Sega Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/sega/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Sega Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/sega/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 Rabid Arcade Rats: Scary Arcade Games http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:38:58 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14710 As this issue of Paleotronic magazine is Halloween themed, being asked to write an article discussing the history of arcade horror games fits perfectly, even if you are not a big fan on the horror [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/feed/ 0 14710 Paleotronic’s Top Ten Famous and Infamous Christmas-Themed Video Games http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/paleotronics-top-ten-famous-and-infamous-christmas-themed-video-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/paleotronics-top-ten-famous-and-infamous-christmas-themed-video-games/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2019 02:09:35 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9850 Christmas themed video games have always been a category of computer and console video gaming that has bewildered me. Often they have been very poor adaptations of a holiday season meant to bring about fond [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/22/paleotronics-top-ten-famous-and-infamous-christmas-themed-video-games/feed/ 0 9850 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:30:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9703 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/feed/ 0 9703 GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:06:30 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=3390 Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/02/12/gorf-the-great-oz-retro-technology-festival/feed/ 0 3390 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (Combined Download) http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:55:41 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2960 Our tour of electronic Christmas gifts past has concluded, but if you missed it, don’t worry! You can catch up by downloading all of the episodes in a single file via the link below. Download [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/26/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-single-download/feed/ 0 2960 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Twelve: 1991 http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/24/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-twelve-1991/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/24/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-twelve-1991/#respond Mon, 24 Dec 2018 13:23:12 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2951 Our twelfth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Super Nintendo, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lemmings! Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/24/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-twelve-1991/feed/ 0 2951 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Ten: 1989 http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/23/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-ten-1989/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/23/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-ten-1989/#respond Sun, 23 Dec 2018 03:31:02 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2906 Our tenth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Sega Megadrive / Genesis, handheld consoles, funky joysticks, Tetris and much more! Click on each image for the full-sized copy [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/12/23/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-year-ten-1989/feed/ 0 2906 Shootout of the Video Game Systems: The Age of the Light Gun http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/02/shootout-of-the-video-game-systems-the-age-of-the-light-gun/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/11/02/shootout-of-the-video-game-systems-the-age-of-the-light-gun/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2018 05:45:45 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=2026 The first mechanical light-gun games appeared in the arcades and midways of the 1930s. Following the invention of the light-sensing vacuum tube, companies such as Seeburg produced games that had the tube hidden inside targets, [more...]

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