Super Multi-in-One Series

2 in 1 (Tecmo Cup-Hiding Ball)

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Super Multi-in-One series (17 titles)
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    various unknown Hong Kong pirate companies
RELEASED:         various
TYPE:             Multigame
LANGUAGE:         various

PREMISE:          We've known about the existence of a big pirate game
                  market in Hong Kong for some time, whose specialty was
                  ripping off popular titles and issuing them on multigame
                  carts.  Leave it to one of G3's field reporters, Zhenying
                  Wu, to stumble across a small cache of them on eBay in
                  September 1998.  His find started a big expansion to this
                  entry, so let's give a big round of applause for his
                  efforts!  Oh, and while I'm at it, let's also give a big
                  "thank you" to Kossman for his original eBay auction
                  posting.

IMPRESSIONS:      What is there to say?  The ones that aren't direct rips
                  or pirated versions of Japanese games are pretty sad, by
                  all accounts.  Let's hope someone gets these to me so I
                  can judge them more objectively.  All I have to go on
                  right now on my part are poor-quality scans of the
                  horrendous box/cart art and what limited data I can
                  gather from back-channel sources.

VARIATIONS:       These go by various names and various assortments, but
                  are most commonly referred to as the "Hong Kong pirate
                  carts."  I've tried to match commercial games with their
                  Hong Kong counterparts, but these matches are tentative
                  at best.

                  MegaDrive 16-in-1 (This is one of only two known
                    MegaDrive carts that are actually SMS carts in
                    disguise, with the other being Phantasy Star MD.  It
                    includes 16 SC3000/SMS games - My Hero, Soccer,
                    Baseball, Teddy Boy, Ghost House, Bank Panic, Machine
                    Gun, Astro Flash, Spy vs. Spy, Pit Pot, Hang-On,
                    Satellite 7, Super Tennis, Super Astro, Easy Ghost, and
                    Kid Fighter.  Super Astro is a retitled Astro Flash,
                    and Easy Ghost is a retitled Ghost House.  Many thanks
                    to Obscure Pixels for the info and the cart/box scans.)
                  Mega Multi 7-in-1 (This was actually released in Hong
                    Kong and recently showed up on zero-chan's ebay auction
                    posting.  It includes Sonic 1, World Cup 92, Super
                    Volleyball, Tengen's Tetris, Columns, Tiny Toons:
                    Busts Loose, and Pac-Man)
                  Super 2-in-1 (Spiderman, Fantasia)
                  Super 3-in-1 (Hellfire, Columns, and another unknown)
                  Super 4-in-1 (Twin Hawk, Fire Shark, Aleste, Wonderboy 3)
                  Super 4-in-1 (Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, Thunder Force
                    2, Batman, Fire Shark)
                  Super 4-in-1 (Street Smart, Bare Knuckle, Quack Shot, and
                    another unknown)
                  Super 4-in-1 (Bingo 75, Lucky Bingo, Honey Peach, Chess
                    Academy)
                  Super 4-in-1 (Bare Knuckle, Fire Mustang, Street Smart,
                    Aero Blaster)
                  Super 6-in-1 (Master Chu [aka Fu Manchu?], Metal Fighter,
                    Galactic Crusader, Auto-Upturn, Magic Cube [aka Smart
                    Mouse?], Super Pang [aka Ghost Hunter?])
                  Super 6-in-1 (Q-Boy, Gaiapolis, Thunder Blast Man [aka
                    Rockman/Megaman?], Jurassic Boy, Millionaire, and Link
                    Dragon)
                  Super 6-in-1 (Super Mario Brothers, Columns, Flicky,
                    Fatal Labyrinth, Block Out, Super Ping-Pong)
                  Super 7-in-1 (box is identical to the second Super 6-in-1
                    and appears to have some of the same games, with at
                    least one unknown unique new one added)
                  Super 8-in-1 (Jovial Race, Twin Eagle [aka Twin Hawk?],
                    Little Red Hood [aka Akazukin Cha Cha?], Silent
                    Assault, Super Pang [aka Ghost Hunter?], Minesweeper,
                    and two others)
                  Super 10-in-1 King's Card #1 (Super Air Wolf, Bare
                    Knuckle, Street Smart, Moonwalker, Batman, Super Real
                    Basketball, Aero Blaster, Shadow Dancer, Magic Prince
                    [?], Verytex)
                  Super 10-in-1 King's Card #2 (Street Smart, E-SWAT,
                    Shiten Myooh, Aleste, Dangerous Seed, Wonder Boy 3,
                    Heavy Unit, Final Blow, Ghost Busters, Streets of Rage)
                  Super 14-in-1 (Super HQ, Columns, Flicky, The
                    Flintstones, Mahjongg Coy Ryu, Ms. Pac-Man, Sokoban,
                    Taz-Mania, Tiny Toon Adventures, and others)
                  Super 15-in-1 (Sunset Smart [Street Smart?], Chase HQ 2,
                    Rambo 3, Tetris, Alex Kidd, Ms. Pac-Man, Shove It!,
                    Chivalrous [?], Rescue Secret Agent [?], High Sea[s
                    Havoc], Indian Area [?], Go to the Arsenal [?], Snowy
                    Area [?], Jungle Battle [?], Blow Up All The Enemy
                    Weapons [?!])
                  Super 30-in-1 (contents unknown)

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