electronic musical instruments. ROMcartridges allow users to rapidly load and access programs and data alongside a floppy drive in a home computer; in a video
The Sega Genesis, known as the MegaDrive outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was
own library of titles, independent of the MegaDrive library. Most of these games never received a cartridge release; however, Columns, Flicky, Fatal Labyrinth
storage; CDs offered approximately 160 times more space than Genesis/MegaDrivecartridges. This benefit manifested as full-motion video (FMV) games such as
the full ROM image (an NES ROM can run anywhere from 8 KB to 2 MB; a Super NES ROM can run from 256 KB to 6 MB; and MegaDrive/Genesis ROMs can run from