I return to this video every month just to say that all of these games were PERFECT for Saturn or Sega Genesis / CD. It really was a mistake trying to revitalize the Sega Genesis with another peripheral.
The 32x didn't have the best reliability, either. I got a brand new one in 2003 (eBay prices hadn't shot up yet, and wouldn't for some years to come,) and half the games I had didn't work. It wasn't the games, it was the system; the two white wires needed re-seated often, which I didn't learn until maybe 5 or 9 weeks after getting mine. I ended up un-screwing the top of the console, and probably leaving the RF shielding un-screwed, because I needed to re-seat the wires that often.
Biggets mistake from sega, actually from Nakayama, was his boss not believing in the brand Power Sega had, wanting to compete Atari, Sony and Panasonic by releasing stupid console and add on every time a new console was announced, instead of focusing on its game and competing Nintendo, and trusting Kolensky who was actually from the very beggining. Nakayama is the one to blame for sega’s downfall. He didnt see that je had everything he needed to succeed and wasnt confident enough.
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It wasn't so much that. Its largely because they went from games being 4mb to having 700mb on a disc. So they felt they had take advantage of the space. They figured video was the best way. It was this weird logic that luckily didn't last long and gave way to CGI cut scenes and huge CGI backgrounds and CD quailty soundtracks instead. Not sure many people remember, but the first Resident Evil had these horrible FMV cutscenes.
Looking at all these QuickTime events in a lot of games, they weren’t far off when it came to gameplay. It’s basically dragons lair with real time graphics 😂
@@mr.selfdestruct nah its just easy to make shovelware and these games was made for vhs lightgun stuff in the 80s and VERY early 90s,night trap was an example and a few others,filmed like 5 years prior to the mega cd even releasing FMV games was cheap to make thats why
They were, the difference in quality between Mortal Kombat 2 on my SNES and the 32X version was very obvious, the same goes for Doom... and not to mention Space Harrier and Virtua Fighter vs the Genesis versions. I had a SNES and always lusted for a Genesis with a 32X+Mega CD right until 1996, when I purchased the PlayStation... and then never looked back at Sega hardware!
Imagine if Tempo was a 32x CD game. it would have been incredible. the music would have just absolutely bang, it would have tad more power so maybe a mild filter to make colours pop
A few were at the time. Chaotix can look lovely. The Virtua Fighter and Star Wars Arcade ports were beyond the Megadrive and so were a couple of the 3D shoot em ups ( although Mega CD could do those to an extent as well )
It was in an awkward spot where it had a weaker version of the Saturn's hardware strapped onto the Genesis. So even though it was dramatically more powerful than the old 16-bit hardware, it was just as clearly outmatched by the new hardware coming out in the mid-90's.
It pains me to say this though it is a hill I'll gladly die on, I believe the only graphically impressive game that WOULD'VE made full use of the 32X's potential was the canceled Sonic Mars. The techdemo was made on an Amiga afaik. And while the gameplay wasn't exactly what most Sonic fans may have had in mind at the time, I still wish it came out. It would've been the REAL Sonic 3D blast instead of the one we got. Since it still would've felt like the most *solid* 32X defining game if it came out the way the techdemo showed. While the movement is awkward and sluggish, at least that whole world, especially Sonic himself, truly defines what I feel the 32X could've/should've done. Everything was fully 3D but looked like it was a miracle it could run. A playable fan remake of the techdemo has been made called Sonic 32X project. It looks inceedible!
Good work. This was a short video but showed everything I needed to judge whether I'd download the ROM or not. Even with only 40 games, I don't want shitty ones wasting my time, so thank you for putting the hard work in so I, and many others, do not have too.
Certainly no masterpieces here, but I think Knuckles Chaotix, Kolibri, Star Wars Arcade and Tempo are good games and may worth a try. Afterburner and Space Harrier were decent arcade ports too.
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Yep - the big 1994 games should have been Mega CD / 32X timed exclusives, with Genesis versions coming later. Too many games for Mega CD / 32X were Genesis / Mega Drive games with a few lazy enhancements. Not good enough. Streets of Rage 3, Golden Axe 3, Sonic 3, Mortal Kombat 3. All of these titles and more could have been Mega CD first - with the games designed around getting the most from the platform. The Gen version could launch even days or weeks later, and ideally those who choose to buy the cartridge should have been able to combine it with the disc to minimise loading time. That way the deluxe version is on the Mega CD / 32X from launch, instead of a half hearted port one year later. They didn’t create any real urgency to buy the hardware.
5:03 Oddly enough, this scene from "Surgical Strike" was emblematic of how both Sega and people felt about the 32X. Sega thought they would blow people away with it. People felt like they were blown up when they bought the 32X instead of saving their money and waiting just a little while longer to buy a PlayStation.
The biggest problem with 32X is the vast majority of the games for it don't look or sound much, if any better than a regular Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game.. very few exceptions.
Poorly supported add-on for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis that was released a bit too late but had some solid hardware inside it that allowed for nearly Arcade-perfect versions of games like Space Harrier and some solid 3D and 2D stuff. Not one but two pricy hardware add-ons (Sega CD + 32X) was too much for the average SMD/GEN owner.
i really like the system. we all know damn well it was more than capable of producing quality titles. it just had a stroke of bad management. i mean, hypothetically speaking, if PS1 had an EXTRA early launch and a crummy launch library featuring Bubsy, and then suddenly people lose interest and devs cancel all their projects (killing the PS1) we would have automatically assumed Bubsy is the best the system can do in terms of 3D visuals and gameplay/mechanics. we all know that simply wasn't the case for PS1, but it was very close to reality for the 32x. sure we probably wouldn't have seen tomb raider on 32x, but there were a ton of quality projects actively in development that all got canned :/ daytona, heavy machinery, castlevania bloodletting, and a whole slew of others that escape me.. and that's only for the 1st year. if the game had as long a life as PS1 did, we could have seem some really awesome stuff on it. i know ps1 had some weird games like kileak, frogger, and simple stuff like that, but as time went on we got Tomba and FF7, which were light years ahead of the 1995 titles and on the same system. 32x... what were you capable of...?
I would love to see someone make a modern game useing both the 32x + sega CD hardware without memory limit you could put super large 2GB+ games & have the full CD for premium audio
Any oldschool baseball game fans? Time for some baseball talk. ;) RBI 95' is A+ Pitching is a blast! Control the ball mid air like the classic RBI games except in 8 directions instead of 2. Adds the dimension of up and down. Also improves on 94' by having more camera distance on the field, less cramped making it easier to catch the ball. It doesn't look or sound particularly special but plays like a dream. ___________ World Series Baseball is also decent, I'll give it a B. It has the better sound and graphic effects, solid game, but plays slower, no ingame music, and can't control the pitch as it moves. ______ Those are the only 2 baseball games for 32X, but that's better than Sega CD which only had 1. _________ Sega CD has ESPN Baseball Tonight. It does offer something no other games at the time did. In most 2D baseball games, after you hit the ball the camera changes to a top down view. But in ESPN Tonite the camera simply tilts towards the direction of the ball. The camera remains at the pitchers mound the entire game while all the sprites scale to size. This was bold for the time. A Genesis cart of ESPN Tonite was also released, so you can play it on your Genesis32X without the Sega CD. Though I'd recommend the CD version for the premium audio experience. Additional crowd and announcer commentary spruce up the life. I'll give ESPN a B, fast and fun but at times hard to judge where the ball is. Could have used more sprite frames in it's scaling engine. ________ There you have it. The 3 most advanced baseball games for the GenesisCD32X.
They should have kept the Genesis as a standalone console on the market and sold them for $50 a pop at Toys R Us just like Nintendo did with the SNES. Focus your energies preparing for the fifth gen than all this add-on crap. This video proves there would still be plenty of good games for the Genesis like Tempo, Blackthorne (which would have looked better because it would use 2D sprites) and Kolibri.
Would love to see ALL the super scalers on 32X. But at the time I only cared about 3D. I figured I already had Outrun and MK2 for Genesis and wasn't excited for those games again. Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, and Shadow Squadron were great 3D games for the 32X. Of course now I can see how great the arcade super scalers were compared to their 16bit Genesis counterpart. I just recall 3D being the rage during the 90s. At least in the States. I know forsure Galaxy Force II would have blown me away, but my arcade never had it. Although they did have Rad Mobile.. now that's a game I wouldn't have associated with Genesis since it never had a 16 bit port.
LightBlue2222 I still think it’s pretty cool playing Virtua Fighter on a Megadrive. Would have been interesting see how a developer like Core could have pushed the potential of the 32X CD
@@AndrewJWildey and yea 32XCD could have been more. All we got were a few full motion games. Imagen actual 32 bit games with the data storage of a PlayStation. Would have brought the Genesis to its max.
The 32x and sega cd are the main reason sega dosent make consoles anymore,I had both when I was 14/15 and they were a comlete waste.I still believed and was lucky to get a saturn the christmas after it came out,it had potential/good games here and there but the two systems that came before killed the saturn before it could gain any ground.
I agree. Looking back, Sega should have spent more time developing & investing on the Saturn for 3D games. A few good games on it but the Saturn is way to weak in 3D to compete with the PlayStation and N64. That was the big transition back then. The only Saturn games I still play today on emulator are the 2D ones.
The Sega CD was in the middle in my opinion, it wasn’t too much of a failure and mistake that Sega made unlike the 32X and launching the Saturn too early.
@@SOBBLESALLOVERTHEPLACE and sewer shark and ground zero Texas prize fighter DOOM 32X earthworm Jim special edition virtua fighter 32X and the list goes on and on son!!! When I say SEGA forever I mean that shit I'm a SEGA fan for life.
Mucha gente se quejara de esto diciendo que el sega Saturn blablablabla pero amigo, un Sega génesis super tuneado con música calidad CD y con todos los colores de los que se alardeaba en snes, eso sí que era una locura sumando ya que el génesis tenía un procesador bastante eficaz y a una velocidad decente, simplemente todo un bombazo aunque hubiese sido mejor si esos periféricos hubiesen salido entre 1990 y 92
I know a lot of people don't like the idea of a hardware upgrade and thought that 32x and Sega CD were doomed from the start, but that's not true. It all comes down to the games and better hardware allow better games. So if 32x only had a better library it would have been successful.
Well by the time it was out. Both the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation where out in Japan, and they were both more powerful than the 32x. So no mater how you slice it, the 32x had no future.
@@webbrowser4603 as add-on they were cheaper than a brand new console and they could have offered a great 2d or arcade feeling if only they had better libraries. You could have inferior hardware but with great games you can achieve success.
Thanks for the video, brings back some memories as I had a good few of these games back in the day. But I have to say most of the lesser known titles are really bad, the 32X never had a chance
When I first heard about this, I thought it would upgrade the Genesis to Saturn level. Little did I know it would play its own set of far inferior games. What a disaster.
The emulator you are using here is running the games a lot smoother than the real hardware. The video quality on the CD games is much poorer on real hardware as well.
Few games have come out for it, and the best in my opinion is Virtua Racing, which came out before as a standalone cartridge with the monstrous Sega Virtua Processor. If Sega had stuck to their original plans and just used SVP as an addon, or the Virtua Racing cartridge was simply pass-through to other games, Sega would have saved a lot of money and more games would have come out. 32x is just extra cables and another PSU (as if the ones for the Mega-CD weren't enough), and I think this has put a lot of people off.
DOOM, virtua fighter, mortal kombat 2 ,sewer shark, earthworm jim special edition NBA jam ,silpheed prize fighter, knuckles chaotix, Sonic CD streets of rage 1,2,3 comix zone oh yeah SEGA forever baby!!!!
I need to start checking out the local Game X Change stores and see if I can find any of these available. I've only got 4 of them: "Doom," "Metal Head," "Primal Rage," "Star Wars Arcade" Darn, just noticed that many of these require Sega CD... which I don't have. =/
Except for that doom bug when you finished the game, it would crash. I had the 32x and it's doom. But was amazed how it would crash at the end, but the PC version would be fine.
Biggest issue with the 32X is it being launched, then abandoned by Sega. Unforgivable. For them to then abandon the Saturn in 1997-8 as well... shocking. I refused to buy a Dreamcast, invested in my PC and bought a PlayStation 2 in 2001. Sega has wonderful creative and engineering personnel, but is managed and run by idiots.
O triste é que tem um artigo da Wikipedia que lista vários jogos cancelados para o 32X: Alien vs. Predator, Panzer Dragoon, OutRun, Castlevania, Daytona USA, Elite... Tem mais jogos cancelados do que os que foram realmente lançados.
I can see no reason why any of these games, with the possible exception of Virtua Fighter, couldn't have been released on either the Megadrive or Mega CD. Did we really need this additional piece of hardware, this rancid black mushroom, sat on top on our beloved Megadrive to play these games??
sega 32x and sega cd 32x confuses me, I ve never heard the term sega cd 32x only Sega Cd, and the 32x is just and add-on. can someone explain me, what the sega CD 32x is please
32x should have launched 12-18 months earlier. It was a great piece of hardware but too close to the Saturn which was already out in Japan basically meant no one cared about the 32x after Christmas 1994
I always interested in the size memory of the 32x cartridge compared with the Megadrive versión oficial the same games; like pitfall, afterburner, mk2, Fifa, NBA, Virtua Racing, and with not all others.
yea those are def look same feel same waste of time but afrer burner virtua figter way better. too bad sytem die before mortal kombat trilogy or ulitmate mk3 can be best mk game. ıthe saturn after burner game also totaly feels same on 32x version.
I'll be honest, gimme these 10 games right now and lock me in my room for the weekend and I would be just fine with that!! 😜Fifa '96, Vitura Racing, Star Wars Arcade, NBA Jam T.E., Mortal Kombat II, Knuckles Chaotic, Doom, Blackthorne, Afterburner, Metal Head.. But, I guess it doesn't make any sense tho, I had/have most if these on a better system already! 😆🤷♂️ Bless your ❤, Sega..
If Sega would have proposed the 32x as stand alone console, like a Sega Drive/Genesi 2 with backward compatibility, its future would have been different. Why Sega, why...
32X would've been a great system if they released the system itself as a genesis pro or something instead of an add-on, also should've been focused on CD games instead of cartridges, I think we could've seen the system to the limit with better ports of MKII, UMK3, Virtua Racing, Daytona USA, Panzer Dragoon, etc.
so is it posbile to play doom star wars game and 32x after burner on genesis. genesis have simalr doom game like first tolaracne and duke nukem. some how bootleg cartirges maybe manage these 32x games working on genesis like virtua racing game did back then on cartrige.
if ıwas Played doom and star wars game on my genesis blown my mind . i like sega cd jurrassic park and star wars rebel assault games aslo terminator is comptly better diffrent game. 32x after burner and virtua fighter way better too. other than maybe some space games and blizzard game.
Maybe 6-7 games are interesting. Other totaly Trash. The 32x was at start very expensive. Psx and Saturn were under way. No one need it. Huge mistake by Sega. Aome month after release you could buy it for 20 Dollar
@@Turbulation1 I don't know. I'm used to the PC version. That was the version I played years ago. I compared this to the SNES version which looks terrible. The N64 version is almost a totally different game all together.
After Burner: short but AMAZING The Amazing Spider-Man Web of Fire: why didn't they release it directly for the Genesis? BlackThorne: hey it's Bret Hart Brutal Above The Claw: Street Fighter but with furris Darxide: the spiritual successor of a game from a company that almost destroyed this industry Doom: I prefer the PC version. I'm still amazed that Nintendo ran this game without peripherals Knuckles' Chaotix: one of the best classic platformers in the saga, but one who lags behind others like the Adventure Kolibri: ah look at that little hummingbird .... WAIT, CAN HE SHOOT ???? Metal Head: Innovative but shit right now. I don't know if this is worse than the 32x Doom Mortal Kombat II: one of the best versions I've seen NBA Jam Tournament Edition: Big Game Pitfall The Mayan Adventure: God I Love This Game Space Harrier: another great game Virtua Fighter: in terms of graphics I prefer other versions, but it is just as good Virtua Racing Deluxe: short but entertaining Wrestlemania: why did you leave Undertaker :( Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000: Sega's Star Fox
5:02 damn what a kick
🤣🤣🤣yeah
Her kick blasted an entire fighting venue.
And all were dead lol
A kick to Brasil. Litterally.
So powerful, send him flying from on game in to another 😅
0:03: 1. After Burner/After Burner Complete (1995 US/EU/JP)
0:13: 2. Amazing Spider-Man, The: Web of Fire (1996 US)
0:23: 3. BC Racers (1995 US)
0:33: 4. Blackthorne (1995 US/BR)
0:44: 5. Brutal: Above the Claw (1995 US)
0:53: 6. Corpse Killer (1994 US/EU)
1:04: 7. Cosmic Carnage / Cyber Brawl (1994/1995 US/EU/JP/BR)
1:13: 8. Darxide (1995 EU)
1:23: 9. DOOM (1994 US/EU/JP/BR)
1:33: 10. Fahrenheit (32X + CD) (1995 US)
1:43: 11. FIFA Soccer 96 (1995 EU)
1:53: 12. Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (1994/1995 US/EU/JP/BR)
I return to this video every month just to say that all of these games were PERFECT for Saturn or Sega Genesis / CD. It really was a mistake trying to revitalize the Sega Genesis with another peripheral.
The 32x didn't have the best reliability, either. I got a brand new one in 2003 (eBay prices hadn't shot up yet, and wouldn't for some years to come,) and half the games I had didn't work. It wasn't the games, it was the system; the two white wires needed re-seated often, which I didn't learn until maybe 5 or 9 weeks after getting mine. I ended up un-screwing the top of the console, and probably leaving the RF shielding un-screwed, because I needed to re-seat the wires that often.
Biggets mistake from sega, actually from Nakayama, was his boss not believing in the brand Power Sega had, wanting to compete Atari, Sony and Panasonic by releasing stupid console and add on every time a new console was announced, instead of focusing on its game and competing Nintendo, and trusting Kolensky who was actually from the very beggining. Nakayama is the one to blame for sega’s downfall. He didnt see that je had everything he needed to succeed and wasnt confident enough.
Doom actually sucked on Saturn, nice try tho
@@JP47471 Nice try? On the Saturn it was better than on the 32x. I don't understand what your hate is.
@@thesadmusicboy THAT'S A LIE, The Saturn version was a mess and every true gamer knows it
5:00 That kick and explosion tho
Finally one of these game collection vidoes that I can sit down and watch from start to finish.
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The era when developpers thought FMV was the future of videogame
I thought those developers are (mostly) Westerns.
It wasn't so much that. Its largely because they went from games being 4mb to having 700mb on a disc. So they felt they had take advantage of the space. They figured video was the best way. It was this weird logic that luckily didn't last long and gave way to CGI cut scenes and huge CGI backgrounds and CD quailty soundtracks instead.
Not sure many people remember, but the first Resident Evil had these horrible FMV cutscenes.
Looking at all these QuickTime events in a lot of games, they weren’t far off when it came to gameplay. It’s basically dragons lair with real time graphics 😂
It's saddening and it gave Sega CD the worst reputation yet, all that software capable of doing the best at the time wasted away for that crap.
@@mr.selfdestruct nah its just easy to make shovelware and these games was made for vhs lightgun stuff in the 80s and VERY early 90s,night trap was an example and a few others,filmed like 5 years prior to the mega cd even releasing
FMV games was cheap to make thats why
The graphics were quite impressive for 32x. I would had a blast playing this as a kid.
They were, the difference in quality between Mortal Kombat 2 on my SNES and the 32X version was very obvious, the same goes for Doom... and not to mention Space Harrier and Virtua Fighter vs the Genesis versions.
I had a SNES and always lusted for a Genesis with a 32X+Mega CD right until 1996, when I purchased the PlayStation... and then never looked back at Sega hardware!
it turn me popular at jrHigh
Imagine if Tempo was a 32x CD game. it would have been incredible. the music would have just absolutely bang, it would have tad more power so maybe a mild filter to make colours pop
It should of been a Sega Saturn game instead.
@@webbrowser4603 There was a sequel to Tempo released on the Sega Saturn...
There was a sequel to Tempo released on the Sega Saturn.
@@thuggeegaming659 you doubled posted
6:03 basically the first 2k baseball game
The 32X had a quite powerful hardware back then but most games were not impressive at all...
A few were at the time. Chaotix can look lovely. The Virtua Fighter and Star Wars Arcade ports were beyond the Megadrive and so were a couple of the 3D shoot em ups ( although Mega CD could do those to an extent as well )
It was in an awkward spot where it had a weaker version of the Saturn's hardware strapped onto the Genesis. So even though it was dramatically more powerful than the old 16-bit hardware, it was just as clearly outmatched by the new hardware coming out in the mid-90's.
It pains me to say this though it is a hill I'll gladly die on, I believe the only graphically impressive game that WOULD'VE made full use of the 32X's potential was the canceled Sonic Mars. The techdemo was made on an Amiga afaik. And while the gameplay wasn't exactly what most Sonic fans may have had in mind at the time, I still wish it came out. It would've been the REAL Sonic 3D blast instead of the one we got. Since it still would've felt like the most *solid* 32X defining game if it came out the way the techdemo showed. While the movement is awkward and sluggish, at least that whole world, especially Sonic himself, truly defines what I feel the 32X could've/should've done. Everything was fully 3D but looked like it was a miracle it could run. A playable fan remake of the techdemo has been made called Sonic 32X project. It looks inceedible!
Good work.
This was a short video but showed everything I needed to judge whether I'd download the ROM or not. Even with only 40 games, I don't want shitty ones wasting my time, so thank you for putting the hard work in so I, and many others, do not have too.
Half are decent imo.
Certainly no masterpieces here, but I think Knuckles Chaotix, Kolibri, Star Wars Arcade and Tempo are good games and may worth a try. Afterburner and Space Harrier were decent arcade ports too.
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I had a full genesis 32x CD setup and 75 to 90% of the games I liked best were genesis titles.
Because these add ons just never had enough good games to support it
I still have the combo set up :)
I love my tower of power. SEGA forever!!!
Yep - the big 1994 games should have been Mega CD / 32X timed exclusives, with Genesis versions coming later.
Too many games for Mega CD / 32X were Genesis / Mega Drive games with a few lazy enhancements. Not good enough.
Streets of Rage 3, Golden Axe 3, Sonic 3, Mortal Kombat 3. All of these titles and more could have been Mega CD first - with the games designed around getting the most from the platform.
The Gen version could launch even days or weeks later, and ideally those who choose to buy the cartridge should have been able to combine it with the disc to minimise loading time.
That way the deluxe version is on the Mega CD / 32X from launch, instead of a half hearted port one year later. They didn’t create any real urgency to buy the hardware.
5:03
Oddly enough, this scene from "Surgical Strike" was emblematic of how both Sega and people felt about the 32X.
Sega thought they would blow people away with it.
People felt like they were blown up when they bought the 32X instead of saving their money and waiting just a little while longer to buy a PlayStation.
The biggest problem with 32X is the vast majority of the games for it don't look or sound much, if any better than a regular Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game.. very few exceptions.
Exactly. It reminds me of the Atari Jaguar where a few games did 3D graphics but most of them looked the same as a Genesis/SNES game.
What do you think about the 32X?
I thought doom,virtual fighter were the best games. That’s all I’d owned.
One of the worst systems, one of the worst ideas ever and bad timing. However, just like anything else there are some titles worth picking through!
Poorly supported add-on for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis that was released a bit too late but had some solid hardware inside it that allowed for nearly Arcade-perfect versions of games like Space Harrier and some solid 3D and 2D stuff.
Not one but two pricy hardware add-ons (Sega CD + 32X) was too much for the average SMD/GEN owner.
it suck.
i really like the system. we all know damn well it was more than capable of producing quality titles. it just had a stroke of bad management. i mean, hypothetically speaking, if PS1 had an EXTRA early launch and a crummy launch library featuring Bubsy, and then suddenly people lose interest and devs cancel all their projects (killing the PS1) we would have automatically assumed Bubsy is the best the system can do in terms of 3D visuals and gameplay/mechanics. we all know that simply wasn't the case for PS1, but it was very close to reality for the 32x. sure we probably wouldn't have seen tomb raider on 32x, but there were a ton of quality projects actively in development that all got canned :/ daytona, heavy machinery, castlevania bloodletting, and a whole slew of others that escape me.. and that's only for the 1st year. if the game had as long a life as PS1 did, we could have seem some really awesome stuff on it. i know ps1 had some weird games like kileak, frogger, and simple stuff like that, but as time went on we got Tomba and FF7, which were light years ahead of the 1995 titles and on the same system. 32x... what were you capable of...?
You see the classic games like after burner ,space harrier . Plus others and you instantly regres to your childhood in the arcades
I would love to see someone make a modern game useing both the 32x + sega CD hardware without memory limit you could put super large 2GB+ games & have the full CD for premium audio
A great Sega Project! 😍
But not 😔
@@chadgaming7466 for me is great!
@@Giocherellone ok🤝
darxide and metal head are really impressive, both support fully texture-mapped 3D polygons
5:00 had me cracking up!! That foot to the face did some serious damage!!!😂
Any oldschool baseball game fans?
Time for some baseball talk. ;)
RBI 95' is A+
Pitching is a blast! Control the ball mid air like the classic RBI games except in 8 directions instead of 2. Adds the dimension of up and down.
Also improves on 94' by having more camera distance on the field, less cramped making it easier to catch the ball.
It doesn't look or sound particularly special but plays like a dream.
___________
World Series Baseball is also decent, I'll give it a B. It has the better sound and graphic effects, solid game, but plays slower, no ingame music, and can't control the pitch as it moves.
______
Those are the only 2 baseball games for 32X, but that's better than Sega CD which only had 1.
_________
Sega CD has ESPN Baseball Tonight.
It does offer something no other games at the time did.
In most 2D baseball games, after you hit the ball the camera changes to a top down view. But in ESPN Tonite the camera simply tilts towards the direction of the ball. The camera remains at the pitchers mound the entire game while all the sprites scale to size. This was bold for the time.
A Genesis cart of ESPN Tonite was also released, so you can play it on your Genesis32X without the Sega CD. Though I'd recommend the CD version for the premium audio experience. Additional crowd and announcer commentary spruce up the life.
I'll give ESPN a B, fast and fun but at times hard to judge where the ball is. Could have used more sprite frames in it's scaling engine.
________
There you have it. The 3 most advanced baseball games for the GenesisCD32X.
Knuckles Chaotix, should be extracted and placed in a safe room. I liked that game.
They should have kept the Genesis as a standalone console on the market and sold them for $50 a pop at Toys R Us just like Nintendo did with the SNES. Focus your energies preparing for the fifth gen than all this add-on crap. This video proves there would still be plenty of good games for the Genesis like Tempo, Blackthorne (which would have looked better because it would use 2D sprites) and Kolibri.
Это первое видео по которому нашла твой канал.
Какой же титанический труд стоит за ним.
Мя выражаю безмерное уважение тебе за твой труд.
А что тут Титанического?
5:03 funniest part
If they'd have just focused on AM1/2 arcade ports and super scalers it'd have been alright. Desert Tank, Wing War, Outrun, Jurassic Park etc..
Would love to see ALL the super scalers on 32X.
But at the time I only cared about 3D. I figured I already had Outrun and MK2 for Genesis and wasn't excited for those games again.
Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, and Shadow Squadron were great 3D games for the 32X.
Of course now I can see how great the arcade super scalers were compared to their 16bit Genesis counterpart. I just recall 3D being the rage during the 90s. At least in the States.
I know forsure Galaxy Force II would have blown me away, but my arcade never had it. Although they did have Rad Mobile.. now that's a game I wouldn't have associated with Genesis since it never had a 16 bit port.
LightBlue2222 I still think it’s pretty cool playing Virtua Fighter on a Megadrive. Would have been interesting see how a developer like Core could have pushed the potential of the 32X CD
@@AndrewJWildey that's true. They got more out of the Sega CD than anyone. Some of the few games on the system that actually use sprite scaling.
@@AndrewJWildey and yea 32XCD could have been more. All we got were a few full motion games. Imagen actual 32 bit games with the data storage of a PlayStation. Would have brought the Genesis to its max.
@@Lightblue2222 in fairness there wasn't the user base. I finally got one last year and it still cost me like £160 and the Mega CD was about the same
The 32x and sega cd are the main reason sega dosent make consoles anymore,I had both when I was 14/15 and they were a comlete waste.I still believed and was lucky to get a saturn the christmas after it came out,it had potential/good games here and there but the two systems that came before killed the saturn before it could gain any ground.
I agree. Looking back, Sega should have spent more time developing & investing on the Saturn for 3D games. A few good games on it but the Saturn is way to weak in 3D to compete with the PlayStation and N64. That was the big transition back then. The only Saturn games I still play today on emulator are the 2D ones.
The Sega CD was in the middle in my opinion, it wasn’t too much of a failure and mistake that Sega made unlike the 32X and launching the Saturn too early.
SEGA CD + 32X = super awsome.
Avgn : more like super shit
@@DREWSONW3Q Nintendo fanboy!!!
@@willpowerrazorblade6436 ok i hope you enjoy corpse killer
@@SOBBLESALLOVERTHEPLACE and sewer shark and ground zero Texas prize fighter DOOM 32X earthworm Jim special edition virtua fighter 32X and the list goes on and on son!!! When I say SEGA forever I mean that shit I'm a SEGA fan for life.
@@willpowerrazorblade6436 i mean the 32x cd had some ambition but it and im sorry to say wasted
Mucha gente se quejara de esto diciendo que el sega Saturn blablablabla pero amigo, un Sega génesis super tuneado con música calidad CD y con todos los colores de los que se alardeaba en snes, eso sí que era una locura sumando ya que el génesis tenía un procesador bastante eficaz y a una velocidad decente, simplemente todo un bombazo aunque hubiese sido mejor si esos periféricos hubiesen salido entre 1990 y 92
after burner, spiderman knuckles kaotix, kolibri, pitfall , mk 2 , virtua racing, tempo , virtua fighter, zaxxon 2000 ..... for me that's all :)
After Burner!!
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Blacktrhone
no 32 bit games spiderman,after burner,knuckles is 16 bit.Fucking off 32 x
I know a lot of people don't like the idea of a hardware upgrade and thought that 32x and Sega CD were doomed from the start, but that's not true. It all comes down to the games and better hardware allow better games. So if 32x only had a better library it would have been successful.
Well by the time it was out. Both the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation where out in Japan, and they were both more powerful than the 32x. So no mater how you slice it, the 32x had no future.
@@webbrowser4603 as add-on they were cheaper than a brand new console and they could have offered a great 2d or arcade feeling if only they had better libraries. You could have inferior hardware but with great games you can achieve success.
I love the 32X.
At 5:02 when you kicked the girl the building exploded. I was like "whoa!" lol
Sega should had combined the Sega CD and 32X in one add-on, plus releasing it earlier. This could be changed Mega Drive's history.
Or better yet... don't. Just focus on the god damn Saturn. Release it a year earlier if need be.
This is first and last time game console was pushed to its ABSOLUTE limits but respect
SEGA forever baby!!!
Kolibri might possibly be the best hummingbird themed horizontal shooter ever released for the 32X.
I never gave sega a chance after u survived the 16 but wars, I was always bitter. But now 25 years have passed I think IL check out the 32X
Amazing 😮
Sega-CD e 32X: o início da ruína da Sega no mercado de consoles... :*(
E para piorar, era extremamente difícil de fazer jogos para o Saturn, porque ele tinha um hardware alienígena e mal documentado.
Por querer estar sempre na frente a sega acabou atropelando a si mesma , :(
Stop, just the 32x was the bad child, Mega CD is not bad at all i think has great games
The EU 32x boxes are the best
At least, they tried
Thats true
Thanks for the video, brings back some memories as I had a good few of these games back in the day. But I have to say most of the lesser known titles are really bad, the 32X never had a chance
You know the 32x was mostly for 2D look like 3D games
All these games look like the devs didn’t give a shit or had limited time/ budget.
When I first heard about this, I thought it would upgrade the Genesis to Saturn level. Little did I know it would play its own set of far inferior games. What a disaster.
The emulator you are using here is running the games a lot smoother than the real hardware. The video quality on the CD games is much poorer on real hardware as well.
Was thinking the same thing. In no way was BC Racers THAT smooth on actual hardware.
@@MoonScythe1 yea BC plays smooth and fast via Kega Fusion. It actually makes it fun.
@@Lightblue2222 That explains it then.
Sega CD 32X games had a lot of more colours, You are thinking about Sega CD games alone, not the combination of both
@@MoonScythe1 looks exactly the same to me.
When you realize 32x gives you SNES color palette at best (often still using Genesis color palette limitations though)...
This is way tighter than I remember
Few games have come out for it, and the best in my opinion is Virtua Racing, which came out before as a standalone cartridge with the monstrous Sega Virtua Processor. If Sega had stuck to their original plans and just used SVP as an addon, or the Virtua Racing cartridge was simply pass-through to other games, Sega would have saved a lot of money and more games would have come out. 32x is just extra cables and another PSU (as if the ones for the Mega-CD weren't enough), and I think this has put a lot of people off.
Thought was a great add on. MK II seemed arcade perfect. The Star Wars game was sick. So was virtua racing. And all the fmv games looked 3DO quality.
DOOM, virtua fighter, mortal kombat 2 ,sewer shark, earthworm jim special edition NBA jam ,silpheed prize fighter, knuckles chaotix, Sonic CD streets of rage 1,2,3 comix zone oh yeah SEGA forever baby!!!!
If only Sega didn't do that stupid surprise early Saturn launch...maybe we could've seen more of the 32X's full potential.
I need to start checking out the local Game X Change stores and see if I can find any of these available. I've only got 4 of them: "Doom," "Metal Head," "Primal Rage," "Star Wars Arcade"
Darn, just noticed that many of these require Sega CD... which I don't have. =/
It is a honour to Sega 32x to run Doom
Because Doom is so popular that sega 32x get that honour
Except for that doom bug when you finished the game, it would crash. I had the 32x and it's doom. But was amazed how it would crash at the end, but the PC version would be fine.
i'm convinced the 32x is capable of running a plethora of DOS game ports. anyone wanna take a jab at Crusader No Regret using CD32x?
3:23 pitfall !
this one is the goat 2:02
5:03
OH MY FUCKING GOD FUCKING BRAZIL ONLY LMAO
Biggest issue with the 32X is it being launched, then abandoned by Sega.
Unforgivable.
For them to then abandon the Saturn in 1997-8 as well... shocking.
I refused to buy a Dreamcast, invested in my PC and bought a PlayStation 2 in 2001.
Sega has wonderful creative and engineering personnel, but is managed and run by idiots.
yeah at least Nintendo kept churning out new games for the previous generation console for at least 2-3 years into the life cycle of the current gen.
Fico puto com esses consoles q são bons, porém, tem poucos jogos.
sim.... tipo o Nintendo 64.
O triste é que tem um artigo da Wikipedia que lista vários jogos cancelados para o 32X: Alien vs. Predator, Panzer Dragoon, OutRun, Castlevania, Daytona USA, Elite... Tem mais jogos cancelados do que os que foram realmente lançados.
Just ordered one today have a feeling its not going to work with my Sega cdx. oh, the humanity!
Remember getting it and immediately regretting it
How do you run Fahrenheit on emulator?
I can see no reason why any of these games, with the possible exception of Virtua Fighter, couldn't have been released on either the Megadrive or Mega CD. Did we really need this additional piece of hardware, this rancid black mushroom, sat on top on our beloved Megadrive to play these games??
It's all about the colors at the screen :)
It had nice graphics
Made the same mistakes as Turbografx with hardware attachments
sega 32x and sega cd 32x confuses me, I ve never heard the term sega cd 32x only Sega Cd, and the 32x is just and add-on.
can someone explain me, what the sega CD 32x is please
Sega CD 32x refers to games that need both the Sega CD and the 32x to run.
@@PauloHenrique-cf8pq which was a scam.
It were the original Sega CD games with an upgraded color palette.
@@Gunh3d1 oh ok but not much improvement
@@cysper479 Indeed.
Did Atari make T-Mek? It reminds me of a modern for the time Battlezone
Used to play tf out of Fred Couples golf.
32x should have launched 12-18 months earlier. It was a great piece of hardware but too close to the Saturn which was already out in Japan basically meant no one cared about the 32x after Christmas 1994
I always interested in the size memory of the 32x cartridge compared with the Megadrive versión oficial the same games; like pitfall, afterburner, mk2, Fifa, NBA, Virtua Racing, and with not all others.
yea those are def look same feel same waste of time but afrer burner virtua figter way better. too bad sytem die before mortal kombat trilogy or ulitmate mk3 can be best mk game. ıthe saturn after burner game also totaly feels same on 32x version.
Metal head most advanced game for the 32X
My favorite one 2:02
Wow, most of them really don't look too different from genesis games
5:01 only and Brasil?
0:14 Best 32X game IMO
I'll be honest, gimme these 10 games right now and lock me in my room for the weekend and I would be just fine with that!! 😜Fifa '96, Vitura Racing, Star Wars Arcade, NBA Jam T.E., Mortal Kombat II, Knuckles Chaotic, Doom, Blackthorne, Afterburner, Metal Head.. But, I guess it doesn't make any sense tho, I had/have most if these on a better system already! 😆🤷♂️ Bless your ❤, Sega..
The 32X is decent, but it surely ain't much. I pretty much prefer the Atari Jaguar over the 32X.
If Sega would have proposed the 32x as stand alone console, like a Sega Drive/Genesi 2 with backward compatibility, its future would have been different. Why Sega, why...
Los cacharros que iniciaron el fin de Sega.
32X would've been a great system if they released the system itself as a genesis pro or something instead of an add-on, also should've been focused on CD games instead of cartridges, I think we could've seen the system to the limit with better ports of MKII, UMK3, Virtua Racing, Daytona USA, Panzer Dragoon, etc.
What a pity that the 32X only had 40 games. It's like that unloved middle child.
Isn't blackthorn missing?
00:33
Acauting the good games with hand fingers.
Mk2 was so good on this tho
Most 32X games weren’t even 32bits, they took benefit of it over the sega genesis,hahaha.
so is it posbile to play doom star wars game and 32x after burner on genesis. genesis have simalr doom game like first tolaracne and duke nukem. some how bootleg cartirges maybe manage these 32x games working on genesis like virtua racing game did back then on cartrige.
Did you have a stroke?
@@littleman7514 why
Strangermoon Read your sentence.
@@littleman7514 what so its fine.
Para um "video game" de 32bits, acho que deveriam ter aproveitado melhor a arquitetura.
I only like Knuckles Chaotix and Star Wars Arcade
Seriously 40 games. This was such a major bust. The 32x should have been it's own system being backwards compatible
Ruins, o do beija-flor é bonito.
mortal kombat 2 is the best 32x game
if ıwas Played doom and star wars game on my genesis blown my mind . i like sega cd jurrassic park and star wars rebel assault games aslo terminator is comptly better diffrent game. 32x after burner and virtua fighter way better too. other than maybe some space games and blizzard game.
Maybe 6-7 games are interesting.
Other totaly Trash.
The 32x was at start very expensive. Psx and Saturn were under way. No one need it. Huge mistake by Sega. Aome month after release you could buy it for 20 Dollar
Doom on 32X looks close to the PC version
Not really since it’s still running in a small resolution, even while letterboxed. The Jaguar ver would be closer.
@@Turbulation1 I don't know. I'm used to the PC version. That was the version I played years ago. I compared this to the SNES version which looks terrible. The N64 version is almost a totally different game all together.
The 32x had lless titles than the Atari Jaquar (67). lol
Faltou o Terminator
After Burner: short but AMAZING
The Amazing Spider-Man Web of Fire: why didn't they release it directly for the Genesis?
BlackThorne: hey it's Bret Hart
Brutal Above The Claw: Street Fighter but with furris
Darxide: the spiritual successor of a game from a company that almost destroyed this industry
Doom: I prefer the PC version. I'm still amazed that Nintendo ran this game without peripherals
Knuckles' Chaotix: one of the best classic platformers in the saga, but one who lags behind others like the Adventure
Kolibri: ah look at that little hummingbird .... WAIT, CAN HE SHOOT ????
Metal Head: Innovative but shit right now. I don't know if this is worse than the 32x Doom
Mortal Kombat II: one of the best versions I've seen
NBA Jam Tournament Edition: Big Game
Pitfall The Mayan Adventure: God I Love This Game
Space Harrier: another great game
Virtua Fighter: in terms of graphics I prefer other versions, but it is just as good
Virtua Racing Deluxe: short but entertaining
Wrestlemania: why did you leave Undertaker :(
Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000: Sega's Star Fox
Epic times