The Making Of: The Menacer – How Sega Rustled Up A Super Scope Rival In Just Six Months

“It was for the American market, so let’s have the Americans do it”.

The Menacer was yet another skirmish in the ongoing war between Nintendo and Sega in the early nineties. Nintendo brought out a light gun – the Super Scope for the SNES – so of course Sega had to have one, too. But the Menacer is interesting in that whereas most of the Sega hardware was developed in Japan, this unusual light gun was made entirely by Sega of America.

I would show up in the Origin Systems office in my full uniform and freak everybody out, which was fun

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“It was for the American market, so let’s have the Americans do it”.

The Menacer was yet another skirmish in the ongoing war between Nintendo and Sega in the early nineties. Nintendo brought out a light gun – the Super Scope for the SNES – so of course Sega had to have one, too. But the Menacer is interesting in that whereas most of the Sega hardware was developed in Japan, this unusual light gun was made entirely by Sega of America.

I would show up in the Origin Systems office in my full uniform and freak everybody out, which was fun

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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