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Revision as of 15:05, 8 April 2011
After successfully launching the Sega Mega Drive, Sega commissioned several projects under different codenames of the planets in the Solar System. These are listed below.
Codename | Equivalent |
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Sega Mercury | Sega Game Gear |
Sega Venus | Sega Nomad |
Sega Earth | Unused |
Sega Mars | Sega 32X |
Sega Jupiter | Cart-based 32-bit system; abandoned in planning stages in favor of a disc-based system that became known as... |
Sega Saturn | Final name. |
Sega Uranus | Unknown, possibly unused |
Sega Neptune | 32X/Mega Drive combo unit |
Sega Pluto | Unknown, possibly unused |
Furthermore, hardware related to the Saturn had codenames based on Saturn's moons:
Codename | Equivalent |
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Titan | Sega Titan Video |
Janus | Sega Picture Magic |
It is unknown whether the Sega CD, Sega Mega Jet, Sega Pico, arcade hardware, or any other Mega Drive/Saturn-related hardware had codenames.
By the time the Sega Dreamcast was planned, Sega had moved on to a new scheme.
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AI Computer | Game Gear | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pico | Beena |