Hello lost media forums, I would like your help in a lost media minor investigation of mine into cancelled iQUE(nintendo china) game releases.
When investigating I came across this Chinese article called "GBA中文游戏全集" in the article is a image of what appears to be a ique gba box with Simpl. Chinese logo for Pokemon Emerald saying 宠物小精灵: 绿宝石
The text accompanying the image says the release was cancelled due to censorship issues, but so far I have found very little info on this cancelled release or where this image came from.
Through researching multiple Chinese gaming forums at the time I have determine the possible origin of this image may come from the once popular, but now defuncted gaming discussion site emu-zone.org.
Can you help me verify whether this is real or not, by finding an uncompressed archive the image and finding where or who supplied this image this image to emu-zone.org?
Last Edit: Jan 25, 2024 23:22:52 GMT by sakurashinji
Post by sakuraradiochan on Jan 26, 2024 20:19:26 GMT
The picture looks like it was taken at a tradeshow. This also looks like a placard for the tradeshow and not something taken off a screen.
We know iQUE was in partnership with Game Freak to make an online pokemon game for the PRC market in about 2004, but that was cancelled.
en.gbasp.ru/historyique.html more info, it's weird that Pokemon was never officially released in the PRC considering iQue put out a Pokemon themed GBA handheld.
There's another image in the background, which would likely also come from a Nintendo game. I don't recognize it.
That thread was made by me. I personally think it is most likely real, but the question/main roadblock is finding where wear or who supplied this image image to emu-zone and whether there is more info out there about this release outside of this one image.
Last Edit: Jan 29, 2024 17:34:33 GMT by sakurashinji