History of Sega in Slovenia
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| History of Sega in Slovenia |
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| Official Sega distributor(s): Comy (1990-1991), Mladinska Knjiga (1993-1998), 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 making it more open to Western technologies than the countries of the Eastern Bloc. In the 70s Yugoslavia was one of the countries where Sega imported its game machines.[1] As in other communist countries, local companies created their own consoles, such as the Geti-3220 produced by the Slovenian company Gorenje from 1977. Foreign consoles also reached the country but in small numbers.
The only known company that sold Sega Master System was Comy, which began importing the console from 1990.[2]In March 25, 1991, the first Sega club was found called Video Games Club were people could rent Master System console.
Slovenia
After declaring independence in 1991, Sega return again in 1993 and the main salesman was Mladinska Knjiga (bookstore which also decided to open a multimedia center) who released Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System II and Sega Game Gear[3]. Sega had competition from Nintendo, which in Slovenia was distributed by Laser Plus from the end of 1992. The company had full support from Stadlbauer (Regional distributor of Nintendo in Central and Eastern Europe).[4]The promotion campaign started. Mladinska Knjiga with Elektronexport and Megazin organized Sega Open 93[5] which was a response to the Nintendo Championship 93. Mladinska Knjiga released Sega Mega-CD II in October 1993[6]and Mega Drive 32X in March 1995[7].
Nintendo got many clones here like SP-60, Micro Genius and Family Game, so Laser Plus sued some of the retailers that sold them. Sega also got clones like New 16 Bit, distributed from 1993 by Atlas. Laser Plus translated Club Nintendo magazine into Slovenian language starting from 1993[8], MK distributed Sega Pro from 1994, but in English version.[9]
Sega lost its popularity with the release of Sega Saturn which was little known in the country and Nintendo maintained the popularity of Nintendo 64 at the same level as Super Nintendo.[10]
Ita Plus was the first company to present Sega Dreamcast in Slovenia, but this was imported version from USA.[11] The PAL version of Dreamcast was released later and was sold through few local distributors.
In 2004, Sega started cooperation with Videotop. However, in 2010 Computerland took over a sell of Sega games. In 2014, Videotop co-operated again with Sega, and in 2016 became a representative of them in all former Yugoslavia.[12]In 2017, Videotop became the property of Computerland Group.[13] In 2018, Videotop was acquired by Colby which also belongs to the Computerland Group which means that the distributor of Sega is now Colby.[14]
References
- ↑ File:Sega_Company_Profile_1970.pdf
- ↑ Svet Kompjutera (SCG) #73: "Oktobar 1990" page 45
- ↑ Sega Megazin 01/1993 page 29
- ↑ https://joker.muzej.si/article.php?rubrika=37&articleid=10956
- ↑ Sega Open 93 Megazin 03/1993 page 51
- ↑ Sega Megazin 01/1993 page 9
- ↑ Zero Tolerance. Pisem o Segi, v srce mi poje DoomMegazin 02/1995 page 31
- ↑ http://pc.sux.org/indexCN.html
- ↑ http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/yu/magshow.php?auto=&page=34&all=MG_95_01
- ↑ https://joker.muzej.si/article.php?rubrika=37&articleid=10956
- ↑ https://joker.muzej.si/article.php?rubrika=37&articleid=8447
- ↑ http://www.videotop.si/en/videotop-je-postal-uradni-zastopnik-zaloznika-sega/
- ↑ http://www.videotop.si/druzba-iris-mega-d-o-o-kupila-druzbo-videotop-skupina-d-o-o/
- ↑ http://www.colby.si/
- ↑ Megazin, "Letnik 1, Številka 2, Oktober 1993" (SI; 1993-xx-xx), page 9