I like how you pointed out that Sega gave their consoles memorable names compared to Sony. So true and it really makes the point why gaming in the 80s/90s had so much more character.
I had nes and snes growing up, and it took me til I was a bit older to see how Sega really tried to bring the arcade home with their consoles and did it better than anyone else at the time
Even though I was very young, probably like 4 years old. I have the memory of opening the sega genesis model 1 on Christmas. It came with sonic the hedgehog and my parents also got me TMNT hyperstone heist. I’m very happy to say that I still have that exact system and games still today and play it in 2021.
Favorite thing about Sega and games made specifically for their consoles was how fast paced they typically are, and they don't waste much time. Like Streets of Rage I feel like that genre is 90% slow and goes on for too long but not that series. Typically I play Sega for action and Nintndo for Rpgs, and both for platformers. The console libraries compliment each other really well.
I think Sega was the first company to make gaming seem "cool" to the masses; when they made the Genesis. It had such an awesome design; that seemed more in line with audio equipment and looks slick to this day! Music in games really began to sound like real music as well (thanks to that Genesis sound board). While they were not the first to bring CD gaming to the market (that goes to NEC in Japan); they did make it more mainstream. Even online gaming was first done by Sega with the Dreamcast. I always remember Sega as the first bring Arcade quality gaming home with the Genesis and moving up; while also providing exclusive home only content; that felt like it could have been at the Arcades.
On the plus side, the various genesis/megadrive collections now are on all platforms and represent one of the best entry points to the retro gaming hobby. They've also had the courage to give smaller developers their notable IP's (e.g., sonic mania, streets of rage 4) which led to great modern retro inspired games.
I never understood the SNES-Genesis war. I'm old and can remember pre-Atari days. You know what we had? Pong. There were 3 or 4 consoles out there...they all played Pong. Both Genesis and SNES were great in my view!
It all started with the 32x vs. Saturn feud. Sega of America wanted to continue the highly successful Genesis console with an add-on known as the 32x, while Sega of Japan wanted to make a whole new console, the Saturn, instead. At the end Sega of America was forced to discontinue the Genesis and replace it with the Saturn!
@@dinohermann1887 The 32x was to keep the Genesis going but it didn't add much. The Genesis games sold just fine without 32x versions of them. With how high the price of the 32x was added to the price of the Saturn and the rushed launch to compete with the Playstation's cheaper launch price thus ticking off stores that signed on for Sega after Kalinske did all that hard work getting the Genesis in their stores so the stores ended up refusing to sell them and you have the perfect storm for how Sega ended up in such a state in the Dreamcast era that forced them to throw in the towel.
A healthy rivalry would have been fine, even a good thing since both SOJ and SOA still made games at the time, so they would have wanted to make the best to outdo their overseas buddies. But naw let's kill the Saturn for fun.
I had a friend up the street from me back in the 80s who had a Master System. I had an NES so going over each other's homes we got to experience both systems. We'd be at my place taking turns, switching off each level, playing NES Double Dragon then playing Co-OP Double Dragon on The Master system at his place. I didn't (and still don't) own a Super Nintendo (experienced it with friend's ones). Funny enough I wanted a Turbografx 16. My cousin got one before the Genesis came out and I was obsessed with it. My parents got me a Genesis for Christmas as they couldn't find a place that sold a TG-16. For the longest time it was my favorite system ever (until a couple of years ago when I finally got a Sega Saturn). Sega played a huge roll in my childhood and just naturally appealed to me more. And when I go back to retro gaming it's almost always something Sega. Though I'd have to add it's NOT just video games. Movies have gone through the same thing. There's the obvious like Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, but you have other directors who had their own style and attitude: Richard Donner, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi. Now 99 percent of movies today I couldn't tell you by watching it who made it because it's all the same with no personality to tell it apart from the others.
Your channel has become a part of my daily morning routine. Some people watch the news, I watch retro bird. On a different note the analog sticks in a different spot s HUGE. Also Microsft preserves your digital library purchases with them. Which is bigger than HUGE for me. I didn't know this until a couple years ago and now I still have my TMNT The Arcade Game available to play on my Xbox 360 that I bought in 2006 or 2007. There's Nintendo Fan boys (which I am), the Sony Ponies, and then the Microsoft X-men. Yeah we get the coolest name too. God Bless Uncle Bill Gates. Yeah thats right he's my uncle, I adopted him. He's given me more free video games than everyone else combined.
one of my favorite TH-cam channels, and just keeps getting better. keep at it, idk how you're not a lot bigger. my first game console ever was the genesis nomad. definitely became a Nintendo kid but those early days of sonic and robotik mean bean machine were timeless
I COMPLETELY forgot about the Nomad! I stated in an earlier comment that they were supporting six consoles in 1995... this would actually make seven consoles at that time... lol! I wonder if there are any other consoles they had out in that time that I'm forgetting... heh heh!!!
I never played any Sega as a kid but since recently I've got a Mega SG I discover all those amazing titles for SMS and Genesis. The games are so original and unique. As you can imagine the collection just keeps growing!
The first SEGA game I owned was Sonic & Knuckles Collection for PC. The second SEGA game I owned was Sonic Pocket Adventure for the Neo Geo Pocket, and let me tell ya: it blew my sweet little mind to be able to make Sonic spin dash, in the back of the family minivan...
I remember seeing the Dreamcast with NFL2K on display at Costco and being blown away by the realism of the graphics. Never actually played them though.
I had a Genesis as a kid. The 6 button controller was amazing. There was a ton of great games and we had blood for Mortal Kombat. Nintendo probably has more recognizable titles but games like Toejam and Earl and Altered Beast make you part of a special group of gamers.
Awesome vid, Sega content is always a win and yeah I miss the old Sega vs Nintendo days. The SMS was solid, but criminally slept on imo. The Genesis was a revolution coming from the 8-bit years and has argurably the greatest library if any if Sega's consoles . The Saturn was a powerhouse that pushed the type of 2D games I always wanted to play, fast, bug, colorful, and generally near arcade perfect. The Dreamcast was another leap forward and it seemed like everything would finally click for Sega. Well we all know how that story needed, but I think the industry is worse off w/o Sega out to take chances and try different things. I'm just grateful I was able to enjoy the company at its prime and can continue to do so through my still growing Sega collection 😁 ...keep up the Sega content man 😁and congrats on hitting 5k subscribers!
I grew up when Sega just left the console market but my parent had a Genesis, so I grew up with the classics like Sonic 1, Golden Axe, Castlevania Bloodlines, and Streets of Rage, etc.
What made Sega great? Playing a Sega Master System game and seeing the same names or vibe (including music) from game to game (credits permitting). It was like they were friends and I was always happy seeing the work they did including BO/Funky Uwa, Ossale Kohta, Phoenix Rie, etc. and other variations of programmers.
Another thing that made them different, and even better in this sense was alot of Nintendo games was cropped, or zoomed in on the action which actually put you at a disadvantage in high action games. And for me personally id prefer the 6 button pad almost anyday overall vs the shoulder button setup. Also the expanded use of the Genesis with the Sega cd and 32x. 😊👍
I am so glad that I stumbled across your channel awhile back. I got my 6 year old son into retro games with my Raspberry Pi that has every game from Atari to N64 and everything in between.
Love this video!! Over the past 2.5 decades I've sold every single piece of Sony/Microsoft gaming crap I had in order to buy virtually every Saturn and Dreamcast game that there is, and I've never regretted it for even a single second.
I can't like this video enough. SEGA were such a creative force in the industry. It's what I loved about them. In many ways, it's a huge shame Sony brought in the mass market and their desire for playing games that are all the same because we didn't get to see more of SEGA and other developers' innovative ideas.
I still remember my first time playing Sega Genesis at a friend’s house. I loved Sonic. I asked to play it every time I was over there. Growing up, I mostly just had Nintendo consoles, but if I could have owned both a Genesis and my SNES back then, I would have. That’s one great thing about being an adult now. I have the option to own both consoles.
In the 8 bit days, Sega was the arcade leader. In the 16 bit days, they were the system with 'tude. Unfortunately, with the Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast all coming out within a few years, they became the company that seemed to have lost focus. I think what is was though was the Sega CD was sort of niche, the 32X was just the Saturn's poor little brother, the Saturn was difficult to program for compared to the PlayStation, and the Dreamcast quickly got overshadowed by the PS2 announcement (plus, the DC lacked support from EA).
I feel like Sega is starting to have a bit of a resurgence with their quality. Looking at Yakuza, Bayonetta & Streets of Rage 4. While their more of a publisher these days, it's almost becoming a "Sega Seal of Approval" for any game they put out.
Thanks for another fun video, RB! Yes, I was "one of those" Sega kids back in the day, but I loved my SMS, Gen, etc.,...some of my favourite games of all time are from Sega consoles! It was painful to see the company that I loved relegated to game development and pushed out as a console manufacturer, but I know it was inevitable, once the giants decided they wanted their piece of the pie...at least we can still enjoy the old games on the old consoles! Have a good one!
The old Sega gave me Nights into Dreams, Space Channel 5, Tempo, Keio Flying Squadron and Sonic games (which I've only ever played on Sega consoles--I just haven't gotten into the newer Sonic games). There is something MAGICAL about old Sega.
Absolutely love Sega. I was a Sega kid growing up and since getting back into retro, I just love everything Sega. I've been on a recent run and gun tear playing Xeno Crisis, Mega Turrican, Skeleton Krew and Ranger X (never played any of them before). It's just one genre but is quite perfect on the Genesis. I'm also getting into the Master System (very cool and a legit rival to NES), I've learned the Sega CD had quite an awesome library and wasn't just the FMV headquarters, the 32X wasn't junk and could have worked with a different business strategy (like not competing with the Saturn!) and both the Saturn and Dreamcast had a lot more than I realized and I'm still hoping Sega will make some more mini consoles based on those.
@@RetroBirdGaming yep, and the best Earthworm Jim, the best Final Fight port, good rpgs with Shining Force and Lunar, the only console that had Snatcher, again a really nice selection and in my opinion none of the best games were FMV.
Sega was just incredible... the stuff they put out felt like the same kind of creativity and experimentation Nintendo would do with a willingness to go outside the family friendly mold. In a tragic turn, perhaps the reason the Saturn and Dreamcast were so good was because Sega was doing bad financially. The entire Dreamcast library is avant-garde, experimental, and imaginative: it felt truly on the cutting edge. I'm honestly shocked Sega green lit most of it, but thank goodness they did.
I was that one kid in town with a sega master system. I got a genesis on launch week with a power base converter to take my sega games with me. My buddy won it on the radio and traded me for a nes. The only sega console I dodnt have was Saturn. I chose a ps1 and n64 instead, but I was back to sega for dreamcast
Sega formed my choice in consoles, from the start. Growing up with arcades, 4 games stood out to me. Shinobi, Afterburner, Altered Beast, and Golden Axe. Each game had something the kept me coming back, even after I'd mastered each game. Knowing sega was behind these games, I sunk some birthday money into a Master System, even though I had no idea what I was getting into. It was a competent system, though weak in the sound department. Getting the arcade ports, though, made it worthwhile. The genesis era really put the emphasis on arcade conversion, and my Capcom favorites of Strider and Forgotten Worlds made it in, in incredible likeness. Probably one of the best things about Sega, to me, was the great in-house arcade teams and the third party talent they attracted. (That and developing some of the greatest gamepads ever created...) After that, it's hard to say, but it was all about the experience. SegaCD was awesome. I had a difficult time going back to cartridge games. I feel like... that even forewarned me about the fate of the 32x. When Saturn was on the horizon, SegaCD convinced me that future gaming would need to be on the CD storage medium. That said, I felt lukewarm about the Saturn. It had some fantastic games. I even went so far as to buy imports. But, the struggle Saturn was was having was obvious. Developers had trouble with the transition to 3d games and the complexity of the hardware. The Dreamcast was the last system I was explicitly excited for, but we know how that turned out. I definitely loved 90's Sega. Post 2K changed a lot in the company. The direction seemed to go into a lot of 3rd person ARPG's and some games lost thier unique flavor, I feel. Sega is like that high school friend you really got along with, but eventually everyone had to change thier lifestyle to figure out a way to make it in the world. Still a good company, but definitely different. That said, I've really been enjoying the Yakuza series on PC.
Awesome video. I totally agree on (almost) everything. For context, I am one of those weirdos who asked Santa for a Master System when every other kid was begging for an NES. My main gripe with the whole SEGA leaving consoles debate is when people suggest that SEGA's business mistakes were what cut their time short. While yes, this is almost certainly true, the part that everyone leaves out is that even had they not made the 32X and even if they had not botched the Saturn, and even if the Dreamcast had lasted a couple years longer, SEGA was still totally doomed as a console maker the second that Microsoft decided that they wanted in the race. One way or another Microsoft would have brute forced SEGA out of the market, no matter what. What the Mac/PC/Linux and IOS/Android/Windows Phone and Genesis/SNES/TG-16 dynamics have taught us is that when it comes to consumer technology that has a proprietary "ecosystem" (in this case it's the game library/peripherals)...there is only ever enough room for two juggernauts slugging it out and one oddball outsider yapping away to the side. When MS decided to be the opposing corporate juggernaut to Sony, Nintendo and SEGA both became the yapping oddballs, and since only one oddball ecosystem could survive on store shelves, it of course had to be Nintendo's. So, while it is fun to think about how good the Dreamcast might have been had SEGA not been in such a dire financial situation, I don't spend too much time wondering about what the Dreamcast follow-up console might have been because in my opinion, in all likelihood, there could never have been a SEGA console after say 2003...
Something as unique as SEGA will probably never be replicated anymore. Even SEGA's modern games are at best too Nintendo-y and at worst just bad. The closest things we have to SEGA now are indie devs, but it still just isn't the same.
Sadly I was a late adopter of Sega. Thankfully when I say late I mean 1996. I fell in love with the Saturn, then I went back to the Genesis and the master system and started collecting hard core for them. Then the Dreamcast came out and I hit that system hard right out the gate and even lent a friend the money for him to get a Dreamcast on release day as well. Today I really appreciate Sega and all they did for gaming and all the unique games they brought to the table.
Cool video- if you look at sega ’s history during the 90s, they did amazing work considering how little they leaned on third-party support. Nintendo really had a death grip on third-party licenses and it’s their strategy of being arcade heavy w original content was what kept them afloat. Aside from getting licenses sooner, I think if The arcade would’ve stayed strong as a venue, we might’ve continued to see Sega flourish.
Sega wasn't on my radar until the second generation Genesis came out - I was 9 at the time so finally starting to develop my own tastes. Looking back I think Sega could have been a powerhouse if they had landed in the US first with the Master System and didn't try to squeeze so much out of the Genesis with the CD and 32X. I also think they would have been around if Nintendo didn't break up with Sony. Sony disrupting the market at the time was a death knell for Sega because now there were TWO "grown up" consoles
Great video! Never owned Sega back in the day - Amiga to SNES to PlayStation to PC meant I never had any of their consoles while they were out at retail. Knew people with Megadrives and played a few games on theirs which I liked but that was that. Dial forward 15 years post Dreamcast, and a burgeoning love of Shmups brought me to the mighty Saturn and from there Genesis and Master System recently. I’ve gained a whole new appreciation and love for one of the most creative Companies that ever existed. Plus they made Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast - probably my favourite game of all time. Love Sega.
I love Sega and if it weren't for Capcom focusing more on the SNES, the Genesis would be my favorite console. The Satarn was awesome and I wish consoles would have kept making 2D sprite games. Sega also developed some of the best beatemups and platformers of all time.
It's a bit funny that some of the biggest complaints in modern gaming (we retro game enthusiasts can still play/enjoy/keep up with current stuff, right?) are things like "lack of creativity/innovation" or just this general fiscal bottomline that companies have and which, must be said, has always been a part of gaming, but is something we all seem to have become much more aware of, perhaps due to the successful growth of the medium and the proliferation of information via the web. Ironic then that past failures (like later SEGA console sales) may have been a factor in pushing modern publishers to seek out tried and true IPs and mechanics, and focusing on things like graphics and QoL updates that appeal to...well, not necessarily a "casual" audience, but certainly a wider audience. A lot of us make common jokes such as Ubisoft being "the best deal in gaming" because once you've played one you've essentially "played them all." 40 games for the price of one lol. And I see a lot of people who intentionally try to support any game that comes out and tries something new, which is admirable, but still sad that we're at the point where we have to encourage anything different, just because so much feels rehashed to a lot of us, and we know that, with any further business failings attached to "creative" endeavors, we may end up getting even less of these games. Unfair to blame SEGA for that, but with the huge production values of some modern games, and the presence of investors, hard to say they didn't become somewhat of a blueprint of what not to do to turn a profit. But that's not the SEGA I remember. Sonic, Axel, Jim, Eric Lecarde... thats what I remember most
Well said. Playing it safe becomes more and more of an attractive option for companies as the industry grows larger. I'd argue that Microsoft and Sony have played things extremely safe too. Nintendo still takes risks in some ways, and has been lucky enough to hit it really big on some.. so that they have plenty of cash to survive some of their flops like the Wii U.
@@RetroBirdGaming Good point about Nintendo. They do mix things up still, outside of the status quo, and coincidentally some of their marketing efforts (like the Wii U in particular) have just been complete headscratchers. Had Sony and Microsoft not been rivals to each other, maybe things might have been more like the dark days of SEGA at Nintendo. Or maybe having lost SEGA, we're all a bit more fond of Nintendo and don't wanna see them go the same way. All very interesting timelines lol. Even now I love a lot Nintendo titles and innovations, and then as I'm trying to use a certain controller or access a certain option in the settings (again thinking primarily of the Wii U) or just some seemingly intuitive thing you would expect to be able to do, I run into wierd quirks that could probably have benefited from more thoughtful design. I mean some of the UIs, amirite? That being said, the Switch swerved a great many of the PR bungles of the Wii U, and hit a sweet spot for all us handheld lovers, and if Nintendo handheld sales are anything to go by, they should be alright haha
I loved Sega's style growing up. I still prefer the Genesis and Saturn over most other consoles. I also agree with naming conventions and feel that people who always want a "Dreamcast 2" aren't real Sega fans.
As a Nintendo kid, I loved my team and wouldn't have traded my allegiance for the world, but part of me wished that I didn't have to pick one at all. It's great to be an adult with enough money now to experience how the other half lived.
To me what made Sega great was all the edgy stuff they put out back in the day. Growing up I had a SNES and never owned a Genesis but thankfully for me I had a family member with the console. I got a chance to play cooler more mature games (atleast in my head they were). Games like Streets of Rage, Road Rash, hell even Mortal Kombat with REAL BLOOD lol fun times for sure. For that they will always have a special place in my gaming heart
Opa Opa was Sega's first mascot before they needed a "Mario like" character thus Alex Kidd was pushed to the forefront. I personally thought the Wonder Boy series should of been the face of early Sega before the Sonic era.
Sega has some great games that I still play today and that’s why I love playing sega games today. My favorite sega console is got to be the Saturn and sega genesis and the sega cd and 32x are great console’s. Great video
Since I was 9, I was a huge Sega fanboy, or so I thought. Turns out, it was just the Genesis. But I still am a huge Genesis fan, now owning models 1(stinker) and 2, Sega CD model 2, AtGames Ultimate Portable Game Player 2017 (Genesis on a chip handheld), as well as AtGames Genesis Flashback HD 2018. Say what you will about AtGames, I'm happy but I digress During the 16 bit era, for me anyways, Sega's most significant moment was being the company that rocked Nintendo off it pedestal. Having a steady amount of quality games, being able to go toe to toe with the champ. That in its self is worth something. Today we have Sony and Microsoft fighting for top spot, buy let's be honest, Nintendo's outdoes the others in one way, quality of games. Sony and Microsoft can, but typically just don't. Lazy I think
I dabbled with Sega as a kid but have been a Nintendo fanboy most of my life. Before the release of the Genesis mini I started to dive in to the Genesis library. I was blown away! So many amazing games I had never heard of. I've been obsessed for about a year now! Also Skies of Arcadia is the second greatest game of all time.
Honestly even though I have more nostalgia for Genesis, the Dreamcast just might be Sega's best system. Sure it had a short life but that means there's hardly any filler. Lots of classics on it for sure.
I grew up with SNES, so naturally I had to hate the Mega Drive, because those were the rules back in the day. However, in 1998 I bought a PS1 and, a few months later, traded it with a friend who gave me instead his old Master System plus several games. That decision marked the beginning of my career as a retrogamer and my disgust for anything Sony and Microsoft, which I still don't recognize as true gaming companies. As you said, the boring names of their consoles are a sign of a lack of love and creativity. 80s and 90s Nintendo and Sega consoles are all I need for the rest of my life.
I currently own both a Genesis model 1 and 2, multi-cart 112, Power base adapter with 10 original Mastersystem carts, Saturn with only 5 games, DreamCast with around 97 burned games, and GameGear with 7 carts.. still looking for a 32x and Sega CD to complete my collection..😊
Another great vid. The personal touch is gonna make you huge. Anyway, I'll never get over seeing the Sega logo appear before I go to play a Total War PC game. I don't know how that publishing deal came to be, but playing a stodgy old western war sim published by the same guys who made Streets of Rage will always tickle me.
They're not doing great, but Yakuza is doing more than keeping them afloat. I'm sure Sonic Colors Ultimate is going to absolutely shred sales charts, so I'm excited to see how they'll use those profits.
Most of my favorite games to this day are Sega games. I was too young to remember sega in their prime but one of my earliest gaming memories was playing the og sonic the hedgehog on my cousin’s genesis in the mid 90s. Didn’t really know anything about games then but I knew I liked Sonic games lol. I had a couple nintendo consoles after that but the first console I ever bought with money I saved up from weekly allowances was a Dreamcast when i was 8 or 9 years old and I still play it to this day. I was devastated when I found out Sega had discontinued it. Ever since then I’ve always fantasized about the day Sega would rise from the ashes… of course it seems unlikely now. Your videos keep the passion alive though, we don’t know how good we have it until it’s gone.
"Playstation has literally just named their systems by numbering them, imagine if someone named their children that way"?.......Ever heard of George Foreman? 5 sons, George II, George III, George IV, George V, George VI
We were pretty much a Nintendo household until X-Men was released on Sega Genesis. My sister and I loved the X-Men arcade game, and when I spotted the X-Men game on Genesis, I (foolishly) thought it was an arcade port. I managed to convince my parents to get us a Genesis so my sister and I could play that game. I thought the game was great. My sister hated it (but she got RBI '93, so she had something to occupy her time as well). We got a few more Sega games, but we, sadly, went back to Nintendo products as the mainstay. I missed out on some truly awesome games throughout the years that I've been fortunate enough to go back and play these days, though.
I don't know, I've heard people call original XBox the Dreamcast 2.0, the Sega games made a lot of sense on XBox to me, but then again my first Sega experiences were on Gamecube 😅
I was shocked a few months ago when I booted up Shining Force on a whim and actually enjoyed an SRPG after growing up finding them confusing and boring, and even more shocked to learn just how popular the Shining series was for a few years, even getting Game Gear spinoffs, a "luxury" reserved only for SEGA's top series like Sonic, Phantasy Star, and later Panzer Dragoon. And now it's a poorly programmed action RPG series. Woooooooo love modern SEGA so much
It would be awesome if you put the console name and game name spelled our on the screen while you are playing it to help us identify games. It's easier this way than having to read your comments for game titles and the video time stamp. Thank you and keep up the good work.
This is something I've thought about before, but ultimately decided not to because I feel like having text on the screen is distracting and breaks the immersion of feeling like you're in a game room while a game is being played. It's just not the aesthetic I'm going for, if that makes sense. Either way, thank you for the compliments and I hope you continue to stick around :)
Nailed it... the competition feels lonely without SEGA. Sony hits that more mature market but then again just is driven way too hard in that department .. Xbox kind of hits that in-between sweet spot mixture of Nintendo-like fantasy but Sega arcadey-ness..... just they had something different about it. It was just that pick up and play Arcade action that you could fall in love with. Perfect examples: Shinobi 3. Vectorman 1 & 2. 'Nuff said... Pulseman.... I'll keep editing this comment I love my genesis... Like you even brought up: Bloodlines & Hard Corps vs. IV and The Alien Wars for the SNES [Will make this all cohesive, wrapped in a neat little bow when I have the time lol]
I grew up with sega but stop with the saturn which I have around 30 games which I love never gave the dreamcast a chance still to this day I play a lot of Sega games modern and retro ❤
I still get sega feels on a lot of the newer games. When I say newer I'm talking 360 and wii. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I just love to see that logo. Hard to believe but I'm still chasing after original sonic the hedgehog achievements even after all these years.
Now now, beans are in fact available on the SNES via Kirby's Avalanche, however they're not mean, and therefore are not the same edgy Sega beans that I regularly have a confrontation with on my Mega SG machine 🤷♀️
@@RetroBirdGaming I should also add that the Mean Bean machine AI is absolutely RUTHLESS. I can't speak on the Avalanche version's difficulty as I haven't played it yet. I shall know that answer once I get my Super NT next week finally!!
I like how you pointed out that Sega gave their consoles memorable names compared to Sony. So true and it really makes the point why gaming in the 80s/90s had so much more character.
I will say you're a strange cat. Don't change its the oddness and quirkiness that keeps your channel fresh
Thank you. Yes, I've got to be myself :)
He's like Scott the Woz grown up.
@@Not-Great-at-Gaming perfect analogy.
@@Not-Great-at-Gaming way less vulgar. Not good or bad but I see them being very different.
What separates your channel from every other is you truly have a passion for gaming. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
I had nes and snes growing up, and it took me til I was a bit older to see how Sega really tried to bring the arcade home with their consoles and did it better than anyone else at the time
They really did a great job of it.
Even though I was very young, probably like 4 years old. I have the memory of opening the sega genesis model 1 on Christmas. It came with sonic the hedgehog and my parents also got me TMNT hyperstone heist. I’m very happy to say that I still have that exact system and games still today and play it in 2021.
Favorite thing about Sega and games made specifically for their consoles was how fast paced they typically are, and they don't waste much time. Like Streets of Rage I feel like that genre is 90% slow and goes on for too long but not that series.
Typically I play Sega for action and Nintndo for Rpgs, and both for platformers. The console libraries compliment each other really well.
Arcade games, consoles with exclusives made by them to go with them, insane marketing, a cool mascot that crosses all forms of media, ect.
I think Sega was the first company to make gaming seem "cool" to the masses; when they made the Genesis. It had such an awesome design; that seemed more in line with audio equipment and looks slick to this day! Music in games really began to sound like real music as well (thanks to that Genesis sound board). While they were not the first to bring CD gaming to the market (that goes to NEC in Japan); they did make it more mainstream. Even online gaming was first done by Sega with the Dreamcast. I always remember Sega as the first bring Arcade quality gaming home with the Genesis and moving up; while also providing exclusive home only content; that felt like it could have been at the Arcades.
On the plus side, the various genesis/megadrive collections now are on all platforms and represent one of the best entry points to the retro gaming hobby.
They've also had the courage to give smaller developers their notable IP's (e.g., sonic mania, streets of rage 4) which led to great modern retro inspired games.
Yeah, I'd love to see more games like Sonic Mania and Streets of Rage 4.
@@RetroBirdGaming im looking forward to the new TMNT Cowabunga collection coming later this year!
I never understood the SNES-Genesis war. I'm old and can remember pre-Atari days. You know what we had? Pong. There were 3 or 4 consoles out there...they all played Pong. Both Genesis and SNES were great in my view!
Sega America and sega Japan hating each other is really why we don't have sega consoles today.
Exactly right. This was a huge problem for them.
But they both made good games.
It all started with the 32x vs. Saturn feud. Sega of America wanted to continue the highly successful Genesis console with an add-on known as the 32x, while Sega of Japan wanted to make a whole new console, the Saturn, instead. At the end Sega of America was forced to discontinue the Genesis and replace it with the Saturn!
@@dinohermann1887 The 32x was to keep the Genesis going but it didn't add much. The Genesis games sold just fine without 32x versions of them. With how high the price of the 32x was added to the price of the Saturn and the rushed launch to compete with the Playstation's cheaper launch price thus ticking off stores that signed on for Sega after Kalinske did all that hard work getting the Genesis in their stores so the stores ended up refusing to sell them and you have the perfect storm for how Sega ended up in such a state in the Dreamcast era that forced them to throw in the towel.
A healthy rivalry would have been fine, even a good thing since both SOJ and SOA still made games at the time, so they would have wanted to make the best to outdo their overseas buddies. But naw let's kill the Saturn for fun.
I had a friend up the street from me back in the 80s who had a Master System. I had an NES so going over each other's homes we got to experience both systems. We'd be at my place taking turns, switching off each level, playing NES Double Dragon then playing Co-OP Double Dragon on The Master system at his place.
I didn't (and still don't) own a Super Nintendo (experienced it with friend's ones). Funny enough I wanted a Turbografx 16. My cousin got one before the Genesis came out and I was obsessed with it. My parents got me a Genesis for Christmas as they couldn't find a place that sold a TG-16. For the longest time it was my favorite system ever (until a couple of years ago when I finally got a Sega Saturn). Sega played a huge roll in my childhood and just naturally appealed to me more. And when I go back to retro gaming it's almost always something Sega.
Though I'd have to add it's NOT just video games. Movies have gone through the same thing. There's the obvious like Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, but you have other directors who had their own style and attitude: Richard Donner, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi. Now 99 percent of movies today I couldn't tell you by watching it who made it because it's all the same with no personality to tell it apart from the others.
Your channel has become a part of my daily morning routine. Some people watch the news, I watch retro bird. On a different note the analog sticks in a different spot s HUGE. Also Microsft preserves your digital library purchases with them. Which is bigger than HUGE for me. I didn't know this until a couple years ago and now I still have my TMNT The Arcade Game available to play on my Xbox 360 that I bought in 2006 or 2007. There's Nintendo Fan boys (which I am), the Sony Ponies, and then the Microsoft X-men. Yeah we get the coolest name too. God Bless Uncle Bill Gates. Yeah thats right he's my uncle, I adopted him. He's given me more free video games than everyone else combined.
Happy to hear it!
Love going through old Saturn and Genesis titles. They really stand the test of time and surprise you that they didn’t do better.
one of my favorite TH-cam channels, and just keeps getting better. keep at it, idk how you're not a lot bigger.
my first game console ever was the genesis nomad. definitely became a Nintendo kid but those early days of sonic and robotik mean bean machine were timeless
Thank you! Glad that you're liking it :)
I COMPLETELY forgot about the Nomad! I stated in an earlier comment that they were supporting six consoles in 1995... this would actually make seven consoles at that time... lol! I wonder if there are any other consoles they had out in that time that I'm forgetting... heh heh!!!
@@robertedmonson6825 I almost never see anyone mention the nomad. I didn't know I had such a rare little piece of gaming history until last year.
I never played any Sega as a kid but since recently I've got a Mega SG I discover all those amazing titles for SMS and Genesis. The games are so original and unique. As you can imagine the collection just keeps growing!
Even though they’ve said they’ll never return to the hardware business I hope Sega does someday....
The first SEGA game I owned was Sonic & Knuckles Collection for PC. The second SEGA game I owned was Sonic Pocket Adventure for the Neo Geo Pocket, and let me tell ya: it blew my sweet little mind to be able to make Sonic spin dash, in the back of the family minivan...
Been collecting (and gaming) retro games for over 6 years now and didnt stumble upon your channel until now. So much great content! Keep it up :D
Thank you! Glad to have you as a part of the channel :)
The NFL2K and NBA2K games on dreamcast are such great sports games (just found your channel btw, earned a sub)
The Sega Sports version of the Dreamcast was clutch cause it came witn NFL 2k and NBA 2k. Also don't forget about Virtua Tennis
I remember seeing the Dreamcast with NFL2K on display at Costco and being blown away by the realism of the graphics. Never actually played them though.
Welcome to the channel! Yeah, they made some great sports games.
No question about that!!!! They’re still fun to play to this day
I had a Genesis as a kid. The 6 button controller was amazing. There was a ton of great games and we had blood for Mortal Kombat. Nintendo probably has more recognizable titles but games like Toejam and Earl and Altered Beast make you part of a special group of gamers.
That 6-button controller really is pretty darn good. It's basically a Saturn Model 2 controller.
Awesome vid, Sega content is always a win and yeah I miss the old Sega vs Nintendo days. The SMS was solid, but criminally slept on imo. The Genesis was a revolution coming from the 8-bit years and has argurably the greatest library if any if Sega's consoles . The Saturn was a powerhouse that pushed the type of 2D games I always wanted to play, fast, bug, colorful, and generally near arcade perfect. The Dreamcast was another leap forward and it seemed like everything would finally click for Sega. Well we all know how that story needed, but I think the industry is worse off w/o Sega out to take chances and try different things. I'm just grateful I was able to enjoy the company at its prime and can continue to do so through my still growing Sega collection 😁
...keep up the Sega content man 😁and congrats on hitting 5k subscribers!
I grew up when Sega just left the console market but my parent had a Genesis, so I grew up with the classics like Sonic 1, Golden Axe, Castlevania Bloodlines, and Streets of Rage, etc.
What made Sega great? Playing a Sega Master System game and seeing the same names or vibe (including music) from game to game (credits permitting). It was like they were friends and I was always happy seeing the work they did including BO/Funky Uwa, Ossale Kohta, Phoenix Rie, etc. and other variations of programmers.
Another thing that made them different, and even better in this sense was alot of Nintendo games was cropped, or zoomed in on the action which actually put you at a disadvantage in high action games. And for me personally id prefer the 6 button pad almost anyday overall vs the shoulder button setup. Also the expanded use of the Genesis with the Sega cd and 32x. 😊👍
Their arcade games are top notch also which features some legendary ones like Daytona USA, Thunder Blade, etc.
I am so glad that I stumbled across your channel awhile back. I got my 6 year old son into retro games with my Raspberry Pi that has every game from Atari to N64 and everything in between.
That's great to hear. Glad your son is digging the older stuff!
What's great about the Genesis (in my opinion) is the original three button controller. I love the weight, size and button layout.
Love this video!!
Over the past 2.5 decades I've sold every single piece of Sony/Microsoft gaming crap I had in order to buy virtually every Saturn and Dreamcast game that there is, and I've never regretted it for even a single second.
I can't like this video enough.
SEGA were such a creative force in the industry. It's what I loved about them. In many ways, it's a huge shame Sony brought in the mass market and their desire for playing games that are all the same because we didn't get to see more of SEGA and other developers' innovative ideas.
I have a video titled "Did the PS1 Ruin Video Games?" that you might enjoy.
I still remember my first time playing Sega Genesis at a friend’s house. I loved Sonic. I asked to play it every time I was over there. Growing up, I mostly just had Nintendo consoles, but if I could have owned both a Genesis and my SNES back then, I would have. That’s one great thing about being an adult now. I have the option to own both consoles.
In the 8 bit days, Sega was the arcade leader. In the 16 bit days, they were the system with 'tude. Unfortunately, with the Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast all coming out within a few years, they became the company that seemed to have lost focus. I think what is was though was the Sega CD was sort of niche, the 32X was just the Saturn's poor little brother, the Saturn was difficult to program for compared to the PlayStation, and the Dreamcast quickly got overshadowed by the PS2 announcement (plus, the DC lacked support from EA).
I feel like Sega is starting to have a bit of a resurgence with their quality. Looking at Yakuza, Bayonetta & Streets of Rage 4. While their more of a publisher these days, it's almost becoming a "Sega Seal of Approval" for any game they put out.
Thanks for another fun video, RB! Yes, I was "one of those" Sega kids back in the day, but I loved my SMS, Gen, etc.,...some of my favourite games of all time are from Sega consoles! It was painful to see the company that I loved relegated to game development and pushed out as a console manufacturer, but I know it was inevitable, once the giants decided they wanted their piece of the pie...at least we can still enjoy the old games on the old consoles! Have a good one!
The old Sega gave me Nights into Dreams, Space Channel 5, Tempo, Keio Flying Squadron and Sonic games (which I've only ever played on Sega consoles--I just haven't gotten into the newer Sonic games). There is something MAGICAL about old Sega.
I really like your style of recording the game with yourself playing
Thanks! It took a while to get that to work :)
I would love to see the timeline where Mr Nuts became the primarily competitor to Mario.
Wouldn't that be something!
Or Awesome Possum
Now that's just nuts
@@SgtSega "You're not so awesome!" ~Dr. Machino
Absolutely love Sega. I was a Sega kid growing up and since getting back into retro, I just love everything Sega. I've been on a recent run and gun tear playing Xeno Crisis, Mega Turrican, Skeleton Krew and Ranger X (never played any of them before). It's just one genre but is quite perfect on the Genesis. I'm also getting into the Master System (very cool and a legit rival to NES), I've learned the Sega CD had quite an awesome library and wasn't just the FMV headquarters, the 32X wasn't junk and could have worked with a different business strategy (like not competing with the Saturn!) and both the Saturn and Dreamcast had a lot more than I realized and I'm still hoping Sega will make some more mini consoles based on those.
You're right. The Sega CD actually had a nice handful of solid shooters on it.
@@RetroBirdGaming yep, and the best Earthworm Jim, the best Final Fight port, good rpgs with Shining Force and Lunar, the only console that had Snatcher, again a really nice selection and in my opinion none of the best games were FMV.
@@RetroBirdGaming yup also have Sonic unlike the saturn You Know Sonic CD
Sega was just incredible... the stuff they put out felt like the same kind of creativity and experimentation Nintendo would do with a willingness to go outside the family friendly mold. In a tragic turn, perhaps the reason the Saturn and Dreamcast were so good was because Sega was doing bad financially. The entire Dreamcast library is avant-garde, experimental, and imaginative: it felt truly on the cutting edge. I'm honestly shocked Sega green lit most of it, but thank goodness they did.
Damn dude. Your content is very good.
Thank you Bryan!
I was that one kid in town with a sega master system. I got a genesis on launch week with a power base converter to take my sega games with me. My buddy won it on the radio and traded me for a nes. The only sega console I dodnt have was Saturn. I chose a ps1 and n64 instead, but I was back to sega for dreamcast
Sega formed my choice in consoles, from the start. Growing up with arcades, 4 games stood out to me. Shinobi, Afterburner, Altered Beast, and Golden Axe. Each game had something the kept me coming back, even after I'd mastered each game. Knowing sega was behind these games, I sunk some birthday money into a Master System, even though I had no idea what I was getting into. It was a competent system, though weak in the sound department. Getting the arcade ports, though, made it worthwhile. The genesis era really put the emphasis on arcade conversion, and my Capcom favorites of Strider and Forgotten Worlds made it in, in incredible likeness. Probably one of the best things about Sega, to me, was the great in-house arcade teams and the third party talent they attracted. (That and developing some of the greatest gamepads ever created...)
After that, it's hard to say, but it was all about the experience. SegaCD was awesome. I had a difficult time going back to cartridge games. I feel like... that even forewarned me about the fate of the 32x. When Saturn was on the horizon, SegaCD convinced me that future gaming would need to be on the CD storage medium. That said, I felt lukewarm about the Saturn. It had some fantastic games. I even went so far as to buy imports. But, the struggle Saturn was was having was obvious. Developers had trouble with the transition to 3d games and the complexity of the hardware. The Dreamcast was the last system I was explicitly excited for, but we know how that turned out.
I definitely loved 90's Sega. Post 2K changed a lot in the company. The direction seemed to go into a lot of 3rd person ARPG's and some games lost thier unique flavor, I feel. Sega is like that high school friend you really got along with, but eventually everyone had to change thier lifestyle to figure out a way to make it in the world. Still a good company, but definitely different.
That said, I've really been enjoying the Yakuza series on PC.
Awesome video. I totally agree on (almost) everything. For context, I am one of those weirdos who asked Santa for a Master System when every other kid was begging for an NES. My main gripe with the whole SEGA leaving consoles debate is when people suggest that SEGA's business mistakes were what cut their time short. While yes, this is almost certainly true, the part that everyone leaves out is that even had they not made the 32X and even if they had not botched the Saturn, and even if the Dreamcast had lasted a couple years longer, SEGA was still totally doomed as a console maker the second that Microsoft decided that they wanted in the race. One way or another Microsoft would have brute forced SEGA out of the market, no matter what. What the Mac/PC/Linux and IOS/Android/Windows Phone and Genesis/SNES/TG-16 dynamics have taught us is that when it comes to consumer technology that has a proprietary "ecosystem" (in this case it's the game library/peripherals)...there is only ever enough room for two juggernauts slugging it out and one oddball outsider yapping away to the side. When MS decided to be the opposing corporate juggernaut to Sony, Nintendo and SEGA both became the yapping oddballs, and since only one oddball ecosystem could survive on store shelves, it of course had to be Nintendo's. So, while it is fun to think about how good the Dreamcast might have been had SEGA not been in such a dire financial situation, I don't spend too much time wondering about what the Dreamcast follow-up console might have been because in my opinion, in all likelihood, there could never have been a SEGA console after say 2003...
Something as unique as SEGA will probably never be replicated anymore. Even SEGA's modern games are at best too Nintendo-y and at worst just bad. The closest things we have to SEGA now are indie devs, but it still just isn't the same.
Yeah, I mean having all the talent they did back then. I agree with you. I just can't see it as much as I'd like to.
I miss sega a lot.....saturn will always be my favorite system
I love the Saturn!
Sadly I was a late adopter of Sega. Thankfully when I say late I mean 1996. I fell in love with the Saturn, then I went back to the Genesis and the master system and started collecting hard core for them. Then the Dreamcast came out and I hit that system hard right out the gate and even lent a friend the money for him to get a Dreamcast on release day as well.
Today I really appreciate Sega and all they did for gaming and all the unique games they brought to the table.
Cool video- if you look at sega ’s history during the 90s, they did amazing work considering how little they leaned on third-party support. Nintendo really had a death grip on third-party licenses and it’s their strategy of being arcade heavy w original content was what kept them afloat. Aside from getting licenses sooner, I think if The arcade would’ve stayed strong as a venue, we might’ve continued to see Sega flourish.
Sega wasn't on my radar until the second generation Genesis came out - I was 9 at the time so finally starting to develop my own tastes. Looking back I think Sega could have been a powerhouse if they had landed in the US first with the Master System and didn't try to squeeze so much out of the Genesis with the CD and 32X. I also think they would have been around if Nintendo didn't break up with Sony. Sony disrupting the market at the time was a death knell for Sega because now there were TWO "grown up" consoles
Great video. Lots of personality shines through on this.
Great video! Never owned Sega back in the day - Amiga to SNES to PlayStation to PC meant I never had any of their consoles while they were out at retail. Knew people with Megadrives and played a few games on theirs which I liked but that was that. Dial forward 15 years post Dreamcast, and a burgeoning love of Shmups brought me to the mighty Saturn and from there Genesis and Master System recently. I’ve gained a whole new appreciation and love for one of the most creative Companies that ever existed. Plus they made Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast - probably my favourite game of all time. Love Sega.
Man, what a great video!! I already liked old SEGA and you made it look even better! Can't wait to play some of the games you showed here.
I love Sega and if it weren't for Capcom focusing more on the SNES, the Genesis would be my favorite console. The Satarn was awesome and I wish consoles would have kept making 2D sprite games. Sega also developed some of the best beatemups and platformers of all time.
I wish the Genesis would've gotten more love from Capcom as well.
I’m pretty Capcom had some kind of contract to work on Nintendo consoles only.
@@magicjohnson3121 They had a few on Genesis like Street Fighter 2 and Punisher.
It's a bit funny that some of the biggest complaints in modern gaming (we retro game enthusiasts can still play/enjoy/keep up with current stuff, right?) are things like "lack of creativity/innovation" or just this general fiscal bottomline that companies have and which, must be said, has always been a part of gaming, but is something we all seem to have become much more aware of, perhaps due to the successful growth of the medium and the proliferation of information via the web. Ironic then that past failures (like later SEGA console sales) may have been a factor in pushing modern publishers to seek out tried and true IPs and mechanics, and focusing on things like graphics and QoL updates that appeal to...well, not necessarily a "casual" audience, but certainly a wider audience. A lot of us make common jokes such as Ubisoft being "the best deal in gaming" because once you've played one you've essentially "played them all." 40 games for the price of one lol. And I see a lot of people who intentionally try to support any game that comes out and tries something new, which is admirable, but still sad that we're at the point where we have to encourage anything different, just because so much feels rehashed to a lot of us, and we know that, with any further business failings attached to "creative" endeavors, we may end up getting even less of these games.
Unfair to blame SEGA for that, but with the huge production values of some modern games, and the presence of investors, hard to say they didn't become somewhat of a blueprint of what not to do to turn a profit.
But that's not the SEGA I remember. Sonic, Axel, Jim, Eric Lecarde... thats what I remember most
Well said. Playing it safe becomes more and more of an attractive option for companies as the industry grows larger. I'd argue that Microsoft and Sony have played things extremely safe too. Nintendo still takes risks in some ways, and has been lucky enough to hit it really big on some.. so that they have plenty of cash to survive some of their flops like the Wii U.
@@RetroBirdGaming Good point about Nintendo. They do mix things up still, outside of the status quo, and coincidentally some of their marketing efforts (like the Wii U in particular) have just been complete headscratchers. Had Sony and Microsoft not been rivals to each other, maybe things might have been more like the dark days of SEGA at Nintendo. Or maybe having lost SEGA, we're all a bit more fond of Nintendo and don't wanna see them go the same way. All very interesting timelines lol.
Even now I love a lot Nintendo titles and innovations, and then as I'm trying to use a certain controller or access a certain option in the settings (again thinking primarily of the Wii U) or just some seemingly intuitive thing you would expect to be able to do, I run into wierd quirks that could probably have benefited from more thoughtful design. I mean some of the UIs, amirite? That being said, the Switch swerved a great many of the PR bungles of the Wii U, and hit a sweet spot for all us handheld lovers, and if Nintendo handheld sales are anything to go by, they should be alright haha
Sega is my favorite gaming company
Nice!
Thanks!
I loved Sega's style growing up. I still prefer the Genesis and Saturn over most other consoles. I also agree with naming conventions and feel that people who always want a "Dreamcast 2" aren't real Sega fans.
My first “Sonic” game was Dr. Robotnik’s mean bean machine
Nice!
My first sonic game was the first sonic riders
As a Nintendo kid, I loved my team and wouldn't have traded my allegiance for the world, but part of me wished that I didn't have to pick one at all. It's great to be an adult with enough money now to experience how the other half lived.
To me what made Sega great was all the edgy stuff they put out back in the day. Growing up I had a SNES and never owned a Genesis but thankfully for me I had a family member with the console. I got a chance to play cooler more mature games (atleast in my head they were). Games like Streets of Rage, Road Rash, hell even Mortal Kombat with REAL BLOOD lol fun times for sure. For that they will always have a special place in my gaming heart
I remember how novel I thought Road Rash was back in the day. Lots of fun.
Opa Opa was Sega's first mascot before they needed a "Mario like" character thus Alex Kidd was pushed to the forefront. I personally thought the Wonder Boy series should of been the face of early Sega before the Sonic era.
Sega made sonic just becouse thay want him to be differant and amazing not close to mario
Sega has some great games that I still play today and that’s why I love playing sega games today. My favorite sega console is got to be the Saturn and sega genesis and the sega cd and 32x are great console’s. Great video
Since I was 9, I was a huge Sega fanboy, or so I thought. Turns out, it was just the Genesis. But I still am a huge Genesis fan, now owning models 1(stinker) and 2, Sega CD model 2, AtGames Ultimate Portable Game Player 2017 (Genesis on a chip handheld), as well as AtGames Genesis Flashback HD 2018. Say what you will about AtGames, I'm happy but I digress
During the 16 bit era, for me anyways, Sega's most significant moment was being the company that rocked Nintendo off it pedestal. Having a steady amount of quality games, being able to go toe to toe with the champ. That in its self is worth something.
Today we have Sony and Microsoft fighting for top spot, buy let's be honest, Nintendo's outdoes the others in one way, quality of games. Sony and Microsoft can, but typically just don't. Lazy I think
I dabbled with Sega as a kid but have been a Nintendo fanboy most of my life. Before the release of the Genesis mini I started to dive in to the Genesis library. I was blown away! So many amazing games I had never heard of. I've been obsessed for about a year now!
Also Skies of Arcadia is the second greatest game of all time.
I love Skies of Arcadia.
criminally undersubscribed, really enjoy the vids
Honestly even though I have more nostalgia for Genesis, the Dreamcast just might be Sega's best system. Sure it had a short life but that means there's hardly any filler. Lots of classics on it for sure.
I always just think what the Dreamcast library might look like had it lived a little longer.
Aventures of Batman & Robin on the Genesis was my jam. Lots of fun but very hard. And the music was on point.
The music was intense!
@@RetroBirdGaming Sure is. You could even say it's anxiety-inducing, but still love it. The intensity of the music and the gameplay are in sync.
Microsoft and Sony don’t feel like game companies. That’s what I love about Sega. There games have this arcadey timeless feel to them.
I grew up with SNES, so naturally I had to hate the Mega Drive, because those were the rules back in the day. However, in 1998 I bought a PS1 and, a few months later, traded it with a friend who gave me instead his old Master System plus several games. That decision marked the beginning of my career as a retrogamer and my disgust for anything Sony and Microsoft, which I still don't recognize as true gaming companies. As you said, the boring names of their consoles are a sign of a lack of love and creativity. 80s and 90s Nintendo and Sega consoles are all I need for the rest of my life.
I currently own both a Genesis model 1 and 2, multi-cart 112, Power base adapter with 10 original Mastersystem carts, Saturn with only 5 games, DreamCast with around 97 burned games, and GameGear with 7 carts.. still looking for a 32x and Sega CD to complete my collection..😊
Another great vid. The personal touch is gonna make you huge. Anyway, I'll never get over seeing the Sega logo appear before I go to play a Total War PC game. I don't know how that publishing deal came to be, but playing a stodgy old western war sim published by the same guys who made Streets of Rage will always tickle me.
Hahah yeah it just seems so off!
Best outro music ever
Rocket knight is also my favorite genesis game. I also like playing Kid Chameleon.
I miss Sega. Still play mine pretty often but it would be so cool if they were still a big active name in the current market. Love the show.
Same. Also with Atari imo
@@relic374Yeah totally. It'd be cool to see what they would be up to in modern times
@@Xero36 Yeah
It would be great for Sega to release another console, but they're so far away from being able to do that (and most importantly, do it well).
I do worry about Sega's current state of affairs. Seems like they've been teetering on the brink of destruction for a few years now.
They're not doing great, but Yakuza is doing more than keeping them afloat. I'm sure Sonic Colors Ultimate is going to absolutely shred sales charts, so I'm excited to see how they'll use those profits.
@@aortaplatinum Sega is literally doing amazing wth are you talking about? 😂 They make bank now.
Most of my favorite games to this day are Sega games. I was too young to remember sega in their prime but one of my earliest gaming memories was playing the og sonic the hedgehog on my cousin’s genesis in the mid 90s. Didn’t really know anything about games then but I knew I liked Sonic games lol. I had a couple nintendo consoles after that but the first console I ever bought with money I saved up from weekly allowances was a Dreamcast when i was 8 or 9 years old and I still play it to this day. I was devastated when I found out Sega had discontinued it. Ever since then I’ve always fantasized about the day Sega would rise from the ashes… of course it seems unlikely now. Your videos keep the passion alive though, we don’t know how good we have it until it’s gone.
"Playstation has literally just named their systems by numbering them, imagine if someone named their children that way"?.......Ever heard of George Foreman? 5 sons, George II, George III, George IV, George V, George VI
Hahah
A local friend has the 3D controller and i haved to borrow it from him cuz theres only one in the whole town i live xd
We were pretty much a Nintendo household until X-Men was released on Sega Genesis. My sister and I loved the X-Men arcade game, and when I spotted the X-Men game on Genesis, I (foolishly) thought it was an arcade port. I managed to convince my parents to get us a Genesis so my sister and I could play that game. I thought the game was great. My sister hated it (but she got RBI '93, so she had something to occupy her time as well). We got a few more Sega games, but we, sadly, went back to Nintendo products as the mainstay. I missed out on some truly awesome games throughout the years that I've been fortunate enough to go back and play these days, though.
X-Men was a huge force back then. I believe it. I'm a fan of X-Men 2 myself.
@@RetroBirdGaming X-Men 2 was an improvement in every way. Both games are great.
I was actually playing sonic mania while Watching this video
Nice! That's a great game :)
Sacralidge, everybody knows you down tools when the retrobird drops video.
@@whatwhatyep I don't think Nintendo switch is a tool.
enjoying your content and as a game dev this channel is gold
Hey, that's great to hear! Thank you :)
Sega will always be my favorite, and not just because of Sonic (though it’s a big factor).
Genesis does what Nintendon’t. I miss that commercial 😂 😉
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Coffee through the nose! 🤣
That caught me off guard. 😂
I don't know, I've heard people call original XBox the Dreamcast 2.0, the Sega games made a lot of sense on XBox to me, but then again my first Sega experiences were on Gamecube 😅
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Did you cut because you were ashamed that you weren't able to save the civilian?
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Amazing video/essay as usual!
I like how your character that you play as says there was nothing that could've been done. You could've shot the zombies faster!
Man i love this channel! So much quality content
I was shocked a few months ago when I booted up Shining Force on a whim and actually enjoyed an SRPG after growing up finding them confusing and boring, and even more shocked to learn just how popular the Shining series was for a few years, even getting Game Gear spinoffs, a "luxury" reserved only for SEGA's top series like Sonic, Phantasy Star, and later Panzer Dragoon. And now it's a poorly programmed action RPG series. Woooooooo love modern SEGA so much
It would be awesome if you put the console name and game name spelled our on the screen while you are playing it to help us identify games. It's easier this way than having to read your comments for game titles and the video time stamp. Thank you and keep up the good work.
This is something I've thought about before, but ultimately decided not to because I feel like having text on the screen is distracting and breaks the immersion of feeling like you're in a game room while a game is being played. It's just not the aesthetic I'm going for, if that makes sense. Either way, thank you for the compliments and I hope you continue to stick around :)
Wonderful video, my guy
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nailed it... the competition feels lonely without SEGA. Sony hits that more mature market but then again just is driven way too hard in that department .. Xbox kind of hits that in-between sweet spot mixture of Nintendo-like fantasy but Sega arcadey-ness..... just they had something different about it. It was just that pick up and play Arcade action that you could fall in love with. Perfect examples: Shinobi 3. Vectorman 1 & 2. 'Nuff said... Pulseman.... I'll keep editing this comment I love my genesis... Like you even brought up: Bloodlines & Hard Corps vs. IV and The Alien Wars for the SNES
[Will make this all cohesive, wrapped in a neat little bow when I have the time lol]
I grew up with sega but stop with the saturn which I have around 30 games which I love never gave the dreamcast a chance still to this day I play a lot of Sega games modern and retro ❤
after collecting genesis for a few years now i wouldnt mind getting another sega console down the line
We can always dream.
Sega was such a boss in the arcades. The Sammy AtomisWave is just a Dreamcast altered to play cartridge based games.
Total boss in the arcades.
I still get sega feels on a lot of the newer games. When I say newer I'm talking 360 and wii.
Maybe it's just nostalgia but I just love to see that logo. Hard to believe but I'm still chasing after original sonic the hedgehog achievements even after all these years.
I love the Megadrive. Play games like Road Rash, Sonic, Quackshot, NHL, Tiny Toons for decades
Mean Bean Machine was in essence Kirbys Avalanche on SNES. Avalanches are pretty mean.
Yeah, the game was Puyo Puyo from Japan and got localized in different ways. Anything with Kirby attached to it is automatically nice haha.
Now now, beans are in fact available on the SNES via Kirby's Avalanche, however they're not mean, and therefore are not the same edgy Sega beans that I regularly have a confrontation with on my Mega SG machine 🤷♀️
Yup. Puyo Puyo received a much kinder version on SNES haha.
@@RetroBirdGaming I should also add that the Mean Bean machine AI is absolutely RUTHLESS. I can't speak on the Avalanche version's difficulty as I haven't played it yet. I shall know that answer once I get my Super NT next week finally!!
Well done, spot on.
I thought the sega master system was a curiosity because only my cousin had one when I was little and no one else knew what the master system was.
Great video, thanks. What is the game appearing at 9:13?
FINGERS, HANDS, LEGS, U NAME IT