I am from Brazil and i can assure that the marketing of zeebo was mostly none. I heard about it just after the servers were shutdown. But i think zeebo was something very important for the tech developing here in Brazil.
Brazilian Double Dragon looks freaking awesome on the Zeebo , I'm more shocked there was no "King of Fighter's" for the Zeebo , every time I see a KOF tournament a guy from Mexico vs some guy from Brazil..
The thing is that Zeebo was a failure here in Mexico and they invested a lot on it. Brazil underestimated Mexico regarding the videogame industry here. No one here wanted cheap third-party consoles. Since the 80's and 90's in Mexico, we had official consoles and we grew up with them. We were poor but not that poor to buy a Zeebo. We could at least afford a PS2, Gamecube or Xbox even if we did not have money for the original games so, we would use piracy instead, but no weird unofficial consoles. Nintendo, Sony, Sega and Microsoft were always accessible here in Mexico. Oh yeah, and to us, European plugs look strange xd
Zeebo was not Brazilian, but a Qualcomm project to occupy a market niche in poor countries. This sold almost nothing in Brazil as well, where there were also consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony officially sold when Zeebo was launched, in addition to the immense accessibility of piracy.
It was the same in the brazilian market. By almost the same price you could by a modded PS2 and play with pirated DVDs that were sold for very cheap. For those with more money the Wii and Xbox 360 also could be easily modded to play pirated games so the Zeebo had no advantage to anyone, a major flop.
Hi, as Brazillian I can tell you how Tec Toy was a awesome game company. In 90, they bring us Street Fighter 2 to Sega Master System, and a ton PR-BR localized games. Zeebo was years ahead of its time, but without great games
Yeah... but other than having a pretty great graphics for an 8 bit system, the gameplay was pretty bad, even knock off SF clones for NES had a better gameplay, which is a shame, because the Master System should be the definitive SF experience for the 3rd gen era.
At the time, I remember clearly that Tectoy claimed they were not competing with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, however, this was a lie. The Zeebo system used to be pretty much the same price as a PS2 (still going strong in Brazil at the time) and with much less games on it, and since you could buy an unlocked PS2 very easily, and having access to pirate games was somehow even cheaper than the ones being offered by Zeebo, people would obviously pay for the system that has more benefits on it, so, no wonder Zeebo failed so bad.
I worked at a department store here in Brazil when the Zeebo was released. I was responsible for the electronics, including videogames consoles, I don't remember ever selling a single unity of Zeebo.
Indeed, as a brazilian gamer I had heard of Zeebo before its launch cause I'm an avid gamer and it was news. But when it comes to mainstream media, there was not much on it. And it was even prior to its release a huge meme in brazilian gaming communities. I can confidently say that releasing a gaming console in Brazil without pirate games during that time was a hard sell to begin with.
19:25 That is also a Brazilian meme. The actress is called Renata Sorrah and this was a scene from a soap opera on Globo TV. "Senhora do Destino" if I not get wrong. Means something like "Destiny Madan" or sort of.
The idea was for Zeebo to have the power of a Playstation 2. Qualcom delayed all deadlines and didn't deliver anywhere near what it promised. There were even rumors of industrial fraud promoted by major competitors in the sector here. It was a pity.
Love it. I've heard of the Zeebo, but never saw one before. I would have loved to have heard your opinion of the game play, and overall hand-feel of the system. Did the Zeebo you got not work? It would have been great to see it running.
I still wonder why Brazil is so into Sega consoles. If I'm not mistaken, I think the Sega Master System is still popular there. Can anyone from Brazil confirm?
It's still popular among the people who had it back then and retro gamers, but only in those niches. While TecToy tecnically still sells Master Systems they are cheap Plug&Play consoles with some ROMs built-in, some of those even had mobile games bundled together.
The games were terrible, BREW was so difficult it made people unlearn things just attempting to use it, and the controllers were sad, but I still have a soft sport for this silly device and what it attempted to be. And if nothing else, glowing blue name logo is something I wish more devices had.
I heard about it back in the they more through ye olde goode foruns than their marketing. While Sega was active in the Dreamcast life cycle, Tectoy was selling them, along with Master System, Mega Drive, and some strange vcd-based karaoke machines. When the Dreamcast phased-out, Tectoy lost they main cutting-edge tech provider. I'm happy they at least didn't entered 100% in the zeebo company, instead being a holder/partner, or else they would probably bankrupt.
Due to the failure of the Zeebo in both Brazil and Mexico, plans to release the console in other countries like China, India and Russia were quietly cancelled after the discontinuation of the system in 2011. (17:42)
We are sorry that the Zeebo platform is gone. however, it is unlikely that I or anyone else could acquire the emulator (infuse) as a basis which was created by Tuxality to develop a Zeebo emulator with UI fluent design for Windows 11. it could probably relive the childhood of the Zeebo platform by the emulator's development in the future. Greetings -Rick Yei Becker
I wonder what they did with all the unsold consoles. They must be buried somewhere like the et no nes cartridges.I'm Brazilian and I've never seen a Zeebo for sale in any store, not even at the time of launch. Sometimes it seems like this was a widespread delusion and this console never existed
Every company that is ahead of their time fails. Sega had a VR headset ready to go back in the 90s. But they cancelled it when they seen Nintendos failure Virtual Boy
@lady decade do you and your other half have a online retro games shop ? Because wow how do you get hold of all those games and systems! 😮 Microsoft msx next?
I can't even begin to image what brazilian gamers must experience when traveling and seeing current game consoles. Also imagine only having master system, megadrive, zeebo and ps2 in your country in 2023. Crazy world.
Brazilian here. We do have access to PS5, PS4, Swith, XBOX Series S and X, along with PC Gaming and along with PC and mobile gaming. They are all selling in every major department store.
They're from Huevocartoon. They're very popular in Latin America, especially their home country in Mexico. Loads of web animations were made, movies were made...and even product tie-ins too, like their promotion with Vitovo Kids powdered egg.
if you don't know how to pronounce place names properly in their respective languages just stick to the English pronunciation and don't create monstrosities like whatever your (inconsistent, different each time) pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro (and with a show-off tone of voice at that) mixing English, German, French and made-up nonsense, cause it's so cringe it's borderline offensive to the viewers, almost physically painful to hear. Please for the love of anything good in the word out there, just DON'T EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN ;-; I'm not even Brazilian or Portuguese and it still made me physically curl up in this mental agony this caused.
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I am from Brazil and i can assure that the marketing of zeebo was mostly none. I heard about it just after the servers were shutdown. But i think zeebo was something very important for the tech developing here in Brazil.
May not have been the best option but I still think its cool it was a console that Brazil could call its very own 🇧🇷
Brazilian Double Dragon looks freaking awesome on the Zeebo , I'm more shocked there was no "King of Fighter's" for the Zeebo , every time I see a KOF tournament a guy from Mexico vs some guy from Brazil..
@@joezar33 KOF was huge in Brazil in all versions.
Your not Brazilian you speak English silly 🪿 they speak goofy Spanish
@@GodGangBlessed get lost with your misinformation
The thing is that Zeebo was a failure here in Mexico and they invested a lot on it. Brazil underestimated Mexico regarding the videogame industry here. No one here wanted cheap third-party consoles. Since the 80's and 90's in Mexico, we had official consoles and we grew up with them. We were poor but not that poor to buy a Zeebo. We could at least afford a PS2, Gamecube or Xbox even if we did not have money for the original games so, we would use piracy instead, but no weird unofficial consoles. Nintendo, Sony, Sega and Microsoft were always accessible here in Mexico. Oh yeah, and to us, European plugs look strange xd
Zeebo was not Brazilian, but a Qualcomm project to occupy a market niche in poor countries. This sold almost nothing in Brazil as well, where there were also consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony officially sold when Zeebo was launched, in addition to the immense accessibility of piracy.
It was the same in the brazilian market. By almost the same price you could by a modded PS2 and play with pirated DVDs that were sold for very cheap. For those with more money the Wii and Xbox 360 also could be easily modded to play pirated games so the Zeebo had no advantage to anyone, a major flop.
@@yockson4282 Oh well, nice! Then we are not so different after all 😅Obrigado!
Hi, as Brazillian I can tell you how Tec Toy was a awesome game company. In 90, they bring us Street Fighter 2 to Sega Master System, and a ton PR-BR localized games. Zeebo was years ahead of its time, but without great games
Yeah... but other than having a pretty great graphics for an 8 bit system, the gameplay was pretty bad, even knock off SF clones for NES had a better gameplay, which is a shame, because the Master System should be the definitive SF experience for the 3rd gen era.
At the time, I remember clearly that Tectoy claimed they were not competing with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, however, this was a lie. The Zeebo system used to be pretty much the same price as a PS2 (still going strong in Brazil at the time) and with much less games on it, and since you could buy an unlocked PS2 very easily, and having access to pirate games was somehow even cheaper than the ones being offered by Zeebo, people would obviously pay for the system that has more benefits on it, so, no wonder Zeebo failed so bad.
I'm just enchanted with your pronunciation of "Rio De Janeiro". Wonderful
Srs?
I worked at a department store here in Brazil when the Zeebo was released. I was responsible for the electronics, including videogames consoles, I don't remember ever selling a single unity of Zeebo.
Indeed, as a brazilian gamer I had heard of Zeebo before its launch cause I'm an avid gamer and it was news. But when it comes to mainstream media, there was not much on it. And it was even prior to its release a huge meme in brazilian gaming communities.
I can confidently say that releasing a gaming console in Brazil without pirate games during that time was a hard sell to begin with.
19:25 That is also a Brazilian meme. The actress is called Renata Sorrah and this was a scene from a soap opera on Globo TV. "Senhora do Destino" if I not get wrong. Means something like "Destiny Madan" or sort of.
YES. Time for more Lady Decade videos. I've been binging your content for a while. Keep it coming!
Lady Decade covering the Zeebo? Uncle Derek would be proud.
É um console que teve versões de jogos interessantes, como Resident Evil 4, Crash Bandicoot e Double Dragon.
I am from Brazil. Well done in the video.
The idea was for Zeebo to have the power of a Playstation 2. Qualcom delayed all deadlines and didn't deliver anywhere near what it promised. There were even rumors of industrial fraud promoted by major competitors in the sector here. It was a pity.
I love your content, keep dropping that knowledge!
Love it. I've heard of the Zeebo, but never saw one before. I would have loved to have heard your opinion of the game play, and overall hand-feel of the system. Did the Zeebo you got not work? It would have been great to see it running.
She said what games were on it and showed them being played.
Still a much better love story than the Ouya's.
I still wonder why Brazil is so into Sega consoles. If I'm not mistaken, I think the Sega Master System is still popular there. Can anyone from Brazil confirm?
... yes. Master System is HUGE there. There's many exclusive SMS games made JUST for that region, being in Portuguese.
@@TexasHollowEarth@TexasHollowEarth and it's still alive as we speak that's insane
@@TexasHollowEarth that actually blows my mind!
It's still popular among the people who had it back then and retro gamers, but only in those niches. While TecToy tecnically still sells Master Systems they are cheap Plug&Play consoles with some ROMs built-in, some of those even had mobile games bundled together.
@@yockson4282 That makes sense. I imagine plenty of Brazilian gamers are using the modern consoles, too, right? (Switch, PS5, XBox Series X)
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I'm Brazilian and I had never even seen a zeebo in person or known someone who has, let alone owned one, but of course, Lady Decade has one haha
What a brillient insightful video! Well done.
I lov u Lady Decade!!
I'm loving this Zeebo Renaissance we are seeing these days
Me too, I hope this serves to attract more interest from collectors and the hacker/modder community.
Glad you're collecting and reviewing these old consoles so I don't have to, also... money.
In love with this there needs to be mandatory educational games like homework!!! Newer generations about to get blessed up
Uncle Derek will be with this video if he sees it
The games were terrible, BREW was so difficult it made people unlearn things just attempting to use it, and the controllers were sad, but I still have a soft sport for this silly device and what it attempted to be. And if nothing else, glowing blue name logo is something I wish more devices had.
I heard about it back in the they more through ye olde goode foruns than their marketing.
While Sega was active in the Dreamcast life cycle, Tectoy was selling them, along with Master System, Mega Drive, and some strange vcd-based karaoke machines. When the Dreamcast phased-out, Tectoy lost they main cutting-edge tech provider. I'm happy they at least didn't entered 100% in the zeebo company, instead being a holder/partner, or else they would probably bankrupt.
Due to the failure of the Zeebo in both Brazil and Mexico, plans to release the console in other countries like China, India and Russia were quietly cancelled after the discontinuation of the system in 2011. (17:42)
We are sorry that the Zeebo platform is gone. however, it is unlikely that I or anyone else could acquire the emulator (infuse) as a basis which was created by Tuxality to develop a Zeebo emulator with UI fluent design for Windows 11. it could probably relive the childhood of the Zeebo platform by the emulator's development in the future.
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Stop skeletons from fighting has a couple of good videos on the zeebo, highly recommend if this piques your interest
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Excellent review 😊
I wonder what they did with all the unsold consoles. They must be buried somewhere like the et no nes cartridges.I'm Brazilian and I've never seen a Zeebo for sale in any store, not even at the time of launch. Sometimes it seems like this was a widespread delusion and this console never existed
impressive idea to update the console firmware/ software back then and download games. now it's normal for consoles now.
Every company that is ahead of their time fails. Sega had a VR headset ready to go back in the 90s. But they cancelled it when they seen Nintendos failure Virtual Boy
It’s not “ a necessity for gracious living”?
I still don't understand why outdated systems like the Master System and PS2 were still sold.
Es muy raro y extraño ver a Chabelo en su video Lady Decade.
@lady decade do you and your other half have a online retro games shop ? Because wow how do you get hold of all those games and systems! 😮 Microsoft msx next?
I can't even begin to image what brazilian gamers must experience when traveling and seeing current game consoles. Also imagine only having master system, megadrive, zeebo and ps2 in your country in 2023. Crazy world.
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Brazilian here. We do have access to PS5, PS4, Swith, XBOX Series S and X, along with PC Gaming and along with PC and mobile gaming. They are all selling in every major department store.
@@lpmbufftelecom Still incredible that you went straight from PS2 and Zeebo to PS4 and Xbox Series.
What? We do have current game consoles.
You are joking, right?
Here in mexico it was a whole marketing campaign suronding it
It's a pity that a double dragon game is confined on this zeebo console. Someone should extract it or convert it !!
That's a normal plug. God, the European plugs look so weird....
Another console I never heard of!
One of Brazils little inventions, who would have guessed?
It was LEEEEGGOOOO and still died? The owls strike again!!
14:05 you sound soooo cute speaking spanish.... u r lovely....
I'd still love to find one of these too bad the games are easy to download to it anymore
No feet 😢
All right. Marry me
So wait no feet Lady Decade?😢😢
Oh come on🤤
Simp
Interestingly, the box is written in Spanish instead of Portuguese.
This video does not contain or feeture Lady Decade’s elegant feet.
sad
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0:46 - What cartoon were these rats from?
They're from Huevocartoon. They're very popular in Latin America, especially their home country in Mexico. Loads of web animations were made, movies were made...and even product tie-ins too, like their promotion with Vitovo Kids powdered egg.
So, this is basically the Brazilian Ouya?
Just like a Xbox s in the fucher
Brazilian gaming is so based.
Controller looks like it's meant to be thrown in the bath. 😂
Nice , loved the touch of racism with how you referenced the people of Mexico , and you put trump in there good one!
Sirwilson from Brazilian youtuber play this one
Alô Tec Toy !
What the hell is this’ nice!
Figures why Sony is still on top
I’d buy this girls of 😮
if you don't know how to pronounce place names properly in their respective languages just stick to the English pronunciation and don't create monstrosities like whatever your (inconsistent, different each time) pronunciation of Rio de Janeiro (and with a show-off tone of voice at that) mixing English, German, French and made-up nonsense, cause it's so cringe it's borderline offensive to the viewers, almost physically painful to hear. Please for the love of anything good in the word out there, just DON'T EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN ;-; I'm not even Brazilian or Portuguese and it still made me physically curl up in this mental agony this caused.
Brazil is weird
it was basically a glorified toaster disguised as a gaming console. No chance to compete with a Wii 😂
I know you are married but DAMN! lol
Simon zeebo
Belzeebo
Zeboo=it will knock you the F&€k out!
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