HkryCrkStudio Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 For interest's sake I picked these up via eBay recently... thought they were pretty cool. "Mania" carts are listed as bootlegs but I've never seen this type of label before. Anyone have any specific info on this version? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKELETOR68 Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Very nice find, no idea what they were used for. My guess is they were used for a rental at a vidoe shop? Still thanks for the pics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamshaft Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 My guess is that they are bootlegs. Very cool ones. I'm not sure if the copyright laws were enforced in the 80's in Brazil. My guess would be a big fat no. LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Oltmans Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 My guess is that they are bootlegs. Very cool ones. I'm not sure if the copyright laws were enforced in the 80's in Brazil. My guess would be a big fat no. LOL Indeed. During the 1980's the Brazilian government prohibited importation of computers. The aim was to bolster a homegrown industry of computing, however in practice it's biggest impact was to foster bootlegs and blatant knock off machines.... hence the number of unlicensed clone computers in Brazil of many then popular machines (Macintosh, Apple II, MSX, Coleco apparently, etc.) Read more about it here... http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/09/business/international-report-brazil-backing-computer-imports.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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