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Shocking (Korean pirate arcade game)
« on: January 01, 2015, 10:12:47 PM »
So, for a while, I have heard of this game called "Shocking", by an unknown Korean company called Yun Sung. It is an arcade game that is currently emulatable on MAME.

Per the 90s Korean tradition, it steals a lot of things. From what I can tell, it stole Betilla from the first Rayman, and also the Skypest enemies from Commander Keen. I believe some music is stolen too.

And before you think "oh, well, at least the gameplay is semi-original, am I right? It looks to play a little decently at least", well, I recently discovered that the game is in fact an unofficial port/remake/ripoff of a relatively unknown Japanese PC game called 幻世快進劇 (Gensei Kai Shingeki), released in 1996 by Compile (the Puyo Puyo people) as part of the 12th volume of their DiscStation series (though it also got a stand-alone release too). It even uses the same yellow wolf character and all (at least for Shocking's English version, the Korean version just replaces it with a human for some reason)


Here's a full playthrough in case you're interested.

And for comparison, here's a Nico Nico Douga playthrough of the original Gensei Kai Shingeki

And also what seems to be the only English blog entry with information on Gensei, which was how I made the Shocking-Gensei connection to begin with.
Shocking is...quite an interesting beast, no pun intended.
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2015, 06:15:30 PM »
ah wow, i played this game a while back & i thought it was pretty decent/original compared to Yun Sung's other stuff from the same period (puzzle bobble clones, side pocket clones, porno qix clones, all the mid-90s korean staples) .. i should have known it was a ripoff of something. nice find!

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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2015, 12:42:44 AM »
...Yeah, the song at 1:32 is definitely plagiarized. :lol: ("Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark!)

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« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2015, 01:36:02 AM »
Oh wow, it doesn't even ATTEMPT to hide the fact that it's a ripoff! All the stuff from Gensei Kai Shingeki is stolen, right down to the parodies of other arcade games.

Thanks, Korea. This is a pretty neat find, I must say.