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Natty Bumppo
11-11-2010, 11:24 AM
I have a few Japanese gameboys that came in tins (about the size of a band aid tin) rather than boxes. Here is an example of one:

http://www.ncsxshop.com/images/products/large/1106/gameboy_wars_turbo_shop.jpg

The ones I have are:

Turbo Wars
Bomberman Collection
Bomberman 3
Super B. Daman
Bomberman

I don't have them, but Momotarou Collections 1 & 2 were also issued this way.

Anyone know of any others that were packaged like this?
joshnickerson
11-13-2010, 11:09 AM
I've got one for Bomberman Pocket. It was only Hudson games that came out in tins,wasn't it?
Emperor Megas
11-13-2010, 12:52 PM
Wow, that's great; I've never seen those before. I love it when companies use clever packaging.
Natty Bumppo
12-08-2010, 10:23 AM
I picked up another one called "the Same Game" off of ebay.

And I found the two Momotarou ones online from Japan.

(These are also all by Hudson.)
Scissors
12-08-2010, 12:47 PM
There's a GB Genjin (Bonk) one too.
Gameboy415
12-14-2010, 11:13 AM
There's a GB Genjin (Bonk) one too.

Yup, I've got that one myself.

It's actually a collection of 3 Bonk games! 2 side-scrollers and one board-game.
Koa Zo
12-14-2010, 02:39 PM
I picked up another one called "the Same Game" off of ebay.

I am under the impression that those carts are compatible with a the SFC game of the same name.
I've seen the SFC cart, and it does indeed have a port on top that looks to fit a GB game.
Can you confirm this and elaborate on the functionality and gameplay?
Natty Bumppo
12-15-2010, 12:51 PM
I am under the impression that those carts are compatible with a the SFC game of the same name.
I've seen the SFC cart, and it does indeed have a port on top that looks to fit a GB game.
Can you confirm this and elaborate on the functionality and gameplay?

I haven't received it yet (it is coming from Japan) . Since I don't read Japanese I likely won't be able to tell if it is supposed to be able to work with the SFC cart (maybe there will be a pic in the manual). (Although I may try to pick up the SFC cart just to have such an oddity in my collection.)

Scissors -thanks for the tip on the Genjin - I found one of those and have ordered it also.

Edit - it looks like the SFC version was actually part of the Satellaview system - and from what I can gather the slot at the top was for a memory card of some sort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview