Does anybody know of all the consoles that have been liscenced to be produced by a company other than its original manufacturer? That doesn't include bootleg consoles, and I'm not really interested in American consoles. Examples I know of: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Victor Wondermega, JVC X'Eye, Aiwa Mega CD, Amstrad Megadrive, Laseractive Sega PAC-S10 Module Sega Saturn: Victor V-Saturn, Hitachi HiSaturn, Hitachi HiSaturn Navi Famicom/NES: Sharp Twin Famicom, Sharp 19SC111 TV Nintendo Gamecube: Panasonic Q NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx: Laseractive PC Engine module 3DO: Goldstar 3DO, Panasonic 3DO, Sanyo TRY system I know Samsung, LG, and Hyundai released several versions of Japanese and American consoles in Korea, though I don't remember the names. Does anybody know of any examples besides the ones I listed?
You can't really count the 3DO as there was no "original" 3DO so to speak. As in, 3DO the company never made a 3DO. The tech was simply licensed out with the thinking being that anyone could make a "3DO" and it would be like a VCR. Didn't matter which system you bought, your games would play in all of them. -hl718
Well, there was the Brazilian Tec Toy Mega Drive, and the smaller version of the genesis (the 3rd version) was done by Majesco. Now, are you refering to similar versions created by a different manufactuer (Such as the Tec Toy mega drive), or modified versions with a different look and function? (The Majesco Genesis 3)
hl718: I'd say that it counts as an alternate manufacturer if they must buy the liscence for it from another company. Sega, for instance, didn't need to buy a liscence for the Sega Saturn, though Victor did. They had to buy liscences for parts of it, I think (cd drive, CPU), but not the overall setup. Therefore all the 3DOs were made by alternate manufacturers, because they did not invent and own the technology. XerdoPwerko: I think those count, but I don't know the names of the original consoles if they do. Jasonkhowell: I believe both of those count. As long as its primary purpose is retained (playing the original console's games) then it counts. Could you tell me more about those consoles? By the way, does anybody know of an alternate version of the PlayStation 1 or 2?
Well if you *really* want to get nitty gritty about it, both the Panasonic and LG 3DO systems could be called "originals" as their level on involvement was more than simply licensing the tech. The 3DO story is quite complex. No matter how you slice it, you can't really deem the released consoles as "alternatives" or "clones." After all, how can you have an alternative when there is no original? -hl718
Okay, the Sears Video Arcade was a repackaged, differently named (and I think differently built) Atari 2600, and the Super Video Arcade was an Intellivision. I remember from somewhere that the shell of the Sears Video Arcade Atari was similar to the Japanese Atari 2800 system. Not sure. Sears also repackaged Atari pong systems. Now, the Coleco Gemini was an Atari 2600 clone with really cool controllers. And it was a LEGAL clone, too!
Well you have just about every console Bandai has released in Japan... Vectrex, Pippin, Intellivision, Arcadia Depending on how far back you want to go a lot of the TV-Game consoles in Japan (1977 - 1979) were licensed products using a mix of Atari, NEC, Fuji Electronics, Sanyo, Nintendo, Bandai, Hitachi, Epoch, etc.... The Tsudaka Original's Othello Multivision (http://www.japan-games.com/Database/images/Sega/Sega_Early/Othello_Multivision/index.htm) was a clone of the Sega SG-1000. It was able to play the carts and use the same controller. You could include the hotel units, at least the ones that were modified and sold by someone other than the game company. You have all of the legal Famicom clones. MSX? Did the seller have to modify the hardware? For example the Panzer Dragoon XBOX was technically released by Sega, I believe. You might want to check out my pic database and release list for some ideas: http://www.japan-games.com/database/ http://www.japan-games.com/MasterList/
This list could get pretty large, just how much do you want to include? If you exclude illegal clones but still include foriegn versions (Korean, Brazillian, etc.) you could come up with something managable. Practically every console had a Japanese, American, and European version.
unclejun: the System 246 doesn't count because it isn't a console. babu: Thank you, I forgot to include the Sharp Famicom Titler. Japan-Games: Can you really count hotel units? I mean, are they really consoles? In my mind, what constitutes a console is that it's sold to the general public with the intention of being used in a home. What legal famiclones have there been besides the Sharp ones an the Korean one? You can't count the ones that have been released after Nintendo started allowing everyone to make them; only the ones that Nintendo liscenced out to individual companies. The MSX is a computer, so I don't think it counts. Except, perhaps, for the Daewoo Zemmix. I've been trying to decide whether or not the Panzer Dragoon Xbox counts. I'm thinking that maybe a console should only count if the official name includes the name of the company that released it. So, for the Panzer Dragoon Xbox to count it'd have to be called the "Sega Panzer Dragoon Xbox". Does that seem reasonable? Hawanja: Yes, I'm talking only about legal, and even more than that, singularly liscenced consoles.
