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Realtec (和眾科技有限公司), also known as BIC (Brasil International Taiwan Corp, 八齊實業有限公司), is a Taiwanese publisher and manufacturer that is best known for publishing Codemasters catalog on Famicom cartridge as well as a number of unlicensed Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games mostly by AV Artisan.

They also released a Famicom version of the Game Genie along with the release of several of Codemasters' NES games in 60-pin Famicom format. BIC was also manufacturing all the PCBs for Camerica releases, based on their having "BIC" PCB codes. Other Famicom releases included Videomation by Western Technologies (a licensed game in the US) and Fire Dragon by Gamtec.

According to the Oliver Twins, who developed games for Codemasters at the time, Codemasters had never delivered an authorization to retail the games on 60-pin Famicom cartridges^[4]. Since the European releases of the Codemasters games were not manufactured by BIC, there's a high possibility that BIC licensed those games through Camerica, when the later was in need of funds.

Realtec was also the parent company of Super Game, although these games were released under the name "Sugar Softec", presumably as a way to distance them from Realtec's more legitimate activities.

Gallery

Here are a few typical Realtec cartridges.

References

↑ Company information
↑ They don't seem related to the US company of the same name, but use the same logo.
↑ BomberBoy, a cancelled Realtec/Super Game title was released by the same publisher as some of the early Shanghai Paradise games.
↑ Interview with the Oliver Twins, 2016

[1] Company information

[2] They don't seem related to the US company of the same name, but use the same logo.

[3] BomberBoy, a cancelled Realtec/Super Game title was released by the same publisher as some of the early Shanghai Paradise games.

[4] Interview with the Oliver Twins, 2016

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 |consoles   = Famicom/NES, Megadrive
 |published  = [[Codemasters]], [[Gamtec]], [[Super Game (company)|Super Game]], [[Ex-Sachen developers|Ei-How Yang]], Western Technologies
-|connected  = [[Hosenkan Electronics]], Tiger Electronics<ref>They don't seem related to the US company of the same name, but use the same logo.</ref>, Shanghai Paradise (?)<ref>Shanghai's games use a similar ASIC.</ref>
+|connected  = [[Hosenkan Electronics]], Tiger Electronics<ref>They don't seem related to the US company of the same name, but use the same logo.</ref>, Shanghai Paradise (?)<ref>BomberBoy, a cancelled Realtec/Super Game title was released by the same publisher as some of the early Shanghai Paradise games.</ref>
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 '''Realtec''' ({{Mousetext|和眾科技有限公司|Hezhong Technology Co., Ltd.}}), also known as '''BIC''' (Brasil International Taiwan Corp, {{Mousetext|八齊實業有限公司|Baqi Industrial Co., Ltd.}}), is a Taiwanese publisher and manufacturer that is best known for publishing [[Codemasters]] catalog on Famicom cartridge as well as a number of unlicensed Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games mostly by [[AV Artisan]].