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The Mega Kid MK-1000 is a Famiclone with a built-in Family BASIC compatible keyboard, marketed as an "educational computer".
The system comes with two black PlayStation look-alike controllers and a black NES Zapper clone resembling a submachine gun. All are connected with 9-pin DB connectors, as found on most Famiclones.
It has a composite video output and a mono audio output, as well as a rather crude RF modulator antenna output, unfiltered (the output appears on several TV channels) and unshielded from interferences.
In its box is contained a Famicom cartridge containing several applications that work with the keyboard, such as crude word processors, keyboard exercises, mathematical games, G-BASIC and a handful of first generation Famicom/NES games such as F 1 Race, Track & Field and "Jewel Tetris".
This cartridge also contains an additional 64 K static RAM chip, mainly for use with the provided G-BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language designed for the Famicom. However, no CMOS backup memory is provided, so any typed-in program or text will be lost upon rebooting or switching the power off.
It works with standard Famicom cartridges, as well as NES cartridges with the use of an adaptor.
References
- Plunkett, Luke (4 November 2011). "The Wonderful, Shady World Of Knock-Off Nintendo Consoles". Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original on November 7, 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2022.