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That is true, but at the end of the day this is just SNES...ugh

Maybe that's why Nintendo had that chip shortage...

Thanks for posting this! I spoke with a few local people and they were quite surprised by this, I had a theory but sadly I cant confirm it.

I was sorting through some games last weekend to sell, and I couldn't get these two to run, as well as about ten others. Cracked everything open to do a proper scrub n rub and noticed something interesting about the games. Not really sure what is going on with these games, well yeah actually I do see what is going on but not really sure what to think of it. Let's discuss.

Just received (and completed) Donkey Soldier and AWOL.

Wait wait wait...I thought we were discouraged from having personas? I want to see everyone for them true selves, lol.

So of course in more recent generations we have a lot of gamer parents, even many on VGS such as the notorious @OptOut and the heroic @Reed Rothchild . A lot of my students similarly tell tales of how their parents, who are mostly in their thirties, are also gamers. This led me to wonder about everyone here, how did your parents react with gaming? For my brother and I, our parents were not gamers at all. I think I might remember my mother playing a video game once or twice just for the sake of appeasing me, but even then, I'm not 100% sure on this. She does have a periphery knowledge of games though, thanks to my brother and I - for example, one year my brother had a scene from Mega Man 3's Snake Man on his birthday cake, something that my mother did for my brother. Similarly, my brother and I used to create lyrics for some of the old video game music, and (once again with Snake Man), my mother once starting singing what we had concocted, yet since her singing is notoriously bad, she ended up altering the tune to make it unrecognizable. This alternative version of Snake Man's tune is quite famous amongst our family, despite my parents not being gamers. As for my father, I have a few memories of him playing games with us. When we first got our Nintendo back in 1990, one of the games we got that Christmas was Rescue: The Embassy Mission. My father played it and completed it on the easier levels, as that was his game. Similarly, we really looked up to him for being "good" at the Nintendo, since he could advance further than us in Super Mario Bros. He still didn't get very far though, and in Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers, he is notorious for not being able to get past the cactus plants in the first stage! To sum it up succinctly, when my father was visiting me a few months back, I asked him if he wanted to play a video game with me. His response: "No, playing a video game would stress me out." I thought the whole thing sounded absurd, but then again, I guess it could. When we traveled, either on holiday or to go Christmas shopping at the larger malls in the bigger cities, usually my brother and I were allowed to stop in at the arcade (at the mall) or at the game room (in the hotel). During these times, my father would usually take a turn playing games with us, it was basically scene as something he'd do during this vacation time. The games he would do though would either be Pac-Man / Ms Pac-Man or a racing game, generally Datona USA or one of the Cruisin' games as we got older and games progressed. Years later I would find out that two of my aunts / uncles had Atari 2600 machines back in the day, which blew my mind as I couldn't see them as gamers at all. Sadly that stuff was long gone by the time I became interested in it, though my brother remembers seeing one of the machines in the basement of my uncle's old house years back. With this reveal also came the reveal that my parents used to own some sort of Pong clone, as they couldn't afford an Atari back in those days. Although my parents couldn't remember in particular getting rid of it, searches of the storage areas in the house revealed that it was also long gone. When I asked my mother why they even had that machine, she responded saying something like "Well we were young once too." It just seemed so weird for me to think about though, as my parents' relationship with video games was very, very limited when my brother and I were growing up.

I just got rid of a bunch of that...it's in the trash waiting to go out. You want me to save it for you?

@Ankos I have a pair of boxed telefang Pokemons if you're interested.

Yessir! I hope to add that in the near future.

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That one's really interesting looking, but I've never seen one of those until now. Judging from the text, I guess it's coming out of China?

Yeah it's a common shell design.

I knew you were going to bring up color as well - while I've probably found more blue cartridges overall, I've also found a large amount of orange cartridges, and even a few pink / black / white cartridges. Also, it's interesting as blue has become the standard of modern cartridges using this design, for some reason, and those are all coming out of China. I guess what I am getting at is because you do see a lot of 72 in 1 orange cartridge story cartridges, 64 in 1 orange, etc. that I just honestly would not be able to classify these as strictly Chinese cartridges / versions. Even Princess Maker was in one of these, and primarily an orange shell. These are strictly just my opinions though. It's funny that we ended up on this topic. A few weeks back I was actually investigating if there was a correlation between game, shell color, and shell design - i.e. I was chatting with a good buddy of mine (TheBootlegBandit), and I had posited that it might be possible to collect (within certain parameters) "all" bootleg Famicom games of all shell designs / colors. This was based on seeing certain games such as the Whirlwind Manu Rockman game always showing up in a pink Assupo shell, Fantasy Zone often appearing in a gray "standard" cartridge, etc. Then I looked at a pair of Tpita (Tengen) Tetris Whirlwind Manu cartridges I had, and while they were virtually identical, one was a paler shade of blue, though it didn't appear to be a case of sunfading. Then there was also the case of the two black Dig Dugs, where the labels were the same and while the black shells were almost the same, they were slightly different on the sides and back. Such things spooked me a bit and made me think that while I am sure there is going to be some patterns (i.e. none of these are going to be one-offs), unfortunately it would quickly get to the level of nitpicking akin to documenting minute changes in the fine print of licensed cartridge labels. I do, however, speculate that collecting for some of the shell variants would be quite doable though.

My knee-jerk reaction wants to say yes, but I'm not going to. While you do see this sort of larger style cartridge in China quite a bit, I've also spotted it frequently in Taiwan with multicarts, as well as some other games that generally didn't have "small cart" releases, such as Splatter house. Even the bootleg of the Japanese Bases Loaded got one of these shells, in black, making the cartridge look authentic at first glance. I always figured that due to technical reasons, some of these games were placed in these larger shells, i.e. they required more chips.

Kamen Rider Club, grabbed it from a friend. Extremely hard to find as a bootleg cartridge.

Paintings and to a lesser extent, artwork

Awesome! Great to see these lists

Awesome! It was a lot of fun watching the video you did last year. Glad to see that you're doing another video this year

See, your presumptions are where you miss the mark. Your research on the matter of homebrew and indie games misses the mark completely, which can be seen from your arrogant attitude and quick nature to turn defensive whenever someone questions the parameters of the list you cobbled together. And an example of that is Flowers in the Mirror. The game was made by Fuzhou Waixing Computer Science & Technology Co.,LTD. The company released a ton of games. Granted, some of them were just Chinese translations of popular Japanese games, but the rest are in the exact same camp as Flowers in the Mirror. Does Traitor Legend appear on your list? Lin Baned the Opium (one of my favorite games for that matter)? Not that I can find. So if I may ask, why are these games being excluded from your list, yet Flowers in the Mirror is included? I can best guess it has something to do with Flowers being a run 'n gun that was bootlegged by westerners. Such instances as this, and others that I have pointed out over the course of time in this thread highlight that your research on this particular topic just isn't that great. You mentioned earlier that any homebrew game counts if it can theoretically run on real hardware, but that again ignores the fact that a large portion of the Bob Rost early homebrew games do not (according to sources I have seen) run on actual hardware. This wouldn't be surprising to me at all, as these were very early NES homebrew projects dating from the early 2000s, but the guy was even teaching a course on NES homebrew; therefore, those games should certainly appear on a list claiming to document all the NES homebrew. And the list goes on with troubling inconsistences as these. It just smacks of poor research, and as a New York Times bestselling journalist, this could have been your chance to do something amazing. Instead, you just act in a very condescending manner when anyone questions anything about your list, when in fact, we would just like to see an accurate, unbiased list of games. Finally, no need to try to talk down to me and act as if you're informing me about games about which I am unaware. I own many of these games in the original print and remember when virtually all of them were in development. If you want to do something that's actually meaningful, listen to the constructive criticism with an open mind and go about trying to implement a more sound means of making the list. Until then, how is one to take the list seriously?

Nice! I don't think I ever saw the box before for the Bible Time Voyager.

It's a decent list, albeit a weirdly curated list. It's strange to see Flowers in the Mirror on there, for example. Rather than advertising this as an archive of every NES homebrew game ever released, as it clearly isn't, perhaps there's some better name for it like "Seth's Homebrew Picks".

Then there are those weird foods, such as "Taiwanese hamburgers". Here's an article: https://lifeoftaiwan.com/food/taiwanese-hamburger-goes-global/ I do disagree about one point though. English speakers refer to these as Taiwanese hamburgers because that is what our local Taiwanese colleagues and friends refer to them as, rather than it being something we coined ourselves! I'd personally just refer to it as a guabao, similar to how I refer to fried noodles as cao mian (chowmein), a lunchbox as a bento/biendan, etc. But the locals insist on using these weird translations...

I don't know how they did their Japanese releases, but EA has a plant in Taiwan and a large portion of their releases were just USA versions with the occasional package tweak.

Well another example would be that the Germans use (used?) the word Handy to mean cellphone...