The Sega Pico: A Mega Drive (Genesis) 'laptop' for your young one
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Most people into retro video games are aware of the Mega Drive/Genesis but may not have seen or heard of the Pico from Sega, a laptop-like Mega Drive/Genesis based console designed for those aged 2 to 8. It was released in Japan in 1993 and in 1994 outside Japan and featured a pen that could interact with a drawing area on the console as well as the 'story book' cartridge games which were opened up like a book with each page turn changing what was seen on screen. Some 300
games were produced for the Pico including many licensed games; everything from Mickey Mouse to Lion King, and even Pokemon! The Pico performed best in Japan and when it was discontinued in 2005 it was replaced with the Advanced Pico 'Beena', Sega's actual last game console (but of course not having as wide appeal as the Dreamcast).
Check out this video for an introduction to the PAL version of an original Pico, a look at some of its games including a 'live' interactive demonstration, and a teardown showing the Pico's internals.
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Produced using PowerDirector 16.
Camera: Sony FDR-AX33.
Game clips recorded using a real Pico & Elgato capture via composite connection.
Title and credits art based on images from Pixabay.
Music (YT audio library):
School Bus Shuffle (Freedom Trail Studio)
Urban Lullaby (Jimmy Fontanez/Doug Maxwell)
The bit where you point out the grammatical error in "PARENTS' GUIDE" is hilarious considering it's actually correct. Thanks for the in-depth look at the Pico.
I had this as a kid.. it felt like a fever dream...
Such a treat, I had this system and all these games as a child ... thank you for sharing
I remember this. Saw a display model in a store. It was pretty cool given how early it came out.
Yeah I remember playing this at Sears and begging for it but never got one
Awesome. Had one as a kid before the N64 came out. Great to play with after school and homework. Educational and fun at the same time.
this brings back nostalgia beyond belief
A long time ago.
I had this and a genesis 3 as a kid, I had the Mickey Mouse game and the cat one where you drive around town, this was such a nostalgia trip
I'm surprised this wasn't more popular! What a cool idea
They did no a follow up but Japan only.
I remember this when I was a kid 😔 wish I still had it and can buy one so I can let my daughter play it
We got one yesterday at our thrift store - our 2nd over 2 yrs in the box with everything except the instructions....actually watching your video to set up and test. Thanks sooooo much!!!!!
Super, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
yoshielectron sad news.....the screen is black but makes a little sound will clean the cartridge sensor tips inside and see if not....will have to sell as parts 😭😭
@@mokatz7449 Hope you can get it working, how you got multiple games to test it with?
yoshielectron yeah we’re excited yet a little bummed..,yes 3 games - Mickey Mouse, Winnie The Pooh & 1 more..will keep u posted
@@mokatz7449 Ok then. Although it probably is the cartridge contacts at fault, could be the TV connection.
Oh wow, I never knew this existed. I love learning about obscure consoles.
Honestly, this thing was my introduction to digital art. And I've probably been drawing digital longer than analog because of this thing. I kind of wish I had the Pico again just to see if I could apply my current art skills to now because that would be very interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
@@yoshielectron you're welcome. I was reminiscing on the Pico for a while
Cool, I have never seen this before and I am quite into sega related products
I am pretty sure our Mother gave one of us one of these, if you remember. Or something very similar. There is something very familiar about it.
I remember a TV game that let you draw but I don't think it was a Pico.
@@yoshielectron Maybe I am thinking of something else. I think there was a portable device, of some design, picked up from a carboot sale and had a similar pen and input system. This Sega Pico might be more advanced than what I'm thinking of. Interesting video anyway.
19:31 that was my bread n butter
It would be really nice if you could make codes that allow Mario to punch enemies and make them push back further like when a bully gets punched it should get pushed further
I will look into it.
@@yoshielectron Thanks 👍
6:40 this clock creeped me out as a kid for some reason
I completely missed this during the time, was this even released in the UK? I still have my master system and about 40 boxed games, a mega drive and 8 games, 2 Saturn's and about 20 games and 2 Dreamcasts with 5 games, the vmus are still cool (i have tons of Dreamcast copies lol that stupid reindeer boot disc). Would be cool to own a pico. Still want to get another game gear at some point.
Nice teardown, looks in lovely condition, what a bizarre creation the Pico is, so much cooler than vtech and it's Ilk lol. I just got the complete Pico romset, I have no idea how an emulator will handle this stuff though, gonna be fun to see.
All you need now is a Pico flash cart xD lol that would be cool.
It was released in the UK but the follow up, the Beena, was only released in Japan. The problem with Pico emulators is handling the pages.
@@yoshielectron I was just yesterday downloading a couple of ROM sets to things I'd not heard of (no intro) and the Sega Beena was one of them lol. The first time i heard of Pico was when I read that picodrive supported Sega Pico (back on PSP). I was like what is a Pico? I got the Romset from emuparadise but never got round to testing them on PSP.
I just got a pi400 and a decent sized SSD for complete romsets.
Your video is the first time I've seen a Pico in action (so cool)
@@Daniel-Marson The Beena was actually Sega's last console but saw only a Japanese release. Indeed the Pico was quite unique and an early example of a 'touch' device.
Sega pico had a lot of anime games! Like Pretty cure and Ojamajo Doremi!
my favorite sega pico game is tails and the music maker
How popular was this? I've never heard of it
Very popular in Japan, less so everywhere else.
The US version of the Sega Pico has only 20 software.
Brings vack memories
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Wow!! I had one of these when I was really young except I owned one produced by Samsung as I lived in Korea at the time, though I don't believe it had any differences other than the branding as it looks exactly the same on the inside. Can I ask where you got your hands on one of these?! I can't imagine it would be easy to just buy one now...
Indeed Samsung distributed the Pico in Korea and was otherwise the same as the US version. I bought my PIcos from ebay, and was even able to get three Japanese ones, two of which are the Advanced Beena models, which I will cover in future videos.
@@yoshielectron Amazing! I'll keep an eye out. Thank you so much for your answer!
Could you make SM64 codes like adding a hitbox when you spawn fire
Which code are you using?
@@yoshielectron I am not using any
It's just I really do miss your codes and your amazing humour
I would really like codes that make Mario shoot Fireballs that can destroy enemies like goomba , koppa , shy guy, pokey and push bullies back hence a hitbox
@@razeboxanimations3215 Although I would like to do more codes I don't get much response and people have done what you have requested as ROM hacks which do far more than what I can with codes.
@@yoshielectron I still find gameshark codes like yours extremely epic and I am pretty sure gameshark coding can get really expert levels like the one you did with the portal
@@razeboxanimations3215 I appreciate your comments. Not long after I did the Portal code someone copied with a ROM hack, so you can see the issue.
and now you also have tails and the music maker
I want an emulator for this
It's supported by a number of emulators including PicoDrive, Kega Fusion and MAME.
I am from the UK and I only know of the Pico having an AV port I think it's American Picos have composite don't know about Asia
The Pico was unusual for having composite out instead of the more common RF at the time. As far as I can see all regions used composite for video, the only difference was the type of connector - RCA or mini-DIN.
@@yoshielectron I have never seen (in person all pal) a sege Pico with with composite RCA jack on the console I have seen about 5 Pico in person, but in videos from the USA they never seen a Pico with a mini din even saying that they only came with RCA jacks
@@aaronsmith7967 What model numbers? Likely the mini DIN version was a later revision.
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