What are some notable regional differences in retro games and consoles? The Sega Saturn being renamed to Samsung Saturn is an interesting one, a lot of Sega related releases and consoles had different names in Korea.
>>12571476That's not a rename. That's to get around tariffs and import laws. There were Hyundai Nintendo's and shit too
>>12571576>"the rename actually isnt a rename!"all so tiresome
Third worlder here. I love my Toyota Gamecube.
>>12571476The whole thing with the Famicom being redesigned as the NES in western countries was interestingafter Atari crashed the game industry by flooding the market with overpriced shovelware, the general sentiment was that game consoles were a fad and the games on them were universally garbage compared to the arcade machines you'd find at bars and other places, and retail stores were unwilling to dedicate shelf space to games anymoreNintendo redesigned the console from the colorful playful look the Family Computer had in Japan to making it a grey box that wouldn't look out of place next to an stereo system and VCRcombine that with shipping it (at first) with a robot toy that "responded" to software input, they were heavily trying to position it as a broader tech product and not a game console
>>12571620>making it a grey box that wouldn't look out of place next to an stereo system and VCR combine that with shipping it (at first) with a robot toy that "responded" to software input, they were heavily trying to position it as a broader tech product and not a game consoleThat was more to fool retailers into giving it a chance. Christmas 1984 there was a surprise hit toy, the armatron, which was billed as an educational toy that would prepare your kid for a future commanding automated car factories. At the same time NASA was showing off the space shuttled famous canadarm. This caused a short lived functional robot craze in 1984-1985. Meanwhule the proto-NES debut at the 1985 CES show was a complete diasater and not a single major retailer was interested in selling the console. The ROB bundle was meant to be the bait and switch to get the NES into major toy stores by cashing in on the robot fad. This was a double edged sword though as it got the product onto store shelves but a lot of consumers were confused by the robot/"computer" box combo and didnt really know what it was. The NES sold poorly in 1986 because of this. The NYC and west coast test markets did well because they had playable demos but other reailers in early 1986 just had grey boxes and a weird robot no one wanted. It was later 1986 that playable kiosks of super mario were set up in retailers nationwide and began to sell well. Nintendo also started nationwide advertising in september 1986 which showed actual games. It helped that super mario was one of the top arcade hits in the summer of 1986.
>>12571583It's literally named the saturn. The manufacturer name isn't the console name
>>12571858Sega may of made it but Samsung published it under their brand and under a rename, it's the samsung saturn because koreans wouldn't accept a product being under a japanese name.
>>12571902^This.Sega and Nintendo made deals with Hyundai and Samsung to distribute their consoles and games in the Korean market. Though unlike Sega, were Samsung scrubbed their name off the products, Nintendo stipulated that Hyudai keep their name on the systems.
>>12571476The Mattel version of the NES that was sold in some PAL regions until Nintendo took over distribution themselves.
