[HN Gopher] Sunsonic 986-II - A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard...
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       Sunsonic 986-II - A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT
       built-in
        
       Author : sohkamyung
       Score  : 82 points
       Date   : 2025-06-19 23:21 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mastodon.gamedev.place)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mastodon.gamedev.place)
        
       | esafak wrote:
       | Very nice. I miss the diversity of the era. Can you imagine a
       | Thai gaming console today?
        
         | nine_k wrote:
         | Somewhere on Kickstarter possibly.
         | 
         | But it's hard to search for, unless you can read and write
         | Thai.
        
       | spankibalt wrote:
       | Looks better than an N64, lol.
        
       | utopcell wrote:
       | Any idea what that color crt was before it got transplanted?
        
         | rasz wrote:
         | 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...
        
       | glimshe wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | closewith wrote:
         | > the anti-Steve Jobs.
         | 
         | Aeschines Hobby?
        
         | chvid wrote:
         | 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
        
         | ourmandave wrote:
         | 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._
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System
        
       | nxobject wrote:
       | This might be a localization of a Chinese (PRC) original product
       | designed to make the Famicom pass restrictions on games hardware
       | - but in any case there were many variants on this design from
       | many manufacturers.
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1h7z2kn/chinese_...
        
       | alnwlsn wrote:
       | The OP posted some more pictures of this to Reddit:
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1lf383e/
        
         | omoikane wrote:
         | It's weird how it says "Thai and English Computer" on the front
         | but the ports are labeled with simplified Chinese on the back.
        
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