{"id":17484,"date":"2018-04-16T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316610"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:43:00","slug":"sega-entering-micro-console-biz-with-mega-drive-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/sega-entering-micro-console-biz-with-mega-drive-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega entering micro-console biz with Mega Drive Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sega is getting in on the micro-console act with the Mega Drive Mini, a bite-sized reimagining of its classic 16-bit home console not too dissimilar from Nintendo&#8217;s shrunk down SNES and NES Classics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2018\/04\/13\/sega-mega-drive-mini-announced\/\">As reported by Siliconera<\/a>, the device is still in development, and is expected to launch at some point this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much like it&#8217;s micro-console cousins, the system will serve up a smattering of retro games when connected to a TV, allowing owners to rediscover the classics of yesteryear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other details are thin on the ground, but a couple of posts over on Sega&#8217;s Japanese Twitter account give\u00a0us a clear look at the console, and as you&#8217;d expect, it looks exactly like a Mega Drive that&#8217;s been through the dryer one too many times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ja\">\u300c\u30e1\u30ac\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\u300d\u8a95\u751f30\u5468\u5e74\u8a18\u5ff5\uff01<br \/>\u300e\u30e1\u30ac\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6 \u30df\u30cb\u300f\uff08\u4eee\u79f0\uff092018\u5e74\u767a\u58f2\u6c7a\u5b9a\uff01<\/p>\n<p>\u601d\u3044\u51fa\u306e\u540d\u4f5c\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u306e\u6570\u3005\u304c\u3001\u3053\u308c1\u53f0\u3067\u697d\u3057\u3081\u307e\u3059\uff01<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30bb\u30ac\u30d5\u30a7\u30b9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%AC%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30e1\u30ac\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%AC%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9630%E5%91%A8%E5%B9%B4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%AC%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9630%E5%91%A8%E5%B9%B4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">\u30e1\u30ac\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30d630\u5468\u5e74<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HWj6NFL96y\">https<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HWj6NFL96y\">:\/\/t.co\/HWj6NFL96y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0C9QH1l5Mr\">pic.twitter.com\/0C9QH1l5Mr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u30bb\u30ac\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEGA_OFFICIAL\/status\/984972055777918976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega is getting in on the micro-console act with the Mega Drive Mini, a bite-sized reimagining of its classic 16-bit home console not too dissimilar from Nintendo&#8217;s shrunk down SNES and NES Classics.\u00a0 As reported by Siliconera, the device is still in development, and is expected to launch at some point this year.\u00a0 Much like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}