Almost Weekend Primed: 5 Amazing/Terrible Video Game Console Knock-Offs

This week for the belated weekend primed, I’m going to get back to the lists, and this time I’m going to list the what I think are the 10 most amazing/terrible video game console and handheld knock-offs. Some of these you’ve probably heard of. But either way, there’s a Super Mario Bros. clone on all of them. Oh! And the list doesn’t go in any specific order.

5) Game Theory Admiral (GTA)

What is the Game Theory Admiral (aka GTA)? Well, it is an admiral which is pretty cool (although we don’t know what it does for the system), and isntead of playing fake/knock-off Gameboy Advance cartridges, this one plays actual Famicom games. The problem is, the famicom adapter that this uses makes the cartridge tower feet over the handheld itself, and then when you pick it up, you’re going to be holding it pretty far away from you or you’re going to hit yourself in the head. I mean, after all of that, and the problem of importing Famicom games, why not just by a goddamn NES already?

4) PXP-2000

Remember when we posted earlier in the week about the PXP-2000, the quick to the line PSPgo knockoff? Well this is definitely going at the top of our list, because not only is it a blatent knockoff of the whole design of the PSPgo, but it looks really well designed, and has tons of features and functions that almost makes it worth buying.

This device, the PXP-2000 is only a mere $84, is jam-packed with features for the tiny price. It supports tons of video codecs including RM, RMVB natively, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MPE, MP4, DAT, MOV, DAT. It also is an NES, Gameboy, SFC emulator, so you’re jam-packed with retro fun right there! Plus, it takes microSD cards so you don’t have to ever worry about running out of space. Good knockoff? We think so.

3) PolyStation 3

The PolyStation 3, with a bigger, 3-inch screen! I’m guessing that you guys already know what this is a knock off of, and it does a…erm….bad job. The console only features seven games including “Formula 1″, “Soccer”, “Basketball”, “Motorbike Race”, “Street Fighter”, “Submarine Invasion” and “Space Guardian”, has a dual-shock esque controller attached to the back of it, and has about a 3 inch screen that pops out on the console. This realizes that all of the games on the console are complete shit, and the screen reminds us why we never want to play them. We give them an A for effort…wait, fuck that. This thing sucks balls.

2) Power Player Super Joy III

Okay, just don’t think about the name of this thing. The Power Player Super Joy may be one of the greatest things with the most games ever made. This thing comes jam-packed with 75,000 NES games, a * cough* copyright infringed N64 controller, a light gun, and Sega Genesis controller to play all of these games with. The only downside to this amazing piece of sexy old-school hardware is that for each original/different game, there’s about 2,000 of those. You now have about 35 games, but who the hell’s counting?

1) Neo Double Games

And now the Nintendo DS knockoff console. Like the PolyStation 3, this handheld’s only drawback from being a near perfect handheld is the fact that it only has a couple of games, including “Soccer”, “Submarine Invasion”, “Fortress Guardian” and “Street Fighter”. These usually go online and in flea markets for about $15. So you can get your hands on one of these for cheap if you really, really want to. Oh, and did I mention that the screen only renders green, red, and white? Yeah, talk about a huge plus right there!