Megamania II?

[Spoon]

This is probably a stupid question for you all, but I'm new at this...

 

I was looking at some carts for sale on the 2600 and came across a copy of Megamania II (on the same cart as River Raid III). I've heard about a possible sequel back in the day, but didn't think anything had been released. Just wondering what the deal was with the game. Looks like it was released by Shock Vision.

[Hackmann]

Pirates would often take games with similarish gameplay (airplanes, space ships, etc.) as popular games and relabel them as sequels. Megamania II is undoubtedly some other shoot-em-up game in bootleg form.

 

IIRC somebody else found a River Raid III and verified that it was a bootleg.

[Albert]

Yeah, you can pretty much assume that if you run into a strange title like that and it was put out by a third-party in a country other than the US, it's probably a pirate title. There are so many bootleg variations of existing games that it's difficult to make sense of them at times. I assume the cart you are talking about is a 4-in-1 that has the games Megamania 2, River Raid III, Seaquest, and Super River Raid? If not, then it'd be great to get a scan of it so we can add it to the list of Shock Vision titles in our database.

 

..Al