Think of the Sega Nomad as the Nintendo Switch of 1995. The hardware was conceptually audacious, a chunky portable that played the cartridges of Sega’s home console, the Sega Genesis. And with its AV ...

In a new video discussing the history of Sega, the company's Hiroyuki Miyazaki showed off a prototype of its Genesis Nomad handheld. Released in North America in 1995, the Genesis Nomad was a 16-bit ...

Of course, Sega‘s Nomad also had some major drawbacks – the thing was the size and weight of a brick, its screen sucked, and it gobbled up triple-A batteries at an obscene rate. You’d be lucky if six ...

Most of us are still stuck indoors for this long winter, and Sega is putting together some amusing videos in the style of a college lecture that teach you the history behind the former console giant.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. At the retro game shop towards the back of the main show floor at PAX 09 I was finally reunited with a long-lost friend of mine - the Sega Nomad. Back ...

This week at CrunchGear, we’re looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys… those devices that still stand out in our ...

[lovablechevy], aka the Queen of Bondo, has added another member to her Mushroom family of custom portable consoles. This time, it’s the HandyGen, an improved Sega Nomad. As an owner of the latter, we ...

In the mid-1990s, Sega went to significant lengths to extend the life of their 16-bit Sega Genesis any way that they could. There was the Sega CD add-on, which allowed for enhanced Red Book audio, and ...

Sega's Genesis Nomad was always something of a compromise (it was running 16-bit console games on mid-1990s handheld tech), but the battery life was a particularly sore point: it took six AA batteries ...