Back in the day, when I was a kid Sega was the don dada of home console gaming. I know because I had one. I had a NES and a SNES at the time too and Sega, to me, was the best. They had a faster system and large game library with a lot of popular titles. They were pretty much running things back then in the gaming market and decided to push forward with the CD format. They introduced the Sega CD into the world. I had got my parents to get me a Nintendo, a Super Nintendo, A Sega Genesis, but the Sega CD was out of the question. It was just too high at the time. My mom and pop were not gonna empty out their wallets for it.
Luckily I had a friend who had a crazy cousin that was a game fanatic. He had every kind of game system and game that you could think of. Well everything short of a Neo Geo system. His cousin would come over his house every Friday and bring his video game collection over. I would go over there and stay the whole day with them playing all kinds of games and all kinds of systems. I used to think that this guy was some kind of game god. He even had a freakin Panasonic 3DO. Those things weren't cheap. They were about $700 dollars at the time in 1994 so that was big.
So from him I was able to play the Sega CD. He had a ton of games. My favorites Eternal Champions CD, Sonic CD, Fifa Soccer, and the Lunar Silverstar Story rpg game. It was a great system. I even got a chance to borrow it from them. The Sega CD worked in conjunction with the Sega Genesis. The cartride slot for the Genesis was used for cartridge ram for the system. Like I said the games were fun to play. It was the first system where you could see full motion video. The video wasn't really best though. It was more or less grainy but it was definitely worth to see.
The system sort of fell short due to lack of popular titles and the Night Trap game scandal. It was funny people made a big deal about that game. They referred to the game as obscene. When I say "they" I mean parents and the government. The game was something more or less an episode out of the Benny Hill show. Back then it was a different time though. We had all kinds of social issues regarding women to deal with.
So Night Trap didn't necessarily rub people the right way at the time. The good thing out of that was that they started the game rating system. Also Sega pushed the system too far and too fast. I don't think people were ready for the wave of CD media. The system didn't last long but it was great to play. I'll never forget it. It introduced me to games like Lunar and Lunar 2 which were great games for the system. It definitely paved the way for future CD based systems. Watch the clip from G4 on the system.
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