Introduce yourself...

[son_ov_hades]

Hey all, I've developed a recent interest in the Famicom and this site/board have been beyond helpful. I always thought the NES was the best system ever, and found out about all the great stuff I never got to play on the American system. I only have 2 Famicom carts at the moment, Devil World and Namco Star Wars. I'm considering getting a disk system, and an actual Famicom soo. For now I'm playing them on my top loading NES with a Gyromite converter.

I love gamming across all platforms, and while I wouldn't call myself a collector, I have 9 systems and around 250 games. I look forward to learning more about the awsome Famicom.

[133MHz]

Welcome to the forums!

[JC]

Welcome. There are a lot of NES collectors out there who don't realize how great (better?) the Famicom really is. Something like 500 more games were released for the Famicom than the NES. And some real gems, too.

[FamicomFreak]

Great welcome new members!

[TheClash603]

Hello All,

In May I went to Japan because I have always been a game geek and it was the trip of my dreams, and when I came home, I brought a Famicom with me.

Currently I have about 60 cart games and 20 disk games, some CIB some not.  Picked up a famicom twin too (normal famicom looked bad on my TV, fuzzy on channel 95) .  I will post pics on the collection post in the near future.

I am a retro gamer from Buffalo NY, grew up with Odyssey II, Atari 5200, and NES.  Although I have PS3, Wii, X360, I still like my retro best.

Best system of all time is the Sega Saturn, NES/Famicom is #2.  So far my favorite Famicom only game is Goonies.

Anyone know anywhere to get import retro games in Buffalo/NYC?  I like store shopping more than eBay.

[JC]

Welcome...I used to visit a retro store in NYC when my bro lived there, but the last time I was in the store it was moving to a new location. I don't even remember the name. It had a Disk System and a few FC pirate carts for sale.

[Sirdjorgo]

Hello i am a FC collector from South Korea (also live in Sweden 6 month a year and 6 month home in korea) i have been playing famicom since i was child (since korea is closest neighbour to japan we also had FC system)  but start serious collecting for about 8 years ago but also i had to sell many of my carts by private reason. Now i have been catch up collecting again and i found this forum by accident but happy to be here.

Sorry for my bad English i more understand than i can write but i hope that you will understand me....If you want to ask anything about Korean FC collecting or anything else you are welcome to ask...Thats all for this time!

[JC]

Wow. From Korea.

I'd like to know everything about Korean Famicom gaming. I know there's Famicom in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and pirate FC in China and Thailand, but I didn't stop to think about Korea. So, did you get an official release of the Famicom? Were any games officially released there? It seems nearly all of the official games came out of Japan -- there weren't official releases elsewhere, but I have seen the official HK and Taiwanese Famicom. I also have a Baseball pulse line cart with Chinese writing (original from Nintendo) that came from HK. So, I'm guessing some carts were officially released in Hong Kong.

Oh, and welcome!

[nurd]

Heh, I saw some pictures of the Korean nintendo systems once.

"Comboy" ?

They look pretty cool.

[JC]

Yeah, the Korean NES was the Comboy. I used to search for it on eBay and eBay would redirect my search to "cowboy." It was annoying.

[nurd]

And Somari led to "Somali"

Some pictures

[Sirdjorgo]

Thank you very much

There was never an actual official release of the FC system in Korea but since Korea is the closest neighbour to Japan the FC system was inofficially released to the Korean market and it was that system regular people remember as the "8-bit system" since the well yes the comboy WAS released as an official licenced product from Nintendo but that was years later than the FC was released so if you ask any Korean they do not for sure remember the comboy system (also there was not very many games to that system if you se how many fc games there were out on that time, pretty many more).

There was not very much pirated multicarts in Korea (dont know why but i guess that also the fact that Japan is only three hours away from korea our market was kind of get mostly games from japan) or also bootlegs from original games.. But most of the games who are Korean is unofficial releases (not pirated) made by Koreans but there was also not pretty many and the games are very rare. Joykid also and some other famiclones were in market but they were just like any other crappy famiclones.

Many of the Korean videogame market have their own licenced products that came out in Japan such as the Samsung Saturn and Super Comboy and so on just for (hmm what you call it) legally seeing for the world in public =S (sorry i do not really know how to say in english)


I hope you understand what i writing now an if there is further questions on this just feel free to ask!

Edit: I give you this link to read some more about this about Comboy and some Korean comboy systems....It is not my site but it sure have some information in english language

http://autofish.net/hosted/famitek/

[JC]

Thanks for the link. It seems like you have had a nice unlicensed originals market in Korea. There are some games on that website that I've never seen before...which doesn't altogether surprise me.

http://autofish.net/hosted/famitek/koko2.jpg  -- looks great!
http://autofish.net/hosted/famitek/mfscreenshot4.jpg -- awesome!

There is a list on that site of Korean Version NES games. Is that a complete list? I see Bubble Bobble was released there! I love Bubble Bobble.

[nurd]

I saw a video of that one, It looks cool.

[Sirdjorgo]

No problems =)

That list is what i know not complete from that licensed NES games but there were absolutly not many as in the USA or Europe were released in Korea for the NES

Oh yes specially the Metal force cart is one very great game that i have in my collection, also the general son cart is also one that i own that is not very good game but it is based on a true Korean story who took part when Korea was a part of the Japanese empire...Actually if you go to Korea you can find in markets some unknown unlicensed famicom Korean carts (just to have some luck( an you will find sometimes very interesting games =)