Sega Mega Play

セガ・メガ・プレー

Description

A cartridge-based multi-game system. Choose one of four games to play from the menu. This system was never released in the United States.

Sega Mega Play was produced by Sega in 1993.

Sega released 594 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega is based in Japan.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Sega Mega Play was produced include: Awesome Rat, Bio-Hazard Battle, Burning Rival, Golden Axe: The Revenge Of Death Adder, Holosseum, Dark Edge, Mazin Saga, Star Wars Arcade, Alien 3: The Gun, and Out Runners

Specs

Name	Sega Mega Play
Developer	Sega (Japan)
Year	1993
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9469
Class	Wide Release
Genre	System
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Game Specific	Sega Mega Play Pinout
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Either
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 3 - ABC
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Sega Mega Play Control Panel Image
Side Art	Sega Mega Play Side Art Image

Game Introduction

The motherboard can host up to four cartridges such as Sonic The Hedgehog. The Mega Play system is the JAMMA version of the Mega Tech system. However, the Mega Play and Mega Tech cartridges are not interchangeable.

Game Play

This system is similar in function to the Nintendo PlayChoice or the Neo Geo MVS.

Sega Mega Play KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Cabinet Information

The dedicated cabinet uses two monitors. The upper monitor shows information and a 25inch monitor is used to display the game below. In kit form, the machine can be configured to use just one monitor by inserting only one cartridge. However, multicartridges can be used in a single monitor game, you just will not be able to see a menu of game instructions. The games can be swapped similar to the INeo Geo MVSI system.

Conversion

The known list of cartridges for the Sega Mega Play are Sonic The Hedge Hog, Sonic the Hedge Hog 2, Bio Hazard Battle, Mazin Wars, Shinobi 3, Grand Slam Tennis, Street of Rage 2, Golden Axe 2, Gunstar Heros, Tecmo World Cup.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sega Mega Play Census

There are 15,364 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,708 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,365 machines (7,023 unique titles).

Common - There are 21 known instances of this machine owned by Sega Mega Play collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines. 17 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Sega Mega Play circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Sega Mega Play. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Sega Mega Play circuit board set.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

Each cartridge has its own set of DIP switches to independently configure options.

Legacy or Series

Sega Mega Tech
Sega Mega Play

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