A generic 'Family Computer' famiclone made in Taiwan with a 190-in-1 multicart and a TMNT3 pirate cart, all handed-down from my uncle was the beginning of my console gaming life. I think that was around 1993, just when I was 4 years old. Super NES/Super Famicom was already out there by that time but I just started with famiclone without any choice and sticked to it until I bought N64 around 1999.

Famicom/NES gaming scene was dominated by pirate carts and famiclones in South Korea when I began to start buying new games. We had an official, Nintendo-licensed version of NES under the name of Hyundai Comboy, but it wasn't that popular. Hyundai Electronics provided only a limited selection of games and just moved on to the Super Comboy(=Super Famicom) business. Comboy used NES cartridges rather than Famicom ones, which is no good when much cheaper famicom pirate carts are going around everywhere. I remember my friend with Comboy saying that he wanted a famiclone like mine rather than a Comboy, which sounded quite crazy since I realized my 'Family Computer' was not an official product looking at his Comboy.

Other Korean companies than Hyundai made their own famiclones compatible with famicom carts and they were sold beside the official one, together with the Taiwanese famiclones like Ending Man. My handed-down Famiclone eventually got broken and I could just go to a random store and buy my second famiclone - a Korean one this time(Though it was an Ending Man clone without their logo)

So that results in my every famicom and famicom cart being pirate, except for a Japan-import Rockman 6 cart. Multicarts from JY company comprising the most part(You could find them anywhere dealing famicom carts), two Korean multicarts, some single-game pirates, and a copy of Somari. Pirates just filled up my almost entire childhood gaming.