Console forgotten by the general public, the SEGA Nomad is a portable machine released only in the United States in 1995. It was nothing more than a portable version of the Megadrive, better known under the name of Genesis in the country of Uncle Sam. On the occasion of the 60 years of the SEGA brand, celebrated throughout this year 2020, the former Japanese console manufacturer unveiled the prototype of this Nomad during a retrospective video aimed at to review the history of SEGA through the ages.
Hiroyuki Miyazaki, a former Executive Manager of the company at the time, was responsible for going over the secrets internally, explaining in particular the fact that the projects all referred to the names of planets. We thus learn that the Game Gear was named “Mercury”, the Megadrive Mini “Moon”, the Saturn the “Saturn” and therefore the Nomad which corresponded to the “Venus” project. There was also a machine called “Pluto” which was supposed to be a Saturn with network functions, which obviously recalls the characteristics of the Dreamcast.
