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redcurrie
08-25-2005, 10:59 PM
I picked up a Power Joy PJ-008 cart and to be honest, I'm not sure exactly what it is. From what I see online, it looks like some sort of Famicon cart. Does anyone know what it is and the value???? :roll:
silver_surfer
08-26-2005, 12:03 AM
It's a pack in game that comes with those NES on a chip 72 games in one jobbies. Not worth any more than about 5 to 10 bucks as the cart is about the best thing you get with one of those things. And that was being poilte about the Super Joy. There are total crap. Mind you the games are classics for sure. Your lucky you got the cart version as alot of them soon resorted the internal games in the controller when they stoped promoting (if you wanna call it that) the famicom port in the bottom of the N64 style controller it uses.
Pantechnicon
08-26-2005, 01:19 AM
I've had a Super Joy with the PJ-008 cart for a year and a half now. Mine works great. At least it's been more reliable than the 4 or 5 toasters I've got laying around.
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Niku-Sama
08-26-2005, 02:11 AM
where are you guys finding them?
i ahve been searching all over and i cant find them at all
redcurrie
08-26-2005, 12:04 PM
Thanks! My question is this...is there anything that I can do with the cartridge only? I just have the short, orange-labeled "Power-Joy PJ-008" cart and nothing to go with it.... :D
Pantechnicon
08-26-2005, 12:40 PM
Thanks! My question is this...is there anything that I can do with the cartridge only? I just have the short, orange-labeled "Power-Joy PJ-008" cart and nothing to go with it.... :D
How about playing it?
What you've got there is a standard 68-pin Famicom cart. With the right adapter you can put it in your NES toaster. Otherwise you need a Famicom or a Famiclone....
(/looks at your trade list)
PM sent :D
googlefest1
08-26-2005, 03:03 PM
where are you guys finding them?
i ahve been searching all over and i cant find them at all
they are on line -- use the search engine -- i find them all the time on the net - but i always wait to find one in a flea market where they are cheapest
rbudrick
08-26-2005, 03:27 PM
QVC is still selling a very similar item. Comes in a blister pack, has zapper built into the controller, and comes w/ player 2 controller. Also has Famicom port.
Look for the Video Maxx 95-in-1 2 Player Video Game System here:
http://www.qvc.com/asp/frameset.asp?class=0012&tmp=hpB&cont=mhht&cm_re=HPB-_-MASTHEAD-_-TOYSCRAFTS
Check out all this other strange-ass shit on that page too...damn...
-Rob
Jagasian
08-26-2005, 03:43 PM
I've had a Super Joy with the PJ-008 cart for a year and a half now. Mine works great. At least it's been more reliable than the 4 or 5 toasters I've got laying around.
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Are you comparing the reliability of something that is 20 years old and most likely not taken care of, with something that is one and a half years old and properly taken care of? You know, Fords are far more reliable than Hondas because I have a 20 year old Honda that breaks down allot, but I have a Ford I got last year and it is running perfectly fine.
Pantechnicon
08-26-2005, 05:16 PM
Are you comparing the reliability of something that is 20 years old and most likely not taken care of, with something that is one and a half years old and properly taken care of? You know, Fords are far more reliable than Hondas because I have a 20 year old Honda that breaks down allot, but I have a Ford I got last year and it is running perfectly fine.
The short answer is yes. No matter how much dust builds on any of my other consoles, say, Atari 2600 thru Jag (and mind you, unlike the NES, these have exposed cart slots), I can get them to boot with little more than single puff of air if I even need that. On the other hand, I've been through about six toaster NES's since 1995 and they've all given me fits. I've cleaned and serviced them per the reliable console counsel of wise men like Omnedon and I still have never got one back to an acceptable functional status. In short, it's not a question of depreciating reliability owing to age, it's a question of poor design.
On the other hand, My Super Power Joy boots up every time.
Incidentally, I too have owned and worked on both Hondas and Fords. Of the two, I've spent more time under the Fords.
Maybe I just live in a continuum antithetical to your own.
MrRoboto19XX
08-27-2005, 12:41 AM
Hm, Im just curious, but has anyone looked at the "Twin arcade sticks" or whatever? Next to them it looks like there is a very small famicom cartridge, but I cant make it out.
http://www.qvc.com/asp/frameset.asp?class=0012&tmp=hpB&cont=mhht&cm_re=HPB-_-MASTHEAD-_-TOYSCRAFTS
Also, are there any good websites to find famicom games cheap? I have one of the yobo famiclones and love it, but I want some famicom games just so I can say I use it as a famicom.
Weird, I know but still, I think you might know what I mean.
yuppicide
09-10-2005, 07:29 PM
You can still buy them on the Power Joy website with cartridge. Not sure if they ship to USA tho. They work great and are very easy to come by on eBay or other websites and at fleamarkets.
http://www.pricecrash.tv/prodList.asp?cat=24
The latest ones are shaped like a penguin and have a wireless infrared controller. They cost about $10 at the fleamarket near me.
Nerd42
02-12-2009, 11:16 AM
I am trying to find people to help get the PJ-008 made into a ROM. Anybody wanna help? http://editthis.info/wiki42/Save_the_PJ-008
I just found one in NJ at the Englishtown Swap Meet for $1. I had no idea what it was at the time, so I searched and found this thread.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160925/9c63046903d5c9f38565340ddba30472.jpg
Steve W
09-28-2016, 08:58 PM
I've got a couple of those someplace, they're common. Lots of flea market Famiclones used to come with those. Those carts that get packed in with different Famiclones often have interesting games on them, like the Macross game that never made it Stateside.
The latest ones are shaped like a penguin and have a wireless infrared controller. They cost about $10 at the fleamarket near me.
Last week I was in a local Half-Price Books store and they had a one of these Penguin Famiclones that was used but still in it's box. Had a star sticker on it with an enticing "RARE!" hand written on it alongside a $50 price tag.
Being priced higher than a cat's ass was weird but I was more surprised they would even buy back something like that.
SparTonberry
09-29-2016, 12:31 AM
Either they are idiots and don't know what it is, or they hope an idiot will buy it. :P
Tanooki
09-29-2016, 09:27 AM
Last week I was in a local Half-Price Books store and they had a one of these Penguin Famiclones that was used but still in it's box. Had a star sticker on it with an enticing "RARE!" hand written on it alongside a $50 price tag.
Being priced higher than a cat's ass was weird but I was more surprised they would even buy back something like that.
If you don't mind my asking, which half price was it? If it's one of the two in Louisville I see no reason to buy it, but I'd love to get a peek at one of those things as I've never seen the console up close, just the crappy N64 looking controller knockoff version with one of those carts jacked into it maybe 5-6 years ago back west at a flea market once or twice. I knew the games usually wont' work outside their own system (I believe that was the case) and I had no interest in trashy untested chinese crap so I left it. :)
SparTonberry
09-29-2016, 11:29 AM
Is there anything notable about the Power Joy other than they dared to sell it in the wide open (shopping malls in the US in the early 2000s), and as such the dealer became one of the few to get sued by Nintendo?
Tanooki
09-29-2016, 01:23 PM
As far as I know it's the same defensive cheap piece of chinese shit on a chip that has the same bugs, won't run MMC5 stuff, and seems to emphasize the Famicom right down to the cartridge port and knockoff game pack.
Is there anything notable about the Power Joy other than they dared to sell it in the wide open (shopping malls in the US in the early 2000s), and as such the dealer became one of the few to get sued by Nintendo?
Only thing unique hardware-wise I know of that it had going on was that it included really shitty wireless IR controllers. This model was the first one I had saw that featured wireless controllers.
The place I mention having this has a mall a few miles up the road. Back in that same time frame of '99-'00 they had a kiosk set up selling them for around that same price. This model always stuck out to me because like you mentioned this was the first I saw being sold out in the open. I remember the seller was this extremely loud, abrasive guy with a thick accent yelling and everyone walking by about his "dozens of built-in old school games". That and the unit had King of Fighters on the menu, which was just Yie Ar Kung Fu.
CRTGAMER
09-30-2016, 09:51 AM
I've got a couple of those someplace, they're common. Lots of flea market Famiclones used to come with those. Those carts that get packed in with different Famiclones often have interesting games on them, like the Macross game that never made it Stateside.
THIS. Yes the games are packed in a bootleg cart and not collectable money value. worth getting to have a Menu driven cart with many games, some of which are uncommons and imports. I see the Powerjoy all the time at the Swap Meet. The separate cart is not as common, snag it if you ever see one on the cheap. The PCB inside can be adapted with an earlier Gyromite cart that might have a Famicom adapter inside. Couple links in my Quote with more info.
Powerjoy and PJ008 Cart
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=33076&p=555557#p555557
You can do two very special things with this type of gaming system.
1. Pop in a Famicom cart to the slot, use it as a very inexpensive Famicom console.
2. Plug the bootleg multi game PCB into a Gyromite Import Adapter and play the bootleg games on a NES. This gives an authentic feel to the Famicom games, choose a different game with a simple press of the reset Button. No need to swap carts for a different game.
SuperJoy III Famicom Clone
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=460309#p460309
Okay why all this excitement over a clone? Just like my earlier Bootleg Famicom converted to NES cart, it has a bunch of NES games and the recalled game TENGEN TETRIS! Bootleg carts are great way to discover a rare hidden Gem or an obscure Import. In play testing the Famicom Mobile II with a bootleg console cart, I discovered another great import game. Ever hear of QUARTH? On the Supervision bootleg cart its called SHOTING BLOC. A reverse Tetris using a Spaceship SHMUP style to fill in the Tetris blocks. Released in multiple platforms in Japan as well as in the Arcades, the U.S only got portable versions on the Gameboy and DS.
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/download/file.php?id=6226
Steve W
09-30-2016, 11:48 PM
Last week I was in a local Half-Price Books store and they had a one of these Penguin Famiclones that was used but still in it's box. Had a star sticker on it with an enticing "RARE!" hand written on it alongside a $50 price tag.
Being priced higher than a cat's ass was weird but I was more surprised they would even buy back something like that.
My friend used to take home old software manuals from his job at IBM and all sorts of odd free books he'd come across, along with random freebie AOL CDs and load them into a Rubbermaid tub in his trunk. Once the tub filled up he'd take it into Half-Price Books and get cash for it. Those guys used to take anything. I was told by a woman at a game store about how she went to a Half-Price and bought a Neo•Geo console with ten games for around $200. I can't tell you how happy I'd be if I had found that. I would check Half-Price locations for years hoping to find something that great but never did.