The Dreamcast was ahead of its time. Cool Memory card, analog triggers, Hall Effect sensor sticks to fight against stick drift(which has recently been making a comeback on the market)
The Dreamcast was ahead of its time. Cool Memory card, analog triggers, Hall Effect sensor sticks to fight against stick drift(which has recently been making a comeback on the marketkr
i still own 3 dreamcasts , mainly cause I got the ones before 11/99 so they can play burnt games and those models were recalled out of the stores when they found out about it being able to play burnt games. its one of the hardest models to find
As a happy dreamcast owner I must also say the Dreamcast wasn’t a failure, we failed the Dreamcast. It deserved so much more, and in a way? With the homebrew and love it still has, it’ll keep on dreaming.
It was really sad that Sony back in the day had so many exclusives in the hopes to kill the competition. Nowadays every console gets it, so they reached balance.
@@RaistalEndor that would make the system sell even more? Not less. The downfall was Sony and the colossal sales of the ps2, plus the fact the ps2 had dvd support for the same price as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast just couldn’t compete with the ps2. Plus CD-R’s and recorders back then had cost a fortune, it was cheaper to just buy a game from sega.
The dreamcast did not fail because of playstation but because of poor anti piracy measures, or more accurately lack there of, devs stopped designing games for the system for fear of it being pirated instantly. And because of lack of catalog no one bought the system
Yep on Dreamcast, you just need to get rid of the garbage data in the iso, which is usually just a bunch of zeros to make it fit on a 700 MB CDR. With PlayStation 1, you need a mod chip until about 2021 when tonyhax was discovered to softmod
It was Sega’s bad reputation in the 90’s after the genesis, and the announcement of the PS2 which killed the dreamcast. Nobody bought the console. Even if piracy was a issue, the DC simply had a bad reputation and failed because of it
Some of the “worst consoles” weren’t even bad. Some of them were even ahead of their time, just because it doesn’t sell well, doesn’t mean it is poorly made.
Dreamcast is my favorite game console of all time. It had very few issues but overall it is still an amazing console that holds up to this day! I don’t get the “Dreamcast had no catalogue” argument. 252 games in North America alone, 636 games worldwide, how can you not find a good few games to play and enjoy?
Dreamcast was not a bad console so it doesn't belong in this video. It was terrific. He seems to have a terrific time with Crazy Taxi so what is he finding to be bad about it? There are some pretty lengthy explanations on youtube of its failure. It got creamed by PS2 which, among other things, was a great value with a DVD player capability. Then again, PS2 creamed everything, even the ahead of its time Xbox.
I had a HyperScan growing up. We got it after already having real consoles, so I knew what to compare it to. I was still pretty enthralled in the idea of scanning cards. I loved trading cards and YuGiOh and I wanted to see cards interact with a computer more than anything at the time.
Man… I had so much fun with my Jaguar in the mid-90s. Alien Vs. Predator, Iron Soldier, Tempest 2000, and Hover Strike were all games that used the hardware well, and impressed me compared to what else was out there at the time.
As someone that has a Jaguar, which I bought when it first came out, I'm kind of dismayed, but not surprised by their coverage of the system. It's the typical RUclips "OMG, everything about Jaguar SUCKS!" OK, to be fair, it was a catastrophic commercial disaster. There's no denying that. The controllers, as unusual as they looked, were actually decent. It was a shortcoming that there were only three main action buttons, but other than that, it was fine. $250 not an unusually high price (SNES=200, 3DO=500, Saturn=400). But at least they didn't boot up Club Drive and say that was a typical Jaguar game. In my mind, what killed the Jaguar was not that it was bad hardware (before anyone says I'm delusional, I'm not saying it was ahead of its time either, just that for $250 in 1993, it's about what you'd expect). The real problem was it was being marketed by a company that had no money so most of the games were very low budget. If you check game credits, many PS1 and Saturn games have 50-100 people working on them. Jaguar games were usually 5-10. And some of the games that came out right at the bitter end, and prototypes that got put on cartridge and sold by insider fans after the system was off the market showed that the system did have decent capabilities. But because the hardware was unfamiliar and difficult to program for, they didn't really tap into its potential until it was far too late. If you're wondering what I'm referring to, search RUclips for the game Phase Zero.
Here in the Netherlands CD-I was pretty well sold. You are still finding tons of CD-I discs in thrift shops. It honestly was a pretty impressive system, although it often felt a bit like a combination of SNES and those interactive DVD's. It was ideal for simple platformers, and games like myst where you could wait for the disc to load the next sequence. Not a huge flop here, and actually kinda fun.
Depending on the cd-i it might not be just the laser. They have a none replaceable battery and if it dies in certain models well you have a brick. This battery is incased inside a chip and some very skilled people can replace it but it's not easy. It's easier to emulate the cd-i any way especially since the games are bat shit insanely expensive.
The hyper scan unlocked a core memory. I honestly don't know how or why mine disappeared. I think even my family knew how bad it was and took it out back like my boy old yeller
I was about to be shocked that you found a CDi controller with the little joystick nub. I’ve owned about dozen of them over the years and have never seen that piece.
Love the old school Panasonic Plasma tv. My older brother bought the 50" model in the same range back in 2006 from Circuit City for around $2400. Crazy how everything has gotten better and so cheap. And it still works to the day.
When I was a kid, I almost bought the Jaguar, purely because I was a big Bruce Lee fan and the bundle came with the Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story game. My dad talked me out of it because he thought the console sucked and the games didn’t look any better than those I had on the Mega Drive. I listened to him and bought a Sega Saturn instead. Still have some of my fondest childhood gaming memories associated with the Saturn.
@@Ziggaton That’s one way to look at it. I like to look back at that time with fondness. Especially since I lost my dad to stomach cancer a few years later. But at least you got your joy out of making a snide comment, so good for you, I guess.
My dad talked me out from buying a GC and instead got me a PS2. Don't really regret the decision - the GC had pretty goofy controllers and getting it modded was not really ideal at the time - also none of the specialised shops would mod GCs from what I remember.
The biggest problem with Sega Dreamcast is it was released to compete with N64 and Playstation 1 in 1998 in Japan but by the time it released overseas in 1999 the next generation PS2 and GameCube were right around the corner in 2000 as well as Xbox
It's a 480p 128bit console released in 1999 before the other sixth gen 128bit 480p consoles. The only difference is Sega dropped out after 2001 to go third party. But the hardware is sixth gen capable. It's why I find the PS2/Xbox GameCube nonsense of retro dumb they all used CRTs, they all had modems, they all had light guns and analogue stick controllers, still had 2D games just less common and more on handhelds, all 128bit but it was 99 so apparently that counts for some reason??? Year/era I get can but the other factors count too. Sure weaker than the other consoles of sixth gen but it was a capable sixth gen console that got Sega games and mostly PS1 and N64 ports to it by third parties as it's all they had at the time to port over. Some weren't and some had issues like the Saturn of do they put games on it or whatever the Sega license agreements or whatever besides it being early sales of the console and seeing it's life span being relevant to make games for it. The same complaints people have with the Wii U is repeated third party software early on that's just the issue of having a new console early but people don't complain about the 360 in 2005 before the other two consoles and of course other examples like the 3DO/Jaguar and more were yes messes but we're still fifth gen pushing too early of hardware and price point with not enough reason to get them. I mean I don't blame third parties somewhat as they had those games, they made improvements and they didn't have anything in time for the console. The ports are good supposedly I've never owned or touched the console. Besides that people maybe didn't care for Sega Sports games as much as EA or the time span being also long maybe long or shorter than Google Stadia of about 2-3 years of 1999-2001 with some games going to 2007 but not from the west that's for sure. Has an Indie homebrew scene though.
Fun thing about the Jaguar is that the bus between the DRAM and the two processors, were 64-bit.. If I remember correctly, it was a 32-bit bus to each of it's Motorola 68000 processors..
It had a 64BIT Bus and 2 32BIT CPUs "Tom" and "Jerry" that were designed to different things - I can't remember which was which. The 68000 was never meant to be a CPU but used as the co-processor to handle all the other stuff in between. However rumours are that devs just ended up using that as they were familiar with the architecture as the 68k. Which is why the Jaguar didn't have amazing looking games as the 68k is primarily a 16/24BIT CPU with a 32BIT bus.
I loved my Dreamcast so much, I played Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on that thing so damn much lol. I sold it on 2003 to pay for a tattoo on my chest and I regret doing that so much these days
Funny thing is that here in the Netherlands the CD-I wasn't sold as console but a information and video system. How it was known there as console is beyond me as it wasn't intended as such by the developers of this system. And yes I'm from Eindhoven where Philips came from.
@@espana86 Nope as it was NEVER soled as such here in the Netherlands. This is calling flip phones of the 2000 game console's as they had games on them.
Yes, I live in Portugal and around here the CD-i wasn't sold as a console either. It was more like a multimedia system that reads CD-i Digital Video, Video CDs, Photo CDs, CDs and CD+G for Karaokes in bars, interactive encyclopedias (with videos, very cool at the time), educational programs and games and the video games were like second plane. It wasn't even sold in game stores, only electronics stores. I remember seeing accounting software being promoted but I don't think it ever came to be.
I agree people only focus on the Nintendo games not the educational software/other use cases or even other games. It's made around CDi disks, the point being interactive CDs. So it had a bunch of non-gaming stuff. It's like saying 'why doesn't my projector have games on it' when it's not intended for it it's intended for displaying things besides games like movies or worksheets for schools. Not sure about video CDs or karaoke but I know some consoles or CD players likely focused around that at the time especially in Japan. I mean the Panasonic Q GameCube or the JVC X Eye or others have Karaoke or video CD support.
@@suntannedduck2388 The CD-i started by having its own video format called CD-i Digital Video, in fact it had a slightly higher resolution than the Video CD and the movies had menus where it could contain music videos and interviews... Then Philips abandoned the format in favor of the 'newer' Video CD. Video CDs distributed by Philips contain a CD-i directory which retains the 'old' menus, only CD-i's recognize these menus, a normal Video CD player doesn't. The quality of the movies distributed by Philips was OK, probably the best that the format could deliver, I say this because I've seen more recent non-Philips Video CDs and the picture quality is much lower. Another feature of Philips Video CDs is that they often use Dolby Surround.
When I was working in big box retail, this console was coming out, and the Sony reps were required to give a 30 minute presentation to each team member in electronics on the PlayStation classic console.
I bought my jaguar new for 130 gulders, which is about 70 usd now. Someone had stolen the PSU but it was the last one they had, so I kept it. I think it's underrated. Bubsy, Atari Karts, Cybermorph, they were all pretty awesome games for the era but they lacked a real 'franchise'. I loved my Jaguar, though.
I think the physical media equivalent Austin was trying to think of would be, like, really cheap read-only SSDs loaded with the actual game loaded on it.
I still have my original CD-i machine. When I worked at MovieTime/Alfalfa Video, they had a contract with Phillips/Magnavox to sell them in the stores. I played it for years until I got my PlayStation. Favorite game on it was Burn Cycle but also played Battleship a lot on it.
I would love to see you do a video on the old platform known as web TV. Sony had a version, Microsoft had a version. It was like turning your TV into a computer workstation/email check or whatever. There is no hard drive in the system. Everything’s done online.
The irony with the PlayStation classic is after you hack it and add games to it it's amazing. You can use various wired and wireless controllers with it, it's absolutely amazing. And of course they were dirt cheap for quite awhile. It actually might be the most successful failure of this whole video as it started as a cash grab and ended up as an amazing emulation machine. So honestly everything worked out.
With the Atari Jaguar, you should've purchased a copy of the Jaguar CD Addon with Tempest 2000 and then also got a Samsung or Toshiba Nuon DVD player with a copy of Tempest 3000 as a point of comparison...
Have a Consul in my attic that uses a little LED stick-on light on a suction cup for your TV, and VHS tapes for game cartridges. Has a "light gun" and all the games were "shoot at this thing" based when in reality, the light would blink at certain times and the light gun just detected the led blinking.
Nostalgia Nerd covered a bunch of these VHS game systems or obviously VHS plays and you use it and it detects presses but doesn't forward the game. But yeah their a unique time for sure.
Fun fact, if you open up one of those PS Classic controllers, inside its just a micro usb cable plugged into the PCB. Gives you a cool cable with a mini PS looking connector on the usb A side 😁
I can still remember the pain. The Dreamcast was a console ahead of its time where we didnt know what it was! To understand this, i grew up with the original Nintento and Super Nintendo. We kids all had a console from Nintendo or Sega. When we grew up, Sony Playstation 1 came to market. For us at the time, the Playstation 1 was for the growen ups, it had mature or adult games. When the Dreamcast came out, we didnt know what we should do with it. Internet wasnt such a big thing at the time. The games themselves where ment for children. Crazy Taxi wasnt the game, the killer game what we wanted. The games what we wanted where mature games like Tomb Raider, Resident Evil or Final Fantasy 7. The Playstation 2 was the nails of Dreamcasts coffin. It had a build in DVD Player, it was backwards compatible with Playstation 1 and it cost as much as a brand new DVD Player! For me, the Dreamcast was one of the coolest consoles ever made, still today. But at the time, there where no good desirable games to buy it. Everyone had a reason to buy a Playstation 2. But no one knew why they should buy the Dreamcast.
I remember owning a hyperscan. I begged my parents to get me one for Christmas over an Xbox and Playstation because I wanted the Ben 10 game. 6 year old me loved it and never thought about how terrible the console and games were.
I'm skeptical that the diode laser on the CD-I is bad, considering how good that thing looks overall. I've fixed a few of them and it's always been a hardened drive belt. Pick up an o-ring from the nearest hardware store that's about the size of the belt and see if that fixes it.
The CD-i was my first console and I actually really loved it. The CD-i version of Tetris remains my absolute favourite of all time with the chilled synthy music and the animated nature backgrounds.
It's always good to see someone say something nice about the CD-i.. And not just because I worked for Philips during the time. :P The CD-i was a jack-of-all-trades system. Audio CDs, CD+G, Video-CDs, Kodak Photo-CDs, and of course Philips CD-i software. Impressive for 30+ years ago! My favorites were: Palm Springs Golf, Escape from Cyber City, The Apprentice, Tetris, Dragon's Lair, DL2, Space Ace, Mad Dog McCree (w/light gun), Kether, Link: The Faces of Evil (not bad once you get used to the wonky controls, and use a joypad of course), BodySlam, Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (outer Wikipedia of the time!), Jeopardy, and Name That Tune. The latter was a great party game. Oh. And Super Mario's Wacky Worlds was promising.
@@videogameobsession makes me think if it should have included a cassette, radio and VHS cassette player too, wouldnt have left anything out so it would have been basically everything you need that time. In 1992 you would need to buy many different hardware for all that with no cheap prices.
I feel like Sega only ended as one of the big 3 because of the failures leading up to the Dreamcast, The Dreamcast itself was a pretty great system but because of poor decisions that came before their last console, it cost them greatly. One of Sega's main downfalls was the 32X and Sega CD. These were bad decisions because it felt like Sega was trying to prolong the Genesis and make the system more than it was when they should have fully moved on and focused all of their efforts on their next console (Sega Saturn). The next failure was the next console called the Sega Saturn. Saturn was not Sega's only focus because of the confusing lineup of the Sega 32X/ Sega CD and the Sega Saturn. Not only did the existence of the Sega 32X and CD hurt the Saturn but also the lack of communication between Sega and game developers. Sega for some reason decided to have a surprise launch for the Saturn causing game developers/ publishers not being ready to release games and fans not being ready for the launch day of the console. These two things cause Sega to have a terrible console launch and that affected the Saturn until its discontinuation in 1998. By the time Dreamcast was released to the market, the damage had already been done. Most prior Sega fans felt hurt by Sega and felt it was a safer bet to go with the PS2 based on Sony's great first impressions with its first foray into the console wars with the PS1. Though, Sega leaving the console wars and becoming a third-party game developer/ publisher wasn't all bad. Because of Microsoft working closely with Sega to bring the Dreamcast to market (Windows CE), after the Dreamcast Microsoft took the idea of Sega's last console and turned it into their first ever DirectXbox. Without the fall of Sega, the Xbox might have never entered the console wars, to begin with.
I won a CD-i when they first came out and the biggest pitfall with them was they needed an extra, very expensive, cartridge inserted before you could watch DVDs or play some games on them!! I also own a Vectrex with a bunch of games, but in my defence that was bought second hand and for next to nothing as an investment. Not much of one, admittedly.
Bummer that the CDi was fubarred. I’ve heard that they could also play the (now rare) CD+G discs, such as Fleetwood Mac’s 1990 album, “Behind The Mask”.
The Dreamcast, and Jaguar might have been commercial failures, but not bad systems. The Jaguar had some good hits like Doom, Wolfenstein 3d, and Alien vs. Predator; while the Dreamcast had many hits like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Resident Evil 2, 3, and Code Veronica.
KNowing how retro stores repair stuff? There probably isn't anything wrong with the CDI other than bad capacitors. Also the stunt master was for the SNES and genesis as it has both controller ports permanently attached it it unless you cut the cables off it and the cables are not cut off on that one. And that rolls back around to the CDI laser diagnosis
I once bought a Vectrex, mint condition, with like 10 working cartridges, at a garage sale for $15. This was 1995, when I was 11. It didn't last until 2000.
"i bought the WORST consoles of all time" "Dreamcast" Austin. Austin! AUSTIN! No Virtual Boy? No 3DO Interactive? No Pippin? You're gunna run with the Dreamcast? A-U-S-T-I-N-!
The worst console was Turbo Graphx. Over four hundred + dollars for a game console that was slated to rule the gaming industry. The makers also wanted customers to spend big bucks for add-ons and the like. The problem? They were being sold in middle-end department stores like Montgomery Ward. The customer couldn't afford almost 1K to have an all-access game console in their modest middle to lower-class home. We spent more time chasing down shoplifters trying to boost this item, etc
You guys are SOOOO freakin' lucky! When the guy on the right said that the "Excuse me, Princess" line was from the game, and not the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show" on Fridays, I was about to lay down some knowledge on you! However, guy on the left made the comment out loud that I was about to leave in the comments. So, this comment is superfluous and unnecessary and repetitive with bad grammar. You're welcome.
The main problem with the Playstation Classic was the fact that they used the PAL Version of the games instead of NTSC for all regions. So the games run at 50Hz. Software Modding the console fixed that.
The PlayStation Classic has an open source fan made mod called BleemSync that you can load on a USB Drive so you can emulate different consoles and add more games.
The Atari Jaguar wasn't a real 64-bit system. It simply had two 32-bit processors glued together. So it's more like I guess what you call the first multi-core or multi-CPU gaming system. The Nintendo 64 on the other hand really had a 64-Bit processor.
11:28 You’re forgetting the Turbografx 16 mini, also an Amazon exclusive like the Genesis Mini 2, that released May 2020 & is one of the best mini’s right along with both Genesis Mini’s & the SNES mini. The Turbo 16 mini is also super hard to get now & used goes for double it’s new launch MSRP, which was $100.
The Philips CD-i had multiple controllers, one was the wireless as usual, one was the three buttoned game pad, one that is just S P O O N, and one that is literally just the Gravis Gamepad with the Philips brand slapped on it.
The Dreamcast was ahead of its time. Cool Memory card, analog triggers, Hall Effect sensor sticks to fight against stick drift(which has recently been making a comeback on the market)
plus the games and its basically the prerequisite for the xbox
Saturn also used Hall sticks on the 3D pads. Sega knew they were better the whole time.
The Dreamcast was ahead of its time. Cool Memory card, analog triggers, Hall Effect sensor sticks to fight against stick drift(which has recently been making a comeback on the marketkr
The Dreamcast didn't fail us, we failed it. That's the hill I will die on.
Truth. I did my part, got one on launch day. Best day of my life.
still have mine. heroes never die.
Sega failed the Dreamcast.
i still own 3 dreamcasts , mainly cause I got the ones before 11/99 so they can play burnt games and those models were recalled out of the stores when they found out about it being able to play burnt games. its one of the hardest models to find
I’ll die on this hill too
As a happy dreamcast owner I must also say the Dreamcast wasn’t a failure, we failed the Dreamcast. It deserved so much more, and in a way? With the homebrew and love it still has, it’ll keep on dreaming.
It was really sad that Sony back in the day had so many exclusives in the hopes to kill the competition. Nowadays every console gets it, so they reached balance.
@Yuyah in no way was sony the downfall of dreamcast. It was the dreamcast itself. It was much to easy to pirate games on the dreamcast
@@RaistalEndor that would make the system sell even more? Not less. The downfall was Sony and the colossal sales of the ps2, plus the fact the ps2 had dvd support for the same price as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast just couldn’t compete with the ps2. Plus CD-R’s and recorders back then had cost a fortune, it was cheaper to just buy a game from sega.
@@Kruton1122 no it sales less because no game company wants to put a game on a system so easily hackable
@@RaistalEndor then clearly you don’t know how easy it was to mod an Xbox or ps2 back in the day. Hell the ps1 was so easy to mod too.
The dreamcast did not fail because of playstation but because of poor anti piracy measures, or more accurately lack there of, devs stopped designing games for the system for fear of it being pirated instantly. And because of lack of catalog no one bought the system
You needed a Modchip to play pirate CDs on the PlayStation, the Dreamcast all you needed was a CD burner and a blank to pirate on the Dreamcast.
Yep on Dreamcast, you just need to get rid of the garbage data in the iso, which is usually just a bunch of zeros to make it fit on a 700 MB CDR. With PlayStation 1, you need a mod chip until about 2021 when tonyhax was discovered to softmod
Actually, it was both the lack of anti-piracy and the announcement of the PS2.
It was Sega’s bad reputation in the 90’s after the genesis, and the announcement of the PS2 which killed the dreamcast. Nobody bought the console. Even if piracy was a issue, the DC simply had a bad reputation and failed because of it
Ps2 beat its a$$ bruh lol
Some of the “worst consoles” weren’t even bad. Some of them were even ahead of their time, just because it doesn’t sell well, doesn’t mean it is poorly made.
Dreamcast is my favorite game console of all time. It had very few issues but overall it is still an amazing console that holds up to this day! I don’t get the “Dreamcast had no catalogue” argument. 252 games in North America alone, 636 games worldwide, how can you not find a good few games to play and enjoy?
Exactly underrated in my opinion
I think really it was just released a few years too early
Not only that, it was almost all great games. Other catalogues have thousands of games but are full of shovelware.
@@hpalvz exactly, there are some weird/bad games out there, but you don’t have to swim through them to find good games.
Dreamcast was not a bad console so it doesn't belong in this video. It was terrific. He seems to have a terrific time with Crazy Taxi so what is he finding to be bad about it? There are some pretty lengthy explanations on youtube of its failure. It got creamed by PS2 which, among other things, was a great value with a DVD player capability. Then again, PS2 creamed everything, even the ahead of its time Xbox.
I had a HyperScan growing up. We got it after already having real consoles, so I knew what to compare it to. I was still pretty enthralled in the idea of scanning cards. I loved trading cards and YuGiOh and I wanted to see cards interact with a computer more than anything at the time.
Money well spent! 🥲
Man… I had so much fun with my Jaguar in the mid-90s. Alien Vs. Predator, Iron Soldier, Tempest 2000, and Hover Strike were all games that used the hardware well, and impressed me compared to what else was out there at the time.
Having an Atari Jaguar and not to play Aliens vs. Predator on it, is just as mad as having a Dreamcast and not to play Street Fighter III 😆
As someone that has a Jaguar, which I bought when it first came out, I'm kind of dismayed, but not surprised by their coverage of the system. It's the typical RUclips "OMG, everything about Jaguar SUCKS!" OK, to be fair, it was a catastrophic commercial disaster. There's no denying that. The controllers, as unusual as they looked, were actually decent. It was a shortcoming that there were only three main action buttons, but other than that, it was fine. $250 not an unusually high price (SNES=200, 3DO=500, Saturn=400). But at least they didn't boot up Club Drive and say that was a typical Jaguar game. In my mind, what killed the Jaguar was not that it was bad hardware (before anyone says I'm delusional, I'm not saying it was ahead of its time either, just that for $250 in 1993, it's about what you'd expect). The real problem was it was being marketed by a company that had no money so most of the games were very low budget. If you check game credits, many PS1 and Saturn games have 50-100 people working on them. Jaguar games were usually 5-10. And some of the games that came out right at the bitter end, and prototypes that got put on cartridge and sold by insider fans after the system was off the market showed that the system did have decent capabilities. But because the hardware was unfamiliar and difficult to program for, they didn't really tap into its potential until it was far too late. If you're wondering what I'm referring to, search RUclips for the game Phase Zero.
Here in the Netherlands CD-I was pretty well sold. You are still finding tons of CD-I discs in thrift shops. It honestly was a pretty impressive system, although it often felt a bit like a combination of SNES and those interactive DVD's. It was ideal for simple platformers, and games like myst where you could wait for the disc to load the next sequence. Not a huge flop here, and actually kinda fun.
You should give your CDi to Tronicsfix to see if he can get the laser replaced/working again. Would be cool!
Depending on the cd-i it might not be just the laser. They have a none replaceable battery and if it dies in certain models well you have a brick. This battery is incased inside a chip and some very skilled people can replace it but it's not easy. It's easier to emulate the cd-i any way especially since the games are bat shit insanely expensive.
It probably would need the perfect amount of thermal paste added too
The hyper scan unlocked a core memory. I honestly don't know how or why mine disappeared. I think even my family knew how bad it was and took it out back like my boy old yeller
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I was about to be shocked that you found a CDi controller with the little joystick nub. I’ve owned about dozen of them over the years and have never seen that piece.
Love the old school Panasonic Plasma tv. My older brother bought the 50" model in the same range back in 2006 from Circuit City for around $2400. Crazy how everything has gotten better and so cheap. And it still works to the day.
When I was a kid, I almost bought the Jaguar, purely because I was a big Bruce Lee fan and the bundle came with the Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story game. My dad talked me out of it because he thought the console sucked and the games didn’t look any better than those I had on the Mega Drive. I listened to him and bought a Sega Saturn instead.
Still have some of my fondest childhood gaming memories associated with the Saturn.
So your Dad talked you out of one bad decision into another lul
@@Ziggaton That’s one way to look at it. I like to look back at that time with fondness. Especially since I lost my dad to stomach cancer a few years later.
But at least you got your joy out of making a snide comment, so good for you, I guess.
@@Ziggaton Sega Saturn was better than the jaguar and has a cult following today
My dad talked me out from buying a GC and instead got me a PS2.
Don't really regret the decision - the GC had pretty goofy controllers and getting it modded was not really ideal at the time - also none of the specialised shops would mod GCs from what I remember.
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I actually had a dream cast and I really liked it and the best part was the VMU. Loved playing little games on it
Tempest 2K was my favorite on the Jag, Tempest 2K was one of the reasons I bought the Atari50.
Did you know when Atari went bankrupt, they sold the Jaguar molds to a dental camera company?!
The biggest problem with Sega Dreamcast is it was released to compete with N64 and Playstation 1 in 1998 in Japan but by the time it released overseas in 1999 the next generation PS2 and GameCube were right around the corner in 2000 as well as Xbox
No the Dreamcast is 6th gen like the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox.
Not the same generation as the Saturn and SEGA of Americas messup the 32X.
It's a 480p 128bit console released in 1999 before the other sixth gen 128bit 480p consoles. The only difference is Sega dropped out after 2001 to go third party. But the hardware is sixth gen capable. It's why I find the PS2/Xbox GameCube nonsense of retro dumb they all used CRTs, they all had modems, they all had light guns and analogue stick controllers, still had 2D games just less common and more on handhelds, all 128bit but it was 99 so apparently that counts for some reason??? Year/era I get can but the other factors count too.
Sure weaker than the other consoles of sixth gen but it was a capable sixth gen console that got Sega games and mostly PS1 and N64 ports to it by third parties as it's all they had at the time to port over. Some weren't and some had issues like the Saturn of do they put games on it or whatever the Sega license agreements or whatever besides it being early sales of the console and seeing it's life span being relevant to make games for it.
The same complaints people have with the Wii U is repeated third party software early on that's just the issue of having a new console early but people don't complain about the 360 in 2005 before the other two consoles and of course other examples like the 3DO/Jaguar and more were yes messes but we're still fifth gen pushing too early of hardware and price point with not enough reason to get them.
I mean I don't blame third parties somewhat as they had those games, they made improvements and they didn't have anything in time for the console.
The ports are good supposedly I've never owned or touched the console. Besides that people maybe didn't care for Sega Sports games as much as EA or the time span being also long maybe long or shorter than Google Stadia of about 2-3 years of 1999-2001 with some games going to 2007 but not from the west that's for sure. Has an Indie homebrew scene though.
Fun thing about the Jaguar is that the bus between the DRAM and the two processors, were 64-bit.. If I remember correctly, it was a 32-bit bus to each of it's Motorola 68000 processors..
It had a 64BIT Bus and 2 32BIT CPUs "Tom" and "Jerry" that were designed to different things - I can't remember which was which.
The 68000 was never meant to be a CPU but used as the co-processor to handle all the other stuff in between. However rumours are that devs just ended up using that as they were familiar with the architecture as the 68k. Which is why the Jaguar didn't have amazing looking games as the 68k is primarily a 16/24BIT CPU with a 32BIT bus.
The hyperscan is Austin's revenge for opening a sealed Gameboy player
I loved my Dreamcast so much, I played Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on that thing so damn much lol. I sold it on 2003 to pay for a tattoo on my chest and I regret doing that so much these days
They forgot to say that the CDI also played movies too. Long long before DVD
Funny thing is that here in the Netherlands the CD-I wasn't sold as console but a information and video system. How it was known there as console is beyond me as it wasn't intended as such by the developers of this system. And yes I'm from Eindhoven where Philips came from.
Because Nintendo developed a few "games" for it and Philips tried to recycle their failed CD player as a console.
@@espana86 Nope as it was NEVER soled as such here in the Netherlands. This is calling flip phones of the 2000 game console's as they had games on them.
Yes, I live in Portugal and around here the CD-i wasn't sold as a console either. It was more like a multimedia system that reads CD-i Digital Video, Video CDs, Photo CDs, CDs and CD+G for Karaokes in bars, interactive encyclopedias (with videos, very cool at the time), educational programs and games and the video games were like second plane. It wasn't even sold in game stores, only electronics stores. I remember seeing accounting software being promoted but I don't think it ever came to be.
I agree people only focus on the Nintendo games not the educational software/other use cases or even other games. It's made around CDi disks, the point being interactive CDs. So it had a bunch of non-gaming stuff. It's like saying 'why doesn't my projector have games on it' when it's not intended for it it's intended for displaying things besides games like movies or worksheets for schools. Not sure about video CDs or karaoke but I know some consoles or CD players likely focused around that at the time especially in Japan. I mean the Panasonic Q GameCube or the JVC X Eye or others have Karaoke or video CD support.
@@suntannedduck2388 The CD-i started by having its own video format called CD-i Digital Video, in fact it had a slightly higher resolution than the Video CD and the movies had menus where it could contain music videos and interviews... Then Philips abandoned the format in favor of the 'newer' Video CD. Video CDs distributed by Philips contain a CD-i directory which retains the 'old' menus, only CD-i's recognize these menus, a normal Video CD player doesn't. The quality of the movies distributed by Philips was OK, probably the best that the format could deliver, I say this because I've seen more recent non-Philips Video CDs and the picture quality is much lower. Another feature of Philips Video CDs is that they often use Dolby Surround.
PSO on the Dreamcast was one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had
How could the Ouya not be in this, it was somehow better?! lol I own one just because it's true glory. forever new and unused in its box
I had an Ouya too. I actually pre-ordered like an idiot!
When I was working in big box retail, this console was coming out, and the Sony reps were required to give a 30 minute presentation to each team member in electronics on the PlayStation classic console.
I bought my jaguar new for 130 gulders, which is about 70 usd now. Someone had stolen the PSU but it was the last one they had, so I kept it. I think it's underrated. Bubsy, Atari Karts, Cybermorph, they were all pretty awesome games for the era but they lacked a real 'franchise'. I loved my Jaguar, though.
When i cant sleep i just turn on one of austins videos and im sleeping like a baby😂 no hate, really love your work austin
Good thing we know Glubo is a good console!!
When dude said “font that’s so over-stylized that you can’t read it” I was like “I watch design docs too”
I think the physical media equivalent Austin was trying to think of would be, like, really cheap read-only SSDs loaded with the actual game loaded on it.
"Made for quasi-human hands." Love that qualifier. The Dreamcast controller cramped my hands like no other.
The Waffle House has found it's new host
I wish I had a PS Classic. What's on it may be bad, but the modding community makes it worth while
8:46
Austin: this is SLOW! it took like 4 minutes!
Me: Oh boy you haven't seen Sonic 06's loading times my guy.
I still have my original CD-i machine. When I worked at MovieTime/Alfalfa Video, they had a contract with Phillips/Magnavox to sell them in the stores. I played it for years until I got my PlayStation. Favorite game on it was Burn Cycle but also played Battleship a lot on it.
Oh yes, I remember Battleship on the CD-i. Apart from Tetris, I think I played that the most on mine.
I would love to see you do a video on the old platform known as web TV. Sony had a version, Microsoft had a version. It was like turning your TV into a computer workstation/email check or whatever. There is no hard drive in the system. Everything’s done online.
The irony with the PlayStation classic is after you hack it and add games to it it's amazing. You can use various wired and wireless controllers with it, it's absolutely amazing. And of course they were dirt cheap for quite awhile. It actually might be the most successful failure of this whole video as it started as a cash grab and ended up as an amazing emulation machine. So honestly everything worked out.
With the Atari Jaguar, you should've purchased a copy of the Jaguar CD Addon with Tempest 2000 and then also got a Samsung or Toshiba Nuon DVD player with a copy of Tempest 3000 as a point of comparison...
"MOM I want to play Marvel Snap."
"We have Marvel Snap at home."
Marvel Snap at home: 8:50
How DARE YOU put the black OG Xbox 1 on the cover! It’s 75 bucks and runs games perfectly the only problem is the big fat power box
The primary killer of the Dreamcast was the lack of DVD player, I assure you. In 2000 DVD players were double the price of a PS2.
Bro, you need to hire a gardener.... you've got some seriously obtrusive vines invading your studio.
It wasn't only the PS2 that killed the Dreamcast. Being able to play burned discs straight out of the box lead to extremely high piracy.
Have a Consul in my attic that uses a little LED stick-on light on a suction cup for your TV, and VHS tapes for game cartridges. Has a "light gun" and all the games were "shoot at this thing" based when in reality, the light would blink at certain times and the light gun just detected the led blinking.
Nostalgia Nerd covered a bunch of these VHS game systems or obviously VHS plays and you use it and it detects presses but doesn't forward the game. But yeah their a unique time for sure.
Fun fact, if you open up one of those PS Classic controllers, inside its just a micro usb cable plugged into the PCB. Gives you a cool cable with a mini PS looking connector on the usb A side 😁
I'm with Austin here, I LOVED my Dreamcast & my soul calibur game
I can still remember the pain.
The Dreamcast was a console ahead of its time where we didnt know what it was!
To understand this, i grew up with the original Nintento and Super Nintendo. We kids all had a console from Nintendo or Sega. When we grew up, Sony Playstation 1 came to market. For us at the time, the Playstation 1 was for the growen ups, it had mature or adult games. When the Dreamcast came out, we didnt know what we should do with it. Internet wasnt such a big thing at the time. The games themselves where ment for children. Crazy Taxi wasnt the game, the killer game what we wanted. The games what we wanted where mature games like Tomb Raider, Resident Evil or Final Fantasy 7. The Playstation 2 was the nails of Dreamcasts coffin. It had a build in DVD Player, it was backwards compatible with Playstation 1 and it cost as much as a brand new DVD Player!
For me, the Dreamcast was one of the coolest consoles ever made, still today. But at the time, there where no good desirable games to buy it. Everyone had a reason to buy a Playstation 2. But no one knew why they should buy the Dreamcast.
"I bought the WORST Consoles of All Time"
*gets a sega dreamcast and PlayStation Classic*
me: *visible confusion*
I remember owning a hyperscan. I begged my parents to get me one for Christmas over an Xbox and Playstation because I wanted the Ben 10 game. 6 year old me loved it and never thought about how terrible the console and games were.
I'm skeptical that the diode laser on the CD-I is bad, considering how good that thing looks overall. I've fixed a few of them and it's always been a hardened drive belt. Pick up an o-ring from the nearest hardware store that's about the size of the belt and see if that fixes it.
Idk why the other guy was so anxious about opening the hyperscan, like dude, it’s a hyperscan, chill tf out 😂
The CD-i was my first console and I actually really loved it. The CD-i version of Tetris remains my absolute favourite of all time with the chilled synthy music and the animated nature backgrounds.
It's always good to see someone say something nice about the CD-i.. And not just because I worked for Philips during the time. :P The CD-i was a jack-of-all-trades system. Audio CDs, CD+G, Video-CDs, Kodak Photo-CDs, and of course Philips CD-i software. Impressive for 30+ years ago!
My favorites were: Palm Springs Golf, Escape from Cyber City, The Apprentice, Tetris, Dragon's Lair, DL2, Space Ace, Mad Dog McCree (w/light gun), Kether, Link: The Faces of Evil (not bad once you get used to the wonky controls, and use a joypad of course), BodySlam, Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (outer Wikipedia of the time!), Jeopardy, and Name That Tune. The latter was a great party game. Oh. And Super Mario's Wacky Worlds was promising.
@@videogameobsession makes me think if it should have included a cassette, radio and VHS cassette player too, wouldnt have left anything out so it would have been basically everything you need that time. In 1992 you would need to buy many different hardware for all that with no cheap prices.
I feel like Sega only ended as one of the big 3 because of the failures leading up to the Dreamcast, The Dreamcast itself was a pretty great system but because of poor decisions that came before their last console, it cost them greatly. One of Sega's main downfalls was the 32X and Sega CD. These were bad decisions because it felt like Sega was trying to prolong the Genesis and make the system more than it was when they should have fully moved on and focused all of their efforts on their next console (Sega Saturn). The next failure was the next console called the Sega Saturn. Saturn was not Sega's only focus because of the confusing lineup of the Sega 32X/ Sega CD and the Sega Saturn. Not only did the existence of the Sega 32X and CD hurt the Saturn but also the lack of communication between Sega and game developers. Sega for some reason decided to have a surprise launch for the Saturn causing game developers/ publishers not being ready to release games and fans not being ready for the launch day of the console. These two things cause Sega to have a terrible console launch and that affected the Saturn until its discontinuation in 1998. By the time Dreamcast was released to the market, the damage had already been done. Most prior Sega fans felt hurt by Sega and felt it was a safer bet to go with the PS2 based on Sony's great first impressions with its first foray into the console wars with the PS1. Though, Sega leaving the console wars and becoming a third-party game developer/ publisher wasn't all bad. Because of Microsoft working closely with Sega to bring the Dreamcast to market (Windows CE), after the Dreamcast Microsoft took the idea of Sega's last console and turned it into their first ever DirectXbox. Without the fall of Sega, the Xbox might have never entered the console wars, to begin with.
The Jaguar was excellent!! _"Where did YOU learn to fly?"_
I bought a Jaguar when it launched. Some good games, Alien versus Predator, Tempest 2000, Iron Solider 1&2.
You forgot to mention how the Sega Dreamcast has support for Windows.
You missed the opportunity to buy and try out consoles like Adventure Vision, Denty, Fm Towm Marty and Sport Vii
I won a CD-i when they first came out and the biggest pitfall with them was they needed an extra, very expensive, cartridge inserted before you could watch DVDs or play some games on them!!
I also own a Vectrex with a bunch of games, but in my defence that was bought second hand and for next to nothing as an investment. Not much of one, admittedly.
Bummer that the CDi was fubarred. I’ve heard that they could also play the (now rare) CD+G discs, such as Fleetwood Mac’s 1990 album, “Behind The Mask”.
The Dreamcast, and Jaguar might have been commercial failures, but not bad systems. The Jaguar had some good hits like Doom, Wolfenstein 3d, and Alien vs. Predator; while the Dreamcast had many hits like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Resident Evil 2, 3, and Code Veronica.
Also the jaguar had the first Rayman, and it was originally intended for the Jaguar
KNowing how retro stores repair stuff? There probably isn't anything wrong with the CDI other than bad capacitors. Also the stunt master was for the SNES and genesis as it has both controller ports permanently attached it it unless you cut the cables off it and the cables are not cut off on that one. And that rolls back around to the CDI laser diagnosis
I actually always wanted a Jaguar as a kid. Played it at Disney World's Innoventions and was hooked. Alas, all I got was the lowly N64. LOL
I once bought a Vectrex, mint condition, with like 10 working cartridges, at a garage sale for $15. This was 1995, when I was 11. It didn't last until 2000.
“P h I l I p s” 1:41 😂😂
"i bought the WORST consoles of all time"
"Dreamcast"
Austin.
Austin!
AUSTIN!
No Virtual Boy?
No 3DO Interactive?
No Pippin?
You're gunna run with the Dreamcast?
A-U-S-T-I-N-!
3:11 "FRAGILE! mmm must be Italian."
Fun fact, I have a complete Atari Jaguar collection. One of the few things I'm known for on RUclips 😂
3:35 “That looks like it’s going to take my Credit Card info” 3:35
The worst console was Turbo Graphx. Over four hundred + dollars for a game console that was slated to rule the gaming industry. The makers also wanted customers to spend big bucks for add-ons and the like. The problem? They were being sold in middle-end department stores like Montgomery Ward. The customer couldn't afford almost 1K to have an all-access game console in their modest middle to lower-class home. We spent more time chasing down shoplifters trying to boost this item, etc
bro I'm setting austin saying "crazy taxi" as my fucking notification tone
Dreamcast will always be a win in my books. Glad to see the MUCH DESERVED respect spread here!
I still have my original Jaguar at my mum's house in it's box. It was fine but the lack of games for it killed it for me 🤷♂️
You guys are SOOOO freakin' lucky! When the guy on the right said that the "Excuse me, Princess" line was from the game, and not the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show" on Fridays, I was about to lay down some knowledge on you! However, guy on the left made the comment out loud that I was about to leave in the comments. So, this comment is superfluous and unnecessary and repetitive with bad grammar. You're welcome.
After 50 years, people are going to want to buy a brand new sealed copy of HyperScan for 1 billion dollars each. 🤣
Austins catch phrase has to be "NOT ONLYYYY"
The main problem with the Playstation Classic was the fact that they used the PAL Version of the games instead of NTSC for all regions. So the games run at 50Hz. Software Modding the console fixed that.
Dreamcast, man. One bad ass system I didnt get to own. I played one other persons. It was awesome.
Everyday, I look at you channel to see if you uploaded a video. I love your channel man!!
CD-i is not exactly a game console, rather a multimedia player.
I loved my Dreamcast. I played Quake 3 Arena online for hours back then. Also it introduce us to NFL 2K and NBA 2K. Shenmue was bad ass too.
I love how they even got a TV from 2005 for this video.
“IT’S SPHERICAL” lmao 😂
The PlayStation Classic has an open source fan made mod called BleemSync that you can load on a USB Drive so you can emulate different consoles and add more games.
Austin Evans 🤝 Retro consoles
I remember playing Aliens Colonial Marines in a Sam Goody waaaaay back in the 90's on the Jaguar, it did impress me from what I can remember.
Wish there was more console companies like back in the day, they all faded into memory.
Haha AMAZING
My wife’s dad is the person who greenlit this product at Philips 😅
The CDI moment was so cringe. I'm sorry I've been coming back to this for weeks to torture myself
Thank you for showing up a Dreamcast here, easily my top 3 console. You guys rock.
You should have added the Amiga CD32, it was a baller system that sold like crap. But man was it beautiful.
I still own a CD-I that works. Some games are pretty fun tbh
9:45 “Turn up the Diarrhea Dial.”
The Atari Jaguar wasn't a real 64-bit system. It simply had two 32-bit processors glued together. So it's more like I guess what you call the first multi-core or multi-CPU gaming system.
The Nintendo 64 on the other hand really had a 64-Bit processor.
11:28 You’re forgetting the Turbografx 16 mini, also an Amazon exclusive like the Genesis Mini 2, that released May 2020 & is one of the best mini’s right along with both Genesis Mini’s & the SNES mini.
The Turbo 16 mini is also super hard to get now & used goes for double it’s new launch MSRP, which was $100.
They forget about this console on every video they make like this.
TurboGrafx 16 actually sold insanely well in Japan and it was a fantastic console
I grew up a Genesis kid in the late 90's, and the Dreamcast is still my favorite console followed by the PS1
The Philips CD-i had multiple controllers, one was the wireless as usual, one was the three buttoned game pad, one that is just S P O O N, and one that is literally just the Gravis Gamepad with the Philips brand slapped on it.
1:20 I'm glad matt saw my comment from last video when I pointed that out