A History of Korean Gaming

쟝고 (Jango) - MSX (November 1988)

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This shooter was sold bundled with an accompanying light gun. While there is no original game with that same title, Jango is an amalgam of various lightgun games like Bank Panic and Wild Gunman. The game has six stages - in the first stage the player shoots at unmoving targets, in the second stage at flying plates and fish, and from stage 3 onwards at human enemies. (Computer Hakseup 88.12p112)

바블바블 II (Bobble Bobble 2) / Bubble Bobble 2 - MSX (1988)

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Yet one more version of Bubble Bobble.

너클죠 (Knuckle Joe) - MSX (1989)

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This is the only existing home version of the arcade game Knuckle Joe, but it isn't anything like the original game and pretty terrible. Its controls are even worse than the arcade game, and the game was changed to a single screen action platformer, more like a clone of Jackie Chan in The Protector or Legend of Takeru. The cover art was stolen from the NES game Dr. Chaos.

뉴 너구리 (New Neoguri) - MSX (1989)

A port of the very popular (in Korea) arcade game Ponpoko by Sigmatech. The game has originally been advertised by another company called Unicorn for a long time without the "New" prefix, but after a while, Prosoft's logo started to appear in the ads, and they would be the ones to finally release it.

테트리스 II (Tetris II) - MSX, Master System (1989)

Tetris II (MSX)

What to say about this? Tetris without any outstanding features. The number in the title might refer to a predecessor by Prosoft, or just to the original Tetris itself

Gun.Smoke - MSX, Master System (May 1990)

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Another game that wasn't officially available for MSX. It seems this port was based on the NES version, which differs a lot from the original arcade game. Another MSX version of Gun.Smoke had previously only been available in Europe as Desperado, based on Topo Soft's Spectrum "port". More about the game can be read in the Gun.Smoke article.