console backup tech history.

This console backup device website has a great selection of photos and info on the very illicit game cartridge copying devices of the early '90s and beyond. The most famous ones, like the Super Wild Card DX for the SNES, were legendary in their time, and allowed you to back up games to floppy disc, or even download games from BBSes onto your PC, and then run them on your actual console. It's fascinating, but very morally+legally suspect piracy-wise, which is why copiers were never that widely available in the West. The site does have some genuine rarities featured, though, like the fabled Super Magic Griffin backup device for the PC Engine/Turbographx, or even the Yoko Game Duplicator for the Atari 2600 - pretty wacky stuff.