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When the Sega megadrive first came out my three children clubbed together their pocket money and bought one to play on, that was quite a while ago and when I last went to my daughters to see my grandson his dad had found one in his attic and had given it him to play on.
My grandson who is only four absolutely loves it, he plays the Sonic games and the Street Racer game. The only thing is that the machine is dated and the wires are worn so having to mess around with the wires to get it tuned in is sometimes a bit of a hassle.

However, last week won an Amazon gift voucher and was surprised to see the Sega Megadrive New and boxed for sale for 16.99
Knowing how much my grandson loves his sega, I thought this would be an excellent present for him on his birthday.
I ordered a Sega mega drive from Amazon and a week later it arrived on my doorstep.

WHAT I GOT
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The Sega Megadrive comes in a purple coloured box with Sonic the Hedgehog on the side, the controller is shown at the front through a plastic front and the names of the six games included are written on the box.
When you open the box you see the parts inside which you have got, these include:-
The Control Pad which is a metallic blue and silver colour looking very up to date.
The Scart Adapter for your connection.
The 16 bit Mega Power Drive which is about the size of a personal stereo cassette player. This is a good up to date version of the older model, more compact and has to jack plugs which plug into the television.
An instruction manual for how to use and play the games.
Six games already installed onto the machine which is a change from the original where you had to fit the games into the top section of the Sega.

HOW TO USE
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The first thing to you need to do is to fit the batteries, it takes four AA batteries and these have to be placed in the battery compartment by using a screwdriver. Adult supervision is needed to install the batteries, or they need to do it for the very young one's.
Once your batteries are installed then plug in the jack plugs which fit into the audio and video input of your television, if you don't have these on your television you can connect the jack plugs into your video instead.
There is also a Scart adapter included if you have a scart plug at the back of your television and once this is connected the jack plugs will fit into the adapter.
It's very easy to install, once you have installed the Sega turn it on and find the channel on your television which is your auxiliary channel, this can be

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