22:09 , my favorite sports game on the system. NHL '94 CD. It felt so right, and I loved the new crowd audio, clear sound FX, and especially the organ music when it would kick in. NHL 94 CD was a 10/10. On the other side of the scale, Joe Montana NFL CD was a 1/10.

I was always a Nintendo kid (I had friends who had a Genesis, always preferred my SNES), but even now there’s just something about that model of the Sega CD double decker that still looks so cool to me.

I'd love to see somebody port some of the classic superscaler games to Sega CD, just to see what might have been.

Dude, Daytona USA 2 was finally ported to modern consoles. 😄 It'd be cool seeing you talk about it.

Simple though it may have been, I really loved that NFLs greatest game as a kid. It was like a choose your own adventure book in movie/football form. The answer is me! It was made for me! I wish they had put out a Giants one. Obviously now it has next to zero value but at the time, just having video on a disc was novel in and of itself.

We loved NHL 94 on Sega CD.The enhanced sound was great when run through a home stereo.Also,we used to joke that the wrestling games were the only games that were more real than the actual"sport".

You represent the best of us. Kee up the good work

Great times in the 1980s and 1990s with sports games

I knew I felt a new Sega CD video being uploaded today, in my innards.

It’s too bad the Sega CD couldn’t have sports classics like the regular Genesis did!!!! It really should’ve had a Greatest Heavyweights CD!!! The Sega Boxing Trilogy could’ve been complete!!!!

Wow, that World Cup USA 94 menu was on par with that Hanna Barbera Turbo Toons game on SNES in terms of understanding what the hell it was saying.

18:11 Really loving the denial of satisfaction here, nicely done 👌

12:16 Dick Miller. Nice 12:53 Slide tackle victim sells an ankle injury but then gets up 5 seconds later just fine when he realizes the refs are falling for his flop. Automatically makes this the most realistic fútbol game ever produced. Bravo

The base Genesis had sports games covered so well that anything on the CD was just extra. NHL '94 CD, Fifa CD and Sensible Soccer CD were nice updates to already excellent games. I think the Sega CD needed more good adventure games with voice acting and super-scaler games - games that the Genesis or the SNES couldn't do. Nice that SLX has now played at least a port of Sensible Soccer, a total Amiga classic.

FIFA 94 for Sega CD was awesome. I loved it.

The thing about Sensible Soccer/Championship Soccer 94 that makes it so good is how well it balances stats with arcadey gameplay and pacing. One of its best known mechanics is the aftertouch, where you can help raise the ball's altitude or lower it, and/or curve it left or right. Basically giving you solid ball control on all fronts

Cool fact...Michael Buffer announces driver intros at the NASCAR Bristol night race and yes he says "Let's get ready to rumble!"

My friends and I used to play sensible soccer on the Amiga back in the day. Full leagues after school each day. I still think it's the best Football game ever made.

NFL2k2 for Dreamcast is the finest football game of all time! Thanks Lordster! SEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

World Cup 94 is the only one of these I actually had, and not by choice. It was given to me by someone who knew I had a Sega CD and played soccer, so their heart was in the right place. The only really notable thing about it as far as I'm concerned is the music from The Scorpions.

Great Video. I remember most of these games on my Sega CD back then. And as a sports fan, some of the presentation upgrades and FMV additions seemed cool to me back then, but don't hold up today, except as a novelty and trip down memory lane, when minimal additions and FMV seemed cool.

Another great vid by the great Sega Lord X, I'm so glad I found this channel...I love your passion man

I always wanted to play Steel Cage, I played the other 3 and they were a lot of fun

That fmv basketball game on Sega CD will make you cringe so hard your skin will crawl, i feel so sorry for any kids who were basketball fans and unlucky enough to get that game, i even feel bad for the actors, they'll never live that down.

WWF Rage in the Cage was the very first thing i bought on ebay back in 1998.

Always here for your videos!

I know the Joe Montana game was bad but I can actually kind of see the basic starting point to what would become the NFL2k series in that.

Cool video. Sensible Soccer is the king of football games, absolutely eternal in two player.

Is a shame that the Captain Tsubasa game for the Sega CD is basically just the same version of the SNES, it follows the story of the manga pretty well, even going into the all-Japan part, even allowing you to create a custom character.

❤ the 2K games for DC 😊

Sensible Soccer looks good tbh. Nice touch using Bret Hart’s theme music towards the end. 💕

"Don't worry about me Ace, I've got a ride." 😂

Great times , great video

sega cd is awesome

NHL 94. I love you.

I had Links when I was 5. I had no idea how to play but I liked the FMV course fly-bys and the commentator

Cristiano Ronaldo was 11yo when the Mega-CD was discontinued :D Great vid!

Thank you for the upload

Sega was a budget system with great advertising. They sold add-ons to suckers but ruined their reputation and the company in the process. Meanwhile, SNES owners got quality without add-ons and Nintendo’s reputation is still intact to this day selling consoles like hotcakes.

I’m a simple man. I see SegaLordX and I click.

The Sega CD owns the 2 absolute best sports games of the 16-bit era: NHL 94 and Sensible Soccer. Both are enhanced versions of the Genesis and Mega Drive games and there’s no need to use the rotation or scaling effects (which are just gimmicks imho). These 2 games are so good people are still enjoying them to this day. I would argue that they are the best ice hockey and soccer games of all time.

My mans always uploadin on time

You should do a video on the worst load times. Games that were broken by bad loading

Pretty good graphics for the time.

@14:18 😂😂😂 yes! The lineman could have been receivers, corners because that speed everyone had!

Amazing video

NBA Jam is the only game worth playing nowadays. However, these games were instrumental in attracting people to buying the Genesis.

Aw yeah, Sega Lord uploaded.

Thank for the awesome content as always! I really enjoyed this. I only have NHL 94 and Nba Jam on Sega Cd but now I may have to grab Joe Walsh Football and the Fifa Soccer game to try. Any chance you could do this for the 32X? I know the library is small and it would be cool to get a deep dive from you on the sports outings on that add on as well.

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Bookmarking this video to download games to my Raspberry Pi Recalbox setup.

Thanks!

I had Joe Montana as a kid and "dealt with it" once I got College Football National Championship on Genesis, Joe never got played. CFNC is still one of the best football games ever made.

Glad I can still play these classics on my modded ps vita

How very heartening to hear a console gamer waxing positive about Sensi!

lmao, 20:35. You and me both dude.

Genesis and Sega CD were definitely the best sports game systems.

As a PC gamer since 1983 or so - MAN do I miss the Links games. I think the last actual Links game for PC was 20 YEARS AGO in 2003. Just, what??! Microsoft brings back all these franchises and what not, but not Links? They still own the name and rights to the IP, could you imagine a Links game in 2024 using UE5 or even Unity for that matter by a good studio? I would love a new Links game. And I LOVED all the old Madden, NBA, NHL, MLB games on the consoles in those days also. But man, Links (and Virtua Tennis!) were my jam.

Joe montana games are so classic Jordan vs bird was a great game it even had a 3 point and dunk contest

20:40 - I remember that era the Cowboys OWNED the Niners and overall record still do. One of the league’s oldest rivalries.

Always a SEGA kid we at least had the edge when it came to sports games the Madden franchise what the game to get and have I still go back and play Madden and NHL 94

I really enjoyed this one although these are games I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. The only one I have in my collection is the ''Rage In The Cage'' game and I always hated it. I like how the Japanese sports games all have background music playing in them, it spices things up a bit more. I recognised that actor in the boxing game, he was in The Terminator 1984, the guy that ran the gun shop. Thanks for the video SLX! Quality content that has never been matched.

I really gotta say for what ever reason NHL 94 has become more popular than when I was kid its even on gamepass lol. Im not a sports fan but iv always enjoyed the game.

If you want incredible sports action on CD, it's gotta be John Madden Duo CD Football, bay-bee! But for real, in addition to lacking support, I feel like the Sega CD really suffered from having new hardware that wasn't really powerful enough to do anything above what the base Genesis could do, well enough to constitute a genuine step up. The CD audio and added ROM size was nice, but FMV games fail to live up to what they try to be in concept, and the Sega CD's sprite scaling capabilities aren't quite there enough to do what Sega arcade hardware was doing at the time. In the end, the tools the Sega CD had to work with weren't enough to construct a satisfying next-gen experience, though that's what many of its titles went for, and failed. The PC Engine CD had the right idea. Rather than attempt new gaming experiences that wouldn't become realized until proper 32-bit hardware was on the market, the PC Engine CD took advantage of the virtually limitless ROM of a CD, Red Book audio that broke through the limitations of console-driven sound cips, and greatly expanded RAM to deliver some of the highest quality 16-bit experiences available at the time. Rather than build games around weak FMV or sprite scaling, PC Engine CD games, particularly the Super CD and Arcade Card games, gave us 2D, sprite based goodness with more variety, content, and stuff on screen than the SNES or Genesis were able to deliver on limited sized cartriges. What I would consider to be the best Sega CD games are those that play like the good stuff on the PC Engine CD. Action platformers like Popful Mail and graphic adventures like Snatcher showcase the kind of 16-bit content that Sega should have focused on. In hindsight, Sega should have saved money by cutting the FMV and scaling hardware and instead put out a Sega CD with more, and expandable, RAM to allow for more stuff on screen, more levels, more sprites, more detailed backgrounds, more frames of animation, 60fps, etc. Then, instead of just the base Genesis model 2, made the model 2 like the CDX or Turbo Duo, with all new Genesis consoles going forward including built-in CD functionality. Without the extra hardware for FMV and sprite scaling, the CD add on could have been much cheaper. Then, Sega should have put their effort into making great 16-bit style games that use the extra ROM and RAM to do more than the SNES could.

Thanks for braving the Japanese sports library, NOBODY covers that stuff.

Its like, one of the first videos ever that is about 1) sega cd 2) FMV, that doesn't mention 3) night trap. Confarts!

I had all those FMV games, and Slam City was easily the most playable one.

I had fifa international soccer, me and my buddies played it a whole lot. Had tons of fun playing tournaments against each other, always had a rule if there was more than 2 of playing that no one could be brazil or germany cuz they were so much better than every other team. Lol.

Sega Genesis the boxing games including Greatest Heavyweights and Boxing Legends Of The Ring

These sports games just highlight why the mega CD failed because pretty much all of these games were just enhanced mega drive ports with added, CD music and grainy FMV slapped on. And I agree with you in Sega and third-party developers doing the system dirty because it was clear. They were not interested in supporting the mega CD like they were with the mega drive. Yes, was good on but sadly it wasn’t as important to Sega as sonic was.

Sensible Soccer (Championship Soccer '94) did come out in the USA for the Super Nintendo

I had quite a few of those games unfortunately. sega cd sports game fans got the shaft. I do remember actually really liking world cup 94 with the music from the scorpions.

Links: the challenge of golf was a port of the MSDOS, which is likely why it’s so cumbersome of a game.

With only 256 k of ram to load data into the Sega CD was going to have a rough time. Sega really needed at least 512 and maybe even a megabit

The Sega hardware ports of Sensi are decent enough, but feel a bit more arcadey than the originals, especially run in NTSC mode where 60fps feels too fast compared to the 50hz the games were originally developed for. Also most fans of the series will point at "Sensible World of Soccer" which made the original entirely irrelevant on the native Amiga platform, yet never saw a console release. Aside from that a lot of these games either didn't add enough, or really showed the problems with the SegaCD and the fact that things like the rotation / scaling were only external RAM based processing effects that worked against the VDP rather than with it (the VDP RAM was internal to the chip, so no external chip could have fed data into it faster than the 68k, which meant 15fps at most for full screen use of the effects)

An NFL trivia game. Borrr-ring! LOL😂

Links: The Challenge of Golf is much better on MS-DOS, because it has proper mouse support and the slow paced gameplay isn't so much an issue on more capable DOS hardware, or DOSBox with the right settings. The Sega CD version is the worst version, because it's not optimized for game controllers, on a system that can't be upgraded and is running directly off of a CDrom with longer load times.

People still make roster updates to sensible soccer for the Amiga 1997 version of this

Sweet!

Best Sega CD Sports Games Bill Walsh College Football ESPN National Hockey Night ESPN NBA Hangtime 95 FIFA International Soccer NBA Jam NHL 94 WWF Rage in the Cage

90% of Saturn is super impressive! Great work!

I wonder if the sega cd would have done better if instead of focusing on really bad FMV games, they just focused on improving 16-bit games with better sound, graphics, and sparing fmv? Most of the best games on the sega cd did exactly this.

Playing most of these cd games on my Android phone. Through the emulator Lemuroid.

For NBA Jam, I personnally choose the 32X version over the CD game. The 32 bits upgrade makes a difference.

The Sega CD. Otherwise known as the beginning of the end for Sega. The only good thing they have done at all recently is to include the long lost arcade game, Daytona 2,in Like A Dragon Gaiden. Just goes to show that if it wasn't for the Yakuza games Sega wouldn't be relevant at all. Although I will say that I made a lot of money selling my entire Sega CD collection. $1,000 from Popful Mail alone. The power of nostalgia is pretty useful.

Not mentioned: NHL 94, the best hockey game on the Genesis gets ported to the Sega CD. Other than using real organ music and a revised roster, is there any differences?

Cool

Captain Tubasa is actually a real gem it's almost a RPG soccer game, on the NES it's called Tecmo cup soccer or something like that

I wonder if that Links game was a derivative of Links 386 on pc

I watched this to support your channel but I've hated sports games 💀 I'm the "rather go outside than play sports games" type of person

To give a different take, I would have preferred more international sports games and perhaps fewer American sports games on the Genesis/MegaDrive. A nice Curling game would have been good, more winter sports titles, cross country skiing, ski-jumping, that kind of thing. Would have loved some Rugby games perhaps too.

Despite being a huge SEGA fan, I never bought any of the sports games nor Sinic games, the biggest sellers of the Genesis and other SEGA consoles.

Sega cd quest for self discovery...they tryed many things and very little turned good.

The Sega CD was such wasted potential. Here they had a machine with more horsepower than either SNES or TurboGrafx CD,. More storage than the SNES. And what do they do with it? Nothing. I'm glad Nintendo didn't bother with a CD addon. It would have been a waste to have all that CD storage, but lose all the custom chips that they regularly included in the cartridges. They'd be losing hardware, in their case.

Imagine if FMV games actually became the next big thing and we were still playing them today. How about FMV red dead or Super Mario FMV World?

i have played FIFA International Soccer for the sega Genesis New York Islanders FTW

Ea sports released nhl 94 as well on Sega CD

How were the loading times in these games? How long did you have to wait for a match to load in, say, FIFA Soccer?

I liked first 3d football game, sega cd montana football

Rage in The Cage and NBA JAM are probably my most played Sega CD games. Most of the sports games are big disappointments. That NHL game does look good though. Might have to try it.