LGR - Sega PC Games: A Retrospective
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Taking a relaxed look back at a selection of my Sega PC game collection! They released dozens of great titles on DOS and Windows 9x back in the day and I felt inspired by Sonic Mania to revisit them.
● Titles talked about in the episode:
00:44 Zaxxon
02:05 After Burner
03:48 Daytona USA Deluxe
06:16 Virtua Fighter
08:43 Virtua Squad
10:26 Panzer Dragoon
11:48 Bug!
13:13 House of the Dead
15:45 Baku Baku Animal
16:50 Garfield in TV Land
18:34 Sonic & Knuckles
20:21 Sonic R
22:59 Sonic CD
24:01 Crazy Taxi
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● Music used in order of appearance:
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Genesis OST, Not That Serious 3
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I know this is going to generate a lot of hate, but I actually enjoy Sonic R. It was one of my favorite games when I played it via Sonic Gems Collection on GameCube.
When you realise that the standalone Sonic R box had a Y2K compliant badge on it. Ah yes, a racing game that needs to count it's own time. I guess it makes sense for time trial date codes, but really...
just a selection of my collection. that rymed
Ironic that, the first 3D Sega games I played, were on PC. And then I played the console versions, and for the most part, I to this day prefer the PC versions. However, some of the games were better on Sega hardware, and I agree that Crazy Taxi was better on Dreamcast. Thing is, I only got to play it once on Dreamcast. Daytona USA was arcade first for me, I did not like most of the console versions... but the PC did improve the look, even if it failed on the FPS. I miss the days of arcades.
FUN FACT: The person singing at 4:55 is Eric Martin. He is the singer and frontman of Mr. Big. And the crazy thing is that he did this after Mr. Big hit it big in the early 90's
mushroom hill bg music...
I still enjoy Sonic R too this day and genuinely don't understand the hate for it, I've never had issues with the controls and my main complaint about the game is the size, i just wish there was more tracks.
sonic r soundtrack is like the persona soundtrack before persona... good af
Sonic & Garfield is a crossover I wish happened mostly for the sheer ludicrousness
Sonic and knuckles seemed a bit brighter as well compared to the genesis, the music was definitely worse though good to see
Played Afterburner on a Saga emulator so it closer to the console version dam that was a good game.
no jet set radio? for shame.
I´m a Sega fan. I brought most, if not all, of those type of legacy games on steam. I played some of those pc versions, but I owned (I believe I still have) Virtua On. Great game.
Yo dawg, I heard you like Sonic. So we put a sonic in your sonic in your sonic so you can spin while you spin while you spin.
It's pretty crazy less than 3 years later we now have most of the Yakuza games on the PC along with Persona 4 Golden.
why didn't you cover the smash pack and smash pack 2? Smash pack 2 introduced me to Sonic and Comic Zone! edit: oof spoke too soon
Oh my God! This episode is a return to the happy memories of the past! Fun!!!!!
Would you ever review Sega Channel? I only have vague memories of renting it once as a kid. There was a Garfield game with a bunch of snow, some Sesame Street games to help kids with patterns and numbers, and an awful Barney game where you could just jump around until you won
22:44 sounds like a police car
Holy crap!!! Your "Crazzzzy Taxi, Hey Hey Hey!!!" Impression is SPOT ON!!
interesting that sega went to the hassle of composing a red book audio soundtrack for the garfield game... maybe the game was going to be released on the sega cd and it got cancelled due to the demise of the hardware???
I only just now noticed that the background music during the House of the Dead gameplay is the same as the music for Chicago at night on Driver 2
i was wondering if you had one of the pc with a built in sage megadrive
Watching while playing SEGA Genesis on the PC.
i remember completing sonic R as a kid. i thought it was awesome
I played house of the dead on an arcade machine in 2012 when I was 12 years old :D stubled upon it in an egyptian shopping center that still had those... really sad that I lost the fotos from that trip
Eu vim pelo zeroquatro mídia
you forget about Comix Zone.
Bug looks, sounds, and animates like a shitpost
That House of the Dead port looks almost like the arcade! Incredible. Way better than the saturn.
Hey..Are you guy's talking about Sega?...
Eu vim pela ZeroQuatroMidia.
Sonic CD on PC was the only Sonic game I played as a little kid so I'm glad to know that it was superior to the Sega CD version.
I remember House of the Dead 3 also had a PC version. I enjoyed this game a lot in the Arcade, and I was more than happy to know there was a quite decent PC version around, quite enjoyable TBH.
I played a lot of Sega Rally and Daytona USA's PC ports. Thing is, I still preferred playing them on my Saturn, since those PC ports had no Direct3D support for my Riva TNT and we're mainly coded to take advantage of MMX, so....they ran kind of iffy for me. When I upgraded to a P2-450 CPU things got better of course, but I was more into FPS's by that time and my interest in console games started dying out.
The Virtua games are masterpieces in their original arcade formats. Nobody came close to SEGA during their heyday.
If you want Sonic CD on pc get the steam port it is much better then the Windows 95 version
20:40 that "Y2K ready" icon brings back memories
He forgot to mention Sonic Adventure, which had its own port on pc.
Fun thing regarding House of the Dead. Try putting in an audio CD into the drive if you have the game installed. It'll play the audio disc as the game's soundtrack.
there was one other port Sonic 3d Blast.
Um wow... Afterburner DOS is terrible compared to the Amiga version. Framerate is still choppy but theyt got the visuals much closer to the arcade. Also for some reason Sega ported the PC version of Virtua Cop 2 to the Dreamcast Sega collection. Weird but there you go.
being a kid in the 90s was fucking great
i dont know if you can help me or not but there was this rpg game i played when i was younger and i found it at sams club and my mom bought it for me and in that game was a collection of sega games and one game i remember playing i dont know the name of it but i remember it started out with me picking a few characters customizing their stats and stuff like that and then the game started...i know its vague but if you know what game im talking about i would really like to know what it is called
15:22 Did someone say Garfield
Man I kepp forgetting RE 2 and 3 and FF7 were all on pc originally. Anybody play those first?
yeh but when sounds sound that good, i loved going to news agents and buying The new Dizzy Game for my Spectrum.. that was my week in late 80's, get pocket money, go local shop,, then i go home and load games all night with errors... ahahha but that my fav buying Dizzy games at local shop on tape!!! and beano comics hahah
If you want to play after burner on PC with better music and gameplay, Go play the X68000 version
Cyberpunk Zaxxon!
VF1, VF2, Sega Rally, Daytona, all great stuff.
The sweet join secondarily undress because judo biochemically move amidst a animated collision. woebegone, worthless drop
Thanks for not letting us hear the MIDI Sonic music.
Daytona has a MUCH better draw distance, not near as much draw-in as the Saturn version!
I Found This Unknown Re-release Of Virtua Fighter PC In The Tech Section Of... Get This... MY LOCAL SUPERMARKET!!! And It Was Dirt Cheap (R15) So I Bought It! For Some Reason, I Couldn't Find Any Information On This Re-release Untill I Found Listings For It On Bid Sights! But The Image Of The Game In The Listings Didn't Match Mine! Mine Said "Sega Series" On The Top, I Couldn't Find Any Info Or Even a Single Image On This Unknown Re-release (Sadly, It Isn't a Big Box Re-release. It's In a Standard PC CD-ROM Case) This Isn't My Only Time Finding Unknown Things, One Time I Found a Motorcycle Crash Bandicoot Plushie From Universals Studios For R15 (It Wasn't Of The Motorcycle Crash From Crash 3, It Had a Different Motorcycle Jacket And Gloves). I Couldn't Find Any Information On It But Except For a Single Image, It Was For a Ebay Listing Which I Couldn't Find Anymore! Let Me Know If You Know Anything On This Unknown Re-release Of Virtua Fighter PC
holy shit how much is a fully boxed PC copy of panzer dragoon worth?
Sonic CD is my favorite Sonic
Can you send me the following SEGA PC games: Daytona USA Deluxe and Bug!, please? Convert the two CDs games into .iso files!
Sonic R was also my first Sonic game on PC and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT, and OMG the soundtrack! Was listening to that all day.
nothing wrong with loving super sonic racing as a kid!
22:33 You mean... Sonic PC?
Every SEGA video games or arcade games was able to port on PC atleast since 1984 and eventually another one, unlike Nintendo, the port to PC was hard and sanctioned from other companies to want porting such as Donkey Kong and Mario Bros.
The PC version of Bug! looks more zoomed in than on Saturn.
Sonic CD on the Sega CD over here in Europe (or Mega CD) had the Japanese soundtrack. The PC version here had the US soundtrack, as did the Sonic Gems collection version. Needless to say I never played the Sega CD version so only found out about the Japanese soundtrack with the advent of NLdron.
17:24 BIRD UP
It just shows that for years, if you wanted to play games, you got a console. They were just better. Sure PC’s overtook them in later years, but in the 80’s/90’s you were so much better getting a console. I remember having Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and my friends PC version was utter shite by comparison. The music at colours were wrong, it was crazy bad when looking at what consoles at the time were doing.
That Baku Baku animal game looks funky
"Today I would like to talk about... "Seegaaaa"
I'd love a Taito episode! No one on youtube covers japanese PC games really
I loved Sonic R and i LOVE the soundtrack!!
Sonic 3 & Knuckles Title screen : I am speed
That Garfield game looks like a bad Ristar clone, despite the godly music and graphics
That virtua Squad game seems very similar to old 2d shooters like Operation Wolf.
Wow, that Zaxxon version. I used to play the C64 version. such a difference...
you should've at least gave a shoutout to the golden axe port. it's based on the genesis version rather than the arcade, with all the extra bells and whistles that entails (begginner and endurence modes and the extra final boss), uses the midpack sound driver (compettiter to ail/mss) for music playback, is the only sega dos port I know of with sound blaster support, and has loose sprites for all the characters.
fun fact: the replacement songs exclusive to s&K pc collection don't originate there. they are actually from the 11/1993 prototype of the original genesis game before a certain moonwalker was (allegedly) hired to compose music for the game.
"We need more friggin' Offspring!" Well said.
I had Bug! back when it came out, and it was arguably the only game I wholeheartedly regretted getting in my early PC days.
This Daytona is Daytona USA CCE or AKA Circuit Edition in Japan for the SEGA Saturn.
Hold up Sonic R was LIFE!
I need to get the diamond edge.
whoa. The address on the back of that Zaxxon box jumped out at me. I used to live down the street from there. Not when they were there, I'm sure.
15:50 did he say package or packwage
i feel like i had a copy of virtua cop for the pc i might be wrong but who knows really
I loved panzer dragoon and panzer dragoon zwei and saga.. on my saturn virtua series games is respelling of virtual by marketing to catch consumers eyes..
Did I hear sonic?
I really liked the crazy taxi 3 pc port
Cartoony /= Cute This is literally the first time I've heard anybody describe Bug as cute. ...also, it probably would've been worth mentioning that the PC versions of Sonic CD and R were the ones included in Gems Collection.
I had the Sonic CD pc version growing up! My computer audio was busted, but I could listen to the soundtrack on my CD player
Cool shirt!
Awesome video. 😎👍 I had a Sega Genesis when I was a kid.🙆♂️🎮 2:43 After Burner was the best, Streets Of Rage 1 & 2, and Midway Hydro Thunder (PS.1) I used to kill those Games. 😎👍
Actually, Sonic & Knuckles Collection has the beta music, not the Genesis release music
I've never heard such clean music from sonic and knuckles collection
I thought this was gonna be about the Mega PC :-(
Bug looks like the early alpha footage for sonic Xtreme
Never knew Garfield & Sonic had a package game deal back then for pc, man the nostalgia! Out of curiosity, have you heard of the sega genesis game called Viewpoint based on the arcade? Never got ported as far as I can tell, which is a shame because it's such a bizarre shoot'm'up lost to time.
Daytona USA Deluxe is just Championship Circuit Edition with an extra course, no?
I remember Jack In The Box had a promotion for kids meal with Sonic & Knuckles 3 with screensaver... I couldn't believe how awesome it was to play sonic on my PC, and then I bought Sonic CD at office depot I had so much damn fun! Good times...
I'm glad this guy owns a time machine to give us all these games from the past.
Bruh that SONIC R soundtrack is still on my head since I got my Saturn years ago
"The insect with an attitude!"..Man, that is soooo 90's, lol