I was walking through the mall, and I saw people playing Mario. And apparently, there is this new system that has all of the old cartridge games already in the hard drive? You can select through over 70,000 games (allegedly). Has anybody else heard of this or anything like it? I cannot locate it.

I was walking through the mall, and I saw people playing Mario. And apparently, there is this new system that has all of the old cartridge games already in the hard drive? You can select through over 70,000 games (allegedly). Has anybody else heard of this or anything like it? I cannot locate it.


the power player, its not a system, its a controller with all the games built in it plugs right into the av jacks of ur tv, and yea it has like 7000 games to choose from on the menu. really it has like 100 games to choose from, just many slightly different versions of the same games over and over. its a pretty cool litte thing, way better than the crappy ones they sell in video game stores that have like 4-5 games for 20 dollars. I got one, there pretty cool

I knew I didn't imagine this! :)

Does it have a save system? Like if I was to play FF6?

But it only actually has 100 games? I'm lost on how 100 yields so many thousands...? :(

Tom, the system you're talking about is most likely one of the pirate controllers that were made with a whole heap of NES classics on it. It's just a hardware emulator and a heap of roms in something designed to look like a 64 controller, if it's the same one i'm thinking about.

It's illegal as hell though - Nintendo sued the crap out of the bastards who were making it. Last time I played one (they had it on display at my local pawn shop) it was a crummy emulation and bad control anyway. If you must play NES and SNES classics on a console, you're better off getting an Xbox or a PlayStation SNES emulator.

You get shifty ethnic minorities flogging these things at the market. They look pretty shit. Plus ethnic, so obviously dirty.

I knew I didn't imagine this! :)

Does it have a save system? Like if I was to play FF6?

But it only actually has 100 games? I'm lost on how 100 yields so many thousands...? :(

Is it that thing that you just plug he controller in the TV and that's it. You mean Plug & Play? That may be what you're talking about.

I'm a real fucker, and I deliberately report every instance of these I see to NoE. I know one got closed down because of it. Gahaha. This was ages ago.

It's not 700 games, more like 7, repeated many times with different letters at the end. It's not quite literally that, but yeah, you get the idea. It's not cool. Don't be a cheapass.

However, I think the reason they're closed down is breaking copyright on the controllers and the games. The actual NES system itself has gone out of copyright (Hence you see about 4 different kinds of system out on the market that you can buy that will play NES games). However, due to reasonably lucrative nostalgia trade, they can re-release the games on systems (� la midway arcade classics, mario allstars, etc).