Tengen pac man nes11/30/2023 ![]() Apart from the cartridge shape and in-game copyright text, the software in both versions is identical. As with the other two games that they first released under license, this game was sold in both licensed and unlicensed versions. The Tengen game I will be focusing on in this review is Pac-Man. Licenced (left) and unlicenced (right) Pac-Man cartridges. Were they supposed to invoke the shape of classic Atari cartridges? You make the call! These unlicenced cartridges were shaped differently, colored black instead of gray and having an angled top face. ![]() So, while they released some games under the licence ( Pac-Man, Gauntlet, and RBI Baseball), they secretly went to work trying to circumvent the 10NES lockout chip I mentioned before, and succeeded. However, they were also unhappy with Nintendo's licensing rules, such as that companies could only produce five different NES games per year. Tengen sold ports of arcade games, most of them already released in Japan by companies (Namco and Sunsoft) which were not selling in the US at the time. In order to make games for home consoles, Atari Games formed a new brand, Tengen, also named after a term from the Asian board game Go. But at the time, the company was split into two parts: Atari Corporation, which owned the brand rights and made home games, and Atari Games, which only released titles for the arcade. So you think they weren't about to make games for the competition's consoles. ![]() But if I'm going to cover the history of the NES, then this is one facet that I can't ignore.īack during the reign of the NES, Atari was still making its own consoles, such as the 7800 and re-released 2600. Yes, I said "releases", plural I will explain that in a moment. Okay, normally I wouldn't cover something so well-known, but Tengen's releases of Pac-Man for the NES deserve a mention simply because of the history of the company. ![]()
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