Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

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.

* Shining ( series ), a series of fantasy video games made by Sega

Knuckles made his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Genesis.

Sega made it a top priority to keep the game hidden until shortly before its release.

Originally made for computer systems, it was ported to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn as well, again with little success.

Early versions of the game were made and ported among early computer platforms, and then the Atari ST, until 1990, when Jay Geertsen sold the rights to Sega, where it was ported to several Sega consoles.

Because Columns was made by Sega, versions were made available on the Sega Master System, Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Game Gear, Saturn, and Dreamcast.

The Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port is considered by some to be one of the hardest video games ever made.

Particularly to North American audiences, this is due to a sloppy conversion to the North American region ; the original game had a 50 Hz refresh rate, but all North American Sega Genesis games had to have a 60 Hz refresh rate in North America due to being made for NTSC televisions.

The format's instant-access capability made it possible for a new breed of Laserdisc-based video arcade games and several companies saw potential in using Laserdiscs for video games in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning in 1983 with Sega ’ s Astron Belt.

There are also some boards with Suntory branding, supposedly made by Sega, which they deny.

To choose the game's original characters, Sega held a biweekly ' focus group ' made up of all ages, where a list of archetype characters ( pirate, ninja, etc.

" In 2012, Complex also featured it on the list of the 25 Sega franchises they would like to see revisited, as " the game's cast of female assassins, beastmen and gladiators was so offbeat, it made them more awesome.

According to an interview by Michael Latham, this decision was made by Sega of Japan:

In spite of its technological inferiority, the black-and-green Game Boy easily staved off competitors, including color-display systems made by Atari and Sega of the above-mentioned manufacturers.

In reality, Sega never made such a claim with their real-life console, which was always marketed as an add-on to the Mega Drive / Genesis.

* Peter Molyneux produced a god game in 1994 called Magic Carpet, originally made for MS-DOS and then ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, where you play a wizard on a magic carpet that collects magic jewels to start cities and defeat enemies.

While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

* Hitachi's SuperH, originally in wide use in the Sega Super 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast,

The arcade version was later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1996, complete with two-player mode and stretchable wide screen modes.

It was later ported to a wide variety of consoles, including the Sega Master System.

Before the Net Link was not made available for wide release in Europe, Sega performed a test release in Finland before deciding not to widely release the unit in the European market.

Later, two animated shows featuring this character, as well as a Sega Genesis video game and a variety of other merchandise followed.

Tonka also produced a variety of computer games, including Tonka Raceway, and purchased the rights to distribute and market the Sega Master System after Sega of America decided to stop competing against the Nintendo Entertainment System in the U. S. However, the Master System's market share declined, since Tonka didn't have experience with video games or how to market them.

Ocean developed dozens of games for a variety of systems such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Atari ST, Amiga, PC, and video game consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive.

Sega Saturn Magazine found " the characters a bit tacky and the characters largely derivative " but praised the game's artificial intelligence and variety of game modes.

Games in the franchise have been released on a variety of gaming platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Mega Drive, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation 2, Virtual Console, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the Wii.

The third installment, Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra was released in 1991 and was the first game in the series designed specifically for MS-DOS-based computers, although ports were released for a variety of other systems, including the Mac OS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Sega Mega Drive.

Direct3D ( the 3D graphics API within DirectX ) is widely used in the development of video games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 and some Sega Dreamcast games.

Commercial players have come down in price, though, and some unexpected devices ( including the Sega Saturn video game console and XBMC Media Center on the Xbox 1 ) can decode the graphics ; in fact, karaoke machines, including video and sometimes recording capability, are often popular electronics items for sale in toy stores and electronics stores.

Nights into Dreams ... ( trademarked NiGHTS into DREAMS ...), is a video game released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game system.

* Sega Pico, a video game system designed for young children

is a Japanese computer and video game developer established in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan in 1990, originally known as Sega AM8.

AM Annex was a first-party video game development studio for Sega of Japan.

The Sega Technical Institute was a video game development division of Sega based in the United States, unlike the AM divisions which were based in Japan.

* Sega Master System, an 8-bit video game console from the 1980s

The Sega Game Gear was prominently featured in the 1993 movie " Surf Ninjas " ( which subsequently received its own Game Gear video game as well ).

The Sega 32X, codenamed Project Mars, is an add-on for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis video game console.

The Sega 32X allows the user to play 32-bit games on the Mega Drive, such as Doom ( video game ) | Doom

The ( released as the Sega CD in North America ) is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis video game console, designed and produced by Sega.

Sega started off licensing and producing primarily " full motion video " games similar to earlier Laserdisc games, that were initially praised by reviewers ( for example: Gamepro's " SWAT PRO " magazine initially gave Sewer Shark a perfect score, then later re-reviewed it with a much lower score as their feelings toward the system changed )

The is a video game console which was released by Sega in November 1998 in Japan and later in 1999 in other territories.

* The Terminator ( Virgin video game ), 1992 game for the Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear and Sega CD