[–]bilbonbigos 49 points50 points51 points 6 months ago (2 children)
China owns Nintendo so much. Bootleg NES consoles were their top export product, distributed mostly in post soviet countries in the 90s. They were sold in my country as Pegasus. There was even an official seller of bootleg consoles here but after some time you could buy it on every market from shady resellers. Cartridges were mostly yellow and in a different shape than the NES ones. With every console you had a copy of the "9999 in 1" cartridge which included Super Mario Bros., Exitebike, Tennis, Tanks, Tetris, Duck Hunt and copies of those but named different and with different color pallettes. The production quality was low, chargers often smelled like melted plastic because, well, they melted pretty often. Controllers were ok at best but needed replacement pretty quickly. But Pegasuses were cheap, games were cheap as well. It was practically a choice: do you want to buy a Pegasus for like 20-30 bucks or import PlayStation worth your 6-months income? So yeah, most kids had Pegasuses. They came in different shapes: the first one was based on Famicon but soon enough we had PolyStation which looked like PlayStation. We had a Pegasus based on the look of Commodore 64 with simple writing games on the cartridge. I had one based on the look of Sega Mega Drive. It's funny that you can still buy a NES based system on AliExpress but now they are portable, looks like a Gameboy, mostly with the Supreme logo for some reason.
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