I thought I opened up a topic for this, but please point me to another topic that has this already covered. I might have missed it or forgotten about it as this has been discussed before but not in a central topic I think.
the thing I may hate the most of everything regarding sega cd of today is how much shit it gets for all the wrong reasons. for instance. "it was a huge mistake to release this add on" and "it only had fmv games" when at least 50% of the library in the west was non-fmv. then is the problem that people claim that sega cd games were hated back in the day. well from living back then, owning and having owned many magazines this is another historic lie. many fmv games got actually good review scores and had lots of buzz around it. it was something entirely new and basically every game that had some sort of fmv in it(also pc) was seen as next gen. I remember well that owning a sega cd made you the kid of the neighbourhood. watching road rash with it's clips, or playing sewer shark. everyone was jealous. in anyway there was no negative hype at all surrounding fmv. no one was saying, "oh god I don't want a sega cd because it has these fmv games".
then there is the myth that sega cd was a failure commercially. for an add on it outsold the sega saturn in north america in a 2 year run(little more) compared to saturns 3 year + run. only in europe did it really fail. in japan 50% of all megadrive owners got a sega cd, which is the reason why sega of japan went with the saturn (cd-rom based) until late 1993. sega cd was doing very well in north america. sega were happy with it's figures until the senate hearings in late 1993 (this is covered well in history of videogames book). those hurt sega cd more than anything and the media backlash of mortal kombat and night trap. genesis though by that point had already a way too big marketshare to fail. sega cd hadn't though.
let's discuss here and hope we can come to a concensus perhaps to change the lies that surround sega cd's history for good. as I feel much of sega cd's current history has been made up in the past 15 years, because of sega's real commercial failures, especially the saturn and 32x to a lesser extent.
