Weirdest Famiclone ever!

[FrakAttack]

I was wondering why he posted a Tim & Eric skit in a thread about Famiclones. Maybe it was his attempt to spread mediocrity across the internet.

Because the Famiclone vid reminded me of Tim & Eric's useless product infomercials. The Internet spreads mediocrity just fine without my help.

[NayusDante]

I remember reading a story about Famiclones like this, except they were like 80s euro-PCs with the built-in keyboard. Never thought I'd see an NES in a tower design, and I don't see why it's really necessary, other than to look awesome. The concept is great, it's an incredibly affordable "computer" in a very loose sense of the word. It seems more like a toy or another cheap famiclone, but there's talk about using these in third-world countries to push IT literacy. I remember some figures about just knowing how to type making the difference between working $1/week and $1/day. Still, the lack of document saving brings it down, as well as the use of NES carts as storage medium. I'd love to see a famiclone use 3.25" floppy, but then again, those aren't in production anymore.

[MrSparkle]

wow the famicom has finally entered the thriving 8 bit home computer market of the 1980s! kind of a unique idea i guess i feel really sorry for the guys who developed all of that practically useless software though.

[Macbee]

Because the Famiclone vid reminded me of Tim & Eric's useless product infomercials. The Internet spreads mediocrity just fine without my help.

Sorry. I'm just trying to show you some curious/bizarre stuff from the place where I live =(

The concept is great, it's an incredibly affordable "computer" in a very loose sense of the word.

The stupid thing about 'PC Game' is: It's not affordable at all! It costs between 150 - 200 US Dollars!!

Everything here is expensive. With the money you can buy a Nintendo Wii everywhere you will only buy a Sega Master System in Brazil.

[MrSparkle]

for 150-200 you can get an XO laptop from the OLPC (one laptop per child) project. The hardware specs certainly beat out a 68k based computer for the price.

http://laptop.org/en/laptop/index.shtml

[mobiusclimber]

So is this going to use Family Computer software too? I mean Nintendo DID make a computer-style "Famicom" after all.

[thom_m]

The stupid thing about 'PC Game' is: It's not affordable at all! It costs between 150 - 200 US Dollars!!

Everything here is expensive. With the money you can buy a Nintendo Wii everywhere you will only buy a Sega Master System in Brazil.

Totally right. And it pisses me off. It sucks to be a gamer in Brazil.

And I'm glad you wrote about the PC Game; I wanted to start a thread about it for a while, but never brought myself to it.

Dynacom idea with this piece of junk is to trick poor, misinformed parents to buy one of these things to their kids instead of a real PC. Since it's cheap for a "PC" (although REALLY expensive for a famiclone), they think they're making one hell fo a deal - just to arrive home and watch their offspring cry in disgust.

Tec Toy sells their cart slot-less versions of the Genny and the SMS for abusive prices too, since most of the people here can't actually tell videogames apart anyway. They go for the same price as almost 20 years ago, when they were actually the current gen consoles. A shame, really.

[FrakAttack]

Sorry. I'm just trying to show you some curious/bizarre stuff from the place where I live =(

It's all good. (Excuse my teenager lingo, albeit from a decade ago.)

[rbudrick]

I'm prety darn sure this is a very Brazil-centric version the of PC Jr (I think that's what it was called), a very advanced (well, for the NES) FC clone/PC system/copier (maybe a copier, I dunno) from China. Some of the apps looked very similar. It was originally made by Bung in the 90s.

-Rob

[AB Positive]

Because the Famiclone vid reminded me of Tim & Eric's useless product infomercials. The Internet spreads mediocrity just fine without my help.

I immediately thought Innernette too. The show is funny, but I think you have to do hard drugs or work at a middle school to appreciate it.


I'm in the latter group... of course

[Xander]

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