"Emerson Arcadia 2001" cartridge list Release date: April 26, 2001 This text is somewhat out of date now, but once was the most complete and accurate list available which discussed the cartridge software library for the U.S. Emerson "Arcadia 2001" videogame system and its many overseas clone systems, including the MPT-03 family. The listing which is currently the most complete and accurate is the one found in this author's section on the Emerson Arcadia system, found in the printed book called the "Digital Press Collector's Guide," version six. You can find out more about that book online, at: http://www.digitpress.com/ Time and other projects prevent me from updating this listing any time soon. Any updates or corrections that come to me, I am first entering into the text for the next revision of Digital Press' Collector's Guide, as I want to keep the duplication of effort to a minimum. Ward Shrake - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME 3-D Attack GENRE Unknown. STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Leonardo (#?) COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME 3-D Bowling (a.k.a. "Bowling 3D") GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4K of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1008, Leisure-Vision #MC1006, Schmid #C011, "MPT-03 sytem" #MG-310 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. (Want exact text from a cart.) CONTROLS One or two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME 3-D Raceway GENRE Unsure. Presumed to be an automobile driving game. STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Unknown. COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. COMMENTS For what it is worth, the MPT-03 family has a game named "Auto Race" made for it... was it this game? The name "Grand Prix 3-D" may have also been used? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME 3-D Soccer GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Schmid #C033, Leonardo (#?), Tele-fever (#?) COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. (Assuming the Tele-fever cart mentioned is representative.) COMMENTS The only carts I have seen proof of are for the Tele-fever system. That game, however, is named "Fu_ball". (Where _ is a non-Latin letter that looks something like an S or an & sign.) Note that I am simply assuming these carts are one and the same, but that Tele-fever carts include pictures of the onscreen display; this looks unlike regular soccer. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Alien Invaders GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Space Invaders". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4K of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1003, Leisure-Vision #MC1000, Hanimex #MC1000 (?), Prestige #MG-306, Schmid #C008 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. TRIVIA A New Zealand cart's ROM had what may be a date code of "8322" on it? (In other words, the 22nd week of 1983.) This might be of some significance, even if it was not a "first edition" print run, so to speak. It might help to show when the Grandstand system was popular. That in turn would be valuable news, as some carts that were apparently made from ROMs that Emerson could not legally sell ("Crazy Climber"), were put out by them. COMMENTS My theory is that this cartridge was the third one that Emerson planned to make, early on. (The first two being Crazy Gobbler and Space Attack. See those titles for more info on this subject.) The reason I think this was the third game planned, is that the other two both have hidden messages in them (from the programmer) and that they were blatant clones of their arcade counterparts. This game had enough changes from the original to make one think they were more concerned about legal threats when they wrote this game, meaning it was a later one. The absence of any hidden messages supports that idea; why advertise who you were, if lawsuits were possible? This title shows up as number 3 on Emerson's lists, which of course supports this idea. But some of the non US companies list this as cartridge "_000" in their own lists. I would explain this by noting that they might have feared legal problems with Space Attack (after they wrote the program but before they manufactured it) since Galaxian was then a hot title in the arcades. In other words, they wanted Galaxian, but settled for the earlier version; Space Invaders. But when Galaga came out in the arcades, Galaxian was then "old" and no longer quite the legal threat that it used to be, so Space Attack was put out on the market later, without any changes to its code. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME American Football (a.k.a. "Football Americain") GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (6K of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1017, "MPT-03 system" #MG-308 COPYRIGHT Emerson copyright "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS Two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. TRIVIA Random trivia: the actual game code includes about 467 bytes of what appears to be the original assembly code, right at the end of the game itself. This would seem to indicate the code was written on a computer, assembled on a computer and then transferred somehow to the actual game machine it was written for; via EPROM is my guess. In fact, a number of games for this system actually had EPROMs instead of ROMs in them, in production versions. (The "wasted" space also shows they thought 6k was big.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Astro Invaders GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Tele-fever (#?), Scmid #C028 COPYRIGHT Schmid copyright message: UA 1982 Licensed by Konami CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. COMMENTS This was the game shown on what appears to be the box art for the "Tele-fever" system. (This system's name in Sweden.) The game cartridge is shown plugged into the system itself. There is a screen shot shown behind the system, to simulate how it would look during play. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Auto Race GENRE Clone of the Intellivision system's racing game. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8K of memory.) COMPANY Prestige #MG-320 COPYRIGHT Unknown; no copyright message on MPT-03 cartridge. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Typical "MPT-03 family" case style and artwork. COMMENTS Seen listed in a catalog for the Prestige (French) system. Only two collectors to date have said they have original carts. They are in France & New Zealand. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Baseball GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4K of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1004, Leisure-Vision #MC1001, "MPT-03 system" #MG-305 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. REVIEW Game was reviewed in Electronic Games, November 1982. (See the FAQ for the full text of that review.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Basketball GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY "MPT-03 system" #MG-303 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK "MPT-03 family" case style and labeling presumed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Berzerk (clones of) -- See "Robot Killer" and "Escape". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Blackjack and Poker GENRE Card game simulation. STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Prestige #MG-315 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK "MPT-03 family" case style and labeling presumed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Bowling 3D -- See "3D Bowling". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Brain Quiz (a.k.a. "Math / Logic") GENRE 3 in 1: Hangman, Mastermind, Maxit. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4K of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1012, Leisure-Vision #MC1011, Schmid #C001, "MPT-03 system" #MG-307 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One or two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Breakaway (a.k.a. "La Desertion") GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Breakout". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4K of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1018, Leisure-Vision #MC1007, Schmid #C007, "MPT-03 system" #MG-311 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One or two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. REVIEW Game was reviewed in Electronic Games, November 1982. (See the FAQ for the full text of that review.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Capture GENRE Clone of the board game "Reversi". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (2k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1002, Leisure-Vision #MC1010, Schmid #C012, "MPT-03 system" #MG-302 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One or two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. REVIEW Game was reviewed in Electronic Games, November 1982. (See the FAQ for the full text of that review.) TRIVIA Note the small memory size of this program. Only one other game was this small. This game is simple, true, but it was probably not expected to sell really well, hence the emphasis on keeping manufacturing costs down. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Cat Trax GENRE See comments. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1001, Schmid #C017, Hanimex #nr.24, "MPT-03 system" #MG-3__ COPYRIGHT Emerson copyright "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW Game was reviewed in Electronic Games, November 1982. (See the FAQ for the full text of that review.) TRIVIA This title was apparently ported over to the Atari 2600 system, later in its life. One actual cartridge has been found (by Bill Esquivel -- see DejaNews) who confirmed it was made in cartridge form. (Before he found a cart, the only known copy of this game had been found built into a "128-in-1" European Atari 2600 system's internal ROMs.) In other words, only the ROM dump was known to exist at first, with no collector finding carts, boxes or labels. Jack Spencer Jr. was the first person to notice that the (by then widely spread) Atari ROM image looked a lot like Cat Trax for the Emerson system. He told Ward about it. Ward checked and found that the copyright text on the Atari version's screen says the game was by "UA" in 1983. (This same company name is on many -- if not all -- of the Emerson's carts as the copyright holder for the software.) Once we'd seen all this, other Atari collectors began to see that UA apparently ported other games over to the Atari 2600 system, some time in 1983. Alexander Bilstein first confirmed that. (See the entries for Funky Fish and Pleaides.) I suspect that a number of Atari 2600 "pirate" carts of unknown manufacture will turn out to be similar. (A number of such carts do have names matching or similar to games for the Emerson system and its overseas clones.) COMMENTS This game appears to be a "cleaned-up" or "legalized" version of Pac-Man. The company had said in a June 1982 magazine article that they planned to release Pac-Man and a number of other hot arcade titles for this system. Then in August, Atari began sueing any competitor who released versions of any game it owned the distribution rights to. (See Ward's "timeline" text for much more information.) That seems to have forced Emerson to rethink its plans. They apparently decided to go back and make changes to any game that would likely get them sued. This game being the main target, as Pac-Man clones were Atari's early focus. (See Crazy Gobbler; it appears to have been the original.) Some people say this game is essentially a clone of a clone. They believe this game is a port of "Mouse Trap" by Exidy; a redesigned arcade game based loosely on Pac-Man. It is possible that Emerson chose to copy that game, when they decided that they needed to modify their Pac-Man game. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Centipede GENRE Clone of the arcade game. (Unauthorized?) STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Unknown. COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. (Emerson presumed long.) COMMENTS This cart was planned for release soon after the system itself had been launched. (See the FAQ for the full text of the June 1982 magazine article which said so.) After the first 17 titles were out, this game was planned for a second wave of releases, along with Galaga and Jungler. It is not known if this game was never written at all, or if it was written but simply was not released. Other games that would have violated someone's copyrights, were written, made as ROM chips, and were eventually sold for use on the MPT-03 system. (See "Crazy Climber" for more info.) We can only speculate, until original programmers are located, or a prototype or overseas clone of this game is located. But if this title follows the pattern, a version of Centipede does exist. ("Spiders" is likely their cleaned-up version.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Circus GENRE Unsure. Clone of the arcade game? (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed but not archived. (Boxed one was sold on eBay.) COMPANY Prestige #MG-318 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK "MPT-03 family" case style and labeling presumed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Combat GENRE Unknown. Presumed to be a tank battle game. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Prestige #MG-314 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK "MPT-03 family" case style and labeling presumed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Crazy Climber GENRE Clone of the arcade game. (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Grandstand #MG-325 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a cart. (Note: if we are reading a ROM chip's coded date stamp correctly, it appears that copies were made in the 41st week of 1982. In other words, that particular ROM chip was made in October. See the comments below for more.) CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK The only known copy of this game to be found by modern day collectors has a case style completely unlike any other "official" cartridge. The plastic case was simply and cheaply made. The paper wrap-over label had nothing on it but some colored stripes and the game's name. REVIEW See the FAQ for the full text of a June 1982 magazine article, which says that this title was supposed to be one of the main titles available at the system's launch. COMMENTS Emerson pushed its luck, when it planned to release a number of games that were owned by others, without buying the rights to those games. Atari bought up the rights to a number of games Emerson planned to make. At that point, Emerson could not release the games at all, without risking a lawsuit they were sure to lose. The short story is that it looks like many of the allegedly infringing games were actually written and tested, when Emerson began announcing their new system. Some of these were made into ROM chip form, or so it appears. (That is "ROM" form, not completed carts! I'm only saying they put the ROM chips on order with the companies that produced chips for the industry.) This game was apparently one of those; programmed and in ROM form, but virtually unsellable. What may have happened -- we can only speculate -- is that the stocks of programmed ROM chips were sold to outside companies, with the stipulation that they could not be put into a system that was cartridge-compatible with Emerson's system. In other words, if this third party wanted to sell carts, it would have to also make and sell a system with different pin layouts. (See the FAQ for just such a system; the "MPT-03 family.) It appears that a number of other carts were sold for overseas-only markets, possibly to avoid lawsuits. ("Crazy Gobbler" comes to mind, as does "Robot Killer".) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Crazy Gobbler GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Pac-Man". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (2k of memory.) COMPANY Hanimex #MC1020, Schmid #C002 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart's label. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW See the FAQ for the full text of a magazine article that talks about plans to make a version of Pac-Man. TRIVIA This message was found inside the actual game code by the person who read in the original cart: "To my wife Daisy and my son Jonathan From Choi Andrew 1982". (See also the game "Space Attack" for a similar hidden message.) COMMENTS I am convinced that when this system was in the design stages, and all the plans were just ideas, that this game was intended to be the "pack-in" game. (That is, the one that came with the system when you bought it.) The company did announce a version of Pac-Man was going to be released at the system's launch. It also mentioned five other arcade titles that were going to come out at that time. Of the six mentioned, Pac-Man was then the hottest game in the arcades. Just based on popularity alone, Pac-Man would have been the most logical choice, enticing customers to buy the system. Strengthening that idea is the abnormally small memory size of this program. While most of the games made for this system ended up being 4k or larger, this program uses only 2k of ROM memory. This would have made the game cheaper to mass produce, which is going to be of concern if you are "giving it away". Keep in mind that there is also a 4k version of the "Pac-Man" game theme. (See Super Gobbler.) To me, this strengthens the idea that the 2k game was going to be included with the system. If neither one was a pack-in game, and both a 2k and a 4k version of the same game was on store shelves at the same time, who would buy the 2k version? Nobody would have. They did make both games. Giving one away and selling the other to those who wanted a fancier version, makes good sense. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Defender (clones of) -- See "Space Squadron" and/or "Space Raiders". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Echec Etiles -- See "Star Chess". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Escape GENRE See comments. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1015, Leisure-Vision #MC1017, Hanimex #1017, Schmid #C015, Prestige #MG-317, "MPT-03 system" #MG-326 COPYRIGHT Emerson copyright "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. COMMENTS This game can best be described as a "legalized" version of the game "Robot Killer," which is a blatant copy of the arcade game "Berzerk". (See the KLOV for info on the arcade original.) Comparing the two games shows they are based on the same code, with a few changes. The main ones are that they changed the way "Evil Otto" acts, so that portion of the game isn't such a blatant copy. Other than that, it appears like they changed the shape and/or color of the graphics that represent the robots. Not much else was changed; the two games seem very similar otherwise. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Football -- See "Soccer". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Football Americain -- See "American Football". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Funky Fish GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Schmid #C023 COPYRIGHT This game was listed in an Emerson catalog from July 1982 as "coming soon". Label artwork was shown but screen shot was blank. Text says this was a "licensed arcade game" and lists "Copyright 1981 Sun Electronics Corporation, Licensed by Tehkan International Corporation". CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. COMMENTS This game was definitely ported over to the Atari 2600 system. We know this because an Atari 2600 collector found an actual cartridge with this title on its label. (Not just a ROM dump.) On the screen of that Atari game, Bill Esquivel reported in a usenet post that it says "funky fish, round 1, lic tehkan corp 1983 ua ltd." (In other words, it was written by the same company that did most of the games for the Emerson system, but seemingly it was written a year later than most Emerson games.) See also Cat Trax, Pleaides for more info on the Atari ports. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Galaxian (or Galactica) -- See "Space Attack". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Galaga GENRE Clone of the arcade game. (Unauthorized?) STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Unknown. COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. (Emerson presumed long.) REVIEW This game was briefly mentioned in an article in June of 1982, as one of three titles that were intended to be written after the first seventeen were all finished. (See the FAQ for the full text of that article.) COMMENTS This title was apparently planned early on. It may have even been coded up to at least some extent. However, due to legal problems -- described in some detail in the entry for "Crazy Climber") -- it was never released. Research shows that Atari did buy the home license for this title, but the details of the arrangement are not generally well known among we collectors. We are forced to speculate, based on what we do know. It is not known to what extent Atari owned the rights to this game? Complicating legal matters is the fact that most home machines of the period were just not "good enough," technically speaking, to do this game justice. Note that although Atari sold a version of Galaga for both its 2600 and 7800 machines, it was Bandai who later sold a version of this game for the Nintendo NES system, indicating that Atari must not have owned the exclusive rights to every home machine. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Golf GENRE Sports title. STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Prestige #MG-324 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK "MPT-03 family" case style and labeling presumed. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Grand Slam Tennis (a.k.a. "Tennis: Yannick Noah") GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1021, Leisure-Vision #MC1018, Schmid #C022 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS One or two player. Uses left or both controllers. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Hobo GENRE Platform game with 5 different screens. Railroad theme. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1042, Schmid #C032 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1983, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Home Squadron GENRE Unknown. STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Unknown. COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Jump Bug GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1036, Schmid #C030, Tele-fever (#?) COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LICENSED BY CORELAND TECHNOLOGY INC." CONTROLS One player game. Uses right side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Jump Bug 2 GENRE Unknown. Presumed to be the sequel to Jump Bug. STATUS Never released? (Let us know if you actually own one.) COMPANY Advision (#?) COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a reliable source. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. (Emerson presumed long.) COMMENTS Olivier B's opinion of this game is that collectors just misunderstood a catalog entry. He feels that no such game ever existed. He believes the added "2" is just a mistake. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Jungler GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1023, Leisure-Vision #MC1021, Schmid #C019, Hanimex #nr.4 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Licensed by Konami. Want exact text. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW Game was reviewed in Electronic Games, November 1982. It was briefly mentioned in another article in June of 1982, as one of three titles that were intended to be written after the first seventeen were all finished. (See the FAQ for the full text of both articles.) COMMENTS It appears that this is most likely the first "legally" licensed home port that was done for this game system. Most of the other arcade conversions they had planned early on, would have violated someone's copyrights. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Kidou Senshi Gundamu GENRE Unknown. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Bandai #50. COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME La Desertion -- See "Breakout". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Le Combat Navel -- See "Ocean Battle". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Le Guerre Des Missiles -- See "Missile War". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Le Glouton Super Vorace -- See "Super Gobbler". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Math Logic -- See "Brain Quiz". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Missile War (a.k.a. "Le Guerre Des Missiles") GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Missile Command". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1010, Leisure-Vision #MC1009, Schmid #C016, "MPT-03 system" #MG-313 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. Those labels depict space ships from the popular TV show "Battlestar Galactica". They seem to be flying over parts of the Death Star from the movie "Star Wars". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Ocean Battle (a.k.a. "Le Combat Naval" or "Sea Battle") GENRE Clone of Intellivision game "Sea Battle". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1009, Leisure-Vision #MC1008, Schmid #C010, "MPT-03 system" #MG-312 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Two player game. Uses both controllers. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Pac-Man (clones of) -- See "Crazy Gobbler" and "Cat Trax" and "Super Gobbler". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Phoenix (clones of) -- See "Space Vultures". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Pleiades GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Schmid #C024, Hanimex (#No.28?) COPYRIGHT Hanimex copyright message; UA 1983 Licensed by Tehkan. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. COMMENTS This title and two others have been confirmed by Atari 2600 collectors as having been ported over to the Atari system. (See also Cat Trax and Funky Fish.) The single known cartridge found by Atari collectors says it was made by UA, the same company that holds the copyrights to most of the Emerson system's games. The collector that found the Atari 2600 version said in a Usenet post that he "opened Pleiades and it looks like a handmade proto." (See DejaNews for the actual internet discussion.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME R2D Tank GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Schmid #C031, Leonardo (#?) COPYRIGHT Schmid copyright; UA Ltd 1982 Licensed by Sigma Enterprises CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. (Emerson presumed long.) COMMENTS Jurgen Mahlow reports that this game's theme is that "you have to collect points with your tank and fight with an enemy tank, which collects points too." Jurgen describes the game as a "mix of Combat and Pac-Man". I have assumed this game is an arcade port, simply because the copyright says it is a licensed game, and the "Sigma" company also licensed Spiders to them. (Seems logical?) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Red Clash GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1020, Leisure-Vision #MC1024, Schmid #C026 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LICENSED BY TEHKAN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION." CONTROLS One player game. Uses right side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. Those labels depict space ships from the movie "Star Wars". They show a very clear Star Destroyer and what looks like three TIE fighters and a Snow Speeder. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Robot Killer GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Berzerk". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1017, Schmid #C004 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS One player game. Uses left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW See the FAQ for the full text of a magazine article that talks about plans to make a version of Berzerk. COMMENTS This game is a blatant copy of Berzerk. It appears that "Escape" is the legalized, cleaned-up version. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Route 16 GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1038 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1983, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LICENSED BY TEHKAN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION." CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Sea Battle -- See "Ocean Battle". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Soccer (a.k.a. "Football") GENRE Sports title. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1005, Leisure-Vision #MC1002, Schmid #C013, "MPT-03 system" #MG-301 COPYRIGHT No copyright message printed on Emerson cartridge. CONTROLS Two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Attack GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Galaxian". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1013, Leisure-Vision #MC1016, Schmid #C003 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. Catalog screen shot lists "1982 Copyright UA limited". CONTROLS One player game. Right side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. Those labels depict space ships from the movie "Star Wars"; a snow speeder and the Millineum Falcon. REVIEW Game was reviewed in Electronic Games, November 1982. (See the FAQ for the full text of that review, and for a June 1982 article which discusses plans for this game.) TRIVIA This message was found inside the actual game code by the person who read in an original cart: "To my wife Daisy and my son Jonathan From Choi Andrew Jul 1982 Galax.002" COMMENTS I have a theory that this game was one of the first ones planned for release by Emerson (and the other companies). By that, I mean one of the first two; Crazy Gobbler being the other one. (See that title for more info.) A number of things make me suspect this. For one, these two games are numbered as being among the first three, by some of the companies. The third title was Alien Invaders; a copy of Space Invaders, but with some changes, apparently in an effort to make the game "legal" in terms of copyright. Another item of interest is that both this game and Crazy Gobbler have hidden messages by their programmer. To date, 27 other cartridge ROMs have been digitally archived, without any of them having internal messages. That alone marks these two games as being different. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Chess -- See "Star Chess". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Invaders (clones of) -- See "Alien Invaders". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Mission GENRE See comments. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1019, Leisure-Vision #MC1005, Schmid #C009, "MPT-03 system" #MG-304 COPYRIGHT Emerson copyright "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. Those labels depict space ships from the movie "Star Wars". You appear to be looking over the shoulder of an Imperial Pilot, inside a TIE fighter. Looking out the round front window, you can see the Death Star. The pilot seems to be firing on the Millineum Falcon. COMMENTS "Object is to assemble a spaceship in space" according to the instructions printed on the Emerson cart. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Raiders GENRE Clones of Defender and Scramble, combined. (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1016, Schmid #C018, Hanimex #nr.26 COPYRIGHT Emerson copyright "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. The label for the Emerson family's cart shows various craft flying around, apparently attacking some sort of space ship or station. The mix of crafts is what seems interesting to me, under the circumstances. There is a small triangular space ship on the label, which could be a reference to Defender, and a helicopter, which could be a reference to Scramble. These were most likely intended to be hints to game buyers, that this game was a combination of both of those popular arcade titles. REVIEW See the FAQ for the full text of a magazine article that talks about plans to make a version of Defender. TRIVIA The actual game code includes about 16 bytes of what appears to be the original assembly code, right at the end of the game itself. This would seem to indicate the code was written on a computer, assembled on a computer and then transferred somehow to the actual game machine it was written for; via EPROM is my guess. In fact, this game came supplied on EPROM. The "sloppiness" might also indicate some haste to get this program ready for release. COMMENTS This game was a changed version of "Space Squadron," which was a too-close copy of the arcade game Defender. When the makers began to fear lawsuits for copyright infringement, they apparently altered that game to become this one. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Squadron (a.k.a. "L'Escadron De L'Espace") GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Defender". (Unauthorized.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1014 (#5), Hanimex #MC1014, Schmid #C020, Prestige #MG-323 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright message; "(c) UA LTD, 1982 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED". CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW See the FAQ for the full text of a magazine article that talks about plans to make a version of Defender. COMMENTS This game is obviously the game discussed early on, when the system's makers said they were making a version of Defender. It is not a perfect translation; it lacks the "pick up the people" parts but includes the shooting and moving stages in a playable enough fashion. See also the game "Space Raiders" which is the legalized version. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Space Vultures GENRE Clone of the arcade game "Phoenix". (Unauthorized?) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (6k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1014, Leisure-Vision #MC1013, Schmid #C006, Prestige #MG-322 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW This game is widely accepted among collectors as the Emerson system's version of "Phoenix". Hanimex had told a UK-based magazine in June 1982 that they planned to have such a game ready for the initial launch of this system, along with five other popular arcade titles of the time. (See the FAQ for full text of that article.) COMMENTS This may have been one of the last games released in apparent violation of someone's copyrights. This game was released, but others like it (legally speaking) that were planned early on, never came out. This leads me to wonder what interesting stories surround this title? It isn't hard to speculate that Atari, who had bought the rights to this game, threatened a lawsuit? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Spiders GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1024, Leisure-Vision #MC1032, Schmid #C025 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LICENSED BY SIGMA ENTERPRISES, INC." CONTROLS One player game. Uses right side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Star Chess (a.k.a. "Echec Etiles" or "Space Chess" or "Video Chess") GENRE Similar to chess, but in a space environment. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1006, Leisure-Vision #MC1004, Schmid #C021, "MPT-03 system" #MG-309 COPYRIGHT Unknown; want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Two player game. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "short" style plastic case. Those labels depict space ships from the movie "Star Wars"; a snow speeder and two TIE fighters flying through the pieces of a huge chess board. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the GENRE Side-scrolling shooter. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Bandai (#?) COPYRIGHT Made in 1983. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Super Gobbler (a.k.a. "Le Glouton Super Vorace") GENRE See comments. STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1019, Schmid #C005, Prestige #MG-327 COPYRIGHT Schmid copyright message; (c) UA 1982 CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. REVIEW See the FAQ for the full text of a magazine article that talks about plans to make a version of Pac-Man. COMMENTS Jurgen Mahlow says the game is "a further development of Crazy Gobbler with a different maze and appearing fruit symbols like Ms. Pac-Man". (See Crazy Gobbler.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Tanks A Lot GENRE See comments. STATUS Confirmed and archived. (4k of memory.) COMPANY Emerson #1007, Leisure-Vision #MC1019, Schmid #C014 COPYRIGHT Made in 1982. Want exact text from a cart. CONTROLS One player game. Left side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. COMMENTS Game layout looks a lot like the arcade game called "Tank Battalion," which was a 1981 release. However, a lot of tank-based games had come out in prior years. Atari had made an arcade game called "Tank" which was successful enough to have had many sequels come out based on it. These in turn spawned their Atari 2600 game Combat, which was the "pack in" Atari 2600 game until Atari bought the distribution rights to Pac-Man. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Tennis: Yannick Noah -- See "Grand Slam Tennis". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME The End GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed but not archived. COMPANY Schmid #C027, Hanimex (#?) COPYRIGHT Schmid copyright says UA 1982, Licensed by Konami. CONTROLS Unknown. ARTWORK Unknown case style and labeling. (Emerson presumed long.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Turtles / Turpin GENRE Licensed home port of the arcade game. (See the KLOV.) STATUS Confirmed and archived. (8k of memory.) COMPANY Leisure-Vision #MC1034, Schmid #C029, Hanimex #nr.34 COPYRIGHT Leisure-Vision copyright says "(c) UA LTD. 1982, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LICENSED BY KONAMI INDUSTRY CO., LTD." CONTROLS One player game. Uses right side controller. ARTWORK Emerson family carts use the "long" style plastic case. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NAME Video chess -- See Star Chess. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---=={ Credits }==--- This particular list began as a compilation of other lists found on the Internet. I combined all the lists I could find on the Internet, later adding information from an Emerson family brochure and other sources. These people helped in some way. (List below displayed in alphabetical order. See also the FAQ on my web site for more credits.) --------------------- Alexander Bilstein helped us to find two more carts that had been ported over to the Atari 2600 system, once we knew that "Cat Trax" had been ported. He pointed me towards some DejaNews posts about "Funky Fish" and "Pleiades" having been found by an Atari 2600 collector, then found us more info. Olivier Boisseau contributed information to the FAQ and the list of software titles known to exist. The pictures of both carts and systems for various game systems helped to figure out the mystery of the "family differences". (See the FAQ.) Michael Davidson continually added whatever information he could find, both locally and on the Internet. He discovered some of the rarest carts -- including "Crazy Climber" -- and tracked down some info. He also helped figure out that carts for the "MPT-03" system are Emerson compatible, internally. Sylvain De Chantal's Emerson FAQ was used to double-double check the list. (Version A.04 - July 1998). All of the carts listed as being from NZ (New Zealand) were found in that text, along with all the JP (Japanese) carts found in this document. (Sylvain and I have agreed to share all the info we can find.) Dean Dierschow's Emerson cartridge list was used halfway through the process, just to make sure no titles were missing. Dean did many cartridge lists in the early '90s. Martin Gansel helped with the part numbers for the Schmid, and added a few for the Hanimex system as well. Jurgen Mahlow, a German collector, helped to confirm some of the carts that are more plentiful in his geographical area. He also added details on those games, which was very helpful. Digital Press' "Classic Videogame Collector's Guide" was helpful when compiling my first lists. (Third Edition was used.) Their CD was also useful, for part numbers, company names that released (or promised) a given cart, etc. Lately Joe Santulli is helping out directly, with more info, etc. I used the fifth edition to add some "AKA's" and other info. Jerry Greiner's "Guide to the Classic Videogames" (beta one version) was useful for part numbers and companies. The KLOV ("Killer List Of Videogames") was used to fill in some details about games converted from arcade to the home. (You readers can use it to find out more about the games that are listed here as being home ports of various arcade titles.) Egan Loo added one game we did not know about. It seems to have only been released in Japan. ("Super Dimension Fortress Macross".) We got this info from a Macross web page he runs. MAME -- the "Multi Arcade Machine Emulator" program -- was very helpful in confirming some of the arcade game clones were what I thought they were. MAME did what it was made to do; it worked as a form of historical reference. Micheal Novak's compilation of previous Emerson cart lists found on the Internet was useful. I used it to do initial categorization based on whether or not a cart had ever been released. Also got some year and country availability data from his lists, to which others had previously contributed. Russ Perry Jr. added "Kidou Senshi Gundamu" (a Japanese cart) and answered some of my questions via email. Ward Shrake... that's me! I'm the guy who wrote this all up, wrote the FAQ, did a bunch of techie work, etc. (See the FAQ.) Jack Spencer Jr. pointed out the similarities between the 1982 Emerson game "Cat Trax" and the 1983 Atari 2600 game "Cat and Mouse". This helped us to widen what we know about the "UA Limited" company that wrote many Emerson games. He also has been helpful in pointing out many other things, as he did more and more research into this system's games, etc. Tom Zjaba had some interesting info on the MPT-03 system's carts, including some part numbers we needed. His web site ("Tomorrow's Heroes") was one of the first to post cartridge pictures for the Emerson and/or MPT-03 systems. (End of document.)