RIP Dreamcast. Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, House of the Dead, Power Stone, Soul Caliber, Virtua Tennis, Virtua Fighter, Skies of Arcadia, Toy Commander… good amount of quality games I would play constantly.
The biggest recent Sega news is that citing major losses from the lockdown, Sega Sammy sold off their legendary arcade locations to a holding company called GENDA, renaming all former Sega locations to GIGO. It's a major cultural loss, and it was surreal to see videos of crews removing the SEGA signage from buildings.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 given how they have a third movie and a tv series for knuckles im thinking a while, also the Netflix sonic show coming at the end of the year.
The Sega Master System was the most popular 8-bit console in Europe, Australia, and Brazil, and is still manufactured and sold in Brazil to this day (nearly 40 years later). In fact, it’s the longest continually produced console in gaming history.
@@metodoinstinto I wanted a Sega Master System, but my parents got an NES instead... so I mostly played on my Commodore 64 (which I liked a lot better than the NES).
I loved the SMS. Yet it's relative success (compared to other consoles) was due to the fact that it was the first affordable console with 64 colors, a powerful 8-bit CPU, and enough bandwidth and ROM to play remakes of then current arcade games.
I was the only kid in the block who had a NES, other kids looked up on me as I was their leader. Until another kid had a genesis, and my throne was taken away.
I still proudly display my Dreamcast in my office. Played hundreds of hours of Phantasy Star Online, Crazy Taxi, Space channel 5, Jet Set Radio and so many more. It was an amazing console that was completely mismanaged.
I found an old Dreamcast a thrift store with all the cords, the controller and inside was a working disk of Sonic Adventure! The only thing I had to buy a VMU.
The problem for Dreamcast was that it was strike 4. SegaCD, 32X, and Saturn damaged the reputation beyond repair. Got mine for like $50 after they announced the stop of production. Amazing value at the time :)
It’s sad that SEGA declined from their console years, but as a publisher I feel like they’ve been excellent the last 5+ years. The Yakuza series is my favorite right now and the next batch of games are by far my most hyped!
It's too bad the Yakuza series is no more. They are giving the series a brand new name and with a new protagonist I could see why. Like a Dragon plays nothing like the old Yakuza games anyways.
@@VOAN It’s the original Japanese name and while I do prefer the Yakuza name I get it. I also liked Like a Dragon a lot but totally get why some don’t because of the combat. At least the spin-offs will have the action combat
Speaking of the yakuza franchise, there are 2 new games coming out next year (like a dragon ishin and like a dragon the man who erased his own name) and like a dragon 8 in 2024.
One of the happiest days in my 90s childhood was when dad surprised us with a Sega Mega Drive. And the monthly visit to the game stores to buy cartridges... *unadulterated joy*... Thank you SEGA
My dad had a Sega Genesis and that was my first console. Madden, Sonic, NBA Jam, and MK. I loved the innovativeness of the games back then, it felt like everyone was at least trying something new. It may have worked, sometimes not, but at least trying. It is not like that now to me.
Games were also much smaller endeavors back then. Modern AAA titles cost tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to create, and with bigger investments comes a smaller willingness to stray from proven formulas. That's why you see the most experimentation in the smaller indie space.
There's a lot of experimentation and neat ideas in the indie space, but you have to look. Most of the indie games that get put on a big stage aren't that special either.
Lol… I’m 37 years old and probably old enough to be your dad lol… in all seriousness I remember back in 92 our parents brought a Sega genesis for Christmas.
I agree. Was this the first time we saw x - platform gaming? Also, it wasn't a complete failure, at least not for the small inde company that was supplying the OS. The DC gave birth to the XBOX... albeit a surrogate birth.
The genesis was the first console I played as a kid, just hearing the "SEGA" start sound gives me chills everytime and takes me back. I absolutely adored my dreamcast aswell!!
I was always a SEGA gamer, owning every console from the master system to the Dreamcast even having the Sega CD and 32X. I purchased the Saturn and a few months later won a PS1. The PS1 was excellent but having more games for the Saturn I sold the PS1 and stuck with SEGA until their death in the console market. Many a fun time had, thanks to SEGA. "To be this good takes ages, to be this good takes SEGA"
@@linuxdood5283 true, it was a poorly thought out and delivered product. Unfortunately for me I was suckered into the tiny amount of marketing they gave it. I think I had 3 games for it. The incredibly awful Batman Returns being one of them.
I own a Dreamcast, and I had just purchased it a few months ago. It is the best console I have ever owned. The games, everything about it is so charming. It introduced me to the Sonic Adventure series, which continues to be my favorite gaming series. I wish more people had purchased it and appreciated it for how amazing it truly is. It still holds up today as a solid console.
Isao Okawa not only used his own money to help SEGA transition to becoming a software company, but he actually WAVED THE LOAN of that money on his deathbed. He LITERALLY gave all his money away and didnt expect to get it back. He was truly, if not one of the only, millionaire/billionaires to ever be this gracious.
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You should look up the current state of Sega. They sold their arcade management shares to Genda. All of their arcades in Japan are converted to GIGO. Decline of arcade gaming and the pandemic impacted them hard. They closed one of the arcades in Akihabara and how iconic it was with the hamster tube escalators.
Sega will be fine. Arcade gaming is back on an upswing, and Sega will always be a big competitor in the arcade business. No need for the doom and gloom, Sega will be fine.
unless you were around at the time you have no idea what a game changer the playstation was . just the very act of going to a store and buying the thing was an event in itself . as a newly turned 18 year old with my very 1st credit card and a car full of friends more excited than i was ,as they got to play for free . i remember it like it was yesterday
The PlayStation wasn't the only CD-ROM based system with hundreds of games, arcade sound, and 3D graphics capabilities. Sega had released the Sega CD three years earlier at the same price point but brought over dozens of lazy ports and shitty FMV games. Of 204 games to reach the market, perhaps 20 were fantastic (Soul Star, Batman, Sonic CD, Snatcher, Luna series), a few were decent, but a majority were absolutely awful. SEGA should've poured all of that 32X money and marketing into bringing out perfect arcade ports, great jRPGs, league licensed sports games, and great 3D graphics that the Sega CD was clearly capable of. Ironically, we would see none of this on the Saturn, which managed to sell fewer consoles in North America than the "failed" Sega CD. Not only that, but the release of the 32X and the Saturn against the backdrop of the Neptune, Jupiter, Pluto, etc, roadmap left developers and customers confused and unwilling to risk ANOTHER $400 on a company that seemed to have spontaneously gone insane.
Honestly, it was the Genesis peripheries that killed them, along with the terrible marketing of the Saturn....like, i honestly thought you needed a Genesis just to play the Saturn back then, because it was so confusing....if they just went straight from the Genesis to the Saturn (and lowered the price like the PS1), they'd probably still be in the console market today.
Also, Arcades where huge in the 1990s, and the gaming magazines all over the shelves would promote sick games but a lot of them were overseas only. I think Sega Saturn was my favorite until I switched over to Sony PS1 in the late '90s. I also remember all the hype of Sony PS2, even back then it was $500 for a total package w/game- although PS2 really lacked games for the first several months. To this day Im not totally impressed with Playstation games only a few really stand out to me
@@delljr2769 that's weird because a lot of people switch to PlayStation because of their exclusives. While gamepass was cool and PC has a lot to offer, people generally agree that Sony have the best games except maybe Forza which might have surpassed Gran Turismo with their latest game.
You didn't mention Nintendo's and Sega's different strategies regarding game licensing and development. Nintendo had a lot of control over the games developed for their system, and while this protected them (remembering the video game crash), it was also very restrictive and prohibitively costly for third-party developers wanting to make a game; lockout, reverse engineering, and related lawsuits also play into it. Game developers found the Saturn difficult to work with, and the Dreamcast's controllers were just awful. Sega released stop-gap accessories for the Genesis rather than waiting for the Saturn, and then prematurely released the Saturn. The Saturn wasn't on the market very long before being replaced by the Dreamcast. Don't get me wrong-I love my Genesis and Saturn-but the poor decisions, and disagreements between North America and Japan, eliminated them from the console industry.
If I recall, Tom Kalinske the US Sega president wanted the Saturn launch delayed a bit and the 32X take the reins for a bit to allow for it to be more mature, of course the smartest thing to have done would've been the original plan. Say yes to Sony when they offered the Playstation. With Sega's game and console making skills and Sony's massive production centers and budgets, Nintendo would've had a bleak future.
Reading the articles on wikipedia about the DreamCast's controller and comparing that to the N64's is interesting. I have, as much as I love my N64 to bits, always found the 64's controller to be awkward as hell, while the DC's has always seemed quite ergonomic, especially on any comparative basis between the two. Guess I'm in the minority though as I also preferred 360's controller over a DualShock.
Man, R.I.P. Sega Dreamcast I really that was one of the greatest gaming consoles to ever release with Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, NBA 2K & 2K2, Power Stone & 2, Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi, Capcom vs SNK, Marvel vs Capcom 2, House of the Dead, Street Fight III: 3rd Strike, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, NFL 2K2, Dead or Alive & 2, & Phantasy Star Online 😩😩 The Nostalgia man 🙌🏾🙌🏾.. Videos games will never be the same again
I had a Genesis when I was growing up. I loved it because it had the Madden NFL games. I’d say that not just celebrities, but specifically sports games with big names (and licensed) is what made Sega successful for a good stretch.
The thing that sold me on it were the games were as good as the arcade titles that were out at the time. Ghouls N Ghosts and Strider were almost the same as the arcade cabinet versions. It was like having an arcade machine in your home. At that time the Nintendo NES was weak at making arcade titles in comparison.
My parents owned a Genesis and a Dreamcast and I have so many fond memories of the Dreamcast days. I was still in elementary school when it first came out. Playing my first Resident Evil game, continuing my love of Sonic The Hedgehog, playing off the wall games like Psychic Force 2012 and Blue Stinger, all of these made my childhood awesome in my opinion. Miss my Dreamcast so much...
I travel to Japan in 2020 just before the pandemic strikes the world. It was my first time in the country and when I'm a Nintendo fan I've enjoyed every bit of the japanese gaming scene, one of those bits is visiting any arcade gallery avaiable in the city like Round One, Taito Game Stations and SEGA Buildings. I keep so much memories from those places because in my country the arcade scene is dead, so time later when SEGA sold it's arcade division and the buildings got rebranded I felt a bit of what makes Japan the country we admire and love died, even when the arcades are still making noise and the building are still operating, but now there are not the charm of SEGA anymore
I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s. Always had both nintendo and sega consoles but always preferred Nintendo. I will say in the last couple years some of my favorite new games have the Sega name on them. Yakuza like a dragon, lost judgement
Reverse for me, friend. Went from NES to Genesis, probably around 96 / 97 went to PC. While ya'll had Chrono Trigger and Super Mario World, we had Shining Force and Phantasy Star. To each their own, but what a great era to have gamed.
@@simondaniel4028 shining force and phantasy star were good but I preferred final fantasy, tales of phantasia, chrono trigger and mario rpg. Games like those made me drop Nintendo for playstation also
I was a Sega fanboy from 89 to about 1993, when I got a SNES. Still loved both systems. My brother and I got the Dreamcast launch day on 9-9-99. That night, it was so packed and hyped up that it felt like Sega's comeback was inevitable. Alas, Sega's time had long since been over.
Genesis is still my favorite console. It was the first one I ever got and I've been chasing that high with every new console bought ever since. I guess nothing beats being a kid with your fist console.
Well I dont know bout you but the first time I got some that female honey they keep in their honey hole, that beat that console for me anyway. Each their own!!!
Quite possibly yeh. A soft spot at least. Memories of Road Rash etc. I guess a tricky first console IMHO because I’d been on PC already at that point. But after a short gap on the 3DO, I felt my best console was the N64. It has to boil down to game quality, execution, playability but also how immersive they felt. No PC games grabbing my attention during that period, and that was enough to cement my preference for simplicity of consoles thereafter.
@@Scoupe400 Damn, don't envy you if you missed out on the greatness of Blood and Half-Life during that time. Every N64 game i've seen was i guess... fun? But not groundbreaking, mind boggling like those ones
I live in the UK and the Genesis was called the SEGA Megadrive. My brother and I started our love of consoles with the SEGA MasterSystem and loved games, such as Alex Kid, Fantasy Zone, WonderBoy, etc. Then we upgraded to the MegaDrive. Everyone else was buying Nintendo, but we felt a loyalty towards SEGA, especially Sonic and it paid off with Mortal Combat (even though we weren’t really aloud to play it ☺️). Then there were games like Streets of Rage, ToeJam and Earl, Golden Axe, Bomberman, Earthworm Jim and Altered Beast. It was such a great console whilst it lasted. Then, one Christmas our parents scraped their hard earned money together and bought my brother and I a Sony PlayStation and we’ve stuck with the PS ever since. Great video, brought back some good memories 👍🏻
I had a Genesis actually, the games are quite fun. Also they’ve been doing well enough just making games I don’t think they’ll ever make their own console ever again. Also, I think it would’ve been good to mention the movie adaptations that have come out recently. Which are actually on their way to becoming the best video game movies ever.
@@reputablehype That level isn’t really that hard. Just duck and jump and occasionally double jump. Not hard once you know what those arrows mean. I replayed the Genesis version on Switch recently.
You failed to mention the 32X add-on for the Genesis, which may have been an even bigger loss than the Sega CD. I remember seeing game stores selling it on clearance for $20 only a few months after release.
Of course. Add that to the fact that they touted it as the future, even though the Saturn was on the way, and the fact that the entire reason the 32X even existed, was to extend the Genesis/Mega Drive's lifespan. Many have singled out and blamed the 32X as being the sole reason for their decline.
@@firesonic1010 it was pushed by Sega of America. Sega of Japan wanted nothing to do with it since the Saturn was being released there only months later.
Yea, exactly, I actually have 6 games for it, and never tried them (Clerence rack), and I opened my 32X 4 months ago, I it still had the slip, Child World for $16.99 on clearance.
Don’t forget that Sega was always a formidable foe in the arcade space which they created. I worked for a coin op business when I was in college in the late 90s and the demand for Daytona USA cabinets was insane.
I was 19 in 1994 so the Genesis was the last game system I bought when I was in high school a couple of years before. I honestly spent far more time playing my old NES games than I ever did playing the Sega and while the cd add on didn't have many games the games it did have rocked so I was glad to have bought the cd add on at the time the graphics were so much better than on any other system that it was worth the extra cash in my view.
People act like it was a joke now, but back then the Sega CD was the most cutting-edge thing you could buy (until the 3DO arrived). As an SNES owner, I used to drool over the Sega CD. I would have loved to have one, but being a kid I had no choice in the matter.
@@rars0n Yeah, it's so weird how many Sega things are considered "flops" and "failures" like the Sega CD or Dreamcast. Back then if you weren't #1 on the sales chart, you were labeled a total failure and a joke!! If a musician had a huge #1 album and the next one didn't sell 100 million copies the media would label it an embarrassing flop. I'm 33 and just got my first Sega CD in 2019 and I haven't even played all the big games but any game I do play I am blown away by the audio. It's like amazing 2D graphics (and some 3D effects) but now instead of the 8bit tunes and sound effects it's full blown orchestras, rock music, real sound effects and voice actors in 1992! Snatcher is a jaw dropping masterpiece.
@@awill891 Snatcher is awesome, and the Sega CD is home to some games you can't play anywhere else, not to mention improved versions of cart games. Yeah, sure, the potential may not have been fully utilized, but there's enough gems in the library to make it worthwhile. And as someone who loves to explore old games that I missed the first time around, I appreciate systems like the Sega CD and the 3DO that don't have an absolute sea of titles to browse through just to find something good. There's no 20 different versions of a particular sports game, for example, that you need to try in order to find the best one. Also, I loved them back then and I STILL have a soft spot for the cheesy FMV stuff. The graininess of the Sega CD in particular is just so of-its-time that I can't help but love it in combination with the cheesy writing and bad acting (and the sometimes good acting).
I really think the Dreamcast was a diamond in the rough. It had such a great catalogue of games but Sega had already shot themself in the foot too many times by then.
@@scottlentfert1827 this is the thing, gamers don't dislike Sega. It's not like Sega has burnt the bridges. I'd buy a new Sega console if they made a decent modern one today.
That's more to the point yeah. It's easy to say the Dreamcast was an issue like this Company Guy says but everything before it meant it was dead out of the gate .
During that conference, the president of Nintendo of America lied when he said, "Night Trap would never be on a Nintendo System". It's currently on the Nintendo Switch. He should be held accountable. 😄
You're joking, of course, but let's face it--he probably meant what he said at the time. The President of Nintendo couldn't have realized what the future would hold for his company (and Sega's games) 20+ years down the road.
@Timmy and TomTom Sega also said they would never make games for Nintendo. Well Sega games are on NES (Shinobi and Space Harrier), Super NES (Lady Stalker and Thunderforce 3), Game Boy Color (Sakura Taisen), GameCube (Sonic and Super Monkey Ball), GBA (Sonic, Columns, and Astro Boy), Nintendo DS (Feel the Magic and Sonic), Wii (Sonic, Madworld, House of the Dead, and NiGHTS), Wii U (Sonic and Bayonetta), 3DS (Sonic, and Shinobi), and Switch (Sonic, Bayonetta, Persona, and Panzer Dragoon).
Many kids today don't understand the shock value of Night Trap. It's all tame and campy by today's standards. Compare to Beavis and Butt-head in the early 90s and how tame it is compare to cartoons today, especially South Park and Family Guy.
@@VOAN I think what the Nintendo President of America ment was that the reason why Night Trap will not be on a Nintendo Console is because of the contents within the game not lining up with Nintendo's Family Friendly image.
Me and my older brother were actually early adopters with the Sega Gaming Consoles, owning the Master System, Saturn and Dreamcast systems! Overall we were happy with all of them, but our biggest issue was really the lack of 3rd Party Support and gaming options! If the consoles had a wider library of new games, I think it would have definitely saved them!
Nice video. A few side notes, The Sega Master System was significantly more popular than the NES in many European markets as well as South America, Brazil in particular. Also their success with the Genesis was never mirrored in their home country, even while it was outselling Nintendo in the US and European markets it was a distant third in Japan behind both the NES/SNES and the PC engine. Lastly and sadly a bit ironically, the Sega Saturn was actually very popular in Japan for awhile outselling both the PlayStation and the Nintendo 64 and becoming their most popular system in Japan. They could never quite "put it all together" and have success in all markets at the same time.
A memory I will always have is waking up Christmas morning and find a Sega Genesis under the tree with Sonic the Hedgehog, Taz, and Kid Chameleon. I don't have it anymore, but I still play the re-releases on other systems and they always take me back. Sega screwed themselves by getting in a hurry. The Genesis was solid, but the MegaBlaster had issues calibrating with games other than the one it came with (I tended to just use it as a make-believe prop) and the 32x was junk.
it may not have been the first game I unwrapped that christmas, but I remember Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar / Thunder Force 4 was among them. Good lord.
I used to play Unreal Tournament on my Dreamcast ... It was so much phone to play with 3 friends at the same time. One of the best memories from my childhood 🥇
The Dreamcast was ahead of its time! If they hadn't jumped the gun with the Saturn and the Genesis add-ons, they probably could've stayed in the market.
Great episode, but was I the only one secretly hoping this would finally be a crossover episode with Gaming Historian?? I think it would have been a perfect match!
I bought a Genesis brand new in 1993, I still have it, it still works perfectly. Every now and then I’ll set it up and play the old favorites like Sonic, Earthworm Jim, Vectorman
Same here dude, I got it for Christmas when I was very young. Golden Axe 2, Taz Mania, Rocket Knight Adventures, X-men, X-men 2, and Lethal Enforcers 2 with the light gun. One of the best memories was going to the rental store and picking up something for the weekend.
My very first game console was Sega Genesis. My favorite game on the Genesis was Streets of Rage. I'd play that game after coming home from work, as a stress reliever. It was very satisfying to beat the big bad boss at the end. And I do have the various Sega consoles, but Genesis is still my favorite Sega console.
Streets of Rage was epic! And the 3rd one had a boxing kangaroo which was kinda a secret because he started out as a villain, but if you killed his companion, a robotic chicken dude, then the kangaroo become a playable character. Oh the nostalgia! Also my first console too 🙌🏼
This definitely hurt because I still have my Dreamcast and my kids loved it growing up! I also own a PS2 and Nintendo 64 at the same time. I remember the shock when I found out Sega wasn't making games anymore for Dreamcast. It took years and PS4 before Sonic looked as good as it did on Dreamcast!
I was a small child when I got my Genesis, I mainly played the Disney games like The Lion King and Aladdin etc. After that it was Playstation all the way for me. Most of my gaming memories come from PS1 and PS2, those days can never be replaced man.
Sega genesis was my first console (love) as a kid. 35 y.o now, was probably 9 or 10 when I got it, and it was my childhood friend. It was always a delight for friday night when block buster had the latest game come out. Now in mid-life crisis I go back and play games I couldn't finish like splatter house or comix zone and relive a greater sense of achievement with knowing what I know today which I didn't back then. Call me sad, but it makes me feel really powerful and gives a greater sense of accomplishment. I was around when Sega Saturn was a HUGE FLOP!
The idea to connect onto the internet for gaming was ahead of it’s time. They should have waited a bit longer to perfect it while waiting for more people to install internet in their houses. At the time, most people didn’t have internet
That's because it was the first truly modern game console to demonstrate modern 3D graphics and playability. You could advertise its limit pushers today, and people would think that they're modern console or arcade games.
I remember one of the coolest things I had for a while that no one seems to remember is the Sega Channel. It was like a cartridge accessory that hooked up to the internet and you would get a bunch of games that you could play every two weeks or so. It was like the first streaming service for games.
in my opinion the accessories were a large reason why the downward spiral started. the sega cd and 32x were expensive and weren't supported for long, which really screwed over consumers. it made the company look rudderless and greedy. it damaged consumer confidence, and they never really recovered from it.
Because of the Mega CD, Sonic CD is pound for pound the most expensive game I ever had... because there really wasn't much else to play on that system.
The locked ecosystems and lack of suppliers made the accessories insanely expensive. I remember shopping for a basic joystick in the 90s and it was $75. (That's about $160 for a basic joystick in 2022). If you looked at the "behind the glass" accessories at Toys R Us it was incredible but also out of most people's price range.
@@tcaudiobooks737 Road Avenger was awesome when it came out. It only lacked in replays because it was a complete trial and error game. Once you knew the sequence of buttons it was easy.
I've seen a few of these videos and they all take the perspective of the gamer. The bigger problem was the damage the Sega/Mega-CD did to retail confidence. It did not sell like the Genesis/Mega-Drive. Sega lost their prime spot in the stores and retailers weren't as keen to promote them. Like if Amazon suddenly bumped off a major company's products from their main pages today. It had a knock-on effect that eventually let Sony's marketing dollars fill the space. (I worked for SEGA in the 90s). The other big issues were Japan's bubble economy and the over-spending done during that boom phase.
"Genesis does what Nintendon't" was not popular at the time and no one said it in my group of friends; it's popular now because of the internet. "Blast processing" was far more popular and we all said it or made fun of it; most of us were still fooled by it so kids thought Sega was faster. No one ever said "Genesis does what Nintendon't." That was written in the magazines and remained there.
I remember that too. Sega Genesis does have a faster processing speed than SNES though. I have noticed playing games on both consoles (even games that were released on both consoles) that Sega Genesis games generally loaded faster.
@@Dj.D25 SNES was essentially running on a suped up NES chip. Turbo grafx also had an 8 bit CPU, Genesis was the only system with a legit 16 bit processor. It's major flaw was it's limited color palette. I like to say the SNES was like an art student, it could produce amazing graphics, where as Genesis was a track star, it may not be as artistic as the SNES, but it will run circles around it.
I had everything from the genesis up to the dreamcast. A full size genesis with a 32x on top and a full size sega CD under it was a sight to behold. I had it all. Wish I never got rid of it.
I realize it was probably a different division from their home systems but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Sega's legacy of absolute powerhouse arcade machines. I have many fond memories of their arcades classics like Outrun, Afterburner, Space Harrier and more.
I owned a Master System and a Genesis and loved both systems. In 2022 I have an arcade cabinet with emulation for almost every system ever produced along with full game libraries. Good times!
Have to mention the game gear. I had one as a kid and at the time the gameboy was still black and white (or green) I usually used it plugged in so the battery life wasn't a big issue. I do remember the accessories for it were pretty innovative. I had the wide gear (basically a magnifier to make the screen look bigger) and I distictly recall in the accessory catalog they had an adapter that would let you use the gg as a TV as well (i wanted one but just didnt have the money) Still, it seems like it never made it very big and I'm sure had way fewer games than the gameboy
There actually is a remastered version of WB3 - The Dragon´s Trap on STEAM. The amazing thing is, you can switch to original graphics and/or sound at every point while playing. Really enjoyed reliving these memories...
Growing up, my friend got the Sega Channel and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I never had a Genesis myself but access to so many different games at once was gamer nirvana back then. Way ahead of its time!
Growing up I lived beside the factory that made the Saturn games. The smallest of a surface scratch and they were Q.C'd into the skip out back. We would go in and relieve the skip of its black bags full every week. We would keep the new releases (before they came out) and then go into the city to trade in as much as we could to games stores. What a time to be alive.
so admitting to tresspass, you also admit to theft.... they were supposed to be destroyed but just thinking they were in a trash doesnt mean they were free for anyone to grab.... if its true, glad you got away with this felony
My mate had the Sega Saturn as a teen and at the time I was amazed by it. We used to play Ken Griffy Junior baseball and it blew my mind how good it was.🤯
Yes I ask for this video and it's come true. As a massive sonic fan Sega is always special but sadly they don't make consoles anymore . Which is sad because they used to compete with Nintendo and one up them at one point .
The first Sega console that I bought was the Master System. Eventually I imported a Japanese Master System, which is fully backwards compatible with games for the SG-1000 and it's computer sister system, the SC-3000 (the SC stands for Sega Computer), plus games released for the fully licensed Othello Multivision and the unlicensed Bit Corp Dendy 2 in 1, which played games for the SG-1000/SC-3000 and the Colecovision. The Dendy 2 in 1 was sold in the U.S. as the Telegames Super Arcade. The Master System was big in the U.K. and HUGE in Brazil. In fact Tec Toy still sells models of the Master System to this day. The Master System is not region locked. I have bought every Sega console (even the Nomad, which is a portable Genesis). In Japan the Saturn outsold the Nintendo 64. While all of Sega's Japanese arcades have been rebranded, Sega still makes arcade games.
In the late 90s / early 2000s I owned a Dreamcast and I absolutely loved it! I know you pointed out that system was their downfall, but the graphics and sound was so so good!! Plus it has must-have games like Crazy Taxi and Hydro Thunder! Two absolute classics! Anyway, very fond memories of the Dreamcast and I still own one! 🤗Great vlog as always!
The Genesis is an amazing, indispensible machine for any retro gamer, but Sega badly sabotaged everything else. I think this video underscores how much Sega's wounds were self inflicted. Corporate infighting played a massive role in the Saturn's failure, the Japanese branch of the company utterly despised the American branch, refused all of their suggestions, and actively sabotaged them on several occasions. Sega of America didn't want to do the early US launch, but Sega of Japan refused to hear otherwise.
I thought the Dreamcast was great. Just that it may have been released too soon or too late. It was a little annoying having to wait a year to play the Dreamcast. I did get to play Sonic Adventure at ToysRUs pretty early before it's release though.
I really think Japanese nationalism and being envious of the American branch's success played a part in that. When Company Man mentions the Genesis selling well, he didn't mention it was mostly in North America and the Genesis didn't do too well in Japan. The US side absolutely had the track record to be listened to. It still amazes me that grown and supposedly well educated people can be so petty and childish.
@@sor3999 The megadrive also sold well in Europe and Brazil , during thr megadrive era sega did well to advertise their brand especially at and around football matches which sony has done for the last 25 or so years since the ps1 came out , strangely this good advertising dried up during the saturn era then returned during the dremacast era .Sega of Europe had their role to play in the overall success and failure of the sega brand .
I pretty much always had Nintendo products growing up but I did have the SEGA Game Gear and although it used up a lot of batteries it was my favorite thing to take on a long road trip, provided I had a massive pack of AA batteries and my AC wall plug for whenever I was near an outlet
basically their real plummet from grace is when what later became the Sony PS1s Disc tech was offered to Sega, the CEO of Sega of Japan shot it down, Despite Sega of America really wanting it, and given how well playstations doing today... xD yeah
Not to mention how late to the party they were with SEGA WORLD in Sydney Australia. Opened in 1997. As a Sydney CBD arcade gamer, the high point was around 1986 regarding number of venues but the video arcade collapse then arrived and by 1990 two thirds were gone. All of the major blossoming's in Video arcade attendance had come and gone by the time SegaWorld arrived. Left competing with it's own console market.
And well balanced. Its MIPS R3000 was powerful enough to compensate for some of the shortcomings of its somewhat experimental hardware and poor C libraries. More importantly, SONY eventually allowed developers to bypass those libraries to get more 3D performance, the opposite of NINTENDO's approach. And SEGA was now making machines so hard to code for that even their venerable arcade division was having a hard time of it.
The first SEGA product I had was the Master System, because it had the Ninja games which I loved. The next year that followed the Genesis came out, it was affordable for my parents & I was blessed in getting it with games like Altered Beasts, & Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. A few years later we were able to afford the CD attachment which I seemed to be the only one who loved those games, mostly the gun games with the Old West theme (Mad Dog). There was a Formula One racing game & a Star Wars game for the 3DX attachment I bought, but that was the end of SEGA systems for me because I had enough money to buy a Sony PlayStation then I never went back while my High School buddies had the lousy Dream Cast system which bombed rightfully so.
Great video. For me my peak interest in gaming was the Sega Genesis. Games like streets of rage, golden age and Shinobi was what I loved then and still love today
Kind of ironic that SEGA started making slot machines and now they're part of the Sammy Corporation. I'd say SEGA couldn't compete with Sony and Nintendo in the late 90s, the PlayStation was such a huge hit and Pokémon was a global phenomenon, and while SEGA had some success in some regions like Latin America, especially Brazil, the Saturn and Dreamcast weren't as common as the PSOne and the N64/Game Boy, not to mention that Genesis games were and are still pirated to this day, it's not uncommon to see a knock-off Genesis console in an electronics store, I even had a pirated Genesis which were still popular even in the late 90s. The arcade business was also a major factor, SEGA used to make cutting edge games for the arcade like Daytona USA and Virtua Fighter 3, but the arcade business was declining when consoles and PCs became more powerful and could render better 3D graphics I'd say that as a game developer they're pretty good, especially after acquiring developers like Atlus, but their higher-ups made some weird decisions, for example despite the fact that the Switch has sold over 100 million units they haven't released many games for it, especially in Japan, and some of their projects like the Sakura Wars revival haven't been very successful, it seems like Sonic, Yakuza, Football Manager and the games they acquired from Atlus are the things keeping them afloat
The whole reason I'm into gaming today is due to my dad letting me play his genesis at a young age. Blew the sonic cartridge, loaded it up... and always drown in the chemical factory 😅
I was a huge fan. I had the Genisis, skipped the Sega CD and Saturn. Then I got the Dreamcast. My children and played the heck out of it. It hold a sweet spot for me as it gave me lots of great memories. I still have both systems and will never get rid of them.
I'm surprised you missed out the debacle that was the 32X, which was being developed by Sega America while Sega Japan were developing the Saturn at the same time but the 2 werent talking to each other. You could also add in the wasted R&D and prototype builds of the Sega Neptune, and the very limited release of the Sega Nomad (would have loved to have had that one). Shame they tanked though, I still play my master system and megadrive/genesis to this day.
That lack of cooperation between the US and Japanese divisions seems to be the most significant factor in Sega's downfall in the console market, so I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video.
they were talking. the two console idea was the plan from the beginning since SoA thought the Saturn would be too expensive to sell in America and the Genesis was still selling ok while it was dead in Japan.
I got the Sega Master System in Christmas ‘88. It was my first console. I loved playing Astro Warrior, Great Baseball, Great Golf, California Games and Outrun. Still have the system to this day. Lots of great memories indeed and once in a while we play with my Mom and Sisters. 😊
Although some members of my family are quite loyal to Nintendo and Sony (I literally found 7 Nintendo 64s and a PlayStation within a box one time), I’ve always known and liked games produced by SEGA. If they ever return to the console industry, I’d support them by giving their console a chance!
I'm not going to watch it yet, but I'm going to predict Sega of Japan being assholes is one of the reasons. Edit: huh, I figured the pettiness of SoJ would have been mentioned because they were pissed at SoA being good at marketing in America and decided to undermine them by not telling them about the Saturn while SoA was making the CD and 32X. Also, not mentioned was the PS1 price announcement was immediately after the Sega one ended and was only the price and that was it.
That's a huge part of it. I have the Sega / Service Games book called "Service Games: The Rise and Fall of SEGA" It's a good read if you get the chance to pick it up.
It doesn't get mentioned specifically, but that would have been great to see Sonic X-treme given a segment with Yuji Naka threatening to quit if Sega allowed their American devs to use the NiGHTS engine. Balan Wonderworld was karma for such hubris.
There is a ton to get into when it comes to the rise and fall of Sega. A lot of it is covered by Blake Harris's Console Wars. It mainly covers former Mattel & Matchbox CEO Tom Kalinske's time as Sega CEO (basically around Sonic's Mascot Contest origin to the tragedy of Saturnday). My favorite part is that Sony CEO (and Former Sega Marketing Consultant) Steve Race's entire speech that fateful E3 was "$299." You can even find it on RU-vid. Many more details about that time period have come out since, such as the NEC/Hudson-Soft console PC Engine's failed US launch as the Turbografx-16 being prematurely taken out of the picture by SEGA (even though the PCE was a major success in Japan), Bernie Stolar's time as CEO (which was decidedly harmful for a company already in a bad situation), and the Dreamcast Debacles (in a reverse of the Saturn, it was reasonably good in the US but fared terribly in Japan). The sad part to me is that "Sega=Sonic" to most people, including Sega themselves these days, despite the plethora of potential in Sega's many abandoned intellectual property over the "ages."
In my house we went from Nintendo, to Genesis, to PlayStation, and I’m about in the middle so I have many fond memories of sitting on the living room floor with the Genesis- we even had Game Gear instead of game boy
The Dreamcast was brilliant. Amazing games, revolutionary technology, creative ideas (VMU, built-in modem, keyboard, light guns, fishing controllers, microphones, etc.) It deserved to be a bigger success than it was. Also no mention of the 32X debacle? That's showing some restraint. It's usually what people point to as the moment Sega screwed themselves.
