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.

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

In 1966, Sega introduced an electro-mechanical game called Periscope.

In addition, the anime cut-scenes introduced in the Sega Saturn version of the game return with subtitles based on the Xbox 360's system language.

In 1995, Sega Rally Championship introduced rally racing and featured cooperative gameplay alongside the usual competitive multiplayer.

Colin McRae Rally was introduced in 1998 to the PC world, and was a successful semi-simulation of the world of rally driving, previously only available in the less serious Sega Rally Championship.

In the arcade world, Sega introduced Crazy Taxi, a sandbox racing game where you are a taxi driver that needed to get the client to the destination in the shortest amount of time.

Eternal Champions was adapted by the UK Sega Magazine Sonic the Comic in a stand-alone magazine Eternal Champions Special, which introduced the main characters and served as an adaptation to the game.

In 1997, Sega released one of the first mainstream skateboarding games, Top Skater, in the arcades, where it introduced a skateboard controller interface.

Sega was originally introduced by the African ancestors and originates from East and Southern Africa.

In response to the upcoming Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition and Mortal Kombat, Sega introduced a 6-button controller.

The NFL 2K series was introduced by Sega to address EA Sports's decision not to publish the Madden NFL series on the Dreamcast.

Other companies such as Sega ( who later entered the home console market against its former arch rival, Nintendo ), Nintendo ( whose mascot, Mario, was introduced in 1981's Donkey Kong ), Bally Midway Manufacturing Company ( which was later purchased by Williams ), Cinematronics, Konami, Centuri, Williams and SNK also gained popularity around this era.

That same year, Sega released Zaxxon, which introduced the use of isometric graphics and shadows ; and SubRoc-3D, which introduced the use of stereoscopic 3D through a special eyepiece ;

When the striped kit was introduced in 1992, meanwhile, it featured Sega as the sponsors.

* February 2 — Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ( Sega, Mega Drive / Genesis ), introduced Knuckles the Echidna.

It was not until 1994 that a competitor, the Sega console produced by Nisho Iwai and Forrus, was introduced to the market.

) was introduced by Sega of America in 1993 to rate all video games that were released for sale in the United States on the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Sega CD, and rarely, some computer games.

With the advent of optical based media at the tail end of the 16-bit era, data could not be stored on the game media, and a saved game required the introduction of non-volatile memory to the console either in the form of internal memory or memory cards ( both of which were introduced with the Sega CD ) which stored game data once the system was powered off ; passwords avoided the need for this.

It was around this time that employee Graeme Devine ( who later founded Trilobyte ) introduced to everyone at the Virgin office a real-time strategy game on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive console called Herzog Zwei ( 1989 ).

The Sega Virtua Processor ( short: SVP ) is a digital signal processor introduced by Sega in 1994 to expand the Mega Drive's ( Sega Genesis in North America ) 3D capabilities.

Andrew Sega performing with Iris, Seattle 2008

" The most recent live line-up includes Kirby and Buchieri, along with Dan Clark and Andrew Sega ( of Iris and The Alpha Conspiracy ).