View Full Version : Game Genie... who's it REALLY made by?
aaron7
01-30-2007, 10:18 AM
At least in the NES age, the Game Genie was branded with the Galoob logo in the US. In Canada it got the Camerica logo.
Now, Galoob made Micro Machines and Pound Puppies... not really any other things like the Game Genie.
I'm wondering if it was made by some other company and just had other people's brands on it?
Or am I thinking WAY too deep into this?
AcePuppy
01-30-2007, 11:37 AM
Alot of companies don't make there own products and are branded by it. Believe it or not Sony's DVD Writers are made by Lite-On. LG also uses alot of Hitachi's TV parts for there Televisions as well.
FurinkanianFrood
01-30-2007, 11:55 AM
The Genny GGenie was made by UK developer Codemasters.
I don't know about the NES GGenie.
Codemasters also made Micro Machines games on NES and Genny/Megadrive.
FurinkanianFrood
01-30-2007, 12:28 PM
Oops.... should have just edited previous post....
It's all explained in the book Game Over.
Game Genie was made by UKs Codemasters originally for the NES, Nintendo sued and lost (they lost twice against Codemasters). Nintendo had to pay Codies millions.
It was licensed to Galoob for the US market.
rbudrick
01-30-2007, 02:10 PM
It's all explained in the book Game Over.
Game Genie was made by UKs Codemasters originally for the NES, Nintendo sued and lost (they lost twice against Codemasters). Nintendo had to pay Codies millions.
It was licensed to Galoob for the US market.
See, I thought that was all correct, except replace every instance of Codemasters with Camerica.
-Rob
Zadoc
01-30-2007, 11:00 PM
The Genny GGenie was made by UK developer Codemasters.
Quoted for truth.
Galoob was just the publisher.
anagrama
01-31-2007, 08:06 AM
See, I thought that was all correct, except replace every instance of Codemasters with Camerica.
-Rob
Isn't Camerica the US name for Codemasters?
Mayhem
01-31-2007, 09:35 AM
I always took it to be a concatanation of "Codemasters America".
rbudrick
01-31-2007, 10:10 AM
Makes sense. I remember I did call them once back in the day, and they surprised me by answering the phone as "C America (See America)" and not just one word, pronounced like "CamErica."
-Rob