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Live Magazine June Edition - Spider-Man!

Spider-Man: Homecoming is going to be big. We feature an interview with director Jon Watts plus we look at Wonder Woman, Board Games, Trading Cards, Video Games, Cosplay and so much more - it's an issue bursting with super fun!

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First released in 1988 in Japan<br />

and the U.S market in 1989,<br />

the Sega Mega Drive was a cartridge<br />

and, later on, CD based<br />

game console. It was Sega’s<br />

third console and it dominated<br />

sales in in the U.S outselling<br />

the SNES by double during the<br />

1991 season (source Wikipedia).<br />

SEGA MEGA<br />

DRIVE<br />

(AKA SEGA<br />

GENESIS)<br />

The success was due to some<br />

clever decisions by the new<br />

CEO of Sega of America, Tom<br />

Kalinske. The decision to release<br />

Sonic the Hedgehog<br />

as the bundled game with the<br />

console saw sales rocket and<br />

Sonic called one of the greatest<br />

video games you could buy<br />

at the time. Also Sega had released<br />

the console in Japan<br />

earlier then other markets and<br />

so had a good library of games<br />

available at launch in the U.S,<br />

Australia and Europe.<br />

Sega was considered “cooler”<br />

in the U.S by male gamers then<br />

the competing Nintendo system<br />

and this enhanced with release

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