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프로소프트 Prosoft
Founded: July 1985
Status: defunct
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Used to be well known for their joysticks. They were another ports-only company without any truly original titles.


Games:

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


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Yet one more version of Bubble Bobble.



Bobble Bobble 2 (MSX)

쟝고 (Django) - MSX (May 1989)


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This shooter was sold bundled with an accompanying light gun. While there is no original game with that same title, Django is reminiscent of Bank Panic and Wild Gunman.



Django (MSX)

너클죠 (Knuckle Joe) - MSX (1989)


Knuckle Joe (MSX)

The only existing home version of 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.


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Knuckle Joe (MSX)

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



Tetris II (MSX)

뉴 너구리 (New Neoguri) - MSX (1989)


New Neoguri (MSX)

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.


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New Neoguri (MSX)

Gun.Smoke - MSX, Master System (1990)


Gun.Smoke (MSX)

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 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 its own article.



Gun.Smoke (Master System)

A History of Korean Gaming

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