Missing Konami games?

Expert (127)

01-05-2005, 23:09

Hi all,

I was browsing a site containing arcade flyers and I stumbled upon a poster of Konami MSX games. On this posters you can see screenshots of two Konami MSX games that I have never seen before. Even their RC numbers are mentioned:

- RC708 Action Boat
- RC709 Spelling Bee

Does anybody know if these games actually were released?

www.arcadeflyers.net/?page=flyerdb&subpage=flyer&id=4092&image=2

By Manuel

Ascended (19465)

01-05-2005, 23:23

COOL!!!! Great discovery!!

AFAIK they were never released and comlpetely unknown until now even!

By Ivan

Ascended (9353)

01-05-2005, 23:27

Wow!!! Great discovery indeed. Must be added to:

http://www.msxnet.org/konami/konami.txt

By Grauw

Ascended (10768)

01-05-2005, 23:27

o.O!!!

By Grauw

Ascended (10768)

01-05-2005, 23:28

Spelling bee is a mix of Monkey Academy and Athletic Land, hehe .

By Ivan

Ascended (9353)

01-05-2005, 23:32

By the way, have you seen in that flyer/ad "Jolly Hopper" as RC715? Finally RC715 was Hyper Sports 1...

By Manuel

Ascended (19465)

01-05-2005, 23:36

Btw, what is that "I LOVE kanji kanji" that Konami has on some of its old carts? It's also on this poster.

By Sama

Ambassador (2068)

01-05-2005, 23:37

Spelling bee was planned to be quite expensive; more than twice as expensive as those other games (9800 yen vs. 4800 yen).

By RamonMSX

Expert (127)

01-05-2005, 23:48

Btw, what is that "I LOVE kanji kanji" that Konami has on some of its old carts? It's also on this poster.

Could it be that these games support the Kanji-ROM? So when inserted in a Japanese MSX there are Japanese logo's and in non-Japanese MSX-es English logo's and texts?

By Guillian

Prophet (3517)

01-05-2005, 23:50

(o O!) Woooa! Impressive!
By the way, I though the game with the Athletic Land boy was called "Spelling Tree"

By Grauw

Ascended (10768)

01-05-2005, 23:55

The ‘I LOVE’ text has different kanji everytime. I can discern the first of the two kanji below Athletic Land, but the second... I think I can see it, but I can’t find it in my dictionary, so I guess I’m seeing wrong, and I know far from enough kanji to be able to recognise it.

I LOVE ä½“...

ä½“ is body or form. Maybe the second kanji is ‘exercise’?