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Sega Nomad

Sega · 1995

A portable Mega Drive that plays the full cartridge library on a backlit screen — a genuinely remarkable idea, released in North America only in 1995 as Sega was losing control of its own product line. Six AA cells last about two hours. Uncommon, expensive, and the best demonstration of Sega's late- period cleverness and chaos together.

As catalogued

Maker
Sega
CPU
Motorola 68000-7.6
Memory
64K
Styles
Nomad (US)
Regions
PAL, NTSC-U, NTSC-J
Chassis
handheld taking Mega Drive cartridges
OS
cartridge

Chips

5
CPU
Motorola MC68000, Signetics SCC68000, Hitachi HD68HC000
Sound CPU
Zilog Z80A, Sharp LH5080A, integrated in the ASIC
VDP
Sega 315-5313A
FM sound
Yamaha YM3438
Amplifier
Sanyo LA6510, Sony CXA1034, Rohm BA10324

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