Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis is a 16-bit home console manufactured by Sega and officially released in 1989

It had support from 1989 until 1998 and it's competitor was the Super Nintendo.

History (1989 - 1994)
After the minor-success the Master System had in north america, Sega planned a new console that would beat Nintendo. So they marketed the Genesis to be the new hip and faster console, they pushed for sports games, fast racing games, and even Micheal Jackson's Moonwalker, which was releasing at the time the Genesis came out, by 1990 Sega wanted a new, mascot, before they had Alex Kid but had minor success, so Sega created a mascot that was fast and had attitude, They had a competition to create the next big mascot for Sega and Sonic The Hedgehog won

By then Sonic the Hedgehog released in June 23rd of 1991 and was a immense success making the game be on merchandise, console bundles and more games releasing by the years progressed.

By 1992, Sega had more market share then Nintendo and had more consoles sold during that time, that was because the release of Sonic 2 on November 1992, That made Sega had a advantage to make better games and more stuff that would please the consumers.

Also in 1992, The Sega CD released to poor reception. In 1993 a first remodel of the Genesis was released to store shelf's, The Genesis 2, it was lighter and smaller but still played Genesis games at it's finest.

By 1994, Sega would still be No. 1 but was losing a bit of a advantage.

Sonic 3 released and was at the time, the biggest game ever on the Genesis

the thing thought was that the game would be split into two.

The Down Fall (1995 - 1997)
By the Mid-90's Sega would be No. 2 this was because of poor discussions and a over-bounden of add-ons

made for the Genesis, and by this time the Genesis was getting old, so they released the Sega Saturn in 1994 IN JPN

and 1995 In North America, whilst the Japaneses where manufacturing the Saturn, Sega of america was developing the Sega

32X, which would make games bigger & better. It was a massive failure due to the add-on having a lack-luster amount of games

and the Saturn releasing that holiday season of 95', A year after in 1994, Rare released Donkey Kong Country for the SNES on November 1994, the game was ground-breaking at the time for making the game having "3D" models of the characters in a 2D environment, the advertising of the games mocked the Sega-32X

This had Sega on a shorter stick of what to-do so they released Sonic 3D-Blast for the Genesis but also the Saturn in 1996, the game didn't do well.

By this point in 1997 the Genesis was at the point of death and Sega once again trying to make the console still alive. So they made a 2nd revision in 1998 this time called the Genesis 3

under Majescos branding

the major thing about the console was that it couldn't attach add-ons on the top so it would ONLY play Cartridge games.

And in 1998 the console was discontinued.

Trivia

 * It released a year before the SNES release in 1990.
 * The SEGA 32X price was dropped in 1995, due to less people wanting it.
 * The Genesis Mini, released in 2019 is a miniature version of the original console, it was a big success.