You can play classic SEGA games anytime, anywhere with the new Mega Drive Portable video game player. Mega Drive Portable also has an Audio / Video out connector and with the included cable the player can be connected to any TV. There is no need to buy game cartridges or download sega roms. The SEGA Mega Drive Portable (Portable Sega Genesis) is a handheld video game console pre-loaded with 20 classic games from SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis. It was only released in Japan and Brazil. It also released the peripheral, Sega Meganet, which was a modem for the Mega drive. Throughout the lifetime of the Genesis, Sega had developed and launched two unsuccesful well-known add-ons, the Sega 32X and the Sega CD. But in 1998, Majesco released a budget version of the Genesis, called 'Sega Genesis 3'. In 1996, Sega discontinued support for the Genesis. By 1994, Nintendo had regained a lot of its lost market share by slashing Sega's share from 65% to 35%. In 1993, the Genesis was redesigned and released as the 'Sega Genesis 2'. The Genesis also did well in Brazil, Europe, and Australia, however, it failed to put a dent on Nintendo's market share in Japan. By 1992, Sega slashed Nintendo's market by garnering 55% (going as high as 65% in 1993) of the market in North America. Even though the Genesis was released earlier than the SNES, Sega had a hard time overcoming Nintendo's dominating foothold on the video game console market, which in the late-1980s was 95% in North America and 92% in Japan. In 1990, Nintendo released the Super Famicom (or Super Nintendo Entertainment System-SNES), which was Genesis' major rival throughout the 16-bit era. The Genesis was a 16-bt console created to rival the TurboGrafx 16. Dimensions (WHD): 301mm x 212.5mm x 112.5mm (r1).Sega Mega Drive also known as Sega Genesis in North America. Signal/Noise Ratio: Over 90dB (1kHz) (Line Out). Wavelength characteristics: 20Hz-20kHz. 8x Internal over-sampling digital filter 6Mbit (Program, picture data, sound data) Additional 2 channels (8 Channels total, or 16 with SegaCD) Overlaying over existing Genesis/SegaCD video CPU: Dual Hitachi SH-2 RISC Processors 23 MHz each, 40MIPS.3 Planes: 2 scrolling playfields, 1 sprite plane 64 simultaneous colors of 512 color pallete. Controls PSG (Programmable Sound Generator) & FM Chips Co-Processor: Z80 4 MHz (Not Present in MK-1631).We should also point out that at some point a Sega Master System converter was released that allowed it's games to be used on the Genesis. The Genesis had two major addons: a 32-bit extension called 32X and a CD-ROM drive called Mega CD. As Sega was not able to obtain the trademark in the US, the unit was called Genesis there. The Sega Genesis was one of the two great 16-bit systems of it's time, the other being the Super Nintendo.

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