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 telling me otherwise, I was convinced that the full motion video and CD quality sound would translate into some sort of futuristic gaming experience. So I was a bit distraught that they wanted £250 for one, 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 £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 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)

It was fun while it lasted, within 3 months I was back playing my Megadrive again :o/
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 30 Sep 2010, 15:42, 5 replies)

*awaits somebody to admit to owning a 32x*

( JebediahSpringfield, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:03, closed)

I remember my die hard sega loving mate showing me the MegaCD with all his glee
boasting about how it would blow my SNES out of the water.


He still gets embarrassed when I bring that up.
( Bamboo Steamer, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:49, closed)

Hmmm CD32 anyone?
I had an Amiga 500 and a souped up A1200 (motorola 68030), extra RAM and *gasp* a 500 MEG HD! I was the hounds rounds. Then Commodore released the CD32 and I thought "awesome, a games console and a CD drive for the A1200!" I must have it! £299 later (about two weeks entire wages at the time) and it was arse. All the games were the same as the A1200, just slower to load (CD versus HD) and had no keyboard. Turns out the CDROM connection was serial so as slow as a very slow thing indeed. Used it for about 6 hours then it was just an unused CD drive.
(Booce, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 15:01, closed)

blimey I remember that
I also remember a mate having a Commodore CDTV en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Sat 2 Oct 2010, 17:31, closed)

Road Avenger!
When I was a little Epinephrine, I had my cousin's old MegaDrive when he didn't want it any more, and had Road Avenger. Unfortunately, every time it got to one particular race, the car would inevitably crash, due to the disc being scratched.

My cousin wanted it back when I was seven :(
(epinephrine, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 17:27, closed)