Back in the early NES days there weren't any rating systems.
Nintendo's strict guidelines and play testing before a game
could be released and the company's rule over licenses made
no need for one. Games were pretty much suitable for everyone.
In 2001, we see things have changed greatly from those times
of innocence to the now and current formation of the ESRB
(Entertainment System Ratings Board) ratings.
Although ESRB ratings on games first appeared during the
final reign of the NES, one company - Panesian - broke down
every boundary imaginable. There was finally a need for some
warning.
Nintendo posted ads in Nintendo Power (such as the above
pic of mario) to make parents aware of these types and other
unlicensed games (any company not willing to pay a license
to develop NES games = devil worshippers and strictly taboo).
Jumping forward 10 years later, every game is now rated by
ESRB in bigger and bolder letters. (To be fair, though, on
the back of these Panesian porno game boxes, in tiny lettering,
reads: "For Adult Only". Would it be fair to accredit
Panesian for the ESRB ratings box? I doubt it.) Recently senators
are taking stands on violent and sexual situation games and
some even promoting banning them. Of course, you wouldn't
see any unlicensed Playstation or 64 games to local stores
because of the now strict ruling of modern systems...well,
if there were any even available.
Still, whenever something is "banned", a chunk
of our independence is destroyed. Ratings are good--but banning
hurts game companies, game systems, and most importantly gamers.
That doesn't mean I expect to see a licensed or unlicensed
a 64- bit porno game without a Hong Kong based-pirate catalog.
At least not in the US.
Panesian's feeble intentions of arousing college kids worked
- I think - but little did they know that games of this kind
were the beginning sparks of some of the flames for today's
games. Currently that spark has turned into an all out bon
fire war about some (non-pornographic) games, specifically,
the realistic shooters, action genre, and fighting titles.
This blaze will continue to burn until there IS liberal action
done to prevent further censorship.
After these 3 games, Panesian escaped and was unheard of
again. No more games were released from the hacker company
and it is now all history. That is, until the NES scene grabbed
hold of the news through an article on tsr's nes archive.
Suddenly a once unheard of and obsolete pirate company became
one of the most recognized NES companies joining the ranks
of even Capcom and Konami literally overnight. Allow me to
slighty rephrase Don King's line-of-lines: "Only in the
Internet!"
Enter June 2000. A fellow NES gamer and scener, OSG, started
a montly e-mail newsletter called 'PaNESian Press' during
the heyday of Panesian's 'recent fame'. The e-mailed newsletter
featured articles from other fans of the beloved gaming machine.
The latest Panesian-$500-boxed-on-eBay-craze had officially
begun.
What I found very surprising is, after doing a simple search
for the company to see if one Panesian actually still existed,
a www.panesian.com site popped
up (followed by my mouth opening in utter shock). After searching
said site for a while I found
out the company sells MAG 14"-21"computer monitors
(a tad different from Nintendo porn games, eh?). If curiosity
killed the cat, and I was a cat, I'm sure would have been
dead for I did a little more research on other database pages
and found out that this monitor-selling company is actually
based and associated in Hong Kong.
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Panesian Singapore Pte. Ltd
3 Pemimpin Drive No. 03-01 Lip Hing Industrial Building Singapore
2057 Republic of Singapore
Tel: 65-259-5688
Fax: 65-259-0977
URL: http://www.panesian.com
Sister Companies:
+ Panesian Hi Glory Pte Ltd
+ Panesian International Pte Ltd
+ Professional IT Pte Ltd
+ Panesian Hong Kong Ltd
+ Panesian Japan Co. , Ltd
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Coincidence? Who knows really. I won't start pleading for
a Hot Slots game from these guys anytime soon, though. *Remember
I put down this info for educational reasons only
