Robocop III Famicom cartridge, in which a veteran Tokyo police officer is brutally murdered by a gang of criminals, and brought back to life as a Special Rescue Command Solbrain robot. Well, not really. This is probably just a bootleg for Natsume’s modified version of Shatterhand.

Buy: Real Robocop games

See also: More bootlegs

[Via Retrofranz]

tags / famicom / bootleg / cartridge / gaming / nintendo / nes / imports / Special Rescue Command Solbrain / ec / shatterhand

Speaking of the Famicom, here’s a DuckTales cartridge for the 8-bit system! Scrooge McDuck isn’t looking like himself here… Maybe it’s the missing top hat and cane.

Obviously, this is a bootleg — there’s even a version someone found with a yellow cart and a blue-tinted label (perhaps a printing error, increasing its collector value?)

Not pony tales or cotton tales. No, DuckTales.

Buy: DuckTales

See also: More bootlegs

[Via Cauterize]

tags / famicom / bootleg / gaming / ec / ducktales / capcom

8-in-1 Game Boy cartridge with a gun label, spotted on a Chinese auction site. I’m not 100 percent sure this isn’t a bootleg, but it looks legit to me based on the details.

Buy: Game Boy games

See also: More amazing bootleg games

[Thanks, Jonathan! Via Taobao]

tags / game boy / gun / bootleg

Dratula: Crazy Vampire for the Game Boy Color. Can you imagine a vampire spinning into the screen of your Game Boy, yelling out, “Somebody stop me!”

At first I presumed this was either a prototype for The Mask’s cancelled GBC game, or a hack of Sony Imagesoft’s mediocre GB platformer Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but it looks like Universal Studios and Dreamcatcher actually released a top-down action game for the GBC called Dracula: Crazy Vampire back in the day.

I have a feeling that whoever created this artwork mistook the C in the original game’s logo as a T. Unfortunately, the only video I could find online for the original title is this short clip with the Game Over screen.

Buy: Dracula: Crazy Vampire

See also: More bootlegs

[Via Polk]

tags / bootleg / dratula / dracula / crazy vampire / game boy color

Bootleg Game Boy cartridge with a cat hologram sticker. The sticker, unfortunately, wasn’t originally on here. This guy’s friend bought the 80-in-1 cart in the Philippines, and he decided to add the cat sticker later.

This is pretty much the best Game Boy cartridge ever. Yes, even better than those rare, import-only white carts for Tamagotchi, Nintendo Power, and Purikura!

Buy: Life-changing cat stickers

See also: More bootlegs

tags / bootleg / hologram / hologram cat / sticker / ec

“We’ve grown really close, and I want you to have this…..” FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU—

For those out of the loop, this is a mash-up between this cute Pokémon letter and this super creepy Pokémon hack.

Buy: Pokemon HeartGold and/or SoulSilver

See also: Letters To An Absent Father strips, mini-comic

[Via Deadashistory; Thanks, @brandonnn!]

tags / pokemon / hack / ec / ghost / bootleg

tags / world of warcraft / zelda 3 / final fantasy vii / advent children / king of fighters collection / famicom / bootleg / china / ec

Cover for the pirated Famicom Disk edition of Tetris, another gem from Caveman Bowl’s collection of bootleg FDS games. Tetris aficionados will recognize that while the Famicom/NES received two versions of the famous puzzler from Tengen and Nintendo, there’s no record of any commercial Tetris release for Famicom Disk.

Caveman Bowl says this plays like Nintendo’s Tetris except with extra block shapes (e.g. pieces that look like the letter U). Though it’s not as swank as the Famicom game’s box, I really like this bootleg’s cover with its tetriminos spilling out the screen and the Tetris poster in the top right corner.

Import: Famicom Disk Games

See also: Bootleg Famicom Disk game: Turbo Dick

tags / tetris / bootleg / famicom disk system / famicom disk / imports / caveman bowl / ec