Beosoft

Founded: 1989

Defunct: 2010

Headquarters:

Serbia

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Beosoft was a video game distributor operating in Serbia and Montenegro.

History

Beosoft was founded in 1989 and operated in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The company was selling games and computer accessories mainly for Commodore 64.^[1]

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Beosoft advert 1996

At the beginning of 1994, the company became a representative of Nintendo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). It began to work under the name Game BoYugoslavia and focused on the promotion of the Game Boy console ^[2]which was released in the country a few years before. The company has lowered the console prices so Game Boy has become more popular. They also released Super Nintendo in the same year and continued selling NES, which was released in Yugoslavia a few years before. At the end of 1994 company returned to name Beosoft and became authorized distributor of Sega in FRY and at the end of 90s they became authorized distributor of PlayStation in FRY. In 1998 they created the Igromanija TV show.^[3]

Beosoft in the 90s sold a lot of bootlegs. The first were pirate game compilations for Commodore 64. Also Game Boy received pirate compilations which were sold even in early 2000s. The most bootleg games were released for Sega Mega Drive.

In the early 2000s, the company was one of the largest game distributors in Serbia. Beosoft supported magazine called Bonus.

Later, Beosoft Kids was founded which was an entertainment center for children.^[4]

From 2010 Beosoft is a part of Computerland and can be found on internet at ComputerLand Games domain.