The Nintendo ique Player is a late version of the Nintendo 64 officially released by Nintendo in China under the iThat brand, is a hybrid between portable console and desktop console that was also the first digital console in history. Nintendo joined with a Chinese scientist named Wei Yen to take the Nintendo 64 to China a few years after its launch, specifically on November 17, 2003 under the name iQué Player, its price was 500 yuan, the equivalent of 60 US dollars at the time and was intended to combat piracy.
To develop the iQuer Player there were two major challenges: the piracy and censorship of the Chinese government. The Chinese laws prohibited the desktop consoles, to avoid the ban, Nintendo placed the processor and graph of the integrated console in the command, you could connect the control to the current and then to the television, so they turned it into a "portable" console to avoid the government's ban. Nintendo translated the best Nintendo 64 titles into Chinese for release, in the back of the box we can see some of the games caught, including the The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask that never saw the light because it was censored by the Chinese government.
The Nintendo ique Player did not have physical games to avoid piracy, for this purpose Nintendo launched physical cards with activation codes that you could acquire at any store at a price of 48 yuan, you were coming with a code at the back that you could scratch and exchange on the machines of the shopping centers.
You just had to take out your memory card and connect it to the machine, then redeem the code and record the video game you wanted on your memory card, for this reason there were no physical games but when you made a purchase in a store or one of these machines, you were given a cardboard box that contained the game manual, it's the only physical thing that the video games had.
This unit includes one of the used cards and also a paper with the names of the video games it had recorded in Chinese, which is still a curiosity, the previous owner pointed them out to know what games it contained.
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