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Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Aladdin Deck Enhancer: A clever system for low cost cartridges

The Deck Enhancer Box
The Aladdin Deck Enhancer is an unlicensed accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System  produced by Camerica and released in November 1992. There are a total of 7 games released for the system, out of 24 that were announced when it was released.

The back of the box with the coming soon games
The idea was simple: Why place over and over again the same chips in the cartridges (RAM, graphics, secutiry) and make the gamepaks expensive, when you can have these chips standard in the main cartridge and only swap the small cartridge that contains only the game. Pretty simple, right?

The system bundled with Dizzy the Adventurer (port of Dizzy, Prince of the Yolkfolk). Each game for the Aladdin came in a small cardboard box with a punched out hole at its top to hang in the store. Inside, instead of having the typical instruction booklet with many pages stapled together,  they had a brochure/poster like instructions that folded out.
The system with all the games released for it
The Deck Enhancer with no cartridge attached
The following games were released for the system: Big Nose Freaks Out, Dizzy the Adventurer, The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade, Micro Machines, Quattro Adventure, Quattro Sports.

Also, some games where announced but never got out. These were: 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.

-NES Cat

Dizzy the Adventurer title screen


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