Official(?) Chinese Gameboy Multicart?

[fcgamer]

probably they had the rights to do whatever they wanted, with Nintendo's permission, making these official.

That's what I mean - I don't see that as official in the true sense, it's just licensed out If it doesn't meet the usual quality
(like a POS keyring with a poorly printed Nintendo logo on).

The multicarts are glob tops though, check the links or open one of your carts  
Interested to know where these were manufactured - doesn't look like taiwan and I suspect it was Hong Kong, but if it was China then I'd be interested in how that worked in theory, politically.

But I still am lost as how you would consider these not to be official.  When Acclaim had the rights to manufacture their own NES games, they were considered official, yes?  And the SNES rereleases made in Mexico, albeit less desirable to collect, would also be considered official releases.  These were manufactured and sold, on Nintendo's behalf, licensed by Nintendo with the seal, etc.  IMO that is as official as it gets.

[L___E___T]

Yeah it depends on how you look at it.  Having first party license but not having first party involvement is just a 3rd party license to me.

For example, the swag you get on front of the official nintendo magazine, is that official?  It is technically, but it's essentially just licensed tat.

[fcgamer]

Yeah it depends on how you look at it.  Having first party license but not having first party involvement is just a 3rd party license to me.

For example, the swag you get on front of the official nintendo magazine, is that official?  It is technically, but it's essentially just licensed tat.

But some of the Game Boy games included on the multicarts were 3rd party games, unless I am mistaken, and if that is the case, then they would be 3rd party official releases either way.

[L___E___T]

The multicarts were all 3rd party I thought, but then all 3rd party games are licensed by Nintendo anyway in that sense.
It's not a massive difference, but Nintendo would have licensed these out, not 3rd party manufacturers as a rule. 
Mani were the sole distributor in these Asian (chinese) markets from what I can tell.

In terms of what collectors deem official, they're certainly legit, like the brazilian SNES games etc.

[fcgamer]

Yeah Mani distributed in China and Hong Kong.