I remember that! Mine looked like an N64 and gamepads looked like they were from PS1. On the bazaar there were so many PolyStations, and games were often hidden under clothes or some other stuff
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MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours agoYou have no idea how much of this was common in 1990-2000s in Poland. I remember the Famicom clones, including the keyboard one, and bootleg cartridges sold at every corner of every bazaar. It was THE game console here, mostly known by the name of one such clone called Pegasus :)
The issue with mismatched cartridge got so bad at the near end of an era that sellers started using portable TVs powered from car battery so the customer could test it before buying, right there at the bazaar. :)
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The VCD300 carried the childhood memories of countless children from impoverished families, allowing them to access the outside world and experience simple joys through discs in an era of material scarcity