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The Power Player Super Joy III consoles (now known as Power Games) are a line of unauthorized handheld Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom clones that are sold in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

The Power Player Super Joy III consoles (now known as Power Games) are a line of unauthorized handheld Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom clones manufactured by NRTRADE that are sold in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The system resembles a Nintendo 64 controller and attaches to a TV set. NTSC, PAL and SECAM versions are available. They all use a custom "NES-on-a-Chip" (NOAC) that is an accurate copy of the NES's hardware (Custom 6502, PPU, PAPU, etc).

The consoles come with 76 built-in games, although marketing frequently claims to have 1,000+ ways of playing them. Most of the included games were originally released for the NES or Famicom, but some have been created by the manufacturer to expand their list of included games. Most of the games have had their title screen graphics removed to save space on the ROM chip, not to mention a company logo removal trick for reduced liability.

After this product gained some popularity, the Power Player 3.5, an improved model with more games, was released. A wireless version of Power Games was also released.

Technical aspects

See Nintendo Entertainment System's technical specifications for info on that.

List of built-in games

Notes:

  • On version 3.0 of PPSJ, all these items duplicated themselves circa 1000 times hence the claim to have 76,000 games built in, however version 3.5 has a more honest description and uses the titles once.
  • More games can be played if a Famicom cartridge is inserted or a NES cartridge if an import adaptor is used.
  • Many of the game titles in the system menu are abbreviated, are misspelled, use alternate names for the game, or are simply wrong (e.g. Burger Time and Pacman). In this list, an effort has been made to use the proper name for the games, with the PPSJ menu name in parenthesis for known differences.

Built-in games include:

When Nintendo discoverd this product, they began taking strong legal action against importers and sellers of the consoles, and has obtained a temporary restraining order against the import and sale of video game systems containing counterfeit versions of Nintendo games.

As of Spring 2005, NrTrade quit selling these products, however they still retain stock by other companies. It is unclear that this product continues production.

The FBI sniffed out copies of the Power Players with a search warrant at several public storage facilities. Several shopping malls quit selling these products but despite that the product is still sold by other dealers (e.g. flea markets).

See also

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