China's Answer to the NES ft. Jackie Chan | 小霸王

The Xiao Bawang Education Computer was China's response to the popularity of the NES and Famicom game systems around the world. Duan Yongping, a young entrepreneur, led the delivery of the home computer to the public, bringing classic games and experiences to a whole generation. While often remembered for the iconic endorsement from Jackie Chan, it was the system's software that led the machine to be fondly remembered by generations of children.
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[@BluesBoySid]

In Poland we also have received those "famiclones". They were made in Taiwan and was transported and selled under the name " Pegasus". Along with those yellow cartridges console is a sign of childhood most every kid from 90's. And now is the best: you can still buy them :)

[@simonradowitzky4837]

I'd love to get a polish pegasus some day. And a dendy too. Are they still around or are they rare?

[@leezhieng]

I still saw these cartridges here in Malaysia. Each cartridge with 999 games (obviously fake lol) costs around USD $5. I don't remember how much is the console but I think should be somewhere around USD $20?

[@ShadowriverUB]

Pegasus was most popular clone thats why everyone called all of them after it

[@RADkate]

at this rate theyll still make famiclones in 100 years

[@Chomakot]

@@leezhieng i have around 10 cartridges with "999" games, all ten are different by one game. My grandpa may his soul rest would get me one cartridge everytime we went out, which most I lost somewhere

[@greenmountaineer]

I am absolutely flabbergasted that basically the whole computer is just those 2 little chips inside

[@83hjf]

it's not. 100% sure there's an epoxy blob chip in the back.

[@intel386DX]

@@83hjf indeed

[@oscarcacnio8418]

​@@83hjfAnd you would be correct.

[@belstar1128]

It was 12 year old tech when this came out.

[@Blue_eye_devil]

*LETS GO BRANDON*

[@LuxyX]

Here in Brazil we had the Magic Computer from Dynacom, it was something like this, a computer keyboard with a NES cartridge that you could even write codes in Basic, it was rly cool, I have mine till this day

[@Blue_eye_devil]

Here in America we have everything 🇺🇲

[@jnharton]

The NES is fundamentally similar to a 6502-based home computer of maybe 5-10 years prior, albeit it's designed to be a game console. Aside from the overall design, the major difference is having a custom graphics controller and slightly fancier audio capability. -- It was probably pretty easy to turn into a passable computer as long as you wrote your software with the PPU's capabilities and behavior in mind. -- I would guess that it's designers were familiar with the Apple II line of computers which was very successful and saw many, many clones.

[@squeter]

magic computer era uma tranqueira mto top

[@FelipePlayzYT]

cade o polystation gente?

[@squeter]

@@FelipePlayzYT kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk um classico de merda kkkkkkkkkkkk

[@thegamesninja3119]

Whenever I want to play an NES cart, I have Jackie Chan run it for me. Jackie Chan can run NES carts, while Chuck Norris cannot.

[@anthonyt219]

Lmao

[@thegamesninja3119]

@ihateallpeople laugh while you can... as per John Whorfin from Buckaroo Banzai, but have you ever tried to run an NES game on Chuck Norris? NES games do not run on Chuck Norris, they run FROM Chuck Norris. 🥷

[@chiefhydropolis]

​@@thegamesninja3119chuck norris: god of everything

[@thegamesninja3119]

@@chiefhydropolis but he doesn't run NES carts. 🥷

[@Renvaar1989]

Chuck Norris was already running PS5 games back when Jackie Chan was running NES carts.

[@shinyagumon7015]

Ah so the weird audio glitch wasn't on my end, cool that you fixed it. Also this ironically much more of a Family Computer than the actual Famicom ever was.

[@InkboxSoftware]

Stereo audio glitch when my left headphone is broken, it slipped through the cracks. Glad I caught it early enough though.

[@RicardoOliveira-ug3ep]

@@InkboxSoftware so that's what happened.

[@shinyagumon7015]

@@InkboxSoftware Funny because I through it was me because my right side earbud is broken.😂

[@RicardoOliveira-ug3ep]

@@InkboxSoftware well i dont think i had noticed it

[@oscarcacnio8418]

There might have been potential with the Famicom DD attachment. I don't know.

[@walterkarloff2061]

I remember I actually had this computer as a child here in Russia. Everything was almost the same except it was rebranded and localized. The Silver SUBOR word was still there, but all the Chinese symbols were replaced by Russian, and the Educational cartridge was different. All the speed typing things and basic were still there, but music thing was replaced by a collection of old Russian folk songs with Karaoke, there was no calculator, no Chinese code specific programs, but there was a graphical editor where you could chose a bunch of objects and shapes and build pictures out of them.

[@user-ez8le1rp3x]

It was crap and you know it. I'm from Russia too, Dendy just outcompeted it easily

[@Breakbeats92.5]

Me and my buddies were going bananas for the NES here in Southern California in the mid to late 80's. We never spent a second thinking about what games and consoles kids in other countries were playing. Thanks for the vid.

[@bazinganigga618]

Only now why found out about these abominations

[@hahamanin]

​@@bazinganigga618I saw these abominations in the market but as a kid I still knew only because I used to read a lot of comic books which were us printed ones..

[@erickflores2224]

thats very american.

[@Halfbreed75thSt]

​@@erickflores2224 Awww you gonna cry now

[@Renvaar1989]

Went bananas... I see what you did there!

[@osamaroum]

In the Arab world we had the same keyboard in the 90s called "the king of the golden tigers" in Arabic "Malik el numur el dhahabia" , but with Arabic language . Also you can play Famicom games .

[@felisuco_com]

they did the same for spanish market called "king of leopard" "rey del leopardo"

[@Raubritterr222]

Great video! After USSR collapse, kids in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and other former soviet countries also played games on chinese famiclones (because they were affordable) I got a Hitex-767 or something like this around 1995, and my classmate had Subor SB-225 and it looked super stylish, all black. Also Dendy was a popular brand in those countries, originated from Russian company that was selling Micro Genius consoles, but under their own name. My other friend had BT Warrior. In 1999 or 2000 I saw Subor Education Computer with Russian cartridge. It had two versions of basic, F-BASIC and G-BASIC. I don't know what was the difference, because we didn't have manual. PS youtube channel named 'Kinamania' has some great documentary-style videos on these topic regarding ex-soviet countries.

[@CK_Tex]

During my visit to Moscow years ago (World Cup year), I actually could find many Dendy machines still available for purchase in the market, while due to language barrier, I cannot communicate in Russian fluently, I did not get one finally.

[@chiefhydropolis]

in kazakhstan dendy was also popular, my mom remembers playing mario 1 on a dendy decades ago

[@SicketMog]

I also had a Subor, because my father was (and remains) super cheap, that was funnily enough imported by a cop (!) before he didn't dare to do it anymore due to Bergsala/Nintendo. It looked JUST like a Famicom. So I actually find that kind of funny; I've got a massively different gaming experience as a child compared to all of my friends (who had proper NES). Turned out for the better for me too I'd say thanks to the multicarts, hundreds of games available (whereas Nintendo had a price monopoly that the EU fined them for in the early 00's iirc) and the fact that it's a toploader means it still works to this day afaik (not plugged in for a couple of years) without pin-issues or the carts having been blown into. The controllers also had turbo-buttons making some of the games nicer to play. Also the orange zapper was replaced by something that looked even more like a real gun than the grey zapper ever did. 😎💥 I may be Scandinavian but my early formative gaming experience is pure USSR. 😛

[@collared]

in 2000s as a small child i had this exact chinese keyboard famiclone from the video

[@MeiinUK]

@@SicketMog: It's so weird that this was what was going on at that time too... I also remembers the NES... I didn't get one here in the UK. But we did have the BBC micro that had the basics and the basic computer. We then had things like the Amstrad. And various spectrums... and in HK.. the NES was selling quite quickly. Haven't heard of the Subor at all.... So how come the company didn't actually... sell abroad, rather than to sell inside China ? That was weird.

[@AttilaSVK]

I remember these from the Chinese markets we had in my hometown in Slovakia in the late '90s. I really wanted one, but I only got an Atari 2600 clone called "RAMBO TV GAME" :)

[@JamesWon6]

I still have mine, my father bought one in China in 1991. Mine still works, great video didn't know the history

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

Buddha bless your father!

[@nehcooahnait7827]

My dad bought me one in 2001, but my mum kinda threw it away around 2013. I kinda let her 😢

[@collectthemall]

I had a Subor as a kid . You could get them outside of China for 15-20$ . They were really good unlike similar Famiclones .I know people that still own them and still playing them. All Subors are based on NOAC technology which was developed in Taiwan .

[@collared]

i had one back in 2000s

[@InkboxSoftware]

For all those saying it isn't just two chips, you're right. Here's a photo of the bottom of the board: drive.google.com/file/d/1-MJ7DocH6dQi3JY19jnO5GTbdcSqp9_M/view?usp=sharing

[@ricardobino7410]

You should edit or re upload the video with the updated information.

[@thelabby9998]

The rear chip (under the black glue) probably the CPU...

[@GetterRay]

@@ricardobino7410 No, that would require integrity.

[@retroarcadefan]

Gotta love when people who don't know anything talk out of their azz as if they do. Very interesting video!

[@keiyakins]

​@@ricardobino7410 You can't. KZbin refuses to let people do any sort of editing, and penalizes you if you upload largely the same video twice.

[@Moonhack95]

There's a version of this machine with a fully working DOS and Floppy disk interface, with programming languages included, so it's a full 80s home computer based on the NES architecture, since you can actually save your work off the cartridge memory, I think it's one of the most ambitious famiclone derivates ever because of that

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

I remember 1990th ads on "Asian Sources" for a version with small B/W CRT, diskette drive and something like 4MB RAM sold as a school computer.

[@quite1enough]

I'm from Russia and I had this thing when I was a kid ^^

[@Blue_eye_devil]

Rip

[@quite1enough]

@@Blue_eye_devil it was actually pretty good, only my cat used to chew controller cords all the time and it was hard to find replacements back then 😭

[@Blue_eye_devil]

@@quite1enough RIP Russia

[@quite1enough]

@@Blue_eye_devil I'm not so sure what you mean lol

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Something to note. 小霸王 or _Little Emperor_ is a slang term in Chinese Culture to refer to spoiled children. Especially only childs/sole sons born during the One Child Policy.

[@musAKulture]

not necessarily. 小皇帝 was used far more commonly. 小霸王 instead is for school bullies. 皇帝 is emperor 霸王 is "hegemon" or “dominator". you mixed the two terms up.

[@Blue_eye_devil]

In the United States, Chinese owned businesses are known as centers of human trafficking of sex and labor

[@Deetroiter]

Now, they're just called Fuerdai and Tuhao

[@awesomegmg956]

It just refer to 孙策 Sun Ce

[@EdgyVidyaGeneral]

Dude you have a great way of making things I've never heard about so interesting

[@Blue_eye_devil]

Hopefully he does a video about girls for you next

[@hyrulesavior2008]

This device was very popular in North Africa back in the late 90's. We had it in Arabic and English. I still have mine kept in my house. it used to be called ( Gold King Leopard / ملك النمور الذهبي )

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

I also have a black one "Gold Leopard King" and a few others. Another famous brand was "Asder".

[@hyrulesavior2008]

@@cyberyogicowindler2448 from which country ? i'm from Morocco

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

@@hyrulesavior2008 from Germany. We mainly found famiclones sold in Turkish shops or by (new or used goods) fleamarket vendors.

[@hyrulesavior2008]

@@cyberyogicowindler2448 i thought you guys liked to keep up to date with sony/nintendo/sega. I chose the gold king leopard because it was cheaper and the games were affordable

[@happyd6145]

These videogame consoles were extremely popular in India as well. All of them used chip based catridges and resembled a keyboard. It had games like Super Mario, Duckhunt, Popeye, Contra. These consoles were cheap but not durable. I too wondered how the entire system is made up of only two chips. Chinese are genius ! Love from India ❤

[@nickelarcade6934]

I’m convinced Jackie Chan walked off the set of Rumble in the Bronx and did the ads for the pc. He’s literally wearing the exact same 2 outfits lol

[@dnielv]

I'm not so sure about those two chips. There is simply not enough pins to drive the screen, memory, cartdridge port, audio and controllers in those chips. I'm quite sure there must be an epoxy "Nes on a chip" blob on the opposite side of that PCB or in other place.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

I see

[@spookycat4620]

you were correct

[@michaelthomashamilton]

I lived in Beijing from 2014 to 2016 and I saw the Xiaobawang famicom clone being sold at local supermarket I was shopping at one day. It was being sold for 100 RMB or about $16 USD. I was intrigued by it and picked one up. It came with a cart that had like 100 ROMs or something like that. Mario, Tetris, etc. Was definitely interesting. Never heard of Xiaobawang before seeing that machine for sale at the supermarket.

[@axelprino]

Here in Argentina Famiclones were very popular in the 90's, although we just called them "Family", pretty sure they came from Taiwan through Paraguay. I had a few of them growing up since they were pretty cheap, I remember they costed between 20 and 30 USD back then, and one of them was in that keyboard format and also came with a cartridge with "software" in it. I wonder if that thing is still stashed away among my old stuff, I know one of the normal Famiclones is there and looks to be in good condition, someday I'll have to check if that old keyboard computer still works.

[@simonradowitzky4837]

Vine a comentar exactamente lo mismo! Jajaja. Seguro que todavia funciona. Eran un fierro. Sino avisame que yo las reparo. Generalmente son cosas sencillas.

[@kubratodason719]

Muchachoos

[@leandromuller2127]

No todos eran importados ojo. Los dynacom por ejemplo eran argentinos-brasileños

[@Clancydaenlightened]

I believe ukraine built Famicoms too, called dendy, and unlike China used off the shelf parts with authentic memory map and custom vsli for graphics and sound

[@patosomon724]

Interesting, I know that there was actually a Dendy factory in Dubna called "Tensor" (Near Moscow) in Russia but in Ukraine I don't know

[@kaukomieli]

The idea behind the game "Letters Invade" to me is brilliant. It's just so simple yet so much fun, it utilizes a keyboard perfectly, and even trains the player to type faster! This reminded me of a java mobile game made by the makers of Habbo Hotel that I played in like 2008. The game was called Habbo Dreams and it had the exact same idea, except you had to protect a guy sleeping in his bed from some nightmare monsters walking towards the bed, which were eliminated by typing a word that they had written on them. That game also had some special enemies and/or powerups if I remember correctly, for example a word that when typed would eliminate all enemies on the screen at once.

[@moechano]

cute 8bit rendition of Bella Ciao at around 8 mins :)

[@InkboxSoftware]

Fun fact, all music in this video was recorded from the Music Appreciation app on the Education Cartridge.

[@moechano]

@@InkboxSoftware Honestly that's pretty cool you included a lil detail like that for the video editing :)

[@KuchingKingVideoGamer]

BBK became a popular company making Oppo,Vivo and Realme smartphones which are affordable and very popular in Asian region 😊 I wish Yongping and his company BBK create a powerful handheld gaming device 😊

[@OCTAGRAM]

The best I know is RetroGenesis Port 3000, with savegame feature and SD card. And it supports several gaming systems, SEGA and SNES most notably

[@AykutKoc]

I had a clone of this console in 2001, it had Microsoft Word clone and it was saving what i wrote into it, even if I close the console. If i disconnect the ac adapter, it was gone but it was a miracle for me back in the day.

[@Esteban_LeGrafx]

I really enjoy the videos you make (e.g. the OS for Famicom/NES was the first one I watched) and I appreciate all the little details you include (not just the commentary, but the visual close-ups of hardware and hinges working, etc. Ignore the critics and keep making/creating stuff. Lots of fun.

[@NiffirgkcaJ]

I still remember that my friend used to have a "console" that was basically the entire keyboard. It still blows my mind to this day.

[@d00mch1ld]

My family are from Zhong Shan, heart of Canton. It very close to Macau and Hong Kong, which explains how technology flowed through these cities into China.

[@Blue_eye_devil]

Tell us you got a tiny manhood without telling us you got a tiny manhood

[@andersdenkend]

Well done, very in depth and interesting. Great chinese pronunciation as well!

[@st1ka]

Super interesting video. I've been wanting to learn more about this computer/nes thingy for ages, but reliable info was hard to come by

[@JarbasOVOS]

In Portugal we got the Gold Leopard King, basically the same thing! But all examples I've come across were imported from Spain

[@InariOkami]

Wow! Latin-American Millennials at last we know the name of the anonymous hero that changed our childhood: Duan Yongping. At that time, around 1990, Nintendo (NES) was brand new as a game console into our region and the most expensive one, the Atari 2600 was popular both for being the game console of our parents, the Gen-X people, and for having cheap (clone) games selling everywhere, even at flea markets. Having a NES was an actual luxury, but then the Famiclones came and flooded the market with the popular famicom cartridges having many games into one. And was indeed the Red and White D25! I remember having one being exactly the same design with the chinese instructions for the power and reset buttons at 01:25 and all. Years later the famiclones were evolving to mimic other consoles like the NES, PS1 (the well known PolylStations) and such. Thanks for this video. Now I understand why Jackie Chan said something about videogames being bad at one of the episodes of his "Jackie Chan Adventures" cartoon, he was in line with the chinese (government) idea of videogames turning kids into unproductive people.

[@oliviagoblin8604]

What an incredible video thank you so much for making it! I rarely get to here about technology that isn’t from the US or Japan and it’s so exciting.

[@taherabdelhameed9204]

I'm a 27 year old Egyptian and this keyboard NES was my - and most of my generation's - first gaming device ever. It used to have an Arabic-English keyboard layout and an English OS interface

[@pabblo1]

Famiclones were also really common in post-Soviet and post-communist countries. Let me give two examples: Russia - they had the Dendy console, which was immensely popular. Poland - they had the Pegasus console, which was also immensely popular. So popular in fact, that many Poles call the NES "Pegasus".

[@MrPantera1987]

In Yugoslavia there was "Terminator". I think it was made in Taiwan.

[@pabblo1]

@@MrPantera1987 Ah yes, the Terminator 2 console. It was sold in a lot of post-Soviet/post-communist countries, including Poland, where it was sold alongside the Pegasus, which I already talked about.

[@MrPantera1987]

@@pabblo1 Yeah. I am thankful to all those consoles that save our sanity in those turbulent times.

[@Blue_eye_devil]

Human wave attacks were pretty popular too I've heard

[@pabblo1]

@@Blue_eye_devil Hmmm...? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

[@NewRepublicMapper]

Fun fact: The new company founded by Duan Yongping, the BBK is one of company became popular in Southeast Asian and Indian Countries, they are makers of "Bang the Buck" phones

[@evilLincoln]

Ещё не смотрел, но это же наш родной Сюбор! :)

[@QLTD]

Great video thanks! 2:00 I never knew these were boxing gloves! always thought it was a face or something. The company made different versions for different languages, I have a video on my channel trying to repair and Arabic version of this famiclone educational computer.

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

I love how you're able to say the Chinese words in this so well; it makes it less of a 'lol look at their weird famiclone' but a 'oh, look at this weird famiclone', yaknow? It sounds like you care about the topic you're talking about.

[@anthonyt219]

Lol I think it's because he's actually chinese . But I would be very surprised if he's white or something. The way he pronounces it made it seem like he was a native speaker

[@ragewolf3728]

Thanks for the video. I always wanted some in-depth info about these keyboards. I had 2 of those(Lara 17, GLK Book). These brings back nostalgia

[@stephenmorrissey1254]

Excellent essay. Great video too!

[@mrgtmodernretrogamingtech6891]

Even that Bootleg of NES/FamiCom has a LOT of Bootleg scattered around malls and groceries (Gaming Stall Inside) here in Philippines in the Early 2000s. My mom got me one when this thing hit the store since it was very cheap in 2001 compare to it's Original NES/FamiCom release in the mid 80s to early 90s... It was my very first console and one of the happiest moment of my life... =)

[@chanmaran5107]

Oh wow. And BBK ended up becoming the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world with OPPO, Vivo, and Oneplus as its brands. Fascinating connection of Duan Yongping to video games.

[@adrammelech6323]

Realme too. Also remember them in the 00s as manufacturers of pretty good cheap DVD players that could read even badly scratched disks

[@MeiinUK]

BBK makes Oppo,, Vivo.. and Oneplus ? Oh wow...

[@bocbinsgames6745]

holy shit its a 五笔 keyboard (not watched the whole video as of commenting I'm just excited.about it) I type with wubi and literally no one else I know of (except my aunt) can use this now rather obscure ime

[@OCTAGRAM]

When I was learning Chinese, I was writing Wubi version for every glyph and tried to memorize them too. Sometimes it helped me to recreate the visual, because the visual as is not easily memorizable for Russians

[@Dragonfire511]

Your channel was recommended to me, suscribed.

[@felisuco_com]

WOW, as a chinese videogames rare stuff collector this video show me an amazing thing, this is the reason why exists the KING OF LEOPARD consoles that also created the "rey de leopardo" for the spanish market, always i wondered why... why a nes with keyboard and kind of educational rare obscure games arrived to europe.

[@chilling-boy]

我仍然记得这个设备，很好的视频，继续保持

[@abhijitleihaorambam3763]

This was popular too in india, i remember playing from this instead of the original nes(we didn't know the original nes)

[@Marius150PL]

Interesting video. In other parts of world (Poland included, e.g. GLK-2004) there were clones of this, but usually without parallel port and of course different cartridge.

[@supersmallchibiwolf872]

This was wonderful. I love Jackie Chan and his old movies. I never used this computer, but I find it cool that It plays Famicom catridges. Cool video. ^_^

[@KathyXie]

You can still buy modern 小霸王 familclones with hdmi output or those 120 in 1 or 450 in 1 cartridges but it seems that Xiaobawang filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and Yihua Group the parent company allows third party manufacturers to use 小霸王 trademark

[@OCTAGRAM]

With keyboard? Where?

[@hackdesigner]

Wow I had no idea! I had a famiclone that looks exactly like the one you showed but it was branded Liko and the series was... drumroll... "BBK-1"! Internally it also looked exactly the same. Did not survive my experiments with attempts to power it through LPT port when mom took away the power brick once :D Anyway, as someone already wrote down, it had 2 versions of BASIC: - F-BASIC like you showed (though MUCH faster) - that allowed full 32 bit operations and IEEE-style floating point manipulation (yeah you figure, with those 2 chips! Incredible!) I knew it worked because I used it to generate the answer to the "chess problem" - 2^64-1. - G-BASIC. Oh man. This is where the 150-A4-page-long 8pt text supplied manual was used. This was "Game BASIC" - you could manipulate sprites, design backgrounds, control sprites with keyboard OR JOYSTICK, write music, manipulate memory etc. etc. But it was 16 bit int only. This was what brought me to IT back then, this is how I learned coding. Without exaggeration, the BBK-1 fired the spark for my future career and allowed me to become who I am today. P.S.: if you want to learn about it, search for the ROM titled "Обучающий картридж" (teaching cartridge). Could be there were English -focused ones.

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

bullshit.

[@KiraSlith]

Still having a terrible time getting one of these, such a cool famiclone. I know as soon as SHTF they're basically going to become permanent unobtanium.

[@LostieTrekieTechie]

Has anyone made blueprints/replicas or emulated the additional hardware functions?

[@jimbotron70]

@@LostieTrekieTechie It's a Famiclone without exotic hardware in it, if you transplant its ROM into a PC emulator it basically works.

[@KiraSlith]

@@LostieTrekieTechie I vaguely remember Higan was going to add that eventually but they shut down over scene drama, and last I checked they hadn't done it yet. There was one between 2006-2012, not sure if anything came of it, if it ever got a name, or even if it was JUST for FamilyBASIC.

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

@@LostieTrekieTechie The MAME team did much work to emulate specific flaws and features of individual famiclones. I think this also included ASDER and a few other with keyboard.

[@ogglogg]

Man imagine bringing video games to families that could have otherwise never afforded to give their kids the joy, and on top of being cheap you’re also known for quality and service… That’s what business should be about. (Not the piracy part though haha)

[@anxboxharddrive9348]

Yeah, these businessman/engineers were real innovators :)

[@donaldklopper]

Lovely detailed review. Good job!

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

So this is the chinese Nintendo Entertainment System...

[@JaxTheEpic]

The Russian One is the Dendy The Polish one is the Pegasus The Taiwanese one is the Micro Genius and so many others due to the country having a huge market for famiclones and bootleg games.

[@nagruvajse]

This was very nice to watch. tnx man

[@Pesthauch666]

1:58: At first glance that logo to me looked more like a faceless old-fashioned dame with a prominent 50' haircut. Also I grew up with some obscure computers too, like the east german KC85 computers (using a Z80 processor clone) or the the Polyplay arcade machine (btw. the only east german arcade).

[@jimbotron70]

Polyplay = VEB Robotron Dresden

[@SourabhMittal-en1fe]

I had this. Never knew there was so much history behind it.

[@atcera8714]

My friend had this. It could play most cartridges and also came with cartridges that were about typing and learning. It was boring at the time but looking back now, shit was amazing

[@yanghao8351]

Great Video! And you pronounced the Chinese correctly! Even used the tones!

[@Guilhermeabcd]

very interesting and well put video. Thanks!

[@Kaziklu]

That was actually really interesting. It basically took the Commodore 64 concept from the 1980s and Famacom'd it up for China... Thanks for doing this series.

[@chimyshark]

Oh mannn so that's what is was! My cousin in China has one in 2000. I had a GBC and we'd swap. I had no idea what it was, didn't look anything like any American console. I've never even heard of NES at the time, so I couldn't figure out what it was, but it was totally fun. The game cartridges were always 4 in 1. I played Chip 'N Dale rescue rangers, Double Dragon 2 and 3, Contra 1... Later I learned these games were NES games, and I thought the Xiao Bawang was a knockoff NES. Now I see it was a Chinese Famicom.

[@TheRealAburaman]

This is such an awesome video!

[@elmajdouliabdelhakim6900]

As a 90's kid growing up in Morocco, I have had 4 or 5 of these consoles from 2001 to 2005 (yep, the power adapter used to heat up so much that it breaks after an extended play session and I really played long hours to finish super mario bros 1 ). We had it named in Arabic and the translation for it was : The golden king of tigers ... Beautiful times, the console itself costed around the equivalent of 16$ (a keyboard, 2 joysticks and a zapper) and the cartridges were like 2$ and each cartridge contained at least 10000 games ( actually it's 20 to 30 NES roms on repeat) , my favs were Contra, ghost'n' goblings, adventure island and mappy

[@AryonGothic]

No Brasil, tivemos o "Magic Computer PC-95" , fabricado pela Dynacon, foi o videogame da minha Infância, esses dias consegui comprar um para reviver essa época.

[@volkanzumrut1635]

非常好！非常感謝您準備這齣視頻。就是那個遊戲叫「圍棋WEIQI」，不是GO。

[@walterpark8824]

Ah, this begins to fill a huge hole in my understanding of modern computer history. Interesting how one bright guy can make a successful company! And you pique my curiosity again about how a language with thousands of characters can be input with a 101-key keyboard. Thanks!!

[@WillH1776]

I played on both and also owned the keyboard, but when I brought it back home here in the US it didn't work right because it was in PAL configuration and not NTSC so I played it in black and white and at the time I didn't know if a converter existed.

[@uncrunch398]

My guess is the majority of functionality is in the program ROMs; chips on the main board are just to boot then transition to the inserted ROM letting it take over.

[@ralseidreemurr2682]

This exact console was all over east europe in the 90s which was called Dendy with a logo of a little elephant, as much i remember this console was pretty much region free so it could play any cartridges but with difference in audio.

[@ddabrahim]

Wish I had something like this when I was a kid. Could have introduced me to programming at a young age.

[@bl3783]

The design is brilliant. Parents believed kid used the keyboard console to study. In fact, 99% kids who own this keyboard console only use this consle play nes games.

[@user-sr7fd4ni4t]

holy shit no way, lol this is so nostalgic, good job bro

[@Tolbat]

Thanks, I enjoyed this video.

[@DominicJacksonFilm]

really interesting and well constructed documentary thank you

[@staticshocker69]

In India we had 3 major NES clones. Polystation (PS1 body), Terminator 2 (Sega body) and Gold Leopard King which was this keyboard system.

[@tiagobasilio3124]

My first console was the famiclone with this logo on it. Always intrigued me, because is a such a high quality clone with a" goldstar" chips on motherboard. (television manufacturer).

[@siroshcelot]

bro in the south east asian part of the world, we weren’t even aware of nintendos and all we had were these keyboard consoles. Even the cartridges were compilation of famous nintendo games such as Super Mario bros and that bike racing game. Also there would be a knockoff pistol that came paired with the thing where one could play Duck hunt, ah fun times😂

[@10MinuteGamer]

Dude, I want one of these now! I had no idea of this history since I migrated from Hong Kong to US back in 1989. I would have loved the red and white machine since it was cheaper. Duan would have been my hero if my family was able to afford one of those.

[@Nitzzer]

I had 3 of these. As gaming consoles from nintendo or any other company were not available in my state and were very expensive if imported, we didn’t even know that it was a clone, I still own about 80 cartridges from my childhood with a huge collection of nes games. They were available for about 50 to 60 cents with each cartridge containing about 4 different games. I owned the 15 pin ones and the 9 pin ones too. They used to break pretty easily. Even the controller’s weren’t very long lasting, But they were worth the experience.

[@jtm732]

My wife grew up in Northern China and had a knock off of the Subor version. She got it around 1995, and it was similar with the keyboard, but it wasn’t as popular. I may be able to get a picture, we have only found one picture of it ever.

[@Game_Hero]

so knockoffs got knockoffs, interesting

[@nathangraves1069]

Can you imagine having this console signed by Jackie Chan? .....awesome video!!

[@Gameboygenius]

Pretty sure there are more chip on the underside of the board, maybe a black blob or two. Those two chips alone literally don't have enough pins to support all the IO needed for the cartridge bus.

[@spookycat4620]

the blob was the correct answer

[@remigiusznowak7277]

Fun fact: The flashcart he used is from Poland

[@MarcusFigueras]

Im interested in famicom compatability, and if it is compatible with something like the disk system and if it has full audio fidelity like the famicom vs nes does

[@wes773105333]

I had a newer version of this that was sold at a local flea market in the US around 2000. It had the educational cartridge but i dont remember messing with it as much. It also had games included in it on a game cartridge. I don't remember what the controllers looked like but I remember playing super mario bros on it a lot.

[@b3h8t1n]

Gold leopard king probably 😅

[@wes773105333]

@@b3h8t1n You're right. After searching for it on Google, I'm 100% sure I had the GLK 1119. I remember there being a yellow game cartridge that isn't in the images on Google. Maybe it's possible some came with a Famicom multicart included?

[@belstar1128]

It should have had a way to save data on floppy or tape .

[@GaborSzucskisfiu]

I had one of these as a child. It was called "GLK". The content of the included cartridge shown here was soldered onboard. It was able to run "Basic" programming language. I was able to impress a few kids with it by writing some basic code and compile a quiz game. It ran like shit though.

[@mangotar0]

I also had one of these Famicom clones (Localised in English ofcourse) back in the early 2000s in the Philippines. Majority had these clones because it was more affordable for the economic state back then. Thats just how gaming is for us in developing countries, piracy always flourished and made gaming accessible to the majority.

[@Thunderstormworld]

I've seen one a few years ago but can't remember if it's the original , and a sealed box had a keyboard ,cartridges ,controllers and a mouse and a printer cable for a old printer ,not usb cable . On the box stated that there was a type of word processor cartridge , a accounting cartridge and paint cartridge , one game cartridge and another cartridge but didn't had time to read it ,all could save to the cartridges except for the game cartridge . As i was running late for a appointment I decided to come back a few days later but when I returned someone already bought it. I collecte computers and have a few amiga and sinclair so I was very disappointed that i could not get it.

[@Minty1337]

from a distance, looks exactly like an IBM model M keyboard, the missing windows keys, the color scheme, even the caps/num/scroll lock lights look exactly the same

[@loganford3921]

This is new to me and I enjoyed this video. It's reminds me of a Computer or a PC that could play Sega Mega Drive games in the 90s here in the UK.

[@jimbotron70]

The Teradrive.

[@OCTAGRAM]

@@jimbotron70 Yes, but there was keyboard SEGA too. Wondering how does it compare to 16-bit IBM PC. Alright, I did some research. SG-1000 with 17kb RAM later evolved into SC-3000, and there were upgrades, and SC-3000 with BASIC Level III B upgrade can have at most 48kb RAM. That is hardly compared to DOS. Norton Commander 5.0 used 312 kb or so, from 640 kb real mode memory. On another hand we have Sega Saturn Keyboard, for 32-bit Sega Saturn, with 4Mb RAM. Now that is a thing. It is compared to Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp era, so we can think of SEGA Saturn Delphi and SEGA Saturn FAR Manager, if only it was a dominant computer, and had preemption of software. There had to be DOS Turbo Pascal in order for Delphi to appear based on it.

[@jimbotron70]

@@OCTAGRAM These videogame keyboards weren't comparable to IBM PCs, the latter being much more powerful in terms of number crunching, still the videogame keyoboards could boast better graphics and sound.

[@OCTAGRAM]

​@@jimbotron70 I try to develop game in Turbo Pascal. I started with PutPixel, but it was way too much slow, so learned Assembler and EGA registers. I was reading a document that you can find by keywords "Сабанин EGA реферат". Indeed, any 8-bit Subor could do more than EGA and PC speaker. And for 8-bit I understand the memory limitation is way too strict. Levels look dull compared to DOS games, since there was not enough memory to describe every tile in the level, and packing was used. But I wonder about keyboard SEGA. How much memory does it have. Even if it cannot be compared to PC of same age, maybe it can be compared to early PC XT. Maybe we could have Turbo Pascal for SEGA and Norton Commander for SEGA

[@cyberyogicowindler2448]

​@@OCTAGRAM 8-bit games weren't always bad. E.g. "Koronis Rift" by Lucasfilm Games on Atari XL had graphics and complexity that was not reached by anything else until 386er games.

[@old_liquid]

I remember Subors was imported in my country in 90s, nice video

[@robertdrisdelle]

Was not expecting that screen of I Love My Family

[@meyers0781]

9:43 BBK who were since the 2010s producing Oppo, Vivo, and Realme smartphones.

[@ayoubmorjane7722]

I had one. They called it the king of tigers where I lived. It had nes games along with Arabic language English counting and other educational games