Majesco and the SEGA Game Gear’s second lease of life

Best known nowadays for publishing Cooking Mama in the US and Zumba Fitness globally on Wii, budget game specialist Majesco has been around for far longer than most gamers realise. Back in the mid-’90s, when the 16-bit market was entering its twilight years, the company purchased Acclaim’s Mexico-based cartridge manufacturing facility in order to re-release …

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Eight cancelled 8-bit SEGA games

The Master System and Game Gear both lead a long life in Europe, peacefully co-existing alongside the Mega Drive for several years.  If we include the 32X, Mega CD, and Pico, SEGA did at one point circa 1995 have seven consoles on the market. And yes, that’s as crazy as it sounds. Something had to …

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