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[Agent X]

If you happen to take a trip to Brazil, you just might be able to score yourself a Phantom!

It's a Nintendo Entertainment System clone with an Atari 7800 style console casing and Sega Genesis style controllers. Unlike the other Phantom system, this one actually made it to market.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

what did happen to the other thing thangy?

 

[Date of Lies]

a SNES system with Genesis pads?


This is already sounding WAY better than the other phantom.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Seriously, why do they use those weird combinations of ripoffage? If you're making an NES clone, why not make the controllers and system look like it, rather than unrelated machines?

 

[jenov4]

Maybe it tricks people into thinking they're getting a Genesis but they end up getting a NES. Don't they have NES clones in PS1, PS2 & DC style cases in Asia?

 

[hobbitx]

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/brazil/brazil.html

A very interesting read about that particular system and NES/Atari piracy in Brazil and Asia in general. It turns out that system was licensed by Nintendo. Although the company did do a little bit(Alot!) of dipping in the pirate cart scene they released alot of official carts through that design. The people who bought that system were well aware it was an NES, they say that "slick" design was one of it's key selling points. Even crazier, when that company Gradiente did release the real, original NES, it flopped!

 

[Lakitu]

 

[COCKLES]

"But who destroyed...The Master..or the Apprentice?"

 

[DDayton]

A very interesting read about that particular system and NES/Atari piracy in Brazil and Asia in general. It turns out that system was licensed by Nintendo. Although the company did do a little bit(Alot!) of dipping in the pirate cart scene they released alot of official carts through that design.

Actually, it never says that that system was licensed... what it does say is that the manufacturer later received the license to distribute the legal NES and is a current official licensor and distributor of Nintendo hardware. The system shown was a pirate system, and the company originally sold many pirate cartridges of Nintendo games... along with a few "officially licensed" games from some third parties.

I am confused as to why they'd officially license some games and pirate the others...