Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1992 We’re in a bit of a bad stretch in the WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL series. Here we have the second of three Make My Video titles from Sony Imagesoft and Digital Pictures. This also happens to be one of the US launch games for the system. And [...]
Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1994 Sega spent many marketing dollars convincing all of us that Nintendo was for babies, that the Genesis was for the cool kids. And they did it with great success, obviously. But that doesn’t mean that the baby gamer market was completely abandoned. At some point in 1993 or [...]
Publisher: JVC Developer: Victor Entertainment Release: 1993 Despite the fact that the Sega CD didn’t necessarily set the world on fire sales-wise in any particular region, there were a handful of surprising games localized and released in North America – stuff you didn’t normally see on this side of the world. Working Designs can take [...]
Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Multimedia Studio Release: 1993 Nowadays when you get similarly licensed games across multiple platforms, they’re usually the exact same experience, give or take a few technical issues like frame rate or loading times. One of the great things about the 16-bit generation, though, is that was not necessarily always the case. [...]
Publisher: Sega Developer: Malibu Interactive Year: 1993 To say that the game of football had something to do with Sega’s success with the Genesis would be a massive understatement. The rise of console sports games in the west can pretty much be traced to EA’s John Madden and Sega’s Joe Montana 16-bit series. The competition [...]
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Absolute Entertainment Year: 1994 What do I say about this one? This…is…Jeopardy! Actually, you won’t hear that famous phrase uttered in the Sega CD incarnation of this long-running television game show. I assume that means Sony wasn’t able to secure the rights to use Johnny Gilbert’s voice. Quiz show adaptations were [...]
Publisher: Spectrum Holobyte Developer: Drew Pictures Port: Brian A. Rice, Inc. Release: 1995 I’ve brought up the idea of the multimedia frontier more than a few times in this series of posts. Back in the early- to mid-90s, the advent of affordable CD-ROM drives resulted in some very experimental games where ambitious developers tried so [...]
Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1992 I have made being a Sega CD apologist a full-time job, and even I can’t justify the existence of the Make My Video series. Here’s the 411. In each of these games you’re presented with three songs from the featured artist (in this case, Heaven Sent, Baby Don’t [...]
Release: 1992 OK, so this one isn’t really a game, but I still think it’s worth covering both because it’s an excuse to illustrate the incredible software bundle that came with the Sega CD hardware as well as a little snapshot of the multimedia entertainment industry in the early 90s. Among all the major promises [...]
Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Ukiyotei/Core Design Release: 1992 To say Sony Imagesoft had a spotty record on the Sega CD is an understatement. For every Mickey Mania in their catalogue there were one or two Cliffhangers or Frankensteins. Based on the license and the early images back in the day, I totally assumed Hook would [...]
