The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) was based around the fairly common Motorola 68000 processor, but this wasn’t the only processor in the console.

The Sega Mega Drive (or Sega Genesis if you lived in North America) isn’t one of the highest selling consoles of all time, but it is easily one of the most important, and its fierce rivalry with ...

Ristar is a 2D side-scrolling platformer that released late in the Sega Genesis' lifecycle. Instead of focusing on jumping like Mario or running fast like Sonic, Ristar is based around Ristar having ...

July marks 30 years since the launch of the Sega Saturn console in Europe, and so began three years of its steady decline.

It always sounded a bit crunchy, but crunchy in a good way. SEGA’s 16-bit console, whether you call it the Genesis or Mega Drive, always had a unique sound thanks to it’s Yamaha YM2612 sound ...

The Genesis Mini 2 was confirmed months after Sega announced a similar living room box for its Japanese audience, the Mega Drive 2.

Sega is going back to the well one more time with the Mega Drive Mini 2, which will be released in Japan this October (the Mega Drive was what the Genesis was called outside of the US).

Image: Sega Japan Three years later, Sega Japan has just announced a follow-up to its tiny Genesis with the Mega Drive 2, which currently appears to be limited to a Japan-only release.

Following the success of its original Mega Drive / Genesis Mini, Sega has officially launched a second iteration of the miniature console, dubbed the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 2. Our friends over ...

In Europe — where the machine would retain the Mega Drive moniker — it enjoyed even more popularity, thanks to Sega's impressive stranglehold on that particular region.

The creators of high-end SNES remake Super NT have set their sights on Sega Genesis / Mega Drive with Mega SG — with 1080p HD TV output.

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