Panda Entertainment, full name Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd. (), was a video game developer from

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that was active during the 1990s. They developed games for

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and for the Taiwanese only game console

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, made by

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. Their most famous game is ''

Sango Fighter The Sango Fighter games are a series of fighting game for DOS made by the Taiwanese Panda Entertainment. Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, it is very similar to ''Street Fighter'' and ''Samurai Shodown'', but with historical co ...

'', and their highest selling game was ''Crazy Dodgeball''. Some of their games became notorious for the usage of

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as a playable character, including the African Adventures series and Hilarious Bowling. In 2009 North American company

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acquired the full legal rights to some of the company's games, re-releasing ''Sango Fighter'' as

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immediately afterward. In 2012, Super Fighter Team acquired the remainder of Panda's games.

Games

Note: The title ''Gambling Lord'' was co-developed with

Controversy around ''Sango Fighter''

'' was developed based on the engine of ''

Super Fighter ''Super Fighter'' (in Chinese: 快打至尊) is a fighting game for MS-DOS. It was developed by C&E, Inc. of Taiwan, and first released in Taiwan on February 20, 1993. An English version of the game was also released, albeit in much shorter s ...

'', 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 sales of ''Sango Fighter'' in Taiwan. However, the ruling did not stop a dozen pirate companies from continuing selling copies of the game. The game was released in English because another company translated it to English and sold it to a shareware company without permission. Shareware developer and publisher

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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 Entertainment.

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External links

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Panda Entertainment on Gamebase.com.tw. Defunct video game companies of Taiwan