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?
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.
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Shenmue was pretty comfy as a Japanese life sim. Just a normal sleepy neighborhood and not some big city like Tokyo.