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?
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