NEWS: SEGA prototype system SEGA PORTADRIVE

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  1. ASSEMbler

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    SEGA PORTA DRIVE: 1990

    Info dating from early 1990 stongly suggests that sega had developed a new machine that was designed to be a handheld game player, video cartridge player, and TV tuner unit with an 8mm cassette deck.

    Using a 68000 / Z80 arrangement, it was supposed to have more ram capacity than NEO GEO. It was also to utilize a "Flip" screen that could act in dual modes with gameplay similar to an arcade shooter and the arrangement of the wonderswan.

    Go to the main thread for more info and higher resolution pictures.
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    Acts as:

    Television and VTR
    Upload of video to unit cartridge
    TV cartridge for TV use
    Game cartridge
    Screen rotates for pistol grip style (think of the LCD gun in soul hackers)
    Screen can be used in an "arcade" arrangement
    Price 24,800 yen

    Source:1990 Beep! Powerful Mega-Magazine Megadrive
     
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    :prayer:All the elegance of a 15 year old before it's time version of the PSP
     
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    how the hell can you play that thing? worst layout ever.
     
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  5. LeGIt

    LeGIt I'm a cunt or so I'm told :P

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    Not sure in the point of the unit with gamegear etc but would be nice to find a proto ;)
     
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    Now that is a new one !! Thanks ASSEMbler ;) I'm not sure if you guys will remember but last year I posted some pictures of another Sega Prototype that had a built in screen. It looked nothing like this though but was from around the same time period. I wonder if there's an actual hardware mockup ? Look how big the screen is too. And Sony thought they were the first to add a massive screen to a hand held :p

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    they are, this thing was never released.
     
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    Of course not released, but if they made some evaluation units is another thing. A very big thing.
     
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    think about the GameGear Screen. The Measures of the Screen wasnt little. It was a big (color) screen for the early 90´s and in that time Sony wanted to buy you a walkman...
    Ok CD was coming...

    But in (crazy) Prototype Production Sega is the all time champion ;-)
     
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    What a strange and wonderful machine, price 24,800 yen!!!!

    ...Does that mean that it might have seen an obsure release?
     
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    Nah. It's just unreleased stuff, but I can them doing it to counter the possible bandai portable super famicom.
     
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    they had lots of resources to waste at the time....
     
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    W-O-W.
    who knows why it never got released....
     
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    karsten Member of The Cult Of Kefka

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    minutes battery life? (think of GG...)
     
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    I figure the most cool job around must be the guarding of obscure beta's and prototypes at Sega HQ... Along with the F1 Sega car that's 'lying around somewhere' in a Sega warehouse according to Naka... :p
     
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    Just... Wow.
    So... how far into development do you think it went?
    Was it completely vapourware, like the "Active Enterprises" machine in 1994?
    One thing for sure, though, it'd be one serious pain to play it the way the pics suggest... and the 8MM cassetes for video... that's just funny.
     
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    Fisher Price made a Black & White video camera for kids that used normal audio tapes. The quality was cack though so I guess Sega could have made a half decent one with 8mm tapes.

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    I thought that fisher price thing was just a camera, and you had to wire it up directly to a VHS VCR to record anything? I've seen video done on audio tapes before - you get like 40 lines of vertical resolution which is barely watchable - compare that to VHS which does around 240, and analogue broadcasts which are about 500-600.

    That Sega thing is crazy though. Nice find! I'm sure if they did release something like that it would have cost at least $800 and would have weighed at least 5kg...
     
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    Theres two fischer price type cameras. One from the 80s that recorded to audio tape, the other that had to hook directly to a VCR...which is incredibly stupid. I read upo on the audio tape one once, as I thought it sounded really neat. As it turns out...it was...
     
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    What's next? A Sega Portapotty?
     
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