31-in-1 BOOTLEG FAMICOM CART! - NORMOGATARI! (April Fools 2016)

[@GamingHistorian]

If you can sit through this entire video, KZbin will give you a special badge next to your username. Sorry.

[@kgh237]

Noo! :( lol

[@skullwolfsteam]

+Matt Dunn whhhhyyy

[@LetsPlayKeldeo]

+Gaming Historian You are not D: Soooo Oil up and hit the Gym :C

[@Iliek]

+Gaming Historian No you're not.

[@BeltDragon95]

Are you pulling our leg

[@imadonnari]

Some language context for you: Merry is the shortened phonetic pronunciation of 瑪莉歐 (Ma-Li-Oh) which is Mario. The first game released with Mario is Mario Bros. which is shortened to 瑪莉1 (or Merry 1) and Super Mario Bros. is the second game so therefore, 瑪莉2 (Merry 2). 瑪莉 is also the phonetic pronunciation of the name Mary. And since Mary is a female first name, they went with Merry. Why you ask me? Beats the heck out of me since Engrish is not their strong suit in the first place. The producers of these bootlegged games certainly do not intend for these games to be sold in areas outside of Taiwan/China. So ha ha! :-) Hope this helps! P.S. Pack Man (or Pacman)'s translation into Goblin: The Chinese name for Pacman is 小精靈 (xiao jing ling) or little goblin... and Dajin is the Chinese name for Donkey Kong. 大金剛 (da jin gang). And the five chess games's original name is "GO." Which is 五子棋 in Chinese. Not weird if you understand the language and how it gets translated back and forth to lose its original meaning...

[@namagem0]

This was super insightful and interesting, thank you for sharing! :)

[@dsandoval9396]

Asian translation of English words, or vise versa for that matter, can get really interesting to say the least. I'm reminded of this every time I read a plot outline to an anime. "They must hunt for the blue and save Princess for happy sky." That was made up but it gets that weird. As you said, if you add some context it makes perfect sense. Very interesting, Thanks for the info.

[@austin5623isawesome]

How about you make a video on the history of bootlegged games?

[@zenoblues7787]

I doubt it's even possible to do that since the majority of bootlegs come from obscure Chinese companies. I'm not say it's impossible but these companies intentionally tried to hide their existence and most knowledge about them would probably be in untranslated Mandarin.

[@MasterSinister3]

True

[@BlazeHedgehog]

You're surprisingly good at this kind of video.

[@oscarlobaton979]

They are called "Documentaryst" sorry bad english

[@Colonel_Overkill]

He brings shitposting to a totally new level lol

[@Vospi]

I love how he highlights basically EVERY trope I can't stand in youtubers who think they are good storytellers, or they are funny. The pauses, the quotes, the fake tantrums. Why did I miss this series previously? Also, I care for Pinball, it's awesome.

[@sarthaksingh5480]

This cartridge is my childhood 🥺

[@RH_-_]

This is actually better than the videos it is making fun of.

[@GamingHistorian]

+Rusty Huckabee We have reached peak #Normogatari

[@Rainn420]

+Gaming Historian r u alive

[@AwesomeHairo]

Is it making fun of Jon Tron?

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Hairo Aguilera Not him specifically, everyone in general, SpaceHamster, PBG, Jontron, AngryJoe, ProJared, all of NormalBoots and HiddenBlock members, etc

[@swagar]

I know this was a joke and there are already thousands of channels with this style, but if TGH had a second channel where he churned out goofy bootleg reviews in his spare time, I'd watch.

[@PatTheNESpunk]

Dafuq!

[@TheRedDrapion]

Get out of here you beautiful man!

[@jameswalker210]

Ha ha ha lol

[@jameswalker210]

Pat the NES Punk can you private massage me I have a question?

[@jameswalker210]

Pat the NES Punk it is really important

[@muneno1066]

Haha u sold him the game

[@ghengazzafazza1299]

Angry videogame historian

[@ghengazzafazza1299]

Colmill052 John torman

[@codyssmith73]

Peanut Butter Norman.

[@KonEl-BlackZero]

ProNormed

[@bs2858]

qqwrrtu

[@SpongebobFanguyIncTheVHSGuy]

NormTron.

[@asmatec]

Holy Shit!!! I played these games in India in the mid to late 90's. We didn't really have NES, and Famicoms, but rather these bootleg weird name consoles and we generally bought games in these types of cartridges. Sometimes they would be 100 in 1, or if I'm remembering correctly, 1000 in 1, which they somehow managed by making multiple levels of Mario, etc. as 1 game. This is insane. I never thought I'd ever see something like this again. After I moved to the US in 2000, I got a Gameboy color (which I had seen in India but was just too much to afford). The only handheld we had was a tetris handheld. And I remember every single one of these games. Sometimes we have single game cart also. I remember Excitebike, Contra (multiple ones) and some others. TMNT? I dunno. Thanks for a nostalgia trip down memory lane.

[@apsomething]

Aeizaz Sheikh haha, exactly my feelings! With one difference I played it on very popular in Russia bootleg copy of Famicon called Dendy.

[@ogSquink]

I had the exact same thing in the early 90s in South Africa. We had an exact famicom lookalike, although it wasn't a famicom and most of our games were 30-in-1 or 101-in-1. The large ones tended to only have about 10 to 30 games on it, and the rest of the 90 or so 'games' would just be the originals repeated, but starting on another level, or with more lives or something. I was lucky enough to get an actual Sega Megadrive for my 6th birthday, but unfortunately we couldn't get any brand new games here. All my games came from the local second-hand store.I remember really wanting to play Sonic 3 because I heard you could breathe underwater and that seemed like the coolest thing at the time. Every weekend I would go with my dad to the second hand store to see if someone had traded in a copy, and sometimes one would be available. We'd snatch it up quickly, only to get home and find that the cartridge was damaged and then have to return it. A couple of years later, round about the time I was 10/11, I saved up for 6 months to buy a Gameboy Color so I could play Pokemon. I had just enough money left over to buy a 2 in 1 cartridge of Pokemon Gold and Silver.I was so excited, only when I got home to play it I found out it was a terribly translated Japanese bootleg with several weird differences from my friend's versions. I still played the heck out of it though. Through the years though I lost all those consoles, however I managed to pick up a bootlegged famicom with some bootleg cartridges a while ago from a local Indian shop, and I procured a Megadrive with about 15 games from a friend of a friend who was throwing it away. Unfortunately I have no cables or controllers for the Megadrive. I also ran into a homeless guy who was trying to sell a Gameboy Color with a 22 in 1 cartridge, so I managed to get that one real cheap. Unfortunately the battery in the cartridge is dead, so I can't play Pokemon on it anymore :( Good times!

[@Kirby1313]

I had a distaste for these bootlegs until I started hearing stories like this. If a Russian, a South African and an Indian can all expirence classic games for cheap where Nintendo doesn't release officially, it is worth the bad quality and the questionable idea of profiting off of other people's work.

[@pierresmee4769]

@@ogSquink also south african here.. these bootlegs totally got me into games back then.. 101 in 1's, ja.. lol..! this was such a fun memory trip..hahaha..

[@ezeqkkk]

exact same thing, even same games in south america. These bootlegs made gaming born in all over the world (except u.s. & japan) in de 90´s. Thats why I kind of dislike the bad attitude of this video

[@Michael_Mirage]

sees Mario bros called Mr Mary, remembers jontron, immediately says "I have several, questions?"

[@thatgamingthingy]

WHAT. WHAT THE F*CK.

[@chadtronic]

What if this becomes your most subscribed to video? #memesforever?

[@GamingHistorian]

+Chadtronic Then i've wasted 8 years of my life #Poppin #Normogatari

[@GTArajgaming]

+Gaming Historian I hope you don't do videos in this style...it's so meta its like pewdipie or markiplier became AVGN or something. it doesn't fit you bit it was funny overall and it's the first time I've heard you swear

[@ferroth]

Dont listen to him, this is great!

[@prophismusic]

Chadtronic chapstick

[@TheGameChasers]

Wow...some people in the comments have no sense of humor. Lighten the fuck up, people...we are talking about VIDEO GAMES...

[@kylem1112]

+The Game Chasers unsubscribed

[@BMassey1987]

"Stupid Game Chasers"

[@illiesarts8830]

Quality gag. A person can enjoy BrutalHamsterTron while also enjoying satire on how flooded YT is getting with the formula. 10/10, would chuckle again.

[@AngusBeer]

It is facinating how some friends of mine grew up with the nes but never knew it under that name. In poland they knew it as the Pegasus and in russia it was the Dendy. Theres a documentary on bootlegs in Russia called 'Dendy Chronicles'- id highly recommend it if you're curious about that kind of thing. Over there they had their own show promoting bootleg games on tv!

[@mattthedoormat]

I think I remember seeing a clip of that show promoting bootleg games (I'd love to know the name of the show) and on the show they praised the bootleg and trash talked the original.

[@AngusBeer]

Matthew Elzinga It was Dendy The New Reality. They trashed Joe and Mac just because mario wasn't present!

[@mattthedoormat]

+Angus Beer Poor Russians. Thinking the bootleg is the real thing.

[@raafmaat]

DUDE! thanks so much for the tip! Dendy Chronicles is a great watch, it starts off very weird and it looks cheap, but it is hilarious and a great insight into how russians were tricked into believing they were playing legit games, but it was always crappy cash-in chinese pirates heheh. Its cool they figured it out in the late 90s when the internet came along, Oh man for them the internet must have been such a revelation!

[@Soundole]

I love how even when lampooning them, you're so much more watchable than the channels you're making fun of :)

[@kevwang0712]

Yep, the text on the cartridge is Mandarin Chinese, and judging from the fact that it uses Traditional Chinese characters, this was a Taiwanese-made bootleg. I have to admit we did that a lot back in the 1980s, basically the entire Taiwanese computer and IT industry got started from reverse engineering everything back in the day. Also, it makes sense that many of the games on the cartridge weren't released on NES in North America (well it is on a Famicom cartridge in any case), since Taiwan imported the Japanese Famicom (we call it 紅白機, "red-white machine") and its games, and not the North American NES - and of course we had bootleg Famicom consoles as well! I remember when I came back to Taiwan from Canada in 1993, I was really annoyed that I couldn't get any new games for my NES, but my mom wouldn't let me buy a Famicom.

[@kevwang0712]

Oh, and the correct Japanese term for Five Chess is Gomoku (or five in a row), and there are actually competitive tournaments of Gomoku here… I'm getting wayyyy too serious about this

[@Rehncohro]

Sooooo... when do I get the lovely badge next to my user name?

[@GamingHistorian]

+Dollarluigi KZbin says 4-6 weeks

[@TackyRackyComixNEO]

+Gaming Historian Will it be delivered by Snoop Dogg?

[@Seth______]

+Gaming Historian Im excited for SnoopVision coming in 2085 ;)

[@ednerroldan7364]

+Dollarluigi APRIL FOOLS

[@vito7428]

+Gaming Historian And on that day.Norman got away with his lies.

[@BalrogGameRoom]

HOW HAVE I JUST SEEN THIS

[@therayleviathan]

Balrog you tell me

[@MrPooPooJohn]

is this a trick question? Umm...I'm going to guess you have just seed it with your eyes?

[@Larry]

My god, a Famiclone collection with no Pooyan or that Columns knock-off on it? What has the world come too?

[@Estlib]

+Larry Bundy Jr i happen to have that columns knockoff, aside from the slighly annoying but decent music rendering, its a pretty good clone. plus i dont have the cash to buy mystic pillars from sivak games so this thing'll have to do :C

[@BennygProductionz]

This was a great homage to AVGN.

[@Bad616]

It was fun seeing you do a different type of video even if its just for April fools

[@calamaty9963]

Bootleg multicarts would be a great history lesson. I have a 75 in 1 game that has these games including Nuts and Milk and Tengens version of Tetris. You also have stated that Tengens Tetris story would be saved for another time.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

Damn you. Now you made me want to go all the way from Connecticut to Texas to go to Whattaburger for that craving you just gave me!!! I went to Texas for surgery last year and we had a Whattaburger next to the hotel and I loved it!

[@bsdims]

I love reviews of multicarts and other similar things where the person gradually gets more and more board each game

[@MRabbitFrog]

Wow, Norman, you have the harshest fans. Every time you try something new, people roast the hell out of you. You try "let's plays" with a friend and people bash your friend, you get a haircut and people want to lynch you, you make a cool April Fool's video and people are upset. I could never make anything for people like that, ever. I think I totally understand why GameSack needed to back off KZbin for a while.

[@jojogaming1013]

Yep. Human beings are very disappointing as a whole... Aren't they?

[@karnagefails333]

Nathan Blaser Like immediately telling someone that what they like sucks. Yeah, that pretty positive. There's help for autism bro.

[@iverson64_]

You do know what autism means, right?

[@wemodwii]

People feel entitled to Interject in the comments constantly it is a truth on KZbin and people think they know the facts better than the next person. Great video once again Norman, love the format!

[@ПерриУтконос-е5щ]

Hello guys, I live in Kiyv, Ukraine. In our country everybody played bootleg game system called Steepler Dendy which is clone of Famicom and everybody played Battle city,Popeye and Star Force.

[@protol5683]

Please tell me you'll do more of these! This is the most emotion you've ever shown!

[@lucianothewindowsfan]

Now it's gonna be april fools 2020 and then it's gonna be this video's 4 year anniversary

[@thogameskanaal]

Dat sudden Chrono Cross music tho... I like it.

[@djpee25]

THO games oh man!!!! "Dream of a distant shore near another world" ,my all time favorite video game song,alongside the FFVI intro song.was a pleasant unexpected surprise indeed!

[@thogameskanaal]

djpee25 :D

[@severeenjoyment6775]

THO games It's such an underrated masterpiece of a game. The OST Is sooo good too.

[@W.2026]

I used to have a chinese famiclone with a bunch of bootleg cartridges as a kid, one of which was named "76 in 1". It had Mr. Mary, Macross, Karateka, Arabian, and many other famicom exclusives not mentioned in this video (although I never lived in japan or any of the countries around the region), which my sister and I played the crap out of. The weird thing about these bootleg games is that sometimes the game title is not the only think that's changed, but the games themselves is slightly modified as well. I remember Luigi having infinite lives in Mr. Mary, and Contra allowing you to select the stage in the title screen, for example. But the craziest thing was that other cartridges we had, which was literally called "9999999 in 1", implying that the cartridge contained 9999999 games. That's technically impossible of course, but you could definitely find 9999999 titles in the starting menu if you took your time and scrolled through all the pages, but they were just slightly altered versions of five or six games. For example, one of those five or six games was super mario bros. The first one on the list was your regular super mario bros, the one on the next page let you start with nine lives, the one on the next page would let you fly up as long as you held the jump button, so and so on. You could think of them as 9999999 famicom games that had game genie codes preinstalled. It was so stupid but so much fun at the same time, and made our childhood a hundred times better.

[@Untouchaable]

Pranking Historian

[@JDubya2k]

Loved my 140 in 1 bootleg cartridge I got from Thailand when I was a kid. Except it wasn't really 140 games it was 70 with the the same games repeated twice. Still. It was fun times with Arkanoid, Tetris, Tennis etc. All classics.

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

You got 70 games? You don't realize how lucky you were.

[@wesleyem3]

Is this a stab at people like JonTron and PBG? If so, round of freakin' applause!

[@bigbadspikey]

I had this cartridge back in 1986. I had lot's of fun playing this game, especially zippy race and road fighter.

[@digerttm]

So, can you actualy do a vid on where bootleg games come from? who makes them?

[@LeviathanRX]

+tristan digert Somewhere in China. Hope that narrows it down!

[@supernova6442]

genesis bootleg are in russia, and snes bootlegs are made in south america, oddly enouth , msx bootlegs are in south korea, and a lot of ps2 in iraq, how do i know that?, becuse i,m from iraq

[@davecarsley8773]

Bootleggers

[@GaigeGrosskreutzsMissingBicep]

Firstly, i LOVE the gaming historian and have watched every one of his videos at least twice, and even though this was an april fools joke, i freakin loved it lol. it had some good humor and was entertaining. especially the pacman section, I would never take this over the "normal" gaming historian videos, but i wouldnt mind if he put one of these goofy ones out more than just this once lol.

[@dontpresssubscribe1938]

Haha,Norm,is da gt8test dank memer I've ever seen m8. In all serious though, Nice to see norm not being normal, and letting loose a bit. I can tell you had fun making this video.

[@ThrawnTheater]

Just watched this again to relive how well you got me last year. Hook, line and sinker. Well done Norm.

[@franciscofeest6691]

I love the history videos, specially the stuff about obscure software. But this is also very good and funny. You should do both!

[@rodrigosebastianpagano8198]

Here in argentina, this bootlegs cartridges were our bread and butter. The NES wasn't released here, so we haved the "Family Game" a bootleg famicom from China. This kind of cartridges were often preloaded into the system memory, so every console came with this multigame option. Often repeating the same 30 or so games ad nauseam (the infamous 999999 in one lol). Oh memories.

[@hugo182]

You're funny too!! Thats amazing!

[@gabrieleriva651]

One year later, I appreciate more all the fun moves he does with his hands, like those youtubers who unpack little toys.

[@ReshiramR52]

My favorite April Fools video ever. I rewatch it every year

[@Mystik3eb]

I loved this episode! You may not have the energy of JonTron, but I still enjoyed the gags. And I love that you picked some of the best music in all of video gaming (specifically Chrono Cross and Undertale). Thanks for this, Norman!

[@HelloQro]

Oh my, I remember playing all of those games as a kid in my 1000 in 1 cartridge, wish I still had them, but those cartridges had the habit of failing after a couple months,. The nostalgia, you may think they all sucked, but for me it was so much fun to play those games, specially the wrestling one, I played it for hours.

[@brandonbert]

So here I am watching this on April 5th and thinking: "What the hell am I watching? Did Gaming Historian go off the deep end?" Then at the very end... "Oh, I see." Well played.

[@bumpndump9643]

*spoilers* this must be like the only april of fools video where you can see that the person who made it putted effort on it

[@LuisVashFerreira]

I actually loved this episode. I had a bootleg nes when I was a kid and never knew the official names of the games. Thank you for this! Really made my day, what a trip down memory lane :)

[@solidad-29]

Are you channeling LGR here? That's what I get on this video.

[@nawresvibritannia4874]

+RoflSilvers Definitely Jontron.

[@psychwardsandSCENE]

although the video is meant as a parody of jontron type youtubers, it really does seem as if he channeled LGR in his commentary.

[@the7kSRK]

+Aldrich Allen Barcenas His tone is definitely LGR, but it seems like he's going for PBG.

[@jasonblalock4429]

+Steve Compton There's definitely some JonTron in there too. Either way, I honestly wouldn't mind if he occasionally did more videos like this.

[@EmperorNero]

+Tightwad Hill Full fairness they started that style, and so many others in a bid to get well known on youtube has tried to copy that style without any sense of humor. Norm is friends with a lot of the Normalboots guys, I think it's more of making fun of the people who want to rip that style off, but have no sense of humor, so to compensate for that it's all memes, and wacky graphics. That is why if you look at a lot of the Normalboots guys new videos they are way different than that style. Hell Jared even made fun of that style with his April fools video "Gameplay or Story" with the "Text on screen" joke.

[@knedy]

Even though this was a joke video I watched the whole thing being nostalgic because I played the crap out of that

[@OldManTheseDays]

Excellent work (again)! I really do hope you do a feature length documentary. I think you do the best game documentaries on KZbin.

[@soviut]

You've done a surprisingly great imitation of typical youtuber tropes. "seriously, look at this [zoomed in footage]". Please, don't ever do it again though.

[@noodlespoo]

Battle city was my favorite game on the Dendy. Yes, the Dendy. Over here we mostly had bootleg systems and bootleg cartridges.

[@Jayhooft]

This was unbelievably good Norm!

[@lucianothewindowsfan]

Happy 4th anniversary for this video

[@iandavidwolfe]

Ha ha awesome vid man! Definitely different than most of your vids, which is good from time to time. Keep up the stellar job Norm!

[@heyman2211]

every single game on that cart made me the gamer i am today haha i remember having several bootleg consoles and games like those. ill never forget them (:

[@PastaMaster115]

I know time is something you don't have a lot of right now. But please, please, please!!! Make a second channel for videos like this one! Do more please! But don't stop your GH videos.

[@RussellTeapot]

it's...april fools...

[@PastaMaster115]

And.....? I'd still like to see more of these. Doesn't have to be April fools day to make this a regular thing.

[@RussellTeapot]

Pasta Master And, he's doing this as joke, since it's not "his style". He could certainly do these kind of videos, but honestly, it's a "saturated" genre... there are so many commentaries on games (serious or not), and he already has his unique style

[@solomonkim]

I love this kinda stuff! I feel like I remember my friend having a bootleg 1000-in-1 Game Boy cartridge that was even cheesier than this because you didn't even select the game on screen--instead you would physically rub the cartridge with your finger, pop the cartridge back into the Game Boy, turn it on, and just sort of hope that you rubbed it the right way to get the game that you wanted (out of the 1000). Was this a real thing or did I imagine it? Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[@DPXSolo]

while still holding on to history, can you make more videos like this

[@ashalmighty09]

History is not boring. You're a teacher using this platform like a chalkboard. Thanks for the knowledge and the great memories. Keep doing your thing.

[@Michirin9801]

"Mr. Mary" ? I have SEVERAL Questions!

[@tossingturnips]

This was one of the videos I hadn't seen when I first discovered your channel. I love how we get to see a more button-downed, goofier GH. I had quite a few laughs... and an unexpected craving for Whataburger. Great work, Norman!

[@harciongaming9122]

Oh I get it, Goblin because he Gobbles things. It's clever.

[@rowtow13]

Man, my cousins had this when I was a kid, with a converter thing that let you play it on a North American NES. I fell in love with a lot of the games on this thing, including ones that wouldn't have been available in North America otherwise, like Mappy.

[@TheAyanamiRei]

I LOVED this video! I wish you would do more. Also I REALLY love the name "Normogatari"!

[@Njoydancing]

@ Gaming Historian AVGN has not even come close to making me laugh as much as your retro video review of 31&1. Thank you so very much! 😂😂😂

[@217awsome]

I want to see more of these kinds of videos, truth be told.

[@jaysonnmu]

lmao @ 9:39! Love both the historical and satire videos. Humorous w/out going completely over the top like other channels. Like a great retro game, Gaming Historian has endless replay value!

[@onthedre]

mappy was so fucking fun and exciting I loved it as a kid

[@isaacarmendariz2538]

I freaking love mappy. Its one of my favorite childhood game

[@adorenu1338]

*Dude Make A Theoritical History and the logic Of The Famicom Bootleg Multicarts!!!* please..

[@TannerWood2k1]

I enjoy your gaming historian vids quite a lot. please don't stop making them. your sarcasm was spot on in this vid.

[@AlexTsaler]

In Russia back then we had only that kind of bootleg cartridges))

[@mtminardi]

This game was everywhere in the early 90s in New Brunswick, Canada. Every kid had one and they were for sale at every flea market and junk shop by the dozen. It was this famicom port matched with an nes adapter and stuck together with a ribbon. It would always jam up in your nes and flash black and white, then you weren't able to play any other games anymore. Just that darned black and white flashing. I used to love zippy race and kung Fu.

[@REALMARCHINADER]

Yay No People Saying OMG UNDERTALE MUSIC

[@MP-nq9ht]

OMG UNDERTALE MUSIC.

[@bojackson3073]

0:45 3rd one down says "Kung Fu". 6th one down says "Snowman", 7th says "Airball" 1st one in 2nd column says "Simba...?", 2nd says "Great Force Water Hand" 大 力 水 手 or "Popeye", 6th says "Cat Catches Old Mouse", 7th says "batting ball" and i dont feel like doing more.

[@jadduajones]

WHAT!? I love Mappy!!!

[@mariajimenafigueroa8311]

Mappy is BORING

[@Sleepygayboi9797]

@@mariajimenafigueroa8311 It's really fun, has cool secrets

[@retrofan4963]

@@mariajimenafigueroa8311 I disagree. Mappy is a really amazing game in my opinion.

[@brunoseverino2082]

Man, this video feels very nostalgic to me. My first console was an Dynavision, an famiclone from Dynacom, and it had an 64 in 1 cart with most if those games. I used to play these all the time.

[@MazingerDestro]

I went for a burger and I didn't get 10% off

[@padsterdaawesomedude6253]

4:20 I LOVE TOP GUN SO MUCH! I’ve seen the second movie & this scene from top gun is iconic (UPDATE:I seen the first movie one month ago on blu ray!)

[@DuskusCB]

10:48 Either "Reversi" or "Othello" is fine.

[@TheMrRuttazzo]

Except that it's neither Reversi nor Othello, but a different game entirely. Traditional Japanese sort of strategy board game simply named "go", which translates to "5", which is why they called the game "FiveChess" on the bootleg.

[@pierresmee4769]

hey hey.. just commenting on a 6yr old video, because I have stumbled across your channel via a rabbit hole...so, I live in south africa, and we only had the Famicom version of the NES here in the early 90s and we totally had all these 31in1 or 16in1 cartridges! i remember every single one of these games!.. thanks for the nostalgia trip!.. haha (enjoying the videos, thanks!)

[@TheLarryburns84]

I actually kinda enjoyed this.

[@johnyho]

This actually made me extremelly nostalgic, remember playing these bootlegs on the famicon when I was wee-kid.

[@welcoe]

MAPPY IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER.

[@karnagefails333]

Ethan White BUBSY 3D IS THE BEST VIDEOGAME EVER

[@retrofan4963]

@@karnagefails333 And this comment you wrote is clearly a joke. What Emilia Two says is not a joke though. Mappy is legit a really great game.

[@jacemachine]

Why is this video showing up in my inbox on April 3rd? I also saw it there on April 1st as well. Just curious.

[@jacemachine]

+Jacemachine Gaming ... and now I really want Whataburger. There are 5 in my town, which to choose.

[@pusheadmetal]

I love Whataburger. If you don't like it, then to hell with you.

[@pusheadmetal]

+Whompy Whomperson To Hell with you, Wonka!

[@pusheadmetal]

+Whompy Whomperson You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

[@kylem1112]

+Whompy Whomperson it's a mostely texas/oklahoma burger chain their chicken tenders are amazing with gravy and steak fries. forgot what their burgers taste like

[@pusheadmetal]

+Whompy Whomperson It's really not that bad at all. I mean, it's fast food burgers, so if you're not a fan of that kind of thing, then you won't like it. But in terms of burger joints, it's pretty good.

[@raindrainxi]

Had several of these bootleg compilations as a kid. If not for this I never would've been able to play video games.

[@bluehar5505]

I really hated the cover and box art of the 8bit era. The games looked so awesome and then when you got home and popped the game into your famicom you felt so fucking cheated! That's how I got suckered into buying mappy. Man was I dissapointed.

[@CheetosForBreakfast]

now most covers are generic and boring sadly. WE CANT WIN.

[@bluehar5505]

CheetosForBreakfast Yeah true

[@mattthedoormat]

+B Har At least you weren't cheated with the cover of the original Super Mario Bros. That showed the in-game graphics on the box.

[@retrofan4963]

@@bluehar5505 I really disagree with you. Mappy is a really great classic game.

[@bluehar5505]

@@retrofan4963 I mean once I got over my disappointment I played it often. but yeah it wasn't what I expected

[@ProfessorGamez]

Nice job. The chess-like game you referred to is a Japanese game called Go. Karateka was released in North America-- for the Atari 7800 around 1987.

[@Jacksmusicshack]

dude...you should make this a series! but that's just my opinion.

[@proschie2455]

OMG!! This cart was actually a huge part of my formative gaming years! Still have it. Except mine's beige, the label's different, and it came with an NES adapter thing. We barely had any games for our NES back then, so it seemed pretty great at the time. I still have no idea how that thing made it's way to a corner video store in eastern Canada in the 80s... but at least now I know the origin story of the menu screen.

[@hraza2222]

I feel like im watching an AVGN video

[@eagleeyes4402]

Plz don' t stop making vids. Great history, you can learn so much of how things are today because of origins.

[@BleepingRelics]

lol amazing parody.

[@adankseasonads935]

That was awesome man. Thanks for making these videos. You're one of my top subscribed channels that I look forward to be uploads.

[@gamerplayer8882]

I'm about to buy 400 in 1 cart along with a nes I'm getting. it has no repeats and a shit ton of official games. alot of homebrews too. for 60 dollars. my first nes with 400 games. it's great. it's a normal nes cart to.

[@gamerplayer8882]

I like galaxian also.

[@davecarsley8773]

And in 2 years, you've played it for exactly 90 minutes total, right?

[@thundermole1]

I grew up with those games . We had them in Eastern Europe as well in that time. I still have those cartridges in my room. Very nostalgic.

[@Sean-D78]

Clowns are boring and stupid. I hate the circus it's boring.