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Waixing throughput was massive in 1996: the chinese copyright office lists more than 50 titles released by Waixing that year!

Churning out that many games possibly came with disorganization. It was just faster to implement the splash screen everytime than align and design a reusable template.

Shiten Myooh Chinese (Taiwan) instructional insert outer cover

Shiten Myooh Chinese (Taiwan) instructional insert inner

Taiwanese bootlegs in the 80s and 90s often came with translated manuals or instructional inserts like this one for Shiten Myooh/Shadow Blasters/四天明王 on the Mega Drive:

#Taiwan #Sega #MegaDrive #bootlegs

It's cute the things people are saying. Mediocre but functional video games and even well regarded ones that just weren't for them. Me I finished Pokémon Jade (Special Pikachu Edition). A game where you have to use a cheat code to stop it crashing at the end of the first level

Masashi Kageyama in Asakusa, Tokyo. January 2020

影山雅司 永眠のお知らせ

We are deeply saddened to share that Gimmick! composer Masashi Kageyama has passed away.

Seiya: Loser, don't waste my time. Abel: How dare you talk to me like this

"Os Cavaleiros Do Zodiaco" title screen. A Saint Seiya themed fighting game by Hummer Team.

After King Fishing, the Hummer Team dumping commando just dropped a new bomb.

had thought you meant a script for a 💯 newer video 😔

Make it happen!

Waixing's "Boat Race", a hack of Eliminator Boat Duel, is probably the closest we'll ever get to seeing an "actual" VT03 game that utilizes the hardware properly and that's mainly only because it's based on a pre-existing impressive game lmao

It is also possible that Fighting Hero was successful enough on its own to push NTDEC to produce a cycle.

There are three documented print runs of Fighting Hero. It was definitely big for NTDEC.

In 1990-91 NTDEC saw the potential of arcade SF/SF2 and made their own take, and was successful.
By mid 92, the market was completely overtaken by Yoko SF2.
By mid-late 93, people wanted a cycle. SF3, SF IV, FH3 all attempted to repeat SF2 success.

You miss the point.

Back in the days, parent would see a fighting game that look like what their kid beg for, and would buy it. NTDEC never made these games for us.

It would have drowned unnoticed in the Street Fighter II tsunami.

Title screen for Nice Code Software's "Seething"

Gameplay of Rad Racket II, AVE release.

Most licensed and unlicensed games can't even begin to brag about revisions count in comparison to Rad Racket.

We have recently uncovered another revision. Whenever that releases will be the perfect opportunity to talk about them all and the development timeline!

Can you believe there are at least five documented revisions of Rad Racket II: Deluxe Tennis? We got various beta and nearly final builds due to hiccups from Both TXC and AVE!

The other titles released aside are no less amazing, like:
- Kung Fu Kid, an early work-in-progress prototype of Koko Adventure by Daou/Open Corp!
- AGCI Crossbow

Massive props to GameHistoryOrg / Frank Cifaldi for his incredible continuous preservation work!

The dump is available on the @hiddenpalace.org, and your all-time favourite NintendulatorNRS emulator supports it.

Photo of a B&W photocopy of a box design mock-up/rough art.

Photo of a B&W photocopy of a possible artwork mock-up/draft.

Photo of a B&W photocopy of a mock-up for the back side of the box.

AVE had the engineering know-how to design and manufacture NES cartridges. Furthermore, either NTDEC or AVE may have refused to provide binaries for their games and letting the other design, program and manufacture the final product.
...or NTDEC games were deemed not worthwile.

Screencapture of the three pages of the selection menu.

The dupes to artifically increase the game count was possibly not received well by Maxivision International potential partners. NTDEC Pokey occupies no less than 3 entries!

AVE iterations did not feature any NTDEC games. Why?

A photo of the MaxiVision 30-in-1 prototype produced by NTDEC for MaxiVision International Inc.

Photo of the back of the same prototype cartridge. The back side has a game list sticker.

Breaking news! 🔴
The MaxiVision 30-in-1 had a prior iteration, without AVE involvement! In mid 1991, MaxiVision International Inc. had contracted NTDEC to produce a compilation with NTDEC and Color Dreams titles!

AVE took over the project within a year and released the 15-in-1.

I came here to be excited that I found NES game design docs from Taiwan in storage but I guess that thing is happening and you're all watching it