Nomad for Doctors!

[NathanBarnatt]

Has anyone seen this before?

http://xataka.com/2006/02/28-sega-nomad ... -olvidadas

[Curlypaul]

You'll have to exuse me, I'm English and as such I'm an ignorant sod who can't speak any other language.

Would you mind give me a brief run down of what the page says?

[NathanBarnatt]

I had a hard time getting the full understanding of what it was about but i think they're using it as a monitor when it's hooked up to medical eqiptment. dont know why, maybe for doctors who're on the go and like to play games in between patients. I think thats kind of what it was saying. Either way the fact that the nomad is being used somehow my medical people is pretty cool to me.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

I ran the web page through the babelfish translator and it says nothing about doctors. It is merely a Spanish language explanation of the Nomad. Here is the translated text:

Sega Nomad: special forgotten consoles

Sacha Sources

Following closely the wake of the Sega Mega Jet, our following console is the Sega Nomad, a portable one that so single appeared in America and that it came to be a portable version of the Megadrive, although if she were really independent, on the contrary that the Mega Jet.

For it, it incorporated a screen of 3,5 inches and it was fed through six batteries AA. “R” appeared in the market in 1995 like an exclusive right of the Toys stores; U.S. and, like peculiar characteristic, also could when coming out be used like console in house thanks of video that incorporated, with which could be seen the image in the television set.

Its commercial failure was due to the same reason that the Game Gear, the enormous amount of energy that needed the machine to work. In spite of using six batteries, the duration of these was reduced to between one hour and average and two hours and, little clearly insufficient for a portable system. In addition, it was difficult to use reloadable batteries since they gave a smaller voltage of the one than the Nomad needed.

The complaints of their excessive price, 179 dollars, were silenced when this it lowered to 79,99, but this was not sufficient to maintain it in the market, in spite of the enormous range of titles available for the console (all those of Megadrive).

Of its physical characteristics we can say that MHz incorporated a processor Motorola M68000 to 7,67 and a coprocessor Zilog Z80, just as the Megadrive, and the resolution of his display LCD was of 320×224 píxeles.

When working with such games that the Megadrive we will be able to enjoy them any emulator of the older sister.

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JY

[nightwalker]

The translation was correct but I think what he was referring to was the thing that is plugged at the top of the nomad. Ive never seen that before.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

Looks like a cart with no label but with maybe a button and LED. Maybe a flash cart? Can't read the screen in the picture.

JY