Janggun-ui Adeul

Is this what the kids call “cinema”? Developer: Daou Infosys Corp. Publisher: Daou Infosys Corp. Release Year: 1992 (some sites say December 1992) Available On: Sega Master System Genre: Beat ‘Em Up Prior to this week, I had no idea what Janggun-ui Adeul was. This is considered an unlicensed game, so I wasn’t sure if it was an original concept or based on an existing property. It’s common for unlicensed titles to pull from popular things in order to increase the odds of people buying them, but this one had a look of plausible deniability to it for me. At a glance, it’s just some guys in suits fighting, you know? Something like Pikachu5, on the other hand, makes its inspirations immediately obvious! Once I started searching the name on the internet, though, it didn’t take long to come up with some juicy results. Janggun-ui Adeul, also known as “General’s Son”, is a 1990 South Korean movie directed by Im Kwon-taek about Kim Du-han, a boy living on the streets of Seoul who ends up…