Myriad 6 in 1

Myriad 6 in 1

Myriad Games, Inc. was a company that was based in Kingwood, Texas in an office building which is presently a bakery. Very little is known about them. They produced at least one known game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) called Myriad 6 in 1. This game is in fact the very same game as Caltron 6 in 1 produced by Caltron Industries, Inc.

When Caltron Industries, Inc. was going out of business, Myriad seemed to show up out of nowhere and bought all of their carts. Myriad Games, Inc. then took the carts and slapped a very generic looking label on it. They were then packaged in generic boxes with a fold up manual. Each Myriad cart and box were numbered individually with the cart and box have matching numbers. The games were then released to the public in 1992.

Since Myriad Games, Inc. simply placed their own label over the Caltron carts, the game is exactly the same. It seems that Myriad did not even take the time to edit the title screen of the game and it still says Caltron instead of Myriad. The games on the cart include:

* Bookyman - A clone of Williams Electronics and Kural's arcade game Make Trax/Crush Roller, which had previously been released by Hwang Shinwei/RCM - Shinwei's version featured graphics taken directly from the original, while they were modified in the Caltron release, presumably to avoid legal trouble.
* Adam and Eve - A single-screen platform game similar to Nintendo's Balloon Fight, in which you have to kill snakes by bursting the balloons attached to their heads.
* Cosmos Cop - A pseudo-3D into-the-screen shoot-em-up.
* Magic Carpet 1001 - A horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up.
* Balloon Monster - A clone of Mitchell's Pang, or Buster Bros. as it was known in North America
* Porter - A puzzle game similar to Sokoban (originally by Thinking Rabbit), in which you have to move boxes into a specific place.

Not long after Myriad Games, Inc released their new game did they close down due to unknown reasons. The game has become the rarest unlicensed game and the rarest game ever released for the Nintendo Entertainment System with Stadium Events following close behind it. Collectors speculate that fewer than 100 copies of this game still exist. So far only about 15 have been tracked down with the lowest number being 000046 and the highest 000888.

External links

* http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/6in1/4.html


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