Pokemon Fan Finds Bootleg Cartridge Made by 'Nihlendo'
A Pokemon fan has shared an amusing video showing the strange way the Nintendo company name was falsely printed inside a game cartridge. There’s a good reason that this Game Boy Advance game has these errors though, and it’s not the only Pokemon game out there with a false company name hidden inside.
The Pokemon series debuted to the world in the mid 90s as a pair of games for the original Nintendo Game Boy. Since then, it has grown into the wildly popular franchise Pokemon fans know and love today, complete with the Pokemon anime series and a collection of beloved Pokemon games for Game Boy, Nintendo DS, and Switch, among other platforms. The Pokemon video game series has become one of the best-selling game franchises of all time.
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Posting to the Pokemon subreddit, a user by the name of GumboSkrimpz shared a video showing the inside of a Pokemon Light Platinum game cartridge. Once opened, it becomes clear that something isn’t right; the Nintendo company name appears to be printed on the PCB as “NIhlendo.” In response to the thread, one reader claimed they had worked at a retro games store and had come across many fake Nintendo names in cartridges, their favorite being “Niltondo.”
This Pokemon game cartridge, like many circulating in the secondhand market, is a complete fake. The cartridge itself wasn’t produced or endorsed by Nintendo, and Pokemon Light Platinum was never an official release for the Game Boy Advance. Rather, the game is what is known as a “ROM hack” in which creative fans modify an existing Pokemon game into something new. However, Nintendo has been known to take action against unofficial Pokemon projects that gain attention, such as the time Pokemon Prism was
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