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Deshni

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Hi All

I am looking to buy a Nintendo Famicom to cure my arcade cravings. Does anyone know of anywhere in South Africa that may be able to help? Preferably with two controllers and cartridges.

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Hi Deshni, man that old famicom looks good!

Ponder is right though emulators on a computer will save you time and money.

Your in luck though, i have no idea where you stay but those R5 Chinese stores all sell 8bit famicom consoles with games.

They normally include 2 controllers with extras like the light gun with a 1-million in one game cartridge for around R80-120

Most of them also stock the Cartridges at between R5-15 rand each.

Alternatively you can go to a Checkers supermarket, they sell 8 and 16bit systems quite cheaply.

The consoles will either look like knock-off Wii's or Playstation1 2,3 consoles.;)

Welcome to the forum.;)
 
demon angel said:
Hi Deshni, man that old famicom looks good!

Ponder is right though emulators on a computer will save you time and money.

Your in luck though, i have no idea where you stay but those R5 Chinese stores all sell 8bit famicom consoles with games.

They normally include 2 controllers with extras like the light gun with a 1-million in one game cartridge for around R80-120

Most of them also stock the Cartridges at between R5-15 rand each.

Alternatively you can go to a Checkers supermarket, they sell 8 and 16bit systems quite cheaply.

The consoles will either look like knock-off Wii's or Playstation1 2,3 consoles.;)

Welcome to the forum.;)
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+1 if you anywhere near jhb, you can pick them up at china mart
 
Our ones were called Golden China. I still have a 42 in 1 cart, wondering if it will work on one of the newer clones.

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Oh man, brings back memories, esp the sounds in Front Line:

Tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too - tish - tish - tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, etc...

But damn, the rage when you got all the way through an area and that nasty little tin-can death-trap tank was waiting for you instead of the big one!
 
A lot of the old titles are availble on the Virtual Console on a Wii, which is pretty cheap lately
 
Check bidorbuy or scamtree. Saw one a couple of weeks ago going for around R500
 
BUMP-Anyone seen these sold anywhere recently(JHB)....? (Even the kockoffs FWIW.)
 
Rudimental said:
Oh man, brings back memories, esp the sounds in Front Line:

Tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too - tish - tish - tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, tee-too, etc...

But damn, the rage when you got all the way through an area and that nasty little tin-can death-trap tank was waiting for you instead of the big one!
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Don't knock the 8-Bit music, it's awesome if done right.

[video=youtube;X_cg7vwaKG8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_cg7vwaKG8[/video]
 
Back in 1990 or 1992, I ran with the Chinese boys in CPT, we opened a TV game store in the Golden Acre, 1st of it's kind back then. I use to stand in front of the store with a wireless joypad playing Sega Megadrive...

My Chinese mates, would import the the PCB and plastics in separate boxes , undervalue the cartons and then we would reassemble the plastics and pcb's to make the cartridges.... even the stickers came separate....

it was all 8bit gaming to start of with and then 16 bit was state of the art..... I left them after 3 years to further other interests....

Still missed those days, getting paid to play games...

:)
 
Mortymoose said:
Back in 1990 or 1992, I ran with the Chinese boys in CPT, we opened a TV game store in the Golden Acre, 1st of it's kind back then. I use to stand in front of the store with a wireless joypad playing Sega Megadrive...

My Chinese mates, would import the the PCB and plastics in separate boxes , undervalue the cartons and then we would reassemble the plastics and pcb's to make the cartridges.... even the stickers came separate....

it was all 8bit gaming to start of with and then 16 bit was state of the art..... I left them after 3 years to further other interests....

Still missed those days, getting paid to play games...

:)
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Back in the day when Golden Acre was somewhere we used to shop :D
Then we'd catch a 3rd class train back to Fishoek / Simonstown gratis.
 
demon angel said:
Hi Deshni, man that old famicom looks good!

Ponder is right though emulators on a computer will save you time and money.

Your in luck though, i have no idea where you stay but those R5 Chinese stores all sell 8bit famicom consoles with games.

They normally include 2 controllers with extras like the light gun with a 1-million in one game cartridge for around R80-120

Most of them also stock the Cartridges at between R5-15 rand each.

Alternatively you can go to a Checkers supermarket, they sell 8 and 16bit systems quite cheaply.

The consoles will either look like knock-off Wii's or Playstation1 2,3 consoles.;)

Welcome to the forum.;)
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Do you know if the Chinese store close to Canal Walk sell these and whether the old cartridges will work? I really want to get one as soon as possible as we were all talking about this over the weekend.
 
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