Sega Arcade Power! - The System 16, 18, & 32 Series

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Sega Arcade Power! - The System 16, 18, & 32 Series

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Big compilation of over an hour of Sega arcade goodness. We look at the System 16, System 18, and System 32.
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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By: Jan Neves
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Intro by Evan S.
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Outro Animation by Kevin Bhall
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Episode Notes:
1. I used mostly MAME for this capture.
2. Fantasy Zone II DX The Tears of Opa Opa was released as a stand alone cab in Japan.
3. The System 16 hit the arcade nearly 3 years before Capcom's CPS and nearly 5 years before the Neo Geo.
4. I often wonder what the Genesis would have been like had its VDP been more like the System 16. That sprite scaling could have made a world of difference.
5. There were more System 16 titles than I covered here. More sports, puzzle, and Japanese-centric material.
6. Most of System 18 games are 3 and 4 player co-op.
7. Most System 18 games still have no modern console versions.
8. Laser Ghost had an energy gun that put you in mind of the Ghostbusters proton glider. I'm surprised Sega didn't get sued.
9. Despite being nothing like the arcade, Outrunners on the Genesis actually has a decent soundtrack. I use it here in the closing segment.
10. Outrunners is one of my favorite racing games ever. I first saw it at a summer camping retreat when I was 18. I dumped many credits into it that weekend.
11. I mentioned multiplayer numerous times during the System 32 segment because most of these games had it and the entire balance of the gameplay was designed around it. The more people you have often leads to a much better experience.
12. I always thought the Sega CD would have been a great place for many of the System 32 games. There would indeed have been a lot of concessions and cutbacks, but I feel many would have still been well worth the effort. Especially since the Sega CD had so few games that really showed off its scaling features.

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@tommyzorera 8 ай бұрын

You know, I can finally explain it: What you do best over other KZfaqrs is actually show off the games of the era in meaningful way. The correct amount of captured footage, the right amount of silence so we can hear the games.

@waxknucklebearingjuice5592 8 ай бұрын

Drunk af at 8 pm at a bar by myself on Christmas eve.... at least there's new Sega lord.

@Skelfi 8 ай бұрын

lol

@halfling_barista 8 ай бұрын

Loved this supercut. This helps me appreciate the Mega Drive/Genesis' initial market positioning with Sega's arcade ports, along with the thinking behind the Saturn's initial design. Altered Beast and Golden Axe are forever ingrained with my early days with the Genesis. I know I played Revenge of Death Adder in the arcade once or twice, but I didn't realize what an awesome looking game it was. What a unique look the System 32 games had!

@waxknucklebearingjuice5592 8 ай бұрын

I never even owned a system till Nintendo 64 , these videos are great man.

@mich722 8 ай бұрын

You started out on a great console at least. Mario 64 is one of my favourite games.

@popeyedoyle6360 7 ай бұрын

what did you do til than?

@radbuster4403 8 ай бұрын

Finally started a playthrough of Dragon Force 2 on the Steam Deck OLED, such a great way to play the Sega Saturn. Anyways, just wanted to say Merry XMas and Happy Holidays to Sega Lord X and all the Sega fans out there!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

You too bro. Thanks for the comment.

@cedric1138 8 ай бұрын

I did electronics when I left school and that system 16 board blows my mind 🤯

@analog_ape 8 ай бұрын

1 hour from SLX on Sega arcade hardware? Thanks for the Christmas gift, homie!

@fartknockerR17 8 ай бұрын

Thanks man. I really appreciate your stuff. I was around during the timeframe we are talking here, but I lived in the middle of nowhere, and never even saw a proper arcade until I was in my 20s!

@olly6412 8 ай бұрын

I really love sega’s arcade games along with snk and capcom.

@BobbyHo2022 8 ай бұрын

The arcades in the 80s and 90s were good times. I dont have much memories of the arcades in the 2000s and beyond.

@nicktronson2977 8 ай бұрын

I have memories of arcades in the 2010's, 2020's and 50's and 60's and 1800's.@@BobbyHo2022

@temjin44 8 ай бұрын

SLX just went through my childhood. Literally lived in the Arcades. 😊

@iansmith8783 8 ай бұрын

love the badass sega animations in the outro!

@venom74799 8 ай бұрын

My Christmas is complete. Thank you oh mighty lord and savior.

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Happy Christmas and thank you for watching.

@Thrashman138 8 ай бұрын

SLX just dropping a magical Christmas present on us. No big deal.

@shaunallingham1863 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the hard work and the content you put out. As an old school Sega fan I really enjoy these. Merry Christmas.

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Really appreciate the kindness. Thank you.

@davidt3563 8 ай бұрын

Those were the days!

@gamebriz4163 8 ай бұрын

Insanity that SEGA never ported some of these games to the Saturn, such a shame.

@starstarstar4643 3 ай бұрын

They could have even branded the games as something like "Sega Arcade Series" with a discounted price, maybe even 2 games on one disc...it would have boosted Saturn sales for sure

@samghost13 8 ай бұрын

That is something i want to build in the future! I am now building a nice all AMD custom Watercooled PC but the next project is Arcade Hardware for sure! Thank you for your passion and dedication to Sega! Let's Rock!

@Sinn0100 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas my friend to you and your family! Bro, I didn't know there was a second Phantasy Zone II release! It looks fantastic and I love Opa Opa's litter feet hanging out. With all the craziness on screen I bet they get whacked often.

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same to you! Happy new year too.

@Sinn0100 8 ай бұрын

@@SegaLordX :)

@starstarstar4643 8 ай бұрын

Sega should have released all of their system 32 games on the Neo Geo in the mid 90s and had Sammy do the publishing and/or development, a console where sprites were embraced in a rising "polygon or bust" era

@VOAN 8 ай бұрын

Sammy was a Pachinko machine company is the reason why. Also I doubt the NeoGeo would be able to run all Sega System 32 games as it hardly was able to handle polygon games. The NeoGeo Hyper 64 maybe but the install base for that was very small. Also a few of the Sega System 32 games which support more than 2 players won't be possible as the NeoGeo couldn't support more than 2-players.

@starstarstar4643 8 ай бұрын

@@VOAN Sammy published viewpoint on the neo geo in 1992 and sega genesis in 1994, which is why I specifically brought up Sammy (SegaSammy), and yeah it would be graphical scale backs but not many, and still would be worthy ports..and the system 32 didn't have polygon games, just sprite pixel games

@MaxAbramson3 3 ай бұрын

Most of these System 24 and 32 games would've worked just fine on the Sega CD. It still chaps my hide that SEGA demanded $300 for what they'd been promosing since 1987--the arcade experience at home--but we STILL didn't have it by 1994 even though the hardware was in front of us. That--more than any other single issue--is what killed SEGA for millions of game enthusiasts!

@Killbomb 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the quality content throughout the year. Merry Christmas, sir.

@NerdyScubaDiver 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely loved the Jurassic Park game. Many a parents' dollar was spent.

@dhall888 8 ай бұрын

For sure on that

@spencerstevens2175 8 ай бұрын

Every time you would walk by that machine the urge to spend your parents money would be uncontrollable

@mikec3260 8 ай бұрын

As always, a great overview of the history!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

@TheRetroMartin 8 ай бұрын

Some good stuff here. On the bright side at least the arcade Shinobi and Alien Syndrome got an emulated home release on the ps3/360 and acquivalent Megadrive/Genesis collections (later ones dropped them) along with a few other arcade ports like Tip Top and Altered Beast! Didnt know about Aurail, looks mint. Maybe if we are lucky an indie dev might attempt a Megadrive port one day!

@jasonz7788 8 ай бұрын

Great video thank you Sega Lord x

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

@Oysterblade84 8 ай бұрын

Loved watching these the first time and i'm gonna love the hour-long marathon. Thanks Sega Lord X.

@ronaldvanmierlo9744 8 ай бұрын

Pure Nostalgic feelings with this Awesome Episode .... THX

@StrelokBoggard 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the early Christmas present, God bless you and your family

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@ventura3600 8 ай бұрын

I wish I lived in a reality where Sega, instead of developing the Sega CD and 32X, had introduced an upgrade for the Mega Drive in its mid-life cycle, incorporating a NEC V60 and CD to pay homage to its System 32 board.

@SomeOrangeCat 8 ай бұрын

Sega is the ultimate "coulda woulda shoulda" story.

@Gorilla_Jones 8 ай бұрын

I loved my SegaCD. 🤷🏻 How old are you guys?

@the.real.Deano. 8 ай бұрын

I mean a mid cycle upgrade is basically what the 32x was except an end of life cycle, fighting against the cd and Saturn. It was always decent hardware and decent games, just always released either too early or too late competing against themselves.

@DP12321 8 ай бұрын

@@the.real.Deano.The 32X was sent to die because of Sega of Japan screwing over Sega of America. It should have never been a thing.

@AppliedCryogenics 8 ай бұрын

I bet there were factions within Sega that didn't want their home systems to compete too closely with their arcade systems.

@CoreySchulerMD 8 ай бұрын

Drink every time Sega Lord X says "Super Scaler". 😵‍💫

@nova8243 8 ай бұрын

Merry Xmas!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same. Thank you.

@honotron 8 ай бұрын

This video was an xmas day treat for me 😁

@RetroManiac7777 8 ай бұрын

Love your content 👍🏾 keep up the great work

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kindness.

@craigf2832 8 ай бұрын

@@SegaLordX yeah really good vids

@nnaheim. 8 ай бұрын

@@craigf2832Hows Incle Ian Craig?

@carlosgarza329 8 ай бұрын

Thanks as always, Homie!! Happy Holidays!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same to you!

@benfrancois7856 8 ай бұрын

I want a sega nostalgic memory is worth a lot

@barryklinedinst6233 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Sega Lord X. I'm an old gamer. I'm 61. So Sega was doing great with the Genesis and saturn . Of course the Dreamcast when I was young. What a great time it was to be a gamer. I had Turbo graphics 16 a NES and a Genesis when they were all there was . The guy at gamestop used to say here's the guy with all 3 consoles. Then came Sony and Microsoft. And that killed Sega pretty much. Now it looks like they are doing what us fans wanted for years. Bringing back old games. Let's hope they don't blow it

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Happy holiday my friend. I hope Sega gets it right this coming year, myself.

@greenEYEDdj 8 ай бұрын

Arcade boards were so big.

@thecunninlynguist 8 ай бұрын

Merry Segamas

@perlichtman1562 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for putting this together - I knew about most of the console titles but the arcade releases were almost all new to me. I completely agree with you about 2024: here’s hoping Sega understands the expectations they’ve created, give the titles TLC and avoid microtransactions. Also, I’m really looking forward to ReFantazio.

@britzman9905 7 ай бұрын

I love SEGA Lord's videos! He makes me relive my childhood every week!

@NickTaylor-Phantom-Works2 4 ай бұрын

One of only 3 channels where i hit like every single time, on every upload.

@liamconverse8950 8 ай бұрын

Have you done a video on the System 1? There seems to be some interesting history behind that one

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Not yet. I might do the older System boards all in one video.

@ShanGamer1981 8 ай бұрын

Lots of titles never knew of! Thanks Sega Lord and merry Christmas!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

No problem! Have a great holiday.

@mehere3013 8 ай бұрын

sega , the KING of arcades

@skins4thewin 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if it was Michael's idea to have him rescue children in his game 😅

@produKtNZ 8 ай бұрын

27:54 "MoonWalker: A side scrolling beat-em-up where you are out to save children.... for yourself." :D

@skins4thewin 8 ай бұрын

Whoa.... If Aurail was just the 1st Person stuff, I bet it would have been a bona-fide hit in the Arcade at the time!

@eppskevin 8 ай бұрын

That outro though… MAD dope

@mercster 8 ай бұрын

Great retrospective. Merry Christmas, sir. Hope you and yours are well during this holiday season. SEEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

@philosophyoftrucking 8 ай бұрын

Awesome arcade legacy.

@yenk82 8 ай бұрын

I've played Spider-Man the Videogame back in summer 1994 with other two friends, it was a very good game, really colorful, well animated and funny

@guve25 8 ай бұрын

Apparently I grew up during the System 18 hey day. Great time.

@Vitor-fb4rh 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant video, thank you.

@mjdf122 8 ай бұрын

8 16 32 64 128 bits the good old days

@BobbyHo2022 8 ай бұрын

Sega arcade games in the 80s and 90s along w the release of the Sega Genesis were magical times for me. Sad how they got outmatched by Sony.

@Seb66 8 ай бұрын

Merci Christmas my friend 🎉 Long live to you!

@projectmayhem6898 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

You bet!

@tireur_milan 8 ай бұрын

Merry christmas to you all Thanks for this video ,a nice gift 👍

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same to you!

@ge0ne0 8 ай бұрын

This video is a great example of why emulation should always be legal and allowed. We have many incredible arcade classics that have been lost to history. These games have inspired generations of developers and were a piece of the foundation that made video game creation what is today. Without emulation many of these games would be unplayable and lost forever.

@kbutseriouslywhatsthisonmyuser 8 ай бұрын

Isn’t emulation already legal tho? Or are you talking about how to get the roms?

@Adamtendo_player_1 8 ай бұрын

Happy holiday, Sega Lord X.

@napoleonfeanor 8 ай бұрын

I'm German so I never saw an arcade in my life so this is all quite exotic to me

@martinmcfly4658 8 ай бұрын

thanks from New Zealand,

@skins4thewin 8 ай бұрын

Merry Xmas everyone!!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Have a good one.

@sheppo 8 ай бұрын

Those elephants in outrunners were travelling at 200kph!

@DerivitivFilms 8 ай бұрын

Dark Edge is the grandmother of all Namco style Anime Fighters like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, One Piece Burning Blood, My Hero One's Justice, and the Dragonball games.

@Shannon-ul5re 8 ай бұрын

What a great review, the games for the system 18 and 32 boards look amazing, I really wish sega had stuck with there sprite power of the sega Saturn instead of getting court up in all of the 3D race.. they clearly knew the power that was needed to bring 3D to the console and it wasn’t there yet and design a 2d power house that really wasn’t used in the way of the system 32. I would have been all over those games.

@denraimei32 8 ай бұрын

I really hope to see Altered Beast as a Genesis Mini Mark V port.

@EhHold 8 ай бұрын

I was always baffled why Sega didn’t port many of these games to the Sega CD instead of the FMV trash and whatnot.

@SpaceHCowboy 8 ай бұрын

Happy Holidays to you Sega Lord!!

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same to you!

@ArchLightning001 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas everyone!

@rafaelraad555 8 ай бұрын

37:57 good ol 1980’s ❤

@orderofmagnitude-TPATP 8 ай бұрын

Aurail is amazing. Love that game. Never seen it in the wild.

@gracekim25 8 ай бұрын

Arcade ❤

@TurboXray 8 ай бұрын

the first versions of system-16 arcade boards might have had a lot of colors, but you ONLY had 7 colors per tile 8x8. That's pretty low! It might have a lot of palettes, but you're limited to just 7 colors per tile... that's what gives the games a unique look. Sprites had more colors tho (14 colors per hardware sprite). IIRC, I think later model rev B boards boosted this limit to 15 colors per tile (same as the Genesis).

@Adamtendo_player_1 8 ай бұрын

Sega should have gone the Neo Geo way with the system 16, 18 and 32 with the Mega Drive being the more affordable option.

@TurboXray 8 ай бұрын

@@Adamtendo_player_1 It's difficult to know what Sega's expectations where back them. Remember, before the MD took off in North America and Europe, Sega wasn't that successful as Nintendo in the market (at the time of the MD development). It's known what they expected for life expectancy for the system - because that probably would have played more into it's capabilities if they had thought it was going to last longer and go head to head with newer systems. Highsight is always 20/20. They could have made the full 12bit color palette available to the MD (the DACs are there). NEC could have made the full 32k color palette available too (the DACs are also there for it). Lot's of things they could have done.

@Bowen_Landry 8 ай бұрын

Thank for the vid, and Merry Christmas sir

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Happy holidays!

@randy7894 8 ай бұрын

Pinned for later to watch. Love your video's man. Happy hollidays.

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same to you. Hope you enjoy the video.

@travissawatzky5205 8 ай бұрын

"Steaming pile of unicorn shit" omgosh bahahaha

@Sinasi08 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Sega Lord X 🎉

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

And you. Hope your holiday is great.

@cubeflinger 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Mr X

@FloridaEbikes 8 ай бұрын

Yup

@stephenschenider4007 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas brother god bless.

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Same to you!

@DJTwenty2020 8 ай бұрын

Stellar work!

@dexocube 8 ай бұрын

I love Sega.

@MadsonOnTheWeb 8 ай бұрын

Most of these early arcade games that has a home version looks and plays more similar to the Arcades on the SMS

@scorponicdragonm.p.t. 7 ай бұрын

I was just playing through a scenario in my head where Sega won the console war and not Nintendo. I wonder where we would be as far as gaming goes today?

@jessehayes8052 8 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Sega Lord X, hoping for a Spikeout 1+2 Slashout, and Spikeout Battle Street compilation video

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

I’ll look into it.

@PaladinDusty 8 ай бұрын

I was a Nintendo kid at home, but I was a Sega kid in the arcade.

@glight23 8 ай бұрын

Much respect from your Latino Brethren out here in AriZona.

@DawezyDRK 8 ай бұрын

Gotta say the majority of titles on display here I only ever saw the SMS or Mega Drive versions, since the arcade was so expensive for a lil kid with no money back in the 80s.. and what money I did get I saved, got the carts over time instead. Bit of a mind blown moment here seeing the difference compared to the ports.. EDIT: Sega really had no mercy for the epileptics out there (me included) with all the regular flashes huh, bit of a struggle sometimes to watch.

@jmcclain8237 6 ай бұрын

When you look at Genesis games like Red Zone and Toy Story, I wonder if some of these games could have received decent home ports.

@Yeahhhhthisisgood 8 ай бұрын

The GOAT SLX

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the compliment. Happy holidays.

@magiccardmaker3588 3 ай бұрын

One day I want to be able to code on the Sega Genesis so that I can port these games over to it.

@videogameobsession 8 ай бұрын

I did enjoy Sega MVP Baseball, but it's a good example of just how impressive SNK's Neo•Geo games were for their time. Take MVP, from 1989, and compare it to Baseball Stars Professional, on the Neo•Geo, released only a year later. Not only was it leagues ahead of most arcade games of its time, in terms of huge animated players, highly detailed face pics for every player, awesome stereo music, and tons of CD quality digitized speech, but getting games like that for a home system (in 1990) was simply amazing. Though it did take away a little of my hype for the SNES. :) MERRY CHRISTMAS, guys!

@jasonleveck8546 8 ай бұрын

Duke Nuke'em 3D was a cool game!

@MaxAbramson3 3 ай бұрын

Slipstream and Daytona USA could've and shouldve been brought home to the Genesis. They would've been 40 meg carts, but could still couldve been big sellers.

@EmperorMegas 8 ай бұрын

'Fantasy Zone II' on the Master System is a Top 3 of all time favorite of mine. It's better than the original in every way IMO. The stages look better. The songs are awesome. The multiple zones in each stage is great. The story is better and ending is bittersweet, there are bills in addition to just coins (which float down like actual paper)... It's just such an awesome sequel.

@simonrobinson1566 5 ай бұрын

It's especially strange that Sega didn't boost their Saturn games roster by converting the System 32 titles, given that we now know they were making a loss on every Saturn console, so needed a lot more software sales to break even. Goldenaxe is the really obvious omission, but I think a lot of the others would have worked, perhaps as 'Sega Sports' compilation titles.

@TurboXray 8 ай бұрын

Okay, but Riot City did get a home port.. on the PC-Engine. Crest of the Wolf / Riot Zone.

@SegaLordX 8 ай бұрын

Not the same game. Lots of changes there. Reimagining if anything.

@TurboXray 8 ай бұрын

@@SegaLordXStill a port tho. Just a remix. And the arcade graphics they were changing/updating.. are in the ISO data tracks of the game (i.e. the original graphic assets).

@joek1978atyahoo 8 ай бұрын

Mr Lord X, do u play any of those emulator boxes? If so which one? Have a merry Christmas

@chrissymc886 8 ай бұрын

Waldo was originally a British creation and was always called Wally. It was only in the US they changed the name to Waldo, no idea why. I know you have the name Wally over there thanks to Wally West of The Flash fame.