/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10863268
>And a lot of stuff got left in Japan.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of Saturn? The SEGA CD versions of Snatcher, Lords of Thunder Mickey Mania, and Earthworm Jim never even made it to Japan at all (plus others like The Terminator, Road Rash, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, etc). In a lot of ways they are kind of like opposites. In fact the only real games we are missing are what, Night Striker, Sengoku Denshou, and Ninja Warriors? And maybe that Cyborg 009 game.

>>10784678
It is an expansion port, not unlike the one on the front of the N64. The RAM carts are basically add-ons themselves, just not quite in the same vein as the CD and 32X. If you remember the og SEGA CD could also use the cartridge slot for RAM, but this was mostly to store save files. The Genesis itself also occasionally did cool stuff with the cartridge slot like Sonic & Knuckles' lock-on cart.

Nobody was really doing backwards compatibility back then, it was all about forwards compatibility, adding more stuff to make newer games chunkier and more graphically intensive. If you wanted a backwards compatible SEGA console (which was really just a Genesis with the add-ons already included) your best bet was either >>10783743 or the Neptune.

>>10784798
It is actually probably closer to the N64. Cartridge-based, does some basic 3D, no FMV, no CD audio, just basic games.

>>10665837
You might like SEGA CD and TurboGrafx-CD. SNES was my favorite console overall for a long time before I got into them. They are basically like Genesis/TG-16 on steroids

>>10433415
Still the best game on SEGA CD imo.

>>10393712
You're not wrong, in fact a handful of them are not even in English. The ratio of good to bad games however is higher than one would expect. It's sort of a quality vs. quantity thing. SEGA CD and TurboGrafx-CD respectively both almost feel like their own console gen to me, like there was a half generation between Gen 4 and Gen 5. And imo a lot of those games exceed the quality of both, especially in SEGA's case.

>>10393717
Apparently it's about on par with FDS, but again much higher quality imo, also way more games than 32X or 64DD which oddly resembles it.