/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2224736]

Did anyone here have a Famiclone as a kid? I didn't but I've seen some Europeans who did. It makes me curious what it's like. Did they think it was the actual console?

[Anonymous No.2224752]

All BRs probably, the NES was released officially here only in 1993. This big guy is my favourite, RIP Dynacom.

[Anonymous No.2224764]

I'm white so no.

[Anonymous No.2224767]

>>2224764
>eastern europeans aren't white
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.2224769]

>>2224736
I did, in Argentina (and probably all of South America, including Brazil) they were popular since poorfags.

The one I had looked like a Genesis, pic related.

Later a friend gave me one that was exactly like the Famicom but all black, with hardwired controllers and everything.

[Anonymous No.2224775]

>>2224767
Sorry who?

[Anonymous No.2224798]

mine had 72 and 60 pin slots, it was called TOP SYSTEM or something generic like this

[Anonymous No.2224893]

>>2224767
>eastern europeans
Was the famicom available in Eastern Europe?

[Anonymous No.2224903]

>>2224893
The famiclone, pegasus was very popular in Poland in the 90s. It used japanese cartridges.

[Anonymous No.2224927]

>Did they think it was the actual console?
I did.
Also isn't the NES also a famiclone?

[Anonymous No.2224929]

>>2224927
NES has a real Ricoh CPU and Nintendo PPU.

[Anonymous No.2224930]

>>2224903
man that's an awful controlller

[Anonymous No.2224948]

>>2224893
dendy is technically a famiclone no?

[Anonymous No.2224967]

>>2224930
Better than sharp edged NES controller. to be honest.

[Anonymous No.2224969]

>>2224967
look hella big, mang. dont know if my kiddie hands would grasp that shit properly.

[Anonymous No.2224971]

>>2224967
Man I love these 3rd world threads. Only a matter of time before one of "them" posts about how their clone shit is better than original hardware.

Such an ass backwards way of thinking.

[Anonymous No.2224974]

>>2224736
Yes, I had several as a kid, they were poor quality and broke often. Played a lot of "999 in 1" famicom pirate carts, good times.

[Anonymous No.2225000]

>>2224927

No. The NES is a revision of the Famicom

[Anonymous No.2225014]

>>2224767

[Anonymous No.2225042]

>>2225014
Yes if they were white they certainly couldn't dance like that...

[Anonymous No.2225180]

Had one of these bad boys.
Lasted me three or four years until the controllers started acting funny on me. Pirate charts were cheep and we used to barter them between us if we wanted to play something new.
I think we lucked out honestly, had the best of what the PAL, the Japanese and the US market had to offer.
All time favorite game still is Wai Wai World 2, the first game I ever bought with my own pocket money based on cover art alone.

[Anonymous No.2225210]

I must have had at least 3. Shit had a horrible build quality (as expected).
>Did they think it was the actual console
I didn't even know what a "NES" was.

[Anonymous No.2225597]

my father forbade me to have a family game because they told him he could break the TV

[Anonymous No.2225734]

Oh hell yeah. I had one that was shaped like a playstation, except it had sega saturn controllers.
I played it a lot when I was like 7.
>tfw some of those pirate games were decent but people only pick out the shitty ones usually

[Anonymous No.2228941]

I had a Family Game, it came with 24 "installed" games like Popeye, Arabian, Ice Climber and Artic Adventure.

I had to sold it as a kid to buy a SNES.

[Anonymous No.2228981]

I had one and I actually thought it was better as it had built-in games and multicarts which my cousins' nes hadnt. "plus, whats with those huge cartridges that have only a single game?" i asked myself.

i only enjoyed playing wheres wally with them cause none of the ulticart i owned had it.

[Anonymous No.2229025]

>>2224736
Check out "The Grey Elephant's Curse" as it's a nice show of how it was felt back in the day.

[Anonymous No.2229057]

Another argentinian here, my first console was a generic "Family Game", pretty much like the one in the pic.
At first I didn't know it wasn't legit, and I didn't care either. I was 5 and all I wanted was to play.
I later found out it wasn't the real deal, but honestly the console itself felt like good quality. I remember the pads being good, better than the NES one since the original Famicom pad has rounder edges.
I believe the problem with many famiclones is that they don't display at proper NTSC speed so it's like playing on a PAL system. Although I don't really remember this myself, but then again I didn't have the original console to compare, so it was normal to me back then, I guess.

[Anonymous No.2229134]

>>2224769
Special mention for one of the most iconic famiclones and childhood destroyers around here, the Polystation.

[Anonymous No.2229157]

>>2224769
aguante songa y Nivel X

[Anonymous No.2229164]

>>2225597
que negro villero tu padre.
ignorant nigger dad.

[Anonymous No.2229190]

Italian here, famiclones still exist like they always been, but they were and still are confined in that area of crappy toy distribution and local shopping TV channels, here's an example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ1dZ0PECb8
Basically they hope that some old grandma who knows nothing about videogames buy blindly the thing for the grandson, it doesn't come cheap at all.

[Anonymous No.2230031]

>>2224752
De Faq is this Shiat!?

[Anonymous No.2230070]

>>2224769
I was one of the only ones in my neighbourhood who had an official NES. Damn thing wasn't even worth it, getting games for it was a fucking torture, I'd say they were about what 150U$S are nowadays. Fucking '80s and '90s Uruguay.

[Anonymous No.2230076]

>>2225597
Que negro de mierda, a veces me pregunto si soy el único que tiene un padre que sabe de electrónica y PCs.

[Anonymous No.2230286]

>>2230076

si boludo, sos el unico

[Anonymous No.2230302]

>>2229190
That's definitely not a famiclone, if they're showing actual footage of it. Looks like a MAME box.

[Anonymous No.2230770]

>>2229134
We had that "Polystation" around here too. Almost everyone had one stashed somewhere even during the PS2 years.
The best part was that every single one was different so I'm sure even a Polystation had fake Polystations.

[Anonymous No.2230809]

>>2225597
>Los mejores video games

[Anonymous No.2230818]

>>2224736
>>2224736
I had that model of Micro Genius. Finest console I've ever owned.
Most people over 30 in my country (Turkey) had played almost entire NES library thanks to famiclones. Except the ones which have batteries in them to allow saved games. I guess that was too expensive of a feature to pirate. That's why almost everyone played Mario, Contra, etc but doesn't even know anything about Metroid or Zelda.

[Anonymous No.2232579]

Any Russians own a Dendy?

[Anonymous No.2232597]

>>2228941
i can swear i had one of those when i was a kid, but i don't have it anymore, i have a black famiclone. So i dunno if i faked that memory or what

[Anonymous No.2232602]

>>2232597
this one
argentinian here as well. Are we like the champions of fake-clone-hacked /vr/ or what?

[Anonymous No.2232608]

>>2232579
some own a 90s dendy from their childhood and there are new famiclones widely sold today in russia, costs 800 - 2000 roubles which is about 10 - 25 us dollars