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.

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

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.

The Sega CD version of Snatcher was for a long time the only major visual novel game to be released in America, however, partly due to a Teen rating limiting its accessibility, it only sold a " couple of thousand units ", according to Jeremy Blaustein, a member of Snatchers localization team.

* Pi, a member of Team Robo in Sega Soccer Slam

Quintet was most active in the 1990s, when it had a strong relationship with Enix ( now incorporated into Square Enix ); the company was also a member of GD-NET group of Sega Saturn developers.

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.

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.

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

Sega made sure that a wide variety of video game genres were represented on the system, in order to give it a broad appeal.

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

Last Bronx, a 1996 Sega game played on the bad reputation of the Bronx to lend its name to an alternate version of post-Japanese bubble Tokyo, where crime and gang warfare is rampant.

This disclaimer also appears before the opening of their Sega Genesis and Super NES game as well as their Windows game Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

* Heavy Metal: Geomatrix, a 2001 arcade game for Sega NAOMI and Dreamcast by Capcom

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.

* Project Mercury, a codename for handheld game console Sega Game Gear

His role in the game series continued until Gauntlet 4 for the Sega Genesis.

Several Sega titles such as Sega SuperStars, Sonic Adventure and Sonic Pinball Party feature minigames themed around the character ( the former of which takes its cue from the main game ).

Although its high price tag kept it out of the mainstream gaming market, a strong game lineup likely contributed to the cult status of the Neo Geo, enabling it to outlast the more popular Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.