Sega's earlier years were so impressive. I feel like America really missed out under the cloud of NES hype.

WIll do, I have that one in mind for this year 🍻

Thrasher Skate and Destroy is similar

I didn't but that's neat. Not something I'd expect from Nintendo normally

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Can’t forget Steep, such a fun game. And riders republic following in its footsteps

I don't want money. The owners can have it.

The idea behind not being able to play videos came from a lot of games that were ported removing the videos to save space.

That makes alot more sense, it would be cool for people to rebuild the games for like summercart64's or something

Sega was working on their own VR project that was quietly cancelled around the time the virtual boy was announced. The difference in quality between them was staggering. Sega had full color and head tracking. We all know how the virtual boy ended up. This channel did a video emulating the unreleased game prototype from the Sega VR using an HTC Vive kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aM2omNqSnqmYiZc.html *edit* To elaborate further, Nintendo in November 1994 was making wild claims like having a full 3D VR experience that didn't rely on any console to play. Sega was deep underwater with funding already because of the releases of the Saturn and 32X, so when Nintendo claimed to have this amazing all-in-one device, Sega just ate it and cancelled the project silently. Nobody can confirm the real reason without asking the person who finally made the decision to pull the plug, but it's not that hard to see that it was Nintendo's claims that made it happen. Why would anybody buy a VR headset that was stuck to a console when the Virtual Boy could be taken anywhere? Short answer is; they wouldn't. This was just one thing Sega literally couldn't afford to compete with, even if they had the better product. The damage Nintendo did to the VR market is just an extra that kept everybody else held back by well over two decades. VR didn't recover again until after 2012 and is still the smallest market in the whole video game industry.

@RedBerylFTW ok I gotcha. Tbh I do like the Virtual Boy despite all of it's flaws and that it held back VR. It was the last Nintendo released brainchild of the late Gunpei Yokoi, the original successor to the Gameboy and more powerful hardware than the SNES, but the fact that Nintendo advertised it as a portable console when it really wasn't and a virtual reality device when it wasn't supposed to be, along with red and black monochrome being hard on the eyes, turned it into a laughing stock. Not to mention it was rushed out to market despite Yokoi stating it wasn't ready. Granted the blunder of the 32X and the Saturn's disastrous launch were on Sega more than anything, but watching that video showing Sega's own VR tech I could see how people who are into that would be angry that it didn't get a chance in the market

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So really Nintendo was just avidly against rentals because they made the money once and didn't get royalties per rental. The former president of Nintendo of America once called it "commercial r*pe" not long before that happened. After the public crapstorm over that idea, it came out that Nintendo's real lawsuit was about the game manuals. They saw that their copyright was being infringed by blockbuster who was reproducing manuals to include with their games. The news outlets wide had pretty much already made it out like the lawsuit was based on that comment, and I don't blame them. Nintendo made it look like a direct attack on the video game rental market. I'll definitely get to 1+2 soon. I only have a little bit of that series left to cover.

​@@RedBerylFTW Renting was one of the BEST things to happen to video games. In a time when reviews didn't exist or were hard to find, renting existed to ensure you didn't waste 40 or 50 big ones on a steaming turd. Then again, it did contextualise developers making ludicrously hard games, fearing that gamers would finish their short games in a single rental or two. 😂