Sunday 14 June 2009

You ain't never had a friend never had a friend


Time to meet Somari's good friend Aladdin 3, also known as "Aladdin 4", "Aladdin" and "Popeye II: Travels in Persia".

Yes the NES gets yet another SNES game. This time it's Capcom's version of Aladdin, ported by pirates in an attempt to make a quick buck. There's actually quite a few NES Aladdin pirates - I guess the official game (based off the MegaDrive version I might add) wasn't good enough, so they had to make a few rubbish Aladdin games to make it stand out a bit more.

However saying that, this one isn't too bad. I mean the SNES game was a bit generic compared to Virgin's legend of a game, but with a quick fix up this could be alright. Of course then again, if it's taken fourteen years for someone to cover this pirate in depth I can't imagine the game being torn apart any time soon.

The real question is what possessed these people to stick Popeye in there?

EDIT: It appears that I am dense, having taken a screenshot of the elusive Hummer Team logo yet failing to talk about it. So I've updated the article, made another "shocking" discovery, and are now anxiously awaiting the arrival of "Aladdin III Special" or a similar name. Thanks again to KingPepe for the tip, and "Anonymous". See, they don't all go out attacking churches of scientology after all.
Posted by Black Squirrel at 14:07
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 June 2009 at 09:04

    I just noticed that level 4 in the pirates has Hummer Team in the foreground.

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  2. Anonymous15 June 2009 at 09:07

    Oops. I meant Hummer Team's logo, not just Hummer Team.

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  3. KingPepe15 June 2009 at 23:58

    Another thing I want to point out. It's funny how the Aladdin III/Popeye cart and the Aladdin III on the 45-in-1 is like perfect but Aladdin 4 and Aladdin (1996) is all broken. The perfect carts has the music and the sand moving. Oh, and a non-broken ending screen. Like NESSMW, the actual game is on the multicart but on all these others carts it's either incomplete (SMWNES) or broken (Aladdin)

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  4. KingPepe16 June 2009 at 00:00

    Well, the sand isn't the only thing animated too. The birds are animated also.

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  5. Anonymous16 June 2009 at 01:16

    Scratch that, you mentioned it was only for the Aladdin 4 ROM and I didn't notice. ._.

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  6. Anonymous16 June 2009 at 02:37

    Great article. All this pirate stuff is interesting with the research you put in. I look forward to what you tackle next :)

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  7. KingPepe18 June 2009 at 03:20

    Actually, I was looking through ROMbay and I ended up coming across an Aladdin 4 with a 1996 Copyright instead. o_o

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