I was searching ebay the other day when I stumbled upon this weird looking cartridge that reminded me of something I had seen before, actually I was quite certain I knew what it was.
So I picked up the cartridge for 8 euros + shipping and a few days later the cartridge arrived.



Some of you may wonder what I'm babbling about, but this 4in1 cartridge has the exact same shape as the carrtridge design Color Dreams scrapped before going baby blue. On the picture on the left you see two carts, the one in the back is an old Captain Comic prototype and the other is... yes drumroll please... the pirate cart I picked up.

Now this makes me wonder if Color Dreams somehow was connected to pirate outlets in Asia? and maybe that was why they made Mr. Assy and Miss Peach World for the Asian market during late nights?

Yeah one does wonder... hehe...

http://www.nesworld.com/news/cd_pirate_1b.jpg
http://www.nesworld.com/news/cd_pirate_2b.jpg

Very interesting.....

My guess is that that pirate came from Sachen.  We already know that Sachen and Color Dreams were in bed together for sure. Maybe Color Dreams sold or possibly even traded them the cart design for one of the games they used.  Plus Sachen loved making multi's as well, esp 4 in 1's.  The pirate cart is also using a Color Dreams back label as well.  Interesting find.

Those are nice.    I'm a fan of all pirate games, but the weirder kind are my favorite.

Al

Awesome man!  Funny thing is, I saw that auction and I remembered that cart design from somewhere else, too.  I checked through lots of pics trying to figure out where I had seen that cart design before, and then I just gave up and figured that my mind was playing games on me....until you posted about this!  Nice find!!

My guess is that since the prototype is supposed to be from the very beginning of Color Dreams, that CD probably just imported the carts from abroad.