"Why must we play God?
Brandon Sheffield, Gamasutra editor and director of Necrosoft Games, took to Vine last night to show the world what exactly happens when 13 Sonic & Knuckles cartridges are plugged into one another in a 30-part Human Centipede disaster.
For those out of the loop, the Sega Genesis game Sonic & Knuckles featured the interesting addition of a second cartridge slot allowing you to plug the previous Sonic the Hedgehog games into it, which allow you to play as Knuckles. So what happens when 13 of these games are stacked on top of each other?"
-- Brendon Bigley
Today, Sega announced its financial results for the full fiscal year that started in April 2024 and ended in March 2025.
I like what's on their legacy IP list, but there are still many more franchises they could revive. Shining Force and Chakan come to mind.
"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
Certain video games firsts have become common knowledge over the years, while some incredible feats have fallen into the dustbin of time - TechStomper has dug up five of those forgotten firsts.
Jesus Christ.. was it really necessary to use Vine for this... One Youtube video would have sufficed.
Awful way to post it all up in 5-6 second videos
I did this as a child, well, with 2 copies of the game at least. Video games were so magical back then :')
I remember trying different combinations. I was certain there had to be a secret game combination no one knew about. I even tried some weird combinations like Sonic & Knuckles + Streets of Rage.
This is really interesting. I would have just expected to get the "No Way" screen after connecting the second cart, just like you would when connecting any other unsupported game.
I'd love to know the explanation for what happens when doing this.