Sweet bundle of pirate games and Ozisoft multicarts

[wonderboy]

Hi All,

So I got very lucky and found a lot of nine 4 in 1 and four 8 in 1 Ozisoft multi carts. Also 3 games with unusual covers and with Ozisoft cartridges, which I assume are pirate games?

Interesting how the 4 in 1 and 8 in 1 come in different game combinations. I have:

M202 - Paperboy, Great Golf, World Cup Italin (sp)92, Wonderboy
M204 - Sonic 1, Joe Montana Football, Double Dragon, Captain Sliver (sp)
M205- Basketball, Shinobi, Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse

M210- Moonwalker, Donald Duck, Basketball, Shinobi, Mickey Mouse,Sega Chese (sp), Tom and Jerry, Outrun
M211- Sonic 1, Captain Sliver (sp), Shinobi, Double Dragon, Basketball, Mickey Mouse, Joe Montana Football, Tom and Jerry.

I do know of the M206 which was posted on the forum recently : Link so that makes for a total of four 4 in 1 variants and two 8 in 1 variants that I know of. Anyone know of any more?

Anybody care to shed some light on the other 3 games? E-SWAT, Paper Boy and Mercs?
Paper Boy has the publisher as Tengen and has a bar code 301037-0150. Mercs has Japanese text on the cover.Like I said, all three of these cartridges bear the Ozisoft text.

I will be selling/ trading some of these spares so keep a look out.

[gallos_11]

Amazing lot!

Not sure, but maybe the 3 games (E-SWAT, Paper Boy and Mercs) are from Hong-Kong. They definitely look like pirate releases with covers made from the corresponding Japanese Mega Drive versions.

[wonderboy]

[wonderboy]

[ian]

Those multi-carts are awesome. Would love to own one

[Bock]

Ditto; excellent find!

[tycho]

Nice! Never seen these in the wild (at least I don't remember, maybe in the 90s I saw them lol).

Wouldn't be surprised if the came from stores in Cabramatta in the mid 90s. Probably somewhat connected to HES, but not officially, maybe a few of their employees side project (speculating here). Might've also been sold in places like Parklea but I'm not certain cause it would've been once I saw them there.

Anyway these are rare as, 4 Pak All Action much more common (highly unlikely any copyright would be made on those games), and HES published MANY Atari/Nintendo games as well. But mostly what they're known for are accessories. They released some pretty decent ones, and they still make them to this date.

Pretty sure you can still buy retro games/accessories from HES if you knew who to talk to.

[Benne]

Great find,

Where did you get the games found? In a local store or online?

[wonderboy]

I bought these off a Nintendo collector, who had bought a fairly large general vintage gaming lot online here in South Africa.

Luckily for me he does not collect Sega and decided to get rid of these games which formed a part of the lot he purchased.

I'm pretty sure that all these games came from local flea markets back in the mid 90's. It was about the only place South Africans could buy games at a decent price. And most of the games available at flea markets were either pirate or multicart.

[tycho]

Were any of these multicarts and pirates (non 4 pak) for the MS actually found in Australia then? I've heard before they came from South Africa. Strange! Especially since they say Ozi Soft :s

[bkk]

Ozi Soft was founded by South Africans Mark Dyne and Kevin Bermeister. They were also directors and shareholders of "Consumer Electronics Pty. Ltd", who were Sega's South African distributor.  So there's a big link between Ozi Soft and South Africa. Interestingly Kevin Bermeister created the file sharing application Kazaa, for which he was sued by the music industry and had to settle for $150 million. This article refers to him as a "reformed pirate" due to that .

Some more of these multicarts from a South African auction site here and here.

[gallos_11]

Thanks for sharing this info bkk, very interesting!

[wolfticket]

Feb 13, 2015 16:19:44 GMT bkk said:

Ozi Soft was founded by South Africans Mark Dyne and Kevin Bermeister. They were also directors and shareholders of "Consumer Electronics Pty. Ltd", who were Sega's South African distributor.  So there's a big link between Ozi Soft and South Africa. Interestingly Kevin Bermeister created the file sharing application Kazaa, for which he was sued by the music industry and had to settle for $150 million. This article refers to him as a "reformed pirate" due to that .

Some more of these multicarts from a South African auction site here and here.

Awesome! Thanks for the info

[Rudi]

Wow , that lot is amazing!
Never seen this many together.
Great collecting there!

[KnightWarrior]

So cool