Fake Consoles

[Palamon]

Have you ever had the unfortunate situation of getting a fake/bootleg console? I'm sure a parent/grandparent has bought a Wii clone for some people here...

I've been lucky enough to never have had this happen to me.

 

[LucarioBread]

Luckily, never.
But I do sometimes see advertised shopping pages on Facebook selling bootleg consoles. And the comments are filled with people ages 40+ who can't tell a Gameboy from a Playstation placing dozens upon dozens of orders for your typical knock-off consoles that come packed with like 50 games, most likely pirated.

 

[pkmin3033]

I've had a couple of bootleg games, and some very cheap consoles that only play one or two built-in games (Tetris and Space Invaders) but I've never had a fake console before. A couple that I've seen online actually look really good, though! I remember seeing one on Facebook years ago that was a handheld that played ROMs put onto a Micro SD card from a lot of past generation consoles and it looked pretty appealing...although for £100 I wasn't about to take the chance that it'd be all it looked to be, haha.

 

[Fleurdelis]

Never really, by the time I had the money to buy stuff on my own I became a PC gamer.