Gowin

Gowin (高遠科技有限公司) was a publisher and developer of Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. Its earlier mono Game Boy games were developed by a team connected to Gamtec & Vast Fame, while its later Game Boy Color games were developed by a different team in mainland China.

Some of their mono games will only run on mono systems like the original Game Boy, due to the boot logo change. Others will not run on the Game Boy Advance line of systems, nor the Super Game Boy or Game Boy Player.

List of games^[1]

Game Boy

GS-01 琵琶行 / Sound of the Pipa^[2]
GS-02 魔法球 / Magic Ball
GS-03 耶魯王子 / Prince Yeh Rude
GS-04 拉薩瑪傳奇 / Story of Lasama
GS-05 彩虹戰士 / Prince Rainbow
GS-06 瓜瓜火龍 / Fire Dragon
GS-07 迷途之旅 / 最高機密 / Lost Trips / Top Secret
GS-08 數碼怪獸 / Binary Monsters

Multicarts

KKL-01 3-in-1 with Fire Dragon, Prince YehRude and Story of Lasama

Game Boy Color

GS-09 神奇鐵金鋼 / Amazing Robot
GS-10 數碼怪獸 - 地獄大冒険 / Binary Monsters II - Adventure of Hell
GS-11 封魔神燈 / Magic Lamp
GS-12 Lei Nu Ji Shen (雷弩機神) / Final Robot
GS-13 熱門高校數碼怪獸III / Binary Monsters III - School Fighter
GS-15 悟空降魔錄 / Journey to the West / Magic Monkey
GS-16 恐龍創世紀 / Dinosaur Genesis / Dino century
GS-17 臥虎藏龍 / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
GS-18 石器時代掌機版 - 精靈王誔生 / Stone Age / Stone Age: Birth of the Goblin King

Trivia

Gowin's games are numbered with IDs GS-01 through GS-18, however it is unknown whether or not a GS14 exists.^[2]
Eight English Gowin games were listed on their website.^[3] In addition to these releases, there was an English release for GS-17 (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon).^[4] Older print runs of Magic Ball were released with boxes and manuals in English.
Gowin advertised their monochrome game multicarts in the Wolf Weekly gaming magazine in Taiwan. Later on their color games would be featured as proper games in these magazines.^[5]
Older Gowin games were also released (and likely developed) by companies other than Gowin. An example of this is Top Secret, which was made by Songtly.