From: drmcclin@uncc.edu (David R McClintock)
Subject: Re: SEGA CD EMERGENCY
Reply-To: drmcclin@uncc.edu
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:54:27 GMT

In article 9822@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP, cjfst4@cis.pitt.edu (Chad Freeman) writes:
>Even if you find one, itmay not work.
>
>We've had two dead units in two days.
>
>Of course, Sega has been real nice and is sending a new unit FedEx free of
>charge.
>
>For anyone interested, we bought the Sega CD at EB (on reserve).  The first
>unit was DOA, the second unit powered up but the disc tray would not open.
>We're guessing that the units were either a) damaged in shipping from Sega
>or b) damaged in distribution to EB.  Anyway, the store has had 4 returns
>out of 7 units shipped.  Hopefully things will be cleared up soon...
>
>
>--
>Chad Freeman 					mail: cjfst4+@pitt.edu
>			The end.


Yeah I bought mine at Sears and the disc tray wouldn't open up! Pissed me off that I 
to run all the way back there to exchange it. Did anyone ever lightly shake the CD
unit??? What are all the loose parts jigling around in there?? I thought something was
broke. It must be somekind of metal arm for the CD tray.

What the hell did they do to Golden Axe??? I loved the 2 player mode, why change it?
But as far as pack-in games go I am happy. Since I had none of these games and only
played GA and Streets of Rage once before and liked them both. When I first saw Columns
on there I said "I will never play that stupid game! Why did they include it?" But I 
tried it since it was there and I love it now! The 2 player mode is great. Since I
never player it before, it was new to me. I never liked Tetris and that type of game
but with 2 players, it makes it worth wild. Sol Flech is nice since I never played it
before. SH is nice to just see the Full Motion Video. It is not great at first (I am
spoiled by my IBM SVGA color monitor that can display 256 colors at 1024 X 768) so I
was not impressed. BUT, if you sit there and watch it (taking in consideration the
amount of colors involved) it really is not that bad. They move pretty well and the 
voice matches up good. The skin tone is good.

I just can't wait to see a game that REALLY takes atvantage of the CD system. I am 
looking forward to BATMAN RETURNS and SONIC II. But until then I think the pack-in
games will hold me over.


                    
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