[mikepurvis]

The Genesis had a peripheral like this in the Sega CD; it didn't sell well— mid gen console hardware changes of any kind are risky, but none more so than changing the distribution medium, where you risk bifurcating the audience and alienating those who only have the base system.

[wincy]

I really loved my Sega CD though. Shining Force CD and Corpse Killer (a FMV shooter) seemed revolutionary at the time.

I also had some turn based Dracula adventure game where you chose how to spend your time that was terrifying to me so I once hit the “rest” button in my Victorian era London apartment until it was 1994, which I thought was pretty hilarious ( Dracula would just immediately kill you when you ventured outside but 10 year old me didn’t quite realize how video games worked).

The PS1 didn’t really have those weird experimental FMV games but wow demo disks were my bread and butter for a poor kid.

[inversetelecine]

I had tried the Sega CD, model 2 I think that attached on the side instead of under. They always failed and we ended up returning them. I don't think it was the optical parts if I remember right, something about a poor connection between the two hardware devices.

Sega 32X worked at least, sadly it wasn't very popular either.

[actionfromafar]

The Sega CD / 32X branding was completely confused and ill-timed, too.

[mikepurvis]

Wild how Nintendo managed to mess that up so badly with the Wii U as well.

[actionfromafar]

Ah, the "Wii? My grandkids already have that, maybe I should buy a PlayStation, it looks newer..."