The Worst of the Worst on the Sega CD

Bad games. Let's look at some on Sega's 16-bit CD add-on.

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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.

Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.

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By: Jan Neves

Intro by Evan S.

Episode Notes:

1. Captured on a combination of the Mega SG/Mega SD and real hardware.

2. I was coming off a cold with this video so you hear a few different states of my voice.

3. This was not meant to be an April Fools episode, but I did want it to be in good humor.

4. Sega CD emulation is pretty spot on these days. Give these games a try and see if you like them.

5. Sonic CD being selected as worst use of scaling was just meant to be for the bonus stages.

6. A number of these can be played elsewhere. Night Striker is far better on the Saturn for instance.

7. Revengers of Vengeance was called Battle Fantasy in Japan. Why they changed the title is beyond me.

8. Check out my Best of the Sega CD series:

[SAMwise-pszo]

the dracula game is hysterical! Still, it is the best spider and rat punching simulator you ever did see!

[TheMultiGunMan]

It's so hard to collect for the Sega CD. You really have to dig for the gems and the prices are insane.

[InfernoHabanero]

Revengers of Vengeance is one of those rare games that I know is objectively bad, but I still like it. The mixture of a cheesy presentation and the experimental combination of genres helps gives it an identity for itself that I find charming.

[kfeces]

I always think about my friend at school took a sick day after he bought a Sega CD. We called it “Sega CD Day”.

[revelationnow]

Microcosm was developed for the FM Towns, the Sega CD version was merely a port. I've only play the DOS version.
F1 Circus was made for the PC-Engine and ported to the Sega CD
The Space Adventure was also made for the PC Engine about 4 years before it arrived on Sega CD
Eye of the Beholder is a MS-DOS game and released on the Sega CD about 3 years later.

[GRNDZA]

The sad Shinobi game over music every time the box art for one of these things appeared had me laughing. By the end of the video I was hearing the "HUH HUH HUH HUHHH" Neo Zeed laugh every time.

[josephkitchenfriednoodles]

I rarely disagree with Sega Lord but I love Eye of the Beholder. I know he almost didn't mention it but still, this is one of my favorites on the Sega CD. The claustrophobia, the music, the surprise underground cities, the variety of monsters, the sound effects, and classic AD&D feel...it's exactly what you would hope for in a game like this.

[cax]

This should have been best of the best for April Fools lol

[DreamcastQ]

Great video brother, when I remember the Sega CD days, I always have to remember the bad along with the Cutting edge

[JohnZyski]

I really liked the Sega CD, but the publishers didn't utilize the hardware to ot's fullest potential. That being said, I really enjoyed it.

[tidq]

Oh man, Sega Lord is fearless mentioning Sonic CD in this video.

[wavefile]

"This is the crème de la crème of absolute garbage" Man that sounds so awful 🤣

[lukasjozef]

I remember Dracula for the Mega CD and I was amazed for ist " Realistic graphics " when I saw the reviews on magazines. Years later I could finally play Dracula on emulation and it wasn't that bad.
Thanks for the video

[mjdf]

Love My Sega CD Thanks Sega Lord X For All You Do For SEGA

[Oysterblade]

To be fair I think it wasn't actually the scaling in Sonic CD that is particularly bad but more of a frame rate issue, because the 2011 and Sonic Origins remakes don't have scaling that choppy in the Special Stages of Sonic CD, even the Sonic GEMS Collection in 2005 had a smoother frame rate. Also The Lawnmower man had a manufacturing fault here in PAL regions, supposedly the game shipped with no PAL Mega-CD ROM code, it instead shipped and retailed as an NTSC SEGA-CD game. This meant that you had to pay top dollar for it at retail and when you took it home to try and play it you were greeted with the CD player each and every time with just one track to play. It never did get a real PAL version beyond the case. Also love how you expressed yourself in your final word segment, very true it's just your opinion and you have a right to express it. keep em' coming SLX.

[pclinuxos_br]

Revengers of Vengeance... This game is utter crap. One gets hyped, with that anime style intro, but the game is a gargantuan let down. They dropped the ball so hard with this one, it ended up in China. TERRIBLE!!!

[atomicskull]

3:00 Oh that's easy, the scaling hardware on the Sega CD was clunky and hard to use due to Sega screwing it up when designing the expansion port on the Megadrive. For one thing, there was a mistake on the PCB on early Megadrive units where one address line didn't work so memory access on the expansion port was severely restricted compared to the intended design (limited to 128 byte pages). This was fixed later but they still had to respect that limitation or the Mega CD would not work with early Megadrives. The scaling hardware had to present graphics tiles to the Megadrive like cartridge ROM, the 68000 would download them into the VDP VRAM, only at a slower rate than from a cartridge.

The VDP actually has address lines for a second 64K bank of VRAM and external color pallet RAM but those were left unconnected to anything. Had they been brought out to the expansion port the Mega CD could have included 64K of VRAM that could be shared between the scaling hardware and the VDP in the same way the VDP and the 68000 share VRAM. So the scaling hardware could have just put tiles directly into VRAM that could be accessed by the VDP. It also would have been possible to expand the color pallets(not the total available colors, but they could have added more 16-color pallets and increased the number of onscreen colors)

[kylekostamo]

I absolutely love the sega cd. Had one growin up, games like sega soccer and heimdal im perticularily nostalgic for. I also dont think sewer shark deserves the hate it gets, not sayin its a gem or anything either.

[pooksthepossum]

Still medically bed ridden. 😭 Thank you so much for these videos!!!! 🐨👌

[megamanmarchek]

I would argue that Wild Woody's scaling bonus stages and After Burner 3 are worse than Sonic CDs bonus stages. I won't argue that Sonic CD makes great use of sprite scaling and rotation, but it is not the worst use of it either.