A look at the NES knock-off that outsold the NES

stika 5 Jul 2018 20:45:40 978 posts
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Hi everyone,

I have a small YouTube channel dedicated to gaming and today I decided to create a video about the Family Game, this was the most popular line of Famiclones in Portugal, Spain and pretty much all of Latin America.

The console was so popular in fact that it outsold the NES in those countries and I'd thought you'd like to learn more about a knock-off console that shaped a generation of gamers.

Fake_Blood 5 Jul 2018 22:19:14 11,093 posts
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I love your accent. Your video reminded me of going on holiday in spain and buying a 64 in 1 card for my game boy. It had a rubber button to switch games. Highlight of that holiday.

stika 5 Jul 2018 22:26:01 978 posts
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Fake_Blood wrote:
I love your accent. Your video reminded me of going on holiday in spain and buying a 64 in 1 card for my game boy. It had a rubber button to switch games. Highlight of that holiday.

Hah! I remember those carts. It's amazing the stuff pirates could get away with back in those days.

Fake_Blood 5 Jul 2018 23:00:19 11,093 posts
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I think there must have been different laws because in Belgium it was even illegal the rent games.

So in Portugal they sold a fake NES in stores, did anyone buy a real NES?

stika 6 Jul 2018 00:25:41 978 posts
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@Fake_Blood Very few people. The NES wasn't very popular here. The Master System is the best selling official console here, but a strong argument can be made that these clones were the real winner of the console war here.

Deleted user 6 July 2018 00:45:28

A Nintendo thread over 4 hours old and no Neil Aspinall joke. What's happening?

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