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15-in-1 Mega Collection

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If you're in the mood of playing Commodore VIC-20 games on a vastly-superior console (TurboGrafx-16 in this case), 15-in-1 Mega Collection is right for you.

Revisional Differences#

The game was initially released under the developer alias Pure-Byte. When Image re-released it, all instances of Pure-Byte in the ROM were replaced with Image.

Pure-Byte

Image

Pure-Byte

Image

Most of the history of either developer is vague, though both were Finland-based scene groups and were well-known in Finnish scenes.1

Given the similar logo fonts for Pure-Byte and Image in-game, Image is speculated to be either another alias of Pure-Byte, took the menu code from them, or they shared the same stuff at one point.

Easter Egg#

'...But what does it mean?'
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Wait long enough at the menu to see this. The crudely-drawn cat was squashed in the Image version to make room for Image's contact info, which was also seen in other Image multicarts.

Pure-Byte

Image

Developer Messages#

Pure-Byte Version#

Present at ROM offset $10946:

 PURE-BYTE PRESENTS ANOTHER PC-ENGINE GAME! CODED BY KARI PIHKALA IN 16/12/1991

Present at ROM offset $3FFA0:

 Great collection by Pure-Byte

Image Version#

Present at the same ROM offsets as above. Notably, aside from the mentions of Pure-Byte being changed, the coder credit is also altered (though it's likely just a shortened version of "KARI PIHKALA").

 IMAGE PRESENTS ANOTHER PC-ENGINE GAME! CODED BY KARPPA IN 16/12/1991
 Great collection by Image

References#

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