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 have a Turbografix CD, I bought it off a coworker second hand in the late 00s though.
And three Dreamcasts. Found em in a dumpster, no joke. Absolutely disgusting to clean, but all of them worked after. I later modded one to be an SD loader. I actually don't own any real Dreamcast games though.
Didn’t know there was a turbografix cd. What kind of games did it have?
Not a lot outside of japan. Only CD games I have for it in English are Fighting Street and Monster Lair
In terms of Japanese Games though I have Dracula X: Rondo of Blood which is the Symphony of the Night Prequel. I think it got ported to Super Nintendo, but stripped down, and without the CD quality sound obviously.
Other than that I have Valis III and IV, which are pretty good beat 'em ups that were also released on Sega Genesis,
And Tokimeki Memorial which is the game that created that dating sim genre (The RPG style one where you level stats, not visual novels). It later got stripped down a ported to the Super Nintendo as well, but also got ported to the PlayStation.
And also Ys I & II but those don't use the CD drive.
Yes not only without the sound but the CD version even had animated cutscenes! (these were included in the PSP version too)
There was not only a CD-ROM add-on but an Arcade Card add-on on top of that. Later the TurboDuo was released with the CD-ROM included. You can get a PC Engine mini to get a good sampling of the system's games including its various addons.
https://www.konami.com/games/pcemini/lineup/jp/en/
In that list the carts with a "Super CD-ROM" logo were on CD. Games with the HE logo are the arcade card games I believe. As you can see Kojima's famous Snatcher was released on CD, as was Akumajou Dracula X aka Castlevania Rondo of Blood.
In Japan the CD-ROM became the more popular version but the US TG16 failed before that could happen.
Cool!