/vr/ - Retro Games

One of the things that seems to be very overlooked by anons who grew up in developing countries is the fact that Famiclones did exist in 1st world territories. Not as common, but certainly around at many indoor flea markets and other places that sold electronics of dubious origin and legality.
Some poor kids in the USA ended up with them, and all the bootleg roms that were included.

And then you've got the years when Famiclones really took off in popularity in Eastern Europe as being towards the mid-90s when NES games were extremely cheap and plentiful on the used market. So the anons from Poland, Russia, or Ukraine who talk about buying games from flea markets or trunk sellers.... well, we had that too. Except in our case the games were legit original copies for the most part. Round about 1995 you could go to a swap meet or flea market and find tables of NES games for about $1-$5 each. Or you could buy a lot 10-20 of them from a yard sale sometimes for only $10-20, often with the console and accessories included.

Then there was the whole back catalog of even older systems like Atari, Intellivision, and Colecovision. Those were even cheaper. Like you'd find the whole thing with like 25 games in an old suitcase at a yard sale for a $1. Yes, one (1) American dollar! They just wanted rid of the things to make room in their garage.

idk, just seems to me like anons from places where famiclones were the most popular have a distorted image of what the used game market was like in the 90s of the USA, Canada, and probably the UK too.