Dar Yar Electronics

Dar Yar Electronics Co., Ltd大雅電子股份有限公司
Logo as seen on the DY-3600
Origin	Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Years	1980-present(?)
Consoles	Atari 2600, Famicom/NES, PC Engine
Aliases	Supervision, Jamiko, Creation, Nasa (brand names)
Related companies	Sperry Corporation (華王貿易有限公司)

Dar Yar Electronics (大雅電子股份有限公司) was a Taiwanese company involved with the manufacturing and distribution of game consoles and cartridges. They were founded in 1980 and located in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

Brand names

Based on Taiwanese trademark registrations, they owned the following brands, among others:

Dar Yar/DY

The brand used for Atari 2600 and Famicom clones. One of these clones is the DY-3600 (DY-656), a Famiclone found in Poland using a Micro Genius chip and with a 400-in-1 Multicart PCB preinstalled.

Supervision

Sometimes known as Supervision Japan, is a brand best known for multicarts as well as a few rare single game carts. Most of their releases are characterized by using art of several early Famicom games. Later releases use custom-made art depicting either original or preexisting characters. Most releases they made are for 72-pin carts. Though 60-pin versions of their earlier carts do exist. There are also rarer Atari 2600 carts that they also made. The logo for the brand is edited off the Activision logo.

NASA

DarYar had their own patent for the name "NASA" wich is not the same brand used by DEKA ELECTRONICS INC. and Lingli Co., Ltd. They used this name exclusively in European countries to sell their newest Famiclone at the time the DY-636N, aslo known as the NS-90A, a dual slot Famiclone based on the NS-81 console from DEKA ELECTRONICS.

Jamiko

A brand used for selling TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine clones and Famiclones.

• Neo Boy (DY-686): Famicom clone
• PC-II (DY-730): PC Engine Core Grafx clone
• PC Boy (DY-750): PC Engine Shuttle clone.
• Computer Video Game (DY-616): Famicom clone
• Computer Video Game (DY-656): Famicom clone
• Computer Video Game (DY-696): Famicom clone

Creation

A brand exclusively known to have been used for NES/Famicom clones, their most famous clone under this brand was the DY-636, a clone of the NS-80 from DEKA ELECTRONICS.

• Computer Video Game (DY-636): Nes clone
• Computer Video Game (DY-636N): Dual slot Famicom clone
• Neo Boy (DY-686): Famicom clone
• Explorer (DY-726): Wireless Famicom clone
• Newten Boy II (DY-726): Wireless Famicom clone

Newten Boy

A brand used for selling portable/wireless Famiclones

• Newten Boy (DY-780): An early handheld Famiclone. The only known unit has a serial number of 000009 so it may not have been mass produced
• Newten Boy II (DY-726): Wireless Famicom clone

Activities with NTDEC

Dar Yar was named in Nintendo's lawsuit against NTDEC as having sold 135 of NTDEC's cartridges to an undercover buyer in North Carolina. This would imply that they had been more widely involved in exporting NTDEC products (likely under the Supervision name), further supported by the common appearance of NTDEC multicart PCBs in Supervision cases.

Connection to Sperry Corporation

A multicart credited to both Supervision and Megacom, while using a format similar to Spica or "Konami" carts

Dar Yar appears to have strong connections to a company located in Taipei, Taiwan, known as 華王貿易有限公司 in Chinese and Sperry Corporation in English. The most prominent evidence of this is a trademark registered by Sperry in 1991, "Megacom", being displayed along with Dar Yar's "Supervision" trademark on various pirate multicart releases. Sperry would also attempt to register trademarks identical to those for Dar Yar's "Supervision" brand in the same year. By 2013, Sperry would start using the S-shaped dragon graphic from the Supervision logo as their own logo, additionally using a version paired with the "Megacom" brand name by 2021 at the latest. It is currently unclear if both Dar Yar and Sperry Corporation are directly related to each other.

While Dar Yar was founded in 1980, Sperry Corporation predates the company by three years, being founded in 1977. As of writing, Sperry is also still in business, with their current business centered on the development and sale of third party video game accessories alongside other consumer electronics. Their most notable product is the Dual Catchmon line of devices.

Relation with BitCorp

Dar Yar seems to have been involved in the development of a Pc Engine clone from BitCorp, both of their PC Engine CoreGrafx clones share the same shell mold and PCB layout, with the only difference being small things like the markings on the PCBs or the screws being used.

Is possible that Dar Yar gave permission to BitCorp for producing the clone in their factories, or that their CoreGrafx clones were the result of a collaboration between the two.