Author Topic: Best place to look for bootleg Famicom games?  (Read 3524 times)

ghastlygooch

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Best place to look for bootleg Famicom games?
« on: October 01, 2024, 09:32:43 PM »
Looking for the Fortran games for my awful bootleg collection (Grand Dad, Mario Fighter, Big TV Mary Bar, Mario IV). The issue is people rarely ever title their listing as the actual game names so I've found nothing through search engines. Image search is also proving to be useless because it only shows results that are either completely identical to the input image, or already sold.

I've found a lot of bootlegs searching 'Pegasus' on a few Polish websites, and 'FC' on some Taiwanese sites, but I haven't found the games I'm looking for.
(secondary question: did these games ever even make it to european countries? Is it worth searching through them?)

What are the best sites to check out? Or any good keywords in general? People obviously don't like listing their items as 'bootlegs' so nothing comes up when you search that.

Edit: I've found listings for everything except Big TV Mary Bar.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2024, 01:49:24 PM by ghastlygooch »

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Re: Best place to look for bootleg Famicom games?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2024, 08:36:41 PM »
To answer your question on whether or not unofficial Taiwanese Famicom games were sold in Europe, the answer is yes. Some was even sold in Western Europe and Canada. I would say those are not good locations to search through though. Not because the carts aren't there, but because you're going to mostly see official carts, so you'll be sifting through a bunch of stuff you don't want. Since you have a pretty short list of things you are looking for I would recommend taking your time when it comes to searching so you don't wind up overpaying a ton or get stuck using expensive shopping agents