what game console is this

[Pieceofsand]

Here is the box of console, it said "video game" on it, and also some mandarin and japaneses on it . and the games came in those yellow cartridges.

i figure there must be someone here that knows what that console is by just looking at the box.

[bluepillow]

looks similar to snes cartridges, no?

[bundy26]

They probably use the same internals, it was very common for cheap consoles to use nintendo internals back then.

[Ozzie]

Maybe a Fairchild Channel F ?http://www.thegameconsole.com/videogames70.htm

Second to bottom console on that page.

also More info here

[Pieceofsand]

^^ no it didn't look like anything from that site.

it's a two player console with controllers. controller's got the direction button, start/select, and A B B A buttons.

[Mr1der]

Sega DANCING QUEEN?

[zacmil]

I think it might be a Famicom (AKA Nintendo Entertainment System). It had yellow cartridges and they were about the size of a SNES cartridge if I'm not mistaken.

[Otto.]

I think it might be a Famicom (AKA Nintendo Entertainment System). It had yellow cartridges and they were about the size of a SNES cartridge if I'm not mistaken.

- What I was thinking.

[Pieceofsand]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%20Famicom

YES!!! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!! OMG...childhood memories

[gammer_ghn]

i had that console, its a better NES which comes with cartridges that can have over 100 games. Basically NES for the 3rd world countries. I am from Iran and we had this. i have been looking for one for agesss. best system ever!!!! we called it "MICKRO" so i dono.

[gammer_ghn]

found ittt!!!! Micro Genius. what a champion system i used to have cartridges with so many super good games on them, then when i came to us and saw that 1 cd = 1 game or 1 n64 cartridge = 1 game i went mad and when i saw the prices i got even madder since for 4 bucks we got 6 or more games on a cartridge wow the good old days!

These are faimcom clones which were better than the real thing. haha

http://en.wakopedia.org/wiki/Micro_Genius

[bmike818]

I had a Famicom when I lived in the Philippines. You can't beat the 100 in 1 cartridges. Memories....

These were my favorite games for my Famicom! Konami World and Dragon Buster!



http://en.wakopedia.org/wiki/Konami_Wai_Wai_World

http://en.wakopedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Buster

IDK wtf is up with the links

[HashiriyaS14]

It's a Famiclone.

Some pirate copy of a Famicom. The "100 in 1" carts were common Famiclone stuff, you'd never see Nintendo put out something like that for real.

I've been tempted to start collecting Famiclones, but there are too many of them.

[zacmil]

The "100 in 1" carts were common Famiclone stuff, you'd never see Nintendo put out something like that for real.

That's my thought. The Famicom was literally the NES. They just called it the Famicom (some silly amalgamation of a couple of words I can't think of at the moment) in Japan. I don't remember why they made the console look different of the cartridges so much bigger for the US either... I'm sure if you really want to know google can help you out.

[Captain Slow]

They just called it the Famicom (some silly amalgamation of a couple of words I can't think of at the moment) in Japan.

Family Computer.

[breadbox]

Anyone ever play Jaguar?

[HashiriyaS14]

That's my thought. The Famicom was literally the NES. They just called it the Famicom (some silly amalgamation of a couple of words I can't think of at the moment) in Japan. I don't remember why they made the console look different of the cartridges so much bigger for the US either... I'm sure if you really want to know google can help you out.

Yeah, sort of, but you've got it backwards.

The Famicom came first, it was the Japanese version. It had hardwired controllers with short cords and a top-loading cart slot. It was also painted crazy colors.

In the US, given the negative stigma that videogames had after the "Great Crash" (wiki it if you care), it was decided that the Famicom would sell better in the US if it looked like a piece of "serious home entertainment equipment" rather than a toy. They went for a stereo sort of look with the front-loading VCR-like cart slot, muted colors, and the name "Nintendo Entertainment System".

This also explains "ROB", as while it was an awful peripheral, it was a trojan horse to get the NES into American homes. Videogames were out of style, and so the NES was marketed as "robot games" because of ROB.

[breadbox]

MY friend has one and the game to play with the robot. I never did it. We played duck hunt instead.

[numbnuts240]

[zacmil]

The Famicom came first, it was the Japanese version. It had hardwired controllers with short cords and a top-loading cart slot. It was also painted crazy colors.

In the US, given the negative stigma that videogames had after the "Great Crash" (wiki it if you care), it was decided that the Famicom would sell better in the US if it looked like a piece of "serious home entertainment equipment" rather than a toy.

Yeah, I know all of that. I must have been unclear in my previous post, I didn't mean to imply that the NES came first.