Was the Sega CD a perfect peripheral? It was a Sega device made in the ‘90s, so no. It had some obvious problems—some self-inflicted—to contend with. However, 30 years after its debut, it’s pretty ...

In the ‘90s, Sega was known for taking big risks. Some of those risks (like the aggressive marketing of the Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog) paid off. Others, like the surprise early launch of the ...

The Sega CD was a cutting-edge video system for its time—the “console wars” era of the early ’90s— but by 1995 it had been entirely abandoned as Sega shifted focus to its disastrous next-gen system, ...

Danny Guan is a writer with an avid interest in anime, manga, video games, and more. When he isn't writing for Game Rant, he's writing on his own personal website. In order to increase the ...

While we might have to choose between either Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo for our video game consoles nowadays, back in the 80s and 90s that wasn't the case. Sega used to be a massive competitor in ...

The Sega CD, known as the Mega-CD elsewhere, was the disc-drive peripheral for the Sega Genesis, and while this was a simple console “add-on,” the CDs allowed for things that simply weren’t possible ...

If history is written by the winners, then Sega almost certainly lost the 1990s-era console wars. The company stopped making hardware. It lent its Mascot out to Nintendo to star in Super Smash Bros.

Matthew is the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police. He's been gaming since his first taste of a TI-99 at four years old. Matthew has been an Android user since the HTC Hero and has covered ...

Demonstrating once again that it’s always just one step behind the rest of the games industry, Sega didn’t get the memo that PC and emulation gaming handhelds are in and miniature game-filled replica ...

Update 7/13/22: Sega has announced a North American release for the Genesis Mini 2. The plug-and-play system is launching on October 27, 2022 as an Amazon exclusive. Sega says the console will include ...