Ciao a tutti, purtroppo non conosco l'inglese ma provo a farvi lo stesso una domanda:
conoscete il gioco "Lillo e le gemme"?

Grazie, ciao.

Hi and welcome. We don't have an Italian section, so I'd like to ask you to talk in English here! (you can for a limited time edit your post btw)

The question is:

Many years ago I played with the game "Lillo e le gemme", ("Lillo e le gemme" is the italian name but I dont know the international name) do you know this game?

P.S. Sorry for my bad english

Your English is ok, really. As for the game.. no idea.

It's not about a carrot, is it? If not, I don't know either, scusi!

I don't speak italian, but since it's close to portuguese, I guess the name of the game should be something like "Lilo and the gem"... but never heard of nothing like it either

The only game I have here with the word "Lilo" is a Spanish one, called "Lilo La Conquista De La Fama" (Lilo the conquer for the Fame)... don't suppose could be it?

Hmm... it sounds to me as a bootleg version of Boulderdash, since in the past years I have found TONS of tapes with a lot of different names that were actually hacked versions of that game; but maybe Enrico may know something more about this "Lillo e le gemme".

In the meantime, try to have a look at this page: http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/2697

(Written in Italian) Ti ricordi dove hai acquistato il gioco? In edicola? In un negozio?

Ok, I have found it:

"Lillo e le gemme" is PIPPOLS



You have found it in the Italian magazine PROGRAM MSX N. 8. You can see the tape contents here
And you can find more information about this game here: http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/612

Huh... wasn't this plain piracy? I mean, if as I think we're speaking about a commercial magazine in the 80's...

In '80 piracy was quite normal for magazines in Italy.

Just change the name of the game, alter the producer logo,
et voilà, a new game in your compilation is ready.

Some of them copied games not only from the original, but also each others.

I remember that some of them offering 7-8 cassette games at 10.000 Italian lire == about 5€

It wasn't only common in Italy, here in Spain there was even brand games virtually ripped from their (usually) japanese counterparts. Here's a very funny article about it. It's in Spanish; but you can easily recognize the titles:

Los patitos feos del software español: Iber software

In 1988 there was a reader´s short story in "The Games Machine" magazine. That boy was on holiday trip in Spain with his family and he visited local software store and found nice MSX game and when he went to counter with that cassette, seller took his cassette and went to backroom and came back with another cassette which was the pirated copy of the game boy wanted. That boy was "a bit " amazed....

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In '80 piracy was quite normal for magazines in Italy. Just change the name of the game, alter the producer logo, et voilà, a new game in your compilation is ready. Some of them copied games not only from the original, but also each others.

I would also say that since the early nineties the italian copyright laws have finally included the commercial software and extended the digital rights, and it's not anymore possible to publish these kind of magazines in Italy.
( Don't expect to come here and find a XBOX360 Magazine with a DVD containing 10 pirated games )

BTW I really can't criticize too much these publication... I have discovered the wonderful world of the MSX with that kind of magazines

If you are wondering how is looking one of these pirated games, here are two snapshots taken from DEXOID, UOVO SODO, PSYCHOBLAST and ALIENOID:

    

And now let's see if you can guess which games are hidden under these pirated versions

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Ok, I have found it: "Lillo e le gemme" is PIPPOLS You have found it in the Italian magazine PROGRAM MSX N. 8. You can see the tape contents here And you can find more information about this game here: http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/612

Grazie Grazie Grazie
é proprio lui, ringrazio te e tutto il forum.

Ciao.