Korean hardware & software pictures

Honestly it looks too wide to be a floppy drive.

The source is that french forum they posted above...

 

Yeah, maybe. I've got a Megadrive next to me and I think the unit looks about somewhere around 5-6 inches wide. It's hard to tell since the right hand edge of whatever it is blurs into the rest due to the image quality.

One thing I'll say: it's very unlikely to be an official product. That leaves it in the realm of action replay-alike or backup unit, basically. I think the latter's more likely. It's conceivable that it's a third-party power base, but I've never heard of one; it might be worth asking over at smspower, the regulars there are impressively knowledgeable.

 

Yep, for what I've seen the Korean SEGA products have a ribbon, this one does not...

 

That is a Sega Mega Drive back up unit. On the top there is a cartridge slot and at the front is a FDD for HD discs. I owned one of these monsters back in the early 90's. It only fits on the Meag Drive 1 by the way.

Yakumo

 

With "Sega Mega Drive back up unit" you mean it was official?

 

Hell no. Companies tend to do their best to avoid providing easy means for you to pirate their software

 

Not going off-topic, but does anyone known where i can find Gran Turismo Concept 2002 Tokyo - Seoul ?

It was only released in South Korea. It's been a long time since a copy showed up on ebay...

 

It's indeed a backup unit. It's called a Mega Disk Interceptor (I have one) It has a 3.5" floppy drive build-in. The disk drive draws power from the MegaDrive and is known to blow out the power supply. There's also a Super Famicom-equivalent model called (suprise!) Super Disk Interceptor. They were produced in Taiwan by a company called Sane Ting.

 

Sorry to bump an age-old thread, but I finally got a boxed Zemmix V (definitely not going to sell this one, I've been on the hunt for months), and as I've never really seen a good picture of the box, I thought I'd upload a bit.


The box. The other side is in worse shape, but inside everything is mint.


"Bought once, we take responsibility until the end."
If it breaks, maybe I should give Daewoo Elec a call. (Yes, I have the warranty certificate.)


It came with this Clover Pac-Man, so I guess this particular unit was sold at a Clover store.


The manual


The unit.


I've owned this two carts for a while, and lacking an MSX, I always wondered what's actually on them. Both are labeled "Air Wolf", but of course that's not available as an MSX version (if it was an original Korean game, then it wouldn't exist by multiple publishers).

Well:





Then I went to try out the only Korean exclusive I own so far... Zemina's Puznic:

 

Braaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiins!

Zombie thread! anyways, since we're commiting a crime to nature (bringing an obviously dead thread back to life) I've a question.

Was the korean videogame market so big that it could sustain so many consoles? I mean for what I know about economy korea (south) didnt have a very high standard of life in the 80s and most of the 90s, and is still far from japan nowadays.

Either these consoles were very cheap or only a relatively small elite bought them, which begs the question: why not just import these?

 

Middle class living standard in Korea nowadays isn't noticably lower than in Japan. Incomes are lower, but so are prices.

I've got a study that states the following sales figures until 1990:

Daewoo Consoles (Zemmix V, Zemmix Super V, Zemmix PC Shuttle): 415,000
Samsung Console (Gamboy, Super Gamboy): 360,000
Hyundai Comboy: 120,000
Haitai Supercom (Famiclone): 64,000
Young Toy Consoles (Pascal 124, Pascal ULT, Pascal Stereo famiclones): 27,500
Nics Famiclones: 15.500
Atari (doesn't state which one, but I think its the weird one no one knows): 4,000

... but of course there was a number of Famiclones out not listed in the study.

Should be much, much more for the nineties.


Examples for official price tags:
Samsung Gamboy (released in 1989) 119,000 Won
Hyundai Comboy (released in 1989) 139,00 Won
Samsung Super Gamboy (released in 1990) 185,000 Won
Haitai Vistar (released in 1993) 169,000 Won
NeoGeo home (released in 1994) 280,000 Won

 

I meant quality of life back then, 80s and early 90s...

And those sales figures dont look so good: not even a million combined? I wonder if those companies got their investment back...

 

Aw no 드림캐스트?
Do they even make a noticeable korean dreamcast?

 

360 000 master system/megadrive and 120 000 famicom before 1990 is not so bad finally, always thought it would have been much less.
I'm wondering what the system/games average ratio was.

 

Dreamcast was never released in Korea. Hyundai-Sega (yep, the two had a joint-venture company in the late 90's/early 00's) planned to publish it, but cancelled after it "flopped" in Japan.

There was also no PSX, originally (although it was of course imported and there even appeared localized games for it). Sony Japan only released the PSOne together with or after the PS2 when they opened up shop in Korea in 2002.

 

I forgot about this thread but I took some nice pics of the only super comboy game I have. enjoy

 

Hey guys! I am living in South Korea right now and I would so love to get my hand on one or two of these sweeties here. Any idea where I can look for them in Seoul? I tried Yongsan and navering (Korean google equivalent) a bit in Korean, but I find only shops that have some games, but I never get my hands on the consoles. Are they so extremely rare?
Any advice or hint is highly appreciated!

 

auction.co.kr ?

 

You might find a Comboy or Super Aladdin Boy at Yongsan if you're lucky. What you want to search for is 용산 두꺼비 상가.

Auction kinda sucks because there's hardly any private sellers on there. Your best bet would be trading forums at the bigger retro game communities, but I fear you'll need some Korean proficiency to successfully deal there.

 

Thank you! Actually I tried auction.co.kr and also interpark and gmarket, but as was said here, you get some games at best. It seems there are no real shops specialising in Retro Consoles here in Korea. That is a Japanese thing it seems.
But I'll look out for the 두꺼비 상가. There is also supposed to be a kind of computer goods fleamarket on the weekends in Yongsan...

I am working on the Korean proficiency