I'll give my 5 cents, as a brazilian. TecToy brought Sega to Brazil a little before we finally controlled our high inflation. Before that, there was 0 chance someone poor could have a videogame. When inflation was controlled, even the poorest could pay in 24 installments, a Sega Master System, and that's it. Let's put this in perspective: in 1994, the minimum wage in Brazil was 70 USD. Now let's see some prices, according to some old magazines I got here: - Master System: 170 USD, between 30 and 45 each game - Gameboy: 125USD the console, between 30 and 45 each game - Genesis - 235 USD, between 40 and 60 each game - SNES - 265 USD, between 40 and 60 each game With that in mind, it's easy to understand why Tec Toy kept the Master System alive for so long: Brazil have an insane wealth inequality. Some places have the HDI of Switzerland, others the same as african countries on civil wars.
TecToy always reminds me of the "Poor Parents" analogy. They may not have a lot of money, but by god they're going to do their best. Here's a Master System - I know it's a bit old, but it's still fun anyway. We'll even get you some new games when we're able since they will be cheap! I'm not knocking them in any way, they found a perfect market niche and stuck with it and got a very loyal fanbase in return.
Eh...looking at the output here, it seems like 95% of the time they weren't doing their best, or shouldn't have bothered porting the games from the Genesis in the first place.
@@yellowblanka6058 If anything they seem like the kind of company that would literally port (or try to anyway) anything they could to make a buck. I understand people have nostalgia for tech toy but it's clear the majority of their work were cash grabs. Which kind of makes me sad considering how highly regarded people still consider them. (People from South America especially Brazil obviously)
@Josiah Gould The problem with that theory is that Tec-Toy were more upmarket. The real poor kids owned a Famicom pirate console. Though, from what I've heard, the people selling those cared even less about what they were offering consumers.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Yeah that seems more believable to me. I mean from what I've heard bootlegs were and are rampant because they're much more affordable and of course now you can do things like emulation and other ways to circumvent having to get an actual console. But back in those days you had to get what you could get. And I'm sure most people went with whatever they could afford which unfortunately usually meant cheap crap bootlegs games and consoles.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu as a Brazilian I think a lot of these games are far more "understandable" considering they were made on a very tight budget, frequently one after the other. without that much proper support for development from Sega and from a country that didn't have many game developers before, which, especially during a time where game design conventions were still very poorly established even among the big developers rather than common sense like it is nowadays, would completely cripple your ability to make better games. Some of these games to me, especially their earlier stuff, honestly seem like the best they could've done and you can see how their ambitions grew over time (heck, that SF2 game). Most of these games are bad, yes, but do try and understand the context these even came about.
I am from Brazil and I must say that, I recognize that some of these games were flawed even for 8-bit standards. However, for a company that didn't receive any support from Sega and made all these conversions by themselves, Tec Toy did actually very well, and its version of Street Fighter II, although choppy and limited, is a great feat indeed. It takes some courage to even try to program these conversions in a country where development resources are scarce. Customer support is an area Tec Toy delivers very well, it's a company that really cares for its costumers, in a way not every company in Japan, Europe or USA does, so there are indeed things to like about Tec Toy even if you aren't brazilian.
I had a girlfriend in Brazil, for a while! I bet she played these. :-)))) ... But yes she was ALWAYS curious about titles? Cartridges? I bet she knew they were different, also.
I am Canadian, and I have played most of these Games by emulator,and I actually had a great deal of fun trying them all out, now , only games I can get, well uhhh. Lol
@@lkjs-si2sr : Oh!!!! HOW old were these ???? Were these from the 90s ? I did not see many of these "combo bootlegs" back then, here, in Michigan, USA. ..... Just a Nintendo cartridge or 2 ????? Not a plug and play system like these.
I'm from Argentina, and back in the 90's you could see TecToy on all gaming magazines published here. They were HUGE!!! And not even tiny advertisements, no. 2 pages on the very start of the magazine, AND/or the back cover
I’m Brazilian and can tell that Tectoy made our lives very very cool with the Sega Master System… The value of Tectoy was to bring the SMS library to Brazil (including European releases), putting those games in nice ads, having a customer hotline for game tricks, translate rpgs to Portuguese etc
@Mr_ _SynKronized Wow, Pistola a Zillion! Fantástico! Nunca sabía que existía este 💎 Zillion es una de mis favoritas juegos. Ustedes tiene esto en Brasil! 👍💪 Saludos de USA
I know the Master System has done wonders for you guys over in Brazil and I think it's wonderful what Tech Toy has done for the Brazilian consumer. But how has the Mega-Drive faired in Brazil? I'm curious, because Sega here in the States didn't get the attention it deserved here until their 16-bit System the Genesis(or Mega-Drive in the rest of the world's case because another company in the U.S. Trademarked the name here before Sega) and I always wondered how well it did over in Brazil. Not just that, but I'd also like to know about how the Game Gear, Saturn, and Dreamcast faired there too. Greetings from the U.S.
@@G.L.999 Mega Drive here did excellently. It was extremely popular and we got official brand new versions of both it and the Master System for decades. I'd say the Super Nintendo was decently popular here, but TecToy's support for all of the Sega platforms here all the way up to the Dreamcast always helped.
@@G.L.999 Giving you a more complete answer. Mega Drive had a decent run here in Brazil, but even with the support of Tec Toy, the 80's and mid 90's was really tough time here. Poverty ran wild with inflation that would shy Venezuelans nowadays. We're talking about 80% inflation *per month*. That is one of the reasons of Master System's popularity, it was just cheap. And the piracy here also ran wild. When we talked about 90's videogames here in Brazil, most of us had contact with rental store that let you played videogames by hour paid. On that regard SNES was king, mainly because of one franchise: International Superstar Soccer. Tec Toy would also release that game on Mega Drive, but only in the late 1997, when most of us was already playing ISS 64 and Winning Eleven on these rental stores. Another curious fact, because of the absence of loading times on N64, this console was somewhat popular here in Brazil, but *only* on these rental store, cause there isn't waste of time waiting for loading. On the other hand, cartridge was way expensive, especially compared with burned cds of PlayStation, this last one dominated homes. One last fun fact, because the Dreamcast was way more easier to play pirated games, the console was way more popular than GameCube or Xbox. Greetings!
I'm from Brazil and I just knew Sega because of TecToy. However, when the majority of exclusive titles has been released I have left SMS apart. Fortunately I saw Street Fighter 2 and some Mortal Kombats. They have their limitations, but they are really impressive. There are some guys here that went to TecToy nowadays and it's a shame they have lost the most part of their archive. I knew they had to learn everything, with little or almost none support from Sega. The first achievement of them was translate to Portuguese Phantasy Star. I saw an interview when the guy said they had to recording all the game in VHS to know to convert the text, because they had no support at all. I think this was very common by the time. I knew Ms Pac Man had the same problem in U.S. when it was adapted, but with hardware (that is even harder to do, I guess).
I think it's worth mentioning just how big was TecToy translating Phantasy Star 1 into Portuguese for our local market. It was a bold and expensive move that paid off, and that initiated a whole generation into RPGs that up to this point were exclusively in English or Japanese. Like we can see here, most of the exclusives aren't great, but keep in mind they were made with local talent that had a lot of trouble having access to decent hardware to make those games on, and a minuscule budget, since the (many) Brazilian currencies of the past were severely undervalued when compared to USD. They were pioneers, and should be celebrated. Sega owes them much.
We had that underdog feelings by then. Neither Atari or Nintendo ever "cared" about Brazil (and it is easy to understand why). Having someone that give attention was amazing. I remember how happy we were when they announced Ayrton Senna's game. TecToy did see us by then releasing games like Chapolin, a mexican TV show we (still) love. OK, they did embarassing games like 20 em 1, but they carved a way for us to at least try to make our own games. They even made our first console, Zeebo - a castrophe, but still a good bet.
@@arnmrs1660 i agree in parts, but Polyvox never cared about the "newer" Ataris (at least I can't remember them selling the 7800, Lynx or even the Jaguar here), so we were stuck with the 2600 and all the clones. Playtronic did better selling all Nintendos up to the GameCube, but I don't recall they having so many ads on TV or even trying to reach our market as well as TecToy did. You can tell it because when we say Nes here, the first one that come to mind is the Phantom System, a clone by Gradiente, and not the official one by Playtronic. We lived crazy (but great) times here...
@@arnmrs1660 Okay, the SNES was decently popular here, especially given how late it came out and how dominant the Mega Drive was... but I really wouldn't call that "strong official representation" lol.
@@arnmrs1660 Nintendo pretty much had presence in Brazil because they didn't want Gradiente to continue selling clones without getting royalties as such.
In 1996, Capcom director Yoshiki Okamoto came to Brazil and one of his activities was to negotiate the creation of this version of SF II for the Master System, a console that was popular in the country.
I've read that story, I call, sort of, bs. I don't think Capcom was impressed at all, even when they found out the final product was running on a Master System. It barely plays, the graphics are partly incomplete and why is it always playing the wrong tracks. I just think Capcom gave Tectoy the chance to produce Street Fighter because they found a possible market in Brazil.
@@ultralowspekken Capcom had no experience with the Master System, so they might have been surprised by those graphics. Remember, they also gave the greenlight to the terrible European conversions. And the Gameboy game, which skips a lot of frames.
Yes, finally, as a Brazilian I was waiting for this moment. So much good memories playing my friend's Mega Drive and my cousin's Master System! And this was on the mid 2000s. I think that people, when viewing these games, should take in consideration that Brasil is a relatively undeveloped country, especially in the 90s. We have a lot of passion to our projects, but are plagued by a lack of resources. So just to see these games made, and representing so much beloved franchises is quite an achievement!
they say limitation triggers creativity, and humans in Brazil are indeed creative. we're poor and miserable but as you can see with Tec Toy we're working on it
Most of you will never be able to fully appreciate the magic of not knowing any better. Fot that being Brazilian alone won't do it, you'd have to have been a poor Brazilian kid living in the countryside. Great games for their time and context, Woody Woodpecker could have been ET for Atari and I would still appreciate it.
Lol that's probably true. I liked some trash too as a poor kid even in America. Taz-Mania SNES, sports games I had no interest in, I played a lot of bad, repetitive crap and still enjoyed it enough to play it.
I agree, also there's the fact that for many years here in Latin America many parents could only afford their kids those cheap clone system like the famous "Polystation" and the "Family", that would break out easily because of poor quality
True. Imagine me living in the countryside, literally in the rainforest playing those games in 1995, for what I knew they were the best games ever made
I am mostly thankful to Tec Toy, because made my parents able to afford an Mega Drive. Playing Phantasy Star 2 in portuguese was incredible. They did 1 and 3 too, but I couldn't play them.
I was wondering when you'd get to Tec Toy. That company is key to Sega's continuous popularity in Brazil. Even though this video discusses the Master System games, in which the console over there lasted until 1998 with some Brazil-exclusives, you should also check out the Mega Drive games. That, and many of these Brazilian ports are in Brazilian Portuguese and based on popular TV characters in the country: some as legal re-skins of other Sega games... with the exception of Woody Woodpecker and the Disney games. By the way, Tec Toy has a TH-cam channel that you can follow.
those games have a special place in my heart because my family was very poor in the 90s here in brazil and the master system was the only thing we could afford, my parents told me recently they would walk to work just to save money and buy us tec toys games for christmas. thanks for the video and for the memories
These guys really did some cool things with the Master System considering its limitations! Still one of my favourite systems of all time and such an important part of my childhood growing up. Still got my Master System from my 7th birthday, would never part with it :)
Idk, they just seemed to port Game Gear games, their original games visually are kind of average for the Master System. I can appretiate that they were doing the games at the time in Latin America at all however.
Can we all appreciate that nowadays , thanks to the internet, our brothers in Brazil can play some of the games they could have never afforded before? We are all brothers and sisters with Gaming.
"Castelo Rá Tim Bum" is part of every Brazilian 90's kid childhood. I never knew there was a game of it, but I 'm sure I would love to play it back then 😁
Great video. TecToy certainly did the best they could while going through some tough financial times (most of these games were made during the worst moment of the company). In the early 90s they came up with a couple good games for Turma da Monica (Monica’s Gang - a famous comic book series in Brazil). Also, most of their great work was around localization of games, which we didn’t have much in Brazil before and would have again only from the X360 and on. Games like Phantasy Star would see versions in Portuguese which was absolutely amazing at the time. I really appreciate all the work you have put in this video, including playing some games with local themes. It was a blast watching it.
Thank you so much Sega Lord X for this video. I am from Brazil and i like a lot your channel, very great stuff. Tectoy was very important to us, and see this homage was very special to us. Long Live to Sega Lord X😀👍
How cool to see several fellow brazilians here. Tec Toy played a major role making Sega popular in Brazil and it shows. I'm glad you made a video about these ones even though just a few had real quality By the way, you should try to contact Filipe from Sega Retro BR (biggest brazilian Sega channel on youtube), he surely would share some words with you about Tec Toy and such - he is fluent in english
Great video. Living in Taiwan, I always love hearing about video game markets outside the big 3. Games were such a big part of me and my friends' childhoods, and I'm very interested to learn about the gaming experiences of kids in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s outside North America, Western Europe, and Japan.
Yes. Tech-toy was a mixed bag but they put thousands of Sega's in Brazilian homes. I have a lot of respect for them. Sega is still big in Brazil and last I knew, TT is still making multi game master systems and genesis systems.
I literally threw my "20 em 1" cartridge out of window, so bad it was that game. However, i like most of Tec Toy efforts to do exclusive games to our market (i'm from Brazil), specially Legend Of Illusion. Great video, Sega Lord X! Cheers from Brazil! :)
I'm Portuguese and I had a master system 2, but I don't remember existing Tec toy games here in Portugal. I had awesome games for that platform, RoboCop Vs terminator, rastan, assault city, double dragon an ninja garden, had others too but these were more memorable.
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The late master system consoles were imported from Brazil. Tectoy manufactured them, and sent to Portugal without its logo.
Another great video! Back then we were simply happy to have a video game our parents could easily buy in any store, with tons of games available - even if they were in English. That was the SMS.
I’ve played Street Fighter II’ on the MS(through emulation), and it really is incredible how TecToy pulled it off. While not as visually detailed as the GameBoy version, it doesn’t feel as slow as that version does.
Not as detailed as the Gameboy version.....? I mean, yeah, the stages are missing details, but the characters are much better looking, even beyond the b/w vs. 15 colors issue.
Crazy to think some of these 8-bit releases came out at the same time as FF7, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Zelda OoT were about to come out. Imagine being the poor kid stuck with these instead of those.
TecToy was a huge part of my Childhood. My first Master System was bought there in 1989. The Mega Drive (Genesis) with Altered Beast as well. So many memories with my mother bring me games. Thks for this ep.
A curiosity that even some younger Brazilian Master System fans might don't know: the first cartridges had a 3D sticker with TecToy's logo where you see "Sega". It was pretty cool. But they removed further.
It would be great for people with less time to make so your videos have segments/sections on the bottom with for exemple, the name of the game you are talking about, etc. When you let us hear many music samples, there again a segment at the bottom would be great for people who would prefer to skip those. I only mention it because most of the other creators I follow started to do those in the past year or so. It would also be useful for directly finding a particular section of an already watched video of yours. Anyway, think about it and let us know! Great and interesting video as usual!
You have to hand it to Tectoy. They saw a golden opportunity and they rode it out for the long haul. They had a market starved for games, and by God that's what they delivered.
It's funny how TecToy launches 'Fire & Ice' and 'Battlemaniacs' as a final product! If I remember correctly both are just betas dropped by Virgin of the European versions.
There was a Genesis version of that Micky's Ultimate Challenge game. I remember playing it as a kid... and I remember it sucking. All I remember is getting confused on what to do and wanting to play something consistent like Sonic instead.
Brazilian here, and the Master System 2 was my very first videogame console ever, way back in 1991. I used to rent some of the games you've mentioned... And no amount of nostalgia can save them. Got some of them in a emulator some time ago, and yeah, only my 6yo self was capable of enjoying those things.
Tectoy best work was the localizated versions of Phantasy Star games. They home made software was terrible even back then. But they sold well thanks to good marketing.
20:09 SEGA Lord X, you have to realize that Brazil, much like several countries back in those days, didn't have the robust economy as the US, Canadian, Japanese and European markets have, in fact, several countries had things like an import tax policy, lack of support from the console manufacturer, focusing on the aforementioned markets, among other things. Some countries like Mexico (A country where Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony strongly support) is a balance line inbetween, and do afford official video games, others like the Philippines, it's impossible to own the new gaming experience, and is relegated to a rich person's past time.
I love how these 8 bit systems had tons of ports of 16 bit games, with box arts taken from the main ports, some even going so far as putting screenshots from the arcade on the back of the box, but when they did a port of Sonic 3D Blast, couldn't quite put the 3D on it and went with just Sonic Blast instead.
The built-in version of the game had the credits omitted presumably because of ROM size limitations though I am curious as to why the credits omission actually happened. The cartridge version has the credits intact, complete with Sonic and his microphone
Thanks for doing this video...I'd heard about Tec Toy and the Brazilian video game market, but I wasn't sure what to expect. Glad you were able to shed a little light.
Man that was cool. As a Brazilian gamer this hits right in the feels. Until today you can buy a brand new master system and Genesis in big retail stores over here.
Indeed, Fantasia on the Megadrive is a game I enjoy even though you'd say it's broken. However it was the first game I played on the system so to me it's special and all I knew, hell I've beaten it. However looking back I realise the problem the game had but if thats all you owned it's a case of ignorance is bliss. It would be nice to see you make a video comparing titles of the Game Gear and Master System games with the same name and seeing what the differences are, for example Predator 2, Alien Syndrome, Fantasy Zone, Space Harrier and I'm sure I missed out some others are different games on the Game Gear and arent ported from the MS. A Common misconception is that GG games are the same as their MS counterparts which is not true for a lot of them. It would be nice if you would compare them to highlight this in one of your vids in future!
When I eas kid I loved play Ecco Tides of Time from Master System, I think is a version more easy than Genesis version and some parts are substituted by puzzles (easy puzzles).
Back as a teenager in the 80’ I remember warmly about the Master System. I enjoyed every moment i shared with it and have many games on my Hyperspin arcade machine. Sega Lord X,thx for all the amazing content 🙌
Not to mention a lot of the music here is uh, pretty rough. I kinda feel bad for the Brazilian Master System fans who mostly had this to play when the system was discontinued in most of the rest of the world.
Looooolll!!! Castelo Ra-Tin-Bum. I watched this shit when I was a kid, and I remember loving it. Didnt know it got a game on the Master system. The Master System in Brazil was like Sega Genesis in US. As Sega of America, Tec Toy did a lot to keep the console alive as long as possible.
The Virtua Fighter anime is quite underrated, especially given the overall generic characters and plot from the source material it was based on. Subbed in preference.
Subbed is typically preferential for almost every anime. English dubs and other languages can be fun but most the time are inferior to the original. I know a lot of people simply won't watch stuff subbed but subbed is life for me.
@@MegaShingo97 It was pretty common especially back in the late '80s and '90s. Usually it would just be filled to the brim with complete gibberish and nonsense. I mean if you don't have a back story or any real story really you can just make stuff up.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu And I way more preffer the anime version of the characters. They even tied some origin story for certain aspects of the characters from the games, like showing how Paï Chan became an actress and Jacky actually doing F1 racing.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu This ain't the 90s anymore. Plenty of anime today have great English dubs. Some anime are even better dubbed than subbed with Cowboy Bebop being the prime example.
Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum, Mônica, sítio do picapau amarelo... they made so many games nationally it's surprising. And every now and then they released the same master system with varying formats and built-in games. In an age and place where there was so little entertainment options compared to today, I think that was great. By the way, at that time I owned a Dynavision II, which was a pirate version of the NES. And my friend had a Phantom System. Fancy names, lol.
I say, when it comes to old Sega stuff, Brazil might as well be a window into an alternative dimension from the multiverse where Sega never lost relevancy
It's just incredible to stop to think how long Mega Drive and Master System lasted here in Brazil and that games like Duke Nukem 3D for Sega Genesis, Street Fighter 2 and Battlemaniacs for Master System were exclusive here. In 2017 TecToy even re-launched the Sega Genesis with the original look (it's not the same hardware but accepts cartridges and even has a headphone jack as the original) along with that TecToy also re-launched the 3-button controller original and a Turma da Monica cartridge , can you imagine opening a brand new Sega Genesis cartridge ? and best of all, both work perfectly on all Sega Genesis models.
It's worth noting that many of these games were also ported from exclusive Game Gear games which is why some have really tiny title screens because they kept the original resolution the same on those and the colours can be a bit off due to very little effort put into changing gradients due to a more limited colour palette on the Master System and less on screen at once.
19:21: I believe that both 8-bit Ecco titles are originally released for Master System, and then ported to Game Gear. The 1st title was updated with better colors for Game Gear. The 2nd title was not updated for its colors, in its portable version. Someone correct me if wrong, but I don't think either Ecco title would have gone first on Game Gear and then to Master System...
Less colors on Master System usually means a bad port. The Game Gear has a larger palette, and that's the only difference between the two, aside from resolution.
Earthworm Jim for Game Gear was my only experience with the series so I enjoyed it not having known the originals. The best way to dispatch enemies is with your head whip(tap the attack button instead of holding it down). It does much more damage. Never could get past the timed underwater levels though.
Tec Toy is definitely very idealized on TH-cam. It's pretty cool they got to popularize Sega on Brazil, but before I clicked this video I knew most games would be pretty bad Tec Toy's strategy seems to be no different than most shovelware companies when making software, just use a famous license and get it done as cheaply as possible I didn't grow up with the Master System, but most people I knew who had will mention Alex Kidd, Sonic and other classics, instead of these games which are mostly internet curiosities
Great video! You should do a follow-up with all of the re-branded Tec Toy games that took already-released SMS titles and just palette-swapped characters.
Tectoy was such an important company for the history of videogames on Brasil, until this day we call Sega's Mega Drive the "videogame da criança triste"
There were also some rom hacks in which they replaced some of the sprites with characters from Cartoons and TV shows. Some worth mentioning are "Monica no castelo do dragão" which is a wonder boy in monster land rom hack, and "Chapolim vs Dracula" which is a Ghost house rom hack. Most of the games showed in the video were mostly ignored by older players with young children being the main target given their inexperience with videogames.
Hey you forgot the ones that are kind of rom hacks of other games! Such as the 2 Turma da Monica games, the Sapo Xulé games, Geraldinho, Chapolim vs Dracula, and a few others
My first console was a Master System from TecToy with Sonic 1, Luckly i "missed" this games but i realy had some fun playing Wonder Boy 2 and 3 from TecToy that was a translated game with skins of Mônica Gang a comic book popular in Brazil, also Ghost House with Chapolim Colorado a mexican tv show.
15:10 Street Fighter II in Master System have a funny story. A Capcom employee from Japan was invited to play a "Street Fighter II to Mega Drive/Sega Genesis", he played the game with a Genesis controller. He's said "well, don't be alright, the sprites and sceneries are low quality, the game are slow...", but the Tectoy surprised he when show him that was not a Genesis version but a Master System version hahaha PT: Sorry for my bad English Hahahah
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This is a video that definitely needed to be made. Glad it was you and not me who made it. :)
I thought you were going to do it after the last Master System episode. Either way is fine by me, I love the work of both of you guys.
“New dimensions of suck” 😂
Game sack and Sega Lord x need to do a video together asap
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I'll give my 5 cents, as a brazilian. TecToy brought Sega to Brazil a little before we finally controlled our high inflation. Before that, there was 0 chance someone poor could have a videogame. When inflation was controlled, even the poorest could pay in 24 installments, a Sega Master System, and that's it.
Let's put this in perspective: in 1994, the minimum wage in Brazil was 70 USD. Now let's see some prices, according to some old magazines I got here:
- Master System: 170 USD, between 30 and 45 each game
- Gameboy: 125USD the console, between 30 and 45 each game
- Genesis - 235 USD, between 40 and 60 each game
- SNES - 265 USD, between 40 and 60 each game
With that in mind, it's easy to understand why Tec Toy kept the Master System alive for so long: Brazil have an insane wealth inequality. Some places have the HDI of Switzerland, others the same as african countries on civil wars.
TecToy always reminds me of the "Poor Parents" analogy. They may not have a lot of money, but by god they're going to do their best. Here's a Master System - I know it's a bit old, but it's still fun anyway. We'll even get you some new games when we're able since they will be cheap! I'm not knocking them in any way, they found a perfect market niche and stuck with it and got a very loyal fanbase in return.
Eh...looking at the output here, it seems like 95% of the time they weren't doing their best, or shouldn't have bothered porting the games from the Genesis in the first place.
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If anything they seem like the kind of company that would literally port (or try to anyway) anything they could to make a buck. I understand people have nostalgia for tech toy but it's clear the majority of their work were cash grabs. Which kind of makes me sad considering how highly regarded people still consider them. (People from South America especially Brazil obviously)
@Josiah Gould
The problem with that theory is that Tec-Toy were more upmarket. The real poor kids owned a Famicom pirate console.
Though, from what I've heard, the people selling those cared even less about what they were offering consumers.
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Yeah that seems more believable to me. I mean from what I've heard bootlegs were and are rampant because they're much more affordable and of course now you can do things like emulation and other ways to circumvent having to get an actual console. But back in those days you had to get what you could get. And I'm sure most people went with whatever they could afford which unfortunately usually meant cheap crap bootlegs games and consoles.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu as a Brazilian I think a lot of these games are far more "understandable" considering they were made on a very tight budget, frequently one after the other. without that much proper support for development from Sega and from a country that didn't have many game developers before, which, especially during a time where game design conventions were still very poorly established even among the big developers rather than common sense like it is nowadays, would completely cripple your ability to make better games. Some of these games to me, especially their earlier stuff, honestly seem like the best they could've done and you can see how their ambitions grew over time (heck, that SF2 game).
Most of these games are bad, yes, but do try and understand the context these even came about.
Tectoy's best contribution in the gaming world was being the bridge between Sega Japan and Aryton Senna
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Mito 2022
Verdade hehehe
I am from Brazil and I must say that, I recognize that some of these games were flawed even for 8-bit standards. However, for a company that didn't receive any support from Sega and made all these conversions by themselves, Tec Toy did actually very well, and its version of Street Fighter II, although choppy and limited, is a great feat indeed. It takes some courage to even try to program these conversions in a country where development resources are scarce. Customer support is an area Tec Toy delivers very well, it's a company that really cares for its costumers, in a way not every company in Japan, Europe or USA does, so there are indeed things to like about Tec Toy even if you aren't brazilian.
I had a girlfriend in Brazil, for a while! I bet she played these. :-)))) ... But yes she was ALWAYS curious about titles? Cartridges? I bet she knew they were different, also.
Great TEC Toy! Grande Tec Toy, obrigado por existir e ter feito parte de nossa vida aqui no Brasil ❤️
I am Canadian, and I have played most of these Games by emulator,and I actually had a great deal of fun trying them all out, now , only games I can get, well uhhh. Lol
Yea, in a pre-google era, I think they actually did a good job.
@@lkjs-si2sr : Oh!!!! HOW old were these ???? Were these from the 90s ? I did not see many of these "combo bootlegs" back then, here, in Michigan, USA. ..... Just a Nintendo cartridge or 2 ????? Not a plug and play system like these.
I'm from Argentina, and back in the 90's you could see TecToy on all gaming magazines published here. They were HUGE!!! And not even tiny advertisements, no. 2 pages on the very start of the magazine, AND/or the back cover
I’m Brazilian and can tell that Tectoy made our lives very very cool with the Sega Master System…
The value of Tectoy was to bring the SMS library to Brazil (including European releases), putting those games in nice ads, having a customer hotline for game tricks, translate rpgs to Portuguese etc
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Wow, Pistola a Zillion! Fantástico!
Nunca sabía que existía este 💎
Zillion es una de mis favoritas juegos. Ustedes tiene esto en Brasil! 👍💪
Saludos de USA
nao só com o Master System, mas com o Mega Drive tambem
I know the Master System has done wonders for you guys over in Brazil and I think it's wonderful what Tech Toy has done for the Brazilian consumer. But how has the Mega-Drive faired in Brazil? I'm curious, because Sega here in the States didn't get the attention it deserved here until their 16-bit System the Genesis(or Mega-Drive in the rest of the world's case because another company in the U.S. Trademarked the name here before Sega) and I always wondered how well it did over in Brazil. Not just that, but I'd also like to know about how the Game Gear, Saturn, and Dreamcast faired there too.
Greetings from the U.S.
@@G.L.999 Mega Drive here did excellently. It was extremely popular and we got official brand new versions of both it and the Master System for decades. I'd say the Super Nintendo was decently popular here, but TecToy's support for all of the Sega platforms here all the way up to the Dreamcast always helped.
@@G.L.999 Giving you a more complete answer. Mega Drive had a decent run here in Brazil, but even with the support of Tec Toy, the 80's and mid 90's was really tough time here. Poverty ran wild with inflation that would shy Venezuelans nowadays. We're talking about 80% inflation *per month*. That is one of the reasons of Master System's popularity, it was just cheap.
And the piracy here also ran wild. When we talked about 90's videogames here in Brazil, most of us had contact with rental store that let you played videogames by hour paid. On that regard SNES was king, mainly because of one franchise: International Superstar Soccer.
Tec Toy would also release that game on Mega Drive, but only in the late 1997, when most of us was already playing ISS 64 and Winning Eleven on these rental stores.
Another curious fact, because of the absence of loading times on N64, this console was somewhat popular here in Brazil, but *only* on these rental store, cause there isn't waste of time waiting for loading.
On the other hand, cartridge was way expensive, especially compared with burned cds of PlayStation, this last one dominated homes.
One last fun fact, because the Dreamcast was way more easier to play pirated games, the console was way more popular than GameCube or Xbox.
Greetings!
I'm from Brazil and I just knew Sega because of TecToy. However, when the majority of exclusive titles has been released I have left SMS apart. Fortunately I saw Street Fighter 2 and some Mortal Kombats. They have their limitations, but they are really impressive.
There are some guys here that went to TecToy nowadays and it's a shame they have lost the most part of their archive. I knew they had to learn everything, with little or almost none support from Sega.
The first achievement of them was translate to Portuguese Phantasy Star. I saw an interview when the guy said they had to recording all the game in VHS to know to convert the text, because they had no support at all. I think this was very common by the time. I knew Ms Pac Man had the same problem in U.S. when it was adapted, but with hardware (that is even harder to do, I guess).
I think it's worth mentioning just how big was TecToy translating Phantasy Star 1 into Portuguese for our local market. It was a bold and expensive move that paid off, and that initiated a whole generation into RPGs that up to this point were exclusively in English or Japanese.
Like we can see here, most of the exclusives aren't great, but keep in mind they were made with local talent that had a lot of trouble having access to decent hardware to make those games on, and a minuscule budget, since the (many) Brazilian currencies of the past were severely undervalued when compared to USD.
They were pioneers, and should be celebrated. Sega owes them much.
Yeah, Brazilians were fortunate to be able to play such a great RPG in those days. Most countries had no home videogame market at all.
Tec Toy is the one that boldly brought Sega to Brazil. For this alone they deserves a lot of respect.
We had that underdog feelings by then. Neither Atari or Nintendo ever "cared" about Brazil (and it is easy to understand why). Having someone that give attention was amazing. I remember how happy we were when they announced Ayrton Senna's game. TecToy did see us by then releasing games like Chapolin, a mexican TV show we (still) love. OK, they did embarassing games like 20 em 1, but they carved a way for us to at least try to make our own games. They even made our first console, Zeebo - a castrophe, but still a good bet.
That's not true. Both Atari and Nintendo had strong official representations in Brazil
@@arnmrs1660 i agree in parts, but Polyvox never cared about the "newer" Ataris (at least I can't remember them selling the 7800, Lynx or even the Jaguar here), so we were stuck with the 2600 and all the clones. Playtronic did better selling all Nintendos up to the GameCube, but I don't recall they having so many ads on TV or even trying to reach our market as well as TecToy did. You can tell it because when we say Nes here, the first one that come to mind is the Phantom System, a clone by Gradiente, and not the official one by Playtronic. We lived crazy (but great) times here...
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Double Dragon fans outside of Brazil are still jealous of Zeebo owners.
@@arnmrs1660 Okay, the SNES was decently popular here, especially given how late it came out and how dominant the Mega Drive was... but I really wouldn't call that "strong official representation" lol.
@@arnmrs1660 Nintendo pretty much had presence in Brazil because they didn't want Gradiente to continue selling clones without getting royalties as such.
In 1996, Capcom director Yoshiki Okamoto came to Brazil and one of his activities was to negotiate the creation of this version of SF II for the Master System, a console that was popular in the country.
I've read that story, I call, sort of, bs. I don't think Capcom was impressed at all, even when they found out the final product was running on a Master System. It barely plays, the graphics are partly incomplete and why is it always playing the wrong tracks.
I just think Capcom gave Tectoy the chance to produce Street Fighter because they found a possible market in Brazil.
That's not true. Capcom staff were astonished with this version back in the day. They tought it was running in a 16-bit machine
@@arnmrs1660 yes, i don't believe that article.
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Capcom had no experience with the Master System, so they might have been surprised by those graphics. Remember, they also gave the greenlight to the terrible European conversions. And the Gameboy game, which skips a lot of frames.
As a Brazilian, I'm happy to see this. They're still selling those consoles, and good quality 6 buttins controllers.
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AS A BRAZILLION
@@LuizMGRamos Eu tenho. E sim, vale dms
Yes, finally, as a Brazilian I was waiting for this moment. So much good memories playing my friend's Mega Drive and my cousin's Master System! And this was on the mid 2000s.
I think that people, when viewing these games, should take in consideration that Brasil is a relatively undeveloped country, especially in the 90s. We have a lot of passion to our projects, but are plagued by a lack of resources. So just to see these games made, and representing so much beloved franchises is quite an achievement!
Man Brazil would be the place to live! Sega being practically current is insane
Your are welcome! :)
It's fun and interesting place only for Sega kids.
they say limitation triggers creativity, and humans in Brazil are indeed creative. we're poor and miserable but as you can see with Tec Toy we're working on it
Most of you will never be able to fully appreciate the magic of not knowing any better. Fot that being Brazilian alone won't do it, you'd have to have been a poor Brazilian kid living in the countryside. Great games for their time and context, Woody Woodpecker could have been ET for Atari and I would still appreciate it.
Lol that's probably true. I liked some trash too as a poor kid even in America. Taz-Mania SNES, sports games I had no interest in, I played a lot of bad, repetitive crap and still enjoyed it enough to play it.
I agree, also there's the fact that for many years here in Latin America many parents could only afford their kids those cheap clone system like the famous "Polystation" and the "Family", that would break out easily because of poor quality
True. Imagine me living in the countryside, literally in the rainforest playing those games in 1995, for what I knew they were the best games ever made
@@timedasher Brazil is not part of Latrine America.
@@leonardoalvarenga7572 I'm in Honduras, but as far as I know those clone systems were released in central and south america
I am mostly thankful to Tec Toy, because made my parents able to afford an Mega Drive.
Playing Phantasy Star 2 in portuguese was incredible. They did 1 and 3 too, but I couldn't play them.
I was wondering when you'd get to Tec Toy. That company is key to Sega's continuous popularity in Brazil. Even though this video discusses the Master System games, in which the console over there lasted until 1998 with some Brazil-exclusives, you should also check out the Mega Drive games. That, and many of these Brazilian ports are in Brazilian Portuguese and based on popular TV characters in the country: some as legal re-skins of other Sega games... with the exception of Woody Woodpecker and the Disney games.
By the way, Tec Toy has a TH-cam channel that you can follow.
those games have a special place in my heart because my family was very poor in the 90s here in brazil and the master system was the only thing we could afford, my parents told me recently they would walk to work just to save money and buy us tec toys games for christmas. thanks for the video and for the memories
These guys really did some cool things with the Master System considering its limitations! Still one of my favourite systems of all time and such an important part of my childhood growing up. Still got my Master System from my 7th birthday, would never part with it :)
Depending how old you are that is super cool you still have your master system I wish I had my original one from when I was about the same age 👍
Idk, they just seemed to port Game Gear games, their original games visually are kind of average for the Master System. I can appretiate that they were doing the games at the time in Latin America at all however.
I still have my Original Master System. My father gave me in 1989 and it's still working!
Massive props to Tec-Toy for keeping SEGA’s dream of dominating the console market alive all these years.
Tectoy was very important for the South American market. Thanks a lot for doing this episode. 👍
There’s a South America? Sounds horrible lol
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@@louyork8379 ever tried stand up comedy? You could make yourself rich, being so funny and all
@@louyork8379 if there's North America. So why is it so funny or horrible about the southern portion of the continent to be called South America?
Can we all appreciate that nowadays , thanks to the internet, our brothers in Brazil can play some of the games they could have never afforded before?
We are all brothers and sisters with Gaming.
"Castelo Rá Tim Bum" is part of every Brazilian 90's kid childhood. I never knew there was a game of it, but I 'm sure I would love to play it back then 😁
Great video. TecToy certainly did the best they could while going through some tough financial times (most of these games were made during the worst moment of the company). In the early 90s they came up with a couple good games for Turma da Monica (Monica’s Gang - a famous comic book series in Brazil). Also, most of their great work was around localization of games, which we didn’t have much in Brazil before and would have again only from the X360 and on. Games like Phantasy Star would see versions in Portuguese which was absolutely amazing at the time. I really appreciate all the work you have put in this video, including playing some games with local themes. It was a blast watching it.
Thank you so much Sega Lord X for this video. I am from Brazil and i like a lot your channel, very great stuff. Tectoy was very important to us, and see this homage was very special to us. Long Live to Sega Lord X😀👍
Ah memories playing Ren And Stimpy back on the game gear. I loved that game
I am brazilian and my first console was The TecToy Mega Drive. It was 1992 christmas, and I remember to this day.
Taz was one of my favorite ip’s as a child. Obviously I love the Genesis version of that game.
As a brazilian and Sega fan, great video
slx is my favorite new channel ive found in 2021
How cool to see several fellow brazilians here. Tec Toy played a major role making Sega popular in Brazil and it shows. I'm glad you made a video about these ones even though just a few had real quality
By the way, you should try to contact Filipe from Sega Retro BR (biggest brazilian Sega channel on youtube), he surely would share some words with you about Tec Toy and such - he is fluent in english
Great video. Living in Taiwan, I always love hearing about video game markets outside the big 3. Games were such a big part of me and my friends' childhoods, and I'm very interested to learn about the gaming experiences of kids in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s outside North America, Western Europe, and Japan.
Yes. Tech-toy was a mixed bag but they put thousands of Sega's in Brazilian homes. I have a lot of respect for them. Sega is still big in Brazil and last I knew, TT is still making multi game master systems and genesis systems.
I literally threw my "20 em 1" cartridge out of window, so bad it was that game. However, i like most of Tec Toy efforts to do exclusive games to our market (i'm from Brazil), specially Legend Of Illusion. Great video, Sega Lord X! Cheers from Brazil! :)
I'm Portuguese and I had a master system 2, but I don't remember existing Tec toy games here in Portugal. I had awesome games for that platform, RoboCop Vs terminator, rastan, assault city, double dragon an ninja garden, had others too but these were more memorable.
The late master system consoles were imported from Brazil. Tectoy manufactured them, and sent to Portugal without its logo.
Sega Lord X always provides the quality late weekend cheap beer drinking late night TH-cam content I need. My liver and I salute you, man!
Another great video! Back then we were simply happy to have a video game our parents could easily buy in any store, with tons of games available - even if they were in English. That was the SMS.
I’ve played Street Fighter II’ on the MS(through emulation), and it really is incredible how TecToy pulled it off. While not as visually detailed as the GameBoy version, it doesn’t feel as slow as that version does.
Not as detailed as the Gameboy version.....? I mean, yeah, the stages are missing details, but the characters are much better looking, even beyond the b/w vs. 15 colors issue.
There was also the Sega Top 10 from TecToy with 10 classics for the Mega Drive/Genesis imo, TecToy was a monster back in the day
Crazy to think some of these 8-bit releases came out at the same time as FF7, Mario 64, Goldeneye, Zelda OoT were about to come out. Imagine being the poor kid stuck with these instead of those.
TecToy was a huge part of my Childhood. My first Master System was bought there in 1989. The Mega Drive (Genesis) with Altered Beast as well. So many memories with my mother bring me games. Thks for this ep.
Abraços do Brasil!
It's funny that this is my favorite retro gaming channel and I'm from Brazil with personal TecToy experience.
The master system port of street fighter 2 is pretty impressive
Zillion was an interesting case: additionally to the toy, TecToy was able to get the main open TV channel airing the animated series too!
Video been uploaded one minute, and already one dislike. Man, someone must really hate the master system. 🤦♂️😂
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That dislike to have actually been SLX 😆
@Old Man Oh for sure, it was just a joke about his dislike for most of the games featured in the video.
Sou do Brazil, meus parabéns, seu vídeo ficou perfeito!
Oh, this takes me back. Tec Toy was almost synonymous with Sega growing up.
Sega Lord X, this was an amazing episode, cheers
A curiosity that even some younger Brazilian Master System fans might don't know: the first cartridges had a 3D sticker with TecToy's logo where you see "Sega". It was pretty cool. But they removed further.
That game Fire and Ice... I'm gonna give a classic cop question.
"OK, where's the fire?"
It would be great for people with less time to make so your videos have segments/sections on the bottom with for exemple, the name of the game you are talking about, etc. When you let us hear many music samples, there again a segment at the bottom would be great for people who would prefer to skip those. I only mention it because most of the other creators I follow started to do those in the past year or so.
It would also be useful for directly finding a particular section of an already watched video of yours.
Anyway, think about it and let us know! Great and interesting video as usual!
10:21 who in the hell thought that sounded like something a human would want to hear?
You have to hand it to Tectoy. They saw a golden opportunity and they rode it out for the long haul. They had a market starved for games, and by God that's what they delivered.
I'm actually impressed that a toy company started porting Sega Genesis and game gear to the master system without any support from Sega.
It's funny how TecToy launches 'Fire & Ice' and 'Battlemaniacs' as a final product! If I remember correctly both are just betas dropped by Virgin of the European versions.
There was a Genesis version of that Micky's Ultimate Challenge game. I remember playing it as a kid... and I remember it sucking. All I remember is getting confused on what to do and wanting to play something consistent like Sonic instead.
Mega Drive*
@@leonardoalvarenga7572 ???
We brazilians were summoned here, and here we are!
Hello from France. Thanks for your video
DUDE!! That is one badass intro!!
Brazilian here, and the Master System 2 was my very first videogame console ever, way back in 1991.
I used to rent some of the games you've mentioned...
And no amount of nostalgia can save them. Got some of them in a emulator some time ago, and yeah, only my 6yo self was capable of enjoying those things.
Tectoy best work was the localizated versions of Phantasy Star games. They home made software was terrible even back then. But they sold well thanks to good marketing.
This video brought me memories from my Master System Super Compact, a Tec Toy exclusive Master System console (almost a Game Gear without screen ).
20:09 SEGA Lord X, you have to realize that Brazil, much like several countries back in those days, didn't have the robust economy as the US, Canadian, Japanese and European markets have, in fact, several countries had things like an import tax policy, lack of support from the console manufacturer, focusing on the aforementioned markets, among other things.
Some countries like Mexico (A country where Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony strongly support) is a balance line inbetween, and do afford official video games, others like the Philippines, it's impossible to own the new gaming experience, and is relegated to a rich person's past time.
I love how these 8 bit systems had tons of ports of 16 bit games, with box arts taken from the main ports, some even going so far as putting screenshots from the arcade on the back of the box, but when they did a port of Sonic 3D Blast, couldn't quite put the 3D on it and went with just Sonic Blast instead.
I had a Master System III compact with Sonic built-in. Great game. But for some reason they cut the final credits.
The built-in version of the game had the credits omitted presumably because of ROM size limitations though I am curious as to why the credits omission actually happened.
The cartridge version has the credits intact, complete with Sonic and his microphone
Thanks for doing this video...I'd heard about Tec Toy and the Brazilian video game market, but I wasn't sure what to expect. Glad you were able to shed a little light.
Man that was cool. As a Brazilian gamer this hits right in the feels. Until today you can buy a brand new master system and Genesis in big retail stores over here.
I'm Brazilian but I didn't know some of these games haha, I discover your channel recently and I'm watching a lot of videos, thanks SLX!
Indeed, Fantasia on the Megadrive is a game I enjoy even though you'd say it's broken. However it was the first game I played on the system so to me it's special and all I knew, hell I've beaten it. However looking back I realise the problem the game had but if thats all you owned it's a case of ignorance is bliss. It would be nice to see you make a video comparing titles of the Game Gear and Master System games with the same name and seeing what the differences are, for example Predator 2, Alien Syndrome, Fantasy Zone, Space Harrier and I'm sure I missed out some others are different games on the Game Gear and arent ported from the MS. A Common misconception is that GG games are the same as their MS counterparts which is not true for a lot of them. It would be nice if you would compare them to highlight this in one of your vids in future!
When I eas kid I loved play Ecco Tides of Time from Master System, I think is a version more easy than Genesis version and some parts are substituted by puzzles (easy puzzles).
Back as a teenager in the 80’ I remember warmly about the Master System. I enjoyed every moment i shared with it and have many games on my Hyperspin arcade machine.
Sega Lord X,thx for all the amazing content 🙌
Not to mention a lot of the music here is uh, pretty rough. I kinda feel bad for the Brazilian Master System fans who mostly had this to play when the system was discontinued in most of the rest of the world.
Whoaaa, lots of nostalgic Brazilians here!
Tec Toy was huge in the nineties, still own my tec toy Mega drive, from 1998
I really like the look of Sonic Blast.
Looooolll!!! Castelo Ra-Tin-Bum. I watched this shit when I was a kid, and I remember loving it. Didnt know it got a game on the Master system.
The Master System in Brazil was like Sega Genesis in US. As Sega of America, Tec Toy did a lot to keep the console alive as long as possible.
It's still alive to this very freaking day! Just visit their website. ;)
The Virtua Fighter anime is quite underrated, especially given the overall generic characters and plot from the source material it was based on. Subbed in preference.
Subbed is typically preferential for almost every anime. English dubs and other languages can be fun but most the time are inferior to the original. I know a lot of people simply won't watch stuff subbed but subbed is life for me.
Well i guess that this is what happen when you try an anime adaptation to a game with no storyline
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It was pretty common especially back in the late '80s and '90s.
Usually it would just be filled to the brim with complete gibberish and nonsense. I mean if you don't have a back story or any real story really you can just make stuff up.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu And I way more preffer the anime version of the characters. They even tied some origin story for certain aspects of the characters from the games, like showing how Paï Chan became an actress and Jacky actually doing F1 racing.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu This ain't the 90s anymore. Plenty of anime today have great English dubs. Some anime are even better dubbed than subbed with Cowboy Bebop being the prime example.
Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum, Mônica, sítio do picapau amarelo... they made so many games nationally it's surprising. And every now and then they released the same master system with varying formats and built-in games. In an age and place where there was so little entertainment options compared to today, I think that was great. By the way, at that time I owned a Dynavision II, which was a pirate version of the NES. And my friend had a Phantom System. Fancy names, lol.
What about Buggy Run? Definitely the best TecToy game. One of the best racing games on the master system
Thanks SegaLord X !
greetings from Brazil!
👍👏👏👏👏
I say, when it comes to old Sega stuff, Brazil might as well be a window into an alternative dimension from the multiverse where Sega never lost relevancy
It's just incredible to stop to think how long Mega Drive and Master System lasted here in Brazil and that games like Duke Nukem 3D for Sega Genesis, Street Fighter 2 and Battlemaniacs for Master System were exclusive here.
In 2017 TecToy even re-launched the Sega Genesis with the original look (it's not the same hardware but accepts cartridges and even has a headphone jack as the original) along with that TecToy also re-launched the 3-button controller original and a Turma da Monica cartridge , can you imagine opening a brand new Sega Genesis cartridge ? and best of all, both work perfectly on all Sega Genesis models.
-Sega Lord X said "Argentina"
-Me: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It's worth noting that many of these games were also ported from exclusive Game Gear games which is why some have really tiny title screens because they kept the original resolution the same on those and the colours can be a bit off due to very little effort put into changing gradients due to a more limited colour palette on the Master System and less on screen at once.
FINALLY we from Brazil got some love! thank you!
19:21: I believe that both 8-bit Ecco titles are originally released for Master System, and then ported to Game Gear. The 1st title was updated with better colors for Game Gear. The 2nd title was not updated for its colors, in its portable version. Someone correct me if wrong, but I don't think either Ecco title would have gone first on Game Gear and then to Master System...
Less colors on Master System usually means a bad port. The Game Gear has a larger palette, and that's the only difference between the two, aside from resolution.
Tec Toy .. they are genius with games that no one could possible on a master system
They certainly deserve an A for effort.
Earthworm Jim for Game Gear was my only experience with the series so I enjoyed it not having known the originals. The best way to dispatch enemies is with your head whip(tap the attack button instead of holding it down). It does much more damage. Never could get past the timed underwater levels though.
great video. I am so happy you did it. I had my first genesis from Tectoy.
The master system had an impressive color palette. Can you only imagine if the console had the 3rd party support on par with the nes.
not necessarily 3rd party support but competent game making teams most importantly
Tec Toy is definitely very idealized on TH-cam. It's pretty cool they got to popularize Sega on Brazil, but before I clicked this video I knew most games would be pretty bad
Tec Toy's strategy seems to be no different than most shovelware companies when making software, just use a famous license and get it done as cheaply as possible
I didn't grow up with the Master System, but most people I knew who had will mention Alex Kidd, Sonic and other classics, instead of these games which are mostly internet curiosities
The x-men game reminded me of the game gear release also. Especially when I saw Rouge get that ❤️
Great video! You should do a follow-up with all of the re-branded Tec Toy games that took already-released SMS titles and just palette-swapped characters.
Greetings from Brazil ! Thank you for made a video from my favorite brasilian game "maker".
Tectoy was such an important company for the history of videogames on Brasil, until this day we call Sega's Mega Drive the "videogame da criança triste"
What? How old are you? The Mega Drive was very celebrated among my friends and me.
There were also some rom hacks in which they replaced some of the sprites with characters from Cartoons and TV shows. Some worth mentioning are "Monica no castelo do dragão" which is a wonder boy in monster land rom hack, and "Chapolim vs Dracula" which is a Ghost house rom hack.
Most of the games showed in the video were mostly ignored by older players with young children being the main target given their inexperience with videogames.
Hey you forgot the ones that are kind of rom hacks of other games! Such as the 2 Turma da Monica games, the Sapo Xulé games, Geraldinho, Chapolim vs Dracula, and a few others
Didn’t forgot em, I just wanted to focus on the truly exclusive stuff.
@@SegaLordX you should try them sometime. Much better than the other games they made lol
My first console was a Master System from TecToy with Sonic 1, Luckly i "missed" this games but i realy had some fun playing Wonder Boy 2 and 3 from TecToy that was a translated game with skins of Mônica Gang a comic book popular in Brazil, also Ghost House with Chapolim Colorado a mexican tv show.
15:10 Street Fighter II in Master System have a funny story.
A Capcom employee from Japan was invited to play a "Street Fighter II to Mega Drive/Sega Genesis", he played the game with a Genesis controller.
He's said "well, don't be alright, the sprites and sceneries are low quality, the game are slow...", but the Tectoy surprised he when show him that was not a Genesis version but a Master System version hahaha
PT: Sorry for my bad English
Hahahah
The story of the Master System in Brazil is fascinating but I can tell for the most part we weren't missing out on some sort of treasure trove.