Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the success of the first Mega Drive Mini, Sega has announced the Mega Drive Mini 2 that will also feature Mega CD games.

As part of their Bright Arts collection, Square Enix recently launched multiple die-cast (non-functional) mini-figures of some of the most nostalgic gaming consoles of our childhoods: the SEGA ...

Sega has not offered a reason for the delisting, but it's worth noting that it has announced new entries in a number of these series, including Shinobi and Crazy Taxi. That alone ...

The SEGA Genesis Mini is probably my favorite all-in-one retro console on the market right now. It does everything right, and I said as much in my Genesis Mini review. On top of being the best ...

The latter was incorporated into a plethora of different form factors, including the little known IBM PC/Mega Drive combo known as the Sega Teradrive. Finding a rare Japanese 1990s PC stateside is ...

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 ...

One of the hardest games on the Mega Drive, the game was also infamously known for featuring several iconic level bosses; or rip-offs of iconic characters. Revenge of Shinobi was soon followed by ...

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