I suppose I was lucky. I could have taken the dip and bought a 32x as well - as it was I just shelled out £199 (!) for a Mark 2 Mega CD from John Menzies in the UK and proceeded to gape in awe at some of the atrocities that were released on this much-maligned system.
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I would kill to have a Way of the Samurai game with a huge budget and modern tech... The first game was one of my greatest joys on PS2 back in the day. And I really hope From Software will do something with Tenchu... I hate that they're just sitting on the IP like it doesn't even exist.
Tenchu would be superb in this day and age. Ninja and samurai games are hot right now and more is better.
"The company was unable to focus enough on its main hope"
Nope. Going back to the 32X as the reason Sega lost that generation doesn't go back far enough before the Saturn.
Sega executives need to blame themselves as to why Sega lost that generation. Not Saturn. Not 32X. Not Sega CD. Nope. Executives were the reason why. It wasn't the hardware. Those devices were either dropped early or released to soon resulting in a developer backlash the hurt the game catalog. They really shouldn't have been made at all because they should have planned their next move more carefully. It has nothing to do with the devices. Poor leadership decisions and lack of unity within the company are what happened.
Love how blame is always shifted away from what is the truth. Writing a book placing the blame on the 32X isn't the truth.
I am pretty sure there are documentaries (Youtube) around it which highlights these points. I had Sega Mega drive and NES growing up but that's about it. I didn't even know there was a war going on between these companies but I do remember thinking why I can't play Sonic cartridge on Nintendo or Mario on Sega :D
I had the Genesis and the Saturn, also had the SNES and 64, I never got a Dreamcast for some reason, but I never saw one in the stores either.
people panned it for being an add on but what an add on it was. My friend bought the original front loader from die hard in so cal when it first came out in japan. We figured out the wiring of the genesis to convert it to a japanese mega drive to make it work.
The first batch of games were mind blowing for their time (although VERY dated today) like earnest evans, sol-feace, aisle lord and of course lunar. We didnt know how to read japanese but my friend was able to beat lunar (not aisle lord though).
As the launch for the US sega cd was getting closer, we contacted this tech guy from the news paper and had some friends who worked for software etc that let us set up a demonstration for people to try. The newspaper guy was there taking pics and wrote up a nice little piece about this unit as a pre story to the US release.
Ahhh good times them...good times.
He sold it for something like $400 if i remember right. I still have my original sega cd as well as the side by side and cdx units. Oh yeah and the laseractive with sega pac (but the laser is dead :-(