History of Sega in Croatia
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| History of Sega in Croatia |
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| Official Sega distributor(s): Comy (1990-1991), X (1994-xxxx), Videotop (2004-2010), Computerland (2010-2014), Videotop (2014-2018), Colby (2018-present) |
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Socialist Yugoslavia
Socialist Yugoslavia did not belong to the Warsaw Pact. A small amount of Sega, Nintendo and Atari games and consoles were sold here.In the 70s Yugoslavia was one of the countries where Sega imported its game machines.The only known company that sold Sega Master System was Comy, which began importing the console from 1990.
Croatia
Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.One of the first and popular consoles was Terminator 2 modeled on Sega Mega Drive.
The origins of Sega consoles in this country is 1994. However, there is no distributor's name.At the beginning Sega Mega Drive model II and Sega Game Gear were available from retailers.Later Master System model II, Mega CD model II and Sega 32X were available. However, none of the consoles was very popular in this country. Later Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast appeared, but they also passed without much interest.
In 2004 Slovenian company Videotop began selling Sega games in this country.[1] In 2010, the distribution was started by Computerland and in 2014 Videotop returned for sale which in 2016 became a representative of Sega in all former Yugoslavia.[2]In 2017, Videotop became the property of Computerland Group.[3] In 2018, Videotop was acquired by Colby which also belongs to the Computerland Group which means that the distributor of Sega is now Colby.[4]
Local retailer offer in 1994.
