Aladdin Deck Enhancer
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 Congratulations, you have wasted the Genie's final wish with this illegal piece of crap.
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"Upgrade your Nintendo Entertainment System? More like upper-decking it! And that's not a joke. I mean it. It is the electronic equivalent of an upper-decker."
The Aladdin Deck Enhancer is a system-enhancing adaptor to use Compact Cartridges on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was produced by Camerica and developed by Codemasters but not licensed by Nintendo. It is similar to the Datach system for the Famicom, but without the Barcode feature. It was released in November 1992, with its planned library to reach a total 24 games by the end of 1993. However, only seven games were actually released. The device had low sales and Camerica went bankrupt in 1993.
Why It's the Worst Wish Ever
- False advertising: The box claims that the Aladdin improves the performance and graphics of the NES when in reality it doesn't do anything other than bypass the 10NES lock-out chip on the original model NES that prevented unlicensed games from being played (the later Model-101 revision, or "Top Loader", lacked this chip, making the Aladdin completely meaningless).
- Misleading title: The word "Aladdin" gives thoughts that its library of games would be consisted only of those based on Disney's Aladdin franchise, but in reality, it never got any Aladdin game made for it. Overall, there's no point for the product to have "Aladdin" in its name.
- Its faulty design used to bypass the 10NES lockout chip prevented it from working on almost any NES variant, including any Famiclones released.
- Not only that, but it can even fry the Top Loader model which doesn't seem to have one, which is basically to prove that the developers of the machine haven't even tested it on several NES models.
- Only 7 games were released for it, and almost all of them were already-existing NES games without any real differences
- Many of these games can go from either average to already crappy. The worst ones are both Linus Spacehead games, which have very slippery and clunky controls and a plenty of glitches, and Dizzy the Adventurer, which also has bad controls, and Dizzy dies from everything.
- Due to the companies involved in its production going out of business shortly before the Aladdin was released, it and most of the games produced for it are in very short supply.
- On top of that, it was too late for the developers to release the add-on, as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System which had even better graphics was already available in North America. With not many games released for the add-on, the false claim that it upgrades the graphics and the fact that the cartridges for the add-on were illegal, it was already completely pointless to get the add-on in the first place.
List of games
- Big Nose Freaks Out
- Dizzy the Adventurer
- The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy
- Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade
- Micro Machines
- Quattro Adventure
- Boomerang Kid
- Super Robin Hood
- Treasure Island Dizzy
- Linus Spacehead
- Quattro Sports
- Baseball Pro's
- Soccer Simulator
- Pro Tennis
- BMX Simulator
Unreleased games
- Bee 52
- Big Nose the Caveman
- CJ's Elephant Antics
- DreamWorld Pogie
- F16 Renegade
- Go! Dizzy Go!
- Metal Man
- Mig 29 Soviet Fighter
- Stunt Kids
- Team Sports Basketball
- The Ultimate Stuntman
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