Creative Cat Productions | Sega Nomad | Joe Miller’s answer to the Nintendo Switch, more than 20 years too early @creativecatproductions | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
In 1995 Sega released a bizarre piece of hardware exclusive to its North American market. The Sega Nomad was a portable Sega Genesis with a built in six-button controller. It could be plugged into a TV and used as a stand alone SEGA Genesis if desired, making it a fully portable home console decades before Nintendo’s Switch. However, it was expensive, had a bad screen, ate batteries like the Cookie Monster, and was released around the same time as the PlayStation and Sega Saturn…..meaning it was woefully obsolete. Consequently, it only sold like….1 million units? That’s actually not that bad, but it’s sort of a forgotten piece of SEGA history anyway.
This is the story of the SEGA Nomad, and its ambitious corporate creator, Joe Miller. The Nomad is seriously one of the weirdest decisions SEGA of America ever made in the 90s…..and that’s saying something! And you know what? We can thank Joe Miller for making that decade so darn interesting. For real.
Thanks for watching!
- CCP Management
In 1995 Sega released a bizarre piece of hardware exclusive to its North American market. The Sega Nomad was a portable Sega Genesis with a built in six-button controller. It could be plugged into a TV and used as a stand alone SEGA Genesis if desired, making it a fully portable home console decades before Nintendo’s Switch. However, it was expensive, had a bad screen, ate batteries like the Cookie Monster, and was released around the same time as the PlayStation and Sega Saturn…..meaning it was woefully obsolete. Consequently, it only sold like….1 million units? That’s actually not that bad, but it’s sort of a forgotten piece of SEGA history anyway.
This is the story of the SEGA Nomad, and its ambitious corporate creator, Joe Miller. The Nomad is seriously one of the weirdest decisions SEGA of America ever made in the 90s…..and that’s saying something! And you know what? We can thank Joe Miller for making that decade so darn interesting. For real.
Thanks for watching!
- CCP Management
