Weirdest Famiclone ever!

[macbee]

It's "PC Game" - from Brazil (a paradise of bizarre piracy) by a well-known Famiclone company called Dynacom:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SSGpi1ASUKM

[manuel]

Hehe, interesting machine.
I wonder how much that costs.

[macbee]

Hehe, interesting machine.
I wonder how much that costs.

About 300 Reais - or 150 US dollars (!!!)

[133MHz]

For $150 you can get a complete Pentium 3 or 4 PC, which is far more useful than that!

[nintendodork]

For $150 you can get a complete Pentium 3 or 4 PC

Where?

[son_ov_hades]

It's kind of cool, but not for that much.

[macbee]

It's kind of cool, but not for that much.

In fact EVERYTHING in Brazil is expensive. Not only "PC Game" =D
Stores sells Sega's Master System for the price of a Wii.

And of course a Wii is about 600, 700 US dollars here.

[son_ov_hades]

Seriously? That's crazy.

[133MHz]

For $150 you can get a complete Pentium 3 or 4 PC

Where?

In a place called Refly (www.refly.cl), which sells refurbished computers and monitors (I'm talking about my country BTW, in the US it's probably much cheaper).

A complete Pentium 3 system is around $120, load it up with Windows XP and you have a pretty usable machine to do nearly anything you need.

[nintendodork]

Actually, a standard new desktop computer is about $300-$400 (In Iowan and Nebraskan Walmarts, anyway )

[133MHz]

My point was, if you're on a budget and you need a computer for work/study/whatever you can get a refurb system for about $100 that doesn't feel like a Commodore 64 or a child's toy, and that's here in Chile. In the US I'm pretty sure it's significantly cheaper.

[nintendodork]

Ah, ok..
Yeah, that "PC Game" is about as useful as my "Game.com" which is pretty fun and has all of those functions except for the Word Processor..and it's portable and has a touch screen!

[133MHz]

Yup, nobody's gonna be doing serious work on that thing, and $150 is too much for a toy of that kind.
Famiclones are really popular with budget-concerned parents around here because they only cost about $10-20 and that gets you a gaming system to keep small children happy and entertained that is no great loss if they drop it and breaks or if they try to shove a peanut butter & jelly sandwich in the cart slot with the hopes of playing Peanut Butter Jelly Time for the Famicom .

[nintendodork]

with the hopes of playing Peanut Butter Jelly Time for the Famicom .

Are you stalking me?

[Trium Shockwave]

I paid about $150 for my 867mhz PowerMac G4, and that was about 2 years ago. That machine runs the current release of OS X, and is therefore a pretty current piece of equipment. I bought it to run OS X Server, which it did pretty well until I came into a dual 867mhz model for free and retired it. The concept of a Famicom as an actual personal computer is interesting, I didn't even think all that stuff could be implemented on it. However, I agree with 133mhz. There's not much point when real personal computers can be had for about the same cost. Why use a machine that looks like Windows 3.0 with no multitasking, and isn't compatible with anything?