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In 2000, Sega asked American households to plug their game console into a phone jack and pay ten bucks a month for the privilege. Everyone laughed. Twenty-five years later, we're all living in the world SegaNet built — we just pay somebody else for it.
Before digital storefronts and Game Pass, most of us met Sega through a plastic clamshell case with a rental sticker on it. This is a love letter to the rental era — the photocopies, the memory card panic, and the games we finished one weekend at a time.
Sonic Team built an empire on a blue hedgehog, but the studio's real creative soul lives in its weirder, less profitable experiments. From Ristar's stretchy arms to Burning Rangers' fiery corridors, these are the B-sides that deserve a spin.
The Genesis launch title everybody mocked became the Sega reference nobody can quit. From 'Rise from your grave' to三十年 of parodies, Altered Beast outlived its reputation — and maybe that was the point.
Playing Crazy Taxi on a phone screen is fine. Playing it on a real arcade stick, with a coin in your pocket and a deadline ticking, is something else entirely. Here's what it takes to bring that feeling home in 2025 — and what no setup can quite replicate.
Before YouTube walkthroughs and GameFAQs, stuck players had two options: squint at a glossy Genesis manual or dial a 900 number and watch the meter run. We look back at Sega's player support empire — the booklets, the hotline operators, and the strange economics of being told how to beat Ecco the Dolphin for the price of a combo meal.
Sega's arcade catalog is a goldmine of ideas that never got the modern treatment they earned. We picked ten cabinets — famous and forgotten — and mapped out exactly how you can play each one in the US right now.
The SNES had more channels and prettier samples, but Sega's Yamaha sound chip had attitude. From Sonic's basslines to Yuzo Koshiro's club-ready bangers, here's why FM synthesis still hits harder than anything else from the 16-bit era.
Before every open-world game handed you a checklist, Shenmue handed you a bus schedule and a curfew. Revisiting Ryo Hazuki's slow-burn revenge quest reveals the blueprint half the industry has been tracing ever since.
From a Genesis cartridge with a killer soundtrack to a 2020 indie revival, Streets of Rage has spent 30 years defining what a great beat-'em-up sounds and feels like. This is how it happened.
A series built on fan campaigns, a beloved hero's retirement, and one very enthusiastic bald protagonist saved Sega's willingness to gamble. Here's how Yakuza became the studio's true heir to its experimental '90s spirit.
The Saturn turns 30, and its library is still full of deep cuts that never found a US audience the first time around. From tactical RPGs to neon-soaked action, here are the games we'd love to see get the remaster treatment.