From: Scott.Thomas@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Sega CD Rom
X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan  3 1993
Date: 20 Jan 93  05:10:20

>From:    Richard John Rauser
>To:      All                                    Msg #119,
>Jan-19-93 08:12PM
>Subject: What would make me get a Sega CD
>
>Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
>From: rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser)
>Message-ID: <rauser.727503124@sfu.ca>
>Newsgroups: rec.games.video
>
>
>
>
>    First of all, they'd have to slash the price in half. I'm
>not paying
>$400.00 (Canadian) for the dumb thing.
>
>    Then, get RID of Sol-Feace, Sherlock, and the stupid
>"Classics" pack-in cart. Oh, well you're at it, get rid of the
>idiotic CD+G disc as well. Doesn't Sega know that CD+G NEVER
>caught on??
>
>    Next, include some REAL games. Sol-Feace is NOT a true CD
>game, and
>obviously the idiotic classics disc isn't. No, include Wonder
>Dog, Sonic 2 (a true CD version, natch) and perhaps Batman
>Returns (again, the true CD version).
>
>    Finally, assure me that a lot of very good CD games will
>come out...
>I'm not going to buy a Sega CD system to play crap like Sewer
>Shark (the
>first part of the name is very apt) and the abominable Night
>Trap.
>
>    What my fellow Video Gamers think?
>
>    (Eagerly awaiting the Jaguar...enjoying the Super NES as I
>do).
>
>    Oh, before I forget, to all of you awaiting the Super NES CD
>Rom...
>forget it. Nintendo will NEVER realease one. They're too smart.
>
>--
>Richard J. Rauser        "You have no idea what you're doing."
>rauser@sfu.ca            "Oh, don't worry about that. We're
>professional
>WNI                          outlaws - we do this for a living."
>-----------------
 
Let's examine your argument here:
 
1.  Sega is not Nintendo.  They are not the ones that stated "we are gonna
bring you a 32 bit CD-rom for under $200 bucks."  I knew they were lying
through their teeth.  CD mechanisms are not cheap.  The Sega CD is a very
advanced, and quality product.  Just the cd-plyaer options alone warrant the
price.  It is fully programmable and has 8x oversampling.  I have went to my
local audio/video store to match it to a regular player, and was surprised to 
see a normal player with these options run well into the 280+ range.  Now if
you take into account that it also plays CD+G, and is a CD-Rom unit, $300
bucks American is quite a value. Granted Sol-Feace sucked rocks, but that is
Wolf Team.  I like Sherlock, and it was nice to have a classics disk, since it 
had 2 games on their that I didn't own.
 
2.  Night Trap is a very good game.  If you had actually played it before
giving judgement you would know this.  I own Night Trap and still get hours of 
play from it.
 
3.  Well the list that I got from a friend that went to the CES showed
something like 20 new games to hit the market in the next 3 months.  Not
including the 50 or so that was shown in EGM.
 
4.  You know why Nintendo has suddenly decided to not release a CD-rom?  No,
it is not becasue they are smart, it is because they never intended to release 
one in the first place.  They KNEW that they could not produce a 32 bit cd-rom 
that was CD-I compatible for under $200 bucks. 
 
Well I only have one thing to say, while you are stuck with your little 8,
possibly 16 megabit games, I will be living it up with my nice CD-Rom, not
having to worry about "they cut so much out of this game becasue of space
limitations".

--- Maximus 2.01wb