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Pirate Discussion => Famicom/NES => 1984-1992 => Topic started by: codeman38 on March 16, 2011, 09:29:15 AM

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: codeman38 on March 16, 2011, 09:29:15 AM

I was looking through the List of Undumped Games (http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Games) on the wiki, and one particular game caught my eye: a little-known Korean Famicom game by Zemina called Magic Kid Googoo (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/korea/part1/company-zemina.htm#googoo).

Y'all may notice something vaguely familiar about the screenshots here, but... I'll get to that in a bit.


A Korean gamer posted a video and some screenshots of the game:
http://blog.daum.net/_blog/BlogTypeView.do?blogid=0L8pu&articleno=4880815&_bloghome_menu=recenttext#ajax_history_home (http://blog.daum.net/_blog/BlogTypeView.do?blogid=0L8pu&articleno=4880815&_bloghome_menu=recenttext#ajax_history_home)

One of the screenshots is a credit screen.

Koo Eun-joong, the lead developer of this game, was also lead developer on Buzz & Waldog. Even the music has the same composer, Kwon Dae-yong.

Now you see the similarities, right? :)


Edit: I'd read about this, but totally forgotten it till now-- Open, the developer of Buzz & Waldog, was founded by a bunch of former Zemina developers. So yep, this is definitely the team that split off to become Open.

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: SpaceNinja on March 26, 2011, 05:05:40 AM

Wait WHAT?

Zemina, whose Super Boy games frankly suck, with MAYBE the exception of 4, did the awesome Metal Force game? :O

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 26, 2011, 05:29:51 AM

SpaceNinja

Mar 26 2011, 05:05:40 AM

Wait WHAT?

Zemina, whose Super Boy games frankly suck, with MAYBE the exception of 4, did the awesome Metal Force game? :O[/quote]Apparently. Mind you, they probably teamed up with some members of Daou Infosys, although I wouldn't exactly describe The General's Son (Famicom version) as a stellar title either.

BTW, is there any reason why the title is in English on the title screen when it's in Korean on the cart label?

Oh, and the video player on that blog doesn't seem to work. I tried it on Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 and the video wouldn't start up on either of them. I'm willing to bet it requires IE6 to run, but it's not worth installing that POS again if you ask me.

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: codeman38 on March 26, 2011, 02:18:44 PM

SpaceNinja

Mar 26 2011, 05:05:40 AM

Wait WHAT?

Zemina, whose Super Boy games frankly suck, with MAYBE the exception of 4, did the awesome Metal Force game? :O[/quote]Well... sorta. Zemina as a company didn't make it, but a team from Zemina split off to become Open Corp. and made Metal Force. It'd be like saying Virgin Interactive made Earthworm Jim.

Cheetahmen

 

Oh, and the video player on that blog doesn't seem to work. I tried it on Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 and the video wouldn't start up on either of them. I'm willing to bet it requires IE6 to run, but it's not worth installing that POS again if you ask me.[/quote]No, it doesn't require IE6-- I got the video to stream a few seconds on Firefox before it timed out. It's just that Daum's streaming server is down half the time, and has ridiculously low bandwidth the other half.

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: Awesome Panda on March 26, 2011, 02:42:19 PM

codeman38

Mar 26 2011, 02:18:44 PM

Cheetahmen

 

Oh, and the video player on that blog doesn't seem to work. I tried it on Firefox and Internet Explorer 8 and the video wouldn't start up on either of them. I'm willing to bet it requires IE6 to run, but it's not worth installing that POS again if you ask me.[/quote]No, it doesn't require IE6-- I got the video to stream a few seconds on Firefox before it timed out. It's just that Daum's streaming server is down half the time, and has ridiculously low bandwidth the other half.[/quote]Daum it. >_< I want to see that video to hear what the sound engine's like, because as far as I'm aware it could sound like Daou Infosys or Open Corp. I'd upload it to Youtube if I could, because at least that way it'd be watchable.

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: codeman38 on March 26, 2011, 05:43:51 PM

Cheetahmen

Mar 26 2011, 02:42:19 PM

Daum it. >_< I want to see that video to hear what the sound engine's like, because as far as I'm aware it could sound like Daou Infosys or Open Corp. I'd upload it to Youtube if I could, because at least that way it'd be watchable.[/quote]From the small bit I got to load, it's got Tiny Toon sound effects. So yeah, definitely the same sound engine!

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: klax on July 14, 2011, 12:00:04 PM

I accidentally this forum. Is that dangerous? ;)

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 14, 2011, 12:07:12 PM

klax

Jul 14 2011, 12:00:04 PM

I accidentally this forum.[/quote]:huh:

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: klax on July 14, 2011, 12:11:50 PM

Cheetahmen

Jul 14 2011, 12:07:12 PM

klax

Jul 14 2011, 12:00:04 PM

I accidentally this forum.[/quote]:huh:[/quote]http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally)

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: KingPepe on July 14, 2011, 01:05:06 PM

klax

Jul 14 2011, 12:00:04 PM

I accidentally this forum. Is that dangerous? ;)[/quote]...what the hell was that for? Do you realize that was just completely unrelated and stupid?

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: KAGE-008 on July 15, 2011, 11:40:33 AM

klax

Jul 14 2011, 12:00:04 PM

I accidentally this forum. Is that dangerous? ;)[/quote]Are you going back to your old ways? You made a promise one week ago: http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums?topic=8859644/ (http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums?topic=8859644/), and now you're posting nonsense things... AGAIN! :X

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: klax on July 16, 2011, 10:59:43 AM

Fine. I was just joking. do any of you have a sense of humor? But just in case, I'll stop. I just wanted some laugh's!

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: codeman38 on July 16, 2011, 11:05:50 AM

We don't mind jokes, honestly... some of us here are amazingly snarky. We do mind when four-month-old threads are bumped just to post a joke that isn't even related to the game being discussed.

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 16, 2011, 11:35:02 AM

And at least two of us are Youtube YONG YONGers and I listen to S.O.D. and have a copy of Parodius so it'd be kind of ironic if I didn't have a sense of humour. :D

I think you need to learn that there's a time and a place for making jokes, and unless you can come up with some legimate points related to the topic at hand, bumping a topic that's several months old is not one of them.

Edit: Correction, Youtube P00pers. And that's how you beat the system. :P

EDIT (KingPepe): You're such a sneaky Tosspot.

Title: Magic Kid Googoo
Post by: KAGE-008 on February 11, 2017, 09:50:59 PM

http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=35234 (http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=35234)

Finally dumped.