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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) 1990 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.