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?
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!