[NES] Rumor Mill??? "Peerless Omega"

[wisekrak]

Ok, Been skimming through this old book and I have found some cool stuff.
One of the coolest things is this listing for the "Peerless Entertainment System" or "Omega"

There is a small B/W Pic that kind of looks like a Famicom with controllers plugging into the side and controllers that resemble kidney bean 4 buttons.

The manufacturer is listed as Peerless Entertainment Group, Inc.

The text reads....

100% Nintendo compatable. Playes Japanese 60 pin and US 72 pin cartridges.
Accessories include disk drive, keyboard and gun with sound effects. System comes complete with "Turbo Max" joysticks. @_@

Does this ring a bell with anyone??? Maybe never released, but perhaps a Proto is floating around???

[TheRedEye]

Unofficial hardware clones are not included in the NES guide. If they were, the book would be about 3x the length that it already is.

[TheRedEye]

...wait, it has a disc drive? I'm still not putting it into the guide, but that could be a great item, if it's used like the Dr. PC Jr.'s drive.

[wisekrak]

Hmmm, I'm not sure what happend, I thought I posted this info to this thread yesterday. Oh well Here we go again.

I dont think it shoiuld go in the guide either, but here is what I found.....
http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v130/wisekrak/Videogames/Videogame_Scores_025.jpg

here is the entry in the back of this old book I found.
The pic looks EXACTLY like a Smartian Micro Genius IQ-501 Perfect
but it does list using a disk drive ( probably a clone of the Famicom Disk drive.
Everything in the book referncing the Peerless Entertainment Inc. seems to be that they "were" going to be legit, but I bet Nintendo put an end to that.
I havent been able to find anything more on the net about the company. I do have the old Address from 14 years ago, but I doubt it's worth tracking down.

[TheRedEye]

What makes you think that thing was/would have been "legit?"

[wisekrak]

In the back of the book is a section for copyrights.
It lists the copyright info for every game and accessory in the book.
On page 13-13 it lists...

Peerless
Entertainment
System "Omega"
By Peerless Entertainment Group,
Inc.
Product is OEM for U.S.A.
and violates no patents. Is
FCC approved and carries
product liability.

So it's a mystery to me about if they really were trying to relesae this thing legit or not. It dosent seem like Nintendo would ever let someone do this.

[TheRedEye]

How weird. Either they were mistaken, wrong, or found a loophole that Nintendo quickly filled.