I love that book, read it twice, in the book they stated that Seth Rogen and Apatow were going to make a movie from it I wish they did but the documentary was good
The problem with the Sega CD is that it had to endure the growing pains of oncoming technology. The North American game-buying customers (parents, in particular) expected a quantum leap in gaming innovation. By 1990s logic, that meant multi-media. I truly believe that this is the reason that so many FMV games were made, because it was the most demonstrable way to convey the Sega CD's strengths. Ironically, they were the worst examples. The Sega CD's actual strentch was in freeing up resources limited by cartridge sizes of the day. You weren't having to compromise game assets when you're dealing with hundreds of megabytes. The ability to utilize FMVs and redbook audio should have been a quality-of-life improvement but far from the main feature. We really should have had more games like Lunar 2 and Sonic CD and far fewer Sewer Sharks and Night Traps, but that's just not what was expected in the 90s. Even for those of us who did understand this, it was neigh impossible to explain this to our parents. I had a fairly robust Sega CD collection, none of which were FMV. That's the weird thing about Sega CD. If you're really choosy, you can build up quite a respectable collection without ever touching the games that were heavily marketed at the time.
That and it was the first time that you could REALLY port a lot of those FMV arcade games to the home system with no footage lost. (Quality downgraded by quite a bit though.) The FMV games didn't frustrate me at all as much as the lazy genesis-to-cd ports did where ALL they did was upgrade the music.
... shitty, limited RAM killed the Sega CD. NEC did a much better job with their (older) TurboGrafx CD with upgradeable RAM cards. The import library of the PC Engine CD isn't limited to a bunch of low-res fmv junk, either. There are a few really cool Sega CD games tho like Eternal Champions (2) & The Terminator 👍.
The average gamer had more than 1 brain cell, and thus understood even in the Genesis era, that things were going to come in leaps and bounds.. offering to pay out the nose for an incremental update was simply the beginning of Sega's Atari-like demise
I admit, I have a soft spot for FMV games because I was young and was sucked in by the novelty of it, but I agree. More games should have taken advantage of the scaling effects and other benefits.
Everyone dismisses the Sega CD because of that FMV game era, but in reality it did had a lot of quality games like Lunar 1 & 2, Dark Wizard, Sonic CD, Vay, Popful Mail, Final Fight CD and so on.
Soulstar, battlecorps, thundethawk, batman returns; wing commander......there's a dude called gg aleste in the comments who also has some games to list
And the CORE games like SoulStar and AH3 that showed off the ASIC DSP's 3D graphics potential, as well as mixed engine games like Silpheed. DOOM may even be possible on the Sega CD, albeit around 10-15fps and a smaller window.
In my country Colombia Sega never had a commercial presence and a Sega console was never seen in these lands, but I had a friend who came from a wealthy family and he had a Super Nes with all the accessories and a lot of games in addition to the Sega Mega CD with a lot of other games, for my part I only had a Clone of the Nes and lately a Super Nes because my family is middle class but I always went to my friend's house to play with him and his consoles until the night, Patman QC thanks as always for the great work you are doing and for bringing back memories of our childhood.
I bought one of the first production wave of Sega-CD units. A few years in, the motorized tray started getting stuck or wouldn't open at all (not to mention screen freezing). I had to pry it open to remove a few games on numerous occasions and eventually had to put the system out of it's misery. I hate that Sega announced the enhancement of graphics and such only to end up cutting the budget. I mentioned this to a Sega rep that called me around the time if the system's release. I ended up receiving a subscription to Sega Visions which was cool. The reliance on full-time video got on my nerves. I do like that some of the games can be played like audio cd's in a CD player (Final Fight CD for example) while some only play sound bytes (like WrestleMania: The Arcade Game). The rushing out of the system hurt it big tome (in the U.S. and Japan).
I have been following you for some time now and i just wanted to say i really enjoy what your doing and your presentation style, you wouldn't sound out of place on the rural country music stations i remember as a kid but i mean that in a good way!! A very comforting and nostalgic style that goes well with the subject matter. I really hope you can keep having fun with games and making more great stuff.
That's very nice of you to say and I'm glad my videos bring you so much enjoyment. I am from Illinois so technically I'm a hick from the sticks so perhaps it's growing up with country music that defined by style :-)
I loved the mega cd for its sprite scaling games. Nothing else was like it back in the day such as batman returns driving mega cd exclusive. It was more than just mode 7 - it really looked phenomenal. Sadly all we got mainly was crappy fmv games.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It makes more sense when you realize they'd need to either reduce the colors to just 16 (Batman Returns), or cut the resolution in half. (Night Striker.) Not that they couldn't create something good, if they really put their minds to it, but it's not as simple as just cut and pasting an arcade game's assets. And they'd quickly expose the system's limitations if they tried. (Therefore, it's better not to try at all! Genius!) Someone should have still slapped some sense into Sega of Japan, but you can say the same thing for all their other console releases.
In the 1993 film SLIVER, there is a scene where you see in Billy Baldwins apartment he has a Sega CD player in addition to all kinds of other things and I remember thinking “wow, his character is rich, has a sega cd and he is sleeping with Sharon Stone” and thought him the luckiest guy in the movie. Also the Spider-Man Cd game was the best game of the system.
That's not really fair. Yes Sega had problems with regard it's business decisions, but we look back on it all with the gift of hindsight. I personally love my Mega CD and have a great library of games for it. The 32X was completely unnecessary yes, but the failure of the Sega Saturn in the west, particularly in America, was down to poor marketing, not the console itself, which has a superb library of games. Then you come to Sega's final console, the Dreamcast, and again there's nothing wrong with the hardware itself. To this day the Dreamcast is loved by millions of gamers around the world, myself included. Sega just couldn't compete with the vast resources of Sony. Even without their struggles in the business, Sega just didn't have the money to go toe to toe with Sony.
@@johnbowles5399 While Sony was indeed a juggernaut, The Sega CD was the first step in a pattern that eroded customer goodwill, a huge factor in Sega's downfall.
Underrated add-on! I believe the best game for the system was Final Fight CD along with LETHAL ENFORCERS and NBA JAM (which could be one of your next documentaries) Thanks again Pat! Keep it up 😊👍
So much of Sega's history in that era of gaming is "Sega of Japan and Sega of America hated each other and that lead to them constantly undermining back and forth". It's really a small miracle that they were able to stay near the top of the mountain as long as they did before falling off. Also: Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side was an incredible game on that system and, as far as FMV guilty pleasures go, I was a big fan of Ground Zero Texas. GZT even got a PC remastering not too long ago and I feel it's worth checking out.
I love the Sega CD library! The add-on was a meaningful and Fun experiment by Sega, and it was the very 1st mainstream and well-known console introduction to CD-Rom gaming. Plus every other company, Nintendo included, were getting in on the CD-Rom action at the same time too. So you can't fault Sega for making it. You can however, fault them for making the 32X. Unlike the Sega CD, the 32X has no such redeeming qualities and justification of it's place in history. The 32X was just a terrible mistake.
The trouble with the Sega CD that it only had 256k of RAM to store game and level data so that every game on it was basically a 256k cart with access to more cartridges. It really needed at least 512 and maybe even a megabit
It had 768KB, or 6 megabits. Including the Genesis, it was almost 1 megabyte, or 8 megabits. Update: Even if we exclude the 512KB of upper RAM, games still have access to a total of 328KB of useable RAM, including 64KB of RAM and 64KB of VRAM.
Owning a Sega Mega CD (as called here in PAL regions) the last 4 years, all I can say is that it is a great system and one of my favourites with unique games.❤❤
The full motion video games are what sold me on the Mega CD. I’ve got many happy memories of playing them for hours. I didn’t get it on release but a few years after on my local market for £45,a bargain as it came with twenty games including Corpse Killer,Sewer Shark,Night Trap and Lethal Enforcers with the Justifier… I wish i could go back and buy it again. It did look gorgeous sitting on top of my Mega Drive under my TV next to my VHS recorder.
You know night trap features Dana Plato on the cover and in gameplay. She was Kimberly Drummond on different strokes before drugs took over. R.I.P. and keep up the good work patman you da queefiest director in RU-vid and we love ya
In certain conversions of the game she is on the cover, other ones she isn't such as the lady on my thumbnail for this video. Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoy my content :-)
Great video, Pat. Mega CD units and games are skyrocketing in value these days, and are seemingly in high demand from retro game collectors. I'm glad I started my (PAL) Mega CD collection a long time ago, because the prices on Ebay are crazy these days!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I have around 30 titles for the system, but my prize target, Snatcher, has always been out of my price range. A good condition CIB copy now sells for around £500. Craziness.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries They really are. Anyway thank you so much for your work, Pat. I've been a fan of yours since you started, and your content just gets better and better. 👍
I had the first model. Eternal Champions on Sega CD was way better than the genesis version. It had more than twice the characters and each main character (not joke ones like the chicken) had I think 2 fatalities and 2 stage fatalities. They also had character specific “cine-kills” that were FMV deaths. The combos and game play were way better too. Played the hell out of that.
I have such fond memories of the Sega CD. The Lunar games, Sonic CD, Eternal Champions, and Dark Wizard were probably my favorites. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Final Fight CD, Sonic CD, and Spider-Man Vs the Kingpin, was my Trilogy of Sega CD Goodness! I'd argue that it is the 2nd BEST 16-bit era Spider-Man game too. Next to the Great Sega arcade beat'em up.
16:44 I Love SEGA® and CAPCOM® And Also I Love Street Fighter and Final Fight Games And I'm a Huge Fan of Arcade Scrolling Beat Em Ups Games And I Enjoy Beat Em Ups Games Like Final Fight Games I Love Final Fight Final Fight 2 and Finally Final Fight 3 Games I Love Final Fight the Japanese and The North America Versions and I Always Want to Play On the SEGA® MEGA CD and SEGA® CD Versions so Look No Further Because I Love Beat Em Ups Games and I Enjoy it.
Oh Yeah PatmanQC You Forgot Patrick that Amy Rose The Hedgehog Made Her First Appearances On Sonic CD But Her First Appearances Was the Sonic The Hedgehog Japanese Manga Comics That Was Release "ONLY IN JAPAN"!!! And Than Later She Makes a Appearances On Sonic CD You Forgot About That Patrick But it's Ok But One of This Days Pat's Ok. 👍👍
Basically I consider myself lucky. I got myself a Mega CD Model 1 console, given I had found a Sega Mega Drive Model 1 console at a local Charity Shop. I also purchased a 32X to complete the set. I play it at times, utilizing the full capabilities of the system, and let me tell you, it's all good. Not bad for an initial $5AU purchase of the Sega Mega Drive!
21:16 I Love Sonic The Hedgehog and I Did Play Sonic The Hedgehog Games on Ever Others Version But Also included the Nintendo Versions Like Nintendo GameCube System Also I Did Play Sonic CD Game Only On Nintendo GameCube System But I Did Not Play the SEGA® MEGA CD and the SEGA® CD Systems The Versions I Did Play Was the Nintendo GameCube Version Anyway Both of Them Sonic The Hedgehog CD or Sonic CD Games Was Release On SEGA® MEGA CD or SEGA® CD Witch I Love the Japanese and the North America Versions and I Love the Music Soundtracks Because I Love Music Oh Yeah!!! Both Versions Are Awesome!!! And Than Later the Game Was Releases On PC Computer System And Than Years Later Release On Nintendo GameCube System as Part of Sonic The Hedgehog in Sonic Mega Collections in Sonic Gems Collections Only on Nintendo GameCube System And Then Release On Nintendo Switch System or Not? Because it Was Release On Every Other Versions Especially Nintendo Versions Also.
23:32 Oh YEAHHHHH I Love Final Fantasy and Other Best RPG Games included My Favorite RPG Games of All Time is Lunar The Silver Star With Very Awesome and Cool Japanese Anime and Anime Style Designs and Animated Cinematics.
My brothers and I LOVED our Sega CD. I wish I had the money as a kid to keep my old consoles instead of selling the to buy the next one. I would still have my sega cd and Saturn. There are so many amazing games on those 2 consoles that deserve re-releases. From sega arcade games to the amazing RPGs put out by working designs on the sega cd.
I had a Sega CD. I can sum up what the problem was by comparing Jurassic Park games. On Sega CD we got an edutainment point and click game. Yeah it had FMV, grainy and small windowed but there. On the Genesis we got a graphically beautiful action platformer that looked better than it had any right to. It would've been a hit on CD with cut scenes and better audio
This was an excellent video, but I do have one correction: for Snatcher, the game takes place in 2047, not 2019. Other than that, very informative, man
I find Sega CD interesting Console to learn next to PC-Engine which also utilize the clear Music sounding instead of 16-bit era sound. I was fascinated by its technology use at it's time and the use of CDs instead of Cartridges and somehow Sega CD was able to produce FMV which I don't know if the PC-ENGINE (TurboGrafx) can do that.
I am not sure about the turbo graphics CD being able to do full-motion video. I think in small doses it can. I'm sure it supports video CDs that were sold primarily in Asia
“HEY! You still don’t have a Sega CD? What are you waiting for - Nintendo to make one? You have seen the games, right?” You highlighted a bunch of good ones on the video, but I’d like to add Corpse Killer. Yeah, it’s a terrible FMV game. But it’s a super fun terrible FMV game.
The Shmup "Silpheed" is a favorite of mine for the system. They used real time polygonal graphics over FMV backdrops, but the FMV used the exact same palette as the polygonal stuff, so it all looks seamless. One of the best examples of "faking it", because it even fooled some of the gaming magazines of the day, who believed all of the graphics on screen were being rendered in realtime. Gonna give that wrestling game a try, it looks good.
It's really not. It's just an LJN button masher that can't even figure out how to include the real theme songs or basic tag matches. (Despite throwing in tag teams not included elsewhere.)
That was a game I definitely should have included but I only had 12 spots. If there is enough interest in a follow-up video then I'll be sure and do it
I emulate it on my phone with an 8bitdo mini controller hanging from my interior mirror in my car.... I used to own a massive collection - mainly sega but life circumstances forced me to sell...so im very greatful i can still play my collection all on my phone via emulation- and mega cd is the one I seem to play most these days
"tickled my taint" -- I did a literal spit take and almost passed out from laughing too hard. To quote The Iron Sheik, "PatmanQC the real! The Number One!"
LOL, thanks! I love sheiky Baby By the way. I met him about 10 years ago in Chicago and he was extremely nice although I was buying a photograph with him :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries he is! I met him at the roast they did for him at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. I went dressed up as him (even wearing a Camel Clutch t-shirt) haha he made me put on the championship belt to take my photo with him
A moment of silence for the quick but powerful comment of. "Not quite as easy as wwf's diva Sunny" All hail the Patman! Another great video, thank you.
Where to begin, In 1992 around November this kid in my Highschool got it and hated it I was in 11th grade. He wished he had a Turbographics Cd because he believed the Sega cds first line up was trash and considered it a short lived gimmick. Since I would have double of some of my video games for trades, something I learned from my Atari days. I traded him 5 snes games and boom done deal. First game I ran out and bought was Final Fight, since then I was hooked but had to wait for certain releases via EGM magazine reviews. My Favorites were FInal FIght, Snatcher, Robo Aleste, Ninja Warriors (Import), Snatcher, Thunder Hawk, The Terminator, Stellar 7, Both Batman Returns and Batman the Animated series, Silpheed, Prizefighter. I owned a lot of these games because they went to clearance fast and my next door neighbor and my neighbor down the street both had a Sega CD. These were great years. During this time I found a dolby surround sound stereo receiver in the garbage with its cord cut, and I put I new cord in and wallah I had an awesome system. Great years. When Lunar Came out I had graduated really early from school and broke my arm in a fight, during this time I played Lunar till 6 am in the morning sleeping all day till 5pm. My dad was getting worried at this point, Snatcher was a valentines day gift by my ex. Just to think I spent the whole winter till spring playing games all night long and sleeping in. Great video PatmanQ!!!
Great Video Patman. I have one of those Sega CD systems and amazingly it still works. I had a ton of games on it and I think my favorite would have to be the WWF Wrestling game. I think it was system that you either loved it or hated it, but I agree some of those titles were just not that good. I did have one question for you. What emulator would you recommend using to find old retro games like Mat Mania and others. Just curious what you would recommend. Thanks
Thanks. I haven't touched mine for a few years the last time I used it it it still work and that was the original model one release. If you're looking for emulators the best of the best is definitely the Mame emulator. By the way Mat mania is one of my favorite wrestling games
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries mine too. thank you for the input. I actually got the old Sega Cd out yesterday and played it for a while. I showed my nephew the games and told him I wish he could have grown up back when arcade game rooms were around. What a special time that was back then. Take care!!!
The failure of the Sega CD is actually a pretty simple story: when the add on you offer is providing graphics on par with the competitor you’re going after, it’s not great when it cost $100 more. All in, the Genesis/Sega CD would put you back $400-$500. Why pay all that when you could pick up a SNES for $200 or below? Did the Sega CD provide features the SNES could not? Yeah but those were just bonuses. The main aim of the Sega CD was sprite scaling and rotation. There was no world where the Sega CD “took off”. If you look at the industry, the only add-on that’s ever shown success is the Xbox Kinect… and that fell off FAST.
It's funny how things have changed now, it used to be important to the Binary digits (Bits) in a system. Now it's about how much one can compress, miniaturize, and streamline like using transistors and resisters. You can use a 32bit system with controllers but using Lua program Giga flip\flashes per second(GFlops) have a next generation system on the other hand one can have 128bit polygon based Pascal with no Adjusted peak-performance (app). Don't believe me? There is a Sonic made for Amstrad GX4000 (8 Bit), & Super Putty for Commodore Amiga CD (32 Bit).
Back in the day, I had the Sega CDX Multimedia Entertainment System. I made the mistake of selling it and the big collection of both Genesis and Sega CD games like Lunar The Silver Star, Lunar Eternal Blue, Vay, Popful Mail, Shining Force CD, Sonic CD, Dark Wizard, Hook, Mortal Combat, Star Wars Assault and Silpheed on Sega CD, and Phantasy Star II, III and IV, Shining Force I and II, Sonic the Hedgehog I and II, Sword of Vermilion, and Thunder Force for Genesis, plus the C and C Music Factpry Make My Video and the CD+G disc. About 2 years ago, I bought a Sega CD again and currently have Lunar The Silver Star and Eternal Blue, Vay, Willy Beamish, Rise of the Dragon, Silpheed and Shining Force II. I want to get those other games again even though several of them are on my Genesis collections for both Playstation 2 and Nintendo Switch.
Double Switch was my favorite SegaCD game that I owned from the period. It has been rereleased on PC (Screaming Villians) along with NightTrap, Ground Zero Texas, and Corpse Killer.
Great vid; I appreciate the nostalgia trip! I remember my mom showing up with a Model 2 Sega CD out of nowhere one day, and I remember running it into the ground, thanks to a local Blockbuster location liquidating their stock of Sega CD rentals.
Sega CD had potential to go further till the late 90's time frame with excellent video games they had, but also misses as well. Love Spider-Man and the Terminator. Not only the game was solid, but the soundtrack was absolutely flawless. Even WWF Rage in the Cage was top notch.
I was always a Nintendo kid. I did have a game gear and my best friend who lived down the street had a genesis but I never played a saga cd. I always liked a lot of the ports on sega better than some of the ports on snes I thought the mortal Kombat port on saga was better. And it did have some very good exclusives.
18:20 I Love KONAMI® And Hideo Kojima and When I'm Thinking Talking and Speaking of Game Directors it Has to Do With One Game Director Hideo Kojima the First Game that Spring to Mind is Metal Gear? But Also He Did Work On Other Works Like a Little Know Game Call Snatcher I Love This Game Because I Love Cyberpunk and Japanese Cyberpunk But I Prefer Japanese Cyberpunk Because it's so Awesome This Game is a Cyberpunk Graphic Adventure Game the Game Takes Places in Neo-Kobe City in the Year 2048..18:42 Wait PatmanQC the Game Takes Places in the Year 2048 Not 2019 Sorry PatmanQC. 19:05 This Game Was Kojima wanted Snatcher to Have a Cinematic Feel, so the Setting and Story are Heavily influenced inspired By Science Fiction Films Like Blade Runner Akira and The Terminator.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Next Time Very Soon CAPCOM® is Doing a Street Fighter 35th Anniversary is Coming Soon And I'm so Happy and is AWESOME!!! Maybe One of There Days or Not? You Might Want to Do a History of Street Fighter Series Franchise But For Now You Might Want to Concentrate and do a History or Not Call The History of SEGA® Sonic The Hedgehog Series Franchise so How's it Sound Yes or No?
The system stated out with unimaginative games that took poor advantage of hardware but the games that did sure made up for this later on. I remember demoing Game Arts "Silpheed" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Crjgu2aE1QE.html for the system and drawing a crowd of 30 people where I worked., I also loved the working design games "Lunar the silver star , and Lunar Eternal Blue , as well as the Sega cd remaster of Ecco the dolphin
Never owned Sega anything but a friend had a Sega CD and insisted I listen to the soundtrack for Batman Returns. Spencer Neilsen was the composer on that one. It is an incredible soundtrack and one I still listen to all these years later. Still don't own the Sega CD but I own that game disc, where music tracks are just CD audio which still works decades later. Sega were geniuses and didn't even know it
You should've added the "Angry Black Guy" SEGA CD commercial in the video during breaks. But anyway, the SEGA CD was definitely underutilized and it deserved more credit than what it was given. As for the price of games, yeah the good ones are obviously the most valued while some of the subpar FMV titles would be cheap. But there's titles like Sol-Feace and Silpheed which are reasonably priced. For the best games, repros are a must.
You find something that’ll tickle your taint, you stick with it. I had a Sega CD side unit. Some really good games that I fondly remember. Snatcher is a favorite, as is Sonic. Eternal Darkness was a fun and ambitious sequel. Working Designs made wonderful stuff, as well. Then there’s Mansion of Hidden Souls, Keio Flying Squadron, Time Gal…
I remember picking up one of these from a Garage sale for £50 with a bunch of games only a few years after it came out. It did eventually die though =( Also, in regards to Snatcher. Yeah it's spelt Gillian, but don't they call him Gill-ian in the game? lol ;)
Good point PatmanQC about the lack of interest in the motion video games. I remember seeing the ads and not being interested. Had they shown motion games like Dragon's Lair or Space Ace, that might have helped, and as you said, port in the arcade classics but they didn't.
Bravo. Excellent content as always! I never owned one of these but have played a couple of its games on emulation (Snatcher and Sonic CD, both of which I really enjoyed), but this video did a great job of showcasing some more great titles from this forgotten system. It’s a shame we’ll never know what could’ve been with this.
First i heard and saw the Mega Cd was on a program called "Bad Influence". They had three dole mongers on the show, talking about pooling there Giro's to buy the unit. Losers.
I was 10 when the Sega CD came out. But my brother was 16 years old and had a job. He bought it and I have fond memories of playing Sherlock Holmes and Sol Feace. He moved out at 17 and took it with him so I never had the opportunity to play any other games. Hell, until my mid 20s, I thought sonic CD was just the regular game with a CD soundtrack lol. I still need to play that one because I hear it’s awesome. I would love to snatcher though I just haven’t devoted enough time to do so.
I Made it To TheFinal BOSS at TheEnd of *SewerShark,* One Time! I Had to Actually Have SomeBody Sit Beside Me, to Help Me Remember All TheTurns! "Six-Niner-Niner-Six-Twelve-Twelve-Niner-Six-Twelve-Niner!" (That Game Was Chaos Excitement, at TheTime.)
I really liked the video! Very nice! I loved sega cd and personally I think it was highly under rated! If you want to do a part 2 I suggest the games : -VAY (The RPG everyone seems to forget, but one of my all time favourites!) -Jurassic Park (My favourite JP game ever) -Brutal: Paws of fury (way better on sega cd, FMV cutscenes and an extra hidden character!) -Adventures of Willy Beamish -BC Racers -Dark Wizard -Ecco the Dolphin -Mansion of the Hidden souls (It's like myst!) -Rise of the Dragon -Shining force CD (Another rpg) -Starblade -Secret of monkey island (great game, but it's no secret! lol) -Road Avenger -Tomcat Alley -Prince of persia (well done on sega cd) Dune and Demolition man were alright and eye of the beholder if you are into that. I saw eternal champions cd at the end but you never really talked about it, it was flawed but it was the better than the sega genesis version!
Good video. I have a few additional recommendations. Soulstar - Like with Thunderhawk, this is also from Core Designs, and really shows what Sega's CD unit is capable of. Game play is similar to Sega's arcade game Galaxy Force. Keio's Flying Squadron - This is a decent side scrolling shooter, featuring a flying bunny girl, and characters and a storyline like a wacky anime comedy. Lunar 2 - A different story from the first Lunar, but otherwise, everything that made the first game good is here. Silpheed - Essentially this is an FMV shooter, but the graphics show gameplay that looks like what the Sega/Mega CD could do if it were more powerful. This is more of a showpiece game, where the game itself is decent enough, just not as good as the graphics.
I know I am in the minority but I got a Sega CD pretty close to its launch and I loved it when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite consoles ever during the time. Of course a lot of the games don't hold up today. Particularly the FMV games, but I can tell you that I enjoyed those immensely at the time and at least 12 year old me thought that was going to be the future. Outside of the FMV games, we had the best Sonic game, the game that made me fall in love with RPGs and is still one of my favorites to this day (Lunar Silver Star), great adventure games, regular Genesis ports but with great music (I loved playing Hook with the original John Williams soundtrack) and more. I can't make a case that it is worth a look now for someone but at the time I loved my Sega CD
oh yeah I remember we actually had the SEGA CD back in the day, I think we got it second-hand at a pawn shop. definitely had a few of the good ones! I do remember being blown away by sonic cd's anime intro and killer soundtrack! one note on snatcher, actually metal gear did come first, I think snatcher was kojima's very next game for the MSX and PC-88 computers in Japan. Snatcher appeared on both the SEGA CD over here and the PC Engine CD in Japan! there's a whole third act that wasn't even on the original MSX/PC88 versions! my dad loved the hell out of AH-3 thunderstrike, for sure! One other game I liked on SEGA CD was the conversion of Eye of the Beholder from the PC. that one they added a fully voiced intro and all new music by yuzo koshiro of all people! a pretty fun point and click dungeon crawler.
Man... these CD systems weren't much of an "upgrade" over vanilla 16-bit systems in the gameplay department. Fancier bells and whistles sure, but usually crappier gameplay or at best, same or similar gameplay as 16-bit systems. Some exceptions obviously, but overall I was more than happy with my SNES experience. Now that was the right amount of technology at the right time! :P Thanks again for the video Pat!
90% of them just had more bells and whistles. There were some that took advantage of the system and provided a unique gameplay experience but not that many. Thanks for watching
A CD system that gave worse picture quality than your TV? How did Sega manage that? Also had the Super CD released, (Nintendo and Phillips joint project) it would have potentially wiped the floor with the Sega CD....forget Final fight Sega should have personally overseen a conversion of Street fighter 2, knowing how popular it is, and the fact that they already had an in-house final fight beater in Streets of Rage!!!!
There was just so many bad I mean bad games on the cd add on that totally ruined the reputation of the system fast, my friends and I were too smart to be fooled by the cd add on and the 32x not to purchase them, always wondered why it wasn't it own system with a much better cpu not the genesis one and of course more ram
great video! Once RU-vid became this mainstream thing…. The SegaCD became this running joke! it was never truly bad (The internet and gaming community is in a echo chamber) the Sega CD had so many stand out HQ titles i snagged one very late but, managed to get lots of games brand new under $5 when stores were just clearing out the inventory (Rise of the Dragon is on the same lever as Snatcher but, doesn’t get nearly enough attention (Amazing game on every level) Dracula Unleaded is imo one of the absolute best FMV games ever (It’s so good and has this real slick organic feel) Double Switch is also a awesome HQ FMV game (It’s surreal and a bit silly but, actually deserves the cult following it’s gained
I've never played rise of the Dragon on the Sega CD but I did play it on the PC if I recall correctly. I always enjoyed my Sega CD, sure it was limited in its definitely wasn't utilized in the way it should have been but I still had fun with the various games made exclusively for the system. Thanks
When I got my Sega cd, the KB toys about 30 mins away had a bargain bin full of games for cheap. I bought several sega cd games over the next few months. Bram stokers Dracula, corpse killer, etc.. i miss it :(
