But it worked!Īnyway, the console was being phased out (hence the clearance price) with the Sega Saturn already on the market, so I was on the hunt for clearance games as well. So I had the awkward Genesis model 1/Sega CD model 2 combo, making it a very…wide unit. I bought it from Media Play, where I was working at the time, so I may have even gotten an additional discount on top of that.

Well, that put me over the edge and sold me on the Sega CD, but I didn’t actually get one of my own until the mid-’90s, when the second model (the top-loader) was not just out, but on clearance already. Some time later, I think I either rented, or borrowed - or maybe another friend brought over, I really don’t remember - the US version of the console, and that was when I first played Time Gal.

I was impressed as heck with the anime cutscenes and CD music.

I briefly thought about renaming these articles “Shut Up It’s Awesome” and making it a series, but nah.Īnyway, today I’m here to lavish praise upon another oft-maligned facet of this diamond that is the videogaming hobby, and that is the Sega CD! (Mega CD in Japan and Europe, where the Genesis was called the Mega Drive.) Although this expensive add-on for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive became mostly infamous for grainy FMV (full-motion video) games like that stinker Sewer Shark and the notorious Night Trap, and derided for crapping forth Marky Mark: Make My Video upon the world, one needn’t look too far past those turkeys to find some unique, important, and pretty damn hardcore titles that the serious gamer really shouldn’t miss.Ī friend of mine imported a Japanese Mega CD when it came out, along with several of the early games, such as Lunar, Aisle Lord, Fhey Area, and Wonderdog. I seem to keep writing these posts where I stick up for things that other people seem to be down on, like Riding Hero or Castlevania II.

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