Sega Genesis Nomad

The Sega Nomad was released in October 1995, for $180 US dollars. Its basic idea was to turn the popular Sega Genesis into a portable device, it was able to hook up to the TV via AV ports and was basically a Genesis that one could also pick up and take on the road.

However, poor battery life (3-5 hours), late release, and the fact that only a NTSC format was made (no PAL) it didn't sell to particulary well, still it was relatively popular for fans of the Genesis.

Tech Specs:

- CPU: 16-bit Motorola 68000 running at 7.61 MHz
- RAM: 64 Kbytes
- ROM: 1 Mbytes (8-Mbit)
- VRAM: 64 Kbytes (Video Ram)
- Colors Available: 512
- Max. Colours on screen: 64
- Pixel Resolution: 320 x 224
- Sound: Texas Instruments PSG TI 76489 chip
- Signal/Noise Ratio: 14dB
- Sound Channels: 6 stereo channels
- Sound RAM:  8 Kbytes
- 1 cartridge port
- Extra controller port
- AV port