History of Sega in Central Asia
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| History of Sega in Central Asia |
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| Official Sega distributor(s): Bitman (1996-1997),R-Style(1997-200x),1C-SoftClub(200x-present) |
Central Asian states include: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.The story is similar to that in Russia because at that time these states belonged to the CIS.
Steepler
In 1993, Steepler had its dealers in these countries. Popularity gained Dendy console.The official distributor of Sega in Russia was Forrus, but the company never entered the CIS countries through a small sales network. Steepler used this fact and since 1994 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.
Bitman
In 1996 Bitman was the Sega distributor for Russia and the CIS and the dealers of this distributor started selling in this region . Bitman distributed :
- Super Bitman,
- Sega Saturn,
- Sega Pico ,
- Sega Mega Drive II.
R-Style and 1C SoftClub
In 1997, Bitman was acquired by R-Style.Company continued selling Sega Saturn , Sega Nomad and Sega Mega Drive II.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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