6 in 1 — Caltron

Throughout the life of the Nintendo Entertainment System, there were very few legal multicarts. One particular cart compilation seemed to be quite popular for the unlicensed companies, I really don’t know why. This was a specific 6 in 1 cart, made by at least the following companies: Caltron, Myriad, and Home Entertainment Suppliers (HES). A […]

American Game Cartridges Inc

American Game Cartridges Inc. was formed as a subsidiary of ShareData. For those that don’t know it, ShareData was a minor software house located in Chandler, Arizona. Richard Frick was appointed vice president of ShareData in 1989. Frick would be responsible for developing new recreational software titles. Richard had previously worked at Tengen developing unlicensed […]

American Video Entertainment

American Video Entertainment, referred to as AVE, was formed in 1990 as a subsidiary of Macronix, a US ROM company. At this point in time, around 75% of all ROMs were used for the purpose of video games. Richard Frick was the founder and president of AVE, Phil Mikkelson the art dude, and Fred Hoot […]

Bunch Games: Poor Stuff Cheap

Sometime during 1990, Color Dreams had decided that they had had enough. With the release of sub-par Nintendo titles (such as Pesterminator), Color Dreams’ already iffy reputation began sinking even more. Color Dreams was already suffering from low sales due to the scare tactics that Nintendo used on retail chains across America. Eddie Lin had […]

6 in 1 — Caltron

American Game Cartridges Inc

American Video Entertainment

Bunch Games: Poor Stuff Cheap

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