You know those stupid 69,000-in-one consoles you see at flea markets and street vendors? They're the ones that look like a Nintendo 64 controller and have several dozen NES games tucked away on some memory chip. Yeah, those pieces of crap. The guys selling those seem to be everywhere you go, don't they? Well, if the FBI has their way, they won't be for long.
One Oakland, Florida reseller was hawking wired and wireless models, both with over 70 games built-in, of the Power Player Super Joy III system for $24 and $48 dollars respectively. He probably thought he hit the big time when he received an order of 100 units at wholesale price. Unfortunately for him, the FBI placed the order.
Upon raiding his facilities, the FBI found that our reseller had earned some $400,000 selling about 8,500 units of this pirate console. If you subtract the $415,000 he was fined, it seems he got off a bit light. But throw in that 15 months of prison time, and things aren't looking so "Super Joy" anymore.
Have you ever tried playing one of these?
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2:37 PM on 08.20.2008
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He was only around during the holidays, and disappeared sometime in January.
this kind of "piracy" does not damage the industry (lets be honest, even with an actual N64 controller, nobody is mistaking this for a nintendo product). in fact it gives kids from poor households the chance to play videogames, so i really can't see who has benefitted from this arrest, apart from whoever has taken that guys $415,000.
anyway if they are illegal then KFC has violated the law. I'm talking about KFC Dubai, they had prizes for buying food and one of those prizes was clearly a counterfeit system. my little cousin won one and hooked it to his tv. I told him that he has a PS2 so why the hell would he want something like that. Little kids always don't make sense.
It even can use famicom carts!
$20 is too much for them though, they're crappy & flimsy
those thing suck, and I hate even looking at them.
Now kill of the cheep NES/snes knock offs.