SEGA

Gaming Historian tells you everything you need to know about the Sega Game Gear.In 1991, SEGA released the Game Gear to keep up with Nintendo in the video game market. Although it eventually succumbed to the Game Boy, SEGA’s handheld is still loved today.

Reverse Engineering : Is it legal or is it a grey area? This is the story of how 2 different game companies reverse engineered the Sega Genesis 16bit console and how the courts ruled in favor of clean-room reverse engineering as a legal form of both software and hardware modification.

In 1994, Sega launched the Mega Role-Playing Project to compete with Nintendo’s RPG lineup. The first game from the project was Crusader of Centy, a Zelda clone! Learn more about it’s creation and legacy.

On this weeks episode we take a look at the PolyMega Module Addon for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive/32x. Is it worth the money? We take a close look at the cartridge module hardware and put it to the test!

We all live with the knowledge that everything put together eventually falls apart, but in the case of consoles based around optical media, the issue is pretty grave. Optical drives are prone to all kinds of problems – especially when they’re over 20 years old – and as a result, many of the CD-based systems out there will develop difficulties which can lead to them becoming totally useless.

That’s where the guys over at Terraonion come in. The company has already solved this issue on the PC Engine and Mega Drive / Genesis, but its next project is on a whole new level – it’s an optical disc emulator which effectively replaces the disc drive inside your Sega Saturn or Dreamcast, giving your machine a whole new lease of life.

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In 1998, Bits Laboratory released Game BASIC for the Sega Saturn. An easy way for programmers to write games on the Saturn without an expensive development kit. In this episode we take a look at what BASIC is, its importance in game development and theorize why it was made available for the Saturn