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),Buka(representative from 1996-200x)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.
Sega Master System
During the USSR times Sega Master System (model no. MK-3096-19) was made for the Russian market in 1990.It was sold, however, in a very small amount
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.
End of the 90s
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 Mega Drive II,
- Sega Mega-CD II
- Sega Game Gear,
- Sega 32X,
- Sega Pico ,
Representative in 1996 was the company Buka (Бука) who at the same time became a representative of Nintendo and Sony in Russia and CIS.In 1997, Bitman was acquired by R-Style. All stores have become the property of this company. R-Style continued selling Sega Nomad,Sega Saturn and Sega Mega Drive II.
1C SoftClub
Somewhere at the beginning of the 21th century, SoftClub became a distributor of Sega , and later became a part of the company 1C.
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