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suffering through twitter during june

possibly my favourite rendition of journey of the sorcerer. gets me every time

i wanna make a witty joke about covid measures but eh

goals

time for a certain rewatch

"did you know that tectoy-"
yes. yes i did know.
"did you know that the mega drive in brazil-"
yes, i knew it better than you do

gringos don't @ me about tectoy every time i make a post about tectoy challenge

@eri source: i'm from brazil, so i already know this whole story

@eri the import ban produced several unlicensed clones, such as gradiente's phantom system (NES), microdigital's TK series (sinclair computers and apple II) etc

it wasn't prohibitively expensive, it was prohibited at all because the military dictatorship at the time (until 1985) wanted brazil to fend for itself and make its own electronics rather than import them (it didn't work)

@eri tectoy bypassed the market protectionism which prohibited import of electronics by making a deal with sega of japan directly to allow them to manufacture the console right in brazil, proving the market demand a couple years earlier with the zillion toy gun

like i-want-to-roll-these-in-flour-or-fine-sugar-to-make-them-less-sticky sticky

is black licorice usually very sticky or did the bag i get in the mail just not survive international travel very well

physical dissociation can be fun sometimes

the "much more than a toy, almost a computer" tagline in this ad for the master system is especially funny to me because the master system shared a lot of hardware similarities with the msx

yearning for the zeitgeist of home computing in the 1990s

datassette is a good treasure trove for brazilian magazines of that era, especially about the MSX computer: https://datassette.org/revistas/msx

another Nemesis Informática ad from CPU magazine dated 1990, showcasing their products and games for sale that year http://datassette.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/revistas/cpu_msx_14.pdf

the MSX was very popular in brazil thanks to Sharp/Epcom and Gradiente manufacturing their own computers in brazil during the import ban in the 1980s, however they were only MSX1

MSX2 was only ever available in unofficial upgrade kit form or via contraband

i also love how "Nemesis" was apparently "brazil's biggest softhouse" and yet all that history is basically lost/unsung compared to english-speaking countries

it's also funny to me how they developed for the MSX2, a platform that was never officially available in brazil