Mega Drive
Fast Facts on the Sega Mega Drive |
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Made by: Sega |
The Sega Mega Drive, or Sega "Genesis" as it is called in the United States is a 4th Generation Home video game console produced by Sega. It was introduced to the market in 1989 as competition to rival Nintendo's Super Nintendo Console.
Basic information about Mega Drive
The Mega Drive is a Video Game console that is based mainly for home use. During it's run, Sega had Three models released, each one becoming smaller than the original. The system ran through an A/V out cable that connected to a television. The console itself boasted one of the fastest processors in it's time, The Motorolla 68000 series. This chipset was attributed to making the Mega Drive run at such high speeds without lag that most processors of its time would crash from the amounts of instructions being sent to be processed. (A.K.A. Blast Processing) Along with it, it also came equipted with a Zilog Z80 chip that handled sound and music for the console. With all of this running inside, the Mega Drive was one of the first game console to boast of having 16-bit music and art, and to top it off, the Genesis had "Blast Processing".
Newer models had an expansion port for the Sega CD peripheral. In addition to the Sega CD, in 1995 Sega released the 32x peripheral. This piece of equiptment was to be placed directly into cartidge slot.
Model 1
Model 1 is the original release of the system in 1988. This version was released in all regions. The only differnces between the two versions is that the American had "Genesis" printed on it as apposed to "Mega Drive"
Basic Features
Two Controller ports.
A/V out ports
The system had the switch that selected which channel the Signal would be picked up on.