News

The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) was based around the fairly common Motorola 68000 processor, but this wasn’t the only processor in the console. There were a number of coprocessors including a ...
The Sega Mega Drive (or Sega Genesis if you lived in North America) isn’t one of the highest selling consoles of all time, but it is easily one of the most important, and its fierce rivalry with ...
Demonstrating once again that it’s always just one step behind the rest of the games industry, Sega didn’t get the memo that PC and emulation gaming handhelds are in and miniature game-filled ...
Sega is going back to the well one more time with the Mega Drive Mini 2, which will be released in Japan this October (the Mega Drive was what the Genesis was called outside of the US).
but will be called the Sega Genesis Mini 2 here. Sega Japan revealed the Mega Drive 2 back in early June as a follow-up to the surprisingly excellent Sega Genesis Mini/Mega Drive Mini from a few ...
The Sega Genesis/Megadrive was the rival to the Super Nintendo. Like the SNES, it offered a vast library of games to cater to ...
Update 7/13/22: Sega has announced a North American release for the Genesis Mini 2. The plug-and-play system is launching on October 27, 2022 as an Amazon exclusive. Sega says the console will ...
The American Sega Genesis and the Japanese Mega Drive are the same machine on the inside, yet their cultural legacies are entirely different. The Genesis had re-invented itself as the “cool kid ...
The Sega Mega Drive - or Genesis, as it was known in North America - is quite rightly revered as one of the greatest consoles of all time, with a spectacular library of brilliant titles that still ...
The Genesis Mini 2 was confirmed months after Sega announced a similar living room box for its Japanese audience, the Mega Drive 2. The "2" indicates that this is a follow-up to the 2019 concept ...
You might be wondering why anyone would build device to dump Sega Genesis and Mega Drive cartridges. Perhaps they want to play their well-worn copy of The Lost Vikings on their phone, or they want ...