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Not joking - it really happened.
Actually, the history behind it is really interesting - it's a keyboard-based clone of the Nintendo Entertainment System's hardware (usually referred to as a Famiclone, after the console's Japanese name, Famicom, or otherwise as a "NOAC" or NES-On-A-Chip), created long before the hardware-patents expired. Released in 1994 by Subor, with a young Jackie Chan hired to promote it in both photographs and a weird TV-ad, this device ended up as the best-selling computer of the era in China - though I do wonder if it was popular mainly for its computing functions, or for its gaming ones!
And then, after that, I learned that Hulk Hogan promoted an unlicensed NES multi-cart, as well! But only one time, before the half-hour infomercial featuring shouty wrestlers pretending to be e-sports coaches, interspersed with rambling hosts who clearly knew nothing about technology, was withdrawn because Hogan and the other wrestlers who appeared weren't actually allowed to use their characters outside of WWF (now WWE) productions.
I found these hokey celebrity endorsements rather neat, in their strange way.
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Gentlemen.... lets get it on.......
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Now I can't help but wonder. What current celebrity would be most likely to act as a shill for the
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And I thought my Dick Trickle write ups were crazy..... I need to lift my game.......
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Uhhh... Bill Gates, I guess...?
These were really entertaining - thanks so much for the links!
Haha, yes, let's inflate the number ludicrously to make it sound super-new!
The GIGANTIC Mario head on Jackie Chan's body in this hack always gets a laugh out of me. The sprites in the Pikachu-themed Barve Boy Kung Fu Pokechu variant are a bit disturbing, though!
You have SO much to learn about the batshit-insane world of Famiclones and bootleg games, Spider.
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Bomberman's quite a regular on multicarts, sometimes in his regular form, and sometimes in odd hacks, like this one that pretends to be Toy Story. I don't think that there's ever been a funny reaction-video relating to this one, though.
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Hahaha! I can't believe it got a fan-game - that is awesome!
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I'm from Romania and used to play on a Famiclone named Terminator 2. Very popular in eastern europe at the time.
Good and cheap way to for us to get into gaming in early 90. Got my first computer in 97, i was 10 years old then. 586/ 133Mhz/ 8mb RAM / 650Mb Hdd full of games and windows 95. Terminator 2 was terminated after that :(
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I then ended up binge-watching several more videos by the same guy, in his "Dendy Memories" series, and that was great fun too, especially when it turned out that some of his favourites are the same as mine - Bomberman and Darkwing Duck both got specific mentions.
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