Top 20 Sega CD Games

[digitalpress]

If you were "there" when this little add-on was released, you KNOW how big it was. Funny how time has really washed away the significance of the system and quite frankly, there's a LOT of junk on it.

What are your favorites? This is the official Roundtable Top 20! If you vote a game onto the list, you have to choose one to drop and explain why.

For a complete list, see http://www.digitpress.com/lists/segacd.pdf

For pictures of a complete collection, see http://www.digitpress.com/archives/segacd/

Cobra Command
Dark Wizard
Dungeon Explorer
Eternal Champions
Final Fight CD
Flashback
Keio Flying Squadron
Lords of Thunder
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Lunar: The Silver Star
NHL '94
Popful Mail
Road Avenger
Sega Classics 5-in-1
Shining Force CD
Snatcher
Sonic CD
Time Gal
Ultraverse Prime / Microcosm
Vay

[Kroogah]

wha...wha.....WHAAAAAAAT????

NO SNATCHER?????

Drop Eternal Champions and stick SNATCHER on there.

[Sniderman]

Drop Eternal Champions (YASFG - Yet another shitty fighting game) and put in Silpheed - one of the best space shooters I've encountered for any system.

[DDCecil]

Drop Flashback (ASOOS aka As seen on other systems) for Time Gal. Or drop Road Avenger for Time Gal.

[Postermen]

Snatcher is the greatest SCD game of all time, along with Willy Beamish, and the FMV games.

[BHvrd]

Drop Eternal Champions for Snatcher, the Genesis version will do for Eternal Champions.

Drop Flashback for Timegal. Flashback is great, but ditto to statement above "Genesis version will do."

I think that Mickey Mania, and Sega 5-in-1 should be replaced also, but not sure with what at this time. I think all games should be representative of Sega CD though, and not just slightly upgraded Genesis ports.

[Keir]

Since the only reason people want to drop Flashback is that it's done well on other systems why don't we just keep it? Or am I the only one who's noticed that the list only has 17 games on it?

[maxlords]

No Snatcher = sacriledge! Snatcherm at least on my list, is THE best game for that system! Also, you're missing Vay and a couple others. Definitely dump Eternal Champions, Flashback, NHL 94 and Ultraverse Prime/Microcosm.

Add:

Andriod Assault: Revenge of Bariarm
Silpheed
Vay
Snatcher
Robo Aleste
Rise of the Dragon

[Kid Fenris]

By my count, the list is three titles short. I think Snatcher deserves one of those spots, as does Robo Aleste. For the remaining slot, I'd throw in either Silpheed or Android Assault.

[beamish13]

the adventures of willy beamish

[batmanlivesatmyhouse]

The reason I always wanted a Sega CD when I was a kid was because of Dark Wizard. Turn based strategy, improvable armies, anime (for a preteen anime fan in an under-anime'd days of the early 90's, we got our anime fix wherever we could find it! Pretentious subtitle-only anime fans be damned! We only had Project A-ko back in the day... and only subbed!), and four different characters with different styles, I couldn't go wrong. (Though it does have the flaw of not being a turned based strategy game not made by Microprose or Sid Mier...) I finally got a Sega CD (what, ten years later?!) and it's still pretty darned good. Oh, and as a kid, I loved playing World War III. That I can't find (for a *decent* price!) Thank you, Sega!

[TheCrow]

My favorite 20 games would be:

Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari-Arm
Flink
Ground Zero Texas (I'll get slammed for this, but i loved it)
Keio Flying Squadron
Lords of Thunder
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Mickey Mania
Microcosm
Popful Mail
Rise of the Dragon
Robo Aleste
Silpheed
Snatcher
Sonic CD
Soul Star
Time Gal
Vay
Wild Woody
Willy Beamish, The Adventures of

Flashback was just as good on cartridge
Eternal Champions seemed to play better on cartridge
NHL '94 was just as good on Cartridge

[hurstman]

Snatcher was THE game for Sega Cd....THE only game worth a damn on that waste of money system.

[attilathehun]

To all you jive turkey muthafos crying to have eternal champions removed. Kiss my ass. I traded 4 complete games for it. They were dragons liar, timegal, road avenger and solfeace, and it was well worth it. Eternal Champions in 1995 Game Players Magazine was rated as the goriest game and the best game for the sega cd along with lunar eternal blue. The art is neat on the 3 FMV, but game play sucks shit! Remove Time Gal and Cobra Command off the top 20. FMV sucks and it gave sega cd a bad name!

[Kroogah]

You, my friend, win the "Holy Shit That Has To Be the Biggest Bump Ever" award. It's good for free ketchup packets at McDonald's in certain areas.

[Cafeman]

I missed this one. Thanks for the bump. I just reacquired a Sega CD a few weeks ago so here's me & mine:

All the negativity towards Eternal Champions is WRONG. It's the Genesis version that sucks. With the CD you got filled in more on the coolest sci fi story anyone ould have ever imagined for a fighting game. You got over 20 unique characters and they weren't clones of each other either. Many of these you had to unlock and it was great fun trying to do so. CD-spun rave music fit perfectly, and 4 hidden ways to win each match (fatality type things but bigger in scope). But the best upgrade was the fighting engine itself; the Genny version was all charge moves and was flawed: constant taunts killed your yinyang meter and you couldn't pull off the better moves. This was corrected in the CD version AND an action street-fighter-ish combo system was put in. I was a Trident man m'self. I vote to keep Eternal Champions CD on there.

Robo Aleste needs to be on there -- a great vertical shooter by Compile! I've been playing it quite a bit recently. It uses the Sega CD's scaling and sprite capabilities nicely as eye candy, good redbook audio tunes too, especially compared to most 16-bit game "music".

And where is Batman Returns?!?!! Good grief, anyone who likes Sega's System 16 type scaling must have gone berzerk when seeing the scaling in Batman Returns which was quite good for its day. It's the driving levels and the suberb engine running them that qualify this game. The scaling engine was so good it got reused in the Sony Cliffhanger game which had mediocre 2D platforming and AAA 3D snowboard levels as an ever-rumbling avalanche chased you down the mountain.

[RetroYoungen]

I too am glad that this thread was bumped back up, now I can say what everyone has been either afraid or has forgotten to say:

WHERE
IS
SEWER
SHARK!?!?!?!!?

I LOVE that game! So cheesy ("I hear you're ridin' with Ghost today, now THAT'S my MAIN man!" Pure cheese.), so funny, and such AMAZING graphics make it the best game EVER.

Well, maybe not.

It was fun though. Though so was Trivial Pursuit, simply because they actually encouraged cheating on the questions in that game. How horrible, yet horribly entertaining. But Sonic CD was DEFINATELY one of the best games on the SCD or any system at all, IMO.

[attilathehun]

Sewer Shark Hell No! Sonic CD Fuck Yeah! Sonic Cd has awsome game play, nice collors and cool soundtrack!

[jerkov]

I can't believe people wanted to bump Road Avenger off the list.....that game rocks. The theme song and the cartoon introduction to that game are awesome. I once heard a rumor that Frank Stallone sang the theme song, but upon beating the game it says the theme is done by J-Walk. Upon some research, they're a Japanese rock band that has since changed their name to Jaywalk, but I can't find the song for Road Avenger anywhere on the 'net.....does anyone know where I can download this song? Any help would be appreciated.

Still waiting for my copy of Snatcher to come in the mail.....got it off eBay awhile ago for $15, disc only. Sure, I'd rather have it complete, but I really want to play it and I think $15 is a good deal for a game that goes for like $70-80 complete.

[attilathehun]

FMV cartoons including road avenger looks nice artisticly, but plays like sh!t. FMV suck if it is a action/adventure/sport or a action shooter like Ground Zero Texas & Sewer Shark! Most FMV just can't cut it when it comes to gameplay. The price on Snatcher is nothing but a blue book gouge! I'm sure it kickass on any FMV!