| The Sega SG-1000, released on July 15, 1983, was Sega’s first home video game console. It launched in Japan on the same day as Nintendo’s Famicom and marked Sega’s transition from arcade hardware to the home market. The SG-1000 was powered by a Zilog Z80 CPU and featured 1 KB of RAM and 16 KB of video RAM. The console supported ROM cartridges and later Sega My Cards, with a library of over 60 games, many of which were adaptations of Sega’s arcade titles. It used a hardwired joystick with a single button, which limited control options compared to competing systems. Though modest in performance, the SG-1000 laid the groundwork for Sega’s future hardware, sharing architecture with the SC-3000 computer and evolving into the SG-1000 II and eventually the Sega Mark III, which became the Master System internationally. |
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