Manufacturer | Sega |
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Type | Home video game console |
Generation | Fourth generation |
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Discontinued | 1997 (Sega) NA |
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Media | ROM cartridge |
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Online services | Sega Meganet Sega Channel XBAND |
Best-selling game | Sonic the Hedgehog (15 million) |
Backward compatibility | Master System |
Predecessor | Master System |
Successor | Sega Saturn |
The Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)., called the Sega Genesis in North America is a 16-bit video game console made by Sega. It is Sega's third video game console. Sega released it as the Mega Drive in Japan in 1988. In 1989, they released it in North America as the Genesis.