The Sega CD also came packed in with Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective. I'm not surprised you forgot because the game is so mindbllowingly incredible it actually can cause brain damage from too much dopamine release. Holy crap. Remember that one part where Inspector Lestrade is giving Holmes some shit, and then Watson is all like "Holmes you gonna stand for this nonsense?" And then Holmes suddenly turned to Watson and says "Let's see who proceeds to solve this case first!" OH MY GOD such an incredible moment in gaming. Way better than if Daytona 2 was ported home.
This is actually the real reason why the Turbo version doesn't work on Terraonion's products, it's to prevent the game from causing any further damage through its addictive digital chemicals. Don't believe the lies about "video buffering being matched with CD loading", it's all a front.
Joe, not funny, some of us still suffer from this addiction. My family disowned me because I couldn't stop solving mysteries. I've been through intensive therapy and I've now managed to limit it to investigating minor traffic accidents.
I will never forget when I was 6 and my dad walked in with a Mega Drive/Sonic the Hedgehog bundle. Seeing Model 2 games for the first time at the arcade was also awesome.
One thing Sega did that made me happy was the 3D lineup for the 3DS. Amazing ports of arcade games now on a handheld. I played - and still play - practically every game; and this was the first time I beat Outrun and Hang On 100% , and finished both Fantasy Zones.
Agreed!! To play Thunderblade and Power Drift on 3ds is incredible and something I never thought I'd see. All the Sega Ages on 3ds have been incredible and so refreshing to know someone at M2 can give us that magical experience again. Wish they did more, but who can really complain. We got Outrun, Super Hang-On, Space Harrier and Afterburner 2, not to mention the amazing Galaxy Force (a favorite arcade for me).
That SEGA 6-button pad is still legendary. Nothing beats that D-pad. Anyone who says otherwise has either not used it extensively or doesn't know what they're talking about.
Definitely. I kicked soo much ass on my Saturn playing Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers with it. The perfect size for my hands, most responsive and pretty damn durable too. One of the best controllers ever.
I don't know if I can count ten times but one of the highlights for me was when the Dreamcast launched Resident Evil: Code Veronica, at the time was exclusive to the Dreamcast if I'm not mistaken.
I just discovered your channel the other day and have binge watched almost all your videos since then. Like you, I was always a loyal Sega fanboy growing up but felt let down time and time again as the company made some very questionable decisions. Abandoning the Saturn and Dreamcast way too early, not porting JRPGs to the West, lazy arcade ports with no extra features that could be completed in an hour, and no Sonic platformer for the Saturn. I gave up gaming after the Dreamcast but your videos have brought back so many joyful nostalgic memories I forgot I had.
right on. I could also add in abandoning the 32X too early (could have easily just not made the thing if they were going to put so little effort into the games that went with it) and the Sega CD was criminally underused. If you're not going to use all that expensive hardware then don't include it and make a cheaper version that just has the expanded memory and CD audio and could possibly be afforded by the every day Sega fan. Also, it's not just Sonic. There were so many other quality franchises in both the Master System and Genesis that could have been pushed forward (Streets of Rage, Wonder Boy, Master of Darkness, Phantasy Star, etc) but instead were left behind and forgotten from years to decades.
You got out at just about the right time. GameCube was the last great system aside from handhelds, I'd advise going back to PS2 & GameCube but that's about it. Last good handheld was Nintendo DS.
The funny thing is that a new sega console can be done with off the shelf pc parts and a custom gnu-linux front end for relatively cheap (think, custom emulation station) and which could compete with the newest xbox or playstations similar to what valve has attempted with their "steam machines". Slap some emulators as a starter and a store front for new games and "voila".
@@neobogard the Genesis was fine, it was all the fk ups after with 32x, CD, Saturn. Don't get me wrong there were some great titles on all those but each of their launches weren't great. The DC launch got just about everything right.
10 times Sega made me really happy ; 1. Sega Rally 2. Sega Rally 2 3. Scud Race 4. Daytona USA 5. Crazy Taxi 6. Jet Set Radio 7. Nights into Dreams 8. 18 wheel Trucker 9. Chu Chu Rocket 10. Sonic 3
A genuine Saturn USB controller is every bit as good. They’re the best two controllers out there for fighting and 2D games in my opinion, that is. I myself like the Saturn pad best of all. It’s always the only one I choose when emulating retro games on PC or with the PiBoy.
The Super Famicom pad is best, I think. People assume the Super Nintendo pad is the same but it's not. The D-pad is worse, rougher on the thumbs and the buttons feel different.
That Christmas when Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop all dropped together was the greatest of times. I will never forget how cool it was. That time will never be beaten for me. It was gaming nirvana
I agree. I sold my SNES and all my games and my Sega Game Gear so that I could afford to purchase a Saturn, Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, and Panzer Dragoon. Best Christmas season ever!
Definitely a happy moment for me was Sega bundling Sonic 2 with the Genesis model 2 and selling it at a discounted price (I think at that time it was $129 compared to the SNES at $169). That difference allowed my parents to buy me a Sega Genesis for Christmas and I've been on team Sega's bandwagon ever since. I recently got a whole bunch of SNES games through emulation and while there's definitely good stuff there my main thought while I play through all these games I missed 30 years ago is how much I prefer the Genesis. The games, the game play, the style, the music, pretty much all of it I prefer on the Genesis.
If I had to pick one single thing that SEGA did that made me happy, it would be the support they gave to the Master System. Without this, I would maybe not be posting here. Their support in Europe was fantastic, you could play a ton of great SEGA games for a low price, and it was the perfect point of entry for a lot of families. This is how everything started for me.
I see your first point about a 2D sonic. Many of us were disappointed by initial 3D polygon games. However despite being an ill fit at times, games with 3D polygons just sold better in the second half of the 90s. So every publisher demanded polygons.
Curiously, Daytona USA was quite a hit here in Brazil. The specialized magazines couldn't stop praising how beautiful the game was. Retailers used the game extensively to move the machines. And boy, it was pricey: about 700 US$ for a machine in mid 1995.
#3 is my top pick, although I kept playing well past the 90s, ending with the excellent After Burner Climax. Sega's post-90s arcade hardware wasn't state of the art anymore, but the gameplay was the same top quality. Sega beat Nintendo at their own game and made the greatest F-Zero of the series. Namco's Time Crisis 4 owes everything to copying the homework of Virtua Cop 3 and LA Machineguns. I can spend all day talking about Sega ruling arcades in the 2000s. Whenever it actually ended, their 3d arcade run was absolutely phenomenal
For me some big ones were: 1. The Dreamcast launch with Soul Calibur being the best looking game I had ever seen 2. The Sega Saturn bundle with Daytona/VF2/VC2, gave me a concrete reason to buy a Saturn, and even tho the console only had a little over a year left, allowed me to enjoy the back catalog and final releases. I had the Dreamcast VGA connected to my best PC monitor, I remember Marvel vs Capcom 2 looking unreal compared to a CRT television.
I totally remember that about Soul Calibur too. My older brother had to do some school report with some super rich kid that had imported a Dreamcast from Japan. For whatever reason, I also tagged along and remember just being blown away by the graphics of the game.
I bought a Dreamcast in 2002 when the PS2 had just released at a big discount, and fell in love with it immediately. I had to get rid of it a couple months later due to difficult financial times as a 21 yr old... A couple years later, I bought another one at GameStop for like $50 when they were obsolete; the kid at GameStop was literally arguing with me, trying to convince me that Sega was dead, and Dreamcast was now obsolete. I kindly acknowledged his statement, and urged him to ring it up immediately so I could get home and play some Crazy Taxi on my CRT tv at home 🤣
@@davidp420 I imported it at the Japanese launch (I’m not rich) and it ended up being the Yukawa box. Needless to say I was like “wtf is this” when I opened it. It’s the most bizarre box design ever. 😂
Sega basically handing Yu Suzuki the rights to make Shenmue 3 has to be the coolest they've been since 2004. Them also capitalizing and making their own remasters of 1+2 just made it better.
At first, I was cool on the remasters of Shenmue I and II, but I eventually got them when it was on sale, and it was worth it. Even though I owned the games already, it is so much more playable now with much faster load times!
Some excellent choices here. Such a treat to watch. I especially love how the Dreamcast introduced a second screen (VMU), which revolutionized sports games. (For the first time you didn't have to use the honor system when inputting football plays, e.g.). I think that is one of the reasons the sports games took such a leap forward, to the extent that I think it should actually get the credit. Yeah, improved graphics, etc. But a paradigm shift in gameplay. Speaking of the Dreamcast, it was also the first home console to have online play and DLC. It sucked when the servers went down and you couldn't get some items in Skies of Arcadia, e.g., but it was such a future feeling experience at the time. It let you dream about what might be added to games you already had and completed. Just mind blowing at the time. And speaking of online, timed events in Phantasy Star Online, and the game itself. I didn't even go online with it for a couple years because I was afraid of getting hacked and having my character nuked. But I eventually did and it was thrilling. One of my all-time favorite games. I skipped the 32X and Saturn, but when the Dreamcast came out it felt like a gaming renaissance. It was a short but amazing ride.
Definitely with you on the Sega Arcade Pad. Once you go six button, you don't go back. I'd personally nominate the Sega Genesis Mini as one of Sega's high points, as it felt like an apology for many years of AtGames' crappy black bread loaves. The three button controllers it came with were indeed disappointing, but hey, you could always buy better joysticks from third parties. One thing that made me quite happy is when Sega knocked Nintendo back on its heels after years of ruling the video game industry with an iron fist. There's a documentary on Paramount Plus called Console Wars (uh, not the TH-cam Console Wars) which details all the ways Tom Kalinske eroded Nintendo's market share. A favorite of mine is that they set up a free play tent full of the latest Genesis games outside Wal-Mart's headquarters, to muscle them into dropping Nintendo exclusivity. Kalinske was shrewd... he was probably the only reason the Genesis was so successful in the United States, and once he left the company, it was all downhill from there.
Growing up , loving the Sega Master System, me and my brother desperately wanted the Sega Genesis that was about to launch. We begged our parents, telling them it was all we wanted, and it could be both our Christmas gift. Well, our family wasn't the most financially stable, so opening that present that day was so memorable! Firing up Altered Beast blew us away that Christmas day!
One of my top Sega moments that didn’t make the list was when the Phantasy Star franchise was revisited after 7 years with Phantasy Star Online. I’ve never poured more time into a game than that. It was definitely the perfect time in my life to be released.
PSO was a great way to revive the franchise and modernize it at the same time, it finally got a true sequel and it's doing pretty decent for itself, course it will never beat that original experience that knocked my socks off.
Same. I spent nights playing with strangers from across the world. No barriers or region locks. It was my first online game on console and it was brilliant. The tone and strangeness of the game world was so compelling. I wish they kept it closer to it and the concept art when they made Universe and PSO2. I find the new style quite childish somehow and the fast paced game play makes for a less coordinated experience when playing with strangers.
@@TheSliderW PSU was actually very good, they improved on everything. More weapons, PA’s and Techs levelling up and improving, smoother gameplay, more party members, improved PQ and a personal shop, more lobbies split into main ship and various planets. The introduction of phasion 😜 and “weapon boards” that required materials to build. I loved OG PSO on DC and have played PSO2 since NA release (I’m in the UK though) but I still think PSU was the best experience.
Agreed. My first experience with PSO was on the original XBOX. The idea of doing dungeon runs with an online party on a home console was completely novel to me. I loved every second of it.
Sega has always been kind of weird about Streets of Rage. There was an INCREDIBLE streets of rage remake game that was in development for a while and released. It was basically Streets of Rage Mania. But they were DMCA'd into oblivion basically, and it made no sense to me really, given that they let just about anybody make their own sonic game, but the moment somebody tried to make a new SOR game, they went after them. Streets of Rage Remake is honestly an incredible experience and if you consider yourself a fan of Streets of Rage, you will definitely love the game. I HIGHLY recommend you try it, if you can find it somewhere online.
Every timeI saw a Sega arcade game for the first time it was a moment of joy, Out Run, After Burner, Hang On, Golden Axe, Shadow Dancer... and then the Model 1 to 3 years, the first contact with Daytona or Sega Rally were moments of not being able to believe your eyes. But the moment I was full of joy thanks to Sega was the first time I turned on my Megadrive with Golden Axe, I loved the arcade, it was the game I wanted the most to play at home, and I finally got it it was incredible, I noticed the little differences with the arcade, but it didn't matter, to me was a perfect port, even with an extra stage that made me forget the little downgrades from the arcade.
when Sega made me happy: Phantasy Star 4, Shining Force 2, Sonic 2, the Sega CD (i liked the hardware and the good games on it like Snatcher, the problem was those FMV games). I hope they left fans design Phantasy Star 5 like they did for Sonic Mania
Never owned a Saturn and at this point probably never will, but Christmas Nights was that one game that somehow found it's way into my collection that I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of... I did eventually get to play it a bit in a GameStop, fun as hell...
They had similar easter egg/hidden stuff Clockwork Knight 2 for the Saturn, just like Christmas Nights when you would play Clockwork Knight 2 on certain dates the theme would change...
There was a Christmas toy commander as well. Dreamcast had several games that would have different themes if the date was set for that day (xmas, halloween, etc.)
@@tomfoolery2964 What happened to that developer, No Cliche? They had 2 Toy games on the Dreamcast, Toy Commander and Toy Racer. Both were fun games...
Sega Rally 2. Man I remember I was speechless for over a few minutes by seeing texture reflections for the first time in my life. Thanks again for a new cool video.
I will never forget when Sega Rally2 came out in the arcades and for those like me Who had a Dreamcast and Sega Rally , the arcade machine actually had a slot where you could insert your VMU with your saved data on it and play your saved Championship data on the arcade machine!! One of the coolest things i experienced back in the day!!
Sonic & Knuckles tech. I don't need to explain how much of a gamechanger that was. It blew me away with how the implementation changed the core of "Sonic 3." Its like a sequel, but a DLC at the time. Sega was really ahead of their time. That cart really puts Sega in the forefront as the innovators. Besides Nintendo, of course.
Dude, I thought you hated the Astro City Mini, after your review on it. I love it and have everything for it except the carpet that comes with the crazy expensive bundle. The arcade stick is amazing!
10. Sonic Mania 9. SF II Special Champion Edition (in your face SNES!!) 8. Sega ESPN Football ($29 bucks!) 7. All Pro football 2k8 6. Soul Caliber (Namco, does that count?) 5. Sonic Adventure 2 4. Sonic 3 3. NFL 2k 2. Sonic the Hedgehog (1) 1. Dreamcast launch
I was happy with Sega when Mortal Kombat came out on the Genesis and we were able to get all of the fatalities and gore with the blood code unlike the SNES.
I'll add my favorites: -Sega's racing games: there are very few of them I have not played, going back to the original overhead Monaco GP, and Turbo, Sega's racers were always attention getters. I recall the Colecovision having Turbo as a system seller back then (it was also ported to Intellivision but Coleco had that optional steering wheel controller) I wanted one but I was just a kid back then. -Working Designs games on the Sega CD, this company took it upon themselves to port and translate several Japanese RPGs for Western consumption, I recall Lunar: the Silver Star, Lunar: Eternal Blue and Popful Mail on the Sega CD, great times. -F-Zero GX/AX, The Gamecube/Arcade version of F-Zero was brought to you by none other than Sega. This is kind of a 'no hard feelings' moment for Sega to collaborate with longtime rival Nintendo to bring you the absolute best version of F-Zero. -Saturn's CD visual player. put a music CD in the Saturn and while the tunes are playing a polygon spaceship is flying through space on screen (simple things). -Sega always tried; even back in the Master System days, Sega would always try to bring you a game experience similar to one a rival console (NES in this case) was hosting at the time. You may not have been playing Ikari Warriors on the SMS but you got Rambo instead, NES had Kung Fu Master, SMS had Kung Fu Kid, Black Belt(Fist of the North Star) and Vigilante... -The Dreamcast- one of the best 2 and a half years of console gaming. Sega was doing everything right: huge launch library, great price, included the modem, four player controller ports, innovative, fun titles constantly being released, ALL of the genres were covered... -the Sega Game Gear was the vacation travel TV, with the TV adapter and car power adapter cord you had on the go TV.
Something Sega has done to make me happy is actually fairly recent: After purchasing Atlus from the floundering Index Corp, they put out a statement in a shareholders meeting saying that they were going to take a page from the newly acquired company and be more proactive about making their RPGs available internationally, and they made good on that promise with haste, giving us 7th Dragon Code VFD, an international release and remaster of Shining Resonance (the first Shining series game to be released outside Japan in 11 years at the time) and made sure the fourth Valkyria Chronicles title saw international release on all platforms.
@@Estorium It originally came out in 2014 on PS3 in Japan only. The 2018 remaster, called Shining Resonance Refrain, is available in all regions for PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. I got it on launch and really enjoyed it!
The sega cd is still my favorite console of all time. I remember getting one for christmas at launch. It felt like a holding a piece of the future in my hands. The FMV games like Night Trap felt so advanced compared to what we were playing on the genesis and snes at the time (nevermind the lack of gameplay, it was just something that no other console could do at the time). Final Fight CD, Silpheed, Lunar/EB, Vay, Sonic CD, Night Trap, Ground Zero Texas, Snatcher... Even now, I still fire it up and play a few games from time to time. Great memories from a great time in gaming!
My mates still talk about when I cranked up night trap and sewer shark on my new sega cd in 93.it blew us all away. I still have my model one but she is pretty tired,my model 2 does most of the gaming these days
I would like world peace, but I would LOVE another Panzer Dragoon game. 🐉 Some people complain about rail shooters, but when it's done right to create a huge cinematic set pieces, it can be one hell of a ride.
I was quite delighted when they included a PS3 box for Yakuza 5 with the PS4 Yakuza Remastered Collection. After losing money on the release of Yakuza: Dead Souls, the series became Japan-only for years. It's only through the ceaseless requests from the series' passionate fans that they were finally convinced to release Yakuza 5 in English. They were still really cautious about the prospect though, and opted to make it a digital release on the PlayStation Store. That lead to the English release of Yakuza 0, which really turned the series' fortunes around, and now it's become one of Sega's most popular modern franchises. The Yakuza 5 box was an eccentric gesture of thanks to the hardcore fans who had carried the series to international success, and a point of excitement for those who wanted to display the full series on their shelves.
Your summary toward the end of the video definitely sums up what it's like to be a Sega fan. You certainly get your share of lows with Sega, but the highs are absolutely incredible and totally worth the bad stuff in most cases (even if the bad stuff tends to outnumber the good stuff pretty significantly).
So many great Sega memories. My top nostalgia picks for each system: Shinobi II on my Game Gear Streets of Rage 2 on my Genesis Sewer Shark on my Sega CD NBA JAM Tournament Edition on my 32X Panzer Dragoon on my Saturn Soul Caliber on my Dreamcast Also, I’d happily pay twenty bucks for a digital edition of The Revenge of Death Adder for my Switch.
First time i fired up streets of rage and listening to the intro scroll track. I knew it was going to be GOOD. I ordered streets of rage off two blurry screenshots in a mail order ad from an issue of gamepro. This was the first time i'd seen anything about it. No press, no ads, no promotion. I just wanted a cool looking beatem up to play. It almost feels like the original sor changed my life. This game turned me into a sega fanboy.
I loved how sega added on to the machines,cd rom to add the power then 32x to add more without having to move to a new console. It is a debatable topic to non fans but I loved it. The megadrive mountain is still my fav old school set up!
I never felt it before, but looking back the Saturn really did have special place in my heart and holds a lot of good memories. The number of times I played Daytona USA with my dad, loving Fighters Megamix despite the fact I hate fighting games, that feeling when we finally got Nights. Those were the days 😔
The biggest thing from sega for mr was the shining force games. This was my introduction to tactical rpgs and I still play thru the first 2 every year.
When I first played virtua tennis in the arcade and subsequently walked into a game store where they actually sold virtua tennis on the dreamcast! People were literally fighting over the available copies in that store in London. Insane!
Streets of Rage 4 is definitely high up on my list. I loved this franchise (even 3) and was really disappointed we didn't get a sequel during the 32 and 64bit era. But my happiest Sega moment has to go with the release of the Genesis. Coming out before the SNES it was my first intro into the world of 16bit and we all remember what a glorious jump it was from the 8bit consoles. It's insane to think of the jumps in quality from the 8bit to the 64 bit era and it's a shame these days you can barely feel the difference between 2 consoles released 6 years apart :(
Yeah. Not including a 6button with the mini, pissed me off to. Oh well, thank goodness for Retrobit. The wireless Genesis 6b controller is awesome. I use it on the mini and my OG hardware.
I snagged that for my Genesis Mini, too. It also works with Switch and PS3. Being able to play the Aladdin and Lion King collection with an actual Genesis controller on my Switch was awesome
as usual the fans know better than the AAA gaming corps, SEGA was just man enough to admit it and pass of the properties to them, meanwhile Nintendo's lawyers continue to swing around the ban hammer... keep at it SEGA!
Great video SLX. I gotta say, Sega really made me happy when I got Streets of Rage and Sonic as a kid in Chicago during Xmas of 1991....I cannot tell you how much that meant to me as a kid back then. However, I think Sega is making me happy with both the Fist of the North Star developed by the studio behind Yakuza....one of my favorite animes of all time was made into a fun actioner that's nothing but stupid fun and I adore that. That and VF4 Evolution on the PS2....I hope you do a review of that one day because that game is amazing.
1. Loved having an exact arcade port of Final Fight on Sega CD, just wasn't a fan of them remixing the music. That and Sonic were the only 2 Sega CD games I bought. 2. Streets Of Rage 4 is epic!!! Excited that my all time favorite beat em up finally got an upgrade/sequel. 3. Still have Virtua Fighter, Virtua Cop, and Sega Rally on Saturn. 3 of my personal favorites on the console. 4. When the 6 button pad launched for Genesis I got excited cause it confirmed that Street Fighter II was coming!
I was really happy when Sega released Virtua fighter 4 Evolution for the PS2 at 20 bucks!! It was a fantastic upgrade to the original and since I already bought part 4 at top dollar the reduced price was easy on the wallet.
I miss the magic of these days. I loved reading the Sega Magazin (later Saturn) and one of the magic Moments was the Release of Aladdin and following new consoles. I also loved the first pictures of Nights, the pictures always had a blue touch to them and seemed blurry, it added to the atmosphere and looks.
Dreamcast VGA is still incredible to this day (through a monitor or upscaler like the OSSC). Completely blows away the crap 480i output that plagued the other consoles released during its generation.
A couples of things: 1. I owned a VGA box and hate the pixelated dim picture (yes, on a monitor). 2. Other consoles were 240p just like Dreamcast on composite. Personally I really just want 240p VGA output that can be upscaled like modern PS2 Cables.
Sega deluxe arcade cabinets for me. No one made them quite like Sega. The exhilaration of little 8 year old me rocking, rolling and shaking to the movement of games like, Outrun, Space harrier and After Burner is something that will never be forgotten.
Sega made me happy several times but the most memorable time Sega made me happy is when Shenmue was released on the Sega Dreamcast. Shenmue was one of the most meaningful games Sega ever released.
Great video!!!!!!!!! Sega had some straight masterpieces. The Saturn had some great titles like Die Hard which I highly enjoyed. However the Dreamcast was a "dream come true" in '98. There are soooo many titles love & would still play today. Some of my favorites on Da Cast that wasn't named was there version of NBA Showtime on NBC, Virtual Tennis, Sega Bass Fishing (with the reel controller), Spawn, Dynamite Cop & Zombie Revenge. It's mind-blowing how "ahead of it's time" that the Dreamcast really was!!!!!!!! Damn, I may just dig my Cast up & start playing it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still playing my Dreamcast all these years later the arcade really was in the home with the system other than the neo Geo of course haha Especially with Dreamcast arcade stick that was great for all the fighters and shooters on the system :)
VGA box was pure magic. What I never understood was how games like Shenmue 2 looked better with the VGA box on the Dreamcast than it did on the Xbox in 480p over component. Which is strange, as they're basically both 480p.
Nice list, here is a few of mine: 1) Sega hiring Treasure: Yeah enough said. 2) Sega teaming up with SNK during the Dreamcast era: The Neo Geo Pocket Dreamcast Link Cable was an amazing idea that allow transfer of data between DC & NGPC of the same titles on both systems to unlock certain things. Alot of good Neo Geo games was brought to the Dreamcast but also Sega games were brought to the Neo Geo Pocket Color. The Sonic game on there is good and the same people who work on that later formed Dimps. Which later made more good Sonic games. So this team up was awesome. 3) Sega bringing Yakuza series to the west & PC ports: I love the series with the 1st 2 games on the PS2 and was so happy when Sega brought the rest of the series to English and on PC as well. Good move there, Sega! Hopefully the PSP & Samurai spin offs will come here soon as well.
I was more of a Nintendo fan back in those days but I did appreciate Sega too. I would have to say the happiest they ever made me was the Dreamcast launch along with games like Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Resident Evil Code Veronica, and Shenmue. Those games and games like it left a huge imprint on me as a gamer and I'm glad they've never went away as game developers.
Yep, I was a huge Nintendo fan. But when Sega get it right there was simply nothing else like it. Seeing sonic adventure for the first time in a demo booth was unbelievable. The whale destroying the wooden bridge with sonic running at full speed left a huge impression on me.
@@swittersanggraini1780 me too it was like WOW this is the next leap. My brother had imported a Japanese DC which came out in 98 so seeing Sonic, Power Stone and the Sega Fishing was mind blowing
The Shenmue games made me happy. I'm actually still quite bummed because I didn't buy Dreamcast in my teenage years and couldn't experience the two first ones back then. They are some of my favourite games of all time
I think the #1 happiest moment for me was playing 2 player games with my brother whose since passed away on the Sega Genesis back in the day. Good times
@@terencehill2320 I don’t know. We hadn’t really seen SEGA’s power then. ‘99 was, “hey, we got this!” But I was totally a Genesis guy 🙂. I mean, “Genesis does.”
I still say to this day even as someone who wasnt a real sports game fan, NFL2k5 is not just the best football game ever, but one of the best games ever made. Also I'm always gonna have myself a cheap Dell or NEC monitor VGA monitor to slap a Dreamcast on.
Saddest experience was going to a friend's house to play street fighter but he only had 1 six button controller so I always got stuck with with the 3 button one 😢
I have too many of these, so I'll just narrow it down to one: the excellent 32X launch games i.e. Star Wars Arcade and Virtua Racing Deluxe. The 32X also finally allowed the Mega Drive to do smooth sprite scaling, way smoother than the Sega-CD. Like SLX, I was a big fan of Sega's sprite scaler arcade games and would've loved to see all of them on the 32X.
Sega ge should've had a game series after the 1st one. If the Saturn never had the surprise. I know sega gt port of the Saturn would had been releases a year earlier with a sequel to the dreamcast.
Does anyone else feel final fight for sega cd is underrated? Shits arcade perfect plus Nothing else at the time could do that and it was years before you could play final fight arcade at home without owning a cabinet
Sega had some great arcade exclusive sports titles as well... I'm also surprised you didn't mention the AfterBurner arcade cabinet with the moving cockpit.
I second the notion about the 6 button controller. I got a wireless version of that very controller to play PC and emulated games. I'm sure I could make a list of favorites, but I really loved the PS2 Shinobi more than most people.
Back in 1990 I sent in five proof of purchases to SoA and they sent me two pairs of the Genesis branded speakers instead of the one pair that was advertised. That made me happy.
NFL 2K5 is STILL the best NFL game ever made. My #1 thing Sega did that made me happy was publish Treasure's debut game Gunstar Heroes. I don't think I've ever had so much fun playing games with friends than our runs through Gunstar.
Nights: Into Dreams was a very special game when it was released on the Saturn in 1996. It came with its own special (analogue) controller and the main character handled like a dream. The attention to detail and some special features (like evolving worlds and creatures) were only matched 20 years later. The accessibility and speed drew you in but the linking score system kept you playing. It was the Saturn's proper Sonic successor but was underappreciated by most critics who simply didn't give it the time it deserved.
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The Sega CD also came packed in with Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective. I'm not surprised you forgot because the game is so mindbllowingly incredible it actually can cause brain damage from too much dopamine release. Holy crap. Remember that one part where Inspector Lestrade is giving Holmes some shit, and then Watson is all like "Holmes you gonna stand for this nonsense?" And then Holmes suddenly turned to Watson and says "Let's see who proceeds to solve this case first!" OH MY GOD such an incredible moment in gaming. Way better than if Daytona 2 was ported home.
You are correct about the Dopamine release Joe. I couldn't take the game out of my Sega CD without experiencing withdrawals.
This is actually the real reason why the Turbo version doesn't work on Terraonion's products, it's to prevent the game from causing any further damage through its addictive digital chemicals. Don't believe the lies about "video buffering being matched with CD loading", it's all a front.
Whats up joe...glad you see sega lord x vids too
Joe, not funny, some of us still suffer from this addiction. My family disowned me because I couldn't stop solving mysteries. I've been through intensive therapy and I've now managed to limit it to investigating minor traffic accidents.
hey there joe
I will never forget when I was 6 and my dad walked in with a Mega Drive/Sonic the Hedgehog bundle. Seeing Model 2 games for the first time at the arcade was also awesome.
Your old man was something special 🤘
@@MyBrothersKeeper101 He still is. He's probably playing Red Alert 2 now.
i miss old sega they had as rich IPs as nintendo
The Six button controller is amazing even today
One thing Sega did that made me happy was the 3D lineup for the 3DS. Amazing ports of arcade games now on a handheld. I played - and still play - practically every game; and this was the first time I beat Outrun and Hang On 100% , and finished both Fantasy Zones.
Agreed!! To play Thunderblade and Power Drift on 3ds is incredible and something I never thought I'd see. All the Sega Ages on 3ds have been incredible and so refreshing to know someone at M2 can give us that magical experience again. Wish they did more, but who can really complain. We got Outrun, Super Hang-On, Space Harrier and Afterburner 2, not to mention the amazing Galaxy Force (a favorite arcade for me).
Really puts the 3D Classics by Nintendo and Arika to shame!
That SEGA 6-button pad is still legendary. Nothing beats that D-pad. Anyone who says otherwise has either not used it extensively or doesn't know what they're talking about.
Definitely. I kicked soo much ass on my Saturn playing Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers with it. The perfect size for my hands, most responsive and pretty damn durable too. One of the best controllers ever.
I don't know if I can count ten times but one of the highlights for me was when the Dreamcast launched Resident Evil: Code Veronica, at the time was exclusive to the Dreamcast if I'm not mistaken.
That game was thevreasonni went out and bought a Dreamcast
I just discovered your channel the other day and have binge watched almost all your videos since then. Like you, I was always a loyal Sega fanboy growing up but felt let down time and time again as the company made some very questionable decisions. Abandoning the Saturn and Dreamcast way too early, not porting JRPGs to the West, lazy arcade ports with no extra features that could be completed in an hour, and no Sonic platformer for the Saturn. I gave up gaming after the Dreamcast but your videos have brought back so many joyful nostalgic memories I forgot I had.
....amen
Kinda same story but I bought xbox1 and Sega games...then stopped after modding it...🙏 amen
Serb I've been a long time fan for years. I don't know how this guy just constantly thinks of new and great ideas for videos.
right on. I could also add in abandoning the 32X too early (could have easily just not made the thing if they were going to put so little effort into the games that went with it) and the Sega CD was criminally underused. If you're not going to use all that expensive hardware then don't include it and make a cheaper version that just has the expanded memory and CD audio and could possibly be afforded by the every day Sega fan. Also, it's not just Sonic. There were so many other quality franchises in both the Master System and Genesis that could have been pushed forward (Streets of Rage, Wonder Boy, Master of Darkness, Phantasy Star, etc) but instead were left behind and forgotten from years to decades.
You got out at just about the right time. GameCube was the last great system aside from handhelds, I'd advise going back to PS2 & GameCube but that's about it. Last good handheld was Nintendo DS.
Sega and Namco made my favorite games in 90s, mostly polygon racers...what a rivalry...and WE won
The amount of content this man puts out is incredible.
Oh yea, I can sit and watch his videos damn near all day lol
the launch of the sega Dreamcast was the one that impressed me the most!
They finally got it right with the DC but it was too late. That was my favorite time to be a gamer
@@JGD185 Was was wrong with the Genesis?
The funny thing is that a new sega console can be done with off the shelf pc parts and a custom gnu-linux front end for relatively cheap (think, custom emulation station) and which could compete with the newest xbox or playstations similar to what valve has attempted with their "steam machines".
Slap some emulators as a starter and a store front for new games and "voila".
@@neobogard the Genesis was fine, it was all the fk ups after with 32x, CD, Saturn. Don't get me wrong there were some great titles on all those but each of their launches weren't great. The DC launch got just about everything right.
@@JGD185 the Dreamcast is my favorite system!
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10 times Sega made me really happy ;
1. Sega Rally
2. Sega Rally 2
3. Scud Race
4. Daytona USA
5. Crazy Taxi
6. Jet Set Radio
7. Nights into Dreams
8. 18 wheel Trucker
9. Chu Chu Rocket
10. Sonic 3
The Genesis 6 button controller is the best controller ever made. I wish I could plug it into every console with a fighting game.
it's definitely up there for me, it's comfy, it's well made and it works like it should.
A genuine Saturn USB controller is every bit as good. They’re the best two controllers out there for fighting and 2D games in my opinion, that is. I myself like the Saturn pad best of all. It’s always the only one I choose when emulating retro games on PC or with the PiBoy.
The Super Famicom pad is best, I think. People assume the Super Nintendo pad is the same but it's not. The D-pad is worse, rougher on the thumbs and the buttons feel different.
The retro bit genesis controller works with a bit of the newer consoles, might just need an adapter for others.
8bitdo m30 should have you covered
That Christmas when Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop all dropped together was the greatest of times. I will never forget how cool it was. That time will never be beaten for me. It was gaming nirvana
I agree. I sold my SNES and all my games and my Sega Game Gear so that I could afford to purchase a Saturn, Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, and Panzer Dragoon. Best Christmas season ever!
Definitely a happy moment for me was Sega bundling Sonic 2 with the Genesis model 2 and selling it at a discounted price (I think at that time it was $129 compared to the SNES at $169). That difference allowed my parents to buy me a Sega Genesis for Christmas and I've been on team Sega's bandwagon ever since. I recently got a whole bunch of SNES games through emulation and while there's definitely good stuff there my main thought while I play through all these games I missed 30 years ago is how much I prefer the Genesis. The games, the game play, the style, the music, pretty much all of it I prefer on the Genesis.
If I had to pick one single thing that SEGA did that made me happy, it would be the support they gave to the Master System. Without this, I would maybe not be posting here.
Their support in Europe was fantastic, you could play a ton of great SEGA games for a low price, and it was the perfect point of entry for a lot of families. This is how everything started for me.
I see your first point about a 2D sonic. Many of us were disappointed by initial 3D polygon games. However despite being an ill fit at times, games with 3D polygons just sold better in the second half of the 90s. So every publisher demanded polygons.
And everyone else seemed to demand polygons if what I read is to be believed
Curiously, Daytona USA was quite a hit here in Brazil. The specialized magazines couldn't stop praising how beautiful the game was. Retailers used the game extensively to move the machines. And boy, it was pricey: about 700 US$ for a machine in mid 1995.
#3 is my top pick, although I kept playing well past the 90s, ending with the excellent After Burner Climax. Sega's post-90s arcade hardware wasn't state of the art anymore, but the gameplay was the same top quality. Sega beat Nintendo at their own game and made the greatest F-Zero of the series. Namco's Time Crisis 4 owes everything to copying the homework of Virtua Cop 3 and LA Machineguns. I can spend all day talking about Sega ruling arcades in the 2000s. Whenever it actually ended, their 3d arcade run was absolutely phenomenal
For me some big ones were:
1. The Dreamcast launch with Soul Calibur being the best looking game I had ever seen
2. The Sega Saturn bundle with Daytona/VF2/VC2, gave me a concrete reason to buy a Saturn, and even tho the console only had a little over a year left, allowed me to enjoy the back catalog and final releases.
I had the Dreamcast VGA connected to my best PC monitor, I remember Marvel vs Capcom 2 looking unreal compared to a CRT television.
Bet that was epic. MVC2 is one beast of a title. Dang! 👌
I totally remember that about Soul Calibur too. My older brother had to do some school report with some super rich kid that had imported a Dreamcast from Japan. For whatever reason, I also tagged along and remember just being blown away by the graphics of the game.
I bought a Dreamcast in 2002 when the PS2 had just released at a big discount, and fell in love with it immediately.
I had to get rid of it a couple months later due to difficult financial times as a 21 yr old...
A couple years later, I bought another one at GameStop for like $50 when they were obsolete; the kid at GameStop was literally arguing with me, trying to convince me that Sega was dead, and Dreamcast was now obsolete.
I kindly acknowledged his statement, and urged him to ring it up immediately so I could get home and play some Crazy Taxi on my CRT tv at home 🤣
@@davidp420 I imported it at the Japanese launch (I’m not rich) and it ended up being the Yukawa box. Needless to say I was like “wtf is this” when I opened it. It’s the most bizarre box design ever. 😂
I would like to agree with both points 1 and 2 ... particularly point 1
Sega basically handing Yu Suzuki
the rights to make Shenmue 3 has to be the coolest they've been since 2004. Them also capitalizing and making their own remasters of 1+2 just made it better.
At first, I was cool on the remasters of Shenmue I and II, but I eventually got them when it was on sale, and it was worth it. Even though I owned the games already, it is so much more playable now with much faster load times!
Then I played Shenmue III............
Some excellent choices here. Such a treat to watch. I especially love how the Dreamcast introduced a second screen (VMU), which revolutionized sports games. (For the first time you didn't have to use the honor system when inputting football plays, e.g.). I think that is one of the reasons the sports games took such a leap forward, to the extent that I think it should actually get the credit. Yeah, improved graphics, etc. But a paradigm shift in gameplay.
Speaking of the Dreamcast, it was also the first home console to have online play and DLC. It sucked when the servers went down and you couldn't get some items in Skies of Arcadia, e.g., but it was such a future feeling experience at the time. It let you dream about what might be added to games you already had and completed. Just mind blowing at the time.
And speaking of online, timed events in Phantasy Star Online, and the game itself. I didn't even go online with it for a couple years because I was afraid of getting hacked and having my character nuked. But I eventually did and it was thrilling. One of my all-time favorite games.
I skipped the 32X and Saturn, but when the Dreamcast came out it felt like a gaming renaissance. It was a short but amazing ride.
Definitely with you on the Sega Arcade Pad. Once you go six button, you don't go back. I'd personally nominate the Sega Genesis Mini as one of Sega's high points, as it felt like an apology for many years of AtGames' crappy black bread loaves. The three button controllers it came with were indeed disappointing, but hey, you could always buy better joysticks from third parties.
One thing that made me quite happy is when Sega knocked Nintendo back on its heels after years of ruling the video game industry with an iron fist. There's a documentary on Paramount Plus called Console Wars (uh, not the TH-cam Console Wars) which details all the ways Tom Kalinske eroded Nintendo's market share. A favorite of mine is that they set up a free play tent full of the latest Genesis games outside Wal-Mart's headquarters, to muscle them into dropping Nintendo exclusivity.
Kalinske was shrewd... he was probably the only reason the Genesis was so successful in the United States, and once he left the company, it was all downhill from there.
Growing up , loving the Sega Master System, me and my brother desperately wanted the Sega Genesis that was about to launch. We begged our parents, telling them it was all we wanted, and it could be both our Christmas gift. Well, our family wasn't the most financially stable, so opening that present that day was so memorable! Firing up Altered Beast blew us away that Christmas day!
One of my top Sega moments that didn’t make the list was when the Phantasy Star franchise was revisited after 7 years with Phantasy Star Online. I’ve never poured more time into a game than that. It was definitely the perfect time in my life to be released.
PSO was a great way to revive the franchise and modernize it at the same time, it finally got a true sequel and it's doing pretty decent for itself, course it will never beat that original experience that knocked my socks off.
Same. I spent nights playing with strangers from across the world. No barriers or region locks. It was my first online game on console and it was brilliant. The tone and strangeness of the game world was so compelling.
I wish they kept it closer to it and the concept art when they made Universe and PSO2.
I find the new style quite childish somehow and the fast paced game play makes for a less coordinated experience when playing with strangers.
Note: me and a bunch of classmates returned to it with the blue burst pc release and it was even better.
@@TheSliderW PSU was actually very good, they improved on everything. More weapons, PA’s and Techs levelling up and improving, smoother gameplay, more party members, improved PQ and a personal shop, more lobbies split into main ship and various planets. The introduction of phasion 😜 and “weapon boards” that required materials to build. I loved OG PSO on DC and have played PSO2 since NA release (I’m in the UK though) but I still think PSU was the best experience.
Agreed. My first experience with PSO was on the original XBOX. The idea of doing dungeon runs with an online party on a home console was completely novel to me. I loved every second of it.
Having a Sega CD back in the day was the ultimate flex. lol The only kids that could beat that flex is if they had a Neo Geo at home.
The Mega CD was also the first ever CD player I owned, connected to my tape deck hifi system it really made the console special to me
Sega has always been kind of weird about Streets of Rage. There was an INCREDIBLE streets of rage remake game that was in development for a while and released. It was basically Streets of Rage Mania. But they were DMCA'd into oblivion basically, and it made no sense to me really, given that they let just about anybody make their own sonic game, but the moment somebody tried to make a new SOR game, they went after them. Streets of Rage Remake is honestly an incredible experience and if you consider yourself a fan of Streets of Rage, you will definitely love the game. I HIGHLY recommend you try it, if you can find it somewhere online.
That SOR Remake game let you play as Electra and her signature electric whips.
Every timeI saw a Sega arcade game for the first time it was a moment of joy, Out Run, After Burner, Hang On, Golden Axe, Shadow Dancer... and then the Model 1 to 3 years, the first contact with Daytona or Sega Rally were moments of not being able to believe your eyes.
But the moment I was full of joy thanks to Sega was the first time I turned on my Megadrive with Golden Axe, I loved the arcade, it was the game I wanted the most to play at home, and I finally got it it was incredible, I noticed the little differences with the arcade, but it didn't matter, to me was a perfect port, even with an extra stage that made me forget the little downgrades from the arcade.
when Sega made me happy: Phantasy Star 4, Shining Force 2, Sonic 2, the Sega CD (i liked the hardware and the good games on it like Snatcher, the problem was those FMV games). I hope they left fans design Phantasy Star 5 like they did for Sonic Mania
Christmas NiGHTS was one of the coolest things a video game company has done. It's a shame companies don't do this more now with Xmas themed free DLC.
Never owned a Saturn and at this point probably never will, but Christmas Nights was that one game that somehow found it's way into my collection that I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of...
I did eventually get to play it a bit in a GameStop, fun as hell...
Omg I completely forgot about this! Yes!!!
They had similar easter egg/hidden stuff Clockwork Knight 2 for the Saturn, just like Christmas Nights when you would play Clockwork Knight 2 on certain dates the theme would change...
There was a Christmas toy commander as well. Dreamcast had several games that would have different themes if the date was set for that day (xmas, halloween, etc.)
@@tomfoolery2964 What happened to that developer, No Cliche? They had 2 Toy games on the Dreamcast, Toy Commander and Toy Racer. Both were fun games...
Sega Rally 2. Man I remember I was speechless for over a few minutes by seeing texture reflections for the first time in my life.
Thanks again for a new cool video.
I will never forget when Sega Rally2 came out in the arcades and for those like me Who had a Dreamcast and Sega Rally , the arcade machine actually had a slot where you could insert your VMU with your saved data on it and play your saved Championship data on the arcade machine!! One of the coolest things i experienced back in the day!!
Sonic & Knuckles tech. I don't need to explain how much of a gamechanger that was. It blew me away with how the implementation changed the core of "Sonic 3." Its like a sequel, but a DLC at the time. Sega was really ahead of their time. That cart really puts Sega in the forefront as the innovators. Besides Nintendo, of course.
Dude, I thought you hated the Astro City Mini, after your review on it. I love it and have everything for it except the carpet that comes with the crazy expensive bundle. The arcade stick is amazing!
You might be mixing me up with another review. The Astro Mini had its issues but I definitely didn’t hate it.
One thing Sega did that made me happy was porting NiGHTS to modern platforms with the option to play the OG version :D
I just watched the 10 Times Sega Really Let Me Down video and right after I was done watching it this video gets posted. Great timing 👍
10. Sonic Mania
9. SF II Special Champion Edition
(in your face SNES!!)
8. Sega ESPN Football ($29 bucks!)
7. All Pro football 2k8
6. Soul Caliber (Namco, does that count?)
5. Sonic Adventure 2
4. Sonic 3
3. NFL 2k
2. Sonic the Hedgehog (1)
1. Dreamcast launch
I float around, watching different gaming channel's. This is my No.1 Sega channel. Legend.
I was happy with Sega when Mortal Kombat came out on the Genesis and we were able to get all of the fatalities and gore with the blood code unlike the SNES.
My older brother owned mk 2 and 3 and i never realized that! I was a kid at the time so i didnt know better
I'll add my favorites:
-Sega's racing games: there are very few of them I have not played, going back to the original overhead Monaco GP, and Turbo, Sega's racers were always attention getters. I recall the Colecovision having Turbo as a system seller back then (it was also ported to Intellivision but Coleco had that optional steering wheel controller) I wanted one but I was just a kid back then.
-Working Designs games on the Sega CD, this company took it upon themselves to port and translate several Japanese RPGs for Western consumption, I recall Lunar: the Silver Star, Lunar: Eternal Blue and Popful Mail on the Sega CD, great times.
-F-Zero GX/AX, The Gamecube/Arcade version of F-Zero was brought to you by none other than Sega. This is kind of a 'no hard feelings' moment for Sega to collaborate with longtime rival Nintendo to bring you the absolute best version of F-Zero.
-Saturn's CD visual player. put a music CD in the Saturn and while the tunes are playing a polygon spaceship is flying through space on screen (simple things).
-Sega always tried; even back in the Master System days, Sega would always try to bring you a game experience similar to one a rival console (NES in this case) was hosting at the time. You may not have been playing Ikari Warriors on the SMS but you got Rambo instead, NES had Kung Fu Master, SMS had Kung Fu Kid, Black Belt(Fist of the North Star) and Vigilante...
-The Dreamcast- one of the best 2 and a half years of console gaming. Sega was doing everything right: huge launch library, great price, included the modem, four player controller ports, innovative, fun titles constantly being released, ALL of the genres were covered...
-the Sega Game Gear was the vacation travel TV, with the TV adapter and car power adapter cord you had on the go TV.
Something Sega has done to make me happy is actually fairly recent: After purchasing Atlus from the floundering Index Corp, they put out a statement in a shareholders meeting saying that they were going to take a page from the newly acquired company and be more proactive about making their RPGs available internationally, and they made good on that promise with haste, giving us 7th Dragon Code VFD, an international release and remaster of Shining Resonance (the first Shining series game to be released outside Japan in 11 years at the time) and made sure the fourth Valkyria Chronicles title saw international release on all platforms.
Wow I didn't know they remastered Shining Resonance. I must look into that.
@@Estorium It originally came out in 2014 on PS3 in Japan only. The 2018 remaster, called Shining Resonance Refrain, is available in all regions for PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. I got it on launch and really enjoyed it!
@@HybridAngelZero Thanks for the info. I am definitely going to check this out.
Still hope for the entire 7th Dragon series being release internationally
@@AbyssDwellerthetokutuber I'm really hoping so, too!
The sega cd is still my favorite console of all time. I remember getting one for christmas at launch. It felt like a holding a piece of the future in my hands. The FMV games like Night Trap felt so advanced compared to what we were playing on the genesis and snes at the time (nevermind the lack of gameplay, it was just something that no other console could do at the time). Final Fight CD, Silpheed, Lunar/EB, Vay, Sonic CD, Night Trap, Ground Zero Texas, Snatcher... Even now, I still fire it up and play a few games from time to time. Great memories from a great time in gaming!
My mates still talk about when I cranked up night trap and sewer shark on my new sega cd in 93.it blew us all away. I still have my model one but she is pretty tired,my model 2 does most of the gaming these days
I would like world peace, but I would LOVE another Panzer Dragoon game. 🐉
Some people complain about rail shooters, but when it's done right to create a huge cinematic set pieces, it can be one hell of a ride.
I was quite delighted when they included a PS3 box for Yakuza 5 with the PS4 Yakuza Remastered Collection. After losing money on the release of Yakuza: Dead Souls, the series became Japan-only for years. It's only through the ceaseless requests from the series' passionate fans that they were finally convinced to release Yakuza 5 in English. They were still really cautious about the prospect though, and opted to make it a digital release on the PlayStation Store. That lead to the English release of Yakuza 0, which really turned the series' fortunes around, and now it's become one of Sega's most popular modern franchises. The Yakuza 5 box was an eccentric gesture of thanks to the hardcore fans who had carried the series to international success, and a point of excitement for those who wanted to display the full series on their shelves.
Your summary toward the end of the video definitely sums up what it's like to be a Sega fan. You certainly get your share of lows with Sega, but the highs are absolutely incredible and totally worth the bad stuff in most cases (even if the bad stuff tends to outnumber the good stuff pretty significantly).
My experience with Sega was different, the high's far outnumbered the lows. I much preferred Sega to Nintendo in the 90s.
So many great Sega memories. My top nostalgia picks for each system:
Shinobi II on my Game Gear
Streets of Rage 2 on my Genesis
Sewer Shark on my Sega CD
NBA JAM Tournament Edition on my 32X
Panzer Dragoon on my Saturn
Soul Caliber on my Dreamcast
Also, I’d happily pay twenty bucks for a digital edition of The Revenge of Death Adder for my Switch.
Agreed so many gems left in the arcade
First time i fired up streets of rage and listening to the intro scroll track. I knew it was going to be GOOD. I ordered streets of rage off two blurry screenshots in a mail order ad from an issue of gamepro. This was the first time i'd seen anything about it. No press, no ads, no promotion. I just wanted a cool looking beatem up to play. It almost feels like the original sor changed my life. This game turned me into a sega fanboy.
I adored the Sega Channel. That was plugged into my Genesis more then my actual cartridges. Talk about Genesis Does What Nintendon't.
Yo that was cloud gaming before there was even a name for it
SEGA Channel was the shit and i had it from day one til the end, damn did it ever suck when the cable guy came to collect the adapter and cart...
I loved how sega added on to the machines,cd rom to add the power then 32x to add more without having to move to a new console. It is a debatable topic to non fans but I loved it. The megadrive mountain is still my fav old school set up!
I never felt it before, but looking back the Saturn really did have special place in my heart and holds a lot of good memories. The number of times I played Daytona USA with my dad, loving Fighters Megamix despite the fact I hate fighting games, that feeling when we finally got Nights. Those were the days 😔
The biggest thing from sega for mr was the shining force games. This was my introduction to tactical rpgs and I still play thru the first 2 every year.
Streets of rage 4
Best beat em up ever
Greatest comeback in gaming history
When I first played virtua tennis in the arcade and subsequently walked into a game store where they actually sold virtua tennis on the dreamcast! People were literally fighting over the available copies in that store in London. Insane!
Streets of Rage 4 is definitely high up on my list. I loved this franchise (even 3) and was really disappointed we didn't get a sequel during the 32 and 64bit era.
But my happiest Sega moment has to go with the release of the Genesis. Coming out before the SNES it was my first intro into the world of 16bit and we all remember what a glorious jump it was from the 8bit consoles.
It's insane to think of the jumps in quality from the 8bit to the 64 bit era and it's a shame these days you can barely feel the difference between 2 consoles released 6 years apart :(
I remember when sega impressed me with the genesis, i was sooo mind blown away that i started to wonder how everybody could love nintendo soooo much,
Some of my best times were getting dad to play Marine fishing with the rod controller. Still got them as well as the vmu with our aquarium.
Yeah. Not including a 6button with the mini, pissed me off to. Oh well, thank goodness for Retrobit. The wireless Genesis 6b controller is awesome. I use it on the mini and my OG hardware.
I snagged that for my Genesis Mini, too. It also works with Switch and PS3. Being able to play the Aladdin and Lion King collection with an actual Genesis controller on my Switch was awesome
@@HybridAngelZero Yep, its an awesome controller and actually licenses by Sega
When they started letting other devs make use of their often dead ips. Sonic Mania, SOR 4, Panzer Dragoon remastered and hopefully more to come.
as usual the fans know better than the AAA gaming corps, SEGA was just man enough to admit it and pass of the properties to them, meanwhile Nintendo's lawyers continue to swing around the ban hammer... keep at it SEGA!
Great video SLX. I gotta say, Sega really made me happy when I got Streets of Rage and Sonic as a kid in Chicago during Xmas of 1991....I cannot tell you how much that meant to me as a kid back then. However, I think Sega is making me happy with both the Fist of the North Star developed by the studio behind Yakuza....one of my favorite animes of all time was made into a fun actioner that's nothing but stupid fun and I adore that. That and VF4 Evolution on the PS2....I hope you do a review of that one day because that game is amazing.
The launch of Sonic 2 was something very memorable for me.
Sega makes me the happiest when they release Sega Ages games. The PS2 Sega Ages games were awesome and the Switch ones are amazing too
1. Loved having an exact arcade port of Final Fight on Sega CD, just wasn't a fan of them remixing the music. That and Sonic were the only 2 Sega CD games I bought.
2. Streets Of Rage 4 is epic!!! Excited that my all time favorite beat em up finally got an upgrade/sequel.
3. Still have Virtua Fighter, Virtua Cop, and Sega Rally on Saturn. 3 of my personal favorites on the console.
4. When the 6 button pad launched for Genesis I got excited cause it confirmed that Street Fighter II was coming!
I was really happy when Sega released Virtua fighter 4 Evolution for the PS2 at 20 bucks!! It was a fantastic upgrade to the original and since I already bought part 4 at top dollar the reduced price was easy on the wallet.
Great pick! This is definitely one of the coolest things Sega ever did. $20 and that game was LOADED with content.
I miss the magic of these days. I loved reading the Sega Magazin (later Saturn) and one of the magic Moments was the Release of Aladdin and following new consoles. I also loved the first pictures of Nights, the pictures always had a blue touch to them and seemed blurry, it added to the atmosphere and looks.
Loading up shenmue on Dreamcast for first time!
Playing my first online game with Phantasy Star Online on my Dreamcast was the most excited I've ever been about videogames in my life.
Dreamcast VGA is still incredible to this day (through a monitor or upscaler like the OSSC). Completely blows away the crap 480i output that plagued the other consoles released during its generation.
Confirmed. I have an OSSC. The only problem is the aspect ratio is not 4:3 in VGA mode.
it made the crappy blurry jaggie ps2 look like a brown turd
A couples of things:
1. I owned a VGA box and hate the pixelated dim picture (yes, on a monitor).
2. Other consoles were 240p just like Dreamcast on composite.
Personally I really just want 240p VGA output that can be upscaled like modern PS2 Cables.
Sega deluxe arcade cabinets for me. No one made them quite like Sega. The exhilaration of little 8 year old me rocking, rolling and shaking to the movement of games like, Outrun, Space harrier and After Burner is something that will never be forgotten.
we need a new kid chameleon asap. I'd definitely be on board for that
Imagine Kids Chameleon with the modern Wonderboy treatment? I'd be so on-board.
Make it a procedurally generated rougelike. The game is begging for that treatment.
Sega made me happy several times but the most memorable time Sega made me happy is when Shenmue was released on the Sega Dreamcast. Shenmue was one of the most meaningful games Sega ever released.
I wish Sega would come out with a new console, I'd buy it no matter what.
Great video!!!!!!!!! Sega had some straight masterpieces. The Saturn had some great titles like Die Hard which I highly enjoyed. However the Dreamcast was a "dream come true" in '98. There are soooo many titles love & would still play today. Some of my favorites on Da Cast that wasn't named was there version of NBA Showtime on NBC, Virtual Tennis, Sega Bass Fishing (with the reel controller), Spawn, Dynamite Cop & Zombie Revenge. It's mind-blowing how "ahead of it's time" that the Dreamcast really was!!!!!!!! Damn, I may just dig my Cast up & start playing it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still playing my Dreamcast all these years later the arcade really was in the home with the system other than the neo Geo of course haha
Especially with Dreamcast arcade stick that was great for all the fighters and shooters on the system :)
VGA box was pure magic. What I never understood was how games like Shenmue 2 looked better with the VGA box on the Dreamcast than it did on the Xbox in 480p over component. Which is strange, as they're basically both 480p.
Nice list, here is a few of mine:
1) Sega hiring Treasure: Yeah enough said.
2) Sega teaming up with SNK during the Dreamcast era: The Neo Geo Pocket Dreamcast Link Cable was an amazing idea that allow transfer of data between DC & NGPC of the same titles on both systems to unlock certain things. Alot of good Neo Geo games was brought to the Dreamcast but also Sega games were brought to the Neo Geo Pocket Color. The Sonic game on there is good and the same people who work on that later formed Dimps. Which later made more good Sonic games. So this team up was awesome.
3) Sega bringing Yakuza series to the west & PC ports: I love the series with the 1st 2 games on the PS2 and was so happy when Sega brought the rest of the series to English and on PC as well. Good move there, Sega! Hopefully the PSP & Samurai spin offs will come here soon as well.
The Genesis 6-button arcade controller was the best controller ever made in the 90’s. Hands down.
I was more of a Nintendo fan back in those days but I did appreciate Sega too. I would have to say the happiest they ever made me was the Dreamcast launch along with games like Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Resident Evil Code Veronica, and Shenmue. Those games and games like it left a huge imprint on me as a gamer and I'm glad they've never went away as game developers.
I grew up on Nintendo too but I went crazy for the Dreamcast. The DC was my favorite time to be a gamer
Yep, I was a huge Nintendo fan. But when Sega get it right there was simply nothing else like it. Seeing sonic adventure for the first time in a demo booth was unbelievable. The whale destroying the wooden bridge with sonic running at full speed left a huge impression on me.
@@swittersanggraini1780 me too it was like WOW this is the next leap. My brother had imported a Japanese DC which came out in 98 so seeing Sonic, Power Stone and the Sega Fishing was mind blowing
The Shenmue games made me happy. I'm actually still quite bummed because I didn't buy Dreamcast in my teenage years and couldn't experience the two first ones back then. They are some of my favourite games of all time
I think the #1 happiest moment for me was playing 2 player games with my brother whose since passed away on the Sega Genesis back in the day. Good times
definitely agree with the 6 button controller for the genesis and saturn. best controller pad for street fighter games!
I read the title as "10 times SEGA Rally made me happy".
lmao
9/9/99 was SEGA’s coolest day, IMHO.
8/14/89
@@terencehill2320 I don’t know. We hadn’t really seen SEGA’s power then. ‘99 was, “hey, we got this!” But I was totally a Genesis guy 🙂. I mean, “Genesis does.”
I still say to this day even as someone who wasnt a real sports game fan, NFL2k5 is not just the best football game ever, but one of the best games ever made. Also I'm always gonna have myself a cheap Dell or NEC monitor VGA monitor to slap a Dreamcast on.
Saddest experience was going to a friend's house to play street fighter but he only had 1 six button controller so I always got stuck with with the 3 button one 😢
I have played Street Fighter II on Samsung Gam*Boy with a 3 button controller its easy actually if you get used to it
I have too many of these, so I'll just narrow it down to one: the excellent 32X launch games i.e. Star Wars Arcade and Virtua Racing Deluxe. The 32X also finally allowed the Mega Drive to do smooth sprite scaling, way smoother than the Sega-CD. Like SLX, I was a big fan of Sega's sprite scaler arcade games and would've loved to see all of them on the 32X.
I first hooked up my Dreamcast via vga during the PS3/360 and I was still blown away by how great Soul Calibur looked.
The Dreamcast launch was A+ to me. Along with virtua fighter 2, and the 2k series on Dreamcast those sports games was amazing
Man, imagine if Sega still had 2K. Absolutely ROLLING in cash.
The SEGA GT racing games are some of my favorite, I wish Sega would make a new one
Sega ge should've had a game series after the 1st one. If the Saturn never had the surprise. I know sega gt port of the Saturn would had been releases a year earlier with a sequel to the dreamcast.
Just starting this one. Sweet new intro.
So great to see Virtua Striker included in a video.... any video :)
Does anyone else feel final fight for sega cd is underrated?
Shits arcade perfect plus
Nothing else at the time could do that and it was years before you could play final fight arcade at home without owning a cabinet
Never played that one on the CD, only Arcade, PC emulation, and SNES. What an awesome game!
Absolutely it is underrated,top 3 game on sega cd and the soundtrack beats the arcade hands down
Otogi 1 and 2 are still some of my favorite games that FromSoftware developed! Would love to see another game in that series.
Sega had some great arcade exclusive sports titles as well... I'm also surprised you didn't mention the AfterBurner arcade cabinet with the moving cockpit.
Sega Channel was one of my favorite Sega moments, you should do an episode on it :)
Seeing Daytona USA 2 and Outrun 2 for the first time and knowing the latter got a home port.I'm still waiting for the former, though.
I second the notion about the 6 button controller. I got a wireless version of that very controller to play PC and emulated games. I'm sure I could make a list of favorites, but I really loved the PS2 Shinobi more than most people.
Inventing the Dreamcast! lol. Legit.
Back in 1990 I sent in five proof of purchases to SoA and they sent me two pairs of the Genesis branded speakers instead of the one pair that was advertised. That made me happy.
NFL 2K5 is STILL the best NFL game ever made. My #1 thing Sega did that made me happy was publish Treasure's debut game Gunstar Heroes. I don't think I've ever had so much fun playing games with friends than our runs through Gunstar.
Hopefully nfl 2k series will be revive soon. Im getting sick of madden monopolizing football gaming series.
Nights: Into Dreams was a very special game when it was released on the Saturn in 1996. It came with its own special (analogue) controller and the main character handled like a dream. The attention to detail and some special features (like evolving worlds and creatures) were only matched 20 years later. The accessibility and speed drew you in but the linking score system kept you playing. It was the Saturn's proper Sonic successor but was underappreciated by most critics who simply didn't give it the time it deserved.