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Continuing our world tour of retro gaming, back to Korea!
We have the - rare enough to be noted for a perhaps unlicensed Korean game - very decent Gaegujangi Ggachi (개구장이 까치) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Master System. Gaegujangi Ggachi is a 512 KB platformer released in Korea in 1993 and very much reminiscent of Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Many things in this game smell Alex Kidd: it's colorful, contenful, decent graphics and music, has various enemies and levels (no consistency in levels, though, they seems like "skins" over the main engine). Nearly every ingredients to make a good game, unfortunately much like most of those non-Sega games it has an average gameplay and semi annoying controls. Overally this is probably among the best of original games we have left to dig so it's pleasant surprise, and the game has its share of charm. Special thanks again to Raccoon Lad for lending its copy.!

One thing that can be missed pretty easy in this game is the Bonus Stage. If you see a bubble, quickly jump on it, and it will take you to the bonus stage.

As for the other bonus stage thing (the card game), I don't know how to play it. It seems that either getting one of each character, or all of the same character does nothing. It's rules are unknown to me.

I'll see if I can scan the manual for this game too.

Here's the manual.

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Unofficial mirrors that won't be there forever:

http://rapidshare.com/files/46166594/gaegujangi_ggachi-sms-kr.zip.html
http://www.badongo.com/file/3907363
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8ZX6D03I

I updated my mirror as well. Sorry for the delay, I'm experiencing internet problems in these days (my ISP cut my DSL line).

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Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8651 Location: Paris, France	Gaegujangi Ggachi (SMS/KR) Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:55 pm
	Continuing our world tour of retro gaming, back to Korea! We have the - rare enough to be noted for a perhaps unlicensed Korean game - very decent Gaegujangi Ggachi (개구장이 까치) for the Samsung Gam*Boy / Master System. Gaegujangi Ggachi is a 512 KB platformer released in Korea in 1993 and very much reminiscent of Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Many things in this game smell Alex Kidd: it's colorful, contenful, decent graphics and music, has various enemies and levels (no consistency in levels, though, they seems like "skins" over the main engine). Nearly every ingredients to make a good game, unfortunately much like most of those non-Sega games it has an average gameplay and semi annoying controls. Overally this is probably among the best of original games we have left to dig so it's pleasant surprise, and the game has its share of charm. Special thanks again to Raccoon Lad for lending its copy.!

Raccoon Lad Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 495 Location: El Cerrito, CA	Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:39 pm
	One thing that can be missed pretty easy in this game is the Bonus Stage. If you see a bubble, quickly jump on it, and it will take you to the bonus stage. As for the other bonus stage thing (the card game), I don't know how to play it. It seems that either getting one of each character, or all of the same character does nothing. It's rules are unknown to me. I'll see if I can scan the manual for this game too.

Raccoon Lad Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 495 Location: El Cerrito, CA	Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:22 am
	Here's the manual. 1.jpg (156.96 KB) 2.jpg (136.25 KB) 3.jpg (141.51 KB) 4.jpg (150.45 KB) 5.jpg (132.98 KB) 6.jpg (156.29 KB) 7.jpg (155.72 KB) 8.jpg (168.24 KB)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14745 Location: London	Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:09 pm
	Unofficial mirrors that won't be there forever: http://rapidshare.com/files/46166594/gaegujangi_ggachi-sms-kr.zip.html http://www.badongo.com/file/3907363 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8ZX6D03I

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:55 am
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	I updated my mirror as well. Sorry for the delay, I'm experiencing internet problems in these days (my ISP cut my DSL line).

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