Zemina

Zemina (Korean: 재미나, originally 제미나) was a South Korean software maker brand of Saehan Trading (Korean: 새한 상사)^[1] 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 Super Mario Bros.), they also produced some more original ones in their later years .^[2]

Korea didn't have a copyright law for computer programs until July 1987^[3]. Because of that, many companies, including Zemina, sold pirate 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 Sega Master System as well. In 1992, they engaged in developing exclusive games for the Sega Master System and Famicom consoles^[4], but not all of them were released.

They even released Nemesis 3 under official license from Konami under the title Salamander II - all the while still selling multi game cartridges full of pirate copies of older Konami games.^[5]

List of Zemina games

Note: 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. These include:

• A Cartridge port divider^[6]
• The Zemina Music Box^[7]
• An MSX2 Upgrade Kit^[6]
• A Zemmix PC card^[6]
• MSX RAM expansion cards^[8]
• A 'Family Card' that allows the user to play Famicom games on the Zemmix^[9]

References

External links

• List of Zemina Games
• MSX game screenshots (including Zemina games) (Japanese)