The "999,999,999 in 1 Super Game" system
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted November 24th 2007 3:35PM
posted November 24th 2007 3:35PM
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I've seen similar type systems that play old school NES games. Typically, It's about 50-100 unique games, with a bunch of repeats listed under slightly different names. But if it's cheap, might be a good stocking stuffer for the kids.
you sir, bought your kids mega blocks didnt you
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA amazing lmfao haa
Big whoop. I mean, PlayStation 3 has a billion games too, right?
@ Brad, he also probably bought GOBOTS and Matchbox
I LIKED Gobots... well, the cartoon at least. :(
Gobots had Japanese toy robots that were very high quality. They were much bigger than the regular go-bots (the same difference as the big and small Transformers probably) and were mostly metal, if not all. The quality was even better than the Transformers, even if the designs weren't as cool. I think they were called super Gobots, or something.
what's wrong with matchbox? O_o is that a bite off of something? i dont think you understood...
But does it play ARR MEDIA?
Oh well. If it had included a billion games I would have bought one. But only 999,999,999? I'll take my business elsewhere.
these things are out there for like 10-15 years :P
more like 5-10 year olds nowadays.
I believe MK is referring to how long they have existed, not their target market.
yeah thats what i meant
this is china's feable attempt to take over the world
Your feeble attempt at spelling.
Coming from a guy who has a name "sonick", that's quite ironic.
You misspelt "suck".
I misspelt "Horace". Badly.
not rly
feeble troll attempt lulz
The ownage here is outta control!
Looks like I'm going to have to buy a plane ticket to China!
-- shame on who ever buys one of these lol
I wonder how much lead is in this console.
Here in the states that "realistic" looking gun would get banned before the 999,999,999 pirated games.
I have a similiar Famiclone that has a black light gun, no red tip. Pointing one of them at a cop would make him/her fill their drawers much quicker than that blue one.
Sometimes I wish these Famiclone pirates would get the multi-carts right. Instead of hacked ROMs of existing games, + repeated level games, just outright put a hundred or so unique games on them. They aren't legal any way, so why half-ass your attempt at game piracy? But whole Virtual Console collections on 'em!
More like pointing one at a cop would get you shot.
Well, you see, in America, kids are DUMB. So they get SHOT. That's their own damn fault. (And their parents, too)
The cops are our friends. They will be yours when you get mugged, too.
999,999,999 to 1 chance that this will beat out the big 3?
You mean 1 to 999999999?
Yes...I'm not thinking today that much. I'm not in school right now.
The games are very likely all crap, but I still wonder how they managed to get enough "games" to call it one off of a billion? A few hundred million tetris/pacman variants?
More than likely, yes. Cheap clones, probably jsut reusing sprites and shifting the color pallette a bit.
How many versions of "Tetris" can there be?
lol. you obviously didn't play any of those crap before.
there are at least more than 100 versions, probably between 100 and 1000.
here are some variation: different background, different brick, different dificulty, differnt producers.
lets say we have 5 in each variable: that's 5x5x5x5 = 625, and this is the minimal estimate.
So what's the point of having a cartridge-based console if there's only one cartridge that works on the system?
Next year they're selling the expansion cartridge that then gives you ability to plan 1 BILLION games.
Only $19.99 if you act now!
hmm....we used to hav such crap systems here in India abt 10 to 15 years ago offcourse "made in china" only & they were called "Terminator" for some 800 Rs. thats around 20 USD !!!
meh, i used to own one of this.
i tell you what i saw: 1 single game can have like 5-20 version. for example:there are could be more than 100 mind sweeper games, only slightly different backgrounds.
so, i say, 999 million games can only mean 100-1000 unique games, everything else is replica of the original game.
hmmm, I see no variation in this comment. I reckon it's not two comments, but one.
And scooter gets the prize for the most amazing display of stating the obvious.....
I do believe Scooter's comment was aimed at the irony of a double post considering the original poster's statement.
meh, i used to own one of this.
i tell you what i saw: 1 single game can have like 5-20 version. for example:there are could be more than 100 mind sweeper games, only slightly different backgrounds.
so, i say, 999 million games can only mean 100-1000 unique games, everything else is replica of the original game.
right, it's like comcast claiming they have 1000 HD channels because every movie and episode of a TV series you can get on demand is somehow a channel.
999,999,999 games and it still has a game cartridge? WTH
Who needs halo when you've got a billion games!? Too bad they're missing one.
hmmm interesting
8bit games...but interesting
haha... opposite of the PS3
1 game in 999999999 SKU's
YES! Thanks Engadget! I tipped them on it!
fail
Is that mario i see on the cartridge?
They ran out of space for ten digits on the cartridge sticker, so had to make do with one less.