Blueprints of the Mega Drive (Image courtesy of Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works)
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The original Streets of Rage at the planning stage (1991), this storyboard showing its end scene.
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Genesis does: like to blow its own trumpet quite a lot (Image via)
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Micro Machines II : simply one of the most fun racers, ever
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Altered Beast cover art by Michiaki Satoh, packaged with early European Mega Drives. This was the shit in 1990.
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Sega's Activator: whoever green-lit this is either from the future, locked up, or both
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A UK ad for the Mega-CD that's "mega seedy"Poor sales for the Menacer rendered it a flop, but it still found its way into more households than the ambitious Sega Activator, a full-body control system that predates Xbox's Kinect by 17 years. I've never used one myself, but as it was compatible with Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat I'm fairly sure I would have broken a limb trying.While the Activator didn't really work – IGN named it the third-worst controller, ever – it showed that Sega was willing to invest in hardware development that went beyond what other manufacturers were attempting. And when you look at the Kinect and Sony's PS4 Camera and Move controller system, a line back to the Activator is easily drawn.
(Image courtesy of Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works)
