A few things...

[pinkstone]

Hi, after reading the new guide, I have a few points that could be useful to fill some gaps regarding some systems, if you are interested in the “import” market (I´m with Roloff on this one) . The market I´m talking about is Argentina.

Atari 2600 : We had two (perhaps more) brands of Atari 2600 carts . The legal one (I think) was called Edu Juegos . I have two carts from them: Super Futbol aka Championship Soccer and Super Tennis aka Tennis . Today, I opened Super Tennis and looked the chip inside...guess what I found:

94R64B-3022
C017480-07
1983 ATARI
8425 CJA
Taiwan

They built VCS clones, too… . my guess is they got the permission to produce clones and games from Skydata...only licensee of Atari equipment here in Argentina.
The second brand name is Artkaris. I have a few ones, as stated below:

- Carnival
- Donkey Jong Jr.
- Enduro
- H.E.R.O.
- Keystone Capers
- Megaforce 1 - Star Master - River Raid - Laser Gate - Sea Quest - Gorf – Enduro – Donkey Kong ( 8 in 1 )
- Megamania
- Moon Patrol - Smurf : Rescue in Gargamel´s Castle - Championship Soccer - Tennis ( 4 in 1 )
- Planet Patrol
- Pressure Cooker
- Real Sports Tennis - Real Sports Volleyball - Basketball – Boxing (4 in 1)
- Snoopy & The Red Baron
- Super Cobra

they got generic boxes with the same art in all of them.

Coleco Vision : Kenia Fueguina S.A. manufactured the Coleco under the CBS label and did the carts too.

Commodore 64: Drean manufactured all the Commodore 8 bit line ( 16, 64, 64C, 128)...well not the SX64 nor 64GS, under the label “Drean Commodore XX” beginning in 1984. As far as I know they didn´t release any cart but I could ask.

Pong Systems: I recently saw a Tele-match (without any number after the name) manufactured here.

CZ Spectrum: We got Spectrum clones too... the CZ Spectrum has two joysticks ports...this and others models were made by Czerweny.

I hope it helps.

Diego
Buenos Aires, Argentina

[digitalpress]

Thanks, this helps a lot!

I'll point the editors to their respective sections. I'm sure they'll want to update the sections accordingly.

Thanks again for the info!

[pinkstone]

More...

The Pong system was called Telematch (no Tele-Match) without any number but on the box´ side says ´Model J5´. It was manufactured here by Panoramic on 1977. It has two knobs a la Odyssey (very similar) and five games (Pong variations) that you can select very much like the Channel F.

Diego
Buenos Aires, Argentina

[Sly DC]

Thanks very much Diego,

I'll add this information in the next DP guide. I had only 4 Brasilian Pong listed so far, and this one if the fifth. Thanks again!

[pinkstone]

er...the pong system is not brazilian...is argentinian, so it would be your first one from my country.

btw, all the information I gathered was referred to things made in Argentina .

Diego
Buenos Aires, Argentina

[Sly DC]

DOH!!!!

Sorry Diego, i wanted to wrote South-American Pong system and not Brazilian Pong System. But all the four i have in the database are from Brazil, so the one you're refering is the first one to be known that comes from Argentina.

Thanks again for pointing this out!

[Master_System]

I´m from Argentina also, and recently saw this post. Now, i only say that, if you need any help when you write something about VG in Argentina, i have lots of cart scans, machine scans, magazine ads, etc. I don´t have many carts as Diego, but i´ll provide you with info.

Matias
Buenos Aires, Argentina