A lot of Brazilian people learnt English from playing pirated video games and using a Portuguese-English dictionary to understand it.

We do love videogames here in Brazil. The PS2 piracy reached a level so absurd that i would go to a street market to buy vegetables and someone with a small cart would be selling bootleg movies and ps2 games right at the side of where you would pick up some tomatoes. You could buy like three games for 5 reais(at that time, this was about 2.5 USD) IIRC. Some things have changed tho. Steam adopting Brazil currency and selling games cheaper to match the lower income of the average citizen was awesome and made me switch to pc gaming. Unfortunately the PSN is still way behind on that. The average price they expect you to pay for a game at launch is 250 Reais(77 USD), and that's not really an option for most people. Sorry in advance for butchering the english language. Language which i've learned only because i played a lot of resident evil with a dictionary at my side.

As a Brazilian i can say that 90% of the comments start witn " as a Brazilian"

btw, FINALLY a documentary about Brazil that shows more than just Carnaval and favela! Brazil is a huge country with so many interesting topics to dive into...

Same in many parts of Asia and Middle east, piracy is what drive the consoles sales, and Nintendo always who leaves the market first

As a brazillian, this video is gold! Is just amazing watching the outside point of view of the brazillian video game's market.

I'm so glad there's preservationists working on that stuff. Genesis ports as late as 2009?!

One cool curiosity to tell, is that TecToy got the license for the Street Fighter game, and she herself developed a Street Fighter 2 for the Master System on her own. Something totally official!

Chapolin was a popular TV Show in Brasil? Who knew. Also, this scene can also be experienced in Peru, polvos azules.

9:54 cultura mexicana en Brazil

Awesome job

Video games... Proving to be the best english teacher that a brazilian boy can have. Hue hue hue hue

I've heard stories of how gaming was in Brazil from my father. It's really cool to see things he would tell me about put into a video. Brazil and gaming has been such a fascinating topic to me since my father is from São Paulo and we're a big gaming family.

Fuck I love passionate people talking about things they're passionate about.

15:23 In Brazil we have this important expressions, like "eita carái".

Drew's reaction to the popularity of the Xbox 360 because of the piracy is kinda funny (as a brazilian), this is so normal here, have a "jailbreakble" console can make you way ahead against your competitor in hardware sales (but, obviously kill majory of software sales, in the same time, can make a already big game so popular that also can potentially grow sales a bit, works like a marketing "full game demo" for your friend our friends group, what is crazy). Nice Work Drew and some love for the Jogabilidade Crew

I would much rather call Pac Man "Eat Eat". 😂 that's a great name.

i wish someone would do something like this for Venezuela :o is impossible to even get a game here.

Awesome video! Thanks! As a Brazilian working in a gaming company abroad I'm eager to show this to everyone. It's really spot on and brings back so many memories! :)

Awesome video! Loved this piece of documentary: 2 things i would like to add: First: You guys have to understand that a video-game costing 2000~4000 R$ and just convert this to the US$ currency isn't too accurate. Because you are not paying 500$ dollars on a 400$ dollar imported console. It sounds fair if was like that, right? I'm not an economist but to put it simply, the minimum monthly wage in Brasil is R$972,00 to this date. This is EXTREMELY expensive, much more than it looks. In a country like here with all this social discrepancy, this is a hobby that many people can't simple afford it. Just to put in perspective, 2000 is like 4 months of grocery for a 4 family people or 4 months of rent in a suburb apartment in the city i live (Belo Horizonte-MG). With games on launch going for R$279,00, this is a quarter of a minimum wage sallary. Second: As long as the gray market goes, Brazilians have the fame for their resourcefulness, right? Here we had the "Locadoras" or roughly translating the rental places. In the 90's and 00's it was to expensive to buy the cartridges and you didn't had as many options as you have today, like buy, sell or trade used games. So Film rentals would also offer a long range of games to rent. But what makes this really interesting was that the people who used to rent games also put video-games for rent on their stores. So you could go to this store where they would have a bunch of video-games hooked on tvs and you could pay to play games there paying by the hour. This was as comon as arcades in Brasil. You should talk to @izzynobre, a brazillian vlogger who is erradicated in canada and a huge oldscholl games nerd. He has awesome histories about the locadoras, and can provide some cool insight. This doc is awesome, but sadly is hard to even scratch the surface of this subject here, due the so many nuances. Video-games are so expensive here due to our high import taxes, and in a point in our history, the government put video-games in the same category as slot-machines, so they could be classified as gambling machines and be taxed in 70% in their value, if i'm not mistaken. I"m looking forward to the next episode! (sorry bout the grammar, learned to speak english with the video-games!)

Insane at how much these restrictions have impacted Brazil's video game playing populace.

Man this was cool! Kind of reminds me of Mexico. All these older systems in certain parts are thriving to this day!

Thank you for this, Drew. Utterly fascinating.

Brazil’s current market is very similar to how Saudi Arabia’s game market was from the 90s until the mid 2000s. Piracy drove hardware sales here and pirated grey shops were everywhere. Official electronic game sales were 100% based on US imports and it was an expensive hobby. Not as expensive as Brazil though. After the PS3 started and lead an official release and distribution in Saudi, the landscape changed. Prices went down for games and hardware. Microsoft and Nintendo followed suite. Government started shutting down grey shops which sold pirated games.

Fun fact for everyone. South Africa is also very much like this. A lot less developed though.

For a deeper look at the history of games in Brazil, Red Bull's "Parallels" series by Pedro Falcão (in the white shirt at 15:16) is fantastic! www.redbull.com/int-en/the-history-of-video-games-in-brazil

Great Doc ! It is important to mention that in the 80's and 90's besides the consoles, Brazil had a huge connection with Arcades ! They were absolutelly everywhere to play :D !

For me, this is the first video that captures the promise of how Cloth Map was pitched. I was starting to run a bit cold on the idea after Ukraine since it didn't quite have that direct video game culture tie-in I was expecting, but this look at Brazil is very exciting. Very much looking forward to seeing more. Great work!

This was a terrific start to the series Drew. Can't wait for more :)

At 14:30, this Lanzetta guy said that those mobile ports for this white Genesis would work on cartridges, which isn't true. This console is a SOC (system on a chip), which runs a genesis emulator on a slightly better hardware and that's what make those phone games work on it. The only actual Genesis part of those is the external case.

1:29 I'd like to correct this part. The PS4 for 4000 reais was imported by Sony, not produced. When it was actually produced in Brazil the price was dropped to 2.600 reais (Source: www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2015/09/saiba-o-que-muda-apos-fabricacao-do-playstation-4-no-brasil.html)

Luchadeer seems to be popular in Brazil.

Great video! Brazil has a huge number of passionate players, and our history on this industry is a large, rich source of documentation like you guys did.Thank you for that approach and keep up the good work!

Fascinating, I remember hearing about how expensive the PS4 was when it launched in Brazil due to weird import issues. Crazy stuff! Those Brazilian only consoles are something I've never seen. This was super cool, great to see a side of gaming we don't often get to see.

Awesome job. Loved this.

This was great, can't wait for more of your footage here. Awesome work.

Underrated channel proper journalism.

We have the GTA 6 for PS2!

Jogabilidade + Cloth Map =

Dude AWESOME job! It's really interesting seeing my country from the viewpoint of an outsider, it makes me more aware of how different things are here compared to other places, even when I thought I was already aware of that. Awesome seeing you guys talking to people from sites I visit every day! Keep up the good work, I can't wait to see more content (and how things are over other coutries!)

Drew, seriously, this was awesome to watch, as a Brazilian and as a fan of yours. I'm so excited for the next videos, can't wait!

Drew this was the best video yet. Keep it up duder!

Ok the last 25 seconds had me cracking up.

YO I LOVE THIS! After Brazil maybe you can do a series on Korea and Taiwan, they also had a very unique gaming history that wasn't parallel with what was going on with Japan and North America at the time.

You've done an amazing job at documenting the bizarre gaming scene of Brazil. Awesome! :D

I'm 50% Brazillian but I never lived there, this sh*t is hella interesting

Amazing content Drew, you gotta be the first to bring this reality to light in such a clear format, as a Brazillian I am amazed by how good your research work was!

What a fantastic peek into how our neighbors to the South enjoy the same hobby. Great video all around and that Guitar Hero Genesis is a thing of beauty!

Gente como o Gus soa mais amigável em inglês né?

Sao Paulo has great graffiti.

Wow that was interesting! I love seeing stuff like this and the fact that the video went into so much more depth than just walking around the stores was awesome. Great work you guys

Super fascinating to see stuff like this. Keep up the great work!

Cadê o polystation??

I feel so lucky to live where I do and have access to quality computer parts. I just got a HTC Vive last week and now I feel even more appreciative of it.

This was delightful! Thanks Drew!

This video was a really well done job, covers many aspects of how the industries stabilished here over the decades, and how it is now. Looking foward to your other vids. Saúde!

*Corél! Olha o Corééééél!!!*

This Video made me cry. It proves that video games are life and no matter what the situation hey will strive.

That was amazing! Really looking foward to the rest of the series! Abraços do Brasil!

Thanks for coming over to Brazil to produce such an entertaining and informative video, Drew! Cheers!

Sim jogar video game aqui no Brasil é extremamente caro. Console da nova geração é coisa de rico para muitas famílias. O "nosso" governo brasileiro põe e abusa dos impostos em tecnologia aqui em nosso país. Eu moro em São Paulo e sim recorremos ao mercado cinza para poder jogar.

Então, se acham um absurdo o preço de um videogame no Brasil, imaginem outros eletrônicos menos populares para um público mais específico... No meu caso, que trabalho com ilustração digital, o ideal seria eu usar uma mesa digitalizadora para fazer meu trabalho, uma Cintiq 27HD da Wacom, que no USA custa U$ 2,500.00 aqui no Brasil ela é vendida por R$ 28,000.00 isso mesmo, você não leu errado 28 mil reais, o preço de um carro aqui no Brasil... Enquanto eu não posso comprar ou financiar nem um equipamento pra trabalho... Imagina se posso comprar um console de última geração... O máximo que posso fazer é ter um ótimo PC pra trabalho e também aproveitar pra jogar nele. Enquanto junto uma grana pra tentar investir no meu trabalho e poder comprar uma Cintiq.

I remember going to Brazil when I was younger and being amazed by how expensive video game consoles were. They were seriously like three times the price or more of a regular console

Outstanding video, Drew. Can't wait to see the rest of the Brazil pieces.

Thank you so much for making this video! I am Brazilian and I did not know a lot of what was said! You got one more subscriber!

one of the most interesting documentary videos ive watched.

Very well made video, finally something good on my recommended feed, thanks and love from Brazil :)

This is honestly one of the best videos I've seen on youtube. Seriously good production guys!

Easily the best video yet.

There are some mistakes in the videos. When Andre from Jogabilidade says we have a Master System clone, he's wrong. We have a original licensed Master System produced by a brazilian company called TecToy. They were 100% licensed by Sega. And Gus Lanzeta said Dactar from Milmar was a licensed console, he's wrong too. And he's wrong when he says about the multigame cartridge, they were 100% bootleg stuff. Dactar was one of many Atari clones produced here (Dactar, Supergame, Dismac, and others). The first and only company that was authorized to produce Atari 2600 and distribute cartridges in Brazil was Polyvox. Just like TecToy with Master System, Polyvox produced Atari here and the console looked just like the american ones, but with the company's brand instead of Sega or Atari.

Complex indeed. I had no idea about all the various strategies taken to bring in/produce playable games in an economy unfriendly to them.

Very well done. I'm passing this onto friends and my subscribers. Keep up the good work!

@3:05 he just described the core gaming scene in most of the 3rd world countries. Piracy still drives hardware sales to this day.

Greetings from the Jogabilidade fans!

This is amazing, Drew. Love it!

Phenomenal work!! I've always wanted to know about the Brazilian games' market; this was an excellent primer. Cloth Map is absolutely killing it!

Um salve para a equipe Jogabilidade! Muito bom!

I'd love to see a feature on playing those crazy down-converted games. SNES Guitar Hero is mindblowing.

This is your best work yet, Drew! Really impressed.

The best videos, I mean the very best videos, are the ones that catch you by surprise. This was one of those for me. Excellent work bud.

It's kinda like the gaming market in South Korea. I know the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo was licensed through Hyundai and the MSX computer was remodeled as the Daewoo Zemmix line. Which are way cooler looking MSX computers. Also jeeesus that Smash Mouth conversion XD

Those 18 minutes flew by. Very interesting video.

Amazing video guys, great job! So much nostalgia for a brazilian dude in his thirties :) Found the video randomly through reddit, now you got my sub.

great video, first time video watched by cloth map!! much enjoyed!! great production, tunes and insights.

please come to Brazil

Interesting

Amazing and very cool. Nice work Drew and crew!

My heart will go on and on! Another great doc

i subbed just cause of this video, one of my friends is from brazil. Hes known one of my other friends for about 10 years and he never used a microphone. It was only like 2/3 months ago he FINALLY USED a mic. We had theories he was a lil kid thinking it was cool to have north american buddies, we thought it was one of my friends gf's from another country that they been talking forever to each other. BUT NOPE his explanation was " I dont wanna look like Michael Jackson " LOL i was ded after If it wasnt for my buddy EEE i would have never watched this. I like to learn about Brazilian culture cause of him now

Brazilian sure love their KOF. This is a great video BTW. Things are similar here in SEA.

From Brazil, loved this video. It both portrays very well the reality of our video game market, but also is masterfully done a as short doc.

Awesome video, love it!

12:09 What's up, you Cool Baby?

SNES mini was released on Brazil at like U$ 300, because Brazil, of course

Great job on this video. It's cool to see how the gaming scene is in other places. Gives you a different perspective.

Awesome video! Thanks for the great work!

Teria sido legal se aos 12:50 eles aprofundassem um pouco mais a história do Telegame que é mega interessante. Foi disponibilizado pela Embracom pro Atari 2600. Você fazia uma assinatura e comprava um pacote que vinha com cartucho, modem e uma lista bem extensa com detalhes de vários jogos. Era só ligar o cartucho e o telefone no modem, ligar pra Telegame e informar pro atendente o numero código do jogo que você queria e através do modem dava pra configurar a opção de REC, em questão de alguns minutos o jogo já fica disponível pra jogar. Aqui o pacote: 2.bp.blogspot.com/_SOQuqJA2OKI/SUD3sL_DoJI/AAAAAAAAAhE/WWLgMurw1cQ/s320/Telegame_by_Embracom_4.jpg E aqui a lista: meujoystick.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/tele2.jpg?w=768

This has a huge vice feeling. I wonder how long before you are bought by Amazon or similar :)

This video earned my subscription. Interesting stuff. Keep up the good work.

Thank you so much for making and sharing this video! I'm from Brasil and I had no idea of all those cool information because i never lived in São Paulo. Still missing those days back in the 80's, when we used to rent Master System and Nintendo games.