Aladdin Deck Enhancer

"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 Angry Video Game Nerd The Aladdin Deck Enhancer was an "add-on" for the Nintendo Entertainment System, designed to play proprietary unlicensed games and planned to be released in 1992. It was developed by Codemasters and produced by Camerica, the same people behind the popular Game Genie, an add-on to use cheat codes on the NES.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) 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 orignal 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).
 * 2) Its name is pretty misleading. The word "Aladdin" gives thoughts that its library of games would be consisted only of those based on the 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.
 * 3) Its faulty design (used to bypass the 10NES lockout chip) prevented it from working on almost any NES variant (including any Famiclones) released. 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.
 * 4) Only 7 games were released for it, and Almost all of them were already-existing NES games without any real differences
 * 5) 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 also a plenty of glitches and Dizzy the Adventurer, which like Linus Spacehead has slippery and clunky controls and Dizzy dies from everything.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7) 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.

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