Panda Entertainment

Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd.
熊貓軟體公司
Industry Video game industry
Interactive entertainment
Founded 1990s
Headquarters Taiwan
Products Sango Fighter

Panda Entertainment, also full named Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (熊貓軟體公司), was a video game developer from Taiwan that was active during the '90s. They developed games for MS-DOS and for the Taiwanese only game console Super A'Can, made by Funtech. Their most famous game is Sango Fighter, and their highest selling game was Crazy Dodgeball. Very odd and inappropriate is the appearance of Adolf Hitler as playable character in the African Adventures series of games.

In 2009 North American company Super Fighter Team acquired the full legal rights to some of the company's games,[1] re-releasing Sango Fighter as freeware immediately afterward. In 2012, Super Fighter Team acquired the remainder of Panda's games.[2]

Games[3]

# Title AKA title(s) Platform(s) Genre Release year
1 African Adventures 1) Fēizhōu Tànxiǎn
2) Monopoly: Adventure in Africa 		MS-DOS & Super A'Can Puzzle 1995
2 African Adventures 2 1) Fēizhōu Tànxiǎn 2
2) Monopoly: Adventure in Africa 2 		MS-DOS Puzzle 1996
3 Battle of Red Cliffs Chìbì Zhī Zhàn MS-DOS RPG 1994
4 Crazy Dodgeball 1) Bàoxiào Duǒbì Qiú
2) Panda Dodgeball 		MS-DOS Sport 1994
5 Gambling Lord Dǔ Bà Super A'Can Mahjong 1996
6 Hilarious Bowling Bàoxiào Bǎolíngqiú MS-DOS Sport 1995
7 Journey to the West 1) Xīyóu Jì
2) West Adventure 		MS-DOS Action 1994
8 Little Geniuses: Go Home! Tiāncái Bǎobǎo Dà Jìnjī MS-DOS Puzzle 1995
9 Panda: Go Home! Xióngmāo Dà Jìnjī MS-DOS Action 1996
10 Sango Fighter Sānguózhì Wǔjiàng Zhēngbà MS-DOS; Super A'Can & PC-98 (in 1995) Fighting 1993
11 Sango Fighter 2 Sānguózhì Wǔjiàng Zhēngbà 2 MS-DOS Fighting 1995
12 Tough Guy 1) Gédòu Hàn Jiāng
2) Tough Guy: Fighting Titans 		MS-DOS Fighting 1995
13 Volleyball Hominid Páiqiú Yuán Rén MS-DOS Sport 1996
14 Water Margin: Heroes of the Marsh Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn Zhī Liángshān Yīngxióng MS-DOS Action 1997
15 Xiang Yu: The Overlord of Western Chu Xi Chu Bàwáng Xiàngyǔ MS-DOS RPG 1996

Note: The title Gambling Lord was co-developed with Funtech.

Controversy Sango Fighter

Sango Fighter was developed based on the engine of Super Fighter, a game by Taiwanese developer C&E. The engine was taken without permission by a developer who left C&E and joined Panda. Because of the illegal engine, C&E sued Panda and won, forcing Panda to halt its sales of Sango Fighter in Taiwan. However, the ruling didn't stop a dozen pirate companies from continuing selling copies of the game.[4] The game appeared in English, because another company translated it to English and sold it to a shareware company without permission. Shareware developer and publisher Apogee Software was planning on licensing and releasing the game in the United States under the title Violent Vengeance, but the plans for the deal fell through.[5] A company called Accend pirated Sango Fighter and sold it in the USA without official permission from Panda.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mobygames.com/company/panda-entertainment-technology-co-ltd
  2. ↑ Super Fighter Team
  3. ↑ Original Chinese titles are translated to English.
  4. ↑ http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/GOTW/China/piq-2008-05-104.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.snipview.com/q/Sango_Fighter
  6. ↑ http://files.abandonia.com/extras/Abandoned%20Times/AT1.pdf

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