Thank you, GK.

Depending on your age, if you played a Sega console during that Era of Sega then we're all pretty cynical and jaded. Expect nothing but disappointment. Mom went to go get milk too 😂😂😂 It's not sad really because there is a wide and dedicated fan community, and there are still retail-quality releases for the (Genesis at least) coming out each year

I feel incredible nostalgia for this era because of the innovative spirits that not only went into the games but the consoles. Nintendo is really the only company keeping that spirit alive. Every other console in the world has just copied the Xbox model of mimicking PC architecture. The HD era has given us beautiful graphics but it feels like innovation in other realms have lagged.

It was a bunch of cases of them shooting themselves in the foot sadly.

@@greenkoopa It's like the grunge era of music. Green Day, Nirvana, Weezer, Live, Spacehog, Better Than Ezra, all the GOOD SHIT! And then when 2000 hit, it's like everything died.

@Green Koopa I mean, you're quite right. They really burned people, the Dreamcast is the real tragedy though.

Imagine how cool your life would be now if you didn't waste that opportunity.

Some of us just got take down letters Thank God I was 13

@@ARCSYS4049hahah that’s harsh, but yeah, kind of crazy that nothing came from that…

@@tiredastired Yeah they were never going to take "open the platform" seriously but was cool they reached out anyway.

Even then the Genesis sold poorly in Japan.

Funny as a person from the UK it was the opposite here haha nintendo was never popular here with their consoles but their handhelds sold extremely well

Nobody with an Atari Jaguar and Atari Lynx?

@@emiel333only the kids who ate crayons and glue.

@@Thor-Orion haha 😂

Never did for me

Not for me. My PS4 Pro on the other hand... Sounds like a jet engine.

My Dreamcast was quiet as a whisper. I loved that console.

I never owned one but my best friend did and his was super quiet

Your Dreamcast was fucked up.

yeah... the 16 bit era , for me, was the golden age of video games..!!

I moved on too quickly without appreciating the times I had with each console. Now I spend way too much time and money reminiscing and buying old games.

​@@DavidRomanKC nothing wrong with that. I still feel like a child, but a child with a bigger wallet. Couldn't be happier

@Mister Supersonic It's just when I think of Sega, I think of a hot Saturday afternoon during the summer. Playing Sonic 3, jamming to Green Day and Live, drinking Cherry Coke, eating Totino's pizza rolls. A simpler time, when all we worried about was what was going to happen on WWF Monday Night Raw, what music video was going to be #1 on TRL, and what you and the guys were gonna do on Saturday Night. Of course, when I start to feel sad about my Genesis days, I put on my 90s playlist and go back to that simpler time...

I think the reason everyone gets nostalgic about the "good old days" of their childhood is because it seems like every decade just gets worse and worse. People become far less social and everyone communicating through screens has become the norm. Us older guys miss old tech and a more social world I think. That's all. Hell, even KZfaq was better before Google bought it.

@@lennybrewster4673 THIS GUY! HE GETS IT!

I've actually considered this, myself. Thanks for the feedback.

​​@@SegaLordX I agree 100%. Remake some of those older videos you have. They are genuinely entertaining and informative

It was the werehog!

Intellivision--then Master System!

They'd have no chance in today's market in terms of making hardware again given they'd have to compete against the Switch, Series X/S, PS5, and the multitude of PC handhelds that have been coming out since the Steam Deck debuted, as well as the Steam Deck itself. Their best bet would be re-releasing all of their old titles on Steam or GOG via officially-sanctioned emulation, and riding on the Steam Deck and other PC handhelds' success that way.

What? They're still around, they put out tons of games every year on every platform

Megadrive and Saturn I done on pre-owned end of sega support! I got Dreamcast Christmas 99 it's the only sega console I supported during its production run all rest was collected when they was dead as new retail! All bought cheap when was all just old tat! I knew writing was on the wall before bought the Dreamcast but megadrive mastersystem etc all just had something Nintendont and had too have the Dreamcast as was like arcade at home 100%

Master system was great. I feel regret I never got to experience the Saturn or Dreamcast though.

Twister ice lolly or sometimes just a haircut 😅

I can't remember if Grandia 1 was on the DC or just the ps1...but me and my friend Frank both played them on a Dreamcast and a Playstation but we can't remember which was on which. Lettuce will do that 🐢

Yeah but that was a programming issue.

@@RJTM1991if the Dreamcast was better why can’t it play DVDs

Yeah, ticking off EA was a gut shot for the thing. Sega decided they were gonna go with a different 3D chip manufacturer than the one EA had a vested interest in, so EA was like "See ya!"

When sony playstation got on the market...Sega was already doomed..sony was already a electronic appliance manufacturer..similar to little Ceasars pizza they can uncut pizza hut and dominoes because they own their own trucking distribution...so it's build it cheaper. Or lose less money. Sega have to recover its money from game sales because they sell the console at a loss. But Sega was into the arcade universe.

Sega could have made all the right moves after Genesis, and kept their financials in the black throughout the 1990s, then they'd have to face two tech giants willing to spend and lose billions to win. Sega's last console would have to be Dreamcast one way or another

@@gc3k I beg to differ. SEGA could've released the 32X and a Neptune CD, then kept game development going on that platform until Dreamcast was ready. Capable of drawing 180,000 flat-shaded polygons/sec (or about 40,000 Gouraud-shaded, textured polygons/sec), the Neptune CD would've been 30% less expensive that PS1 or N64 and benefitted from a library of 1300+ existing games and hundreds of developers that maintained a vested interest in backing SEGA. The company's constantly changing roadmap meant that makers of games like MGS, FF7 & 8, Crash Bandicoot, and others would look briefly at SEGA and just keep on moving... mostly to the PS1.

@@MaxAbramson3 This is such a contentious topic that I think I got muted on this channel, but 5th gen console 3d wasn't powerful enough to keep many of Sega's popular IPs relevant. That's why the Saturn library was so different, while Dreamcast and post-Dreamcast saw a return to some pre-Saturn IPs, most notably but not limited to Sonic. The best that could be done was make amazing next-gen 2d games of previously system-selling IPs, and hope that would be successful at a time when Sony along with the media were calling 2d gaming passe As for Sony and Microsoft, Sega's hopes for remaining in the console business past 6th gen was a low-cost Wii-like console, or merging with Sony or MS (both of which were on the table in the 1990s)

The SG-1000 was actually only officially released in New Zealand and Taiwan outside of Japan. That batch was then spread to a few other regions. In terms of success, it's hard to argue it saw any real meaningful sales, especially considering how bad the Famicom outsold it in Japan. Elsewhere, its sales were minuscule and hardly of note.

This is what blind love and wishful thinking can do. The Saturn was completely irrelevant in North America. It was dead at the end of 1996. Turning things around in late 1997 or 1998 when the PS1 and N64 had taken the market over would have been impossible. The Saturn was outsold by the Genesis 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 in the United States. The minute casual sports gamers flocked to the PS1 to play Madden instead of the Saturn "game over man."

Bull shit. The Saturn had less than 5% market share in 1997 and 1998 in western markets. It stood no chance.

The Sega Saturn, in North America, was nearly 'dead on arrival', sorry to burst your bubble. It was rushed out in a panic, the few developers that were working on Launch titles were also taken by surprise by that for the worse. Most games that were released during the first year of the North American release were either incomplete or filled with glitches because the dev teams were pressured to 'deliver' in order to compete and stay afloat. Additionally, something that is rarely discussed, concerns the absolute lack of proper information from Sega of Japan's engineers on the documentation given to the development teams (outside of Japan). A lot of developers 'suffered' by ways of simply not fully understanding how to properly develop games on the then-very-unique Saturn hardware. Many games within the first year were not only rushed out, or barely tested internally, but the developers were limited in their visions for their Saturn games simply because they couldn't get certain features done not necessarily because the system couldn't handle it, but because they simply weren't informed on how to do it. And Sega of Japan either ignored the situation or downplayed it thinking that the developers would 'catch on' soon. They didn't. Most didn't. Only a very few select games, from a very small number of developers actually understood the system. However, even in THOSE cases their respective games couldn't keep the entire console on the market by themselves. To keep a console afloat and popular you need a full combination of elements and planets need to be aligned so to speak. The higher ups need to understand the needs of the engineers, the engineers need to communicate properly to the artists and the developers, and the developers need to make games that work in genres that work during their active years. Not to mention how the system performs, its price point, and what are the controllers and other peripherals like. The Sega Saturn absolutely could not have been 'turned around' by 1997, let alone 1998 when already in Japan the Dreamcast was on its way; which speaks volumes. If the Dreamcast was already out by the end of '98 in Japan it means that the development of the system was already in full force right when the Saturn was being released in North America. It means that Sega already knew very well by '96 that the Saturn would fail outside of Japan and, once again, panicked and pushed on to make yet another console. The Dreamcast was actually a great console, but other elements played against it. However, if anything Sega can be very proud of their last venture in the hardware market with the Dreamcast, it truly was an excellent system.

I'd argue Saturn was dead on arrival. It couldn't have been turned around any point with the games that Sega had. They were simply wrong for the direction the western markets were headed.

​@Benjamin Jagun plus, the suprise launch

The Lost World and Vectorman are so beautiful.

I took to the Virtua Fighter series!!! Still my favorite fighting game to this day, I wish they would release one on PC. 😩

No problem!

Could easily argue the Master System was the superior console. Unfortunately the game library was far inferior to the NES.

Also 2K2 was the third installment, not the second. There was definitely an NBA2K. The sprites were used in several of the early Dreamcast commercials

Mine was the genesis, parents first got me the master system.