The Early Days of the Sega CD
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- While many Sega fans are nostalgic for Sega's CD add on, those early days were rough as hell. While I love to think back at how cool it was owning one, there is no doubt there were some serious problems.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured on the Mega SG.
2. Some good games came out in 1993, starting with the likes of Batman Returns, Final Fight and Sonic CD. The system had been out for months before they showed up, so the damage had already been done.
3. I did eventually get my own Japanese Mega CD once prices came down a bit.
4. Throughout its life the Sega CD got a number of games that were never released in Japan for the Mega CD and vice/versa. It was region locked so owning both region variants was almost mandatory to fully explore the library.
5. I had my first Sega CD stop working about a year after I got it. Since then, I've had to repair/replace it more than any other system I have ever owned.
6. There is also a 5 game version of the pack in compilation here. They added Super Monaco GP to later bundles.
7. The Sega CD also a CD+G disc packed in. I didn't include it here because frankly, I thought the idea was lame as hell. - Hry
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1000% agree. My first system was the genesis i was 5 yrs old in 1993. You were the cool older kids that could do fatalities and cheats on mk and that i was in awe of. First time i saw sega cd was at one of thier houses they had afterburner..id also venture to guess sega lord x has been a thing since aol instant messenger. Big props bro fr
Ghey
Well said! Thank you, Sega Lord X!
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With a title like "Blackhole Assault" I was expecting it to be an adults only game.
they shoulda released some vivid games on the sega cd like the 3do :lolol:
Lol
That probably would have been an improvement...
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The funny thing is this is the worst version of the game. It really is embarrassing. The version later released on the PC Engine CD\TurboGrafx-CD (ironic because the PC Engine CD was released 4 years before the Mega CD!) played better on weaker hardware with 2 buttons and the story\cut scenes are better. Don't get me wrong, this game is terrible no matter how you play it, but it's funny it was improved on a much weaker system.
I think that this video summarizes why Nintendo cancelled it's CD addon
You mean you STILL don't have a Sega CD!? What'd'ya waitin' for, Nintendo to make one? :D
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp "tcheh..."
The early season of the Sega CD was so exciting, I was blown away by the kiosk they installed early in our mall's EB store
Everytime when i see these old games it brings me back to how i really enjoyed games. It was something magical compared to now
I wonder if CZcams actually killed gaming. Now you can watch any game being played through from start to finish before you buy it.
In the 90's and even up until about 2010, all you had was magazines and maybe a quick look at the game in the shop before you bought it.
I remember playing through Valkyria Chronicles on PS3, getting stuck here and there, trying to come up with strategies (no CZcams guides to help me)
I still really enjoy gaming...I spend most of my time with Super Famicom and arcade games but not much time at all with modern games.
Sonic CD is STILL my most played and replayed platformer. Any Ground Zero Texas fans?
So true. I honestly wonder many times if IT was a different time video game time for society as a whole or if it was me being young and my "rose colored-video game glasses". Rarely do I get that same feeling of time standing still when I power on a system.
Core design really stepped it up later on with titles like SolStar.
@@montanastranger
You might need a break. I was so jaded in 1996, I took a 4 year break from gaming. When I started playing again with Dreamcast, the old excitement came back and the technology was brand new.
The OG PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were the first systems that actually blew me away. The Sega CD was all hype.
Thank you for listening to the fan requests for the sega CD!
I've always felt that it wasn't the hardware that started to kill Sega it was how Sega didn't support all the new hardware. Sega Cd was basically FMV and regurgitated Genesis games. 32X was the same. While there were a few original games for the most part it was just quick cash grabs. And they would quickly abandon the new hardware. It just got to the point where you couldn't trust them.
Exactly because the new hardware wasn't necessary and they struggled to support platforms that shouldn't have happened to begin with. Remove the hardware and you don't have a software problem anymore.
True except Genesis 2.5 years was master system, cd, 32x was a little over a year Saturn and dreamcast 2 years,
Master System got an extended life because it was big in Europe and game gear was just a mini version of it.
With the extra hardware in the Sega CD it would have been nice to see them push it to the max. With twin 16 bit processors, increased storage and scaling hardware I wonder what a game that squeezed out every ounce of power would look like.
@@CRAZYHORSE19682003 Me too, but I think the fact that it was an add on really gimped it. Sonic CD made much better use of all the features than most games for the console, you got CD audio, PCM audio using the new chip, FMV, loads of new stage themes and artwork filling the CD, plus 3D sprite scaling and mode7 like effects. The Sega CD could do a lot more scaling than the SNES, but it was heavily limited in terms of framerate and resolution.
The lack of bandwidth on the connector between the Sega CD and the Mega Drive limited the video framerate & resolution massively (plus lack of CPU power to decode the video), and the MD’s colour palette limited the FMVs to 16 colours. The lack of bandwidth also limited the framerate and resolution of scaling effects, Sonic CD’s Special Stages and Title Screen run at 256x224@20fps whereas the rest of the game runs at 320x224@60fps(roughly, it drops a lot into the 50s), because the bandwidth limitation held it back. You can also see that in the famous Batman & Robin game, there’s a lot more scaling going on than any SNES game, but the framerate is much lower, 30 at the most but it feels lower to me.
The RPGs are my fondest memories of this system. Unique games like Vay, Dark Wizard, Shining Force CD and more. I wish there would have been a Phantasy Star release for the platform.
I was one of those gamers that was really interested in the Sega CD until I saw the lackluster lineup of initial games.
One thing that many people don't acknowledge is that up until around 1994 -95 many developers didn't have computers that had hard drives large enough to accommodate the storage a single CD could provide. That made it hard to develop a game that truly took advantage of the CD medium outside of FMV (which was mostly scripted) or plain old Redbook audio which was easy to add during mastering.
I also wonder what kind of development tools Sega provided and if those tools could take advantage of the additional hardware from the start or if the developers had to figure that out on their own.
I’m a huge Sega CD fan, I really enjoyed launch games and many that came after.
Nice idea this one, you should do the "Late days" as well, the Genesis was awesome in 95-96 with Vectorman, EWJ 2, Comix Zone, Toy Story, Sonic 3D, etc
Except for that sonic game I agree
3D Blast was terrible 😂
Genesis sucked but at least it wasnt an overpriced doorstop like Sega CD
Thank you Sega Lord X! I remember getting the Sega Cd just for Night Trap. As a kid that blew my mind.
My sister and I use to sit for hours mapping out the times of the traps and code changes. Good times.
@@SegaLordX I hear ya man. Did the same thing with my brother and we would write down the times and areas. Thanks again for the nestolgia and keep up the great work!
God i love the sound fx of those old school shooters on genesis and sega cd!
@@jsprunger6246 ?
@@officialnofriendo I know you meant no harm but read Old - on and see what i mean lol
@@jsprunger6246 context. Your brain went there.... nobody elses
And nothing offensive. Old school shooter sound effects are great.
@@jsprunger6246 Please never become an editor, and don't act like one in your free time ever again.
@@jsprunger6246 Then please keep your jokes and critiques separated until you know how to do either one. And maybe just accept you made a mistake.
6:18 When the 32X was about to be released I bought a console magazine which came with a VHS promotional tape. It had footage of Doom and that music was playing. Much later I found out that the real Doom 32X music was awful, so it (kinda) was false advertising. But this awesome tune has been in my memory and I couldn't find out where it was from.
Now, 25 effing years later, I finally know that the music is from Blackhole Assault for Sega/Mega CD.
Thanks for helping me solve the mystery.
my friend had got a sega cd and i remember it coming with 4 in 1 genesis games,sherlock holmes,sol feace and a music cd that had 80s music i belive
Yep, the cd had a couple songs each from Fleetwood Mac, Information Society, They Might Be Giants, etc.
Other than the pack ins, I wasn't interested in any of those. It was Batman Returns CD that convinced me to buy the system. On a side note, I never minded that the same games would be on Genesis and Sega CD, because the CD was usually 5 bucks cheaper and had wayyy better sound quality which made me happy to buy the CD versions of many games. I was just playing my model 1 Sega CD earlier today! Thanks for the hard work and interesting Sega videos!
That's the annoying part is I'm sure publishers were saving a LOT more than $5 to produce a game on CD than on a cart, and if they had done a better job passing that savings on to consumers and advertising CDs as a cheaper media, it might have brought more people on board who were looking to save on games over time. If CDs had been priced at half the price of carts, they would've moved.
I never grew up with Sega’s hardware. It wasn’t until I was an adult did I become fond of and familiarize myself with Sega’s content. It’s good to see Sega fans still keeping their passion alive. Thank you, Sega Lord X, keep doing your thing! 😊
sherlock holmes was also on turbo grafx cd before sega cd. worth mentioning because tgcd didnt have many fmv games
Nice to see a video from you about the SEGA CD.
The Sega CD is a very good console and I wish that a Sega CD mini would come out. 😀👍🎮
That would be fun. I'd buy that.
Me too
I wanted a Sega CD so bad, I was definitely way too attracted to gimmicks as a kid and I got sucked right in. I got one for Christmas on release year and kinda tread water with it but once stuff like Lunar and Snatcher hit I finally felt vindicated.
My local radio shack had a demo unit set up where you could watch Ground Zero Texas being played. I was young and mesmerized by FMV so it excited me.
I never ended up getting one and that title turned out to be not as cool as I thought in hindsight.
Some good memories of the SEGA CD
Silpheed
Prize Fighter
Sonic CD
Revenge Of The Ninja
Snatcher
Terminator
Iron Helix
Sewer Shark
Eternal Champions
Dune was fantastic too, my favourite Sega CD title
No Final Fight CD?
@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 I think I rented it. Trying to remember. It's been so long ago
@@robertlawrence9000 and Thunderhawk? The helicopter sim was great.
The Sega CD wasn't the best game console ever, but the first one to bridge games and cinema. It had some amazing console exclusives: the one and only English-audio Snatcher port (with fantastic voice acting), Heart of the Alien (love it or hate it), Dark Wizard, Keio Flying Squadron, a half-decent Jurassic Park point-n-click, Sega CD, and Lunar: The Silver Star. The pack-in titles were awesome and held us over until we saved enough allowance to buy more games. And it had amazing ports of point-n-click adventures like Rise of the Dragon, Willy Beamish (both also with amazing voice acting), and Monkey Island. The FMV titles weren't bad either: Road Avenger, Time Gal, Revenge of the Ninja, and Cobra Command were stellar FMV titles. Power Rangers, Night Trap, and Kamen Rider Zo were less technically impressive but still fun. Despite a lot of shovelware and gruesome load times, to the Gen X / Millennial generation this system captured our imaginations and was a sign of things to come with cinematic gaming.
completely agree
I agree with you on a lot of the titles that focus on regular/traditional gameplay, action titles, strategy, and adventure games such as Snatcher which I feel works well on a console.
I am not so sure about titles that were clearly more intended to be played with a mouse such as Willy Beamish and Secret of Monkey Island. I should know this as I am old enough but I don't recall if there was ever a mouse peripheral for the Sega 16 bit/Sega CD.
But the FMV titles, that is where my opinion really differs from yours. I feel these were some of the worst titles on the machine. (not an attack on your opinion)
Perhaps interesting from a visual point of view but gameplay wise these games simply were not fun.
I think Sega wasted too much money on titles such as these.
It would have been better to focus on more traditional gameplay games and use the extra space for more/bigger levels and music. Cutscenes and and voices of course would still be fine.
Focus also should have been mostly on games exclusive for the Sega CD and not enhanced ports from the regular 16 bit, and ports from other machines that would never work on a regular 16 bit.
That might still not have saved the machine as it was also quite expensive, and face it, most parents would not buy an addition to a console that is as expensive as the machine itself.
But perhaps the Sega CD would have come out better this way.
@@TheDutchGhost Genesis/Sega CD has a mouse but not great compatibility across library. The mouse also would have made FMV games where you shoot with a target better. Agree that Snatcher is designed so it works great with a controller and some of these others don't, the shooting gallery areas especially are fun with just a control pad. The late released strategy RPGs and JRPGs were as good as anything on SNES but that was such a niche group of gamers back then pre FFVII. A SNES CDRom with Square/Enix support would have been an insane gift to gamers.
Golden axe was only one player for some God awful reason lol.. still never understood why that decision was made
Exactly. Made zero sense to me. Would love to hear an explanation for that.
@@BeakFace_ interesting. Especially since Streets Of Rage still has 2 player.
The FMV resolution was tiny, I guess to avoid being super pixellated
Actually there are full screen FMV games on the Sega CD. It just depended on the game.
Tomcat Alley pulled it off surprisingly.
But at the time it was amazing. For Megadrive owners it was completely new and had a certain 'magic' about it.
Colour was more the issue ~ hence it was "grainy" looking.
The hardware was capable of full screen video, but it shows most devs had no idea what they were doing in the early days of FMV. Maybe it was a devkit issue or something, but I don't know why most Sega CD FMV 160x112 instead of the native 320x224 when some games were the later. It wasn't like storage space was an issue, most of these games grossly underutilized the storage capacity of CD-ROM's and instead padded it with redbook audio.
I got one i think someone owed me money and gave me this and some games, this was back in the mid nineties and its still here to this day haunting around.
I have enjoyed watching your videos on the early days of the Genesis and Sega CD. Looking back on these consoles with the convenience of emulation, I see the libraries as a whole instead of individual releases and the market at the time. This was a great idea for a video series; please keep up the great work!
Man, I could watch your vids for hours!
Retro core did a battle of the ports with Chuck Rock. It seemed like according to him there was quite more added to the CD version with extra levels and added detail. And a snazzy little intro. It seemed like it wasn’t the worst culprit of putting mega drive games onto CD with a video clip and some sound enhancements.
I still don’t remember how I afforded this thing. I probably traded in thousands of dollars worth of games to Funcoland. Damn you, Funcoland!!!
It was a big expense for me too. I was working at a restaurant called Shoney's when it hit the US. Cost me 3 paychecks.
@@SegaLordX i remember you... you stiffed me on my hash browns i ordered with my steak and eggs... and your cook didnt understand "medium rare"... ya bastards...
@@SegaLordX holy crap you comment on people’s comments? And Shoney’s lol wish I had had it .
Funcoland wow that takes me back lol
You've just given me an idea for another "Worst Of" episode. Thanks Mr. X!
This is one of my favorite CZcams channels. Your videos are so well done. The Sega heyday brings me so much nostalgia.
This was an awesome video! I would love a Sega Cd Video per year. The history and games of each year the Sega Cd still got games. 1 Video per year.
Love your channel!
@Sega Lord X I am so happy you put this episode together. It has been a long time since I revisited the launch of this add on. A $300 price tag, no Sonic, and a one player pack in Golden Axe?! I don't understand what Sega was thinking with the launch of this. I wanted it because I thought Sega was going to bring us the future. Unfortunately not so much and not enough when they did have a decent game release.
Including no Sprite rotation game during launch.
im loving ur content more and more!
Excellent review. Loved it! I remember Final Fight CD was also an awesome title on the segaCD. Thank you!
Ugh. I have "Chuck Rock" complete in the box. It is rough. Even rougher today. Whenever I decide to play it it lasts for 10 minutes before I decide enough is enough lol.
I know that feeling. It sucks cause as a kid the graphics just looked so good.
@@buckroger6456 exactly!
Always great content! Informative and entertaining in Every upload:) keep it up!
Been meaning to get into the Sega CD for a while now. I bought a Sega CDX brand new and I just can’t open it. There’s a used Tectoy Sega CD on EBay that I definitely want, but I just picked up a McWill modded Game Gear instead.
Very nostalgic video for me personally.
I remember the launch of the Mega-CD in the UK (in 1993).
The machine was hyped and advertised quite heavily on TV and in Video Game Magazines for some time beforehand.
It was a great era for Video Games in the early 90's.
Cool video bro 👍
Great job. Captures that era perfectly. I experienced the launch here in the UK and it was pretty much the same story. You are definitely the You Tube king of Sega history.
Another excellent video. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for introducing me to Night Trap, never had it as a kid but I bought the 25th anniversary edition now and loved it to death!
Man, the potential that this thing had is unreal! I STILL don't think it was fully realized. Are there any homebrew games for this? At this day and age, I'm sure they'd at least be very decent. It's ok though, Sega is STILL my favorite game company. I just wish they'd get off their asses and release those games we haven't seen for literally decades.
Was feeling as massive re-interest in the Sega CD, then along comes this awesome video. Thanks ✌️
Golden Axe only being single player was a pisser, though...
My friend's dad got him a Sega CD way back when. We spent that day playing Sewer Shark, but I hated it. It was way too difficult for kid me to understand how to get through. I wasn't really into the Sega CD, as things like the Mortal Kombat port were very disappointing. Sonic CD was pretty damn good though.
Sewer shark is a good game. Best fmv game ever is road avenger. That was great
@@dauth78 I'll have to give it another shot, now that I'm older and can probably understand the mechanics. Never played Road Avenger either. I'll check it out.
I thought the MK port to Sega CD was quite good! They not only utilized the additional storage space but also the sound hardware and added RAM to add back in literally everything removed from the arcade game to fit it on a bare Genesis... every frame of animation, all background elements, animated character bios, added speech, and CD-quality music ripped straight from the arcade. Considering limitations of the hardware such as color depth and screen resolution could never be enhanced by the Sega CD, I'm not sure what anyone could have expected them to do to make it better... there had to be some downscaling from 32,768 colors to 64 and from 400x254 to 320x224 no matter what.
@@RichardCraig In retrospect, I'm sure it's quite decent. But as a young kid living in the pre-CD gaming days, I was hoping for an arcade perfect port (kids are dumb lol), but instead got what felt like only a slight upgrade with incredibly long loading times compared to the Genesis.
Sewer shark is a super hard game. I played the heck out of that game as a kid and boy was I pumped when I final beat it.
Great video, one of my friends had a sega cd at launch when I was growing up. I remember that I was distinctly unimpressed with the FMV focus. One thing is that the PC CD-Rom was popular at the time and somewhat cost competitive if you had a pc. The pc was perfectly capable of playing those types of games and it could also display much higher resolution support graphics as well as use a mouse for input.
Awesome vid and great topic. Early Sega CD years, I was reading gaming magazines and daydreaming about how amazing it probably was, lol. I only bought one much later as an adult. I'm a fan of most of the library, and the FMV games are interesting imo. And a few are great: Road Avenger, Wirehead, Panic, Tides of Time has great FMV, etc.
Just found this one, another winner!! Thanks man!!🤘
Man this brings back memories. Loved the compilation disc. Night Trap was sooo bad but I couldn't put it down because of the FMV.
I remember how proud I was when I finally beat Sewer Shark on the Sega CD I had back when I was like 13
Another great video on the sega cd. thx sega lord x
Now don’t get me wrong I’ve enjoyed a fair few mega cd titles - Robo Aleste, Bari arm, Keio etc but I think ultimately with the unit Sega definitely ‘over promised’ and ‘under delivered’.
Dam! Awesome video! Brings back so much memories. Now if Konami would remaster Snatcher that would be awesome.
I was an early adopter and I have always been a fan of "Sol Feace" except for the firing and hit sounds. With the sound abilities of the Sega Cd they could have easily done a better job with that aspect.
Fun bit of trivia: Sewer Shark and Night Trap were originally designed for a video game system that ran the video footage from VHS tape, the ISIX Nemo. The video was much clearer, and actually ran full screen. The Make Your Own Video games were also based on a prototype of the same theme for the Nemo. Oh, and Sewer Shark's SFX were done by John Dykstra's Apogee.
I remember getting the Sega CD the Christmas it came out after reading about it in a JC Penny catalog. Being only 13 years old and only playing games on consoles and not pc, it was amazing to see actual full motion video on a game console. Now its seen as cheesy but being a kid in the early 90s it was so cool seeing games like Sewer Shark and any of the digital pictures games in motion.
Love your content man! Awesome video; I have a special place in my heart for the Sega CD, even if all those FMV games were disappointing more often than not.
I actually really liked Sol-Feace. Yes, the scrolling was oddly janky, especially when compared to Technosoft shooters, but the soundtrack was just amazing and that opening cinema blew me away.
One important detail about the version of Golden Axe in the CD collection is that it doesn't support 2 player simultaneous play. That always left me scratching my head. Also, thanks for including the Sega CD Prince of Persia! It's an amazing version of the classic!
Picked up my Sega CD on day one, along with Cobra Command and I still love both to this day. That game is often overlooked and underrated. I love it! 🎮👍
The main draw for me was the FMV lol. I was 10 when I got my model 1 so what did I know. Sewer Shark, Kriss Kross Make My Video, Lethal Enforcers (loved it in the arcade), Night Trap, etc. Just the idea of CD-ROM technology intrigued me. The highlight of my week at school back then was going to the media center to use the Macintosh computers and browsing interactive encyclopedias and playing Amazon Trail.
On the pack-in you also got the CD+G disc, Rock Paintings. I think I used CD+G as much as the Sega CD games in the early days of the system since all I had was the pack-in games. It was such a treat going to the music store and seeing a CD+G title, I think I watched/listened to that Hendrix CD+G at least 100 times - at least running in the background anyways.
"Cobra Command" and "Road Avenger" were great for their time. I am still nostalgic about them. Especially "Road Avenger." Its art style reminded me so much of the "Pole Position" 80's Saturday morning cartoon.
I love this channel late at night when I wanna feel like im falling asleep with the tv on in the mid 2000's again
Thx again bro you’re top! From Montreal Canada!
I played the heck out of Sewer Shark, Willy Beamish and Time Gal. I loved, loved Eternal Champions CD and unlocked everything for it. I even went as far as recording every stage kill, Cinematic kill and character specific for it on vhs .
My dad found a sega saturn ( he worked at sanitation) and it was magical connecting it together to finally see the games! It came with some football game, sol deace, real boxing, sewer shark and Dracula. I miss it..
Went to the 92 CES and was extremely hyped for the Sega CD promo video Sega showed. Got my Sega CD day one at the local Babbage’s (GameStop) with Night Trap. Waited a long time for games in between like Batman Returns. I enjoyed the system in the end, but wished they would have added an extra Graphics chip for more colors and had brought over Street Fighter 2 like EGM always rumored was coming.
Great video, and always look forward to your content.
I remember the pack-in CD+G music more than the pack-in games. Sega CD introduced me to Little Feat and Jimi Hendrix as an early teen. As far as games, Sewer Shark, WonderDog, and Silpheed are the ones that I remember the most. Fondly recall saving up money from a paper route for the Sega CD, ultimately disappointed, but it was an interesting and exciting time for video games and am eternally glad to have experienced it.
I too was an early adopter of the Sega CD back in 1992. There are good games such as: Robo Aleste (amazing sequal to MUSHA), Final Fight CD (the best home conversion), Lunar The Silver Star (terrific RPG), The Terminator (a seriously underrated game that is completely different than the Genesis game with an amazing soundtrack), Sonic CD.
Amazing video! I bought a Mega CD when it launched, but it was quite expensive. It was a great add-on, and I really wish the CD32X had more games
lol FMV games will always have a place in my heart. i remember thinking they were the future of games and me and my friends would play them in awe. i still have my copy of fox hunt i searched for years to get. its worth a couple hundred or more now ironically.
IN its defense of Hook and Chuck Rock, BACK in the 90s that shit was epic. I remember having Larry 6 on the PC the floppy version which had no cd voices or music, then I got a CD ROM for my PC and the voices and music really changed the experience for me. I think the best FMV video game is Star Wars Rebel Assault 1 and 2
My first Game in Sega cd was SEWER SHARK
That's a fun game once you figure out what to do
SHIT shark
Later in the Sega CD library it also got a slight graphics enhancement of Mortal Kombat with arcade music soundtrack even though it wasn't in the collect stage order like the arcade but the biggest plus for the Mortal Kombat on the Sega CD port is the game has the blood and gore by default and no code needed.
I had the Sega CD back in the day and really enjoyed playing Snatcher and Working Designs RPGs & Dark Wizard.
I bought one on launch day when I lived in Hawaii. I also bought Final Fight cd with it. I really loved the Sega Cd and have wonderful memories of it and especially Eternal Champions cd and Dune.
When the mega cd released here in Australia, it was around $700 which came with 6 MD games on a disc. This first game i saw being demonstrated was sol fierce, which took me by surprise. Then it was sonic cd, I then knew then had to get one and did what ever it took to do so. I loved Sega in its glory days, the excitement was intense and the battle with Nintendo was epic..
I had the first generation Sega CD and definitely had fun with it. I really loved the pack in games since I never owned their cartridge versions.
I was a huge sonic fan when I was younger and my uncle had a sega CD and I begged him to come over every day to play sonic cd
I hope you do a follow-up episode showcasing the must play titles also. 👍
I loved my Sega CD! I definitely missed out on a bunch of great titles looking back, but I enjoyed the ones I did have for hours on end. One thing that always frustrated me is that they didn't expand the color palette. You take the CD quality sound, scaling and rotation capabilities and throw in at least what the SNES was capable of displaying color wise and this would have really been the ultimate 16bit system for that era. Especially in the hands of top notch developers. I'd love to see some brave indie developer with a set of balls the size of coconuts take a crack at developing a Sega CD/32X platformer using every bell and whistle possible with that Frankenstein combination of hardware lol
M68k really bump the price of the add-on. The color expansion would have been better than having a scaling and rotation graphics on the add-on. Sega cd definitely would have had colorful graphics like the 32x did and even more software titles to back it up if sega play there cards right.
The Mega CD was my first actual CD player, before then I could only play tapes and records on my dad's giant hi-fi in the living room. Snatcher, Silpheed and Battlecorps were my favourites.
Loved Hook and Wonder Dog....Eternal Champion's was dope too....amazing video man.....#segacd
wonderful video, as always :)
Sega Lord X is absolutely killing it with the amount of uploads recently... Well done!
I have nothing but good memories of the Sega CD. I got it the first Christmas it was out. Always felt Sol-Fece was a pack in bc the Turbo Duo had Gates of Thunder as a pack in and they were out at the same time
The limited color palette and the small screen video were what i remembered. I sold my Golden Axe thinking i was going to get this system add on and was disappointed when my friend got it to find Golden Axe as a solo player game
Every single Sega CD game should’ve had scaling and rotation imo.
lol no way. Each game did use the Sega CD's extra capabilities, in some way, even if it was only the music and FMV's, it's all legit imo. Every game didn't need to use the same things. But I do wish Sega CD lived longer and received more games with better use of the system, in general...
@@JamesChessman I would have loved it if Sega actually gave some of their arcade titles some extra Sega CD love, especially their super scalars; Outrun was already a pretty good port on the Genesis, but After Burner 2, ThunderBlade, Super Monaco GP, Outrunners and a few others had more compromised versions on the 16 bit console, the Sega CD should have been able to get them closer to the arcade originals.
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I think that is the unfortunate part about Sega CD, untapped potential.
Especially early in it's lifespan.
By the time 94 and 95 rolled around nobody cared. People were hearing about Saturn about whatever Sony was up to with this PlayStation thing.
The potential was gone at that point, people had moved on and attention was lost. Oh what could have been.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu yeah that's not just the Sega CD...its Sega in general
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Yeah, early on would have made a difference. The SNES rode the mode 7 wave from the get go; Super Mario World use the scaling effects for the boss encounters, F-Zero, Mario Kart and Pilotwings were bringing a fresh coat of paint to racing and flying games, I recall early efforts to bring something new with Contra 3 (the over head stages and boss battles). The Sega CD launched a year after the SNES in most markets, and a lot of people were expecting something similar considering the promotion that was done for it.
I would have taken blatant F-Zero, and Pilotwings knock offs on the Sega CD early on.
Only way to beat night trap was up write down exactly where the augers were at any one time (which I did) an awesome classic!!
The early days of the Sega CD certainly had a plethora of FMV games, but I never knew about these other hidden gems. The Prince of Persia game actually looks really good. The cutscenes alone made me smile, something about that 90s anime aesthetic and design just made me fall in love lol.
I remember my dad getting me a Sega cd but I don’t remember what games that really stood out to me other than Sonic CD. I managed to get a copy of Popful Mail and Snatcher later on as a adult.
I still have a soft spot for these FMV games. Especially Sewer Shark. It still is my absolute favorite FMV game (together with Tomcat Alley) because it actually is a real game behind it. And it has a great Hollywod-style presentation and the acting of everyone is what makes this so great. Even thou the Make My Video series was a bit weird, i still love them too. It's a shame we might never get a HD re-release of such games because of license issues... I wonder if all the original 35mm camera negatives of the FMV material still exists somewhere...
Im always amazed at the amount of tech details japanese show on their ads. Have you seen the tv ad even shows cd buffer ram, access time and Processor make and clock ?
I bought a Sega CD again earlier this year. I love the old school feel to it and shortly after getting it, I found Lunar Eternal Blue for $95 at a used video game store compared to $190 on EBay and Amazon.
After my Amiga 600 the Sega CD (Mega CD as it was called here in the UK) is my favourite system I’ve owned and I’ve owned most major consoles/computers.
Man the segacd was really awessome and it was a special time during the 90s when it released. I remember staying up all night with my bestfriend playing nighttrap and many others. One of my favorites on segacd was Adventures of Willy Beamish, love that game. Hopefully it gets a remaster at some point
Back at launch this was for the rich kids and way beyond my means. My buddy had one though and he rarely let our group of friends touch it! FMV blew me away back then. Oh how simple my video game knowledge was then. After my 3DO ownership experience I now shudder at grainy FMV.
The reason for a lot of Core titles on the Sega CD (and Genesis in general) was the 68000 processor, Core Design started off making games for the 80s home computer market, including the Amiga and Atari ST (as well as the C64, Spectrum, Amstrad...). The Amiga and Atari ST shared the Motorola 68000 cpu with the Genesis/Megadrive/SegaCD, so ports were a given.