I have an X'Eye, but I really want a model 1 system, I love how it looks with the genny.What exactly is wrong with the Model 1 Sega Cds, why are they unreliable?
Best boot music ever.
This was easily the game I played most on the system:
If I'm not mistaken they all had better color and a higher resolution.How did the 32XCD versions of those games compare to the original Sega CD versions?
We gotta get a better title banner set up for you
Also people need to play Dungeon Explorer!
Just listen to this:
https://youtu.be/aIvLCzO47BY
https://youtu.be/xwE9W_Gljlg
Tell me you don't feel like going on an adventure.
I'm not terribly fond of the game, but it has an OST that is criminally underrated.
She was also a playable secret character in the latest Elevator Action for PS3.Did you know Time Gal was in a Wii game?
Yep, Reika 'Time Gal' Kirishima.
Who wants some Yuzo Koshiro with CD quality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T53N_JS1lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcIkUlUw1RU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EDVSyLTmkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ex3kmLkkM
I got to borrow a Sega CD and a near complete library over the summer, and I made a post about it after I completed about a dozen games (I was in the middle of Snatcher when I made the post), most of them the FMV (with the exception of Jurassic Park). Only one person responded to the thread. Maybe I posted the thread at a bad time, or maybe I wasn't fawning enough over the crappy Sega CD games that I played at the time. I'll say, Night Trap is overrated, no one talks about Wirehead and Double Switch, and Sega CD is not fun to play, but it is fine camp.
It was a real great and interesting experience. I sent him an N64 with a ton of games and he responded with the Sega CD. It was like some sort of cultural exchange since he wasn't into Nintendo and I hate(d) Sega. t got to play:
Corpse Killer
Double Switch
Time Gal
Night Trap
Panic
Wirehead
Sewer Shark
Jurassic Park
Snatcher
Ecco the Dolphine
Hook
Potful Mail
Shining Force
Silpheed
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Sonic CD
and Soul Star
Honestly, after finally playing a lot of the Sega CD highlights, I'm even more befuddled by those that liked the system. The load times, the crap games... I don't get it. Even Snatcher was a bit of a disappointment as a point and click game; it's an interesting story, but as someone who plays a lot of these types of games, it's not an amazing point and click game. I mean, why do I have to investigate something 7 or so times just to get the correct response and trigger the next event? I like Blade Runner, which the game is ripping off, but. Eh. I dunno. The soundtrack to Ecco is worthy of its reputation, I'll admit.
I kind of wish more people responded to my initial LTTP Sega CD thread, and maybe I'd post more thoughts on it.
So what are some of the JRPGs we missed out on / never hit outside of Japan that were Sega CD exclusive? I know theres gotta be a few?
Why no love for Batman Returns the 1st game to really show off what the Mega CD hardware could do with scaling and rotation that most Arcade games at the time didn't do.
The game looked stunning and was like having a Arcade game in your own house and with the tight checkpoints and time limits it played one like too.
Such a shame everyone goes on about the platform bits , when the driving part was a gaem in its own right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSovxUN8Zg
So what are some of the JRPGs we missed out on / never hit outside of Japan that were Sega CD exclusive? I know theres gotta be a few?
I got to borrow a Sega CD and a near complete library over the summer, and I made a post about it after I completed about a dozen games (I was in the middle of Snatcher when I made the post), most of them the FMV (with the exception of Jurassic Park). Only one person responded to the thread. Maybe I posted the thread at a bad time, or maybe I wasn't fawning enough over the crappy Sega CD games that I played at the time. I'll say, Night Trap is overrated, no one talks about Wirehead and Double Switch, and Sega CD is not fun to play, but it is fine camp.
It was a real great and interesting experience. I sent him an N64 with a ton of games and he responded with the Sega CD. It was like some sort of cultural exchange since he wasn't into Nintendo and I hate(d) Sega. t got to play:
Corpse Killer
Double Switch
Time Gal
Night Trap
Panic
Wirehead
Sewer Shark
Jurassic Park
Snatcher
Ecco the Dolphine
Hook
Potful Mail
Shining Force
Silpheed
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Sonic CD
and Soul Star
Honestly, after finally playing a lot of the Sega CD highlights, I'm even more befuddled by those that liked the system. The load times, the crap games... I don't get it. Even Snatcher was a bit of a disappointment as a point and click game; it's an interesting story, but as someone who plays a lot of these types of games, it's not an amazing point and click game. I mean, why do I have to investigate something 7 or so times just to get the correct response and trigger the next event? I like Blade Runner, which the game is ripping off, but. Eh. I dunno. The soundtrack to Ecco is worthy of its reputation, I'll admit.
I kind of wish more people responded to my initial LTTP Sega CD thread, and maybe I'd post more thoughts on it.
Sure, its one of those systems where you had to be there at the time. Megadrive and SNES were getting old and we had this hole to fill, Neo Geo was too expensive, 3DO was a year away, Jaguar was coming but still a ways off. Mega CD had some great games for that time, amazing audio well beyond the current console crop and games like Thunderhawk and Silpheed just weren't being done on any other system, not to mention Sonic CD and closest arcade conversion of Final Fight.
My Sega CD collection is tiny. Just got an NTSC one to import Lunar but apart from that I only really have Sonic CD and a Compilaiton disc. That's also a unique limited edition version of Snatcher.
Why no love for Batman Returns the 1st game to really show off what the Mega CD hardware could do with scaling and rotation that most Arcade games at the time didn't do.
The game looked stunning and was like having a Arcade game in your own house and with the tight checkpoints and time limits it played one like too.
Such a shame everyone goes on about the platform bits , when the driving part was a gaem in its own right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSovxUN8Zg
Released: Dec 12, 1991 (JP), Oct 15, 1992 (US), 1993 (EU)
Units Sold: 2.7 million (end of 1994)
A few VNs, namely a Urusei Yatsura one(unless that was Saturn?). I don't recall too many TBH, Sega CD wasn't nearly as huge in Japan as the Saturn.
I think we were pretty lucky, by and large.
Shadowrun is more of a Snatcher-like than an RPG(though it does have SRPG battles). We'll get it out there eventually.
This game has an amazing soundtrack. Seriously.
The SegaGenesisMega Drive was already pretty niche in Japan, so I could only imagine that theSegaMega CD was even more of a niche product. The PC-Engine CD-ROM probably has a larger selection of JRPG's released for it overall in Japan, because it really was a more popular alternative.
The Sega CD version of Snatcher never saw a Japanese release as there was already a port of it on the more popular PCE CD-ROM that was released a couple years earlier.
But with that said, there still are a few obscure RPG's that were left behind in Japan that weren't picked up by Working Designs or Sega. Looking at this list of Wikipedia these are the few that I can spot:
A-Rank Thunder Tanjouhen
After Armageddon Gaiden
Alshark
Aisle Lord (this one is a first person dungeon crawler by Wolf Team)
Arcus 1-2-3 (another first person dungeon crawler, also by Wolf Team)
Burai
Cosmic Fantasy Stories
Daihoushinden
Dark Wizard
Death Bringer: The Knight of Darkness (another FP Dungeon Crawler)
Fhey Area
Genei Toshi: Illusion City
Magical Girl Silky Lip!
Record of Lodoss War
Seima Densetsu 3×3 Eye
Shin Megami Tensei
This was easily the game I played most on the system: