The Worst of the Worst on the Sega CD 

Yep. When you realize just how much and how long loading can get its almost not worth playing the games

Anything worth getting on the Sega CD is insanely expensive unfortunately. I'd love to own more but paying the prices asked for Popful Mail or Android Assault is ridiculous.

@@kennyaustin429 Yeah, it's nuts how greedy people are. They're out of their minds asking those astronomically high prices.

@@TheMultiGunMan Yeah. As someone who owns systems like this and collects games it becomes incredibly frustrating to deal with. Earthbound is a prime example, there's no reason why even a loose cartridge of that should go for as much as it does, it's not THAT rare. People horde these games in storage units for years I think and create artificial rarity so that they can sell them for ridiculous prices.

@@kennyaustin429 I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to collect for the Sega CD (and other consoles) and the greed and ridiculous prices make it very hard.

Touche!

Hell yeah!

hence why the nerd used it during his Dracula special. XD

Spiders! Punch 'em!

@@UltimateGamerCC Back when he was still good.

@@markvarley2962 he’ll yeah I want all that video game money back

I been taking mental health days since elementary school for video games.

@@azuresonic69 they’re how I cope man. Can’t go without em, I’ve tried

SEGA CD can handle Super-scaler games which I consider to be the best kind, and FMV which arent even really games. Really the best and worst in one system

@Wiegraf lol precisely, you should be going in with pretty low expectations.

Yeah, if nothing else, it's a pretty ambitious game with some cool ideas.

The title is as bad as the game😂

​@reeyees50 and now I know I'm an idiot bc I love the title 😂😂😂 it's SOOO bad

Yeah, it’s pretty cool.

Shallow, one-dimensional villain for a 2D game.

Sonic CD is awful. All the stages (bar palmtree panic) are poorly designed, the bosses are laughably easy and the special stages feel liike an afterthought. The soundtrack and animated sequences are top notch but it is well and truly eclipsed by 2, 3 and S & K

@@eponymous7910I’ve got to agree. After a few years, I came back to replay it as both Sonic and Tails, and it wasn’t that fun, especially when trying to get the good ending. It’s like playing a Mario Maker level compared to an official hand-made stage by Nintendo

@@eponymous7910 I've tried about half a dozen times to like Sonic CD. I just can't get into it. There are lots of little gripes I have with the game that, one by one, would easily come across as nitpicking. But together, I can't get past them. That said, I still have my physical copy of the Sega CD version I bought back in 2005. You know, just in case I'M the crazy one and there actually is something absolutely amazing about the game that I'm missing out on.

@@eponymous7910 Gotta agree. The levels feel like jumbled, unfocused mazes and that's my biggest problem with the game. It's not a bad game but compared to 2, 3 and Sonic and Knuckles it falls very short. I actually think I enjoy the first Sonic over CD too but probably because I just have more nostalgia for it.

@@Gatorade69 Sonic CD looks to me like Sonic 1.5, I think it's the backgrounds aren't as distinct from the foreground as they should be, also the whole animation you have to endure every time you time travel gets annoying fast. Also the fact that there are two different soundtracks, and that it came out AFTER Sonic 2 doesn't help. When Sonic 2 looks and plays much better than Sonic CD.

That would have been an amazing twist at the end lol - pump up all the games before revealing they're trash

Imagine if your birthday will be on this day!

Not everyone is a fan of April Fools though.

Totally agreed

Exactly. 😂

My favorite is all the times he claims someone "really shat the bed with this one"

Is that from anything in particular?

Revenge of Shinobi. Answered my own question.

@@korinkenneybrew3203 😅😅😅 Thanks for telling me because I didn't knw

He probably picked Sonic CD for worst scaling so that he could restrict Wild Woody and AB3 to the main categories he had in mind for those

It's because After Burner 3 is not even using any scaling. It's just displaying different sprites, giving you the illusion of scaling.

agreed and true.

14:34 Look at these "3D" buildings. They look like they are morphing like cartoons or something

Knowing how the Rayman 32x version had great backgrounds, I think the 32x CD platform could have been about as great as the very early Playstation titles, if not slightly surpassing them. Thing is, no titles exist which fully utilize the platform. And yes, I say that having owned a 32x, and having known it was an unreliable rushed out pile of garbage. But it really wasn't handled right. Never have I had another system that played some games and not others, because it was the hardware's fault. I'd only have a few individual games that didn't work, and out of over 400 cartridges in the collection that I once had, I only had a rare few that were really broken.

@@101Volts Nope. The Playstation is a very powerful system that can generate thousands of polygons and has 16 million colors. The SEGA CD 32X is just a bunch of 16 and 32-bit processors that cant even work in unison. The PS1 is like a jet engine and the SEGA is like 5 lawnmower engines taped together

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EOTB is a great game IMO, in fact a classic. But I can see why it’s on this list as every Western released RPG for the Sega CD ranges from good to great.. I mean, you try and pick a duffer from Lunar 1&2, Vay, Shining Force CD, Dark Wizard, Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master II. You need to look to the Japanese library for some of the lesser titles such as Funky Horror Band or Aisle Lord, and even those aren’t terrible.

@@elnoel1220 Aisle Lord and Arcus were great, I could get pretty far in them without knowing any japanese. Always wished they'd gotten fan translations.

I've never played EotB but the gameplay looks really cool from what I've seen. That being said, I don't think I would want to play it on a Sega CD. Did they just put the PC version on a CD, make no changes to accommodate the Genesis controller, and call it a day?

Its weird too SNES Mario Kart looks so cramped and pixelated to me now but at the time that little half screen felt like a wide open world, clear as day.

@@GGoAwayy Seems like It's that way with a lot of people and games in general. We go back to an older game we had played and in our minds they looked so much better.

@@Gatorade69 Maybe Im just old now and my old eyes cant focus on the harsh Mario Kart ground texture scaling like I could as a kid.

@@GGoAwayy Yeah, for me a lot of Mode 7 stuff is hard to look at and always has been. If you're a fan of emulation or are just interested a modder made a HD Mode 7 patch for the emulator Bsnes. It actually makes the mode 7 look decent. Or just search HD Mode 7 and you can find pics, a night and day difference.

@@GGoAwayy No doubt! My friend had a SNES with SMK and it was damned fun to play together and looked really cool at the time.

Are u kidding that game sucks!!!

@larry the Batman fan i agree it wasn't one of the best games for Mega CD but still is playable

Balance? He bigs up Nintendo constantly and has more vids bashing Sega than anything. Always refers to Nintendo as "quality" and says Sega were terrible.

Where's his videos bashing Nintendo? The guy is clearly Nintendo first like every American retro gamer, I'm going to make a European Sega channel show him how it's done.

@Computer Man - If you think that you haven't watched my videos.

Exactly! Keep going, people will be people at the end of the day. Hopefully the next day is better for you. I just have to ask, why bother trying to ruin a friendly comment?

Love CD games that are less advanced than the Cartridge version

Glad you like them!

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I had someone else do the intro. Astal is where the soundbyte is from.

Plumbers don't wear ties!

You know Plumbers Don't Wear Ties would be the first mention lol

I own the polymega, and after playing many Sega CD games (both retail copies,and ripped to cd), I've never had a problem with running any of them. On a side note, it works amazing with PS1, and Saturn emulation as well.

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As a PC user, I just get so frustrated at both SCD & SNES when I beat the game, because I want to continue the story in 2 & 3.

yes, but you have to understand that Eye of the Beholder was competing against Lunar and Lunar 2 for example, what RPGs was available for the SEGA CD were all great, he's just not a fan of the gameplay style, so it wound up here.

Eye of the Beholder is great, and the Sega CD version has better graphics and sound than PC or Amiga. It even has music by Yuzo Koshiro! The computer versions lack all music. Sega CD even adds an end game cinematic, PC was just a text box. That being said, the problem with the Sega CD is the controls. This game needs a keyboard with a numpad to be enjoyable. At least get the Sega Mouse, on a gamepad it's painfully clunky. I still like it and own it in my collection.

@@endymallorn Yeah, you can import your party straight to Eye of the Beholder 2 on PC/Amiga. It's a bit overpowered to start with a good party, but fun nonetheless. I haven't played EyoB3, as it's not by the same studio and considered pretty poor.

@@Renk1EotB3 is a different, to be certain, and it’s really not as good, but I don’t mind it. It still helps develop the Forgotten Realms and AD&D. And yes, if you carry a party through the whole campaign, they can get overpowered quick.

It was 1993 for the Sega CD version, but you're not wrong about it being impressive.

Yep this gave the Mega Drive a huge one up on the Snes.

The vehicle sequences in the Batman Returns Sega CD game were more impressive than the short Batmobile segment in Konami's Batman Returns SNES game but I think I still prefer the SNES game overall as a top-tier Konami beat 'em up.

@@SteveBrandon SNES beat-em-up + Sega-CD vehicle segments = the game that should have been.

Regardless I always felt sorry for people who had Sega. Snes rules, sega drools!

There's a ton of great JP only games, that never made it to the west sadly...., we in the west got stuck with the FMV craze, because "omg CDs are like mini laserdiscs, we can do movies", but the Sega Mega CD was never meant for FMV in the first place... As for Microcosm not using the redbook audio, that's because the 1x speed CD drive (which was normal at the time), it didn't have enough bandwidth to stream both video and redbook audio at once.

Revenge of Shinobi's ''Game Over'' tune.

Revenge of Shinobi-Game over

Improvements were arcade sound track as red book audio and baddies litterally say "Ow!" When they die lol

Fully agree that Sega and other publishers should have focused on original games for the Sega/Mega CD rather than a lot of ports of Megadrive games (or sometimes other platforms) with an extra level, some videos, and better music added to it. Or if they did a game based on a license of which already a game had been made off like The Terminator, that they make a complete new game from the ground up. I think Eye of the Beholder's main issue is that it was too much of a port of the Amiga/PC game. Best would have been to completely redesign and remake the gameplay from the ground up using the smaller number of buttons. Using the later six button controller would also have been of help. (I think there was a mouse peripheral and that Eye of the Beholder was compatible but there is still a lack of buttons) I feel the technically capabilities of the Sega CD was very underutilized in general by most publishers with the exception of publishers like Core Design with their more simulation style games. The same goes for the CD space. (I really wish Sega had used the space on the CD of Sonic CD to add more levels like the cut relic zone) FMV was a big trend during the 90s as the CD format became more popular, but the quality of these varied so drastically, both gameplay and the actual acting that I really wish that Sega and some other studios had jumped on it en masse. Personally I found those interactive video style games very uninteresting looking compared to games that now got some animation sequences added to regular enjoyable gameplay.

Thanks for the visit.

I read someone saying the game was programmed by one person, so it can get little slack for that.

This is the chess / sega crossover I have been waiting for!

You're right about them taking out 2-pkayer mode from GA. That was a real jerk move!

Yes.

Game over - Revenge of Shinobi.

Agreed. It looks nice for the time - but has one of the most unfair and frustrating bonus stage mechanic ever. :D

No interest in it.

Thanks for the kind message.

Yep it is

The game's story is rather slow at the start. It doesn't really pick up for a awhile and then gets a bit better towards the end. But it had a pretty cool and terrifying villain with Crystal Boy.

Game over - Revenge of Shinobi.

@@SegaLordX Thank you so much for the answer. Love your channel! Hope you cover the Activator one day.

That's why I usually recommend you at least try them out for yourselves. There's no such thing as a universally good or bad game.