[bredren]

I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, but this is just not an interesting find to me. A slightly mutated game computer used to display a virtual aquarium? Knock me over with a feather.

I get the obsession w game hardware and that it was Japanese. But this article makes it sound like this was a lost DaVinci sketch book, and these comments liken game design dust to the same.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

It strikes me as odd that you'd spend the time to read an article on something you don't find interesting, and then go on to write a comment about how uninterested you are. When I come across uninteresting things online I tend to just skip them and carry on with my day.

[bredren]

And it is even further strange that you would write a comment about me writing a comment about how uninterested I am about something. A very odd world indeed. How far down the rabbit hole can we go?

[ncmncm]

The interest mystifies me too.

OK, it's rare. Everything that flopped is rare. But there are millions of flops. I get that SEGA has a following. But even when SEGA was selling like hotcakes, SEGA fans were not interested in this. Why the interest now?

Genuinely curious.

[rfrancois]

I think the interest comes from the fact that it is the last "home" console by SEGA before going software only. It's also due to the fact that Sega gave its approval to release disc images that allows emulation. A big Japanese company approving this kind of work is kind of unprecedented.

[mounds]

Exactly this. I think too there's some homage to those who were die-hard Sega fans, and who continue to be, that find this piece of hardware an extraordinary find.

There's a few dedicated communities to hacking on old Sega hardware and walking through the architecture from the time. Pretty cool stuff all things considered, in a community always watching out for the next shiny thing.