diff --git a/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp b/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp index a5e4c68e730..9e665825fad 100644 --- a/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp +++ b/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp @@ -115,6 +115,26 @@ The "Mini Classics" keychains are by Nelsonic, not Nintendo. Bassmate Computer (BM-501) is on identical hardware as G&W Multi Screen, but it's not part of the game series. +**************************************************************************** + +Regarding Электроника (Elektronika, translated: Electronics): It is not +actually a company. It was a USSR brand name for consumer electronics, +produced by factories belonging to the Ministry of Electronic Industry +(Minelektronprom, МЭП). + +The LCD games were produced by: Angstrem, Mikron, Voschod (Russia), Billur +(Azerbaijan), Kamerton, Evistor (Belarus), Severodonetsk Instrument-Making +Plant (Ukraine) and more. Their most popular LCD game (Nu, pogodi!), is +known to be initially produced by Evistor. + +Most of the games are marked "bootleg" in MAME, because the ROM contents are +a 1:1 copy of Nintendo Game & Watch games. Known G&W cloned by Elektronika: +Fire(FR-27), Octopus, Chef, Egg/Mickey Mouse, Donkey Kong Jr.(CJ-93), +Spitball Sparky. + +The MCUs used were not imported from Sharp, but cloned by USSR, renamed to +КБ1013ВК1-2 for SM5A and КБ1013ВК4-2 for SM510. + ***************************************************************************/ #include "emu.h"