The greatest weakness of the Sega Genesis was that it didn't have equivalents to Zelda and Metroid. Sega was still stuck in the past with arcade style games.
Mine was silver. I raised the memory to 64K (not M). I added dual 5" FDDs, replacing the tape recorder storage. I bought their 300 baud modem, later upgrading to a 1200. Brother daisy wheel printer. AND I used a dedicated TV as a monitor! Good times. Good times indeed. It was replaced by an AT&T 6300 with 512K (?), a 20 MB HDD (card at first, then a discrete drive), 1.44/2.8 MB floppy, math co-processor, and the best keyboard I have ever used. The motherboard was mounted upside down in the bottom of the case, and about every 6 months you had to re-seat the RAM chips. 9600 baud modem. The color monitor weighed as much as a '68 Buick.
The Critic was both ahead of it’s time and a product of its time. Ahead of its time in a sense to spotlight a career reacting to Entertainment that is even more relevant today than it was back then (think RU-vidrs and social media influencers). Yet it also came out in a time when the Simpsons were edgy and cartoons as always had a children’s demographic in mind and it makes several of it’s jokes feel like soft blows instead of heavy hitters. I feel like Bojack Horseman is a spiritual successor to the critic that gets the same premise but with more punches up humor and drama.
So he went insane all because he had his first glass of alcohol. Wow alcohol affects people differently for some people. It just makes them insane and some people. It makes them look crabby stupid. In the critic, the cartoon it made his father go crazy. In The Simpsons. Barney looks stupid and act stupid and behave stupid
I wish they could bring this show back. John Lovitz has said on multiple occasions that he'd reprise his role. Although sadly, we no longer have Chuck Napier or Doris Grau; I had this crazy idea how to get around that. Doris would be easy to write out. 20+ years later, Jay has a millennial makeup girl who spends more time on her cell phone than she does on Jay. Write out Duke Phillips saying he died doing something absolutely atrocious. But have his daughter come in to take over the network. This is where it could be turned into a fun love triangle. Jay and Alice eventually wed. However Duke's daughter falls in love with jay and at every turn uses her money and influence to try and break up Alice and Jay but at the same time keep Jay on the air as he is the LAST TV film critic. Marty and Penny are all grown up now and can have plot lines of their own. Hell, get Gerrit Graham to reprise his role as Franklin who is now quite elderly and even more flamboyant than before!
