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Does this remind you of anything?
http://www.techzine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/px-3600-2.jpg
Nah, it must be a coincidence. But wait, it gets worse:
http://img.engadget.com/common/images/5226779566723191.JPG?0.7849076671899928
That is the Nintendo DS, isn't it? No, wait...
How about this one:
http://dicasonline.com.br/arquivos/noticias/580_3.jpg
Looks like a normal Playstation 3 to me... wait, read the name more
carefully...
And does this remind you of something else?
http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/2007/08/iclone_5.jpg
(At least they didn't try to disguise the "O" to look like an "S".
And most people won't notice the display is not 16:9...)
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- Warp
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When I was in Chile, I saw a console that had cartridge slots for games
from the original NES, the SNES, and the N64, all on the same machine!
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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Yeah, these freaks are well-known in the black markets in Brazil. There
was a long-standing Polystation here, but I guess this Runstation will
finally take over. ^_^
Don't be fooled by the name or looks: inside there's probably just a NES
with about 200 games builtin, the most cracked and pirated game console
of all time. :P
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Chambers wrote:
> When I was in Chile, I saw a console that had cartridge slots for games
> from the original NES, the SNES, and the N64, all on the same machine!
whoa, that's an advancement for sure. I thought all pirates were
obsessed with NES alone... :)
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nemesis wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> When I was in Chile, I saw a console that had cartridge slots for
>> games from the original NES, the SNES, and the N64, all on the same
>> machine!
>
> whoa, that's an advancement for sure. I thought all pirates were
> obsessed with NES alone... :)
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystation
Probably Runstation is the same, except made to look like nowaday's
Playstation. :P
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nemesis <nam### [at] nospam-gmail com> wrote:
> Yeah, these freaks are well-known in the black markets in Brazil. There
> was a long-standing Polystation here, but I guess this Runstation will
> finally take over. ^_^
One thing I don't understand:
I assume that these shady companies are creating these ripoff copies
of game consoles because they can make and sell them cheaper than the
genuine articles. (Why would anyone buy a ripoff console if it was more
expensive than a genuine one?)
If that's so, then I find it basically impossible for the ripoff console
to run the games of the genuine console it's imitating. Not while being
cheaper at the same time.
So that would mean that the ripoff console has its own library of games,
specific to that console. And how many companies are making games for these
ripoff consoles? The game library must be rather small, and probably composed
of really low-quality crappy games.
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?
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.
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- Warp
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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.
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- Warp
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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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- Warp
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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.
--
H²
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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
news:49fb6175$1@news.povray.org...
> 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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