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That reminds me, Sega's Japanese site has some info on all kinds of crazy MD hardware.
http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/
http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/md/peri/tera1.jpg
http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/md/peri/tera2.jpg
http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/mcd/...karaoke1_a.jpg
http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/md/tirasi/answer1_d.jpg
An answering machine? What?
Photos of every possible MD/CD/32X combination.
The Mega Anser was a home banking system, not an answering machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sixfortyfive
So it is. The phone and modem threw me off.Quote:
Originally Posted by CRV1
Still just as weird, though.
The Genesis blows the Amiga away with the amount of game content, but I wouldn't say either of those games did anything "cutting edge" compared to the best of the Amiga.Quote:
Originally Posted by supergrafxengine
Mega Anser home banking system used the Mega Modem which was the Japanese version of the unreleased Tele Genesis Modem that was supposed to come out in the U.S. for gaming.
Two EGM articles from summer 1989 (from EGM Number 2 and 3).
These magazine articles were how (and when) I learned about Genesis.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7...gm2aey2.th.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/687...gm2bfe5.th.jpg
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9...re1bfy6.th.jpg
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1...re2bwa0.th.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6...pre3dp0.th.jpg
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Originally Posted by gamevet
Well I agree to an extent. Amiga certain had games that could rival what the Genesis was doing in 1989 even though such Amiga games (like Shadow of the Beast) were rare. The Genesis did it regularly and with better/faster gameplay control. I don't actually think anything on the Genesis could be concidered cutting edge.
As far as true cutting edge, Sega's coin-op arcade games blew away the most technically impressive games on Amiga and MD/Genesis. Yet they all used the 68000 CPU. Even just faster 68000s wouldn't make that much of a difference, so it was all about custom graphics chips. Sega's arcade games were at least as much of a leap over Amiga as Amiga was over Mac
Damn, I remember reading those Genesis articles and got all excited.
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Originally Posted by kingoffighters
The 2nd page of the 2nd article is the first I had ever heard of Ghouls N Ghosts.
That game was a really cool experience on Genesis, since I had never seen the arcade version, so therefore I could not be disappointed with all the details cut out of the Genesis version.
Booyah! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sixfortyfive