Sonic the Hedgehog on a Sega Nomad

[TheAgol07]

this looks the same as neo geo pocket color's sonic

[jdb2002]

The handhelds may have been more powerful, but the power came at a price. Namely, batteries and bulkiness. Nintendo knew this, so they lagged behind on purpose to make sure people didn't have to spend a lot on batteries, or have anything too large to carry around and use.

An exclusive license to Tetris certainly didn't hurt, though.

[ozzy58631]

It is amazing that they were able to have 16-bit handheld gaming back in 1995, while Nintendo did not have something that powerful until 2001 with the Game Boy Advance, Sega was always ahead of the game when it came to technology in gaming systems

[IMaDEM0N]

LOL, I remember Sonic the Hedgehog 1 came with my Genesis in, had to've been like 1992... I was so impressed when they had it play the Sega sound bit as the Sega logo came up & my dad (who's been programming since like the '70s & I was born in 1985) & he was like "This thing is advertising 16-Bit capabilities...That's Nothing..."

[sonickchri]

i must ask where you bought a JPN/EUR copy of this game, good sir. and does it have the imperfections on the water blur effects and waves, as well as the spike bug or is this version too new? thanks

[StolenLettuce]

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES, BEST THING IN THE FUCKING WORLD

[SuzyIsFat]

The only bugger is the media size, but other than that, I would buy one if I had the chance back then.

[landar386]

i would buy a nomad right now if they updated the battery to make it rechargeable like the psp/ds

[SmokieRSWC]

I WANT IT NOW. :D

[irgendwii]

i like cookies :D

[randomdude581]

Hot damn! looks like a handheld Genesis!

[Christianrockrockz]

@randomdude581 It pretty much is a handheld Genesis. I believe you can also plug it into a TV and use it as a Genesis (but you still can't really use the 32x or Sega CD with it)

[tapo]

@randomdude581 It is a handheld genesis, you can even plug it into a TV, and plug a second genesis controller into the side.

[wilder9777]

felicidades WeskerSega

sega siempre fue la primera cuando salio el gameboy sega tenia el GameGear con pantalla a colores y el nomad es genesis echo portatil de esta idea sony convirtio su playstation 2 a portatil PSP - nintendo iso portatil su 64 a NDS ademas sega fue la primera en sacar el CD para consolas tambien el eyetoy de sony sega fue la primera con el DREAMEYE - xbox360º solo copia hasta el mando de dreamcast y el kinetic - pero SEGA ES NUMERO UNO

[metallicaledzeplin]

ahhhhhhh lucky just took mine out and i cant get my sonic to work!!!

[NikeThe]

next u need to make a video on how to clean sega cartridges....not

[xXgiggybyteXx]

SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAA

[hahadeath1]

i should hide under a rock i didnt even know this was made to late to sat mom i want one

[LoganWWDavis]

betcha this thing ate up the battery life

[jordancook1992]

i want a nomad

[Thedreamradiokilla05]

wow its 2010 i can play Sonic the Hedgehog on my ipod touch

[DestroyerReturns]

@Thedreamradiokilla05

That's not really the point, is it? Anyone here can download an emulator and play this.

Seeing an old console like this gives you nostalgia, old portable consoles like the Nomad are awesome, and have a charm that can't be matched with anything in this day and age.

[2600Gamer]

How old is the "Saga Nomad"?

[PrrrromotionGiven]

@2600Gamer 1995

[RaianTheFallen]

I want a Sega Nomad :(

[shaneme3]

Nice screen, it works, but I seen smaller portable DREAMCASTS that were made, unfortunaly, those aren't on the market, only instructions...

[LiBrA86]

@shaneme3 They're mods, I think the first was made by Ben Heckendorm?

I'm not sure of his name if you search for the PS3 / Xbox laptop, you'll find his name.

Use his name to find his website, where they have a fairly active forum, you wouldn't have a problem either finding one there, or getting someone to help you build one. xD

[bladex2056]

brings back memories...

[tryffel8]

Sega really knew how to make good screans with good lights. The nomad qulaity is a lot better then the first edition of GBA SP realesed 8 years later. It took Nintendo tpo like 2005 to make decent screans

[JacobArvizu1]

I have that game for sega gamegear

[swl9380]

today i got my nomad , what is mode buttom for ???

[dogeymon83]

MODE button was used in some games when you just needed that one extra button. But it had to be called something.

In Shadow Squadron for 32X, you use it to switch viewpoints.

[edmund94232]

cool. does the 32x addon work with it? if so. lol

[chocobo77]

that thing looks like a brick but its really lite......

[TheMeleemasterX]

nice system!

[crazyforagame]

Wow the screen looks fantastic i can see the footage in this video really well, comparing it to the game gear i couldn't see and blurriness or anything. I am from Australia and i'm wondering if the Nomad will play megadrive PAL games? im sure it wouldnt be 100% compatible with all games but with most, like the sonic games etc? i really wouldnt mind getting a Sega Nomad!

Thanks

[WeskerSega]

The Nomad, as it is, plays any PAL Mega Drive game that isn't region protected. It depends on the game, and there's a simple and easy way to check which games are region free and which are region locked.

[crazyforagame]

How do you check if the game is region locked?

[masterofpistols]

@crazyforagame I had a game or two that worked on my SEGA Genesis but not on my Nomad.

[Fabchaotix]

wow really curious to see play the European version has good speed given that throughout the megadrive In Europe it had a problem with 60Hz to 50Hz

[SoulSilverIV]

I just can't get used to how quick the music is in this version of the game. PAL Sonic the Hedgehog ftw.

[DoitForTheLolz1]

i read on wikipedia so it might not be correct

[DoitForTheLolz1]

i heard the japanese version didnt have a screen

[Abcgummy1791]

what?

[Crazywredd]

@DoitForTheLolz1  what the hell?!? ur stupid...

[ekszentrik]

Look it up yourself: Sega Mega Jet. Who's stupid now?

[crazyforagame]

yeah i think it was called the mega jet or something it was used in planes?

[DudeDie222]

@crazyforagame That's japanese. He's actually playing a PAL Sonic 1. Look at the cartridge.

[crazyforagame]

he is too, thanks! didnt notice :)

[TheMeleemasterX]

you mean the sega mega jet?

[DoitForTheLolz1]

@TheMeleemasterX: Yes

[katakisLives]

I bought a Genesis nomad a few years ago, more for the novelty than any practical reason, the screen was amazing for the time, really high resolution, but Nintendo knew you couldn't have a backlight colour screen then without eating through batteries!!, the fact it took full sized Genesis/Megadrive cartridges must have sucked a lot of power too!!

[Nintendavin]

The size of the cartridge would have neither a negative or positive effect on the battery life.

[katakisLives]

The genesis cartridges were designed to be powered by mains electricity it stands to reason that it would need more power than a smaller purpose built cartridge!

[Nintendavin]

Ummm... No.

All the system is doing is reading data from the cartridge. It doesn't matter if the cartridge was designed for a home system, not a portable.

Unless the cartridge had something in it that requires the system to run, then I highly doubt it would take more electricity.

[kurisux]

As far as game cartridges as a whole are concerned, its all 5 volts DC being used to check the actual bits burned into the rom chip.

Now, there can be cases where some carts would eat up more power than normal (carts with added RAM built in, etc) , but otherwise, things are pretty much the same regardless of it being a NES cart, a Genesis cart, or a DS flash card.

The screen eats up nearly all the power: its bright, its in color, and its big, meaning more energy is used up over time.

[katakisLives]

you are definitely right about the screen! all colour handhelds at the time suffered the same problem! the sega game gear and the Atari lynx especially!!

[kurisux]

Ya know, it wasn't until the lithium ion battery became cost effective that such a screen became worthwhile to use in portable gaming: the life of the charge is so much better than your standard suicide-cell type chemical battery.

I wonder, if a battery pack of some high quality modern design was made for all these older color portable units, just how long they could last.

On a side note, the battery life of the game gear was why I almost always played with it via DC converter.

[katakisLives]

Batteries were poor back then in terms of performance, its probably mainly demand from cell phone usage that has driven innovation in battery technology the most disturbing development in batteries these days is embedding! like with the psp go!, damn the ipod for setting that president! the battery dies so does the unit!!

[kurisux]

I would agree: cell phones gave a kick in the pants batteries needed.

Embedded batteries are supposed to match the life of the unit: only about 2 years before you are supposed to upgrade: at about 500 charges before noticable power loss, that becomes about 2 years of life, so it all matches.

Just another example of how things are so expendable now.

Wow, this is one deep discussion from one comment, eh? :D

[andy7666]

I presume there was an ac adapter? I wouldn't mind one tbh! Handy for when you have a full house and can't get tp the telly - PSP emulation just isn't the same.. Also the sheer size of it - what a beast!

[GraffitiOverlord]

Thank you! PSP emulation is not the same.. infact I bought a retrogen for that very reason.

[SicSolution]

Wow this looks pretty cool, growing up I had the Gamegear which was awesome at the time but damn did it get abused haha.

[AMpufnstuf]

nomad was like a game gear that weighed 3 pounds instead of 8 right?

[Britishdude1]

it was a bit more powerful than a game gear. It's inside was exactly like a genesis.

[RabidRaccoonUK]

Right, and the batteries lasted 3 minutes instead of 8 too...

[patricknelson]

Way back, I used to want a game gear so bad that it hurt. Once the nomad came out, it was a wet dream come true.

[DrLove0378]

I've got a couple of these in my collection, but they're just a couple of impractical conversation pieces -- as many Nomad owners know, bumping the power plug will ruin your game by making the console reset itself. (And don't even THINK about batteries.) I liked how you could connect it to a TV, but still, if I wanted to take a Genesis on the go, I'd take the actual home console, and not this finicky thing.

[NinjaMuffinMaster]

Sega..Wasn't the best when it came to handhelds, that's Nintendo's terrain. However, they ruled at consoles enough to rival Nintendo.

*sigh* I miss Sega.

[ProtoMario]

@NinjaMuffinMaster Sega may have had the capacity to make a decent console and even rival the juggernaut Mario with sonic but.......just like Atari....just like Atari they failed at their marketing campaign, 32x 64x sega cd sgea what now Sega 3.0 2.0 wtf! if you bought every thing Sega released in the 90's you would end up spending roughly 1400 dollars just on consoles and connector consoles. Thats a rough estimate for what they sold for in unified shops.

[GarthMcCreery]

@ProtoMario lol 64x XD what the hell are you smoking

[TheIanful]

@NinjaMuffinMaster Buy one at your local Retro Gaming store!

[thepower1802]

@NinjaMuffinMaster The fact that you could plug this in and play on a TV, along with the fact that it was a handheld that could play the exact same cartridges as the console, blows any Nintendo handheld out of the water.

[kee8484]

i liked this thing whn i was a Kid

[yamumishot2001]

Just get the EMU for ya phone!!!!...Oh the fun!!!

[OmegasMovie]

WOW cool xD

[abbaroc]

the fuck is a nomad??? what era?

[NinjaMuffinMaster]

It's from 1995. The Sega Nomad.

[nromero1000]

yeah if only it was as good as the official snes portable. oh wait?

[dogeymon83]

The Nomad is actually a piece of junk for a few reasons:

1) Screen, although better in resolution than Game Gear or Atari Lynx, is still not very good, has big dark splotches, and has bad light trails on all movement.

2) System is huge and bulky.

3) Cartridge sticks out, and isn't securely held down. So system freezes up with slight bumps into system during gameplay (even setting it down on a table after pausing it often freezes it up)

4) Battery life terrible. Same 90's standards.

[RICANPAPY27]

how long the battery last

[dogeymon83]

A paltry couple of hours. Don't bother with the Nomad. Search on youtube "GP2X Wiz Sega Genesis". You'll see a pocket sized Genesis that plays all games, plus a whole lot more! Superior portable system.

[CardiacCats85]

ah, great memories

[RICANPAPY27]

i wan a super nintendo portable

[Skullcrusher1]

Sega was always ahead of their time. Such a shame they don't make hardware anymore. :-(

[conterware]

en argentina estan por todos lados tanto comp ps2,psx y la family

[sonicdude247]

the sega nomad - arguably the best handheld of it's time

*searches amazon too find nomad and more mega drive games*

[juan1game]

donde consigo los cartuchos?

[WeskerSega]

Son exáctamente los mismos cartuchos que los de Mega Drive/Genesis. No es una consola portátil específica como Game Gear, es realmente una variación portátil de Mega Drive.

[salvadordemi]

usa los mismo cartuchos de el sega genesis. Todos esos se pueden jugar con el nomad. Loco verdad?

[dylanmcferren]

(For oreoloverman): I like oreos too!

[SolarSansGamer]

I like oreos

[KaxiLaxi]

fuck...impresing GO sega!

[jnorth]

Fuck a Nomad now. I have a PSP to play sonic on :P

[t377y000]

fuck sony & there psp , SEGA rules all.!!

[thevisualboy37]

sorry, but SEGA is dead and NINTENDO will win the war again!

[t377y000]

i knw nintendo rules all but we cant argue with anything sega did lo l there awsome

[someoldguyfromkansas]

except for the genesis, 32X, and Sega CD... those all blew chode

[t377y000]

the genesis was awesome & the 32x & sega cd were just graphics upgrades we don't have anything for the current consoles or handheld that will increase graphics

[barretsbumhole]

thevisualboy37, I Agree!

[vectron12]

the wii fails

[osmiley99]

got this system for 47 dollars on ebay.

[ian7128]

i love there jingle segaaaaaaaaaa

[imydaking]

looks damn good for time

[Cashmoney561427]

does this come with a charger or sumthin

cuz sombody else said oh if only my battery life wasnt short cuz i wanna get one so i dont want to spend on somthing i can only use for only a few days or so? PLZ REPLY

[banji5292]

it runs on batteries. just by rechargable batteries

[Cashmoney561427]

oh ok thanks thats good i have some of those and a recharger Thanks! : )

[americaincorporated]

pretty advanced for the time

[ssslate]

this was my favorite handheld system of all time if only the battery life wasent short

[visualboy64]

wow those are rare now

[SuperKyushu]

Wow it's almost impossible to get one of those at a decent price these days. All the good offers want me to buy tones of honestly shit games with it.

[YamiGekusu]

oh, man i wish i didn't lose my Nomad... i miss it so much T_T

[dodsLOVER]

didnt know this existed xD

[kakarottossj3]

This is just awesome. I always want this to play all my sega genesis games anywhere!

[SoundOfAShark]

iff you really wanted to feed this thing 4 monster sized batterys giving you only 6 hours of gameplay

its something id keep at home rofl

[passiveMenis]

Rechargeables, son!

[chakabaka]

OMG!Do People still sell these things!?

[RikuJerrad]

On eBay, yes.

[chakabaka]

wow!4 how much!?

[RikuJerrad]

...Uhm the prices vary... Go look it up

[chakabaka]

so duz that meen they r expensive or cheap?

[RikuJerrad]

LOOK IT UP ON EBAY YOU RETARD

[chakabaka]

fuck u!ur the retard!

[RikuJerrad]

Caaaalm down dude.

[chakabaka]

well u dont hav 2 call me a retard.

[RikuJerrad]

I did actually. The forces of nature told me to tell you the truth of who you are, of WHAT you are.

Your eyes have now been opened.

[chakabaka]

wtf r u talking about u retard!?

[RikuJerrad]

Isn't it obvious?

I am referring to your mother.

[chakabaka]

wow.u r fucking retarded.

[RikuJerrad]

Oww, you hurt my feelings D=

[DippShits]

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(what do you expect - I truly am retarded.)

[RikuJerrad]

lol

k

[Kitrass]

Buy PSP or DS and put Genesis emulator in it

[mudddflappp]

i did. check my vids

[RollinRolex]

How was it an epic fail?

Nintendo 64 had some of the best games.

And to counteract your argument, people do talk about Sega fails. probably because to them, they were. And in the majority of cases, people agree to them.

Myself? Oh no - I honestly think that such remarked epic fails like the Sega CD or the Saturn were great - Shame that it was too pricey and the technology was too early when it was released. Sega Nomad was no different.

[andreikeda]

I always wish I had that

[chipmo3]

it wusent a "failure" it wus AHEAD of its time (i wont one now)

[ThatRunescaper]

yeah,nintendo didnt make a 16 bit handheld till 2001,this is from like 1995

[soultaker]

i used to love the Nomad

[ajstyles24TNA]

never heard of the Normad until just but hey it may be chunky but I would have got it when I was young so I could play the mega drive games portable like a GBA lol

[drybutt]

good console but batterie eater

[ajrobson]

No wonder Sega went down the shitter. They always make crap hardware, well actually they make good hardware but then bring out loads of add-ons or stuff nobody wants

Take the nomad, it sounds like someone at sega said "it would be cool to play genesis games on the move" then they built it and sold it without thinking that it:

A. looks like a bulky piece of shit

B. Waste batteries

C. it was 95 when the genesis was pretty much dead and ppl were moving onto to ps1 n64 and sega saturn

Sega is dumb

[ashthepokemonmaster]

thats the sonic I remember!!!!!!!!!!!

[jones12a]

there was a port so you can play two player, it looked so gay if you were out and huddle together playing

[wesall1]

can it play sonic 3 with sonic and knuckles

[drdre86]

Yep I remember seeing someone in my middle school play it. It looked so bulky

[Jaimitow]

exactly ^^

[timeshifterb]

even if it devoured batteries, it was still ahead of its time!!

[Lachlant1984]

Does anybody know if the Nomad was released in the PAL market? As I'm sure most of you know the Genisis was known as the Mega Drive in Japan, Europe and Australia.

[WeskerSega]

Unfortunately not. The Nomad was a North American exclusive release.

[Nazrat84]

Its a Sega Genesis hanheld?

[ApeEscaper493]

Uh... You could describe it like that. :|

[BulldozerNDF]

That thing DEVOURED batteries!

[DOOMVSHALO]

i luv the soundtrack, game, its ashame it wasnt converted onto to mobiles correctly, luv'd how it went well on here

[ApeEscaper493]

I just want you to know:

The video is out of sync abysmally.

[WeskerSega]

I know. Blame YouTube, because the original video was fine.

[papercanfly]

i'm getting one at gibratalar trade center 2morrow, or a game gear, or a dreamcast!

[geardawg4794]

Get all of them. You'll never see them again.

[papercanfly]

i got a game gear! with sonic the hedgehog!

[GlockXIII]

and it took nintendo 7 yrs later just to add a damn light up screen

[ShadicChao]

whats up with the sega cartridge

[TheGasMaster4381]

sega nomads play the sega genesis cartridges :D

[ShadicChao]

i know that but the sonic cartridge isnt like mine

[TheGasMaster4381]

oh.... now I know what you mean, the one I have is different too :o

[busterflex]

probably the cartridge from the european (pal) version..that's why it looks different.

[TheGamerAlterego]

Actually that's the Canadian cartridge.

[carefreeflexiform]

SEGA the best

[ineedapizza]

Re-sync that video!

[vladnaruto]

i played this game on one of my friend's mobile

[DuceUtight]

Maybe theres a reason Sega didn't promote this as well as they should have, it would have sold big time and would'v saved them time and money so they wouldn't even need a game gear, genesis games would'v been coming out for a longer pireod of time, and maybe it would have affected how the dreamcast strategy whent,...who knos??

[Jesus32Xtreme]

I like its name. The Nomad, not really a console, nor is it truely a handheld.

I love how to me it seems like such a gamegear 2 prototype. I wanted one so much back then. Still the way sonic3D looks on it is just spirtual. Its size and shape with a exellent rubber d-pad make it comfortable to hold. Starflight is a good game for going insane on it ha ha, but really the quality of this handhelds library is just amazing as these were games ment for a real console. Its a precious piece of energy.

[Shaanyboi]

owned GBA

[Jesus32Xtreme]

So a million or so lucky people got one of these. Including me :). Sonic 3D is still so wonderful on the eyes with this machine...

[ULTIMATECOOLDUDE1234]

me too

[Jesus32Xtreme]

good for you, I'm sure you had many good trips with such a magic piece of technology. Just think its about 1 year younger than you.

[ULTIMATECOOLDUDE1234]

well, actually i just got it for xmas lol, still great tho

[Jesus32Xtreme]

cool. Now you get to play real great console games like mk2 and robocop vs terminator or whatever! in your hands with a proper rubber d-pad,comfortable 6 button setup. Enjoy