BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
This guy's account is cool as hell. I didn't even know Hyundai ever made electronics.
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Ever seen a Hyundai Comboy 64?
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This guy's account is cool as hell. I didn't even know Hyundai ever made electronics.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
No but based on the people driving them I've seen a few Hyundai Femboy
nowhat
Member
All the "chaebol"s in SK basically dabble with everything. There's "Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance" for example. It's not unlike the mob. Well, it pretty much is like the mob, and all in the family. But legalized, as long as they don't get too cocky or break too many laws, it's all good.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Yep, just look at Samsung. Breaking laws is ok as long as you pay off the right people.
nowhat
Member
In a way, it's kinda respectable innit? None of all this hiding things behind shell companies and lobbying like in the West, just a rather public "fuck you and what are you going to do about it" kind of thing. The cyberpunk part of me appreciates.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Yep, Korean chaebols are like I always thought about Cyberpunk MegaCorps, except with less spec ops and gun running (since they manufacture weapons as well).
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Holammer
Member
Back from the days when anything Japanese was too icky for Korean consumers. Anime, manga & Video games.
Some products like consoles were rebranded to bypass the bans, which started to get relaxed in 1998.
en.wikipedia.org
Some products like consoles were rebranded to bypass the bans, which started to get relaxed in 1998.
Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea - Wikipedia
lachesis
Member
Hyundai had electronics department, but I don't think they did well. I do remember they had some computer division and TV division - but all went down except memory manufacturing part, which separated from Hyundai Electronics... which was called Hynix. Then Hynix got bought by another big Jaebeol group called SK - and it became SK Hynix (dram producer) that we know of.
They were official licensed Nintendo console importer - so they imported SNES too. I think that was called Super Comboy, but pronounced like Super cum boy...
And Samsung was official licensed Sega console importer. Gam boy (Master System) and Super Gam boy (Megadrive) - Gam is shortend pronounced version of a "game" in korean- then later changed the name to Super Aladin Boy... (probably due to obvious reason that it sounds like "Game Boy".
They were official licensed Nintendo console importer - so they imported SNES too. I think that was called Super Comboy, but pronounced like Super cum boy...
And Samsung was official licensed Sega console importer. Gam boy (Master System) and Super Gam boy (Megadrive) - Gam is shortend pronounced version of a "game" in korean- then later changed the name to Super Aladin Boy... (probably due to obvious reason that it sounds like "Game Boy".
nowhat
Member
As the Wikipedia article you linked to says, it wasn't only because "too icky". There were legitimate, historical, reasons why Japanese culture was shunned. "Let bygones be bygones" and all that, but these things take time.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Never seen this either
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Not a collector myself at all but I love seeing late 80s and 90s gaming history. So much cool experimenting and niche stuff. I have such nostalgia for that era.
Holammer
Member
I remember reading about the x68k in Edge magazine. That was at the time when the machine was still commercially available and prohibitively expensive, truly eye watering prices.
The system was emulated back in the late 90's. I tried a a bunch. There's not many games for it and today it's better to just play the arcade versions.
The legendary Megadrive port of Gauntlet started as a x68000 homebrew doujin soft project by enthusiasts, until someone looked at it and told 'em to go legit and put it on the console instead.
NeoIkaruGAF
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
diffusionx
Gold Member
Sounds like something degenerate old British guys get in Thailand
diffusionx
Gold Member
yes, it came out in the US actually, named X-Eye, $500.