Some title screens:

Here's the onscreen text from the games, removed in the circulating dumps. It's in the original French, and in a quick machine translation to English.

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©  Colosoftwares  1983.2000


Hunter On Ice.

Help Hunter the Inuit Hunter find his igloo.

Build a raft with the ice cubes you find on the ice floe. Watch out for dragons and sea lions who won't leave you alone. Fortunately, you can crush them under the ice cubes, or fight them once you've taken the pearl of power.

Use the 'A' button to pick up the ice cubes and drop them into the sea at the bottom right of the screen.

Put on your skates and press 'Start' to begin...

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Magic Madness.

Little Merlin, the magic land needs you to fight the evil Kholoo.

To achieve this you will need to have the 4 magic books that are at the end of the 4 levels of the magic land.

Use your magic powers to fight the evil creatures that will stand in your way.

The 'B' button lets you change spells and the 'A' button lets you use the selected spell.

Press 'Start' to begin and let yourself be carried away by the magic madness.

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 Race 'N Burn.

Like Nikki Senna, you dream of car races and podiums...

But be careful. The champion will be the one with the highest score at the end of the 8 championship races.

Don't forget to use the 'A' and 'B' buttons to change gears.

You can play alone or with a friend if you have two gamepads.

Press 'Start' to begin...

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Tropical Fever

The zoo has sent you on a mission to capture wild animals.

To get there, you'll have to climb vines, bounce on hippos' bellies, put out fires, lure the gorilla with a banana or scare him away with water...

Press 'Start' to get started before you catch tropical fever...

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 Shoot the Goof

You are a sniper in the anti-alien division.

Hungry aliens have crossed the galaxy and threaten to eat your friends.

You have a time limit to complete your mission.

Each alien you eliminate will give you points.

If you hurt an innocent you will lose some.

The more points you have accumulated at the end, the better you will have succeeded in your mission.

Be brave and precise!

Press the A button to Start.

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©  Colosoftwares  1983.2000

        Hunter On Ice.

Aide Hunter le chasseur
esquimau a retrouver son igloo.

Construit un radeau avec les
cubes de glace que tu
trouveras sur la banquise.
Attention aux dragons et aux
otaries qui ne veulent pas te
laisser faire.
Heureusement, tu peux les
ecraser sous les cubes de
glace ou les combattre non
sans avoir pris la
perle de puissance.

Utilise le bouton 'A' pour
prendre les cubes de glace et
laisse les tomber jusqu'a la
mer en bas a droite sur
l'ecran.

Chausse tes patins et appuie
sur 'Start' pour commencer...


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        Magic Madness.

Petit Merlin, le pays magique
a besoin de toi pour combattre
le mechant Kholoo.

Pour y parvenir il te faudra
avoir les 4 livres magiques
qui se trouvent au bout des
4 niveaux du pays magique.

Utilise tes pouvoirs magiques
pour combattre les creatures
malefiques qui te barreront
la route.

Le bouton 'B' te permet de
changer de sort et le
bouton  'A'  d'utiliser le
sort selectionne.

Appuie sur   'Start'  pour
commender et laisse toi
emporter par la folie magique.

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        Race 'N Burn.

Comme Nikki Senna tu reves
de courses automobiles
et de podium...

Mais attention le champion
sera celui qui aura le plus
haut score au terme des 8
courses du championnat.

N'oublie pas d'utiliser les
boutons 'A' et 'B' pour
changer de vitesse.

Tu peux jouer seul ou avec
un ami si tu as deux
manettes de jeux.

     Appuie sur 'Start'
     pour commencer...

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        Tropical Fever

Le zoo t'a envoye en mission
pour capturer des animaux
sauvages.

Pour y arriver tu devras
grimper aux lianes, rebonoir
sur le ventre des
hippopotames, eteindre des
incendies, attirer le gorille
avec une banane ou le faire
fuir avec de l'eau...





Appuie sur 'Start' pour
commencer avant d'attraper
la fievre tropicale...

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        Shoot the Goof

Tu es un tireur d'elite de la
division anti extraterrestres.

Des aliens affanes ont
traverse la galaxie et
menacent de manger tes amis

Tu as un temps limite pour
mener a bien ta mission.

Chaque alien que tu elimnines
te donnera des points.

Si tu blesses un innocent
tu en perdras.

Au plus de points tu auras
acumule a la fin au mieux  tu
auras assume ta mission

Soit courrageux et precis !

Appuie sur le bouton A
pour commencer


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GameStar AL-27605M Taiwan 2000 / Game Star 5 in 1
"Hunter, Magic, Race, Tropical, Shoot"

(Menu uses graphics from "Hokuto No Ken 2"/Fist of the North Star. The color attributes are off by one tile vertically and an "arrow" tile has been added.)

Hunter / Ice Hunter / Hunter On Ice (Colosoftwares 1983/2000)
Magician/Magic Madness (Colosoftwares 1985/2000)
Tropical Fever (new? undumped?)
Race 'N Burn (new? undumped?)
Shoot the Goof (new? 2000, credited to Oniros)

These ports were made in 2000, and copyright info and French text were removed, and music changed, for the circulating versions. There is video of the removed text so it wouldn't be impossible to hack it back in.

"Shoot the Goof" is a 2000 original light gun game credited to Oniros.

Jean-François de Wergifosse was involved, as he takes credit for the 2000 Colosoftwares on his LinkedIn.

He is not credited everywhere for the original 80s games but they appear to be his also. A likely explanation is that he ported his own work.

Anecdotally, he has been asked about this on social media and replied that the games are his work.


Hunter (Unl) is a NES port of Ice Hunter (Commodore 64, 1983).

The title screen HUD is eight tiles wider than the NES's screen, and is cut off. It scrolls with you during gameplay. It feels like this might have been a test for a C64 mini console with a wider screen, although it is cut off to NES resolution on every circulating version.

Cutscenes with an igloo aren't included. Graphics are slightly updated but very similar.

There is an extra "press start" title screen which is replacing the original French text screen. It's regular NES width, and forces you to only use the first six rows of graphics (mostly an alphabet) -- which I fixed.

Change 60 to 00 at 1E75 and 1E7A to remove this offset. Sprite palettes are set at 722.

There's one weird thing:  the seal and yeti enemies both use the same "crying" sprite, which is supposed to resemble both of them. In the C64 version it had different colors, but doesn't even have that here. It's literally the same sprite call, in the yeti's red color.