Exciting news for every NES buffs:
Thanks to Richard Frick and Frank Cifaldi, we get a new view of Sharedata's unreleased Crossbow NES port!
This 2nd prototype has a single playable level, but the graphics had a more than impressive upgrade!
< Arcade, 1st NES prototype, 2nd >
Taiwan's Atlon Technology, the likely public-facing name for the Ex-Sachen developers, was quite prolific.
They set-up their studio after parting way with Sachen around 1994-95, did both backports and original titles, and were instrumental to the UM6578 existence.
The game is rather unelaborated, and shares some similarities with Chu Da D. Greater care went into The Dragon.
After that collaboration, Atlon unleashed their full potential as a contractor for Ka Sheng (卡聖) and UMC.
Based on loose evidence, we conjectured that the 12-in-1 had this label, and went on a quest to find it!
We're never too old to educate ourselves, give it a shot at:
unlicensed.games/libg/index.…
Read more on the Ex-Sachen devs (a.k.a. Atlon) bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki…
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ОК, разбираем эту обложку сборника!
Парень слева - с промо или мануала Turok 2, ноги дорисованы.
Танк справа - с постера Mass Destruction, но заменен ствол.
Деревья на фоне - стандартный вектор-арт эвкалиптов, встречается на многих сайтах.
Не установлен солдат "на танке" пока.
C&E also sent Bubble Bath Babes to AVE for review.
Curiously, it credits Hacker International instead of Panesian, the only company that commercialised BBB.
Hacker released the game as "Soap Panic".
Another bomb from the AVE archives: a Xiao Ma Li evaluation sample crediting C&E, and from 1989! 🤯
Unsurprisingly, AVE rejected the game. Can't blame them for that.
Xiao Ma Li was initially released by Idea-Tek. Some copies credited an otherwise unknown company: "Nei-Hu Electronics".
C&E did release it again in 1991 alongside Tiles of Fate. Possibly when TXC took over idea-Tek. C&E had no reason to release it, unless they had been involved.
Latest hot debate at the BootlegGames Wiki! Did the beloved Hwang Shinwei develop Carmaze, a 1986 DOS port of Rally X?
Hwang Shinwei's Mi Hun Che (迷魂車) from 1988 uses the exact same romanization!
We often get the question: "how far back dates Famicom piracy in Taiwan"?
Prior to hardware clones, households could only acquire Japanese Famicom units. However there were already commercial copies of games! The oldest we've seen were from 1985.
Interestingly, there exist (a lot more!) "Space Shuttle"-branded cartridges that are actually for a unique MSX clone supporting only Famicom-shaped cartridges.
Here's Gomoku Narabe Renju from the same series, even features a modified title screen with a 1985 copyright!
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Today's random choice from Unauthorizon!
Brand: KING LION (獅王)
Name: COMPUTER & GAME SYSTEM
Model: KL-939
Region: China
#Famicom/#NES based console, released by 中山市嘉和电子厂.
unauthorizon.org/record/recv…
#famiclone #bootlegconsole #retrogame
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New arrival item at Unauthorizon.
*Thanks: ParadiseBird
Brand: STRIKE (強棒)
Name: Super Strike, 超級強棒電視遊樂器
*The earliest SY-700 model ever found?
Model: unknown
Region: Taiwan
#Famicom/#NES based console, released by 冠暢有限公司.
unauthorizon.org/record/rect…
#famiclone
Thanks to the unstoppable @frankcifaldi in his quest to preserve Video Game History, we get a unique glance at AVE's archives of Idea-Tek titles.
A one of a kind opportunity to study development timelines, with the developer-publisher back and forth across continents!
Link to the ROM image timelines: unlicensed.games/libg/commen…
We hope subsequent timelines will follow for C&E catalog, as well as AVE own titles!




































