The Sega Genesis Nomad is Insane! 

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Youre going to love this... back in the day, I traded like half my SNES games plus Christmas money for the VirtualBoy. It didnt take long before I realized it sucked. But my neighbor friend loved it. So I convinced him to trade his nomad and 6 games for the VirtualBoy and all the games I had for it. Man... that was like 25 years ago. I still have it too. Works well.

In retrospect, Sega was way ahead of it's time. The Nomad was great and The Dreamcast deserves far more love than it gets.

Sega was so ahead of the times

I love my Sega Nomad it's the first thing I bought when I got into retro gaming. I always wanted one when I was a kid and it makes my inner child happy.

The Switch of the 90s.

The Nomad was the Nintendo Switch before the Switch existed. Way ahead of its time.

I let this RU-vid short replay a ridiculous amount of times. Why? The Emerald Hill Zone music in the background. Sonic 2’s soundtrack is awesome.

The system itself had a surprisingly good d pad I remember

It was ahead of its time. The batteries drained fast.

Me and my wife bought this brand new back in 2002 for 50 U.S. dollars we still have it

Totally forgot about this piece of history! Thank you!

Oh how desperately I wanted one of these when I was young.

Imagine the amount they would sell nowadays... heck, I'd buy 3

I NEED to see sonic 3 and knuckles played on one of these

I so wanted one as a kid, never owned a Genesis, I was a Nintendo kid but owned a Game Gear and the idea of playing home console games, portably? That was awesome!! Like the Turbo Express.

This and the TurboExpress were ahead of its time

It also had a controller port. I remember play Sonic 3 co-op with a friend at school on his Nomad

I had one. Battery life wasn't a thing if you just plugged in to power everywhere. but the screen had terrible motion blur, and got hot real quick.

Omg this takes me back to a very good place . I had such great memories with saga nomad!😊

I still have mine,but the battery is toast! lol

Sega Nomad was truly ahead of its time. (Actually, the TurboExpress came first, so...)

Had one of these and a converter cart to play Mega Man: The Wily Wars.

The Nomad was awesome. A portable Genesis, and if you were smart, you got the DC block to plug it into walls and could play forever, until your hands got hot. XD

I had a nomad when I was a kid returned it because of the battery life lol

The Steam Deck Killer 😂😂

The nomad really looks like the steam desk. i think it would be great if someone hollowed out a broken one and slapped the internals of a steam deck in one.

That thing is massive. I never seen anyone have one I just seen pictures in gaming magazines.

I love the Genesis and Mega Drive. One day own a Nomad, without a doubt it will be a crown jewel in my collection.

I never had a Sega console myself but of course had friends who did I was the one with Atari & Nintendo consoles I definitely remember the nomad but part of the problem was once again Sega competing with itself because they still had the Sega Game Gear If they had centralized their focus yeah that would have been the '90s version of the Switch

I wish I still had mine

I remember i live in Germany and here no nomad comes out but a Boy i knew He got a nomad because his dad Worked in the USA.. And i was rly impressed..

I have that in 2000, ultra great console

I have wanted one for ages

on it’s release, i was a young teenager. I saw the box at “Toys “R” Us”. they had a spot where they had merchandise to see. I mean we couldn’t touch it. I knew what it could do, but I didn’t think much of it at the time. BUT THE PRICE 🤯 I want to say about $200.00 usd.

Pretty cool 😎 ❤

the nomade. Nintendo swtich Beta. it was awesome

My ex actually had one of these and I was going to sell it for $20. But then the guy just wanted the box for $20 and let me keep the actual item. He told me it was worth a lot more and that I should sell it accordingly but I ended up selling it(now without the box) for $40

I had one it was amazing accept the sucking down 6 batteries in a few hours 😅

This is a very nice portable. Great dpad too. Mine has been upgraded with a lcd screen. To bad it has the same sound chip as the model 2.

I always wanted one

Nice loop. 😊

Had one of these back in the day. Still have it. Made me king of the school bus. Especially since you could shove a 2nd controller in the bottom of it for 2 player nonsense. So a chosen kid on the bus could play along with me. To be chosen was to be a good friend of mine, or have enough money.

I really wish I never sold my nomad in 98. I thought I’d be able to just get another one and had more time with Sega…

Cool tech but such a battery sink. Rechargeables at the time were crap - NiCad which couldn't hold much power, and were lucky to push 1.25V. Good luck running your Nomad on those for long. I do have a Game Gear with Master Gear adapter to play Sega Master on it. Also "cool" but functionally not that useful again due to battery life and a very small screen.

I NEED THAT THING BUT DONT HAVE THE MONEY FOR IT >:[

Can’t wait for the mega 95 by hyperkin

I think another reason why it failed is because it was released all the way in 1995. The PlayStation and the Sega Saturn came to the US that year.

The first hybrid console

You can't finish an X-Men game that required to reset the console which the Nomad didn't have. Awesome portable though.

I have one, they are pretty cool, even though it lives in my loft 🤦🏼

Wow...how can I have never heard of this...

The psp of the 90's,if im not wrong

they had a sale of the 32x at Sears for $30 back them i installed it on my nomad never powered on again

I want a nomad

And everyone thinks the switch was an original idea lmao

I respect but yet I’m totes mcgoats jealous asf of your Sega Collection. 😆 👍

switch before the switch

Nintendo, PlayStation, XBOX - All hadn't done anything Sega either hadn't already done, or had the tech and schematics for. Sega walked and jogged so they all could run! CHANGE MY MIND!

As a broke kid that desperately wanted one of these at the time…imo, the main reason the Nomad didnt take, as well as why Sega went under…was that they released too many consoles/upgrades in too short a time. As well as the N64 and PS1 coming out. The Sega CD, 32x, Sega Channel, Nomad, and Saturn…all came out practically at the same time, between 93 and 95. Considering the trend before and after that has been for a console to have hundreds of games and a half-decade lifespan minimum…its easy to see how consumers either were overwhelmed by Sega’s console releases, or didnt even know about them. The Nomad was insane though…only now being equalled by Switch and Steamdeck.

I had one and it got stolen. I loved that thing

awesome yeahhh not the word I would of used.

If it was expensive that's what really bet it down.

A lot of Sega's failures can be attributed to terrible marketing. The 32X was released in November 1995. I had never heard of it until June 1998 when I saw it on the shelf at a department store for $20. The Sega Nomad was also released in 1995 and I never heard of it until just a few years ago. And it's not like I was completely clueless at the time, I was a huge Sega Genesis fan and was regularly buying games for it from 1993-1996. Sega just didn't promote their new products enough.

The Battery Life is it's Downside

My rich cousin had one

So that’s the original Nintendo switch

Reminds me of the psvita, great handheld but wasn’t appreciated in it’s time

Holding a loaf of bread

Battery life lasted a full 25 minutes

The batteries died in like an hour and a half. The whole point of it was supposed to be a Genesis on the go, but you’d still have to plug it in to actually play it like one.

I lost my battery while looking at this video

Forgot to mention the atrocious battery life which put off many players once word of mouth got out.

The original Switch lol

.... Where do they find these dudes?

I wanted a sega nomad but i was a poor child. It was superior to gameboy . Sega genesis portable. 😢😢😢😢 Why i was poor ?

quiero hacerme una con una impresora 3d y demasiado tiempo libre

Very interesting that she said portable Genesis and not Mega Drive... but I'm American so I don't mind. lol

The Sega switch? Lol

Clever, finishing with: “this is why …” On a video that repeats 👍🏼

The price point was not competitive.😢

It wasn't succesful, but at least not a complete failure as a concept, like the Virtual Boy was.

I was there when the Sega Nomad was launched. Sega thought it would be their next step from the Game Gear. Things didn't go as they were hoping. It backfired HARD, mainly because the Nomad DEVOURED battery life as it was a Sega Genesis with a backlit screen, lit up mainly by a fluorescent light bulb much like the Game Gear before it. The battery pack was recommended for the Nomad, but it's battery life was worse due to poor design. Then there was the price point which was a the time EXPENSIVE. Well, all things considered, the Sega Nomad was a good idea, but one that would be perfected with the 3DS XL and Nintendo Switch decades later. I knew when the Sega nomad launched that it would not do well. I'm pretty much the opposite of that moron Pachter. My predictions come true inevitably. His however failed to launch because he isn't a gamer.

This comment section if the perfect example of people nor knowing what "ahead of its time" means.

This happen in the UK? Cause I don't remember it

If you throw this in someone's head....

Fun Fact: X-Men cannot be beaten on the Nomad because the final task on the penultimate level requires you to reset the game when prompted, which you can’t do on the Nomad.

The real tragedy of the nomad was Sega's stupidity to release it after they released the Saturn and the release of the PS1.

Damm you game boy, so many cool handhelds got destroyed by your puny liitle monocromatic screen 😂

the batterlife was horrible...

Great machine but devoured batteries. Way ahead of its time.

The Nomad nowadays is the Steam Deck when it comes to power. It's a battery guzzler.

Too bad it's mostly forgotten.

It also DRANK batteries.

Please, don't say "this is why" at the end to make it sound like it's looping, it's just annoying

Ill never understand why gameboy outsold sega in handheld gaming Gameboy had awful graphics game gear was superior in every way i just dont get it

I was wondering when the crys are coming back and asking the majority of gamers which is men you are targeting for money for a few hundred pounds of a recent law suit. Anything lately?

Can’t wait for the hyperkin genesis portable! But wait hyperkin🤔 let’s move on!

Love seeing Sektor in this video. 🥹