SG-1000
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The is a home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was Sega's first entry into the home video game hardware business. Developed in response to a downturn in arcades starting in 1982, the SG-1000 was created on the advice of Hayao Nakayama, president of Sega's Japanese arm, and was released on July 15, 1983, the same day that Nintendo released the Family Computer in Japan. It also had a limited release in Australia and New Zealand.
Key facts
- Information appliance.logo
- SG-1000 Logo.svg
- Information appliance.name
- SG-1000
- Information appliance.image
- Sega-SG-1000-Console-Set.jpg
- Information appliance.manufacturer
- Sega
- Information appliance.type
- Home video game console
- Information appliance.generation
- Third
- Information appliance.release_date
- SG-1000/SC-3000SG-1000 II
- Information appliance.discontinued
- SG-1000SG-1000 II
- Information appliance.media
- ROM cartridge, compact cassette, Sega My Card
- Information appliance.cpu
- Zilog Z80A
- Information appliance.cpu_speed
- 3.58 MHz
- Information appliance.memory
- 1 KB RAM (SG-1000)2 KB RAM (SC-3000)16 KB VRAM
- Information appliance.display
- 256 × 192, 16 colors, 32 sprites
- Information appliance.graphics
- Texas Instruments TMS9918A
- Information appliance.sound
- Texas Instruments SN76489AN
- Information appliance.successor
- Master System
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Technical specifications
- Game library
- Reception
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The is a home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was Sega's first entry into the home video game hardware business. Developed in response to a downturn in arcades starting in 1982, the SG-1000 was created on the advice of Hayao Nakayama, president of Sega's Japanese arm, and was released on July 15, 1983, the same day that Nintendo released the Family Computer in Japan. It also had a limited release in Australia and New Zealand.
The SG-1000 was released in several forms, including the SC-3000 computer and the redesigned SG-1000 II released in 1984. The SG-1000 and the SC-3000 both support a library of 51 ROM cartridge games and 29 Sega My Card games.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SG-1000” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.