I would be finished already, but the game won't be out until Thursday!!

In 1995, Sega made a handheld Genesis! The story goes back a bit before that and ties into Sega's hardware re-vamping legacy... (Chapter Markers and more below…) Episode information GTV 173 “The More You Know Gaming: Sega Genesis Nomad" Season 9 Episode 13 Original Airdate: June 28, 2024 Produced June 24-27, 2024 Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, all paid for with Gainful Employment™ while riding the train to work and home, back and forth, day after day, and lunch breaks too! 0:00 GTV ID: Hooks Up to the TV Where Available 0:03 Chapter 1: Back in the 90s, the Gap Closed 0:52 Chapter 2: Sega Always Recycles 1:36 Chapter 3: The Mega Jet 2:15 Chapter 4: The Nomad 4:52 Chapter 5: Sega Got It Right With Game Gear Partial Transcript Back in the early 90s, the 16-Bit era provided us some great times and good memories. I loved the era because it felt like for the first time, the gap between arcade and home had finally closed. Not perfectly, but close enough! However a divide still existed between games you could play at home and on the go. Things always felt like a step down when you went “off TV” Just look at the Game Gear versus the Genesis! Sure, The Turbo express proved the technology was possible, just far too expensive! Sega, to their credit did once try to give us the same experience in the living room and in our hands with the Genesis Nomad! A portable Genesis!! Released in October 1995 for $179 this nifty little machine came and went without much impact, but the story of Nomad is still interesting regardless. Sega has never been shy about recycling hardware, whether for profitability, efficiency or portability, nearly every single machine Sega has ever made received revisions, “model 2s” or got reworked into something else. Case in point the Game Gear is the Master System, with some minor tweaks. The Master System and SG-1000 before it were shrunk down over time, and the Genesis received the same treatment with a Slim model, to use a modern parlance, first arriving in April 1993! The Smaller “Genesis 2” was important in curbing Sega’s losses when fighting Nintendo in the early 90s price wars: Less parts means less expenses. But in the Genesis 2, the engineers at Sega learned a few things and were able to shrink things down a bit more, creating the Mega Jet, also in 1993! This device found its way into some Japan Air Lines flights, where customers could use the Mega Jet in a pay to play set up. A few games were on hand, or you could bring your own! The Mega Jet was installed into the armrest, which helped avoid cable clutter. Everyone and their mother who thinks they know everything about Sega, will drone on and on about Sega’s lack of popularity in Japan, but the Mega Jet sparked enough interest to bring the machine to retail. Debuting in March 1994 in Japan. The consumer Mega Jet was the same as the kind you’d find on an airplane, only with free flowing cables, which you need! It took no batteries and had no screen! Sega went back to the drawing board, adding battery power a speaker and a screen to the Mega Jet. In that, the Nomad was born!