Most people did seem to only know about the shitty games (and there sure were some) even back when the Sega CD was new. I had plenty of good stuff on Sega CD..

@@anonamatron the problem was marketing. Sega of America put all effort in propaganda for the shitty FMV games but for the good ones?None. The same happened by '94 with some japanese Genesis games as well.How a masterpiece like Castlevania Bloodlines received no marketing and sold such few copies in the west?

@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 Yeah, it's too bad. I don't think I did much more than read Sega Visions at the time and look at games in the store. The real turning point was when I was at a used game shop looking at Sega CD stuff and the girl working there said "do you like RPGs?" and popped in Lunar, which I'd never once noticed in a magazine or store. That was a quick buy. That made me aware of Working Designs. Most of my friends were big into Final Fantasy, and were pretty amazed by Lunar. Less so by Vay but it was still a cool looking RPG they didn't have access to. Was still having a good time on the Sega CD before noticing those RPGs though.

@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 True. I was a victim of that marketing campaign as I ended up with a bunch of crappy FMV games but luckily I did end up with some great ones like Terminator and Shining Force CD

I regret dismissing the Sega CD after watching AVGN's "review" of the platform. Yeah, there's a lot of poop on SCD, but there are some fun games too. Too bad all these games are now super expensive, but at least you can buy quality reproductions to still have physical media.

Hello, you!

cool trick!

I remember that video!

That demo is as hard to find as the game itself!

Hello you!

Absolutely! I have the soundtrack and it stands on its own as a great album! Epic Guitar! Top game too!

@matt fahringer cool story bro

@matt fahringer If you find people saying that to you a lot, you might just be a troll.

I'm playing it now for the first time. I'm loving it alot. I have almost no complaints and I just got to act 2

@@MaskedManiacReviews It's a game that truly delivers. Tell me what you think after you finish (that's if you remember to).

@@MaskedManiacReviews Same here I just finished act 1 on my Everdrive Pro

Snatcher for the Sega CD, emulate it on a Wii + wiimote-emulated zapper + CRT = godlike

@@SEGAClownboss there also a fan port for the ds

Though the Sega CD version of Prince of Persia is good, I actually prefer the Genesis cartridge version. Both games play well though. The Sega CD port's art is similar to the SNES, but the cartridge version has a different art style that is a bit more dark and gritty.

Definitely recommend Rise of the Dragon, an amazing game.

Rise of the Dragon was WAY under-recognized in this country. People went bananas for Nights (meh) and ignore a great game like RotD...

Also the Sega CD version of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is really the definitive version of that game

@@roninja6929 This was my favorite game for so long after it came out. Always loved my Sega CD too and not many people chose that over anything Nintendo. Never got to play snatcher, but the way people feel about snatcher is the way I feel about Rise of the Dragon. That opening scene is killer too.

Be forewarned, it's pretty sad

@@SNESdrunk sad as in story, or sad as in disappointing?

@@jamesmcphee2855 both really.

@@jamesmcphee2855 im assuming story because he praised the game in the video

@@SNESdrunk did you review mckids on NES 😎

Some are disturbing even NOW, which is saying a lot when we have Mortal Kombat 11. "Stop, stop! He's already dead!"

thank you!

SOUL STAR and......... um, SOUL STAR.

Eternal Champions is so underrated,some of the best character designs of all time.

Eternal Champions is the jankiest bullshit I've ever played.

Thankfully they got several ports.

@@kaitoudark1 the ports were worse though. Especially eternal blue

The complete editions sit proudly on my shelves. Bought them when they were released, with my own kid money, and I loved them. =D (Well, much more 1 than 2, but that's sequels for you.)

@@drunkensailor112 far from it. The Complete Editions on PS1 are far better than the Sega CD originals. That's just nostalgia talking

@@Tenpouin what is better in the ps1 versions?

I played the DOS version when I was young. As a cyberpunk-themed point n' click, it's almost like Snatcher's western cousin.

AKA poor man’s Snatcher. 😉 Still enjoyed it.

The biggest problem I had with it. Was the first puzzle. Namely finding the on switch for the computer. Otherwise, it's a fun game. With plenty of snark and dry humor.

Leave this place, William Hunter

I ended up actually liking Rise of the Dragon *more* than Snatcher, if not only because I got to it first. Both are great, but for some reason the world in RotD truly creeped me out. Watching someone die from a designer drug overdose really stuck in my brain. And the time passing mechanic gave every investigative choice a real sense of importance. Also the apartment you live in in RotD is so.. miserable.. looking.. with that toilet that is also a shower.

i think the sega cd had decent library of good games. Its is a shame that some people remembers this console as a total failure

Lol, same.

I love Dark Wizard. It's a really fun game. It's one of my favorite Sega CD games. It was so much fun beating back the other army and surrounding their base. And then keep taking shots at the boss until he's dead. Fun times!

IKR, I thought that was awesome with the translation Working Designs did! Never thought i'd see a Bard play so bad!

I played it most of the way through in teh late 90's and found it sort of dry and grindy compared to the SNES Chrono Trigger, Lufia 2 or the Final Fantasys. Just ran out of gas for me.

Batman Returns soundtrack is epic. I guess to make up for the lackluster platformer levels. Driving were still lit.

@@cheek077 I especially like the music of stage 3 or 4 I don't remember. in which you go along a kind of highway and there are gas stations on the sides. that music is hypnotic. I was listening to all the music from mega cd to include them in a video dedicated to mega cd and my favorites are the Alshark and Sangikushi 3 ones

in my channel I have a video of 5 hours of my favorite mega cd music, watch it and tell me what you think about the selection. a greeting

The Sega CD version of hook had great music. I just suck because I can't beat the forest level.

I had that one, but never got into it. Never finished Vay either. I have both on my mental list of games to go back to again one day... Whenever I think of Vay I also think about 7th Saga on SNES for some reason. I HAVE gone back to that one several times and can never get through it without losing interest, but that's another one I owned and never completed. I guess the top down graphics and first person battles looked similar to Vay? Always have those both in mind at the same time. Wayyyy back in my list is Beyond the Beyond on PS1.... my first RPG on the system. Didn't get very far!

That opening cut scene from Vay is so awesome.

Sonic CD has realy good level design its the only Sonic game I really like the different versions of the levels is like Zelda on SNES

How could he leave out Vay? I never finished the game as a kid because I didn’t grind enough to finish the end game. I’m going to find it and play it again soon.

Vay was another great one. I'm super glad he touched on Lunar though. Amazing story.

Yeah, what a mistake making that thing the pack-in game. Think that was only on the second model though. I had the first model which came with a bunch of stuff. Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (showed off video and speech which was cool at the time), Sol-Feace, which was a letdown because after the animated intro with voiceovers, which blew me away, the rest of the game was nothing that you wouldn't see in a normal Genesis game... it was a pretty good shooter though, so it was okay. Also got a 4-in1 Genesis CD. Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Revenge of Shinobi, and Columns. Just standard genesis games, but a pretty nice collection of good stuff there. I spent a ton of time on that CD. Then I was at a used game shop and the clerk said "hey do you like RPGs?". I said "yes", and she popped Lunar into the Sega CD I was playing stuff on. Bought that, never having even heard of it before, and discovered that the Sega CD had some really good RPGs on it.... I got tons of use out of that thing. For Sewer Shark, just refer to the AVGN review, because it's pretty spot-on.

Vay was awesome glad someone else mentioned it too

Vay had a rather unusual story, and a weird, but interesting soundtrack. It's been awhile since I've taken on the role of prince Sandor. I may just have to do so again.

I could never really seem to get into that one...it felt kind of like a generic Lunar to me, same style but more mediocre and less interesting.

great soundtrack in this one also.

Still one of the best SRPGs ever

Wow. Talk about a game bringing me back to childhood. Haven't played it since 1995.

I mean at that point though, why not just play the arcade version? It's equally as easy to emulate it as the Sega CD version, and there's plenty of ports of it to modern consoles.

There’s also a hack to play the arcade version with the Sega CD soundtrack

@Philip Bolin Google, "Final Fight Sega CD Pyron color hack". He's done color hacks for other games. You can probably find all of them on romhacking.net.

@Philip Bolin here u go kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7medLZ9uNinoWQ.html

8:24 giving enemies stun protection really sucks though as it slows the pace of the game to not repeatedly bash enemies. Zelda would suck if I couldn't rapidly attack.

How about reviewing the Popful Mail Super Famicom game now?

@@JohnnyProctor9 The game hasn't been translated. From what I get with my rusty japanese the story seems to be the same, but the graphics and the controls are worse.

@@Akinohotarubi - From what I've seen and tried though, the entire level layout seems to be different...I'd like to see a review from someone with the patience to play through it, and this dude seems to review quite a few Japanese games.

I never got to play that one. Sadly, I was never Aleste'd as a child.

Check out game sack channel. They have a video about the Sega Saturn. It's 20m I think, and it showcases a lot of games

oh those were fun ones, also Sega Rally ntb

Dragon Force!

The Genesis version also had that extra stage, but sadly, the SNES version did not have it.

@@coraltwining7830 There was a stage exclusive to the Sega CD version.

@@jwill7998 In addition to the one on the Genesis?

@@coraltwining7830 Yes, can confirm. The Sega CD has an exclusive level, plus all the Genesis content.

Was kind of surprised Earthworm Jim Special Edition wasn't mentioned. The extras make it worth checking out, such as the new stage, improved music and how some stages have changed their appearance a bit.

I agree completely, it had more challenging dungeons, better cut scenes (though not as many), and better sound mix than the ps1 version. My dad sold all my RPGs when I left home for college, Lunar is the one that I miss most.

Sol Feces, lol! 😆

Fun fact: Toei Animation did the animated footage of the game. [From wiki]: It was animated under the guidance of Yoshinobu Inano, who also directed or key-animated such films such as Gundam: Char's Counter Attack, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, and The Transformers: The Movie. It was animated using 15,000 hand-painted cels to produce over 30 minutes of animation. Game director Yoshihisa Kishimoto, who previously worked on Cobra Command, later directed the arcade version of Double Dragon, where the car from Road Blaster can be seen inside the Lee brothers' garage at the start of the game. Also in the footage of Road Blaster, we can see at the beginning of the gameplay the chopper of Cobra Command/Thunder Storm arcade.

No matter how badly they crashed and burned Sega was always interesting. The 90's were very imaginative, with Nintendo and Sega giving no "f" about the perceived rules of video entertainment. In the end, the best video game rivalry of all time made the consumers the real winners.

this game is awesome, thx to bring him up

Saturn had a lot of good games but it sucked unless you are REALLY into fighting games... Probably one of the greatest fighting game line-ups (if you include Japan) but otherwise the library is quite thin. Dreamcast, which will always be one of my favorite systems, had a much better library within 2 years than the Saturn ever had.

It has considerably less good stuff than the Sega CD

@@oscarzxn4067 It may look random, but every time I think about 32x I wonder if battetoads arcade could run on it

I'd just go to the local used game store and try stuff out. I remember getting Eternal Champions CD for like $5 at K-Mart, at a time when PSX and Saturn and maybe even N64 by then reigned supreme and you couldn't find new Sega CD games anywhere. Pretty nice score.

@@anonamatron Many Wal-Marts had NBA Jam for Sega CD for years into 32-bit era for some reason. I know a lot of Saturn Collectors bought them for $3 there to replace their broken cases. Pretty decent game for $3 though.

true, just realized I saw Lunar 7:50, though Earthworm Jim was a difficult game, but still fun. Hope you got the comic from the indiegogo (it is expensive but nice, though I didn't bother with sequel).

@@MrVariant For my Money, Out of all of the mascot platformers that tried to make a quick buck off Sonic's popularity [i.e. Bubsy], Earthworm Jim was the best of the bunch.

@@MrVariant I have not gotten the comic... Yet

@@joeyparkhill8751 true, Bubsy had a remake yet earthworm jim didn't. Shame rocket knight remake took away all the colors/sound that made the original awesome, just like tmnt reshelled.

Lunar was fantastic

I always liked the Sega CD originals the best. There's a charm that's missing in the remakes... though they're definitely not bad either.