Over the years I've seen people around the internet say they played Hummer Team's Aladdin and never knew it was unlicensed until years later. It really was a solid bootleg.
I'm really grateful for bootleggers. I grew up in eastern Europe and having a real NES in the post Iron Curtain era was extremely unfeasible. However, due to Chinese bootleggers, I got to grow up with NES games. I had a Terminator 2 lmao seriously look it up it's a real console
I only ever played one bootleg game I think, my cousin said to me it was some sort of Pokemon Black game. I remember only that there was like a Tornado that you could capture, and I think I beat maybe one of the first bosses, which may also have been a tornado or a giant rat. It was weird, only played it for a few hours.
It kind of reminds me of the Donkey Kong Land games on the original Game Boy, though there was also a DKC port on the Game Boy Color I wonder if someone could try to downport the original DKC to the NES in a more playable state
@@pablocasas5906 , it honestly wouldn't be too difficult, especially considering that the architecture of the NES/FDS was, in a lot of ways, similar to that of the Game Boy/Game Boy Color.
These unlicensed games always fascinated me, even as a kid. They mostly look pretty good, with some exceptions, but what makes them actually bad is the programming and, thus, the gameplay. The main strategy in the 90's was to make screenshots on game box and magazines look appealing, it was true even for official games, and bootleggers also knew it would work. One that was quite popular here in Brazil was Sonic 4 for the SNES, I didn't know it was a Speedy Gonzales hack, but we always found it entertaining enough, specially since SEGA and Nintendo were nemesis and we knew that.
Interesting video. I used to see these games all over Chinatown in NYC in the early 90s. It was like playing games in bizzarro world and I bought a couple of them. Then sometime around the mid 90s, Nintendo funded a massive fed raid of all those bootlegger shops and the party was over. lol
19:39 That's literally the match-ending screens in Jingi Storm: The Arcade. The loser of the match will cause his spectating partner to get sexually assaulted in some way. If a boss character loses a match, then it would look like as if she was about to get sexually assaulted. Very disturbing, but I am glad these defeat screens were toned down for the final release of the game.
I argue that New Super Mario Brothers is the REAL Super Mario Brothers 2, and not that glorified expansion pack to Super Mario Brothers, or the Dream Factory: Heart Thumping Panic reskin.
First off, its really good to finally see some more videos discussing bootleg games. Let's just hope you continue this and go into even more in-depth perspectives on these games, such as exploring Waixing or Vast Fame or really any of the other noteworthy companies (no matter how good or how bad their work is). Cause at the end of the day, even if some (or really most) of these games are awful, and some are even unbeatable, it is still good to look at the effort and the entire idea as a whole and appreciate the "what could have been", had these games been officially made. Now of course, some bootleggers did an absurdly good job with most of their work (such as Vast Fame), but once again, being able to look at the whole picture and see the ins and outs of it, would be quite refreshing compared to what MOST videos on UA-cam about bootleg games tend to be... which is often an absolute mess of uninformed, misunderstood, and poorly reviewed contexts about bootleg games. Like, we genuinely need more videos that actually try to understand what was made, rather than simply making fun of it or bashing it for being below average. The only person I've seen on here do a semi-decent job is S1tka, but he doesn't really stay focused and tends to be more comedic when discussing them.
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Over the years I've seen people around the internet say they played Hummer Team's Aladdin and never knew it was unlicensed until years later. It really was a solid bootleg.
Titenic! I remember JonTron's video mentioning it, really cool to have some more backstory on this UFO of a game. The 90s were crazy man
I'm really grateful for bootleggers. I grew up in eastern Europe and having a real NES in the post Iron Curtain era was extremely unfeasible. However, due to Chinese bootleggers, I got to grow up with NES games. I had a Terminator 2 lmao seriously look it up it's a real console
Couldn't hold a feather compared to the Sarah Connor sequence D!! 😂
@@sydh-b3771 lool I don't know what their logic was there like people would see it and think it's the console based on the movie??? 😂
I only ever played one bootleg game I think, my cousin said to me it was some sort of Pokemon Black game.
I remember only that there was like a Tornado that you could capture, and I think I beat maybe one of the first bosses, which may also have been a tornado or a giant rat.
It was weird, only played it for a few hours.
Wow, that DKC port looks good.
It kind of reminds me of the Donkey Kong Land games on the original Game Boy, though there was also a DKC port on the Game Boy Color
I wonder if someone could try to downport the original DKC to the NES in a more playable state
@@pablocasas5906 , it honestly wouldn't be too difficult, especially considering that the architecture of the NES/FDS was, in a lot of ways, similar to that of the Game Boy/Game Boy Color.
Really cool video, well researched, thank you! Thats the niche content I enjoy today on UA-cam.
These unlicensed games always fascinated me, even as a kid. They mostly look pretty good, with some exceptions, but what makes them actually bad is the programming and, thus, the gameplay.
The main strategy in the 90's was to make screenshots on game box and magazines look appealing, it was true even for official games, and bootleggers also knew it would work.
One that was quite popular here in Brazil was Sonic 4 for the SNES, I didn't know it was a Speedy Gonzales hack, but we always found it entertaining enough, specially since SEGA and Nintendo were nemesis and we knew that.
I love going "wait, _they_ made this?" when I recognize half these games in this list from bad romhack compilations
20:44 1995 Copyright, seems legit
Interesting video. I used to see these games all over Chinatown in NYC in the early 90s. It was like playing games in bizzarro world and I bought a couple of them. Then sometime around the mid 90s, Nintendo funded a massive fed raid of all those bootlegger shops and the party was over. lol
Really really great video! Very interesting topic
Those shirts are sick dude!
Great video. Thank you
Nobody, not even the original companies:
NES games in the 90´s: * STREET FIGHTER 6 * 🗿
19:39 That's literally the match-ending screens in Jingi Storm: The Arcade. The loser of the match will cause his spectating partner to get sexually assaulted in some way. If a boss character loses a match, then it would look like as if she was about to get sexually assaulted. Very disturbing, but I am glad these defeat screens were toned down for the final release of the game.
extremely clickbait-y thumbnail lol
I argue that SMB 2 USA is official bootleg of a certain legit game.
I argue that New Super Mario Brothers is the REAL Super Mario Brothers 2, and not that glorified expansion pack to Super Mario Brothers, or the Dream Factory: Heart Thumping Panic reskin.
Oh go on then take a sub
First off, its really good to finally see some more videos discussing bootleg games.
Let's just hope you continue this and go into even more in-depth perspectives on these games, such as exploring Waixing or Vast Fame or really any of the other noteworthy companies (no matter how good or how bad their work is).
Cause at the end of the day, even if some (or really most) of these games are awful, and some are even unbeatable, it is still good to look at the effort and the entire idea as a whole and appreciate the "what could have been", had these games been officially made.
Now of course, some bootleggers did an absurdly good job with most of their work (such as Vast Fame), but once again, being able to look at the whole picture and see the ins and outs of it, would be quite refreshing compared to what MOST videos on UA-cam about bootleg games tend to be... which is often an absolute mess of uninformed, misunderstood, and poorly reviewed contexts about bootleg games.
Like, we genuinely need more videos that actually try to understand what was made, rather than simply making fun of it or bashing it for being below average. The only person I've seen on here do a semi-decent job is S1tka, but he doesn't really stay focused and tends to be more comedic when discussing them.
Hummer Team made a great looking NES fishing game on a plug and play fishing controller console. Didn't look like much depth but it looks great.
Your chapter marks are kind of bootleg too. way off.