Originally posted by: Ozzy_98
Originally posted by: JosephLeo
Originally posted by: DefaultGen
I think ruling out the multicarts 4-in-1 Fun Blaster Pak and 4-in-1 Total Funpak is cheating since they don't have direct analogues on a single cart (like Real Player's Pak) but just my opinion
I personally don't consider multicarts unique unless they have unique content. Something like Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet, or Myriad 6-in-1 presents nothing new so they're just rereleases, and variants. Maxi 15 for example is absolutely a unique game since there's one game on it that's unique across the entire NES library, Stakk'm.
But then there's a slippery slope. I think they released butt-plug and non-butt-plug versions of that cart in Australia, right?
As in, you plug another cart into it piggyback.
Indeed, there's even two different list of games which means it would qualify as it's own unique game...with the same name. Like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Taito vs Ubisoft.
Which is why I don't count multicarts as truly unique....only their contents.
Edit: Kinda sounds like I'm backpeddling so let me clarify.
A multicart is just that, multiple games in one cartridge. The shell doesn't matter for any game (read Tengen Gauntlet licensed vs unlicensed). So it's literally JUST the games that count as being games. STAKK'M is the unique game in Maxi 15. Action 52 is not a single game, but 52 of them....Myriad/Caltron is not 1 game but 6, all of the X-IN-1 sachens are not one game but X....so now take the list of every one of those and see what overlaps.
Whatever is overlapping the other, pick one. Ta-da! You have your unique game list.