Em s�b, 02 jun 2001, Sander Zuidema escreveu:
> This is a chicken-or-the-egg discussion we had many times.
> Are there no games because of the copying or is there copying because
> there are no games? I think at least a little of both.
> Brazilian MSX users could have united and contact Japanese software
> houses, so they would release software in Brazil.
Nowadays it would be easier, with the Internet. But:
1) We had got a restrictive import law, with said 'no' to all
people who tried to get something related to computers in a foreign
country. It was between 1976 and 1992 (I think so). So, when MSX was in
its best, we could not buy anything from Japan, Europe or even
Paraguay (ops, legally speaking).
2) None of us knew that those games where old as
MegaROM cartdriges.
3) We were too young. I started with MSX when I had 12 years
old. Most of us even knew how we could buy computer thingies from
foreign companies.
4) It was much easier to buy a copy with the local 'reseller'.
5) Konami, Topo Soft, Zigurai, Namco, Sony, Toshiba, Dinamic,
T&E Soft, Falcom... None of them were interested in selling MSX games
here in Brazil.
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