Saturday, September 4, 2010

What's with this fake game?!

This is a game I found at Goodwill along with my previous goodies. It's Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs for the Game Boy. But do you notice anything weird about it?
Seriously, how could a company make this and think that people out there would not notice that it's fake?! When I saw it at the store I noticed right away at the top it just says GAME instead of GAME BOY. It is extremely light too. And that is that up in the corner?
I know it's not a great picture, but I can't figure out how to get a better one with my camera. Sorry. But it says COLOR GAME BOY with some writing below it. I know I've seen this on other knock-off games but I can't recall which games and I'm having a hard time finding anything online about it. I found out what the lable on the game is supposed to look like:

I couldn't find a good image online, but remove the GAME BOY on the side and that's what the label looks like on the actual game. But what is the label that's on it now actually from? It's from the N64 game Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
Weird, huh? I thought so. In looking through a gameplay video of this game, it looks identical to what I have. I was thinking maybe it was one of those strange multi-game carts that have multiple games in that are called other things, but no luck. So strange. I hope someone out there finds this post and can provide any information that may lead to this fake game's origin. I'm curious.

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