fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) I've been doing some research, and after taking stock of the NES games also released in Japan, as well as the NES games released in other Famicom regions unofficially, by bootleggers, these seem to be the only games that didn't find a release on 60 pins, back in the day (let's say 1998 and before). There are a few games that I don't personally own, yet remember seeing, they are not included on this list. Although the following list is about 95% accurate, I'd say, please remember that new stuff is still being discovered every day, and I am sure that some of the below titles were indeed available as bootlegs at one point. Enjoy Action 52 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike After Burner Airwolf Anticipation Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl! Archon Arkista’s Ring Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach Baseball Stars II Bible Adventures Bible Buffet Bill & Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge Blackjack (AVE) Bo Jackson Baseball Break Time: The National Pool Tour Captain Comic: The Adventure Casino Kid II Castle of Deceit Chiller Classic Concentration Cobra Triangle Color a Dinosaur Cool World Cyberball Danny Sullivan’s Indy Heat Day Dreamin’ Davey Days of Thunder Death Race Deathbots Defender of the Crown Dirty Harry Donkey Kong Classics Double Dare Dudes with Attitude Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land F-15 Strike Eagle Family Feud Fantasy Zone Fisher-Price: Firehouse Rescue Fisher-Price: I Can Remember Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit Freedom Force Fun House Gauntlet Great Waldo Search Greg Norman’s Golf Power Gumshoe Heavy Shreddin’ High Speed Impossible Mission II Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1991) Infiltrator IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II Jack Nicklaus’ Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf Jeopardy! Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition Jeopardy! Junior Edition John Elway’s Quarterback Jordan vs Bird: One on One Joshua & the Battle of Jericho King Neptune’s Adventure King of Kings: The Early Years King’s Quest V Krazy Kreatures Last Starfighter Legends of the Diamond: The Baseball Championship Game Loopz M.U.L.E. Maniac Mansion Mario’s Time Machine Maxi 15 Miracle Piano Teaching System Monster Truck Rally Moon Ranger Mutant Virus: Crisis in a Computer WorldNES Play Action Football NFL Football Nightshade Nintendo World Championships 1990 Operation: Secret Storm Orb 3-D Overlord P’radikus Conflict Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator Pictionary Pinbot Puss ‘N Boots: Pero’s Great Adventure Qix R.B.I. Baseball 2 R.B.I. Baseball 3 Rad Racer II Raid 2020 Rampage Remote Control Robodemons Rocket Ranger Rollerblade Racer Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge Secret Scout in the Temple of Demise Sesame Street: 123 Sesame Street: ABC Sesame Street: Big Bird’s Hide & Speak Shinobi Short Order / Eggsplode! Silent Service Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship Solitaire (AVE) Space Shuttle Project Spiritual Warfare StarTropics Stealth ATF Sunday Funday: The Ride Super Glove Ball Super Jeopardy! Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet Super Spike V’Ball / Nintendo World Cup Swamp Thing Swords and Serpents Taboo: The Sixth Sense Target: Renegade Tecmo Baseball Three Stooges Trolls on Treasure Island Ultima: Warriors of Destiny Ultimate League Soccer Vindicators Wally Bear and the NO! Gang Wayne Gretzky Hockey Wheel of Fortune Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? Where’s Waldo? Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Win, Lose, or Draw Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power World Games Zoda’s Revenge: Star Tropics II Edited January 10, 2021 by fcgamer 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,704 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) I always found it weird that Monster Party never got its Japanese release, given all the Japanese cultural references in the game that went over the heads of western audiences. Edited January 10, 2021 by Tulpa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid | 447 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 It was planned for release in Japan just never completed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 I actually should remove Monster Party from the list. Everyone's comments reminded me of something. It had been rumoured to exist for years, but one of my friends just last year was able to obtain and hence confirm that the NES version of the game had been bootlegged and distributed on Famicom in some parts of the world, though it's a rare release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, fcgamer said: Somehow posted this but didn't mean to Edited January 10, 2021 by fcgamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicuber | 54 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) I'm one of those type of people that wouldn't count bootlegs when it comes with released 60-pin Famicom cartridges, but I thought I'd contribute to the list regardless, who knows, maybe It'll be helpful to you. Anyway, IIRC, any NES game developed by Beam Software were never officially released on Famicom. Including games that may have unofficial bootleg releases (feel free to not add if so), the following games missing from the list are: 720° Aussie Rules Footy Back to the Future Back to the Future II & III Bad Street Brawler Battle Chess Bigfoot Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum George Foreman's KO Boxing International Cricket Last Action Hero Mickey's Safari in Letterland Mickey's Adventure in Numberland Power Punch II Road Runner Smash T.V. Star Wars (JVC) The Hunt for Red October The Last Ninja The Punisher With that being said, If there are any bootleg releases of these games listed, I certainly like to see images of it, just to see what wacky art on the cartridges look like. Edited January 11, 2021 by Famicuber Missed a Beam game from the list, wouldn't really matter though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 3,153 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) Quickly going through my own carts, I'm missing The New Zealand Story, Kick Master, The Rocketeer, Monster In My Pocket, Ultimate Stuntman, both Tengen Tetris and Nintendo Tetris, MC Kids, The G.I. Joes, Zen Intergalactic Ninja, Startropics 2, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Low G Man, and probably a bunch of others from that list. Are those all omitted because you've found bootleg/dendy versions of them etc.? Edited January 10, 2021 by Sumez 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, Sumez said: Quickly going through my own carts, I'm missing The New Zealand Story, Kick Master, The Rocketeer, Monster In My Pocket, Ultimate Stuntman, both Tengen Tetris and Nintendo Tetris, MC Kids, The G.I. Joes, Zen Intergalactic Ninja, Startropics 2, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Low G Man, and probably a bunch of others from that list. Are those all omitted because you've found bootleg/dendy versions of them etc.? Yeah if there's a (contemporary) bootleg version known, then Ive skipped it. Actually somehow I missed Nintendo's version of Tetris, for some reason no one has ever found this as a bootleg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Famicuber said: I'm one of those type of people that wouldn't count bootlegs when it comes with released 60-pin Famicom cartridges, but I thought I'd contribute to the list regardless, who knows, maybe It'll be helpful to you. Anyway, IIRC, any NES game developed by Beam Software were never officially released on Famicom. Including games that may have unofficial bootleg releases (feel free to not add if so), the following games missing from the list are: 720° Aussie Rules Footy Back to the Future Back to the Future II & III Bad Street Brawler Battle Chess Bigfoot Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum George Foreman's KO Boxing International Cricket Mickey's Safari in Letterland Mickey's Adventure in Numberland Power Punch II Road Runner Smash T.V. Star Wars (JVC) The Hunt for Red October The Last Ninja The Punisher With that being said, If there are any bootleg releases of these games listed, I certainly like to see images of it, just to see what wacky art on the cartridges look like. I'll post pictures later, yes I excluded many of those because they had releases, albeit bootleg ones. Thing is, with the Famicom itself, one could argue that as a whole regarding territory in the world, famiclone versions were more present, hence why I feel it extremely interesting and essential to include such bootlegs in this listing. It's interesting for me to see which games never made it to release in 60 pin Format as a whole, then we can discuss why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,704 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 6 hours ago, Hybrid said: It was planned for release in Japan just never completed I know. I just find it weird that one of the most Japanese games ever made was never officially released in Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,857 Graphics Team · Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Wow - I'm surprised by a lot of these. Especially Puss 'N Boots - you'd think a game starring the mascot of Toei Animation would see a Japanese release. What a neat list, @fcgamer! -CasualCart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 5,113 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I was fairly certain that Star Trek 25th Anniversary never hit the famicom or did it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Tanooki said: I was fairly certain that Star Trek 25th Anniversary never hit the famicom or did it? Star Trek 25th. Seems to be uncommon in South America, though it's extremely hard to find in Taiwan. There's definitely geographical rarities for some of these things too, which can be quite fascinating to look at. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 5 hours ago, CasualCart said: Wow - I'm surprised by a lot of these. Especially Puss 'N Boots - you'd think a game starring the mascot of Toei Animation would see a Japanese release. What a neat list, @fcgamer! -CasualCart I find it extremely odd as well, especially since it's prequel was released over there, yet not in the west. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mideast | 144 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I thought Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium '87 by Namcot is R.B.I. Baseball 2? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,120 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) 56 minutes ago, mideast said: I thought Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium '87 by Namcot is R.B.I. Baseball 2? Yeah, and RBI 3 is one of them too, but they are modified because the original Famicom versions kept the players fat and cartoony throughout the whole long-running series (they went from '86 to '94, so there were a lot of games for Tengen to choose from), so I don't know if that officially 'counts' or not. For example, he doesn't have Power Blade listed in the original post even though it is extremely different from the Famicom's Power Blazer... Edited January 11, 2021 by Dr. Morbis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mideast | 144 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 16 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: Yeah, and RBI 3 is one of them too, but they are modified because the original Famicom versions kept the players fat and cartoony throughout the whole long-running series (they went from '86 to '94, so there were a lot of games for Tengen to choose from), so I don't know if that officially 'counts' or not. For example, he doesn't have Power Blade listed in the original post even though it is extremely different from the Famicom's Power Blazer... Gotcha, I never personally played the other R.B.I. Baseballs as a kid. The first one I totally wore out. The Tengen sequels seem pretty similar to the first game so I haven’t played them much. I know Famicom World does list it as R.B.I. Baseball 2 in their games list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mideast | 144 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I guess it’s also somewhat subjective what is considered not released for famicom. Almost all localizations at the very least translated Japanese text except for the very early black box games that had the same ROMs here and Japan. A game like Snoopy’s Silly Sports Spectacular @fcgamerconsiders as released for famicom as Donald Duck, which makes sense. And Kid Klown as Mickey Mouse III. I’d say the R.B.I Baseballs should be considered released there too then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Yeah it's definitely subjective, I found a base list online and then started modifying it to get this one. I think the RBI games could be removed, if the only difference is the graphics. But what do we do about Mermaids of Atlantis then? The nudie version was more or less released on 60 pins, but not the clean version. Thoughts? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Oh and these 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,779 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I wonder, do Japanese collectors care to obtain legit US versions of games that never released in Japan? Personally I avoid Japanese games because of the language barrier, but I do collect Japanese games that were JP exclusive and do not have too much required reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,006 Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 3 hours ago, phart010 said: I wonder, do Japanese collectors care to obtain legit US versions of games that never released in Japan? Personally I avoid Japanese games because of the language barrier, but I do collect Japanese games that were JP exclusive and do not have too much required reading I have no idea about Japanese collectors. For what it's worth though, these kinds of western exclusives (even the ones that were bootlegged) don't generally seem to be very popular amongst Taiwanese collectors, aside from perhaps some of the more fun titles like Kickmaster, TaleSpin, and Darkwing Duck. As a whole, I think a lot of the exclusives we received were best at average. Then there are some such as Wheel of Fortune, which would obviously have about as much of an appeal to a non-English speaker similar to how we feel about mahjong games. It's actually because of games like Wheel of Fortune that I "count" bootleg releases, as I think it's a lot more fun to analyze the data, looking at the titles that were basically not marketable at all outside of their original customer base. Somewhere in one of the Chinese magazines I have from back in the early 90s, there is an article showcasing and talking about some of the western exclusive titles. IIRC, I think Back to the Future was one of the games they were discussing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 620 Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 On 1/10/2021 at 9:06 PM, Dr. Morbis said: Yeah, and RBI 3 is one of them too, but they are modified because the original Famicom versions kept the players fat and cartoony throughout the whole long-running series (they went from '86 to '94, so there were a lot of games for Tengen to choose from), so I don't know if that officially 'counts' or not. For example, he doesn't have Power Blade listed in the original post even though it is extremely different from the Famicom's Power Blazer... I guess it just comes down to what you consider a port to be vs a different version. If he's counting games like Maniac Mansion and Fantasy Zone, as different, then it makes sense to count RBI games as different too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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