The Story of the Sega CD Launch | (October 15, 1992)

The Sega CD, released as the Mega-CD in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles. It was released on December 12, 1991, in Japan, October 15, 1992, in North America, and April 2, 1993, in Europe. The Sega CD plays CD games and adds hardware functionality such as a faster CPU and graphic enhancements such as sprite scaling and rotation. It can also play audio CDs and CD+G discs.
The Sega CD game library featured acclaimed games such as Sonic CD, Lunar: The Silver Star, Lunar: Eternal Blue, Popful Mail, and Snatcher, but also many Genesis ports and poorly received FMV games. The high price of the Sega CD was also a contributing factor in its lack of success. Only 2.24 million Sega CD units were sold, after which Sega discontinued it to focus on the Sega Saturn. Retrospective reception has been mixed, with praise for some games and functions, but criticism for its dearth of deep games, high price, and lack of support from Sega. Sega's poor support for the Sega CD has been criticized as the beginning of the devaluation of its brand.
0:00 sixteen effin' bits!
1:53 8-bit wars
2:51 n-e-c starts making moves
3:41 sega does what nintendon't
6:15 nintendo plays catchup
7:13 n-e-c says "hold my beer"
8:15 sega cd is born
11:21 blackhole assault
12:44 chuck rock
14:01 cobra command
15:18 make my video inxs
16:04 make my vide marky mark
16:45 night trap
19:07 sega classics arcade collection
21:04 hserlock holmes, consulting detective, vol. 1
22:37 sol-feace
24:47 sewer shark
26:29 the legacy of exceptionalism
various footage sourced from youtube found here:
01 - Video Game Commercials - 1990 Sega Genesis Does What Nintendon't Commercial
• 1990 Sega Genesis Does...
02 - RGTV - Killer Instinct "WTF" (Super Nintendo\SNES\Commercial) Full HD
• Killer Instinct "WTF" ...
03 - RGTV - Yoshi's Story (Nintendo 64\N64\Commercial)
• Video
04 - RGTV - Dreamcast - "What is inside" (Sega Dreamcast\Commercial) Full HD
• Dreamcast - "What is i...
05 - Eric DIY - Sega Genesis Commercials Chronologically 80s and 90s
• Sega Genesis Commercia...
06 - sushi - Playstation 1 Commercial Compilation
• Video
My Life In Gaming - all sega cd model 1 vanity shot b-roll provided exclusively by MLIG
/ mylifeingaming
07 - SegaCDUniverse - Sega CD Commercial (There is no Nintendo CD, understood?)
• Video
08 - Eric DIY - Sega Genesis Commercials Chronologically 80s and 90s
• Sega Genesis Commercia...
09 - Beta Max - 1986 Sega Master System Commercial
• 1986 Sega Master Syste...
10 - Dino Drac's Retro Commercials! - Sega Master System "Shinobi" Commercial (1988)
• Sega Master System "Sh...
11 - KidShoryuken - PC Engine Classic Commercial Collection -
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12 - KidShoryuken - PC Engine Classic Commercial Collection -
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13 - KidShoryuken - PC Engine Classic Commercial Collection -
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14 - Video Game Commercials - 1990 DuckTales NES Commercial
• 1990 DuckTales NES Com...
15 - KidShoryuken - PC Engine Classic Commercial Collection -
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16 - NintendoComplete - Ys III: Wanderers From Ys (TurboGrafx CD) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
• Ys III: Wanderers From...
17 - Genkisan - TurboGrafx-16, CD and PC Engine, (1989) Promotional VHS Video (Remastered HD)
• TurboGrafx-16, CD and ...
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[@khuntington]

some tech specs:
-all genesis, master system, and sega cd captured with original hardware. for this video i sourced all sega genesis and sega cd* footage with a model 2 that has received a triple bypass, and a sega cd model 2, outputting over HDRetrovsiion yPbPr cables to a retrotink 5x Pro. master system footage provided via mega everdrive pro cart into my triple bypass genesis.
*sol-feace was recorded with a sega cd-x, no mods, over HDRetrovsiion yPbPr cables to a retrotink 5x Pro. of all the sega footage, sol-feace does appear a touch softer, this is why. i didnt want to go back a recapture this footage, so i used footage i capped like 2 years ago insetad.
-dreamcast footage captured with original hardware over composite to the retrotink, because HDRV refuses to give us plebs the good cables. :P
-all other gameplay has been captured via emulation, because i don't have good cables for my other systems, so i just said eff it and emulated the TG16 and SNES and such.
-this probably could have been longer and more informative, but i only started working on it Oct 1, after hemming and hawing for months about committing to the project.
sega cd model 1 vanity shots b-roll licensed from My Life In Gaming. huge thanks to them, because otherwise i woudl have had to just do some lame ken burns on jpegs of consoles.

[@ChuckieV79]

I bought the Sega CD on launch day and it is still my favorite console of all time. Thanks for the great vid brimming with nostalgia! 👍

[@khuntington]

my favorite console as well. thanks!

[@flacoandres5734]

twitter brought me here!

[@khuntington]

thanks for taking the time :)

[@Puppet_masterUK]

Great content, man.

[@khuntington]

thanks!

[@MaxAbramson3]

Very good vid. I was so awestruck when I saw that Sega CD box up on the high shelf behind the cashier at a local store. When I saw the $299.99 price tag, I thought that it was some kind of mistake. Even when they brought the price down to $229.99 (when I bought it), most people wouldn't go for it.
In 1995, they lowered the price again to $99, but the 32X was $159.99, and most gamers were broke!
With the Saturn rumored to be coming out, everyone had to save up, and we all wondered what SEGA was thinking. If they weren't going to put out games that made good use of the Sega CD's superscaler ASIC-DSP, why should we trust them?

[@khuntington]

i never had a saturn until 2009 or so. lol

[@IgnatiusAlpha]

Great video! I had a Model 2 Sega CD back in the 90s that my brother whom also got me into RPGs, handed down to me. He had Sewer Shark (which I've always loved and never understood the hate it received), Dark Wizard, AD&D Eye of the Beholder, Vay, Lunar: The Silver Star, Dragon's Lair, and Star Wars: Rebel Assault. Not a bad lot to start with.

[@khuntington]

i absolutely adore vay. out of the 4 WD localizations, vay is my favorite.

[@creativecatproductions]

I’ll be watching this today for sure

[@LostWorldOfComputerAndSoftware]

Thanks. Awesome review of the Sega CD!

[@JohnsNightmares]

I loved this i hope you make more videos like this!

[@khuntington]

thanks. i have a series covering sega cd games in some detail that i work on every now and again. it's just trying to find the time in life to do research and what not for it that can sometimes spread videos out apart :(

[@ThaatJosh]

That final fight cd soundtrack 💕

[@khuntington]

a masterpiece.

[@SwitchRetroGaming]

Brilliant video mate

[@khuntington]

thanks for checking it out.

[@mtshark7]

Awesome video Keith!

[@khuntington]

thanks as always 😊

[@slothflyer]

Nice work dude. I had a Sega CD, it had some highlights, but the buffering was always an issue

[@khuntington]

it's still my all time favorite platform cause i'm a sucker for all the fmv titles.

[@seblav9386]

I got the Sega CD toward the end. With the console format Sega CDX. I didn't have the Sega Genesis, only the Super Nintendo.

[@khuntington]

yeah, i didnt get my sega cd until dec of 95, after the saturn had already dropped. i was a kid and didnt even know about generations. i just wanted to play sewer shark. lol

[@RustyNickels]

Cool video, dawg.

[@khuntington]

thanks.

[@ThaatJosh]

Good job Keith

[@ToadyEN]

5:55 a stroke of genius at the time, but the ever so many expansion products killed confidence in SEGA products in my opinion.

[@richardharnwell3331]

Great video. I’d like to know how much viewing the FMV titles on a CRT would help smooth out the massive amount of dithering they used. Looks really stark on a flat display, but I’d hope the TV technology of the time would have been much kinder to it?

[@khuntington]

perhaps i may consider doing a comparison of a crt vs lcd. it won't be exact science cause i'll be pointing a camera at screens... but it may be fun to look at...

[@donsilvio3328]

I had model 1 and I sold it because the tray was bad, now I have model 2

[@donsilvio3328]

crazy that most of the fmv was financed by sony imagesoft

[@dbreiden83080]

I was the only one as a kid that had the system. A couple of good games, but overall a huge misfire for Sega.

[@LonnyMacdonald-tw8zy]

17:50. Night trap will never appear on a Nintendo system huh? Well how do you explain the Nintendo switch having that game? Huh!

[@khuntington]

howard lincoln. the man. the myth. the legend.