Arcade & Color TV Game on nindb

[Fryguy64]

What I need help with: Any missing cameos, especially for the Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. games, where they appear in other Donkey Kong or Super Mario games.

I've made a start with the Game & Watch series section in another topic - covering anything and everything that can possibly be covered to make nindb stand out from other info resources out there. Now it's the turn of series that began their lives in the Arcades and Color TV Game systems to get the full treatment!!

For the purposes of this list, I will not be including the majority of the VS Multisystem arcades or Playchoice/Super System, as these will be on a similar Famicom list (coming soon!).

Laser Clay Shooting
1973 - Laser Clay Shooting (Arcade)
Laser Clay Shooting as a Minigame
1984 - Duck Hunt (Famicom/NES)
2006 - Wii Play (Wii)

Wild Gunman
1976 - Wild Gunman (Arcade)
Wild Gunman Direct Sequels
1984 - Wild Gunman (Famicom/NES)
1984 - VS. Wild Gunman (Arcade)

Shooting Trainer
1976 - Shooting Trainer (Arcade)

Sky Hawk
1976 - Sky Hawk (Arcade)

Battle Shark
1977 - Battle Shark (Arcade)

Color TV Game 6 / Game 15
1977 - Color TV Game 6 (Color TV Game)
1978 - Color TV Game 15 (Color TV Game)
Color TV Game 6 / Game 15 Cameos
2006 - WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii)

Test Driver
1978 - Test Driver (Arcade)

Computer Othello
1978 - Computer Othello (Arcade)
1980 - Computer TV Game (Color TV Game)

Block Fever
1978 - Block Fever (Arcade)
1979 - Color TV Block Breaker (Color TV Game)

Color TV Racing 112
1978 - Color TV Racing 112 (Color TV Game)
Color TV Racing 112 Cameos
2003 - WarioWare, Inc. (Game Boy Advance / Gamecube)

Space Fever
1979 - Space Fever (Arcade)
1979 - SF-HiSplitter (Arcade)
Space Fever Cameos
1998 - Game Boy Camera (Game Boy)

Space Launcher
1979 - Space Launcher (Arcade)

Sheriff
1979 - Sheriff (Arcade)
Sheriff as a Minigame
2003 - WarioWare, Inc. (Game Boy Advance)
Sheriff Cameos
1998 - Game Boy Camera (Game Boy)
2001 - Super Smash Bros. Melee (Gamecube)
2003 - WarioWare, Inc. (Game Boy Advance / Gamecube)

Monkey Magic
1979 - Monkey Magic (Arcade)

Head On N
1979 - Head On N (Arcade)

HeliFire
1980 - HeliFire (Arcade)
*Note* I read on a Japanese website that HeliFire was planned for a Famicom release, but was later cancelled. I haven't seen this sourced anywhere else.

Space Fire Bird
1980 - Space Fire Bird (Arcade)

Space Demon
1981 - Space Demon (Arcade)

RadarScope
1980 - RadarScope (Arcade)

Donkey Kong
1981 - Donkey Kong (Arcade)
Donkey Kong Ports
1982 - Donkey Kong (ColecoVision)
1982 - Donkey Kong (Intellivision)
1982 - Donkey Kong (Atari 2600)
1983 - Donkey Kong (Famicom/NES)
1983 - Donkey Kong (Atari 8-bit)
1983 - Donkey Kong (PC Booter)
1983 - Donkey Kong (Commodore 64)
1983 - Donkey Kong (TI-99/4A)
1983 - Donkey Kong (VIC-20)
1984 - Donkey Kong (Apple II)
1986 - Donkey Kong (Amstrad CPC)
1986 - Donkey Kong (MSX)
1986 - Donkey Kong (ZX Spectrum)
1988 - Donkey Kong Classics (Famicom/NES)
1988 - Donkey Kong (Atari 7800)
Donkey Kong as a Minigame
1999 - Donkey Kong 64 (Nintendo 64)
2001 - Animal Crossing (Gamecube)
Donkey Kong Cameos
1984 - Pinball (Famicom/NES)
1984 - Punch-Out!! / Super Punch-Out!! (Arcade)
1985 - Family BASIC (Famicom/NES)
1987 - Smash Ping Pong (Famicom Disk System)
1989 - Tetris (Famicom/NES)
1990 - F-1 Race (Game Boy)
1994 - EarthBound (Super Famicom/SNES)
1996 - Kirby Super Star (Super Famicom/SNES)
1996 - Super Mario RPG (Super Famicom/SNES)
1999 - Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64)
2000 - Pokemon Stadium 2 (Nintendo 64)
2001 - Animal Crossing (Nintendo 64 / Gamecube)
2001 - Super Smash Bros. Melee (Gamecube)
2003 - WarioWare, Inc. (Game Boy Advance / Gamecube)
2003 - Donkey Konga (Gamecube)
2003 - Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Game Boy Advance)
2004 - Great Concert! Band Brothers (Nintendo DS)
2005 - Donkey Konga 3 (Gamecube)
2006 - Tetris DS (Nintendo DS)
2006 - WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii)
2008 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

Donkey Kong Jr.
1982 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Arcade)
Donkey Kong Jr. Ports
1983 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Famicom/NES)
1983 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 2600)
1983 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 8-bit)
1983 - Donkey Kong Jr. (ColecoVision)
1983 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Intellivision)
1988 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari 7800)
2002 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Game Boy Advance e-Reader)
2006 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Wii Virtual Console)
Donkey Kong Jr. as a Minigame
2001 - Animal Crossing (Gamecube)

Donkey Kong 3
1984 - Donkey Kong 3 (Arcade)
Donkey Kong 3 Ports
1984 - Donkey Kong 3 (Famicom/NES)
2003 - Donkey Kong 3 (Game Boy Advance e-Reader)
2008 - Donkey Kong 3 (Wii Virtual Console)
Donkey Kong 3 as a Minigame
2001 - Animal Crossing (Gamecube)

Sky Skipper
1981 - Sky Skipper (Arcade)
Sky Skipper Ports
1983 - Sky Skipper (Atari 2600)
Sky Skipper Cameos
1998 - Game Boy Camera (Game Boy)

Popeye
1982 - Popeye (Arcade)
Popeye Ports
1982 - Popeye (Odyssey 2)
1983 - Popeye (Famicom / NES)
1983 - Popeye (Atari 2600)
1983 - Popeye (Atari 8-bit)
1983 - Popeye (ColecoVision)
1983 - Popeye (Intellivision)
1984 - Popeye (Atari 5200)
1984 - Popeye (Commodore 64)
1984 - Popeye (TI-99/4A)

Mario Bros.
1983 - Mario Bros. (Arcade)
Mario Bros. Ports
1983 - Mario Bros. (Famicom/NES)
1983 - Mario Bros. (Apple II)
1983 - Mario Bros. (Atari 2600)
1983 - Mario Bros. (Atari 5200)
1984 - Mario Bros. (Commodore 64)
1987 - Mario Bros. (Amstrad CPC)
1987 - Mario Bros. (ZX Spectrum)
1988 - Mario Bros. (Atari 7800)
1988 - Mario Bros. (Atari 8-bit)
2002 - Mario Bros. (Game Boy Advance e-Reader)
2004 - Mario Bros. (Game Boy Advance Famicom Mini)
2006 - Mario Bros. (Wii Virtual Console)
Mario Bros. Direct Sequels
1984 - Punch Ball Mario Bros. (NEC-PC88)
1984 - Mario Bros. Special (NEC-PC88)
1988 - Return of Mario Bros. (Famicom Disk System)
1995 - Mario Clash (Virtual Boy)
Mario Bros. as a Minigame
1988 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (Famicom/NES)
1993 - Super Mario All-Stars (Super Famicom/SNES)
Mario Bros. as a Minigame: Mario Bros. Classic
2001 - Super Mario Advance (Game Boy Advance)
2001 - Super Mario Advance 2 (Game Boy Advance)
2002 - Super Mario Advance 3 (Game Boy Advance)
2003 - Super Mario Advance 4 (Game Boy Advance)
2004 - Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Game Boy Advance)

Punch-Out!!
1984 - Punch-Out!! (Arcade)
1984 - Super Punch-Out!! (Arcade)
Punch-Out!! Direct Sequels
1987 - Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Famicom/NES)
1994 - Super Punch-Out!! (Super Famicom/SNES)
2009? - Punch-Out!! Wii (Wii)
Punch-Out!! Cameos
2006 - Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosy-Rupeeland
These cameos are exclusively for the arcade version of the game.

Arm Wrestling
1985 - Arm Wrestling (Arcade)

[parrothead]

Is this the Japanese website where you heard about Heli Fire being planned for the Famicom / NES, but then got canceled?

[Fryguy64]

Yeah, that's the website I originally saw it on

HeliFire just seems like an unlikely game to be ported to me. It wasn't high profile, it was quite ugly and it wasn't even very fun.

[Manspeed]

What exactly is "Punch Ball Mario Bros."? I can't say I've heard of that one before. Where do you find this stuff out, Fry?

[parrothead]

Feb 24, 2009 9:04:38 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Yeah, that's the website I originally saw it on

HeliFire just seems like an unlikely game to be ported to me. It wasn't high profile, it was quite ugly and it wasn't even very fun.

Ever heard of SEGA's game titled N-Sub, which was released the same year Nintendo's Heli Fire was? It's pretty similar to Heli Fire; however, I don't know which came first. Unlike Heli Fire, N-Sub was ported to SEGA's SG-1000 and SG-3000 home consoles.

I don't know who made a rip-off of the other arcade game released the same year, but when SEGA released Head-On in 1979, Nintendo released a game during the same year titled Head On N, which plays similar to SEGA's Head On, but the name has a letter "N" at the end of it, which most likely stands for "Nintendo", because it's Nintendo's version of SEGA's Head-On. Also, during Nintendo's early arcade years, they've been ripping off other video games. Space Fever is Space Invaders with three modes instead of one, and Sheriff contains some Space Invaders elements (e.g. vulture plays like the UFO, shield blocks, can only shoot one bullet until it vanishes, the bandidos move like the Space Invaders enemies, etc.).

[Volray]

Well, for the Donkey Kong list of cameos, you didn't mention Donkey Konga 2. You can unlock all the bongo sound effects from the first Donkey Konga in DKa2 if you save the game to a memory card with save data from the first game, that includes the NES Set sound effects.

[Fryguy64]

Thanks Korre. To be fair, I'll just group those two cameos together. Don't suppose you know if the same is true of Donkey Konga 3?

Parrothead, as you can see, the information you sent me before regarding Head On N has been integrated into the list above already Where a game is a blatant rip on another game, I might put a bit of information on that game as well. I wasn't aware of N-Sub, but I will have a look and see how similar it is and whether it's worth mentioning.

Sheriff did have some Space Invader elements, but nearly all games did back then. Fact is, it was an original idea using established gameplay, which is very Nintendo-like, don't you think?

As far as MAME emulation goes, I'm missing the following:
- Computer Othello
- Block Fever
- Monkey Magic
- Head On N

If anyone hears any news on these being released, please let me know as soon as you find out

[Volray]

Feb 25, 2009 7:58:47 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Don't suppose you know if the same is true of Donkey Konga 3?

From what I've read, yeah, Donkey Konga 3 has the same thing. Using a memory card with DKa 1 or 2 save data will unlock that game's bongo sound effects.

Edit: An FAQ over at GameFAQs confirms this.

[Manspeed]

As far as MAME emulation goes, I'm missing the following:
- Computer Othello
- Block Fever
- Monkey Magic
- Head On N

If anyone hears any news on these being released, please let me know as soon as you find out

You mean that there are available dumps of every Nintendo game except those? I only ask this because I'm in the process of collecting every available Nintendo ROM.

[Fryguy64]

There's some VS. Multisystem games missing, but all of the other arcade games are available.

Do you use MSN or AIM? Because I might be able to help you out there a bit

[Dasher Misire]

Was Devil World an arcade game like this, or was it one of the VS. ones? Seems more arcade-ish than anything else.

[Manspeed]

Feb 26, 2009 4:41:30 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

There's some VS. Multisystem games missing, but all of the other arcade games are available.

Do you use MSN or AIM? Because I might be able to help you out there a bit

As a matter of fact, I do have AIM. I'm on it with the same email address that's in my profile if you wanna know.

[Fryguy64]

Feb 27, 2009 15:37:52 GMT -5 Dasher Misire said:

Was Devil World an arcade game like this, or was it one of the VS. ones? Seems more arcade-ish than anything else.

No, Devil World was a Famicom exclusive, and one of the few early FC games that wasn't given any arcade release.

There is an arcade game called Devil World, but it's a Konami game (I think) and completely different.