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{{Infobox company
  
{{Infobox company
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|name = Dragon Co.
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| image = File:TomsoftAsDragonCo.png
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|image = File:Dragonco.png
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| location = Xi'an, China
  
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|caption = Logo.
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| consoles = Famicom, Mega Drive, Neo-Geo
  
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|imagewidth = 250px
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| sounds = Konami sound engine (Mostly Famicom games) PCM (Mega Drive games)
  
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|location = Xi'an (R&D), Beijing (Sales), China
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| connected = [[Nice Code]]
  
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|years = 1997-2005
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|consoles = Famicom, Mega Drive, Neo-Geo
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|sounds = Konami/Hidenori Maezawa (''Super Contra''), Sunsoft (''[[The Lion King V: Timon & Pumbaa]]''), custom PCM sound driver (Mega Drive games)
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|aliases = Beijing Dejin Software Technology Co., Ltd.
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|connected = Hengmao Electronics, [[Nice Code Software|Nice Code]], [[Hummer Software]]
 
}}
  
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'''Beijing Dejin Software Technology Co., Ltd.''' (北京德金软件技术有限), more commonly known by the brand name '''Dragon Co.''', is a Chinese game company that developed and published games for the Famicom, Neo-Geo, and Sega Mega Drive.
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'''Dragon Co.''' is a Chinese pirate game company that seem to have been around from the late 1990s to about the mid-2000s. They have made games for the Famicom and Neo-Geo. The dates of most of these games are unknown, with the exception of ''Felix The Cat''. All of their Famicom games are platformers based on cartoons.
 
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Tomsoft (Tommy Xie/Xie Rong Chun) was previously employed as a programmer by Dragon and developed their Famicom SDK in 1996. Later Dragon Co games were produced without Tomsoft. [http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2008.php]
  
   
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== Company overview ==
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A number of ex-Dragon employees worked for [[Nice Code Software|Nice Code]] and took some resources from Dragon Co. with them, which they used to produce a number of games which are mostly graphics hacks of Dragon titles.
  
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Dragon Co. was formed in 1997 by former Hengmao Electronics employees; a company which produced mainly Gamate and Super A'can games, and closed around 1995. The Dragon Co. company mainly produced games for the Famicom/NES and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive; they reportedly also produced titles for the SNES and Game Boy, though no Dragon-produced games for these platforms have been found. Dragon Co. would be succeeded by [[Hummer Software]] in 2005;<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080620023859/http://www.hummersoftware.com/introduce.asp</ref> several Hummer Software-produced titles are based on preexisting Dragon Co. games.
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Tomsoft (Tommy Xie/Xie Rong Chun) was previously employed as a programmer by Dragon and developed their Famicom SDK in 1996. Later Dragon Co. games were produced without Tomsoft.<ref>http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2008.php</ref>
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A number of ex-Dragon employees would later work for [[Nice Code Software]] and took some resources from Dragon Co. with them, which they used to produce a number of games. The majority of these games are graphics hacks of Dragon titles; however, two Nice Code-published games (''Titanic'' and ''Pikachu5'') appear to be based on the coding of canceled Dragon Co. productions. As to if Nice Code actually retained the legal rights to Dragon-produced titles is unclear, though is seemingly unlikely (given the succeeding Hummer Software company).
   
 
== Games ==
  
== Games ==
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===Famicom ===
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=== Famicom ===
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Note that the release dates for most Dragon Co. titles are unknown, with the exception of ''Felix the Cat''. An asterisk (<nowiki>*</nowiki>) indicates a game that is not 100% confirmed to be a Dragon Co. production.
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* ''[[Felix The Cat (Dragon Co.)|Felix The Cat]]'' (1998)
  
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* ''[[Hong Lou Meng|Hong Lou Meng]]'' (Published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology)
  
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{|class="wikitable"
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* ''[[Luan Shi San Guo|Luan Shi San Guo]]'' (Published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology)
  
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!width=150|Name
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* ''[[The Lion King III: Timon & Pumbaa]] ''(1996-1997?)
  
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!width=150|Released
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* ''[[The Lion King V: Timon & Pumbaa]] ''(1998?)
  
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!width=300|Description
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* ''[[Tom & Jerry 3]] ''(1995-1996?)
  
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!width=100|Cartridge No.
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* ''[[Wait and See!]]'' (aka ''Nu, pogodi!'') (1997)
  
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|align="center"|''[[Felix the Cat (Dragon Co.)|Felix the Cat]]''
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|align="center"|1998
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|Later hacked by Nice Code to create titles such as ''The Hacker'', ''Little Blackmask'', and ''Super Hero''.
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|align="center"|DH1065
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|align="center"|''[[Hong Lou Meng]]''
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|align="center"|
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|Published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology.
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|align="center"|
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|-
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|align="center"|''[[Luan Shi San Guo]]''
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|align="center"|
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|Published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology.
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|align="center"|
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|-
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|align="center"|''[[Panda Baby]]''
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|align="center"|1997 (?)
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|align="center"|
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|align="center"|DJ08006
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|-
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|align="center"|[[The Lion King III: Timon & Pumbaa|''The Lion King III:<br />Timon & Pumbaa'']]
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|align="center"|1997 (?)
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|Later hacked by Nice Code to create ''Howling Killer'', ''Mongoose Story'', and ''Super Warthog''.
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|align="center"|DH1000
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|align="center"|[[The Lion King V: Timon & Pumbaa|''The Lion King V:<br />Timon & Pumbaa'']]
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|align="center"|1998 (?)
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|align="center"|DH1069
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|align="center"|''[[Tom & Jerry 3]]''
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|align="center"|1998 (?)
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|Later hacked by Nice Code to create ''Primitive Man'' and ''Primitive Woman''.
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|align="center"|DH1070
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|align="center"|''[[Wait and See!]]''<br />(aka ''Nu, pogodi!'')
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|align="center"|1997
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|align="center"|DH1001
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|align="center"|''Pikachu5''*
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|align="center"|Unknown
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|Released by ex-Dragon members from Nice Code Software. Later hacked to create titles such as ''Gardman'', ''Wonder Rabbit'', etc.
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|align="center"|N/A
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|align="center"|''[[Titanic]]''*
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|align="center"|Unknown
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|Released by ex-Dragon members from Nice Code Software; a cartridge version was published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology in 2005. Later hacked to create ''Sunken Ship''.
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|align="center"|N/A
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|}
   
 
=== Neo-Geo ===
  
=== Neo-Geo ===
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{|class="wikitable"
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* ''[[The King of Fighters 2004: Special Edition]]''
  
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!width=200|Name
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!width=150|Released
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!width=200|Description
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!width=100|Cartridge No.
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|align="center"|[[The King of Fighters 2004: Special Edition|''The King of Fighters 2004:<br />Special Edition'']]
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|align="center"|2004
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|}
   
 
=== Mega Drive ===
  
=== Mega Drive ===
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{|class="wikitable"
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(Probably developed by Tomsoft after leaving Dragon Co.)
  
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!width=200|Name
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* ''[[Command & Conquer (Beta)]]''
  
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!width=150|Released
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* ''[[Commandos (Mega Drive)|Commandos]]''
  
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!width=300|Description
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* ''[[Death Caliber]]''
  
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!width=100|Cartridge No.
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* ''[[Deer Hunter]]''
  
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* ''[[Iraq War 2003]]''
  
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|align="center"|''[[Command & Conquer (Beta)]]''
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|-
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|align="center"|[[Commandos (Mega Drive)|''Commandos'']]
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|-
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|align="center"|''[[Death Caliber]]''
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|align="center"|May 18, 2002
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|align="center"|''[[Deer Hunter]]''
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|align="center"|
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|Based on the "Deer hunter" game series
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|align="center"|''[[Iraq War 2003]]''
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|align="center"|2003
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|-
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|align="center"|''[[Harry Potter (Mega Drive)|Harry Potter]]''* and ''[[Harry Potter (Mega Drive)#Pokémon II|Pokémon II]]*
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|align="center"|Unknown
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|Two games that are effectively graphical variants of each other; it is unclear which came first. Later reworked by Hummer Software to create the plug & play game "3D Bean".
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|}
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== Gallery ==
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<gallery>
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dragondance-ad2.jpg|Advertisement for a Dragon Co. dance mat.
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dragondance-ad.jpg|Another advertisement for a dance mat.
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TomsoftAsDragonCo.png|Ripped from [[Felix the Cat (Dragon Co.)|''Felix the Cat'']].
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</gallery>
   
 
== Trivia ==
  
== Trivia ==
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*In addition to its original games, Dragon also released pirate carts of officially licensed games.
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* Two of [[Shenzhen Nanjing Technology Co., Ltd.|Shenzhen Nanjing]]'s titles, ''The Hacker'' and ''Titanic 2005'', are of the same/similar quality to Dragon Co. titles; ironically, ''The Hacker'' is a hack of ''Felix The Cat''. These were likely produced by [[Nice Code Software|Nice Code]].
  
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* There is another hack of ''Felix The Cat'' titled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyP3Ak0hvQ ''Super Hero''] that can be found on DreamGear famiclones.
  
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== References ==
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* ''Tom & Jerry III'' has been hacked into Primitive, Primitive II, Primitive Man and Primitive Woman. Primitive and Primitive II is developed by Nice Code and published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology. This two version is contained story also. The Primitive Man and Primitive Woman is similar the previous versions, these appeared Power Joy multicarts.
  
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[[Category:Companies from Xi'an, China]]
  
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[[Category:Publishers]]

Latest revision as of 00:40, 11 April 2023

Beijing Dejin Software Technology Co., Ltd. (北京德金软件技术有限), more commonly known by the brand name Dragon Co., is a Chinese game company that developed and published games for the Famicom, Neo-Geo, and Sega Mega Drive.

Company overview

Dragon Co. was formed in 1997 by former Hengmao Electronics employees; a company which produced mainly Gamate and Super A'can games, and closed around 1995. The Dragon Co. company mainly produced games for the Famicom/NES and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive; they reportedly also produced titles for the SNES and Game Boy, though no Dragon-produced games for these platforms have been found. Dragon Co. would be succeeded by Hummer Software in 2005;[1] several Hummer Software-produced titles are based on preexisting Dragon Co. games.

Tomsoft (Tommy Xie/Xie Rong Chun) was previously employed as a programmer by Dragon and developed their Famicom SDK in 1996. Later Dragon Co. games were produced without Tomsoft.[2]

A number of ex-Dragon employees would later work for Nice Code Software and took some resources from Dragon Co. with them, which they used to produce a number of games. The majority of these games are graphics hacks of Dragon titles; however, two Nice Code-published games (Titanic and Pikachu5) appear to be based on the coding of canceled Dragon Co. productions. As to if Nice Code actually retained the legal rights to Dragon-produced titles is unclear, though is seemingly unlikely (given the succeeding Hummer Software company).

Games

Famicom

Note that the release dates for most Dragon Co. titles are unknown, with the exception of Felix the Cat. An asterisk (*) indicates a game that is not 100% confirmed to be a Dragon Co. production.

Name Released Description Cartridge No.
Felix the Cat 1998 Later hacked by Nice Code to create titles such as The Hacker, Little Blackmask, and Super Hero. DH1065
Hong Lou Meng Published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology.
Luan Shi San Guo Published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology.
Panda Baby 1997 (?) DJ08006
The Lion King III:
Timon & Pumbaa 		1997 (?) Later hacked by Nice Code to create Howling Killer, Mongoose Story, and Super Warthog. DH1000
The Lion King V:
Timon & Pumbaa 		1998 (?) DH1069
Tom & Jerry 3 1998 (?) Later hacked by Nice Code to create Primitive Man and Primitive Woman. DH1070
Wait and See!
(aka Nu, pogodi!) 		1997 DH1001
Pikachu5* Unknown Released by ex-Dragon members from Nice Code Software. Later hacked to create titles such as Gardman, Wonder Rabbit, etc. N/A
Titanic* Unknown Released by ex-Dragon members from Nice Code Software; a cartridge version was published by Shenzen Nanjing Technology in 2005. Later hacked to create Sunken Ship. N/A

Neo-Geo

Name Released Description Cartridge No.
The King of Fighters 2004:
Special Edition 		2004

Mega Drive

Name Released Description Cartridge No.
Command & Conquer (Beta)
Commandos
Death Caliber May 18, 2002
Deer Hunter Based on the "Deer hunter" game series
Iraq War 2003 2003
Harry Potter* and Pokémon II* Unknown Two games that are effectively graphical variants of each other; it is unclear which came first. Later reworked by Hummer Software to create the plug & play game "3D Bean".

Gallery

Trivia

  • In addition to its original games, Dragon also released pirate carts of officially licensed games.

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080620023859/http://www.hummersoftware.com/introduce.asp
  2. ↑ http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2008.php
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