Tales from the Console Graveyard: The Sega CD

Posted: March 3, 2011

Take a trip to the Console Graveyard to explore the infamous Sega CD, one of the first CD based consoles with full motion video and CD quality audio. Learn how the Sega CD offered one of the best Sonic games... and some of the worst games period, including 'Night Trap,' leading to the ESRB system we use today.

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Sega CD, Tech, Technology, Tales from the Console Graveyard, Videogames

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That_Dan_Guy

It was all about sewer shark. And again with the fail units of measurement. Its kilobytes of memory, not kilobits.

Posted: June 27, 2011 9:13 PM
ChiefN602

I was one of the 13 people that owned this thing, I loved it, the FMV games were so ahead of it's time yo

Posted: May 10, 2011 9:33 PM
coppersnake

Man i had one of those pretty sure i had prince of persian on that thing lol
and some awesome semi driving game that all u had 2 do was mash the correct button say left, right break ect for it to progress to the next movie kinda clip. it was EPIC!!!

though couldnt go past mortal kombat 2, street fighter 2, bubsy, road rash, sonic such a good era of gaming pity they dont make segas anymore

Posted: March 11, 2011 4:07 AM
elementpb

Ahhh.. Sega CD! I totally got my name in an EGM magazine for sending in a code for Brutal: Paws of Fury. They were supposed to send me a t-shirt but I never got it. Where's Sewer Shark in the list of great games? that thing was fantastic!

Posted: March 4, 2011 6:31 PM
MortonH8SU

My best friend was ably to burn images of Sega CD game on actual CDRs and play them on the real thing, that how I fell in love with Reika, The Time Gal. A cheesy Dragon's Lair esq type game with a more 80s anime look, sadly never ported as much a Don Blut's masterpiece so never got to see a version with better resolution or DVD quality. Kevin, if you're reading this, Bing her LOL!

Posted: March 4, 2011 4:41 PM
ricosan

Lunar: Silver Star, Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, and Dark Wizard.... Many all-nighters as a teen with these games... Thank goodness for emulators to relive these but would gladly buy them again if they became available on PSN or Xbox... oh and Dragonforce on Saturn... and yes I would like fries with that.

Posted: March 4, 2011 2:13 PM
cjbos81

I had a Sega CD system when I was a kid. It was the second cheaper version. I think I remember it being better than it actually was.

My favorite game was called "Thunder strike AH-13" (i think that's what it was called). It was a helicopter combat sim and I thought it was great. Good times.

Posted: March 4, 2011 12:01 PM
natedoggcata619

Morgan Webb you arent fooling anyone. You probably didnt even know what a Sega CD was until you read the cue cards

Posted: March 4, 2011 9:00 AM
applebook

Technologically, the 3DO was far more promising in its time, and it even had some stellar games like Street Fighter II, Road Rash (maybe not "stellar"), The Horde, etc.. Being a Nintendo guy at the time, I always laughed at the SEGA CD and then 32X (LOL).

Posted: March 3, 2011 11:55 PM