Top 10 Biggest Video Game Console Rip Offs

Countless companies have tried to rip off PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo consoles! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most baffling video game console clones and knock-offs that have tried to ride off the success of other famous consoles. Our countdown includes the X-Game 360, PCP Station, Treamcast, Polystation and more! What do you think of these ridiculous console rip offs! Any we missed? Let us know in the comments!
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[@WatchMojo]

Thanks to Retro Dodo for some of the footage used in our video! Check out his channel for more great videos! -> kzbin.info

[@NanDream2024]

Yeah baby! 😍❤️😍

[@LovelyAlanna]

You were not authorized to use his videos, You stole his content

[@GldRush98]

What you meant to say is "lol we stole your footage then fought your dmca claim until YT sided with us. Eat it!". You're a bunch of scumbags

[@DragonBorne1991]

"Mom, can I have [game console]?" "No, we have [game console] at home." [Game console] at home:

[@TommDuarte]

My first console was a polystation, it was what my parents could afford at that time when I asked for a video game, I have great memories with it 😂

[@smpsgamer2752]

Damn bro

[@juliopena9409]

I was the same... the only thing my parents could afford...

[@kuramacon]

The polystation was so infamous

[@abdulhamidozturk]

Same man, they could afford it I suppose but must be saving for my first pc and I’m glad that’s how it happened.

[@karisuagl6212]

Damn, I feel sorry for you to having the Fake Console. My first game Console is Playstation one.

[@TuberViejuner]

Thank's for the mention 😁 in my channel I have more ridiculous consoles and retrocomputing stuff 😉

[@CeLrRaC]

The video about the fake plastic Xbox that TuberViejuner brought to his channel was crazy! It seems ridiculous how someone tried to sell this. But imagine the face of a young boy that expects a real Xbox and their deceived fathers brings this... And at the channel, you can see other crazy fake plastic machines like these analysed and opened! The internals sometimes is worst than the externals as you can see in his videos!!!.

[@ElioFernandez]

El Telefunken dando protagonismo también.

[@piolatv]

yes, he has

[@RetroDodo]

Disappointed to see WatchMojo rip our videos, and use them without consent. We didn't even receive an email, nor a DM asking for the rights to use our content. We would have been fine with it if you asked, but the cheek to download, and use our content for a majority of your video without asking is a little too far, especially when WatchMojo themselves fine other creators for using their content without "licensing". We'll be emailing you shortly. :(

[@pixelplays964]

Seriously. I doubt they asked Ashens about it, or anyone else for that matter. They tend to pick clips from small channels. I wonder why...

[@leonreborn1308]

Well, i doubt you asked permission to all the companies when making videos about their consoles and games, so why Watchmojo should ask you permission to use some clips when you don't own anything that you show in yours? :P

[@J.D.Hardesty]

@@leonreborn1308 That's not how it works bud, lol.

[@andrewhartmangunsmith2755]

You serious? You look like a sore loser. There are literally dozens of videos with the same theme on KZbin, dude. Go cry somewhere else. Or you're just trolling. Ok then. Bye.

[@andrewhartmangunsmith2755]

@@J.D.Hardesty It is. Anyone can make a video on Top 10 video game console rip off!!! Also, watchmojo did give credit in the comment section which they didn't have to.

[@vguy488]

I think as a Latin American, the Polystation is cultural meme at this point. As a child you could find it being sold just about everywhere; the first one I encountered for sale was at a Farmer's Market... on the meat side of the market for some reason. Having one was the bomb (NOT), as me and my friends would try to count just how many clones of the bootleg games were squeezed into the same cartridge. Good for a laugh at least. Cheers!

[@TommDuarte]

Correct 😂 it''s nostalgic.

[@kskollections2142]

I am not a gamer, but, I would never have bought those ridiculous consoles! 🤣🤣

[@shinigamiphantom1391]

I only had a famiclone growing up.

[@carlossoto1715]

When I heard that Soulja Boy was making game consoles, I was scratching my head like crazy. He lost relevance in the industry, and tried to find it again with us gamers.

[@REALzackychan]

Soulja boy will always be a legend

[@desari2866]

@@REALzackychan right.ppl like him are the ones who stopped keeping up and assumes he's lame bc he stop doing bussiness with the shady side of the rap game and went his own route.what other artists outside of jay, kanye,diddy,rih and soulja is booming with their own bussiness and not just some endorsement through another company?

[@REALzackychan]

@@desari2866 he taught us how to have hustle when all odds against you, so much game you could be put on and it’s all right in front of you

[@Z0M3GA]

He owns Atari now 💯

[@masakazuishiguro8525]

@@REALzackychan All odds aka copyright laws. I mean he can go up against other gangsters for some of that also illegal profits, but he choose to side with some shady Chinese businessmen and rob hard working Japanese game makers like a real G.

[@LJ808]

Every one of these is prime for the classic "can we get this/we have this at home/this at home:" joke.

[@DJTravTV]

My biggest thing is can't the actual developers (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, etc) sue them and get them shut down indefinitely??? There's no way these knock-offs are able to ship massively

[@DrippleDragon]

There’s so many developers that do it, it’s hard to actually sue all those people, and they can’t just tell all those developers to stop, but if one gets too big they would most likely be target very quick

[@harrywalkey6298]

Did anyone really expect anything decent from Soulja boy...like ever? I mean at least there's no debate over whether these consoles are good or bad like his 1 song.

[@zomfragger]

He is in another world. Last week he tried to say he owns Atari only for Atari to tell him to keep dreaming.

[@desertsandfly2277]

I had a PSP knock-off called the PVP which played NES games and it was such a weird but also a fun device. Of course I also had a real PSP as well.

[@emmettobrien1698]

So glad u guys featured JonTron and RelaxingEnd, two of my favorite KZbinrs, one is a guy who talks about out-of-nowhere subjects while being freaking hilarious, and the other is possibly the greatest unboxer on KZbin

[@shrekwazowski3836]

These look like consoles you would get at a Dollar Tree.

[@michaeljackson8390]

✊🐦💚I help expose our evil government (the Illuminati) I have 2,145,212+Total views💜[The about section will blow your mind]🤯😱😲!

[@FFP_BF2]

That’s an insult to dollar tree 💀

[@SupposedFish]

@@michaeljackson8390 We gotcha.

[@thenexva]

No joke I once found a PlayStation classic at the new dollar store that was put up in my area

[@cameronthomasfunnyclips]

Yes

[@dnatal09]

Some of them are good retro console games packed with old NES, PS1 and Dreamcast games. But i pretty hated those LCD ripoff consoles that imitate hot modern ones 😬

[@GAr3ched]

When you thought the Console Wars was worse. Well this is the biggest Console Wars in the world.

[@michaeljackson8390]

✊🐦💚I help expose our evil government (the Illuminati) I have 2,145,212+Total views💜[The about section will blow your mind]🤯😱😲!

[@mysanity_islow]

@@michaeljackson8390 no dhit

[@Revcharge]

i would like to thank every youtuber on this list for using these KO items so that we don't have to.

[@DareToBeDeviant]

These things were unusually common. Ebay, Amazon, dollar stores, and a kiosk at the local mall would have several of these.

[@rtyDFGaS]

Wait.. No Dendy? The entirety of Eastern Europe has been playing NES/Famicom knock-off consoles with different names. The most famous one was Russian Dendy based on Micro-Genius consoles that are Famicom copies.

[@jeffb.6642]

The PolyStation: "It's just not a game anymore!!" How true, how true lol

[@nestorp8398]

LOL, this was one awesome list. My local K-Mart had the Polystation. It was in the same aisle as the Sonny and Panamsonic TVs.

[@CheapBastard1988]

I love how "Polystation" sounds like "Police Station".

[@Aman--Wangnao77]

I'm glad they featured Retro Dodo ( Brandon ) in the video. Big fan of his content 👍

[@gtx-808]

Whats sucks is I always wanted a minines but there's a lot fake ones look exactly like the original with really bad games I had to find a way to distinguish between them & thanks to KZbin reviews I found that original have only 30 games while the fake one has like 300 I end up finding a original one in a pawnshop I love it

[@videogameguy101]

The Super Joy brought my godbrother and I lots of memories back when we were poor kids lol. We stayed up all night playing those games on that thing until the wire got a shortage in it and kept resetting to the main menu. Then it became a contest to see how long we could play before the game messed up lol. We blamed it on the “wire guys” - some imaginary job where guys control the wiring to EVERY electronic in the city (mind you we were in Houston) and we thought they were disconnecting our game from afar just to mess with us. Awesome times. I even bought one years later as a rich champ just to relive the memories.

[@nightday2030]

I got one of those rip off called Ali-com back when I was six years old. The exterior looked like old version of PS1 but it ran several built-in NES. Surprisingly tho, it could run the games pretty smoothly.

[@M3mello]

You guys laugh all you want, but the poly station made my childhood 😂😂

[@therenegades7329]

I had them too I hated them then too 😂😂

[@zacheryyoung9426]

I've never seen one around here. That or any other Chinese consoles.

[@kbhasi]

(2:24) I remember browsing a shop in the early 2010s that sold cheap household products, and they even sold that, with a demo device (that was connected to a small grey 14" CRT TV) having its fake N64 joystick broken off. At the time, the only Famiclone games I played were on Chinese ODM portable DVD players, so I didn't know the connector on the back of the main controller was for Famicom cartridges.

[@EcchiBoii]

You really should include polish famiclone "Pegasus"

[@GAr3ched]

replace the p with a m on the word Pegasus.

[@r4tbu564]

Seeing the Flame Decals in the Jungle Tac Vii's controllers- take my money!!!

[@rangeless]

Imagine being so out of touch that you would think these are suitable birthday presents

[@CheapBastard1988]

It wouldn't have been out of the question for people from my generation and older to have gotten this sort of stuff as a present. I was lucky that my parents would look for advice from more knowledgeable people in markets where they weren't very well informed about. But if they weren't then it would have totally been possible. Considering I paid for half of the internet subscription from age 15 to 18, just so we would get cable instead of dial-up. It really showed the typical tech knowledge and the level of importance with my parents (especially my mom). Dial-up was pay per minute but would usually only cost about €10 a month and the cheapest cable was €20 a month. I of course got my money back with some major pirating.

[@thaismagalhaes5928]

Oh yeah, good old Polystation... Ruined a lot of Christmas around the world 😂

[@miggybalba1328]

Super Joy was the only console my parents could afford and we built lot of memories with that knockoff.

[@coffee..._88346]

Chinese companies: Ok we need to make a console that is Outstanding! Employee: How about a console with unique design and games that are official and new that comes with it? Company: Good one, anymore recommendations? Some random guy: get a box and install nes roms in it and name it to a similar famous console with the exact same design and add random things that doesnt make sense. And make the box of the console absolutely bad. Company: WERE PROMOTING YOU TO CEO, ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE

[@MuntoRickDiaz]

The biggest console scam was Dendi. Russia marketed NES for a few weeks in those times and then said "fuck it, let's have our own crap" and started to sell a pirated version of NES called Dendi. All the games from NES were also pirated and a lot of them had difficulty spikes if that was the case. I still remember how unforgiving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was with ordinary levels being hard as hell just to get to the immortal final boss with no chance of winning.

[@619316reymysterio]

"Did you insert a memory card?"-sonic the childhood struggles were real I also remember him saying "Need more memory bud"-Sonic when you didnt have enough data to save

[@tsunami729]

….I’m so happy my parents weren’t fooled into buying these

[@alanbrito5239]

Show more respect WM. here in Latin America Polystation its a legend

[@rainbowrunner1550]

"Mom can we have this new game console?" "We have it at home." Game Console at Home:

[@trantuankiet3080]

Watch mojo: makes a video about knockoff consoles Rerez: i’m the ghost of the money that you wasted on this fucking console

[@zacharycardon2353]

I came across a red Power Player Super Joy 3. It had a bunch of pirated NES titles preinstalled. Actually, some "games" were really just individual levels of other games. Some with switched out color schemes. The N64 style control stick is a fake and does not move period, and you could screw a joy stick attachment into the Genesis controller D pad. The system was trashed ASAP.

[@JustinPinedaMedia]

This video is like a tribute to Dr. Ashens

[@kathryncumberland]

I think "Rambo TV Game" is my favorite name, lol!

[@darrielwlters]

That YOUUUU took me out😂😂😂😂😂

[@gmartines8511]

I knew I'd see the solja game and shit

[@katherineberger6329]

Treamcast isn't a ripoff but a knockoff. It's pretty hotly pursued by Dreamcast fans as it has all the functionality of the original plus a built-in screen.

[@seculo19]

Polystation was my first console, but I had fun with it when I was a kid.

[@markeyiszra]

Ah yes,Polystation a PlayStation rip-off that no strange to Indonesia. The most popular ripoff in Indonesia.

[@trendyinsight9080]

That PCP console had me laughing super hard! Some of these rip off names are just so funny, where do they come up with these names!

[@victorhernandez8723]

I’ve seen a Danger Dolan video that had about knock-off game consoles.

[@mlggamer5296]

So instantly I'm just like yo Soulja Boy where you at

[@matcusdavis9725]

Polystation? More like Phoneystation.

[@joshoftheapocalypse]

I thought my Superjoy smelled as if it were burning, as it was burning!

[@TriniGamerGirl7]

Which ever ones have Pokémon and Final Fantasy games, I'm down to buy and play.

[@jeaustinnunez3839]

Top 10 Video Game Prototypes that Look Way Better than the Final Game

[@berniem4012]

Number 2 has the greatest joke Watch Mojo has ever done 🤣🤣

[@animefan0077]

Those Bootleg Consoles look like something that Batman would throw out of the Batcave because he got them at Dollar Tree.

[@TheVirtuoso883]

Before I watch this I already know Ashens is going to be in this video a fair amount

[@christinaknapp1980]

Number 8 looked liked those old Tiger handheld games from the 80's and early 90's.

[@mlggamer5296]

I like the reference for Soulja Boy "guess who this man was trying to scam....Youuuuu" a classic way to reference him. It's just kind of sad it's not a better thing to be referenced for 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@user-zo9dc1lu3q]

7:46 Roberto Artigiani ?! 😅 That man was the salesperson in Italy of the Power Player Super Joy ...

[@wayne4797]

I dont care what anyone says, The "Golden China" console was king! 999999in1 cartridges FTW

[@deloresivery2357]

Treamcast is the best knockoff ever lol

[@Sinknight212]

My father bought a wii look like for like $125 for his grandkids, barely worked and they stopped playing with it in less then a hour.

[@ThunderWarriorZX]

You know what I did have the PolyStation once, it has a bunch of preload NES and Atari games and some knockoff games, a cartridge slot, and a lcd game on the consoles itself. The LCD part lasted the longest ironically, got me hook on Tetris, Bricks, and Snake.

[@Seiferboi]

I have two handheld game devices, one of which is a knockoff of the PSP, called the X6. The other is called a D-CAT 16. The thing about the knockoffs is that even if they claim to have hundreds or thousands of games, many are emulated games that have duplicated game levels. They can say there's that many games because all of these duplicates have a different name.

[@Dj.D25]

I find it interesting how the Polystation box copied the original Nintendo 64 Box with those features on the side, using the same font even.

[@davidsaunders8194]

This is a reminder to buy real and not fake. Because ultimately it's you who will be paying for it in more ways than one.

[@TrueCrimeQueen]

Love your content! Stay safe everyone 🌞

[@jaykerzp3643]

Ah, scams. They’ll never disappear until we start punishing those who make them.

[@kevinhone7526]

Wow, sounds like we got a million facepalms?!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@evinjones5398]

Damn Number 2's opening critique... can't be better said 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lanigirognithemos]

I heard the PCP uses the advanced LSD screen.

[@JamesCollects]

Legitimately thought I was watching a Retro Dodo and Ashens collaboration. As between them I think they accounted for most of the video

[@charleslee3676]

All that plastic used to make these knockoffs is just going to end up in a landfill or ocean.

[@Shendu1010]

My grandparents have the Polystation which I play a few time when I was a kid. Almost bought one myself on a school trip but I didint have enough money at the time.

[@MegaRedspade]

Why aren’t these companies not sued into prison?

[@julienneaves790]

I once saw a “Funstation” being sold in Trinidad.

[@griff5814]

The Soulja Boy Console better be on this list.

[@Foreverchris01]

God i hope we don't have another console wars with another Atari. But fr, these fake consoles are just too hilarious. I rather save money and buy the real deal. And i am surprised no one is sued for copyright infringement.

[@kuramacon]

Only plug'n'plays I could ever recommend were those Namco ones from the early 2000's that had their old arcade games on um. Those were awesome

[@ElijahRenee]

I had a super joy console as a kid. Was playing it one time and there was a spark followed by a small little fire. The fire went out itself.

[@chadgaming8288]

I haven’t even heard of these HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, TERRIFYING console ripoffs. So bad, KZbin thought it was a REAL NES and a REAL Wii U.

[@Wymorence]

WatchMojo: The Ashens list.

[@trexadvent4726]

What would happen if these video game consoles weren't rip off? Which one of them is worth buying?

[@PatrickThomasBrady]

None, everything on this list is trash but their are “consoles” that are worth buying

[@ashleybrown4754]

Ngl, usually your jokes on here are pretty bad but that Soulja Boy joke made me laugh.

[@bloodedge1528]

7:20 "Did you insert a memory card?!?!" 7:22 "No I did not...." 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

[@aLousyBum83]

This is the kinds of stuff grandparents get their grandkids for Xmas. Horrible, HORRIBLE knock offs.

[@maddestmike5791]

#8 sounds like a place people go to take bad trips.

[@cyber-thundr_]

7:24 those things are everywhere

[@dylanmcdermott6959]

Is it wrong that I want all of these?

[@aands1665]

Japan, North America.. and others.. we spend millions on R & D and design.. China.. we will wait for your Designs because we don't have the brains, patience and funds for it thank you very much ✌️😝

[@shadowdragonlord2295]

But do any of them actually work?

[@TomGreen99]

_Beware the grass mask._

[@Highretrogamelord]

I actually own three console bootlegs myself, although in my case they are all handhelds. I bought all of them at a flea market-esque event. DVTech Pocket - Russian GBA SP rip-off that has GBA games installed. Can also play actual GBA cartridges. P2P: Digital Games System - PSP rip-off that plays Genesis/Mega Drive games. FC Pocket - Has built-in Famicom games.

[@sirlezard670]

The PCP killed me lmao.

[@trexadvent4726]

Can you do top 10 Sonic the Hedgehog characters who could have appeared in the Sonic Boom TV show?

[@Username12168]

Sounds pretty interesting, but I'm thinking more of Top 60 Sonic characters that need more character development (In the games, not in the comics).

[@charlybrador6871]

As a poor kid that couldnt afford a real one the fake ones were still better than nothing

[@CodyStith]

4:13 “WIWI!? WHO WANTS TO PLAY WITH A WIWI!?” -Steven He

[@Leo27Korn]

In Brazil, PolyStation is called "The Nightmare of Xmas" due to the deception that it brings to a child who just want to play Crash Bandicoot back in the 2000's.... Today PolyStation is a classic meme around here.