Posted By
Chicken
on 2007-05-31
16:07:29
 |  Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
Mario Brothers and the "Game of the Day" Gremlin (I remember trying to play it, it's unbelievable hard) seem to be written by the same author. There's another game (don't remember the name right) which has very similar looks: It's a vertically scrolling shoot'em up, very simple, one color "sprites".
Does anyone know who wrote these games?
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2007-05-31
16:10:44
| Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
Make that Gremlin 
And there's still that "_" bug... Maybe Mario Brothers works.
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2007-05-31
20:15:27
| Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
I knew this would come up sooner or later I noticed the same thing. Several other games are like that in fact. I marked all of them with "aux" in the notes, search for that.
Maybe someone has the info on this.
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2007-06-01
00:48:31
| Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
Actually, I was wondering about this back in the days I checked those "aux" marked games and the shoot'em up I was talking about is not listed. Though, that doesn't mean it's not here.
Maybe these games are created with one of the game creators. I never looked into those so I don't know how the games created with them "look". However, it could be just the same author using some code framework over and over again.
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Posted By
Sidius
on 2007-06-01
00:58:39
 | Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
To the games which are marked with aux:
I have a (type-in)game with the name Frogger in a german magazine - written by Werner Bembom in the year 1986...
...I will compare them once - maybe it's the game in request.
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2007-06-04
03:16:54
| Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
Skate Roller looks like some of those "aux" marked games, too. At least like those in "hi-res" mode. And the score panel is obviously the same in all these games.
Interestingly, there's a "cracked" version. I'll check it out and see if there's any info.
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2007-06-04
03:33:23
| Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
The crack has just the usual "intro screen" by "Section9", no additional information.
The game "feels" exactly like those other games (eg "stopping" for sound fx when losing a life). So I added "aux." in the notes.
If it's a "real" crack then this game should be from a "commercial background". Though, back in the days not everything "cracked" was a real crack (leave alone that there was rarely any cracking necessary ).
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2007-06-04
11:52:08
| Re: Mario Brothers, Gremlins... Similarities in some games
You're right, it's the same series.
Also, there's a few more games that are not even on our site. JamesC has them up, they seem to be from the same series, and converted to NTSC by Jim Hehl. "Bazooka", "Wild Honda" are two new ones at least. Maybe they know something more about the origins?
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