The Sega SG-1000 was Sega’s first entry into the console market releasing on July 15th 1983, the same day in Japan as the Nintendo NES.
Sporting a 3.58MHz CPU and 1KB of RAM the SG-1000 would go on to sell around 400,000 units and supports a library of over 100 games.
The SG-1000 was only widely available in Japan and received a limited release in Australia and New Zealand and was never released globally.
In 1984 a revision called the SG-1000 II launched which featured detachable joysticks and compatibility for Sega My Cards however the SG-1000 II couldn’t match the sales of Nintendo’s more powerful NES and suffered from Sega’s unwillingness to attract third party support. Sega not wanting to collaborate with their rivals in the arcade space.
The third iteration of the SG-1000, the Sega Mark III in Japan would go on to become the Sega Master System outside in international markets.
famousblueben@lemmy.film 1 year ago
I’ve seen a lot of gameplay footage of the SG-1000, and while it doesn’t seem like a bad console for its modest hardware and goals, it is of course easy to see why it so struggled to keep up with the Famicom.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah it was like Coleco vs NES, no contest.