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[1] and mostly active in the 1990s. Their products included the Top Guy handheld famiclone and a series of Sega Mega Drive clones.
Consoles[]
Famiclones[]
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.[3]
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[4].
- KW-501 - also known as Power Pegasus, Super Bitman, Scorpion XVI, Aito, Magic 2, MG-16 among other names[5].
- KW-502 - also known as Subor SB-16C and Songa[6].
- KW-503(?) - also known as Songa II, Super Bitman, MG-16R, MGW-16 and Dendy Pro 16bit[7]. 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[8].
Other products[]
Kingway Electronics was credited on some 8-in-1 multicarts sold for the "Matra 3600" Atari 2600 clone in Italy[9][10][11][12]. However the console itself and other cartridges were credited to "Max'er Technologies".
References[]
- ↑ https://twinc.com.tw/business/name/%E6%85%B6%E5%A8%81%E9%9B%BB%E5%AD%90%E8%82%A1%E4%BB%BD%E6%9C%89%E9%99%90%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/hallyvorc/status/1263069554046984192
- ↑ Taiwan trademark application 082042975
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/KW-500
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/KW-501
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/SB-16C
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/Songa_II
- ↑ https://segaretro.org/TW-168
- ↑ http://www.atariboxed.com/index.php?go=detail&modul_refnumber=1180
- ↑ http://www.atariboxed.com/index.php?go=detail&modul_refnumber=1181
- ↑ http://www.atariboxed.com/index.php?go=detail&modul_refnumber=1185
- ↑ https://www.ebay.it/i/132842587817