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With the popularity Master System had at South America and Europe over NES, how comes they never made Master System bootleg consoles while there were countless NES bootleg consoles even in Europe?

>> No.10755191

NES is easier and cheaper to clone.
Also Brazil literally has a whole market full of MS and Genny clones

>> No.10755201

>>10755118
Probably because in the 8-bit and 16-bit era, pirate consoles were made in Asian countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. The SG-1000 and Mark-III were not popular in the Asian countries that would have made a clone out of them. No idea why Brazil did not make their own clones, though, because they were still milking it until the PS1 made kids burn and buy copies from kiosks.

>> No.10755237

>>10755191
Do you have any Master System clones?

>> No.10755247

>>10755191
The SMS was no harder to clone than the Famicom, all components but the VDP were off-the-shelf. They just didn't do it because the system wasn't popular enough to bother with.

>> No.10755254

>>10755201
>most nes snes , PC engine, and megadrive/Genesis clones came from Mainland China Hong Kong, & Taiwan
There's also Russia Serbia, and the Micro Genius famiclone of SE Asia.

>> No.10755256

>>10755118
Brapzillians still buy brand new master systems from Sega (Tec Toy)

>> No.10755261
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>>10755118
Sega sold a shitty cheap model of Master System themselves. These things are so common where I live you can find them for 10 bucks

>> No.10755268

>>10755261
What is wrong with the second model?
(Never owned a Master System here)

>> No.10755283

>>10755268
It's just missing a bunch of features (no card port and RF only are the biggest two) and just has a cheaper overall build quality

>> No.10755304

>>10755283
I would miss the card port, but I am not even sure I ever found SG-1000 games in Brazil.

>> No.10755310

>>10755261
>>10755268
>>10755283
>>10755304
I might be alone in this... but I prefer the 2nd model over the 1st one and it's not even close. It's so much sleeker and nicer, more modern.

>> No.10755513

>>10755118
FURRY SEX.

>> No.10755597
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10755597

br here.
the whole "omg master system is still popular in Brazil!" is actually a meme. Yes we do have a manufacturer called tectoy who has the license for sega stuff and yes they kept making master systems (as well as mega drive), but master system was never as popular as memes made you believe it was. In actual times when it could have been popular it was vastly overshadowed by famiclones (which can't be calculated in quantities sold for obvious pirate reasons, but believe me, for every kid who had a master, 50 had a famiclone).
Master system was mostly the low cost sega console aunts and grandmas would get when kids asked for "the Sega" (meaning the mega drive, which is what kids wanted in the 90s, not the Master)
By the late 90s/early 00s, chipped playstations were super affordable thanks to very cheap bootleg games, and K62 computers let everyone play games on PC for cheap also thanks to piracy (and cyber cafes with LAN)
Master system was never a real mvp as people were made to believe. Sorry for breaking the illusion of brazil being magical master system land.

>> No.10756068

>>10755118
>With the popularity Master System had [in] Europe over NES,

Never happened, everyone literally called video games "Nintendos" even well into the 5th gen

>> No.10756217

>>10755118
Because Europeans didn't make them. Taiwanese did. They just exported them all over the world.

>> No.10756676

>>10755118
>lust inducing image
>irrelevant time-wasting question

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>>10755256
As a Brazilian all I can say is that we don't do this much, I do see Master System Evolution units on shopping malls and video game stores, but never see anyone owning it, maybe it's more common if we're talking about poorer families, or a gift for a young kid, but even in those cases I still see PS2s way more... anyways, Master System Evolution is quite cool and I'm glad TecToy still makes them.

>> No.10756706

>>10755118
I'm not a f*rry but that picture is cute

>> No.10756973

>>10755118
>lust-provoking image

>> No.10757251

>>10755118
Based beatcats enjoyer. I think Brazil still makes cheap bootleg master system to this day.

>> No.10757971

>>10757251
Yes, we still do. It's currently the blue Master System Evolution by TecToy, which is pictured here (>>10756679) and it works fine enough, it really can't be called a hot seller since it's mostly a nostalgia item people get almost as a souvenir I'd say, but it's sleek and does what it sets out to.

>> No.10758183

>>10755597
This pasta is not even true. t.Brasilian.

>> No.10758541

Gato sexo

>> No.10758854

>>10755118
>How come they never made Master System bootleg consoles
They did, Tectoy simply got the okay from Sega. All Master Systems in Brazil are bootlegs.