- taizou
- Oct 13 2011, 03:27:55 AM
I think the person selling Game Wizards (http://stores.ebay.com/Cheap-Game-Stuff-dot-com?_trksid=p4340.l2563) on Ebay is either a former employee or they somehow inherited a bunch of Innovation's old stock though - the same seller seems to have a lot of Innovation branded accessories mostly from the early 2000's by the looks of things. I also remember someone, possibly the same person, recently selling off a "rare" "prototype" of Magic Girl that was sent to Innovation for evaluation, which from all appearances was just the regular Taiwanese release. So maybe you could ask them for more info on the company...
[/quote]I know of this person. They ran a game shop in my hometown and the owner actually did Jail time for bootlegging cd games. Shop was called "Ultimate Video Gamers Club" or something in Old Saybrook, CT. As far as I know he has no ties to innovation and just had bought a lot of their merchandise at a closeout price.
Managed to dig through some of my old magazines last night and found a few of the ads from Innovation around '93-'94. I don't have a scanner so I'll try to take some clear pictures with my camera and post them on here tonight. Here's a link I found of what seems to be an updated advertisement (http://img495.imageshack.us/img495/4866/innovation3om.jpg)
I was surprised to find that most of their hardware that was advertised was actually released. A couple of things that I never actually saw were their Game Wizard rebranding of the Pro Action Replay for Game Boy and Game Gear. Also there was a newer version of the SNES Game Wizard advertised later on that had a completely different shell than any Datel product I've seen, the code switch looked like a sliding button in the center of the cart. Plus, on top of the SNES Game Wizard was a SNES mockup cart of Dooley the Dinosaur (!).
All of these games don't have screenshots but just drawings representing the games. Can anyone verify just exactly what the hell they are, or what happened to them? Took five minutes to search and looks like I covered the bases. If anyone knows anything else please feel free to add. HG101's page on Daou Infosys (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-daou.htm)
Game Gear:
Cave Dude - "24 levels of Stone Age action" No idea on this one.This post says it was Toto World 3 (http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=9941&sid=c5f018460adbffa460a1ab3f25fa44d2)
Dooley the Dinosaur - Remember this being dumped, was it the GG or SMS versions, or both? Or the same thing? (http://www.smspower.org/Games/DinosaurDooley-SMS)
Street Hero - "Awesome fighting/action game, 4 megs of awesome graphics" ?? Dumped recently as the English version of The General's Son (http://www.smspower.org/Games/StreetHero-GG) Looks like the SMS version was recently dumped also.
Street Battle - One-on-one fighter, supposedly programmed to be compatible with their Master Link adapter cable According to this post it was Jang Pung II (http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=9941&sid=c5f018460adbffa460a1ab3f25fa44d2) and yep, Innovation had some balls about them.
NES
Buzz & Waldog - "24 levels of wacky adventure!" Is the dumped version of this considered the final game?
Street Battle - "5 Meg action/fighting game" Same drawing as GG version. 5 megs? NES version of The General's Son, right? Still undumped?
The SMS version of Dooley was dumped and Buzz & Waldog I think is definitely finished since it's just a graphics hack of the original. I thought General's Son (NES) was called Street Hero though as well. (the original Korean version of the game is dumped though)