This article is about the defunct magazine publication. For the clone game console, see Sega Zone (console)

Sega Zone (console)

The Sega Zone, also known as Sega Reactor is a clone video game console released under license from Sega in summer 2010. The console has 20 built-in classic games from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, a popular game console released in 1988. Of these 20 games, 16 of them have motion-control enabled....

Sega Zone was a Sega

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

 orientated publication from Dennis Publishing

Dennis Publishing

Dennis Publishing Ltd. is an independent publisher. It was founded in 1974.As of April 2010 the company publishes 31 magazine or online titles, predominately in the UK....

 in the early 1990s. Sega Zone had split from its former multiformat console title Game Zone. The Game Zone title would continue as a Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

 magazine. Early Dennis Publishing staff members included launch editor; Amaya Lopez, deputy editor; Vivienne Nagy and staff writer; Martin Pond.

In 1993 Sega Zone, along with Game Zone, were sold to Future Publishing

Future Publishing

Future plc is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers...

. During this period Sega Zone had the following familiar Future

Future Publishing

Future plc is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers...

 names working for the magazine; Tim Norris (editor), Tim Tucker (deputy editor), Josse Billson (staff writer) and Stuart Campbell (long time contributor).

In early 1994 Future Publishing

Future Publishing

Future plc is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers...

 itself sold the Sega Zone title onto Maverick Magazines

Maverick Magazines

Maverick Magazines was a British magazine publishing company during the 1990s.-Overview:Maverick Magazines was founded by Hugh Gollner in 1992. Based in Oxford, Oxfordshire, the company published a handful of computer game and leisure magazines from the early to mid-1990s.-External links:***...

. Not long after this the titles faded away.

See also

• Sega Power
  Sega Power
  Sega Power, initially known as S: The Sega Magazine, was a Future publication aimed at the Sega range of consoles, including the Master System, Mega Drive, Game Gear and later on the Mega CD, 32X and Saturn...
  
  
• Sega Force
  Sega Force
  Sega Force was an early 1990s publication that covered the Sega console range .-History:...
  
  
• Sega Pro
  Sega Pro
  Sega Pro was the first publication from Paragon Publishing and catered for the Sega consoles: the Master System, Game Gear and the Mega Drive...
  
  
• Mean Machines Sega
• Sega Magazine

External links

• AP2 - Amiga Power tribute site, Sega Zone page.
• World of Stuart web site Selection of Sega Zone reviews and features by Stuart Campbell.