So what did the yellow tab do?
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It represents the vice like grip Trip Hawkins had on SEGA's balls. They reverse engineered the cartridges to save on licensing costs and SEGA panicked and gave them preferential rates and a bypass in later BIOS revisions designed to prevent unlicensed carts. If EA had tried that with Nintendo Yamauchi would have sent the boys round Trip's house to have a little chat.
When codemasters tried that passthrough trick Nintendo DID send the boys round. It tied their releases up in red tape for some time, nerfing all the potential sales. Eventually the game genie was ruled legal and was a success, but their other passthrough games died on the vine.
God's sacred power was able to repel Yamauchi's oni aura.
Explain this
Tengen got fricked for that. There's a reason those carts are super rare. Nintendo sued the pants off them and the outcome wasn't in their favor. They would then go on to infringe on the Tetris license and they'd lose that one too. They really did just frick up from start to finish. I mean, seriously, using Nintendo's own filings to base their Rabbit chip off of? Seriously? That's like schoolboy level shit. Every idiot knows you don't use proprietary information to make your clone, you get some other company to reverse engineer it then sell you the results of their findings.
>There's a reason those carts are super rare
I have a Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man and RBI Baseball is also super-common.
Those particular carts were NROM so they were cheap to manufacture and Tengen did large runs. The more expensive stuff like Skull & Crossbones wasn't made in sizable quantities. Especially carts with Tengen's in-house RAMBO mapper. RBI Baseball and Gauntlet used a Namco mapper so they made more of those.
Aren't those ones the few they licensed? They were from Namco code. I think pacman was licensed, then unlicensed after the lawsuit. I don't know which is more common.
Pac-Man, Gauntlet, and RBI Baseball exist in both licensed and unlicensed versions. Two of these were Namco games, one was an Atari original although all of them use the Namco 109 mapper (well, ok Pac-Man is NROM so it does't use any). Ms. Pac-Man is only unlicensed and completely different from the later Namco Ms. Pac-Man from 1993. That said some of the black Tengen carts are common, many are rare.
as i said, the NROM and Namco mapper games had large runs so there's a lot of those. the other games that used Tengen's OC donut steal mappers are the rare ones.
Tengen also sometimes used Mindscape to release their games under license. Temple of Doom exists in both Tengen and regulay grey cart versions.
mostly just looks tasty
I didn't have any sportshit as a kid, to me it made it look like some kind of experimental military technology
I thought you were supposed to hold it by the tab.
it was the same technology as the turbotouch controller. allowed you to still be able to play games even if you misplaced your controller. back when ea wasnt anti-consumer
The original RBI Baseball aka Family Stadium is a pretty meh game and a bit sloppily programmed. It was only the second Famicom luckswing game ever released after Nintendo's Baseball.
Electronic Arts was one of the most prolific publishers on the Genesis/ Mega Drive outside of Sega. They published like 110 games for the console. They used some interesting tactics to be able to publish their own cartridges for the Genesis and still be officially licensed. Apparently EA made a lot more money per game sold.
>Tengen also sometimes used Mindscape
When I was a kid, I had RoadBlasters for the NES and it was made by Mindscape. You know what? I kinda liked it. Not an accurate port of the arcade game, but it played pretty well for the type of game it was. But the Genesis port was closer to the arcade game. I also had PaperBoy 2 for the SNES. It was a sloppy looking game, visually. It has a slap bass heavy soundtrack. I kinda liked the game regardless.
The genesis Tengen game looked better:
Amazing
>They published like 110 games for the console
118 games according to Sega Retro. Would be 133 with the unreleased games.
https://segaretro.org/Electronic_Arts#Softography
I personally prefer the Master System Paperboy to the MD one.
It made the game more profitable for EA.
get that accolade game outta there Black person
EA wanted total control of their cartridge manufacturing--they could produce exactly as many cartridges as they watned and ship them on their own timetables.
>no Haunting
shit taste