pirate games = inescapable

[taizou]

I've been at this thing for the past few days. the last place you'd ever expect to see anything pirate game related, right? well so i thought until I had a look around this one clothing/accessories stall, where they'd obviously seen people with accessories made of old NES controllers and thought "oh I'll have a piece of that". so they'd put a few different controllers on these big chains, like a PC one and a SNES one. and then the second player controller from a god damn Power Joy. this shit just follows me around sometimes. I considered buying it but I went for a lion hat instead, which was totally the better choice because it's awesome.

at one point I also happened upon a DJ playing "Round & Round" by Heller & Ohlen which was ripped off by Cube Tech for "Apex Gun" (one of the better games on the Overmax handheld I have, so I'd played it recently) but I'm guessing he didn't know that.

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taizou

Sep 13 2011, 10:32:01 AM

so they'd put a few different controllers on these big chains, like a PC one and a SNES one. and then the second player controller from a god damn Power Joy. this shit just follows me around sometimes. I considered buying it but I went for a lion hat instead, which was totally the better choice because it's awesome.[/quote]Are you that's not a Mega Drive controller? :whistle:

[taizou]

nah it was the smaller one in this pic: http://ys.lizndom.com/2005/11-SuperJoy.jpg
definitely Power Joy.

[taizou]

on the other hand today i had a ton of time to kill in London so I had a look around a few markets to see if I could see any piratey stuff. found a grand total of one faded Power Player (the really common one) that looked like it'd been sitting there for about 10 years. and a fuckload of Pop Stations but like I could give a shit about those. so when i'm not looking they creep up on me unexpectedly, but when i am looking theyre nowhere to be found. boo!

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Well I think if you want to look for piratey stuff, you'd be better off looking in Eastern Europe or something. London is (apparently) one of the most well-off parts of the UK, so I can't imagine that it'd be any easier to find that sort of thing over there than anywhere else in this country.

[Pepper-98]

At least you guys can find pirates in the wild over in Europe.  Here in the law-strict U.S. there's practically nothing.  Hell, the most unlicensed thing I've seen in stores here are Tengen carts, though I'm sure I'd have better luck if I could manage a trip to New York or somewhere.

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Qiezei

Sep 20 2011, 07:47:11 PM

At least you guys can find pirates in the wild over in Europe.  Here in the law-strict U.S. there's practically nothing.  Hell, the most unlicensed thing I've seen in stores here are Tengen carts, though I'm sure I'd have better luck if I could manage a trip to New York or somewhere.[/quote]In Eastern Europe, maybe. In the UK, your best bet is eBay more than anything, or possibly car boot sales but I haven't been to those in ages.

[taizou]

yet another pirate controller in an unexpected place:

as seen on the UK TV channel E4. if that's not a famiclone controller I dunno what it is.

[Ninja-Kun]

My God, what show were you watching?   O_o

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The Gadget Show, I assume. (That said, I've never actually watched it :unsure: )

Edit: Also, is it just me or does the bloke in the photo look like Elvis Presley's estranged brother or something?

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Cheetahmen

Oct 8 2011, 02:55:04 PM

The Gadget Show, I assume. (That said, I've never actually watched it :unsure: )

Edit: Also, is it just me or does the bloke in the photo look like Elvis Presley's estranged brother or something?[/quote]Thanks And he looks like a chubbier version of Leonardo Di Caprio to me  

[taizou]

Its not from a show, its just one of these short E4-themed animations they show before & after ad breaks. they run a contest every year for people to make their own and the best ones end up on air. so i guess maybe it was made by a pirate game fan
here it is online: http://www.e4.com/video/uBWq5jqnGcozCIsYG27al/play.e4

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taizou

Oct 8 2011, 03:15:06 PM

Its not from a show, its just one of these short E4-themed animations they show before & after ad breaks. they run a contest every year for people to make their own and the best ones end up on air. so i guess maybe it was made by a pirate game fan [/quote]Or maybe they looked up "game controller" on Google and it happened to come with a Famiclone controller.