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From Sega Retro

This is a list of third party websites which have covered Sega over the years.

Bulletin Boards

Name URL Opening date Closing date Description
2000 and Beyond 02 5226514 (5226514 archive) ≤1988 Sydney Sega Users Group[1]
Psyclone 0582 832653 (832653 archive) 1990 "Amongst many other things it has a Sega area"[2]
MAPHIA (archive) 1993 Prosecuted by Sega for Genesis piracy

Newsgroups

Name URL Opening date Closing date Description
Usenet rec.games.video (archive) 1986-11-30
CIX videogames/consoles (archive) 1987-08-02
CIX sega/general (archive) 1991-10-04
CIX consoles/sega (archive) 1992-07-09
Usenet alt.sega.genesis (archive) 1993-01-23
Usenet rec.games.video.sega (archive) 1993-04-20
CIX saturn/general (archive) 1996-01-06
CIX katana/chatter (archive) 1998-05-05
CIX dreamcast/general (archive) 1998-06-04

FTP addresses

Name URL Opening date Closing date Description
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/games/sega (archive) ≤1994 "Sega stuff only, including FAQs, electronic publications etc."
Sega of America ftp.segaoa.com (archive) 1994 "For a non-graphical/text only interface use:ftp.segaoa.com"

Sega Websites

Name URL Opening date Closing date Description
Dave's Sega Saturn page http://www.sega-saturn.com (archive) 1996 Popular Saturn fansite.

Multi-format Websites

Name URL Opening date Closing date Description
Games Domain http://www.wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/~djh/index.html (archive) 1994-03-xx First significant games site
" http://www.wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/GamesDomain (archive) " Later address
Michel Buffa's Video Games Page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./buffa/videogames.html (archive) 1994-0x-xx Well publicised early site, since at least 6th June 1994.
FutureNet http://www.futurenet.co.uk (archive) 1994-09-29 Future plc website.