Famiclone
English
Etymology
Blend of Famicom + clone.
Noun
Famiclone (plural Famiclones)
- (informal, video games) Any electronic hardware designed to replicate the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.
- 2005, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 34:
- You may also see very unauthorized Famiclones — third-party, unlicensed NES joysticks, sometimes with an attached light gun and not as many games as the packaging says.
- 2009, James Derek Lomas, The social movement laboratory:
- Like keyboard-based Famiclones today, these early home computers were also commonly connected to a TV display […]
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Further reading
Famiclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia