Define Blast Processing Meaning

When video game companies use made-up, exciting terms to describe the normal and mundane features of their consoles or games. Sega used the term "blast processing" to describe their console's capabilities in the nineties.

Dumbing down technology so that nintendont fanboys todays apple fanboys equivalent can understand technology for example Sega Genesis processor was over 2x as powerful as SNES doesn't have same ring as blast processing. Just like Android has features apple can't even begin to understand to copy for a few years

1. A fake term made up by Sega to make the SEGA Genesis sound more powerful than it actually was.
2. See propaganda

A well-hyped term of the 16-bit generation that actually did refer to a real technique, but was overblown by marketeers at Sega Corp, to become know as "Blast Processing".

The technique simply refers to the Genesis's ability to do very fast DMA transfers, most especially during the vertical refresh, which allowed the system to "blast" memory to the screen. This was notably used on the Sonic games, which gave them the ability to have much faster horizontal movement than would otherwise be possible.

A buzzword Sega coined in the 90's to promote the fact that Genesis's 7.6 MHz processor was faster than the SNES's 3.6 MHz processor. However while their commercial stated "Sega Genesis has Blast Processing", it made no mention of the actual 7.6 MHz processor itself. This oversight left the term Blast Processing seemingly founded on marketing strategy rather than technical merit, as outside of Sega the term Blast Processing had no real technical meaning at all.

A term used for marketing purposes to promote the Sonic the Hedgehog series on Genesis. It worked.

1. The second to last level in Geometry Dash
2. A song by Waterflame that corresponds with aforementioned level

Something that takes too long for its difficulty