SEGA GENESIS
1989
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879 GAMES
OFFICIALLY RELEASED
30 MILLION
UNITS SOLD WORLDWIDE
SEGA GENESIS
1989
The Sega Genesis is Sega's best selling console of all time with over 30 million, it was released as the Sega Mega Drive worldwide..
The Sega Genesis was released around the start of the "console wars"; a time of incredible innovation in the video game industry that lead titanic sized competition between competing companies. At the time of it's release the Sega Genesis basically had double the performance of the NES and provided a more mature lineup of games therefore attracting older gamers, of course Nintendo shot back with the release of the Super Nintendo only a few years later in 1991.
Legacy
Genesis Does!
The Genesis was a groundbreaking console at it's time because it offered incredibly improved graphics over anything that was out in the market. The Sega Genesis holds the honor of being the Sega console with the largest game library in Sega history followed by the other fan favorite Sega console the Sega Dreamcast.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog was brought to us by the Sega Genesis and instantly became a hit and the lifelong mascot of Sega. Sonic, is now an internationally recognizable character and considered to be amongst the most influential video game characters of all time!
The Sega Genesis went down in history as the most beloved Sega of all time, featured all over pop culture and hailed for being the console that brought us Sonic the Hedgehog, the Sega Genesis does it all!
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In 2019, the Sega Genesis Mini was released following Nintendo and PlayStation's suit of creating a mini version of their retro classic console.
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