Thread 12013697

Was it a fluke?

>>12013697 (OP)
Saved by SoA

>>12013701
Succeeded despite SoA, once Nintendo of America got rolling they ended up running circles around them.

>>12013706
Oh and I forgot
>Massively cashed in on the fact that NEC simply didn't give a fuck about the North American market.

>>12013697 (OP)
As much an artifact of the late 80s/early 90s "cool" as Michael Jackson or Bart Simpson, as well as mid-90s "weird" like Ren n Stimpy and Lenny Kravitz.

Lightning in a bottle, literally. It was the best power to price ratio for a home arcade hardware for many years, up until the 5th gen. The Mega Drive brought the arcade experience to the livingroom better than anything else at the time, and developers took advantage of that power, and customers bought it for that.

>>12013701
>Saved by SoA
Mark Cerny specifically. Once he was gone SoA went to hell.

>>12013980
The creator of Sonic 2

Was it a fluke?

>>12013697 (OP)
Sportsbros chose it. The only reason it succeeded in the west.

>>12013980
Dick Tracy? Saved the Genesis.

>>12014087
No, it was the winner of the "can it run galaxian?" race.
Galaxian created the concept of tilemap that you can scroll in a pixel precision with sprites on top, every japanese arcade manufacturer ever including nintendo copied it 1:1, and the race for creating a home console that can do all that had begun.
Nintendo won the race by finding a way to make custom chips that can do it cheap enough and mass produced the thing.
Nothing before the famicom could run the arcades well enough, it was all compromised shit.

>>12013697 (OP)
It was a fumble more than a fluke
Gave big boy Nintendo a run for its money but drops the ball with big ticket add-ons
The Sega CD was as much as the entire goddamn console it was attached to and only sells to customers who already own a console.
Should've just slapped a geni inside the Sega CD and sold it as a new console

>>12014506
There was the Wondermega, but it cost more than buying an MD and CD separately because they added a bunch of extra bullshit.

>>12013697 (OP)
No, Master System and Dreamcast were both good for what they were, the Game Gear and the Nomad were impressive hardware wise and the former had some good original titles, the SEGA CD and 32x were the real problems, despite having a few good titles... the real problem was the Saturn, had it not failed that bad, Dreamcast would've succeded a lot more too.

>>12014120
thanks to advertising and nothing else

>>12014120
>no spine consistency
this still pains me

>>12013706
Nintendo of America were retards tying to make Baby Kong look cool and calling earthbound a literal shit game.

>>12015682
No just madden. Madden was the genesis killer app not sonic. Half a million dads ran out and bought a genesis "for the kids" when this dropped. The SNES hadnt landed yet and this genesis title was the birth of decades of annual EA sports dominance. This single game changed the entire home console industry.

Disclaimer: There was an earlier madden game on computers back in 1988 but they threw it all away and built madden '90 for genesis from scratch.

post flukes

>>12016598
I wasn't talking about sonic, I was talking about popular figureheads exactly like john madden and other ceplebs

>>12016598
This.

It's crazy how much people underestimate the importance of sports video games around here.

>>12016920
That's not a fluke. It sold because of long established corporate brand recognition
IBM wasn't a new company, they even helped Germany with equipment to round up jews:
>The Nazis made extensive use of Hollerith punch card and alphabetical accounting equipment and IBM's majority-owned German subsidiary, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH (Dehomag), supplied this equipment from the early 1930s. This equipment was critical to Nazi efforts to categorize citizens of both Germany and other nations that fell under Nazi control through ongoing censuses. These census data were used to facilitate the round-up of Jews and other targeted groups, and to catalog their movements through the machinery of the Holocaust, including internment in the concentration camps

>>12019381
/vr/ has too many collectors or people groomed by youtubers who use rare games as background props. The reason real gamers went for sports games was because a) they were normies and b) you got months of league play/seasons plus the best PvP content you could get on a home console.

Even goldeneye multiplayer in its prime was just a taste of what normal sports gamers had been enjoying for a decade already. The reason any console came with 2 or 4 controllers was becaus of sports titles. Simple as.

>>12019404
WTF I love IBM now

>>12014071
>The creator of Sonic 2
>shitty sequel
>made by a literal retard
Who would have thought, lol

>>12020004
Sonic 2 >>>>>>>>> Sonic 1 > Sonic 3

>>12020650
>>12020004
CD is better

>>12014120
>>12016598
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Sega_Genesis_games
>madden not even in the top 15

>>12016920
The real fluke with this was Microsoft securing the software deal over Digital Research