EDOS - Electronic Distribution of Software

It seems this company is not listed. Just found out about this.

They were a chain of stores in UK who sold a lot of games for a lot of different platforms. They had a huge list of games and an inventory of semi-generic boxes and medias, and then they copy the game to you in the spot for a fee.

All games were licensed, no piracy at all. And they had a decent selection of MSX games.

Catalog is available here:

[ia800604.us.archive.org]

Just loved it. :-)

Found a few around on the internet. Looks pretty crappy job. :-)

[picclick.fr]

Got myself a "Flintstones" from EDOS. There is absolutely NOTHING written on the cassete. Don´t even know if that´s really MSX or maybe Spectrum. Must find a tape recorder first to test it and then, maybe, confirm.

A few for Spectrum on eBay UK right now.

Funny, absolutely no clear indication of platform.

[www.ebay.co.uk]

[www.ebay.co.uk]

Actually the company was already listed:
[www.generation-msx.nl]

But I have added some additional description

Looking at the catalogue, I see some strange things.

On page 5, it lists 6 games that were supposedly available for MSX, but I don't recognise any of them. As a matter of fact it seems that every game on that page is available for exactly the same systems. Seems a copy and paste job... which makes you wonder about the accuracy of it all.

Weird, yesterday I´ve searched for "EDOS", found the company and it linked to a book.

Thank you Rob! :-)

I´ll try my best to find a tape recorder and check if my copy is of a MSX game. I´ve seen a few cover scans online that list MSX games but not a single "confirmed" MSX game.

It seems that it was a (really) late player to the party.

Here´s the "flinstones" I´ve got. It was on a lot of 20+ MSX games so it´s probably for MSX but there´s nothing saying what platform is the game for.

Instructions are on various languages and include MSX loading instructions so it seems it was a real thing back them.

Very curious about this.

I suspect they had "grand plans" to expand this into Europe, hence the multiple languages. But I suspect they were too late

According to this the company existed from 1991-1994
[videogamegeek.com]

Seems similar to TakeRu in Japan, which existed from 1985-1997
[www.msx.org]