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I'm brazillian! There was some Nintendo market over here. Another brazillian company named CCE built the NES and sold here. It was my first video game (I was a

by alganet 11y ago

I'm brazillian! There was some Nintendo market over here. Another brazillian company named CCE built the NES and sold here. It was my first video game (I was about 9). I've had both Sega/TecToy MasterSystem III and Mega Drive (the Genesis). Super Nintendos were popular as well at the time, but as the article suggests most of cartridges were pirated ones. Playstation 1 was another crazy thing in Brazil. I have never seen an original PS1 CD. I've bought the console and the store gave me 15 pirated CDs of my choice by the time. For R$10,00 (roughly $20,00 USD by the time) it was possible to buy three Playstation 1 games. It was nearly impossible to find original Playstation games though.

aylons 11y ago
> For R$10,00 (roughly $20,00 USD by the time) I believe you meant roughly R$5,00. By 1998, the exchange rate was R$2,00 for each dollar.
- alganet 11y ago
  Yep, you're absolutely right.
artjacob 11y ago
Actually Nintendo consoles were manufactured in Brazil by Gradiente, through a company called Playtronic. Gradiente's plant was part of the Free Economic Zone of Manaus, an industrial hub on the heart of the Amazon rainforest. This plant was said to be Nintendo's only plant outside Japan, though I never saw a reliable source confirming this.
- alganet 11y ago
  It seems NES was made by multiple manufacturers in Brazil: http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/brazil/brazil.html http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/brazil/brazil.html
  - speeder 11y ago
    Nintendo official manufacturer was Gradiente, but both NES and SNES had a crazy amount of non-licensed clones, and some clone manufacturers still exist (yes, you can buy a new NES and SNES in Brazil, along with new pirated cartridges)
    - scoggs 11y ago
      Link?
      - m45t3r 11y ago
        I would love a link too for a SNES hardware clone in Brazil. I know lots of brazillian NES clones (including the infamous PolyStation), but I don't know any SNES clones in Brazil.
        speeder 11y ago
        I see them sometimes on Santa Efigênia, some are shaped like an actual SNES, sort of a outright pirated console (ie: it is for most part an SNES, but not made by Nintendo). Sometimes you see people selling them on Mercado Livre

by alganet 11y ago

aylons 11y ago

> For R$10,00 (roughly $20,00 USD by the time) I believe you meant roughly R$5,00. By 1998, the exchange rate was R$2,00 for each dollar.

alganet 11y ago
Yep, you're absolutely right.

artjacob 11y ago

Actually Nintendo consoles were manufactured in Brazil by Gradiente, through a company called Playtronic. Gradiente's plant was part of the Free Economic Zone of Manaus, an industrial hub on the heart of the Amazon rainforest. This plant was said to be Nintendo's only plant outside Japan, though I never saw a reliable source confirming this.

alganet 11y ago
It seems NES was made by multiple manufacturers in Brazil: http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/brazil/brazil.html http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/brazil/brazil.html
- speeder 11y ago
  Nintendo official manufacturer was Gradiente, but both NES and SNES had a crazy amount of non-licensed clones, and some clone manufacturers still exist (yes, you can buy a new NES and SNES in Brazil, along with new pirated cartridges)
  - scoggs 11y ago
    Link?
    - m45t3r 11y ago
      I would love a link too for a SNES hardware clone in Brazil. I know lots of brazillian NES clones (including the infamous PolyStation), but I don't know any SNES clones in Brazil.
      - speeder 11y ago
        I see them sometimes on Santa Efigênia, some are shaped like an actual SNES, sort of a outright pirated console (ie: it is for most part an SNES, but not made by Nintendo). Sometimes you see people selling them on Mercado Livre