This Bootleg Company OUTCLASSED Official Developers

[@EvangeRei]

Lion King on nes was final licensed game.. it's just madness that it is crappier than the first ever released games

[@pojr]

Indeed lol

[@Dystnine]

It also ends when Simba was still a cub lol

[@AgdaFingers]

@@Dystnine I know. Right after the Hakuna Matata scene, you get a still of the final scene of the movie where Simba is grown up, and he and Nala are parents. Then the credits roll. The ENTIRE adult scenario is cut out. That is just lazy. You would THINK the final licensed game of a console would be a masterpiece. Not too mention, they flat out LIED on the game box about how many levels were in the game.

[@fattomandeibu]

With Lion King etc., it's pretty easy. At the time, the NES was dead in the water, the only people still buying NES games were folks who probably couldn't afford to pay more than £10 for a game, anyone who could spring the £30 or £40 for a full price game would've likely had a SNES or Mega Drive already. Everything is so bland, things like empty background graphics, no adult Simba stages etc. is because they need to keep the ROM size down so they could sell it for less than £10. They likely would've been made by 1 guy in less than a week, again, in order to keep costs down so they could meet the price point.

[@VXA1PSTART]

How can you get outclassed by a bootleg company? That's just another level of embarrassing.

[@SuperXzm]

The same way fan games outclass official games

[@PhilipMarcYT]

Micro Machines is easily the best unlicensed game, but is it a bootleg? No. These bootlegs are really good.

[@TyphinHoofbun]

@@SuperXzm At least fan games are made from a place of love. If you love something, you put in the extra effort to make it shine. Bootlegs are usually lazy cash grabs, with as little effort put in as possible.

[@jamisreebirzick5872]

Considering the late release of Aladdin and Lion King (1994 and 1995) the developers probably just shipped whatever they had when it was time to release them. They probably thought that most people would play the Gameboy/SNES/Genesis versions anyway. Also, for what it's worth, the developers of Aladdin, NMS Software, also did the Ubisoft version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (which was also basically a direct Gameboy port)

[@pojr]

Yeah the NES games were definitely afterthoughts.

[@Phredreeke]

I disagree about SNES Lion King being the same experience as the genesis version. The screen is very cramped as the SNES is just 256x224 vs 320x224 on Genesis

[@pojr]

Good point, I did think the screen seemed kind of weird. But I didn't realize it until you mentioned it just now.

[@pokemonlover4208]

The gameplay itself is mostly the same, the screen and music would be the only real difference

[@Larry]

There's quite a few official double ports out there, especially on the Genesis, like there's two completely different versions of games like Klax and Marble Madness, and also NES games like Maniac Mansion and Fantasy Zone.

[@jamisreebirzick5872]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is another game that comes to mind. The Ubisoft version and NES Aladdin also have the same developers, NMS Software.

[@jettesides420]

OMG, he lives on! Good to see ya here pal.

[@pojr]

True. Interesting that they would bother making another port. Either they didn't know about the originals, or they didn't care. I would like to check out the tengen games someday.

[@justinjc1939]

@guruLarry! Whatup dude!

[@astro1354]

Fantasy Zone mentioned Instant W

[@kobrapromotions]

@3:18 that colour outside the outline is the giraffes mane, could do with a black dot to show a stripe or twoo

[@FeralInferno]

I have an authentic Pojr mug but now I kinda want to see an 8-bit Super Game bootleg version of the same mug 😆 Great video man!

[@pojr]

Thanks for supporting us! Lol, maybe the Super Game version would be somehow better.

[@shadowrage2593]

Hummer's audio engine was actually ripped from a very obscure NES game "De-Block". It's an interesting take on Tetris.

[@xedus5043]

Discovered this page couple weeks ago! Keep up the good work!

[@st1ka]

Always happy to see a video that doesn't do the whole "let's make fun of bootlegs shtick!" :D

[@pojr]

Instead I made fun of the original versions 😂

[@BeefJerkey]

Well, look who's here.

[@alleykat1750]

What a hater

[@Thesweatindoom2_394]

Oh man thanks pojr you made my day man, todays my birthday! Thanks for posting a day lifting video!

[@pojr]

Happy birthday! Glad I could make your day.

[@myhandleiswhat]

I know why the Giraffes have that outline problem, the body is a background graphic while the head is a sprite you can interact with, and it uses the same palette as Simba. Of course it wouldn't have been as noticeable on a lower end blurry CRT back in the day.

[@sanjyuu2298]

The ouline problem is visible on the back of neck, head is fine.

[@7take93]

damn, i remember when you had 4k subs

[@pojr]

Glad you've managed to stick around!

[@The-E-Base]

Additional Notes: Super Game wasn't the only cokpany trying to port Earthworm Jim 2 to the NES. Both Shin-Shin and Waixing made their own ports too. Waixing's version was the most complete of these, having more levels than the Super Game counterpart. However, it replaced the characters with original ones and even went under a different name (Happy Biqi World Fighter).

[@LordIvul]

I'm so much in love with your content, POJR. Right now, you are pretty much the only channel which videos I watch immediately when I see them in my feed. You put a spotlight on an obscure, yet very interesting parts of gaming history and with each video, I can see you get better and better at it. It's awesome seeing your channel growing steadily.

[@pojr]

I really appreciate that, thank you!

[@jettesides420]

Glad your channel is taking off! (Braces 😁) Well deserved.

[@pojr]

Lol, thank you!

[@intel386DX]

There is nice Alladin ported from SNES by Hummer team. Also the jungle book on the NES is also port from GB, but well done. There are 3 versions of Jim 2 for the NES, and one of Jim 1, but called Jim 3.

[@lvl90dru1d]

there was 3 versions of Aladdin for the nes (maybe even 4): - one from Hummer Team (2 of them, first is original and the second is a more common version with somewhat simplified graphics) - one from Super Game (in the video) - one from Chengdu Tai Jing Da Dong (Aladdin 2), complete garbage

[@intel386DX]

@@lvl90dru1d you are absolutely right :) For te lion king there are more versions as well, but I can not lost them. :)

[@Dwedit]

Hummer Team Aladdin also secretly shipped with a set of Popeye head sprites to change Aladdin into Popeye, along with a "Popeye II" title screen. They are present in the ROM, but not used unless you change 20 bytes in the graphics bank selection table.

[@intel386DX]

@@Dwedit yes, I know about this hack :D

[@pojr]

Pretty confusing that there were so many of them, and they weren't all made by the same company lol

[@FireyPaperMario]

Fun Fact: Super Game's 1st release was gonna be a NES demake of Bomberman '94. But it was cancelled

[@AGwolf2097]

oh damn I'd have loved to see that, mega bomberman /bm94 is my favorite game in the series, it would have been neat to see a port

[@Larry]

How is it a release if it wasn't released? :P

[@FireyPaperMario]

@@Larry They cancelled it in favor of their port of Aladdin (genesis)

[@JoeContext]

How do people even find out about a cancelled bootleg?

[@dallaselgin2636]

​@@JoeContexthe slept with Reggie

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

As an Eastern European bootleg NES rather famiclone games were the norm here, I still have many of my bootlegs but sadly I don't have the Super Games Lion King anymore, it was my cousins and we lost a whole bunch of games around 2006. It's not hard to find tho. One of my favorite bootleg games back in the day was the SNES to NES Aladdin port by Hummerteam, I remember buying it in spite of already owning both the SNES and Mega Drive versions, it was just so strange. I still play it from time to time to completion.

[@pojr]

Aladdin by Hummer Team is shockingly well-done

[@hectorg5809]

I always enjoy reading comments from people in other countries because their experiences growing up with older systems like these are so much different than ours. Thanks for sharing

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

@@hectorg5809 yeah i plan on making a video on it all one day but I'm stuck on trying to get photos and footage of the huge arcade craze in my country during the 80's and 90's, guess that's just not happening and you guys will just have to take my word for it :)

[@kanikagujral8960]

Same with India (btw I'm on my mom's phone)

[@GamingPalOllieMK]

@@pojr The best part is, when I bought it I didn't even know it was a bootleg yet it felt like something was off because the music would cut off and it did give off very surreal vibes. Even so I just chucked it off to the "Nintendo" as we called it then simply not being able to handle the visuals and music at all times. (there is a version with the music not cutting off tho)

[@David_Ladd]

Nice, thank you for sharing! Keep up the good working :)

[@pojr]

I really appreciate that, thank you!

[@zanegandini5350]

I already knew about Super Game's Aladdin but had no idea they made Lion King too. I'd really love to see them get finished by hackers some day, because there's a lot of potential. I'm especially impressed by how smoothly animated Simba is, I mean it's on par with the Genesis original!

[@raventl_animations]

I had those bootleg games as a kid. Aladdin and Lion King were some of my favorites.

[@FaTBoYs_GaMInG_N_NoNsEnSe]

Awesome Video Brother have a great day

[@ArachmadiPutra]

man, that lion king, remember me to Novel Diamond 99999999999999999999999999999999999 in 1, with the BGM from the same movie

[@User75-c7p]

The bootlegs would have slightly worse like in Lion King on the NES like you said the graphics is really bad like an Atari 2600 try to add one shade

[@pojr]

The official NES versions of Lion King and Aladdin look a lot like bootlegs.

[@Azuris190]

I still don't like Lion King :P And kill me, but Aladdin on the Super Nintendo is the better Version, it just plays better.

[@KanokYT]

The SNES version of Aladdin was the version I played and beat as a kid, so it will always have a spot in my heart because of it. Sure, the Genesis version has better graphics since they were made by actual Disney animators, but the SNES version's graphics were still really good considering its competition. And I also liked what they did with the music on the SNES version.

[@Azuris190]

@@KanokYT Yep, i think that is the issue, it has much of the typical western game design to it. Japan just had a better feeling for level design and enemy placement at that time.

[@FeralInferno]

Love the Bleu/Deis art on your profile pic! 🐍

[@pojr]

I'll admit, I do like Aladdin on the SNES. Some things are handled better in that version. For example, the final boss is better. The Genesis version has a lame final boss.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Hummer Team was full of great programmers. The issue with their games were level design and the music (that was always too high pitched). Had they made some original games instead of ripping off and hired competent level designers and musicians, they could be as beloved as SunSoft.

[@joeyfarris2543]

Quality assurance test???? Hahahahahaha 😂😂😂 What's that????🤔🤔🤔

[@pojr]

The developers of the NES version certainly didn't know 😂

[@AGwolf2097]

there's something to be said for unlicensed games; sure, most of them are usually just cheap janky crap, but every now and then you can find some good ones. When I was a kid, my mom picked up a tennis game for NES that was unlicensed, rad racket 2, and it's not a remarkable game but it still plays fine and I had a lot of fun with it. I had a friend that had a couple Camerica games, I remember I was having a lot of fun with ultimate stuntman edit: I realize bootlegs and unlicensed games occupy slightly different spaces, but often times the same third party companies made both :o I don't think I ever crossed paths with actual bootlegs back in the day when I was a kid, but it has been fun checking out some ROMs all these years later

[@anon_y_mousse]

The only version of Lion King I have is the Game Gear version, and after playing most of the first level I decided that was the only version I would ever have. The Genesis version of Aladdin is indeed the best version of Aladdin. Definitely due to play through that again. I'll have to look for a copy of Jungle Book, as I never played it before.

[@therollingcreeper1]

Also, with aladdin, even more proof that it is unfinshed is that one of the frames of the pot throwings hands has a massive white square.

[@TylerStinson-o8n]

Whats the music in 0:41 ?

[@eno88]

Green Ripple, from Stream Beats by Harris Heller

[@Sidebyanimation]

your video bring back memory

[@jackofallgamesTV]

A lot of your videos are NES unlicensed and bootleg games. Do you plan to cover NES accessiores? If so, talk about the story of Beeshu. I have lots of opinions about Beeshu, like how they were targeted to be snuffed out by Japanese gaming companies for daring to make ambidextrous controls.

[@pojr]

I'll consider this. It may be a harder video to do, because I don't have a lot of NES accessories myself. It also might seem like a copy of the AVGN's NES Accessories video, but I could make it my own.

[@jackofallgamesTV]

@@pojr if you want an angle that's unique, based on what I know, Beeshu was trying to get licenses for joysticks. At first Nintendo refused. Later they accepted. Possible theories: 1. Nintendo wanted an NES joystick monopoly. 2. An anti-righty handed controller movement in Japan imposed on the rest of the world. And Beeshu argued they were serving an audience mm of served. Either A. Competition from Turbo Grafx 16 license and a Genesis license changed their mind B. The Federal Trade Federation either intervened or threatened to intervene. There was a similar FTC case with Beeshu and Sega. A theory there is that Sega of America actually wanted ambidextrous controllers, (including making a Maraca-like d-pad and 3 buttons pait with an umbilical cord.). But Sega of Japan was thwarting the US division. A theory is that Sega told Beeshu to take "Kayfabe legal action" just to tell Sega of Japan the issue of ambidexterity is important in American. For more details about the 4J Conspiracy's War on American righthanders, visit SinisterSticks.com. (BTW one of my person URLs)

[@stefo5744]

Thats one crazy wig right there buddy :D love it

[@jamiewilliamson9829]

Just want to point out from what I remember, Virgin only published 2 out of the 3 Disney titles you mentioned for the Mega Drive (Jungle Book, Aladdin and The Lion King), initially. SEGA got the license to do Aladdin but passed on the development duties to Virgin Interactive while they handled the publishing.

[@ShantaeFan1983]

Aladdin on NES also reused music from the SNES and Genesis Jungle Book game

[@joshuakorynta3385]

I can already hear JonTron questioning the game over screen.

[@PeperonyChease]

Aladdin and Lion King for NES were also released in Australia.

[@gustavo9758]

7:44 Memory limitations. They used to do miracles with NES graphics with soooo little space (and they probably used a mapper 1 cartridge because it was the cheapest). Even modern games still do it, look at the making of Micro Mages.

[@gaeshows1938]

Your living room is huge!

[@pojr]

Lol, I wish

[@robbyandrews223]

Everytime you do that ridiculous smile I start laughing. And the intro on this one made me laugh.

[@pojr]

Lol glad I can make you laugh

[@Super_Nes_Potato]

Why is his smile ridiculous? I find it to be inviting before each video.

[@GordonFreeman-e7i]

You forgot about the lion king 2 on the nes Truly a masterpiece

[@funnystuff76]

Nice Channel btw

[@pojr]

Thank you!

[@suroguner]

Lion King on NES was also the Game Boy version too! Even worse, there was a better 8-bit version over on the game gear instead.

[@Mikael404]

Just a quick question is game over normal or the other kind?

[@bowser-z8z]

oh my goOOOOOd oh my gOd

[@BlueMSX.]

another great video Pojr!

[@pojr]

Thank you!

[@BilYuM93]

Played both Lion King and Aladdin bootlegs as a kid. My version of Aladdin was unpassable after level 3. It just started glitching and teleported me to some strange part of the level, and if I managed to avoid it, it just crashed later. As for the Lion King, I never passed the second ostrich run. I'm not sure if it was even possible, honestly.

[@MrDazzlerdarren]

One of the Disney artists, that did some art in Lion King (film and game) and Aladdin (game), Aaron Blaise has a really good YT art channel

[@SenkaPress]

Don't feel bad for us europeans getting Aladdin and Lion King as the last official NES games, but rather for the inmense delay we got with releases. For context, Ninja Gaiden 2 released here in late 1994 and it's, with Wario's Woods (which we got with minimal delay, and by pure miracle,) Aladdin and Lion King, one of the last games for the NES in Europe. But we got some European exclusive games, so that delay in releases doesn't sting that much.

[@newsuperbowserworld]

I’ve played some of most of hummer team’s games. I really like them.

[@pojr]

Yeah some of their games are also surprisingly decent.

[@fungo6631]

Hummer Team didn't have their own sound engine, they yanked it from some puzzle game.

[@JMFSpike]

There were a few bootleg devs who stand out in a big way amongst other bootleg devs, but they still weren't great. They had actual talent, but their games still lacked a lot of polish. If only they had gone that extra mile, they could have been every bit as good as most of the legit devs at the time.

[@stupidvideogameclips]

Why, oh why did you remind me that Boogerman exists? 😢

[@paxhumana2015]

I think that, had Super Game had decent backing, as well as training, and was in the USA, instead of Hong Kong, or wherever they were, and they got brought to the USA, circa 1984, then they would have been in business today as a decent AAA company that did not sell out to crap.

[@tylern6420]

wait virgin games? are they related to virgin which was once related in the scam known as hyperloop one?

[@SiliconExarch]

Yes they were both part of Richard Branson's Virgin Group at one point, although the former eventually got acquired by Titus before they went bankrupt.

[@x149te]

As a kid I played Snes version of Aladdin in Nes.

[@iamhere490]

Super Game has to be my favorite out of these bootleg company's, some of the stuff they did was actually kind of impressive for the hardware. Their Earthworm Jim 2 port is probably my favorite.

[@romfighter]

pretty sure official aladdin and lion king nes game IS the game boy game obviously with changes made but basically the same programming. other games got this treatment of literally just being the gameboy game. mostly late into the nes' lfiespan. also no, hummmer team did not have their own engine, its technically actually the athenta sound engine altbeit pretty modified, but the similarities are there especially in earlier games i never had any issues going into toilets in boogerman, so, not entirely sure whats wrong with your rom or if its an emulation issue? also lastly, super game most likely made the games with no real knowledge of the virgin games' disasters. These games were sold in areas where the NES wasnt even officially sold and the market was made up of famiclones... good video nonetheless and kudos for doing a lot more research into these bootleg games than most youtubers do atleast.

[@baalfgames5318]

The title should be "These Bootlegs were ALMOST better than the official games."

[@tjw8t1]

I didn't even know they were still producing new NES games in 1994. Most of us had moved on to SNES or the Genesis by that time.

[@Jace-qp8ej]

3:31 maybe the nes couldn’t handle the adult simba stages

[@drowningin]

I only pirate indies because they say they support piracy. Noted

[@clubpenguinfan2010]

You know, there was this bootleg my dad played as a kid. He says it was pretty grand.

[@desertcoliseum]

You pick up the torch where Norm the Gaming Historian failed. He really wasn't a geek, he just wanted to hang out with other men at conventions.

[@bowser-z8z]

We don’t talk about the other lion king bootleg for the nes

[@Emperorwolf999]

I actually played the lion king genesis game on PC once, I think it must have been a rom hack because it only made it a little way in before crashing badly

[@stardustmax2306]

I don't play any bootleg game ever but if I do this shnoobi bootleg game sounds very joyful to play. Thank you MR pojr for this amazing video.

[@DDRmails]

'original' aladdin on NES actually looks pretty fine... its just need a fine rework with animation scripts 'original' lion king is looks like some one work in windows XP paint)))

[@TMS9918A]

How dare you besmirch the name of the SEGA GAME-1000, I demand satisfaction!

[@jnharton]

The Lion King (NES) might strike you as similar to an Atari 2600 game, but it would have been quite a feat to make that on the Atari...

[@Gato303co]

4:25 Hummer Games, we meet again And quoting the other video I knew about Hummer Games "a respectable bootleg games company, just check their cool mascot logo" 🙂

[@fco64]

Not gonna lie hummer trsm did some impressive stuff like Mario world for the NES is a bit broken but they tried to bring a colorful 16-bits game needs some credits but at least modders are fixing stuff like audio sprites colors and physics

[@itchytastyurr]

surprised nintendo had crap versions given they supposedly revived the game industry with a strict seal of approval... aladdin on sega md was one of my first games (had atri 2600 prior) and graphically it holds to this day.

[@ElioAurum]

as someone obsessed with graphics, the bootlegs are impressive

[@nikpi5703]

Pavel from Kinamania will like it (he did reviews on some of these things in the past) 😂

[@EuSouRCS]

Best haircut ever 💎

[@VanderleiYue]

4:18 What's the game's name? I remeber playing this on my childhood, but never knew its name.

[@pojr]

It's Brush Roller on NES.

[@Bluecedor]

Wow, the NES Aladdin and Lion King are shameful products. Even THQ was putting more effort into their stuff than that.

[@Nicholas_Steel]

Super Games prolly couldn't afford (or source) high capacity cartridges, so content had to be cut.

[@Imposibilitron]

There was another unlicensed alladin on nes. Much better version than you showed.

[@littlepiggames]

5:43 isn't the background taken from Mega Man 2's Woodman stage?

[@therollingcreeper1]

No, this one is much more detailed

[@Channeloftheyars]

Eh, this situation is more common than you think. Somari is a port of Sonic 1 for the NES, it is ok but suffers from glitches, controls, and overall lack of polish, but is better than Sonic genesis for the gba which has worse controls, the game is barely playable and the bugs ruin the game. Or Aladdin lll on the nes is a port of Aladdin on the SNES, while not the greatest port out there. Hummer team did a good job with the game. Compared to Aladdin for the NES this is amazing.

[@kstanni87]

3:19 those are giraffe neck hairs but they are supposed to be brown

[@Peskyhooligan]

And then there’s ey how Yang…. Or (ehy)

[@NotSpaaZ]

Hello! nice video

[@pojr]

Thank you!!

[@JRJohnson1701]

so where do i find these ROMs?

[@jiminboo]

Good job poe!

[@pojr]

Thank you!

[@nangld]

Russians have also made two Dune 2 ports for NES. I have lets played one of these.

[@richyrich5049]

Read this comment. You make good video. Jungle book Gameboy title was acceptable.

[@ItYaBoiGreen]

Dude somari was my childhood tf?1?11

[@therollingcreeper1]

That was hummer team

[@DungTran-li2wn]

what is an example of acceleration in a jump?

[@TyphinHoofbun]

Most games have it. For instance, Super Mario Bros. Mario starts out moving upwards quickly, slows down near the peak, and then starts falling faster. (Most games will also have a maximum downward speed, a "terminal velocity". Without it, things can happen like clipping into/through floors or the game failing to load and draw tiles correctly. Look at Super Metroid's "moonfall" glitch, where the fall speed cap is broken, for an example.)

[@mushra50]

All the bootlegs in the world and they're still no Street fighter game on Nintendo 64 take it easy Port these games to the Nintendo 64 1. Super Street fighter 2 turbo 2. Street fighter ex2 3. Darkstalkers 4. Rival schools 5. Tekken 2

[@nervaaugustus7089]

Is it *really* better than the official if it's poorly programmed and near impossible to complete as a result? Super Games's ports might look better in some cases, but a game that plays like garbage and is unwinnable is still a bad game, no matter how good it looks.

[@TobyTheKoraidon89]

When bootleg companies make games that are better than the real thing.

[@beeto45]

why the hell is it that you can use weapons in all capcom games (megaman shoots guns) but you cant weild a machete in aladdin, and that stupid sound that ( I hated ) that it makes when you jump on top of enemies its the same that it had in the mickey mouse games wich I hated.

[@ztothepunk]

Bruh, you've forgotten what 2600 looks like if you think lion king looks like 2600.

[@fatihozis]

Everybody knows is a Hummer team s Alaaddin best version on the game

[@XGPLAYZ]

SAYGAAH 🤙🤙

[@tadeuferreira4059]

Is this bootleg games from the past they embryos for the romhacks of today?