Thin Chen Enterprise (full name Sheng Qian Enterprise Co., Ltd ()), also known as Sachen, was a Taiwanese company that developed several original games for the

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and other early cartridge-based handheld systems such as the

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. With the exception of the latter two handhelds, all of Thin Chen's games were produced without license from the

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s. The company produced at least 70 unique games for the NES and

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and at least 32 for the Game Boy (compiled into eight 4-in-1 cartridges), making it the most prolific unlicensed developer and publisher for both consoles.
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s, such as the Q-Boy. Most of Thin Chen's products were released under the "Sachen" brand name, although the names Joy Van and Commin were also used for certain early games for the Famicom and handheld consoles respectively. Several of their NES games were released outside Taiwan under license by foreign publishers, including: HES Interactive in

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in the

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Developed games

Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer

List of titles as Thin Chen

List of titles as Sachen

List of titles as Joy Van

Multi-game cartridges

Note: All series of ''Super Cartridge Version'', was developed and released as Thin Chen Enterprise.

Others

* ''Mystical Muppet Mahjong'' KA ''Ti Xian Muou Majiang''— A port of ''

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''. * --''Unknown''-- — A TC-031 numbered series game.

Unreleased

* ''Bridge'' * ''Twin Ball''NintendoAge » Twin Ball
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Game Boy/Game Boy Color

List of titles as Sachen

List of titles as Commin

Multi-game cartridges

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive

Both two games were developed and copyrighted as Thin Chen Enterprise co., as seen on the title screen. However, the name Sachen also appears on the opening screen.

Watara Supervision

All games, both as Thin Chen Enterprise that as Sachen, were all made in 1992 with the only exception of ''Kung-Fu Street'', which was made in 1993.

Mega Duck

Each Mega Duck/Cougar Boy game is similarly labeled as the same games were marketed for both systems. The notation MDxxx is used for Mega Duck Games, and the notation CBxxx for a Cougar Boy Games. A MD002 is exactly the same game as the CB002, even to a point that some "Cougar Boy" games start up with a Mega Duck logo. All of the games released for the

were subsequently available on the

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References

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External links

''Thin Chen Enterprise''/''Sachen''
at BootlegGames Wiki.

profile on

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A picture of two Sachen multicart games
Video game development companies Video game publishers Taiwanese companies established in 1988 Defunct video game companies of Taiwan

Developed games

Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer

List of titles as Thin Chen

List of titles as Sachen

List of titles as Joy Van

Multi-game cartridges

Others

Unreleased

Game Boy/Game Boy Color

List of titles as Sachen

List of titles as Commin

Multi-game cartridges

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive

Watara Supervision

Mega Duck

See also

References

External links