Numerous headstones populate the graveyard of half-step consoles—add-ons that broaden a system's technical capabilities and serve as a bridge from one platform to the next. Two of the most infamous, ...

While we might have to choose between either Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo for our video game consoles nowadays, back in the 80s and 90s that wasn't the case. Sega used to be a massive competitor in ...

Was the Sega CD a perfect peripheral? It was a Sega device made in the ‘90s, so no. It had some obvious problems—some self-inflicted—to contend with. However, 30 years after its debut, it’s pretty ...

Welcome to the latest installment of This Day in Gaming History! In this segment, we take a nostalgic look back at some of our favorite (or not so favorite) gaming titles and say, Happy Birthday! We ...

With the recent buzz going around about the "death of the Dreamcast", "SEGA developing for PS2", "SEGA Bows Down", and whatnot, many have become disillusioned with ...

Sonic CD was released 32 years ago on November 23, 1993, and while it never got the attention of its Sega Genesis cousins, this Sega CD title has had a lot more impact on the franchise as a whole than ...

Author Blake Harris still remembers the first time he started to see video games as a battle between multinational conglomerates. At the age of six or seven, he asked his dad to purchase the newly ...

More than just a classic action game, Sonic CD is an exemplary port of a retro game to a modern platform. History has not been kind to the Sega CD add-on, which has largely been regarded as a failure.