Thursday, 3 September 2020

Sega Mega Drive Mini

The "Sega Mega Drive" and "Sega Genesis" are the same thing. The "Sega Genesis" spits out NTSC video for old American TVs and " Sega Mega Drive" spits out PAL video for old European TVs. Other than that they are the same and use the same cartridges and play the same games. All flat screen TVs can take both PAL and NTSC and automatically detect which one it is. 

Last week I bought a Sega Mega Drive Mini. It is a Sega licensed emulator and small replica of the Sega Mega drive. It has 40 original ROMs from the Sega mega drive on it and 2 additional games that were never on the Sega mega Drive, Tetris and Darius. It is strange to play Tetris on the Sega mega drive but it is very fun. I saw Darius Arcade machines around when I was a kid, they had extra long screens and they were a very fun side scrolling shooter games. I like all the games on there and I like the fact that you could save the games. In those days most of the games didn't save your progress so if you lost the game you would start again from the beginning of the game. 

The fist part of my Man Cave is a flashback sega mega drive, I want to build a bar with 90s flash back games consoles in it. Then I want to add a pool table, football table, table tennis table, 4 recliner sofas, a large TV with modern games consoles attached, Hook a duck pond(exotic dice), whack a mole machine and glass cabinets filled with mini arcade machines. I would call it t
"The Happy Zone" because I am a big kid and I would be happy just playing with my toys. It grows like a seed of a tree, slowly it emerges from my mind to reality one thing at a time. A place will emerge that I can share with others, a place to forget about the real world for a short time and be a kid. 


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