The Story of the Sega Black Belt- The POWERFUL Lost Sega Console - Gaming History Documentary

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In today's episode we look at the history of Sega's Project Blackbelt, the powerful console that was in development to replace the Sega Saturn. Why was this console dropped in favour of the Dreamcast?

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[Subfightr]

This lady is incredible, her journalistic capabilities especially, not to mention her editing, voice over and the speed at which she pumps this stuff out. Impressive stuff

[WilliamGoldsbury]

Thought I'd heard everything about the Dreamcast saga, but had no idea that Sega and EA had both jumped in with 3dfx - gives EA's choice to not to support the Dreamcast a really fascinating backdrop.

[maxheadroom]

Wow. No wonder they stopped making consoles. Two competing hardware development teams would have worked out fine, if they had compared notes and combined the best features of both concepts.

[King_K_Rool_]

Sega management from the mid 90s onwards was a complete train wreck.. They dug thier own grave as far as im concerned. What a waste

[tokos]

You know, semi-unrelated but with all the in-fighting and self-sabotage between SEGA Japan and America on basically everything, it's honestly a miracle the Genesis did as well as it did in hindsight.

[jonathandyton]

I have the schematics for the 3dfx version - a friend worked for Sega Europe and when 3rd parry cleared out, the boss opened the cabinets, let them take pretty much whatever they wanted -cue my friend grabbing random bits, envelopes etc. When we got the 8 bin bags of stuff home, we opened one of the envelopes and it was the schematics for the 3dfx version. He’s in China and I have all his gear in storage so I probably need to go and scan all this in as he’s not coming back

[poposterous]

sega was so busy competing with itself it forgot the rest of the industry

[epobirs]

Western companies had a big standing investment in 3Dfx hardware, both for PCs and arcade applications. A major portion of the Dreamcast's launch and first year arcade ports from Midway were created on 3Dfx based systems. Not being able to carry over low level code was a huge setback. The use of Windows CE to ease porting of PC games that used the DirectX APIs helped a bit but was little comfort to companies invested in 3Dfx's own GLide API.

[Riz]

I'm not sad at all we didn't get the blackbelt. The dreamcast was and still is I consider one of the best consoles ever

[TPRES_]

If the Dreamcast included a DVD player it would've competed with the PS2. Similar to the Genisis and Super Nintendo. Because It had some great games.

[XR]

The research, story and info is exceptional on this channel. Learning alot!

[mnomic]

It would’ve been interesting to see what the Blackbelt was capable of and how it ran compared to the Dreamcast.

[raythomas]

You are amazing. Thank you for this channel.

[MaxAbramson]

The back of the Saturn had a port for the VCD that already had an unreleased accelerator card developed for VF3. Considering the power of the PowerPC at that time and the 3 million polygons per second that the voodoo card was capable of rendering, such a piece of kit could have used the ram, controllers, CD-ROM, and power supply of the Saturn and gotten them to market two years sooner with Dreamcast performance. What's more, SEGA wouldn't have lost the Saturn in the japanese market.

[KaneRobot]

Bernie Stolar is the worst. So much squandered potential under his watch, not to mention the end Sega as we know them. Plus seeing pictures of him, you're just want to punch him.

[Brianycus]

Man these videos are always amazing and learning about these other consoles are interesting because I only knew of the main ones such as the Genesis, Mega Drive, and Saturn. This Black Belt was truly something I never heard of!

[tedmcfly]

Very cool channel! Lady Decade is my new fave creator!

[MrChuckGrape]

How many damn consoles did that company try to make?!

[danielarmstrong]

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[EhrisaiaOShannon]

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