As far as unlicensed companies go, there's that one PC game Waixing made called 俠義豪情傳-禁煙風云. I didn't even notice until now there's links all over the net for it. Here's one site with screenshots if no one's seen it before.
http://blog.yam.com/kudgame/article/29434525 (http://blog.yam.com/kudgame/article/29434525)[/quote]Hah. That looks...erm...
- Barver
- Feb 20 2011, 04:10:50 AM
I dunno, from what I gather there were quite a lot of these isometric RPGs for DOS back in the day. They probably all look the same really =p[/quote]Point taken. :lol: Just surprises me that so many games would use that perspective and a fairly similar style of graphics on top of that, I guess.
More YouTube vids of Chinese PC games:
http://www.youtube.com/user/hemanjulian (http://www.youtube.com/user/hemanjulian)
The art style in 諸神的狙殺 (Zhū shén de jū shā / Strike of the Gods) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiVwVeud1Q) looks incredibly familiar-- looks very much like something I've seen in a Gamtec Mega Drive game. The company that developed this is Jack Bean Ltd. (傑克豆工作室 Jiékè dòu gōngzuò shì), who are apparently most famous for a game called "Little Monk" (小沙彌 Xiǎo shāmí) that's actually listed on Home of the Underdogs.
Edit: Oops-- the Chinese name I originally gave for "Little Monk" was for an unrelated comic book. Fixed it now.
For those interested in further researching this stuff, the GameBase WeKey (http://www.gamebase.com.tw/wekey2008/) may prove invaluable. It's all in Chinese, of course, but there are pages on various games and developers dating back to the DOS era.
They even have a page for Gamtec (http://www.gamebase.com.tw/wekey2008/%E5%BB%A0%E5%95%86%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99/%E4%B8%89%E5%8D%94%E8%B3%87%E8%A8%8A/?x=%E4%B8%89%E5%8D%94%E8%B3%87%E8%A8%8A), but alas, no pages for any games associated with them. Never mind, they do have several Gamtec games! They're not linked from the company profile page, but they do show up in a search for the company name (http://www.gamebase.com.tw/wekey2008/search.php?src=tags&q=%E4%B8%89%E5%8D%94%E8%B3%87%E8%A8%8A&range=all). Apparently the "search for inbound links" feature doesn't work so well in their wiki software... -_-;;
I've also discovered that several games by Yingyang Information (鷹揚資訊) have a very similar art style to some Gamtec stuff. Like 恐龍世紀 Dinosaurs Century (http://hemanjulian.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_7884.html) (which is nothing like Gowin's Dino Century, incidentally).
Gamtec's old site had some info on their PC games, if you havent seen that already. here (http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/20020824113847/www.gamtec.com.tw/hotsale/hotsale.htm) and here (http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/20020713132430/www.gamtec.com.tw/preview/preview.htm).
Not sure if the two games mentioned as being in development on the preview page were ever released (no newer version of their site is archived as far as I can work out) but I'd imagine the online mahjong game was, since they seem to have gone in very much that kind of direction with BingoKing. The other was a presumably licensed Taichi Kid game, which Sintax also made a licensed GBC game of (as Little Taichi)
They probably never released anything like a platformer I guess. Probably all the same kinda crap they're making now under that Bingo King name.
nah, they do actually look like proper games - not really in the same style as their older stuff though.
heres the pages on the wayback machine beta, the versions i linked to dont seem to be working at the moment..
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020824113847/http://www.gamtec.com.tw/hotsale/hotsale.htm (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020824113847/http://www.gamtec.com.tw/hotsale/hotsale.htm)
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020713132430/http://www.gamtec.com.tw/preview/preview.htm (http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20020713132430/http://www.gamtec.com.tw/preview/preview.htm)
theres a Bomberman clone, some kind of mech strategy game, a card battle RPG & a Qix clone that i can see, that top one on the first page doesnt work but its listed as an action game.