Sega Home Video Game Consoles
Sega Enterprises, LTD released five standalone home video game systems between 1983 and 1999, all of which are currently discontinued. The aim of this dossier is not provide an exhaustive analysis of all Sega's dead media platforms, but rather to provide an overview of the company's home console division and a portal for further investigation of specific systems and games. This dossier is concerned in particular with tracing the causes of Sega home systems' death and their relation to larger historical occurrences such as the development of home theaters and the ongoing negotiation between video games' military and arcade oriented genealogy as they adapt to domestic settings.
In addition, this survey of Sega's large and obsolete body of products is an attempt to promote the archival and investigation of various discontinued video game systems in order to identify their roles in shaping contemporary media and media-related practices.