I never get tired at just how over the top and cartoony all of their expressions are at the reveal of "7 Grand Dad". And Scott's frozen, blurry face at 7:54 is beautiful.
My favorite bootleg I have is called Terrifying 9/11. It's a remake of Metal Slug but all the cut scenes have been changed to make it like you're hunting down Osama Bin Laden. For the Game Boy Color.
For those of us who grew up in Bosnia in the 90s, bootlegged games were the only way we could play video games. I have a clear memory of playing Street Fighter II on a console, and then someone told me that SF2 didn't exist for the NES. How could that be? I played it! We didn't even know what a bootleg was at the time. It was completely normal, and we played all our games on a Terminator console. ua-cam.com/video/JTFOLnQag2k/v-deo.htmlsi=aHAbOSzCDJKaraQW
Essentially, what happened is that some resourceful engineers figured out how to make something reasonably close to a Famicon/NES as cheaply as possible (on a single chip in the end, which is what powering most of these) and then sold these so-called Famiclones in markets where regular publishers had zero presence and people could only afford official consoles if their parents had been part of the Communist nomenklatura and had become really rich in the chaotic and corrupt transition to a market economy. Eastern Europe moved on to the PC soon after Famiclones like the Denny, with bootleggers transitioning to selling copies of PC games, but elsewhere in the world, clone consoles remained king for much longer. Polish publisher and developer CD Projekt actually started out in this environment, by the way, but as a legitimate publisher of Western titles. They managed to be successful by having both low prices and by stuffing boxes with all sorts of impressive goodies that you wouldn't get if you were buying your games from dodgy sellers at flee markets. We're talking cloth maps, figurines, full-color manuals, basically what publisher today are letting you pay 120 bucks for without actually including the game. That's why gog has extras like artwork, music and maps as a free bonus with most games. Brazil is another interesting market. They had and still have very high import tariffs on certain foreign goods like cars and electronics in order to prop up local manufacturing. This worked quite well with cars, since international car makers set up shop in this huge market - but gamers did not eat well for decades, since the country's ability to produce electronics is limited now and was even more limited a few decades ago. Similar bootleg consoles to the ones that you experienced in Bosnia were also made there, but Sega actually decided that Brazil was worth the effort and set up production of their Master System in partnership with local toy company Tectoy. Starting in 1989, the console is still being made and sold there. They shipped 8 million since, just in Brazil. You can have a new Master System for the equivalent of 60 USD.
In the 90's as a kid in South Africa these are what we grew up with not only bootleg games but AAA titles on a 4 in 1 or 7 in 1 or a 3 in 1 Famiclone cartridge and it was pretty expensive,The only console we got here was the Master system and nobody bought it because these golden china consoles and bootleg carts were heavy advertised,I was in my early 20's when i discovered a NES and SNES consoles that our country never saw.
My childhood in Argentina, in a market flooded with pirated reproductions of consoles and games since official products were almost nonexistent or extremely expensive, was shaped by playing everything that came through the pirate market from China, Hong Kong, or Russia. Nowadays, access to games is nearly universal, but back then, it allowed us to have our entry point into the world of video games and imagine we were playing Street Fighter from the arcades on our "Famiclon" (Famicom Clone).
Its similar to Amazon free returns, Nintendo can't sue tens of thousands of random company names and sellers on Amazon (it's too large a scope and even if one is caught they will just change their name it's already a fake name anyway 😂 )
@@Schwarzornthey wouldnt have a case as amazon isnt producing these. The most they could do is get them to stop selling them which would not get them out of circulation, especially in a world with temu
6:06 Family Pocket have some good stuff in their line honestly. I love their FC3000 handheld. It can only handle up to Genesis but its a gorgeous little console for like 15-20 bucks.
This was pretty funny I didn't expect that lol. Not that I'm new to your content I just didn't expect to actually, physically, paaaainstakingly, laugh-out-loud. Keep it up, Woz!💯
as a child most of my friends hat those NES Clones with 1000 games in one (maybe 20 games but then repeated with different settings like starting level and stuff) but it was able to play regular NES games too since it hat an regular top loading nes slot
I have several bootleg Atari games, from either Argentina or Hong Kong. I also have a Sega Game Gear bootleg, something I randomly came across and had to have because I've seen thousands of GameBoy bootlegs but never a Game Gear one. It has a few oddball Game Gear titles, some Sega Master System games, and strangely two or three SG-1000 games. Those don't work well with the frame rate of the Game Gear, so they're virtually unplayable. Still, they made an attempt. I appreciate the effort.
Funfact - most of these consoles use real nes-like- hardware. Maybe shrunken down to 2 chips but it is not emulation. On most of these a 6502 CPU is still used as was in the NES. The 500 in 1 is just a module hardwired into the slot. I wonder if you could make this consoles accept other NES modules again... 😂
Live in China and I never see these fake consoles here. A proper SNES and Genesis classic and even PC Engine mini were easy to find here online when released.
You should be able to sell anything on the free market according to capitalism. Bootlegs can never be illegal unless you live in communism. It's so simple! 🌈
Is Eric's arm okay? He had a black sleeve kind of thing on one arm. If he has fore-arm pain, gua sha is the fix. Basically a deep tissue massage. I bought a metal gua sha stone off Amazon and fixed up my tendinitis. Years of pain I didn't have to suffer. I wish I'd known about gua sha sooner.
Who needs the game awards
Whatever Jeffy boy’s got going on is gonna make me wanna stop making games; it happens every year. I’d rather watch an Ohioan blow a gasket.
Apparently, cd projekt red.@firesd7306
Imagine Scott hosting a SEGA game…
The Grime Awards
We all need the game awards 🏆
7:34 the jump to 7 GRAND DAD is hilarious LOL
I never get tired at just how over the top and cartoony all of their expressions are at the reveal of "7 Grand Dad". And Scott's frozen, blurry face at 7:54 is beautiful.
0:22 "how impressite iv is"
I hope they caught that and just left that in anyway.
7:35 FLEENSTONES!?
GRAND DAD???
*WHAT THE SHIT?!*
I play this every year to celebrate the nniversary.
My favorite bootleg I have is called Terrifying 9/11. It's a remake of Metal Slug but all the cut scenes have been changed to make it like you're hunting down Osama Bin Laden. For the Game Boy Color.
Mine is Chip and Dale 3. It's a rom hack of heavy Barrel. ua-cam.com/video/b1Yr5licdSs/v-deo.html
I'm just trying to figure out how were this so normal in my childhood back in my third world country and nobody talks about it. Thank you Scott!
"we don't talk about the bootlegs"
For those of us who grew up in Bosnia in the 90s, bootlegged games were the only way we could play video games. I have a clear memory of playing Street Fighter II on a console, and then someone told me that SF2 didn't exist for the NES. How could that be? I played it! We didn't even know what a bootleg was at the time. It was completely normal, and we played all our games on a Terminator console. ua-cam.com/video/JTFOLnQag2k/v-deo.htmlsi=aHAbOSzCDJKaraQW
Essentially, what happened is that some resourceful engineers figured out how to make something reasonably close to a Famicon/NES as cheaply as possible (on a single chip in the end, which is what powering most of these) and then sold these so-called Famiclones in markets where regular publishers had zero presence and people could only afford official consoles if their parents had been part of the Communist nomenklatura and had become really rich in the chaotic and corrupt transition to a market economy. Eastern Europe moved on to the PC soon after Famiclones like the Denny, with bootleggers transitioning to selling copies of PC games, but elsewhere in the world, clone consoles remained king for much longer.
Polish publisher and developer CD Projekt actually started out in this environment, by the way, but as a legitimate publisher of Western titles. They managed to be successful by having both low prices and by stuffing boxes with all sorts of impressive goodies that you wouldn't get if you were buying your games from dodgy sellers at flee markets. We're talking cloth maps, figurines, full-color manuals, basically what publisher today are letting you pay 120 bucks for without actually including the game. That's why gog has extras like artwork, music and maps as a free bonus with most games.
Brazil is another interesting market. They had and still have very high import tariffs on certain foreign goods like cars and electronics in order to prop up local manufacturing. This worked quite well with cars, since international car makers set up shop in this huge market - but gamers did not eat well for decades, since the country's ability to produce electronics is limited now and was even more limited a few decades ago. Similar bootleg consoles to the ones that you experienced in Bosnia were also made there, but Sega actually decided that Brazil was worth the effort and set up production of their Master System in partnership with local toy company Tectoy. Starting in 1989, the console is still being made and sold there. They shipped 8 million since, just in Brazil. You can have a new Master System for the equivalent of 60 USD.
In the 90's as a kid in South Africa these are what we grew up with not only bootleg games but AAA titles on a 4 in 1 or 7 in 1 or a 3 in 1 Famiclone cartridge and it was pretty expensive,The only console we got here was the Master system and nobody bought it because these golden china consoles and bootleg carts were heavy advertised,I was in my early 20's when i discovered a NES and SNES consoles that our country never saw.
My childhood in Argentina, in a market flooded with pirated reproductions of consoles and games since official products were almost nonexistent or extremely expensive, was shaped by playing everything that came through the pirate market from China, Hong Kong, or Russia. Nowadays, access to games is nearly universal, but back then, it allowed us to have our entry point into the world of video games and imagine we were playing Street Fighter from the arcades on our "Famiclon" (Famicom Clone).
I don't know why, but I have an unrequited love for Mario World NES. It's just so simplistic and impressive in its own way
7:56 This smear frame had me CACKLING
Holy sh*t, finally some good games
"vodka..." *screen cuts to black*
Vodka can do that to ya!
Its similar to Amazon free returns, Nintendo can't sue tens of thousands of random company names and sellers on Amazon (it's too large a scope and even if one is caught they will just change their name it's already a fake name anyway 😂 )
That's when Nintendo would sue Amazon...if Amazon wasn't too powerful to fight.
@@Schwarzornthey wouldnt have a case as amazon isnt producing these. The most they could do is get them to stop selling them which would not get them out of circulation, especially in a world with temu
@2-Way_Intersection Well, that's what they'd sue them for: for having them in their store.
He said 83 percent recycled. The box or the game had me dead 💀 lmao 🤣
This video has a very classic jontron vibe to it and I love it
😂 6:10 The wording. "308 nostalgia game which let you back to happy time."
I ❤ bootlegs. Started with the 31-In-1 bootleg cart for the NES.
Boy do I love games! Bootleg ones too!
"Is meth vegan?"
Officer, these were people I thought to be my friends, tried to sell me products I didn’t want.
6:06 Family Pocket have some good stuff in their line honestly. I love their FC3000 handheld. It can only handle up to Genesis but its a gorgeous little console for like 15-20 bucks.
This was pretty funny I didn't expect that lol. Not that I'm new to your content I just didn't expect to actually, physically, paaaainstakingly, laugh-out-loud.
Keep it up, Woz!💯
moustache friend has the comedic timing of a literal genius.
ice age 4
I remember I had a Gameboy cartridge that said it was "150 games in 1" turns out it was just 16 basic games repeated with different names
First law school exam of the semester in the morning, went to watch my boy Scott before bed, new video drops. Legend😊
Could you imagine if this was just the actual video on Scott's main channel?
9:15 HILY SJIT NO FUCKING WAY YOU CAN DO THAT😂
How is there braile PRINTED on the box lol. It wasn't embossed, was it?
7:34 HAHAHAHA!
as a child most of my friends hat those NES Clones with 1000 games in one (maybe 20 games but then repeated with different settings like starting level and stuff) but it was able to play regular NES games too since it hat an regular top loading nes slot
"You can't beat that!"
hammer
"I stand corrected."
Did someone slip me some LSD before I watched these video games?
2:07 Looks fire though
Mario 13 was definitely a highlight.
"Poke-a-mon"
If you value your hearing enable stable volume.
You need to play One Billion Bootleg Games and make it the only 10h video worth watching.
1.44 New Zealand Story, usef to love that game
7:35 - Joel: GRAND DAD?!?!
Bootleg or now, I would’ve taken this when I was 8
Scott your jokes are 👌🏾
I love super Mario 14 and Somari
10:54 I have no idea why they stuck with the Mighty Final Fight stage 1 theme.
I have that exact CRT television
I have several bootleg Atari games, from either Argentina or Hong Kong. I also have a Sega Game Gear bootleg, something I randomly came across and had to have because I've seen thousands of GameBoy bootlegs but never a Game Gear one. It has a few oddball Game Gear titles, some Sega Master System games, and strangely two or three SG-1000 games. Those don't work well with the frame rate of the Game Gear, so they're virtually unplayable. Still, they made an attempt. I appreciate the effort.
I played super mario 16 on one of these. Best unofficial sequel ever. Mario became a ninja.
0:25 fire emblem reference
13:02 Timestamp for future me. I wanna know the name of this track.
You never played a mario game untill you've played super mario bros 7
7 Grand Dad On The Title Screen Is An Ultra Character 8:03
Funfact - most of these consoles use real nes-like- hardware. Maybe shrunken down to 2 chips but it is not emulation. On most of these a 6502 CPU is still used as was in the NES. The 500 in 1 is just a module hardwired into the slot.
I wonder if you could make this consoles accept other NES modules again... 😂
I keep going back to this video because of "Making Love"
fun fact, the word "somari" in italian means "pigs"
Does anyone know what those dots below the title mean? It doesn't seem like Braille since it only uses 4 dots instead of (afaik) standard 6.
The xbox 360 and ps3 and now classics
Pooyan yay😂
Wondering who are the unknown devs who actually programmed all these bootlegs 😂
Work at Amazon warehouse and seen hundreds of these consoles this last month smhhh
Live in China and I never see these fake consoles here. A proper SNES and Genesis classic and even PC Engine mini were easy to find here online when released.
I’m so early those two guys I see in every Scott the woz video haven’t commented yet
I was more of a bootleg DVD Kid growing up
looks intresting
I Love Grand Dad And Somari
Where is the Legend of Mario II?
Somari 😂
Are they really bootlegs if they actually do the thing there supposed to replace
Came here after Game Awards
What does Gumption mean Scotty2Hotty?
hi scott
I really want a mod some of these remove 90% the original games and just put the game I want
*THOSE AREN’T FISH!*
I was sure 7 grand dad looked more like a boot leg of big nose the cave man
You are a Bootleg Game lol
If the product also contains strait ahead originals then the word to apply is stolen.
spiderman?
Oh yeah, this is getting a yellow border for player’s choice
D.A.R.E.? Dugs Are Really Excellent?
You should be able to sell anything on the free market according to capitalism. Bootlegs can never be illegal unless you live in communism. It's so simple! 🌈
Is Eric's arm okay? He had a black sleeve kind of thing on one arm. If he has fore-arm pain, gua sha is the fix. Basically a deep tissue massage. I bought a metal gua sha stone off Amazon and fixed up my tendinitis. Years of pain I didn't have to suffer. I wish I'd known about gua sha sooner.
Sorry can't watch at the game awards
Woz is dead and this account is too.
Uh no?