Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty. Ltd. (or HES) is an Australian company that distributes computer games and gaming equipment. HES offices are based in Punchbowl, Sydney.

They began distributing Commodore 64 titles such as Pitfall! in 1982 and Kung-Fu Master in 1985 and Atari 2600 titles nearing the end of the 1980 s under the name Activision.

HES still remains a dominant distributor within Australia, despite not being well known. HES currently is the distributor for .

Quite a large number of software titles are currently also being distributed by HES for IBM PC clone, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance by publishers ZOO_Digital_Group#ZOO_Digital_Publishing, Tru Blu Entertainment and Phantagram.

In the past, HES had gained a reputation for developing and distributing some interesting peripherals such as generic auto fire controllers, Game Boy power adaptors, Master System converters for the Mega Drive and adapters for NES games such as the HES Unidaptor and HES Unidaptor MKII.

= Nintendo Entertainment System =

== Unlicensed ==

In the late 1980 s and early 1990 s HES ported games from American Game Cartridges, American Video Entertainment (AVE), Bit Corp, Color Dreams, EPYX, Thin Chen Enterprise (Sachen, Joy Van, etc) and Tengen (company) onto the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) as unlicensed titles, very much against what Nintendo wanted. Some of the games HES distributed had no companies credited and their developers remain unknown. Most games were released in plastic cases like a video box with printed instructions on the inside, however sometimes the AVE titles were released in their original AVE boxes with a HES sticker simply stuck over their logo. HES at the time became widely known for their unlicensed distribution of NES games at budget prices. Nintendo tried to fight against all unlicensed companies by introducing a Nintendo Seal of Quality on all their products spreading propaganda that only titles adorning the symbol are guaranteed to operate on their NES hardware. HES to combat this introduced their own seal that mimics Nintendos seal, possibly in the hope of confusing buyers.

Nintendo in a further attempt to limit the success of unlicensed companies changed the hardware of later revisions of the NES, so unlicensed games would no longer work. So early HES games for many of the later NES consoles are not 100% compatible. HES to combat this developed the Piggy Back or Dongle games, where you could insert an official NES cart into the HES game and it operated the country code of the official title instead of HES . This was so successful HES also used the same technology to build a device to entirely bypass the 10NES security protocol which was released as the HES Unidaptor . The adapter allowed 72-pin and 60-pin NTSC NES/Famicom games to be played on a Pal NES.

Interestingly HES introduced games to Australia that werent released any where else in the western world, and have become sought after classics. Sadly HES choose to release all their games with cheaper EPROM s, which only have a life of circa 20 years, already rendering many HES games useless.

== NES Titles ==

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