Italy busts ring trafficking retro video games from China
Italy busts ring trafficking retro video games from China
Italy's financial police said Friday they have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles from China containing some of the most popular titles of the 1980s and 90s."These games featured well-known characters from the world of video games from the 1980s and 1990s, all prot...
Not much info here but I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general
I was wondering if shipping SD cards full of ROMs would ever come to bite the manufacturers in the ass and I guess it might have. Will this be a one-off thing or a sign of a wider EU crackdown? I think there was a warning earlier issued by some agency this month about how the solder in one of the Anbernic devices exceeded EU's maximum lead levels
Edit: There's a video of the Italian cops' raid on the warehouse where the devices were being held, looks like a large variety of different devices
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I'm sure the wealthy kulaks that hoard retro video games and sell them at collector prices will be pleased.
Nintendo loves to sell overpriced retro nostalgia crap, like mini-consoles that have laughably few games and forcibly cram in Ice Climbers as one of the few offerings.
I think the age of the retro mini console is over, it's all about subscription services now
I think the age of the retro mini console is over
it's all about subscription services now
How about... cloud-based subscription services?
Pretty sure that's Sony's approach to their back catalogue
Oh boy more shit that will vanish the moment a suit feels like it! :AgonyRossScott:
I'm going to become one of those great reset guys except about cloud gaming
Probably end of consoles in general at this point.
I remember getting hyped about PSX re-release only to find out it's not real PSX, basically a fucking scam.
Infinitely easier just to stick some sort of Raspberry Pie type deal in a console-shaped box
