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Sega Saturn

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Sega Saturn – Is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it is the successor of the successful Gesis. The Saturn has a dual-CPU architecture with eight processors. Its games are in CD-ROM format, including several ports of arcade games and original games.

Development of the Saturn began in 1992, the same year Sega’s groundbreaking 3D Model 1 arcade hardware debuted. The Saturn was designed around a new CPU from …

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Sega Dreamcast

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Sega Dreamcast – Is the fourth and final home video game console made by Sega that can play video games. It was sold before the PlayStation 2, GameCube or Xbox came out. However, after the release of the PlayStation 2, not many people bought it, so eventually Sega decided to stop making them.

When it came time to create another video game machine after the release of the Sega Saturn, Shoichiro Irimajiri asked IBM Austin’s Tatsuo Yamamoto and his group to create one. But that didn’t sit well with Hideki Sato’s old group that made video game machines. Because of …

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