History of Sega in Central Asia

Central Asian states include Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

History

The story is similar to that in Russia. At that time these states belonged to the CIS.In 1993, Steepler had its dealers in these countries. Popularity gained Dendy console. Since 1994 Steepler stores have started selling Sega consoles. These were mostly Asian and American versions of the Sega Mega Drive (model II) and Sega Genesis CDX. By the end of the year, the company had resigned from promoting the Sega product in favor of being a Nintendo distributor in Russia and CIS. However, it didn't bother the company to sell a SMD clone named Pro 16-bit. It isn't known whether the official Sega distributor in Russia-Forrus performed the same function in the CIS countries. However, it is known that in 1996 Bitman was the Sega distributor for Russia and the CIS. Dealers of this distributor started selling in this region between 1996-1997.Bitman distributed :Super Bitman,Sega Saturn,Sega Pico ,Sega Nomad and Sega Mega Drive II.