http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=67847&item=5760552640&rd=1 Strange now even a respectable company like Polaroid makes Famiclones. And a pretty nice one at that. I actually saw this on sale at Target the other day.
No, but comes with a "300 games disc." However I was unable to get the guy behind the counter to hook it up so I could try it, so I don't know if it's really 300 games or just three games repeated 300 times (like the average el-cheapo multicart usually has.) It retailed at Target for like $300, so this ebay auction might be a deal. *EDIT - The one on auction says only 30, but the one I saw in the store said 300.
Its most likely something rebaged. So they dint go out to make it but it was something available when they got the units.
i recently read about an item like this over at engadget.com. http://portablevideo.engadget.com/entry/1234000490025922/ Not a Polaroid brand but the same idea
I wonder if the analouge has any function? It would be quite nice to use it as a fast forward or rewind for the DVD. Think about it. The more you push left or right, the faster the image would be played. Yakumo
Polaroid Electronics have little to do with the Polaroid we all know - a company just paid for their name to stick on unbranded tat.
Well, the hardware in Famiclones is entirely legal (it always was, but once Nintendo's patent ran out in 2002 or 2003, there really couldn't even be any question). That's why Gametech has been selling those NeoFamis and Famicom attachments for the GBA and in the US Pelican and a couple other companies have been selling Famiclone controllers with original games or Color Dream games (which are now PD) on them. I have a 50-in-1 unit from Senario that looks something like an Xbox controller with a thumb wheel in the center that actually has a couple really fun games on it (and a lot of really shitty games, of course). A number of those TV Games units from JAKKS Pacific and other companies use Famiclone hardware, too. I still prefer my 128-in-1 Dreamcast controller with illegal games on it, though. It's probably my second favorite system after my DC. ...word is bondage...
While the Famiclone hardware is legal, those games built in are most certianly not. Just kinda amazed me to see a big time company brand on a famiclone (although I suppose they're not really poloroid like Sh3-rg said.)
Likely the maker just slapped the name on with absolutely no acknowledgement from the company at all.
Well, like I said, there are companies that sell Famiclones with legal games these days. I have a 50-in-1 unit that has 50 original games written just for it (more like 35 or 40, I guess, since a number of them use exactly the same engine just with different graphics and themes). Actually, I have a feeling that a couple of these original games are complicated gsprite and tile hacks of existing games, but most of them are really original (well, original programming at least, most of them are clones of existing games). And they're not even pirate orignals from the old days like Sachen, etc., they're new original NES games. Take a look at www.jungletac.com in the "Play TV Games" section for a few of these systems (all of theirs are built into controllers, but I've seen ones that are consoles or dance mats or other things) and the games they have on them. ...word is bondage...
You can see some of the games featured on those Jungletac consoles right here - http://www.jungletac.com:8080/relatedproduct.jsp?Id=2 Some of them look pretty good which is more than I can say for the company's name Tungletac The discriptions for the games are also a good laugh Pool Pro A guy called Jim went to participate in pool match so that he could realize his pool pro. dream. Yakumo
Wow, a lot of those look like hacks, although very swanky looking hacks: Fantastic Show = Circus Charlie Space Castle = Some form of Space Invaders Bolt Fighter = Xevious (well the ship kinda looks like the Xevious one) Racing Pioneer = Road Fighter, or something like it GP Race = Some crappy bike thing (can't remember name) Balloon Boy 2 = Balloon Fight Jewel Master = Columns - wait, was there a NES version of that? Block Shock = Arkanoid Pool Pro = Lunar Ball, or some other lame pool game Mr. Egg = Puzzle Bobble Omega Zone = Galaxian? Jungle Attack = Tank City (I loved that game!) Flying Saucer = Probably the clay pigeon shooting thing in Duck Hunt Jump Car = Buggy Hopper There's probably others I didn't notice, if not all of them.
Yeah nothing looks too original, but still what's up? They have great color depth. Wonder when we'll see some dumps Best originals or even hacks I've seen. Valiant Rescue's tiles look like Contra, Storm Combat looks like Bubble Bobble 2, and Smart Escape is probably like Binary Land. Race One looks like something familiar but I can't remember what.
Dammit, why the hell does this board automatically log me off all the time so that every time I try to write a long message, I get an error message when I hit post and then lose the entire thing? Bullshit. I'm getting sick of re-writing stuff. Anyway, I can't comment on all of the games these JungleTac systems have since my system (from Senario) doesn't have all of the same games, plus it also has a lot of games that aren't on any of JungleTac's. That's really interesting about Valiant Rescue, I hadn't noticed that at all, they took Contra's backgrounds and crammed them into an overhead shooter. Jump Car and Bump Car are both hacks of Bump'n'Jump, but with totally different themes (Jump Car doesn't even involve cars). Smart Escape definitely isn't Binary Land, it's original as far as I can tell. And actually, it's rather shitty. Space Castle and possibly Mr. Egg are original programming, I think, even though they're obviously clones of existing games. Space Castle doesn't play anything like the Famicom version of Space Invaders that I've played (it's better actually and certainly much nicer looking, though the bullets are hard to see against background in some levels) and while my system doesn't have Mr. Egg, it does have a Puzzle Bobble clone called Snood, that seems to be original. Jewel Master is also a pirate original, though it's the only game on these systems that's been around for years, you can find it on almost any multicart. Otherwise, I think you guys are all right about what's a hack of what (though my system actually doesn't have some most of the really obvious hacks like Balloon Boy 2 and Block Shock, so maybe they were trying to make it more legit). Some of the other shooters are hacks too, I think, though I don't know NES shooters well enough to say exactly what is a hack of what. One interesting one, though, is Aero Engine, which is a remake of Gradius that feels totally different than the NES version, so I think it's original, though it's only the first level repeated endlessly, unfortunately. Some other orignal games are pretty interesting, too. Fire Fighter (which isn't on any of the JungleTac systems) is my favorite, you have to bounce a fire fighter on a trampoline that you move along the bottom of the screen so that he can rescue people in a burning building and try to put out the fire at the same time and you also try to catch bonus items that people throw, it's very very fun; same concept as Megumi Rescue on the SMS. There's also some nice puzzle games like Snood and Snood Towers (plays like Same Game or Swega Swirl) and Move Fun (Zookeeper style game) and a decent Sokoban clone. Then there's a bunch of totally off-the-wall games, that just have to be original. In Catch the Egg you control a little hand at the bottom of the screen with a pelican balanced atop a stick and you have to catch the eggs it lays. In Fish Catcher you catch fish with a mechanical arm as they jump out of the ocean (but don't catch the black ones because they explode). In Insect Chase you control a bug net and have to catch various bugs as they appear on the screen (it sounds like Flyswatter from Mario Paint, but it sucks because it's so slow). And then there's Grass Cutter, Grass Cutter is the best of all because you simply mow a lawn and...nothing more; there is no game, just mowing a lawn. Okay, blah blah blah, I've always loved these Famiclone-in-a-controller concept, so it's sort of interesting to see new games coming out just for them (even if a lot of them are pretty lame). Unfortunately, there's pretty much no chance of dumping the ROMs since these systems all use "glop top" chips rather than normal chips that can be desoldered and dumped. ...word is bondage...
That's not true, glop tops or not, stuff is very dumpable, well unless the games glop is inside the system glop! Then that presents a problem.
S F D you shouldnt be geting logged out if you set it to leave you logged in. Im never logged out. Either way just copy things before you send them just to be sure
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's on almost any multicart I do own it more than once under a different name I've also got snood for the gba which was a port of the original PC game which was a lift of which ever game you prefer to call the original. Sounds very much like the Nintendo G&W Fire from what I remember after owning it for all of 2 weeks. Sega Swirl... class game. We're releasing an Atari ST/e/TT/Falcon game this Easter with some very Swirly bits. Nothing wrong with mower games.. Mower Man on the Mattel Aquarius - got that on cassette from the UK Aquarius Users Club in about 1984 or so - remember clocking the score back to 0 on that one! Wish I had kept hold of all that Aquarius stuff, some of it seems impossible to replace. I'd take a nice new cart any day over another clone-in-a-pad but if there's original stuff it's all good even if it is that bad. pea
