Gowin

Gowin (高遠科技有限公司) was a publisher and developer of unlicensed 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^[2][]

GS-01 琵琶行 / Sound of the Pipa^[3] (1993)
GS-02 魔法球 / Magic Ball (1993)
GS-03 耶魯王子 / Prince Yeh Rude (1993)
GS-04 拉薩瑪傳奇 / Story of Lasama (1993)
GS-05 彩虹戰士 / Prince Rainbow (1993)
GS-06 瓜瓜火龍 / 龍行天下 / Fire Dragon (December 1998)
GS-07 迷途之旅 / 最高機密 / Lost Trips / Top Secret (December 1998)
GS-08 數碼怪獸 / Binary Monsters (November 1998)

Multicarts[]

KKL-01 3-in-1 with Fire Dragon, Prince YehRude and Story of Lasama
KKL-05 3-in-1 with Fire Dragon, Lost Trips and Story of Lasama^[4]

Game Boy Color[]

GS-09 神奇鐵金鋼 / Amazing Robot (May 2001)
GS-10 數碼怪獸 - 地獄大冒険 / Binary Monsters II - Adventure of Hell (January 2000)
GS-11 封魔神燈 / Magic Lamp (July 2000)
GS-12 Lei Nu Ji Shen (雷弩機神) / Final Robot (October 2000)
GS-13 熱門高校數碼怪獸III / Binary Monsters III - School Fighter (January 2001)
GS-15 悟空降魔錄 / Journey to the West (July 2001)
GS-16 恐龍創世紀 / Dinosaur Genesis (August 2001)
GS-17 臥虎藏龍 / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (January 2002)
GS-18 石器時代掌機版 - 精靈王誔生 / Stone Age: Birth of the Goblin King (2002)

Trivia[]

Gowin's games are numbered with IDs GS-01 through GS-18, however it is unknown whether or not a GS14 exists.^[3]
Eight English Gowin games were listed on their website.^[5] In addition to these releases, there was an English release for GS-17 (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon).^[6] Older print runs of Magic Ball were released with boxes and manuals in English.
Gowin advertised their monochrome game multicarts in the Wolf Weekly (疾風快報) gaming magazine in Taiwan. Later on their color games would be featured as proper games in these magazines.^[7]
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.
GS-08 Binary Monster borrows its soundtrack from Another Bible by Atlus. This makes it the only Gowin game known to have taken its music from a licensed Gameboy title.
Some of their older games were trademarked by a semiconductor company called Syntek.^[8]
There were multiple iterations of their mascot 瓜瓜龍.^[9]
The first five Gowin games have circuit boards with the year 1993 listed on them.