For a period I was amazed by my NGPC - was an a excellent fun device. I got a deal from lik-sang.com (was closed for selling Japanese psp's to America, even though some of the first orders were placed by Sony-USA). Anyway they had a brilliant deal of like $30 delivered for a pocket colour and 6 games, from some old warehouse stock I guess. Even though it was a technically dated device the games were all excellent and battery life was great. Got it before the gba came out, and even when that came along it was still in my opinion, a more fun focused device.
Think I sold it to fund my psp (think got closer to £60 which was nice ;))
There was some awesome tech on there - I discovered the site looking for vcd players and was amazed by some of the stuff you could get there like a hardware 'pocket' nes. I say pocket, the thing was huge, and ran off a camcorder battery even though the screen was tiny.
And that reminds me, I also got my gp32 from there - now that was a disapointing handheld!
I don't really miss their hardware, Sega shot themselves in the foot by releasing too much cash-grab junk over the 90's instead of focusing on their core products.
But the games they made still create this painful nostalgic twinge in my heart. Just HEARING the Dreamcast sound chip affects me.
Agreed on the nostaliga, but what cash grabs? The 32x and Mega CD might have been failures, but they were pretty innovative I think. The Dreamcast was also the 90s :)
Fair enough. The products could, and probably had, been made in good faith. But, I think the constant barrage of new products from Sega, along with the complicated hierarchy of how the products interacted with each other, burned people out.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 33.8 ms ] threadI don't really miss their hardware, Sega shot themselves in the foot by releasing too much cash-grab junk over the 90's instead of focusing on their core products.
But the games they made still create this painful nostalgic twinge in my heart. Just HEARING the Dreamcast sound chip affects me.
Sega releases:
- Master System: October 1985
- Genesis: August 14, 1989
- Sega CD: December 12, 1991
- x32: December 3, 1994
- Saturn: November 22, 1994
- Dreamcast: November 27, 1998
Nintendo Releases:
- NES: July 1983
- Super Nintendo: November 1990
- Nintendo 64: June 1996