Unlicensed . In the late 1980s and early 1990s, HES ported games from
American Game Cartridges,
American Video Entertainment (AVE),
Bit Corp,
Color Dreams,
Epyx,
Thin Chen Enterprise (
Sachen,
Joy Van, etc.) and
Tengen onto the
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) as unlicensed titles, although they did not release games by
Camerica or
Active Enterprises. Most games were released in plastic cases like a video box with printed instructions on the inside, however sometimes the AVE titles were released in their original AVE boxes with a HES sticker simply stuck over AVE's original one. HES at the time became widely known for their unlicensed distribution of NES games at budget prices. Nintendo tried to fight against all unlicensed companies by introducing a
Nintendo Seal of Quality on all their products which signified that titles adorning the symbol are guaranteed to operate on their
NES hardware. To combat this, HES introduced their own seal that mimicked Nintendo’s seal, possibly in the hope of confusing buyers. In order to circumvent other methods that Nintendo created to stop unlicensed developers (
10NES), HES developed the 'Piggy Back' or 'Dongle' games, where one could insert an official NES cart into the HES game and it operated the country code of the official title instead of HES'. This was so successful that HES also used the same technology to build a device to entirely bypass the
10NES security protocol which was released as the
HES Unidaptor. The adapter allowed
NTSC 72-pin NES and 60-pin Famicom games to be played on a
PAL NES. HES introduced games to Australia that were not released elsewhere in the western world, and these have become very sought after classics. However, HES also chose to release their multigame cartridges and a few of their single game titles in very limited numbers. Such titles are extremely scarce and thus nearly impossible to find.
NES titles •
Arctic Adventure: Penguin & Seal •
Chiller •
Death Race •
Duck Maze •
F-15 City War •
Impossible Mission 2 •
International Ultimate League Soccer •
Jackpot •
Little Red Hood •
Othello •
Pac-Man •
Pipemania •
Raid 2020 •
Pyramid •
R.B.I. Baseball •
Sidewinder •
Super Sprint • ''
Toobin''' •
Twin Eagle •
Vindicators Multi-game cartridges •
2 Pack Special (
International Ultimate Soccer League (Magexa Soccer),
Super Sprint) •
4 in 1 Fun Blaster Pak (
Pipemania,
Twin Eagle,
Joyvan Kid, and
Little Red Hood)3 •
4 in 1 Total Funpak (
Pac-Man,
Sidewinder,
Duck Maze, and
Othello) •
4 in 1 Mind Blower Pak (
Math Quiz,
Jackpot,
Arctic Adventure, and
Incantation) •
Maxi 15 (2 Variants, Red Cart which had Game Number 3 as "Death Race" and Game Number 6 as "Double Strike" and a more rarer Green Cart which has Game Number 3 as "Pyramid" and Game Number 6 as "Black Jack" •
Real Players Pack 6-Pak (has the same unique games as
Caltron 6 in 1/
Myriad 6 in 1) ==Other==