Sega Visions

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The cover of the June/July 1990 issue of Sega Visions.

Sega Visions was a video game magazine focusing strictly on games made for Sega video game machines such as Sega Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, and Sega CD. It was created by Sega and published by Infotainment World (who also published the popular game magazine GamePro). Its editor was Kurt Busch. Its premiere issue in June/July 1990 was sent free to registered Master System and Genesis owners, and its print run was for several years. The magazine had a rather sporadic release schedule, some issues being two months apart, others four months.

Sega Visions was created as an answer to the popular game magazine Nintendo Power, which focused exclusively on Nintendo console games. Prior to Visions, Sega produced the Team Sega Newsletter, which was a small, simple magazine, mostly used as advertising to Master System owners. Once the Sega Genesis proved popular with game players, it was Sega's ambition to create a more in depth magazine with reviews, previews, game strategies and more, which ultimately became Sega Visions. The magazine also had its own comic character in Niles Nemo (created by Bill Kunkel). Niles (a play on Little Nemo) was a teenage boy with sunglasses who loved pizza and everything Sega.