My kids will attest to this. These are my 3 highest games sorted by total play time on Steam.

Sonic 1, 2 and 3 + Knuckles add on... Try it. You won't regret it, I promise.

saga ? when did sega change their name ?

and unfortunally that sonic online idea sounds like exactly the thing they and other publishers would do

what if you dont like platformers ?
sonic boom failure ?
i thought the games ( and the tv series which has been renewed for a second season ) were doing well
the critics savagaed the games ( and from the looks of it rightfully so the sonic cycle seems to be back ...again )
but sales were strong

so what happend ?
500 + hours
...thats...thats impressive
after transformed allstars kinda feels been there done that to me

You WILL like it!!!

My younger son LOVEs the Bonanza Bros. And they're not available in transfomed.

no no i wont

i played them on numerous platforms including the megadrive originals
they did nothing for me

i cant stand platformers

Maybe you're right. Maybe they were already past the point of no return. But nonetheless it was entirely down to the suits, even if they had screwed the console over before it hit the concept stage.

not just the saturn launch date disaster sunk sega ( it sunk the saturn for sure the early release date came as a surprise for everybody including the developers and publishers
first wave titles had to be rushed and third party publishers waited till september pretty much squandering teh head start )

but the sega cd and the 32 X as well
the 32X more so it was released AFTER the saturn was already released in japan in 1994
and the 32X was killed barley a year later with sega going back on their word
in 96 sega also killed the sega cd and the megadrive to concentrate on the saturn

while this again made good financial sense it was a pr disaster
here sega was at it again killing their consoles unexpectedly especially because the megadrive was still doing well in 96
which alienated a lot of fans

even the saturns demis was badly handled

sega just let it die a slow agonising death in europe in 98 with a handfull of first party titles and a slew of imports
it was left to the official sega saturn magazine to promote the hell out of the meaugre offerings
while sega focussed on the dreamcast

as for upper managment sega of japan ( soj ) and sega of america ( soa ) were at each others throats during the mid 90's
soj wanted total control soa wanted a different direction
and it all came to a head when tom kalinske the head of soa resigned in 1997 ( kalinske was the one who speareheaded the megadrive in the usa and commisions thinsg like the sega sream and sega does what nintendon't )

this pretty much spelled the end for soa
soj installed bernie stolar ..and well most sega fans dont like him very much
he was fiercly opposed rpgs for one

sega well and truely died in 2001 whent hey pulled out of the hardware business but the first signs were there in 1994 in the form of the 32X and the schizm between soj and soa

Thanks for the history. :D Back then I had a SNES then a PC so Sega's internal difficulties kind of went mostly unnoticed by me until around the launch of the Dreamcast. So it was just really hard to understand how something so seemingly awesome got as comprehensively screwed over by the very company you'd expect to be supporting the hell out of it.

its off course a lot more complicated then that but soj and soa had a falling out and wanted to go in to different directions
in the end soj prevailled

What you might call a Pyrrhic victory.

I dunno about the games, but I was also under the impression that the Boom franchise as a whole was faring well.

Too lazy to look up sources stating so, though.

very much so
i cant help but wonder how sega would have fared if kalinkse didnt pack up and leave
mayeb sega expected too much
it wont be the first time a publisher is dissapointed by something thats an unqualified success otherwise ( see square and tomb raider 2013 )

Impossible to say unless you've got a real strong insight into how likely it would have been that SoJ would have backed down. No doubt either way it would have been highly damaging and the company would still have peaked in the early nineties.

What does this all mean for SEGA coming to GOG?