Sega Genesis
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Sega Genesis is also known as Sega Mega Drive. The Sega Mega Drive (??????, Mega Doraibu?) is a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988, North America in 1989, and the PAL region in 1990. It debuted under the name Sega Genesis in North America, as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that region. It was the direct competitor of the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo), although the Sega Mega Drive was released two years earlier.
Development
Although the Sega Master System had proved a success in Brazil and Europe, it failed to ignite much interest in the North American or Japanese markets, which by the mid-to-late 1980s were both dominated by Nintendo with 95% and 92% market shares respectively. Hoping to dramatically increase their share, Sega set about creating a new machine that would be at least as powerful as the then most impressive hardware on the market - the 16-bit Commodore Amiga,Atari ST, and the Macintosh II home computers.
Since the Sega System 16 was very popular, Hayao Nakayama, Sega's CEO at the time, decided to make their new home system utilize a 16-bit architecture. The final design was ported to the arcade, and eventually used in the Mega-Tech, Mega-Play and System-C arcade machines. Any game made for the Mega Drive hardware could easily be ported to these systems.
The first name Sega considered for their console was the MK-1601, but they ultimately decided to call it the "Sega Mega Drive". "Mega" had the connotation of superiority, and "Drive" had the connotation of speed and power. Sega used the name Mega Drive for the Japanese, European, Asian, Australian and Brazilian versions of the console. The North American version went by the name "Genesis" due to a trademark dispute, while the South Korean versions were called Super Gam*Boy (?????) and Super Aladdin Boy (transliterated from ???????; this was the Korean version of Mega Drive 2). The Korean-market consoles were licensed and distributed by Samsung Electronics.
Some well known Sega Genesis emulators today are:
- 32X_BIOS
- Ages v0.29a
- Genesis_OS_ROM
- Gens v1-91
- GOOD_DLL
- Kega v0.04b
- mcd2_200_eu
- mcd_101_jp
- scd2_200_us
- scd_110_us
- UNRAR
- Xega v10
- ZLIB
Top Roms
- Addams Family, The Ocean Software Flying Edge 1994
- Addams Family Values Ocean Software Ocean Software 1995
- Adventures of Batman and Robin, The Clockwork Tortoise Sega 1995
- The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
- Aero the Acro-Bat
- James Bond: The Duel The Kremlin Domark
- James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing
- James Pond
- Pac-Attack Namco Namco
- Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures Namco Namco
- Pac-Mania Tengen Tengen
- P.T.O.: Pacific Theater of Operations Koei Koei
- Pagemaster
- Paperboy
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