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- Taito_of_Brazil abstract "Taito of Brazil (in Portuguese Taito Do Brasil) was a pinball and arcade manufacturer located in São Paulo, Brazil. The company originally started out as Clover Electronic Amusement in 1968, then became Taito Do Brasil in 1972 by Abraham \"Abba\" Kogan, the son of the founder of the parent company Taito Corporation located in Japan. This subsidiary was originally an importer of existing U.S. and Japanese machine components to be assembled within the country. However, the taxation on imports had been growing steadily, and the government's belief that pinball is a game of chance and considered a gambling machine, led to strict import rules. By 1976, within rules created by the Electronic Processing Activities Coordinating Committee (CAPRE), it became illegal to import pinball machines. This created a problem, since the popularity of arcade games in Brazil had been growing exponentially for many years.In 1978, with an influx of cash from the parent company, Taito of Brazil was able to build new facilities to accommodate the new standard of electronic solid state games being produced by other manufacturers. Because of the import changes, companies in Brazil needed to become innovative, and began creating imitations, or close representations of already existing products that could no longer be acquired. This included pinball and arcade games. Taito of Brazil began creating games by copying existing designs of successful pinball machines made elsewhere. Where some games were nearly identical in a physical sense, others had greatly altered artwork. In most cases of games created to look like their counterparts made by other manufacturers, the machine name was changed, sound effects altered, and often went through a modification of game rules. Such was the case with a Taito made game called, Oba Oba. The playfield layout was a copy of Bally Playboy but with altered artwork, and now based on a playhouse located in Rio de Janeiro. Where others were much closer to the original games, such as the case with Drakor, which is nearly identical to Gorgar from Williams Electronics.Taito of Brazil's most commercially successful pinball machine was, Cosmic, a clone of Stern Electronics, Galaxy.Additionally, starting in the late 1970s, Taito of Brazil began creating arcade game clones known as bootlegs as well. The only hardware available to them was an arcade board originally created by Japanese company, Nichibutsu for a game called, Moon Cresta (1980). Bootleg versions of existing games were altered to run on this hardware. Other minor changes were implemented to the software code including text, and sound effects. In total, 21 different adaptations had been produced, including popular games such as, Zig Zag, a redeployment of Dig Dug from Namco, and Missile X, a clone of Missile Command from Atari.Taito of Brazil closed its doors in 1985 after a series of unfortunate events. Michael Kogan, the founder of the parent company, Taito Corporation had died on a business trip to the U.S. in early 1984. This left much of the control of the Japanese Taito Corporation to the company employees, who were less enthusiastic about its subsidiaries. This added to a sharp decrease in the popularity of pinball worldwide as the result of the popularity of arcade video games prompted the decision to close down Taito of Brazil in 1985. The company was liquidated and all its debts honored without the need for bankruptcy. Kyocera of Japan purchased what remained of the Taito Corporation in 1986.".
- Taito_of_Brazil extinctionYear "1985".
- Taito_of_Brazil foundationPlace Brazil.
- Taito_of_Brazil foundationPlace São_Paulo.
- Taito_of_Brazil foundingYear "1972".
- Taito_of_Brazil industry Pinball.
- Taito_of_Brazil thumbnail Taito_Do_Brasil.png?width=300.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageExternalLink taito-brasil.
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- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Arcade_game.
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- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Bally_Manufacturing.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Black_Hole_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Black_Knight_(pinball).
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- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_companies_of_Brazil.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pinball_manufacturers.
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- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Centaur_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Dig_Dug.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Donkey_Kong.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Eight_Ball_Deluxe.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Firepower_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Flash_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Frogger.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Galaga.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Galaxian.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Gaplus.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Gorgar.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Gottlieb.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Inder_(company).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Kyocera.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Maresa_(company).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Mata_Hari_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Missile_Command.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Moon_Cresta.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Namco.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink New_Rally-X.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Nihon_Bussan.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Phoenix_(video_game).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Pinball.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Playmatic.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Polaris_(video_game).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Pong.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Rio_de_Janeiro.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Scramble_(video_game).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Space_Shuttle_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Stern_(game_company).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Super_Cobra.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink São_Paulo.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Taito_Corporation.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Time_Pilot.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Track_&_Field_(video_game).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Video_Hustler.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink WMS_Industries.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Xenon_(pinball).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Xevious.
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLink Zaccaria_(company).
- Taito_of_Brazil wikiPageWikiLinkText "Taito of Brazil".
- Taito_of_Brazil caption "The company's logo from founding to defunct".
- Taito_of_Brazil foundation "Sao Paulo, Brazil".
- Taito_of_Brazil founder "Abraham Kogan".
- Taito_of_Brazil industry "Pinball and Arcade videogames".
- Taito_of_Brazil logo "File:Taito Do Brasil.png".
- Taito_of_Brazil name "Taito Do Brasil".
- Taito_of_Brazil successor "None".
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- Taito_of_Brazil subject Category:Defunct_companies_of_Brazil.
- Taito_of_Brazil subject Category:Pinball_manufacturers.
- Taito_of_Brazil subject Category:Taito_Corporation.
- Taito_of_Brazil hypernym Pinball.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Agent.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Company.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Organisation.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Organization.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Agent.
- Taito_of_Brazil type SocialPerson.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Thing.
- Taito_of_Brazil type Q43229.
- Taito_of_Brazil comment "Taito of Brazil (in Portuguese Taito Do Brasil) was a pinball and arcade manufacturer located in São Paulo, Brazil. The company originally started out as Clover Electronic Amusement in 1968, then became Taito Do Brasil in 1972 by Abraham \"Abba\" Kogan, the son of the founder of the parent company Taito Corporation located in Japan. This subsidiary was originally an importer of existing U.S. and Japanese machine components to be assembled within the country.".
- Taito_of_Brazil label "Taito of Brazil".
- Taito_of_Brazil sameAs Q21563311.
- Taito_of_Brazil sameAs Q21563311.
- Taito_of_Brazil wasDerivedFrom Taito_of_Brazil?oldid=691078648.
- Taito_of_Brazil depiction Taito_Do_Brasil.png.
- Taito_of_Brazil isPrimaryTopicOf Taito_of_Brazil.
- Taito_of_Brazil name "Taito Do Brasil".