Were these games ever released on bootleg carts?

[fcgamer]

Can anyone confirm the exist of these games on bootleg Famicom carts, let's say circa 2000 and before (i.e. no Aliexpress crap):

NES exclusives

Nintendo:

Gumshoe
Anticipation
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
Short Order/Eggsplode!
Pinbot
Cobra Triangle
Tetris (completely different from the Famicom and Tengen versions)
Punch-Out!! (non-Mike Tyson version, featuring Mr. Dream)
StarTropics
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
NES Play Action Football
Super Spike V'Ball/Nintendo World Cup


Konami:

Bill Elliott's Nascar Challenge
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
King's Quest V
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
Tiny Toon Adventures: Cartoon Workshop


Ultra:

Defender of the Crown
Nightshade
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary


FCI:

Break Time: The National Pool Tour
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike


Bandai:

Monster Party
The Adventures of Gilligan's Island
Legends of the Diamond: The Baseball Championship Game
Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach


Acclaim:

Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II
Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl!
Swords and Serpents
Airwolf (completely different from the Famicom game)


Taito:

Qix
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade



Data East:

Rampage
Bo Jackson Baseball


Sunsoft:

Freedom Force
Xenophobe


Toho:

Circus Caper (technically a localization of the Famicom game Moeru Oniisan, but the graphics and levels are completely redone, and some of the mini games were removed)


Jaleco:

Cyberball
Rampart (NES version developed by Bitmasters and is different from the Tengen-developed Famicom game released by Konami)
Maniac Mansion (NES version developed by Lucasfilm Games & Realtime Associates and is different from the Jaleco-developed Famicom game)
Whomp 'Em (technically a localization of the Famicom game Saiyuuki World 2: Tenjoukai no Majin, but the graphics are completely redone)
Shatterhand (technically a localization of the Famicom game Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain, but the graphics are completely redone)


Tecmo:

Tecmo NBA Basketball


Taxan:

Magician




Absolute Entertainment:

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Space Shuttle Project




LJN:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Pictionary
Major League Baseball
WWF King of the Ring


Milton Bradley:

Jordan vs Bird: One on One


Mattel:

Bad Street Brawler
Super Glove Ball



Activision:

The Three Stooges
Stealth ATF


Tradewest:

Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship
Taboo: The Sixth Sense
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Magic Johnson's Fast Break
John Elway's Quarterback
High Speed


American Sammy:

Arkista's Ring

Square:

Rad Racer II



GameTek:

Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Junior Edition
Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition
Super Jeopardy!
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition
Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition
Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White
Double Dare
Hollywood Squares
Classic Concentration
Family Feud
Fisher Price: I Can Remember
Fisher Price: Perfect Fit
Fisher Price: Firehouse Rescue


Romstar:

Baseball Stars 2

Electronic Arts:

Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble

MicroProse:

F-15 Strike Eagle


INTV Corp.:

Monster Truck Rally

Electro Brain:

Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston
Super Cars


HAL:

The Adventures of Lolo (Famicom Adventures of Lolo is a retitled Adventures of Lolo 2)



THQ:

Where's Waldo?
The Great Waldo Search
Swamp Thing
Wayne Gretzky Hockey


Sofel:

Casino Kid II



Hi-Tech:

Win, Lose or Draw
Remote Control
Fun House
Orb 3-D
Rollerblade Racer
Sesame Street: ABC
Sesame Street: 123
Sesame Street: ABC/123
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak


Ubisoft:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (completely different than the Taito NES game)

Virgin Interactive:

Color a Dinosaur
Greg Norman's Golf Power
Overlord


Ocean:

Cool World


Parker Bros.:

Heavy Shreddin'/Snowboard Challenge

Mindscape:

Gauntlet II
Days of Thunder
The Last Starfighter
M.U.L.E.
Loopz
Dirty Harry
The Miracle Piano Teaching System
Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge


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PAL NES exclusives

Nintendo:

Mario Bros: Classic Serie

Konami:

Konami Hyper Soccer
Noah's Ark
Rackets & Rivals


Virgin Interactive:

Disney's Aladdin
The Lion King

Infogrames:

Asterix
The Smurfs

Laser Beam Entertainment:

Aussie Rules Footy
International Cricket

Hudson:

Disney's Beauty & the Beast

Mindscape:

Dropzone

Imagineer:

Elite
Kick Off
Super Turrican

Ocean:

The Legend of Prince Valiant
Parasol Stars: Rainbow Islands II
Rainbow Islands: Bubble Bobble 2 (PAL version is different than Taito's NTSC versions)

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Pretty sure I've seen many pre-2000 bootlegs of these two, but no way for me to prove they were pre-2000.  They at least weren't modern (from memory, for what that's worth):

Virgin Interactive:
Disney's Aladdin
The Lion King

[fcgamer]

Pretty sure I've seen many pre-2000 bootlegs of these two, but no way for me to prove they were pre-2000.  They at least weren't modern (from memory, for what that's worth):

Virgin Interactive:
Disney's Aladdin
The Lion King

Hey Luke, I know this is a lot to ask, but you wouldn't happen to have any pictures or anything, would you?  Also, are your sure that they were the games from Virgin, as opposed to other LK/Aladdin Famicom games (i.e. hacks, Hummer team game, etc)?

About the cutoff time, I had posted this thread in a hurry before heading back to work earlier today, but the time isn't something I am overly concerned about, as long as it isn't a modern Aliexpress sort of cart. 
Post Merge: January 26, 2018, 05:01:43 am
I also just now crossed out a few titles that I would consider to be confirmed.  Star Trek I am certain about, the other two I feel confident about, though really no way to know 100% for certain unless someone owns a cart of it (i.e. sometimes the labels mismatch the actual game).

Likewise, about the Sesame Street games:  I have Sesame Street Countdown on cart, and I remember seeing another one on bootleg before.  But it was never clear whether it was ABC, 123, or the multicart containing both.

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To be honest, they may well have been Hummer releases, I'm not so familiar with the NES versions.  But I will watch some YT vids of both to see if I notice anything.  I know they weren't hacks of other games though.

[MWK]

I only rolled the whole list briefly with my eyeballs and can tell you that over 50% of what you've listed were released OR AT LEAST rumoured to be seen as a bootleg, from our domestic POV of course, as we all know that every good old pirate was born in Taiwan, which leads however to yet another interesting [edit:: mystery/unsolved] matter - that why some of them games were more common here in Poland than in Taiwan (USA exclusives or BICs for instance) and some the other way around (Crisis Force, DDD2, Daiku no Gen-san, just to name a few)?

+ sorry Dave, I don't have time to manually prove every single one of them, you just have to trust me at the moment... or ignore my post  

[Retrospectives]

Gumshoe was released on J.Y company multicart (I forgot the actual serial number but I think I have the cart or I might sold it to MasterDisk)...Lolo was released as standalone bootleg (might have been under Japanese version though), but the rest I do not know totally. Mostly American/Western games I do not really know much about to be honest.