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 had an Ngage (the second model). Widely regarded as no good but the games were certainly serviceable. Full disclosure: I also enjoyed J2EE games on my feature (non-smart) phone.
Everyone knows the CDi and 3DO had different companies making hardware, but people mostly forgot that J2EE is also multi-vendor multi-hardware gaming ecosystem.
Also bought in to Ouya, via the kickstarter. I thought it would be a great way to learn how to build games on Android but from what I could tell it never had it's own SDK and, as a develop kit, wound up being more oriented to people who already knew how to write games for the OS than a gateway into learning. I bought maybe two games for it after all that.