/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10325004
>I still has this theory that in NTSC countries Nintendo won
The Mega Drive sold out against SNES in almost every Western European countries, though places like Germany and France had a strong Nintendo presence, because Nintendo of Europe had French and German (rarely any in Spanish or Italian) versions of some of their games. I don't know about the SNES, but NES sold a lot in Northern Europe, that is why some SunSoft PAL games were exclusive to the SCN market (and Finland). And if you lived in East Europe, I assure you that you had Famiclones (Dendy, Pegasus, et al.) out of the ass, due to them being affordable after the USSR fell, but if you got money, it was not unusual to run into kids who had Mega Drive, because unlike the SNES, it was piss easy to clone a Mega Drive and release pirated games for it. It is why they released several Mega Drive home brews and pirated games up to 2023, hardly more pirated games or home brews for SNES. SNES might have won in the early to mid '90s console war in the US market, but the Mega Drive had the last laugh, being easier to program and code games for. A sign of how N64 was also a pain in the ass to program and code official games. Nintendo in their infinite wisdom did this again with the GC by making it use mini discs to curb piracy, that made it easy to code and develop games for, but shrank their user base in Latin America where piracy gave the PS2 an edge over the GC and Xbox. I do admire how much TecToy made Sega THE video game brand for the '90s. My only regret is that they translated Phantasy Star I-III in Portuguese, but because III hit Brazil in 1998, they gave up in translating IV. Fuck.
P.S.: For some reason Shadowrun (SNES) had a Swedish translation, but no French one, even though it was real rare for an RPG translated in French not to have a German version, and vice versa. Deja Vu (NES) was only released in the Swedish version for PAL.

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