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▲Sunsonic 986-II – A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-inmastodon.gamedev.place
67 points by sohkamyung 13 hours ago | 9 comments
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glimshe 6 hours ago [-]
A console from an alternative timeline where minimalist design and "clean" lost and "maximalist" gadgets full of keys, lights, switches and low priority features won. All due to the influence from the timeline's visionary, the anti-Steve Jobs.
ourmandave 18 minutes ago [-]
The whole design of the Famicom was minimalism because they wanted a price way under the competition to take over the market.

Yamauchi tasked Uemura with developing a system that would be superior to its competitors and difficult to replicate for at least a year. Uemura's main challenge was economic rather than technological; Yamauchi wanted the system to be affordable enough for widespread household adoption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

chvid 1 hours ago [-]
I love the over the top aesthetics of the Thais. In many ways Thailand is the yin to the yang of Japan when it comes to style and design.

Let’s hope for the day where the Thais rule consumer electronics like the Japanese once did :-D

closewith 4 hours ago [-]
> the anti-Steve Jobs.

Aeschines Hobby?

esafak 10 hours ago [-]
Very nice. I miss the diversity of the era. Can you imagine a Thai gaming console today?
nine_k 9 hours ago [-]
Somewhere on Kickstarter possibly.

But it's hard to search for, unless you can read and write Thai.

utopcell 7 hours ago [-]
Any idea what that color crt was before it got transplanted?
rasz 7 hours ago [-]
I think that picture is just misleading due to angle. CRT on other pictures appears to have blue tingle to it making it seem like its not BW https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/comments/1lc73jf/sonsonic...
spankibalt 9 hours ago [-]
Looks better than an N64, lol.