A single Mega Drive game that uses a special enhancement chip. The chip is kind of notorious in Sega circles, as it turns out, since its release marks the beginning of the turbulent end-of-life period for the Mega Drive hardware, ignites the 32X debacle, and paves the way for the Saturn's early release and the shedding of most of the success of the Genesis years in America. The chip is called the Sega Virtua Processor, and it was used only in Virtua Racing.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
It was an awesome experience for me back then as a kid. I remember my mom getting motion sickness just watching me play it. Good stuff.
enjoyable, informative article!
Hmm, pity the article doesn't go into more depth. It just says there was one cart that used the chip, then, ends..