Zemina (

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: 재미나, originally 제미나) was a South Korean software maker brand of Saehan Trading (Korean: 새한 상사) founded in 1981. They primarily made games for the Daewoo Zemmix, but because it was an MSX computer made to look and be played like a game console, they work on other MSX computers as well. Although many of them were copies of other games, like Super Boy I (based on ''

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''), they also produced some more original ones in their later years. Korea did not have a copyright law for computer programs until July 1987. Because of that, many companies, including Zemina, sold unauthorized copies of foreign titles with their own copyright hacked in. Even after that, the new law protected only the program code, not the intellectual property as a whole, so a lot of their "own" games were ports of famous Japanese games. Most of their titles were converted to the

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as well. In 1992, they engaged in developing exclusive games for the Master System and

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consoles, but not all of them were released. They even released '' Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction'' under official license from

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under the title '' Salamander II'' - all the while still selling multi game cartridges full of unlicensed copies of older Konami games.

Zemina games

List of clones

List of original games

Note 1: The clone game ''Block Hole'' is also known as ''Sagak-ui Bimil''.
Note 2: Other releases that are merely hacks of Japanese games with Zemina's logo are not listed here.

Hardware

Zemina also made hardware for the

Zemmix Zemmix, trade mark and brand name of South Korean electronics company Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., is an MSX-based video game console brand. The brand name ''Zemmix'' is no longer in use. Under the name ''Zemmix'', Daewoo released a series of ...

. These include: * A Cartridge port divider * The Zemina Music Box * An MSX2 Upgrade Kit * A Zemmix PC card *MSX RAM expansion cards * A 'Family Card' that allows the user to play

games on the

References

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External links

List of Zemina Games

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