Emerson Arcadia 2001 / Leisure Vision / Hanimex HMG2650

[Ze_ro]

So, I'm sure everyone here thinks the Arcadia 2001 is a giant pile of garbage and not worth collecting (or is too young to even remember it), but I'm hoping someone here can answer some questions for me.

I was submitting all my Leisure Vision games to RF Generation, and I have a couple of Hanimex HMG2650 games. I know Hanimex sold games in Europe, but these games were found locally here in Winnipeg, and the copyright notice on the back attributes them to "Hanimex (Canada) Ltd., Markham Ontario"... so yeah, the Hanimex HMG2650 was sold in Canada. Also, some of my Leisure-Vision games have stickers on the back saying "Distributed by Hanimex"... so there must have been some relationship between these two companies. (Maybe Hanimex bought Leisure Dynamic's unsold merchandise? Who knows.)

Now, does anyone know if Hanimex sold stuff in the US as well, or were they strictly active in Canada?

Does anyone know if Emerson sold Arcadia stuff in Canada? I've never seen any in all my years of collecting, so I suspected that Leisure Dynamics had full control of things in Canada until I realized Hanimex was here too.

--Zero

[Steve W]

I don't think Hanimex sold anything Leisure Vision related in the US or Emerson sold anything Arcadia in Canada because of licensing agreements. I do believe that Hanimex sold some stuff in the US years before, since I have a Pong console made by them that I'm assuming was sold in the US rather than brought over from Canada.