Little Red Hood

Little Red Hood
Also known as: Xiao Hong Mao (TW) Developer: Joy Van Publishers: HES (AU), Sachen (TW) Platform: Unlicensed NES Released in AU: 1989 Released in TW: 1989 This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article

Little Red Hood is a puzzle game loosely based on the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale. It's rather infamous for its poor quality, thanks to being released in an unfinished state.

It's also notorious for having a very crude method of bypassing the NES lock-out chip: the game cartridge has a slot for attaching another cartridge on top of it, Sonic & Knuckles style, and to get the game to work (at least on non-toploader models) the player needs to plug-in a licensed NES game so that it can piggyback off of that game's lock-out chip.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

A dead goblin. This sprite appears in the Taiwanese version's manual.

An unused shark(?) enemy.

An egg with unknown purpose. A small part of it can be seen in the top-left corner of the screen.

An unused item icon.

Regional Differences

Taiwan	Australia

The Taiwanese logo has Little Red Hood's head forming the top of the 帽 character. This detail was removed for the Australian release, which also moved the logo up a bit.