I can only imagine the amount of vestigial growths that Sega would have strapped onto the Mega Drive if left to their own devices....
@FoolishMrT
2 жыл бұрын
The Sega Strapons. Oh dear…..
@andrewamann2821
Жыл бұрын
I am from an alternate timeline, where Sega continued down this path... We are all master system peripherals there. They kinda screwed the pooch when they accidentally unlocked the time-travel functionality. As it turns out, adding a Tokemak, and a blender, is more dangerous than it sounds.
@GabePuratekuta
Жыл бұрын
@@andrewamann2821 Add that Tokemak to the blender and you'll get INTER-DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL!
@gyromurphy
2 жыл бұрын
I had a neighbor who had Sega Channel. All I can remember is that I thought it was awesome. Probably too ambitious for the time, but still a cool service to offer
@JohnnyProctor9
Жыл бұрын
I had it, it was awesome unless you wanted to juggle 2 RPGs at a time because it only had enough memory to save one game at a time on the cart...I wish that I'd had more time to devote to it while it lasted, but at least half of my time was spent playing Sega CD and 3DO during that time period. It would've been far more successful and probably lasted longer if it'd been released earlier in the system's lifespan...
@djafk
2 жыл бұрын
Games back then were fun for a longer period. Meaning if you played it for a few days it was fun, but if you played it for years later, it was still fun. It wasn't a race to minmax or speedrun, it was just fun to play...
@GabePuratekuta
Жыл бұрын
They're also most popular for speedrunners.
@jamescameron1861
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks Lady Decade. I was very much into the 16-bit era. Megadrive, MegaCD, A500 etc... Never knew about this!
@RichardCyberPunk
2 жыл бұрын
A friend of me had an illegal MEgadrive diskdrive system connected to his megadrive. It contained RAM and the diskdrive and was able to copy + play most Megadrive Rom cartridges. Only the bigger ones (mostly RPGs) couldnt be run. also several small games could be put on 1 3.5 inch disk. I remember that the illegal diskdrive system wrote more than 1.44MB on 1 floppy. I guess, it contained a special zip/unzip routine in its firmware rom.
@elijahmodnar1
2 жыл бұрын
12 megabits = 1.5 megabytes, so it was only writing 0.06MB more (60kb) on to the 1.44MB floppy disc, prob to over writing to the TOC area on the disc im guessing
@skaldlouiscyphre2453
2 жыл бұрын
It's a shame Sega didn't just keep releasing add-on attachments for the Genesis up until today. I want my Genesis to have more attachments than the Megazord and compete with the Xbone, even if we can't see the Genesis underneath it all anymore. 😅
@gamegab7271
2 жыл бұрын
Can we call it the Segazord? 😂
@krzysztofczarnecki8238
2 жыл бұрын
This would remind me of V'ger from Star Trek: The Mostion Picture, a massive, sentient autonomous starship that went on exploring the universe and happened to find the Earth. Later it turned out that it has been built around one of the Voyager probes in order to help it with its original purpose of exploring, and said probe still existed in the middle of it.
@bghoody5665
2 жыл бұрын
@@krzysztofczarnecki8238 Damn, you beat me to the V'ger analogy lol. Too many add ons and the Genesis will become sentient and want to join with the creator.
@Subfightr
2 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine the amount of plugs?!
@jinneasbushindo7554
2 жыл бұрын
Adding all of the attachments to each console and join them all together (Genesis/Megadrive + Saturn + Dreamcast), it could've been the vehicle Voltron of consoles.
@AReallyBadSN
2 жыл бұрын
Sega channel was amazing! It would give you cheats and tips for a game while the game loaded. Every month they switched out games. I had a subscription with TCI (if anyone remembers that). We had nothing like it for years.
@JohnnyProctor9
Жыл бұрын
If only it had been released earlier in the system's lifespan and had the ability to save more than one RPG at a time, it would've been far more successful...sadly, by 1994 many gamers had moved on to CD systems like Sega CD and 3DO (I know that despite having the Sega Channel, most of my time was still spent playing the more advanced systems).
@harrisonallen651
2 жыл бұрын
Some cancelled sonic games on the floppy disk drive would’ve been perfect
@antivanti
2 жыл бұрын
I had a different floppy drive addon for my MegaDrive but it was not exactly official hardware but it allowed me to make backups of the games I owned... and the ones I rented at the video store 😉 It was called the Super Magic Drive
@Just.A.T-Rex
2 жыл бұрын
Did you mean mega disk interceptor?
@AzumiRM
Жыл бұрын
I'm really beginning to love this channel. I was still a teenager and still back home in JPN at the time of the mega drive but was an extremely rare owner of an Amiga 500. Good times! 😊
@JMFSpike
2 жыл бұрын
It seems Sega's answer to literally everything in the early to mid-90's was some kind of Genesis/Mega Drive add-on. They sure didn't seem to be concerned at all with oversaturating the market or confusing the hell out of their loyal fanbase. Anyway, the best part of this whole video was you answering that question at the end. You're such a funny and entertaining person to listen to. That's why I love this channel.
@SproutyPottedPlant
2 жыл бұрын
They should have put 4x Yamaha YM2612 in it!!
@RWL2012
2 жыл бұрын
what, so the console would have 5 YM2612s total? 😄
@jayjay-xk1zn
2 жыл бұрын
I had a mega drive i remember filing off the corners of the slot where game plugs in so i can use foreign cartridges
@GabePuratekuta
Жыл бұрын
Region breaking, a necessity for gracious living!
@JillyMaysHere
2 жыл бұрын
This is really interesting to learn about. Thank you!
@retrorobbins
2 жыл бұрын
Great informative video as always can't beat a bit of this decade ,
@tylerbrunton7696
2 жыл бұрын
Ontarioan here, loved that story! What a unique find. Edit: Oh no, you didn't enjoy poutine, that's a bummer. I can't get enough.
@aeonjoey3d
Жыл бұрын
SUBSCRIBED! love the pre-cap, love your style of vid, great info, presentation and editing. thumbsup
@apollolux
2 жыл бұрын
Dang, the Genesis as a proper PC would’ve been a sight to see. The Motorola 68000 CPU it had as its main CPU certainly would’ve allowed it the raw power to compete with early Amiga and Macintosh System 7, definitely would’ve beaten 6502-based Apples, C64, and Z80-only PCs for sure!
@Anonymous-oh4xw
2 жыл бұрын
That's sick!
@radical_ans
2 жыл бұрын
The rich kid up the street from me had Sega Channel. It definitely led to me being exposed to a ton of obscure Sega games than I otherwise would have.
@andrewroberts6505
Жыл бұрын
I love the tune playing off the beginning of the video is the Jungle zone from Sonic on the Master System ^_^ Nostalgia!!
@Sly88Frye
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know who that guy was that was holding up that all in one Sega console but for some reason I just found him to be awesome I'm not sure why I did but it was just that hats or just his pose like his intentional awkward yet coolness I don't know I just thought he was awesome! Maybe we'll see more of him?
@rick9021090210
Жыл бұрын
@4:19 Uhhhhhhh... lovin' that foot action... xD . Cheers!
@AzraelThanatos
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the bits about the other disc based thing and bits on it in a magazine about it being a potential solution to the memory issues the early Sega CD had (Not sure about the later one) which caused a lot of issues with families because you had a limited number of save slots for any of your CD games. Essentially using a 3.5 as a a memory card for the system was what the local stores seemed to think it would be there while potentially working with other things as well.
@greenkoopa
2 жыл бұрын
The memory cartridges were sold commercially, I've never been able to tell if there were 3rd party though I think it was all Sega's
@AzraelThanatos
2 жыл бұрын
@@greenkoopa There were some sold, but not that many of them showed up in stores. I only remember seeing them once at a store and they cost more than the genesis games at the time...if i remember right the new games were around $49.99 and the memory one was $64.99. They also didn't work as well between different Genesis systems...I had the CD that mounted entirely under the system and a friend had the side one...it didn't recognize his saves on mine with games.
@Nomad0036
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine a universe where EVERY hardware add-on for every system existed.
@Shinmsl
2 жыл бұрын
Thus the first A.I. rose to existence, a plague of combiner technology gone wrong...
@JohnnyProctor9
Жыл бұрын
Imagine a universe where FMV games were truly the future of gaming instead of ugly, blocky polygons...
@SBXIII
2 жыл бұрын
Pausing during the answer to the Patreon question to say this: I live in southern Ontario, roughly an hour-s drive from Pearson International Airport (YYZ) near Toronto. I see Amish people in and around my city all the time, and you gotta drive straight through Amish country to get to my Aunt & Uncle's place in Listowel. Also, judging from the white sticker on the bottom corner of the front of the case, that game was probably sold by Microplay at some point before you got it.
@tylerbrunton7696
2 жыл бұрын
I miss Microplay so much. The location in Peterborough rented out computer games, which essentially meant if you could get a no-CD patch, or owned a burner, you could grow an enormous library for very little, and I did. :)
@nyrol1
2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking she may have gotten it from St. Jacob’s Farmer’s Market, about an hour south of TO. I’ve found games there in random places.
@kadosho02
2 жыл бұрын
Wait, Lady Decade & Top Hat "Strange Adventures in a Strange Land" I like that idea
@cujoedaman
2 жыл бұрын
Nintendo: We have a port on the NES to add a disk drive (and will never use it). Sega: That's cute, kid.
@JB9000x
2 жыл бұрын
Strange that a third party was designing the joystick. I would have thought that was one element Sega would have been fully capable of developing
@alexsuriano4712
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for answering my question and props for getting the last name right! What a crazy story!
@gooddesign9991
Жыл бұрын
04:20 - oh look. she's using her foot to push the disk.. such a honorable act to a sacred console!
@ninjazhu
2 жыл бұрын
that explains why my 3rd party mega drive keyboard works with BASIC on the mega drive - it was already capable officially to drive a keyboard!!!
@ScavengerFX
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video! I never knew there was ever a planned FDD for the Genesis!
@dinokaos
2 жыл бұрын
You make the best content in my opinion. You really do your home work! I love it when I get a notification from you to come join in and watch a very well put together video. And you are REALLY easy on the eyes too! Take care love
@Sarge92
Жыл бұрын
i find myself liking this channel alot not for pervy reasons or anything like that but her delivery and interests in the field differ to your average stereotypical retro guy and its great getting to see all the stuff from a fresh perspective
@TheRealDustinNunn
2 жыл бұрын
A Sega Genesis is never complete without the Sega CD and Sega 32X add-ons. Mark Bussler from Classic Game Room said it best. He said "Optimus Prime is never complete without his trailer."
@DanielKoolboy
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video im glad to meet youre channel
@MaxAbramson3
2 жыл бұрын
We'd found by the mid-90s that a bone stock SEGA Genesis was capable of 3D graphics, sound, and video to rival the early PlayStation launch games. Games like Toy Story, Street Fighter II, and Adventures of Batman & Robin proved that add ons and the Saturn weren't necessary for the system to compete. In fact, it would've been easy to upgrade the sound, up the VRAM to its originally designed 128KB VRAM, offer a 4K (4,096 color palette) version that played those 32- and 40-megabit games. Indeed, the maximum cartridge size was 128-megabits, and we've seen how good some of the latest releases have been for the Genesis. There are still tens of millions of these working consoles out there, and SEGA could've simply put their money into limit pushers, better SDKs, and marketing to maintain their lead until the Dreamcast was ready for launch. Hardware and software rotation, scaling, and 2,000 polygon/sec 3D graphics was possible, and even some Doom-like games were released at the bitter end of its life.
@RidinWithMyLocsOn
Жыл бұрын
Nice digging, miss my old Sega 8bit with Alex Kidd ^^
@quarters_cp3754
2 жыл бұрын
It can’t just be me but that slogan a necessity for gracious living is the best part of lady decades videos.. put a patent on that seriously 🎉
@FishcatGames
2 жыл бұрын
We had Sega Channel as a kid! I had no idea how ahead of its time it was
@Cpgeekorg
Жыл бұрын
I'm in the US. I've seen several segacd addons (in use even), but I've still never seen an amiga cd in person. Amiga's were all that big here in the states.
@channelI748
Жыл бұрын
Be interesting to see any test software developed maybe an OS. It wouldn't have been the easiest being a tile based system.
@Johnnie_And_Tara_React
2 жыл бұрын
Yea lady decade. You have totally awesome videos.
@afriend9428
Жыл бұрын
*there were disc drives floating in Hong Kong and Taiwan during that time you can play disc games copied from Mega Drive carts the same time as the Super Nintendo disc drives back then!* 💡
@HelloKittyFanMan.
Жыл бұрын
At least the Nintendo64's floppy disk drive is a Zip drive, so its disks can hold a ton more then those old low-capacity systems like _standard_ floppy disks and drives.
@greenkoopa
2 жыл бұрын
A necessity for gracious Genesis 😀🇺🇲
@raybombs
2 жыл бұрын
Lady Decade, a necessity for gracious living! 🙂
@kamikaze82
2 жыл бұрын
...as it's known in the old testament. Well done, Lady.
@TheGodOfAllThatWas
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Oceanic Cable.... that's my local cable company. (or well it was? It was a time warner subsidiary, officially took on the Time Warner Cable branding in the 00's , and is now just spectrum). I remember those ads, and one of my neighbors had the sega channel. I was still using a NES then. I interned for them in like 99, they gave me some of the old sega channel stuff... Nothing too important basiaclly just a sega genesis and a sega channel unit. I don't think I've ever tried plugging that thing in. I really should.
@DaveVoyles
2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea this thing even existed
@foxdavani4091
2 жыл бұрын
Finding a game amongst breakfast items is awesome. You go lady decade. Only thing I find amongst breakfast items is coffee.
@louistournas120
2 жыл бұрын
They have Amish gamers in Canada.
@martinmaunder2852
2 жыл бұрын
thx again me lady for another cool vid :)
@jjhack3r
2 жыл бұрын
This lady is a hidden gem 💎
@joshb6470
2 жыл бұрын
imagine a pass through adapter that would allow for the sega CD and FDD being connected at once!!! Shut up and take my money
@nicholasantonson7296
2 жыл бұрын
I watched this video at 2 hours old
@ithydoodles
Жыл бұрын
That's how I got my second copy of BoF 4 for maybe $2.50. I gave my mom some cash to use if she found any games when she went to this one flea market thing and she found that, vandal hearts 2, ff8, ff9, re directors cut and a few other games at $2.50 each. My original copy of BoF 4 was stolen from me.
@coyoteartist
2 жыл бұрын
The Disk System kiosks were in places until 2003. They just stopped making new games for them in 1992 which makes it a short life. I guess it's just the number of places of those 10,000 they intended that wanted to keep them around wasn't that big is what you're saying and why they would stop making games for it.
@jlondon8125
2 жыл бұрын
Love your videos - a necessity for gracious living
@edgardeitz5746
2 жыл бұрын
The graphical tablet was eventually reworked into the Sega Pico...
@mercredi28m
2 жыл бұрын
Miss rétro games 😘
@Shinmsl
2 жыл бұрын
In hindsight it does seem a bit ridiculous how much they wanted to create makeshift computers out of videogame consoles but it wasn't that strange in the 80s and early 90s it seems(not something that was happening in my country so I didn't experience it first hand). It probably made more sense to the Japanese market, since the famicom disk drive also had a keyboard, didn't it? I imagine space in a typical Japanese home is also a quite precious asset. But that didn't work as well in the American market, where I think parents were more than glad to buy the kids a console and keep them away of their work computer. That anecdote at the end was wild XD Fitting to be a sketch out of "the Office" show 😅
@tripleog4620
2 жыл бұрын
I love your channel
@ninjazhu
2 жыл бұрын
In 1983, 3.5" discs were not really more common than 3" - they were just both uncommon. In 1984/5, 3" became common due to Amstrad but... ultimatley not as common as 3.5" by the early 90s. 3" drives can be found in Amstrad (CPC, PCW, Spectrum +3), Sega SC3000, Tatung Einstein and potentially other less common micros.
@demonology2629
Жыл бұрын
Just when I thought I knew every single add-on
@evilstarlegacy
Жыл бұрын
Me watching the video : Me getting to the part when you dunk on Poutine :
@sGamester
2 жыл бұрын
"Will take sega ages" the word ages is sega backwards food for thought🤔
@Tech-NO-City
2 жыл бұрын
I build bang busses for a living. If you would like I could send one of my drivers over to pick you up.
@grahamherbert3612
Жыл бұрын
My final add on for the Megadrive, was a pint of Kestrel lager, when the bastard caught on fire.
@adariepennant3389
2 жыл бұрын
I would like to see, Microsoft + sony + nintendo + sega = joint forces team up and make a super ultimate console together. 🤝💯💥✔🔥
@hosam7609
2 жыл бұрын
There won't be a console, each will make an accessory and they will all unite Combatler V style to form a 500 ft. console 😎
@jackofallgamesTV
2 жыл бұрын
And add Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, Bally and Magnavox.
@GabePuratekuta
Жыл бұрын
Like the Triforce with more versatile tech?
@kaisercreb
2 жыл бұрын
the Genesis being turned into a computer wouldnt have been that weird. it has a motorola 68000 cpu like the amiga or atari ST and also a z80 like the zx spectru, amstrad, msx, TRS-80.
@louistournas120
2 жыл бұрын
Also, there was a game cartridge for the Atari 2600 called Programming. I saw it in a small magazine that came with one of my games. I think you needed a special controller that had a keypad.
@ressljs
2 жыл бұрын
From a hardware perspective, it's certainly not a stretch. But from a marketing perspective, I don't really see it working. Add ons never did that well, and I don't see that many people buying into this computer upgrade to a game system.
@Trick-Framed
7 ай бұрын
The CDTV would have been the aim to beat for the Sega MD. The CD32 was supposed to compete with the Saturn. And couldn't.
@A1OFFENDER
Жыл бұрын
Great peronality
@lexluthermiester
2 жыл бұрын
@Lady Decade Saturn Floppy drive you say? Most intriguing! Video please! EDIT: Wonderful weird story that! Canadians are a bit different and strange. Even compared to us Yanks!
@johneysupergd7796
2 жыл бұрын
Whay if the sfd addon was released but not the sega cd? Then we would,ve mumbled now on youtube with things like “what if the sega cd was released” or “what would,ve be the potential of it” etc,, So am glad it didn’t happened that way.
@JohnnyProctor9
Жыл бұрын
They did the right thing in going with CD-ROMs instead of floppies...
@CB3ROB-CyberBunker
Жыл бұрын
it relying on 3" disks rather than 3.5" disks should not have been a problem in japan where such things were put in many devices. including some pc lines.
@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499
2 жыл бұрын
LAMO. You're not wrong about the poutine...
@Sinn0100
2 жыл бұрын
Wait....not another damn Sega Genesis add-on. I bet it has an extra power supply as well making the grand total ridiculous. I'm not bagging on the Sega Genesis as I grew up with one (got mine in 89) but forward thinking, Sega was not. I just watched the instructional vide on the Sega Activator yesterday and what shocked me was it too required another plug. That means Sega basically was saying for the full Genesis experience you needed... 1. Genesis plug. 2. Sega CD plug. 3. 32X plug. 4. Activator plug. For reference- I wanted all of it so I was no better. Maybe we were all a little nuts in the 1990's.
@thepeternetwork
Жыл бұрын
I notice when you introduce yourself in the intro, you sound like you're smiling. Also, how much you expect a Sega CD would go for on eBay?
@edman1357
2 жыл бұрын
I still love the idea of console add-ons, but they've clearly been proven to be financial flop across multiple early consoles.
@Anonymous-oh4xw
2 жыл бұрын
You said it!
@jeromethompson5848
2 жыл бұрын
I thought she was going to make a megazord reference because all the of those things came together
@GabePuratekuta
Жыл бұрын
Or a Voltron reference.
@SNKev411
2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see you do a video of the PC 98 and a PC 88 if possible but great video thanks lady decade you are awesome
@SNKev411
2 жыл бұрын
The computer systems are made by NEC
@xanbeth
Жыл бұрын
Breath of fire 3 was a good buy, strange place to buy it though....
@j.goggels9115
2 жыл бұрын
Genesis New Testament would be surprisingly different given how the new alliance has changed not only the Cosmology established in Babylon's gardens 600 years prior to the writing of the Gospels but the ethics and hygene that were reformed in the late Roman era to appeal to a broad western pagan audience. It would be a really insteresting gnostic exercise to rewrite a 21st century apocriph of the Genesis in the light of Christianity. We would be bond to stumble upon the same hiccups than scholars famously stumbled upon during the high middle ages : did the Holy Spirit precede God in the making of the universe, for instance.
@Wrestlemetal
2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind if Sega rejoined the console market.
@mercredi28m
2 жыл бұрын
You're the best😎
@charlesanthony6368
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I had a retro gaming Mommy LOL thank you ma'am 😊
@matthewrichardson828
2 жыл бұрын
nice stems
@Just.A.T-Rex
2 жыл бұрын
Why couldn’t you just use google app to translate the magazine if there wasn’t a translation already?
@2000freefuel
2 жыл бұрын
is there more technical information about this floppy add on?
@midnitdragoon
Жыл бұрын
The lady in the thumbnail is kind of cute
@zeroworldcraft
2 жыл бұрын
My Sega needs more "junk in the trunk".
@stephenwilson8625
2 жыл бұрын
mention the wondermega but leave out the Laseractive with the PAC-S1....sad
@technicallyme
Жыл бұрын
Did Sega make an add-on that didn't flop? Seems to be a trend
@barowt
2 жыл бұрын
The Sega CD can play CD+G discs? So it's a freaking karaoke machine?? 🤯
@BigHushAffiliate
2 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@aymenlouhibi5775
Жыл бұрын
4:20 How very dare you ? lol
@Anonymous-oh4xw
11 ай бұрын
She just made a video about it.
@patrickhawthorneLS
2 жыл бұрын
If sega had just slapped 1 special add on chip on their carts instead of all the hardware extensions ...yeh games would have cost a little more,instead of £35 -£45 or £50 .. would have been acceptable the same way snes game prices were accepted,the VR games £60 The megadrive weak point was rom size and special graphics chips for scaling
@j.mitchcoppoletti6946
8 ай бұрын
Gracious living? That must be British for being a rad sunglasses wearing 90s kid.
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