Sega Home Video Game Consoles

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Sega Enterprises, LTD released five standalone home video game systems between 1983 and 1999, all of which are currently discontinued. The aim of this dossier is not provide an exhaustive analysis of all Sega's dead media platforms, but rather to provide an overview of the company's home console division and a portal for further investigation of specific systems and games. This dossier is concerned in particular with tracing the causes of Sega home systems' death and their relation to larger historical occurrences such as the development of home theaters and the ongoing negotiation between video games' military and arcade oriented genealogy as they adapt to domestic settings.

In addition, this survey of Sega's large and obsolete body of products is an attempt to promote the archival and investigation of various discontinued video game systems in order to identify their roles in shaping contemporary media and media-related practices.

Origins

SErvice GAmes: a Military-Industrial Entertainment Business

Arcade Gaming

Sega SG-1000 & Sega Master System

The 1990's

Genesis/Megadrive

Aggressive Teleology: Sega Channel, Sega/Mega CD, & 32x

Saturn

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Advertisement for World Series Baseball '98, linking bodily injury and competition to the Sega brand claim of authenticity.

The Dreamcast

Arcade Ports

56K Internet

Not Cutting It

An advertisement for House of the Dead 2 (arcade port, Sega, 1999). Note the accusation that readers enjoy "sucking hatchet" (Dreamcast Magazine Nov. 1999).
An advertisement for Sonic Adventure. Note the accusation that readers possess "lame-ass reflexes" (Dreamcast Magazine Nov. 1999).

Life After Discontinuation

Sega Software

Emulation

Arcade Machines

Causes of Death

This Aggression Will Not Stand

Casual and Family Gaming

Home Theater

Works Cited

I include internal and external links.