Mega Drive consoles in South America

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The "Mega Drive III (with Sega Top Ten)" was the 15º bundle, not the fourth as this page implies.

Then change it - I'm literally just making rough guesses as to when bundles were released. Most pages on this wiki are waiting for someone with more expertise to sort them out. -Black Squirrel 15:39, 4 June 2012 (CDT)
I'm not criticizing, I'm just telling because it was wrong and I didn't want to simply delete the work of anyone and as you can clearly see I don't dominate the english language, as soon as I finish my lists I will come back here and update the with the correct years of release.
Mega Drive II Control Unit was released in 1993, no games included and this version had the RF port replaced by the AV (cable included)
The explanation Tec Toy gave for the numbering was that both the Master System II and the Mega Drive II had a revised board that was cheaper to make and the price for the consumer would be cheaper too (this also is a good way to renew the interest of the consumer),
They could never imagine that there would be aesthetically new versions of the consoles (was this common in other consoles of the time?) and when the rest of the world changed the aesthetics and they followed this change, they couldn't simply number the new version "II" again.
The problem with that explanation is that TecToy say they released the original SMS in September 1989 whilst the SMS II was first publicly shown at Summer CES, June 1990. 9 months seems too short a time for them to have already released the TecToy Master System II, and presumably Sega's international distributors would have been aware of the SMS II even earlier than it's public reveal at CES.
The most obvious example of a redesigned system would be the Japanese SMS which was released as the Mark III in 1985 and then rereleased as the SMS in 1987. There were also a few redesigned systems prior to SMS, many of them used the "Jr." moniker.
  • 1983 Cassette Vision Jr.
  • 1983 Sord M5 Jr.
  • 1984 Tomy Pyuuta Jr.
  • 1985 Atari 2600 Jr.
In 1998 Nintendo released the Super Famicom Jr., "Jr." was used in the past as "Slim" is used today, so it wouldn't have been a surprise if Sega had actually called the Master System II as the Master System Jr. instead.--Pirate Dragon 09:46, 7 June 2012 (CDT)
Prepare to be not very surprised then =P -Black Squirrel 10:57, 7 June 2012 (CDT)
Hey cool, I guess internally it may well have been known as the Mark IV Jr. :)--Pirate Dragon 05:38, 9 June 2012 (CDT)

(Should I edit or click the plus sign when adding to conversation here?)

Remember that Tec Toy's SMS II is just a minor "motherboard" revision of the worldwide SMS 1, like the Genesis VA1->VA7, and the worldwide SMS II was released as SMS III by Tec Toy.

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Here is a picture from the archives of the Folha de São Paulo's Paper. It announces the release of Tec Toy's Master System 2 For the end of the month (April, 1991) as a twin brother of the Master System with the only difference being that now it only comes with 1 Joystick and the game Ale Kidd in Miracle World built-in.

It also announces the release for May of 1991 of the 3 new controllers by Tec Toy (imported controllers from QuickShot ): Joystick tipo Asa Profissional (Flight grip), Joystick tipo Manche Profissional (Python) and Controle Remoto sem fio (wireless controller)

Nice find, it does seem that TecToy should have already been aware of Sega's SMS II when they released their own SMS II. As TecToy also used Roman numerals I think they may have even used Sega's SMS II name as inspiration.--Pirate Dragon 05:38, 9 June 2012 (CDT)

Proof of release for Tec Toy's Master System "I" and III

Master System "I" - 1989/09/24 - NCz$ 1.500 [[2]]

Master System III - August, 1992 - Cr$ 850.000 (The article says it's 20% cheaper than the previous version) [[3]] [[4]]

For another day

I hate deleting paragraphs but this stuff is best served somewhere else.

I have a feeling that pages for each individual console revision is inevitable. When that day comes:

Super Mega Drive 3 (with 10 built-in games)

Now we enter "Super Mega Drive 3" territory, with built in games. This model also features the odd MK-1470 turbo controllers.

Built in games:

Super Mega Drive 3 (with 30 built-in games)

Tectoy beef up Super Mega Drive III with a further 18 games, bringing the total to 30 built-in games:

mind you, saying that I'll probably forget I put these lists here. Oh well. -Black Squirrel (talk) 13:07, 11 June 2014 (CDT)

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