I could remember the 1990s when the Internet was barely there. The digital age was barely kicking. I remember having a Famicom (which was the Japanese OG NES). There were the multicarts. I had no idea they were actually BOOTLEG. Yeah, bootlegging is a common problem in low-tier countries like the Philippines. In my case, I had the Super 190-in-1 (which was just a series of hacks for most of them) and many games were wrongly labeled. Mario Bros. was labeled as Mr. Mary. This cartridge also included the infamous Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels -- which was called Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan.
An AI response (take it with a grain of salt) says this:
Smaller Games:
Bootleggers would prioritize older, smaller games to fit more onto a single cartridge. The size of the game is measured in kilobytes (KB) or megabytes (MB).
Smaller older games that would come from the 1980s to 1990s. Some of the smaller older games would be the arcade games like Dig Dug, Pac-Man, Warp Man, and Legend of Kage. One can tell by their 8-bit graphics that they were pretty much smaller games. The same could apply to the first Super Mario Bros. game. One can look at the differences in gameplay AND graphics.
Some labels were erroneously funny, such as:
- Calling Adventure Island, Atlantis. So yeah, there was an obscure game for the NES called Atlantis. But I'm NOT interested in trying it out!
- Dino Riki was called Superman and The New Human -- all with different variations.
- MUSCLE was called Wrestling II -- which was based on Kinnukuman.
- Moai-Kun was called Moai Jin.
Some multicarts even included games made by the HORRIBLE Hummer Team. One may even find the "impressive" Super Mario World bootleg -- something that RUINED my childhood. Yes, that was real bootleg since it was an UNLICENSED reproduction. Some of them included Mortal Kombat bootlegs (which are also that horrid) and the Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger Famicom game. Zyuranger was labeled as Power Rangers.
This made me wonder if modern gaming decided to create collection disks becasue of this. Maybe yes, maybe no. In fact, I think about a couple of collection disks, such as:
- Mega Man Anniversary Collection and Megaman X Collection for the PS2. If only Capcom decided to remake these games instead of the Legacy Collection games. I confess I had more fun playing the NES games on Easy Mode. NES games are INCREDIBLY IMBALANCED.
- A series of Sonic the Hedgehog classic games on one disk by Sega. This was how I was able to "catch up" with a childhood without a Sega system.
- The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection which made me play near-arcade perfect translations.
I'd say that these games may have fascinated me as a child. However, these bootlegs are just
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