From the article, "What really matters is that [Jerimiah Mueller's] Dad couldn’t be left behind by all his Nintendo-owning acquaintances. One day, shortly after my uncle got his SNES, I went over to my Dad’s for a visit and saw his Genesis sitting on top of some other contraption with giant red and green lights on it.
The Sega CD had to have been the single greatest thing ever. There were games on CDs!"