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Pirate Discussion => Famicom/NES => 2000-present => Topic started by: taizou on December 05, 2010, 08:36:57 PM

Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: taizou on December 05, 2010, 08:36:57 PM: I seem to recall quite a few years ago, back when famiclones were still full of original NES/Famicom games instead of dodgy hacks or terrible originals, some of them mixed in original ports of Frogger and Asteroids (and possibly other arcade games?) along with the usual stuff. I think it might have been a Super Joy or something, but I can't find any info. anyone know anything about these?
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: Awesome Panda on December 06, 2010, 02:02:28 PM: I've seen a couple of those before with Frogger on, and the music is a dead giveaway that it's a remake by JungleTac. Here's a review of the VG Pocket Game 25-in-1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTi0vn_PCY) that has it and there was a review of a Power Joy with it as well, but I can't find it.
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: taizou on December 06, 2010, 02:28:37 PM: The Jungletac version was released as a standalone console by Majesco too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9ZUX7Yhww (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9ZUX7Yhww)
but i dunno if the Super/Power Joy version would be the same port, no other Jungletac games have shown up anywhere other than their own consoles AFAIK.
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: Awesome Panda on December 06, 2010, 04:22:36 PM: Gotta love the ripped off Contra sound effects in a Famiclone that was licensed by Konami. :P
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: iniche on December 07, 2010, 08:29:24 PM: I don't know about that... If that famiclone was indeed licensed by Konami, the famiclone has to be official, which I don't think is the case. I wouldn't think Konami would take away from Nintendo's business like that.

Anyway, great, another game which takes a Contra sound effect. More to document.
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: rommaster1991 on December 08, 2010, 07:20:48 AM: About Frogger, They might have had the rights to develop the game, and Konami just gave them the license.
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: taizou on December 08, 2010, 11:04:01 AM: I have no doubt Frogger (the Jungletac version) was licensed by Konami - Majesco ported it to a bunch of other systems IIRC, they probably just subcontracted the plug & play version to Jungletac without Konami knowing/caring that it was a Famiclone.
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: iniche on December 08, 2010, 06:32:37 PM: That makes more sense, I guess.
Title: Famiclones with Frogger/Asteroids etc
Post by: Awesome Panda on December 08, 2010, 06:51:09 PM: What I don't get is that the other ports Majesco published (for the SNES and Mega Drive) were made in 1998, 6 years before JungleTac's version. They must have been waiting for the Famicom patent to expire, given that Famiclones pretty much became legal in 2003.