History of Sega in Caucasian States
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| History of Sega in Caucasian States |
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| Official Sega distributor(s): Forrus(?),Bitman (1996-1997),R-Style(1997-200x),1C-SoftClub(200x-present) |
These countries include: Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.The story is similar to that in Russia. At that time these states belonged to the CIS.Georgia left the CIS in 2009, however, the same companies operate as the rest of the area
Steepler
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.
Forrus
It isn't known whether the official Sega distributor in Russia-Forrus performed the same function in the CIS countries.
Bitman
In 1996 Bitman was the Sega distributor for Russia and the CIS and the dealers of this distributor started selling in this region .Sold products:
- Sega Mega Drive II,
- Super Bitman
- Sega Saturn,
- Sega Pico ,
- Sega Nomad
R-Style and 1C SoftClub
In 1997, Bitman was acquired by R-Style.Company continued selling Sega products.Somewhere at the beginning of the 20th century, SoftClub became a distributor of Sega , and later became a part of the company 1C.
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