SEGA Genesis

Genesis defined, is life from lifelessness. One could say that it was an apt name, for SEGA's second foray into the home gaming console business in North America. Their first attempt, the SEGA Master System was a sales failure on these shores, pounded into the bargain bins by the relentless juggernaut of the NES. The SEGA Genesis was their mostly successful attempt at providing real competition for the Big N. With rock solid sports titles, and other action games to drive sales, the SEGA Genesis was a sales success. With the release of Sonic the HedgeHog, SEGA had a marketable mascot, to rival Mario. In addition to a rock solid game library, over the life of the Genesis, SEGA released expansions for the popular system, with the SEGA CD and eventually the 32X. SEGA was never able to get these expansions to catch on, and found that it had the undesirable effect of fragmenting their customer base. The SEGA CD suffered from an embarassment of cheesy FMV games, and it took too long for some great titles to come out for it. The 32X, while capable, made the Genesis an unweildy odd looking, multi AC adaptered Frankenstein. By fragmenting their market, and ditching support for their 32X expansion so soon after it's release, SEGA left a bad taste in the mouths of gamers, possibly sending them on the road to eventually leaving the console market altogether. Nevertheless, the SEGA Genesis is a pleasure to own, and fun to collect for inexpensively. There are excellent games for the base system, and all of it's expansions. The Phantasy Star series, Sonic the Hedgehog games, and many more make this system a great gamers system.

OSG can repair SEGA Genesis, SEGA Genesis 2 and SEGA CD2 systems suffering from many different failures, like cartridge recognition issues, common Disc Read issues with the SEGACD2, to mechanical failures, no power on and more. Estimates are free and no obligation. Repairs are always much more reliable than replacing with another used unit. If the estimate is approved, and repairs are performed, repairs come with a 90 day warranty. We are so confident in the quality of the SEGA Genesis repair work OSG can perform, that we're willing to give a warranty that is second to none. 

OSG can also upgrade most SEGA Genesis 1 consoles with a full AV modification suite, with composite video jacks, S-Video, and stereo jacks. S-Video is a very serious video upgrade, that makes the graphics and colours come into sharp relief that has to be seen to be believed. See our Testimonials for user reviews!

OSG does not offer free evaluation service for Genesis 3, Nomad, Game Gear, SEGA CD1, JVC X'Eye or 32X systems. See our "orphaned systems" tab for more information.

OSG can bring it's experience with the Genesis and thousands of other repaired game consoles to your game console. OSG tracks all systems in a sophisticated database, that gives us a framework for tracking reliability and repair history that is second to none. E-mail us for more information or drop off your console at one of our Depots. See the Depots link above for locations. . 

DISCLAIMER:

OSG DOES NOT and WILL NOT support or enable piracy in any shape or fashion. OSG supports the ability to improve one's hardware, to enhance reliability, and functionality for the end user. Any enquiries regarding illegal copyright infringement, will be ignored, and possibly reported to the authorities. Backing up games you own is fine. Copyright infringement is illegal and will not be supported. OSG does not offer support on how to generate copies of game discs, so do not ask.