Aladdin Deck Enhancer

The Aladdin Deck Enhancer, produced by Camerica, was a device that you would plug into your Nintendo Entertainment System. It contained a bypass chip which would work with the lock-out chip inside the NES. With this hardware in the deck, you would then insert a much smaller cartridge containing a game into the Aladdin Deck Enhancer.

The idea behind the Aladdin Deck Enhancer was to provide a cheaper means with which to make the game cartridges mainly due to the fact that for each lock-out chip in each regular cartridge, it cost the buyer $7.00 (imagine the cost savings if you are producing 40,000 cartridges and don't need to include the lock-out chip). Also, since the slot for the actual game was much smaller, less material was needed to produce a cartridge. Though it was a solid, well-thought out idea, it didn't fly with the public, and after only 7 games the Deck Enhancer was discontinued.