{"id":133566,"date":"2020-12-01T03:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/sega-venus-genesis-nomad-prototype\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T03:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:36:04","slug":"sega-reveals-unreleased-handheld-prototype-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/sega-reveals-unreleased-handheld-prototype-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Reveals Unreleased Handheld Prototype | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sega turns 60 this year, having come into existence on June 3, 1960. To celebrate, the video game publisher started something called the “Sega Seminar,” which, as the name suggests, consists of a series of videos that educate viewers on the company’s history. Sega producer and manager Hiroyuki Miyazaki<\/a> hosts the first video, which walks viewers through Sega’s hardware lineage for a little over twenty minutes. It even includes machines that never managed to see the public eye, such as Sega’s Genesis Nomad prototype.<\/p>\n

The Genesis Nomad was a portable version of Sega’s Mega Drive console, which launched in 1995\u00a0only in North America. Sega pit the console against Nintendo’s Game Boy<\/a> to try and take away its competitor’s control over the handheld market. The attempt didn’t quite work out in Sega’s favor, as the Nomad ended up a commercial failure, having sold only 1 million units in around four years. Still, it garnered praise for being the first true 16-bit handheld console.<\/p>\n

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According to Miyazaki, Sega named the prototype of this device “Venus,” which falls in line with the names of other prototype Sega consoles<\/a>. The company usually codenames them after planets until settling on an official moniker for the console’s final version. The console that the Genesis Nomad succeeded, Sega’s Saturn, was the only one of the company’s to retain its prototype name even through release. Viewers can see Venus at the video’s 11:37 mark.<\/p>\n