History
The announcement of the fusion attained great attention on the media, considering that Playtronic was the first company in the world to produce Nintendo products outside Japan. Shortly thereafter, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was the first console to be announced and then produced already on August 24, 1993, adapted to the Brazilian's PAL-M Analog television, analog TV system and bundled as Control Set (with one controller) and Super Set (with two controllers and the Super Mario World game cartridge) versions. The initial distribution included the Super Scope light gun and 12 games shipped and later sold separately. Even with the late release, the success of its sales snapped up 60% from the Fourth generation of video game consoles, 16-bit video game consoles local segment in April, 1995. The Nintendo Entertainment System was the next console to be produced. But even after the start of the sales, the Brazilian market has been dominated for a long time by Smuggling, smuggled (from China and Taiwan) and local Nintendo Entertainment System hardware clone, NES clones — one of the most successful being the Phantom System, manufactured by Gradiente itself. Due to this fact, the quite late launch and the high prices of Nintendo's licensed products, the sales were very weak. The NES clones and Tec Toy's Master System were still the best selling Third generation of video game consoles, 8-bit video game consoles in the country. Until its final year of 1996, Playtronic also brought the Game Boy, Virtual Boy and Nintendo 64 to the Brazilian market. But due to a long time cash flow problem, Estrela sold 50% of its equity participation in Playtronic to Gradiente for $7.3 million, ending the joint venture. After that, the Gradiente Entertainment Ltda. was the division created to succeed the Nintendo's local representation until 2003, when it left the video games business due to several factors, including the high dollar exchange rate, reduction of average household income and high diffusion of Copyright infringement, piracy in Brazil. After 10 years completely abandoned, Playtronic was acquired in 2013 by the businessman Leandro Mattos, with the intention of preventing the brand from being forgotten by the Brazilian people. At the beginning of 2018, Playtronic's games had already surpassed 100,000 downloads, becoming popular not only in Brazil, but in several countries around the world.Games
Playtronic games available for download on Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Uptodown and Aptoide are: *''EE-T3 Osório'' *''Melzinha Aprendiz'' *''My Balloon'' *''Amanda Challenge'' *''Kelvin Challenge'' *''Baby Balloon'' *''Cassino Playtronic'' *''Esqui no Polo Sul'' *''Cowboy Junior'' *''Come-Come'' *''Resgate Submarino'' *''Zoo Card'' *''Marinha'' *''Emoji Express'' *''America Soccer'' *''Bad Block'' *''Pet Adventure'' *''Micro Machines Playtronic'' *''Futpong'' *''Manchete Play'' *''Candy Ball Playtronic'' *''Tic Tac Toe'' *''Roadstar'' *''Busão Expresso'' *''El Chapulín Colorado, Chapolim Colorado - The Minigame'' *''Megamania''References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20191007002736/https://www.playtronicbrasil.com.br/ *https://www.nintendopediabrasilis.com.br/ Collaborative collection for Nintendo in Brazil *https://snescentral.com/article.php?id=0869 SNES Central's article about Playtronic Super NES games {{Electronics industry in Brazil 1993 establishments in Brazil Nintendo Video game companies established in 1993 Electronics companies of Brazil Video game companies of Brazil Brazilian brands Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (city)