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Native name | 福州外星電腦科技有限公司 |
|---|---|
| Company type | Private |
| Predecessor | Micro Genius |
| Founded | November 18, 1993 |
| Headquarters | , China |
| Products | Video games |
| Brands | ESC Co. Ltd. |
| Website | waixing.com.cn (archived) |
Fuzhou Waixing Computer Science & Technology Co. Ltd. (also known as Waixing Science & Technology, Waixing Education Technology, or simply Waixing Technology) is a Chinese video game development company. Founded in 1993,[1] they originally produced unlicensed NES/Famicom games, which were primarily sold in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Americas.
History
[edit]NES/Famicom development
[edit]Waixing Technology was founded in 1993. In the early years of the company, they developed NES multicarts and translated various Japanese NES games into Chinese. Using the knowledge they gained from this, they began producing homebrew games and ROM hacks as well. Several of their early games were published under the pseudonym ESC Co. Ltd.[2]
In 2001, Waixing sued a developer named Weng Zhengwen, on the grounds of having several NES games they owned the copyright for illegally distributed by a company called Zhenhua Company.[3]
Plug and Play development
[edit]In the 2000s, the market for cartridge-based games was significantly smaller than in previous years. As a result, Waixing began developing games for plug and play consoles, which were primarily based on Famiclone and Sunplus SPG hardware. Examples of such consoles are the Zone 40 by Subor and the MiWi Xtra by Macro Winners (sold in North America under the name InterAct), both of which were inspired by Nintendo's Wii. They also republished several games by Chinese companies such as Nice Code Software, Cube Technology, and JungleTac. Their plug and play games were known to contain Chinese copyright numbers instead of traditional copyright information.
Another plug and play console series Waixing developed games for was the iSports series by Subor, a company with whom they had close ties. Consoles under this series used the 32-bit Sunplus S+Core architecture, which was also used in Mattel's HyperScan. Various plug-and-play consoles with English-language translations of the iSports games were sold by Lexibook, a French toy manufacturer, under the name TV Game Console. Several iSports games were also used on "educational computer" consoles. These also included utilities programmed by Waixing, such as a calculator.
Reception
[edit]Due to being a bootleg company, Waixing gained a fair bit of notoriety online. The games produced by them have been made fun of by numerous people on the internet. One such example is the Cinemassacre review of the game Super Contra 7, which is a hack of Super Contra. Their NES ports, however, were well received, and considered to be fairly accurate to the original games. The company is seen as a pioneer of the Chinese video game market, as well as companies such as Inventor and Subor.
NES games
[edit]| Name | Chinese Name | Serial Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bio Hazard | 成吉思汗 | ES-1110 | An NES demake of the PlayStation game Resident Evil.[1][4] |
| Phantasy Star IV | 爆笑三國 | ES-1006 | An NES demake of the Sega Genesis game Phantasy Star IV.[1] |
| Zelda: Triforce of the Gods | 塞尔达传说 | ES-1098 | An NES demake of the Super NES game Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.[1][5] |
| Name | Chinese Name | Original Developer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Contra 7 | 超级战魂 | Konami | A hack of the game Super C with levels and bosses taken from other NES games, such as Mighty Final Fight and Shatterhand.[6] |
| Jurassic Park | 侏罗纪公园 | Shanghai Paradise | A hack of the unlicensed NES game Blood Of Jurassic, which is a lightgun game where the player shoots dinosaurs. It is not related to the Jurassic Park film series. |
Plug-and-Play games
[edit]VT1682
[edit]The VT1682 is an improved Famiclone architecture, developed by a Taiwan-based IC designer called V.R. Technology.[7] Waixing developed several games for the system, which were used on many different shanzhai consoles.[8]
| Name | Chinese Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Highway Racing | 公路赛车 | A clone of Namco’s Road Fighter. |
| Tank | 坦克 | A hack of Battle City with improved graphics. |
| Shudu | 蜀都 | A Sudoku game. |
| Fire Man | 消防人 | A clone of Flying Hero, a Famicom game released exclusively in Japan. The player must navigate a trampoline underneath a burning building and bounce a fireman into windows, in order to rescue the building's occupants and extinguish the fire. |
| Lawn Purge | 草坪净化 | A lawn mowing game. The player must clear the board in a limited amount of time, and avoid obstacles. |
| Square | 正方形 | A Tetris game. |
| Edacity Snakes | 教育蛇 | A Snake game taking place in a pond. |
| Boxes World | 盒子世界 | A Sokoban game. |
| Overspeed Racing | 超速赛车 | A 3D racing game. The game takes place on a highway, and the player must avoid crashing into other vehicles or running out of fuel. To replenish fuel, they must run into tanker trucks. |
| Diamond | 钻石 | An Arkanoid clone. |
| Archery | 射箭 | A clone of the archery minigame from Konami's Track and Field. |
| Bee Fighting | 蜜蜂战斗 | A clone of Galaga with a garden as the backdrop. |
| Fish War | 鱼战 | A game inspired by Feeding Frenzy. The player must navigate a fish around a screen and eat small fish in order to grow and gain the capability to eat larger fish. |
| Shooting Ballons | 射击气球 | A game loosely based off of Pang, containing stolen assets from said game. The player moves back and forth, shooting darts at balloons drifting into the sky. If the player misses a balloon, they lose a life. |
| MX Motor Storm | MX摩托风暴 | A motocross racing game, with similar gameplay as Overspeed Racing. |
| Zuma | 祖马 | A port of the PopCap Games title of the same name. |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "The Unofficial Waixing Science and Technology Game Catalog" (PDF). Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ "Super Contra 7 (1996)". IGDB.com. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Weng Zhengwen v. Fuzhou Waixing Computer Science and Technology Co. Ltd. et al". Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ^ "Bio Hazard (NES) - The Cutting Room Floor". tcrf.net. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Sai Er Da Chuan Shuo: San Shen Zhi Li - LaunchBox Games Database". gamesdb.launchbox-app.com. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Super Contra 7 // random.access". 2024-12-08. Archived from the original on 8 December 2024. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Nerdly Pleasures: The Unofficial Enhanced NESs - Continuing On where Nintendo Left Off". Nerdly Pleasures. 2023-10-28. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ Sterophonick (2020-06-08). InterAct 32-in-1 - Obscure Machine. Retrieved 2025-04-24 – via YouTube.
External links
[edit]Category:Unauthorized video games Category:Video gaming in China