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The Wywy Group, formerly known as the Dorema Wywy Group, is a Singaporean electronics manufacturing conglomerate and former official Sega video game distributor.
Company
In 1993, Sega awarded the Wywy Group with the official product distribution rights for Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei. The conglomerate distributed the Sega Game Gear[1], Sega Mega Drive[2], Sega Mega CD 2[3], Multi-Mega[4], Sega 32X[5], Nomad, and Saturn, often through their chain of retail outlets "Wywy Shop". They also distributed a Mega Drive clone called Magic 2 along with the official Sega stickers.
The Wywy Group also purportedly partnered with Sega to open a Sega E-Zone location in Indonesia.
Countries
The Wywy Group has distributed video game products to the following countries.
Softography
Promotional material
Advertisement announcing Wywy's partnership with Sega from The Straits Times (Singapore) dated September 18 1993 and New Straits Times (Malaysia) dated September 24 1993.
Advertisement of Sonic Spinball Spin & Win from The Straits Times dated January 15 1994.[6]
Advertisement from The Straits Times dated April 15 1994.[7]
Advertisement from New Paper dated June 20, 1997.[8]
Red WyWy seal use for front of games and consoles
White WyWy seal use for back of games and consoles
"Original" WyWy seal (Use for later Mega Drive/Saturn games)
Ecoo merch signed by Wywy
References
- ↑ https://www.game-gear.de/othergg.htm
- ↑ https://www.mega-drive.net/othermdsystems.htm
- ↑ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19931006-1.2.5.1?ST=1&AT=filter&DF=&DT=&AO=false&NPT=&L=&CTA=&NID=&CT=&WC=&YR=1993&SortBy=Oldest&K=sega&KA=sega&P=5&Display=0&filterS=0&QT=sega&oref=article
- ↑ https://www.mega-cd.de/othermcd.htm
- ↑ https://www.sega-32x.de/specials/othercountries.htm
- ↑ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19940115-1.2.35.1?ST=1&AT=filter&DF=&DT=&AO=false&NPT=&L=&CTA=&NID=&CT=&WC=&YR=1994&SortBy=Oldest&K=sega&KA=sega&P=1&Display=0&filterS=0&QT=sega&oref=article
- ↑ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19940415-1.2.70.2?ST=1&AT=filter&DF=&DT=&AO=false&NPT=&L=&CTA=&NID=&CT=&WC=&YR=1994&SortBy=Oldest&K=sega&KA=sega&P=3&Display=0&filterS=0&QT=sega&oref=article
- ↑ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/newpaper19970620-1.2.81.1?ST=1&AT=filter&DF=&DT=&AO=false&NPT=&L=&CTA=&NID=&CT=&WC=&YR=1997&SortBy=Oldest&K=sega&KA=sega&P=4&Display=0&filterS=0&QT=sega&oref=article