Being tired of my original NES blinking when attempting to play games, I started looking for NES to Famicom adapters to use with my Super Joy III. After realizing the cheapest I could get them was around $25, I ordered an NES clone for about the same price. The clone I chose was the Family Boy 8. It comes with the system, two controllers, and the Famicom-NES adapter for around $30 on Ebay. I actually like the way the controllers feel more than the original NES controller and the NES Max controller.

The only problem I have with it is, if I bump it while it’s on, the game will sometimes freeze. This is due to the way the cartridge sits in the console. Other than that, it works better than my Original NES. It’s a great deal if you are looking to play some of your old NES games without an emulator or the Virtual Console (rip-off).

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I picked up a used Super Joy III a few weeks ago to mess around with. I knew before I bought it the quality would be fairly low and it would not come with the amount of games it promised, but it was worse than I thought. It promises about 76,000 games and comes with around 100. The graphics are a little worse than the originals as well. That being said, it does have a connection to plug in Famicom games. With an adapter, original NES games  can be played on it as well.

I was thinking of doing some sort of controller mod with it but it doesn’t seem worth it to me. I am pretty disappointed with the amount of games on it (although I would have known this with a bit of research). Some of the guys at benheck.com have done some interesting things with it if you want to check it out. I might do something with it later on.

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