Weekend_Warrior wrote:Troll post or not, the Sega CD was a fucking piece of shit. And the fact that people actually thought that Sewer Shark was such a good game that it deserved to be the pack-in title is/was downright laughable.
Sewer Shark was a pack-in because it showed off what the system could do, not because it was "good." It wasn't the original pack-in title anyway. Believe it or not, Sega used a shoot 'em up and FIVE OTHER GAMES, PLUS other software (encyclopedia, photo discs, etc.), for the pack-in at first. Yes, they included 6 games. Of course, four of them were Genesis titles on CD (Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi and Columns), one was Sol Feace and the other was the first Sherlock Holmes game (which is actually good).
I don't know how far it was into the systems shelf life, but Sonic CD really should have been the launch pack-in game.
This is a troll post because you posted it without knowing what you were talking about. Sonic CD literally came out almost TWO YEARS after the Mega CD first game out (and a year after it came out in North America). Like I said, they really did do pretty well with pack-ins at first.
And it still amazes me how Sega fucked this up with the Saturn, too - launching a new Sega system without a great new Sonic game. I mean, "Hello McFly! Sonic was your head mascot and best selling series on the Genesis?" But what did we get instead... ? "Sewer Shark."
The DC is the only system to have launched with a Sonic game. Also, Sewer Shark was NOT the original pack-in. You keep saying it, so I'm going to keep saying it in this post.
Seriously, that's just beyond retarded. Sega deserved to eat shit with the Sega CD, and the 32X. The Saturn was handled a little bit better, even without a great new Sonic game at launch (or ever for that matter). Virtua Fighter was an excellent pack-in game. It's just a shame that Sega didn't spend a little more time designing the Saturn tech so that it was easier to develop for, and slightly more powerful with extra RAM.
The Sega CD launch was actually pretty successful, and so was the Saturn's for the record.
Something Sega should have done was released a Genesis/Sega CD combo set. Then, instead of the Sega CD 2, they should have just released something like the CDX at that time with all the pack-ins it included (Sonic CD, Ecco and the 5-in-1 disc). $249 would have been a sweet price for that in late 1993 (instead of being $399 (maybe cheaper in the US) in 1994). Sega probably couldn't have afforded to go that low, though.
