/vr/ - Retro Games

It's a Famiclone; chinese clones of the Famicom/NES. They're extremely common in Asia / South America / Eastern Europe and are still being manufactured as we speak. Vintage ones like you're describing are probably discrete components and as good as the real thing. Modern ones are "NES on a chip" (NOAC) and while cheap to manufacture, are less compatible with commercial software. That screenshot you posted is Super Mario Bros (or maybe SMB2?) with the title screen graphics / copyright notice removed, a very common hack you'll see on pirated carts, etc. Picrel is a NOAC Famiclone mounted to a cutting board, presumably in Eastern Europe.

sometimes... less is more

>>9080093
Agreed, and yeah I've cleaned my fair share of disgusting north american consoles.
>>9080104
We're talking about the super low quality ultra mass produced chinese electronics, I think lousy components and workmanship are expected. That said, there's virtually nothing inside a NOAC Famiclone to break, it's a glob, controller connectors, and Power and AV jacks.

The year is 1991. You inherit 100 million dollars, you can do whatever you want with it. You decide to enter the console market and stir the market with your new killer machine. How would you name it? What would you invest your money in? What kind of console would you release? What kind of hardware would you put in? Would you go with expensive S-Video outputs and x2 CD-Rom drive or would you put a budget Zilog processor and 3-channel 8-bit sound chip?

>>6207567