{"id":517,"date":"2008-11-06T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2008-11-08T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T05:18:33","slug":"twenty-years-of-the-sega-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/517\/twenty-years-of-the-sega-genesis","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years of the Sega Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/culture\/sega-genesis-turns-20.ars\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/genesis_20.jpg\" alt=\"Sega Genesis Mega Drive Turns 20\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Last night, Ars Technica published my latest historical piece, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/culture\/sega-genesis-turns-20.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis of Success: 20 Years of Sega&#8217;s Dark Horse Console<\/a>,&#8221; which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Sega Mega Drive&#8217;s launch in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>While researching Genesis history, I found that the story behind its success in America was surprisingly unique and interesting.  To find out more, check out the the article &#8212; and please feel free to leave comments on your Genesis and Mega Drive memories.<\/p>\n<p><small>(On a technical note, I didn&#8217;t write any of the text describing the games in the section at the end.  So if you see something weird in there, it&#8217;s not my doing.  I did select the games, albeit very quickly.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Ars Technica published my latest historical piece, &#8220;Genesis of Success: 20 Years of Sega&#8217;s Dark Horse Console,&#8221; which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Sega Mega Drive&#8217;s launch in Japan. While researching Genesis history, I found that the story behind its success in America was surprisingly unique and interesting. To find out more, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}