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mike_intellivision on 25 January 2009
BKK2 said:
mike_intellivision said:



The Intellivision had a 12-13 year lifespan. The test marketing was 1979 (some games carry 1978 copyright dates). The last game by INTV (the successor to Mattel) was 1990. The Atari 2600 was even longer. I have games from Atari from 1976 to 1990. Both are the only three-different-decade systems.

Including Brazilian releases Mega Drive had software released over three different decades too. A game based on a Brazilian game show was released in 2001, and a sequel was released in 2002.

 

Interestingly, I started to think about South America after my post. That market has often been a generation behind, which means you could find some really interesting games there -- and new "official"  stuff coming out long after the new system was out. This trend goes back to the Videopac (Odyssey 2) days with Clay Pigeon. http://www.videopac.org/database/index.php?id=63

 

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BKK2 on 25 January 2009

Yeah, some of the Brazilian releases are quite sought after by collectors. With that market generally being one generation behind it might be more reasonable to only consider official releases in each country. Mega Drive wasn't released in Brazil until the 1990s, so it's releases there only spanned two decades.



frybread on 25 January 2009

Thanks for the corrections Mike and BKK2, I'll put those in tonight.



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BKK2 on 26 January 2009
frybread said:
Thanks for the corrections Mike and BKK2, I'll put those in tonight.

Might want to fix Turbografx 16 (PC-Engine) too. It was launched in 1987 and the final release was NEC's first party title Dead of the Brain 1 & 2 in 1999.

 



theRepublic on 26 January 2009

I really dislike that Wikipedia definition. It leads to ridiculous "lifespans" that have nothing to do with reality.

For the most part, Nintendo and Microsoft consoles have been pretty lifeless after a successor has been released. I'm sure that is the case for a lot of the other consoles on that list, too.



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BKK2 on 26 January 2009

Also, Master System (Mark III) launched 1985, Sega's Brazilian distributor Tec Toy ported Baku Baku Animal from the Game Gear and released it in 1998.