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Post by FM-77AV on Feb 16, 2005 9:44:01 GMT -5
Have you ever played the Sega CD (Mega-CD in Europe and Japan). It's a CD-based add-on system for the Genesis (Mega Drive in Europe and Japan).
It featured some good games, among many, Falcom's own Popful Mail. It was also where the legendary Lunar games originated.
The system wasn't all that popular because of several reasons, one was that it was too expensive, another one was that it didn't really have that many games, and a Genesis/Mega Drive was required in order to use it.
Anyway, why not discuss it right here?
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Post by CrazyJo82 on Feb 16, 2005 14:00:15 GMT -5
Maybe... but I do remember hearing about the Sega-CD system...
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Post by sunteam_paul on Feb 16, 2005 14:06:39 GMT -5
I picked up a second hand one a few years ago to re-experience those limited but kind of fun animated FMV games. like Road Avenger and that helicopter one. I also have Silpheed which I have to say impressed me a lot.
And of course, Shining Force is a classic.
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Post by FM-77AV on Feb 17, 2005 5:15:29 GMT -5
Yes. Snatcher. It was even released as PAL! Now that's what's really impressive. I have the game, but I haven't played it that much really, it didn't quite appeal to me.
The Mega-CD is similiar to the Turbo Duo as well, but I think I prefer the Mega-CD even though Duo had Ys. (Apparently YsVI was planned to get released on Mega-CD. Rumor has it that it was even in beta state before it was canned.)
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Post by senpi on Feb 21, 2005 14:53:59 GMT -5
i have the sega cd and 32x. it is an ok system, though i like it more than my ps2.
my games: sega cd- sewer shark, mansion of hidden souls.
rise of the dragon- this was the best game.
sega cd 32x - night trap, corpse killer.
i have a few, but it didn't matter cause a friend of mine had a bunch.
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Post by Adol.Christin on Feb 22, 2005 15:29:28 GMT -5
I have played on it, and it was kinda cool. it had some good games, but I can't quite remember how long it was on the market, not that long as I can remember, the Saturn soon followed (i think).
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Post by ysbaddaden on Feb 26, 2005 23:21:10 GMT -5
ahhh...the memory...
The games that I like the most on Mega CD are of course Popfu Mail, Shinning Force and Lunar. There were some that pretty good as well such as 3x3 Eyes (which I did not understand how to play it at all), Final Fight, and Vay.
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Post by linkboy on Mar 1, 2005 12:07:05 GMT -5
Being a kid at the time (and only being allowed one system  , heck I didn''t get a gameboy until the Advance came out), I missed out on a lot of great games (I had a NES until that broke and then replaced it with a SNES (then that broke) and we got a Genesis. As I've gotten older (and have money), I've tried to go back and play some of the games I missed out on. If it wasn't for the PS1 remakes of Lunar, I probably never would have gotten to play the games (and I'm glad I did, Lunar 1 is my favorite RPG of all time). Adol, Sega went and released 3 different 32-bit system (and that blunder was one of the biggest reasons SEGA is a 3rd party developer now. The SEGA-CD, 32X and Saturn (which had some major power, has anyone see the Shenmue Staurn video) were all 32-bit. |
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Post by FM-77AV on Mar 1, 2005 16:01:39 GMT -5
Being a kid at the time (and only being allowed one system , heck I didn''t get a gameboy until the Advance came out), I missed out on a lot of great games (I had a NES until that broke and then replaced it with a SNES (then that broke) and we got a Genesis. As I've gotten older (and have money), I've tried to go back and play some of the games I missed out on. If it wasn't for the PS1 remakes of Lunar, I probably never would have gotten to play the games (and I'm glad I did, Lunar 1 is my favorite RPG of all time). Adol, Sega went and released 3 different 32-bit system (and that blunder was one of the biggest reasons SEGA is a 3rd party developer now. The SEGA-CD, 32X and Saturn (which had some major power, has anyone see the Shenmue Staurn video) were all 32-bit. That's not entirely true. While some people say the Sega CD is a 32 bit system, that's not really the truth. It's a 16 bit system. It uses the same CPU as the Genesis, but it's faster. When you play the Sega CD, it's quite obvious that it's a 16 bit system since it looks just like the Genesis. |
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Post by Arjak on Mar 9, 2005 18:31:56 GMT -5
I certainly have not forgoten it. I got one off of ebay recently!
One of the reasons the Sega CD supposedly failed is that there were not enough good games. There are PLENTY of good games!
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Post by FM-77AV on Mar 10, 2005 3:04:47 GMT -5
I certainly have not forgoten it. I got one off of ebay recently! One of the reasons the Sega CD supposedly failed is that there were not enough good games. There are PLENTY of good games! That's true. But the SNES, for example, had TOO many good games. Anyway, I got Time Gal in the mail yesterday, it's a FMV game, pretty bad game I guess, but it was still pretty entertaining.... For five minutes.  But I mostly got it because it was cheap. |
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Post by Arjak on Mar 11, 2005 18:09:24 GMT -5
I've heard it's got some funny parts in it.
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Post by FM-77AV on Mar 17, 2005 6:16:25 GMT -5
Well, I sort of have Road Avenger already. I was going to buy it from a friend, I got the box, but my friend is too lazy to find the CD, and I'm too lazy to ask him to find it (since he won't do it anyway).
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Post by Lank on Mar 17, 2005 10:30:23 GMT -5
Not meaning to have such a short post here, but uh...
Sonic CD 4tw
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Post by BlueLander on Mar 21, 2005 16:44:06 GMT -5
The Sega CD is a great little system. I modded mine to play Mega CD games, but in retrospect it was a waste of time. There aren't many Mega CD only games that you can play without understanding Japanese.
My favorite Sega CD games...
Robo Aleste
Bari Arm/ Android Assault
Lunar 1 and 2
Vay
Sonic CD
Popful Mail
Dark Wizard
Snatcher
Shining Force CD
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Post by Arjak on Mar 21, 2005 18:47:19 GMT -5
If you like shoot 'em ups, you should defenitely try Silpheed. It's awesome.
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Post by BlueLander on Mar 21, 2005 20:33:42 GMT -5
Huh, I heard that game wasn't so good. I didn't really care much for the PS 2 remake of Silpheed. Is this one better?
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Post by Adol on Mar 21, 2005 20:38:32 GMT -5
I dunno much about the Sega CD, but the Saturn was an awesome system. :/
It was all about Virtual On and Panzer Dragoon.
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Post by zeomare on Jun 28, 2005 22:28:48 GMT -5
i had the sega cd and it did not impress me much i thought silpheed was overrated. i liked bari-arm (called Android Assault in the USA) and Ninja Aleste the most, the Lunar games and Popful Mail were quite fun to, but in the end the system was not worth the money for me.
chris
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, heck I didn''t get a gameboy until the Advance came out), I missed out on a lot of great games (I had a NES until that broke and then replaced it with a SNES (then that broke) and we got a Genesis.
But I mostly got it because it was cheap.
