Random Famiclone Revival :3

[Cheela]

Hey!! Its your silly streamer/youtuber/tierlist reviewer/girl that sucks at videogames here with a post from her vacation.
Soo i am exiled on Chiloe with the family of my cousin’s girlfriend and i have stumbled with this famiclone:

Soo me as the tech local savy girl decide to see if it still works… an it did!

Is a curious famiclone with sega genesis port controllers. I have repaired one controller and it’s working flawlessly now!!

Here are some pics of my cousin playing with it!

But i have a question… did any of you have this one?! And if you did what are your histories with it. I didn’t find that much about it when I googled it soo i am curious about it :3

Anyways :3 i hope u are having a great weekend fellas :3

pd: i am kinda busted rn soo sorry if i messed up something grammatically:3

 

[SpcDaicon]

HOLY SHIT SENGOKU ACES 2 MENTIONED??????

Anyways, its impressive how many bootleg consoles found their way to South America.

I never had one but I had many friends that used to have bootleg consoles like the (in)famous Polystation or some other "1000 games in 1" type console.

We also had some more legitimate clones like the Phantom System. It was basicaly a "more sophisticated" famiclone compatible with NES cartidges (EUA and Japan)

I always wondered if it was possible to trace the origins of those consoles and know how they even came to be

 

[Cheela]

HOLY SHIT SENGOKU ACES 2 MENTIONED??????

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Anyways, its impressive how many bootleg consoles found their way to South America.

I never had one but I had many friends that used to have bootleg consoles like the (in)famous Polystation or some other "1000 games in 1" type console.

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We also had some more legitimate clones like the Phantom System. It was basicaly a "more sophisticated" famiclone compatible with NES cartidges (EUA and Japan)

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I always wondered if it was possible to trace the origins of those consoles and know how they even came to be

Thats kinda what i am looking too, because i knew only about the polystation (my cousin got it) and the wiwi (a famiclone with motion controls)
But i was always interested in the story behind this consoles because they are like a intrinsic part of our South American history

 

[RageBurner]

I've seen a famiclone at a friend's house once, but never had one myself.

Edit: actually it was probably a Phantom System.

 

[DunkeyKong]

I love those pictures, really cool. Anyway, mine is probably the Gameboy look alike one, a Sup brand

 

[RageBurner]

'Sup with that? did it have a controller port? very forward thinking if so!

 

[DunkeyKong]

'Sup with that? did it have a controller port? very forward thinking if so!

Yeah it has, and ngl, they probably do a lot of Sup joke when they come up with that name lmao

 

[RageBurner]

Yeah it has, and ngl, they probably do a lot of Sup joke when they come up with that name lmao

Probably intentional. It sticks with you, whether you want it to or not.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Probably intentional. It sticks with you, whether you want it to or not.

You're right, no wonder it's stuck in my head, shit is like a virus

 

[Yousef]

Hey!! Its your silly streamer/youtuber/tierlist reviewer/girl that sucks at videogames here with a post from her vacation.
Soo i am exiled on Chiloe with the family of my cousin’s girlfriend and i have stumbled with this famiclone:
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Soo me as the tech local savy girl decide to see if it still works… an it did!

Is a curious famiclone with sega genesis port controllers. I have repaired one controller and it’s working flawlessly now!!
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Here are some pics of my cousin playing with it!

But i have a question… did any of you have this one?! And if you did what are your histories with it. I didn’t find that much about it when I googled it soo i am curious about it :3

Anyways :3 i hope u are having a great weekend fellas :3

pd: i am kinda busted rn soo sorry if i messed up something grammatically:3

LOOOOOL the random Arabic text was unexpected. It says “tekken 2 and sonic 5” just like the English text.

 

[Arklem]

Since the much more famous Polystation and Phantom System were already mentioned I'll mention the Turbo Game by CCE, a brazilian famiclone with oddly shaped controllers (and no that controller is not upside down)

 

[Tonberry]

I have a Neo-Fami I bought a bunch of years ago in order to play japanese Famicom/NES games. Only ever used it for Dragon Quest 3-4, Mario 3 and Megaman 4 though. Iirc, the sounds are a bit off but the games play perfectly otherwise.
Wanted to collect those games just because the cartridges were so cute and colorful.

 

[happymasksalesman]

Hey!! Its your silly streamer/youtuber/tierlist reviewer/girl that sucks at videogames here with a post from her vacation.
Soo i am exiled on Chiloe with the family of my cousin’s girlfriend and i have stumbled with this famiclone:
View attachment 50889
Soo me as the tech local savy girl decide to see if it still works… an it did!

Is a curious famiclone with sega genesis port controllers. I have repaired one controller and it’s working flawlessly now!!
View attachment 50891View attachment 50892
Here are some pics of my cousin playing with it!

But i have a question… did any of you have this one?! And if you did what are your histories with it. I didn’t find that much about it when I googled it soo i am curious about it :3

Anyways :3 i hope u are having a great weekend fellas :3

pd: i am kinda busted rn soo sorry if i messed up something grammatically:3

I still have My Sega genesis from my childhood and I still can't finish the sonic genesis on it!

 

[SpcDaicon]

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Since the much more famous Polystation and Phantom System were already mentioned I'll mention the Turbo Game by CCE, a brazilian famiclone with oddly shaped controllers (and no that controller is not upside down)

Its interesting to see how much the controllers of the Phantom System and Turbo Game resemble the Mega Drive/Genesis controller.

It just show how much Sega's console was the "defaut" video game in Brazil, just like the NES was the "defaut" video game on USA.

 

[DanCalibur]

Phantom System's Fun facts:
The phantom System was released almost at the same time as the japanese Mega Drive so they probably copied the controller design from Sega's promotional materials. Gradiente, the Phantom System manufacturer, was working on the release of the Atari 7800 in Brazil but the deal was broken and the Atari 7800 shells were then used for the Phantom System. Gradiente took their prototype Famiclone to Nintendo in japan trying to close a deal for the official production of the NES in Brazil but was denied and so decided to released it as the Phantom System, five years later Nintendo accepted the deal and that was the end of the Phantom System. The partnership lasted for ten years up to the Gameboy Advance and Gamecube days.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Hey!! Its your silly streamer/youtuber/tierlist reviewer/girl that sucks at videogames here with a post from her vacation.
Soo i am exiled on Chiloe with the family of my cousin’s girlfriend and i have stumbled with this famiclone:
View attachment 50889
Soo me as the tech local savy girl decide to see if it still works… an it did!

Is a curious famiclone with sega genesis port controllers. I have repaired one controller and it’s working flawlessly now!!
View attachment 50891View attachment 50892
Here are some pics of my cousin playing with it!

But i have a question… did any of you have this one?! And if you did what are your histories with it. I didn’t find that much about it when I googled it soo i am curious about it :3

Anyways :3 i hope u are having a great weekend fellas :3

pd: i am kinda busted rn soo sorry if i messed up something grammatically:3

Oh…. Oh heck yeah.

Also, shoutouts to the tiny $20 famiclone my sister got me at an ACTUAL FLEA MARKET! It was super kind of her and we got to play some goofy early NES stuff on it, so it was fun!

 

[Arklem]

Its interesting to see how much the controllers of the Phantom System and Turbo Game resemble the Mega Drive/Genesis controller.

It just show how much Sega's console was the "defaut" video game in Brazil, just like the NES was the "defaut" video game on USA.

I also think it's interesting, Mega Drive was very popular here in Brazil, famiclones probably thought they could make controllers that resembled what people were most likely used to, i think it's hilarious how Turbo Game's controller is literally just a Mega Drive controller upside down