I am excited about this site and forum, I've been collecting since i got my NES for christmas 87, and i have a few things in my collection that I've never been able to identify from the NES era, 15 years ago i made some forum posts on various game forums but I still haven't been able to identify this one. I bought this from a thrift shop in my home town in the late 90's as I was buying up every nintendo cart they had come in, at $.50 each back then. It caught my eye because it had a female NES controller port, and a parallel port, which I was aware of and as someone that had just gotten into playing games on Nesticle, I thought this could be a way to use my controller on the PC.
I tried the PC thing, and failed, hooking up controllers to a parallel port on a 486 was not straight forward or doable at all without a driver usually provided on a floppy by the controller manufacturer. anyway, it got boxed up. every 5 or 10 years as i dig through my collection I try and find out info.
The interesting part, it looks like a generic project box, it has Abrams/Gentile Entertainment stickers A-G-E slapped on either side of that project box, then it has 3 cables coming out: Parallel, NES female Controller, and AC 120-AC 10.5 power converter brick.. The brick is branded "Child Guidance, Show 'N Tell Phono Viewer" which was a toy from the 60's to 80's but had no nes port or parallel port interface. I can only assume this brick was just used from the parts bin to power this device.
The AGE stickers on the device say copyright 1988 AGE, but I know that's only indicative that this was made in 1988 or after.
At this point I assume only someone that worked at Abrams Gentile will know what this is, but any help i can get in identifying this would be appreciated.
The images I initially attached are huge, it screws with the forum formatting, here's the album link in imgur:
https://imgur.com/a/VGljvi3