Talk:Sega Genesis

Sega Master System Successor

I think it's interesting that there is no mention that the Mega Drive is actually the successor to the Master System directly. When the Mega Drive was created, the SMS was used as the starting point and the additional Mega Drive hardware was added to give it the backward compatability. This was stated in an old interview with one of the engineers that worked on the Mega Drive. Sorry I cannot find the video. Maybe someone else has it. 2405:6E00:2229:7BB:B1A6:7ADF:E5BB:902F (talk) 03:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

The WP:INFOBOX literally says Predecessor - Master System. It doesn't get much more direct than that... Sergecross73 msg me 03:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

It's also a little more present in the article and in published sources that we have that the System 16 arcade system board was really the starting point, and that is sourced in the article. For Sega, being a company that was so arcade-focused at the time, the idea of bringing one of their lower arcade boards to a home console was really what they wanted, and so much of Sega'a marketing at the time emphasized bringing the arcade experience home. It was also a jump-off for Sega where the SG-1000, SG-1000 II, and Master System all used the same Z80 for a processor with only minor tweaks to the hardware and a custom graphics chip for the Master System/Mark III. Of course, whether or not the System 16 was in turn based on SMS as a starting point is a good question; it too shared a Zilog Z80, although like with the Genesis, the Motorola 68000 is the real deal behind the system's processing power. Red Phoenix ^talk 04:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

New Images

Should we add images of Japanese Mega Drive model 2 and North American Sega Genesis model 1? 44naytions (talk) 03:44, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Part of why the pictures we have were selected and some were excluded was to avoid overcrowding. I still believe that we have enough images and don’t need a pic of every possible variant of the console, simply to keep the article more organized and the flow better. Red Phoenix ^talk 13:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Seconded. Sergecross73 msg me 13:35, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Mega drive?

Being from argentina I only new the console as Sega Genesis.

this is the start sentence for this article: The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive outside North America... this would make more sense: The Sega Genesis, also known as Mega Drive... 190.226.220.191 (talk) 11:55, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

It looks pretty much the same to me. Red Phoenix ^talk 22:11, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

"Initially, the consoles came to Argentina under the name Mega Drive, but due to many clones with different names, people began to call 16-bit systems Sega. In the 2000s, clones called Genesis became popular and many younger players call this systems like that..." Nreive (talk) 18:04, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Got a reliable source for that? Argentina is an area we haven’t mentioned yet in the article and I’d love to squeeze in a bit about the console in the Argentine market. Red Phoenix ^talk 20:48, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

It doesn't make sense to me that the page is called Sega Genesis, while that's only the North American name. But the debate has been already done in the past (I couldn't participate but I doubt it would have changed anything) and this is the way that has been chosen, so we just need to live with that. Giant Lizard (talk) 13:41, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Donald Trump Sega Launch party date.

Does anyone know from the news footage with Donald Trump at the Launch party what day that happened? Seems to be the 14th but user:Indrian removed it even though there is news footage of the event.Not sure which date though 2601:3C5:8180:31D0:89AE:C51E:D15:B6ED (talk) 02:39, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Surely if it were that notable a thing it would be in some kind of post-coverage reliable source? WP:NOTNEWS applies if it’s just one brief mention in news footage. Red Phoenix ^talk 11:27, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

It was 1989, Sega wasn't huge back then. Unlike other fourth generation consoles there is an actual video of the launch (The August 23 1991 date for the SNES, August 29, 1989 date for the TurboGrafx 16, and the July 1, 1991 date for the neo geo) have no first day release videos, the issue is finding out when that was shown. 2601:3C5:8180:31D0:BDF9:FEFD:FC1B:5D7C (talk) 16:05, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Unless it has some sort of documented impact (helping/hurting the platform's launch or sales), its probably not worth noting. Sergecross73 msg me 13:05, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Well technically we dont know the official dates for any of the fourth gen, but the video would help confirm what day in August 1989 it was released. 2601:3C5:8180:31D0:BDF9:FEFD:FC1B:5D7C (talk) 16:13, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Where is this video available? If it's just a Youtube upload by a random person, it'll fall afoul of WP:YOUTUBE and WP:RSPYT... Sergecross73 msg me 16:18, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

I mean it's something that actually happened it isn't AI generated. 2601:3C5:8180:31D0:BDF9:FEFD:FC1B:5D7C (talk) 16:21, 19 March 2025 (UTC)