Megatech Software was the first licensor of anime games in the

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, and the first licensor of hentai games or

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in English.

History

Very little is known about Megatech as a company. They were founded prior to 1992. The first three games published were anime themed

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. Their first release Cobra Mission: Panic in Cobra City was self-rated NR-18 (a rating indicating the presence of nudity and sexual content), the second two were NR-13 with the option of purchasing an upgrade to NR-18, and the last was self-rated as acceptable for all ages. All were made for

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. Upgrades were purchased separately and came in the form of 3.5”

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that were installed separately. The games had some voice acting starting with Cobra Mission:Panic in Cobra City which was limited to moans from the female characters in the game. Metal & Lace had a wider range of voice acting, however, again it was limited to single sentences said by the female characters.

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used CD-ROM technology to have a wide array of voice acting including complete voices during all cut scenes by both male and female characters. They appeared at

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1993 promoting two of their new games. Megatech folded sometime in between 1997 and 1999. Its last published game was ''Power Dolls'' in 1995.

Restarted company

Megatech has restarted their company under the company called Megatech Games. They are developing games for iPhones, iPods, iPads and all other iTunes App Store related products. Their first game after their comeback is named ''Undercover: Girls of Cobra Mission'', which is a line drawing puzzle game. The objective of which is to uncover as much of the screen as you can by boxing sections of the screens to reveal the Anime graphics underneath. Players will need to uncover a minimum of 80% of the screen to win the level before advancing to the next. This free demo contains 6 levels featuring the

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girls from Megatech's

Cobra Mission ''Cobra Mission: Panic in Cobra City'' is an MS-DOS adventure game published in 1992 in North America by Megatech Software as a port of the 1991 PC-98 ''Cobra Mission'' (コブラミッション) game by INOS. This was the first eroge released i ...

game released in the 1993. The app is released under the company Megatech & Design Inc.{{cite web, url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/undercover-girls-cobra-mission/id404168428, title=iTunes Store, work=apple.com

Games released

*1992: '' Cobra Mission: Panic in Cobra City'' *1993: '' Metal & Lace: The Battle of the Robo Babes'' *1994: ''

'' *1995: ''

Power Dolls is a Japanese video game studio which has released adventure, strategy, and bishōjo games for the MSX, MSX2, PlayStation 2 and Personal computer, PC, including such titles as ''Symphonic Rain'', ''Gadget Trial'', ''Little Witch Series (Kogado St ...

'' *2010: '' Undercover: Girls of Cobra Mission''

References

External links

Megatech Games
Official Homepage
Megatech Software
(Internet Archive)

at Theodor Lauppert's Homepage Defunct video game companies of the United States Hentai companies