I've never seen the original Tian Wang cover before though, or the name "Gods and Devils". A lot of their games had official English titles that were only used on the original print runs.. its kinda nice to know.[/quote]
I wonder how rare the original version is, I'd love to find a copy of it.
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Seems as if every other unlicensed FC original from my perspective is always something based on Chinese folklore.[/quote]
Most original Taiwanese games in their peak era were PC Dos releases, and about 95% of them were based on Chinese stuff (Journey west, 3 kingdoms, warriors of the marsh, feng shen bang, etc) Thats one of the things that makes the games unique compared to the Japanese and even Korean stuff which mostly featured medieval fantasy or sci fi settings.
Also in regards to Waixing I guess the 2 journey to the west games they made as well as 'Ling Jie Hu Fa - Shock' are original titles.
http://www.waixing.com.cn/cn/yougou/yougou.asp (http://www.waixing.com.cn/cn/yougou/yougou.asp) - from here:
Da Fu Weng II = "Shanghai Tycoon"
Lu Ye Xian Zong = "God Gives Directions"
Zheng Jiu Shi Ji = "Heal The Century"
Lin Ze Xu Jin Yan = "Linzexu Baned the Opium"
Sui Tang Yan Yi = "The Story of Sui & Tang Dynasty"
Feng Yun = "Traitor Legend"
we have a few on the wiki too. theyre the AKA names in double quotes:
http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Fuzhou_Waixing_Computer_Science_&_Technology_Co.,LTD (http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Fuzhou_Waixing_Computer_Science_&_Technology_Co.,LTD)
I have hosted a part of what I kept from auctions
http://www.masterdisk.byethost15.com (http://www.masterdisk.byethost15.com)
in "Boxed pirates and random files"
Please do NOT link these pictures anywhere, reupload them on an image hoster.
Wow thanks MLX, here are some box shots of that batch of some of the original games I can see:
Feng Shen Bang (C&E)
(http://i.imgur.com/Ve1sE.jpg)
Sheng Huo Lie Zhuan (C&E)
(http://i.imgur.com/e8pd0.jpg)
Bao Qing Tian (NT)
(http://i.imgur.com/ViNcf.jpg)
Xi You Ji (Asder)
(http://i.imgur.com/D5WX7.jpg)
Jing Ke Xin Zhuan (Supertone)
(http://i.imgur.com/dAU7w.jpg)
Also noticed that the Asder stuff is numbered. I found this incomplete list from hg101 and added Cobra Mission which is number 27. Earlier numbered games were released under the NTDEC label while the later few releases are under Asder, which are the more original games:
CN-01 Fighting Hero
CN-02 Hit Marmot
CN-03 Magic Block
CN-04 Pokey
CN-05 Balloon Monster
CN-06 Magic Carpet 1001
CN-07 War in the Gulf
CN-08 Bookyman
CN-09 Cosmos Cop
CN-10 ??? Adam & Eve or Porter
CN-11 6 in 1
CN-12 ??? Adam & Eve or Porter
CN-13 Destroyer
CN-14 Go! Benny!
CN-15 Sea of Dreamland
CN-16 Tank
CN-17 ??? Policeman
CN-18 Skate Boy
CN-19 Fighting Hero III
CN-20 San Guo Zhi
CN-21 San Guo Zhi - Qun Xiong Zheng Ba
CN-22 ???
CN-23 ???
CN-24 ???
CN-25 ???
CN-26 Master Shooter
CN-27 Cobra Mission
CN-28 Xi You Ji
CN-29 Huang Di
Anyone able to fill in some of the blanks and also confirm if Huang Di was the last release?