Unlicensed Mega Drive clones (Keyboard models)

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In 1995, the designer of Game Genie, Yi-Rong Chen, got patent for Mega Drive 16-bit computer system, that looked like keyboard.[1] With help of Realtec, he created EZcom.

Educational Mega Drive consoles got second life in early 2000s, when bootleg sellers wanted to compete with 8-bit Nintendo educational computers clones. Most of these clones was intended for Chinese, Russian and CIS markets, where Sega was still popular.

New Star FDC-2000

Chinese clone using both cartridges and floppy disk, released in 1995 by Tianjing Newstar Electronics., Ltd. (天津市新星电子). The console was unsuccessful because of its high price.

  • Box

  • Console

  • Cartridge NS-89

  • Floppy disk

  • Manual

  • Advert[2]

EPC-2001N

By Shenzhen Hot Sun Electronics Co., Ltd.

  • Console

SB-978

By Subor.

  • Console


Unlicensed Mega Drive clones
Clone consoles
Mega Drive | Mega Drive 2 | Genesis 3 | "Mini" models | "PlayStation" models | Keyboard models | Famiclone models | VCD/DVD players | Others


Mega Drive Mega Drive 2 Genesis 3 "Mini" "PlayStation" Keyboard VCD/DVD
AT-168 | FR-302 | High Quality | HK-986 | KW-500 | Mega-Ken | Pro 16 Bit | Super Drive Extreme Land Mega Drive 2 | Game Drive 2 | Liko BBG-688 | Mega Drive II (StarGame) | Mega Drive 4 | Mondial Drive II | New Star 2 | Star Drive 2 | Super Drive | Super Mega Driver | ZW-162J | ZW-165A Game Joy | Mega Drive Junior | Sponge | ZW-2000 16 Bit Compact MD HDMI | MD Compact | Minigen | Minigen HD BBG 168 | Kombat 16 | Sega Millenium | TV Pump | ZW-166A CyberShell | CyberSmart | EZcom | GS-200 | Magistr 16 Game VCD | Premier
Unique designs
1990s AX-660 | AX-990 | BBG 188 | IQ-801 | KW-501 | KW-502 | KW-503 | KW-504 | KW-505 | Megagame | Megavision | Modern Mate | New 16 Bit | Power Magicom | Super Alpha II | Super 16 Bit
2000s C-11 | Car Game | Dream X | Dual Action | e-time Game Play | GamBrothers | GN Twin | FC3 Plus | Kid Box | Neo-16 | Noritul FX-16 | Ranbo ABL AA1000 | RetroN 3 | Sega Driver | ZW-1688 | ZW-16DC | ZW-16P3 | ZW-16XB | ZW-163 | ZW-167 | ZW-169 | ZW-V21
2010s Fei Hao HD Retro Game | HD Game System | MegaRetroN HD | Mega Sg | PAP1000 | RetroN 5 | Super Retro Trio | Super Retro Trio Plus
2020s 2E Game Console 16 bit | MixHD | Nimbus Smart | Polymega | RetroN 3 HD | SG800
Portables
Cartridge-based 16 Bit Pocket MD | Advance Digitals | DVTech Discovery | ES-2016 | HG-806 | Mega Drive Portable | MDPortable | One Station | Pocket MD | PXP Slim Station | RetroGen | ZW-16M
Emulator-based !QU | Anbernic | Dinax Pixel Games | eMote | EXEQ | Favorite G18 | Game King A-330 | Game Station A-320 | JXD S7300B | Sameo | SD Portable
Clone console "families"
Data Frog | Dendy | Game-In | Game Box | Game Stick | Hamy | Magic Drive | Magistr Drive | Maniac Drive | Orbita OT-TYG | Retro Genesis | Super Drive | Super Console X | Titan | Mega Dream | SZGV | V-Com
  1. ↑ https://patents.google.com/patent/US5701478A/en?inventor=Yi-Rong+Chen&oq=Yi-Rong+Chen
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/hallyvorc/status/1196222065533054976/photo/1
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