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But it went from selling over 30 million Sega Genesis consoles at the height of its fame in 1993 to selling just 3 million units of its final console before pulling the plug on its hardware empire.

Learn more The Sega Genesis Mini has one of the largest collections we've seen from a retro console and it's easier to find than the increasingly rare NES Classic and SNES Classic from Nintendo.

It always sounded a bit crunchy, but crunchy in a good way. SEGA’s 16-bit console, whether you call it the Genesis or Mega Drive, always had a unique sound thanks to it’s Yamaha YM2612 sound chip.

The Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) was based around the fairly common Motorola 68000 processor, but this wasn’t the only processor in the console. There were a number of coprocessors including a ...

That’s not what we’re aiming for." Sega has released five mini consoles and the most recent one, The Genesis Mini 2, released in 2022.