I wasn’t sure whether to post this in GQ, but I’ll give it a shot here…
While in Hawaii recently I saw a booth at the mall selling “50-in-one” type game systems, where the system was a “Plug and Play” controller with multiple games stored in the controller itself. Most of these type things I have seen have been generic looking games or limited to five name-brand games (like Pac-man etc). This booth was selling controllers storing 25, 50, 100, 180 (etc) NINTENDO
CRAP (damn tab button)
anway… NINTENDO games. Can’t seem to find them on google or ebay. Anyone know what they are called? Or provide a link to where to get them? I want one with most of the nintendo games, not just a couple.
Try here
and just in case: http://www.powerplayerusa.com/
Thanks ddgryphon ,
That is similiar to the one I was looking at, but as I recall it also had Zelda, all three Super Mario Brothers, and a lot more NES games. If no one else has a suggestion, I guess its another excuse to head back to Hawaii…
Eh, you can find them in most shopping malls around here, sold by folks in booths right next to the sticker packs and noisemakers. These are low-grade Asian bootleg consoles running pirated games, with all the reliability and quality that implies.
The reason you get “400 games” in one of them is because of the very loose definition of “game” involved; if Super Pingo Sisters originally had 14 levels, that’d be listed as 14 separate games in the controller – assuming the person who assembled the “games” didn’t cheat and made more games with extra features (regular, swapped colors, invisible goopas, etc.).
All they are is a NES-on-a-chip with a bunch of pirated games in a controller shell (that usually steals the N64 design.) They show up in the shopping mall here, and I’ve been known to stand around playing Duck Hunt for a while.
Looking at ddgryphon’s link, that’s exactly the ones we seem to get around here.