Recent finds -please tell me what they are...

[ebenezer]

First off, thank you so much for your help as I am brand new to import collecting. I know this is a long topic with lots of questions, so I hope I'm not abusing this forum. Also, sorry about the crappy pictures...if you want to see something clearer, let me know.

Went to a huge flea market in taiwan. Didn't expect to find atari 2600 games there, but there were some. I bought these four...then found out that many sellers were selling bootleg stuff. I looked up "I want my mommy" and "space tunnel" and they are real, (the former, not a bad find) but I'm suspicious about the lower left one as the text is all in Chinese. Did they make Chinese 2600 games? Bootleg? Others were also selling these "Chinese" 2600 games. They mostly seemed to be 4 in 1 games and the like. And what is that one on the upper right? No label and a switch in the middle...bootleg or something awesome? (I don't have an atari now to check them on right now)



Here is the picture of the rest of the stuff those people had where I got the atari games...I'm guessing most stuff on the far right is famicom stuff...plus some genesis and super famicom carts on the left. But what are those large atari-like cartridges on the middle-right? Too big to be 2600 games. All of their text is Chinese. No Japanese or English.



Is there a way to spot a fake famicom game? Some of them seemed to be fake as the lables were not so clear (slightly pixilated or blurry) but maybe they just used to use lables like that...Do all famicom games have to have a white japanese label with text on the back...those seemed to be the legit ones...



The three "atari-like" cartridges I ended up buying just for fun. All of the text is Chinese.



Plus a picture of a big load of stuff that came in a bag before I realised there were bootlegs there. What are those "Crystball" and "Popo" ones on top? I'm wondering...do all gameboy games have to say "Nintendo Gameboy" at the top, cause some just say "GAME" I'm assuming those are the bootlegs. Also, one Gamegear says "SEGA" on bottom and the other says "GAME"



I know some of them are PC Engine games, but what are those smaller cards and the carts on the bottom?




Lastly, picked up some FC and SFC stuff...probably really common stuff, but who knows...

Thanks so much!

[Baloo]

The Game Boy and Game Gear games that say "GAME" and not "SEGA" or "Nintendo Game Boy" are pirates.

The last two cartridges in the last pictures are Famicom carts I believe.

[BeaglePuss]

Those are Sega Saturn Ram carts used for certain games.

[mobiusclimber]

Crystball and Popo Team are SuperVision games. Also, there's a Neo Geo Pocket Color game next to Crystball. Finally, I think the smaller card-based games might be either SG-1000 or Master System games

[BeaglePuss]

That "Boy's Soccer Team III" MD pirate also uses the same artwork as the NES game "Ultimate League Soccer." Very cool. I wonder if it's a port of the same game, or just a lazy pirate technique.

[Kitsune Sniper]

... WTF? Is that a genuine Kid Dracula I see? o_O

The SS Ram Card is most likely a Chinese knockoff Saturn RAM card. Certain Japanese games had an option to use the card to make the game look better by loading more graphics into it. Capcom and SNK made good use of it. The other one is a KOF '95 RAM card which is required for the game to run, as it has graphics data stored in it.

Just how much money did you spend on all this? That's an awesome haul.

[Ryaan1234]

Went to a huge flea market in taiwan. Didn't expect to find atari 2600 games there, but there were some. I bought these four...then found out that many sellers were selling bootleg stuff. I looked up "I want my mommy" and "space tunnel" and they are real, (the former, not a bad find) but I'm suspicious about the lower left one as the text is all in Chinese. Did they make Chinese 2600 games? Bootleg? Others were also selling these "Chinese" 2600 games. They mostly seemed to be 4 in 1 games and the like. And what is that one on the upper right? No label and a switch in the middle...bootleg or something awesome? (I don't have an atari now to check them on right now)

Okay, first of all the game with the Chinese text is probably a bootleg game. Most of those Atari games that look like that with English text were actually made in Taiwan and sold cheaply in the U.S. witout the proper liscensing. I think that a few of these Taiwan-made games actually have original games on them.

Check it:
http://www.atariage.com/software_pag...reLabelID=2370

Strangely enough, Atariage says these particular games (with that cartridge shape) actually originate from Europe




As for the game with the switch, I dunno. I seem to recall something about a bootleg type game with that feature but I can't remember what, considering how bad my memory is that game might be something other than a bootleg. Though, I'll say that my money's on the possibility of it being some sort of Chinese multicart like what you see with the 999-in-1 or whatever NES/Famicom/Famiclone games.

[ebenezer]

I asked my Chinese friend what the words on those "oversided atari" carts were (what a novel idea). They turned out to be weird carts that add Chinese subtitles to "lazer-disc" movies, probably normal DVDs but can't imagine what DVD player would have a slot for them. go figure.

[Vlcice]

There is such a thing as laserdisc, but I didn't think it had much traction in the region beyond Hong Kong. Still, I suppose, more likely LD than something like VCD - where it would be much easier for the pirates just to add subs on-disc. They look much too old to me to be for DVDs.

[hellfire]

Plus a picture of a big load of stuff that came in a bag before I realised there were bootlegs there. What are those "Crystball" and "Popo" ones on top? I'm wondering...do all gameboy games have to say "Nintendo Gameboy" at the top, cause some just say "GAME" I'm assuming those are the bootlegs. Also, one Gamegear says "SEGA" on bottom and the other says "GAME"

Omfg, boy soccer team 3 is my favorite game of all time!!

[ebenezer]

No kidding? So is this a hacked original or a copy of a real megadrive/genesis game?

[hellfire]

No kidding? So is this a hacked original or a copy of a real megadrive/genesis game?

Whats megadrive/genesis? Ive only heard of the famigame player 101 in 1 super system

[hellfire]

and of course the yomo coolkid super 99999999999999999999 in 1

[ebenezer]

by "megadrive/genesis" I meant Mega Drive or Genesis game, as I'm not sure right now which pirates work on which systems.