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I wrote about the Brazilian company that created this system, TecToy, last year. As impressive as the Genesis returning to production is, even more notable is t
by shortformblog 10y ago
I wrote about the Brazilian company that created this system, TecToy, last year. As impressive as the Genesis returning to production is, even more notable is the fact that TecToy has had different versions of the Master System in continuous production since the '80s.
http://tedium.co/2015/07/16/sega-master-system-brazil/ http://tedium.co/2015/07/16/sega-master-system-brazil/
There were a number of reasons for this, but the biggest is high import taxes. TecToy produced its consoles locally, and as a result, it was cheaper to buy a SMS than it was a NES.
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- walrus01 10y agoI have read that huge import taxes on Japanese game consoles (in the SNES/Genesis era through Xbox1 and PS2) are the reason why x86/PC gaming is so popular in South Korea these days. Instead of producing a domestic console alternative, Korea went with the industry standard PC and wrote software...