I had a neighbor who had Sega Channel. All I can remember is that I thought it was awesome. Probably too ambitious for the time, but still a cool service to offer
I had it, it was awesome unless you wanted to juggle 2 RPGs at a time because it only had enough memory to save one game at a time on the cart...I wish that I'd had more time to devote to it while it lasted, but at least half of my time was spent playing Sega CD and 3DO during that time period. It would've been far more successful and probably lasted longer if it'd been released earlier in the system's lifespan...
It's a shame Sega didn't just keep releasing add-on attachments for the Genesis up until today. I want my Genesis to have more attachments than the Megazord and compete with the Xbone, even if we can't see the Genesis underneath it all anymore. 😅
This would remind me of V'ger from Star Trek: The Mostion Picture, a massive, sentient autonomous starship that went on exploring the universe and happened to find the Earth. Later it turned out that it has been built around one of the Voyager probes in order to help it with its original purpose of exploring, and said probe still existed in the middle of it.
@@krzysztofczarnecki8238 Damn, you beat me to the V'ger analogy lol. Too many add ons and the Genesis will become sentient and want to join with the creator.
Adding all of the attachments to each console and join them all together (Genesis/Megadrive + Saturn + Dreamcast), it could've been the vehicle Voltron of consoles.
Sega channel was amazing! It would give you cheats and tips for a game while the game loaded. Every month they switched out games. I had a subscription with TCI (if anyone remembers that). We had nothing like it for years.
If only it had been released earlier in the system's lifespan and had the ability to save more than one RPG at a time, it would've been far more successful...sadly, by 1994 many gamers had moved on to CD systems like Sega CD and 3DO (I know that despite having the Sega Channel, most of my time was still spent playing the more advanced systems).
Dang, the Genesis as a proper PC would’ve been a sight to see. The Motorola 68000 CPU it had as its main CPU certainly would’ve allowed it the raw power to compete with early Amiga and Macintosh System 7, definitely would’ve beaten 6502-based Apples, C64, and Z80-only PCs for sure!
It seems Sega's answer to literally everything in the early to mid-90's was some kind of Genesis/Mega Drive add-on. They sure didn't seem to be concerned at all with oversaturating the market or confusing the hell out of their loyal fanbase. Anyway, the best part of this whole video was you answering that question at the end. You're such a funny and entertaining person to listen to. That's why I love this channel.
Pausing during the answer to the Patreon question to say this: I live in southern Ontario, roughly an hour-s drive from Pearson International Airport (YYZ) near Toronto. I see Amish people in and around my city all the time, and you gotta drive straight through Amish country to get to my Aunt & Uncle's place in Listowel. Also, judging from the white sticker on the bottom corner of the front of the case, that game was probably sold by Microplay at some point before you got it.
I miss Microplay so much. The location in Peterborough rented out computer games, which essentially meant if you could get a no-CD patch, or owned a burner, you could grow an enormous library for very little, and I did. :)
A Sega Genesis is never complete without the Sega CD and Sega 32X add-ons. Mark Bussler from Classic Game Room said it best. He said "Optimus Prime is never complete without his trailer."
We'd found by the mid-90s that a bone stock SEGA Genesis was capable of 3D graphics, sound, and video to rival the early PlayStation launch games. Games like Toy Story, Street Fighter II, and Adventures of Batman & Robin proved that add ons and the Saturn weren't necessary for the system to compete. In fact, it would've been easy to upgrade the sound, up the VRAM to its originally designed 128KB VRAM, offer a 4K (4,096 color palette) version that played those 32- and 40-megabit games. Indeed, the maximum cartridge size was 128-megabits, and we've seen how good some of the latest releases have been for the Genesis. There are still tens of millions of these working consoles out there, and SEGA could've simply put their money into limit pushers, better SDKs, and marketing to maintain their lead until the Dreamcast was ready for launch. Hardware and software rotation, scaling, and 2,000 polygon/sec 3D graphics was possible, and even some Doom-like games were released at the bitter end of its life.
*there were disc drives floating in Hong Kong and Taiwan during that time you can play disc games copied from Mega Drive carts the same time as the Super Nintendo disc drives back then!* 💡
The Disk System kiosks were in places until 2003. They just stopped making new games for them in 1992 which makes it a short life. I guess it's just the number of places of those 10,000 they intended that wanted to keep them around wasn't that big is what you're saying and why they would stop making games for it.
In 1983, 3.5" discs were not really more common than 3" - they were just both uncommon. In 1984/5, 3" became common due to Amstrad but... ultimatley not as common as 3.5" by the early 90s. 3" drives can be found in Amstrad (CPC, PCW, Spectrum +3), Sega SC3000, Tatung Einstein and potentially other less common micros.
the Genesis being turned into a computer wouldnt have been that weird. it has a motorola 68000 cpu like the amiga or atari ST and also a z80 like the zx spectru, amstrad, msx, TRS-80.
Also, there was a game cartridge for the Atari 2600 called Programming. I saw it in a small magazine that came with one of my games. I think you needed a special controller that had a keypad.
From a hardware perspective, it's certainly not a stretch. But from a marketing perspective, I don't really see it working. Add ons never did that well, and I don't see that many people buying into this computer upgrade to a game system.
Whay if the sfd addon was released but not the sega cd? Then we would,ve mumbled now on youtube with things like “what if the sega cd was released” or “what would,ve be the potential of it” etc,, So am glad it didn’t happened that way.
The bit about "as its known in the Old Testament" made me laugh harder than it should have thanks to your dry delivery. Thank you. Keep being your lovely self. Also, love how you used the two Batman Returns songs back to back. Nice little (unintentional?) shoutout to Sega Lord X there.
I am from an alternate timeline, where Sega continued down this path... We are all master system peripherals there. They kinda screwed the pooch when they accidentally unlocked the time-travel functionality. As it turns out, adding a Tokemak, and a blender, is more dangerous than it sounds.
A friend of me had an illegal MEgadrive diskdrive system connected to his megadrive. It contained RAM and the diskdrive and was able to copy + play most Megadrive Rom cartridges. Only the bigger ones (mostly RPGs) couldnt be run. also several small games could be put on 1 3.5 inch disk. I remember that the illegal diskdrive system wrote more than 1.44MB on 1 floppy. I guess, it contained a special zip/unzip routine in its firmware rom.
12 megabits = 1.5 megabytes, so it was only writing 0.06MB more (60kb) on to the 1.44MB floppy disc, prob to over writing to the TOC area on the disc im guessing
Games back then were fun for a longer period. Meaning if you played it for a few days it was fun, but if you played it for years later, it was still fun. It wasn't a race to minmax or speedrun, it was just fun to play...
Strangest story for me I frequented this antique shop in Portsmouth New Hampshire and they have a small electronics space I'd look over it once in awhile and one day I found a PlayStation one $150 games all with a decent condition for 15 bucks I snatched the box I paid the bill and I ran out wish I kept the lot but I sold most of it for profit.
There's another more plausible reason they ditched it before it hit retail. Piracy. That reminds me, there was another floppy add-on, the Mega Disk Interceptor, although that blatantly was a piracy tool.
Wow what a great collection! New to your videos (suscribed long time ago but did not have time to enjoy your videos). Thank you for this grear content. SEGA FOREVER
I had a different floppy drive addon for my MegaDrive but it was not exactly official hardware but it allowed me to make backups of the games I owned... and the ones I rented at the video store 😉 It was called the Super Magic Drive
It's an American subject, but have you seen the X-band? It was a modem and online multiplayer device/service for the Genesis and SNES. Not sure if it was in the UK or Europe, but it was definitely here in the US and it was really cool
"Things can only get better", Tony said, passing the Champagne to Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin. "We will build a better world, with Vlad's gracious help and top bear riding skills."
Now I'm wondering what would happen if I asked a Genie for a Genesis with every real and proposed peripheral. I would need to do that out in my yard I think
There was a 3.5" floppy drive add-on for OG Playstation as well. It plugged into the memory card slot and was used to back up memory card game saves to floppy diskette. The idea was saving money. Memory cards at that time were 20 bucks. But floppies were 30 cents maybe, or free if you already had them. With the floppy drive, you only needed one actual memory card to hold the active game saves you needed at that moment. All the others could just sit on floppies. A whole ton of saves on just one box of diskettes. And the gadget worked.
@@common_c3nts News to some of us. Perhaps it's down to not having a KB toys around. They didn't have anything like that at Toys R Us or Best Buy that I remember.
I don't know who that guy was that was holding up that all in one Sega console but for some reason I just found him to be awesome I'm not sure why I did but it was just that hats or just his pose like his intentional awkward yet coolness I don't know I just thought he was awesome! Maybe we'll see more of him?
I had a Genesis and loved it. Simply too many add-ons. Had they made a new 32bit system coupled with the CD drive, it would have been a killer system for years.
Well diskettes are prone to piracy and they definitely got the short hand of the stick with the Dreamcast by choosing CDs... the CDs was perfect for the era of the Genesis but in an Era of CD burners, making the games on a CD was their downfall... so they saved them selves the first time with CDs and ended them selves with them after! also Breath of Fire 3 is the best one in my opinion, in BoF4 they took a step backward by returning to a tile based movement and fight screens... in BoF3 you fight on location, you interact a bit more with the map and can move the camera to unveil secrets! also don't use any types of fast level up cheats, you will end up at level 99 but as powerful as a level 20... you can still beat the game but it really becomes hard mode... lucky i only did it to Ryu and he can turn into dragons. also the yellow hair form plus the confusion gem makes him controllable.
From the picture you have shown this was not a poutine. It makes me angry that someone tries to sell that as a poutine! Give it another chance next time you're in Canada.
I have no idea how you continue to dig up these obscure corners of the gaming world but I am always grateful for the work you're doing! Thank you nerdy metal mum!!!
2:00 in, the background music, that's BATMAN for GAMEBOY, yes? Sounds like maybe 2nd or 3rd stage music. Maybe the Bat-plane stage music? UPDATE: OK, so I checked both the NES and Gameboy Batman games and I can not find that track. It sounds like a Sunsoft game, yeah? Someone help me out. 😆
Your voice reminded me of someone, and I don't mean it as a jab at you. Jen from IT Crowd... I can hear already in your voice the following line: "This, gentleman... Is the INTERNET!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another wonderful piece of video game history. Thank you, Madame Decade. I would love to see you do a future video on SEGA going to software only, SEGA arcade games, and the regular old 8-Bit NES/Famicom. If you’ve done any of these already, my apologies for not catching them… yet.
I never see anyone talk about the addon for the sega genesis/mega drive that allowed you to connect it to your satellite dish for the sega channel? Did that addon get memory holed too? I remember it because I had the channel on my 12 foot tall dish I had in my yard, and it was a thing all through the late 80s. They apparently kept it on air for a few years.
Wait....not another damn Sega Genesis add-on. I bet it has an extra power supply as well making the grand total ridiculous. I'm not bagging on the Sega Genesis as I grew up with one (got mine in 89) but forward thinking, Sega was not. I just watched the instructional vide on the Sega Activator yesterday and what shocked me was it too required another plug. That means Sega basically was saying for the full Genesis experience you needed... 1. Genesis plug. 2. Sega CD plug. 3. 32X plug. 4. Activator plug. For reference- I wanted all of it so I was no better. Maybe we were all a little nuts in the 1990's.
At least the Nintendo64's floppy disk drive is a Zip drive, so its disks can hold a ton more then those old low-capacity systems like _standard_ floppy disks and drives.
I think it's easier to convince Mom to buy a PC that plays games than a keyboard/FDD add-on to your game system. But assuming Sega got this bit of word-play correct, they'd still need to create a whole software ecosystem to support it. I still can't fathom why Microsoft never ported Office to XBox; it would be Microsoft's dream closed-box office appliance.
If sega had just slapped 1 special add on chip on their carts instead of all the hardware extensions ...yeh games would have cost a little more,instead of £35 -£45 or £50 .. would have been acceptable the same way snes game prices were accepted,the VR games £60 The megadrive weak point was rom size and special graphics chips for scaling
@Lady Decade Saturn Floppy drive you say? Most intriguing! Video please! EDIT: Wonderful weird story that! Canadians are a bit different and strange. Even compared to us Yanks!
That's how I got my second copy of BoF 4 for maybe $2.50. I gave my mom some cash to use if she found any games when she went to this one flea market thing and she found that, vandal hearts 2, ff8, ff9, re directors cut and a few other games at $2.50 each. My original copy of BoF 4 was stolen from me.
Genesis New Testament would be surprisingly different given how the new alliance has changed not only the Cosmology established in Babylon's gardens 600 years prior to the writing of the Gospels but the ethics and hygene that were reformed in the late Roman era to appeal to a broad western pagan audience. It would be a really insteresting gnostic exercise to rewrite a 21st century apocriph of the Genesis in the light of Christianity. We would be bond to stumble upon the same hiccups than scholars famously stumbled upon during the high middle ages : did the Holy Spirit precede God in the making of the universe, for instance.
I dare say this kinda seemed like a "no brainer" for Sega in regard to the cost of floppy disks vs. solid state memory on carts. Though for sake of posterity, it's likely better they *didn't* release it as I have no idea of the longevity of even high quality floppy disks compared to the game carts (which as far as I know have no expiration, save more replacing the button batteries on those which have it, etc.)
I had a neighbor who had Sega Channel. All I can remember is that I thought it was awesome. Probably too ambitious for the time, but still a cool service to offer
I had it, it was awesome unless you wanted to juggle 2 RPGs at a time because it only had enough memory to save one game at a time on the cart...I wish that I'd had more time to devote to it while it lasted, but at least half of my time was spent playing Sega CD and 3DO during that time period. It would've been far more successful and probably lasted longer if it'd been released earlier in the system's lifespan...
It's a shame Sega didn't just keep releasing add-on attachments for the Genesis up until today. I want my Genesis to have more attachments than the Megazord and compete with the Xbone, even if we can't see the Genesis underneath it all anymore. 😅
Can we call it the Segazord? 😂
This would remind me of V'ger from Star Trek: The Mostion Picture, a massive, sentient autonomous starship that went on exploring the universe and happened to find the Earth. Later it turned out that it has been built around one of the Voyager probes in order to help it with its original purpose of exploring, and said probe still existed in the middle of it.
@@krzysztofczarnecki8238 Damn, you beat me to the V'ger analogy lol. Too many add ons and the Genesis will become sentient and want to join with the creator.
Can you imagine the amount of plugs?!
Adding all of the attachments to each console and join them all together (Genesis/Megadrive + Saturn + Dreamcast), it could've been the vehicle Voltron of consoles.
Sega channel was amazing! It would give you cheats and tips for a game while the game loaded. Every month they switched out games. I had a subscription with TCI (if anyone remembers that). We had nothing like it for years.
If only it had been released earlier in the system's lifespan and had the ability to save more than one RPG at a time, it would've been far more successful...sadly, by 1994 many gamers had moved on to CD systems like Sega CD and 3DO (I know that despite having the Sega Channel, most of my time was still spent playing the more advanced systems).
Some cancelled sonic games on the floppy disk drive would’ve been perfect
Great informative video as always can't beat a bit of this decade ,
This is really interesting to learn about. Thank you!
Dang, the Genesis as a proper PC would’ve been a sight to see. The Motorola 68000 CPU it had as its main CPU certainly would’ve allowed it the raw power to compete with early Amiga and Macintosh System 7, definitely would’ve beaten 6502-based Apples, C64, and Z80-only PCs for sure!
That's sick!
It seems Sega's answer to literally everything in the early to mid-90's was some kind of Genesis/Mega Drive add-on. They sure didn't seem to be concerned at all with oversaturating the market or confusing the hell out of their loyal fanbase. Anyway, the best part of this whole video was you answering that question at the end. You're such a funny and entertaining person to listen to. That's why I love this channel.
Ontarioan here, loved that story! What a unique find.
Edit: Oh no, you didn't enjoy poutine, that's a bummer. I can't get enough.
Pausing during the answer to the Patreon question to say this: I live in southern Ontario, roughly an hour-s drive from Pearson International Airport (YYZ) near Toronto. I see Amish people in and around my city all the time, and you gotta drive straight through Amish country to get to my Aunt & Uncle's place in Listowel. Also, judging from the white sticker on the bottom corner of the front of the case, that game was probably sold by Microplay at some point before you got it.
I miss Microplay so much. The location in Peterborough rented out computer games, which essentially meant if you could get a no-CD patch, or owned a burner, you could grow an enormous library for very little, and I did. :)
I was thinking she may have gotten it from St. Jacob’s Farmer’s Market, about an hour south of TO. I’ve found games there in random places.
Strange that a third party was designing the joystick. I would have thought that was one element Sega would have been fully capable of developing
Thanks for answering my question and props for getting the last name right! What a crazy story!
Wait, Lady Decade & Top Hat "Strange Adventures in a Strange Land"
I like that idea
A Sega Genesis is never complete without the Sega CD and Sega 32X add-ons. Mark Bussler from Classic Game Room said it best. He said "Optimus Prime is never complete without his trailer."
We'd found by the mid-90s that a bone stock SEGA Genesis was capable of 3D graphics, sound, and video to rival the early PlayStation launch games. Games like Toy Story, Street Fighter II, and Adventures of Batman & Robin proved that add ons and the Saturn weren't necessary for the system to compete. In fact, it would've been easy to upgrade the sound, up the VRAM to its originally designed 128KB VRAM, offer a 4K (4,096 color palette) version that played those 32- and 40-megabit games. Indeed, the maximum cartridge size was 128-megabits, and we've seen how good some of the latest releases have been for the Genesis. There are still tens of millions of these working consoles out there, and SEGA could've simply put their money into limit pushers, better SDKs, and marketing to maintain their lead until the Dreamcast was ready for launch.
Hardware and software rotation, scaling, and 2,000 polygon/sec 3D graphics was possible, and even some Doom-like games were released at the bitter end of its life.
Thanks for this video! I never knew there was ever a planned FDD for the Genesis!
thx again me lady for another cool vid :)
*there were disc drives floating in Hong Kong and Taiwan during that time you can play disc games copied from Mega Drive carts the same time as the Super Nintendo disc drives back then!* 💡
We had Sega Channel as a kid! I had no idea how ahead of its time it was
The Disk System kiosks were in places until 2003. They just stopped making new games for them in 1992 which makes it a short life. I guess it's just the number of places of those 10,000 they intended that wanted to keep them around wasn't that big is what you're saying and why they would stop making games for it.
I would like to see, Microsoft + sony + nintendo + sega = joint forces team up and make a super ultimate console together. 🤝💯💥✔🔥
There won't be a console, each will make an accessory and they will all unite Combatler V style to form a 500 ft. console 😎
And add Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, Bally and Magnavox.
Like the Triforce with more versatile tech?
In 1983, 3.5" discs were not really more common than 3" - they were just both uncommon. In 1984/5, 3" became common due to Amstrad but... ultimatley not as common as 3.5" by the early 90s. 3" drives can be found in Amstrad (CPC, PCW, Spectrum +3), Sega SC3000, Tatung Einstein and potentially other less common micros.
the Genesis being turned into a computer wouldnt have been that weird. it has a motorola 68000 cpu like the amiga or atari ST and also a z80 like the zx spectru, amstrad, msx, TRS-80.
Also, there was a game cartridge for the Atari 2600 called Programming. I saw it in a small magazine that came with one of my games. I think you needed a special controller that had a keypad.
From a hardware perspective, it's certainly not a stretch. But from a marketing perspective, I don't really see it working. Add ons never did that well, and I don't see that many people buying into this computer upgrade to a game system.
I build bang busses for a living. If you would like I could send one of my drivers over to pick you up.
Whay if the sfd addon was released but not the sega cd?
Then we would,ve mumbled now on youtube with things like “what if the sega cd was released” or “what would,ve be the potential of it” etc,,
So am glad it didn’t happened that way.
Just when I thought I knew every single add-on
I still love the idea of console add-ons, but they've clearly been proven to be financial flop across multiple early consoles.
You said it!
I would love to see you do a video of the PC 98 and a PC 88 if possible but great video thanks lady decade you are awesome
The computer systems are made by NEC
My final add on for the Megadrive, was a pint of Kestrel lager, when the bastard caught on fire.
Breath of fire 3 was a good buy, strange place to buy it though....
The Sega CD can play CD+G discs? So it's a freaking karaoke machine?? 🤯
Why couldn’t you just use google app to translate the magazine if there wasn’t a translation already?
nice one lady, are you alright?
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So Sega dropped Sony as well. Sony had a lot of revenge with the ps1.
Sega has backstabbed them twice.
Puten is hard to mess up
Bush? I thought this hardware was in the Clinton years.
Lol 1.5 meg of space game would be rather plain for a genesis game
That nose and those old floppers. Lol. 👎
Slot.
😂😂 That story
Knock off Levis 🤣
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let's get a lot more tigs next video...this was too clickbaity and not enough of the real content.
The bit about "as its known in the Old Testament" made me laugh harder than it should have thanks to your dry delivery. Thank you. Keep being your lovely self.
Also, love how you used the two Batman Returns songs back to back. Nice little (unintentional?) shoutout to Sega Lord X there.
I can only imagine the amount of vestigial growths that Sega would have strapped onto the Mega Drive if left to their own devices....
The Sega Strapons. Oh dear…..
I am from an alternate timeline, where Sega continued down this path... We are all master system peripherals there. They kinda screwed the pooch when they accidentally unlocked the time-travel functionality. As it turns out, adding a Tokemak, and a blender, is more dangerous than it sounds.
@@andrewamann2821 Add that Tokemak to the blender and you'll get INTER-DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL!
A friend of me had an illegal MEgadrive diskdrive system connected to his megadrive. It contained RAM and the diskdrive and was able to copy + play most Megadrive Rom cartridges. Only the bigger ones (mostly RPGs) couldnt be run. also several small games could be put on 1 3.5 inch disk. I remember that the illegal diskdrive system wrote more than 1.44MB on 1 floppy. I guess, it contained a special zip/unzip routine in its firmware rom.
12 megabits = 1.5 megabytes, so it was only writing 0.06MB more (60kb) on to the 1.44MB floppy disc, prob to over writing to the TOC area on the disc im guessing
Games back then were fun for a longer period. Meaning if you played it for a few days it was fun, but if you played it for years later, it was still fun. It wasn't a race to minmax or speedrun, it was just fun to play...
They're also most popular for speedrunners.
Many thanks Lady Decade. I was very much into the 16-bit era. Megadrive, MegaCD, A500 etc... Never knew about this!
They should have put 4x Yamaha YM2612 in it!!
what, so the console would have 5 YM2612s total? 😄
Strangest story for me I frequented this antique shop in Portsmouth New Hampshire and they have a small electronics space I'd look over it once in awhile and one day I found a PlayStation one $150 games all with a decent condition for 15 bucks I snatched the box I paid the bill and I ran out wish I kept the lot but I sold most of it for profit.
There's another more plausible reason they ditched it before it hit retail. Piracy.
That reminds me, there was another floppy add-on, the Mega Disk Interceptor, although that blatantly was a piracy tool.
Wow what a great collection! New to your videos (suscribed long time ago but did not have time to enjoy your videos). Thank you for this grear content. SEGA FOREVER
I had a different floppy drive addon for my MegaDrive but it was not exactly official hardware but it allowed me to make backups of the games I owned... and the ones I rented at the video store 😉
It was called the Super Magic Drive
Did you mean mega disk interceptor?
It's an American subject, but have you seen the X-band? It was a modem and online multiplayer device/service for the Genesis and SNES. Not sure if it was in the UK or Europe, but it was definitely here in the US and it was really cool
Do I really need to be reminded of how much I despise New Labour in a video about gaming history?
Maybe :)
"Things can only get better", Tony said, passing the Champagne to Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin. "We will build a better world, with Vlad's gracious help and top bear riding skills."
I had a mega drive i remember filing off the corners of the slot where game plugs in so i can use foreign cartridges
Region breaking, a necessity for gracious living!
Now I'm wondering what would happen if I asked a Genie for a Genesis with every real and proposed peripheral. I would need to do that out in my yard I think
There was a 3.5" floppy drive add-on for OG Playstation as well. It plugged into the memory card slot and was used to back up memory card game saves to floppy diskette. The idea was saving money. Memory cards at that time were 20 bucks. But floppies were 30 cents maybe, or free if you already had them. With the floppy drive, you only needed one actual memory card to hold the active game saves you needed at that moment. All the others could just sit on floppies. A whole ton of saves on just one box of diskettes. And the gadget worked.
Everyone knows that as it was sold in normal stores like KB toys.
@@common_c3nts News to some of us. Perhaps it's down to not having a KB toys around. They didn't have anything like that at Toys R Us or Best Buy that I remember.
And with celular
Imagine a universe where EVERY hardware add-on for every system existed.
Thus the first A.I. rose to existence, a plague of combiner technology gone wrong...
Imagine a universe where FMV games were truly the future of gaming instead of ugly, blocky polygons...
I don't know who that guy was that was holding up that all in one Sega console but for some reason I just found him to be awesome I'm not sure why I did but it was just that hats or just his pose like his intentional awkward yet coolness I don't know I just thought he was awesome! Maybe we'll see more of him?
Thats a fake gum desease commercial at the start
I only play Sega on my Boujee Sega CDX 💅💅💅
I had a Genesis and loved it. Simply too many add-ons. Had they made a new 32bit system coupled with the CD drive, it would have been a killer system for years.
That was the Saturn?
Nintendo: We have a port on the NES to add a disk drive (and will never use it).
Sega: That's cute, kid.
Really thought the Patreon backer question was going in a different direction for a sec
A necessity for gracious Genesis 😀🇺🇲
Well diskettes are prone to piracy and they definitely got the short hand of the stick with the Dreamcast by choosing CDs... the CDs was perfect for the era of the Genesis but in an Era of CD burners, making the games on a CD was their downfall... so they saved them selves the first time with CDs and ended them selves with them after!
also Breath of Fire 3 is the best one in my opinion, in BoF4 they took a step backward by returning to a tile based movement and fight screens... in BoF3 you fight on location, you interact a bit more with the map and can move the camera to unveil secrets!
also don't use any types of fast level up cheats, you will end up at level 99 but as powerful as a level 20... you can still beat the game but it really becomes hard mode... lucky i only did it to Ryu and he can turn into dragons. also the yellow hair form plus the confusion gem makes him controllable.
From the picture you have shown this was not a poutine. It makes me angry that someone tries to sell that as a poutine! Give it another chance next time you're in Canada.
imagine a pass through adapter that would allow for the sega CD and FDD being connected at once!!! Shut up and take my money
The rich kid up the street from me had Sega Channel. It definitely led to me being exposed to a ton of obscure Sega games than I otherwise would have.
SUBSCRIBED! love the pre-cap, love your style of vid, great info, presentation and editing. thumbsup
I watched this video at 2 hours old
Quick disks need many metal moving parts, but it is also much faster than the Sony 3.5" floppy.
I have no idea how you continue to dig up these obscure corners of the gaming world but I am always grateful for the work you're doing! Thank you nerdy metal mum!!!
“That’s a mouthful!” 😂 Amiga 32 had also an add-on to make it a “full computer” - sx32 or so…
Nice toe work btw…😉 Have a nice WE y’all…
Golly. One of the strongest visions I have seen.
i have a lot of fond memories of the genesis and cd. loved them never heard of the fdd tho thank u
LAMO. You're not wrong about the poutine...
Well, at least the side slot didn't go to waste, thanks to the Mega CD module...
2:00 in, the background music, that's BATMAN for GAMEBOY, yes? Sounds like maybe 2nd or 3rd stage music. Maybe the Bat-plane stage music?
UPDATE: OK, so I checked both the NES and Gameboy Batman games and I can not find that track. It sounds like a Sunsoft game, yeah? Someone help me out. 😆
The lady in the thumbnail is kind of cute
Your voice reminded me of someone, and I don't mean it as a jab at you.
Jen from IT Crowd...
I can hear already in your voice the following line: "This, gentleman... Is the INTERNET!"
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Another wonderful piece of video game history. Thank you, Madame Decade.
I would love to see you do a future video on SEGA going to software only, SEGA arcade games, and the regular old 8-Bit NES/Famicom.
If you’ve done any of these already, my apologies for not catching them… yet.
I never see anyone talk about the addon for the sega genesis/mega drive that allowed you to connect it to your satellite dish for the sega channel? Did that addon get memory holed too? I remember it because I had the channel on my 12 foot tall dish I had in my yard, and it was a thing all through the late 80s. They apparently kept it on air for a few years.
I love your channel
I notice when you introduce yourself in the intro, you sound like you're smiling.
Also, how much you expect a Sega CD would go for on eBay?
Wait....not another damn Sega Genesis add-on. I bet it has an extra power supply as well making the grand total ridiculous. I'm not bagging on the Sega Genesis as I grew up with one (got mine in 89) but forward thinking, Sega was not. I just watched the instructional vide on the Sega Activator yesterday and what shocked me was it too required another plug. That means Sega basically was saying for the full Genesis experience you needed...
1. Genesis plug.
2. Sega CD plug.
3. 32X plug.
4. Activator plug.
For reference- I wanted all of it so I was no better. Maybe we were all a little nuts in the 1990's.
At least the Nintendo64's floppy disk drive is a Zip drive, so its disks can hold a ton more then those old low-capacity systems like _standard_ floppy disks and drives.
The CDTV would have been the aim to beat for the Sega MD. The CD32 was supposed to compete with the Saturn. And couldn't.
Sega how you loved a add-on we love you for your crazy flops
I think it's easier to convince Mom to buy a PC that plays games than a keyboard/FDD add-on to your game system. But assuming Sega got this bit of word-play correct, they'd still need to create a whole software ecosystem to support it.
I still can't fathom why Microsoft never ported Office to XBox; it would be Microsoft's dream closed-box office appliance.
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If sega had just slapped 1 special add on chip on their carts instead of all the hardware extensions ...yeh games would have cost a little more,instead of £35 -£45 or £50 .. would have been acceptable the same way snes game prices were accepted,the VR games £60
The megadrive weak point was rom size and special graphics chips for scaling
@Lady Decade
Saturn Floppy drive you say? Most intriguing! Video please! EDIT: Wonderful weird story that! Canadians are a bit different and strange. Even compared to us Yanks!
That's how I got my second copy of BoF 4 for maybe $2.50. I gave my mom some cash to use if she found any games when she went to this one flea market thing and she found that, vandal hearts 2, ff8, ff9, re directors cut and a few other games at $2.50 each. My original copy of BoF 4 was stolen from me.
Genesis New Testament would be surprisingly different given how the new alliance has changed not only the Cosmology established in Babylon's gardens 600 years prior to the writing of the Gospels but the ethics and hygene that were reformed in the late Roman era to appeal to a broad western pagan audience. It would be a really insteresting gnostic exercise to rewrite a 21st century apocriph of the Genesis in the light of Christianity. We would be bond to stumble upon the same hiccups than scholars famously stumbled upon during the high middle ages : did the Holy Spirit precede God in the making of the universe, for instance.
I dare say this kinda seemed like a "no brainer" for Sega in regard to the cost of floppy disks vs. solid state memory on carts. Though for sake of posterity, it's likely better they *didn't* release it as I have no idea of the longevity of even high quality floppy disks compared to the game carts (which as far as I know have no expiration, save more replacing the button batteries on those which have it, etc.)