The Power Kracker (or Power Blaster, Power Racer) is a pirated NES-On-A-Chip console that was made to look like the Xbox 360 controller. It is the successor to the Power Player Super Joy III. It is most likely manufactured by Sinango and is essentialy a redesigned Power Player Super Joy III. The Power Kracker has been reported a common famiclone to find at Swap Meets/Flea Markets.
Overview[]
First appearing around 2011, the Power Kracker appears to include two controllers and a light gun (referred to as the Power Gun). Like many consoles with build in games, the Power Kracker claims to have a large number of games (76,000 games, reportable) but really comes with a much smaller range repeated.
Controllers[]
The controller features 4 button layout with two extra buttons located near. It also has a reset button, a start button, and a power button along with a d-pad and an analogue stick. The second controller is simpler, but smaller and without the power, reset and start buttons or the analogue stick.
Box[]
The front of the box shows an explosion, the current year of release, and the controllers it includes. The front also claims the console to be "THE GREATEST GAME MACHINE IN [sic] THE PLANET". The back of the box shows 3D graphics and screenshots taken from other games and an uncredited review claiming "The most impressive TV Game Machine made yet". It also shows the button layout for the main console controller. On the back of the box, it has the "Super joystick" logo (The same one found on the back of the box of the Power Player Super Joy III). It also has an invalid age rating on the choking hazard sticker (12+up) when most other products with a choking hazard say 3 and up. The stolen artwork of the ninjas featured on the box are the characters Rikimaru and Ayame from the game Tenchu: Shadow Assassins.
Game List[]
While the console claims, 76,000 games, 73 are known, with a series of repeats. Some of these are repeated with a 3-letter code and may contain spelling mistakes.
Game list:
- 1942
- "Antarctic" (Antarctic Adventure)
- "Arabian" (Super Arabian)
- Arkanoid
- Balloon Fight
- Baseball
- Battle Field
- Binary Land
- Bomber Man
- Burger Time
- Calculator (Donkey Kong Jr. Math)
- Circus Charlie
- Clay Shooting (Separated from Duck Hunt)
- Clu Clu Land
- "Combat" (Field Combat)
- "Contr" (Contra)
- "Contra"
- CRASH 3
- Desert Tank (Battle Tank/Tank A 1990)
- Devil World
- Dig Dug
- "Doctor" (Dr. Mario)
- Donkey Kong
- Dr Mario
- Duck Hunt
- "Excite Bike" ("Excitebike")
- Exerion
- F1 Race
- Formation Z
- Galaga
- Galaxian
- Golf
- "Helicopter" (Raid on Bungelling Bay)
- "Hogan's Alley"
- "Ice Climber"
- "Ice Ocean"
- Jumping Kid
- "King of Fighter" (Yie Ar Kung Fu)
- "Knight" (Ikki)
- "Knight Hero" (alternate title used on certain repeats of Ikki)
- "Lode Runner 2" (Championship Lode Runner)
- Lunar Ball
- "Macross" (Choujikuu Yousai Macross)
- Magic Jewelry
- Mappy
- Mario Bros
- "Mice Love Cat" (Mappy)
- "Milk & Nuts" (Nuts & Milk)
- Millipede
- "Monkey" (Donkey Kong)
- Pacman
- Pin Ball
- Pooyan
- Popeye
- Road Fighter
- Sky Destroyer
- Slacom
- "Space ET" (Space Invaders)
- "Spartan" (Spartan X)
- "Speed Tank"
- Sqoon
- "Stae Gate" (Star Gate)
- Star Force
- "Super Mario" (Super Mario Bros.)
- "Tekken" (Karateka)
- Tennis
- "Tetris II" (Tetris: The Soviet Mind Game)
- "Toy Story" (Circus Charlie)
- Twin Bee
- Urban Champion
- "Wild Guman" (Wild Gunman)
- World Soccer
- "WWF" (Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match)
- Zippy Race
Trivia[]
- Earlier variants of this before 2013 went under the name Power Blaster instead.
- Later variants, starting from 2017, took the name "Power Racer".
- The build quality on it is noted for being poor; either it'll have trouble turning on and/or randomly reset.
- The menu sounds were actually from the Action 52 (NES) multicart.
- The 2014 model was featured in Plug and Play Consoles - Jontron .