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?
My cousins had a Sega CD. I remember playing it a ton as my older cousin used to essentially babysit us that summer after it came out so we'd go to their house and I played Sonic CD a ton. That's the only game I remember.
I've had tons of consoles, but not really before I was a teenager and could scrape together money. I'd buy things well past their prime or broken and try to fix.
Short lived if these are close enough to count: Dreamcast and a Wii U. I bought the Dreamcast for peanuts in the early 2000s. I really wish I'd kept it. I had a ton of games because they were dirt cheap at the time. Some of which are far from dirt cheap now if I'd still had them. The Wii U wasn't really that bad either, just a victim of timing and marketing. The games library included a ton of things that Nintendo sold on the Switch for full price again later.
The console I wish I had kept is the PS2. They are expensive now
Still have mine! It holds up very well still.
Nice!
I remember I bought a broken one off eBay for $40 and replaced the laser in it for not a ton more probably $30. I kinda gave it to my brother in a way in that he still lived with my parents and I left it at their house and talked them into getting him Gran Turismo 4 for Christmas that year. Not a bad deal, PS2s were still quite expensive then and we probably weren't getting one otherwise.