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</a> <button aria-controls="toc-Library-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Library subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Library-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sega_Virtua_Processor" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sega_Virtua_Processor"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Sega Virtua Processor </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sega_Virtua_Processor-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Add-ons" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Add-ons"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Add-ons </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Add-ons-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Add-ons subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Add-ons-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sega_CD" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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models </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First-party_models-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Third-party_models" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Third-party_models"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Third-party models </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Third-party_models-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Re-releases_and_emulation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Re-releases_and_emulation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Re-releases and emulation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Re-releases_and_emulation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Later_releases" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Later_releases"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Later releases </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Later_releases-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reception" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reception"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Reception </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reception-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Legacy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a 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data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DA%AF%D8%A7_%D9%85%DA%AF%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88" title="سگا مگا درایو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سگا مگا درایو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%94%EA%B0%80_%EB%93%9C%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EB%B8%8C" title="메가 드라이브 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="메가 드라이브" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis" title="Sega Genesis – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sega Genesis" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%92%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%94_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91" title="סגה מגה דרייב – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סגה מגה דרייב" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="سيجا جينسيس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سيجا جينسيس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%AC%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96" title="メガドライブ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="メガドライブ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive" title="Sega Mega Drive – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sega Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Drive" title="Mega Drive – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mega Drive" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a 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border: #dadada solid 1px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The original Japanese Mega Drive"><img alt="The original Japanese Mega Drive" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg/250px-Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg/375px-Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg/500px-Sega-Mega-Drive-JP-Mk1-Console-Set.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4240" data-file-height="2120" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Model 2 Genesis with 6-button controller"><img alt="Model 2 Genesis with 6-button controller" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg/250px-Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg/375px-Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg/500px-Sega-Genesis-Mk2-6button.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5760" data-file-height="2960" /></a></div><div class="infobox-caption"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Top: Original Japanese Mega Drive</li> <li>Bottom: Genesis Model 2</li> <li>Other variations are pictured under <a href="#Variations">Variations</a> below.</li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Developer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manufacturer</th><td class="infobox-data">Sega</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Home_video_game_console" title="Home video game console">Home video game console</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Generation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Fourth generation of video game consoles">Fourth</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release date</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">JP</a>: October 29, 1988</li><li><a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">NA</a>: August 14, 1989</li><li><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">KOR</a>: August 1990</li><li><a href="/wiki/PAL_region" class="mw-redirect" title="PAL region">PAL</a>: September 1990</li><li><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">BRA</a>: September 1, 1990</li><li><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">IND</a>: April 1994<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Lifespan</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>1988–1997 (Sega)</li> <li>1998–1999 (Majesco)</li> <li>1990–202? (Tectoy)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Introductory price</th><td class="infobox-data">¥21,000 (equivalent to ¥24,600 in 2019) US$189 (equivalent to $460 in 2023) £189.99 (equivalent to £550 in 2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discontinued</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><abbr title="Worldwide">WW</abbr>: 1997 (Sega)</li><li><a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">NA</a>: 1999 (<a href="/wiki/Majesco_Entertainment" title="Majesco Entertainment">Majesco Entertainment</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Units sold</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Sega: 30.75 million</li> <li>Majesco: 1.5 million (projected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tectoy" title="Tectoy">Tectoy</a>: 3 million</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ROM_cartridge" title="ROM cartridge">ROM cartridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPU</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000" title="Motorola 68000">Motorola 68000</a> @ 7.6 MHz</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zilog_Z80" title="Zilog Z80">Zilog Z80</a> @ 3.58 MHz</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Memory</th><td class="infobox-data">64 KB RAM, 64 KB VRAM, 8 KB audio RAM</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Display</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Progressive: 320×224, 256×224 (<a href="/wiki/NTSC" title="NTSC">NTSC</a>) or 320×240, 256×240 (<a href="/wiki/PAL" title="PAL">PAL</a>) pixels, 512 color palette, 61 colors on-screen</li> <li>Interlaced: 320×448, 256×448 (NTSC) or 320×480, 256×480 (PAL)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sound</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yamaha_YM2612" title="Yamaha YM2612">Yamaha YM2612</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments_SN76489" title="Texas Instruments SN76489">Texas Instruments SN76489</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Online services</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sega_Meganet" title="Sega Meganet">Sega Meganet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sega_Channel" title="Sega Channel">Sega Channel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XBAND" title="XBAND">XBAND</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games" title="List of best-selling video games">Best-selling game</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)">Sonic the Hedgehog</a> (15 million, pack-in)<a href="#cite_note-GameTap-2">[2]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2" title="Sonic the Hedgehog 2">Sonic the Hedgehog 2</a> (6 million)<a href="#cite_note-GameDevelopSales-3">[3]</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Backward_compatibility" title="Backward compatibility">Backward compatibility</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Master_System" title="Master System">Master System</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[a]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data">Master System</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sega_Saturn" title="Sega Saturn">Sega Saturn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Related</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sega_CD" title="Sega CD">Sega CD</a> <a href="/wiki/32X" title="32X">32X</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive<a href="#cite_note-5">[b]</a> outside North America, is a <a href="/wiki/16-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="16-bit">16-bit</a> <a href="/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Fourth generation of video game consoles">fourth generation</a> <a href="/wiki/Home_video_game_console" title="Home video game console">home video game console</a> developed and sold by <a href="/wiki/Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a>. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the <a href="/wiki/Master_System" title="Master System">Master System</a>. Sega released it in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive, and in 1989 in North America as the Genesis. In 1990, it was distributed as the Mega Drive by <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mastertronic" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mastertronic">Virgin Mastertronic</a> in Europe, <a href="/wiki/Ozisoft" class="mw-redirect" title="Ozisoft">Ozisoft</a> in Australasia, and <a href="/wiki/Tectoy" title="Tectoy">Tectoy</a> in Brazil. In South Korea, it was distributed by <a href="/wiki/Samsung_Electronics" title="Samsung Electronics">Samsung Electronics</a> as the Super Gam*Boy and later the Super Aladdin Boy.<a href="#cite_note-6">[c]</a> Designed by an <a href="/wiki/Research_and_development" title="Research and development">R&D</a> team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's <a href="/wiki/Sega_System_16" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega System 16">System 16</a> arcade board, centered on a <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000" title="Motorola 68000">Motorola 68000</a> processor as the <a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPU</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Zilog_Z80" title="Zilog Z80">Zilog Z80</a> as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware <a href="/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)" title="Sprite (computer graphics)">sprites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tile-based_video_game" title="Tile-based video game">tiles</a>, and scrolling. It plays a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_Genesis_games" title="List of Sega Genesis games">library of more than 900 games</a> on <a href="/wiki/ROM_cartridge" title="ROM cartridge">ROM-based cartridges</a>. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It was released in several different versions, some created by third parties. Sega created two network services to support the Genesis: <a href="/wiki/Sega_Meganet" title="Sega Meganet">Sega Meganet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sega_Channel" title="Sega Channel">Sega Channel</a>. In Japan, the Mega Drive fared poorly against its two main competitors, Nintendo's <a href="/wiki/Super_Famicom" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Famicom">Super Famicom</a> and <a href="/wiki/NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a>'s <a href="/wiki/PC_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="PC Engine">PC Engine</a>, but it achieved considerable success in North America, Brazil, and Europe. Contributing to its success was its library of <a href="/wiki/Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">arcade game</a> <a href="/wiki/Video_game_porting" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game porting">ports</a>, the popularity of Sega's <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog" title="Sonic the Hedgehog">Sonic the Hedgehog</a> series, several popular sports franchises, and aggressive <a href="/wiki/Youth_marketing" title="Youth marketing">youth marketing</a> that positioned it as the cool console for adolescents. The 1991 North American release of the <a href="/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Super Nintendo Entertainment System">Super Nintendo Entertainment System</a> triggered a fierce battle for market share in the United States and Europe known as the "<a href="/wiki/Console_war" title="Console war">console war</a>".<a href="#cite_note-IGNHistory2-7">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-segacd-8">[5]</a> This drew attention to the video game industry, and the Genesis and several of its games attracted legal scrutiny on matters involving <a href="/wiki/Reverse_engineering" title="Reverse engineering">reverse engineering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Video_game_violence" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game violence">video game violence</a>. <a href="/wiki/Video_game_controversies" title="Video game controversies">Controversy surrounding violent games</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Night_Trap" title="Night Trap">Night Trap</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_(1992_video_game)" title="Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)">Mortal Kombat</a> led Sega to create the <a href="/wiki/Videogame_Rating_Council" title="Videogame Rating Council">Videogame Rating Council</a>, a predecessor to the <a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_Board" title="Entertainment Software Rating Board">Entertainment Software Rating Board</a>. 30.75 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide. In addition, Tectoy sold an estimated 3 million licensed variants in Brazil, Majesco projected it would sell 1.5 million licensed variants of the system in the United States and smaller numbers were sold by Samsung in South Korea. By the mid-2010s, licensed third-party Genesis rereleases were still being sold by <a href="/wiki/AtGames" title="AtGames">AtGames</a> in North America and Europe. Many games have been re-released in compilations or on online services such as the <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_Virtual_Console" class="mw-redirect" title="Nintendo Virtual Console">Nintendo Virtual Console</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xbox_Live_Arcade" title="Xbox Live Arcade">Xbox Live Arcade</a>, <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_Network" title="PlayStation Network">PlayStation Network</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Steam_(service)" title="Steam (service)">Steam</a>. The Genesis was succeeded in 1994 by the <a href="/wiki/Sega_Saturn" title="Sega Saturn">Sega Saturn</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_video_games" title="History of video games">History of video games</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Development">Development</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif/220px-JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif/330px-JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif/440px-JP_MegaDrive_Logo.gif 2x" data-file-width="752" data-file-height="553" /></a><figcaption>The Japanese Mega Drive logo</figcaption></figure> In the early 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Sega" title="Sega">Sega Enterprises, Inc.</a> – then a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Gulf_and_Western_Industries" title="Gulf and Western Industries">Gulf+Western</a> – was one of the top five <a href="/wiki/Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">arcade game</a> manufacturers active in the United States, as company revenues surpassed $200 million between July 1981 and June 1982.<a href="#cite_note-9">[6]</a> A downturn in the arcade business starting in 1982 seriously hurt the company, leading Gulf+Western to sell its North American arcade manufacturing organization and the licensing rights for its arcade games to <a href="/wiki/Bally_Manufacturing" title="Bally Manufacturing">Bally Manufacturing</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NYTimes-10">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-herald-11">[8]</a> The company retained Sega's North American R&D operation, as well as its Japanese subsidiary, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. With its arcade business in decline, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. president <a href="/wiki/Hayao_Nakayama" title="Hayao Nakayama">Hayao Nakayama</a> advocated that the company leverage its hardware expertise to move into the home console market in Japan, which was in its infancy at the time.<a href="#cite_note-Wired1-12">[9]</a> Nakayama received permission to proceed with this project, leading to the release of Sega's first home video game system, the <a href="/wiki/SG-1000" title="SG-1000">SG-1000</a>, in July 1983.<a href="#cite_note-siliconera_Sato-13">[10]</a> While it had sold 160,000 units in Japan, far exceeding Sega's expectations,<a href="#cite_note-Retro163-14">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-15">[12]</a> sales at stores were dominated by <a href="/wiki/Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Nintendo Entertainment System">Famicom</a> which had been released the same day. Sega estimated that the Famicom outsold the SG-1000 by a 10-to-1 margin.<a href="#cite_note-siliconera_Sato-13">[10]</a> The SG-1000 was replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Master_System" title="Master System">Sega Mark III</a> within two years.<a href="#cite_note-16">[13]</a> In the meantime, Gulf+Western began to divest itself of its non-core businesses after the death of company founder <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn" title="Charles Bluhdorn">Charles Bluhdorn</a>,<a href="#cite_note-herald2-17">[14]</a> so Nakayama and former Sega CEO <a href="/wiki/David_Rosen_(businessman)" title="David Rosen (businessman)">David Rosen</a> arranged a <a href="/wiki/Management_buyout" title="Management buyout">management buyout</a> of the Japanese subsidiary in 1984 with financial backing from <a href="/wiki/SCSK" title="SCSK">CSK Corporation</a>, a prominent Japanese software company. Nakayama was then installed as CEO of Sega Enterprises, Ltd.<a href="#cite_note-Kent2-18">[15]</a> In 1986, Sega redesigned the Mark III for release in North America as the Master System. This was followed by a European release the next year. Although the Master System was a success in Europe, and later in Brazil, it failed to ignite significant interest in the Japanese or North American markets, which, by the mid-to-late 1980s, were both dominated by Nintendo.<a href="#cite_note-19">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-MarketShare1988-20">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-MarketShare1990-21">[18]</a> With Sega continuing to have difficulty penetrating the home market, Sega's console R&D team, led by Masami Ishikawa and supervised by Hideki Sato,<a href="#cite_note-22">[19]</a> began work on a successor to the Master System almost immediately after that console launched.<a href="#cite_note-23">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-siliconera-24">[21]</a> In 1987, Sega faced another threat to its console business when Japanese computer giant <a href="/wiki/NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a> released the <a href="/wiki/PC_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="PC Engine">PC Engine</a> amid great publicity.<a href="#cite_note-IGNHistory-25">[22]</a> To remain competitive against the two more established consumer electronics companies, Ishikawa and his team decided they needed to incorporate a <a href="/wiki/16-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="16-bit">16-bit</a> microprocessor into their new system to make an impact in the marketplace and once again turned to Sega's strengths in the arcade industry to adapt the successful <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_arcade_system_boards#Sega_System_16" title="List of Sega arcade system boards">Sega System 16</a> arcade board into architecture for a home console.<a href="#cite_note-siliconera-24">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> The decision to use a <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000" title="Motorola 68000">Motorola 68000</a> as the system's main CPU was made late in development, while a <a href="/wiki/Zilog_Z80" title="Zilog Z80">Zilog Z80</a> was used as a secondary CPU to handle the sound due to fears that the load to the main CPU would be too great if it handled both the visuals and the audio.<a href="#cite_note-siliconera-24">[21]</a> The 68000 chip was expensive and would have driven the retail price of the console up greatly, but Sega was able to negotiate with a distributor for a tenth of its price on an up-front volume order with the promise of more orders pending the console's future success.<a href="#cite_note-siliconera_Sato-13">[10]</a> The appearance of the Mega Drive was designed by a team led by Mitsushige Shiraiwa that drew inspiration from <a href="/wiki/Audiophile" title="Audiophile">audiophile</a> equipment and automobiles. Shiraiwa said this more mature look helped to target the Mega Drive to all ages, unlike the Famicom, which was aimed primarily at children.<a href="#cite_note-27">[24]</a> According to Sato, the Japanese design for the Mega Drive was based on the appearance of an audio player, with "16-bit" embossed in a golden metallic veneer to create an impression of power.<a href="#cite_note-:0-15">[12]</a> The console was announced in the June 1988 issue of the Japanese gaming magazine Beep! as the Mark V, but Sega management wanted a stronger name. After reviewing more than 300 proposals, the company settled on "Mega Drive". In North America, the name was changed to "Genesis".<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Rosen said he insisted on the name as he disliked "Mega Drive" and wanted to represent "a new beginning" for Sega.<a href="#cite_note-:2-28">[25]</a> Sato said some design elements changed, such as the gold "16-bit" wording, in case it was mistaken for yellow. He believed the changes represented different Japanese and American cultural values.<a href="#cite_note-:0-15">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Launch">Launch</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg/220px-Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg/330px-Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg/440px-Sega-Mega-Drive-EU-Mk1-wController-FL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4500" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption>The European PAL version of the Mega Drive launched in 1990, later becoming the highest-selling <a href="/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Fourth generation of video game consoles">fourth-gen</a> console in Europe.</figcaption></figure> Sega released the Mega Drive in Japan on October 29, 1988, though the launch was overshadowed by Nintendo's release of <a href="/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._3" title="Super Mario Bros. 3">Super Mario Bros. 3</a> a week earlier. Positive coverage from magazines <a href="/wiki/Famitsu" title="Famitsu">Famitsu</a> and Beep! helped to establish a following.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Within two days of release, the console's initial production run sold out.<a href="#cite_note-29">[26]</a> However, Sega only managed to ship 400,000 units in the first year. In order to increase sales, Sega released various peripherals and games, including an online banking system and <a href="/wiki/Answering_machine" title="Answering machine">answering machine</a> called the Sega Mega Anser.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Nevertheless, the Mega Drive was unable to overtake the venerable <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Nintendo Entertainment System">Famicom</a><a href="#cite_note-Eurogamer-30">[27]</a> and remained a distant third in Japan behind Nintendo's <a href="/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Super Nintendo Entertainment System">Super Famicom</a> and NEC's PC Engine throughout the 16-bit era.<a href="#cite_note-31">[28]</a> Sega announced a North American release date for the system on January 9, 1989.<a href="#cite_note-GenesisRelease-32">[29]</a> At the time, Sega did not possess a North American sales and marketing organization and was distributing its Master System through <a href="/wiki/Tonka" title="Tonka">Tonka</a>. Dissatisfied with Tonka's performance, Sega looked for a new partner to market the Genesis in North America and offered the rights to <a href="/wiki/Atari_Corporation" title="Atari Corporation">Atari Corporation</a>, which did not yet have a 16-bit system. David Rosen made the proposal to Atari CEO <a href="/wiki/Jack_Tramiel" title="Jack Tramiel">Jack Tramiel</a> and the president of Atari's Entertainment Electronics Division, Michael Katz. Tramiel declined to acquire the new console, deeming it too expensive, and instead opted to focus on the <a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a>. Sega decided to launch the console through its own Sega of America subsidiary, which executed a limited launch on August 14, 1989, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. The Genesis was released in the rest of North America later that year.<a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a> The European version of the Mega Drive was released in September 1990,<a href="#cite_note-Edge_Feb1994_DataStream-34">[31]</a> at a price of <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>189.99,<a href="#cite_note-CVG_106-35">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-ACE_37-36">[33]</a> i.e. $337 (equivalent to $732 in 2023). The release was handled by <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mastertronic" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mastertronic">Virgin Mastertronic</a>, which was later purchased by Sega in 1991 and became Sega of Europe.<a href="#cite_note-NickAlexander-37">[34]</a> Games like <a href="/wiki/Space_Harrier_II" title="Space Harrier II">Space Harrier II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ghouls_%27n_Ghosts" title="Ghouls 'n Ghosts">Ghouls 'n Ghosts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golden_Axe" title="Golden Axe">Golden Axe</a>,<a href="#cite_note-ACE_37-36">[33]</a> <a href="/wiki/Super_Thunder_Blade" title="Super Thunder Blade">Super Thunder Blade</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Revenge_of_Shinobi_(1989_video_game)" title="The Revenge of Shinobi (1989 video game)">The Revenge of Shinobi</a> were available in stores at launch. The console was also bundled with <a href="/wiki/Altered_Beast" title="Altered Beast">Altered Beast</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CVG_106-35">[32]</a> The Mega Drive and its first batch of games were shown at the 1990 European Computer Entertainment Show (ECES) in <a href="/wiki/Earl%27s_Court" title="Earl's Court">Earl's Court</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CVG_108-38">[35]</a> Between July and August 1990, Virgin initially placed their order for 20,000 Mega Drive units. However, the company increased the order by 10,000 units when advanced orders had exceeded expectations, and another 10,000 units was later added following the console's success at the ECES event. The projected number of units to be sold between September and December 1990 had eventually increased to 40,000 units in the United Kingdom alone.<a href="#cite_note-SegaPower_Sept1990-39">[36]</a> Other companies assisted in distributing the console to various countries worldwide. <a href="/wiki/Ozisoft" class="mw-redirect" title="Ozisoft">Ozisoft</a> handled the Mega Drive's launch and marketing in Australia, as it had done before with the Master System.<a href="#cite_note-Ozisoft-40">[37]</a> In Brazil, the Mega Drive was released by <a href="/wiki/Tectoy" title="Tectoy">Tectoy</a> in 1990,<a href="#cite_note-Tectoy_History-41">[38]</a> only a year after the Brazilian release of the Master System. Tectoy produced games exclusively for the Brazilian market and brought the <a href="/wiki/Sega_Meganet" title="Sega Meganet">Sega Meganet</a> online service there in 1995.<a href="#cite_note-:1-42">[39]</a> <a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> handled sales and distribution in <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>, where it was named Super Gam*Boy and retained the Mega Drive logo alongside the Samsung name.<a href="#cite_note-Korea-43">[40]</a> It was later renamed Super Aladdin Boy.<a href="#cite_note-44">[41]</a> In India, Sega entered a distribution deal with <a href="/wiki/Shaw_Wallace" title="Shaw Wallace">Shaw Wallace</a> in April 1994<a href="#cite_note-45">[42]</a> in order to circumvent an 80% import tariff, with each unit selling for <a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">INR₹</a>18,000.<a href="#cite_note-46">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[44]</a> In Russia, Sega officially licensed the console to local distributor Forrus in 1994,<a href="#cite_note-48">[45]</a> replaced in 1996 by Bitman. That year, the video game console market generated between $200,000,000 (equivalent to $400,000,000 in 2023) and $250,000,000 (equivalent to $500,000,000 in 2023) in Russia, with Sega accounting for half of all console sales in the country. However, only about 15% of the sales were official Sega units distributed by Bitman, while the rest were unofficial counterfeit clones.<a href="#cite_note-49">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[47]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_American_sales_and_marketing">North American sales and marketing</h3></div> For the North American market, former Atari Corporation Entertainment Electronics Division president and new Sega of America CEO Michael Katz instituted a two-part approach to build sales. The first part involved a marketing campaign to challenge Nintendo head-on and emphasize the more arcade-like experience available on the Genesis,<a href="#cite_note-51">[48]</a> with slogans including "Genesis does what Nintendon't".<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Since Nintendo owned the console rights to most arcade games of the time, the second part involved creating a library of recognizable games which used the names and likenesses of celebrities and athletes, such as <a href="/wiki/Pat_Riley_Basketball" title="Pat Riley Basketball">Pat Riley Basketball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Palmer_Tournament_Golf" title="Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf">Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_%27Buster%27_Douglas_Knockout_Boxing" class="mw-redirect" title="James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing">James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Montana_Football" title="Joe Montana Football">Joe Montana Football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Lasorda_Baseball" title="Tommy Lasorda Baseball">Tommy Lasorda Baseball</a>, Mario Lemieux Hockey, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_Moonwalker" title="Michael Jackson's Moonwalker">Michael Jackson's Moonwalker</a>.<a href="#cite_note-IGNHistory-25">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[49]</a> Nonetheless, Sega struggled to overcome Nintendo's presence in consumers' homes.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_pp424_431-53">[50]</a> Tasked by Nakayama to sell one million units within the first year, Katz and Sega of America sold only 500,000.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> At the Winter <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Consumer Electronics Show</a> (Winter CES) in January 1990, the Sega Genesis demonstrated a strong line-up of games which received a positive reception for approaching arcade-quality graphics and gameplay as well as for providing non-arcade experiences such as <a href="/wiki/Phantasy_Star_II" title="Phantasy Star II">Phantasy Star II</a>.<a href="#cite_note-RePlay-54">[51]</a> In mid-1990, Nakayama hired <a href="/wiki/Tom_Kalinske" title="Tom Kalinske">Tom Kalinske</a> to replace Katz as CEO of Sega of America. Although Kalinske knew little about the video game market, he surrounded himself with industry-savvy advisors. A believer in the <a href="/wiki/Razor_and_blades_model" title="Razor and blades model">razor and blades model</a>, he developed a four-point plan: cut the price of the console, create an American team to develop games targeted at the American market, expand the aggressive advertising campaigns, and replace the bundled game Altered Beast with a new game, <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)">Sonic the Hedgehog</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_pp424_431-53">[50]</a> The Japanese board of directors initially disapproved of the plan,<a href="#cite_note-55">[52]</a> but all four points were approved by Nakayama, who told Kalinske, "I hired you to make the decisions for Europe and the Americas, so go ahead and do it."<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Critics praised Sonic as one of the greatest games yet made, and Genesis sales increased as customers who had been waiting for the release of the international version of Nintendo's Super Famicom, the <a href="/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Super Nintendo Entertainment System">Super Nintendo Entertainment System</a> (SNES), decided to purchase a Genesis instead.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_pp424_431-53">[50]</a> The SNES debuted against an established competitor, while NEC's <a href="/wiki/TurboGrafx-16" title="TurboGrafx-16">TurboGrafx-16</a> failed to gain traction, and NEC soon pulled out of the market.<a href="#cite_note-56">[53]</a> In large part due to the popularity of Sonic the Hedgehog, the Genesis outsold the SNES in the United States nearly two to one during the 1991 holiday season. Sega controlled 65% of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(fourth_generation)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of video game consoles (fourth generation)">16-bit</a> <a href="/wiki/Video_game_console" title="Video game console">console</a> market in January 1992, the first time Nintendo had not been the console leader since 1985.<a href="#cite_note-57">[54]</a> The Genesis outsold the SNES for four consecutive Christmas seasons<a href="#cite_note-Kent_pp496_497-58">[55]</a> due to its two-year lead, lower price point, and larger game library compared to the SNES at its release.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_434_448_449-59">[56]</a> Sega had ten games for every game on SNES, and while the SNES had an exclusive version of <a href="/wiki/Final_Fight_(video_game)" title="Final Fight (video game)">Final Fight</a>, one of Sega's internal development teams created <a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Rage" title="Streets of Rage">Streets of Rage</a>, which had bigger levels, tougher enemies, and a well-regarded soundtrack.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_434_448_449-59">[56]</a> <a href="/wiki/ASCII_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="ASCII Entertainment">ASCII Entertainment</a> reported in early 1993 that Genesis had 250 games versus 75 for the SNES, but limited shelf space meant that stores typically offered 100 Genesis and 50 SNES games. The NES was still the leader, with 300 games and 100 on shelves.<a href="#cite_note-wilson199306-60">[57]</a> Sega's advertising positioned the Genesis as the cooler console,<a href="#cite_note-Kent_434_448_449-59">[56]</a> and coined the term blast processing, an obscure and unused graphics programming method, to suggest that its processing capabilities were far greater than those of the SNES.<a href="#cite_note-retrogamer-61">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-1up.com-62">[59]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> focus group found that teenage boys would not admit to owning an SNES rather than a Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-63">[60]</a> With the Genesis often outselling the SNES at a ratio of 2:1,<a href="#cite_note-CVGhistorylesson-64">[61]</a> Nintendo and Sega focused heavily on <a href="/wiki/Impression_management" title="Impression management">impression management</a> of the market, even going to the point of deception; Nintendo claimed it had sold more consoles in 1991 than it actually had, and forecasted it would sell 6 million consoles by the end of 1992, while its actual U.S. install base at the end of 1992 was only just more than 4 million units.<a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a> Due to these tactics, it was difficult to ascertain a clear leader in market share for several years at a time, with Nintendo's dollar share of the U.S. 16-bit market dipping down from 60% at the end of 1992 to 37% at the end of 1993,<a href="#cite_note-66">[63]</a> Sega claiming 55% of all 16-bit hardware sales during 1994,<a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donkey_Kong_Country" title="Donkey Kong Country">Donkey Kong Country</a> helping the SNES to outsell the Genesis from 1995 through 1997.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_pp496_497-58">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-sales96-69">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> According to a 2004 study of <a href="/wiki/NPD_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="NPD Group">NPD sales data</a>, the Genesis maintained its lead over the Super NES in the American 16-bit console market.<a href="#cite_note-Clements_&_Ohashi-72">[69]</a> However, according to a 2014 <a href="/wiki/Wedbush_Securities" title="Wedbush Securities">Wedbush Securities</a> report based on revised NPD sales data, the SNES outsold the Sega Genesis in the U.S. market by 1.5 million units.<a href="#cite_note-Wedbush-73">[70]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electronic_Arts">Electronic Arts</h3></div> To compete with Nintendo, Sega was more open to new types of games, but still tightly controlled the approval process for third-party games and charged high prices for cartridge manufacturing.<a href="#cite_note-reeder199211-74">[71]</a> The American publisher <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Arts" title="Electronic Arts">Electronic Arts</a> (EA) sought a better deal, but met resistance from Sega.<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> They decided to <a href="/wiki/Reverse_engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Reverse engineer">reverse-engineer</a> the Genesis, using a <a href="/wiki/Clean_room_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Clean room design">clean-room</a> method similar to the method <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies" title="Phoenix Technologies">Phoenix Technologies</a> had used to reverse-engineer the <a href="/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer" title="IBM Personal Computer">IBM Personal Computer</a> <a href="/wiki/BIOS" title="BIOS">BIOS</a> around 1984.<a href="#cite_note-dcma_ea-76">[73]</a> The process began in 1989, led by Steve Hayes and Jim Nitchals.<a href="#cite_note-Electronic_Arts_Does-77">[74]</a> They created a controlled room in EA headquarters nicknamed "Chernobyl", to which only one person was allowed access, Mike Schwartz. Schwartz reviewed Sega's copyrighted development manuals and tools, studied the Genesis hardware and games, and wrote original documentation that summarized his findings. The process took him about a month.<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> His work was reviewed by EA's lawyers before being disseminated to Hayes and Nitchals to verify its originality, and subsequently to the rest of the developers to let them build games.<a href="#cite_note-dcma_ea-76">[73]</a> After a few months, EA began developing for the Genesis in earnest.<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> The EA founder, <a href="/wiki/Trip_Hawkins" title="Trip Hawkins">Trip Hawkins</a>, confronted Nakayama the day before the 1990 <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Consumer Electronics Show</a> (CES), informing him that EA had the ability to run its own licensing program if Sega refused to meet its demands. Sega relented, and the next day EA's upcoming Genesis games were showcased at CES.<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> EA signed what Hawkins described as "a very unusual and much more enlightened license agreement" with Sega in June 1990: "Among other things, we had the right to make as many titles as we wanted. We could approve our own titles ... the royalty rates were a lot more reasonable. We also had more direct control over manufacturing."<a href="#cite_note-Electronic_Arts_Does-77">[74]</a> After the deal was in place, EA chief creative officer <a href="/wiki/Bing_Gordon" title="Bing Gordon">Bing Gordon</a> learned that "we hadn't figured out all the workarounds" and "Sega still had the ability to lock us out ... It just would have been a public relations fiasco."<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> EA released its first Genesis games, <a href="/wiki/Populous_(video_game)" title="Populous (video game)">Populous</a> and <a href="/wiki/Budokan:_The_Martial_Spirit" title="Budokan: The Martial Spirit">Budokan: The Martial Spirit</a>, within the month.<a href="#cite_note-Electronic_Arts_Does-77">[74]</a> The first Genesis version of EA's <a href="/wiki/John_Madden_Football_(1990_video_game)" title="John Madden Football (1990 video game)">John Madden Football</a> arrived before the end of 1990,<a href="#cite_note-Electronic_Arts_Does-77">[74]</a> and became what Gordon called a "<a href="/wiki/Killer_application" title="Killer application">killer app</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> Taking advantage of the licensing agreement, Gordon and EA's vice president of marketing services, Nancy Fong, created a visual identifier for EA's Genesis cartridges: a yellow tab molded into the casing.<a href="#cite_note-Reverse_Engineering_Success-75">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sonic_the_Hedgehog">Sonic the Hedgehog</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog" title="Sonic the Hedgehog">Sonic the Hedgehog</a></div> Sega held a company-wide contest to create a mascot character to compete with Nintendo's <a href="/wiki/Mario_(franchise)" title="Mario (franchise)">Mario series</a>. The winning submission was a blue hedgehog with red shoes, <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(character)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (character)">Sonic</a>, created by <a href="/wiki/Naoto_Ohshima" title="Naoto Ohshima">Naoto Ohshima</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarris201463-78">[75]</a> spawning <a href="/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises" title="List of best-selling video game franchises">one of the best-selling video game franchises</a> in history.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarris201463,_73,_76-79">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> The gameplay of <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)">Sonic the Hedgehog</a> originated with a <a href="/wiki/Tech_demo" class="mw-redirect" title="Tech demo">tech demo</a> created by <a href="/wiki/Yuji_Naka" title="Yuji Naka">Yuji Naka</a>, who had developed a prototype platform game that involved a fast-moving character rolling in a ball through a long winding tube. This concept was developed with Ohshima's character design and levels conceived by designer <a href="/wiki/Hirokazu_Yasuhara" title="Hirokazu Yasuhara">Hirokazu Yasuhara</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Yasuhara-81">[78]</a> Although Katz and Sega of America's marketing experts disliked Sonic, certain that it would not catch on with American children,<a href="#cite_note-IGNHistory-25">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[79]</a> Kalinske's strategy to place Sonic the Hedgehog as the pack-in game paid off.<a href="#cite_note-IGNHistory2-7">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-MegaDriveLaunch-83">[80]</a> Sonic the Hedgehog greatly increased the popularity of the Genesis in North America,<a href="#cite_note-1up.com-62">[59]</a> and the bundle is credited with helping Sega gain 65% of the market share against Nintendo.<a href="#cite_note-GameTap-2">[2]</a> Similarly, in Europe, Sega captured a 65% share of the European console market,<a href="#cite_note-megatech13-84">[81]</a> where the Mega Drive maintained its lead over the SNES through 1994.<a href="#cite_note-85">[82]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2" title="Sonic the Hedgehog 2">Sonic the Hedgehog 2</a> set records<a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a> for the fastest-selling game,<a href="#cite_note-87">[84]</a> selling 3.2 million copies worldwide within two weeks,<a href="#cite_note-88">[85]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_3" title="Sonic the Hedgehog 3">Sonic the Hedgehog 3</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sonic_%26_Knuckles" title="Sonic & Knuckles">Sonic & Knuckles</a> sold a combined 4 million copies worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-89">[86]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trademark_Security_System_and_Sega_v._Accolade">Trademark Security System and Sega v. Accolade</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade" title="Sega v. Accolade">Sega v. Accolade</a></div> After the release of the Genesis in 1989, video game publisher <a href="/wiki/Accolade_(company)" title="Accolade (company)">Accolade</a> began exploring options to release some of their <a href="/wiki/PC_game" title="PC game">PC games</a> on the console. At the time, Sega had a licensing deal in place for <a href="/wiki/Video_game_developers#Third-party_developers" class="mw-redirect" title="Video game developers">third-party developers</a> that increased the costs to the developer. According to Accolade co-founder <a href="/wiki/Alan_Miller_(game_designer)" title="Alan Miller (game designer)">Alan Miller</a>, "One pays them between $10 and $15 per cartridge on top of the real hardware manufacturing costs, so it about doubles the cost of goods to the independent publisher."<a href="#cite_note-Kent1-90">[87]</a> To get around licensing, Accolade chose to seek an alternative way to bring their games to the Genesis. It did so by purchasing one in order to <a href="/wiki/Decompiler" title="Decompiler">decompile</a> the <a href="/wiki/Executable" title="Executable">executable code</a> of three Genesis games. Such information was used to program their new Genesis cartridges in a way that would allow them to disable the security lockouts on the Genesis that prevented unlicensed games from being played.<a href="#cite_note-opinion-91">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-Kent383-92">[89]</a> This strategy was used successfully to bring <a href="/wiki/Ishido:_The_Way_of_Stones" title="Ishido: The Way of Stones">Ishido: The Way of Stones</a> to the Genesis in 1990.<a href="#cite_note-Kent382-93">[90]</a> To do so, Accolade had copied Sega's copyrighted game code multiple times in order to reverse engineer the software of Sega's licensed Genesis games.<a href="#cite_note-legal_book-94">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-Georgetown-95">[92]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg/220px-Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg/330px-Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg/440px-Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Bare.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4020" data-file-height="2300" /></a><figcaption>An edition of the original model of the Genesis, known as the Genesis III, was the model at the center of Sega v. Accolade for its incorporation of the Trademark Security System (TMSS).</figcaption></figure> As a result of piracy in some countries and unlicensed development issues, Sega incorporated a technical protection mechanism into a new edition of the Genesis released in 1990, referred to as the Genesis III. This new variation of the Genesis included a code known as the Trademark Security System (TMSS), which, when a game cartridge was inserted, would check for the presence of the <a href="/wiki/String_(computer_science)" title="String (computer science)">string</a> "SEGA" at a particular point in the memory contained in the cartridge. If the string was present, the console would run the game, and would briefly display the message: "<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r920966791">.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}</style>Produced by or under license from Sega Enterprises, Ltd."<a href="#cite_note-opinion-91">[88]</a> This system had a twofold effect: it added extra protection against unlicensed developers and software piracy and forced the Sega trademark to display when the game was powered up, making a lawsuit for trademark infringement possible if unlicensed software were to be developed.<a href="#cite_note-Kent383-92">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-Georgetown-95">[92]</a> Accolade learned of this development at the <a href="/wiki/International_CES" class="mw-redirect" title="International CES">Winter Consumer Electronics Show</a> in January 1991, where Sega showed the new Genesis III and demonstrated it screening and rejecting an Ishido game cartridge.<a href="#cite_note-Kent383-92">[89]</a> With more games planned for the following year, Accolade successfully identified the TMSS file. It later added this file to the games <a href="/wiki/HardBall!" title="HardBall!">HardBall!</a>, <a href="/wiki/Star_Control" title="Star Control">Star Control</a>, Mike Ditka Power Football, and <a href="/wiki/Turrican" title="Turrican">Turrican</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Kent383-92">[89]</a> In response to the creation of these unlicensed games, Sega filed suit against Accolade in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Northern_District_of_California" title="United States District Court for the Northern District of California">United States District Court for the Northern District of California</a>, on charges of trademark infringement, <a href="/wiki/Unfair_competition" class="mw-redirect" title="Unfair competition">unfair competition</a>, and copyright infringement. In response, Accolade filed a counterclaim for falsifying the source of its games by displaying the Sega trademark when the game was powered up.<a href="#cite_note-legal_book-94">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-Kent384-96">[93]</a> Although the district court initially ruled for Sega and issued an injunction preventing Accolade from continuing to reverse engineer the Genesis, Accolade appealed the verdict to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Kent386-97">[94]</a> As a result of the appeal, the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's verdict and ruled that Accolade's decompilation of the Sega software constituted fair use.<a href="#cite_note-ap-98">[95]</a> The court's written opinion followed on October 20, 1992, and noted that the use of the software was non-exploitative, although commercial.<a href="#cite_note-opinion-91">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-book-99">[96]</a> Further, the court found that the trademark infringement, being required by the TMSS for a Genesis game to run on the system, had been inadvertently triggered by a fair use act and was the fault of Sega for having caused false labeling.<a href="#cite_note-opinion-91">[88]</a> Ultimately, Sega and Accolade settled the case on April 30, 1993. As a part of this settlement, Accolade became an official licensee of Sega, and later developed and released <a href="/wiki/Barkley_Shut_Up_and_Jam!" title="Barkley Shut Up and Jam!">Barkley Shut Up and Jam!</a> while under license.<a href="#cite_note-Kent388-100">[97]</a> The terms of the licensing, including whether or not any special arrangements or discounts were made to Accolade, were not released to the public.<a href="#cite_note-1up-101">[98]</a> The financial terms of the settlement were also not disclosed, although both companies agreed to pay their own legal costs.<a href="#cite_note-Langberg-102">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Congressional_hearings_on_video_game_violence">Congressional hearings on video game violence</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Videogame_Rating_Council" title="Videogame Rating Council">Videogame Rating Council</a> and <a href="/wiki/1993_congressional_hearings_on_video_games" class="mw-redirect" title="1993 congressional hearings on video games">1993 congressional hearings on video games</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VRC_Mature_13.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/VRC_Mature_13.svg/120px-VRC_Mature_13.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/VRC_Mature_13.svg/180px-VRC_Mature_13.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/VRC_Mature_13.svg/240px-VRC_Mature_13.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="624" /></a><figcaption>VRC MA-13 rating, as applied to Mortal Kombat for the Genesis</figcaption></figure> In 1993, the American media began to focus on the mature content of certain video games. Games such as <a href="/wiki/Night_Trap" title="Night Trap">Night Trap</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Sega_CD" title="Sega CD">Sega CD</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Video_game_accessory" title="Video game accessory">add-on</a>, received unprecedented scrutiny. Issues about Night Trap were brought up in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, with former Sega of Europe development director Mike Brogan noting that "Night Trap got Sega an awful lot of publicity ... it was also cited in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a> for being <a href="/wiki/British_Board_of_Film_Classification#Video_games" title="British Board of Film Classification">classified as '15'</a> due to its use of real actors."<a href="#cite_note-103">[100]</a> This came at a time when Sega was capitalizing on its image as an edgy company with attitude, and this only reinforced that image.<a href="#cite_note-Eurogamer-30">[27]</a> By far the year's most controversial game was <a href="/wiki/Midway_Games" title="Midway Games">Midway</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_(1992_video_game)" title="Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)">Mortal Kombat</a>, ported to the Genesis and SNES by <a href="/wiki/Acclaim_Entertainment" title="Acclaim Entertainment">Acclaim Entertainment</a>. In response to public outcry over the game's graphic violence, Nintendo decided to replace the blood in the game with "sweat" and the arcade's gruesome "fatalities" with less violent finishing moves.<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a> Sega took a different approach, instituting America's first video game ratings system, the <a href="/wiki/Videogame_Rating_Council" title="Videogame Rating Council">Videogame Rating Council</a> (VRC), for all its current systems. Ratings ranged from the family-friendly GA rating to the more mature rating of MA-13, and the adults-only rating of MA-17.<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a> With the rating system in place, Sega released its version of Mortal Kombat, appearing to have removed all the blood and sweat effects and toning down the finishing moves even more than in the SNES version. However, all the arcade's blood and uncensored finishing moves could be enabled by entering a "Blood Code". This technicality allowed Sega to release the game with a relatively low MA-13 rating.<a href="#cite_note-1UP_MK-105">[102]</a> Meanwhile, the tamer SNES version shipped without a rating.<a href="#cite_note-1UP_MK-105">[102]</a> The Genesis version of Mortal Kombat was well-received by gaming press, as well as fans, outselling the SNES version three- or four-to-one,<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-MK1Video-106">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-MK1-107">[104]</a> while Nintendo was criticized for censoring the SNES version.<a href="#cite_note-1UP_MK-105">[102]</a> Executive vice president of Nintendo of America <a href="/wiki/Howard_Lincoln" title="Howard Lincoln">Howard Lincoln</a> was quick to point out at the hearings that Night Trap had no such rating, saying to Senator <a href="/wiki/Joe_Lieberman" title="Joe Lieberman">Joe Lieberman</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Furthermore, I can't let you sit here and buy this nonsense that this Sega Night Trap game was somehow only meant for adults. The fact of the matter is this is a copy of the packaging. There was no rating on this game at all when the game was introduced. Small children bought this at <a href="/wiki/Toys_%22R%22_Us" title="Toys "R" Us">Toys "R" Us</a>, and he knows that as well as I do. When they started getting heat about this game, then they adopted the rating system and put ratings on it.<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a></blockquote> In response, Sega of America vice president Bill White showed a videotape of violent video games on the SNES and stressed the importance of rating video games. At the end of the hearing, Lieberman called for another hearing in February 1994 to check on progress toward a rating system for video game violence.<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a> As a result of the <a href="/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress" title="103rd United States Congress">congressional</a> hearings, Night Trap started to generate more sales and released ports to the <a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">PC</a>, <a href="/wiki/32X" title="32X">Sega 32X</a>, and <a href="/wiki/3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer" class="mw-redirect" title="3DO Interactive Multiplayer">3DO</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/Digital_Pictures" title="Digital Pictures">Digital Pictures</a> founder Tom Zito, "You know, I sold 50,000 units of Night Trap a week after those hearings."<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a> Although experiencing increased sales, Sega decided to recall Night Trap and re-release it with revisions in 1994 due to the congressional hearings.<a href="#cite_note-108">[105]</a> After the close of these hearings, video game manufacturers came together to establish the rating system that Lieberman had called for. Initially, Sega proposed the universal adoption of its system, but after objections by Nintendo and others, Sega took a role in forming a new one. This became the <a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Rating_Board" title="Entertainment Software Rating Board">Entertainment Software Rating Board</a>, an independent organization that received praise from Lieberman.<a href="#cite_note-night_trap-104">[101]</a> With this new rating system in place for the 1994 holiday season, Nintendo decided its censorship policies were no longer needed, and the SNES port of <a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_II" title="Mortal Kombat II">Mortal Kombat II</a> was released uncensored.<a href="#cite_note-1UP_MK-105">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="32-bit_era_and_beyond">32-bit era and beyond</h3></div> Sega released two add-ons to increase the Genesis capabilities: a CD peripheral, the <a href="/wiki/Sega_CD" title="Sega CD">Sega CD</a> (Mega-CD outside North America and Brazil), and a 32-bit peripheral, the <a href="/wiki/Sega_32X" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega 32X">Sega 32X</a>.<a href="#cite_note-MegaDriveLaunch-83">[80]</a> Worldwide, Sega sold 2.24 million Sega CD units<a href="#cite_note-Sega_Stats-109">[106]</a> and 800,000 32X units.<a href="#cite_note-110">[107]</a> Following the launch of the next-generation 32-bit Sony <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_(console)" title="PlayStation (console)">PlayStation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sega_Saturn" title="Sega Saturn">Sega Saturn</a>, sales of 16-bit hardware and software continued to account for 64% of the video game market in 1995.<a href="#cite_note-KSL-111">[108]</a> Sega underestimated the continued popularity of the Genesis and did not have the inventory to meet demand.<a href="#cite_note-KSL-111">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-1995_market_share-112">[109]</a> Sega captured 43% of the dollar share of the U.S. video game market and claimed to have sold more than two million Genesis units in 1995, while Genesis software such as <a href="/wiki/Vectorman" title="Vectorman">Vectorman</a> remained successful, but Kalinske estimated that "we could have sold another 300,000 Genesis systems in the November/December timeframe".<a href="#cite_note-1995_market_share-112">[109]</a> Nakayama's decision to focus on the Saturn, based on the systems' relative performance in Japan, has been cited as the major contributing factor in this miscalculation.<a href="#cite_note-KSL-111">[108]</a> By contrast, Nintendo concentrated on the 16-bit home console market, as well as its successful <a href="/wiki/Handheld_video_game_console" class="mw-redirect" title="Handheld video game console">handheld</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Game_Boy" title="Game Boy">Game Boy</a>, and took in 42% of the video game market dollar share without launching a 32-bit console.<a href="#cite_note-KSL-111">[108]</a> Following tensions with Sega Enterprises, Ltd. over its focus on the Saturn, Kalinske, who oversaw the rise of the Genesis in 1991, lost interest in the business and resigned in mid-1996.<a href="#cite_note-113">[110]</a> Sega sold 30.75 million Genesis units worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-114">[111]</a> However, some sources claim that the console sold 40 million units during its lengthly lifespan.<a href="#cite_note-115">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[115]</a> Of these, 3.58 million were sold in Japan,<a href="#cite_note-Sega_Stats-109">[106]</a> and sales in Europe and the U.S. are roughly estimated at 8 million<a href="#cite_note-CVG-119">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[117]</a> and 18–18.5 million as of June 1997 (at which time Sega was no longer manufacturing the system) respectively.<a href="#cite_note-Farm-121">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-Wedbush-73">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[119]</a> In 1998, Sega licensed the Genesis to <a href="/wiki/Majesco_Entertainment" title="Majesco Entertainment">Majesco Entertainment</a> to rerelease it in North America. Majesco began reselling millions of unsold cartridges at a budget price, together with 150,000 units of the second model of the Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-Farm-121">[118]</a> It released the Genesis 3,<a href="#cite_note-AllgameMajesco-123">[120]</a> projecting to sell 1.5 million units of the console by the end of 1998.<a href="#cite_note-Farm-121">[118]</a> As of 2012, Tectoy had sold an estimated 3 million Genesis units.<a href="#cite_note-MDB-124">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-125">[122]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technical_specifications">Technical specifications</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg/220px-Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg/330px-Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg/440px-Mega_Drive_mboard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="969" /></a><figcaption>European Mega Drive <a href="/wiki/Mainboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainboard">mainboard</a></figcaption></figure> The main <a href="/wiki/Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">microprocessor</a> is a 16/32-bit <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000" title="Motorola 68000">Motorola 68000</a> <a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPU</a> clocked at 7.6 <a href="/wiki/Hertz" title="Hertz">MHz</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[123]</a> An 8-bit <a href="/wiki/Zilog_Z80" title="Zilog Z80">Zilog Z80</a> processor controls the sound hardware and provides <a href="/wiki/Backward_compatibility" title="Backward compatibility">backward compatibility</a> with the Master System. The Genesis has 64 <a href="/wiki/Kilobyte" title="Kilobyte">KB</a> of <a href="/wiki/Random_access_memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Random access memory">RAM</a>, 64 KB of <a href="/wiki/Video_RAM" class="mw-redirect" title="Video RAM">video RAM</a> and 8 KB of audio RAM.<a href="#cite_note-127">[124]</a> It can display up to 61 colors<a href="#cite_note-128">[125]</a> at once from a <a href="/wiki/Palette_(computing)" title="Palette (computing)">palette</a> of 512. The games are in <a href="/wiki/ROM_cartridge" title="ROM cartridge">ROM cartridge</a> format and inserted in the top.<a href="#cite_note-SegaSpecs-129">[126]</a> The Genesis produces sound using a <a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments_SN76489" title="Texas Instruments SN76489">Texas Instruments SN76489</a> <a href="/wiki/Programmable_sound_generator" title="Programmable sound generator">programmable sound generator</a>, integrated with the <a href="/wiki/Video_Display_Controller" class="mw-redirect" title="Video Display Controller">Video Display Processor (VDP)</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Yamaha_YM2612" title="Yamaha YM2612">Yamaha YM2612</a> <a href="/wiki/FM_synthesizer" class="mw-redirect" title="FM synthesizer">FM synthesizer</a> chip. The Z80 processor is primarily used to control both sound chips to produce stereo music and sound effects. Most revisions of the original Genesis contain a discrete YM2612 and a separate YM7101 VDP; in a later revision, the chips were integrated into a single custom <a href="/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit" title="Application-specific integrated circuit">ASIC</a> (FC1004).<a href="#cite_note-SegaSpecs-129">[126]</a> The back of the Model 1 console provides an <a href="/wiki/Radio_frequency" title="Radio frequency">RF</a> output port (designed for use with antenna and cable systems) and a specialized 8-pin <a href="/wiki/DIN_connector" title="DIN connector">DIN</a> port, which both provide video and audio output. Both outputs produce <a href="/wiki/Monophony" title="Monophony">monophonic</a> sound; a <a href="/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)" title="Phone connector (audio)">headphone jack</a> on the front of the console produces <a href="/wiki/Stereo" class="mw-redirect" title="Stereo">stereo</a> sound.<a href="#cite_note-GenesisManual-130">[127]</a> On the Model 2, the DIN port, RF output port, and headphone jack are replaced by a 9-pin <a href="/wiki/Mini-DIN" class="mw-redirect" title="Mini-DIN">mini-DIN</a> port on the back for <a href="/wiki/Composite_video" title="Composite video">composite video</a>, <a href="/wiki/RGBS" class="mw-redirect" title="RGBS">RGB</a> and stereo sound, and the standard RF switch.<a href="#cite_note-GenesisManual2-131">[128]</a> Earlier Model 1 consoles have a 9-pin extension port. An <a href="/wiki/Edge_connector" title="Edge connector">edge connector</a> on the bottom right of the console can be connected to a peripheral.<a href="#cite_note-SegaSupp-132">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peripherals">Peripherals</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg/220px-Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg/330px-Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg/440px-Sega-Genesis-6But-Cont.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3460" data-file-height="2440" /></a><figcaption>Genesis six-button controller</figcaption></figure> The standard controller features a rounded shape, a <a href="/wiki/Directional_pad" class="mw-redirect" title="Directional pad">directional pad</a>, three main buttons, and a start button. In 1993, Sega released a slightly smaller pad with three additional face buttons, similar to the design of buttons on arcade fighting games such as <a href="/wiki/Street_Fighter_II" title="Street Fighter II">Street Fighter II</a>. Sega also released a wireless revision of the six-button controller, the Remote Arcade Pad.<a href="#cite_note-Activator-133">[130]</a> The system is backward compatible with the Master System. The first peripheral is the Power Base Converter (Mega Adaptor in Japan and Master System Converter in Europe), which allows Master System games to be played.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameGenesis-134">[131]</a> It is designed for the Model 1 revisions and will work with the Model 2 revisions, however the shell blocks the power and AC ports of the Model 2 revision, meaning that the converter must have its shell modified or by using a pass-through adaptor. A second model known as the Master System Converter II was released only in Europe for use with the Mega Drive II, which works with other region Genesis consoles and revisions but lacks the ability to use Master System cards. Both the original Power Base Converter and the Master System Converter II do not work with the Nomad or the Genesis 3.<a href="#cite_note-Activator-133">[130]</a> Other peripherals were released to add functionality. The <a href="/wiki/Menacer" title="Menacer">Menacer</a> is a wireless infrared <a href="/wiki/Light_gun" title="Light gun">light gun</a> used with compatible games.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameGenesis-134">[131]</a> Other third parties created light gun peripherals, such as <a href="/wiki/American_Laser_Games" title="American Laser Games">American Laser Games</a> and <a href="/wiki/Konami" title="Konami">Konami</a>. Released for art creation software, the Sega Mega Mouse features three buttons and is only compatible with a few games, such as <a href="/wiki/Eye_of_the_Beholder_(video_game)" title="Eye of the Beholder (video game)">Eye of the Beholder</a>. A foam-covered bat called the <a href="/wiki/BatterUP" title="BatterUP">BatterUP</a> and the TeeVGolf golf club were released for both the Genesis and SNES.<a href="#cite_note-Activator-133">[130]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg/220px-Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg/330px-Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg/440px-Sega-Genesis-Power-Base-Converter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4300" data-file-height="2800" /></a><figcaption>Sega Power Base Converter on a Model 1 Genesis</figcaption></figure> In November 1993, Sega released the Sega Activator, an octagonal device that lies flat on the floor and was designed to translate the player's physical movements into game inputs.<a href="#cite_note-Activator-133">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-135">[132]</a> It was first shown at the January 1993 <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Consumer Electronics Show</a> (CES), where it was demonstrated with <a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Rage_2" title="Streets of Rage 2">Streets of Rage 2</a>.<a href="#cite_note-136">[133]</a> Several high-profile games, including Mortal Kombat and <a href="/wiki/Street_Fighter_II:_Special_Champion_Edition" class="mw-redirect" title="Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition">Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition</a>, were adapted to support the peripheral. The device was a commercial failure, due mainly to its inaccuracy and its high price point.<a href="#cite_note-Activator-133">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-137">[134]</a> <a href="/wiki/IGN" title="IGN">IGN</a> editor Craig Harris ranked the Sega Activator the third-worst video game controller ever made.<a href="#cite_note-138">[135]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P1030160arcadepower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/P1030160arcadepower.jpg/220px-P1030160arcadepower.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/P1030160arcadepower.jpg/330px-P1030160arcadepower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/P1030160arcadepower.jpg/440px-P1030160arcadepower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2307" data-file-height="1545" /></a><figcaption>The Arcade Power Stick</figcaption></figure> Both EA and Sega released <a href="/wiki/Multitap" title="Multitap">multitaps</a> to allow more than two players to play at once. Initially, EA's version, the 4 Way Play, and Sega's adapter, the Team Player, only supported each publisher's games. In response to complaints, Sega said a new Team Player, which would work with all Genesis multitap games, would be released.<a href="#cite_note-139">[136]</a> Later games were created to work on both the 4 Way Play and Team Player.<a href="#cite_note-Activator-133">[130]</a> <a href="/wiki/Codemasters" title="Codemasters">Codemasters</a> also developed the <a href="/wiki/J-Cart" title="J-Cart">J-Cart</a> system, providing two extra ports on the cartridge itself, although the technology came late in the console's life and is only featured on a few games.<a href="#cite_note-140">[137]</a> Sega planned to release a <a href="/wiki/Racing_wheel" class="mw-redirect" title="Racing wheel">steering wheel peripheral</a> in 1994, and the Genesis version of <a href="/wiki/Virtua_Racing" title="Virtua Racing">Virtua Racing</a> was advertised as "steering wheel compatible", but the peripheral was cancelled.<a href="#cite_note-141">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Network_services">Network services</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega_megamodem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sega_megamodem.jpg/220px-Sega_megamodem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sega_megamodem.jpg/330px-Sega_megamodem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sega_megamodem.jpg/440px-Sega_megamodem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>The Mega Modem peripheral, which allowed access to the <a href="/wiki/Sega_Meganet" title="Sega Meganet">Sega Meganet</a> service</figcaption></figure> In its first foray into <a href="/wiki/Online_console_gaming" title="Online console gaming">online gaming</a>, Sega created <a href="/wiki/Sega_Meganet" title="Sega Meganet">Sega Meganet</a>, which debuted in Japan on November 3, 1990. Operating through a cartridge and a peripheral called the "Mega <a href="/wiki/Modem" title="Modem">Modem</a>", this allowed Mega Drive players to play a total of seventeen games online. A North American version, dubbed "Tele-Genesis", was announced at the Winter <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Consumer Electronics Show</a> (Winter CES) in January 1990 but never released,<a href="#cite_note-IGNInternet-142">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-RePlay-54">[51]</a> though a version was operated in Brazil starting in 1995.<a href="#cite_note-:1-42">[39]</a> Another phone-based system, the Mega Anser, turned the Japanese Mega Drive into an online banking terminal.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> In 1994, Sega started the <a href="/wiki/Sega_Channel" title="Sega Channel">Sega Channel</a>, a game distribution system using <a href="/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television">cable television</a> services <a href="/wiki/Time_Warner_Cable" title="Time Warner Cable">Time Warner Cable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tele-Communications_Inc." title="Tele-Communications Inc.">TCI</a>. Using a special peripheral, Genesis players could download a game from a library of fifty each month and demos for upcoming releases. Games were downloaded to internal memory and deleted when the console was powered off. The Sega Channel reached 250,000 subscribers at its peak and ran until July 31, 1998, well past the release of the Sega Saturn.<a href="#cite_note-IGNInternet-142">[139]</a> In an effort to compete with Sega, third-party developer Catapult Entertainment created the <a href="/wiki/XBAND" title="XBAND">XBAND</a>, a peripheral which allowed Genesis players to engage in online competitive gaming. Using telephone services to share data, XBAND was initially offered in five U.S. cities in November 1994. The following year, the service was extended to the SNES, and Catapult teamed up with <a href="/wiki/Blockbuster_Video" class="mw-redirect" title="Blockbuster Video">Blockbuster Video</a> to market the service, but as interest in the service waned, it was discontinued in April 1997.<a href="#cite_note-sega16xband-143">[140]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Library">Library</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_Genesis_games" title="List of Sega Genesis games">List of Sega Genesis games</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/MD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png/220px-MD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/MD_Sonic_the_Hedgehog.png 1.5x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="224" /></a><figcaption>A screenshot of <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)">Sonic the Hedgehog</a>, taken from its first <a href="/wiki/Level_(video_gaming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Level (video gaming)">level</a>, <a href="/wiki/Green_Hill_Zone" title="Green Hill Zone">Green Hill Zone</a></figcaption></figure> The Genesis library was initially modest, but eventually grew to contain games to appeal to all types of players. The initial pack-in game was <a href="/wiki/Altered_Beast" title="Altered Beast">Altered Beast</a>, which was replaced with <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)">Sonic the Hedgehog</a> in 1991.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Top sellers included Sonic the Hedgehog, <a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2" title="Sonic the Hedgehog 2">Sonic the Hedgehog 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/Disney%27s_Aladdin_(Sega_Genesis_video_game)" title="Disney's Aladdin (Sega Genesis video game)">Disney's Aladdin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-IGNnumbers-144">[141]</a> Sega Enterprises focused on developing <a href="/wiki/Action_game" title="Action game">action games</a>, while Sega of America was tasked with developing <a href="/wiki/Sports_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports game">sports games</a>. A large part of the appeal of the Genesis library was the <a href="/wiki/Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">arcade</a>-based experience of its games, as well as more difficult entries such as <a href="/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin" title="Ecco the Dolphin">Ecco the Dolphin</a>, and sports games such as <a href="/wiki/Joe_Montana_Football" title="Joe Montana Football">Joe Montana Football</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Compared to its competition, Sega advertised to an older audience by hosting more mature games, including the uncensored version of <a href="/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_(1992_video_game)" title="Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)">Mortal Kombat</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> The arcade hit <a href="/wiki/Street_Fighter_II" title="Street Fighter II">Street Fighter II</a> by <a href="/wiki/Capcom" title="Capcom">Capcom</a> was initially released on the SNES. As the Genesis continued to grow in popularity, Capcom released a Genesis version, <a href="/wiki/Street_Fighter_II:_Champion_Edition" title="Street Fighter II: Champion Edition">Street Fighter II: Champion Edition</a>,<a href="#cite_note-145">[142]</a> which sold more than a million copies.<a href="#cite_note-146">[143]</a> One of the biggest third-party companies to support the Genesis early on was Electronic Arts. <a href="/wiki/Trip_Hawkins" title="Trip Hawkins">Trip Hawkins</a>, founder and then president of EA, believed the faster drawing speed of the Genesis made it more suitable for sport games than the SNES, and credits EA's success on the Genesis for helping catapult the EA Sports brand.<a href="#cite_note-147">[144]</a> Another third-party blockbuster for the system was the port of Mortal Kombat. Although the arcade game was released on the SNES and Genesis simultaneously, the two ports were not identical. The SNES version looked closer to the arcade game, but the Genesis version allowed players to bypass censorship, helping make it more popular.<a href="#cite_note-148">[145]</a> In 1997, Sega of America claimed the Genesis had a software <a href="/wiki/Attach_rate" title="Attach rate">attach rate</a> of 16 games sold per console, double that of the SNES.<a href="#cite_note-149">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sega_Virtua_Processor">Sega Virtua Processor</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VirtuaRacing.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/VirtuaRacing.PNG/220px-VirtuaRacing.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/VirtuaRacing.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="206" /></a><figcaption>The graphics produced by the Sega Virtua Processor are comparable to those of Nintendo's <a href="/wiki/Super_FX" title="Super FX">Super FX</a> chip.<a href="#cite_note-SVP-150">[147]</a></figcaption></figure> The Super NES supports the inclusion of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_chips" title="List of Super NES enhancement chips">enhancement chips</a> inside each cartridge to produce more advanced graphics; for example, the launch game <a href="/wiki/Pilotwings_(video_game)" title="Pilotwings (video game)">Pilotwings</a> (1990) contains a <a href="/wiki/Digital_signal_processor" title="Digital signal processor">digital signal processor</a>. Later, the <a href="/wiki/Super_FX" title="Super FX">Super FX</a> chip was designed to offload complex rendering tasks from the main CPU. It was first used in <a href="/wiki/Star_Fox_(1993_video_game)" title="Star Fox (1993 video game)">Star Fox</a> (1993) for real-time 3D polygons, and <a href="/wiki/Super_Mario_World_2:_Yoshi%27s_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island">Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island</a> (1995) demonstrates rotation, scaling, and stretching of individual sprites and manipulates large areas of the screen.<a href="#cite_note-SVP-150">[147]</a> Sega had produced such effects on its arcade platforms, and adapted some to the home console by developing the Sega Virtua Processor (SVP). Based on a <a href="/wiki/Digital_signal_processor" title="Digital signal processor">digital signal processor</a> core by <a href="/wiki/Samsung_Electronics" title="Samsung Electronics">Samsung Electronics</a>, this chip enables the Genesis to render polygons in real time and provides an "Axis Transformation" unit that handles scaling and rotation. <a href="/wiki/Virtua_Racing" title="Virtua Racing">Virtua Racing</a> (1994) is the only game released with this chip and the only Genesis cartridge with any enhancement chip, running at a significantly higher and more stable frame rate than filled polygon games on the SNES.<a href="#cite_note-SVP-150">[147]</a> The chip drastically increased the cost of the cartridge, and at US$100 (equivalent to $220 in 2023), Virtua Racing is the most expensive Genesis cartridge ever produced. Two other games, <a href="/wiki/Virtua_Fighter_(arcade_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtua Fighter (arcade game)">Virtua Fighter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daytona_USA_(arcade_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daytona USA (arcade game)">Daytona USA</a>, were planned for the SVP chip, but were instead moved into the Saturn's launch line-up.<a href="#cite_note-SVP-150">[147]</a> Sega planned to sell the SVP chip as a separate upgrade module for the Genesis,<a href="#cite_note-151">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[149]</a> but it was canceled, in order to focus its efforts on the more powerful 32X add-on.<a href="#cite_note-SVP-150">[147]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Add-ons">Add-ons</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg/220px-Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg/330px-Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg/440px-Sega-Genesis-Model-2-Monster-Bare.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3920" data-file-height="2560" /></a><figcaption>Genesis model 2 with the <a href="/wiki/Sega_CD" title="Sega CD">Sega CD 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sega_32X" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega 32X">32X</a> add-ons attached</figcaption></figure> In addition to accessories such as the Power Base Converter, the Genesis supports two add-ons that each support their own game libraries. The first is the Sega CD (known as the Mega-CD in all regions except for North America), a <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">compact disc</a>-based peripheral that can play its library of games in <a href="/wiki/CD-ROM" title="CD-ROM">CD-ROM</a> format.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameCD-153">[150]</a> The second is the Sega 32X, a <a href="/wiki/32-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="32-bit">32-bit</a> peripheral which uses ROM cartridges and serves as a pass-through for Genesis games.<a href="#cite_note-Allgame32X-154">[151]</a> Sega produced a custom <a href="/wiki/Power_strip" title="Power strip">power strip</a> to fit the peripherals' large <a href="/wiki/AC_adapter" title="AC adapter">AC adapters</a>.<a href="#cite_note-155">[152]</a> Both add-ons were officially discontinued in 1996.<a href="#cite_note-sales96-69">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-AllgameCD-153">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-Allgame32X-154">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sega_CD">Sega CD</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sega_CD" title="Sega CD">Sega CD</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_CD_games" title="List of Sega CD games">List of Sega CD games</a></div> By 1991, compact discs had gained in popularity as a <a href="/wiki/Data_storage_device" class="mw-redirect" title="Data storage device">data storage device</a> for music and software. PCs and video game companies had started to make use of this technology. NEC had been the first to include CD technology in a game console with the release of the <a href="/wiki/TurboGrafx-CD" class="mw-redirect" title="TurboGrafx-CD">TurboGrafx-CD</a> add-on, and Nintendo was making plans to develop <a href="/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM" title="Super NES CD-ROM">its own CD peripheral</a> as well. Seeing the opportunity to gain an advantage over its rivals, Sega partnered with <a href="/wiki/JVC" title="JVC">JVC</a> to develop a CD-ROM add-on for the Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-segacd-8">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-1UP-156">[153]</a><a href="#cite_note-economist-157">[154]</a> Sega launched the Mega-CD in Japan<a href="#cite_note-segacd-8">[5]</a> on December 1, 1991, initially retailing at <a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen">JP¥</a>49,800.<a href="#cite_note-RetroGamer-158">[155]</a> The CD add-on was launched in North America on October 15, 1992, as the Sega CD, with a retail price of <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>299;<a href="#cite_note-segacd-8">[5]</a> it was released in Europe as the Mega-CD in 1993.<a href="#cite_note-RetroGamer-158">[155]</a> In addition to greatly expanding the potential size of its games, this add-on unit upgraded the graphics and sound capabilities by adding a second, more powerful processor, more system memory, and hardware-based <a href="/wiki/Scaling_(geometry)" title="Scaling (geometry)">scaling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rotation" title="Rotation">rotation</a> similar to that found in Sega's arcade games.<a href="#cite_note-segacd-8">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-Takami-159">[156]</a> It provided battery-backed storage RAM to allow games to save high scores, configuration data, and game progress.<a href="#cite_note-1UP-156">[153]</a> Shortly after its launch in North America, Sega began shipping the Sega CD with the pack-in game <a href="/wiki/Sewer_Shark" title="Sewer Shark">Sewer Shark</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Full_motion_video" class="mw-redirect" title="Full motion video">full motion video</a> (FMV) game developed by <a href="/wiki/Digital_Pictures" title="Digital Pictures">Digital Pictures</a>, a company that became an important partner for Sega.<a href="#cite_note-segacd-8">[5]</a> Touting the benefits of the CD's comparatively vast storage space, Sega and its third-party developers produced <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_CD_games" title="List of Sega CD games">a number of games for the add-on</a> that include digital video in their gameplay or as bonus content, as well as re-releasing several cartridge-based games with high-fidelity audio tracks.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameCD-153">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-1UP-156">[153]</a> In 1993, Sega released the Sega CD 2, a smaller and lighter version of the add-on designed for the Genesis II, at a reduced price compared to the original.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameCD-153">[150]</a> A limited number of games were later developed that use both the Sega CD and the <a href="/wiki/Sega_32X" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega 32X">Sega 32X</a> add-ons.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameCD32X-160">[157]</a> The Mega-CD sold only 100,000 units during its first year in Japan, falling well below expectations. Although many consumers blamed its high launch price, it also suffered from a tiny software library; only two games were available at launch. This was due in part to the long delay before Sega made its software development kit available to third-party developers.<a href="#cite_note-RetroGamer-158">[155]</a> Sales were higher in North America and Europe, although the novelty of FMV and CD-enhanced games quickly wore off, as many later games were met with lukewarm or negative reviews. In 1995, Sega announced a shift in focus to its new console, the Saturn, and discontinued advertising for Genesis hardware. The Sega CD sold 2.24 million units worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-Sega_Stats-109">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sega_32X">Sega 32X</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/32X" title="32X">32X</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_32X_games" title="List of 32X games">List of 32X games</a></div> With the release of the Saturn scheduled for 1995, Sega began developing a stopgap to bridge the gap between the Genesis and Saturn and serve as a less expensive entry into the <a href="/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(fifth_generation)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of video game consoles (fifth generation)">32-bit era</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32XIGN-161">[158]</a> At the <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Winter Consumer Electronics Show</a> in January 1994, Sega of America <a href="/wiki/Research_and_development" title="Research and development">research and development</a> head Joe Miller took a phone call from Nakayama, in which Nakayama stressed the importance of a quick response to the <a href="/wiki/Atari_Jaguar" title="Atari Jaguar">Atari Jaguar</a>. One idea came from a concept from Sega Enterprises, referred to by former Sega of America producer Michael Latham as "Genesis 2",<a href="#cite_note-Kent_493_496-162">[159]</a> which was a new standalone console.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection32X-163">[160]</a> The concept was initially planned as a new version of the Genesis, with an upgraded color palette and a lower cost than the Saturn, and limited <a href="/wiki/3D_computer_graphics" title="3D computer graphics">3D</a> capabilities thanks to integration of ideas from the development of the Sega Virtua Processor chip. Miller suggested an alternative strategy, citing concerns with releasing a new console with no previous design specifications within six to nine months.<a href="#cite_note-Miller-164">[161]</a> At the suggestion from Miller and his team, Sega designed the 32X as a peripheral for the existing Genesis, expanding its power with two 32-bit <a href="/wiki/SuperH" title="SuperH">SuperH</a>-2 processors.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_493_496-162">[159]</a> The SH-2 had been developed in 1993 as a joint venture between Sega and Japanese electronics company <a href="/wiki/Hitachi" title="Hitachi">Hitachi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NG_February-165">[162]</a> At the end of the Consumer Electronics show, with the basic design of the 32X in place, Sega Enterprises invited Sega of America to assist in development of the new add-on.<a href="#cite_note-Miller-164">[161]</a> Although the new unit was a stronger console than originally proposed, it was not compatible with Saturn games.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_493_496-162">[159]</a> Before the 32X could be launched, the release date of the Saturn was announced for November 1994 in Japan, coinciding with the 32X's target launch date in North America. Sega of America now was faced with trying to market the 32X with the Saturn's Japan release occurring simultaneously. Their answer was to call the 32X a "transitional device" between the Genesis and the Saturn.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection32X-163">[160]</a> This was justified by Sega's statement that both platforms would run at the same time and that the 32X would be aimed at players who could not afford the more expensive Saturn.<a href="#cite_note-Allgame32X-154">[151]</a> The 32X was released in November 1994, in time for the holiday season. Demand among retailers was high, and Sega could not keep up orders for the system.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_493_496-162">[159]</a> More than 1,000,000 orders had been placed for 32X units, but Sega had only managed to ship 600,000 units by January 1995.<a href="#cite_note-Allgame32X-154">[151]</a> Launching at about the same price as a Genesis console, the price of the 32X was less than half of what the Saturn's price would be at launch.<a href="#cite_note-32XIGN-161">[158]</a> Though positioning the console as an inexpensive entry into 32-bit gaming, Sega had a difficult time convincing third-party developers to create games for the new system. After an early run on the peripheral, news soon spread to the public of the upcoming release of the Sega Saturn, which would not support the 32X's games. The Saturn was released on May 11, 1995,<a href="#cite_note-166">[163]</a> four months earlier than its originally intended release date of September 2, 1995.<a href="#cite_note-167">[164]</a> The Saturn, in turn, caused developers to further shy away from the console and created doubt about <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_32X_games" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Sega 32X games">the library for the 32X</a>, even with Sega's assurances that there would be a large number of games developed for the system. In early 1996, Sega conceded that it had promised too much out of the 32X and decided to stop producing the system in order to focus on the Saturn.<a href="#cite_note-Allgame32X-154">[151]</a> Prices for the 32X dropped to $99 and cleared out of stores at $19.95.<a href="#cite_note-Kent_493_496-162">[159]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variations">Variations</h2></div> More than a dozen licensed variations of the Genesis/Mega Drive have been released.<a href="#cite_note-168">[165]</a> In addition to models made by Sega, alternate models were made by other companies, such as <a href="/wiki/Majesco_Entertainment" title="Majesco Entertainment">Majesco Entertainment</a>, AtGames, <a href="/wiki/JVC" title="JVC">JVC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Corporation" title="Pioneer Corporation">Pioneer Corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amstrad" title="Amstrad">Amstrad</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aiwa" title="Aiwa">Aiwa</a>. A number of <a href="/wiki/Counterfeit_consumer_goods" class="mw-redirect" title="Counterfeit consumer goods">bootleg</a> clones were created during its lifespan.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First-party_models">First-party models</h3></div> <table class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1.4em;"> <tbody><tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Genesis II"><img alt="Genesis II" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg/120px-Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg/180px-Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg/240px-Sega-Genesis-Mod2-Bare.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4060" data-file-height="2580" /></a><figcaption>Genesis II</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-CDX-FL.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sega CDX"><img alt="Sega CDX" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Sega-CDX-FL.jpg/120px-Sega-CDX-FL.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Sega-CDX-FL.jpg/180px-Sega-CDX-FL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Sega-CDX-FL.jpg/240px-Sega-CDX-FL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4950" data-file-height="3720" /></a><figcaption>Sega CDX</figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:120px;"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Genesis (second model)</div> </td> <td style="width:120px;"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Genesis CDX</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Genesis Nomad"><img alt="Genesis Nomad" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg/120px-Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg/180px-Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg/240px-Sega-Nomad-Front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3820" data-file-height="2720" /></a><figcaption>Genesis Nomad</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="TeraDrive"><img alt="TeraDrive" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg/120px-Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg/180px-Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg/240px-Teradrive-2007-05-19-front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="753" data-file-height="475" /></a><figcaption>TeraDrive</figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width:120px;"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Genesis Nomad</div> </td> <td style="width:120px;"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">TeraDrive</div> </td></tr></tbody></table> In 1993, Sega introduced a smaller, lighter version of the console,<a href="#cite_note-SegaSpecs-129">[126]</a> known as the Mega Drive II in Japan, Europe, and Australia<a href="#cite_note-169">[d]</a> and sold as Genesis (without the Sega prefix) in North America. This version omits the headphone jack, replaces the A/V-Out connector with a smaller version that supports stereo sound, and provides a simpler, less expensive <a href="/wiki/Mainboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainboard">mainboard</a> that requires less power.<a href="#cite_note-SegaSupp-132">[129]</a> Sega released a combined, semi-portable Genesis/Sega CD unit, the Genesis CDX (marketed as the Multi-Mega in Europe). This unit retailed at US$399.95;<a href="#cite_note-GPro-170">[166]</a> this was roughly US$100 more than the individual Genesis and Sega CD units put together, as the Sega CD had been reduced to US$229 half a year before.<a href="#cite_note-171">[167]</a> The CDX was bundled with <a href="/wiki/Sonic_CD" title="Sonic CD">Sonic CD</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sega_Classics_Arcade_Collection" title="Sega Classics Arcade Collection">Sega Classics Arcade Collection</a>, and the Sega CD version of <a href="/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin" title="Ecco the Dolphin">Ecco the Dolphin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-172">[168]</a> The CDX features a small <a href="/wiki/Liquid_crystal_display" class="mw-redirect" title="Liquid crystal display">LCD</a> screen that, when the unit is used to play audio CDs, displays the current track being played.<a href="#cite_note-GenesisCDX-173">[169]</a> With this feature and the system's lightweight build (weighing two pounds), Sega marketed it in part as a <a href="/wiki/Portable_CD_player" title="Portable CD player">portable CD player</a>.<a href="#cite_note-GPro-170">[166]</a> Late in the 16-bit era, Sega released a <a href="/wiki/Handheld_game_console" title="Handheld game console">handheld</a> version of the Genesis, the <a href="/wiki/Genesis_Nomad" title="Genesis Nomad">Genesis Nomad</a>. Its design was based on the Mega Jet, a Mega Drive portable unit featured on airplane flights in Japan. As the only successor to the <a href="/wiki/Game_Gear" title="Game Gear">Game Gear</a>, the Nomad operates on 6 <a href="/wiki/AA_battery" title="AA battery">AA batteries</a>, displaying its graphics on a 3.25-inch (8.25-mm) LCD screen. The Nomad supports the entire Genesis library (save for <a href="/wiki/X-Men_(1993_video_game)" title="X-Men (1993 video game)">one game</a> that requires the use of the reset button, which the Nomad lacks), but cannot be used with the Sega 32X, the Sega CD, or the Power Base Converter.<a href="#cite_note-AllgameNomad-174">[170]</a> Exclusive to the Japanese market was the <a href="/wiki/Sega_TeraDrive" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega TeraDrive">TeraDrive</a>, a Mega Drive combined with an <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC compatible">IBM PC compatible</a> computer. Sega also produced three <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sega_arcade_system_boards" title="List of Sega arcade system boards">arcade system boards</a> based on the Mega Drive: the System C-2, the <a href="/wiki/Sega_Mega-Tech" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega Mega-Tech">MegaTech</a>, and the MegaPlay, which support approximately 80 games combined.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third-party_models">Third-party models</h3></div> <table class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1.4em;"> <tbody><tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Console-wondermega.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wondermega"><img alt="Wondermega" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Console-wondermega.jpg/90px-Console-wondermega.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Console-wondermega.jpg/135px-Console-wondermega.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Console-wondermega.jpg/180px-Console-wondermega.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Wondermega</figcaption></figure></td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wondermega 2"><img alt="Wondermega 2" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg/90px-Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg/135px-Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg/180px-Victor-WonderMega-RG-M2-Console-Set.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption>Wondermega 2</figcaption></figure></td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MegaPC_Front.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Amstrad Mega PC"><img alt="Amstrad Mega PC" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/MegaPC_Front.jpg/90px-MegaPC_Front.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/MegaPC_Front.jpg/135px-MegaPC_Front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/MegaPC_Front.jpg/180px-MegaPC_Front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2019" data-file-height="615" /></a><figcaption>Amstrad Mega PC</figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <td width="90"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Wondermega (JVC model)</div></td> <td width="90"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Wondermega 2</div></td> <td width="90"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Amstrad Mega PC</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Majesco's Genesis 3"><img alt="Majesco's Genesis 3" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg/90px-Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg/135px-Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg/180px-Sega-Genesis-3-Console-FL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3100" /></a><figcaption>Majesco's Genesis 3</figcaption></figure></td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="AtGames's Sega Firecore"><img alt="AtGames's Sega Firecore" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg/90px-Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg/135px-Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg/180px-Sega-Firecore-Set.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3640" data-file-height="1540" /></a><figcaption>AtGames's Sega Firecore</figcaption></figure></td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pioneer LaserActive"><img alt="Pioneer LaserActive" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg/90px-Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg/135px-Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg/180px-Pioneer-LaserActive-Set-FL.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4050" data-file-height="3150" /></a><figcaption>Pioneer LaserActive</figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <td width="90"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Genesis 3</div></td> <td width="90"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Firecore</div></td> <td width="90"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">LaserActive</div> </td></tr></tbody></table> Working with Sega Enterprises, JVC released the <a href="/wiki/Wondermega" class="mw-redirect" title="Wondermega">Wondermega</a> on April 1, 1992, in Japan. The system was later redesigned by JVC and released as the X'Eye in North America in September 1994. Designed by JVC to be a Genesis and Sega CD combination with high quality audio, the Wondermega's high price ($500 at launch<a href="#cite_note-175">[171]</a>) kept it out of the hands of average consumers.<a href="#cite_note-JVC-176">[172]</a> The same was true of the <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_LaserActive" class="mw-redirect" title="Pioneer LaserActive">Pioneer LaserActive</a>, which requires an add-on known as the Mega-LD pack, developed by Sega, in order to play Genesis and Sega CD games. Although the LaserActive was lined up to compete with the <a href="/wiki/3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer" class="mw-redirect" title="3DO Interactive Multiplayer">3DO Interactive Multiplayer</a>, the combined price of the system and the Mega-LD pack made it a prohibitively expensive option for Sega players.<a href="#cite_note-Pioneer-177">[173]</a> Aiwa released the CSD-GM1, a combination Genesis/Sega CD unit built into a <a href="/wiki/Boombox" title="Boombox">boombox</a>. Several companies added the Mega Drive to personal computers, mimicking the design of Sega's TeraDrive; these include the <a href="/wiki/MSX" title="MSX">MSX</a> models AX-330 and AX-990, distributed in <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC" title="Amstrad Mega PC">Amstrad Mega PC</a>, distributed in Europe and Australia.<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> After the Genesis was discontinued, Majesco Entertainment released the Genesis 3 as a budget version in 1998.<a href="#cite_note-GamasutraMajesco-178">[174]</a> This version is even smaller in comparison to earlier models, but it can only play standard cartridges as it omitted support for the Sega CD and the 32X.<a href="#cite_note-179">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-180">[176]</a> A similar thing happened in Portugal, where Ecofilmes, Sega's distributor in the country, obtained a license to sell the Mega Game II. This version was more akin to the second first-party model, being noteworthy the inclusion of six-button controllers and a switch to alternate between different game regions, enabling this version to play all games without the need for any device or modification to bypass region locking.<a href="#cite_note-181">[177]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Re-releases_and_emulation">Re-releases and emulation</h3></div> A number of Genesis and Mega Drive <a href="/wiki/Video_game_console_emulator" title="Video game console emulator">emulators</a> have been produced, including GenEM, KGen, Genecyst, VGen,<a href="#cite_note-dump-182">[178]</a> Gens,<a href="#cite_note-RetroEmulate-183">[179]</a> and Kega Fusion. The <a href="/wiki/GameTap" title="GameTap">GameTap</a> subscription gaming service included a Genesis emulator and had several dozen licensed Genesis games in its catalog.<a href="#cite_note-GameTap2-184">[180]</a> The Console Classix subscription gaming service includes an emulator and has several hundred Genesis games in its catalog.<a href="#cite_note-consoleclassix-185">[181]</a> Compilations of Genesis games have been released for other consoles. These include <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Mega_Collection" title="Sonic Mega Collection">Sonic Mega Collection</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Gems_Collection" title="Sonic Gems Collection">Sonic Gems Collection</a> for <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_2" title="PlayStation 2">PS2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xbox_(console)" title="Xbox (console)">Xbox</a>, and <a href="/wiki/GameCube" title="GameCube">GameCube</a>; <a href="/wiki/Sega_Genesis_Collection" title="Sega Genesis Collection">Sega Genesis Collection</a> for PS2 and <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_Portable" title="PlayStation Portable">PSP</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Sonic%27s_Ultimate_Genesis_Collection" title="Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection">Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection</a> (known as the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection in PAL territories) for <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_3" title="PlayStation 3">PlayStation 3</a> and <a href="/wiki/Xbox_360" title="Xbox 360">Xbox 360</a>.<a href="#cite_note-IGNPs2-186">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-187">[183]</a> During his keynote speech at the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Game_Developers_Conference" title="Game Developers Conference">Game Developers Conference</a>, Nintendo president <a href="/wiki/Satoru_Iwata" title="Satoru Iwata">Satoru Iwata</a> announced that Sega would make a number of Genesis/Mega Drive games available to download on the <a href="/wiki/Wii" title="Wii">Wii</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Virtual_Console" title="Virtual Console">Virtual Console</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Wii-188">[184]</a> There are select Genesis games available on the Xbox 360 through <a href="/wiki/Xbox_Live_Arcade" title="Xbox Live Arcade">Xbox Live Arcade</a>, such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 2,<a href="#cite_note-Kotaku1-189">[185]</a> as well as games available via the <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_Network" title="PlayStation Network">PlayStation Network</a><a href="#cite_note-Kotaku3-190">[186]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steam_(service)" title="Steam (service)">Steam</a>.<a href="#cite_note-191">[187]</a> Companies such as <a href="/wiki/Radica_Games" title="Radica Games">Radica Games</a> have also released various compilations of Genesis and Mega Drive games in "<a href="/wiki/Handheld_TV_game" title="Handheld TV game">plug-and-play</a>" packages resembling the system's controller.<a href="#cite_note-Hands-On-192">[188]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_releases">Later releases</h3></div> On May 22, 2006, North American company <a href="/wiki/Super_Fighter_Team" title="Super Fighter Team">Super Fighter Team</a> released <a href="/wiki/Beggar_Prince" title="Beggar Prince">Beggar Prince</a>, a game translated from a 1996 <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> original.<a href="#cite_note-193">[189]</a> It was released worldwide and was the first commercial Genesis game release in North America since 1998.<a href="#cite_note-retronintendolife-194">[190]</a> Super Fighter Team would later go on to release two more games for the system, <a href="/wiki/Legend_of_Wukong" title="Legend of Wukong">Legend of Wukong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blue_Almanac" title="Blue Almanac">Star Odyssey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-retronintendolife-194">[190]</a> In December 2010, WaterMelon, an American company, released <a href="/wiki/Pier_Solar_and_the_Great_Architects" title="Pier Solar and the Great Architects">Pier Solar and the Great Architects</a>, the first commercial <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_video_game" title="Role-playing video game">role-playing video game</a> specifically developed for the console since 1996,<a href="#cite_note-195">[191]</a> and was the biggest 16-bit game ever produced for the console at the time at 64 <a href="/wiki/Megabit" class="mw-redirect" title="Megabit">Mb</a> (roughly 8 Megabytes).<a href="#cite_note-IGNIndependent1-196">[192]</a> Pier Solar is the only cartridge-based game which can optionally use the Sega CD to play an enhanced soundtrack and sound effects disc.<a href="#cite_note-IGNIndependent2-197">[193]</a> In 2013, independent programmer Future Driver, inspired by the Disney film <a href="/wiki/Wreck-It_Ralph" title="Wreck-It Ralph">Wreck-It Ralph</a>, developed Fix-It Felix Jr. for the Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-fixitfelix-198">[194]</a> In 2017, American company Mega Cat Games released <a href="/wiki/Coffee_Crisis" title="Coffee Crisis">Coffee Crisis</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Beat_%27em_up" title="Beat 'em up">Beat 'em up</a>, for the Sega Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-199">[195]</a> On December 5, 2007, Tectoy released a portable version of the Genesis/Mega Drive with twenty built-in games.<a href="#cite_note-200">[196]</a> Another version called "Mega Drive Guitar Idol" comes with two six-button joypads and a <a href="/wiki/Guitar_controller" title="Guitar controller">guitar controller</a> with five <a href="/wiki/Fret" title="Fret">fret</a> buttons. The Guitar Idol game contains a mix of Brazilian and international songs. The console has 87 built-in games, including some from Electronic Arts based on the <a href="/wiki/Mobile_game" title="Mobile game">mobile phone versions</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Guitar-201">[197]</a> In 2016, Tectoy announced that they had developed a new Genesis console that not only looks almost identical to the original model of the Genesis, but also has a traditional cartridge slot and <a href="/wiki/SD_card" title="SD card">SD card</a> reader, which was released in June 2017.<a href="#cite_note-202">[198]</a> In 2009, Chinese company AtGames produced a Genesis/Mega Drive-compatible console, the Firecore.<a href="#cite_note-Innex-203">[199]</a> It features a top-loading cartridge slot and includes two controllers similar to the six-button controller for the original Genesis. The console has 15 games built-in and is region-free, allowing cartridge games to run regardless of their region.<a href="#cite_note-Blaze-204">[200]</a> AtGames also produced a handheld version of the console preloaded with 20 games.<a href="#cite_note-Innex-203">[199]</a><a href="#cite_note-205">[201]</a> Both machines have been released in Europe by distributing company <a href="/wiki/Blaze_Europe" title="Blaze Europe">Blaze Europe</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Blaze-204">[200]</a> In 2018, Sega announced a <a href="/wiki/Dedicated_console" title="Dedicated console">dedicated console</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Genesis/Mega_Drive_Mini" class="mw-redirect" title="Genesis/Mega Drive Mini">Genesis/Mega Drive Mini</a>.<a href="#cite_note-206">[202]</a> The console includes 40 games, including <a href="/wiki/Gunstar_Heroes" title="Gunstar Heroes">Gunstar Heroes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Castlevania:_Bloodlines" title="Castlevania: Bloodlines">Castlevania: Bloodlines</a>, with different games for different regions and a save-anywhere function. <a href="/wiki/Streets_of_Rage" title="Streets of Rage">Streets of Rage</a> composer <a href="/wiki/Yuzo_Koshiro" title="Yuzo Koshiro">Yuzo Koshiro</a> provided the menu music. The console was released worldwide on September 19, 2019.<a href="#cite_note-207">[203]</a> Crowdfunded Sega Genesis games have been released in recent years, with <a href="/wiki/Tanglewood_(2018_video_game)" title="Tanglewood (2018 video game)">Tanglewood</a>, a puzzle platformer being released on August 14, 2018, and <a href="/wiki/Xeno_Crisis" title="Xeno Crisis">Xeno Crisis</a> released on October 28, 2019. Both games were created by indie-game developers using actual Sega development hardware to ensure compatibility with the Genesis.<a href="#cite_note-dfdevelopers-208">[204]</a> On December 16, 2020, <a href="/wiki/Paprium" title="Paprium">Paprium</a>, WaterMelon's follow up game to Pier Solar, was released after nearly a decade in development.<a href="#cite_note-Paprium-209">[205]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div> At the time of its release, the Genesis received positive reviews. Andy Storer of <a href="/wiki/New_Computer_Express" title="New Computer Express">New Computer Express</a> praised the console's responsive controls and graphics, and said the Genesis was "straight out of the future".<a href="#cite_note-210">[206]</a> Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Gaming_Monthly" title="Electronic Gaming Monthly">Electronic Gaming Monthly</a> (EGM) in a 1989 preview of the console spoke highly of the system's hardware but questioned Sega's ability to support the console given their difficulties with the Master System.<a href="#cite_note-211">[207]</a> New Computer Express called the Genesis "the [console] to have" in 1990, rating it 5 out of 5 stars while predicting the console would lead the market.<a href="#cite_note-212">[208]</a> In the same year, EGM complimented how well the Genesis' games took advantage of the console's hardware, but expressed concern about the slow pace of new releases of games, with four reviewers scoring the console 9, 8, 8, and 10 out of 10.<a href="#cite_note-213">[209]</a> Reviewing the Genesis in 1995, <a href="/wiki/Game_Players" title="Game Players">Game Players</a> noted that its rivalry with the <a href="/wiki/Super_NES" class="mw-redirect" title="Super NES">Super NES</a> was skewed by genre, with the Genesis having superior <a href="/wiki/Sports_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports game">sports games</a> and the Super NES superior <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_video_game" title="Role-playing video game">RPGs</a>. Commenting that the Genesis hardware was aging and the new software drying up, they recommended consumers buy a next-generation system or a <a href="/wiki/Genesis_Nomad" title="Genesis Nomad">Genesis Nomad</a> instead, but also advised those who already owned a Genesis to not sell it.<a href="#cite_note-214">[210]</a> In a 1997 year-end review, a team of five EGM editors gave the Genesis scores of 4.5, 5.0, 4.0, 4.5, and 7.5 – for all five editors, the lowest score they gave to any of the five consoles reviewed in the issue. While their chief criticisms were the lack of upcoming game releases and dated hardware, they also concurred that the Genesis was clearly inferior to the Super NES in terms of graphics capabilities, sound chip, and games library. John Ricciardi, in particular, considered the Genesis overrated, saying he had consistently found more enjoyment in both the Super NES and <a href="/wiki/TurboGrafx-16" title="TurboGrafx-16">TurboGrafx-16</a>, while Dan Hsu and Crispin Boyer recommended it based on its selection of classic titles and the high value-for-money of the six <a href="/wiki/Pack-in_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Pack-in game">pack-in games</a> Sega was offering at the time.<a href="#cite_note-215">[211]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2></div> The Genesis has often ranked among the best video game consoles. In 2009, <a href="/wiki/IGN" title="IGN">IGN</a> named it the fifth best video game console, citing its edge in sports games and better home version of Mortal Kombat, and lauding "what some consider to be the greatest controller ever created: the six button".<a href="#cite_note-IGN-top-25-216">[212]</a> In 2007, <a href="/wiki/GameTrailers" title="GameTrailers">GameTrailers</a> named the Genesis as the sixth best console of all time in their list of top ten consoles that "left their mark on the history of gaming", noting its great games and solid controller, and writing of the "glory days" of Sonic the Hedgehog.<a href="#cite_note-217">[213]</a> In January 2008, technology columnist Don Reisinger proclaimed that the Genesis "created the industry's best console war to date", citing Sonic the Hedgehog, superior sports games, and backward compatibility with the Sega Master System.<a href="#cite_note-218">[214]</a> In 2008, GamingExcellence ranked it sixth of the 10 best consoles, declaring, "one can truly see the Genesis for the gaming milestone it was."<a href="#cite_note-219">[215]</a> At the same time, <a href="/wiki/GameDaily" title="GameDaily">GameDaily</a> rated it ninth of ten for its memorable games.<a href="#cite_note-220">[216]</a> In 2014, USgamer's Jeremy Parish wrote, "If the <a href="/wiki/Second_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Second generation of video game consoles">Atari generation</a> introduced video games as a short-lived '70s fad ... and the <a href="/wiki/Third_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Third generation of video game consoles">NES generation</a> established it into an enduring obsession for the young, Sega's Genesis began pushing the medium toward something resembling its contemporary form", expounding that the system served as "the key incubator for modern sports franchises", made "consoles truly international" by providing Western third-parties previously put at a disadvantage by Nintendo's restrictive licensing policies with a more profitable alternative, created "an online subscription service" that foreshadowed "<a href="/wiki/PlayStation_Plus" class="mw-redirect" title="PlayStation Plus">PlayStation Plus</a> more than 15 years early" with the Sega Channel, and "played a key role in ensuring the vitality and future of the games industry by breaking Nintendo's near-monopolistic hold on the U.S. and awakening the U.K. to the merits of television gaming".<a href="#cite_note-221">[217]</a> For his part, Kalinske highlighted Sega's role in developing games for an older demographic and pioneering "the concept of the 'street date'" with the simultaneous North American and European release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.<a href="#cite_note-222">[218]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarris2014227–228,_273–275,_372-223">[219]</a> John Sczepaniak of <a href="/wiki/Retro_Gamer" title="Retro Gamer">Retro Gamer</a> noted, "It was a system where the allure was born not only of the hardware and games, but the magazines, playground arguments, climate, and politics of the time."<a href="#cite_note-Retroinspection-26">[23]</a> Sega of America's marketing campaign for the Genesis was widely emulated, influencing marketing in the subsequent generation of consoles.<a href="#cite_note-224">[220]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Neo_Geo_(system)" title="Neo Geo (system)">Neo Geo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philips_CD-i" class="mw-redirect" title="Philips CD-i">Philips CD-i</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean" title="Revised Romanization of Korean">RR</a>: Syupeo Alladin Boi) </li> <li id="cite_note-169"><a href="#cite_ref-169">^</a> Spelled as Mega Drive 2 (with an Arabic numeral) in Japan. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/19940430-shaw-wallace-to-manufacture-market-sega-tv-games-in-india-810502-1994-04-29">"Shaw Wallace to manufacture and market Sega TV 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