<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=250603.msg12406373#msg12406373">Quote from: RPG33K on 12-06-2016, 19:42:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You a Sega fan too? I am the Sega historian. I will always be a Sega fan. Also, Sony beat Sega actually. It was in large part to the success of the PS2 which sank market interest in the Dreamcast. Combined with the failure and huge costs and losses of the Saturn which contributed heavily to the very delicate situation Sega found themselves in at the turn of the century. With the final nail being a difficulty in winning back consumer confidence from the Sega CD to the Saturn.<br/><br/>But in my opinion, Sega of Japan killed Sega. The rise of Playstation as a competitor? Due to Sega of Japan(and Nintendo) Shoving the Saturn down Sega of NA's throat while sinking the popular but aging Genesis and shooting down a joint Sega NA and Sony console deal? Sega of Japan again. Sega of NA attempting to entice Microsoft to buy Sega as a last chance at a bail out? Sunk by Sega of Japan.<br/><br/>I will hand SNK one thing. They did make a moderately successful game console. Capcom never did that. Don't believe me? Here it is.<br/><br/>(http://www.thegameconsole.com/snk-neo-geo/snk-neo-geo.jpg)<br/><br/>Adam Koralik covers it pretty well in a video on Youtube. Here it is. He has many interesting videos on gaming.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I am indeed a Sega Fan... kinda once I hit teen age. We had a NES in my house when I was in grade school, I remember mastering Zelda, Dragon Warrior/Quest 1 through 4, Final Fantasy, Crystalis and tetris and solomon's Key. We has a super nintendo but I pretty much stuck to Final Fantasy II/IV and Final Fantasy III/VI, Ogre Battle (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that game), Breath of Fire 1 and 2 and Earthbound.<br/><br/>When I moved to Indiana from Arizona, it was no longer a 2 hour trip to a mall, I bought the sega gensis, the sega 32x and the Sega CD. I was after role playing games because that's what I played. I specifically bought Sega CD for Lunar. I then purchased the Saturn and I seem to recall Dreamcast at about the same time as I bought the Playstation and Nintendo 64. I was largely dissapointed in the N64, since I wasn't good enough to play Zelda or Super Mario. My brother had spent time mastering fighting games at his friends as well as platformers, the most complex move I knew was for Sabin's Bum Rush, which I couldn't pull off all the darn time anyway, in FF VI. Since I was friends with the store manager at my Electronics Boutigque, before the GameStop days, he sold me all his SNK fighting games for 5 bucks. One of the best 5 bucks I ever spent. :P<br/><br/>From there I was hooked on Sega games. I still have pretty much every nintendo and sega system I ever owned. Heck I think I have two copies of every Gameboy that came out... and I got a job in a video game store to cover my massive addiction to Roleplaying games. I still never got any better at Mario or Zelda... but I did get surprisingly good at Perfect Dark.<br/><br/>In Indiana we had an arcade called Sega City or Sega Central and it was almost exclusively every sega game that had ever had an arcade cabinet.<br/><br/>So it sounds like you've got the gamer nerd knowledge cause I honestly didn't know half of what you highlighted. And it makes sense. Sega would come up with great ideas, at least I thought they were great ideas, and then just not market them. I loved Sega Channel! So I appreciated them as a "you came up with so many good ideas, why didn't you market better!" type of thing. Cause it seemed to me that Nintendo just focused on one thing and they just did it. Like hand held market. You couldn't seem to shake the gameboy.