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?
Two things killed it in my region. First was PS2 hype. EVERYONE was saving their money because the PS2 and the "emotion engine" were supposed to blah blah blah. Consoles are expensive. The second thing was piracy. I'm usually the first person to say people should hoist the black flag, but the GD-ROM was cracked VERY early in the DC's life. It was commonplace at my school for kids to have whole CD towers full of cracked Dreamcast games, and everyone was trading and buying copies during lunch and recess. The kids who had broadband at home were downloading DC isos and making bank burning discs and selling them for 5 bucks a pop. This was in ONE school in the midwest US. I can't even imagine how rampant it was elsewhere.
Do you think it went uncracked because it was a very difficult crack, or because the Dreamcast was already dead by then, so what's the point?
My apologies, it appears I read your post above incorrectly!