Sega introduces a new way to add content to old games

We’re excited to introduce the next innovation in gaming… Cartridge Loadable Content!

Lock-on technology was just the beginning. Insert a second, third, FOURTH cartridge to load new features like never before. Visit your local Blockbuster on April 1st, 1991 to check it out! pic.twitter.com/B1GIeMaLth

— SEGA (@SEGA) April 1, 2024

The funny thing about Sega’s April Fools’ joke this year is that they’ve already kind of done it once before before. The Sonic the Hedgehog company posted what looks like a vintage ad for Genesis cartridges that you can use for DLC, or, Cartridge Loadable Content. The end result is a giant cartridge that towers over the Genesis system and only gets bigger with each piece of new content you install. But Sega already did something similar with Sonic & Knuckles, which included an adapter that let you combine it with the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 cartridge. Funny to look back on how things would be if we didn’t have the internet to install all those add-ons developers like to put out.