Korean hardware & software pictures

[Yakumo]

A very kind fellow who owns http://www.guardiana.net/ sent me a load of Korean hardware and software images. He's allowed me to share some with ASSEMbler readers apart from all the cool Mega Drive stuff. So sit back and enjoy the wonderful world of shitty built Korean hardware.

Master System 1 & 2 plus other stuff. Notice the text on this Master System 1 is in Korean.


Another Master System 1 shot but this time with English text on it.


Some Master System software. Notice that it's the same size as the Japanese software.


Korean NES


The Korean NES


Korean version of Zelda


Korean SNES


Some Korean SFC carts. Funny how the machine is called Super Nintendo but the cartridges are Super Famicom and SNES :lol: This Ghouls & Ghosts one seems to be based on the PAL version design.


Back of the cartridge


Samsung Saturn with the famous none working reset switch.


Samsung Saturn pad. How cheap and nasty does that look?


Samsung Saturn Sega Rally. Cheap isn't even in it as far as design goes. All they did was erase the Sega logo and paste a Samsung one over it.


GameBoy


I hope you enjoyed them. Will post more in the future.

Yakumo

[cahaz]

Nice post Yak!

But are these all official products, or pirated system?

[Yakumo]

They are all official licensed items reproduced by Korean companies.

Yakumo

[kevster]

cool very nice

but why couldnt u share the mega drive ones? guess someone get killed if you had hehe

[Taucias]

I love the fact that the NES box has the same cheesy family picture, but with Koreans on it. Hilarious!

I guess it must just be a universal theme.

[XerdoPwerko]

Dude, this is absolutely great stuff. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
What I really like is the funky red crosspad on that SuperFami thing.

But I'd like to ask something. Weren't Japanese imports and products illegal in Korea? Why does Nintendo have Korean versions of stuff?

[ASSEMbler]

Watermark these fast, esp the pics with the zemmix.

[madhatter256]

I love the fact that the NES box has the same cheesy family picture, but with Koreans on it. Hilarious!

I guess it must just be a universal theme.

I noticed that, too, when I saw the picture . I just find it wierd that the systems have to be produced in their country rather than import them from Japan. I guess its because of tariffs or something like that.

[Yakumo]

Watermark these fast, esp the pics with the zemmix.

Done but I didn't really want to since the pictures were given to me.

I love the fact that the NES box has the same cheesy family picture, but with Koreans on it. Hilarious!

I guess it must just be a universal theme.

I was thinking just the same thing :lol:

but why couldnt u share the mega drive ones? guess someone get killed if you had hehe

Because he asked me not to. He has plans for them. Here is just one picture of a Korean Thunder Force 4. I won't be posting anymore though. Enjoy !


Yakumo

[ccovell]

Wow, I have now learnt how "BOY" is spelled in Hangul. Thanks, Yakumo!

[liquitt]

Wow, very nice, thanks for sharing the pics!

Some Korean SFC carts. Funny how the machine is called Super Nintendo but the cartridges are Super Famicom and SNES :lol: This Ghouls & Ghosts one seems to be based on the PAL version design.

i don't really get what you're trying to say...

[cyberguile]

Some shit I didn't send to yakumo (the pictures on my ftp are three months old but I'm still searching - and finding :p - the korean web)
A boxed game boy: note that the game boy had at least two releases, one with it's korean name written on it (see yakumo's post) and this one:



Some games (will search for more but my computer is a bit messy...)




I like this one ^^



A sexyer super com boy:



A game gear game (loads more to come, hope so... lol)

[wheelaa]

There has been dozens of korean md carts on yahoo recently, not too hard to find I reckon.

[cyberguile]

BTW, put some pics on my blog (forgot about it ^^)
http://cybergill.blogspot.com/
(yeah, the first message is about korean nes games)

[Baseley09]

Nice stuff thanks for sharing.

That Game Gear game is Aleste 2 isnt it?

[cyberguile]

Another intersting picture:



The nec system were released in korea as this ad gives prices:



But I couldn't find a single picture of a korean game or system (but I didn't really search for them...)

[Ground Zero]

Korean Vic-A NeoGeo AES

[cyberguile]

Korean Vic-A NeoGeo AES

O_o
Do you know if the games had a local release ?

[Baseley09]

O_o
Do you know if the games had a local release ?

There are a few Korean NGH releases, most are other region. There are more Korean MVS games, some most notably Samurai Spirits 3 (Fighters Swords) & Last Blade (Last Soldier) getting name changes.

[liquitt]

i was just laughing my ass off at that picture :D

and all the other pictures are awesome!! especially the first ones with that super-duper amount of games :)