What was the first CD-based Console?

Yes, the day Street Fighter was FINALLY relesed on Genesis (Megadrive where i lived) was the happiest day of my life...

It was at the arcades, it was on bloody SNES, but it came to Genesis like years later and in better form (It was the Special Edition or something) and i was in heaven...

Never felt like that since the days of the old C64... Maybe the Gameboy...

 

Jag controller was alright, you never really much used the numeric buttons and it was fairly comfortable, if a bit large. Of that age of controllers, only the Megadrive really got it right, then Sony worked out the perfect general shape for thumbstick use and it's finally been got just right in the GC.

The amusing toilet-seat look of the CD drive (especially with the lid up!) I'm sure must have been Jeff Minter's idea somewhere along the way.

 

Ever since I played the first Street Fighter in Arcades with the super big rubber buttons (you really have to punch on them, ha ha), I hoped to play it on my TV.

And my hope was realized by my PC-Engine. It was easier to be happy with games in those days.

 

Wow, neat! What is that? Is it a cost-shrunk version of the PC-FX? Does this one play PC-Engine games as well? I'm really curious if you have any additional info on this.

 

I've actually always kinda been a fan of the 3DO Controller, (the Panasonic one, that is). Buttons were well placed and responsive, from my point of view. The headphone jacks and volume controls were nice as well. The only thing lacking IMO is that it could have used three more face buttons for fighting games. C'est la vie.

 

The Duo-RX was the PC-Engine based, not PC-FX. In march 25, 1993 the Duo-R unit went on sale to the Japanese public, further expanding the PCE. It was made to save production costs of the original Duo, by removing the headphone jack, and having a white casing instead of the more expensive black. Strangely, this system was a bit sturdier than the flimsy-feeling original black Duo. The Duo-RX came shortly afterwards, June 24, 1994, and had all of the features of the Duo-R, plus the addition of a six button controller.

A very nice history of the PC-Engine line is available here

 

Thanks for the link and the info.

Also wanted to add that I updated the links so pictures should all be working now. Also added a couple new machines, most notably the Pioneer and NEC Laseractive series.

 

I purchased one of the 450 CD-Is with a DV cart. Was pretty cool watching CD-I films on it, pretty good quality for the time as well, certainly superior to VHS.

Also had both the FZ-1 and the FZ-10 3DOs. Capcom released a 6 button controller for the 3DO that simply blew the stock model controller away, particularly for the fighting games that were released. All of a sudden SSF2T and Samurai Shodown became ultra playable.

 

Yeah, I've been meaning to get ahold of one of those, just haven't been able to scrounge up the cash, (yeah I know they're only like 5 bucks, but I'm really poor). I've also been thinking of getting the SNES to 3DO control pad adapter that lets you hook up SNES pads to your 3DO. The light gun for 3DO is terribly expensive, (usually goes for 45-75 bucks on ebay), and so I was thinking I'd get an adapter and an SNES light gun.

I still think however, that for most games that came out for the system, the Panasonic controller did a pretty good job.

 

I agree, infact for the majority of games on the system the stock controller did just fine, but for fighting games...

Just as a point of reference though, that is the Capcom pad I am talking about. Very very comfortable and responsive.

 

I have two of those (bought them a couple of months ago). They're not that good. The travel for the D pad isn't enough imo nor do diagonals work very well (probably related to the lack of travel).

 

So these are all old consoles or do we have some more also???

 

Well, there's definately different variations for NTSC, PAL, US/Japan releases of the consoles, (notice the 2nd Sega CD I posted was actually the Mega CD II), as well as some clones and combination machines, (just added the Jaguar Duo). But I can't think of anything else released as early as what's already listed that's a totally separate line of consoles.

 

man thats totaly bringing back memeories I had that early version of the sega cd.... I had so much fun with that thing. I remeber playing streets of rage on it, came on a cd with like 5 other games.

 

You just reminded me to go and try to play that. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my SegaCD to function properly. Frustration.

 

emulator + gamepad +tv-out

 

Yeah? horses for courses I guess. I never had any issues with the pad for fighting games, particularly when compared to the default 3DO pad.