/vr/ - Retro Games

Argie here, I got a famiclone that looked exactly like the japanese famicom and was called simply "Family Game", it was the most generic one. There were others with different brands, but in the end it was all the same with little to no variations.
The only difference was that some of them were grey and white, instead of red and white.
Then, sometime later they came shaped in different forms, such as super famicom shape, megadrive shape, PS1 shape... around the time the PS1-shaped ones started appearing, they dropped the quality severely. The old famiclones were fairly strong built and made of good plastic, I'd say it was almost as having a real Famicom, at least the plastic quality. The PS1 famiclones are really cheap looking.

Cartidges also used to be prettier, they used good labels that looked like the real japanese carts, except they ommited the titles or any sort of legal brand names. Around the time the PS1-shaped clones appeared, carts also started looking more ridiculous and bootlegy.
Of course, there were still things like pic related though (that evil-looking Mario used to be in quite a lot of Mario hack carts, we used to call him "mario maldito", or "wicked mario")

My first cartidge was a 30 in 1 cart and contained a lot of classic games. It didn't include any Mario game but it had Adventure Island, Contra, Circus Charlie, Twin Bee, Ice Climber, and many others.