However, Christian book stores did not carry NES games, and Color Dreams decided to break into that market and changed their main label to that of Wisdom Tree and their focus to Christian games. Nintendo threatened to pull the supplies of games to any stores that sold unlicensed games. Baby Boomer's engine seems very close to AGCI's Chiller, which would make sense because they are the only two unlicensed games that use the Zapper.Įventually, Color Dreams found it difficult to get their games marketed in stores. The company liked to reuse game engines, thus Challenge of the Dragon, Operation Secret Storm and Secret Scout all use the same engine. Color Dreams was ambitious and made a prototype Hellraiser game with extra hardware in the cartridge to significantly improve the graphics capable on the NES, but the product was too costly and was abandoned.Ĭolor Dreams games were fairly abysmal. Color Dreams used a label called Bunch Games to distribute some of their lesser titles to avoid the lack of quality reflecting on their main brand. It released its own titles and quite a few titles from Taiwan. A common theme is the interconnected nature between these companies, with games being release by one company, then another.Ĭolor Dreams was created in the wake of Tengen's break from Nintendo in 1989 and some of its employees came from Tengen/Atari Games. Their games provide a lot of fodder for the AVGN and other people who want to bash crap games, and most of the time the criticism is justified. These companies may be able to compete with the worst of the NES licensees like LJN and Acclaim. In this post, I am going to discuss the rest of the unlicensed companies, who never reached the more lofty heights of the above. They could have stood tall with many a licensed developer, maybe not at the Konami or Capcom level, but definitely in the middle. In my last post, I discussed the two brightest stars of the unlicensed NES companies, Tengen and Codemasters.
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