Sega Mouse

Sega Mouse/Mega Mouse
Made for: Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD
Manufacturer: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Type: Mouse
Release Date RRP Code JP 1993-04-23 ¥5,0005,000 HAA-2651 US 1994 $39.9939.99 1645 EU 1994 MK-1638-50 DE 1994 DM 79.9579.95 UK 1994 £29.9929.99 MK-1638-50 AS 199x

The Sega Mouse (セガマウス), known in North America as the Mega Mouse, is a special computer mouse designed to work with the Sega Mega Drive and Mega-CD. It can be seen as the Sega alternative to Nintendo's mouse accessory, designed primarily for Mario Paint for the Super NES. Only a few games were designed with Sega Mouse functionality in mind.

The Sega Mouse was released in Japan and Europe, only the major difference being the colour scheme - Japan opted for blue buttons, Europe for red. Both came packaged with a blue Sega-branded mouse mat. The European packaging actually calls it a Sega Mega Drive Mouse, although games still refer to it as the "Sega Mouse".

Hardware

The Sega Mouse is a ball mouse, meaning it needs to be cleaned after regular use in order for it to continue to function properly. Despite there being three buttons on a standard Control Pad, there are only two buttons on a Sega Mouse, and , however unusually the unit places its button on the ball itself - flipping the peripheral turns it into a clickable trackball device.

North America did not receive the Sega Mouse, but instead the Mega Mouse, a similar but larger unit which added the missing  START  button and scrapped the clickable trackball, which made the movements more accurate. The Mega Mouse was distributed with a red/black mouse mat, and its awkwardly placed  START  button comes at a disadvantage to left-handed users. Body Count is the only known game to have a compatibility issue with the Sega Mouse due to the lack of the  START  button.

Few games were created to take advantage of the Sega/Mega Mouse, and contrary to popular belief, Art Alive! (seen as the direct rival to Mario Paint) did not have mouse support. There were no Sega 32X games with mouse support.

Compatible games

Mega Drive

• Body Count (1994)
• Cannon Fodder (1995)
• Fun 'n' Games (1993)
• Janou Touryuumon (1993)
• Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (1994)
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes (1994)
• Lord Monarch: Tokoton Sentou Densetsu (1994)
• Marble Madness (1991)
• Nobunaga no Yabou: Haouden (1994)
• Nobunaga's Ambition (1993)
• Richard Scarry's Busytown (1994)
• Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye (1994)
• Wacky Worlds (1994)

Mega CD

• Crime Patrol (1994)
• Dungeon Master II: Skullkeep (1994)
• Eye of the Beholder (1994)
• Links: The Challenge of Golf (1994)
• Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (1994)
• Mad Dog McCree (1993)
• Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra (1993)
• My Paint: The Animated Paint Program (1994)
• Nobunaga no Yabou: Haouden (1994)
• Panic! (1993)
• The Secret of Monkey Island (1993)
• Shadowrun (1996)
• Shin Megami Tensei (1994)
• StarBlade (1994)
• Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends (1994)
• Warau Salesman (1993)
• Who Shot Johnny Rock? (1994)
• Yumemi Mystery Mansion (1993)

Gallery

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  Sega Mouse (EU)

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  Sega Mouse (JP)

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  Sega Mouse (JP) (reverse)

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  Mouse Mat (EU/JP)

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  Mega Mouse (US)

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  Tianli model (CN)

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega Mouse/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

TW advert

Print advert in (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:

• (US) #64: "November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
• (US) #22: "December/January 1994/1995" (1994-xx-xx)
• (US) #23: "February/March 1995" (199x-xx-xx)
• (US) #24: "May 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Print advert in Blue Jean (TR) #03/97: "Mart 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Manual

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Manual

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Manual

Mega Drive, AS†

Mega Drive, CN (Tianli)

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue page (Japanese)