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CD / Mega CD
System
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On
the 12th of December 1991,
Sega released a CDROM-unit called "Mega CD"
("Sega CD" in the USA) to support the dying Mega Drive in Japan. It had
another 68000 CPU, additional RAM, a custom graphics processor and a new
sound chip which made even more complex games possible. However, the price
of the hardware was very high (49800 Yen, approx. 500$), and the first
games (Earnest Evans
& Sol Feace)
definitely weren´t worth this much money. Again,
Sega made the mistake to release a new system without a top-selling game.
But a few months later, with the release of Game Arts´ fantastic
RPG Lunar, the
sales increased noticeably and other companies began to develop software
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the end of 1992, the device reached the USA, with a slightly better software
line-up (Batman Returns,
Sewer
Shark etc.) than at the Japanese release.
But the system was still far too pricey at the beginning, and only few
companies announced games for the system.
But
fortunately, the Genesis itself was a very strong system at that time in
the US (mainly because the SNES was released too late), and so quite a
lot of people bought the SCD nevertheless.
And
this was definitely no mistake, because some of the best RPGs, namely Lunar
- The Silver Star and Lunar
- Eternal Blue were released for this system
exclusively. Another great game is Snatcher
by Konami, a very atmospherical cyberpunk graphic adventure.
During
the years 1991 and 1996, approx. 3 million
Sega CD units were sold world-wide, compared
to 28,5 million Genesis/Mega Drive units.
Now it is up to
emulator authors to revive the system for a larger audience...
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A
screenshot of Lunar - Eternal Blue
Snatcher
screenshot #1
Snatcher
screenshot #2
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Games (all
available games & my personal collection)
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| Sam
Pettus´ Genesis Game Guide (G3) is a comprehensive list of all known
Sega CD games, with additional information (publisher/game type) and sometimes
reviews. If you want even more information, along with game reviews and
screenshots, you definitely need to check out the online version of the
Genesis Game Guide (G3O). Both resources can be found here.
My
personal games collection amounts to 177
games at the moment. 92
of them are also available on compilation CDs (see link below for further
details). If you have some games (especially Japanese) you don´t
find in this list, please contact me - I´m always interested in a
trade!
Eidolon's
Sega CD games collection (last updated: May 29th 2000)
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