Unfortunately for our Latin American brethren, the sub-Amazonian games industry has always been a bit mystical and nefarious. Prices are exorbitant, piracy is rampant, and, for better or worse, the black market seems to be thriving. Some of the more interesting aspects of the Latin games industry, however, are its clones.
Tectoy is a Brazilian company that licenses Sega games for its perennial Genesis, Mastery System and Mega Drive clones. They also happen to be Sega's official Brazilian distributor, responsible for the Brazilian Saturn and Dreamcast campaigns. Tectoy's latest system is the Mega Drive 3, which will feature 86 pre-loaded games (no cartridge loader) and two controllers.
Here's the kicker: four of those 86 games are brand spanking new. EA has apparently signed up to release some of its games on Tectoy's wunderkonsole: FIFA 08, Need for Speed: Pro Street, The Sims, and Sim City will all be making appearances on the Mega Drive 3. These are ports from the mobile versions of the games, not the backwards-engineered beauties I'd hoped they would be. Blast processing was awesome, but not that awesome.
Anyway, check out the full list of games to be included on the Mega Drive 3. Some are classics -- Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Kid Chameleon -- and some are complete mysteries. There's no price for the Mega Drive 3 yet, but I would pay tens of reals for a chance to play Minerador, whatever that means.
[Via InsertCredit, via Kotaku]
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10:45 PM on 09.04.2008
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Is such a shame sony doesn't have people like that over here, with the brand recognition the PS2 has because of winning eleven, and the lack of piracy on the ps3, they could really establish the new system and make people buy original games. I bet there is already thousands of people buying original games that would never do it given the choice.
And, this Mega Drive 3 sounds really cool. Well, at least one thing about being a gamer in Brazil should be good, however, I wonder how will people be able to play Fifa 08 with only 3 buttons...
Anyways, it still sucks to pay almost 200 dollars for almost all new games released for the X360 or the PS3 (even the ones that sucks, like Turok or Kane and Lynch).
Also, "Minerador" means "Miner"