I still own a fully functioning, excellent, CD32. It has so much potential with the SX32 upgrade. It has a ton of great games including Guardian, Fears, Gloom and Alien Breed 3D.. a much under-appreciated console.
SkullScience77 I was a huge amiga fan (still have a a1200) but sold my cd32 a long time ago. I played and finished fears, gloom and AB3d but they were very poor games in comparison to doom. The amiga was not created for 3d games. It did a lot of stuff well though.
adhvideos Yeah, early 5th gen, otherwise known as 'bridging consoles' were a strange lot. We had 32X, 3DO, Jaguar and CD32. These consoles were caught up in the 3D craze yet had limited 3D prowess. The 32x was an add-on so, in essence, you had to still be 4th gen to run it. It did produce a semi decent version of Doom all things considered and a few decent 3D games such as Virtua Fighter and Virtual Racing plus a few space combat games. Then we have the 3DO which placed its bets on FMV mixed with 3D... not how the future turned out but games like Killing Time, Need for Speed, Space Hulk and Road Rash were excellent. The Jaguar, despite having some decent 3D capability, as shown in Battlemorph, Doom, AvP, Iron Soldier etc... ironically died for having too many 16-bit quality games (despite games like Rayman and Tempest 2000 being excellent). This was a time I remember well and it was 3D or bust back then. Finally the CD32 also had the curse of too many 16-bit games but showed it did at least try. To have Frontier Elite 2 on a console was certainly ambitious for the time as well. The Doom type games (Gloom, AB3D etc..) really made the system sweat and Guardian was an excellent shooter imo.. The expandable nature of the CD32 via the SX32 really made it a unique piece of kit (although this was the vision for 3DO as well) and actually broadened the horizons of the CD32 quite considerably. All in all, as a collector, I find them intriguing consoles to own (the Jaguar and Jaguar CD is still getting new games via homebrew community). I too have a soft spot for Amiga and own a A500, A600 and CD32. I can see how they are attractive machines to own with a distinct image. It is a shame that many of these early 5th gen consoles were not more successful but they all got caught in the headlights of the mighty Playstation. At a time that was 3D crazy it simply was no contest.
Collecting old Commodores, this was a must buy. I never liked it, thinking it was only an Amiga 1200 without keyboard. Well I was wrong. The CD32 has very nice titles on it...but it could have been less underrated with some dedicated games. A philosophy like "you want play this game? Buy this console!!!" (as Nintendo did with the Mario series) could have saved the CD32 from its premature end. Now I love it!
Pinball Fantasies, Roadkill & Banshee are great games. There are also Beneath a steel sky, Simon the sorcerer, Heimdall 2, Darkseed, Gloom, Subwar 2050, Disposable Hero, The Labyrynth of Time, Pinball Illusion...
There are compilations with hundreds of games jammed into a CD (222,444,888 or so with different ISO images). Well made and lot's to play around (most games never got released on CD32, but they work via whdload apparently).
I remember the early 8-bit days (Atari/mattel/Coleco) where famous franchises or even genres weren`t as important as great games (no matter the genre). You would approach a game with a clean slate mind, figure out the rules and enjoy. If you approach the CD-32 with the same unbiased mindset, you will find out it`s a great system, conveniently priced (even at launch) and full of games with solid gameplay. Came out in a moment where 3D and Japanese Anime/manga were on the rising, and VS fighting games were all the rage. The CD-32 lacked all of that, but featured titles with top pixel graphics and ingeniously fun gameplay (albeit often of very different kind from what other consoles were offering. But still, that`s what makes this console all the more interesting).
There were some interesting game releases, but I still remember how pissed off I was about the CD32 when it came out. Anyone who had an A1200 at the time knew that the first thing you do to make the computer useful was to throw in a faster CPU and some FastRAM. You could tell from day 1 this console would have a hell of a hard time competing with the other consoles at the time. Because it mostly felt like a Glorified Megadrive with CD-addon. (1993 saw the release of (among others) the CD32, the Atari Jaguar, the 3DO and already in 1994 we got the Sega Saturn and the one that would eventually doom them all to hell... the first Playstation. Now, even if Commodore (who had a habit of sitting with their hands burried in their asses) had put a faster CPU and some ram in there its doubtful the console would have survived much longer than it did. But it would have helped. It needs to be remembered that by 1992/93 people were leaving Amigas for PCs because of Wolfenstein and Doom. Commodore probably saw Wollfenstein and made one small desperate move to improve the CD32 over a vanilla A1200 by including the half-assed AKIKO chip which among other things did Chunky to planar conversion.. but the implementation hardly mattered. (A 28MHz 020 (instead of the 14) and 1MB Fastmem would have done much more for the system.) Anyhoo, considering how much more powerful the Sega Saturn was and still ultimately failed against the Playstation, I think its safe to assume that Commodore wasnt in a position -nor technology wise ,nor marketing wise to launch anything that would have mattered in the long run.. It would just have prolonged the pain..
If we wanna speculate a bit... If things happened *just a bit* differently, like if the AAA chipset would have been completed in time to be used in the CD32 along with a faster CPU, it might have been enough to prolong Commodore's life just long enough to finish the Hombre chip-set for the CD64 project. That one would could have at least competed with the Playstation1 (and Saturn, obviouslty) so we could had a larger nische market as well as ports of popular 3d games at the time such as WipeOut, Qake, Tomb Raider etc... (Of course, an A1200 successor with that hardware would surely have become popular among Amiga users...) It just wasnt to be... Now... where's that DeLorean time machine set to 1992? Gotta talk to some people. ;-)
Good stuff, I don't really know anything about the CD32. Hopefully I can get my hands on one someday. Did it have many exclusive games that aren't available anywhere else?
I think I only ever saw one CD32 in the Chicago area in the entire time it was supposed to be available. And we had one of the biggest Amiga vendors in the country. This could have been a big hit if it was made by anybody but Commodore. Why Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali never ended up in jail for fraud and corporate incompetence is beyond me.
Half of those games were 2 years old already on the amiga 500. And if someone already had an amiga 500 it would have seemed a waste of money getting the cd32.
beacuse it's sheet no showcase. cd 32 can play alien breed 3d and gloom and many more 3d games like leading lap. you can listening cd music and (if you have MPEG expansion) watching FMV films on VCD. it's very good stuff
Had this been a Sega console (indeed, had the Mega CD have had these specs) then you can imagine the ports of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 would have been amazing. As it is, perhaps the fact that it is so modestly better than a SNES condemned it - I'd expect more for my money.
Not many exlusives, as most were just Amiga ports. However, there were a few standout titles- Banshee, Captive 2: Liberation, Cannon Fodder etc. most just had CD soundtracks added on. Still a great console, though :)
I've had numerous Amigas in my time, and whilst I still loved the CD32 to bits, it was flooded with Amiga ports that took little to no advantage of the hardware. If only it had more killer exclusive games - it could have flourished. Then again, the 'Dangerous Streets' pack has to be the biggest launch blunder of all time. Oh, and 1 k to save all your games?
To me, comparing CD32 to SNES / Genesis (as your showed at the very beginning) does a disservice to the CD32 and what it was capable of. But, ultimately, I understand the reasoning for it, especially since perhaps the content never got made that would have it compared technically better against the 3DO, etc..
None of the (mostly ported) CD32 titles made effective use of its unique hardware structure like the on-board akiko chip, which is sad because i've seen demos by indie programmers that blew me away!
The Amiga CD32 certainly seems like a decent console, but it doesn't seem any more powerful than a SNES. There just really wasn't a market for an Amiga console. If you wanted to play Amiga games you had an Amiga computer. If you wanted to play console games you had your SNES or Genesis.
+Daveloper Sadly it only looks like Starfox. It doesn't play like it! It's an OK game in it's own right. It''s a 3D clone of Defender which is quite a neat idea. Fun for a bit but gets old pretty quickly.
The hardware was fine, and being based off a A1200 was not bad at all since the Amiga 1200 was on par with low end x486 but with vastly better graphics solutions, and would stay that way until 3d accelerator cards came into the mix.The killers include the lawsuit keeping them from releasing in US markets, after they had already stockpiled a warehouse full of them for that. The lack of a HD, floppy drive, or reasonable save system of some kind. Also Commodore going though severe hard times. This made developers and publishers want to run from it, as they knew it would not survive. So it really never got a good game library to stand a chance. Many of the games are just Amiga games. Sold in a market saturated with...Amiga computers. I mean what title is really for the CD32 and not just a A1000,A500,A600, or A1200 port?
+kris reddish Just imagine what could have been achieved on the CD32 it also had an extra akkiko chip which would have survived it against the next gen easily I owned one even though I already had an A1200 as a sort of fingers crossed thing hoping that commodore were going to get through that terrible period, the CD32 sales were ding very well indeed as the UK arm of Commodore were running things as they should it was just the mothership USA Commodore that had sunk and dragged everything down with it .. that awful company Escom purchased Commodore and I briefly remember entering a store in Southend and was pleasantly surprised to see A1200's for sale but disappointed they hadn't kept the CD32 in production and got their finger out with the developers after all it was the worlds first and only 32 bit console and even with the PlayStation 1 looming they had enough time to line some titles up to at least keep on par with PS1 you only have to look at Guardian and Superstardust or even Galactic Body Blows as good showcase material looking back at the fact they were a bit tight on RAM as at least 3 or 4 meg would have given the CD32 some fast RAM instead of the basic 2 mb chip ram it was still powerful enough to throw big sprites around without much slow down but at the end of the day in order to survive they would have needed a Resident Evil, Tekken and a Ridge Racer or Destruction derby .. sure a tight time frame and it would have been pushing the CD32 to the outer limits but it was still more than capable when you consider the quality of titles they put out on the 16 bit Sega Megadrive/Genesis
I have a CD32 but have to disagree. It came out way after Megadrive and SNES but in many ways couldn't match them on a technical level. At that time Commodore needed to bring out a console way more powerful than either. A lot of the games don't even fill the screen area. Its nice to discover now and it has a few good games but it was underpowered for its time.
The CD32 is a good for when you can't be bothered waiting for floppy disks to load or can't be bothered contantly swapping them (like every other Amiga)... The CD32 should have been better than both the Mega Drive and Snes with it being CD based and 32-bit. Saying it's as good as the Snes or Mega Drive is actually not good enough unfortunately :(
CD32 wasn't a failure because it hadn't great games. It failed because it was based on old hardware that couldn't take advantage of CD-ROM. Pretty much every early CD based system failed. PSX was first successful CD console, because it could play full screen videos and it could display high quality 3D graphics. CD32 was marketed as a next generation hardware but it couldn't even run Doom well. Having SNES like games wasn't enough for this system to succeed. If only CD32 had 68040 and 3D GPU...
Apart from Lotus III none of those games are really that nice and technically pretty basic (there were more graphically sophisticated vertical scrollers in 1986 in the arcade than Banshee for example). What happened to the real arcade quality games like Kid Chaos, Super Stardust, Shadow Fighter and F17? Also there were some games that showed how useless a £1500 PC was in 1993 like Defender of the Crown II? DotC is actually a CDTV game and yet still better than any 486 VGA PC CD-ROM game of the era.
It had its fair share yes but the bulk of them were amiga 1200 games with added CD audio and FMV videos ect..... Great console tbh crap pad but great console nether the less but if you ever decide to get one knowing you high standeds in condition ect good look finding a boxed unit lmao!!!
Lets be honest, I'm a huge amiga fan and I have to admit, the amiga cd 32 is one of the worst, if not the worst console ever. It's a 32 bit system and yet, the NeoGeo was doing much better... Lucky for the cd32, there was the CDI... But even the Atari Jaguar was better the cd32... It would have been a good system years before it was released... Years...
It was literally too little, too late... and, as a result, a huge waste of Commodore's scarce resources. Not that the A1200 base was particularly good from the start. Commodore should've focused on improving their other platforms.
Sure, but this is a video about the Amiga, not the Dreamcast... What I found to be "the most sad story" is that every system in the transition from 16 to 32 bit systems era is classifiable as "pieces of shit" by Nintendo fanboys, all because they "failed", while the Amiga has some of the best games of the era or even genre, and the CD32 has the same games with better graphics and music, trumps over the megadrive and SNES in my opinion.
all this games without banshee working on stock a500+ !!!!!!!!! why you dont show alien breed 3d, gloom, myst virtual karting,fears and many more ????? it's sheet not showcase
For all your CD32 needs just pop over to... titan08.free.fr/cd32/ Just download, burn and slap into the old CD32 and you'll be playing for *_ages_*....
I don't think it had any new games, it was all shovelware. The CD32 got a hard time because it was a badly thought out, badly designed console. It might be comparable to a snes or megadrive, but isn't really. Firstly it says 32bit on the front where the others are 16bit. These games don't look next gen to me. And even if they looked alright anyone who has owned an amiga will tell you that the controls are alot less responsive. I say this as a huge Amiga fan who has owned an A500, A600 and a CD32
So as I suspected, you've never written the code for a game in your life... Come back when you've made a game, even a very basic breakout clone, then you may have some clue...
I still own a fully functioning, excellent, CD32. It has so much potential with the SX32 upgrade. It has a ton of great games including Guardian, Fears, Gloom and Alien Breed 3D.. a much under-appreciated console.
SkullScience77 I was a huge amiga fan (still have a a1200) but sold my cd32 a long time ago.
I played and finished fears, gloom and AB3d but they were very poor games in comparison to doom. The amiga was not created for 3d games. It did a lot of stuff well though.
adhvideos Yeah, early 5th gen, otherwise known as 'bridging consoles' were a strange lot. We had 32X, 3DO, Jaguar and CD32. These consoles were caught up in the 3D craze yet had limited 3D prowess. The 32x was an add-on so, in essence, you had to still be 4th gen to run it. It did produce a semi decent version of Doom all things considered and a few decent 3D games such as Virtua Fighter and Virtual Racing plus a few space combat games. Then we have the 3DO which placed its bets on FMV mixed with 3D... not how the future turned out but games like Killing Time, Need for Speed, Space Hulk and Road Rash were excellent. The Jaguar, despite having some decent 3D capability, as shown in Battlemorph, Doom, AvP, Iron Soldier etc... ironically died for having too many 16-bit quality games (despite games like Rayman and Tempest 2000 being excellent). This was a time I remember well and it was 3D or bust back then. Finally the CD32 also had the curse of too many 16-bit games but showed it did at least try. To have Frontier Elite 2 on a console was certainly ambitious for the time as well. The Doom type games (Gloom, AB3D etc..) really made the system sweat and Guardian was an excellent shooter imo.. The expandable nature of the CD32 via the SX32 really made it a unique piece of kit (although this was the vision for 3DO as well) and actually broadened the horizons of the CD32 quite considerably.
All in all, as a collector, I find them intriguing consoles to own (the Jaguar and Jaguar CD is still getting new games via homebrew community). I too have a soft spot for Amiga and own a A500, A600 and CD32. I can see how they are attractive machines to own with a distinct image. It is a shame that many of these early 5th gen consoles were not more successful but they all got caught in the headlights of the mighty Playstation. At a time that was 3D crazy it simply was no contest.
very true, just a shame the lifespan of the console was 8month till they pulled the plug
just bought a cd32 yesterday with 22 games then i downloaded the entire romset #HappyGamingForMe
Collecting old Commodores, this was a must buy. I never liked it, thinking it was only an Amiga 1200 without keyboard. Well I was wrong. The CD32 has very nice titles on it...but it could have been less underrated with some dedicated games. A philosophy like "you want play this game? Buy this console!!!" (as Nintendo did with the Mario series) could have saved the CD32 from its premature end. Now I love it!
Pinball Fantasies, Roadkill & Banshee are great games. There are also Beneath a steel sky, Simon the sorcerer, Heimdall 2, Darkseed, Gloom, Subwar 2050, Disposable Hero, The Labyrynth of Time, Pinball Illusion...
There are compilations with hundreds of games jammed into a CD (222,444,888 or so with different ISO images). Well made and lot's to play around (most games never got released on CD32, but they work via whdload apparently).
I remember the early 8-bit days (Atari/mattel/Coleco) where famous franchises or even genres weren`t as important as great games (no matter the genre). You would approach a game with a clean slate mind, figure out the rules and enjoy. If you approach the CD-32 with the same unbiased mindset, you will find out it`s a great system, conveniently priced (even at launch) and full of games with solid gameplay. Came out in a moment where 3D and Japanese Anime/manga were on the rising, and VS fighting games were all the rage. The CD-32 lacked all of that, but featured titles with top pixel graphics and ingeniously fun gameplay (albeit often of very different kind from what other consoles were offering. But still, that`s what makes this console all the more interesting).
I bought a CD32 purely for the speech element of Simon the Sorcerer. I wish I had kept it now.
Super Stardust on CD32 is a kick ass game with awesome CD music.
Pinball fantasies, pinball illusions, greatest pinball games ever!!!
I like it when people make these videos celebrating underrated consoles. Nice work man.
There were some interesting game releases, but I still remember how pissed off I was about the CD32 when it came out.
Anyone who had an A1200 at the time knew that the first thing you do to make the computer useful was to throw in a faster CPU and some FastRAM. You could tell from day 1 this console would have a hell of a hard time competing with the other consoles at the time. Because it mostly felt like a Glorified Megadrive with CD-addon.
(1993 saw the release of (among others) the CD32, the Atari Jaguar, the 3DO and already in 1994 we got the Sega Saturn and the one that would eventually doom them all to hell... the first Playstation.
Now, even if Commodore (who had a habit of sitting with their hands burried in their asses) had put a faster CPU and some ram in there its doubtful the console would have survived much longer than it did. But it would have helped. It needs to be remembered that by 1992/93 people were leaving Amigas for PCs because of Wolfenstein and Doom.
Commodore probably saw Wollfenstein and made one small desperate move to improve the CD32 over a vanilla A1200 by including the half-assed AKIKO chip which among other things did Chunky to planar conversion.. but the implementation hardly mattered. (A 28MHz 020 (instead of the 14) and 1MB Fastmem would have done much more for the system.)
Anyhoo, considering how much more powerful the Sega Saturn was and still ultimately failed against the Playstation, I think its safe to assume that Commodore wasnt in a position -nor technology wise ,nor marketing wise to launch anything that would have mattered in the long run.. It would just have prolonged the pain..
If we wanna speculate a bit... If things happened *just a bit* differently, like if the AAA chipset would have been completed in time to be used in the CD32 along with a faster CPU, it might have been enough to prolong Commodore's life just long enough to finish the Hombre chip-set for the CD64 project. That one would could have at least competed with the Playstation1 (and Saturn, obviouslty) so we could had a larger nische market as well as ports of popular 3d games at the time such as WipeOut, Qake, Tomb Raider etc... (Of course, an A1200 successor with that hardware would surely have become popular among Amiga users...)
It just wasnt to be... Now... where's that DeLorean time machine set to 1992? Gotta talk to some people. ;-)
Flink looks great on A32CD! Awesome sprite work.
Name of that polygon shooter? Reminds me of Stellar Fire on Sega CD.
Good stuff, I don't really know anything about the CD32. Hopefully I can get my hands on one someday. Did it have many exclusive games that aren't available anywhere else?
Ace video
Awesome collection. The technology was just ahead of its time. It was a 32bit system with 16bit minded developers. It just didnt gt its chance.
Yeah, it could rival the SNES and MEGA-DRIVE, but this was going to compete with the PS1 and Sega Saturn.
No way it would survive too long anyway.
And its spiritual cousin, 3DO.
Exactly
4:01 Awesome music!
Some other great cd32 games: Beneath a steel sky, Simon the sorcerer, Pinball Illusions, Pirates gold, Defender of the crown 2 and Shadow Fighter...
I think I only ever saw one CD32 in the Chicago area in the entire time it was supposed to be available. And we had one of the biggest Amiga vendors in the country.
This could have been a big hit if it was made by anybody but Commodore. Why Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali never ended up in jail for fraud and corporate incompetence is beyond me.
Not to forget Worms, Alien Breed 3D, Fighting Spirit and Sensible Soccer.
Half of those games were 2 years old already on the amiga 500. And if someone already had an amiga 500 it would have seemed a waste of money getting the cd32.
beacuse it's sheet no showcase. cd 32 can play alien breed 3d and gloom and many more 3d games like leading lap. you can listening cd music and (if you have MPEG expansion) watching FMV films on VCD. it's very good stuff
Had this been a Sega console (indeed, had the Mega CD have had these specs) then you can imagine the ports of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 would have been amazing. As it is, perhaps the fact that it is so modestly better than a SNES condemned it - I'd expect more for my money.
Nope, take a look at CD32 Street Fighter 2
+Valentin Casanova Agreed. WTF went wrong with that version!? It was godawful.
Not many exlusives, as most were just Amiga ports. However, there were a few standout titles- Banshee, Captive 2: Liberation, Cannon Fodder etc. most just had CD soundtracks added on. Still a great console, though :)
I've had numerous Amigas in my time, and whilst I still loved the CD32 to bits, it was flooded with Amiga ports that took little to no advantage of the hardware. If only it had more killer exclusive games - it could have flourished. Then again, the 'Dangerous Streets' pack has to be the biggest launch blunder of all time. Oh, and 1 k to save all your games?
Somehow Sega's Dreamcast it's most sadly story because that system is really good, great architecture.
To me, comparing CD32 to SNES / Genesis (as your showed at the very beginning) does a disservice to the CD32 and what it was capable of. But, ultimately, I understand the reasoning for it, especially since perhaps the content never got made that would have it compared technically better against the 3DO, etc..
Roadkill alone makes me wanna buy this console
It's really weird that in Deep Core the water seems to reflect everything except the player character.
I wish there were a modded cd32 where I couldn't run adf files from my Amiga 500 on a SD port
None of the (mostly ported) CD32 titles made effective use of its unique hardware structure like the on-board akiko chip, which is sad because i've seen demos by indie programmers that blew me away!
Super stardust probably the best graphics on the cd32 and a1200, especially the tunnel sections!
The Amiga CD32 certainly seems like a decent console, but it doesn't seem any more powerful than a SNES. There just really wasn't a market for an Amiga console. If you wanted to play Amiga games you had an Amiga computer. If you wanted to play console games you had your SNES or Genesis.
guardian looks like starfox!
+Daveloper Sadly it only looks like Starfox. It doesn't play like it!
It's an OK game in it's own right. It''s a 3D clone of Defender which is quite a neat idea. Fun for a bit but gets old pretty quickly.
The hardware was fine, and being based off a A1200 was not bad at all since the Amiga 1200 was on par with low end x486 but with vastly better graphics solutions, and would stay that way until 3d accelerator cards came into the mix.The killers include the lawsuit keeping them from releasing in US markets, after they had already stockpiled a warehouse full of them for that. The lack of a HD, floppy drive, or reasonable save system of some kind. Also Commodore going though severe hard times. This made developers and publishers want to run from it, as they knew it would not survive. So it really never got a good game library to stand a chance. Many of the games are just Amiga games. Sold in a market saturated with...Amiga computers. I mean what title is really for the CD32 and not just a A1000,A500,A600, or A1200 port?
+kris reddish Just imagine what could have been achieved on the CD32 it also had an extra akkiko chip which would have survived it against the next gen easily I owned one even though I already had an A1200 as a sort of fingers crossed thing hoping that commodore were going to get through that terrible period, the CD32 sales were ding very well indeed as the UK arm of Commodore were running things as they should it was just the mothership USA Commodore that had sunk and dragged everything down with it .. that awful company Escom purchased Commodore and I briefly remember entering a store in Southend and was pleasantly surprised to see A1200's for sale but disappointed they hadn't kept the CD32 in production and got their finger out with the developers after all it was the worlds first and only 32 bit console and even with the PlayStation 1 looming they had enough time to line some titles up to at least keep on par with PS1 you only have to look at Guardian and Superstardust or even Galactic Body Blows as good showcase material looking back at the fact they were a bit tight on RAM as at least 3 or 4 meg would have given the CD32 some fast RAM instead of the basic 2 mb chip ram it was still powerful enough to throw big sprites around without much slow down but at the end of the day in order to survive they would have needed a Resident Evil, Tekken and a Ridge Racer or Destruction derby .. sure a tight time frame and it would have been pushing the CD32 to the outer limits but it was still more than capable when you consider the quality of titles they put out on the 16 bit Sega Megadrive/Genesis
Guardian...
I have a CD32 but have to disagree. It came out way after Megadrive and SNES but in many ways couldn't match them on a technical level. At that time Commodore needed to bring out a console way more powerful than either. A lot of the games don't even fill the screen area. Its nice to discover now and it has a few good games but it was underpowered for its time.
The CD32 is a good for when you can't be bothered waiting for floppy disks to load or can't be bothered contantly swapping them (like every other Amiga)... The CD32 should have been better than both the Mega Drive and Snes with it being CD based and 32-bit. Saying it's as good as the Snes or Mega Drive is actually not good enough unfortunately :(
CD32 wasn't a failure because it hadn't great games. It failed because it was based on old hardware that couldn't take advantage of CD-ROM. Pretty much every early CD based system failed.
PSX was first successful CD console, because it could play full screen videos and it could display high quality 3D graphics.
CD32 was marketed as a next generation hardware but it couldn't even run Doom well.
Having SNES like games wasn't enough for this system to succeed.
If only CD32 had 68040 and 3D GPU...
Just imagine if Commodore was still with us...not that phoney baloney X1000 tripe!
Apart from Lotus III none of those games are really that nice and technically pretty basic (there were more graphically sophisticated vertical scrollers in 1986 in the arcade than Banshee for example). What happened to the real arcade quality games like Kid Chaos, Super Stardust, Shadow Fighter and F17? Also there were some games that showed how useless a £1500 PC was in 1993 like Defender of the Crown II? DotC is actually a CDTV game and yet still better than any 486 VGA PC CD-ROM game of the era.
It had its fair share yes but the bulk of them were amiga 1200 games with added CD audio and FMV videos ect.....
Great console tbh crap pad but great console nether the less but if you ever decide to get one knowing you high standeds in condition ect good look finding a boxed unit lmao!!!
Lets be honest, I'm a huge amiga fan and I have to admit, the amiga cd 32 is one of the worst, if not the worst console ever. It's a 32 bit system and yet, the NeoGeo was doing much better... Lucky for the cd32, there was the CDI... But even the Atari Jaguar was better the cd32... It would have been a good system years before it was released... Years...
I agree with you. I am huge Amiga fan also and I have the cd32. Well cd32 and amstrad gx4000 are the worst consoles ever.
It was literally too little, too late... and, as a result, a huge waste of Commodore's scarce resources. Not that the A1200 base was particularly good from the start. Commodore should've focused on improving their other platforms.
A lot of the games were just moderately enhanced ports of Amiga 500 games.
Sure, but this is a video about the Amiga, not the Dreamcast...
What I found to be "the most sad story" is that every system in the transition from 16 to 32 bit systems era is classifiable as "pieces of shit" by Nintendo fanboys, all because they "failed", while the Amiga has some of the best games of the era or even genre, and the CD32 has the same games with better graphics and music, trumps over the megadrive and SNES in my opinion.
all this games without banshee working on stock a500+ !!!!!!!!! why you dont show alien breed 3d, gloom, myst virtual karting,fears and many more ????? it's sheet not showcase
For all your CD32 needs just pop over to...
titan08.free.fr/cd32/
Just download, burn and slap into the old CD32 and you'll be playing for *_ages_*....
Not usage powerfull chip AKIKO!
I don't think it had any new games, it was all shovelware. The CD32 got a hard time because it was a badly thought out, badly designed console. It might be comparable to a snes or megadrive, but isn't really. Firstly it says 32bit on the front where the others are 16bit. These games don't look next gen to me. And even if they looked alright anyone who has owned an amiga will tell you that the controls are alot less responsive. I say this as a huge Amiga fan who has owned an A500, A600 and a CD32
90% of these games are good just to someone used to utter garbage
So, which best-selling, critically acclaimed game did you write?
lol write games
So as I suspected, you've never written the code for a game in your life... Come back when you've made a game, even a very basic breakout clone, then you may have some clue...
lol butthurt
Yes, yes you are...