SEGA's Forgotten Computer: The SC-3000H & SG-1000
SEGA made a home computer in 1983, launched on the same day as the Famicom. The SC-3000H is one of the most interesting footnotes in gaming history.
Just put out a video on the SC-3000H, SEGA's attempt to be both a games console and a home computer simultaneously, built around the same Z80 chip as the Spectrum and MSX, sharing a cartridge library across both form factors.
The software catalogue is fascinating: SEGA produced educational titles covering the Japanese school curriculum, a BASIC interpreter with JIS encoding, and a games library that brought their arcade hits home, Zaxxon, Flicky, Ninja Princess, Bank Panic. Girl's Garden is in there too, one of Yuji Naka's earliest works.
The SC-3000H is a genuinely interesting object, a record of SEGA deciding, in 1983, that they could be more than an arcade company.
Did you have one?