Over the last years, I’ve presented a bunch of South Korean Hyundai Super Nintendo games on this blog. I haven’t updated that area of my collection since then because I’ve been busy with other things, like finishing the Samsung Super Gam*Boy article.
This article being *almost* completed, I decided to move on and spend some more time on gathering infos about Nintendo’s 16bit console Market in South Korea. It’s been a little more difficult for me to actually get my hands on Super Comboy games and shoot them from every angle like I did with the Super Gam*boy games ; mainly because of the global popularity of the Super Nintendo around the world. Popularity also means there’s a lot more people now than there used to be getting interested in purchasing those games when they appear which result in constant price increases. To be perfectly honnest this is one of the reason I haven’t been too keen on sharing my infos, as I’m quite sure this kind of article will brings new players into collecting Super Comboy games. Players that will surely go credit card crazy as soon as the next Complete-In-Box Super Comboy game pops-up. So I made a choice, I recently convinced myself that some games are now simply out of my league and decided to publish this piece anyway. Enjoy it 
Super Comboy Loose Cartridges taken from my personal collection.
Behold the Hyundai Super Comboy 슈퍼 컴보이 Master List !
Games
As you can see on the Master List, I’ve counted 34 official Hyundai/Cost releases, 1 bootleg release and 1 official accessory so far. But there might be more, for exemple some variations still need to be accounted for as no real box pictures have been seen for them up to this day like the Super Mario Kart blue box. Also it seems that a lot of games were imported straight from japan, some carrying a very simple black & white instruction sheet in Korean (Romancing Sa-Ga 2)… hard to say how many of these are around in South Korea, besides it looks as if most of these were RPGs with a heavy load of japanese text. One can hardly consider them as real Super Comboy release (unlinke NBA JAM T.E. who was at least repacked by Hyundai).
(you can click on the game’s name for further details, when available).
•Official Releases :
Brawl Brothers – 브롤 브라더스
Contra III : The Alien Wars – 콘트라 3
Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 3 – 드래곤볼Z 초무투전 3 – Hyundai 현대전자
Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 3 – 드래곤볼Z 초무투전 3 – Cost 코스트 교역 (Reprint)
F-Zero F-제로
Final Fight – 화이널 화이트
Hanguk Pro Yagu (Super 3D Baseball) – 한국 프로 야구
Mega Man X 3 – 메가맨 X3 – Cost 코스트 교역
Street Fighter II – 스트리트화이터
Super Buster Bros. – 슈퍼 부스터 브로스
Super Donkey Kong 2 – 슈퍼 동키콩 2
Super Donkey Kong 3 – 슈퍼 동키콩 3
Super Ghouls’n Ghosts – 슈퍼 구울즈 엔 고스트
Super Mario All Stars – 슈퍼 마리오 올스타즈
Super Mario Kart (Blue SNES Box) – 슈퍼마리오 카트
Super Mario Kart – 슈퍼마리오 카트 (Reprint)
Super Mario World – 슈퍼 마리오 월드 (Reprint)
Super Mario World 2 : Yoshi Island – 슈퍼 마리오 월드2: 요시아일랜드
Super Soccer – 슈퍼사커
Super Street Fighter 2 – 슈퍼 스트리트화이터 2
Taekwon-Do – 태권도
Tetris & Dr. Mario – 테트리스 & 닥터 마리오
TMNT IV : Turtles in Time – 확대 던지기의 위력
The Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past – 젤다의 전설 – 과거로의 링크
Tiny Toon Adventures : Buster Bust Loose ! 타이니 툰 어드벤처 : 버스터 부츠 루즈
•Bootleg :
Super 20 in 1 – 슈퍼 20 일 – GL (Game Line) GL 게임라인
•Japanese Import with black & white instruction sheet in Hangul (might be more of these around) :
Romancing Sa-ga 2 – 로맨싱 사가 2
Seiken Densetsu 3 – 성검전설 3 (TBC)
Utopia – 유토피아
•Official Accessory :
Super Mini Comboy – 슈퍼 미니컴보이
Hardware Revisions
I’ve counted 4 different console revisions and 2 Joypad revisions :
1) Console with English Buttons names, ON/OFF and POWER LED Embossed in English on the front plates (100% English)
2) Console with Hangul Buttons names, ON/OFF and POWER LED Embossed in Hangul on the front plates (100% Hangul)
3) Console with Hangul Buttons names and embossed POWER LED, but ON/OFF is embossed in English on the dark grey font plate (mixed)
4) Console with Hangul Buttons names, ON/OFF and POWER LED Embossed in English on the front plates but also printed in Hangul on the side. (Mixed)
3 different variations taken from my personal collection
Again there might be more, these are just the obvious hardware revisions but I belive some motherboard were also different, check out this exemple :
Different Power plug, some are AC other are DC = means different revisions of the motherboard (I also believe some might have the plug-in sound board and some just the soundchip, I haven’t checked yet, but the one I’ve modified myself with stereo output had the sound board inside).
Regarding the Joypad (SNSN-005 KOR), only 2 known variations :
1) Start + Select buttons in English
2) Start + Select buttons in Hangul
Ads
Let’s finish this article on a funny note with the 2 super cheesy TV commercials (beware, copyright infringement inside !) :
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Thanks to Hongseok for his help clearing out some infos regarding games and to all the people in South Korea collecting and posting images of their retro-gaming collection on the internet at Naver, Ruliweb & Egloos.
Special Thanks to Prupru for providing me with his own collection photos and feedback. Checkout his amazing Super Nintendo Collection !
And to William Pacheco / novadaemon for his Super Comboy variation images, check out his Korean games collection.
I’d love to talk to you more about your post. You are technically using a pic of mine without permission, but that’s not a big deal. I’ve almost got a fullset of Super Comboy games, and I’m collecting for a bunch of other Korean systems. I feel I can clarify some more stuff in your article as I own around 7 Super Comboys, and I had over 10 at one point. Anyway, please feel free to e-mail me if you’d like to learn more. Thanks.
Hi William, thanks for the post and welcome
Which image are you referring to ? The one with the 3 Super Comboy ? Just so you know it’s hard to claim the ownership of an image if that one hasn’t been watermaked in some way (I found it in google… how does one know where it is originally from then ?). These, unless stated otherwise simply belong to public domain from the day you put them online.
But I’m not a jerk, as you can see in my disclaimer, I’m saying all image without scanlines16.com watermark are NOT mine. I’m not trying to steal anything from anyone, but just to illustrate my article. If it causes you any sort of trouble I will take it down
no sweating.
Feel free to discuss and clarify things here, I will then update my article in consequence (and of course add you to the Thanks section).
As far as revisions on controllers are concerned, there are multiple revisions where the sticker on the back is not the same. I’ve seen 3 or 4 revisions. Also, strangely, I’ve seen 2 different cases where the controller is a US style controller. http://imgur.com/HzXG6kJ however, I don’t know if this is someone who has simply replaced the buttons so I don’t know if it should be counted.
The Super Comboy has had just as many motherboard revisions as the SFC including the separate audio box, 2-chip and 1-chip revisions. On your CH1-2 revision, did you look on the bottom to see a Hyundai sticker? I had one like that before but got rid of it. One real interesting revision of the Super Comboy is the revision where the RF port has been removed. If you are going to count revisions with every change then there are a minimum of 6 revisions. If we count combinations where the motherboard has changed then we might get up to 10 revisions.
On a side note, I don’t really care if you use the pics, though if you use any in the future credit might be nice. When you start getting into Samsung Saturn stuff and GB/GBA let me know.
This controller with US colors looks a bit *Mmm
As far as I know only the French Super Nintendo didn’t have the RF port right from the begining (since we’ve always used RGB here).
Maybe that revision of Super Comboy was meant to be played in North Korea (PAL/Secam as well) haha. Joke aside, that’s indeed an interesting revision, even Japan, Hong Kong and the US didn’t get late revisions without the RF Port.
Regarding my CH1-2 Super Comboy what do you want to know about the bottom sticker ? the year it was made ? That one has plug+in sound board BTW. I know it because I added stereo output to it.
I will send you an email to discuss the rest
Just a word for William Pacheco : have you got a picture of a complete Tiny Toons or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on Super Comboy ? That could be a good thing for the article and Dentifriz and mine’s enlightenment. ^^ Many thanks.
I own the manual for Tiny Toons. I’ll try to see if I can find pictures of the box online for those games.
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?37344-Novadaemon-s-Korean-Gaming-Collection-and-Game-Room
A year ago I made that thread at Assembler Games. I need to update it because my Korean collection has grown much larger.
Yeah the other day we were discussing with Prupru about the tiny toon box. Wondering what color it is, our bet is green or gray/silver but we have yet to see the box.
Same goes for the blue boxed Mario Kart.
BTW I found another game imported from Japan with just an extra black and white manual in Korean : Utopia. Again it’s an RPG which let me think that only games from this genre came that way.
Hi guys,
I found a blue boxed Super Mario Kart today. Two actually. Both boxes were nice and had complete instructions inside. The problem was that both were missing their games. The shop owner refused to sell me the box. Unfortunately he also had Contra, UN Squadron, Brawl Brothers with box and manual but no game. I didn’t try to buy those but knowing how this blog has a TBC on the blue box Mario Kart I did attempt to buy that one. No dice. Also didn’t have a camera so I wasn’t able to snap a picture. I should be able to get one soon. It looks pretty much just like the Super Buster one.
William Pacheco : I know your collection. If I’m right, I bougth you my 1st korean Super Comboy on eBay.
My collection grow a little bit since. ^^ You’ve always 2 games which are missing me (The 2 Street Fighter).
Yes you did, and it’s amazing to see that your Super Comboy collection is more complete than mine! If you need to get Street Fighter let me know. I know someone who is selling their cartridge.
I’m only research a complete one.
If you find an other (same about Super Street Fighter), don’t hesitate to contact me. 
Hi. I have a one quesiton.
I want to know super comboy(슈퍼컴보이) Logo font on the top of the picture of The Hyundai super comboy master list
Please answer
It’s not a font, it’s just a bitmap picture
Hello,
I live in Busan and am trying to get my hands on a Super Comboy. Any insight into where to look or which types of terms I can put into Naver, etc. ? I figure 50,000 is about what It’ll cost when I find one which is fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Chris
Hello Chris I ‘m in Busan also a go to eva’s taco night all the time maybe we can meet and exchange locations to find Comboy stuff. Just picked up several Comboy games and even some US snes games. Like a CIB Syndicate.
Whoa…I just found a CIB syndicate. Yes, please contact me. My email is *check link on comment author* (removed from here to avoid attracting spam bots).
Hi,
Very nice collection.
How much was the Super Comboy for its launch in South Korea in the won currency ?
Thank you very much if you know the answer.
Erwan