New Star Electronics manual

[MLX]

I saw what seemed to be a catalog from New Star Electronics (mostly known for their NSxx multicarts), bought it but it ended up being a compilation of manuals for the games they released (standalone, if they did, and their multicarts).

You can download the whole thing there (scanned)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/k8s7yn9d5f3cndw/newstar.zip

[fcgamer]

That's a really neat piece, thanks for sharing!

[taizou]

on a related note, here's something interesting that came up recently - https://fugu.cafe/talks/10829
a New Star branded Famiclone, but on the built-in menu screen it's credited to "Electrical & Mechanical Department 46" which was apparently part of the Chinese military industrial complex at the time.. so I guess New Star was either a military-owned/backed enterprise or at least cooperating with them. Puts an interesting new spin on what seemed like just an average shanzhai famiclone company.

They apparently released two Famiclones and were working on a Mega Drive clone but Sega put a stop to that. https://twitter.com/anty_k/status/793453563091390465

Another interesting thing about the clone itself - it has Family Basic built in, but instead of being an all-in-one keyboard system like later clones, or even coming bundled with a New Star-produced keyboard, it actually came with a Taiwan-made Intellivision keyboard.