sega stuff (Custom)

One big Sega 6-button Arcade Stick, a Super Wide Gear and Master Gear converter for the Sega Game Gear along with a Sega Saturn Netlink. I think Sega was a pioneer in online gaming on a few fronts that some out there who’ve been around long enough think the company deserves much more credit for. The Netlink allowed for a handful of Sega Saturn titles to be played against others person to person in the creaky days of dial-up connections. All of that was a learning process for Sega, and by the time the Dreamcast was announced, it was clear that they had a pretty solid online strategy… well, at least in Japan (slower connections be damned). From what I understand, since the Netlink uses dial-up, there are still people who use it to play against other Netlink users, but I’ll leave that for you to Google up at your leisure. As for the Super Wide Gear and Master Gear, one was a much better peripheral than the other. The Super Wide Gear is a screen magnifier that adds a big bulky lean to the front of your GG, looks silly, but yeah, it works as you’d expect. The Master Gear allowed you to play Master System cartridges on your Game GEar, something far more desirable, especially if you wanted to take a big RPG like Phantasy Star on the road or any other game that wasn’t part of the handheld’s normal lineup..

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