Kingway Electronics

Kingway Electronics (慶威電子股份有限公司), also known as "King-Wei Electronics", was a Taiwanese console manufacturer established in 1988 and mostly active in the 1990s. Their products included the Top Guy handheld famiclone and a series of Sega Mega Drive clones.

Consoles

Famiclones

• Top Guy - the first known handheld famiclone.
• Unknown car famiclone, patented

Mega Drive clones

Kingway's Mega Drive clones were sold under many different brand names around the world, although Kingway's own trademark was "Saba" in English and 戰神 "Zhan Shen" in Chinese.

These consoles usually included the "UCS" "Universal Cartridge System" region-switching system which allowed cartridge region locks to be circumvented.

• KW-500 - a simple clone of the Mega Drive 1.
• KW-501 - also known as Power Pegasus, Super Bitman, Scorpion XVI, Aito, Magic 2, MG-16 among other names.
• KW-502 - also known as Subor SB-16C and Songa.
• KW-503(?) - also known as Songa II, Super Bitman, MG-16R, MGW-16 and Dendy Pro 16bit. The MG-16R, MGW-16 and Songa II versions came with wireless controllers, while Super Bitman and Dendy Pro 16bit did not.
• KW-505 - also known as TW-168.

Other products

Kingway Electronics was credited on some 8-in-1 multicarts sold for the "Matra 3600" Atari 2600 clone in Italy. However the console itself and other cartridges were credited to "Max'er Technologies".