 | Unlicensed NES Games
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We have all seen unlicensed Nintendo games...believe it or not. They're everywhere. Maybe it was that copy of Klax you played at your friends house. And then there was the pale blue cart which looked really odd. Anyway, unlicensed Nintendo games tend to be slightly rarer to obtain than regular NES carts are. Why? Unlicensed Nintendo games were released in smaller quantities.
There were several unlicensed game companies around...and most of them were based in America! That's really cool for me cuz these games were produced on my home turf. In the following section, there is a list of the main unlicensed companies and specific information is available about each by clicking on their respective symbols.
 | Color Dreams (my favorite unlicensed NES company btw) was founded in 1989 by Dan Lawton and Eddie Lin, two dudes who reverse-engineered the Nintendo Entertainment System. They didn't get an official license from Nintendo because of money and quantity reasons. Another reason was who would pay for a license when they go the stuff to make a game on their own? Color Dreams released multiple games under their Color Dreams logo and plenty under their Wisdom Tree logo too. A very cool company with a unique place in NES history.
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 | American Video Entertainment was formed around 1990 by Richard Frick. Richard and his company American Video Entertainment (AVE) bought all of their games from independent companies such as Sachen. AVE also had a thing about quality and they had fairly good relationships with retailers. Read on...
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 | I really don't know much about Camerica themselves...besides the fact that they had the rights to distribute Codemasters games in America. Codemasters was an English company whom produced multiple hits for C64 and Amiga...
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 | Everyone remembers Tengen. Tengen, a subsidary of Atari, relased a few licensed Nintendo games including Pac Man, RBI Baseball, and Gauntlet. Then the fateful day came when Tengen...
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 | Recently, I received a lead on the mysterious company known as S.E.I. I follwed up on my lead and it turned out to be a very good one, infact the puzzle of S.E.I. is now solved thanks to a pair of interviews I did. Read on...
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 | American Game Carts Inc. bought the rights to most of the Exidy game titles which were quite popular in the arcades. With games such as Chiller, a quite popular zapper game, Shockwave, a space game, and Deathrace, a racer which caused lots of controversy in the arcades, American Game Carts had what it took but why...
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 | Active Enterprises presents...The Cheetahmen! Okay so Active was formed in a basement in Florida and they only released 2 NES games, both of equal caliber. Well actually Action 52 is one step above Cheetahmen II because...
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