Sega Visions
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- This article is about the magazine; for the Sega Vision portable media player, see Sega VisionSega VisionThis article is about the portable media player. For the magazine, see Sega VisionsThe Sega Vision is a portable media player by Sega, first announced in October 2008. It can play various media , features a tuner for analog television and radio, and has a built-in digital still camera and voice...
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Sega Visions was a video game magazine focusing on games made for Sega
Sega
, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
video game machines such as Sega Master System
Sega Master System
The is a third-generation video game console that was manufactured and released by Sega in 1985 in Japan , 1986 in North America and 1987 in Europe....
, Game Gear
Sega Game Gear
The was Sega's first handheld game console. It was the third commercially available color handheld console, after the Atari Lynx and the TurboExpress....
, Genesis
Sega Mega Drive
The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...
, and Sega CD
Sega Mega-CD
The is an add-on device for the Mega Drive video game console, designed and produced by Sega and released in Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The device was also released in North America under the name Sega CD, for the Sega Genesis...
. It was created by Sega and was initially published by The Communique Group. In 1992, Infotainment World (who also published the popular game magazine GamePro
GamePro
GamePro Media was a United States gaming media company publishing online and print content on the video game industry, video game hardware, and video game software developed for a video game console , a computer, and/or a mobile device . GamePro Media properties include GamePro magazine and...
) took over publishing for the rest of its lifespan. The Editor in Chief for Issues 8 through 17 was Nic Lavroff. For Issues 18 through 25 the Editor in Chief was Kurt Busch. Its premiere issue in June/July 1990 was sent free to registered Master System and Genesis owners. The magazine had a rather sporadic release schedule, some issues being two months apart, others four months. It ran for 25 issues, with its final issue being released in September 1995.
Sega Visions was created as an answer to the popular game magazine Nintendo Power
Nintendo Power
Nintendo Power magazine is a monthly news and strategy magazine formerly published in-house by Nintendo of America, but now run independently. As of issue #222 , Nintendo contracted publishing duties to Future US, the U.S. subsidiary of British publisher Future.The first issue published was...
, which focused exclusively on Nintendo console games. Prior to Visions, Sega produced the Team Sega Newsletter, which was a small, simple magazine, mostly used as advertising to Master System owners. Once the Sega Genesis proved popular with game players, it was Sega's ambition to create a more in depth magazine with reviews, previews, game strategies and more, which ultimately became Sega Visions. The magazine also had its own comic character in Niles Nemo (created by Bill Kunkel). Niles (a play on Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911 – July 26, 1914; respectively.The...
) was a teenage boy with sunglasses who loved pizza and everything Sega.