The Sega Genesis Mini 2 is a game console with a classic design… but smaller. It looks like a scale replica of the original Sega Genesis system that was released in the late 1980s, but while the original console was designed to play games stored on cartridges, the Genesis Mini 2 comes with 60 classic […]
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Sega Mega Drive Mini 2 is a retro console with 60 classic games (including Sega CD titles)
Comments Off on Sega Mega Drive Mini 2 is a retro console with 60 classic games (including Sega CD titles)Sega continues to mine its catalog of classic games (and the nostalgia factor for gamers of a certain age). A few years after launching a Sega Mega Drive Mini, the company is back with a Mega Drive Mini 2. Like the original, the new Mega Drive Mini 2 is a retro console designed to look […]
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Lilbits: Amazon’s Echo plans leaked, SiFive HiFive RISC-V dev board benchmarked, and more
6 Comments on Lilbits: Amazon’s Echo plans leaked, SiFive HiFive RISC-V dev board benchmarked, and moreAmazon is holding an event on September 28, 2021 when the company is expected to announce new hardware including updates to its Echo line of smart speakers and displays. According to a new report from Bloomberg, some of those devices could be a 15 inch smart display designed to be mounted to a wall and/or […]
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Sega Astro City Mini retro arcade console is getting a (very) limited US release
The Sega Astro City Mini is an arcade cabinet that comes with 37 classic Sega games pre-installed. Oh, and unlike most game cabinets, it’s small enough to hold in one hand. First released in Japan last summer, the Astro City Mini is coming to the US this week… sort of. Limited Run Games has announced […]
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Sega’s next retro console is a tiny arcade cabinet (Astro City Mini)
The march of tiny retro game consoles continues. This time Sega is borrowing an idea from SNK and introducing a miniature arcade cabinet rather than a miniature console. Sega’s upcoming Astro City Mini features 6 buttons, a joystick, and a tiny screen. It also comes with 36 classic games pre-installed. The Sega Astro City Mini […]
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Sega introduces Game Gear Micro handheld retro console
Over the past few years we’ve seen game console companies cashing in on nostalgia by releasing “mini” versions of classic game consoles that come with a set of games pre-installed. Now Sega is following up last year’s well-received Genesis Mini with a Sega Game Gear Micro. Actually, make that four Game Gear Micros. The company […]
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Hacker transforms a Sega Dreamcast into a handheld game console
Modern smartphones have more horsepower than classic game consoles like early Nintendo, PlayStation, Sega, or Atari consoles, which is why it’s pretty easy to run classic games on a phone or tablet using emulation software. But some hackers prefer to do things the hard way… and make portable game systems out of actual game console hardware. […]
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Sega Genesis Mini will ship with 42 games, support optional “tower of power” add-ons
The Sega Genesis is a game console best known for classic games like Sonic the Hedgehog. When the console first launched in the late 1980s, it was was designed to play 16-bit games from cartridges. But Sega eventually offered accessories including Sega CD and Sega 32X that allowed you to play games stored on optical […]
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Sega Genesis Mini retro console coming in September
The parade of mini retro consoles continues. Since Nintendo launched the NES Classic in 2017, we’ve seen an SNES Classic, PlayStation Classic, Neo Geo Mini, and modern efforts to capitalize on the Atari and Intellivision names. So it was really just a matter of time before Sega got in on the action and unveiled a […]
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Sega plans to cash in on the mini retro console craze with Mega Drive (Genesis) mini
Nintendo’s made old-school game consoles trendy again with the launch of the popular NES and SNES Classic mini consoles. Now it looks like Sega wants to follow suit. The company, which hasn’t released a major game console in decades, has unveiled a Mega Drive Mini which Sega plans to launch in Japan later this year […]