Sega Mega CD
Ever since I saw this video (selotaped to the front of Mean Machines Sega Magazine early 1992): www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhO-4Ymgk0M at the tender age of 12, my single goal of life was getting a MegaCD.

Despite the magazines reviews telling me otherwise, I was convinced that the full motion video and CD quality sound would translate into some sort of futuristic gaming experience where I could control the world. So I was a bit distraught that they wanted £250, knowing full well I could never convince mum and dad to fork out that much for one, I sadly carried on playing with my Megadrive.

About 18 months later at a car boot sale, joy of joys, I found a well used MegaCD for a slightly more reasonable £100. After much persuasion, I finally got mum to get out her cheque book which the chap running the stall greedily accepted, and even threw in a copy of Road Avenger (as demoed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NXGlQt7s6Q) I swear I could hear him laughing an evil laugh as we walked away.

As soon as I got it home I raced up the stairs, hooked it up and started playing. For the first couple of months, I was amazed by Sewer Shark www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WEq3dhnnI and an arcade perfect remake of Final Fight (my favourite arcade game ever)

But then I slowly realised the awful truth. 99% of the games were just Megadrive games with a little bit of grainy FMV crowbarred in, or running cartoons that gave you the thrilling option of pressing left or right every so often eg: (Time Gal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY6dgxHcSEQ)

I then had a stroke while playing Sonic CD (Collision Chaos Zone Act 3)

Fucksocks
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 29 Sep 2011, 23:25, 14 replies)

All of this ^
apart from the 18 months is more like 15 years, and the bit about having a stroke :(
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 0:06, closed)

Wot,
no Night Trap?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 8:38, closed)

Yes I had Night Trap too
That game was ok, apart from having to sit through the same videos over and over every time you failed to trap enough monsters

I also had Microcosm, Fahrenheit and Tomcat Alley
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:49, closed)

Gah! Microcosm
awful, AWFUL game
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:17, closed)

impressive Blade Runner-esque FMV intro
but yes the game was total poo though
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 30 Sep 2011, 14:57, closed)

clicks
Ahh the Mega CD, one of the first nails in the coffin for Segas hardware division.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:37, closed)

Just to clarify
you literally had a stroke? If so, sorry to hear that - it's a fucked up thing to happen to a young person.

Also, Earnest Evans was pretty good - although it was pretty much a megadrive game with a nice soundtrack.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 9:40, closed)

Yes I did, but I'm ok now :)
I know the game didn't cause it, but I remember being quite fucked off as I had spent ages trying to get the chaos emerald for that level too.
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:52, closed)

glad to hear you're ok
my ex had a stroke when she was 23. After a few months she could read and speak and write OK, but full recovery took over a year. I'd say it was well up there with the worst things that can happen to a human being.

If it makes you feel any better, I long ago decided that the chaos emeralds on Sonic CD were (like skateboarding) actually physically impossible.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:13, closed)

thanks matey
I think having the stroke at 14 was probably fortunate in the way I had stubborn teenage determination on my side. I was left totally paralysed down the one side of my body meaning I couldn't use a joypad; it was this that made me work really hard at physio so that I could get my gaming hand back.

I'm totally going to get an mega CD emulator and that game now :D
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 30 Sep 2011, 15:03, closed)

I had a Mega CD.
Mum bought it from new. I loved it. Then again, it could also double up as a CD player for me because I hooked it up to the hi-fi.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:16, closed)

I got one dirt cheap for £20 at PC World
ex display unit with no box and came with just the power lead. It was the original and I had a Megadrive 2 so the two never quite fitted together correctly.

Fave game was Ecco the Dolphin with all the extra tunes that were released on the CD plus the grainy FMV's when I got to the Library level that the cart couldn't handle.

Other then that, it was shite.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 13:54, closed)

oh yes I had Ecco CD
the music was amazing
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 30 Sep 2011, 14:58, closed)

I STILL HAVE THAT VIDEO. Amazing. I was so excited, but didn't get a Mega CD. Sad Panda.
(V3lvetPresley, Sat 1 Oct 2011, 7:58, closed)