Your Sega Memories and Thoughts

[BrawlMan]

Since we have Nintendo, we should have Sega as well. Doesn't matter if you started in the arcades, Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, or the Dreamcast. All Sega memories are welcome.

I got started on the Genesis in 93 where our parents bought a console for both my brother and I. My first game was Sonic 1 and Streets of Rage 1. The rest is history. I will add more stories later, but for now, I want to hear all of yours.

 

[Gordon_4]

SEGA Master System mk. 1. Had cartridge and cards for games. Sonic 1 and Sonic 2. I also had joysticks on my controllers rather than a D pad. Liked it better frankly. No inbuilt game of Alex the Kid like the mk. 2 but I had the game anyway.

That said, in what is retrospectively an early sign of becoming a lover of RPGs, the game I played the most on it was Wonder Boy in Monster Land, man I would sink hours into that sucker. I don’t think I ever finished it either.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Sega was never a big deal here. I played a Tiny Tunes game at a parents' friends' kids' house once. That's it.

And the Sonic craze still weirds me.

 

[Trunkage]

I had to work 10 hrs a day, 6 days a week for a whole summer to earn Mega Drive. If you want to know why I don’t believe Capitalism will ever work, here is what turned me off.

Anyway, plugging in an old game with a new one to make a double game was incredible. I think you could plug in Sonic 1 for endless chaos gem mini game action. Which I did a lot. We got a McDonald’s game which I didn’t realise was a marketing thing as there wasn’t a McDonald’s in town for years after. Altered Beast and Alien Nation had friends come over. Played Maddon and Hockey with a neighbour. And my neighbour was a 10 min drive away. He had streets of Rage and Afterburner

Oh, and Thunderforce 4. Whatever happened to that series?

I forgot, my neighbour had a Master System before me. Wonder boy and Alex Kidd were fun

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I only ever had a Dreamcast with NFL 2K and Crazy Taxi, but I had more fun years before that swapping my SNES for a friend’s Genesis and SegaCd on summer weekends. Road Rash 2 and that 7up Spot game were where it was at for me. Oh and Mutant League Hockey! I used to have a paper route where the guy would drop them off early Saturday morning (like 3 or 4AM) and I would play all night until then, do my route and then be back around sunrise to play a bit more. I think I slept a bit later but not much.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I had to work 10 hrs a day, 6 days a week for a whole summer to earn Mega Drive. If you want to know why I don’t believe Capitalism will ever work, here is what turned me off.

Anyway, plugging in an old game with a new one to make a double game was incredible. I think you could plug in Sonic 1 for endless chaos gem mini game action. Which I did a lot. We got a McDonald’s game which I didn’t realise was a marketing thing as there wasn’t a McDonald’s in town for years after. Altered Beast and Alien Nation had friends come over. Played Maddon and Hockey with a neighbour. And my neighbour was a 10 min drive away. He had streets of Rage and Afterburner

Oh, and Thunderforce 4. Whatever happened to that series?

I forgot, my neighbour had a Master System before me. Wonder boy and Alex Kidd were fun

lol well how old were you, guessing adolescent at most? I’m pretty sure most would’ve had to work that long unless their parents got something for them. Capitalism = basic supply and demand principles, not “I’m working so therefore I should be making bank”. It’s highly unlikely a Sega CD would have even existed under another system. Was it overpriced? Sure, but that’s also why it failed, along with not delivering a good enough value.

FTR, yeah capitalism is flawed as hell and needs to be put on a tighter leash in many ways, but it’s largely why we’re all typing here on a flashy new chat board. The human spirit of free enterprise shouldn’t be dismantled just because it can be taken advantage of and manipulated. Human nature and the dysfunctional culture it often breeds are what really need to change.

 

[Chimpzy]

There will always be a place in my heart for Sega. The Mega Drive was the first game system I ever owned. Even had a Sega CD. I still have both, stored away. Sadly not the CD games anymore tho, except Sonic CD. Some of them are now quite valuable too. Snatcher, Earthworm Jim Special Edition and Lunar. Thanks for throwing those away, mom. Still, I have a lot of fond memories playing 16bit games with "tude and blast processing. Then I switched to gaming on PC in the late 90s and stuck to that until gen 7, so the Saturn and Dreamcast passed. Their libraries are mostly not my bag and the few that are to my liking are either too expensive (looking at you Panzer Dragoon Saga) or available elsewhere, so I never got either later down the road either.

Their history is interesting though. It's amazing how many of their problems were (in)directly caused by internal politics between the American and Japanese branches.

 

[BrawlMan]

Their history is interesting though. It's amazing how many of their problems were (in)directly caused by internal politics between the American and Japanese branches.

Yeah, both branches were f#ck ups in their own special way. The reason why the Saturn failed so poorly in the West, because Sega of America had the bright idea to higher the marketing guy that was fired from Sony. He was fired from Sony, because he wanted 3d games only (cuz dere da future) and felt 2D will be dead. Sony of Japan caught wind and fire him. SOA in their infinte wisdom chose to listen to him for Saturn's release. They literally sabatoged their own console in the West for shortsighted greed. After the Saturn, the dickhole was not fired, but was no longer in charge of marketing decisions and could only advise.

 

[Chimpzy]

Yeah, both branches were f#ck ups in their own special way. The reason why the Saturn failed so poorly in the West, because Sega of America had the bright idea to higher the marketing guy that was fired from Sony. He was fired from Sony, because he wanted 3d games only (cuz dere da future) and felt 2D will be dead. Sony of Japan caught wind and fire him. SOA in their infinte wisdom chose to listen to him for Saturn's release. They literally sabatoged their own console in the West for shortsighted greed. After the Saturn, the dickhole was not fired, but was no longer in charge of marketing decisions and could only advise.

This is news to me. Afaik, the head of SOA was against releasing the Saturn early, but was forced by the head office in Japan.

 

[Catfood220]

I never owned a Sega console myself, I was always a Nintendo boy up until the Wii and its poor library of games and awful motion controls pushed me into the open arms of Sony.

But I have played Sega games, I remember having a lot of fun with games like Golden Axe and Streets of Rage on the Sega Collection. There was a game called something like Alien Breed which switched between being a side scrolling beat 'em up and FPS. I've never got on with Sonic, I'd play a couple of levels before getting bored with each one.

I really like their JRPS's. Skies of Arcadia and Valkryria Chronicles are two of my favourite games of all time. And Valkyria Chronicles 4 was good but went on for a little too long and suffered from repeated boss fights. But I'd like to see more of these, I would especially like a Skies of Arcadia remake or re-release, I would play the hell out of that.

 

[CaitSeith]

I don't think I ever played a Sega console. Console wars were pretty absent in my childhood, and I only heard about Sega Genesis from magazines and the like. IT wasn't until a couple of decades ago that I learn about the different consoles that Sega had made, but most Sega games I played as a kid (like Zaxxon) were ports.

 

[BrawlMan]

Alien Breed which switched between being a side scrolling beat 'em up and FPS.

Alien Storm is what you're thinking. Definitely Sega's sci-fi version of Golden Axe.

 

[happyninja42]

I vaguely recall playing...I think a Shadowrun title on the old sega system? And I think Panzer Dragoon was also a sega game. That game was super fun, but I never owned one personally, and knew very few people who did. That just wasn't a big seller when I was growing up, in my region at least. Or at least with my circle of friends.

 

[BrawlMan]

I vaguely recall playing...I think a Shadowrun title on the old sega system?

Yes, Shadowrun was on the Genesis. I never played it.

I think Panzer Dragoon was also a sega game.

Yes it is . Most of the games were on the Saturn. Orta is on OG Xbox, and the remake of the original game is on Switch.

 

[happyninja42]

Yes, Shadowrun was on the Genesis. I never played it.



Yes it is . Most of the games were on the Saturn. Sorta is on OG Xbox, end the remake of the original game is on Switch.

Yeah, I think the Saturn is the console I had the most exposure to, but even then it was still very limited. I think I had like 2 friends who had the system, and they weren't friends I regularly hung out with as a kid, so my access was highly limited.

I had a Nintendo, whatever version was out at that time...probably the SNES, I don't recall having an N64 of my own ever. That was around the time I shifted to PC/Playstation as my primary.

Sega is honestly the kind of system that I forget existed, until something like this thread pops up and I'm like "ooooh yeah, that was a thing back then. Huh, wow I forgot about that."

 

[Hades]

Sega is honestly the kind of system that I forget existed, until something like this thread pops up and I'm like "ooooh yeah, that was a thing back then. Huh, wow I forgot about that."

For me its the opposite. I didn't forget Sega consoles existed but spend a long time of my life not even knowing they existed. I've lived through most console generations, including the one where Sega was an actual contender and my reaction to them having been a platform holder was confusion. Maybe that's an anecdotal sign how weak Sega's position had always been.

 

[Worgen]

I mainly remember renting the Genesis and Sega CD a few times from Hollywood video back in the day.

 

[happyninja42]

For me its the opposite. I didn't forget Sega consoles existed but spend a long time of my life not even knowing they existed. I've lived through most console generations, including the one where Sega was an actual contender and my reaction to them having been a platform holder was confusion. Maybe that's an anecdotal sign how weak Sega's position had always been.

Well yes, by definition it is anecdotal, but I think the actual numbers do sort of back us up in this case.

 

[Wintermute]

I have the impression that Sega was kind of big here in Brazil in the early 90s, but my best "Sega memories" involve Nintendo. It was too expensive here, so the Master System was the only console I owned until someone gave me a PS3 they weren't using anymore, I even had the Sega Light Phaser gun. I loved going to my friends or cousins houses since they had Mega Drives and Super Nintendos so I could play shit like Afterburner, Ghouls and Ghosts, Altered Beast, Stunt Race FX, Street Fighter II, F-Zero, etc. However, I was destined to join the PC Master Race since my dad worked with computers and systems and other computery things though, so by 1994, 95 the Master System was in a box. It never saw the light of day again.

The console came with Alex Kidd in Miracle World or whatever it was called, I also had another five games I think, Operation Wolf, Shinobi, Moonwalker, Castle of Illusion, and the first game I ever beat, E-SWAT. I remember running outside to my mom screaming ZEREI MÃE ZEREEEEEEEEEI when I beat it. My "aunt" also had a video store so I rented a bunch of other cartridges like Black Belt, Double Dragon, Golden Axe and RC Grand Prix.

Wait, the Master System wasn't the only one, I also had another game system.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

I 'member being talked into getting a dreamcast by an only friend at one place just cause it was supposed to have tinterwebs and wouldn't mean having to meet to do multiplayer stuff. Got it 2nd hand somehow but wasn't aware more stuff was needed to get it online and were too poor and scared of parents to solve that, so just was stuck with it on its own for years. You could get chu-chu rocket for free by phoning their hotline at one point too. Oh and shenmue. Oh dear, shenmue.