When the Saturn was announced Sega CD projects started dropping like flies. Seven months after the famous surprise launch the Sega CD was finished. I was a loser working video game retail that Christmas and let me assure you it was dead. It wasn't that every Sega CD owner switched to the Saturn in the previous seven months, it was that new Sega CD games completely stopped.
I'd seen systems die out before, but not one with the resounding crash of the Sega CD. It went from one of it's best releases, Eternal Champions, to slamming into a brick wall in no time. When Surgical Strike hit the shelves we had already stopped carrying the hardware and practically every game.
If the Sega CD+32X is considered a separate platform then Surgical Strike was almost the last game for it as well. The box offered a free mail-in upgrade to the 32X version. However, it was cancelled (and never available in stores anyway thus disqualifying it from this list).
Shadowrun, the final release for the Mega Drive CD in 1996, was nearly the last American Sega CD game as well. However, the US version was cancelled leaving the honor to Surgical Strike.
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