The console contains an 8-bit 3.5 MHz Zilog Z80 chip for a central processing unit, Game Gear was designed to be played while being held horizontally. Short battery life, and questions over the quality of its game library. Reception of the Game Gear was mixed, with praise for its full-color backlit screen and processing power for its time, criticisms over its large size and Which had a full-color backlit screen with a landscape format, as a technologically superior handheld to the Game Boy. It shares much of its hardware with the Master System, and can play Master System games by the use of an adapter. The Game Gear primarily competed with Nintendo's Game Boy, the Atari Lynx, and NEC's TurboExpress. Online emulated version of FIFA Soccer 96 was originally developed for the SEGA Game GearĪn 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on Octoin Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe,Īnd during 1992 in Australia. 30.75 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide.Rating (29 users voted) SEGA Game Gear Handheld It was released in several different versions,Ĭontributing to its success were its library of arcade game ports, the popularity of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, several popular sports franchises,Īnd aggressive youth marketing that positioned it as the cool console for adolescents. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It plays a library of more than 900 games created by Sega and a wide array of third-party publishers delivered on ROM-based cartridges. Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling. In 1990, it was distributed as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic in Europe.ĭesigned by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's System 16 arcade board, centered on a Sega released it as the Mega Drive in Japan in 1988,Īnd later as the Genesis in North America in 1989. The Genesis is Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. It was a 16-bit fourth-generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. Known as the Mega Drive outside North America. Online emulated version of FIFA Soccer 96 was originally developed for the Sega Genesis Rating (29 users voted) SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive

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