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I missed several of the Mega-CD's so-called essential games entirely – they were either beyond my price range, or simply never discovered on the racks, between countless copies of (the perfectly enjoyable, for one playthrough) Road Avenger. But the system itself is one that I will forever hold dear, its arrival in my bedroom coinciding with a budding romance – we'd play some of these games together – and my transition into adulthood, I guess. These games were more mature than those I'd had on prior Sega systems; they challenged me in new ways, and I responded to them with an affection that would soon shift to other obsessions, resulting in something of a gaming hiatus that'd last until the Xbox 360 came along.I took my passion for all things Sega further, picking up a 32X in 1996, but even with decent versions of DOOM and Virtua Racing to call my own, it was to the Mega-CD that I consistently turned, until university took me away from its permanently grinding, reset-to-open drawer. As awful a failure as it was for its manufacturer, the first sign that Sega were going to fall out of competition with Nintendo and, soon enough, Sony, the Mega-CD is the one console I'll probably always hold a place in my heart for. I can still see its green and red lights blinking away; I can still hear its home menu music and see the Sega logo spinning through space. I know it's a bit crap, really, but it deserves better than the loft. Maybe if we ever move to a bigger place, and then the kids leave home…@MikeDiver