Ran across an article about that controversial game Night Trap on the Sega cd and it reminded me of middle school when I got straight A’s (a rarity for me) because my parents said if I did I could get a gaming system so I picked the Sega cd since it was the newest thing. We get to the checkout and my dad sees on the box that it can’t run unless it’s connected to the Genesis. So we got that too. Sega cd flopped and I ended up playing the Genesis until I got a job in high school and got the PS1.
Any of y’all ever have a Sega cd, Neo geo, turbo Grafix, lynx, CD-I, etc?
I had a Dreamcast.
Fav game? I’d have to go with Mortal Kombat Gold, Soul Caliber, or Sonic Adventure (either)
Edit: crazy, I don’t recognize a single one of the games you guys have said, even though I had a stack of like 50 jewel cd cases of burned Dreamcast games
Im also retroactively adding Jet Grind Radio and Blue Stinger to my list, maybe VirtualOn too
Grandia 2 by far
Illbleed.
Starlancer
Oddly, my favorite was (and is) Hoyle Casino. Kid me learned Blackjack that way.
Crazy Taxi was great too, but I only ever had it on the PS2.
I still don’t understand how that system failed. I need to buy that Japanese rpg
It was also sabotaged by retailers themselves discouraging people from buying it because the PS2 was "right around the corner." It was a bizarre scenario where, rather than just push what was already on their shelves and available, they'd steer you towards something they couldn't even sell you yet.
Which was really too bad. The Dreamcast, despite its flaws (and the idiotic backwards controller cords), was a much nicer piece of hardware than the PS2.
Sega tend to sabotage it's own console releases, wouldn't surprise me the retailers were also tired of their shits and would rather sell consoles with more reliable production and distribution and probably higher profit margins
Thanks. But since then I wonder if Sega has ever considered x getting back into consoles
If you mean Shenmue then yes get it. It's very janky by modern standards but if you can play it with an understanding of the time and place it was out it's a spectacular game. I was mainly into the general Dreamcast library, arcade stuff, car games, etc. at the time. A friend from work gave me Shenmue, and it was like nothing I'd played before. I ended up importing the PAL release of the sequel to be able to play it even.
That’s it!
Shenmue was pretty comfy as a Japanese life sim. Just a normal sleepy neighborhood and not some big city like Tokyo.
Two things killed it in my region. First was PS2 hype. EVERYONE was saving their money because the PS2 and the "emotion engine" were supposed to blah blah blah. Consoles are expensive. The second thing was piracy. I'm usually the first person to say people should hoist the black flag, but the GD-ROM was cracked VERY early in the DC's life. It was commonplace at my school for kids to have whole CD towers full of cracked Dreamcast games, and everyone was trading and buying copies during lunch and recess. The kids who had broadband at home were downloading DC isos and making bank burning discs and selling them for 5 bucks a pop. This was in ONE school in the midwest US. I can't even imagine how rampant it was elsewhere.
Do you think it went uncracked because it was a very difficult crack, or because the Dreamcast was already dead by then, so what's the point?
I enjoyed it. I lost it after leaving the military, I think I left it at a buddies' house.
They were sued by Nvidia (don't know what they were called then), when Sega Japan switched the hardware after telling Sega America it was their call on final specs. Then they were still carrying the debt from the Saturn, and several other failed side projects. On top of that, AT&T reneged on an internet contract, and EAs president refused to allow their games on the console.
It has the superior Tony Hawk 1 and 2. The controller feels better with it as well.
Power Stone is still a big favorite of mine.
I think it has the better Crazy Taxi as well.
Phantasy Star Online was great, but also destroyed the brand.