Scorpion 8

[SeanXTC]

Does anyone have any information on these systems, I searched the web and only came up with a couple of sites. The websites I found contained lists of famiclones (scorpion 8 being one of them). Theres no games list on wiki, no games or systems for sale on ebay. Which got me wondering, is this system rather rare... I am guessing so as I can't seem to find another person who owns one or is selling one, or any games.

 

Another thing I came across was a game called Mel Gibsons safari 3 which was apparently a hoax, some comments underneath stating it was a hoax game for a system that they wasn't sure existed... well the system does exist and I own one (fully boxed with 2 controlers) and a game for it called Q-Boy.

 

I would appreciate any information on this system as there is a complete lack of it.

 

Do any of you own one? What games do you have? Any idea how many were released? Where did you purchase it from?

 

I got mine from a video game shop in a small village where I used to live (long gone now). From what I can remember there was quite a few games on his shelfs for it...

 

[fiddlepaddle]

There have been an awful lot of famicom clones, and new ones all the time. Many have lackluster games, poor imitations of popular games, and plain old hacks. Many are indeed rare, yet worthless. I have a bunch anyway. Be nice if you could post a couple of photos...

[kool kitty89]

http://ultimateconsoledatabase.com/famiclones/scorpion_8.htm

 

This is the only Scorpion-8 I've seen before.

There's also the Scropion-16 MD clone, with at least one variation having built-in region switches. (the British gaming show "Bad Influence" featured that in one episode I believe) A lot of old MD clones seem to use 10 MHz rated 68000s, and on top of that seem to have the res of the hardware extremely overclock tolerant. (even more than the VA5/6 model 1 MD/Genesis -the only official models that are usually stable above ~12 MHz)

[SeanXTC]

There have been an awful lot of famicom clones, and new ones all the time. Many have lackluster games, poor imitations of popular games, and plain old hacks. Many are indeed rare, yet worthless. I have a bunch anyway. Be nice if you could post a couple of photos...

 

My Scorpion 8

 

Exact same thing as Kool kitty posted though, square-ish, black, rather ugly, the graphics are pretty good though!

 

Cool, it's rare! Not worth much though (never mind, I had no intension of selling). On the site of famiclones I came across there was a HUGE list of 'em.

 

 

This is the only Scorpion-8 I've seen before.

There's also the Scropion-16 MD clone, with at least one variation having built-in region switches. (the British gaming show "Bad Influence" featured that in one episode I believe) A lot of old MD clones seem to use 10 MHz rated 68000s, and on top of that seem to have the res of the hardware extremely overclock tolerant. (even more than the VA5/6 model 1 MD/Genesis -the only official models that are usually stable above ~12 MHz)

 

I do live in England and from what I can remember this was the only famiclone I ever saw, infact not only the only famiclone but only scorpion 8 too. Dare I say, I think the graphics are better than the original?!

 

I would like to see a scorpion 16 *starts googling*.

 

Thanks!

[SeanXTC]

OH MY GOD!

 

I used to watch Bad influence!!!!!!! Damn that brings back good memories!

 

I remember it's where I first saw uni-rally advertised/reviewed, damn good game that.

 

When I first read your post I didn't realize what Bad influence was... just googled the scorpion 16 and it came up with a youtube link to watch a clip of it. So awesome. The woman with the short blonde hair and the 90's clothes, classic!

 

That Scorpion 16 had a couple of things the real Mega drive didn't have, built in game, ability to play NTSC games... rather cool.

 

(Sorry for the double post).

[kool kitty89]

That Scorpion 16 had a couple of things the real Mega drive didn't have, built in game, ability to play NTSC games... rather cool.

 

It also only had RF output, hence the incompatibility with the 32x (no RGB), and I think the region switches take the place of the expansion port too.