The best thing about Sonic isn’t the music it’s the gameplay and the spin dash – everything else is pretty irrelevant.

Surely you should just get hold of a Mega Drive/Genesis and call it quits? It begs the question ‘what’s the point in owning one?’ It’s a shame that the only thing these games really had going for them was a bunch of real people acting and an upgraded soundtrack. I don’t usually do a final thoughts section on these ‘Best Games’ articles, but this list of the best SEGA CD games has given me a lot to think about. It sold just over 2-million units, which now makes it a sought after piece of kit to have in your collection.įunny how that works, isn’t it! Final Thoughts. The catalogue of games is mainly spruced up ports, and because the price was high, it didn’t take off as they would have hoped. SEGA inadvertently brought about the demise of the SEGA CD by not giving it as much attention as it needed and not conversing with the different factions of its own company. The 1st-gen Genesis consoles (that’s hard to say out loud) had a CD-ROM drive that stacked underneath like an old hi-fi system, but the 2nd gen looked a little more like a clip-on walkman.īoth systems looked pretty cool, but neither was destined for greatness. The CDs that these games came on had a whopping 320 times more storage than the cartridges of old, paving the way for Full Motion Video (FMV) games like Numbers 12 and 11 on our list. The SEGA CD add-on was big news back in the 90s, giving gamers the chance to upgrade their SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive and play a whole bunch of new and exciting titles, as well as remakes of the best Sega Genesis games with enhanced graphics thanks to the faster central processing unit. Sega CD add-ons for the 1st and 2nd Generation Genesis/Mega Drive consoles About The Sega CD Rebel Assault is a must-have title for Star Wars fans, especially for fans of the Rogue Squadron series. The pre-rendered areas, accompanied by continuous dialogue from your other fighter pilots, really help to draw you into the storyline and take your mind away from the recycling bin schedule and up into space. The game feels like Lylat Wars in the Star Wars universe. This is the first CD-Rom game that Lucas Arts ever made, and it even has a few digitised scenes from the original movies in it as well. And as Rookie One, I finally fulfilled that dream. The sounds of space battle on any Star Wars game make me so excited, and Star Wars: Rebel Assault is one of my favourite rail shooter games of all time.Īt least you’re not called ‘Dogmeat’ in this one! Credit: PocketmagsĪs a kid, I always wished that I could have been a space pilot fighting in the legendary Galactic War. A game that involves blasting down Tie-Fighters from the cockpit of an X-Wing will always have a place in this list of the best Sega CD games.

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