Top Ten Shameless Game Console Knock-offs - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 27 March 2011 / 32,735 Views
There appears to be a fairly large market for videogame console knock-offs. These gray-market consoles are especially prevalent in countries such as China and parts of South America where piracy and lack of distribution centers for legitimate consoles has led companies to try to make a quick buck. Personally, I have seen hundreds of these things in malls across America, containing games such as Super Mari Brothers, an amazingly well done cover-up for a real game I bet nobody could figure out the name of. Some of these could easily be mistaken for their real-life counterparts, but others are hilariously terrible. Here they are, the top ten most shameless game console knock-offs.
Name: Delightfully Small (DS) Gaming Entertainment System
Real Console: Nintendo DS in name and GBA Micro in appearance
Notes: Can emulate from the NES, SNES, Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis, SNK Neo-Geo and Capcom’s arcade platforms, CPS1 and CPS2. It also can be used for music, videos, images, and even an e-reader with text to speech technology. Probably the best thing on this list in terms of usability.
Name: Game Theory Admiral
Real Console: Game Boy Advance
Notes: Acts as a tiny TV and plays Famicom games through flimsy conversion cartridges. It also uses controllers if one wants to plug them in.
Name: Kontorland KT-103
Real Console: NES
Notes: The box for this Turkish masterpiece says "THE BEST VIDEO GAME SYSTEM" and has Sonic the Hedgehog plastered all over it. Otherwise it's basically an NES with a PlayStation controller.
Name: PXP - 2000
Real Console: PSP GO
Notes: Emulation Support, TV out, SD card slot.
Name: Mini Polystation 3
Real Console: PlayStation 3
Notes: That thing that looks like a disk tray is actually a tiny screen that plays sub-NES games much like those Tiger Electronics handhelds 20 years ago.
Name: Latest Video Game
Real Console: N/A
Notes: claims to contain a "999999999999 in 1 game cartridge"! Seems to be an 8-bit NES clone.
Name: Super MegaSon IV
Real Console: Sony PlayStation
Notes: Contains pre-loaded clones of NES games with names like "Excite Bike 35235" and "Javeling Throw 403". The Megason series is the most prolific of all bootleg consoles.
Name: Neo Double Games
Real Console: Nintendo DS
Notes: Plays unplayable games that are similar to games from Tiger Electronics 20 years ago, one called Soccer, the other called Street Fighter - despite looking almost exactly like Soccer. There is also a Neo Double Games Lite on the market.
Name: WiNi Game Sports
Real Console: Nintendo Wii
Notes: Name sounds like a euphemism for penis; probably terrible.
Name: PCP Station
Real Console: PSP
Notes: I wonder how many junkies picked this up thinking they would get a cheap fix?
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kinect and move aren't video game consoles
halil - ok, take the fanboy glasses off man. If you cant visually see the similarities between Move and Wii remote, grab a black wii remote, maybe its the color confusing you? Kinect took a bigger leap with their systems. Move is a rip-off of the Wii remote, there's no way around it.
OMG. I couldn't stop laughing. (wipe tears from eyes). That was hilarious. What's funny is the Super Megason IV has a note on the box that says, "with extra cartridge",. If this is a PS1 close, there are no cartridges, just CD's. The Delightfully Small (DS) Gaming Entertainment System is probably the best thing available as it emulates all those systems and if it supports a 32GB or 64GB SD Card, you can download a LOT of those games to it for play. Everything else is pretty much crap. People are stupid enough to buy this stuff because it's cheaper and they think it'll play the really Nintendo & Sony hardware games.
This list is so gross, all to the left.
They all emulate games, why don't hacker buys them??? They prefer to use a legal system to use illegal content? Use a illegal console directly...
The DS (first) and the PSP go clones look pretty.
What a bunch of crap!!!
you mean my Mini Polystation 3 is a knockoff?
Kinect has no feature changes from Eyetoy so...
Ditto on what Aaron said, but especially Move for being a direct knock off with one feature change =)
Super Megason IV for the win!! xD
Where Kinect and Move? lol
Delightfully Small (DS) Gaming Entertainment System FTW
lulz @ WiNi... I bet chicks love playing with that, er, "system" haha.
I've seen a guy named Ashens review a bunch of these! But I'd actually kind of like that Delightfully Small one. Seems kind of useful.
lol @ Super MegaSon IV
You guys should check out Ashens channel on youtube for alot of reviews on crap like this, it's hilarious!
Haha yeah I instantly thought on mrstickball when I first glanced at this thread. And most of these... systems... do indeed seem to be terrible, but the Delightfully Small one looks sounds almost good.
Lol @Chrizium
But, this is some real shamefull stuff!
mrstickball is not a knock-off!
Is there a white room with black curtains near the PCP station?
What, no Move? zing!
The Kontorland also looks like a SNES Jr. Lol, they just made it for the lulz.
some sound better than there real counter parts
Watch Ashens's youtube series - he looks at a lot of these terrible knock-off consoles :p
the kontorland notes were entertaining
one of my friends has the Delightfully Small and actually is really nice and cheap lol he bough it in china XD
I see that you get your last pic from Dr Ashens... at least put a link to his videos
Haha, great caption for the PCP! @ OP: can you edit and put up the country of origin for the systems? And this isn't really a criticism, because it was fun to see all these, but I thought the Vii was a pretty popular/well-known knock off. I've actually seen one at somebodies place but I never asked to try it. I probably missed a good laugh. :-( Oh, and the Delightfully Small sounds good enough that it's gonna encourage some people to go out and get it...but it sounds like playing "their" games is pirating :-P
The Delightfully Small Gaming System looks quite nice actually. Anyone know where to get one? :P
The PXP looks sleek from afar.
PCP station LOL drugs are bad.
Lol @ PCP station XD
