Sega 32X - Is It Actually Worth Playing? - Retro Gaming History & Console Review - THGM
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A man in a top hat, with a dashing moustache or a highly distinguished beard, reviews rare video games in his massive collection. Appreciate the finer things in life! Top Hat Gaming Man travels around the globe, playing the best games for the handhelds around the world. The best games are like fine wines and only get better with age. Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the Sega 32X, the history, why it failed, the games and most importantly whether or not it is worth playing today. Console History and Review. - Ігри
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I love your work but come now ol' boy that is NOT a proper "Top Hat" more like a Bowler hat, you got the cash don't be shy now. lol
Does anyone know where you buy RGB SCART cables for the Genesis? Every store I know of shows out of stock.
Hey now Bowsers Inside Story was great on 3ds
Er, Hail to the Queen?
I love the 32X and knuckles chaotix is sweet.
It is just a game you have to adjust to as you play... like most 90s games.
I honestly did not like the gameplay of Knuckles Chaotix, but I'll fire it up every so often(via emulation as I sold my 32X in the 90's to build a PC in high school), and listen to the awesome music.
I play it on my raspberry pi.. it's just a game you gotta get used to. Some folks don't got the patience for it is all.
It's a little iffy at first.. but i find myself just toting around the partner character most of the time.. seems to help make things less .. well.. chaotic lol
Even as a huge sonic fan, Knuckles Chaotix is meh at best. However the Arcade ports for the 32x are great.
@@TheOldKing1998 Kolibre is the real gem of the system.
its just SONIC CRACKERS redone from the Mega drive.
If only the Saturn was backward compatible with the 32x and the SEGA CD...
If only it incorporated a 68000 CPU in its architecture.
i suppose after the sega cd stack atrocity they was rather keen to down scale
ResidentXombie It was more meant for the backup and upgrade carts.
ResidentXombie no one asked you.
Nathan Gatten That would have been sweet.
I'm actually thinking on creating an open source hardware clone of the Mega Drive/32X/Mega-CD with the current proposed name being OpenNeptune. The hardest part is creating SH-2 clone, since that doesn't exist yet.
I like the idea. I'm more hopeful that someone makes a decent Homebrew game that really utilizes the system. Compare frogger on PS1 to Chrono Cross. Though these games were made on the same system, one was inferior (I did like frogger though)... 32x was basically all frogger games, just basic (still fun) but didn't utilize the hardware in the same way Chrono cross did for PS1.
patent is expired by now, no problem duplicating the chips. That is China's whole business model, and they don't even wait for patents to expire...
@@npcDroneClass chrono cross is an awesome game
Sir, your articulation on the subject of retro video games is so beautifully British it should be illegal. God bless you!
Fun Fact: A few years ago, some Sega fans were able to power the Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD & 32X using a single power supply.
Joey Parkhill retrogamecave.com
Joey Parkhill yeah it’s called the “Sega Trio”. Cleaner power and cooler. Look it up
@@emagid3599 Only America and Canada though.
*Nakamura:* The 3DO and the Atari Jaguar are the real threat!!
*Time traveler:* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"We come from the retro-future Nakamura-donno. You will need to sit down for these news"
I had a large number of friends in Japan during late 80s and 90s. Surprisingly enough Sega though completely in Japan at that for decades was still seen as a foreign company.
Well it was started as Standard Games by a 3 American businessmen Martin Bromley, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert in Hawaii in 1940, and only moved to Japan after WWII to serve American military bases, and then changed to Service Games, so can't blame the Japanese for seeing it as a foreign company for so long because that's what it was.
Sega started as an american company
Doom, Star Wars Arcade, and motocross championship were mad fun back in the day
@@davidfaustino4476 No.
I love my 32x, sure I got it for free from my uncle but I have 10 games that are all quality, plus the better ports of MK2, NBA Jam TE And Wrestlemaniac Arcade
I think most owners of the 32X got it for free from a disillusioned family member.
Armaron not true, my parents bought mine at launch, i know they paid at least over a hundred dollars for it, then we had to order the special cable (another 20 dollars) to hook it up to the model 1 we had. It was a disappointment from the start yet i still have it and still play it
You sir are my new favorite retro game reviewer, keep these gems coming!!!!
Nice video. I have a soft spot for this console as I have fond memories of playing it with my brother Christmas 1994 while he was home from college. I’d like to port an open source flight simulator to it and use the Genesis to draw the cockpit and the 32X to render the outside visuals. The two could work together to produce a nice game with good frame rates and fully textured polygons as I only need to render half the screen in 3D.
You had me until MK2. As someone who grew up with both the MK and SF series, MK1 on Genesis/MegaDrive being the first game I officially owned, I have love for both series as well the fighting game genre in general. Granted, there are some stinkers, but MK2 DEFINITELY was not one of them.
Richard, you left out the Mega-CD 32X games. I see this as an opportunity for you to give them more spotlight in a dedicated video. They are not "good" but they are fun! I really like & recommend them =)
I wanna get one so I can play Knuckles and Virtua Fighter
LSSJ Gaming virtua racing on it is amazing I only have that and vf and it's about all I want on it
Had it played it... virtual fighter looked and felt great at the time.. it's worth it.
Good show Top Hat! Great to see u picking up for the underrated Chaotix! That was one of the first games I emulated on PC in 200, being a huge fan of the Genesis titles. The game play was different to be sure but I still found it a great game with incredible graphics and music.
Great video! I just picked up a 32x and a half dozen games too! Doom, star wars, and Ungh. ...cosmic carnage. Lol. been having alot of fun!
For Mortal Kombat II yes, best version ever released.
The Mega CD wasn't designed to compete with the Super NES, it was designed to compete with the PC Engine's CD-ROM add-on and the never-to-be-released Play Station add-on.
I owned the 32X back in the day when it went on clearance at my local K-Mart, and had about 15 games I had gotten for it all under $20 USD each, but sadly like an idiot in the late 90's along with my Genesis I listed it in a local trade paper, and sold it off to fund a new PC build. Ahh the stupid things we do as kids in high school. So I will say yes if you can find it at a good price with all the hookups then it's worth owning, and playing as it helps filter the output of the Genesis Model II units to look a bit cleaner, otherwise just emulate it on PC if you can find the BIOS files needed to make it work.
Edit: On Knuckle Chaotic I personally did not care for the gameplay, but the music is some of my favorite Sonic music of all time, so I still fire up the game via emulation from time to time just to listen to the music when I'm in a bad mood.
Nice video, very informative!
My proper decorum friend,. may I say: Kolibri, Tempo, and Knuckles Chaotix...exclusives that give meaning and purpose to this tumultous, rotund hardware.
I feel like I made a smart choice with the 32x. I rented it for a week for Blockbuster along with Knuckles Chaotix. I was 8 years old when it was released and didn't think it was worth the months of begging my parents for, nor worth wasting on as a potential Christmas gift. Doing some housework for a while in exchange for a week's rental however was completely worth it. I was a big fan of Sonic games and couldn't pass up playing. Great game, would love to play it again soon to see how it holds up to memory.
I recognize that this video is already a year old but I frequently watch through your old videos and love them all. Keep up the great work!
Greetings from New Hampshire! Happy to see someone else experienced the magic that is Funspot!, which is still open today. :)
I heard that Shadow Squadron music at the end. Now I want to do nothing else but play that. Good memories of my time with the 32X. (Also yes, Knuckles Chaotix is a slice of fried gold wrapped in plastic and silicon)
I see top hat, I leave a like that’s just the gentlemen way to do it
Definitely not my favorite Sega console, or console add on , but i like it.Wasnt very well supported, but it has a few games i like. I like the 32x version of MKII, Primal Rage, Doom, and Blackthorne.
Knuckles Chaotix is still awesome to play today for me, and the music is unique! 🎮
One great 32X game you missed is Darxide - it's basically a 3D version of Asteroids, with great graphics for its time, developed by the same guys who did the Elite games.
Dope watch!
Kolibri is arguably the finest hummingbird based shooter available for the 32X!
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The intro music is inspiring as hell.
I'm surprised you don't mention Blackthorne on the 32X. I love that game!
Rocket knight adventures music... HELL YEAH!
The Mega Everdrive flash cart supports 32X games FYI. You can get every game on an SD card and they run great
I only first heard of the 32X at Toys R Us when it was already deeply discounted to $19.99. I remember only really seeing Doom and Star Wars Arcade for sale for it, which I didn't feel I needed a new system to play. Also I guess part of me saw it so deeply discounted and thought it must not be that good, which is only mostly true. There are still some games I'd like to check out though. The X-Men prototype with Bishop was pretty cool too.
Lol, Shenmue was also my first space harrier (and hang on) experience. I loved beating my high score (and receive a mini arcade machine as a reward from the guy behind the counter). I still have my DC and Shenmue copies, but they're in a box. I am looking forward to the HD release to play the games again :)
I've not yet watched the video, but had your gameroom tour playing in the background whilst I was cooking. As you finished and asked what people would like to see covered, I was literally thinking to myself, Tophat should cover some more of Sega's old systems, as he's been very Nintendo heavy recently. I was particularly wondering if you'd played chaotix through... Great British minds think alike eh?
I have played Chaotix through. In fact I intend to release an in-depth video on the game in the next few weeks.
Top Hat Gaming Man I realised this at the end of the video! Looking forward to it dude!
I remember seeing the box art for Knuckles Chaotix and fantasizing about that game as I played the amazing Sonic 3 and Knuckles. In retrospect, I definitely lucked out on spending my time with the Sonic games on the Genesis!
My fave system to emulate!
I bought the 32x when it came out and really liked it I still play it today on retro game nights
Mmmmmmmm fine wine good day sir
I guess I'm a moron, because I have always thought Mortal Kombat was better than Street Fighter II. I actually considered buying a 32X when the stores were just trying to get rid of them at super low prices. Even with it's small library, I just really loved Space Harrier and Afterburner.
Bill Gates If it's your opinion then it's not undisputed!! Marvel vs Capcom are great fun but 1 and 2 are FAR from the greatest of all time. Hell, even 3 is better. There is no such thing as the "undisputed" because everyone has their own opinions.
As for Mortal Kombat, I thought part 2 was pretty good but the rest were vastly over rated crap that couldn't hold a candle to Street Fighter. But blood and guts got them far. Now MK 9 was a great game.
yeah he insulted millions of people with that mortal kombat rant...pompous british jackass...fuck this dude
It's possible that he really is a pompous British jackass, but I think that's just the character he uses to make his channel stand out. Half the reason I watch his videos is to here his rants on "the bloody colonies." I think it's hilarious. And I've been to the UK, including places like Swindon. I know their secret; they're as trashy as we are.
I would argue that older Street Fighter games have aged far better than the older Mortal Kombat games, though the modern Mortal Kombat games (MK 2012 and MK X) are some of the best fighting games around.
It was obvious even at the time - to anyone not easily impressed by gore and digitized sprites - that the Mortal Kombat were superficial, simplistic and didn't play that well compared to Street Fighter and other more ambitious fighters. Go back and play them and I'm sure you'll see how tacky they were.
I remember buying the 32x in 96 (or early 97) for $15 along with Virtua Racing and Tempo. Definitely my favorite version of Virtua Racing, and I also really enjoyed Tempo. It had its faults, but was too goofy not to find entertaining, especially that song for the opening.
Calling the game "BS Racers" also seemed appropriate considering how it played.
Looking forward to the Chaotic video. Maybe the 32X is worth a look. If I had bought one back in the day I would have been upset though.
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For eclectic tastes. Literally the only reason I had any interest in emulation was for those hard to reach, if not impossible, games and systems I never got to experience. Novelty over nostalgia.
I would have loved to see what an epic rpg would have looked like on the 32x. Especially if all that hype machine stuff about combining the 32x and the CD actually panned out. It wouldn't have been better than saturn, but still could have made for some truly great titles
Even though this is kind of an old video, I have to wonder if at one point, Sega was planning on an adapter for the Saturn's cartridge port, to allow it to play Genesis/Megadrive games, and perhaps even 32X. If they were, it's likely to have gotten the axe while they were trying to milk the last few pennies out of the consoles and games still on the shelves, and never saw the light of day. I'm fairly sure from the architecture of the Saturn, that it could easily have handled 32X titles, and via emulation, any Megadrive titles you threw at it. Bad mistake, Sega. Probably would have been a two level operation, the CD would have the emulation software/instruction set, and a cartridge with a bit of tech to tell the Saturn which software it'd be running.
It'd be interesting since only recently they managed to crack the Saturn, to see if anyone found anything in the original BIOS code that actually allows this.
I would have bought a saturn then
Your lucky, the last 2 years when I made the trek up to Funspot, Space Harrier was out of order :(
That chaotix soundtrack is exceptional
32X has a few games that are worth emulating...
Emulation is for noobs
@@CPS2 What a poser comment.
Man I don’t know about the rest of you but I became pretty disappointed when he started knocking Mortal Kombat 2 ! I mean I know to each their own but Mortal Kombat 2 was pretty revolutionary for the time and still holds up pretty well Today- Maybe I am biased because it’s my favorite arcade game ever, but it seem like a lot of game reviewers don’t actually like Mortal Kombat, and prefer street fighter games
Still gots mine. Got it that first xmas
I own two of these and you bet your ass they are worthwhile. Afterburner, Space Harrier, Blackthorne, Star Wars yeah. Great games.
I've always enjoyed the 32x. I got one in '95 (used unit from a local video store). I was quite disappointed when support got dropped by Sega but was not surprised. I remember at the time, Space Harrier and After Burner got some negative press, with a lot of reviews saying "why is Sega releasing 10 year old arcade ports on this system". I thought they were great as it was the first time I played near arcade ports of either one on a home console. I am glad that over time these two ports got more appreciation. Another good arcade port on the system is NBA Jam tournament edition. It was the first port I played at home that featured the arcade scaling that was missing from the 16 bit versions. Virtua Racing is probably my favorite game on the console. It is the best version of the game on any console IMO (the Saturn version was a missed opportunity). Doom 32x, despite only being the first two episodes of the game, was fun and I still enjoy it though at the time, I had Doom on the PC so anything on a console was going to be inferior. Being a fan of FMV, I did enjoy the upgraded 32x ports of those games. It would have been interesting if there was a 32xCD game that was released that was not FMV but I guess no one felt the investment would have been worth it.
I do not get the hate the system has received, I think a lot of it is people jumping on the bandwagon. Sure the system had a lot of issues, but from someone who had one for over 20 years, I don't regret having it.
A small thing I appreciate about your videos: unlike other UA-camrs, you use the word infamy/infamous correctly. It's one of the few language pet peeves of mine and you thankfully never trigger me!
You need professional help, boy.
woooah, that old sega cd stack thingymajig rig was folkin ridiculous
For some reason I used to confuse the 32X with the Atari Jaguar CD, a truely terrifying top loaded attachment :D
I didn't know Afterburner was on the system. Terrific arcade game I had a ton of fun with back in the day.
One thing to note, is that all cartridge based games were ridiculously expensive. The original Genesis/MD titles for example cost around $59-$69 per cart. You can't really blame the 32X for that.
MK2 on 32x is one of the best ports of the game ever. Though .. nowadays the 32x really isn’t necessary for any game released on it. Better alternatives everywhere.
Back then I only wasn't unaware of, I can't even imagine that there were other gamesconsoles beside the Nintendo ones. Until the first glimpse of the Playstation arrived here in 1998.
Watching this and metal head was in my 32x.
Hello. What is the song that plays in the beginning of this segment just before the Sonic song? Thank you.
haha, I couldn't even tell you were trying to do an American accent until you said. ;)
Same
Just got a 32x today for $20! But now I need the Genesis 1 to 32x cable
A couple of my 32X favorites that didn't make the list: Blackthorne and Star Trek's Starfleet Academy Bridge Simulator. Both were also released on the SNES, but I prefer the 32X versions.
i honestly love the 32X . one of the best port of space harrier.
I actually really like my 32x while I agree that the games library is miniscule, what is there is mostly quality. While some ports are gimped, and/or have better versions on other consoles at the time, Doom comes to mind, there were some stellar arcade ports. Such as After Burner, Virtua Racing Deluxe, and Space Harrier. As well as a couple of good original games, such as Kolibiri, and Knuckles Chaotix. And some very technically impressive software like Darxide, and Metalhead.
Still though, as much as I love my 32x, I would feel absolutely gutted if I had bought this on launch, or when it was relevant. While the library has an overall better quality library than the 32x, it sold less than 1/3 of what the Sega/Mega CD.
32X is a good system with so much unexplored potential. It's too bad its life got cut tragically short. My favorite game for the system is Shadow Squadron.
Would need a megadrive first... hopefully next month
I loved my 32X. I got it for $20 when it was being discontinued and got a dozen games for $5 each. I could have bought Kolibre but skipped that for Spiderman: Web of Fire. Wish I got Kolibre because Web of Fire was bad. Only positive thing about it was I sold it for more than $200 years ago.
Seeing Space Harrier. Getting perfect happiness. Thinking about Shenmue. Watching too many streams on twitch...
I really wanted the 32X when it came out. In hindsight I'm glad I didn't get it and waited it out for the Saturn. But it's still a nice piece of gaming history today, especially for Sega fans.
Lord wonder how many people had seizures watching the 90s Sega commercials?? Thats the real question here.. lol
About MK vs SF - MK have much easier and comfortable controls, better story, more real life look to it, enough secrets, enough over the top attractions and ok fighting mechanics.
SF - all these Z shaped inputs to do any special move is a pain in the arse, i remember buying SF4 for Xbox360 and i was fighting against my controller more than i fought an opponent on screen. And i don't plan to go to internet for hours just to find out what controller u need to use to play SF comfortably, how much it cost over the game itself and how long before it can arrive at my home. MK - you just pick up and play, SF - you need to fight your own character on screen because Camcom (and many others) thinks - it's ok to make Z, circles, half circles and all other strange movements on a standard controller, or ok to buy a special controller just to play their game (since releasing locked on content as DLCs, and then Ultimate, Ultra and Special versions of the same game for money, instead of free patches, is ok with them too).
I bought this at launch. My mom hated me for it since I only got like two games for it LOL
Star Wars arcade 32x is my favorite console game of all time.
I used to have one, was good at the time
When I had 32x, Knuckles Chaotix was my favourite. Doom was cool, but the music was shit. Mortal Kombat 2 was probably the closest you could get to an arcade perfect port until digital rereleases later on. Tempo was fun, but got too confusing later on. Kolibri was pretty, but ultimately there wasn't much of a challenge and it ended up feeling pretty bland.
I bought a 32X at one point. (Back when it was a collectors item, not a new item. Around 2004 I think.)
I wound up returning it though. It was neat and interesting, but I wasn't able to find much on it that I wanted to play. It wasn't so much about the library of games the console had, but it was more because there was only one used game store in my area that even had any 32X games, and their selection sucked.
As I recall, when I returned it I instead bought a Sega CD. I still have that.
I really like Knuckles Chaotix, it's really fun, it's such a shame Sega has never ported it!
Agreed
I definitely don't think the 32X was worth the money when it came out, but I managed to pick up the complete Genesis Trio and a bunch of games for $100 about 10 years ago (back when retro gaming was still pretty niche). I actually did really enjoy playing the 32X and the bunch of games we had for it. My personal favorite was Star Wars Arcade since it played like an underpowered and arcady version of one of my favorite games of all time: Star Wars Rogue Squadron.
Very informative video, love it, though there is some fact checking that is needed. Opinions on MKII aside, lol, the 32x version of Virtua Fighter, while not looking as good as the Saturn version, played much better because its engine was built from the ground up. The Saturn version was a rushed direct port from the similar arcade hardware.
Porting this way to a home console introduced many gameplay and graphics bugs as well as slowdown, and resulted in a port so bad Sega had to re-release it later as "Virtua Fighter Remix" to fix the issues and make it more arcade accurate. The 32X version being custom built meant it did not suffer from these issues and played much better. This may not be as apparent in the PAL release as its frame rate was lazily tached down instead of being properly programed for the region, an unfortunate standard practice for the time. Sure it was not as pretty, and the music was truncated, but it was better where it counted - gameplay and timing accuracy.
And DOOM? Yes, it runs faster, and at a higher resolution, but the view is bordered and smaller than on the SNES, the controls aren't as intuitive, and... Oh yeah, you can't actually beat the game - as a rushed port, when you get close to the end you are presented, not the ending, but the message ">C:/DOS." This was because the game is essentially a source port and the IWAD (the games art and sound assets and part of the engine) was calling for the next section to load and not getting an answer. The game would also stop - not freeze or lock up, but simply ignore commands as it was expecting a keyboard at this point, and thusly you had to reset the game to, well, start over. Not just anticlimactic, but so lazy it was not properly debugged. How does a developer miss an ending? Because they didn't look. The code is there for the ending, but because of the fact that the original release had to account for loading ads or requests to load another disk in the same way it loaded the endings, and none of that applied to the 32X cartridge (and thusly had to be removed from certain stages and levels), when the gameplay itself worked properly they simply moved it along without completely testing.
And DOOM 32X's music is absolutely terrible, but all in all still not as bad as the 3DO version.
Um, yes you can beat the game.
@@o.g.millennials You have it? Mind sharing a screenshot of the "ending?"
Edit - Semi-scratch that; you can finish what the developers that ported it published, the ">C:/DOS" message popping up if you used any codes (my mistake - its been a very, very long time since I played it and I did not keep it, I had to go online and fact check) but at the point your supposed to teleport to the final episode, the stage just ends and the credits roll. Yes, most ports featured truncated, exclusive, or even missing stages, but no part of the last episode even made it into the 32X cart. If you cant fight the final boss battle because they didn't work it in properly, I don't count that as beating it. I feel the same way about the 3DO and Jaguar ports, but at least on those you could make it into the "Inferno." Even the technically inferior SNES port had most of the final episode AND the cyberdemon and spiderdemons.
@@5torieTyme Why not go look it up?
@@o.g.millennials I had actually went to go look it up and edit my response before you said that, but did not finish typing until after. The game ran ok on the 32X hardware, but it was still in my opinion just a terrible port. The SNES port was choppy, but at least more of the game made it in, and the music wasnt bad. Really, it wasn't until the Playstation that a decent port finally made it off PC.
@@5torieTyme It's true that it could've been better if it wasn't rushed but it plays so much better than the SNES version. I didn't realize how bad the SNES version was until I played the 32X version. You're correct about the PS1 version. It's an awesome translation of Doom for consoles. I love the audio.
I've owned the 32X twice in my life and I feel that there's some fun to be had from it. Not worth a ton of money or anything but definitely worth emulating and worth grabbing if you come across one for cheap. And for CDX owners like myself, it works perfectly fine in mine, despite what some online will try to tell you. Thanks for the great video Mister Hat.
It's not just some folks online; Sega themselves warned consumers not to use the 32X with the CDX due to the overheating issues. If you're okay with playing Russian roulette with your gaming consoles, fine, but don't go around advising other people to do the same.
I don't really buy into the echo chamber that believes the 32X was a commercial failer.
That 665,000 figure is units sold in the first 6 weeks. A major success if you ask me. Total units sold were never disclosed but it well exceeded 1 million. Although the exact date of discontinuation is unclear, it was undoubtedly after October of 1995 and before March of 1996. People blame weak sales, but there is way more to this story, and it really has little to do with the sales performance of the 32X itself. Anyways, as a 32X fan, I enjoyed your take.
Jenovi Systems always sell well off the start though due the hardcore people that need to buy all the new stuff right away. It's not an echochamber thing, I bought a lot of magazines and such back in the day, trust me, the 32X was definitely a huge failure sadly.
Hey Steve I'll eventually do a video on the 32X covering this more in depth. The short version is Sega botched the Saturn's release only shipping around 60,000 units in the same period that the 32X sold almost 3/4 million units. The PSX was also just around the corner and had over 100k preorders. They were in trouble, so to save the system and Sega, they pulled the plug on almost everything else and moved all home console resources to the Saturn. Not to say this was the correct decision. It's much more complicated than this, but this is the short version. Personally, and I am somewhat biased because I love the 32X, I feel discontinuing it was a massive misstep. The Saturn was too expensive for their average customer, and Sega just cut off games to all their other consoles leaving zero options outside of another cheaper systems. Nintendo continued to support the SNES with quality titles for two years after the N64 launched. Sega? Maybe a few good games during the first two-quarters of 96 (about 6 months worth), then just shovelware. They still sold systems, but they stopped support for the Genesis in 95 and only released what was near completion or ready to ship. "Officially" that's not the case but look over the games released in 96, 97, and 98 when Majesco took over. It's clear what happened when every game released is a recycled sports game.
Jenovi There's only 40 games released on the 32X that's less than the 3DO, Wonderswan,Neo Geo Pocket color and CD-I.
Jenovi Trust me, I know, I lived through the "surprise launch" and everything else. But still, the 32X was not in great shape. Everyone knew it was nothing but an attempt at keeping fans loyal to Sega until the Saturn came along. Plus not long after it came out they repackaged it with a bunch of coupons to save money on what few games were out. Then it had a price drop not long after that. I like the thing and I'm not crapping on it, but the "system" just wasn't a long term success. And even if Sega hadn't killed it, 3rd party support would have because they were obviously getting sick of dealing with cartridge based systems as the N64 proved later. The N64 sold insanely well when it first came out and Nintendo still couldn't get much in the way of 3rd party support. And theres no way Sega could support the 32X by itself if they going to have any chance against Sony. And I know they didn't in the long run, but we didn't know that at the time.
40 games, most worth owning is a great number for a system that was supported for less than a year. I'm not well versed on the NGP, but the 3DO, Wonderswan, and CD-I all had fairly healthy multi-year lifespans and contain a number of good games in their own right.
7:20 You should've added a 'game genie', sonic & knuckles', and 'sonic 3' to create the ultimate sega tower
I love the Sega genesis its my favorite console of all time and love learning about it
I got a 32x recently and love it with the genesis.
While the Sega CD I have respect for bit I don't really wanna deal with that nightmare collecting for it and getting one, again I have respect for the CD but just don't wanna deal with it financially.
But the 32x is a great add-on. And as far as your comment on avgn I always felt that review was half ass lol.
Corey Bookman the sega cd has far more and better games though.
Also, am I the only one who'd storm Parliament and demand that Mr Top Hat Gaming Man does a video on whether or not the Commodore Amiga is worth playing in the present day?
Not sure if you follow me on twitter, but I procured 160 Amiga Discs for £20 from my local bootsale today. Yeeeeeaahhhhhh.
crikey, i new i should of got myself outta pit this morning, i bet my local carboot was a stormer!
Considering you already have an A500, I believe you have no excuse but to create such a video! There are several people on this fine website who I'm sure would be more than willing to collaborate with you!
Nice find
Okay, that demands a stream!
Well shite...I was just called a Neanderthal for liking Mortal Kombat...
Hold my spear....
The only thing I disliked about Knuckles Khaotix was it's ending - no spoilers, I just found it lacking. You missed a few American sports titles - the most notable would be "NBA Jam."
I got the games I used to play on this (as well as the system itself) well after the system was discontinued (the system was $20!), which meant what I got that sucked wasn't as bad. I had fun with both Virtua titles, the aforementioned "Jam," the game you bashed "Mortal Kombat II," Star Wars Arcade," "Doom," "NFL Quarterback Club," and "Knuckles." The only ones in years since I regretted missing were "Tempo" and "Kolibre." The system itself gets a bad rap - had they combined and packed that and the Sega CD together a couple of years prior, it likely would have done better and people would have produced some games that would rival or beat the SNES! It gets a much harsher rap than it deserves, IMHO.
I need a new copy of Spider-man web of fire. ugh, dog hate my brand new copy I had for my collection! I go to reorganize my collection and BAM he runs off with it! Cart is fine, just some bite marks, but it's no longer mint condition! *eye twitches*
The thing that really screwed the 32X is, okay, you want your next gen, first you get your Megadrive. About $100 back in the day at that point. Then you spend about $150 for the 32X, then say you want your Sega CD, and you're now around $300. Or you buy none of those, and spend that extra $100 for the Saturn, in one nice sleek package (for the time, it's only marginally smaller than my OG XBOX). And instead of having to podge the whole monstrosity together, because the more stress and strain on each of the interfaces, you are going to have failures in connectivity (as seen with the Jaguar CD). Even if you were putting this together nickel and dime style, by the time you saved up enough in your allowance money, by the time you had enough, the parts were discontinued and you had to settle for a Saturn or the much cheaper PS1.
I learned that the hard way trying to shovel enough snow for a Vectrex, but by then they sold out at the $99 mark and had to settle for a copy of Pitfall for my 2600.
The 32x is a lovely system. Cumbersome, sure, but some games had a good bump in graphics and playability from their 16 bit counterparts.
You missed the rarest most expensive pal 32x game: Darxide
The stack is the reason for the CDX design upgrade...
Sega CD was the highest selling add on besides kinect ever. 32x had sh1 not sh2 processors . 32x sold 600,000 units holiday 94. Not bad.
It's worth playing if you care for like 10 decent to good games, a couple of slight upgrades to Genesis games (or downgrades in Pitfall and Wrestlemania) and some arcade ports that were great at the time but now have better and more affordable versions in other systems.
Wrestlemania the arcade game I played it on the snes it was so much fun 😂