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Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”

"Expanding the Possibilities.....with Artificial Intelligence"

Enlarge / "Expanding the Possibilities.....with Artificial Intelligence" (credit: SMS Power)

Even massive Sega fans would be forgiven for not being too familiar with the Sega AI Computer. After all, the usually obsessive documentation over at Sega Retro includes only the barest stub of an information page for the quixotic, education-focused 1986 hardware.

Thankfully, the folks at the self-described "Sega 8-bit preservation and fanaticism" site SMS Power have been able to go a little deeper. The site's recently posted deep dive on the Sega AI Computer includes an incredible amount of well-documented information on this historical oddity, including ROMs for dozens of previously unpreserved pieces of software that can now be partially run on MAME.

An ’80s vision of AI’s future

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