With this in mind, the success of the Genesis makes more sense: it was basically one of their Arcade boards squashed into console size. I remember reading year

With this in mind, the success of the Genesis makes more sense: it was basically one of their Arcade boards squashed into console size. I remember reading years ago that the reason they went with a Motorola 68000 for the Genesis was because that was what their arcade machines at the time were using, so they already had experience with the hardware, and it would make porting arcade games easier.