 A reader is frustrated with being a Sega fan and worries that the publishers is never going to regain its former glory unless it's bought by someone else. I've just bought Sonic Origins Plus, which must be at least the fifth time I've bought the original Sonic The Hedgehog Mega Drive games, going all the way back to the early 90s. At that time the Mega Drive, and by association Sega, was the coolest thing imaginable and everyone I knew was deeply entrenched in the console war with Nintendo, even though I only knew a couple of people that even owned a SNES. It wasn't that we hated Nintendo, really, it was that we loved Sega and yet within just a couple of years they'd ruined it all and were absolutely embarrassed by Nintendo and Sony, in their attempts to switch to a new generation of consoles. One minute they made the most popular console and games in the world, and had tons of state-of-the-art arcade machines, the next the only thing they're making money from is PC strategy games and terrible Sonic The Hedgehog games. Sega has been an industry joke for pretty much three decades now and while I should've moved on long ago I still, somehow, can't really believe it. In my mind Sega still equals quality and yet I know that in reality that couldn't be further from the truth. Occasionally there's hope that the next Sonic game will actually be good, or that they're going to bring back one of their other classic franchises, but it never happens. Sega are losers and apart from those precious few years in the 90s they always have been. It's hard to admit that, because not only is that the complete opposite of how I remember things as a kid, but I keep hoping that they're just on the cusp of a big comeback; that they're going to have made enough money from all their boring PC games to bring back Golden Axe or Shinobi or anything else interesting. They even tease it occasionally, with things like this super game nonse){kind=link}
A reader is frustrated with being a Sega fan and worries that the publishers is never going to regain its former glory unless it’s bought by someone else.
I’ve just bought Sonic Origins Plus, which must be at least the fifth time I’ve bought the original Sonic The Hedgehog Mega Drive games, going all the way back to the early 90s. At that time the Mega Drive, and by association Sega, was the coolest thing imaginable and everyone I knew was deeply entrenched in the console war with Nintendo, even though I only knew a couple of people that even owned a SNES.
It wasn’t that we hated Nintendo, really, it was that we loved Sega and yet within just a couple of years they’d ruined it all and were absolutely embarrassed by Nintendo and Sony, in their attempts to switch to a new generation of consoles. One minute they made the most popular console and games in the world, and had tons of state-of-the-art arcade machines, the next the only thing they’re making money from is PC strategy games and terrible Sonic The Hedgehog games.
Sega has been an industry joke for pretty much three decades now and while I should’ve moved on long ago I still, somehow, can’t really believe it. In my mind Sega still equals quality and yet I know that in reality that couldn’t be further from the truth. Occasionally there’s hope that the next Sonic game will actually be good, or that they’re going to bring back one of their other classic franchises, but it never happens. Sega are losers and apart from those precious few years in the 90s they always have been.
It’s hard to admit that, because not only is that the complete opposite of how I remember things as a kid, but I keep hoping that they’re just on the cusp of a big comeback; that they’re going to have made enough money from all their boring PC games to bring back Golden Axe or Shinobi or anything else interesting. They even tease it occasionally, with things like this super game nonsense, but it never turns out to be anything.