Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
SEGA was the main Nintendo competitor in the 16-bit era. SEGA Genesis was released a couple of years before Nintendo chose to change from the highly successful NES to SNES so it had an advantage of an early start. And the Sonic games were a lot faster than Mario games on NES 
Nowadays You can buy a portable Sega Genesis / Master System version with built-in best games. It has a TV out so it can wok as normal TV console and when you travel you can take it with you.
other less popular SEGA consoles are Master System (8bit), Sega Game Gear – GB competitor with a ramendous apete for batteries and Master System games, Sega Nomad portable, Mega-CD: aka Sega CD for the USA market that played a number of CD based games plus Audio CDs. Sega 32X Mega Drive addapter that made MD into a 32-bit console but didn’t have a lot of games released for it. Sega Multi-Mega portable CD player with built-in Mega Drive and also the functionality of Sega Mega CD. Multi-Megawas named Genesis CDX in USA. Tera Drive was a 16bit PC / Mega Drive mixture that had a Soft Dev Kit to allow development of new Mega Drive games – only released in Japan.
Sega Neptune was a Mega Drive/32X hybrid that staid a prototype.
Saturn was the first real standalone 32-bit console from Sega coexisting with 32X and adding to the confusion
Sega Dreamcast on the other hand was a revolutionary 128-bit sixth generation console that was ahead of it’s time and sadly was also the final home console made by the company.
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