Tianli
From Sega Retro
Xin Tianli Electronics Ltd., more commonly known by their brand name Tianli was a Chinese consumer electronics company specialising in VCD, and later DVD players.
In October of 1998 Sega Enterprises and Tianli announced that they had formed a strategic alliance to develop gaming and entertainment products for the Chinese market, with Tianli gaining distribution rights for the People's Republic of China. In order to differentiate their VCD players from their competitors Tianli came up with the concept of the "Game VCD Player", which was essentially a VCD player with Sega Mega Drive hardware built in. The first Game VCD Players launched that year, with many different models seeing release over the next few years. The unique concept of the Game VCD was that instead of games being distributed on cartridge, games were distributed on CD, with many different game roms stored on each CD.
Certificate from Sega Enterprises to Tianli archived from Tianli's defunct website.
Hardware Produced
Mega Drive VCD Players
- TLV-K981G
- TLV-K981GE
- TL-K989GE
- TL-K991GE
- TL-K993GE
- TL-2000
- TL-S2000
- TL-S2000E
- TL-S2000Ei
- TL-S2000G
- TL-SL2000E
- TL-D2000G
- TL-720K
- TL-820i
- TL-820G
- TL-320G