Headquarters Taiwan Founded 1990 | Products Sango Fighter | |
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Industry Video game industry
Interactive entertainment Video games Sango Fighter, Panda Dodgeball, Tough Guy | ||
Panda entertainment technology defunct game developers in 5 games pt 178
Panda Entertainment, full name Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 熊貓軟體公司; pinyin: Xióngmāo Ruǎntǐ Gōngsī), was a video game developer from Taiwan that was active during the 1990s. 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 is the appearance of Adolf Hitler as playable character in the African Adventures series of games.
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- Panda entertainment technology defunct game developers in 5 games pt 178
- Controversy Sango Fighter
- References
In 2009 North American company Super Fighter Team acquired the full legal rights to some of the company's games, re-releasing Sango Fighter as freeware immediately afterward. In 2012, Super Fighter Team acquired the remainder of Panda's games.
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. 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. A company called Accend pirated Sango Fighter and sold it in the USA without official permission from Panda.