The Best of the Rest on the Sega CD 

Monkey Island was special for me. I had divorced parents, visited my mother and had a friend with a computer and this game. Lived with my father and neither myself nor any of my friends had a computer. Renting this on the Sega CD was the only way to get those friends to experience the game. Not the best version, but it was the best option for a time, and we all had a lot of laughs playing through it together.

The way sega lord talks about the games he played before, you can hear how exciting he is telling us about it. It makes me want to play every one of them lol 💯

The way sega themselves didn’t develop any scalers for the machine is almost criminal, those core games look 32 bit-ish,a cold reminder of the Big what could’ve be if Sega would’ve put a little effort on the scaler side of the tech

perfect way to kick off this long holiday weekend

I loved my sega cd when I had it and was lucky enough to own most those titles you mentioned between the two videos. I even had all the working design gamea. I loved Popful Mail! One of the first games I ever finished.

Dracula Unleashed is my favorite. Thank you for mentioning it. Definitely doesn't get the love it deserves. Great vid bro

I would really like to see a SEGA CD home brew game that maximizes the under used potential of this add-on / system!

Popful Mail is my favorite game in the Sega CD. Such an underrated game.

The only thing that makes me laugh about the Sega CD version of Flashback- To this day I have an old ad from a magazine on the wall of my game room that calls Flashback "The first CD-ROM game on a cartridge". Then they put it on a CD-ROM.

The Ninja Warriors is also another excellent arcade port for the Sega CD, but unfortunately it was only released in Japan.

SLX keeps putting out banger after banger videos recently. Thanks for your hard work man

I feel like the only person on earth that loved those old FMV games. I was a teenager at the time, but I was amazed by basically "playing" a cartoon or movie, even though it basically just switching between a bunch of video clips.

I dont know why Sega never ported the Three Stooges on the NES to the sega cd considering they worked on the game boy version. Imagine the cd quality voice samples and soundtrack that could have accompanied the superb gameplay.

I had many, many other viewing suggestions based on my RU-vid subscriptions and this was where I went first. I LOVE this channel.

I love Ground Zero Texas. One of the first games we got when we got our Sega CD system back in the 90s. Limited Run created a re-release / remaster of the game, and I'm a proud owner of that too for the PS4! 😅

Quite a few games I haven't seen before, thanks so much for your regular uploads that are always worth watching!

Awesome continuation man! The Sega CD was the first CD Rom console I've played and I was blown away at what it had to offer.

Silver Star and Vay are in the App Store!!! Have them both!!!

I appreciate RU-vidrs like you who help recommend the more obscure classic titles I'm not familiar with.

Great video Sega Lord. Watching your channel has helped me love Sega even more than I already did and these great Sega CD videos has even convinced me to get a CD Model 1 recently. Keep up the awesome content!

The Sega CD 💿 still kick ass today. 😀👍🎮

Wow, thank you so much for making these.

Excellent content! Love me some nostalgic SEGA graphics; your content and insight is always top notch and 'nail on head' relevant, always speaks retro/arcade/console truth and no other channel covers that type of content better than The Lord X, excellent history breakdown and always a valued opinion on the subject matter

I always was more interested in the sega cd, 32x and the saturn then the bigger systems.

As promissed on FB here I am to watch this one on a saaaad monday to cheer me up! Great episode as usual!

This 2 parter has convinced me that I need to get the good Everdrive so I can play Sega CD games now. Thanks again for giving me more backlog games lol

I love these Sega Cd videos. I am patiently waiting to get my model 2 back from a modder/repair guy to pair with the Mega SG. I have a model 1 Sega Cd that actually works connected to the HD Model 1 Genesis. Thing of pure Beauty. I love both boot up tunes for both models as well.

Popful Mail 😍 Despite the title, you really saved the best for last. And you took my comment into consideration! Your content is always amazing, and honestly, I couldn't agree more with your sentiments. I remember when I first heard about the Sega CD through the Sonic Gems collection and I thought it was the coolest thing. I still do! lol

I think this is the first time I've seen someone mention Vay in a general retrospective video like this. It was actually somewhat surreal for me to see it acknowledged in a video that I didn't look up that is specifically about it! Great vid!

Awesome video yet again! Great episode Sega!

Just wanted to say how much I really love your channel. I grew up in a Nintendo household but never had anything against Sega, my parents simply didn't have much money so I could only play Sega consoles at my friends' houses. And of course, the few people I knew who had a Sega CD could never play it because it was always broken, LoL. But I still always had a fascination with Sega and their products despite never owning any of them until later in life, and your channel has been supremely helpful and informative. I love learning all the trivia I never know, discovering the "hidden gems" on each console, and it's been a real boon to my collecting as well. There's a lot of games I never would have bought without your "guidance". So thanks for everything you do in providing us with one of the best gaming channels on RU-vid, it really means a lot.

Love that Sega CD content! Good times it was so fun back when it was new

Now that was an awesome video. Seeing that anime style platform game got me really hooked as well as those shoot em ups.

My favorite on the list was popful mail. I had totally forgotten about it. I loved it and played the heck out of it at the time. Thanks for the reminder SLX

Love the videos. The great thing about watching these videos is that you give us some great recommendations. Android Assault is one I really want to play but there is no PAL version so I need the US bios to run the game and I hate relying on my EverDrive for that. Thank you Sega Lord X for the content.

Two great videos here, SLX! I never had the chance to play these games back in the day. Can't remember a single store that carried the system, it was hard enough finding games for my Mega Drive. I can only imagine the impact a game like Silpheed must have made on kids back then. Surely I would have been over the moon.

The Sega CD is such an underrated console, with some special gems of games you won´t find, as much on modern day consoles.

thanks for another great video LordX!

You covered the two games I actually played as a kid here! The Amazing Spiderman on Sega CD had such a great sound track! First game I played on the Sega CD was Rage in the Cage, love what it does over it's 16 bit counterparts

2 sega cd vids in 1 week,your the best sega lord x!

Great video SegaLordX

Sega had one of the strongest "finishes" of any console imho. Most of the later games were super high quality.

Popful mail is excellent! Great follow up video! I gotta try that devastator game...

I love my Mega CD. Had it since the 90s. Love it.

Keep up the great work! 🙌

I loved my Sega CD. Played Heimdall over and over no matter how many times I died.

Nice to see Devastator get some attention. I bought it when it was released and loved it. Also Popful Mail was brilliant.

Love the combination of personal opinion with legitimate knowledge and a journalistic mindset in these vids. This channel is such a goldmine for those of us who never had these consoles growing up and are exploring them for the first time

Great videos, Lord X! I love the Sega CD and thank you for bring us this awesome games. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎮🎮🎮🍻🍻🍻

I was around 12 or 13 when the Sega CD came out. All I remember seeing were ads for full-motion video games like “Night Trap” and those making the music video ones. (To a kid in the 90’s those still seemed cool and futuristic though). I had an SNES and then N64 throughout the decade. But after watching your videos and going back and finally playing some amazing Genesis, Sega CD, and Saturn games, I’ve come to realize I would have been MUCH happier with a Genesis back then!!! So many genres and game types I love now that had no representation on Nintendo consoles were on Genesis and Sega CD. The games on those systems, were more mature and adult than on Nintendo. Not in terms of gore or sex, but in adult themes and stories. I would have lost my mind seeing the Anime cutscenes in stuff like “Vay” or “Lunar”. Or a game like “Battlecorps” which looked great for a 16-bit 1st-person mech game!

Great video as always, but I’m surprised you didn’t mention Cobra Command. It’s an excellent FMV laserdisc conversion game made by the legendary Yoshihisa Kishimoto and many of the same developers as Road Avenger/Road Blaster.

Good vid, more titles to consider checking out!

Also would say Dungeon Explorer is a Sega CD game definitely worth playing.

Had a Sega CD back in the mid '90's, didn't have a whole lot of games, but I did love it! Just recently bought the console again and starting to rebuild my collection, your videos are very helpful for that purpose. Wonder how you feel about Microcosm, that's one I played a lot back then but hardly hear anyone mention it in these videos.

Loved Vay, Glad you mentioned it!

Time gal was a fun little fmv game. Other than that, most of the games I enjoy were covered in these videos. Awesome job.

Awesome Video, I am now interested in the library. Heads up everyone, make sure you can use dithering with your console. It will make those FMV games look a whole lot better with color blending.

Excellent follow up! I loved my Sega CD. It did a lot of things right. Much more than it was given credit for.

The Sega CD is probably one of my top 5 or 10 systems. I like Dracula Unleashed so much, I recorded a playthrough on 📼

SLX this video and your last are among your best work, and you’re definitely my favorite video game themed YT channel. Sega CD is awesome with many great titles and it’s generally always overlooked, it’s possibly the most interesting console of all, imo. Some notes you didn’t mention but u probably already know: Pitfall is very best version OF ALL on sega cd imo, same for Heart of the Alien, plus it contains a console exclusive sequel, found literally nowhere else!

puggßy! glad you are talking of this. i had the 2nd demo on mega cd with wiz n liz pugsy microcosm demo intro and sunscreem music vid. also thunderhawk was an amazing shooter if not best choice.

Sega Lord X you are awesome and thank you for the videos I'm a big fan keep up the great work and stay Kool

Imagine if Guitar Hero had come out for it? Would of been such a killer app back then, but I guess you could say the same for the TurboCD

I remember picking up the sega cd at Software Etc in the mall. But first I got a slice of pizza there, bought a gaming magazine at the mall bookstore, played some games at the arcade all in the mall! Miss those times!

Love the Sega CD getting much love lately Never owned one but always wanted it. Too pricey nowadays sadly

loved my mega CD. I had a game called Black Hole Assault that me and my friend used to play for hours.

Not to mention the nostalgia of seeing the startup menu of the console and hearing that music, how can I not have a good time with my Sega CD?

I have very found memories of the mega CD, though I never had one. I do remember the promotional videos showing games with CD quality music, voices, FMVs, etc. I especially remember Dune with French voices! I wasn't fluent in English back then, and seeing one of my favourite game on the PC entirely dubbed in French was just incredible. From the very beginning of the emulation era, I have been waiting eagerly for a mega CD/Sega CD emulator... And then, Kega happened, making one of my childhood dream come true (alongside playing NeoGeo games) 🙂

You mentioned Battlecorps! Thank you!!!

I wish the sega cd had been more affordable. The few times I ever saw it, sticker shock just kept me away. Then I just moved on to the 32x then ps1. You show a lot of cool [now expensive] segacd games that I wish I had played back in the day. Thanks for the great video!

thanks for shining a light on this, another youtuber has been making videos about sega's failures recently and its good to have a counter balance to remind people that its not the whole story.

Vay was an awesome old school RPG I played through in 94 when I was 14.I never got the chance to play the lunar games on Sega CD so Vay is the first RPG I think of when someone mentions the few Sega CD games that were worth playing.

I was the only kid around with a Sega CD, and loved it dearly. I got to play Lunar, Snatcher, the FMV games, and Dracula Unleashed all as they were released. I NEVER understood the hate for the system (cough AVGN video). The variety of games made it an extremely unique console.

For the Spiderman vs the Kingpin, I was expecting, at that time, that SegaCD would receive the arcade gaming, with the impressive zoom/sprite-scaling. But again, just the Genesis version with improvements.

Dune, Monkey Island and Flashback were staples for me growing up. But Vay was something else for me. Having stumbled on it when I once rented Lunar at a local Blockbuster and finding out the last renter had swapped discs, I rolled with it and had a blast with Vay, a game I'd never have a chance to play again otherwise for years after returning it to the video store.

The Retro Core RU-vid channel just did a video in Radical Rex. Hard to believe that bundle of awesomeness and ‘tude didn’t win an award, or even make this best-of-the-rest list. Bummer dude.

I had Rage in a Cage for Sega CD as a kid but we could never play it as I never had a Sega CD.. or a Genesis. The 90's were a different time and I think it was purchased by my cousins who thought it would've worked on a PC. They liked pro wrestling back when I didn't. Seeing the gameplay, it looks pretty fun. I was wondering why Yokozuna was so much smaller in it and audibly laughed seeing Jake Roberts effortlessly suplex him and throw him out of the ring. I like the arcade game more for its over-the top specials and the likes, but this was pretty cool to finally see gameplay of.

In the FMV category, Tomcat Alley is a must play. It's Top Gun for Sega CD.

Tomcat Alley was another good FMV game on the Sega CD

Superb.

Some of these titles also look really good. Thanks for sharing this other list. We just had a vintage gaming shop open up in our city so if they have a Genesis and Sega CD I might look into picking it up. What would you consider a fair price for those systems? Since its a shop I can't expect the price to be real cheap but I just don't know honest market value for this.

I guess a difference between Sega CD and 32x and other add-ons or related consoles was that they were brought out over in the USA where the scrutiny is greater. It's also a pattern or sequence of Sega developing and releasing consoles and/or add-ons and then abandoning them, which can affect trust with consumers for future releases. I know that I wasn't about to buy a Dreamcast following the manner in which Sega didn't fully support the dedicated consumers of the Saturn and wouldn't bring over all of these great looking games (or doing so very late) that I was staring at in issues of Gamefan, EGM, and Intelligent Gamer at the time. I just stuck it out with the N64 and was perfectly content with it, because I knew that Nintendo would support it up until their next console. Other companies suffered the same criticism though; plenty of flak gets thrown at Nintendo for the Virtual Boy, and it was curtains for NEC in the west after the Turbo-Duo flopped. Had they marketed and released the Supergrafx over here with it's high price-point and whopping five game library it would have garnered some backlash for sure. Same with the Jaguar CD; releasing add-ons like that and then not supporting them is very bad business and that was all she wrote for Atari in the hardware market. With Sega it was more the 1-2-3 punch of Sega CD, 32x, and Saturn not being fully realized. Great games and franchises for Sega systems but you also have to look at the competition and how it all stacks up for the asking price.

Great vid fella and like you, I thought the Sega CD had really good stuff to play! 🔥👍🙏

SLX has some of the best in-depth reviews for Sega. 👍💯

Nice series on your Sega CD picks. I always made a distinction between scrolling shooters and stuff like Thunderstrike, which I should play again sometime as I did have that one back in the day. That said, my favorite shooter is Android Assault. It really is quite good, in my opinion. It also feels more cohesive than Robo Aleste, which is not bad, but has some odd quirks. As I recall, WWF Rage in the Cage didn't have tag team matches, despite having a couple of actual teams. That was the biggest disappointment to me in that game. Something like Mickey Mania I thought might have added too many voices. But going back to positives, I really enjoyed Devastator. It's a little basic looking as a first impression, and the game is straightforward, but it was fun and well made.

The Sega CD has a special place in my heart. I don't know why I'm nostalgic so much for that system over all the others I've played and owned. Maybe it's partly because they're so hard to play nowadays or maybe it was just the right point in my life. There just seemed to be such a wide variety of games. It was the one system I never sold any of my games from. It's always nice to see it get some positive attention. There were at least two games in this video that I haven't played that I now want to.

I think add-ons weren't popular simply because the consumer saw 2 seperate purchase's even if they had the main console already, just to complicated for the masses.

Siggggghhhhh! when I saw NHL 94 in this video. Thank you

Are you using any enhancements when playing/recording the games? They look visually amazing! - So much better than I remember.

Ah3 is awesome! Sega cd is super underrated, although they could of done more with the hardware as well as the software. Nhl 94 not getting regular updates like the genesis version hurts my soul tho!

I really appreciate your positivity.

Pitfall was amazing. Played a ton of the original "Mayan Adventure" back in the day.

I must admit, I never played pugsy. I found it to odd for my liking, but that was years ago. I think I'm going to give it a try now, you definitely talked me into it, I also never finished vay. Something I'm going to commit to now

My personal favorite FMV title is Double Switch. What a wacky cast of characters. I had to write down a long list of required actions in order to make progress.

Man I wish Sega woulda ported one of its super scalers on Sega CD after seeing this one.

mentioned in the best of best, but I loved the sega CD. Amazing spiderman was one of my favorites as a kid, and though not really "good" star wars chess lol

Adventure games: Wish you’d mentioned Willie Beamish. It’s a point-and-click, but has great cutscenes and voiceover, and was overall clever and fun.

Loved my mega cd

I absolutely loved the Sega CD, I knew we were going into a new gaming age with CD based games. It’s a damn shame that the Sega CD didn’t get the chance it should have. Along with enhanced ports and some exclusives the system could have been treated so much better. But what I think helped it’s decline were a lot of the negative press from the dozens of FMV games. Still a quality system in my eyes and I loved the model 1 version the best. Thanks for the awesome videos!

Different strokes and all that, but I've always felt the pre-rendered cutscenes for Flashback look much worse than the original rotoscoped versions. They're completely at odds with the aesthetic of the gameplay and the attempts at rendering human faces are as bad as you'd expect from CGI of the era (thankfully most of the cutscenes are just of hands and objects and landscapes). The Sega CD version compounds all that with the heavy dithering typical of the platform. The music is pretty good on its own but a lot of it is way too bombastic for the type of game it is. The Genesis version had the rotoscoped cutscenes and struck a good balance by only using music when the action got heavy, but I just wish it had the voice acting from the Sega CD port.