Bean the Dynamite-the other of AM2's creations for Sonic the Fighters Bean is a green duck who wears a neck-a-chief and Sonic the Hedgehog's famous shoes, without the socks, he is based on an old Sega arcade game Dynamite Dux hence his name ' The Dynamite '.

Hexen was also released for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation and Nintendo 64, all released by GT Interactive during the first half of 1997.

Joysticks were commonly used as controllers in first and second generation game consoles, but they gave way to the familiar game pad with the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System during the mid-1980s, though joysticks — especially arcade-style one — were and are popular after-market add-ons for any console.

This would at first be named " Project Jupiter ", but after Sega found CD technology cheaper, they decided to modify it instead of dropping the cartridge project ( that would be called " Project Saturn ").

Sega had managed to sell 200, 000 32X consoles in the first three weeks of availability ; 100, 000 consoles being sold during Thanksgiving weekend alone.

It is also the first stage of the Sega Genesis X-Men game, and the fifth stage of X-Men 2: Clone Wars.

** The first Sonic the Hedgehog game is published by Sega.

A Sega Mega Drive / Genesis version of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, with the first 5 missions, was also made by Russian homebrew programmers, but lacked sound and certain other features of the PC version.

The first of these was the light gun game Duck Hunt, which Sega released in 1969 ; it featured animated moving targets on a screen, printed out the player's score on a ticket, and had sound effects that were volume controllable.

The first game, The Lost Vikings, was released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for DOS, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive and SNES among others.

In discussing the study of target demographics, Mizuguchi related the story of designing Space Channel 5, which was at first a vague assignment from Sega that asked only that Mizuguchi design a game with a broad enough appeal to draw in even casual female gamers.

In the first installment, the player is able to play a Sega Saturn inside the Hazuki Residence and there are several Sega arcade games playable in different locations.

The Sega Saturn version included the plot of both the first and second games at the very least, and although the full extent may never be known, a significant portion of the budget quoted for Shenmue was used on resources for future chapters, and the characters, plot and environments / gameplay of at least the entire second game existed in rough form before the first game was released.

Mizuguchi worked for Japanese game publisher, Sega, from 1990-2003 and began his career -- not on a game -- but by first designing an interactive ' ride ' titled Megalopolis, combining then-embryonic 3D polygonal graphics and CGI ( Computer-generated imagery ) with the physical experience of Sega's hydraulic ' AS-1 ' motion simulator.

It was developed in the United States by members of Sonic Team working at Sega Technical Institute, and was published by Sega, debuting worldwide in the first half of 1994.

* Fishing rod: the first fishing rod controller appeared as an accessory for the Dreamcast video console for playing Sega Marine Fishing.

Phantasy Star was first released for the Sega Master System in Japan on December 20, 1987, with localized ports following in the United States in 1988 and Brazil in 1991.

It was the first game to be released under the Sega Ages line-up.

The first game, released for the Sega Saturn in 1997, is entitled Mobile Battleship Nadesico.

The first console version of the game and one of the first titles for the American Sega Saturn.

* Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga ( 1997 )-an enhanced remake of the first three Wizardry games for PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Windows.

Meanwhile, Sega experimented with Dark Edge, an early attempt at a 3D fighting game where characters could move in all directions.

It can be argued that the Shining series started as an attempt by Sega to cover all of its bases on their consoles as far as the usual gameplay genres, because it emulated styles that Nintendo and other developers pioneered.

The Sega Multi-Mega ( or the Sega CDX in North America ) was a 16-bit video game console released in 1994, combining the Mega Drive ( Sega Genesis in North America ) and one of its add-ons, the Mega-CD ( Sega CD in North America ), into a single compact unit as a final attempt by Sega to encourage consumer interest in its fledgling Mega-CD format.

As a last-ditch attempt to capitalise on the rising popularity of the new generation of video game consoles, Newsfield planned to split Raze into two separate publications, Sega Force and Nintendo Force.

Sega also attempted to introduced 3-D holographic technology to the genre with Holosseum in 1992, though it was unsuccessful.

He continued in the racing genre with Sega Rally Championship 2 and Sega Touring Car Championship, before moving onto early rhythm-based music games like Space Channel 5 ( and Space Channel 5: Part 2 ), and Rez.

The game was ported a decade later as part of the Phantasy Star Collection, which was released for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 in Japan and for the Game Boy Advance in North America, where critics deemed it as a historically relevant step for its genre.

Sega Rallly was also the first to feature driving on different surfaces ( including asphalt, gravel, and mud ) with different friction properties and the car's handling changing accordingly, making it an important milestone in the genre.

As the first racing game to incorporate this feature, Sega Rally is considered to be one of the milestones in the evolution of the racing game genre.

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The team redesigned it as a platform game, as Sega was inclined to publish games in this genre.

Deception is an action game with RPG elements, resembling the FMV genre of games, particularly Sega CD such as Night Trap and Double Switch.

A good example of this genre is the 1992 Sega arcade game Tokoro San no MahMahjan.

SEGA kept their interest in the genre by publishing many FMV games on their Sega CD CD-ROM drive add-on for the Genesis home console.

In Sega Force, reviewer Adrian Pitt called the title a " strategy game " and claimed it as the " greatest game in the genre ".

In January 1986, the 7800 was again released and would compete that year with the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System.

However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

Sega converted Bubble Bobble for the Master System ( although this version was not released in North America ).

Duke Nukem 3D ( Sega Saturn ) was ported by Lobotomy Software and published by Sega.

It was the final game branded by Sega of America under the Deep Water label, employed for games featuring adult content such as this and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side.

Duke Nukem 3D ( Sega Genesis ) was released in 1998 by Tec Toy.

The earliest known electronic game joystick with a fire button was released by Sega as part of their 1969 arcade game Missile, a shooter simulation game that used it as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move a motorized tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

It also was used as a sound controller in the Sega Saturn game console, and as a controller for the HP JetDirect Ethernet controller boards for the mid-90s LaserJet printers.

A known side effect of this policy was the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat selling over double the number of the Super NES version, mainly because Nintendo had forced publisher Acclaim to recolor the red blood to look like white sweat and replace some of the more gory graphics in its release of the game, making it non-violent.

By contrast, Sega allowed blood and gore to remain in the Genesis version ( though a code was required to unlock the gore ).

Following a successful fan campaign by nightsintodreams. com, Nights was integrated into Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as the flagman, and Nights and Reala appear as playable characters in Sega Superstars Tennis.

By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.

Quake III Arena was released for the Dreamcast ( ported by Raster Productions and released by Sega ) in 2000 and featured 4 player online play versus Dreamcast and PC gamers.

In 1997, it was ported to Sega Saturn by Lobotomy.

In 1990, Sega asked to create a game with a character that was popular enough to rival Nintendo's Mario, resulting in the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Following the completion of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Yuji Naka was offered the role of producer at Sega of Japan.

All of the team members that worked at Sega Studio USA were Japanese, with the exception of Brad Wagner who was hired at the studio during the development of Shadow the Hedgehog.

Members of Sega Studio USA also supervised and designed the concept for Sonic Rivals and Sonic Rivals 2 on the PlayStation Portable although the actual development of the games was done by Backbone Entertainment.

Nights: Journey of Dreams, the sequel to Sega Saturn title Nights Into Dreams was released for the Wii in 2007.