Thanks! This was the most authentic review of SG-1000 becauase it came from a fan's perspective that actually researched firsthand. As a big Sega fan that grew up in the arcades and first bought an SMS and subsequent consoles till Dreamcast, I ended up buying an SG-1000 to complete my collection. Took me three years to track down a near mint condition with all original parts including the AC adapter box, game package insert, warning leaflets. Also the first games from legendary Sega OGs, Yu Suzuki, Rieko Kodama (RIP), Yuji Naka.

The Mark 2 being how the 80s imagined the year 2000: you absolutely nailed it with that analogy hahahaha

I was a young gamer during the 1984 video game crash and I would argue that gaming was alive and well on computers like the Commodore 64. At the time it seemed to only really affect the console market ...but that’s my recollection.

Gulf and western used to own SEGA Gulf and western is now a part of paramount And now paramount is making the Sonic movie. Weird how those things tie together

The SG-1000 Mark 2 looks like a giant Cassette Player.

The Madman. He's actually continuing it! He didn't forget!

It looks like Sega took a chunk out of R2-D2 & made a console out of it.

I can remember game console history but I cant remember anything for tests thanks to Adam I am educated in video console history :D

I first learned of this console by screwing around with Microsoft Office clipart, typing in random binary numbers, and this console happened to show up as one of the results of one of my random searches.

I was wondering if you’d ever get a hold of one of these things

"That was a decision." Yup, that sums up SEGA alright.

In terms of Hardware Releases, SEGA is/was more schizophrenic than my sister!

Holy shit, Man I've been waiting forever for you to do this video. I will forever love you're video game generation retrospective serise.

Very cool Adam! I have always had an interesting curiosity about this console.

So glad you are still doing these! This whole series is really awesome, thanks.

Not only was SEGA originally an American company, but they also released their first console on the same day as the NES? My mindpenis is blown and all my brain cells collectively came.

Been waiting for more Generation Recaps. Hopefully there are more to come! Keep up the good work!

Awesome to finally see the return of the Recap series. These were the videos that first drew me to your channel.

to this day your style on your sega passion and knowledge dropping is always top quality. thank you adam. Keep it coming

Im almost 40, and im just learning this existed.

The guts of the SG-1000 and Colecovision are basically the same internally. You can run games on either if you wanted to with adapters. Both Sega and Coleco basically used more-or-less an off-the-shelf configuration to make consoles. The sound chip, cpu and gpu were used in a ton of different machines with different configurations. The Texas Instruments TMS9918 graphics chip used in the SG-1000 was introduced all the way back in 1979! I think it was meant to be a catch-all chip that could be used for games and computers. Once Texas Instruments couldn't compete in the computer market they probably didn't have much of a choice other than to push this for other companies who might have better success elsewhere.

Your Console Retrospective and Birthday videos are my favorite! Like many, it's how I found your Channel. Thanks so much for another one!!

New Zealand was one of the few countries to get the SG1000, licensed by Grandstand Leisure. Wikipedia made it seem as if we were the only other country to have it, but information has since surfaced since then, and it appears to have been released in Australia, under the John Sands Electronics, and Italy, and Spain. We also got the SC3000 here too. Neither fetch very high prices, even in their box.

Very happy to see you doing another one of these videos. They are my favorite type. Thank you.

I've waited for this video for 2 years or so. Loved it! Thank you!!!

Its been so long since I seen you had finally picked up these consoles, but we've been blessed to finally hear bout these game consoles! Loved the video Adam, well worth the wait!

That's awesome having those 2 first boxed consoles. (Nice one Leroy for the SG1000) I'm so jealous. Lol. Great informative video, Adam. Bravo 🤟 Sega forever 🤘

You have to have a really negative state off mind to look at those cartridges and think: “hmm, tombstones.”

this was an awesome video man thanks for all the great insight

And sadly...Sega of Japan became its own worst enemy in the 90s...

Glad to see you make another part to this series

Great video and I had never heard of the built in but unusable backwards compatibility in some of the sega consoles.... that's amazing lol

Awesome video Adam i love this old consoles and i am a big SEGA fan as well. For me as a 80s child Its always fun to watch this generations recaps, my best regards :)

Your videos are very simple but super informative! Thankz!

Thanks for the history of this console and sega. Your the best Adam!!!

Cool video, very informative. I feel lucky to own one myself, along with the Mark 2 and 3 and an SC-3000H :-). As a sega fan and collector looking forward to more video’s like this one!

Great video Adam!! Always informative and Entertaining.

I know what you mean!!! it looks like "the futureeeee!!!" but an "old" version of the future!.

So happy you made this!!!!!!

Congrats on the new console Adam and Happy Birthday!

Enjoyed the video taking a look into Sega first console

Awesomely phat injection of historical game console knowledge. Many thanks!

Just saw this Adam! Great Video!

Great to see you're still updating this series! Out of interest, "Sindbad" may or may not be a typo -- it may very well be but it's also an alternative (slightly archaic) translation of the name of the sailor

Great history video of the Sega SG-1000 console.

Love this channel

Informative episode Adam. It would be awesome to see some game play footage.

Adam: "Here's the Sega SG-1000, Sega's third generation console most of us thought was second generation."

I'm a child of the 70s who grew up in the UK. The gaming industry crash didn't affect the UK 🇬🇧 nearly as much as the us because there was a massive micro computer market over here. video games were available on audio cassette for pocket money prices for the Sinclair ZX spectrum, BBC, Amstrad, commodore c64/Vic 20, msx, ect.... you'd get a new game pretty much every week or two . (not to mention you'd borrow a friends game and copy it into a blank cassette, not that I've ever done that 🙄). cartridge game's on console's were much more expensive in comparison.

I like these videos about the game consoles. I like hearing about these consoles I’ve never heard of.

"Exactly like how the 80's would have depicted the year 2000" Agreed! IMO, the Master System does as well, and the Genesis looks like how the 90's would have done it.

SC-3000 was briefly available in Finland too, long before even Master System and Mega Drive.

13:33 - Man, I wish today's consoles had a advertising copy for the console printed on the console itself.

I’ve never ever seen anyone who has one of those. That is spectacular like spider - man

SEGA's 1st console!!!!!!

Loving these recap videos on game console generations especially the Wild West Atari era.

Hey Adam. Thanks for putting out these videos over all the years, as someone with a big interest in retro gaming, however only growing up around the time with a PlayStation 2 and a Wii, your channel did and continues to be a super helpful and entertaining way to learn about videogame history. I've been binge watching once again through all these retrospective videos, but I have chosen to comment on this one because I'm from New Zealand and feel like I can add a bit of perspective to it. I'm not sure if somebody has told you this elsewhere, but New Zealand is a fairly common market for companies to do 'test' releases of sorts. Culturally, New Zealand is a western English speaking country that has a similar culture to Australia, the UK, the US and Canada. New Zealand also has quite a small population and is very isolated from the rest of the world, so its used as a market that if you do a release here, you can test the waters of how it may be received in major western markets. For example, recently Netflix changed their password sharing rules and people were really upset about it, but they enforced that password sharing rule update in New Zealand like a month or two ahead of the rest of the world. This to me is surely the reason the SG-1000 released in New Zealand. Sega at the time likely saw it as a low risk release, as the small isolated population probably meant it wasn't going to cost a fortune for them to release here and they could see if there was a western appetite for this new Sega home console. Your videos have inspired me to try and do a bit of video game collecting myself. The oldest stuff I own is for my PS2, which is kind of sad. Unfortunately New Zealand seems to just be a pretty useless place if you are into retro video games. From all the research I have done, I don't think there exists any single retail store in the country that has a focus on retro video games. Your best bet here for something in person is to find some sort of second hand store that MAY have a small handful of games that are from the 5th generation or even rarer for earlier generations. Looking online for Sega stuff though, randomly it seems like its considerably easier and more affordable to find Master System stuff here than it is to find Mega Drive or other Sega content. I was able to find some local forums of a couple people with NZ versions of SG-1000s which was just called the Sega-1000 here it seems. But it's more common to find SC-3000 stuff, apparently it was relatively successful over here. Also in general its easier to get old Sega stuff than it is old Nintendo stuff, so I guess like Europe, Australasia must've also been a hotspot for Sega over Nintendo. It's strange its so uncommon to find anything retro videogame related here considering the country does have a decent history with video games, the 2600 released here and was a decent success and New Zealand even had its own exclusive 1st generation console, the Sportronic. Anyway, with my rambling aside, I don't usually comment but thanks for the content you produce and thank you for helping ignite my interest in videogame history. Looking forward to your next upload!

That small console is a mark in Sega history !

Another Generation Recap! Long time, no see!

Happy Birthday!

Love your channel man. Long live Sega

Oh my god it's finally back!

Wow that was a great video mate. Did not know most of that. You're so good at recounting video game history! And all in one take! Ridiculous. Lol OK enough ass kissin. That 2nd iteration is probably my favorite console of all time, aesthetically. So cool. What were they thinking with the cards?! Lol

So awesome!!!

Happy Birthday Adam 🎂 😊 😎

This is the year 2000! Flying cars, androids and Sega SGs

Awesome video Adam, been waiting a long time for this. I’m still dying on that hill, that the video games crash was only north America 🤣. For us in the UK, Sega was king and not Nintendo.

This was essentially a rebranded Colecovision with Sega games on it. No way could it compete with the Famicom.

wow never knew the famicom and the SEGA SG line launched on the same day, that's wild! my aunt actually had a master system so I got to play a few of the games on it... the ghostbusters port was pretty good, loved black belt and wonderboy 3: the dragon's trap!

Good for you Adam!

cool video tech talk adam

Just got this and a PC-FX for Christmas.

The sg-1000 has a cool library of games. A number of them are exactly the same as a bunch of Apple II games I used to play as a kid. Now I get to enjoy them using my Wii for some 240p crt goodness.

Here in the UK a device called the powerbase converter was available for Megadrive, which allowed Master System games to run on Megadrive, like you mention the hardware is in the machine, the converter is predominantly a plastic mould and a revised edge connector to accept SMS cartridges, the converter accepted cards too, so could run the 3D glasses games, as well.

I am pretty sure it came to Australia, I remember as a kid in Australia someone at school mentioning having Sega console called a SG1000, at the time I thought they were talking about the Master System, as I had owned one and always assumed it was the first Sega console. But when they described what it looked like, and the games and such I was really confused, you could say it was a real mystery to me, I never saw anything about it in magazines! Unfortunately I never got to see it in person

Damn I enjoyed the hell out of this video.

Mega Drive / Genesis' codename is Sega Mark V btw

I noticed on one of the closeups of the cartridges that some of them look like ColecoVision carts even having the storage slot for the ColecoVision's controller overlays (though the cart was molded with a Sega label and thus made specifically for the SG-1000 line).

Made my day

Sega did make an adapter for the first player controller(JC-100) that lets you replace the wired controller(SJ-200). It is rarer than the system. I recently picked up a SG-1000 for a decent price. I think the system has a lot of charm. I have a few My card games and picked up a card catcher before I got the system. Tested the catcher on mark III for fun. Great and informative video about another little known system from Sega.

So both of these only output RF. Anyway to get better picture quality from these?

Memorries of the Castro in the wilderness beard days...

Still waiting on that Loopy retrospective!

Sega started as Standard Games before coming Service Games then being shortened to SeGa. It was started to supply vending machines, juke boxes, early arcade games, and pinball machines to military bases. It moved to japan with the war and stayed there due to the increased us military presence in Asia from the 40s on.

Hey Adam, off-topic question: Of the 5th Generation Graveyard Consoles [i.e. Panasonic 3DO, Apple Pippin, Atari Jaguar etc.] what is in your opinion, the best of the bad bunch of consoles?

It's funny to know that first game coded by Yu Suzuki was Champion Boxing on the Sega SG-1000. Originally released in the Arcades in 1984 and ported to the Sega SG-1000 one year later.

Informative

If you don't mind emulation, an easy way to play SG-1000 games is with the Cyber Gadget Retro Freak. It has an adapter that plays Mark III, Game Gear, and SG-1000 games.

Great video are you planning do to videos on the handhelds

YES AT LONG LAST !!!!

I love the Sg 1000, I have a few cartridges and I play them on my Analogue mega sg.

2:51 perfect chance to say "it's genesis" and make a Sega pun come on Adam smh

Not gonna lie, the SG-1000 model 1 looks really cool.

Man it’s a good day that Mr. Koralik made a video today, say how was the post launch of Shenmue 3 in Burbank yesterday???!!!

Hi Adam, Regarding the name of "Sindibad Mystery" game, this is how the character name is originally spelled in Arabic. The first "D" was omitted when the story was first translated into English, as it was common practice at that time.

That‘s why The Sonic Movie is made from Paramount..... i see.

Didn’t know the sc-3000 is that rare. I have one just sitting in the laundry.

It amazes me how thin the turbo Graphics games are especially when you compare them to the Game Boy what you think would have benefited from having such thing games

18:09 Its actually "Sindbad" from (One Thousand and One Nights) but in the west he is commonly known as "Sinbad"

6:31 Huh I always thought the Famicom launched on July 15? This is my first time hearing July 13. Anyway, great video I never knew Sega had a console before the Master System.