Hey there guys and girls,
I'm sure most of you are in the USA or probably Europe - I could guess that bootlegs there are even rarer.
How did you come into contact with this? From some episodes of AVGN and some other comedy channels/reviews, maybe you might have that NES cart with a very strange color.
I'm in SE Asia, so we don't see those tall grey cartridges. Believe me, we never seen ANY of these carts before. We have the Famiclones there, because it's all we got. Owning an SNES or a Genesis was out of the question at that time as we were not having the moolah yet.
The only console I got when I was a kid was a Micro-Genius one with a 20-in-1 multicart. It was in 1992.
And also, I could tell you that in 1995-1999 those stalls selling those carts are almost everywhere. These carts with different colors are adorned on the counter. Whatever-in-1, bootleg games, and some original copies of Mortal Kombat III were there. No Nintendo 64, 'cause people there are obsessed with PS1.
I was exposed to all these things that I've become very shocked to hear that there was an actual "original" Famicom cart or NES cart elsewhere. All my life me and my friends were having played those bootlegs on the console.
One of my friends played a lot of games. That including a mountain of those small Famicom carts. One of the games was a beat-em-up. I saw the fighters' names "Moon" and "Cliff". Dunno what was the game at all, I believe it's another bootleg too.
I'm sure you have some nice stories to share about them.