Sega Mega Drive

The Mega Drive is a fourth generation video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988 and Europe in 1990.The console was released in North America in 1989 under the name Genesis as Sega was unable to secure legal rights to the Mega Drive name in that region. The Mega Drive, heavily marketed as "16 bit" due to its hardware, it was Sega's fifth home console and the successor to the Sega Master System, with which it was electronically compatible.