The Final Days of Sega's Consoles - The Series

Start - Master System 24:07 - Genesis 38:58 - Saturn 56:45 - Dreamcast Sega forever 🐢

I always have trouble watching videos like this without getting sad. I loved Sega consoles, and it seems like a tragedy they failed like that EDIT: I'm glad this comment sparked such good conversation. Sega has touched a lot of people. In some ways, bad and in some ways good.

Towards the end of the Dreamcast, we actually had a Sega rep on the homebrew mailing list. He was trying to find a way the homebrew community and Sega could work together for commercial benefit. But the only ideas thrown out were basically "Sega should open the platform", and even the serious developers didn't have any good ideas. But I'll never forget that they reached out, and engaged us for quite a while.

I always loved and appreciated the weirdness and vibes of Sega exclusives. You felt like an underdog being the Sega kid in school while everyone else was Club Nintendo.

I still remember the Dreamcast sounding like a vacuum machine when running every tike lol still loved every second of playing it!

Watching these back-to-back, it really feels like the Genesis was the only system of theirs that could be absolutely considered a home run all across the board. Everything else either failed to find it's footing, or died early.

Atari was my jam when I was a kid, but the Genesis era was something else. So many great memories of gaming during this time. I miss it.

This really kills me, because my family was poor, and we had to settle for Sega rather than continue with SNES in 1992. I grew up with all the Genesis titles, and when it was time to let go, it really hurt me deeply. I had to move on to Playstation at that point, and while I enjoyed many of their titles, namely Gran Turismo and Duke Nukem, I just couldn't move on. It felt like childhood had ended, and it was time to grow up... I'm 37 now, and it makes me sad watching this, knowing childhood is so far away now...

Somewhere between the Sega Saturn and the Sega Dreamcast I discovered Sega published flat out some of the most interesting and unique video games I've ever played. Even the Sega CD and the 32X have games I've enjoyed and found far more unique than Nintendo's offerings and even Sony's offerings at the time. Sega provided you with a lot of unique experiences.

If you re-recorded some of your earlier videos in your current style I think you would hit some higher numbers, you just keep getting better at this, my dude

They all still live on for me - still have them all. Love Sega!

Thank you so much for all the content you make in the name of Sega’s legacy!

I never heard of the Master System until a friend showed me one in ‘91.

Thanks for this series! I must recommend the anime "Uncle from Another World" if you haven't seen it because it's about a huge Sega fan who went into a coma during Saturn times, and woke up in current day, having spent the whole time in a fantasy world where he used his strengths from playing Sega games to save the day.

My very first console as a kid, the Sega Master System!

That thumbnail is funny 😆

Cool compilation, I bought both the Saturn and Dreamcast in their dying games, (early 1998 for Saturn and summer 2001 for Dreamcast). I guess you can say I didn’t help support those consoles during their run which is correct but I was a broke kid like everyone else so I just took advantage of buying them when they were going clearance along with the games. I love both consoles and wish I could’ve supported them during their peak run but I was just happy to own the consoles when I had the chance to

Please come back SEGA 😢

Not to mention that Grandia II runs far better on the Dreamcast than its port to the PS2. Yeah, Dreamcast was noisy but that's better than feeling like your characters are moving through molasses.

Huge respect to the ppl who grew up with only the failing Sega consoles