The Greatest Console of Them All | Nostalgia Nerd 

You've got perfect English! Even most English natives can't do that!

Your English is fine. Like the previous commenter said, even most native English speakers don't write as well as you do! Anyway, I was wondering how things were for you in that period as a child. Both parents working, I imagine? And you must have been spending a lot of time with this console, seeing as you said you were very happy with it. Do you recall the picture being as bad as seen in the video here? Or was it clear(er)? And did it ever break on you?

This is wonderful! I hope you guys have many great memories playing games together.

Glad you enjoyed your gaming, that's what it's all about. The cost of the box or the badge on it matters little, as long as you had fun. PS, Your English is fine. It's a very forgiving language. You don't need to be perfect with grammar to be understood, and being understood is all that matters :)

Fascinating post. Thanks. Its all too easy to assume that such a console would be unwanted after 1985 or so. But that is only to consider things from a western viewpoint.

Rambo first dud, I love it! 😂

Rambo: First Turd Part II

Don't forget it's thrilling sound track: the fail horn! (womp, womp!). i have had a couple of other knock off consoles like this in the past 10 years that worked ok for nes // snes // genesis games, but eventually both overheated and turned into junk thanks to their amazingly awful electrical components, with neither being replaced through their warranties from the manufacturers. Playing the games is fun, but melting or setting them on fire is anything but.

I had a Terminator, never had a money to buy a real console, and that was in the early 2000s. My friends had the Rambo. Romanian here as well.

I also had this Rambo clone but it had Super Mario

@Константин Родчанин My classmate had one in 1993 Russia just months before Dendy hit us.

​@@saratov99 omg, poor sod

This is what I was about to comment also

Yeah, with videogames if you don't know any better you will be satisfied with what you have. I remember spending countless hours on gaming on a 286 pc as a little kid in the late 90s. If you gave it to a kid today, they wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I imagine having Atari 2600 must have been tons of fun for people growing up in the 80s. Maybe in 2050 we will be laughing at how primitive today's games were.

My 2600 could be tuned on two frequencies. One being some strange clock that looked like that, and the other one being clear as it gets. I feel like you're on the wrong frequency...

mi smo imali rambo, obozavali smo ga svi, komsije su visile kod nas, keva i cale pikali, predobre uspomene :D

computers with yellowcasets

We had them here in argentina too they sold pretty well

@@spaceharrier9303 Yeah! They were quite popular! My father used to sell those consoles and game cartridges, so i tried shitload of games :D Every week new games

@@wesleyswafford2462 probably because of the word "pikali" :D

Don't know why, but your story makes me happy. 😊

Whaaaaat, this story absolutely as mine. I’m from Mykolayiv (Ukraine), so when I was child my parents worked very hard to collect some money, and they present this Rambo console to me and my brother for New Year Holliday, we were so happy, you cannot imagine. Previously we could only watch how other guys playing in “game clubs” or in some sort of stores (or shops). And from this moment I started to play games and love it for this very moment.

@@MorFey911ua Hehe nice! I from Poltava (at least lived there back then). My Rambo was gifted to me by my cousin. It belongs to him before that so it was noticeably used already 😄. And yes remember those times of video games clubs, we with friends were constantly watching from the crowd. And from time to time, when we can gather enough money, plays ourselves. Wild times :)

@@Perun42 right, absolutely wild times

@@BRUXXUS Probably because it's an honest story about simple moments of happiness of a child :)

If I recall right, I've once seen an additional game cartridge for that system, probably sold separately at the very same shop where the console was sold in my native city. It was circa 1995, so I can't say 100% correct.

Thanks for sharing your story. I grew up in the US of A in the 1970s and we were poor-ish. I feel fortunate that my parents and grand parents were able to pool resources to buy an Atari 2600 in 1978 or 1979. I spent time in Afghanistan so now I know the real meaning of poor.

@@billschlafly4107 Yup. I grew up poor too and thought it was pretty bad until I saw poverty in third world nations. Even the homeless in America don't have it as bad as some people In these places.

@@billschlafly4107 My family's story was pretty average for the USSR. My parents were engineers, the mother had to leave her job for health issues, so only my father worked and we never felt any traits of poverty in the Soviet times - according to Soviet standards even with only father working we still got enough money. After the end of the USSR in 1991 the father's factory came into decline and in 1996-1999 he practically got no money, at all. He got some shoes and cereals and stockings instead of money at work. Then we tried to sell all those goods to somebody... In result, I couldn't even buy Dendy - famous in our lands clone of NES. Only one boy in our class at school had Sega Mega Drive (aka Sega Genesis in North America) and he tried to keep it in secret for as long as he could. Several boys had various NES clones. SNES or 3DO or PS1 were absolutely unreachable for us. So, for the post-Soviet children of the 1990s, there were two cult consoles: Dendy and Sega Mega Drive. 8bit and 16bit cartridges were all pirate. It means, no batteries for saves, no Virtua Racing available, and worst of all no cartridge booklets... So, there were lots of books that basically published the info from the booklets, though the authors did not claim that openly. I bought those books and usually wondered where did the authors find info on the names of the bosses, and so on... Had they asked the creators of the game by phone or how else? In the Soviet times, unfortunately, foreign video game consoles were not sold inside the USSR. Although, possibly, some native amateur and professionally-made consoles existed, and knowing the constant unpredictability of all things Russia, I may not even deny something from Japan or the USA could get to the USSR - but, in any case, in very tiny quantities. Perhaps, the Communist elite's children could buy something like Atari 2600 or the kind. Not us in the provincial city. Sega Mega Drive was my huge dream in the 1990s. I even wrote an SMD anthem with refrain: "We're loving you, oh Sega Mega Drive / We're living you, oh Sega Mega Drive" (meaning that we live thanks to it and with thoughts all around it). I wrote it in like 1996 when I had not even heard about Sony PlayStation 1 yet...

It sounds like there's a good book in that story, or at least a video series. It would be really interesting to hear about it and perhaps even important for posterity. My mother grew up at the height of the terrorism in Northern Ireland and her perspective on such earthshattering events as an ordinary member of the public are just as important as knowing the politics and diplomacy going on 'upstairs'.

They spent the entire budget on hiring the best writer.

That was my thought... It was actually coherent.

This was before Google translate. Thats why. They HAD to have someone who spoke English write it. Couldn't just paste Chinese and get Engrish

To be honest, most couldn’t even afford this!!! (In eastern Europe)This was in post communist era so people were broker than broke. This was considered a luxury item if you could afford it. As crappy as it is. Most were so poor food is what mattered, entertainment was most likely the last thing on there minds.

Lol, you think?

Underrated comment. 😂

LOL! That's a good one, hahah

"Whadd'ya say John"? "F**k 'em"

"Whadd'ya say John"? "F**k 'em"

Mostly because a man got a spell in prison for selling them lel.

Mine never worked.

Holy crap... From the Wiki: _Nine days after Cohen's guilty plea, 40 FBI agents arrested four Chinese nationals working in an international copyright infringement ring and seized 60,000 Power Player consoles in searches in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Maple Shade, New Jersey._ *40* FBI agents vs four counterfeiters from China? Slow day at the office or what?

I still see these particular NES clones show up in thrift stores all the time

@@onometre i got one at the thrift store for a few bucks. It still works, and it's actually not terrible.

...and as far as I remember will result in static noise as well.

I remember the NES Clones from the 90's, either sold from an lorry Driver or the get it right behind the border of Hungary we're they sold Fake Brand clothes at markets

Da vergisst man mal die Umlaut-Punkte in Österreich, und schon wird Ost-Erreich draus... :P

@@KernelLeak Hahaha. Living in North America and being too lazy to write the Umlaut also works, but your response was brilliant on top of that.

Ha!

Smart move

Mega drive 2?

I am from eastern europe,got ending man from thailand,best console ever! Gamepad even had a headphone jack

When the Atari was designed, barely anything had a headphone jack, maybe small pocket radios. Most audio equipment used 7.5mm audio jacks, so it wasn't that big of a problem then. Walkmen came around and got popular in the mid 80's, 10 years after the Atari was designed. The Chinese just copied what Atari did, it was cheap and nasty.

@@EmergencyChannel tape recorders had

@@EmergencyChannel the 3.5 TRS connector was created in the '50s and started on transistor radios and became the defacto connector on portable radios before the Walkman. I looked up and the Atari 2600 seems to be one of the only consoles using this jack for power, but indeed apparently some cheap devices did use it including few portable audio devices which make me double facepalm.

Meh, to be honest, it probably wouldn’t matter much. Most electronics with a 3.5mm audio jack would have coupling capacitors in-line. That would block DC, resulting in not much of anything at all happening if you plugged this in. In theory, anyway. Wouldn’t recommend trying it. ;-)

It's not caused by a soldering iron, but by long term contact with the RF cable. The case is made of polystyrene, which can be melted by the plasticiser fumes outgassed from PVC cable insulation. You wrap the cable on the console and/or the controller, and the cable eats itself into the plastic over a few years of storage. I've seen this happening on C64 Datasettes, different remote controls, etc.

Gosh, i remember seeing that thing around well into the 00's.

Yeah, I remember how a lot of those cheap NOAC Famiclones were sold in so many parts of Latin America during the first half of the 2000 decade: eventually the console getsfried by itself, but at least you could conserve the cartridge, even when it had a lot of games repeated in the menu.

I had a Dynavision III, I like it a lot because when they mean "101 built in games" they ACTUALLY MEANT 101 built in games! Yep, no repeats at all, all the classics by Nintendo and others are in it

Didn’t stop AtGames from putting paddle fames on the handheld 2600

tell me all about it

While not coming from the eastern block I still had some weird Tetris handheld thing that claimed to have 201 games or something like that. Yeah, basically 201 different variations of Tetris. Just like those 150 game board game boxes, where that includes 60 card games, 50 chess variants and 30 games that can be played with 5 dice...

Imagine an eastern Europe avgn 🤣

@@HappyBeezerStudios I'm in Texas (USA) and I got one of those Tetris clone handhelds with an absurdly large number of minor variations. It was made out of translucent red plastic and said either "Super Mouse" or "Mighty Mouse" with a little cartoon mouse character. It came from an elementary school fundraiser as one of the top rewards as an incentive for kids (or rather their parents) to throw money at the fundraiser. It was not even remotely worth the amount of money needed to earn this "reward".

Ah Pegasus i had the late version soap bar style that originally came with golden 5 cartridge( Dizzy Caveman Micro Machines Stuntman) but sleazy salesman tended to "upgrade" it to cheap 50 or 100 in 1 and sell golden 5 at ridiculous prices

@@MegaNinjaMonkeyZord Interesting, i have never heard of that version before. I'll have to find out more about it. I didn't even know there where other versions of the Pegasus console. Yeah some of the salesman where sleazy indeed... Those 50/100 in one cartridges where garbage, most of the games where the same games over and over with a different name.

@@MegaNinjaMonkeyZord Actually, i didn't have a Pegasus game console, i had Ending-Man TERMINATOR console (also a NES clone), i checked just now. The reason i didn't know was because i only remembered i had a NES cone and that it was black and blue. I never bothered checking if that's true until now, thanks to your comment. Good thing i checked. Sorry for unintentionally misleading you.

This was a crap.

Laughs in Pegasus

and now I have to see the movie "Strike Commander"! :-)