Panda Entertainment
Industry | Video game industry Interactive entertainment |
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Founded | 1990s |
Headquarters | Taiwan |
Products | Sango Fighter |
Panda Entertainment, also full named Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (熊貓軟體公司), was a video game developer from Taiwan that was active during the '90s. They developed games for MS-DOS and for the Taiwanese only game console Super A'Can, made by Funtech. Their most famous game is Sango Fighter, and their highest selling game was Crazy Dodgeball.[citation needed] Very odd and inappropriate is the appearance of Adolf Hitler as playable character in the African Adventures series of games.
In 2009 North American company Super Fighter Team acquired the full legal rights to some of the company's games,[1] re-releasing Sango Fighter as freeware immediately afterward. In 2012, Super Fighter Team acquired the remainder of Panda's games.[2]
Games[3]
# | Title | AKA title(s) | Platform(s) | Genre | Release year |
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1 | African Adventures | 1) Fēizhōu Tànxiǎn 2) Monopoly: Adventure in Africa |
MS-DOS & Super A'Can | Puzzle | 1995 |
2 | African Adventures 2 | 1) Fēizhōu Tànxiǎn 2 2) Monopoly: Adventure in Africa 2 |
MS-DOS | Puzzle | 1996 |
3 | Battle of Red Cliffs | Chìbì Zhī Zhàn | MS-DOS | RPG | 1994 |
4 | Crazy Dodgeball | 1) Bàoxiào Duǒbì Qiú 2) Panda Dodgeball |
MS-DOS | Sport | 1994 |
5 | Gambling Lord | Dǔ Bà | Super A'Can | Mahjong | 1996 |
6 | Hilarious Bowling | Bàoxiào Bǎolíngqiú | MS-DOS | Sport | 1995 |
7 | Journey to the West | 1) Xīyóu Jì 2) West Adventure |
MS-DOS | Action | 1994 |
8 | Little Geniuses: Go Home! | Tiāncái Bǎobǎo Dà Jìnjī | MS-DOS | Puzzle | 1995 |
9 | Panda: Go Home! | Xióngmāo Dà Jìnjī | MS-DOS | Action | 1996 |
10 | Sango Fighter | Sānguózhì Wǔjiàng Zhēngbà | MS-DOS; Super A'Can & PC-98 (in 1995) | Fighting | 1993 |
11 | Sango Fighter 2 | Sānguózhì Wǔjiàng Zhēngbà 2 | MS-DOS | Fighting | 1995 |
12 | Tough Guy | 1) Gédòu Hàn Jiāng 2) Tough Guy: Fighting Titans |
MS-DOS | Fighting | 1995 |
13 | Volleyball Hominid | Páiqiú Yuán Rén | MS-DOS | Sport | 1996 |
14 | Water Margin: Heroes of the Marsh | Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn Zhī Liángshān Yīngxióng | MS-DOS | Action | 1997 |
15 | Xiang Yu: The Overlord of Western Chu | Xi Chu Bàwáng Xiàngyǔ | MS-DOS | RPG | 1996 |
Note: The title Gambling Lord was co-developed with Funtech.
Controversy Sango Fighter
Sango Fighter was developed based on the engine of Super Fighter, a game by Taiwanese developer C&E. The engine was taken without permission by a developer who left C&E and joined Panda. Because of the illegal engine, C&E sued Panda and won, forcing Panda to halt its sales of Sango Fighter in Taiwan. However, the ruling didn't stop a dozen pirate companies from continuing selling copies of the game.[4] The game appeared in English, because another company translated it to English and sold it to a shareware company without permission. Shareware developer and publisher Apogee Software was planning on licensing and releasing the game in the United States under the title Violent Vengeance, but the plans for the deal fell through.[5] A company called Accend pirated Sango Fighter and sold it in the USA without official permission from Panda.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.mobygames.com/company/panda-entertainment-technology-co-ltd
- ^ Super Fighter Team
- ^ Original Chinese titles are translated to English.
- ^ http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/GOTW/China/piq-2008-05-104.pdf
- ^ http://www.snipview.com/q/Sango_Fighter
- ^ http://files.abandonia.com/extras/Abandoned%20Times/AT1.pdf
External links
- 熊貓軟體全14: Panda Entertainment on Gamebase.com.tw.