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Sega announced last year back in April that it would be joining the retro console boom by launching the Mega Drive Mini (Genesis in North America). After dealing with delays due to quality issues and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I haven't been overly impressed by any of the mini consoles that have sprung up lately. The NES Classic Edition was enough of a novelty when ...

Exactly one year after announcing the Super NT — a product that I called “the nicest 16-bit console I’ve ever held” — Analogue is back with the Mega SG, promising to do for the Sega Genesis / Mega ...

If there’s a game console Sega is best known for, it’s the Genesis/Mega Drive. Sega diehards may argue that the Dreamcast was the company’s best console, and on a hardware level, they’re right. But ...

Priced at $79.99 and arriving this September with more than 40 games Priced at $79.99 and arriving this September with more than 40 games is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on ...

The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are both famous for their ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Romeo is a writer, gamer, PR practitioner, podcaster, and pro wrestler who's been playing for nearly his whole life. Since getting a Famicom at 4 or 5 years old, he's never stopped playing, whether it ...

Back in 2002, Xbox Live shaped gaming forever by bringing online multiplayer to home consoles, but it wasn't the first to do so. Before Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony turned online multiplayer into a ...

Did Sega just win a console war? By Pete Keeley When I first heard Sega was announcing a Sega Genesis Mini, I was confused because I already … owned … a Sega ...