Going off the discussion here:
http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums?topic=30120407/1/I present a new, similar issue: Hong Kong Game Cartridge Co. Limited, also known as HKGCC seems to have done the exact same thing.
Unfortunately all the pics are dead, however:
A European (or Korean, but probably European since no Korean Slalom is known) pcb:
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=5395A bootleg PCB (same link as before)
A genuine Famicom PCB w/ a 60-to-72pin converter in it:
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=21214They were a 'pirate' cart company in Hong Kong during the NES days, releasing around 100 carts. They had two styles of boxes uses, one which was in Chinese, and another that was in English. The name of the games differed between Chinese and English, seemingly randomly too.
http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame4/77_s-hongkong_nes_box01.jpg http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame4/77_s-hongkong_nes_box02.jpg -- Note how it uses the "港龍玩具有限公司" name in Chinese, but also the HKGCC name in English..
Unfortunately not much is known about them.
I'm looking for some PCB pics from any that people have if possible.I've done some investigation into the company, and it turns out that the company has some interesting history.
I'm unsure of when it actually begin, but a flyer from July 1988 (or what claims to be from..) exists.
It was registered as a company on the 19th of October, 1990 in Hong Kong, with a name change from 港龍玩具有限公司 (which I believe means Dragonair Toy Co. Ltd) to the HKGCC name. The colorful HKGCC boxes with Chinese on them say Dragonair, whereas the dark blue boxes say HKGCC in English.
The company's directors were [redacted], and [redacted]. The former of which was a "housewife" of Chinese nationality, and the latter of which was business executive of Japanese nationality. I have their addresses from 1990, but doubt they still live there, and also their "hong kong identity card ".
They also changed addresses for the company from a flat, to the location of First Island Secretaries (the company of their secretary) -- I would guess the operations were run out of this flat/apartment.
On the 25th of March, 1993, both of these people resigned from the company, and two new directors were put in place: [redacted], and [redacted], both British nationals. This may be Pong: [redacted] but who knows. For what it's worth, the document that shows this change, uses the name "Hong Kong Game Cartridge Limited" rather than "Co. Ltd" at the end. It lists both Pong and Yee as "Merchants" for their occupation. The address listed for both of them are the same house, so they're definitely related to eachother.
Nothing interesting happened for the rest of the year, until the 25th of August, 1994, when the company went into solvency with 0 debt and 0 assets (according to documents.) Back to using the correct "Hong Kong Game Cartridge Co. Limited" name, too. This document lists the directors as "[redacted]" and "[redacted]", so I don't know which order of the name is correct. I've tried a few contacts from Google and Facebook, but to no avail.
And that was the end of HKGCC.
