I can tell - of course, without the Nintendo logo.

The game selection was decent though, and allowed me to play many classics, such as Adventure Island (this one was literally 1/5 of the overall game number, it had a start point for every level, with different powerups at start, and sometimes different powerup functions), Ice Climber, Mappy, Road Fighter, Exerion, Pacman, Popeye, Galaxians, Tank, Combat, Tetris (this was the VS. Tetris), Duck Hunt, a lightgun game with cowboys, Chinese Chess (this one only appeared once), Chack N Pop, Milk Nuts, Antartic Adventure, Dig Dug, a WW2 plane shooter (you had a machinegun and bombs against ships below you, you got killed from one hit, there were bosses that took 4-5 hits - one on each propeller), and some wierd game about a some devil which was essentially a pacman clone, but the screen was moved around by some henchman working in the corners (getting squashed by the border happened rather often), and you had crosses and some dragon and I think maybe you could spit fire some way. Or one of the monsters did. I don't remember. I could never, ever figure out how to play that game.

This was actually an important part of my childhood, it was unfortunate that none of the games, except Mappy and Tetris, were worth playing for more then 10 minutes max.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Malmer

Speaking of hope.
I WOULD TOTALLY BUY THIS.

I got my mate the official Cannon Fodder plug-in console for christmas. I got it because it had Sensible Soccer built in to be honest but it was fun playing Cannon Fodder for a bit too.

Being a tarty-smart official game though it runs off mains power so no hilarious battery antics.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

If anybody wants a POPstation...here's the ebay link
http://cgi.ebay.com/BNIB-POP-STATION...QQcmdZViewItem

Seriously....this is just sad...now I wonder why the PSP is doing so bad...jk
Someone should report this crap to ebay.

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Space Man (Metroid, I kid you not)

This makes me sad.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'd totally buy this. It's the Fc Twin, and it plays NES and SNES games. I grew up with Sega though, so I don't have a significant number of SNES and NES games to validate a purchase. But who cares, it's still awesome.



Also, someone managed to fit a whole NES console into it's controller. Very tasty.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

My local gamestore is selling three of those FC Twin consoles for $40 bucks a pop. I'm considering picking one up for my mother so that I could get back my original SNES(She loves Tetris Attack).

FELIPE NO

Elixir, those movies were great.

This FC Twin is not that stupid. I saw a SNES clone once, but 2 in 1, woah. And you say they sell it legally, let's say in Sears? It's a musthave

Anyway my gaming experience started in late 80's with Pegasus, mighty NES clone. I had this famous 100+ games collections, but also TMNT (1, 2, 3 and Tournament Fighters), SMB 2, SMB 3, Jackal - each sold separately. In early 90's I became a Mortal Kombat freak. I didn't have a PC, but it was not needed. I had these underground, lame Gameboy translations sometimes with doubled, different palette characters. For example there was normal Scorpion and a purple clone of his called Scop V, here we got Sonya and her sister Yoko. But there were better Mortal Kombat clones available with blood and real characters. Every move was executed with same button combination. I remember playing as Sub Zero. His slide was totally devastating, performed in corner it lasted for about 5 seconds resulting in an easy win. There was no fatalities, Goro and Kintaro were always smaller than the rest, Shao was named Shang Tsung, Shang always morfed into the same pair of characters - it was a sripted thing which happened automatically and in Mortal Komabt 3 combos were non existant. There was also a stunning Mortal Kombat Vs Street Fighter, and that's a gem everyone should see

I know the Polystation, you inserted the cart where the CD-drive should be. There was also a NES clone which looked like a keyboard with a cartridge drive. Great thing to fool parents - they are buying a computer :P

I personally don't like reading long posts so enough for now.

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Oh hell, I see a lot of those here, I thought they were localized Apparently not... lmao

How ya doing, buddy?