"The History of Sega"  
By:  ElvisRulez  

     Sega used to be Nintendo’s rival (used to be).  I remember the days when it was just Sonic and Mario duke’n it out for the title of gaming champion, but now it seems with the involvement of Sony and Microsoft, Sega is stepping out of making games.  I feel this is a new chapter in Sega's life, and will spring up many new opportunities for them. Who knows?  Maybe they will get back into making games one day, but for now let me tell you about this amazing company called Sega.   

It all really started to happen for Sega with the Sega Genesis. This was my first system and was in my opinion one of the best of its time. It had great games and it almost wiped Nintendo from the “gaming industry map”. It was Sega’s deafening answer to Nintendo, and hung around a good chunk into the SNES lifespan as well still competing. It had games like Sonic and other RPGs, and featured the ace of spades game Sonic and Knuckles with revolutionary “lock on” technology.   

It was definitely a better system back then until Nintendo’s release of Donkey Kong Country. This was a back breaker for Sega, but to counter attack Nintendo’s “ultimate” game, they released Sega CD. This console was a simple CD based system. It did not do well because there was no demand for CD based games.  This was a major failure for Sega.   

Then Sega released Sega Saturn. This processed 64 bits and was the first system of its kind that could do so, but it was also a failure. This was a surprise to me and I think it was as good as the Playstation. I think the main reason it failed was because of its lack of advertisement. I didn’t even know about this system until after the release of Dreamcast. This was probably what could be considered the downfall of Sega.   

Sega laid low for a couple of years plotting every move carefully; building for an attack.  Their answer to their years of failures was the Dreamcast.  9-9-99 will live in the hearts of Sega fans forever.  The Dreamcast was launched with a slew of commercials including spots on MTV.  This was the first 128-bit system and had tons of games with its launch.  It crushed its competitors. Soon after though, Sega ran out of steam and was halted at the release of Playstation 2. This was the final blow for Sega.   

With the money they had made from the Dreamcast, Sega made a drastic decision to pull out of the making of systems all together. They decided to be a third party developer and create games for other companies. I feel this is a sad thing for Sega to do. I enjoyed the rivalry between Nintendo and Sega, but Sony and Microsoft had to get involved and messed everything up.  Now that Sega is friends with Nintendo, their decision to pull out of systems may prove to be fruitful for Nintendo and Sega mutually.  Long live Sega!  

-ElvisRulez