The earliest versions are in Sega Power- a magazine notorious for using extremely poor quality screenshots- and two different prototypes appear in the same article! The only difference between them is the health and lives display Each of them have some minor yet interesting changes compared to the final product, including a lot of material cut from the game. 30.75 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide.In the August issues of British publications Sega Power and Mean Machines Sega, three different prototype versions of Earthworm Jim 2 for the Mega Drive were previewed.

It was released in several different versions,Ĭontributing to its success were its library of arcade game ports, the popularity of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, several popular sports franchises,Īnd aggressive youth marketing that positioned it as the cool console for adolescents. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It plays a library of more than 900 games created by Sega and a wide array of third-party publishers delivered on ROM-based cartridges. Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling. In 1990, it was distributed as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic in Europe.ĭesigned by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's System 16 arcade board, centered on a Sega released it as the Mega Drive in Japan in 1988,Īnd later as the Genesis in North America in 1989. The Genesis is Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System.

It was a 16-bit fourth-generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

Known as the Mega Drive outside North America. Online emulated version of Earthworm Jim was originally developed for the Sega Genesis Rating (42 users voted) SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive

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