Bootleg Showcase: The Power Player Super Joy III | Nintendrew

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[@OfficialAnimeCitizen]

😂 i have that very console. Some of the games are fun and playable, but others don't water to an older BL console that let me play better.

[@mrhoogles]

that noise it makes, maybe the power supply is DC and it needs an AC power supply? that's what it sounds like to me

[@banjoboi24]

I'm just shocked that this video was sponsored by Ninjala, as it's one of my favorite games on the Switch !

[@leodzepe]

Ooo

[@jes3d]

gu5

[@jonahreyes1165]

When I was a kid my grandpa bought me one of these for Christmas (Circa 2009) from a grocery store. This little bootleg console was one of the first ways that I had experienced a lot of retro NES games. A friend and I even managed to beat Contra with these terrible controllers. I sadly have genuine nostalgia for this exact unit 😂

[@blackenedheart9592]

That's awesome. I've never seen any of those consoles anywhere. I love bootleg systems. Lol. They're so bad they're fun. But man you make me feel old lol. Not mad or anything but in 2009 I was 28! 😂😂

[@Antonio231102]

@@blackenedheart9592 ME TOO! I was having so much fun with the games that 8 year old me didn't even notice the horrible button placement

[@nillazilla22]

You know you didn’t have to say circa 2009.

[@nillazilla22]

You just said just say 2009.

[@scamazonprime]

@@nillazilla22 You must be fun at parties.

[@WigWoo1]

I still own the Super Joy. I love it because it plays actual famicom cartridges

[@marianojrivera8101]

Bro, finally, gonna buy me a hacked mother 1 cartridge

[@arfansthename]

I'm sorry, it can WHAT?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Now someone has to test if it accepts everdrives

[@ProtoMario]

Found these 10 years ago, some of the most ridiculous bs I ever saw lmao.

[@username_611]

CHECKMARK

[@KingStr0ng]

Lol fax. This is one of the craziest bootlegs I've ever seen. 💀

[@spliffnotes8359]

Let me just say this.... If I saw this "all in one" system with two controllers, one of which looks like an N64 controller, one Genesis controller AND it also comes with a gun.... when I was a kid in the late 90s... it literally wouldn't even matter what games that it had. This would be the greatest thing I'd ever seen.

[@Antonio231102]

NO WAY! This thing was the reason I got into videogames! If it weren't for it I probably wouldn't appreciate NES games and retro gaming in general as much as I do today. Watching this video was like going back to 2011 for a moment. Thank you!

[@ExtremeWreck]

Same thing, but with the Atgames Genesis.

[@benitomarquez3274]

Dude yeah actually kinda same for me

[@Terratetradon]

No

[@floridaredfishin8209]

God you make me feel old, I was a kid with the ORIGINAL Nintendo Entertainment System was released LOL

[@crazyrana713]

same here. My parents bought this for me when I was 4 years old(back in 2002). I remembered I had a clear blue one that would light up when you would press any button.

[@mikerazor7]

You know your console is good when it comes with a gun.

[@spongefan155]

"As An Added Bonus Inside We've Included A Gun How Is This Allowed?"

[@spliffnotes8359]

This is not a joke. It's true.

[@ChaseMC215]

I would just make a Joker cosplay.... just make a mask for the cosplay

[@Whkixsbukb]

Doesn't even look like a controller gun its just a regular gun

[@ChaseMC215]

@@Whkixsbukb How did any of this get past customs? It doesn't matter if they give the gun a stupid orange tint at the end of the gun, it's still a gun, some border guard will see this as a gun and will confiscate it!

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Legend has it, that Ben Heck turned one of these NES clones (I believe this one in particular) into a fully functional NES portable

[@charlotteshenkenberger345]

You know what? I can believe it too. Anyone with some skill with programming and probably DIY could make it work.

[@CultOfTheGlenda]

I know this comment is old. But if you search for Kevtris Portendo you can find a portable made this thing. Kevtris later went to work for Analogue Inc.

[@Viggenpower]

I bought one for my kids as a travel system. We already had a couple PlayStations and a Game Cube. Not wanting to damage those, we bought this to use in hotel rooms. It was a serviceable alternative to the pay per hours games offered at hotels at the time.

[@yamigekusu]

This thing was one of the weirdest impulse buys from my dad back in 2003. He and I went to the mall and saw this kiosk dude playing old NES games. My dad listened to this dude's pitch, spent twenty dollars, and grabbed the box. I still have this thing, box and all

[@Chaos89P]

Plug it into a CRT and have a little fun.

[@yamigekusu]

@@Chaos89P i don't have a working CRT tv anymore :(

[@legonick007]

Same here, only my parents bought two of them

[@enriquedossantos3283]

@@yamigekusu Did you throw them out?, those things last forever, i have like 8, a big 32 inch that i use for old consoles, two 27 inch, four 21 inch and one 14 inch, all working till the day i wrap them up in plastic and stash them, mostly sony and samsung

[@yamigekusu]

@@enriquedossantos3283 I had to leave my old CRT TV s at my old place as I couldn't pick them up, or have them at my fiance's place. Man, do I wish I could play some of my older games on those TVs

[@Zapetroid]

As much as I do hate this thing, I have to be pedantic. 1942 always starts you on "Last 32 Stage"; it counts down from 32 to tell you how many stages are left, not what stage you're on. So it is running correctly here.

[@thazkid]

Pretty sure I had this thing once when I was a kid. Never knew what that port thing underneath the joystick was until you told me. Thanks. 👌

[@bland9876]

You can plug a famicom to NES adapter into it and then plug the larger NES cartridges into that adapter and have the most monstrosity you can think of.

[@thazkid]

@@bland9876 That reminds me of Sonic and Knuckles. 🤣

[@bland9876]

@@thazkid lol 😂

[@osurpless]

@@bland9876 Are you sure? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn3Sg4aQZ7SKjNk

[@startedtech]

That buzz is the 60hz from the mains, common on crap electronics with poor shielding/grounding/filtering. Adds to the crappy charm!

[@soundspark]

Could also be from the video encoder bleeding over to the audio.

[@bananacat3109]

Whenever i see a bootleg i just think, “someone had to take time out of their day to make this. they were probably paid.”

[@Honoryoursystem]

And there were more models to this Shockingly. You had this version (made in 2001) The original one (which said 76 in 1. And had music in the background) You had the final one which was slightly improved with the cartridge and had no letters next to the title. And some came with PAC-MAN and some came with mappy with a Nuts sprite (from nuts and milk) in the place. So me living in NYC this was everywhere and only $20 on 14th Street. And it was like hoping for PAC man or not. I owe it to this console it helped get me through my parents divorcing as a child. Great video btw

[@berrypicker7069]

All my homies love Nintendrew

[@stevemelo]

I remembering buying one of these at a random kiosk at a mall when I was teenager out of pure curiosity since by that time I was already well into my Playstation years (Atari 2600 and NES was my life as a kid lol) Played it once. 15 years later, I found it in storage and gave it to my cousin who has since become quite the video game collector so at least it went to a good home.

[@edgelord8337]

I'm convinced that this game is going through an identity crisis.

[@widnawz]

Never bought one, but I have fond memories of walking up to the booth at the fair selling these and playing Mario until the guy kicked me off

[@RyGuy0520]

I had one similar to this called power-joy it had the gun built-in to the main controller and it came with a 84 in 1 game cartridge with a weird panda Mario game they were sold at the mall sometime in the mid 00s for around $30

[@kokorikopi]

Man I used to have this exact thing, I remember the box and everything. Mine was red, but came with the silver gun.

[@rayminishi689]

12:06 Actually, this is the Championship version of Lode Runner. I guess the game was popular enough to warrant a contest and made a harder version.

[@LexarXaryonx]

The return of the bootlegs!

[@LilReikoGold]

I remember having one of those when i was 11 and i was hooked on it until my mother told me it had broke

[@Pork77]

I remember I got this for Christmas one year. When I opened it I thought it might play n64 games. When I hooked it up I was disappointed to see that it didn’t. None the less I still had a lot of fun with it this was actually the first way I ever played super Mario bros. I played it nearly every day for a month then out of nowhere it stopped turning on. This was back in 2012 and I have no idea where it is now so it was nice to see you make a video on it!

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Omg I remembered I went to swap meets and seeing those, that's how I got into Super Mario Bros and other NES/famicom games. I miss the late 2000's so much

[@RyGuy0520]

Also Walgreens sold something like this back in 2009 called Senario 101 in 1 for $9.99! there's other versions with fake games but this one had the real nes games they were pulled quickly from the shelves once Walgreens found out they were bootleg

[@LolaFolf]

Some kid I watch reviewed this system then destroyed it

[@Had0k3n2X]

I actually had this as a kid growing up around 2005 or so the Blue Model with a Sega 6 button this was before I had an NES I found that someone was throwing out

[@m.d._doe]

I own tons of Bootleg systems, I have probably played them for 2 hours combined

[@tolyhallas7271]

9:44 I don't know why, but this 10 second sequence just killed something deep inside me

[@tareasderick6488]

I got a once famiclone, played this game, and it also killed something inside me

[@starkmouth]

Truly, a metaphor of our fragile existence.

[@tareasderick6488]

@@starkmouth Well said mate

[@OGfancy420]

You have no idea how much this console meant to me. Thank you for making this video, it's hilarious to see the first impression of a knowledgeable Nintendo guy. There was all kinds of quirks and hilarious duplicates. I spent a lot of time playing this system with my brother.

[@brycevo]

I saw this a couple times and always wished I could have gotten it. I realize now I didn't miss much

[@VinnytotheK]

I actually have this same exact pack all in the box unopened! Crazy that you made a video about it haha, I think I found it at goodwill or something.

[@tomoshmoto]

I used to love this thing when I was a little kid. I remember begging for it at the SI Mall.

[@SpaceOwl]

11:03 "I have several questions!" (if you get the reference, you're awesome 👍)

[@leighasbell3624]

JonTron

[@SethTheSouthernWeirdo]

One of my favorite titles was Golf EER. Also, I love how you basically said, "I'm sorry if you went through that trauma, but if you have, please say more."

[@MegaSceptile99]

But that title doesn't compare to Magic Jewelry DIO

[@GOLVEL]

Haven't watched... liked already... never doubt Drew.

[@legonick007]

My parents saw a guy selling these at a fairground once. There was a guy who saw that it had Burger Time, and he freaked out yelling something like "IT HAS BURGER TIME! I NEED IT!" and bought one. My parents bought two of them just because. It was how I played Wild Gunman for the first time. Be glad you didn't try to use the battery cartridge, my brother tried to use it and it got so hot the plastic melted off

[@S.J.C._Entertainment]

Power player super joystick and gun" welp... I, I guess that's a name.

[@RomWatt]

Ah yes, my favourite game of all time, Ice Climber Simulator!

[@eriklaboyjr6068]

My's monkey cereal.

[@RetroPiero]

Holy shit, this cheap hunk of junk still roaming around the world?? Remember seeing this back on 2009 in Florida in a goodwill once.

[@emptyspotlight]

I remember my dad bought me this back in 2002 and it was pretty great because I got into a lot of NES games

[@austinschwenk7778]

I had one of these as a kid. Duck hunt was awesome to play. Good times

[@metroidprime99]

Me and my cousins shared this console as kids and quickly realized what it was. However, it gave me an opportunity to experience a lot of these older titles that I had never seen as a kid and developed a fondness for them. Now as an adult I collect for the NES. Without the Super Joy I might never had experienced some really great games. Thank you for finally talking about the Super Joy 3!

[@navibc31]

While it might not play well, that Snowfield Shot actually doesn't look too bad, like a more recently made (i.e. 90-92) NES game.

[@thatsquirminworm]

Power Player: exists Nintendo ready to sue: Allow us to introduce ourselves

[@GoodTofuFriday]

So I've researched these extensively from buying many. A number of them can be moded to support expansion audio for vrc6 and other chips. A smaller percent have correct audio in Mario and the like, where the duty cycles aren't swapped. But I haven't found any with both.

[@the_shiny_wartortle_8913]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone who reads this

[@joserachi96]

17:34 me going to my town's swapmeet/flea market in the late 90's before getting a hand me down n64 one week before Christmas thinking this was going to play n64 games

[@gorfelbt]

Call me lucky or unlucky, but a silver and red variant to exist. I own both, yet only one works. There are also 2 different models. Apparently one of them comes with 76000 games, yet I cannot test it due to issues with my red one. Btw, the only visual differences are the a and b buttons are c buttons instead, and the shells are slightly different so they aren't swappable. Edit: DO NOT CONNECT GENESIS OR ANY OTHER 9 PIN CONTROLLER TO THE TOP! IT FRIED MY GENESIS CONTROLLER AND CAUSED A, B AND X AND Y TO STOP WORKING! USE THE CONTROLLERS BUNDLED IN IF YOU HAVE THEM!

[@MegaManNeo]

Thanks for actually showing the Famicom slot in use. I had a very similar Famiclone system as a kid which they sold through local catalogues but instead of a second MegaDrive style controller mine had its own unique shape whereas the N64 style main controller lacked the fake analogue stick and had a silver colour. Also the C buttons were in their actual position. The games were basically taken from the black box series i.E. Pinball and some lesser known ones like Battle City.

[@TheLegoNation]

I actually found this thing not that long ago but I didn’t buy it

[@jawmuncher]

Glad to see a video on this. While I never bought it, I distinctly remember seeing these all over the mall near me for a solid time. So it's always what I imagine first when someone says "Bootleg Console"

[@krewsaders]

This brings me back. I got this as a present while in elementary school from some relatives who weren't knowledgeable in games. I had some fun with it especially using the light gun. I didn't know much about the games since i had a PS1 already, but thought it was cool to experience retro gaming. I had this buried in my mind until this video popped up on my feed

[@thegamingrailfan7905]

Why do oblivious boomer parents/grandparents keep falling for bootlegs? If I were to do this to my family? I'd make it into a joke gift just to ruin things like I usually do for myself sometimes.

[@bland9876]

I'm sure I'm not the only one to comment this but I own multiple versions of this. I actually find the other one better because it has a working joystick that is kinda like a neo geo pocket joystick but less noisy. Also it has the light gun built into the N64 controller. So images a space ship sticking off the front. I'd have to go grab both of them again but I want to say that the other one is more comfortable in the hand.

[@Hamster07]

My favorite game Tetris 2: Goo

[@suschitoolddeadaccount6430]

Fun fact: The power player super joy II and III were produced and created in italy and had many commercials Edit: I found the commercial kzbin.info/www/bejne/raWkiKCKpsuUa9E

[@bland9876]

I always thought nuts and milk was referring to the fact that guys have nuts and girls produce milk. This game feels kinda like donkey Kong

[@DankerTVTimeCapsule]

i recall one of these i had contained a DB game. I believe it was a Famicom version which would of likely been non translated. As much people hate famiclones I find them rather cool. If they were more truthful about numbers rather than suckering people in they would be alright.

[@dark2koneko]

When I was a kid, my brother and I tried to get my mom to buy this abomination when we were at the mall. We had just come from SoftwareETC.

[@RangerQwerty]

Sometimes I wonder if these kind of bootleg consoles inspired Nintendo to make the NES Classic.

[@Octolicia]

7:16 : Not to mention that, for whatever reasons, the battery pack is too small for the batteries. I remember having a tough time removing the battery pack AFTER trying to boot the console on battery.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

I've actually played the power player before, I'm sorry you had to suffer

[@PhantomHavok]

“The Power Player Super Joy III” Yeah, don’t even get us started on the previous versions.

[@WigWoo1]

I had the red one

[@TacticalSoupCan]

nobody: bootleg console developers: *let's put every adjective in the english dictionary in our title*

[@mrglitch1283]

Love ur vids

[@rpepsi0735]

Pov:100 ppl are first

[@glocken04166]

"Lode Runner 2" is just Championship Lode Runner for Famicom.

[@TheTamaranch]

Glad someone covered this console, I’ve had 2 in my possession for at least a year. And the story behind them is just insanity.

[@jakalair]

I remember back over 10 years ago these being sold in little stands in the mall. Then they moved onto the Flea Market, and finally I would find them in various states of repair/completeness at the local thrift stores. Thanks for the awesome coverage of an item I remember well.

[@Hotpocket500]

WHOOO MORE BOOTLEGS!

[@nmuniz2]

Didn’t Rerez review this, or at least something similar?

[@PigmanStudio]

I think I have this in my collection somewhere. I'm going to try and find it.

[@PigmanStudio]

Okay, so I found it, but the battery pack is busted and won't work. I'm gonna try to repair it.

[@RedFlameFox]

An Italian TV actually showed a commercial for this many times, it kinda went viral online some years later.

[@RenegadeX28]

I remember walking in Bryant Park's pop up shops in NY years ago and seeing kiosks running these freely like nothing was wrong. I always wanted to buy one but never got around to it.

[@everycloud3388]

I had this, except it was just the main N64 type controller. I am ashamed to say I played the hell out of it and loved every minute until it died.

[@CardiacYew-xt5zq]

I have so much nostalgia for that thing since it was one of my first game consoles as a kid and because the material is so weak and fragile I bought many of them

[@Jaketendo]

I love playing Circus Chablie!

[@skellybones5119]

Seems like one of the better fami clones

[@stolenmemes8312]

I had one of those when I was a kid lmao

[@mrglitch1283]

Hi

[@ninferno]

my parents owned a gift shop when i was a pre-teen and they brought this home for me to play. they sold it in their shop. i was really into games (obviously still am) so i just played anything. i was very aware of how bootleg it was and got my retro gaming fix through roms and emulators on pc, but still played it every now and then. it must still exist somewhere in my parents house

[@nytr0s96]

I HAD ONE OF THESE!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

[@benjaminvlz]

I owned the Power Player Super Joystick & Power Gun/Super Joystick TV Game/Super Joy III when I was a kid. I had the blue one with the gray and brown light gun, as showcased in this video. I also had a version that came with a green and brown light gun instead of gray. Like most people here in the United States, I got mine at a mall kiosk, sometime in the early 2000s. Seeing all these NES games being included on one device that I could just plug in and play without having to swap cartridges was very appealing to me at the time (this was before I knew about emulators and flash cartridges.) My mom paid $40 for it if I recall correctly, which looking back at it now, was a rip-off because these were being purchased at wholesale for around $6 - $7, but hey, I understand they had to make a profit. Anyway, the blue one I had fried on me. I plugged it in, heard a loud pop and it wouldn't work after that. I was pretty sure I was using the correct adapter that came with it, so maybe the device itself was just a piece of crap. Once I figured out NES emulation, I eventually thew away all my Power Player crap. What a colossal waste of money.

[@jessepowellat2012]

I remember i got one of these back in 2003 for my 10th birthday which I thought was pretty cool at the time with 75,000 built in games had some games like Super Mario Bros. From the NES and Duck Hunting

[@GatCat]

So is Ninjala a secret Bootleg Showcase Game? But since its a Sponsor, it must told as the GREATEST FLIPPING GAME OF ALL TIME!!!! ;)

[@AyStar]

I had one of these in the early 2000s. I remember my parents buying it from one of those scammy mall kiosks and man did I get some milage out of it, until I inserted the battery pack in backwards and it was perminantly stuck to the housing forever. No DC adapter for me rip

[@MissJazzDaFunk]

Bruh my dad got me this at the local swap meet. I didn’t care, it had so many games. Lol but I did notice some time in that the games repeat in the list haha. Good times tho and I had a good exposure to NES games. Though my mom didn’t let me play Duck Hunt cuz I’d have to use the gun. Lmao

[@JohnshiBRPG]

I remember getting that as a random bootleg game player and I was fooled thinking it contains thousands of games, but it really contained a small number of games with repeats of same game with different names. I grew to hate bootleg consoles as I grew older. Nonetheless, got exposed to a wide range of games not officially released in USA.

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

My grandma bought bootleg systems CONSTANTLY! My dad explained her what to get, like a real cardridge for my game boy or snes, but no, she just kept buying these awfull systems!

[@corkbulb2895]

That's REALLY strange about 1942. Cuz EVERY ROM I tried downloading for that game starts at level 32. Can't find a working ROM that starts from the beginning. I don't understand. EDIT: so apparently the NES version of 1942 has the levels reversed from the arcade version. So you play level 32-level 1. Backwards. very strange. Bad port I assume. That's literally how the game is and always was on NES. Even if you have the actual system and cartridge.

[@dejacreacts4964]

I remember when I was in my 20s I bought one of these at a swap meet. What got me was it said 75000 games. Not thinking, I paid like $25 for it. Remember when they say you get what you pay for? Lesson learned 😂

[@The-E-Base]

Darn it. They sued everyone involved. There goes my dream of playing Nintendrew's favorite games ever: "A Mitsubishi Commercial", "Warplanes", "Warplanes", or "Space Conflict".

[@metalgamer31]

My parents bought me a Super Joy III set back in 2003 or 2004 (because I had obviously saw it in the mall at a pop up kiosk) and when I opened it on Christmas morning I was the happiest kid ever and I loved playing it!! At the time I didn't know they were NES games but I had only just realized it into my teen years that they were LOL. This thing brought me hours of fun! My parents had also bought my oldest sister a soccer game and my younger sister a knock off DDR pad (that had licenced 16 bit music on it lmao) all from the same kiosk that was in the mall. Seeing this video brings me back SOOO many good memories I still have my Super Joy III set today and it still works just like it did back in 2003/2004.

[@VGGBrayden]

Fake analog sticks SUCK, saw that thing off

[@ilikecurry2345]

Just chop it off.

[@thecianinator]

I remember these from the mall in 2004. Eastern European girls hocking them from kiosks in the middle of the halls.

[@DeAngeloStevens]

That's take me back when Romeo my cousin had that in the 8th Grade at Davis Middle School in Bessemer, Alabama and AJ had that too when he started Kindergarten at Elementary School in Bessemer, Alabama during the 2005-2006 season. While I had Extra Controllers for the GameCube, Memory Card, True Crime NYC, didn't had DOR 2 until Early February 2006.