Cheetahmen

Mar 1 2011, 03:49:58 PM

BTW, weren't Master System clones common across South America?[/quote]As far as I know, every SMS console around here... is an oficially licensed product by Sega. There was a Brazilian company named Tectoy who manufactured and distributed consoles and carts for Southamerica.

I always recommend reading about these guys. The funny thing is they didn't accept orders from Sega Japan, so Tectoy unleashed its weirdness: SMSs with games on memory, SMS Super Compact, SMS Girl and tons of different bundle packs for SMS and Megadrive. They developed games too, and most of them are on the thiniest line I've ever seen between official and unlicensed/hacked games.

While Sega struggled in the rest of the world, Tectoy made a good profit from SMS, Megadrive and Sega products in general all through the 90s and 00s. I mean... they even had an office here in Uruguay in the early 90s...

On the other hand, I've seen pirated SMS carts, but that's really uncommon. A while ago I got a pirate of Lucky Dime Caper, my first one.

By the way, thank you all for your welcome <: Weekend's ahead so I expect to take some photos!