What are your impressions of how Sega was regarded in Japan. What do you think about books like these? There are a bunch in Japan coming out often. Let's discuss!
I bought the kindle edition of the complete guide using my amazon Japanese account a few days ago. The disparity of popularity between the us and Japan was pretty striking, growing up in the us as a Japanese American. I only knew one friend in Japan who had a mega drive, and it was a really niche-y console in Japan at the height of its popularity in the US. It still has a die hard following in Japan, as there are these mega drive meetups in Tokyo that I’d love to go to one of these days. Edit: your videos are awesome 👍
That is cool! Yea I’ve heard of meet ups and there are some xbox clubs too. I liked this book because it’s kind of like the flip side to all those import sections of 90s games magazines. Funny though you knew one person who had it but it feels like it had a presence when you think about all the games, hardware and promotion it had. Thanks for watching!
That port was also on non tmss megadrives Europe and America. It made more uses than. Just a serial modem. Its used on dev kits as a debug port and also was used in its arcade version for connecting coin mechs etc.
It was the M2? I remember it being mentioned. Never saw one. It’s in the book in the American section. I always thought the CDX was more impressive as it was a portable CD player too
Awesome look at the Mega Drive, I recall ads for import games back in the early nineties and really not sure about what a mega drive was as a kid, I had heard of the Genesis but didn't put 2 and 2 together believe it or not, and in the ads I just remember the Mega Drive just seeming hugely popular due to the extensive line up of games, and just how expensive they where, and quite simply the games themselves, titles like Altered Beast & Ghouls and Ghosts where titles I only recognized as high quality arcade games., I didn't really nail down what a Mega Drive was ( a Japanese Sega Genesis) until the Sonic 1 days.
I’m sure a few people thought the same. It’s funny how until Sonic Sega was really on the arcade games at home path then just dropped it. Thanks for watching
@@GTV-Japan at the time I was more familiar with the TurboGrafx, which I considered next gen ( oddly enough it truly wasn't in Japan) while the Genesis was this real exotic machine me and my friends as kids considered it to be something only rich people owned, funny because at that point the TurboGrafx 16 was in fact more expensive but soon after dropped in price due to it's sudden lack of popularity, and seemed to lessen in value while the Genesis retained it's value, but yeah I remember fondly the days when everyone had an NES, and perhaps a kid or two had ( at least in my neighborhood ) a TurboGrafx which went for 199.99, ..and strangely no one had a Genesis that actually went for 189.99 with Altered Beast, ..but man I remember wanting one so bad as I would stand around arcades and watch ppl drop quarters into games like Golden Axe, Altered Beast, n Ghouls n Ghosts fantasizing about owning one.
I’ve noticed there is a bit of favoritism based on the topic of each video I do. Doesn’t matter what it is. Probably because fans of each topic search these out so they come in biased. Not that it’s a bad thing. Just how it goes
I did not even know about most of these add ons, really informative video Gaijillionaire. 12:25 I was so pumped to hear Battle Mania aka Trouble Shooter, my favorite game on SEGA Genesis. I feel that SEGA had the best sound out of all the systems at the time, thanks to the Yamaha chip. I still listen to SEGA music daily, some of my favorites are Ecco Tides of Time, Adventures of Batman and Robin, Alisia Dragoon, Thunder Force IV, Battle Mania, Golden Axe, Master of Monsters and Elemental Masters just to name a few. I would use the headphone jack as a kid, since the neighbors complained about the video game music once. I was wondering if there are stores in Japan that sells older video games and memorabilia, like Mandrake Japan which sells toys? Would you ever consider doing a video walking through the store?
I love the genesis/md sound too. I always thought the snes sound was too flat, not rich enough, even though for voices and certain Sfx it was better. I do actually work 2 minutes away from Akihabara and go there a lot. But stores are very strict about filming inside, some anyway. A few months ago there was a big ordeal of someone filming inside a sushi restaurant which you’d think who cares but the shop wasn’t happy. I did a video long long time ago walking thru a store near me that was kind of like that though
Cool Video, going to have to pick up a copy of these. Did a video myself for the 30th Anniversary ( Even scheduled the video to match the local japan time) . Surprised that more people here on UA-cam didn't do more to mark the occasion.
Hey awesome I will check it out! I usually follow the JP dates but to be honest, I think most people out there don’t know or don’t care. I do expect a bunch of vids to show up around August though
Sad but true. The US anniversary should see some stuff. An official MD/Genesis Mini perhaps! European launch next year, might do some thing else again for that when the time comes.
The only thing that bothers me about that is there will be so many lazy videos of like hey the Genesis is 30, you remember sonic the hedgehog? Oh that was awesome” or whatever that will have no effort or time put into them that will go right to the top of UA-cam. Oh well
UA-cam has changed allot in the last 4 years or so. It's getting harder to find new content and creators. My channel is a small geeky hobby channel, a way of giving back to the community. If some one else finds my channel & gets the info they need to mod/repair their console or learns from my mistakes, I'm happy. I suspect that some creators are promoting their videos through add sense. Picking up SUBs and riding that train for a bit and then doing it all over again when subs plateau or fall off. I have considered doing a experiment to test the theory out but I'd rather put that money back into the hobby. Daddy needs a MEGA CD model 1 :)
Well honestly I never used UA-cam until the day I started making videos and rarely ever watch anything unless someone asks me to do I have no idea what’s really out there
Another excellent video ! They released so much hardware for the system, very interesting. I don't know if it was successful or not but I can tell you that Genesis games compared to Mega Drive are less expensive. One example, Castlevania Bloodlines, us copy in good condition and complete go for about $100-$150. Japanese version is around $600 + last time I checked ×__×
Great video! Always interesting to see books about stuff that's not effectively documented. The XE-1AP is interesting, as its manufacturer (Dempa Micomsoft) ported Namco's arcade games to Japanese PCs, and made other interesting controllers as well. I used to own one, the XE-1 Pro, but sold it. I've heard that the AP is called by some "horseshoe crab" because of its design. It also had an adapter that allowed its use on the Famicom (XF-1, I believe). One thing I've been interested in, especially after your 2800 video, is the story of consoles that were big over here (particularly second-gen ones) in Japan. For instance, there's very little documentation on the stories of the Intellivision, Vectrex, and Odyssey 2 in Japan. Are there any books over there that would cover consoles such as those?
Those machines get brief mentions but not their own books. However I do have one just about LCD and LED machines and it is awesome!! I’m always at the bookstore so if anything comes out I’ll pick it up
Thanks! I’m a little light on Sega stuff because I was with a Nintendo site and so that affects things but I’m going to make up the difference in 2019! Sega! 🎵
So, the Genesis/Mega Drive was originally released on October 29th, 1988? In that case, that means that the Genesis/MD is a Scorpio. As a Scorpio myself, I'm glad to know that. Anyway, good video. With the exception of that one Japanese ad for DJ Boy showing the offensive-looking Black characters (the uncut versions of that game in themselves are a UA-cam video waiting to happen), I really liked the information and pictures of what I was able to see, language barrier withstanding. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. I make no opinion on those things and just show it as it happened. Actually my friend nefarious Wes did a video about the changes of that game. It’s really good
Someone else commented that it’s on the us and eu models but I’m not sure if it was on later model 1s as they had a few revisions before the model 2. Shame that the modem wasn’t sold outside Japan because it would have been real popular! As a side note all land line telephones in Japan are charged a few yen per minute to make a call, local or long distance so using that would have been pretty expensive
@@GTV-Japan oh yeah, definitely. I don't remember it on my US launch day Genesis, but it has been 25 years. The modem stuff does seem really interesting, especially since it's something we never saw in the US, at least not until later, with the XBand and Sega Channel. I'd be interested to know how popular the banking application was, since the Famicom had something similar as well and I remember it being fairly popular. Were there any truly online games on the Mega Drive? I know the Famicom had at least one, a Mahjong game.
It’s amazing to think that Joel LastGamer has a complete set of Japanese MegaDrive games including Tetris. Loved this console so much, I’m so glad I still have some of my Japanese games. This is so great looking at all the peripherals that we never saw here in the West. Great video mate
Mega Drive deserved to do better in Japan than it did. Forget third place, it should have got 1st place. Seeing the Terradrive I'd love to own an Amstrad Mega PC. What I'm more interested in knowing is what Japan's knowledge of Sega retro gaming is along with European gaming platforms.
I was a casual gamer when I was a kid. My first two consoles were the Nes (in 1985) and Sega Master System (in 1986). I liked gaming but at that time I played during the weekend's. It didn't help that I have a medical disability growing up (hydrocephalus plus I'm blind in my right eye). My parents often discouraged me from playing as they thought I would damage my good eye. Unfortunately, as I aged I was prevented from doing many things normal kids could do. I wanted to play football as a kid but my parents weren't having it. Further, I have never cared what my doctors tell me. I didn't care and did many things I was not supposed to do. Like getting into BMX tricks in empty pools at skate parks. This terrified my family and they couldn't watch me all the time. I used to get so angry when my brothers and sister got to join in all the team sports...I couldn't. Had it not been for gaming... At any rate, when I got my Sega Genesis in 1989...that was it. I became a diehard gamer. Never in the history of gaming had a home machine encapsulated the arcades before. My parents relented and as long as I stayed out of trouble and did well in school...they bought me games like you wouldn't believe. My homes (parents were divorced) became the hang out spot for the neighborhood kids. Further, my parents tried like Hell to outdo each other. From.that point foward (1989) I had just about every console that hit the year it did. I remember Christmas of '91 getting my Snes and Sonic the Hedgehog on the same day. I had a huge 16-bit shootout that lasted the entire Christmas vacation....Sonic rained supreme to me. F-Zero was amazing but so was Strider. It was an amazing time to be alive and a gamer. EA actually made games for gamers, Japanese RPG's were amazing, game companies battled it out for our money, and arcades were absolutely everywhere. Hell, every gas station and laundry mat from here to Timbuktu had at least 2-3 of the newest machines out. Thank you for making this and warming an old Sega fan's heart. You my friend, need to package these up and sell them as volumes. Oh my God, why didn't they release the Model 2 Mega Drive that features Red, White, and Blue colors here in the Statesm?! I loved my Model 1 Sega Genesis "High Definition Graphics" but I would have been all over that!
Wow what a story! I favor the turbo and genesis over the snes but loved the nes. Anyway I’ll always share what i find and that’s the difference I’m trying to make
@@GTV-Japan Well, I can most assuredly see it. This has to be one of the best built and grounded series I have ever seen. My fiancee and I are now watching the Phantasy Star 2 episode. I have my phone streaming it to a 70 inch 4K screen and it looks phenomenal! I will be watching every single one if your episodes.
I need to hunt these books down. There's something about Sega's hardware that so attractive. Sure, they made too much of it, but I wouldn't have hesitated to buy that awesome Pioneer multimedia setup back in the day. I feel like sitting back and letting all the attract modes play on my Genesis games to soak in that 90s cool now.
@@GTV-Japan That context is usually overlooked, especially from the US side of things. I always just figured it was what Sega did. They were always improving their arcade hardware in stages, so the console side mirrored that.
And Japan was flowing with money then. People dropped 50000¥ yen like it was nothing. It all went back to things made in Japan so they were just helping themselves in the end
I'm happy to see someone else who understands gaming of the past. Far to often people just obey what the all knowing trash heap google tells them. Even people who were alive in that time period. Thank you for setting it straight.
Retro Gaming released The Genesis/Mega Drive Book which covers the UK perspective. But they also put the Super Nintendo book on the flip side in order to sell it in the States.
Most of them are a combo fc or sfc with a mega drive slot too. In Tokyo I see a portable md clone for 50$ and a av model for $35. The real stuff is harder to get
Hey! Great! I am an English teacher and while it’s not the main purpose, I wanted to help people learn English from my videos. Actually more than 50% of views are not from native English speakers. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you again
Gaijillionaire really? Ahhh it very nice 👍 😅 I think you are a gamer or videogamer, your videos are very helpful , I am watching you’re videos everyday 🤗 congratulations, I was a professor of computer science 😅
@@GTV-Japan I just got the mega drive version. I can't get past the first boss. That's awesome. I got it at a big arcade and used game store in upstate ny which I recently reviewed if you want to kill some time 👍
There’s a kindle edition of the complete guide. You just need to create an account on amazon.co.jp and you can pay with any credit card as long as amazon supports it.
Good video. While I'm not a fan of the Mega Drive, I love the Saturn. It's my favorite Sega system. I'm looking forward to its 30th Anniversary to see if any company releases guides like these. I hope that you cover some of them, so I'll have an idea on whhich one to get.
I guess it is pretty easy to see why CD took off so quickly over there. Like, now we can karaoke with the song on repeat? I'll take mine with a built-in a Genisis please.
Early western units do have the rear 9 pin modem port. Not sure if this is an error in the perfect guide or in research, but as it was only used on the Mega Modem, it’s not that important.
It’s the time travel device in Voyagers which was on for one season in 1982. When the light on the Omni was red it meant something was wrong with history. It’s up to the Voyagers to make it right. When the timeline is back on track the light turns green. I watched every episode and it was awesome! Each episode has a history lesson in it and in the credits the star, Jeff would say to learn more take a voyage down to your local library because it’s all in books. There are tons of references to things I like that no one really gets on the channel but for the one person who gets it, it must be special.
@@GTV-Japan Ah cool, I thought you were referencing Reading rainbow. But wait he was a Star Trek actor with tng wasn't he? He would often say " it's all in books" or " but you don't have to take my word for it" I often repeat the later. And yes its cool one that one person picks up on it.
Had to come back and give this an additional view. It really is too bad (but not surprising) to see SEGA of NA getting political, but I do wonder how much SEGA proper realizes they’re alienating their fanbase/customers.
I never really thought the Mega Drive was a failure in Japan. I guess for a more recent modern example, look at the Gamecube, was pretty much in 3rd place in the west, still had a lot of games made for it. So really, just cause something doesnt fly off the shelf, doesnt mean its unsuccessful.
Mmm, tracks from Streets of Rage 2, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Thunder Force IV and Battlemania? Now your video does what NINTENDON'T!)) (c) the author of the 460th like
What are your impressions of how Sega was regarded in Japan. What do you think about books like these? There are a bunch in Japan coming out often. Let's discuss!
What do Japanese gamers themselves have to say about it?
@GHZ J2391 then I guess we’d be playing on Nintendo and Sega machines and there’d be no Sony and Microsoft hardware
I bought the kindle edition of the complete guide using my amazon Japanese account a few days ago.
The disparity of popularity between the us and Japan was pretty striking, growing up in the us as a Japanese American. I only knew one friend in Japan who had a mega drive, and it was a really niche-y console in Japan at the height of its popularity in the US.
It still has a die hard following in Japan, as there are these mega drive meetups in Tokyo that I’d love to go to one of these days.
Edit: your videos are awesome 👍
That is cool! Yea I’ve heard of meet ups and there are some xbox clubs too. I liked this book because it’s kind of like the flip side to all those import sections of 90s games magazines. Funny though you knew one person who had it but it feels like it had a presence when you think about all the games, hardware and promotion it had. Thanks for watching!
That port was also on non tmss megadrives Europe and America. It made more uses than. Just a serial modem. Its used on dev kits as a debug port and also was used in its arcade version for connecting coin mechs etc.
Oh cool! When I said only I was taking it from the book meaning that it was later dropped. Thanks for the correction
This channel is criminally underrated, so many good videos.
Thanks! Don’t worry someday they will hit at once like a tsunami!
The Genesis is 30 years old?!? Damn I feel old as hell 👴
You’re only as old as you feel! Oh wait..
1988 welcome to the next level,
2018 welcome to the previous level.
I like that
The "Wonder Mega M2" did get a release in the US by JVC as the "X'Eye".
It was the M2? I remember it being mentioned. Never saw one. It’s in the book in the American section. I always thought the CDX was more impressive as it was a portable CD player too
Awesome look at the Mega Drive, I recall ads for import games back in the early nineties and really not sure about what a mega drive was as a kid, I had heard of the Genesis but didn't put 2 and 2 together believe it or not, and in the ads I just remember the Mega Drive just seeming hugely popular due to the extensive line up of games, and just how expensive they where, and quite simply the games themselves, titles like Altered Beast & Ghouls and Ghosts where titles I only recognized as high quality arcade games., I didn't really nail down what a Mega Drive was ( a Japanese Sega Genesis) until the Sonic 1 days.
I’m sure a few people thought the same. It’s funny how until Sonic Sega was really on the arcade games at home path then just dropped it. Thanks for watching
@@GTV-Japan at the time I was more familiar with the TurboGrafx, which I considered next gen ( oddly enough it truly wasn't in Japan) while the Genesis was this real exotic machine me and my friends as kids considered it to be something only rich people owned, funny because at that point the TurboGrafx 16 was in fact more expensive but soon after dropped in price due to it's sudden lack of popularity, and seemed to lessen in value while the Genesis retained it's value, but yeah I remember fondly the days when everyone had an NES, and perhaps a kid or two had ( at least in my neighborhood ) a TurboGrafx which went for 199.99, ..and strangely no one had a Genesis that actually went for 189.99 with Altered Beast, ..but man I remember wanting one so bad as I would stand around arcades and watch ppl drop quarters into games like Golden Axe, Altered Beast, n Ghouls n Ghosts fantasizing about owning one.
It was the same for me. The TG16 was actually popular and even had game rentals! But by the end of 1990 Sega took over and NEC basically gave up
In the UK we also got the Amstrad Mega PC. Similar to the Teradrive it was a megadrive and PC, either a 286 or 386, in classic beige.
Probably the same specs to cut costs!
Why so much hate for SNES / Super Famicom in the comments. SNES and MD both great systems to play games.
True. I don’t hate it but I never liked it’s flat sounds and early games plagued with slowdown. That said the RPGs were great!
@@GTV-JapanThey're both equal to me.
I’ve noticed there is a bit of favoritism based on the topic of each video I do. Doesn’t matter what it is. Probably because fans of each topic search these out so they come in biased. Not that it’s a bad thing. Just how it goes
I did not even know about most of these add ons, really informative video Gaijillionaire.
12:25 I was so pumped to hear Battle Mania aka Trouble Shooter, my favorite game on SEGA Genesis.
I feel that SEGA had the best sound out of all the systems at the time, thanks to the Yamaha chip. I still listen to SEGA music daily, some of my favorites are Ecco Tides of Time, Adventures of Batman and Robin, Alisia Dragoon, Thunder Force IV, Battle Mania, Golden Axe, Master of Monsters and Elemental Masters just to name a few. I would use the headphone jack as a kid, since the neighbors complained about the video game music once.
I was wondering if there are stores in Japan that sells older video games and memorabilia, like Mandrake Japan which sells toys? Would you ever consider doing a video walking through the store?
I love the genesis/md sound too. I always thought the snes sound was too flat, not rich enough, even though for voices and certain Sfx it was better. I do actually work 2 minutes away from Akihabara and go there a lot. But stores are very strict about filming inside, some anyway. A few months ago there was a big ordeal of someone filming inside a sushi restaurant which you’d think who cares but the shop wasn’t happy. I did a video long long time ago walking thru a store near me that was kind of like that though
Cool Video, going to have to pick up a copy of these. Did a video myself for the 30th Anniversary ( Even scheduled the video to match the local japan time) . Surprised that more people here on UA-cam didn't do more to mark the occasion.
Hey awesome I will check it out! I usually follow the JP dates but to be honest, I think most people out there don’t know or don’t care. I do expect a bunch of vids to show up around August though
Sad but true. The US anniversary should see some stuff. An official MD/Genesis Mini perhaps! European launch next year, might do some thing else again for that when the time comes.
The only thing that bothers me about that is there will be so many lazy videos of like hey the Genesis is 30, you remember sonic the hedgehog? Oh that was awesome” or whatever that will have no effort or time put into them that will go right to the top of UA-cam. Oh well
UA-cam has changed allot in the last 4 years or so. It's getting harder to find new content and creators. My channel is a small geeky hobby channel, a way of giving back to the community. If some one else finds my channel & gets the info they need to mod/repair their console or learns from my mistakes, I'm happy. I suspect that some creators are promoting their videos through add sense. Picking up SUBs and riding that train for a bit and then doing it all over again when subs plateau or fall off. I have considered doing a experiment to test the theory out but I'd rather put that money back into the hobby. Daddy needs a MEGA CD model 1 :)
Well honestly I never used UA-cam until the day I started making videos and rarely ever watch anything unless someone asks me to do I have no idea what’s really out there
Another excellent video ! They released so much hardware for the system, very interesting.
I don't know if it was successful or not but I can tell you that Genesis games compared to Mega Drive are less expensive.
One example, Castlevania Bloodlines, us copy in good condition and complete go for about $100-$150.
Japanese version is around $600 + last time I checked ×__×
To think the MD was a success but Genesis games were printed in the millions
Duuuuude....this was so cool....I can't believe this video doesn't have more views!!
It’s pretty new still. But it’s a higher view count than on average. Thanks for coming back!
I loved this episode....the channel that does what the others dont
Great video! Always interesting to see books about stuff that's not effectively documented. The XE-1AP is interesting, as its manufacturer (Dempa Micomsoft) ported Namco's arcade games to Japanese PCs, and made other interesting controllers as well. I used to own one, the XE-1 Pro, but sold it. I've heard that the AP is called by some "horseshoe crab" because of its design. It also had an adapter that allowed its use on the Famicom (XF-1, I believe).
One thing I've been interested in, especially after your 2800 video, is the story of consoles that were big over here (particularly second-gen ones) in Japan. For instance, there's very little documentation on the stories of the Intellivision, Vectrex, and Odyssey 2 in Japan. Are there any books over there that would cover consoles such as those?
Those machines get brief mentions but not their own books. However I do have one just about LCD and LED machines and it is awesome!! I’m always at the bookstore so if anything comes out I’ll pick it up
I love the Genesis/mega drive! Your channel totally does what others don't haha!
Thanks! I’m a little light on Sega stuff because I was with a Nintendo site and so that affects things but I’m going to make up the difference in 2019!
Sega! 🎵
That was awesome, and the Norm Macdonald throwback Frank Stallone but was icing on the cake. 🤙
I see you're a man of culture as well!
So, the Genesis/Mega Drive was originally released on October 29th, 1988? In that case, that means that the Genesis/MD is a Scorpio. As a Scorpio myself, I'm glad to know that. Anyway, good video. With the exception of that one Japanese ad for DJ Boy showing the offensive-looking Black characters (the uncut versions of that game in themselves are a UA-cam video waiting to happen), I really liked the information and pictures of what I was able to see, language barrier withstanding. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. I make no opinion on those things and just show it as it happened. Actually my friend nefarious Wes did a video about the changes of that game. It’s really good
Your channel is so great!
thanks friend!
I have all of the internals from the Sega/Aiwa Megadrive Karaoke system. Found a busted up unit in the trash. Looked important so I kept the boards.
thats cool!
what was that mystery port on the back of the 1st-gen Japanese Mega Drive????
Oh! It's a Modem serial port! How awesome!
Someone else commented that it’s on the us and eu models but I’m not sure if it was on later model 1s as they had a few revisions before the model 2. Shame that the modem wasn’t sold outside Japan because it would have been real popular! As a side note all land line telephones in Japan are charged a few yen per minute to make a call, local or long distance so using that would have been pretty expensive
@@GTV-Japan oh yeah, definitely. I don't remember it on my US launch day Genesis, but it has been 25 years.
The modem stuff does seem really interesting, especially since it's something we never saw in the US, at least not until later, with the XBand and Sega Channel. I'd be interested to know how popular the banking application was, since the Famicom had something similar as well and I remember it being fairly popular. Were there any truly online games on the Mega Drive? I know the Famicom had at least one, a Mahjong game.
I don’t think they were popular. You can’t do it on a modern game. But in the bubble I think just tried to sell anything
I love Sega. This is a great video!
Thanks! I’ll be making more Sega and less Nintendo as things go on
3:31; I assume this also includes games made for the Mega-LD PAC add-on for the Pioneer Laser Active.
there is a text only list of the 15 or so games they made, yeah
It’s amazing to think that Joel LastGamer has a complete set of Japanese MegaDrive games including Tetris. Loved this console so much, I’m so glad I still have some of my Japanese games. This is so great looking at all the peripherals that we never saw here in the West. Great video mate
Remind me later I’ll give you the book someday!
Nice one.
@10:49 lol Norm MacDonald joke
Mega Drive deserved to do better in Japan than it did. Forget third place, it should have got 1st place. Seeing the Terradrive I'd love to own an Amstrad Mega PC.
What I'm more interested in knowing is what Japan's knowledge of Sega retro gaming is along with European gaming platforms.
Unfortunately it was still a time where thee machines were too much for the userbase
@@GTV-Japan Its surprising Sega continued making consoles but NEC didn't considering they were doing better in Japan than Sega.
I was a casual gamer when I was a kid. My first two consoles were the Nes (in 1985) and Sega Master System (in 1986). I liked gaming but at that time I played during the weekend's. It didn't help that I have a medical disability growing up (hydrocephalus plus I'm blind in my right eye). My parents often discouraged me from playing as they thought I would damage my good eye.
Unfortunately, as I aged I was prevented from doing many things normal kids could do. I wanted to play football as a kid but my parents weren't having it. Further, I have never cared what my doctors tell me. I didn't care and did many things I was not supposed to do. Like getting into BMX tricks in empty pools at skate parks. This terrified my family and they couldn't watch me all the time. I used to get so angry when my brothers and sister got to join in all the team sports...I couldn't. Had it not been for gaming...
At any rate, when I got my Sega Genesis in 1989...that was it. I became a diehard gamer. Never in the history of gaming had a home machine encapsulated the arcades before. My parents relented and as long as I stayed out of trouble and did well in school...they bought me games like you wouldn't believe. My homes (parents were divorced) became the hang out spot for the neighborhood kids. Further, my parents tried like Hell to outdo each other. From.that point foward (1989) I had just about every console that hit the year it did.
I remember Christmas of '91 getting my Snes and Sonic the Hedgehog on the same day. I had a huge 16-bit shootout that lasted the entire Christmas vacation....Sonic rained supreme to me. F-Zero was amazing but so was Strider. It was an amazing time to be alive and a gamer. EA actually made games for gamers, Japanese RPG's were amazing, game companies battled it out for our money, and arcades were absolutely everywhere. Hell, every gas station and laundry mat from here to Timbuktu had at least 2-3 of the newest machines out.
Thank you for making this and warming an old Sega fan's heart. You my friend, need to package these up and sell them as volumes.
Oh my God, why didn't they release the Model 2 Mega Drive that features Red, White, and Blue colors here in the Statesm?! I loved my Model 1 Sega Genesis "High Definition Graphics" but I would have been all over that!
Wow what a story! I favor the turbo and genesis over the snes but loved the nes. Anyway I’ll always share what i find and that’s the difference I’m trying to make
@@GTV-Japan
Well, I can most assuredly see it. This has to be one of the best built and grounded series I have ever seen. My fiancee and I are now watching the Phantasy Star 2 episode. I have my phone streaming it to a 70 inch 4K screen and it looks phenomenal! I will be watching every single one if your episodes.
Sinn0100 wow nice! I hope it gives you an enjoyable time
I need to hunt these books down. There's something about Sega's hardware that so attractive. Sure, they made too much of it, but I wouldn't have hesitated to buy that awesome Pioneer multimedia setup back in the day. I feel like sitting back and letting all the attract modes play on my Genesis games to soak in that 90s cool now.
People don’t see that all that hardware was a result of Japan’s boom economy. Which in it’s time made sense to do business that way
@@GTV-Japan That context is usually overlooked, especially from the US side of things. I always just figured it was what Sega did. They were always improving their arcade hardware in stages, so the console side mirrored that.
And Japan was flowing with money then. People dropped 50000¥ yen like it was nothing. It all went back to things made in Japan so they were just helping themselves in the end
I'm happy to see someone else who understands gaming of the past. Far to often people just obey what the all knowing trash heap google tells them. Even people who were alive in that time period.
Thank you for setting it straight.
now, who could those people be?
Every person who knows mario 64's development knows that Miyamoto used the analog controller making mario 64
Oh. I didn’t know that
Man I wish that SEGA of America would put out a few books similar to these
I know, but they just leave it up to fans to make them
@@GTV-Japan like Hardcore Gaming 101 ???
Yea exactly. There was one put out 2-3 years ago but I don’t know who made it. I know there’s lots of Nintendo ones too
Check out Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works from Read Only Memory.
Retro Gaming released The Genesis/Mega Drive Book which covers the UK perspective. But they also put the Super Nintendo book on the flip side in order to sell it in the States.
How popular are cheap Chinese Genesis' in Japan? They might not be great hardware, but I love being able to buy a Sega Genesis at a drug store :)
Most of them are a combo fc or sfc with a mega drive slot too. In Tokyo I see a portable md clone for 50$ and a av model for $35. The real stuff is harder to get
@@GTV-Japan awesome.
Wow! Karaoke! Guess that isn't surprising actually...
Nope! I’m more surprised it’s not on ps4
thank you, Whit this video I am learning english......I like this video
Hey! Great! I am an English teacher and while it’s not the main purpose, I wanted to help people learn English from my videos. Actually more than 50% of views are not from native English speakers. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you again
Gaijillionaire really? Ahhh it very nice 👍 😅 I think you are a gamer or videogamer, your videos are very helpful , I am watching you’re videos everyday 🤗 congratulations, I was a professor of computer science 😅
Oh thanks so much. I went to school for computer science so it’s funny how life changes what you plan. Please talk anytime
Gaijillionaire I do not understand why you have few subscribers, you’re videos are amazing 😱 I also have a UA-cam channel
Thanks but I don’t know why. It’s like music, what’s popular isn’t good and what’s good isn’t popular I guess
Wait, Demon Kogure was in DJ Boy????
Mm hmm! You know it!
@@GTV-Japan I just got the mega drive version. I can't get past the first boss. That's awesome. I got it at a big arcade and used game store in upstate ny which I recently reviewed if you want to kill some time 👍
I like that kind of stuff. I saw that on the feed today but I’m not on WiFi now. Always on the train! I’ll check it when I can
@@GTV-Japan thanks man!
Sonic The Hedgehog Is My Favourite Game
Me too
Yes
Sonic 2 fan here! 😊
I would love to get my hands on a Lazer Active.
Yea but the top tier ebeggars already have them ha ha
What game is the music from at 9:00 it’s pretty cool
Thunder Force IV!
Hmm, where could one get these Japanese books? :D
Amazon Japan probably or try eBay. They are still in bookstores here. I got mine in August but saw one yesterday
There’s a kindle edition of the complete guide. You just need to create an account on amazon.co.jp and you can pay with any credit card as long as amazon supports it.
Sega genesis is my favorite only console I play
Awesome
I love the deep cuts in the background. I much prefer the Genesis synthesizer to the SNES.
same! SNES music was very flat, even if it could make more sounds
@@GTV-Japan SNES has a few gems, but it could never churn out a soundtrack like Revenge of Shinobi III, or the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Cheers!
This music is some of my favorite songs especially chemical zone
2612, baby!
Thunderforce 4 music on the genesis put the snes sound into shame.
Good video.
While I'm not a fan of the Mega Drive, I love the Saturn. It's my favorite Sega system.
I'm looking forward to its 30th Anniversary to see if any company releases guides like these.
I hope that you cover some of them, so I'll have an idea on whhich one to get.
They always release these kind of books. I’ve seen Saturn guides before. Maybe I’ll grab the next one
I guess it is pretty easy to see why CD took off so quickly over there. Like, now we can karaoke with the song on repeat? I'll take mine with a built-in a Genisis please.
Ha ha yeah how funny the 90s were. I think that’s also how they got away with charging extra because it’s another feature
Early western units do have the rear 9 pin modem port. Not sure if this is an error in the perfect guide or in research, but as it was only used on the Mega Modem, it’s not that important.
I think the perfect guide may not be truly perfect...
What's the music at 12:25?
Trouble shooter stage 2
Ha!!I see what you did there. " It's all in books"
And the Omni isn’t supposed to go past 1970!
@@GTV-Japan Not sure what an omni is. Is it something to do with a King of fighters? Or is it the car?
It’s the time travel device in Voyagers which was on for one season in 1982. When the light on the Omni was red it meant something was wrong with history. It’s up to the Voyagers to make it right. When the timeline is back on track the light turns green. I watched every episode and it was awesome! Each episode has a history lesson in it and in the credits the star, Jeff would say to learn more take a voyage down to your local library because it’s all in books. There are tons of references to things I like that no one really gets on the channel but for the one person who gets it, it must be special.
@@GTV-Japan Ah cool, I thought you were referencing Reading rainbow. But wait he was a Star Trek actor with tng wasn't he? He would often say " it's all in books" or " but you don't have to take my word for it" I often repeat the later. And yes its cool one that one person picks up on it.
I never saw reading rainbow but it’s possible it was said there too
Where can I find the ebook or pdf of this guide?
I don’t think there is one. I never scanned the whole thing. Sorry!
Cool shit
Thanks pal!
Had to come back and give this an additional view. It really is too bad (but not surprising) to see SEGA of NA getting political, but I do wonder how much SEGA proper realizes they’re alienating their fanbase/customers.
Japanese corporations really don’t care. It’s trye
i love sonic games and gunstar heroes!
They had so many good games
@@GTV-Japan yeah dude
Why didn't you work for Sega then??? 😂😂
I never really thought the Mega Drive was a failure in Japan. I guess for a more recent modern example, look at the Gamecube, was pretty much in 3rd place in the west, still had a lot of games made for it.
So really, just cause something doesnt fly off the shelf, doesnt mean its unsuccessful.
Yes!! This is the point I’ve been trying to make! Thanks for watching 🦔
@GHZ J2391 then it would have sold a lot more units
Mmm, tracks from Streets of Rage 2, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Thunder Force IV and Battlemania? Now your video does what NINTENDON'T!))
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Woohoo
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When I feel heavy metal