Warp wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystation
> 
>   The most obnoxious thing about the version which imitates the Playstation
> in its design is the lid: It's made to look like a CD drive, like in the
> Playstation, but when you open it, there's just a cartdridge slot inside.
> The lid basically is pure fraud, making it look like a CD-based console.
> 

Aaarrrrr... never trust a pirate! ;)

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Warp wrote:
>   Ok, there might be a few people who actually get fooled by the looks,
> design and the similar name, and buy it believing it's the genuine article.

Poor, uneducated people are insane.  They see on TV they should use a 
Nike, so they'll buy even some cheap tennis clone made of cardboard if 
it has a Nike stamp on it.  They will buy a console looking like the hot 
new thing:  it plays games and *is* identical to the new stuff.  The 
evil effects of consumerism are particularly evil on poor people.

Funny thing is:  this brand stuff doesn't apply to food.  For instance, 
they will ditch a good quality brand of cookies in favor of cheaper, 
floor-and-water cookies.  Yeah, why have a delicious, enjoyable time 
with cookies when you can simply fill your stomach with 3 packs of 
tasteless floor-and-water for the same price?

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystation

>   The most obnoxious thing about the version which imitates the Playstation
> in its design is the lid

  Ok, I take that back. The most obnoxious thing is not the lid, but the
description at the back of the box:

http://www.nesplayer.com/pirates/polystation/polyboxback.jpg

  It's basically a word-for-word copy of the back of the Playstation box,
even though the Polystation is just a NES clone, and naturally doesn't
support anything the box claims it supports.

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The thing you had posted a picture of that looked like "an X-Box spent a 
drunken night in a motel with a Playstation 1" turns out to have its entire 
library of games *built-in* according to one poor guy who got one for 
christmas.

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read "floor" as "flour" :P

nemesis wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   Ok, there might be a few people who actually get fooled by the looks,
>> design and the similar name, and buy it believing it's the genuine 
>> article.
> 
> Poor, uneducated people are insane.  They see on TV they should use a 
> Nike, so they'll buy even some cheap tennis clone made of cardboard if 
> it has a Nike stamp on it.  They will buy a console looking like the hot 
> new thing:  it plays games and *is* identical to the new stuff.  The 
> evil effects of consumerism are particularly evil on poor people.
> 
> Funny thing is:  this brand stuff doesn't apply to food.  For instance, 
> they will ditch a good quality brand of cookies in favor of cheaper, 
> floor-and-water cookies.  Yeah, why have a delicious, enjoyable time 
> with cookies when you can simply fill your stomach with 3 packs of 
> tasteless floor-and-water for the same price?

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Halbert <hal### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> The thing you had posted a picture of that looked like "an X-Box spent a 
> drunken night in a motel with a Playstation 1" turns out to have its entire 
> library of games *built-in* according to one poor guy who got one for 
> christmas.

  Any reference to what these games are? It would be interesting to know.

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Warp wrote:
> Halbert <hal### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> The thing you had posted a picture of that looked like "an X-Box spent a
>> drunken night in a motel with a Playstation 1" turns out to have its
>> entire library of games *built-in* according to one poor guy who got one
>> for christmas.
> 
>   Any reference to what these games are? It would be interesting to know.

Probably similar to these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brickgame.jpg

But in full color! :D

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"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospam-gmailcom> wrote in message 
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> read "floor" as "flour" :P

 No, read 'floor' as 'floor'. It's the same with cheap tobacco, and that is 
always known as 'sweepings' i.e., 'floor sweepings'.

    ~Steve~

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> No, read 'floor' as 'floor'. It's the same with cheap tobacco, and that is 
> always known as 'sweepings' i.e., 'floor sweepings'.

Tobacco is always a very attractive target for counterfeiters because the 
taxes are usually so high.  An illegal company can easily sell their product 
cheaper and still make a huge profit, just because they don't have to pay 
the taxes.

In the cigarette industry the counterfeiters often use very similar 
factories to the legitimate companies, even using the same (corrupt) 
suppliers too for the important parts (like the packaging of course, not the 
actual contents!).

BTW, it is completely normal for "floor sweepings" to be put into 
cigarettes, in a legal factory the amount is so tiny compared to the fresh 
tobacco incoming, and the place is clean to food production standards, it 
really is no problem.

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   So why would anyone buy a ripoff console, which they might be able to use
> to play perhaps 5 games, all of them non-mainstream and of crappy quality?

There were times when even genuine original game consoles had just one built-in
game and *that was it* :P


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Still it was all the craze back then...

BTW, some people would buy those ripoff consoles even if they didn't look like
popular top-of-the-crop models. You don't swim in money but want your pre-teen
kids to STFU? Get them something cheapo with several dozen built-in games - one
or two will be good enough to keep them busy. And you don't need to have long
arguments about requests for the newest and latest games: They won't run on
that box anyway :)

I guess it's a bit different though as soon as the kids reach teen age...

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