Once upon a time, I owned a Sega Genesis. Some time later, Sega introduced an add-on called the Mega-CD, which featured some games that had short videos (and not much else). I bought the thing thinking that the games would be much better than the Genesis itself, but there wasn’t much to these games. (YouTube has a clip of Joe Montana’s NFL Football on Sega CD… not impressive).
The one game that was worthwhile at the time was the one for NFL’s Greatest: San Francisco vs. Dallas 1978-1993. This game allowed you to call plays and then watch video clips of actual games between the Cowboys and 49ers. The clips were spliced together so that it was really a simulation. Thus, you could call a play for Roger Staubach to throw a pass and then watch Michael Irvin catch it. The concept sounded better than the actual game, but I got a few hours out of it.
Here is a video clip showing the introduction of the game.
I recall that there was an arcade game similar to this featuring the Raiders and Chargers. With today’s technology, it kind of makes me wonder what the tech folks could do now.
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