Dina (video game console)

The Dina is a video game console originally manufactured by Bit Corporation, later sold in the United States by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade. It is a clone of the ColecoVision and the Sega SG-1000 consoles, with one cartridge slot for each platform. Telegames never advertised its compatibility with the SG-1000,^{[citation needed]} and it is rumored that the Sega SG-1000 cartridge slot is disabled on the Telegames Personal Arcade.^{[citation needed]}

Hardware

The Dina's controllers are modeled after the D-pads made famous by the Nintendo Entertainment System. Controller cables are attached to the side of the controllers, making them difficult to grasp comfortably. Since the controllers are too small to possess numeric keypads, a single numeric keypad is present on the console itself. Any ColecoVision game that requires two keypads cannot be used. A difference in the Dina's controller wiring prevents use of Coleco's Roller Controller and Super Action Controllers and games dependent on either controller.

The Dina does not include the ColecoVision expansion module interface; ColecoVision games that rely on expansion modules cannot be used.

Software

The Telegames Personal Arcade includes the built-in game, Meteoric Shower. The ColecoVision's boot screen is replaced with Japanese writing and the words "1986 BIT CORPORATION" on a green background.

Incompatible games

Hardware incompatibility

• Fortune Builder (needs 2 separate keypads in two-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 (second button to "bomb" does not work)
• Turbo (Driving Module Game)
• Victory (Roller Controller game)
• Slither (Roller Controller game)

Keypad-intensive games

• Aquattack
• Blockade Runner
• Mouse Trap
• Spy Hunter
• WarGames