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The BitCorp Dina was a video game console originally made by BitCorp; it was sold in the United States by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade. It was mainly sold by Telegames at a price of US $39.95.
The Dina was a clone of the American Colecovision and the Japanese Sega SG-1000 video game consoles. There was a cartridge slot for Colecovision games and another cartridge slot for Sega SG-1000 games. When Telegames advertised the Dina (and it's Telegames-created clone, the Personal Arcade), Telegames advertised it as a Colecovision-compatible system; Telegames never advertised compatibility with the Sega SG-1000. It is also rumored that when Telegames made the Personal Arcade, the Sega SG-1000 cartridge slot was disabled. A CBS ColecoVision unit The ColecoVision was Coleco Industries third-generation home video game console, released in August of 1982. ...
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The Telegames-made Personal Arcade included a game, "Meteoric Shower", built in to the console, most likely as an on-board ROM chip.
The Colecovision's "12 second delay" boot-up screen was replaced with a green background with Japanese writing and the words "1986 BIT CORPORATION".
The controllers were modeled after the D-pad that was made famous with the Nintendo Entertainment System. Since the controllers were too small to have the numeric keypad which was found on standard Colecovision controllers, a numeric keypad was built into the console itself. Not all Colecovision games could be used with the Dina. Since there was only one keypad, any Colecovision game which required two keypads could not be used. Since the Dina did not include the Expansion Interface found on the front of the Colecovion, Colecovision games which required the use of an expansion module, such as Expansion Module #2 (the steering wheel), could not be used; this also meant that Expansion Module #1 (the "Atari adapter") was incompatible. Since the Dina's controller wiring was different from the Colecovision, regular Colecovision controllers, including the Super Action Controllers and the Roller Controller, could not be used. The incompatibility with the Super Action Controllers meant that the system was incompatible with the Super Action games (Front Line, Super Action Baseball, Super Action Football, and Rocky Super Action Boxing). The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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The main complaint of the Dina was that it looked and felt like it was cheaply made. Since the controller cable was attached to the side of the controller, the controllers were hard to comfortably grasp.
Telegames' entire stock of Dinas and Personal Arcades was destroyed in April 1994 when a tornado destroyed the largest of their two warehouses. It is also speculated that the majority of Telegames' stock of other classic games and other classic consoles (such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision) was also destroyed as well at the time. This may have played a huge role in Telegames' eventual abandonment of support for classic game consoles. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...
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List of incompatible games
- Fortune Builder (needs 2 separate keypads in 2-player head-to-head mode)
- Front Line (Super Action Controller game)
- Rocky Super Action Boxing (Super Action Controller game)
- Slither (Roller Controller game)
- Super Action Baseball (Super Action Controller game)
- Super Action Football (Super Action Controller game)
- Super Action Soccer (Super Action Controller game)
- Super Cobra (2nd button "bomb" doesn't work)
- Turbo (Driving Module Game)
- Victory (Roller Controller game)
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