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SiO4 posted...

Oh, you are totally cool, your convo has been okay.

It just really was an interesting time.

Honestly, I first heard about The Genesis on 1-800-USA-Sega, as well as Sonic.
Nintendo had 1-800-Nintendo.
It's what us kids might call in the middle of the night for shits and giggles.

I do really - really miss arcades though.
And ya, Sega kinda shot themselves in the foot with that one.
I do truly think Sega was a victim of their own success in that regard.

Sega did that a lot, yeah. The Dreamcast was amazing for what it was, at the time, for example. Great games, a built in modem for actual online play, etc. and so on, but their marketing absolutely sucked in like, 90% of the world. Sega just didn't know what to do with a good idea once they actually had it.