Here's a humorous little note compiling a selection of musical design of cartridges pirates. You will see, our pirates have some herbs “talent” to select various images and assimilate them into a game no matter how. But no matter how REALLY ! This is obviously distressing but often very funny, and I'm sure you've never seen Sonic, Mario or Batman, Scrooge and the Ninja Turtles in this light… Something to look like our boxes PAL NES Megaman to works of art !
Continue reading
Between diaper changes, I finally managed to squeeze this little note that I was keen to heart. I recently discovered a game Super Famicom distributed and above officially localized for Hong Kong Nintendo couple. I had already submitted my console SFC officially sold there by the distributor Mani-Limited in this entry and I was totally unaware of the existence of any game location for this region (HK is usually found at that time either import or JPN versions of local pirate).
Continue reading
I had already submitted the Nintendo FAMICOM as amended in Hong Kongaise this entry, but the other feature of this very small area south of Canton, is to have also had the right to its own version of the NES, distributed by also Simon & Toys. This article will give a visual presentation (even if the light is not with me today for photos…) This version of the console, as well as’a comparison with our European NES. You will see there are quite a few differences friendly.
Continue reading
Did you know ? The PC-Engine NEC was also hijacked in his time. Though far less popular than its sister 8 or 16bit and a lot less well distributed outside Japan (France, UK and U.S. being the exceptions), it is rather surprising that the most cute of all consoles have also retained the attention of Asian bootlegers. She not only had its own copier to run games on diskette, as was done by its competitors, but she was also entitled to its Hu-Cards X in 1 pirates.
Continue reading
Some of you may have had a brief glimpse at these games a ticket on my last trip to China, but I wanted to take the time to properly present these here Game Boy Advance games officially sold in China under the trademark iQue. iQue is a Chinese joint venture (more commonly known Joint Venture in the jargon) founded in 2002 by a Dr.. Wei Yen (a software engineer) et Nintendo Japan in order to distribute legally and officially branded products of Osaka, Japan.
Continue reading
Always in my console started coming from countries more or less exotic, I present here two of my latest acquisitions, a Famicom the first model sold only in Hong Kong, a model quite rare since few distributed, and which has very interesting features. Then a Super Famicom,, with a small level feature video output. Both consoles are complete, with their box, even if they were obviously well lived. A ticket that is close to my heart since I lived some years in Hong Kong !
Continue reading
The peculiarity of these games Megadrive version ASIA, that is officially marketed by SEGA for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand, is that they contain either Roma multi-zones (JUE) be zoned PAL in Japanese cartridges.
Continue reading
Last post on my purchases of retro games in China with a ticket filled with photos securities in box & notice. Pas mal of Bootlegs (unlicensed pirates) of course but also some exclusive titles developed in Taiwan in the late years 90 and some were allowed to exit via the English SuperFighter Team (Beggar Prince, Legend of Wukong… ). We will also see how, while being non-official, Cantonese Society in a ended up becoming, at least locally, itself to be copied later with products of lesser quality. Finally I will touch briefly on Russian market, country or Megadrive seems to have unofficially hardback after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This would explain why some cartridges produced in China have a label in Russian (I found a carton of Contra Hard Corps like this, you will see after the jump in ticket). A busy schedule but a priori, I think should interest, the most hardcore retro-gamers !
Continue reading
