“This week we are joined by Prof Sergey Radchenko to discuss the of tumultuous relationship between the two major superpowers of the communist world during the Cold War. The People’s Republic of China and the USSR.
Sergey Radchenko is the Director of Research and Professor of International Relations at the University of Cardiff. He is an expert on Sino-Soviet Relations, atomic diplomacy, and has written books on Mongolian and North Korean History. He has previously served as a Global Fellow and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre (in Washington D.C.), and as the Zi Jiang Distinguished Professor at East China Normal University (Shanghai)”
I think today, during what looks like the early start of the Cold War 0.2 we tend either to exaggerate Russian-Chinese relations or collusion around the fact that after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been integrated more and more with the Chinese economy. The increasing dependency of Russia on China, after the SWIFT ban on Russian banks, has also been exaggerated. In the words of Arnaud Dubien, in spite of what governments believe it appears that “Russia Won’t be China’s vassal” (a very good article).
I think that we have to go back to the Cold War relations of the two motors of world communism: the Bolshevik Soviet Union and Mao’s China. Relations have been always changing and evolving over time – and altough friendship was always more important than enmity, one should say that from the very beginning (not covered in this podcast) there was room for a lot of misunderstandings, low points, high expectations, and a slow syncing (compounded by the all-out attack of Japan and Western imperial powers that had every interest in subverting and blocking communications and avoiding a united anti-Imperial front).
Even if letters and Telegraphs were under surveillance by the Japanese, British, Dutch, and French secret services, the two revolutionary powers of Sun Yat-sen’s Republican China and Lenin’s Soviet Union reached out to try and find a common ground in common anti-imperialist and later on anti-capitalist struggle. Some of the conflicts also arose around wordings and perceived counter-revolutionary actions (such as the invasion of Prague by Warsaw pact troops or Budapest 1956 by Soviet troops). Other arose of older wordings and perceived arrogance – such as using terms such as “infantile” or “backward” that seemed to pop up rather indiscriminately at the most inopportune moments (and that seemed to be lifted out of an imperialist and racialist vocabulary).
Advocating for a united front with the Nationalist Kuomintang (that turned out to be a major mistake), was also encouraged by the Soviets. If you want to find out more about documents that traced the evolution of the Comintern and what was to become the Third World (or the Global South today) you have to look beyond this podcast. The invasion of Prague by the Warsaw Pact country was another blow to the Sino-Soviet relations and also the way the Soviet Union seemed to retreat from the world revolutionary stage, while China seemed to ascend to that position. Also, there was a war Sino-Soviet border conflict in 1969 that tends to be forgotten nowadays.
Very early on the young Soviet power started taking the colonial question seriously (but only as a secondary priority in the fight against the Western industrial imperialist powers) – V I Lenin’s Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions (written in 1920 on the Second Congress of the Communist International) is an important document in that sense.
I recommend watching the Chinese original first. It has EN subs, it takes a bit to adapt to the pace, designs, and acting styles, jokes, etc. but I guarantee it will be a blast. It was produced by CCTV, Tencent Video, Three-Body Universe, Migu Video, and Linghe Culture and represents a primer in Chinese TV productions. It is fast-paced and edgy, reminding us how similar and cinematic are manhua‘s (or manga/manhwa) and how easy it is to use it as a movie storyboard.
I am tying not to be a purist or a cultural essentialist, od making the case for China’s exceptionalism but let us pause the Netflix inevitability in order to enjoy the original. Yes, it’s spectacular & entertaining, but I think that the UK or Netflix adaptation should be viewed critically on 3 accounts, considering how previous adaptations were quite shallow in comparison with the non-Western Asian originals (not to mention various Techno-Orientalist trappings)
Taking into account the previous Hollywood adaptations of Asian horror classics – say The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye, that are not only watered-down, Westernized versions of the original, but they all enact a sort of deletion (becoming canonic) instead of the turning more attention to the original material. Accordingly, this appropriation and adaptation is mostly triggered by money- and catering to Western tastes, ignoring its historically materialist setting – as part of the Japanese Miracle and “Confucian Belt” Tiger Economies (Ju-On, Ringu, Gin gwai respectively) propped up but also disciplined by the US. The same I would argue for the Liu Cixin Remembrance of Earth’s Past – the decision of the producers to place it in the UK rather than China speaks volumes. I mention this while agreeing with the fact that internationalizing such productions is essential to growing their core audience, especially for getting Chinese SF more popular abroad. So, while agreeing it is good to decontextualize the Chinese original, I think that the source material should get more visibility.
The original Three-Body (三体) was originally free of charge and available on the YT channel, and it was hailed by some cultural critics as one of the most accurate, adult and canonic SF series ever made. Three-Body (三体) was in complete contrast with the usual (very entertaining but also quite infantilizing) Disney-Lucasfilms SF productions (SW extended universe – think The Mandalorian). Charles Mudede in particular was very vocal in making clear that a Hollywood adaptation would not invest money in a book trilogy that is so complicated, so dark and so complex and stick to it, especially because it “provides a solid introduction to the key ideas of a discipline that went into decline in the US around the mid-1970s, physics.” Well now that series is here, it is time to go for the original.
Again, as mentioned previously on Timespacewarps we should not narrow down the scope of our cultural opening. During the XX century the West celebrated China’s “opening up”, which meant opening up to US/Europ-Atlantic liberalism and its financial institutions (see admission into WTO and Clinton’s China Trade Bill speech), but also buying into democratic values, and eventually becoming the World’s Shopfloor. This is not to say we should encourage Chinese exceptionalism. Yet it’s most banal and easy to mold everything into Anglo – American topoi. Ehy try to expunge differences, divergences, and specificities in order to make more of the same for the home market? It the aim – as was the original aim of its producers and ths crazy story behind it – is to produce a similar IP to the Lucasfilm SW, then go ahead – expand the universe! It’s anyway a very narrow and incestuous media world we’re living in. I say this also in regard to the Hollywood Dream factory record of casting incredibly discriminatory and stiff characters in the roles of Asians, Arabs, or Soviets agents during the Cold War. Do we need more Western versions of Asian movies/series or should we help translate or disseminate existing productions more throughly? What the hell happened to Own Voice.
So here is episode 1 of the original Chinese series with pretty decent EN subtitles. It is very high quality and it has a very good cast. The whole story is woven around an interplay btw history (or historical materialism), the natural sciences, and ideology – a debate inaugurated one might say by the paper of Boris Hessen at the 1931 Second International Congress for the History of Science in London where he delivered “The Socio-Economic Roots of Newton’s PrincipiaMathematica”.
This series is incredibly paced, and it contains some incredible scenes from the Observatory during the Cultural Revolution – it is really a good way to get acquainted with what would be termed the geo-military concept Third Front – of trying to industrialize China’s rugged interior and agricultural regions, in the midst of a double whammy: the fear of that China’s industrial and military infrastructural core would be vulnerable in the event of invasion by the Soviet Union or air raids by the United States (yeah after the Sino-Soviet split things looked very differently). The series is also an exception in the way it depicts a multiracial, multinational planetary governance that is trying to respond to this alien threat.
After the US rapprochement and as national defense considerations waned, the pace of building up the interior according to guiding principles of “Close to mountains, dispersed, hidden” (kaoshan, fensan, yinbi) declined and many plants went bankrupt in the 1980s (of course many got built in a hurry and were as a consequence quite defective). This does not mean some of them got an afterlife as private enterprises.
Anyway, it is important to watch such a series and the first batch of 30 eps (!) – out of consideration for its impact in China itself, where the Netflix adaptation is not streaming. Liu Cixin fans and Three-Body fans applauded the TV series on Douban (Rotten Tomatoes and Letterbox in one), where 449,000 viewers gave the show a high rating of 8.7. Below are some posters made for the anniversary edition -combined SF with traditional, vertical Chinese landscape painting, “shanshui hua” (literally painting of mountains, rivers, and cliffs).
Miyoo Mini + is an amazing handheld console – one of the most popular, affordable, and visually pleasing bezel hi rez screen (if you consider the cost and being highly portable benefits) mate plastic cover retrogaming devices on the market (reviews compare it with ANBERNIC quality wise).
Please bear with me and understand that I am neither a gamer nor a commercial promoter of these products. I basically bought one online after two good and trustworthy gamers (and I might say local game historians!) suggested it: Otaku Bogdan Gorganeanu (a specialist in Japanese gaming console history and early VR experimention) and Milos Jovanovica (designer and comics publisher). Mile was invited for the Partisans in Space edition of last year’s Cozzzmonautica dedicated to ex-Yugoslav SF/pop and political adventures by Indecis space in Timisoara Romania. Mile’s funky personal & archival interactive lecture through historical gamespace is to be found below. The proximity to Yugoslavia and the closeness across the Danube made it possible a lot of exchanges starting with punk music, electronic music and games. Not to mention a sizable Serbian minority and diaspora living in Romania.
During the break he suggested Miyoo mini + as one of a kind (and an earlier recommandation by Bogdan) – and also provided links to a specifically developed OS – Onion OS (a custom OS made by a passionate team and involved community) for this particular console. It took a few days to copy all the games at my USB speed, make backups, find the proper ROMs folders, find Linux SD card formatting software that I use very rarely (there is also Windows and Apple versions).. And after I watched a lot of videos & read through all the suggestions (the RetroBreeze and others) advice literature, Reddits, and heeded all the dangers of modding such a new device. The risks you will brick it are really small (check below), I wanted to share that with readers a few shortcuts and valuable information. All-in-all it was easy and well worth tour de force. If you think my personal path as a total beginner can help out any of you, check the links and descriptions below.
Why Miyoo? I would say it is also an incredible demonstration of what Chinese technological prowess has provided us – Time-Travel for 50-70 bucks, since you’ve got the ability to explore the whole range of developments in gaming history as well as explore local versions of popular games (for example US, European, Japanese or Brasilian and Chinese versions of favorite games). One can check out all these particularities or go straight to their long-time favorites and long-since-forgotten classics. It is definitely a star item of retro-nostalgia, but is also one that does not support current technological amnesia. You could say yes, why pay more and search for something new – or for something original (say an eyewatering console such as Steam Deck or Nintendo Switch)?
Well, measure that against the overall flexibility, relative cheapness, and near universality (plus this is no cheapo throwaway) of such a device. It ia a piece of shanzai, a hopeful mutant provided to everyone on a small budget (like me)- showing that things could develop in another direction, without a major established brand behind. It is also typical that a late-comer such as Miyoo does offer a divergent pathway (from the gaming majors) that is open to tweaking, general cross-platform compatibility and customization (this is what ONION OS provides for those who want to go beyond the built-in OS). I’m told it’s stock code wasn’t yet provided free for the community – so it’s still much more room for improvement. Hardware wise they’ve re-purposed a BlackBerry screen with IoT tech for controlling smart security cameras (which – surprise-China has been a global leader in). Emulators are all Free Open Software and it’s stock OS is suspiciously close to TrimUI as some eagle eyed users have observed. It is not its originality, but its mutability and versatility which is its main attraction here.I do not know how popular it is in China, even if my Chinese friends seemed to know of it, and appreciate it but did not think it was such a big deal (maybe for them not so much 🙂 ).
Here is a very good good Myioo Miniguide with details on extra long-lasting battery (that is if you do not want to keep the old one and thus have more decent brakes), better micro SD 128 GB cards, how to update your Miyoo to the most recent Miyoo Mini base firmware, how to safely install ONION OS and much more. Suffices to say checking ur firmware is the first step to switching to Onion OS will has better sound, automatice game scores saving & perfect ways to switch btw games and much more (only screwed up thing is the inexact battery charging level).
ANBERNIC RG35XX STARTER GUIDE for GARLIC OS (GARLIC OS is another super cool community built OS for Miyoo developed by Black Seraph – please support on Patreon or Kofi to support the community)
The Necessity for Interoperability in the age of Technological Monopolies
Well for once, as we know there is compatibility issues in technology. Technology software or games suffer from the same problems as the rest of the Big Tech-provided tools. It is not interoperable (see Windows vs Apple or now Google vs Huawei). In general what we buy (the Cult of Mac) is impossible to open (no open hardware), impossible to repair, and impossible to mod. If if is developed for one medium or one platform or one brand, they do not easily transfer to another. This is not an accident – it is part of monopolistic capitalism. As other fans continue to swear on it, this Chinese-developed Gameboy emulator is practically unbeaten because:
-it has a very affordable price range (you can get a recommended 128 GB version for about 70 Euros shipped directly from China by Aliexpress let’s say – it takes longer but works fine). You can choose from a range of models and also find extra batteries, invest in a better (recommended) SD card, and even other small accessories. For those in the know it has reached ANBERNIC levels of quality.
-you get an SD card with literally thousands of games (you will not have the time to explore and play all these games I assure you). There is also curated lists of games online (also recommended). I will not provide those although you can find them on archive.org – and I have to warn you it takes a looooong time to dwl them (but maybe u want to try the Tiny Best Set: GO! Just a perfunctory search gives you a huuuge list):
1941: Counter Attack (World 900227)1942 (Revision B)1943 Kai: Midway Kaisen (Japan)1943: The Battle of Midway (Euro)1944 : The Loop Master (USA 000620)19XX : The War Against Destiny (USA 951207)720° (rev 4)Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon (World revision 3)Aero Fighters (World / USA + Canada / Korea / Hong Kong / Taiwan,)After BurnerAfter Burner IIAirwolfAjaxAlien Storm (World, 2 Players, FD1094 317-0154)Alien Syndrome (set 4, System 16B, unprotected)Alien vs. Predator (USA 940520)Aliens (US)Alligator Hunt (Unprotected)Altered Beast (set 8, 8751 317-0078)AmidarAqua Jack (World)Arkanoid (US)Arkanoid – Revenge Of Doh (World)Armed Police Batrider (Europe, Fri Feb 13 1998)Armored Warriors (USA 941024)Asterix (ver EAD)Asteroids (rev 4)Avenging SpiritBad Dudes vs. Dragonninja (US)Bank PanicBatmanBattle Circuit (Euro 970319)Battle Zone (rev 2)BattletoadsBells & Whistles (World, version L)Berzerk (set 2)Biomechanical Toy (Ver. 1.0.1885)Bionic Commando (Euro)Black TigerBlack WidowBlasteroids (rev 4)Bogey ManorBomb Jack (set 1)Boogie Wings (Euro v1.5, 92.12.07)Bosconian (New version)Bubble Bobble (US, Ver 1.0)Bubble Symphony (Ver 2.5A 1994/10/05)BubblesBuck Rogers: Planet of ZoomBucky O’Hare (ver UA)Bump ‘n’ JumpBurger Time (Data East set 1)Buster Bros. (USA)Cabal (World, Joystick)Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (USA 930201)Captain America And The Avengers (rev 1.9)Captain Commando (US 910928)Carrier Air Wing (USA 901130)Centipede (1 player, timed)Chase H.q. (World)China Gate (US)Choplifter (8751 315-5151)Circus Charlie (level select, set 1)City Connection (set 1)Columns (World)Commando (US)Congo Bongo (Rev C, 2 board stack)Contra (US / Asia, set 1)Crazy Climber (US set 1)Crime Fighters (World 2 Players)Crystal Castles (version 4)Cyberbots : Fullmetal Madness (Euro 950424)Cyvern – The Dragon Weapons (US)D. D. Crew (World, 3 Players, FD1094 317-0190)Dark Seal (World revision 3)Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (USA 940818)Dead Connection (World)Defender (Green label version)Desert Assault (US)Dig Dug (rev 2)Dig Dug II (New Ver.)Dimahoo (Euro 000121)DogyuunDon Doko Don (World)Donkey Kong (US Set 2)Donkey Kong 3 (US)Donkey Kong Junior (US set F-2)DonPachi (US)Double Dragon (US set 1)Double Dragon II – The Revenge (US)Dr. Toppel’s Adventure (World)Dragon Breed (M81 PCB version)Dragon Saber (World, DO2)Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (USA 960619)Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (USA 940125)Dynasty Wars (World)Eco Fighters (World 931203)Elevator Action (5 pcb version, 1.1)Elevator Action Returns (Ver 2.2O 1995/02/20)Enduro Racer (YM2151, FD1089B 317-0013A)Exed ExesFantasy Zone (Rev A, unprotected)Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa (MC-8123, 317-0057)Final Fight (USA, set 1)Flicky (128k Version, 315-5051)Food Fight (rev 3)Forgotten Worlds (World, newer)FroggerFunky Jet (World, rev 1)G.I. Joe (US, UAB)Galaga (Namco rev. B)Galaga ´88Galaxian (Namco set 1)Galmedes (Japan)Gang WarsGaplus (GP2 rev. B)Gauntlet (2 Players, rev 6)Gauntlet II (2 Players, rev 2)Ghosts’n Goblins (US)Ghouls’n Ghosts (USA)Giga Wing (USA 990222)Godzilla (Japan)Golden Axe (set 6, US, 8751 317-123A)Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder (World)GorfGradius III (World ?)Growl (US)Guardians: Denjin Makai IIGun.Smoke (US set 1)GunbarichGunbird 2GunForce II (US)Gunlock (Ver 2.3O 1994/01/20)GunNail (28th May. 1992)Guwange (Japan, Master Ver. 99/06/24)GyrussHammerin’ Harry (US, M84)Hang-on (rev A)Hat TrickHeated Barrel (US)Heavy Smash (Europe version -2)Hit The Ice (US)Hook (US)Horizon (Irem)I, RobotIkari III – The RescueIkari Warriors (Joystick hack bootleg)Image Fight (World, revision A)In the Hunt (World)Ironman Ivan Stewart’s Super Off-roadJail BreakJourneyJoust (White/Green label)Jungle King (US)Juno FirstKangarooKarate Champ (US)Karnov (US, rev 6)Kick (Upright)Kicker (set 1)Klax (set 1)Knights of the Round (USA 911127)Kung-fu Master (World)Land Maker (Ver 2.02O 1998/06/02, Prototype)Legend of Hero TonmaLegendary Wings (US set 1)Lethal Thunder (World)Light Bringer (Ver 2.2O 1994/04/08)Liquid Kids (World)Lode Runner (set 1)Lode Runner II – The Bungeling Strikes BackLode Runner IV – Teikoku Karano Dasshutsu (Japan)Lode Runner: The Dig Fight (ver. B)LoopingLunar Lander (rev 2)Macross PlusMagic Sword: Heroic Fantasy (USA 900725)Magical Crystals (World, 92/01/10)Major Havoc (rev 3)Mappy (US)Marble Madness (set 1)Mario Bros. (US, Revision F)Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting (USA 000412)Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (Japan 970707)Marvel vs. Capcom : Clash of Super Heroes (Euro 980123)Mazinger Z (World)Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (USA 960708)Mega Twins (World 900619)Mercs (World 900302)Metamoqester (International)Metamorphic Force (ver EAA)Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (Set 1, 317-0159)Mille Miglia 2: Great 1000 Miles Rally (95/05/24)MillipedeMissile Command (rev 3)Monster BashMoon PatrolMortal Kombat (rev 5.0 T-Unit 03/19/93)Mortal Kombat 2 (rev L3.1)Mortal Kombat 3 (rev 2.1)Mr. Do!Mr. Do’s Castle (set 1)Ms. Pac-ManMuscle Bomber Duo : Ultimate Team Battle (World 931206)Mystic Warriors (ver UAA)Narc (rev 7.00)Nba Jam (rev 3.01 04/07/93)NBA Jam Tournament Edition (rev 4.0 03/23/94)Nemesis (Japan, ROM version)Nemo (World 901130)New Rally XNibbler (rev 9)Night Slashers (Korea Rev 1.3, DE-0397-0 PCB)Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge (Euro 950316)Ninja Baseball Bat Man (World)Ninja Gaiden (US)Ninja SpiritNinja-Kid II (set 1)Nitro Ball (World, set 1)Noboranka (Japan)Osman (World)Out Run (bootleg)Out ZoneP.O.W.: Prisoners of War (US version 1)Pac-Land (World)Pac-Man (Midway)Pang! 3 (Euro 950601)Paperboy (rev 3)Parodius Da! (World, set 1)Pengo (set 1 rev c)Peter Pack RatPhoenix (Amstar, set 1)Pipe Dream (World)Pit Fighter (rev 9)Pole Position (World)Pole Position II (Japan)PooyanPopeye (revision F)Progear (USA 010117)Punch-out!! (rev B)Punk Shot (US 2 Players)Puyo Puyo (Japan, Rev A)Puyo Puyo 2 (Japan)Puzz Loop (USA)Q*bert (US set 1)Qix (rev 2)R-Type (US)R-Type IIR-Type Leo (World)Rally X (32k Ver.?)Rampage (Rev 3, 8/27/86)Rampart (Joystick)Rastan (US Rev 1)Renegade (US)Ring King (US set 1)Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II (Euro 940902)Robocop (World revision 4)Robocop 2 (US v0.05)Robotron: 2084 (Solid Blue label)Roc’n RopeRohga Armor Force (US v1.0)Rolling Thunder (rev 3)Rolling Thunder 2Rush’n Attack (US)Rygar (US set 1)Saint Dragon (set 1)Salamander (US)Satan’s Hollow (set 1)Saturday Night Slam Masters (US 930713)Sea Wolf (set 1)Sega Ninja (not encrypted)Segasonic The Hedgehog (Japan, rev. C)Sengoku Aces (World)Shadow Dancer (World)Shadow Force (World, Version 3)Shinobi (set 6, System 16A, unprotected)Side Arms – Hyper Dyne (US)Sinistar (revision 3)Sly Spy (US revision 4)Smash T.V. (rev 8.00)Snow Bros. – Nick & Tom (set 3)Solomon no Kagi (US)Son SonSpace Harrier (Rev A, 8751 315-5163A)Space Invaders / Space Invaders MSpider-Man: The Videogame (World)Splatter House (World, new version (SH3))Spy HunterStar Castle (version 3)Star Wars (set 1)Storm Blade (US)Street Fighter (US, set 1)Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Euro 960229)Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Euro 980904)Street Fighter II : The World Warrior (World 910522)Street Fighter II’ : Champion Edition (US 921209)Strider (USA, B-Board 89624B-2)Strikers 1945 (World)Strikers 1945 IIStrikers 1945 III (World) / Strikers 1999 (Japan)Sunset Riders (2 Players ver UBC)Super ContraSuper Gem Fighter: Mini Mix (USA 970904)Super Hang-on (sitdown/upright, unprotected)Super Pac-ManSuper Punch-out!! (rev B)Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Euro 960529)Super Spacefortress MacrossSuper Spacefortress Macross IISuper Sprint (rev 4)Super Street Fighter II Turbo (World 940223)Superman (World)Tapper (Budweiser, set 1)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Oceania 2 Players, version ?)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (2 Players ver UDA)Tekken (World, TE2/VER.C)Tekken 2 (US, TES3/VER.D)Tekken 3 (World, TET2/VER.E1)Tempest (rev 3, Revised Hardware)Tetris (set 4, Japan, System 16a) (set 4, Japan, System 16A, FD1094 317-0093)The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy (World ver 3)The Combatribes (US)The King of Dragons (USA 910910)The Legend of KageThe Main Event (2 Players ver. X)The NewZealand Story (World, bootleg)The Ninja Kids (World)The Outfoxies (World, OU2)The Punisher (US 930422)The Real Ghostbusters (US 2 Players, revision 2)The Simpsons (2 Players World, set 1)Three Wonders (US 910520)Thunder Blade (upright, FD1094 317-0056)Tiger Road (US)Time PilotToki (US, set 1)Toobin’ (rev 3)Track & FieldTrojan (US set 1)Tron (8/9)Truxton IITumble Pop (World)Two Crude (World FX version)U.N. Squadron (USA)U.s. Championship V’ball (US)Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (rev 1.2)Undercover Cops (World)Up’n Down (315-5030)Valkyrie no Densetsu (Japan)Vampire Savior 2 : The Lord of Vampire (Japan 970913)Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (USA 970519)Varth: Operation Thunderstorm (USA 920612)Vendetta (World 2 Players ver. W)Vigilante (US)Violent Storm (ver EAC)Virtua FighterVolfied (World, revision 1)Vulcan Venture (Japan new Ver.)Warriors of Fate (USA 921031)Wild FangWild West C.o.w.-boys Of Moo Mesa (ver UA)Willow (World)Wizard Of WorWonder Boy (prototype?)Wonder Boy III – Monster Lair (set 6, World, System 16B, 8751 317-0098)Wonder Boy In Monster Land (English bootleg set 1)X Multiply (World, M81)X-Men (2 Players ver AAA)X-Men vs. Street Fighter (USA 961023)X-Men: Children of the Atom (USA 950105)Xevious (Namco)Xexex (ver EAA)Zaxxon (set 1, rev D)Zero Wing (2P set)Zoo Keeper (set 1)
SNK – Neo Geo 2020 Super Baseball (set 1)Aero Fighters 2Aero Fighters 3Aggressors of Dark KombatAlpha Mission IIAndro DunosArt of FightingArt of Fighting 2Art of Fighting 3 : The Path of the WarriorBang BeadBaseball Stars 2Baseball Stars ProfessionalBattle Flip ShotBlazing StarBlue’s JourneyBreakersBreakers RevengeBurning FightBust-a-MoveBust-A-Move AgainCaptain TomadayCrossed SwordsCyber-LipDouble DragonEight ManFar East of Eden: Kabuki KlashFatal Fury 2Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final VictoryFatal Fury : King of FightersFatal Fury SpecialFight FeverFighter’s History DynamiteFootball FrenzyGalaxy Fight: Universal WarriorsGanryuGarou: Mark of the WolvesGhost PilotsGhostlopGoal! Goal! Goal!GururinKing of the MonstersKing of the Monsters 2 – The Next ThingKizuna Encounter – Super Tag BattleLast ResortLeague BowlingLegend of Success JoeMagical Drop IIMagical Drop IIIMagician LordMatrimeleeMetal Slug – Super Vehicle-001Metal Slug 2 – Super Vehicle-001/IIMetal Slug 3Metal Slug 4Metal Slug 5Metal Slug X – Super Vehicle-001Mutation NationNAM-1975Neo BombermanNeo Drift Out – New TechnologyNeo Mr. Do!Neo Turf MastersNeo-Geo Cup ’98 – The Road to the VictoryNightmare in the DarkNinja CombatNinja CommandoNinja Master’s: Haō Ninpō ChōOver TopPanic BomberPleasure GoalPochi and NyaaPop ‘n BouncePower Spikes IIPrehistoric Isle 2 (decrypted)PulstarPuzzle De Pon!PuzzledRage of the DragonsRagnagardReal Bout Fatal FuryReal Bout Fatal Fury 2 – The NewcomersReal Bout Fatal Fury SpecialRiding HeroRobo ArmySamurai ShodownSamurai Shodown IISamurai Shodown IIISamurai Shodown IV – Amakusa’s RevengeSamurai Shodown VSamurai Shodown V SpecialSavage ReignSengokuSengoku 2Sengoku 3Shock TroopersShock Troopers : 2nd SquadSoccer BrawlSpin MasterStakes WinnerStakes Winner 2Street SlamStrikers 1945 PlusSuper Dodge BallSuper SidekicksSuper Sidekicks 2 – The World ChampionshipSuper Sidekicks 3 – The Next GlorySVC Chaos – SNK Vs. CapcomThe Irritating MazeThe King of Fighters ’94The King of Fighters ’95The King of Fighters ’96The King of Fighters ’97The King of Fighters ’98 – The SlugfestThe King of Fighters ’99 : Millennium BattleThe King of Fighters 2000The King of Fighters 2001The King of Fighters 2002The King of Fighters 2003The Last BladeThe Last Blade 2The Super SpyThe Ultimate 11: SNK Football ChampionshipThrash RallyTop Hunter: Roddy & CathyTop Player’s GolfTreasure of the CaribbeanTwinkle Star SpritesV-LinerViewpointVoltage Fighter GowcaizerWaku Waku 7WindjammersWorld HeroesWorld Heroes 2World Heroes 2 JetWorld Heroes PerfectZed BladeZupapa!
Nintendo – NES 8 Eyes (USA)Adventure Island (USA)Adventure Island 3 (USA)Adventure Island II (USA)Adventure Island IV (Japan) (Translated)Adventures of Lolo (USA)Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA)Adventures of Lolo 3 (USA)Adventures of Tom Sawyer (USA)Alfred Chicken (USA)Arkanoid (USA)Arkista’s Ring (USA)Astyanax (USA)Balloon Fight (USA)Banana Prince (Germany) (Translated)Batman – Return of the Joker (USA)Batman – The Video Game (USA)Batman Returns (USA)Battle of Olympus, The (USA)Battletoads (USA)Battletoads-Double Dragon (USA)Best of the Best – Championship Karate (USA)Bio Miracle Baby Upa!! (Japan) (Translated)Bionic Commando (USA)Blades of Steel (USA)Blaster Master (USA)Bomberman (USA)Bomberman II (USA)Bonk’s Adventure (USA)Break Time – The National Pool Tour (USA)Bubble Bobble (USA)Bubble Bobble Part 2 (USA)Bucky O’Hare (USA)Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, The (USA)Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, The (USA)Burai Fighter (USA)Captain America and the Avengers (USA)Captain Tsubasa Vol. II – Super Striker (Japan) (Translated)Castelian (USA)Castlevania (USA) (Rev 1)Castlevania II – Simon’s Quest (USA)Castlevania III – Dracula’s Curse (USA)Chip ‘n Dale – Rescue Rangers (USA)Chip ‘n Dale – Rescue Rangers 2 (USA)Chronicle of the Radia War (Japan) (Translated)Clash at Demonhead (USA)Cocoron (Japan) (Translated)Conquest of the Crystal Palace (USA)Contra (USA)Cowboy Kid (USA)Crackout (Europe)Crisis Force (Japan) (Translated)Crystalis (USA)Darkwing Duck (USA)David Crane’s A Boy and His Blob – Trouble on Blobolonia (USA)Deja Vu (USA)Destiny of an Emperor (USA)Devil World (Europe)Digital Devil Story – Megami Tensei (Japan) (Translated)Digital Devil Story – Megami Tensei II (Japan) (Rev A) (Translated)Donkey Kong Classics (USA, Europe)Door Door (Japan)Double Dragon (USA)Double Dragon II – The Revenge (USA) (Rev 1)Double Dragon III – The Sacred Stones (USA)Downtown Special – Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki Dayo Zenin Shuugou! (Japan) (Translated)Dr. Mario (Japan, USA) (Rev 1)Dragon Fighter (USA)Dragon Spirit – The New Legend (USA)Dragon Warrior (USA) (Rev 1)Dragon Warrior II (USA)Dragon Warrior III (USA)Dragon Warrior IV (USA)DuckTales (USA)DuckTales 2 (USA)EarthBound Beginnings (USA, Europe) (Virtual Console)Elite (Europe) (En,Fr,De)Excitebike (Japan, USA)Famicom Wars (Japan) (Translated)Faxanadu (USA) (Rev 1)Felix the Cat (USA)Fester’s Quest (USA)Final Fantasy (USA)Final Fantasy II (Japan) (Translated)Final Fantasy III (Japan) (Translated)Fire ‘n Ice (USA)Fire Emblem – Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (Japan) (Translated)Fire Emblem Gaiden (Japan) (Translated)Flintstones, The – The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (USA)Flintstones, The – The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak! (USA)G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero (USA)Ganbare Goemon Gaiden – The Missing Golden Pipe (Japan) (Translated)Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2 – Treasures of the World (Japan) (Translated)Ganbare Goemon! (Japan) (Translated)Gargoyle’s Quest II (USA)Gemfire (USA)Genghis Khan (USA)Ghost Lion (USA)Ghosts’n Goblins (USA)Go for it! Goemon 2 (Japan) (Translated)Go Go! Nekketu Hockey Club – Multi-Sport Battle (Japan) (Translated)Golgo 13 – Top Secret Episode (USA)Goonies II, The (USA)Gradius (USA)Gradius II (Japan)Gremlins 2 – The New Batch (USA)Guardian Legend, The (USA)Guerrilla War (USA)Gun Nac (USA)Gun.Smoke (USA)Gyruss (USA)Hammerin’ Harry (Europe)Heavy Barrel (USA)Holy Diver (Japan) (Translated)Ice Climber (USA, Europe, Korea)Ice Hockey (USA)Iron Tank – The Invasion of Normandy (USA)Ivan ‘Ironman’ Stewart’s Super Off Road (USA)Jackal (USA)Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu (USA)Jetsons, The – Cogswell’s Caper (USA)Journey to Silius (USA)Joy Mech Fight (Japan) (Translated)Just Breed (Japan) (Translated)Kabuki – Quantum Fighter (USA)Kickle Cubicle (USA)KickMaster (USA)Kid Dracula (World) (Castlevania Anniversary Collection)Kid Icarus (USA, Europe) (Rev 1)Kid Klown in Night Mayor World (USA)Kid Niki 2 (Japan) (Translated)Kid Niki 3 (Japan) (Translated)Kirby’s Adventure (USA) (Rev 1)Kiwi Kraze – A Bird-Brained Adventure! (USA)Klax (USA) (Unl)Krazy Kreatures (USA) (Rev A) (Unl)Krion Conquest, The (USA)Kung Fu (Japan, USA)Kung-Fu Heroes (USA)Legacy of the Wizard (USA)Legend of Fuma, The (Japan) (Translated)Legend of Zelda, The (USA) (Rev 1)Legendary Wings (USA)Life Force (USA) (Rev 1)Little Nemo – The Dream Master (USA)Little Ninja Brothers (USA)Little Samson (USA)Lone Ranger, The (USA)Low G Man – The Low Gravity Man (USA)M.C. Kids (USA)Mafat Conspiracy, The (USA)Magic of Scheherazade, The (USA)Maniac Mansion (USA)Mappy-Land (USA)Marble Madness (USA)Mega Man (USA)Mega Man 2 (USA)Mega Man 3 (USA)Mega Man 4 (USA) (Rev 1)Mega Man 5 (USA)Mega Man 6 (USA)Mendel Palace (USA)Metal Gear (USA)Metal Slader Glory (Japan) (Translated)Metal Storm (USA)Metroid (USA)Micro Machines (USA) (Unl)Mighty Final Fight (USA)Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (Japan, USA) (Rev 1)Mitsume ga Tooru (Japan) (Translated)Monopoly (USA)Monster in My Pocket (USA)Monster Party (USA)Moon Crystal (Japan) (Translated)Mr. Gimmick (Europe)Mysterious Murasame Castle, The (Japan) (Translated)Nekketsu! Street Basket – Go for it, Dunk Heroes! (Japan) (Translated)NES Open Tournament Golf (USA)New Ghostbusters II (Europe)Ninja Gaiden (USA)Ninja Gaiden II – The Dark Sword of Chaos (USA)Ninja Gaiden III – The Ancient Ship of Doom (USA)Nintendo World Cup (USA) (Rev 1)Noah’s Ark (Europe)Nobunaga’s Ambition (USA)Nobunaga’s Ambition II (USA)North and South (USA)Over Horizon (Europe)Palamedes (USA)Panic Restaurant (USA)Parodius (Europe)Perman – Return the Space Saucer! (Japan) (Translated)Perman 2 – Down with the Secret Madou Society! (Japan) (Translated)Pinball Quest (USA)Pirates! (USA)Pizza Pop! (Japan) (Translated)Power Blade (USA)Power Blade 2 (USA)Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (USA)Pro Wrestling (USA) (Rev 1)QIX (USA)R.C. Pro-Am (USA) (Rev 1)R.C. Pro-Am II (USA)Raging Fire – Recca (Japan) (Translated)Rainbow Islands – Bubble Bobble 2 (Europe)Rampart (USA) (Jaleco)Rescue – The Embassy Mission (USA)Ring King (USA)River City Ransom (USA)Rockin’ Kats (USA)Rodland (Europe)Rollergames (USA)Rolling Thunder (World) (Namcot Collection, Namco Museum Archives Vol 2)Romance of the Three Kingdoms (USA)Romance of the Three Kingdoms II (USA)Rush’n Attack (USA)Rygar (USA) (Rev 1)S.C.A.T. – Special Cybernetic Attack Team (USA)Samurai Pizza Cats (Japan) (Translated)Shadow of the Ninja (USA)Shadowgate (USA)Shatterhand (USA)Side Pocket (USA)Silk Worm (USA)Sky Kid (USA)Smash T.V. (USA)Snake Rattle n Roll (USA)Snake’s Revenge (USA)Solomon’s Key (USA)Splatter House – Wanpaku Graffiti (Japan) (Translated)Spot – The Video Game (USA)Star Wars (Japan) (Namco) (Translated)StarTropics (USA)Super C (USA)Super Dodge Ball (USA)Super Mario Bros. (World)Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) (En)Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Rev 1)Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA) (Rev 1)Super Spike V’Ball (USA)Super Spy Hunter (USA)Sweet Home (Japan) (Translated)Sword Master (USA)Tecmo Bowl (USA) (Rev 1)Tecmo Super Bowl (USA)Tecmo World Wrestling (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II – The Arcade Game (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III – The Manhattan Project (USA)Terra Cresta (USA)Tetris (USA)Tetris 2 (USA)Tiny Toon Adventures (USA)Tiny Toon Adventures 2 – Trouble in Wackyland (USA)Toki (USA)Tombs & Treasure (USA)Town & Country Surf Designs – Thrilla’s Surfari (USA)Town & Country Surf Designs – Wood & Water Rage (USA)TwinBee 3 – The Aimless Demon King (Japan) (Translated)Ufouria – The Saga (Europe)Ultima – Quest of the Avatar (USA)Vice – Project Doom (USA)Wacky Races (USA)Wai Wai World (Japan) (Translated)Wai Wai World 2 – SOS!! Parsley Castle (Japan) (Translated)Wario’s Woods (USA)Whomp ‘Em (USA)Willow (USA)Wrath of the Black Manta (USA) (Rev 1)Xexyz (USA)Yoshi’s Cookie (USA)Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The (USA)Zelda II – The Adventure of Link (USA)Zoda’s Revenge – StarTropics II (USA)Zombie Nation (USA)
Nintendo – SNES ActRaiser (USA)ActRaiser 2 (USA)Adventures of Batman & Robin, The (USA)Aero Fighters (USA)Aerobiz (USA)Aerobiz Supersonic (USA)Aladdin (USA)Alien 3 (USA) (Rev 1)Alien vs Predator (USA)Amazing Spider-Man, The – Lethal Foes (Japan) (Translated)American Tail, An – Fievel Goes West (USA)Animaniacs (USA)Arcana (USA)Ardy Lightfoot (USA)Arkanoid – Doh It Again (USA)Axelay (USA)Bahamut Lagoon (Japan) (Translated)BASS Masters Classic – Pro Edition (USA)Bassin’s Black Bass (USA)Batman Returns (USA)Best of the Best – Championship Karate (USA)Biker Mice from Mars (USA)BioMetal (USA)Blackthorne (USA)BlaZeon – The Bio-Cyborg Challenge (USA)Bonkers (USA)Boxing Legends of the Ring (USA)Brain Lord (USA)Breath of Fire (USA)Breath of Fire II (USA)Bugs Bunny – Rabbit Rampage (USA)Bust-A-Move (USA)Cacoma Knight in Bizyland (USA)Cannon Fodder (Europe)Castlevania – Dracula X (USA)Choplifter III – Rescue-Survive (USA)Chrono Trigger (USA)Chuck Rock (USA)Clock Tower (Japan) (Translated)Clue (USA)Contra III – The Alien Wars (USA)Cool Spot (USA)Cybernator (USA)Daffy Duck – The Marvin Missions (USA)Death and Return of Superman, The (USA) (Rev 1)Demon’s Crest (USA)Donkey Kong Country (USA) (Rev 2)Donkey Kong Country 2 – Diddy’s Kong Quest (USA) (En,Fr) (Rev 1)Donkey Kong Country 3 – Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! (USA) (En,Fr)Dragon Ball Z – Hyper Dimension (Japan) (Translated)Dragon Ball Z – La Legende Saien (France)Dragon Ball Z – Super Saiya Densetsu (Japan) (Rev 1) (Translated)Dragon Quest I & II (Japan) (Translated)Dragon Quest III (Japan) (Translated)Dragon Quest V (Japan) (Translated)Dragon Quest VI (Translated)Dragon View (USA)E.V.O. – Search for Eden (USA)EarthBound (USA)Earthworm Jim (USA)Earthworm Jim 2 (USA)F-Zero (USA)Faceball 2000 (USA)Fatal Fury (USA)Fatal Fury 2 (USA)Fatal Fury Special (USA)Final Fantasy – Mystic Quest (USA) (Rev 1)Final Fantasy II (USA) (Rev 1)Final Fantasy III (USA) (Rev 1)Final Fantasy V (Japan) (Translated)Fire Emblem – Mystery of the Emblem (Japan) (Translated)Fire Emblem – Seisen no Keifu (Japan) (Translated)Fire Emblem – Thracia 776 (Japan) (Translated)Firemen, The (Europe) (En,Fr,De)Firepower 2000 (USA)FireStriker (USA)First Samurai (USA)Flashback – The Quest for Identity (USA) (En,Fr,De)Flintstones, The – The Treasure of Sierra Madrock (USA)Front Mission (Japan) (Translated)Front Mission Series – Gun Hazard (Japan) (Translated)Ganpuru – Gunman’s Proof (Japan) (Translated)Gemfire (USA)Genghis Khan II – Clan of the Gray Wolf (USA)Go for it! Goemon – The Twinkling Journey – The Reason I became a Dancer (Japan) (Translated)Go for it! Goemon 2 – The Strange General McGuinness (Japan) (Translated)Go for it! Goemon 3 – The Mecha Leg Hold of Jurokube Shishi (Japan) (Translated)Gokujou Parodius (Japan)Goof Troop (USA)Gradius III (USA)Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey & Minnie, The (USA)Hagane – The Final Conflict (USA)Hammer Lock Wrestling (USA)Harley’s Humongous Adventure (USA)Harvest Moon (USA)Humans, The (Europe)HyperZone (USA)Illusion of Gaia (USA)Indiana Jones’ Greatest Adventures (USA)Inindo – Way of the Ninja (USA)Inspector Gadget (USA)International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA)Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius (Japan)Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.S – Covert-Action-Teams (USA)Joe & Mac (USA)Joe & Mac 2 – Lost in the Tropics (USA)Jungle Book, The (USA)Jungle Strike (USA)Jurassic Park (USA) (Rev 1)Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run (USA)Kid Klown in Crazy Chase (USA)Killer Instinct (USA) (Rev 1)King Arthur’s World (USA)King of Demons (Japan) (Translated)King of Dragons (USA)King of the Monsters (USA)King of the Monsters 2 (USA)Kirby Super Star (USA)Kirby’s Avalanche (USA)Kirby’s Dream Course (USA)Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (USA)Knights of the Round (USA)Legend (USA)Legend of the Mystical Ninja, The (USA)Legend of Zelda, The – A Link to the Past (USA)Liberty or Death (USA)Lion King, The (USA)Live A Live (Japan) (Translated)Lord of Darkness (USA)Lost Vikings 2 (USA)Lost Vikings, The (USA)Lucky Luke (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es)Lufia & the Fortress of Doom (USA)Lufia II – Rise of the Sinistrals (USA)Madden NFL ’94 (USA)Magic Sword (USA)Magical Pop’n (Japan) (Translated)Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, The (USA) (Rev 1)Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems (USA)Mask, The (USA)Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (USA)Mega Man 7 (USA)Mega Man Soccer (USA)Mega Man X (USA) (Rev 1)Mega Man X2 (USA)Mega Man X3 (USA)Metal Combat – Falcon’s Revenge (USA)Metal Marines (USA)Metal Warriors (USA)Mickey Mania – The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (USA)Mickey’s Ultimate Challenge (USA)Might and Magic II (Europe)Might and Magic III – Isles of Terra (USA)Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (USA)Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – The Fighting Edition (USA)Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – The Movie (USA)Mobile Suit Gundam Wing – Endless Duel (Japan) (Translated)Monopoly (USA) (Rev 1)Mortal Kombat (USA) (Rev 1)Mortal Kombat II (USA) (Rev 1)Musya – The Classic Japanese Tale of Horror (USA)Mystery Dungeon 2 – Shiren the Wanderer (Japan) (Translated)NBA Jam – Tournament Edition (USA)New Horizons (USA)NHL ’94 (USA)Ninjawarriors (USA)Nobunaga’s Ambition (USA)Nosferatu (USA)Ogre Battle – The March of the Black Queen (USA)On the Ball (USA)Operation Logic Bomb – The Ultimate Search & Destroy (USA)Out of This World (USA)P.T.O. – Pacific Theater of Operations (USA)P.T.O. II – Pacific Theater of Operations (USA)Pac-Man 2 – The New Adventures (USA)Paladin’s Quest (USA)Parodius (Europe)Phalanx (USA)Phantom 2040 (USA)Pilotwings (USA)Pinocchio (USA)Plok (USA)Pocky & Rocky (USA)Pocky & Rocky 2 (USA)Pop’n TwinBee (Europe)Pop’n TwinBee – Rainbow Bell Adventures (Europe)Populous (USA)Populous II – Trials of the Olympian Gods (Europe)Prehistorik Man (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Push-Over (USA)Putty Squad (Europe)R-Type III (USA)Radical Rex (USA)Rampart (USA)Rendering Ranger R2 (Japan) (En)Riddick Bowe Boxing (USA)RoboCop versus The Terminator (USA)Robotrek (USA)Rock N’ Roll Racing (USA)Rockman & Forte (Japan) (Translated)Rocky Rodent (USA)Romance of the Three Kingdoms II (USA)Romance of the Three Kingdoms III – Dragon of Destiny (USA)Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV – Wall of Fire (USA)Run Saber (USA)S.O.S – Sink or Swim (USA)Saturday Night Slam Masters (USA)Scooby-Doo Mystery (USA)Secret of Evermore (USA)Secret of Mana (USA)Shadowrun (USA)Shanghai II – Dragon’s Eye (USA)Shien’s Revenge (USA)Shin Megami Tensei (Japan) (Translated)Shin Megami Tensei II (Japan) (Translated)Sid Meier’s Civilization (USA)Side Pocket (USA)SimAnt – The Electronic Ant Colony (USA)SimCity (USA)SimCity 2000 – The Ultimate City Simulator (USA)Skyblazer (USA)Smash Tennis (Europe)Soldiers of Fortune (USA)Sonic Blast Man (USA)Sonic Blast Man II (USA)Soul Blazer (USA)Space Megaforce (USA)Spanky’s Quest (USA)Sparkster (USA)Speed Racer (USA)Spider-Man – Venom – Maximum Carnage (USA)Spindizzy Worlds (USA)Star Fox (USA) (Rev 2)Star Fox 2 (USA, Europe)Star Ocean (Japan) (Translated)Street Fighter Alpha 2 (USA)Street Fighter II Turbo (USA) (Rev 1)Strike Gunner S.T.G (USA)Stunt Race FX (USA) (Rev 1)Sunset Riders (USA)Super Adventure Island (USA)Super Adventure Island II (USA)Super Bomberman (USA)Super Bomberman 2 (USA)Super Bomberman 3 (Europe)Super Bonk (USA)Super Bowling (USA)Super Buster Bros. (USA) (Rev 1)Super Castlevania IV (USA)Super Double Dragon (USA)Super Famicom Wars (Japan) (NP) (Translated)Super Ghouls ‘N Ghosts (USA)Super Mario All-Stars (USA)Super Mario Kart (USA)Super Mario RPG – Legend of the Seven Stars (USA)Super Mario World (USA)Super Mario World 2 – Yoshi’s Island (USA) (Rev 1)Super Metroid (Japan, USA) (En,Ja)Super Morph (Europe)Super Ninja Boy (USA)Super Off Road (USA)Super Punch-Out!! (USA)Super R-Type (USA)Super Smash T.V. (USA)Super Star Wars (USA) (Rev 1)Super Star Wars – Return of the Jedi (USA) (Rev 1)Super Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back (USA) (Rev 1)Super Street Fighter II (USA) (Rev 1)Super Tennis (USA)Super Turrican (USA)Super Turrican 2 (USA)SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron (USA)Syndicate (USA)Tactics Ogre – Let Us Cling Together (Japan) (Rev 2) (Translated)Tales of Phantasia (Japan) (Translated)Taloon’s Great Adventure – Mystery Dungeon (Japan) (Translated)Tecmo Super Bowl III – Final Edition (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Tournament Fighters (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV – Turtles in Time (USA)Terranigma (Europe)Tetris & Dr. Mario (USA)Tetris 2 (USA) (Rev 1)Tetris Attack (USA) (En,Ja)Tiny Toon Adventures – Buster Busts Loose! (USA)Tiny Toon Adventures – Wacky Sports Challenge (USA)Top Gear (USA)Top Gear 2 (USA)Top Gear 3000 (USA)Total Carnage (USA)Toy Story (USA)Trials of Mana (World) (Rev 1) (Collection of Mana)Troddlers (USA)True Lies (USA)Turn and Burn – No-Fly Zone (USA)Twisted Tales of Spike McFang, The (USA)U.N. Squadron (USA)Ultima – Runes of Virtue II (USA)Ultima – The Black Gate (USA)Ultima – The False Prophet (USA)Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA)Uniracers (USA)Urban Strike (USA)Utopia – The Creation of a Nation (USA)Vegas Stakes (USA)Violinist of Hameln, The (Japan) (Translated)Wario’s Woods (USA)WeaponLord (USA)Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Whirlo (Europe)Whizz (USA)Wild Guns (USA)Wild Snake (USA)Wing Commander (USA)Wing Commander – The Secret Missions (USA)Wizardry V – Heart of the Maelstrom (USA)WWF Raw (USA)WWF Royal Rumble (USA)WWF WrestleMania – The Arcade Game (USA)X-Kaliber 2097 (USA)X-Men – Mutant Apocalypse (USA)Yoshi’s Cookie (USA)Young Merlin (USA)Ys III – Wanderers from Ys (USA)Zombies Ate My Neighbors (USA)Zoop (USA)
Nintendo – Game Boy Adventures of Star Saver, The (USA, Europe)Aerostar (USA, Europe)Amazing Penguin (USA, Europe)Astro Rabby (Japan)Atomic Punk (USA)Avenging Spirit (USA, Europe)Balloon Kid (USA, Europe)Batman – Return of the Joker (USA, Europe)Batman – The Video Game (World)Battle Arena Toshinden (USA) (SGB Enhanced)Battle Unit Zeoth (USA, Europe)Bionic Commando (USA)Blaster Master Boy (USA)Booby Boys (Japan) (Translated)Boxxle (USA, Europe) (Rev 1)Boxxle II (USA, Europe)Bubble Ghost (USA, Europe)Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2, The (USA)Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, The (USA, Europe)Castlevania – The Adventure (USA)Castlevania II – Belmont’s Revenge (USA, Europe)Castlevania Legends (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Catrap (USA)Cave Noire (Japan) (Translated)Chalvo 55 – Super Puzzle Action (Japan) (Translated)Contra – The Alien Wars (USA) (SGB Enhanced)Cosmo Tank (USA)Darkwing Duck (USA)Dead Heat Scramble (USA)Dexterity (USA, Europe)Donkey Kong (Japan, USA) (SGB Enhanced)Donkey Kong Land (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Donkey Kong Land 2 (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Donkey Kong Land III (USA, Europe) (Rev 1) (SGB Enhanced)Dr. Franken (USA)Dr. Franken II (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl,Sv)Dr. Mario (World) (Rev 1)DragonHeart (USA, Europe)Dropzone (Europe)DuckTales (USA)DuckTales 2 (USA)F-1 Race (World) (Rev 1)Faceball 2000 (USA)Fastest Lap (USA)Fighting Simulator 2 in 1 – Flying Warriors (USA, Europe)Final Fantasy Adventure (USA)Final Fantasy Legend II (USA)Final Fantasy Legend III (USA)Final Fantasy Legend, The (USA)Fortified Zone (USA, Europe)Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls, The (Japan) (Translated)Game & Watch Gallery (USA) (Rev 1) (SGB Enhanced)Gargoyle’s Quest (USA, Europe)Gargoyle’s Quest II – The Demon Darkness (Japan) (Translated)Ghostbusters II (USA, Europe)Golf (World)Great Greed (USA)Gremlins 2 – The New Batch (World)Hammerin’ Harry (Europe)Harvest Moon GB (USA) (SGB Enhanced)Heiankyo Alien (USA)James Bond 007 (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Kid Dracula (USA, Europe)Kid Icarus – Of Myths and Monsters (USA, Europe)Kingdom Crusade (USA)Kirby’s Block Ball (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Kirby’s Dream Land (USA, Europe)Kirby’s Dream Land 2 (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Kirby’s Pinball Land (USA, Europe)Kirby’s Star Stacker (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Kung-Fu Master (USA, Europe)Kwirk – He’s A-maze-ing! (USA, Europe)Legend of the River King GB (USA) (SGB Enhanced)Legend of Zelda, The – Link’s Awakening (USA, Europe) (Rev 2)Lock ‘n’ Chase (World)Magic Knight Rayearth (Japan) (SGB Enhanced) (Translated)Mario’s Picross (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Maru’s Mission (USA)Mega Man – Dr. Wily’s Revenge (USA)Mega Man II (USA)Mega Man III (USA)Mega Man IV (USA)Mega Man V (USA) (SGB Enhanced)Mercenary Force (USA, Europe)Metal Masters (USA)Metroid II – Return of Samus (World)Mickey Mouse – Magic Wands! (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Mickey’s Dangerous Chase (USA)Mole Mania (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Monster Max (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl)Montezuma’s Return! (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Motocross Maniacs (USA)Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (USA) (SGB Enhanced)Nemesis (USA)Nemesis II – The Return of the Hero (Europe)Ninja Boy (USA, Europe)Ninja Boy 2 (USA, Europe)Ninja Gaiden Shadow (USA)Ninja Taro (USA)Noobow (Japan) (Translated)Operation C (USA)Out of Gas (USA)Painter Momopie (Japan) (Translated)Parodius (Europe)Penguin Wars (USA)Picross 2 (Japan) (SGB Enhanced) (Translated)Pinball – Revenge of the ‘Gator (USA, Europe)Pocket Bomberman (Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Pokemon – Blue Version (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Pokemon – Red Version (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Pokemon – Yellow Version – Special Pikachu Edition (USA, Europe) (CGB+SGB Enhanced)Pop’n TwinBee (Europe)Q Billion (USA)Quarth (USA, Europe)R-Type (USA, Europe)R-Type II (Europe)Rolan’s Curse (USA)Rolan’s Curse II (USA)Skate or Die – Bad ‘N Rad (USA)SolarStriker (World)Solomon’s Club (USA)Spanky’s Quest (USA)Spud’s Adventure (USA)Super Mario Land (World) (Rev 1)Super Mario Land 2 – 6 Golden Coins (USA, Europe) (Rev 2)Super R.C. Pro-Am (USA, Europe)Sword of Hope II, The (USA)Sword of Hope, The (USA)Tail ‘Gator (USA, Europe)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Fall of the Foot Clan (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II – Back from the Sewers (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III – Radical Rescue (USA)Tennis (World)Tetris (World) (Rev 1)Tetris 2 (USA, Europe) (Rev 1) (SGB Enhanced)Tetris Attack (USA, Europe) (Rev 1) (SGB Enhanced)Tetris Blast (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Tiny Toon Adventures – Babs’ Big Break (USA, Europe)Tiny Toon Adventures 2 – Montana’s Movie Madness (USA, Europe)Trax (USA, Europe)Trip World (Europe)Vattle Giuce (Japan)Wario Blast Featuring Bomberman! (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Wario Land – Super Mario Land 3 (World)Wario Land II (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)Wave Race (USA, Europe)World Heroes 2 Jet (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced)X (Japan) (Translated)Yoshi (USA)Yoshi’s Cookie (USA, Europe)
Nintendo – Game Boy Color Aliens – Thanatos Encounter (USA, Europe)Alone in the Dark – The New Nightmare (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Animorphs (USA)Asterix & Obelix (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es)Azure Dreams (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Batman – Chaos in Gotham (USA)Batman Beyond – Return of the Joker (USA)Bionic Commando – Elite Forces (USA, Australia)Blade (USA, Europe)Blaster Master – Enemy Below (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Bomberman Max – Blue Champion (USA)Bomberman Max – Red Challenger (USA)Bomberman Quest (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Bugs Bunny – Crazy Castle 3 (USA, Europe) (GB Compatible)Bugs Bunny in – Crazy Castle 4 (USA)Bust-A-Move Millennium (USA, Europe)Conker’s Pocket Tales (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Croc (USA, Europe)Croc 2 (USA, Europe)Crystalis (USA)Dexter’s Laboratory – Robot Rampage (USA, Europe)Donald Duck – Quack Attack (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Donkey Kong Country (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Dragon Ball Z – Legendary Super Warriors (USA)Dragon Warrior I & II (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Dragon Warrior III (USA)Dragon Warrior Monsters (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 – Cobi’s Journey (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 – Tara’s Adventure (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Driver – You Are the Wheelman (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Game & Watch Gallery 2 (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Game & Watch Gallery 3 (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Grandia – Parallel Trippers (Japan) (Translated)Gremlins – Unleashed (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Pt)Hammerin’ Harry (Japan) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible) (Translated)Hamtaro – Ham-Hams Unite! (USA)Hands of Time (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl,Pt,Sv,Da)Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl,Pt,Sv,No,Da,Fi)Harvest Moon 2 GBC (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Harvest Moon 3 GBC (USA)Harvest Moon GBC (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)John Romero’s Daikatana (Europe) (En,Fr,It)Jungle Book, The – Mowgli’s Wild Adventure (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Kirby – Tilt ‘n’ Tumble (USA)Legend of the River King 2 (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Legend of the River King GBC (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Legend of Zelda, The – Link’s Awakening DX (USA, Europe) (Rev 2) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Legend of Zelda, The – Oracle of Ages (USA, Australia)Legend of Zelda, The – Oracle of Seasons (USA, Australia)Lufia – The Legend Returns (USA)Magi Nation (USA)Mario Golf (USA)Mario Tennis (USA)Mega Man Xtreme (USA, Europe) (GB Compatible)Mega Man Xtreme 2 (USA, Europe)Metal Gear Solid (USA)Metal Walker (USA) (GB Compatible)Mickey’s Racing Adventure (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Mickey’s Speedway USA (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es)Mission – Impossible (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Mobile Golf (Japan) (Translated)Monkey Puncher (Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Monster Rancher Explorer (USA)Motocross Maniacs 2 (USA)Mr. Driller (USA)Pocket Bomberman (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Pokemon – Crystal Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 1)Pokemon – Gold Version (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Pokemon – Silver Version (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Pokemon Pinball (USA, Australia) (Rumble Version) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (USA, Australia)Pokemon Trading Card Game (USA, Australia) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Pokemon Trading Card Game 2 – The Invasion of Team GR! (Japan) (Translated)Project S-11 (USA)R-Type DX (USA, Europe) (GB Compatible)Rayman (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl)Rayman 2 (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Resident Evil Gaiden (USA)Return of the Ninja (USA)Revelations – The Demon Slayer (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Shantae (USA)Shin Megami Tensei Devil Children – Kuro no Sho (Japan) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible) (Translated)Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (USA, Europe) (Rev 2)Super Robot Pinball (Japan) (Translated)Survival Kids (USA) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Survival Kids 2 – Dasshutsu!! Futago-Jima! (Japan) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible) (Translated)Tetris DX (World) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Toki Tori (USA, Europe) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es)Tomb Raider (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Tomb Raider – Curse of the Sword (USA, Europe)Turok – Rage Wars (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es)Turok 2 – Seeds of Evil (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es) (GB Compatible)Turok 3 – Shadow of Oblivion (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es)Wacky Races (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Wario Land 3 (World) (En,Ja)Wario Land II (USA, Europe) (SGB Enhanced) (GB Compatible)Warlocked (USA)Wendy – Every Witch Way (USA, Europe)Yu-Gi-Oh! – Dark Duel Stories (USA)
Nintendo – Game Boy Advance Advance Wars (USA) (Rev 1)Advance Wars 2 – Black Hole Rising (USA)Alien Hominid (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Astro Boy – Omega Factor (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es,It)Banjo-Kazooie – Grunty’s Revenge (USA, Europe)Boktai – The Sun Is in Your Hand (USA)Boktai 2 – Solar Boy Django (USA)Broken Sword – The Shadow of the Templars (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Bruce Lee – Return of the Legend (USA)Car Battler Joe (USA)Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (USA)Castlevania – Circle of the Moon (USA)Castlevania – Harmony of Dissonance (USA)ChuChu Rocket! (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es)Crash Nitro Kart (USA)Denki Blocks! (USA) (En,Es)DK – King of Swing (USA)Double Dragon Advance (USA)Dragon Quest Monsters – Caravan Heart (Japan) (Translated)Drill Dozer (USA)Dynasty Warriors Advance (USA)F-Zero – GP Legend (USA)F-Zero – Maximum Velocity (USA, Europe)Final Fantasy I & II – Dawn of Souls (USA)Final Fantasy IV Advance (USA)Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (USA)Final Fantasy V Advance (USA)Final Fantasy VI Advance (USA)Final Fight One (USA)Fire Emblem (USA, Australia)Fire Emblem – The Binding Blade (Japan) (Translated)Fire Emblem – The Sacred Stones (USA, Australia)Game & Watch Gallery 4 (USA)Goemon – New Age Shutsudou! (Japan)Golden Sun (USA, Europe)Golden Sun – The Lost Age (USA, Europe)GT Advance – Championship Racing (USA, Europe)Gunstar Super Heroes (USA)Harvest Moon – Friends of Mineral Town (USA)Harvest Moon – More Friends of Mineral Town (USA)Iridion II (USA)Jet Grind Radio (USA)Kao the Kangaroo (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl)Kingdom Hearts – Chain of Memories (USA)Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (USA)Kirby – Nightmare in Dream Land (USA)Klonoa – Empire of Dreams (USA)Klonoa 2 – Dream Champ Tournament (USA)Konami Krazy Racers (USA)Kurukuru Kururin (Europe)Lady Sia (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl)Legend of Zelda, The – A Link to the Past & Four Swords (USA)Legend of Zelda, The – The Minish Cap (USA)Lilo & Stitch (USA)Lilo & Stitch 2 – Haemsterviel Havoc (USA)Lunar Legend (USA)Magical Vacation (Japan) (Translated)Mario & Luigi – Superstar Saga (USA)Mario Golf – Advance Tour (USA)Mario Kart – Super Circuit (USA)Mario Pinball Land (USA, Australia)Mario Tennis – Power Tour (USA, Australia) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Mario vs. Donkey Kong (USA, Australia)Max Payne (USA)Medabots – Metabee (USA)Mega Man & Bass (USA)Mega Man Battle Network (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 2 (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 3 – Blue Version (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 3 – White Version (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 4 – Blue Moon (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 4 – Red Sun (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 5 – Team Colonel (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 5 – Team Protoman (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 6 – Cybeast Falzar (USA)Mega Man Battle Network 6 – Cybeast Gregar (USA)Mega Man Zero (USA, Europe)Mega Man Zero 2 (USA)Mega Man Zero 3 (USA)Mega Man Zero 4 (USA)Metal Slug Advance (USA)Metroid – Zero Mission (USA)Metroid Fusion (USA)Mother 3 (Japan) (Translated)Motocross Maniacs Advance (USA) (En,Es)Motoracer Advance (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Mr. Driller 2 (USA)Ninja Five-0 (USA)Oriental Blue – Ao no Tengai (Japan) (Translated)Pinball of the Dead, The (USA)Pokemon – Emerald Version (USA, Europe)Pokemon – FireRed Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 1)Pokemon – LeafGreen Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 1)Pokemon – Ruby Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 2)Pokemon – Sapphire Version (USA, Europe) (Rev 2)Pokemon Mystery Dungeon – Red Rescue Team (USA, Australia)Pokemon Pinball – Ruby & Sapphire (USA)Puyo Pop (USA) (En,Ja)Racing Gears Advance (USA)Rayman Advance (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Rebelstar – Tactical Command (USA)Rhythm Heaven Silver (Japan) (Translated)River City Ransom EX (USA)Sabre Wulf (USA)Silent Scope (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Sonic Advance (USA) (En,Ja)Sonic Advance 2 (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es,It)Sonic Advance 3 (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es,It)Sonic Battle (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es,It)Sonic Pinball Party (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es,It)Spider-Man – Mysterio’s Menace (USA, Europe)Spyro – Attack of the Rhynocs (USA)Spyro – Season of Ice (USA)Spyro 2 – Season of Flame (USA)Street Fighter Alpha 3 (USA)Summon Night – Swordcraft Story (USA)Summon Night – Swordcraft Story 2 (USA)Super Mario Advance (USA, Europe)Super Mario Advance 2 – Super Mario World (USA, Australia)Super Mario Advance 3 – Yoshi’s Island (USA)Super Mario Advance 4 – Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA, Australia) (Rev 1)Super Monkey Ball Jr. (USA)Super Puzzle Fighter II (USA) (Rev 1)Super Robot Taisen – Original Generation (USA)Super Robot Taisen – Original Generation 2 (USA)Super Robot Taisen R (Japan) (Translated)Super Street Fighter II Turbo – Revival (USA)Sword of Mana (USA, Australia)Tactics Ogre – The Knight of Lodis (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 – Battle Nexus (USA)TMNT (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Tomato Adventure (Japan) (Translated)Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (USA, Europe)Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (USA, Europe)Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 (USA, Europe)Tony Hawk’s Underground (USA, Europe)Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (USA, Europe)Ultimate Brain Games (USA, Europe)Urban Yeti! (USA, Europe)V-Rally 3 (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Virtua Tennis (USA)Wario Land 4 (USA, Europe)WarioWare – Twisted! (USA)WarioWare, Inc. – Mega Microgame$! (USA)Wing Commander – Prophecy (USA)Wings (USA)Worms World Party (USA) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Yggdra Union – We’ll Never Fight Alone (USA)Zone of the Enders – The Fist of Mars (USA)
Sega – Master System Action Fighter (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)Aladdin (Europe, Brazil) (En)Alex Kidd in Miracle World (World) (Sega Ages)Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (USA, Europe, Brazil)Asterix (Europe, Brazil) (En,Fr) (Rev 1)Aztec Adventure (World)Battle Out Run (Europe, Brazil)Bomber Raid (World)Buggy Run (Europe, Brazil) (En)California Games (USA, Europe, Brazil)California Games II (Europe)Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)Cyber Shinobi, The (Europe, Brazil)Danan – The Jungle Fighter (Europe, Brazil) (En)Double Dragon (World)Dragon Crystal (Europe, Brazil) (En)Enduro Racer (USA, Europe, Brazil) (En)Fantasy Zone (World) (Rev 1)Fantasy Zone II (USA, Europe, Brazil)Golden Axe (USA, Europe, Brazil)Golden Axe Warrior (USA, Europe, Brazil)Golvellius – Valley of Doom (USA, Europe, Brazil)Kenseiden (USA, Europe, Brazil)Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Europe, Brazil)Lord of the Sword (USA, Europe, Brazil)Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck, The (Europe, Brazil)Master of Darkness (Europe, Brazil)Miracle Warriors – Seal of The Dark Lord (USA, Europe, Brazil) (En)Ninja Gaiden (Europe, Brazil)Ninja, The (USA, Europe, Brazil) (En)OutRun (World)Penguin Land (USA, Europe)Phantasy Star (World) (Sega Ages)Power Strike (USA, Europe, Brazil) (En)Power Strike II (Europe, Brazil) (En)Psycho Fox (USA, Europe, Brazil)R-Type (World)Shinobi (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)Sonic Chaos (Europe, Brazil)Sonic Spinball (Europe, Brazil)Sonic The Hedgehog (USA, Europe, Brazil)Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)SpellCaster (USA, Europe, Brazil) (En)Wonder Boy (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)Wonder Boy III – The Dragon’s Trap (USA, Europe)Wonder Boy in Monster Land (USA, Europe)Wonder Boy in Monster World (Europe)Ys – The Vanished Omens (USA, Europe, Brazil) (En)Zillion (USA, Europe) (Rev 1)Zillion II – The Tri Formation (World)
Sega – Genesis Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer (Japan) (Translated)Adventures of Batman & Robin, The (USA)Aero the Acro-Bat (USA)Aero the Acro-Bat 2 (USA)Air Buster (USA)Aladdin (USA)Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (USA)Alien Soldier (USA) (Virtual Console)Alisia Dragoon (USA)Altered Beast (USA, Europe)Arcus Odyssey (USA)Atomic Runner (USA)Ballz 3D – The Battle of the Ballz (USA, Europe)Battle Mania Daiginjou (Japan, Korea) (Translated)Battletech – A Game of Armored Combat (USA)Beyond Oasis (USA)Bio Hazard Battle (USA, Europe)Blades of Vengeance (USA, Europe)Bonanza Bros. (USA, Europe, Korea) (Rev B)Buck Rogers – Countdown to Doomsday (USA, Europe)Cannon Fodder (Europe)Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (USA, Europe)Castlevania – Bloodlines (USA)Columns III (USA)Combat Cars (USA, Europe)Comix Zone (USA)Contra – Hard Corps (USA, Korea)Crusader of Centy (USA)Cyborg Justice (USA, Europe)Dahna – Goddess’ Birth (Japan) (Translated)DEcapAttack (USA, Europe, Korea)Desert Strike – Return to the Gulf (USA, Europe)Devil Crash MD (Japan)Devilish – The Next Possession (USA)Dick Tracy (World)Donald in Maui Mallard (Europe) (Rev A)Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine (USA)Dune – The Battle for Arrakis (USA)Dynamite Headdy (USA, Europe)Earthworm Jim (USA)Earthworm Jim 2 (USA)Ecco the Dolphin (USA, Europe, Korea)El.Viento (USA)Elemental Master (USA)Eternal Champions (USA)Fatal Labyrinth (USA, Europe)Fire Shark (USA)Flashback – The Quest for Identity (USA) (En,Fr)Flicky (USA, Europe)Gadget Twins (USA)Gain Ground (USA)Garfield – Caught in the Act (USA, Europe)Gauntlet IV (USA, Europe) (En,Ja)General Chaos (USA, Europe)Ghostbusters (USA, Europe)Ghouls’n Ghosts (Japan, USA)Golden Axe (World) (Rev A)Golden Axe II (World)Golden Axe III (Japan) (En)Granada (Japan, USA) (Rev A)Great Circus Mystery Starring Mickey & Minnie, The (USA)Greatest Heavyweights (USA)Growl (USA)Gunstar Heroes (USA)Gynoug (Europe)Haunting Starring Polterguy (USA, Europe)Herzog Zwei (USA, Europe)James Pond – Underwater Agent (USA, Europe)James Pond 3 (USA, Europe)James Pond II – Codename – Robocod (USA, Europe)Jurassic Park (USA)Jurassic Park – Rampage Edition (USA, Europe)Kid Chameleon (USA, Europe)Killing Game Show, The (Japan)Krusty’s Super Fun House (USA, Europe) (Rev A)Landstalker (USA)Langrisser II (Japan) (Rev B) (Translated)Legend of Galahad, The (USA, Europe)Light Crusader (USA)Lost Vikings, The (USA) (October, 1995)Lost World, The – Jurassic Park (USA, Europe)Marvel Land (USA)Master of Monsters (USA)Mazin Saga – Mutant Fighter (USA)Mega Bomberman (USA)Mega Man – The Wily Wars (USA) (Genesis Mini)Mega Turrican (USA)Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (Japan, USA)Midnight Resistance (USA)Monster World IV (USA) (Genesis Mini)Mortal Kombat (World)Mortal Kombat 3 (USA)Mortal Kombat II (World)MUSHA – Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor (USA)Mutant League Football (USA, Europe)Mutant League Hockey (USA, Europe)Mystical Fighter (USA)Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water (Japan) (Translated)NBA Jam – Tournament Edition (World)Ooze, The (Japan, USA)Out of This World (USA)Outlander (USA)OutRun (USA, Europe)Panorama Cotton (Japan) (Translated)Pepenga Pengo (Japan)Phantasy Star II (USA, Europe) (Rev A)Phantasy Star III – Generations of Doom (USA, Europe, Korea)Phantasy Star IV (USA)Phantom 2040 (USA)Phelios (USA)Pirates! Gold (USA)Psy-O-Blade (Japan) (Translated)Psycho Pinball (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It) (Rev 1)Puggsy (USA)Pulseman (Japan) (Translated)Punisher, The (USA)QuackShot Starring Donald Duck (World) (Rev A)Ranger X (USA)Red Zone (USA, Europe)Revenge of Shinobi, The (USA, Europe) (Rev B)Rings of Power (USA, Europe)Road Rash (USA, Europe)Road Rash 3 (USA, Europe)Road Rash II (USA, Europe) (RR206)RoboCop Versus The Terminator (USA)Rocket Knight Adventures (USA)Rolling Thunder 2 (USA)Rolling Thunder 3 (USA)Shadow Dancer – The Secret of Shinobi (World)Shadowrun (USA)Shining Force (USA)Shining Force II (USA)Shining in the Darkness (USA, Europe)Shinobi III – Return of the Ninja Master (USA)Skeleton Krew (USA)Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (USA)Sonic Spinball (USA)Sonic The Hedgehog (USA, Europe)Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (World) (Rev B)Speedball 2 – Brutal Deluxe (USA)Splatterhouse 2 (USA)Splatterhouse 3 (USA)Steel Empire (USA)Stormlord (USA)Streets of Rage (World) (Rev A)Streets of Rage 2 (USA)Streets of Rage 3 (USA)Strider (USA, Europe)Sub-Terrania (USA)Super Fantasy Zone (Europe)Sword of Vermilion (USA, Europe)Target Earth (USA)Taz in Escape from Mars (USA)Taz-Mania (World)Technocop (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Hyperstone Heist (USA)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Tournament Fighters (USA)ToeJam & Earl (USA, Europe, Korea)ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (USA)Toki – Going Ape Spit (USA, Europe)Toy Story (USA)Trouble Shooter (USA)Truxton (World)Twinkle Tale (Japan) (Translated)Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (USA)Undead Line (Japan) (Translated)Vectorman (USA, Europe)Vectorman 2 (USA)WarsongWiz ‘N’ Liz (USA)Wonder Boy III – Monster Lair (Japan, Europe)Wonder Boy in Monster World (USA, Europe)World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (USA, Korea)X-Men 2 – Clone Wars (USA, Europe)Yu Yu Hakusho – Makyou Toitsusen (Japan) (Translated)
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Tiny Best Set GO! – 64 Contains all of the above, plus:
Sega – Sega CD Dark Wizard (USA)Final Fight CD (USA)Keio Flying Squadron (USA)Lunar – The Silver Star (USA) (RE)Popful Mail (USA) (RE)Road Avenger (USA)Shining Force CD (USA) (5R, 6R)Snatcher (USA)Sonic CD (USA) (RE125)SoulStar (USA)
NEC – TurboGrafx-CD Beyond Shadowgate (USA)Castlevania – Rondo of Blood (Japan) (Translated)Gate of Thunder (Japan) (FACT, FADT)Lords of Thunder (USA)R-Type Complete CD (Japan)Seirei Senshi Spriggan (Japan)Spriggan Mark 2 – Re Terraform Project (Japan)Star Parodier (Japan)Ys Book I & II (USA)Ys III – Wanderers from Ys (USA)
Sony – PlayStation Alundra (USA) (Rev 1)Bishi Bashi Special (Europe)Bloody Roar (USA)Bloody Roar II (USA)Brave Fencer Musashi (USA)Bushido Blade (USA)Bushido Blade 2 (USA)Castlevania – Symphony of the Night (USA)Chrono Cross (USA)Civilization II (USA)Crash Bandicoot (USA)Crash Bandicoot – Warped (USA)Crash Bandicoot 2 – Cortex Strikes Back (USA)CTR – Crash Team Racing (USA)Darkstalkers 3 (USA)Devil Dice (USA)Dragon Warrior VII (USA)Driver – You Are the Wheelman (USA) (Rev 1)Einhaender (USA)Final Fantasy IX (USA) (Rev 1)Final Fantasy Tactics (USA)Final Fantasy VII (USA)Final Fantasy VIII (USA)Front Mission 3 (USA)Future Cop – L.A.P.D. (USA)G. Darius (USA)Gran Turismo (USA) (Rev 1)Gran Turismo 2 (USA) (Arcade Mode) (Rev 1)Gran Turismo 2 (USA) (Simulation Mode) (Rev 2)Grandia (USA)Jet Moto (USA)Jet Moto 2 – Championship Edition (USA)Jet Moto 3 (USA)Klonoa – Door to Phantomile (USA)Legacy of Kain – Soul Reaver (USA)Legend of Dragoon, The (USA)Legend of Mana (USA)LSD – Dream Emulator (Japan) (Translated)Lunar – Silver Star Story Complete (USA)Lunar 2 – Eternal Blue Complete (USA)Mega Man 8 (USA)Mega Man Legends (USA)Mega Man Legends 2 (USA)Mega Man X4 (USA)Mega Man X5 (USA)Mega Man X6 (USA) (Rev 1)Metal Gear Solid (USA) (Rev 1)Mr. Driller (USA)Mr. Driller G (Japan)Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (USA) (Rev 1)NanoTek Warrior (USA)No One Can Stop Mr. Domino (USA)Oddworld – Abe’s Exoddus (USA)Oddworld – Abe’s Oddysee (USA) (Rev 2)Parasite Eve (USA)Parasite Eve II (USA)R-Type Delta (USA)R4 – Ridge Racer Type 4 (USA)Rapid Reload (Europe)RayCrisis – Series Termination (USA)Rayman (USA)Rayman 2 – The Great Escape (USA) (En,Fr,Es)Resident Evil – Director’s Cut (USA)Resident Evil 2 (USA)Resident Evil 3 – Nemesis (USA)Silent Hill (USA)Silhouette Mirage (USA)Spider-Man (USA)Spyro – Year of the Dragon (USA) (Rev 1)Spyro 2 – Ripto’s Rage! (USA)Spyro the Dragon (USA)Star Ocean – The Second Story (USA)Steel Harbinger (USA)Street Fighter Alpha 3 (USA)Suikoden (USA) (Rev 1)Suikoden II (USA)Tactics Ogre (USA)Tekken (USA)Tekken 2 (USA) (Rev 1)Tekken 3 (USA)Threads of Fate (USA)Tomb Raider Chronicles (USA) (Rev 1) **Unfortunately, this was accidentally included instead of the first tomb raider**Tomb Raider II – Starring Lara Croft (USA) (Rev 3)Tomb Raider III – Adventures of Lara Croft (USA) (Rev 2)Tomba! (USA)Tomba! 2 – The Evil Swine Return (USA)Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (USA)Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (USA)Twisted Metal 2 (USA)Vagrant Story (USA)Valkyrie Profile (USA)Vanark (USA)Vandal Hearts (USA)Vandal Hearts II (USA)Wild Arms (USA)Wild Arms 2 (USA)WipEout (USA)WipEout 3 – Special Edition (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)Wipeout XL (USA)Xenogears (USA)
Tiny Best Set GO! – 128 Contains all of the above, plus:
Sega – Sega CD AH3 – Thunderstrike (USA)Android Assault – The Revenge of Bari-Arm (USA)Batman Returns (USA)Earthworm Jim – Special Edition (USA) (RE)Eternal Champions – Challenge from the Dark Side (USA) (RE)Flink (USA)Heart of the Alien – Out of This World Parts I and II (USA) (RE)Lords of Thunder (USA)Lunar – Eternal Blue (USA) (RE)Rise of the Dragon (USA) (Rerelease) (RE)Road Rash (USA)Secret of Monkey Island, The (USA) (RE)Silpheed (USA)Terminator, The (USA)Vay (USA) NEC – TurboGrafx-CD Ai Chou Aniki (Japan) (SADS)Bakushou Yoshimoto Shinkigeki (Japan) (FABT)Chou Aniki (Japan) (FAAT, FACT)Dungeon Explorer II (USA)Dungeon Master – Theron’s Quest (USA)Garou Densetsu Special (Japan) (FABT)Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire (Japan)Godzilla (USA)ImageFight II – Operation Deepstriker (Japan)Kaze Kiri – Ninja Action (Japan)Mad Stalker – Full Metal Force (Japan)NEXZR (Japan)Puyo Puyo CD Tsuu (Japan)Summer Carnival ’93 – NEXZR Special (Japan)Ys IV – The Dawn of Ys (Japan) (Translated)
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timespace coordinates: present-day China \ mostly in the province of Sichuan
I have mentioned this movie in a post in 2022 on the SFitze substack. It came to my attention after a post by respected geek and translator Xueting C. Ni’s TW below:
…at last, the kind of contemporary work I've been waiting for from mainland China. A #scifi retelling of Journey to the West. About a magazine editor going to a village to investigate mass UFU sightings, meets a poet there and they embark a journey (of self discovery) #filmpic.twitter.com/tWVnuSt6qD
He recommended watching it with some good tea or some good booze in a warm, cosy place. And this I did. I do not pretend to know why this small-budget funny, melodramatic, nostalgic ‘first contact’ weird movie made such a big impact on him or his peers or why he scored 8.4 out of 10 score on Chinese movie/book/music recommendation network Douban. But I will try to say why you should watch and search for a subbed version of this small serendipitous gem.
What is the merit of such a movie in a country that tries so much to vaunt its role as a leader in scientific and technological breakthroughs? What is the value of small-budgeted SF films in an era when bombastic productions dominate the market? We expect a contemporary cinema audience to be dissatisfied or nonplussed if it does not get its portion of stellar battles, kaboom FX and wandering planets jumping from their orbit. This movie begs to differ and carves a niche for itself. Important to to mention that The Wandering Earth director Guo Fan aka Frant Gwo makes a cameo. He’s the one who buys the damaged cosmonauts costume – it’s almost self-ironic in a sense. How do these big productions get made with money trickling from the successful ones or is it more like we need attention for big ones so small ones can also co-exist?
On the technical side: the movie starts with a VHS report from 1990 – with a youngish Tang Zhijun, the editor of the popular science magazine Universe Exploration Magazine obsessed with aliens talking about the importance of first radio transmission of Berlin Olympics and SETI. Flash forward and we get this aging and completely Absent-Minded Professor like figure with the remaining contributing odd-ball members of the Universe Exploration Mag in their rundown bureau. It’s an image of funny helplessness with even a Hello Kitty vaporizer ij the room. There’s the unmistakable sense they are unable to wade through a world full of attention economy traps and accumulating bills. They rent out their old Soviet cosmonaut costume for an advertising campaign for an energy company called “Apollo”. They are the first to fall for the exploitative viral media advertising extra sensory phenomena with click bait sensationistic news. They seem to be at the bottom end of the economic system having to eke a living on the underbelly of a booming, technologically competitive, attention grabbing and gimmicky world. Such mags existed all over the whole East bloc, but they had to either close down or try and reinvent themselves in order to survive in an era of boom and bust, and a constant defunding of the research institutions they depended on. It is for me very easy to relate to something like this. Some became allied to the start-up world and others had to try hard to keep up with various technological hypes.
The movie uses a lot of faux documentary material, and has the feel of a digital phone recording with a selfie stick – almost like small TikTok reels. Nevertheless, this does not represent an instantly clickable bait-click material. Media and especially old (dead) media is present in a very direct way – snow crash TVs (the Poltergeist effect), radio and even an ominous Giger Counter are all present and waveform receivera. But they are channeling somehow the background radiation of the universe not radioactive fallout or TV news. They are also channeling the inner worldof these characters.
These old 20th century technologies, no matter how dated, or even Cold War tech they seem, have gotten other uses. In a sense ufologists have been re-engeering them for their own (higher) purposes.
So now imbibed with some new meanings, extraordinary energy or hidden power, they are ways to access the very basis of reality and a dreamworld that escapes the rest. A reality that throughout the movie is most unreal, surreal or anti-real. The movie is considered by some as “literary science fiction” – and this might instantly label it as something pretentious or nostalgic, which is completely at odds with a lot of hard SF popular in China. But if you want to consider it literary SF – then it is so by its appeal to a sort of lyrical, poetic and evocative power that SF irradiates in comparison with realist, mimetic fiction. It is not literary in its bookish immediate sense. The most salient characters are somehow all neurodivergent (even it does not get an explicit mention as such). Characters have lived trough various troubles, have various sensibilities and somehow stay open to the outside, no matter how unimaginable or even incredidble. These ‘specially endowed’ persons in the movie do not allow us just access to parallel worlds, multiverse, portals, aliens visitors or UFO landings like in the traditional SF narratives. They are very much linked to embodied realities, to the very dirty, muddy countryside, the sort places where these encounters happen apparently. The boy with the metallic pot on his head (a sort of blessed fool character almost) is a dictionary carrying poet, not just shaman (poisoned mushrooms also have an important role) but also some sort of spoken word performer in the middle of fields and a Taoist inchoate landscape. He is closer to the “cosmic” and the “comic”, a dramatic creature close to an embedded SF reality that does not get mentioned in many SF on-screen narratives.
One of my favorite characters is the trolley bag – carrying madame. For most of the movie she seems the only realist (sane?) person in the movie. But I think she is the true Sun Wukong. She is the Money King. I say this based on the fact that she is the only one that pulls faces and pokes fun at the elderly ufologist nincompoop master Tang Zhijun. If you read the original recently you will understand what I mean. I did not ask my Chinese friend what he thinks, but this is my feeling. I also take my conclusions from the above poster that makes her hold a selfie stick – the only up-to-date person in a whole ufologist team that does not feels technologically out of place in the contemporary world.
She complains all the time but she also carries the batteries for his Giger counter in her trolley. Isn’t that enough? These are my cue for the Monkey King, that is always an unwilling member in the original 16th century epos attributed to attributed to Wu Cheng’en. Like the legendary monkey, she is forced and incarcarcerated by Buddha in the original Journey to the West and obliged to follow the witless and frankly easy to poke-fun-at monk Xuanzang (602–664), the Buddhist sutra translator. She is the practical person, she is the one that is always debunking and always telling things how they stand: “A lunatic grand party”.
Of course there are several contenders for that role – even the character of the drunk could very well be the monkey but he is mostly the pig in my view, but why not think of the Monkey King like a sort of distributive or collective character, since this is what it was. I believe in the original reading from the Maoist era or even earlier this may have been an embodiment of the voice of the people, the voice of the masses and also of the unrepentant and the tricksterish.
With that in mind, she might be the only one having a bit or reason or some sort of materialistic compass in a place of illusions and near-hallucinatory experiences. I really like the fact that she always is the one to question the whole quest, and also the one to remind us about the harsh laws of thermodynamics under the market economy (and energy scarcity): someone has to pay for the heating, someone has to pay for the repairs and for the upkeep! I of course like the Red Cap guy, the one that travels in his childish UFO car and has met Tang at some earlier phase and is now a mysterious meteorite hunter.
In the 1990 your entrepreneurial plans did not guarantee you will be a winner later on. Having a great idea did not guarantee it will become a commercial success. Following the “everything goes” mantra of the 1990s, why not thinking that you could live off selling telescopes, because how cannot one not look above? Yes, but increasingly throughout the decade the push to encourage curiosity about new discoveries became second fiddle to other priorities or it pure and simply made some people appear like complete loosers of the market economy. Is it great to make your passion something competitive, or at least transforming a telescope into another commodity – like TV sets, radios, mobile phones etc. There is something eminently ridiculous in using cosmonaut suits to sell products – but we are living in this world. Daily I see adverts for banks, various products, shoes superimposed on CGI imagery with cosmonauts, or Black Friday adds on the moon.
There is here an obvious hint at how some of these pops sci dreams of the 1990s did not played out. Or even the mystery, weird, fringe Fortean things came to be transformed into conspirative thinking. Maybe there is also a kind a moralistic play here. The movies shows a lot of missing pathways, a lot of possible venues that did not bear fruits, a lot of missing opportunities and questions. How did those initial drives, the early naive belief in the basic science popularization got abandoned for more commercial or more infotainment pursuits?
There is also the possibility that this Journey to the West talks about larger issues that bedevil those that got really involved in the China Dream at this historical moment. There is an immense need for diverting more investment into its social sector (the percentage of the GDP allotted to social issues is very small compared to even its nearest economic competitors). All in all, the scope of alleviating poverty AS WELL as raising its education and reskilling its still unskilled rural population are looming big. No mean task, because China has still a lot further to go. At the same time the movie presents some sort of “Science Wars” between humanities (understood as non-math, poetry, even sentimentalism) and a different approach to math or physics (thinking about the entire Sokal hoax affair and what Andrew Ross said at the time about how positivism opened up a second front – beside the anti-superstition campaigns).
Superstition or what one might call folkloric beliefs, including signs and remains of residual village belief systems–are tolerated, but also considered deviations. This has been the whole deal about modernization from the May Fourth Movement on – of overcoming superstitions that are slowing down China, old ideas and old ways hamper it joining modernity. The result is that there is a new hybrid – in the way ufology overlaps with these living folkloric traditions brings about a sort of whimsical, millenarian expectations about first contact which have been pointed out by researchers of UFO religions previously. But it’s unjust to call it just ufology as superstition – it’s also hidden even more profound meanings regarding nature or the natural world as a place of encounters, of odd adventures that lead back to very banal and worldly happenings. Happenings such as erring newlyweds in search of best shooting spots in nature or photographers lost in the wilderness while searching for such commercially ideal spots.
But there is new High Weirdness out there. Hard-to-believe scams (think canned Martian sand for sale online) and doughy aliens frozen inside homemade freezers are everywhere. This is not Area 51. They appear to be the product of a wish to attract some city tourists to the remote corners of the land, areas in need for cash and a bit of attention.
Isn’t this worthy in itself? What could be devious in bringing a group of hapless alien seekers to the most unmodern, and underdeveloped areas? In places where they could also listen to the locals’ needs, while initially following the “carrot” of stories mentioning preposterous things? Journey to the West (in Sichuan) may the difficult travels out of the precarity of local pop sci initiatives to the remote precarity of villager life, where mostly women and odd figures live, places that have been left behind by migrant laborers traveling in search for work in the big cities. What is the carrot?! Is it baitclick? Is the carrot the UFO? Is the carrot some lingering SF feel?
That does not mean that you can pay your electricity or heating bills by doing these UFO scoops. Some will of course complain that the ufological is getting politicized, but there is no way around it, ufology was birthed during Cold War and America’s paranoia around Soviet technology.
In this geopolitical historical sense the Sputnik was instrumental in garnering the funds for the establishment of DARPA and Darpanet. So, ultimately, this new Journey to the West is in a sense a Journey along ideological encampments as well. Inside capitalism, you had various critical ufologies as well as conservative ones. There is the bizarre Posadist end-of-the-world Trotskist World Revolutionary visions. Others leaning towards the conservative, highly anthropocentric, modeled on the capitalist model. Do not know if “right-wing” and aliens go together, it is almost a contradiction in terms – should not aliens be different from what we already have?
If stock Independence Day aliens are just advanced (read rapacious or exterminist) humans in search for more planets and species to enslave, Tang appears then a diverging view akin to the radical ufologies (here I would put Italian art pranksters Men In Red). For Tang advanced species cannot be predatorial but somehow akin to some socialist ideal of universal peace. There is also another version – a more Taoist one maybe, where the first contact results not in answering all the existential problems but in recognizing the universality of such questions as well as the impossibility of a straight 0 or 1 answer.
I get how somehow the Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) Chinese creation myth rhymes so well with the entire Human Genome Project so that the Journey to the West director or scriptwriter could not let go of it. But for me and maybe others following closely the history of biology, DNA is such a 20th century imagery (or even mid-20th c or at least 2000s). Instead, it would be interesting to see how SF movies overcome such hurdles in an age of epidemics, epigenetics, metabolomics, microbiomics and viromics, proteomics, metagenomics or synthetic life. But of course, who can deny that a plethora of biotech companies have entrenched this evocative double helix imagery, including the early 1990s Jurassic Park movies. In this new Chinese movie at the end the universe, DNA is a ladder to the stars, the macro reverses into the micro of the DNA. Although even this may be secondary to the main search for love.
“In 2002 Tooze was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History for his first book, Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge.[citation needed] He first came to prominence for his economic study of the Third Reich, The Wages of Destruction, which was one of the winners of the 2006 Wolfson History Prize,[15] and a broad-based history of the First World War with The Deluge, published in 2014. He then widened his scope to study the financial crash of 2008 and its economic and geopolitical consequences with Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, published in 2018, for which he won the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize.[16]
From the YT page: The history of American power, as it is commonly written, is a weighty subject, a matter of military and economic heft, of ‘throw-weight’, of resource mobilisation and material culture, of ‘boots on the ground’. In his lecture, Adam Tooze examines an alternative, counterintuitive vision of America, as a power defying gravity. This image gives us a less materialistic, more fantastical and more unstable vision of America’s role in the world.
By subscribing as a non-payed member to Adam Tooze Chartbook substack (I urge the one who can afford it to do it!) – I felt I entered some of deep end-hole of the “Matrix”, a place where stats and economic pieces of news meet policy making and even arts. He is one of the most active internationally (planetarily) “connected” people I know (and I do not mind using this over abused word when it matches). From the current Ukraine War to the so-colled New Cold War, from the Inflation Reduction Act to de-carbonization policies – this is a place to get your information. He is also not one of these usual pundits or experts – isolated and somehow affiliated to an ominous think tank, but a historian specialized on the war economy of Germany and one with a solid Keynsian background. At the same time he is a self confessed liberal Keynesian and not afraid to admit it. He also reads a lot, and follows a LOT of empirical evidence from just about everywhere. He’s also used to track down Marxist takes on the energy crisis – on the instrumentalization of the energy crisis by the fossil fuel industries (in what he calls a “Kaleckian moment” – Kalecki being this Polish left wing Keynesian that anticipated the resistance of the business lobby in thw face of government initiatives for full employment). He’s also challenging a lot of basic assumption – regarding China or the US at this crucial moment. What I like about his approach os the dynamic feeling – almost procesual caracter that is deeply informed but does not give in to settled fact or lazy thinking.
Here is the time to forget all what you thought you knew. We take the American century as being an inevitable outcome, an accomplished fact, from the closure of the West, its golden spike – also called The Last Spike toward the middle of the 19th c – to the disappearance of its native first nations (they are still around and still resisting oppression & depredation!). Well, here is a crash course into why the US as a great power of the 20th c or winner of the Cold War was more of a funambulist act. This is an important lecture to watch to follow because it makes all this triumph, inevitability and causal efficacy of the US as something manufactured, or at best an ad-hoc momentary or emergency issue. Stay with Tooze till the end and u will not regret it. Beside the summary of several other intersting books he quotes (such as Irresistble Empire or Fear Itself), he aims at starts revising (it is a revisionist history in this sense) some of the most cherished notions about America’s place in the world. As one question from the public aptly observed – it is “a great man history” take, and this feels a bit regressive to focus on a central banker, and a US central banker at that (Timothy Franz Geithner), but Geithner is somehow less known than Rubin, Alan Greenspan or Larry Summers. The financial history books of the late 20th feels they somehow missed how Geithner has “defied gravity” or why he put it in these terms. Globalization did not start with the late 40s after-war institutions highlighted by the extrordinary biographic book on the life of Maynard Keyenes (the so-calledWashington Consensus at theBretton Woods Conference) in earnest – but only in the 1990s. What he makes clear is that the Cold War was very nearly becoming hot during the 1980s and the war games of the Able Archer 1983 NATO exercise. There are longer histories here than the complacent aberration of the Trump event might suggest – and Tooze speaks about how the Marshall Plan, the Bretton Woods and the New Deal was built on a very peculiar coalition: Northern liberals, progressives, labor and the Solid South. Even the very notion of Manifest Destiny makes things less settled or anchored in reality or certitude. That is precisely the vote that has shifted to the Republicans. He has for lack of a better word – a dialectical view on the US, and he is more interested not in the Global New Order or the 800 US military bases around the world but in the new generation of ordering efforts by the US ruling elites. An order that somehow flies in the sense of common sense or even the gravitational pull of such players like China (who in one mentioned graph is supposed to have poured more concrete btw 2010 and 2013 than the whole of the US in the 20th c!).
TimeSpace Warps 