Kind of a fascinating period where you could be openly marketing pirated games in a major gaming magazine
looking forward to when the video game history foundation triumphantly announces that frank cifaldi has found and dumped the ROM for Super Mario Invisible Fancy
makes me wonder what the hell they were trying to sell as "Super Mario Invisible Fancy"
Someone already digitized it! Though it sounds like they didn't know the context behind it https://archive.org/details/game-watch-newsletter-1990
I hope someone there had a good laugh about the rather extensive copyright "don't copy this or show it publicly without our approval because that would be against the law" notice at the beginning.
the nature of that tape... it reminds me of an old YT vid I saw of some ancient game boy themed tape where very rough translations of the JP titles were used to preview the Game Boy's library. Might have been an EU thing? I remember it called Castlevania Adventure DRACULA and such lol
wonder if this is related
From looking at the videos, it's definitely a pirate multicart. They seem to be using the same names that were in the multicart itself. "Super Mario Invisible Fancy" is Mario with the title deleted from the title screen.
