Do you know what I like about this channel? It reminds me of a cable station we had in the US called G4. They aired shows like Ninja Warrior, X-Play, and other such nerd culture content. Their big hit, according to them, was Attack of the Show, and it was the ultimate in pop culture of its day. Sadly, this channel no longer exists, and it's doubtful we'll ever get anything like this again. Thank goodness for RUclips!
I have a Pioneer LaserActive. I bought the system and the Mega LD module for about $600 at a store selling it's demo model. It was the 1st personal loan I took out. I loved the few games I got
I had a similar story with my neo-geo. A local video rental place was going out of business. My mom got it for me for I think $200 with baseball and samurai shodown. It was dope, but later got sold to fund a Mr. Backup Z64 for N64, so it basically paid for itself several times over. Lol I always used to get LaserActive confused with that VIS thing radioshack had.
I am a new subscriber. I have to admit, I have learned so much new stuff on your channel than ever before. I stay watching retromstuff, but your channel takes it to a whole new level.
JAPAN tried EVERYTHING with these consoles. Most of the add ins never made it across the pond, but in Japan, they had all types of network add one as well as productivity add ons.
I had the SEGA channel when I was in middle school. Every month you would get 50 games. It was the first time I played Mega Man the Dr. Willy wars. Forgive my bad gramer and spelling lol.😅
36:06 - I have met precisely ONE person who claims to have had a Master System back in the day. I have, however, heard say that the system was big in Brazil...
Sega may have done even better if their adapters had daisy chained. So you could use discs and disks. Plus a master adapter for the 32X, with the card reader.
Had a zip drive on my PC back in the late 90s / early 00s. They were both great and terrible. Stored so much more than anything else at the time, expensive, could break, and virus-prone on your average college campus. They were absolutely destroyed by writable CDs which hit the market shortly after they showed up.
I remember when my sister went to university in 1999, she went all in on Zip disks, and hung on a lot longer than she should have. I quite liked them too, but they always had that whiff of the short -lived format about them. 😅
Well, when the prices for writable CDs and drives dropped in price. When the cost of a writer dropped from $1k+ to $200 dollars, and discs dropped from $5 a pop to pennies each, they ate the Zip drive's lunch.
12:52 - The Laser Disc drive was codenamed "Project *Earth"* or Sega Earth. The idea didn't pan out, but was reincarnated as the Mega CD, even giving a nod to the predecessor by displaying an image of the Earth (Terra) and it's moon (Luna) upon boot up.
My brother had the sega channel in his room I played Road Rash and Columns on it. The RAM adapter could only hold one game at a time and there were no games that needed a save feature because that would need to be saved on cartridge which would mean you would have to take out the RAM adapter
24:40 Lockheed and other Defence contractors need to start moonlighting in the consumer market again, the world tends to a better place when they are not fully dependent on state money.
Once you start getting welfare checks, you do everything in your power to ensure they don't stop. I can't even tell you how much we've wasted on the F22 and F35. The telling fact is that in a pinch - a proxy war - these fighters can't be exported to your allies because they can't hope to afford them.
The 32x wouldn't have been such a failure if Sega of Japan made the Saturn backwards compatible with 32x games. The Dreamcast Zip Drive was a dumb idea as Iomega Zip drives had terrible reliability. Sega would have been better launching a hard drive add on and playing to their advantage with the online capabilities of the Dreamcast, as it would take both Sony and Nintendo years to release a network adapter.
Then sega would need to add the genesis and 32x add-on. I rather sega release a backward compatible saturn instead of the 32x add-on for the NA/PAL regions.
@@maroon9273 That's kind of what I meant. Making the Saturn backwards compatible with the 32X would have made more sense and allowed a much larger library of games for the 32x. The smarter choice though would've been to not release the 32x at all.
I had the original Sega CD and the master system converter along with my Genesis. But when I went to kay-B for the Saturn they didn't have it but I did get the Dreamcast.
Those expansion ports on the NES and Genesis always bugged me growing up. Like, I knew they were for something, but nothing state side plugged into them.
Instead of the 32X, what they should have done was take the SVP chip from Virtua Racing, drop that into a Sonic and Knuckles lock on cart, maybe modify the top connector a bit so that only appropriate games can fit into it, and not into the base system, and then release cheap games making use of the SVP.
Actually, the Dreamcast Zip Drive would've been very attractive if it had been compatible with the larger 512MB, and 1024MB Zip disks. (I just noticed the blurb that said it WAS compatible with 250s.)
I'm curious about the laser disc add-on? How would the on screen gameplay relate to the actual footage being shown actually work? Like would the disc have to be started before the game started as in like a dvd with the gameplay overlay on it? Meaning if you was starting a new game would it of had to be restarted to keep up with the overlay of the game and would collision detection on the racing game shown be a thing or would it just be like one of those 1980s tomy turbo racing F1 games ( yes I do remember those weirdly, I can't be the only one.. Right? 😅)
@Lady Decade; though m a fan of Sega's Megadrive (aka Genesis), and I'd love to hear about the canceled and unreleased plans the company had, this clocks in at the same length as a standard 1-hr tv show, withOUT adverts. I don't have that much time to waste, so, I'll go elsewhere for a 'bite-sized' version of this.
I mean, I'd probably keep the Dreamcast Zip drive under lock and key too. It's not as though it'd even be very useful to modders, they've been able to load stuff from SD card for years now, and those are waaaaaay bigger than Zip disks or GD-ROMs ever were.
9:35 JAPANESE MARKETS always focused on making their video game systems into fully functional computers. This is partly because THEY HAVE LESS SPACE IN THEIR HOMES. Every single console must double as a computer. I see no problem with that. And considering how similar current consoles are to computers, I have to wonder why we can't get a standard mouse and keyboard on PS5 or Xbox. I play on my desktop simply by adding a Xbox controller over USB. I don't feel I need a PS5 or Xbox.
Did anyone get to 12:40 when the lady said Sega Saturn floppy disk system and was like, NOT AGAIN! Sega had so many attachments its no wonder they almost went bankrupt. Instead of focusing on the hardware they released they were always trying to improve it. Thank Jesus Nintendo learned you couldnt do this fairly quickly in their history a as they could have gone the way of Sega also. I remember those giant laser disc players when i was in elementary and middle school as a child. The discs were record sized. I remember watching a video based on dinosaurs and some other stuff. My school had the giant box on a rolling cart with a big crt tv, lol.
SEGA's problem was they - like SNK and NEC - focused on bringing the arcade experience into the home. NINTENDO focused on making video games for casual home gaming. NINTENDO also focused on mascots and 1st party IP not available on other systems. They STILL have a monopoly in that regard. Xbox and Sony have very few mascots. Nintendo has a ton of them. Zelda, Link, Mario, Luigi, Princess, Toad, Koopas, Samus Aran, Donkey Kong/Diddy, the list goes on and on. Xbox has: MASTER CHIEF. SONY has KRATOS. That's all.
I always thought it wouldve been cool to have a console that doubled as a computer, assuming it would've been more affordable just to buy a disc drive and keyboard rather than a whole separate PC. Im guessing the idea didnt catch on because those consoles were marketed toward kids, who didnt want to associate their video games with homework?
I honestly still think that the only thing Sega messed up (aside from internal conflict, JPN VS USA BS, and release dates) was simply the marketing. The 32X was in no way a bad idea, or a bad product. It could have been great, and could have doubled the already long lasting Genesis' lifespan. However, they didn't allow the time to develop good internal titles for it, allowed third parties to be even worse, just dumping genesis roms in identical form and fashion, straight on to 32X carts, and then sell them all over again for even more money, etc. But if done right, this really could have worked well.... heck, as a youngin of the era, I could have personally saved up and got myself a 32X much more easily than I could have purchased a Saturn, plus the whole new everything that comes with the new ecosystem. More options shouldn't be a bad thing, but somehow they messed the approach up so bad, that they convinced everyone on earth that it was. It really just all comes back to Sega of Japan being so full of themselves, so egotistical, that they had zero other route ahead of them beyond failure as a company in general. Basically, they acted like every mid to high level management everywhere.... Refused to hear, see, or recognize any worthwhile information sent their way, staunchly insisting they knew best, all the while going backwards at every step of their "knows best" way. Kinda like how most of us in the US possess the education of a 4th grader, at best.... at very best... but yet simultaneously possess an unrivaled confidence that we are literally the smartest, best, most well informed, best educated, most enlightened, all knowing beings. I mean, that sorta sums up ppl everywhere anymore, but I'm pretty sure 'merica holds the title of most confident while least intelligent, on the whole. And that mentality PERFECTLY embodies Sega of Japan of the era. A very confident derp indeed.
It would have shaken up Sega's HQ were some "untouchable" exec to call them on their willfully unwise actions, to wit, "You're behaving like Americans"
IF Sega had made the Sega CD a full on 32 bit system add on, who knows how things would have shook out. I'm of the firm belief that IF Sega would release a system today, with the graphical ability of say a ps4 pro, I'm convinced it would be a hit.
Even with a 32-bit ram, 32x VDP and framebuffer simple add-on. It would've killed any discussion of a 2nd add-on and rushing to get the saturn out to the market. Sega has a chance of releasing a retro mobile gaming console where you can play every single game coming from past sega hardware.
Do you know what I like about this channel? It reminds me of a cable station we had in the US called G4. They aired shows like Ninja Warrior, X-Play, and other such nerd culture content. Their big hit, according to them, was Attack of the Show, and it was the ultimate in pop culture of its day. Sadly, this channel no longer exists, and it's doubtful we'll ever get anything like this again. Thank goodness for RUclips!
This reminds of Game Makers/Original Icons.
G4 was great but I hated the presenters on attack of the show.
It tried to make a comeback , but people like Indiana Black killed it with her mouth
I appeared on Attack of the Show in spring of 2010!
I have a Pioneer LaserActive. I bought the system and the Mega LD module for about $600 at a store selling it's demo model. It was the 1st personal loan I took out. I loved the few games I got
😊agreed
I had a similar story with my neo-geo. A local video rental place was going out of business. My mom got it for me for I think $200 with baseball and samurai shodown. It was dope, but later got sold to fund a Mr. Backup Z64 for N64, so it basically paid for itself several times over. Lol I always used to get LaserActive confused with that VIS thing radioshack had.
Why didn't you buy a MD? I guess 600 bucks for both was a bargain back then
@@napoleonfeanor I owned a Sega Genesis and Sega CD. This is the only way to play Laserdisc games
The Skies of Arcadia music made me so nostalgic. I wish they had made a successor...
I am a new subscriber. I have to admit, I have learned so much new stuff on your channel than ever before. I stay watching retromstuff, but your channel takes it to a whole new level.
JAPAN tried EVERYTHING with these consoles.
Most of the add ins never made it across the pond, but in Japan, they had all types of network add one as well as productivity add ons.
I had the SEGA channel when I was in middle school.
Every month you would get 50 games. It was the first time I played Mega Man the Dr. Willy wars.
Forgive my bad gramer and spelling lol.😅
Literally one of the best channels on RUclips. Thank you for this
36:06 - I have met precisely ONE person who claims to have had a Master System back in the day. I have, however, heard say that the system was big in Brazil...
In the UK I had one so did alot of my friends it was great shinobi was a fantastic game but rtype was the best game of all time IMO
My cousin had one in the UK and I remember playing it a lot when I went over.
I was one of the first buyers of the SMS. For a while, I was the only kid I knew who had one. No games to trade.
Sega may have done even better if their adapters had daisy chained. So you could use discs and disks. Plus a master adapter for the 32X, with the card reader.
Good on you noticing the one detail many didn't of the mediums, disc, and disk.
This just makes me wish people would just start making they own add-ons for the older systems hell we have mods for these systems.
I to would like to see that bro
Had a zip drive on my PC back in the late 90s / early 00s. They were both great and terrible. Stored so much more than anything else at the time, expensive, could break, and virus-prone on your average college campus. They were absolutely destroyed by writable CDs which hit the market shortly after they showed up.
*click click click click...
I remember when my sister went to university in 1999, she went all in on Zip disks, and hung on a lot longer than she should have. I quite liked them too, but they always had that whiff of the short -lived format about them. 😅
Well, when the prices for writable CDs and drives dropped in price.
When the cost of a writer dropped from $1k+ to $200 dollars, and discs dropped from $5 a pop to pennies each, they ate the Zip drive's lunch.
I always thought they should have converted a zip drive into a portable mp3 player (before those existed).
12:52 - The Laser Disc drive was codenamed "Project *Earth"* or Sega Earth. The idea didn't pan out, but was reincarnated as the Mega CD, even giving a nod to the predecessor by displaying an image of the Earth (Terra) and it's moon (Luna) upon boot up.
My brother had the sega channel in his room I played Road Rash and Columns on it. The RAM adapter could only hold one game at a time and there were no games that needed a save feature because that would need to be saved on cartridge which would mean you would have to take out the RAM adapter
24:40
Lockheed and other Defence contractors need to start moonlighting in the consumer market again, the world tends to a better place when they are not fully dependent on state money.
Once you start getting welfare checks, you do everything in your power to ensure they don't stop.
I can't even tell you how much we've wasted on the F22 and F35.
The telling fact is that in a pinch - a proxy war - these fighters can't be exported to your allies because they can't hope to afford them.
Oooof, was that the Guilty Gear's ost at the end?
Instant like!!
25:09 how do you open the saturn disc tray with the 64X blocking?????? LOL
*Mumbles in Popeye*
I've gotta say that Chun Li cosplay is great.
The 32x wouldn't have been such a failure if Sega of Japan made the Saturn backwards compatible with 32x games. The Dreamcast Zip Drive was a dumb idea as Iomega Zip drives had terrible reliability. Sega would have been better launching a hard drive add on and playing to their advantage with the online capabilities of the Dreamcast, as it would take both Sony and Nintendo years to release a network adapter.
Then sega would need to add the genesis and 32x add-on. I rather sega release a backward compatible saturn instead of the 32x add-on for the NA/PAL regions.
@@maroon9273 That's kind of what I meant. Making the Saturn backwards compatible with the 32X would have made more sense and allowed a much larger library of games for the 32x. The smarter choice though would've been to not release the 32x at all.
I had the original Sega CD and the master system converter along with my Genesis. But when I went to kay-B for the Saturn they didn't have it but I did get the Dreamcast.
Lady Decade does it again, another well-done presented video.
Those expansion ports on the NES and Genesis always bugged me growing up. Like, I knew they were for something, but nothing state side plugged into them.
The Sega CD did. But as for Nintendo, yeah nothing plugged into those.
Instead of the 32X, what they should have done was take the SVP chip from Virtua Racing, drop that into a Sonic and Knuckles lock on cart, maybe modify the top connector a bit so that only appropriate games can fit into it, and not into the base system, and then release cheap games making use of the SVP.
Actually, the Dreamcast Zip Drive would've been very attractive if it had been compatible with the larger 512MB, and 1024MB Zip disks. (I just noticed the blurb that said it WAS compatible with 250s.)
away awesome video! well done
what was the game on screen at 34:09, because I think that's a master system game me and my younger brother loved to play when we were younger.
Excellent video
I'm curious about the laser disc add-on? How would the on screen gameplay relate to the actual footage being shown actually work? Like would the disc have to be started before the game started as in like a dvd with the gameplay overlay on it? Meaning if you was starting a new game would it of had to be restarted to keep up with the overlay of the game and would collision detection on the racing game shown be a thing or would it just be like one of those 1980s tomy turbo racing F1 games ( yes I do remember those weirdly, I can't be the only one.. Right? 😅)
I learn more in these videos then I did in high school.
That's nothing, I heard one of the ports on the bottom of the GameCube was supposed to be for a Nintendo panini maker
Love your videos
@Lady Decade; though m a fan of Sega's Megadrive (aka Genesis), and I'd love to hear about the canceled and unreleased plans the company had, this clocks in at the same length as a standard 1-hr tv show, withOUT adverts.
I don't have that much time to waste, so, I'll go elsewhere for a 'bite-sized' version of this.
I miss my SEGA Mega Drive 2😢(I had the cd dock )
I wonder where we would be if Sega had just bit the bullet and gone with DVD on the Dreamcast.
What is the song playing at 9 minutes in the video sounds good
I don't know what is the deal with people who gobble up rarities just to silently put them into a private room
I had a Sega Channel from 1995-98. Did the UK have one as well?
I think it was a very tiny or zero-chance rollout.
Must admit I didn’t realise the sms had a floppy drive addon
Does jpn say anything about addons about módem and 4 port docking system again... dreamcast
NOTE: if you wanna review classic video games, make sure you have plenty of 8-bit gaming music themes in the background!
You should do new game reviews, the niche content is really great but I wanna hear your thoughts on games! And anything else you're interested in.
I mean, I'd probably keep the Dreamcast Zip drive under lock and key too. It's not as though it'd even be very useful to modders, they've been able to load stuff from SD card for years now, and those are waaaaaay bigger than Zip disks or GD-ROMs ever were.
That Dreamcast picture had me click so fast.
9:35 JAPANESE MARKETS always focused on making their video game systems into fully functional computers. This is partly because THEY HAVE LESS SPACE IN THEIR HOMES.
Every single console must double as a computer.
I see no problem with that.
And considering how similar current consoles are to computers, I have to wonder why we can't get a standard mouse and keyboard on PS5 or Xbox.
I play on my desktop simply by adding a Xbox controller over USB.
I don't feel I need a PS5 or Xbox.
Did anyone get to 12:40 when the lady said Sega Saturn floppy disk system and was like, NOT AGAIN! Sega had so many attachments its no wonder they almost went bankrupt. Instead of focusing on the hardware they released they were always trying to improve it. Thank Jesus Nintendo learned you couldnt do this fairly quickly in their history a as they could have gone the way of Sega also.
I remember those giant laser disc players when i was in elementary and middle school as a child. The discs were record sized. I remember watching a video based on dinosaurs and some other stuff. My school had the giant box on a rolling cart with a big crt tv, lol.
SEGA's problem was they - like SNK and NEC - focused on bringing the arcade experience into the home.
NINTENDO focused on making video games for casual home gaming.
NINTENDO also focused on mascots and 1st party IP not available on other systems.
They STILL have a monopoly in that regard. Xbox and Sony have very few mascots.
Nintendo has a ton of them. Zelda, Link, Mario, Luigi, Princess, Toad, Koopas, Samus Aran, Donkey Kong/Diddy, the list goes on and on.
Xbox has: MASTER CHIEF.
SONY has KRATOS.
That's all.
Child-Me would have lost his goddamned mind over this.
Great 😊
🐢
I always thought it wouldve been cool to have a console that doubled as a computer, assuming it would've been more affordable just to buy a disc drive and keyboard rather than a whole separate PC. Im guessing the idea didnt catch on because those consoles were marketed toward kids, who didnt want to associate their video games with homework?
Ya know, if I ever had the money to pump my genesis, I would want a 64x new prototype for it (even though that never existed).
I'm waiting for the 128X add-on next month, it's the same price as 64 X 🙄🤣🙄🤣
"49 minutes? ok, I'll split 👍"
(me watching the whole video with no skips 👁👄👁 )
In A Nutshell TOO MANY STICKING PLASTERS And HALF ASSED IDEAS!!
i wish sega saturns werent so damn expensive these days
Can't wait to get rid of mine no games and the UK cases are awful.
@@wizzgamer get a ODE and just download the games bro
@@Acolis Could do
I honestly still think that the only thing Sega messed up (aside from internal conflict, JPN VS USA BS, and release dates) was simply the marketing. The 32X was in no way a bad idea, or a bad product. It could have been great, and could have doubled the already long lasting Genesis' lifespan. However, they didn't allow the time to develop good internal titles for it, allowed third parties to be even worse, just dumping genesis roms in identical form and fashion, straight on to 32X carts, and then sell them all over again for even more money, etc. But if done right, this really could have worked well.... heck, as a youngin of the era, I could have personally saved up and got myself a 32X much more easily than I could have purchased a Saturn, plus the whole new everything that comes with the new ecosystem. More options shouldn't be a bad thing, but somehow they messed the approach up so bad, that they convinced everyone on earth that it was. It really just all comes back to Sega of Japan being so full of themselves, so egotistical, that they had zero other route ahead of them beyond failure as a company in general. Basically, they acted like every mid to high level management everywhere.... Refused to hear, see, or recognize any worthwhile information sent their way, staunchly insisting they knew best, all the while going backwards at every step of their "knows best" way. Kinda like how most of us in the US possess the education of a 4th grader, at best.... at very best... but yet simultaneously possess an unrivaled confidence that we are literally the smartest, best, most well informed, best educated, most enlightened, all knowing beings. I mean, that sorta sums up ppl everywhere anymore, but I'm pretty sure 'merica holds the title of most confident while least intelligent, on the whole. And that mentality PERFECTLY embodies Sega of Japan of the era. A very confident derp indeed.
It would have shaken up Sega's HQ were some "untouchable" exec to call them on their willfully unwise actions, to wit, "You're behaving like Americans"
A zip drive add on is Spice meatball justa like i like ahit just soma parmesano to make it with garlic bread 😢
i simply love the terrible jokes
Thank you miss lady decade ❤ love you videos
That would be huge, That is what she said 😂
Эмоцианальная девушка, какая сила голоса
IF Sega had made the Sega CD a full on 32 bit system add on, who knows how things would have shook out. I'm of the firm belief that IF Sega would release a system today, with the graphical ability of say a ps4 pro, I'm convinced it would be a hit.
Even with a 32-bit ram, 32x VDP and framebuffer simple add-on. It would've killed any discussion of a 2nd add-on and rushing to get the saturn out to the market.
Sega has a chance of releasing a retro mobile gaming console where you can play every single game coming from past sega hardware.
You can use Google Lens to translate Japanese into English 😊
I miss seeing you in the videos
I loved sayger more than intendo
You do I love surprises darling
If segq did this first then maybe psp portal can so could nes switch
Right😂 right!❤❤
I'm like it
...slot
Lady decad are you Indian
Why do you have to ruin the video by mentioning bush and Blair? Blehhhhh!
Sega master system 2 is better sega master system 1
Add ons always fail
Sega Does What NintenDon’t
You betta stop pushing in games with your feet. 😅