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Revision as of 11:23, 22 February 2019
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From Sega's perspective, everything east of Europe and west of Japan/South Korea is classed as "Asia". This is a very large region and covers dozens of countries, but the markets are generally considered to be quite small as we're dealing with second world and potentially even third world countries. The company made more of an effort to localise for specific countries with the Sega Master System, but generally targeted fewer countries and was not tremendously successful.
With the Mega Drive, we generally see the same hardware distributed across this region, sometimes in the same basic boxes, but with added stickers, leaflets and support by localised distributors. Similar to Europe, Sega also was unable to market their console in every country in the region, however whereas the vast majority of Europe was covered by Sega, only a minority of Asia saw traditional Mega Drive consoles, and the timeline is patchy. For example, India only recevied the Mega Drive 2 in the late date of 1995, while Hong Kong got their Mega Drives at the turn of the decade.
From a hardware perspective, there are only a few Mega Drive models - Sega built "one size fits all" systems in with either PAL or NTSC video output, and sold the system in whichever country they could. The Asian "region" covers the middle east, the islands of south east Asia, and the likes of India, China and Russia on the mainland. It's possible it even covers what little consoles were sold in Africa. It does not cover Japan, nor does it cover South Korea, and some states such as China are basically seen as "no go" areas so don't tend to count.
Mega Drives are still in production in Asia to this day, mostly handled by AtGames who ship scaled down consoles to all over the world, but they will not be covered on this page. We know very little about this region and so information is currently in short supply.
Contents
China
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive
(メガドライブ) |
The Gulf
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive II | |||||||||
Mega Drive II | |||||||||
Mega Drive II | |||||||||
Mega Drive II |
India
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive 2 (Shaw Wallace Electronics distribution)
(メガドライブ) |
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Mega Drive 2 (Mitashi Edutainment distribution)
(メガドライブ) |
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Mega Drive 2 (Mitashi Edutainment distribution)
(メガドライブ) |
Hong Kong, Macau
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive
(メガドライブ) |
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Mega Drive
(メガドライブ) |
Taiwan
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive | |||||||||
Mega Drive 2
(メガドライブ2) |
Russia and CIS
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Dendy and Steepler import*) | ||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Dendy import*) | ||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Steepler import*) | ||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Dendy import*) | ||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Steepler import*) | ||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II with rare sign (Dendy import*) | ||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Dendy import*) | 50x50px
Manual |
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<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px320x80px | Mega Drive II (Steepler import*) | 50x50px
Manual |
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Mega Drive II (European PAL Dendy import*) | |||||||||
<div style="margin:auto; min-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px"> 320x80px | Mega Drive II (Forrus distribution) | ||||||||
Mega Drive II + Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Forrus distribution) | Control Pad (x2) |
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Mega Drive II (Buka distribution) | |||||||||
Mega Drive II (Bitman distribution) | |||||||||
Mega Drive II (R-Style distribution) |
* Sega stock imported by Dendy without a distribution license(Also by Steepler but without the 'Dendy' sign)
**Prices are in the RUR currency
Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive 2
(メガドライブ2) |
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Mega Drive 2 |
Thailand
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive 2 |
Philippines
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive |
Israel
Box | Name | Date & Price | Console | Label | Hardware | Software | Documentation | ||
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Mega Drive (Bug Multisystem distribution) | |||||||||
Mega Drive (Suny distribution) | |||||||||
Mega Drive II (Suny distribution) |
Unidentified
NTSC
The Philippines and Taiwan were the only other Asian markets apart from Japan and South Korea which used NTSC.
Mega Drive 2
Mega Drive 2, NTSC Asia |
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Mega Drive 2 (Green Box)
Mega Drive 2, NTSC Asia |
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PAL-B
PAL-B was widely used throughout most of the rest of Asia, although these models may have only been intended for South East Asia.
Mega Drive
Four language manual; English, Chinese, Malay, and Thai.
Mega Drive, ?? |
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Mega Drive (with Sonic)
NOTE: Console itself uses undocumented region code -15
Mega Drive, ?? |
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PAL
Whilst the original Mega Drive had an internal RF modulator which meant different models were required for different countries' TV Systems the Mega Drive 2 had an external RF modulator which meant the same model could be sold throughout PAL Asia.
Mega Drive 2, PAL (It's possible that it's a clone) |
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<div style="margin:auto; max-width:Expression error: Unexpected < operator.px">
320x80px Cover
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Mega Drive 2 (Green Box)
Four language manual; English, Chinese, Malay, and Arabic. Alesayi United were Sega's distributors throughout the Gulf region, this includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. Alesayi initially distributed the Mega Drive 2 in the Gulf via their "DOTTS" brand, but had switched to using Aleyasi United by the time that they distributed the Sega 32X in the region. It would seem likely that this model would have also been sold by them due to the presence of Arabic in the manual.
Mega Drive 2, ?? |
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Hi-Star Electronics
Hi-Star Electronics Pte Ltd. was an importer of Sega consoles in South East Asia, however it is not known if it was legal.
Even more unidentified
Some are probably for South America.
References