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fast technology reported on september 15 that italy's financial police said on friday that they had smashed a gang that smuggled counterfeit retro video game consoles from china, which contained some of the most popular games from the 1980s and 1990s.

alessandro langella, head of the economic crime unit of the turin financial police, told the media: "we have seized about 12,000 gaming machines.more than 47 million pirated video games were illegally stored, with an estimated value of more than 47.5 million euros (about 370 million yuan).”

these games include super mario bros., street fighter and star wars, while the consoles are based on retro hardware from nintendo, sega or atari.

games from the '80s and '90s are experiencing a resurgence as part of the so-called "retro gaming" trend.

it is reported that sega and atari did not launch any consoles in the 1990s, somost of these retro games are pirated; pirated hardware is cheaper to produce, but the knockoff consoles do not meet european technical and safety standards.

police arrested nine italian citizens linked to the trafficking network. they were charged with trafficking counterfeit goods and face up to eight years in prison.