Sega of Japan left Sega of America uninformed of the Saturn when it was developed. With the Playstation over the horizon, SoA became more worried so they developed the 32X and when Saturn was finally announced in North America, they did not want to support two 32-bit platforms. This is why the 32X was left unsupported by 1996.
so jan 2001 peter moore says we SEGA will no longer be in hardware business in march 2001 dreamcast is no more funny thing is this dreamcast was still selling like hot cakes in my opion peter sold out to xbox or micosoft games like shenmue 2 was never released for the US dreamcast but is was ported to xbox as i said in firest comment peter joined xbox in 2003 xbox contorler looks like dreamcast too im gusseing peter moore puled the plug of dreamcast for money?
I had the 32x, It was a good add-on. It had flaws but not everything is perfect, especially back in those days. The sega genesis was one heck of a reliable work horse. It took all sorts of abuse to both the games and the console and would still work. I thought the 32x was a great add-on, you could still play all of your regular sega games threw it plus the new games they only made a handful of. My personal favorite 32x game was Metalhead, a Mech warrior battle bot.
I'l admit the 32x was a faliure commercially, but from a collectors point of view i kinda like it, it has some interesting features and theres definately games on it that are at least playable and enjoyable. also it works as a neat add on for the megadrive cos it seems to act as a region bypass thing, i can play japanese and american games on my european megadrive hassle free which is nice
I can't believe he just fucking dropped the poor thing. What a dipshit!
And for what it's worth, the 32X was apparently the climax of the rivalry between Sega's East and West divisions- SoJ had some serious pride issues and pretty much snubbed SoA at every given opportunity. SoA took the initiative with the 32X because the Japs didn't even have the courtesy to /tell/ them about the Saturn until the very last minute. They were quite retarded, really.
@Prinsdam your partially correct, SoA was making another system, the Sega Neptune, but SoJ had the Saturn pretty much ready so instead of tossing the Neptune, they shrinked it and made it into an addon so thats why we got the 32X. Instead of using the genesis to death, they should of came out with the Neptune a year earlier and released the Saturn a year later.
@Prinsdam that's really sad. i wonder if we would have dreamcast 2 right now if that internal war hadn't happened between the two divisions of sega. guess we'll never know...
What really impresses me is how everybody hated the 32X when it first came out but now everybody wants one for their old school video game collection.
@AngrySportsFan 32X! the jaguar was OK, Virtual Boy was pretty close to being the biggest flop, but i honestly think 32x was the stupidest console ever made since the Saturn was coming out just a few months before the fact.
@arisechicken82 Yeah also I forgot another flop- the CD-i I mean it made 3 awful Zelda games and a bad Mario game, but yeah I personally think it's a tie between the Virtual Boy and 32x
I didn't know there was a Sega 32X until 2000 when I found a game called Knuckles Chaotix for 32X. Sega should've not make this in the first place, should've released as a console under the name "Neptune", but cancelled it and made another add-on, WHAT'S UP WITH DAT?!
Against my better judgment, I got one not long after they were released in 1995. Couldn't figure out to attach it my Genesis with those stupid metal prongs. Took it back and told the store it was defective. Fortunately, the store gave me my money back, so I didnt' waste it on this abomination of a video game "system".
1.) After the Genesis they started rushing on their release dates for their consoles.
2.) Released a bunch of add on's for the Genesis.
3.) Lack of third party developers after the Saturn's Failure Sega wasn't trusted anymore.
I honestly think the Dreamcast would of kicked PS2 and Nintendo's ass. If they had waited on their release of the Dreamcast. Which would of give them more time to add more features to that system. For example DVD Features.
Wow you really wont stop ranting and raving on how you dont like the 32X. If you really don't want it I would be glad to take it off your hands. Send me an email and I'll pay for the shipping. As a good collector I dont let my game systems collect dust and I also dont drop my game systems. Your no game collector. The real question is not how the 32X fails but how you fail.
The Sega 32X was pretty good in performance, but as you said it was released WAY too late. Sega CD was similar, it got off to a slow start and only picked up while the Sega Saturn was being developed, else the Sega CD would've made Sega a lot more than it did with games like Lunar and the better version of the game Snatcher. Sega also tried to be stupid later and made a combo addon called the Sega 32XCD but it only really made Night Trap look better lol.
32X was fucking awesome. I owned at least 1/3 of the games for it and they were really fun.
Jedite's analysis is dead on. 32X died because Sega obviously had no intention of supporting it as a next gen console. Saturn was their next gen, so 32X really had no reason to exist. What the fuck were they thinking?
I had one but it's nicer to just get a sonic compilation because the only good game was sonic 3d and that isn't even that great lol. It was a pain switching seca cd and 32x back and forth just to see what looked like regular sega games with more sprites and psuedo 3d.
but now the virtual boy cost too much ^^ i just bought some consoles on ebay because i collect them, for example an year agò i bought a dreamcast with 6 games and driving device (i dont know how is it called in english, in italy it's "volante" ) for only 69 + 10 € hella nice ^^
its anoying having a sega megadrive (genesis) then the sega cd add on, thats 2 power bricks and the 32x has its own power brick so thats 3, plus all the cords stickin out from the back its just a mess.... The sega multi mega on the other hand is awesome!! its a sega cd and megadrive (genesis) in one and its small and compact and can be portable to play music thats cool!
you are having the same problem i did, you have lost your cable, i bought one that came without cables, and if you do have all the cables is it worth it? no, because there are hardly any games
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I rather have a Virtual Boy than a 32X.The Virtual Boy might have made a few people go blind but it had some good games like WarioLand,TeleroBoxer,VerticalForce and Galactic Pinball.But the nearly every 32X game is shit execpt for Knuckles Chaotix and Virtual Fighter.I will choose a Virtual Boy over a 32X anyday.
Any Nintendo fanboy would want to ignore that the VB existed. Why? It fucking sucked! And you're forgetting about all of Sega's OTHER failures. You know, everything after the Genesis. I like both Sega and Nintendo, and Sony too. I just appreciate each console for what it is.
@damiannerd Hell I was nintendo kid. And even I will never deny how much crap the vb was. That and zelda wind waker two biggest fuck up's in nintendo's history!!
@noescom Ok. I don't ever really hear people talk about the good 32X games. I knew about Knuckles Chaotix, but I couldn't recall if it was actually considered good or not.
@dciguy01 peter moore is one reason japan was still selling dreamcast and games up to the year 2007 back to peter moore ending up joining xbox in 2003 now in EA peter was vice president of sega america in the 90s-1999 that year thay got rid of berine stoler he was the guy who f-up the sega saturn buy not geting much rpg games for the saturn like final fantasy and in e3 late 1990s saying saturn not are future so peter became president of sega in 1999-2003 this store continues
Let's say that you didn't have a Genesis. You'd have to buy a Genesis for $130 and a 32X for $150. That's almost $300, which is what the Playstation was priced at. Of course you're going to wait for the Sony system.
Bottom line: Nakayama should never have ordered the creation of the 32X.
If you were to buy a Sega CD and 32X for the 16 it would cost a lot of money. And If 32X was the biggest flop for Sega, which is the biggest flop ever ? and then i speak of all consoles and hand-held portables ? which didn't sell at all ? i mean worse than Dreamcast ? which my brother actually owned for a short time ^_^
Well it couldnt have been that bad. I mean yes in the eyes of the consumers at the time but if it had a steady library of games it could have ran alongside the saturn
the 2nd worst sega console in my opinion is the multi mega, which is a combimation of a mega drive and a mega cd, im sure in the u.s you have your own name for it
3. Sega's resources became somewhat fragmented because they tried to support two new major environments at virtually the same time: the 32X and the Saturn. Sooner or later, Sega had to decide which environment had priority and concentrate on that one only. The Saturn offered better potential than the 32X so Sega would default to that, but not without first fragmenting itself, causing it to lose out to more organized efforts by Nintendo and Sony.
1. People who knew about the 32X likely also knew about the Saturn. Customers couldn't fathom what direction Sega wanted to take or assumed since Saturn was more advanced, that was the way to go.
2. Developer support, such as devkits, for the 32X had a very bumpy start. Plus, software developers were either confused to Sega's direction or simply assumed that the more advanced hardware was what the future was and opted to develop on Saturn instead of 32X.
The 32x was a bad idea from the start, because the timing was WAY off regardless of what it had to offer. They should have kept their focused on the Saturn at the time.
The Sega CD, however, was actually a pretty darn cool add on. I guess developers for the most part didn't know how to capitalize on it, but hey, at least you could make a Top 10 list if you do your research.
Yeah Sega does made a big mistake creating another add-on in an attempt let the Genesis live longer than SNES. It's one of hte major failures of gaming and plus there are no good games on the 32X (I think but only a few good games).
I still think the 32x is awesome. Even though it had a horrible selection of games, a lot of the games were quite good. Virtua Racing was the best racing game at the time, Star Wars was fun, Doom was fun except it only had 15 levels (wtf?), After Burner looked a lot closer to the arcade, Metal Head was awesome. I don't regret buying one.
benzo8686 is right about SegaCD. It had a lot of good games that people like James never talk about.
Sonic CD is very overrated IMO, I did not like it all. There have been MUCH better games on the Sega CD than Sonic CD.
The Sega CD had the potential, but it was ultimately brought down with SOJ's horrible marketing, way too high costs, and overload of mediocre FMV games.
The 32x on the other hand, had no reason to have a release as the Saturn was already on it's way.
Sega of America did not invent the 32X, it was started by Sega Japan and finished in the US as a stop-gap until the Saturn's release, also Knuckles Chaotix is not a killer app, in fact it's actually one of the worst Sonic games from that period, and was savaged by all the magazine critics on release.
I completely agree with you, the 32X only hurt Sega, not only when it was out but for the rest of their lifetime as a hardware manufacturer, I wish they hadn't bothered with the SegaCD either (though I know it had some good games) they Should've just concentrated on the Saturn, failing that though, if they hadn't bothered with the 32X they could've done more with the SegaCD instead, there was no need to make 2 upgrades, especially when they hadn't even found the full potential of the first yet.
Basically without the cable you mentioned you would get video but no 3d parts. All you would see is the 2d parts like selection screens and backgrounds.
bad example about saying about selling anthor add on for the ps2 as the ps3 comes out cuase for a fair time sales of ps2 outstripped sales of the ps3(just pointing out i like all consols)
The Genesis was on "life support" and Sega was trying to outdo its nemesis, the Super NES with the SCD and 32X add-ons. The Sega CD sucked, but the 32X was more worse when it was released. Hell, the 32X was released around 8 months prior to the release of the Saturn. Plus, SEGA also planned to release another system called Neptune (which was just a stand-alone 32X), however, SEGA screwed up their own marketing and this is a reason why the 32X FAILED miserably.
Both the Saturn and Dreamcast were great consoles. SEGA of America invented the 32X, because they had no idea that SEGA of Japan was already working on the Saturn. So when the 32X was annouced SOA of caught of gaurd.
if they released it like 2 years ago...it would be that most F***ing advanced system out there...well...if they tuned up the graphics. But come on! Sega Dreamcast owns the wii so much its not funny!
I always wanted a 32x when I had a genesis/Megadrive, and i managed to get one recently with 14 32x games including knuckles chaotix, and I must say its pretty good,lots of fun..
everybody loves the 32x though. Thats why theres more fasination with it than saturn on you tube. You love it or love to hate it. But you got to be bitter gayboy to say games like virtua fighter, tempo, kolibri bla bla bla are crap though
I agree, the only 2 reasons i bought a 32X was just like jedite1, im a collector and player, and the second reason is like you, to play Knuckles Chaotix because it is still a Sonic based game, even if its a little bit flawed.
I bought a 32x for the bloody blackthorne, the amazing shadow squadron, The exellent am2 virtua fighter, virtua racing, The unfinished but violent doom, afterburner with a flight stick, starwars, kolibri....... I never even considered buying !!another!! god damn sonic tails knuckles game. Sonic 3d was great though but I don't really consider it to be the same thing at all.
pretty much everything sega made failed to make the cut commercially or financially, (I mean after genesis and compared to sony and nintendo...) but that never ment any of their systems didn't have good games. example: If you say shadow squadron was not at least good for its time then you either don't know your game stuff or your a blatent nintendo fanboy or simply hate space games..
I would buy a 32x for my sega cd/genesis, but it just looks like a diarhea mess when all three system are put together. And I can barely get both beasty plugs into an outlet let alone adding another one.
Sorry but i disagree , it doesent deserve to collect dust, some of the games are great its worth having nowadays since its cheap to buy, you can get a cable cheap on ebay. Its worth owning for: Kolibri, Blackthorne, 36 great holes, knuckles chaotix, space harrier, after burner, star wars, virtua racing, virtua fighter, steller assault, MK2, metal head.
actually it was a unsolid beta semi-system aimed at selling the saturn while it was still in development, but the use of cartridges discouraged others from buying the 32x AND the saturn , sorry for the miss-fact. there.
Dude stop pretending to be so hardcore and angry. Seriously you can't be taken seriously when you are sporting the sailor moon postering. Kinda creepy rather than anything else.
The 32X is one of the biggest reasons why I quit playing video games--for a time--not permanently , mind you. While I enjoyed many games on tons of systems, I got sick of the lies and the false promises. The irony is that nowadays, the 32X gets brought up quite a bit in the failure vein, while the same people (myself included) are enjoying the types of things the 'X rarely delivered, and if managed right, could have been ahead of its time in a huge way.
Make a background research before posting a video. 32x came before Saturn and it was due to Sega of America who worked years for the 32x where Sega of Japan worked on Saturn. The problem was Sega of US wanted the 32x released becouse they worked for the Console but PSX and Saturn had the better Technology and Graphics. Actually Sega lost it`s respect after the Sega CD which only had minimal enhanced Technology.
The 32x was actually a good alternative to the Saturn if you didn't want to spend the ridiculous amount of money (near $400 when new iirc) It had the exact same processors as the Saturn did although at a slightly lower clock of 23.5 MHz instead of 28.7 MHz. With less RAM and a less powerful VDP.
You could say its like a Pentium vs. a Celeron, just a cheaper alternative to the Saturn. It's too bad that people moved onto the Saturn so quickly, because the few games that were made to run on it uses nowhere near the maximum potential of the 32x.
True but I would rather have held out and bought a Saturn, the 32X just was not worth it, the only good game was probably Virtua Racing. By that time, I already had a PSX, and never looked back.
From a programmers perspective, the 32x was really never used to its full potential. If the 32x was solely dedicated to video processing while the game code was run on the genesis processor, you could have done some amazing things with it.
Doom absolutely sucked compared to the Jaguar version, the music and visuals were far superior, then again, Doom was the only good game apart from Aliens vs Predator on that piece of shit console. By then I was kicking ass on Tekken on the original PlayStation.
Sega of Japan left Sega of America uninformed of the Saturn when it was developed. With the Playstation over the horizon, SoA became more worried so they developed the 32X and when Saturn was finally announced in North America, they did not want to support two 32-bit platforms. This is why the 32X was left unsupported by 1996.
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steveandbobsho 11 months ago
so jan 2001 peter moore says we SEGA will no longer be in hardware business in march 2001 dreamcast is no more funny thing is this dreamcast was still selling like hot cakes in my opion peter sold out to xbox or micosoft games like shenmue 2 was never released for the US dreamcast but is was ported to xbox as i said in firest comment peter joined xbox in 2003 xbox contorler looks like dreamcast too im gusseing peter moore puled the plug of dreamcast for money?
steveandbobsho 11 months ago
why not emulate the 32x to show the viewers?
oRecluse99o 11 months ago
hey, that system was awesome!!!
darkcylander 1 year ago
I had the 32x, It was a good add-on. It had flaws but not everything is perfect, especially back in those days. The sega genesis was one heck of a reliable work horse. It took all sorts of abuse to both the games and the console and would still work. I thought the 32x was a great add-on, you could still play all of your regular sega games threw it plus the new games they only made a handful of. My personal favorite 32x game was Metalhead, a Mech warrior battle bot.
sandrsn 1 year ago
I'l admit the 32x was a faliure commercially, but from a collectors point of view i kinda like it, it has some interesting features and theres definately games on it that are at least playable and enjoyable. also it works as a neat add on for the megadrive cos it seems to act as a region bypass thing, i can play japanese and american games on my european megadrive hassle free which is nice
andymetaldeth 1 year ago
I only have knuckels chaotix.
thatJimwiththenes 1 year ago
I can't believe he just fucking dropped the poor thing. What a dipshit!
And for what it's worth, the 32X was apparently the climax of the rivalry between Sega's East and West divisions- SoJ had some serious pride issues and pretty much snubbed SoA at every given opportunity. SoA took the initiative with the 32X because the Japs didn't even have the courtesy to /tell/ them about the Saturn until the very last minute. They were quite retarded, really.
Still a pretty classy system, I think!
Prinsdam 1 year ago
@Prinsdam your partially correct, SoA was making another system, the Sega Neptune, but SoJ had the Saturn pretty much ready so instead of tossing the Neptune, they shrinked it and made it into an addon so thats why we got the 32X. Instead of using the genesis to death, they should of came out with the Neptune a year earlier and released the Saturn a year later.
izzy4684 1 year ago
@Prinsdam that's really sad. i wonder if we would have dreamcast 2 right now if that internal war hadn't happened between the two divisions of sega. guess we'll never know...
oRecluse99o 11 months ago
@ 2:43, did he say " Virgin Fighter" ??
onecreativecriminal 1 year ago
Sorry, but if you're going to film yourself, learn to speak and enunciate first! Do you live in a trailer?
radionauto 1 year ago
Why did you break it? You could have sold it on Ebay for $30 dollars or more
modewr 1 year ago
Why did you break it? You could have sold it on Ebay for $30+
modewr 1 year ago
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modewr 1 year ago
dude everyone nintendo is better
nikolalicsandru 1 year ago
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A REAL CONSOLE DOESN'T NEED ADD-ONS!!!
metal0737 1 year ago
you like a hillbilly who just found that SEGA add-on on his forks while scratching your back with it
opedroefeio 1 year ago
What really impresses me is how everybody hated the 32X when it first came out but now everybody wants one for their old school video game collection.
Riddler95 1 year ago
A add on for the PS2???That would be great. I still play the PS2!!!
gustoThegangsta 1 year ago
NINTENDO FAN BOY WARNING!!!!!!
NINTENDO FAN BOY WARNING!!!!!!
NINTENDO FAN BOY WARNING!!!!!!
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lucas1553322594 1 year ago
That's why SEGA failed in the hardware bussines.
osmodivs 1 year ago
the sega 32x and sega cd fail big time
ImTheOneConfused09 1 year ago
Hindsight is 20 20! if Sega knew then what they must know now there's no way they would have released the 32X!
katakisLives 1 year ago
4 games! thats massive for a 32X collection! its hard enough just finding 1!
katakisLives 1 year ago
because it's a pile of fucking shit, but still better than the shitty Virtual Boy and about 9 million times better than the Atari Jaguar
sharaynishi 1 year ago
let me guess cause it was a peice of shit?
HQA0 1 year ago
Hey guys, what do you think were the biggest console flops:
A: The 32X
B: The Virtual Boy
C: The Atari Jaguar
AngrySportsFan 2 years ago
the 32x was, the jaguar had AVP :)
smartwarlord 2 years ago
@smartwarlord yeah the 32X did have Knuckles Chaotix which I heard was a pretty good game
AngrySportsFan 2 years ago
@AngrySportsFan 32X! the jaguar was OK, Virtual Boy was pretty close to being the biggest flop, but i honestly think 32x was the stupidest console ever made since the Saturn was coming out just a few months before the fact.
TylerMusicBoi 2 years ago
jaguar sucked balls i should know i owned 1
modernwarfarenoob 1 year ago
They all were uber flops, cool ideas though, but I would have to say the C. Jaguar.
incurableboy 1 year ago
@AngrySportsFan - B the virtual boy, no one had it, no one cared. The graphics were red for god's sake. I played it once and got a dull headache.
arisechicken82 1 year ago
@arisechicken82 Yeah also I forgot another flop- the CD-i I mean it made 3 awful Zelda games and a bad Mario game, but yeah I personally think it's a tie between the Virtual Boy and 32x
AngrySportsFan 1 year ago
i sold mine not that long ago and i dont regret it
consolearena 2 years ago
I didn't know there was a Sega 32X until 2000 when I found a game called Knuckles Chaotix for 32X. Sega should've not make this in the first place, should've released as a console under the name "Neptune", but cancelled it and made another add-on, WHAT'S UP WITH DAT?!
mrkingofkings 2 years ago
whats up with dat?
whats up with your spelling?
mattacuk 2 years ago
What up with that?
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What up with that?
What up with that?
sfchakan 2 years ago
32x sucks balls
spider486 2 years ago
Great, a 14 year old telling me about 25 year old video game equipment, lol. I had a 32x when this kid's dad was in kindergarten.
capnmorgan5150 2 years ago 4
Against my better judgment, I got one not long after they were released in 1995. Couldn't figure out to attach it my Genesis with those stupid metal prongs. Took it back and told the store it was defective. Fortunately, the store gave me my money back, so I didnt' waste it on this abomination of a video game "system".
Skull10 2 years ago 2
No 360 would die because theres a chance of getting the RROD
ChevyRoll48 2 years ago 5
yeah it kinda sucks we wont be able to play gears of war 10 years from now cuz the 360 will go the way of the dinosaur
madmike42345 2 years ago
360 will fail just like sega 32x it sucks
brokenpromisedreams 2 years ago 3
THE 32X WILL most likely work if you turn it on now. after 17 years!
my 3 week old 360 wouldnt!
djchowping 2 years ago 21
I feel your pain.
JebadiahCornbread 2 years ago
LOL yup
Justsmoke42O 2 years ago
3 Reasons why Sega went down hill.
1.) After the Genesis they started rushing on their release dates for their consoles.
2.) Released a bunch of add on's for the Genesis.
3.) Lack of third party developers after the Saturn's Failure Sega wasn't trusted anymore.
I honestly think the Dreamcast would of kicked PS2 and Nintendo's ass. If they had waited on their release of the Dreamcast. Which would of give them more time to add more features to that system. For example DVD Features.
Petracurns88 2 years ago 4
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"Ringedge" which will be based off the touch screen arcade board of the same name. Send me a message for details.
Tornado1994 2 years ago
Wow you really wont stop ranting and raving on how you dont like the 32X. If you really don't want it I would be glad to take it off your hands. Send me an email and I'll pay for the shipping. As a good collector I dont let my game systems collect dust and I also dont drop my game systems. Your no game collector. The real question is not how the 32X fails but how you fail.
Brianls7 2 years ago
You're very opinionated.
This flop is past news we've all heard before but, why not look beyond the flop and enjoy the classic arcade feel of the games?
MorkaGraven 2 years ago
The Sega 32X was pretty good in performance, but as you said it was released WAY too late. Sega CD was similar, it got off to a slow start and only picked up while the Sega Saturn was being developed, else the Sega CD would've made Sega a lot more than it did with games like Lunar and the better version of the game Snatcher. Sega also tried to be stupid later and made a combo addon called the Sega 32XCD but it only really made Night Trap look better lol.
AmAxel35 2 years ago
32X was fucking awesome. I owned at least 1/3 of the games for it and they were really fun.
Jedite's analysis is dead on. 32X died because Sega obviously had no intention of supporting it as a next gen console. Saturn was their next gen, so 32X really had no reason to exist. What the fuck were they thinking?
ShawnD1 2 years ago
32X fuckin sucks it just fuckin sucks, the sega cd was pretty cool but 32x was shit
FOZproductionz 2 years ago 3
I like 32x. I don't know why, but I would like to have this piece of history.
iMin2gas 2 years ago 3
I had one but it's nicer to just get a sonic compilation because the only good game was sonic 3d and that isn't even that great lol. It was a pain switching seca cd and 32x back and forth just to see what looked like regular sega games with more sprites and psuedo 3d.
JebadiahCornbread 2 years ago
Audio lags but good vid.
erazor521 2 years ago
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next u should make a video on why u fail at life fucker
spawnhell809334 2 years ago
3:49 now i laugh if it doesnt work, 32x now it would cost around 50-60 € if ur lucky on ebay, in the future it will cost more
alessandro86bonollo 2 years ago
yeah it may be lame for back in the day but y'know, thats what makes it unique! like the virtual boy! The sega 32x will just keep goin up in price
crazyforagame 2 years ago
but now the virtual boy cost too much ^^ i just bought some consoles on ebay because i collect them, for example an year agò i bought a dreamcast with 6 games and driving device (i dont know how is it called in english, in italy it's "volante" ) for only 69 + 10 € hella nice ^^
alessandro86bonollo 2 years ago
2.13 so you lost one of your 32x cables, well that proves that the 32x is a piece of shit when it comes to getting it set up
100percentmk 2 years ago
its anoying having a sega megadrive (genesis) then the sega cd add on, thats 2 power bricks and the 32x has its own power brick so thats 3, plus all the cords stickin out from the back its just a mess.... The sega multi mega on the other hand is awesome!! its a sega cd and megadrive (genesis) in one and its small and compact and can be portable to play music thats cool!
crazyforagame 2 years ago
to crazyforagame
maybe it would be if you didnt haveto pay twice the price of the 2 systems seperately
100percentmk 2 years ago
You sound retarted " you know"
Sunedosa 2 years ago 3
you say " you know" alot lol. Good vid
metalgearhacker2 2 years ago
You know
you're right about him saying you know a lot
you know
i notice it and stuff
TenguGuy 2 years ago
smartass...lol
metalgearhacker2 2 years ago
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It didn't fail in quality!
So people were to stupid to recognize its high performance quality.
It was a great system!
dougd1015 2 years ago
you are having the same problem i did, you have lost your cable, i bought one that came without cables, and if you do have all the cables is it worth it? no, because there are hardly any games
retrogameparadise 3 years ago
Nintendo made a mess too.
Remember that shitty VIRTUAL BOY you Nintendo fan boys deny existed.
I think anybody would have a 32x over a VIRTUAL BOY.
Fuck Nintendo
SEGA FOR THE WIN MOTHERFUCKER
damiannerd 3 years ago 23
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I rather have a Virtual Boy than a 32X.The Virtual Boy might have made a few people go blind but it had some good games like WarioLand,TeleroBoxer,VerticalForce and Galactic Pinball.But the nearly every 32X game is shit execpt for Knuckles Chaotix and Virtual Fighter.I will choose a Virtual Boy over a 32X anyday.
PHILRYABKIN 3 years ago
Any Nintendo fanboy would want to ignore that the VB existed. Why? It fucking sucked! And you're forgetting about all of Sega's OTHER failures. You know, everything after the Genesis. I like both Sega and Nintendo, and Sony too. I just appreciate each console for what it is.
TenguGuy 3 years ago
I remembered the Virtual Boy. Good thing I didn't own that piece of garbage.
kibjohn 2 years ago
@damiannerd The Virtual Boy, the overrated N64, and the first GBA was Nintendo's worst.
marqwill1124 1 year ago
@damiannerd Hell I was nintendo kid. And even I will never deny how much crap the vb was. That and zelda wind waker two biggest fuck up's in nintendo's history!!
misledlestat 1 year ago
@damiannerd Lol, but the Virtual Boy actually had a few good games on it. What did the 32X have for good games? I can't think of anything.
JMFSpike 1 year ago
@JMFSpike Knuckles' Chaotix, Mortal Kombat II, Afterburner
noescom 1 year ago
@noescom Ok. I don't ever really hear people talk about the good 32X games. I knew about Knuckles Chaotix, but I couldn't recall if it was actually considered good or not.
JMFSpike 1 year ago
@damiannerd, if Sega was so great, why did they go out of business (in hardware?)
dciguy01 11 months ago
@dciguy01 peter moore is one reason japan was still selling dreamcast and games up to the year 2007 back to peter moore ending up joining xbox in 2003 now in EA peter was vice president of sega america in the 90s-1999 that year thay got rid of berine stoler he was the guy who f-up the sega saturn buy not geting much rpg games for the saturn like final fantasy and in e3 late 1990s saying saturn not are future so peter became president of sega in 1999-2003 this store continues
steveandbobsho 11 months ago
@steveandbobsho jedite did LordHershebel suck your dick and make you cum?
2011September11 7 months ago
Let's say that you didn't have a Genesis. You'd have to buy a Genesis for $130 and a 32X for $150. That's almost $300, which is what the Playstation was priced at. Of course you're going to wait for the Sony system.
Bottom line: Nakayama should never have ordered the creation of the 32X.
ChicoEdge 3 years ago 5
If you were to buy a Sega CD and 32X for the 16 it would cost a lot of money. And If 32X was the biggest flop for Sega, which is the biggest flop ever ? and then i speak of all consoles and hand-held portables ? which didn't sell at all ? i mean worse than Dreamcast ? which my brother actually owned for a short time ^_^
GenyaArikado 3 years ago
Well it couldnt have been that bad. I mean yes in the eyes of the consumers at the time but if it had a steady library of games it could have ran alongside the saturn
metalgearhacker2 3 years ago
the 2nd worst sega console in my opinion is the multi mega, which is a combimation of a mega drive and a mega cd, im sure in the u.s you have your own name for it
retrogameparadise 3 years ago
Too bad 32X never supported
on the console business. I thought is a
cd but is a cartridge. I hope you talk
about playdia from Band dai check out on youtube
hilarioph 3 years ago
i got rid of this not long after i bought it on ebay
i was real pissed when i found out it came without the cables!
retrogameparadise 3 years ago
3. Sega's resources became somewhat fragmented because they tried to support two new major environments at virtually the same time: the 32X and the Saturn. Sooner or later, Sega had to decide which environment had priority and concentrate on that one only. The Saturn offered better potential than the 32X so Sega would default to that, but not without first fragmenting itself, causing it to lose out to more organized efforts by Nintendo and Sony.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
Why did the 32X fail:
1. People who knew about the 32X likely also knew about the Saturn. Customers couldn't fathom what direction Sega wanted to take or assumed since Saturn was more advanced, that was the way to go.
2. Developer support, such as devkits, for the 32X had a very bumpy start. Plus, software developers were either confused to Sega's direction or simply assumed that the more advanced hardware was what the future was and opted to develop on Saturn instead of 32X.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
The 32x was a bad idea from the start, because the timing was WAY off regardless of what it had to offer. They should have kept their focused on the Saturn at the time.
The Sega CD, however, was actually a pretty darn cool add on. I guess developers for the most part didn't know how to capitalize on it, but hey, at least you could make a Top 10 list if you do your research.
MaxK18 3 years ago 2
Here's my honest opinions on the Mega Drive and the add-ons:
Mega Drive= One of the best consoles in history with a massive library of awesome games.
Mega CD= Underrated console with some great games
32x= Horribly unsupported system with about 4 or 5 decent titles.
braineaterknux 3 years ago 2
yeah
knuckles chaotix was kinda fun but thats it
Kane1910 3 years ago
Metal Head, Tempo, Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, Kolibri...
DarkSoftStudios 3 years ago
hm
i dont like metal head and Tempo
but you got a point with virtua racin
Kane1910 3 years ago
Tempo is quite an acquired taste. It's kind of like Dynamite Heady, it grows on you after a while.
DarkSoftStudios 3 years ago
Tempo is good, its just weird when you first try it (a cheeseburger attacks you in one level when you're in something's mouth).
LeeMan00 3 years ago
Yeah Sega does made a big mistake creating another add-on in an attempt let the Genesis live longer than SNES. It's one of hte major failures of gaming and plus there are no good games on the 32X (I think but only a few good games).
YoshiUnderground97 3 years ago
Even though the 32X failed Knuckles Chaotix is still a great game.
shadowthehedgehogtom 3 years ago
I still think the 32x is awesome. Even though it had a horrible selection of games, a lot of the games were quite good. Virtua Racing was the best racing game at the time, Star Wars was fun, Doom was fun except it only had 15 levels (wtf?), After Burner looked a lot closer to the arcade, Metal Head was awesome. I don't regret buying one.
benzo8686 is right about SegaCD. It had a lot of good games that people like James never talk about.
ShawnD1 3 years ago
What other games were good on Sega CD.
JackRed666 3 years ago
Shining Force,spider man vs kingpin, mickey mania,Lunar silver star,Lunar Eternal Blue
Vay, popful mail, Dark wizard, Bari Armour, just to name a few.
benzo8686 3 years ago 2
Your sega 32x suck balls comparing it with my 32x AND YOU DO NOT HAVE THE KNUCKLES CHAOTIX
towys007 3 years ago
nice snes box back there. yea if the people who made the 32x still own their houses there is no justice in the world
skywarp187 3 years ago
Sega CD failed because most of their games were shitty full motion and only Sonic CD is worth playing.
Now for Sega 32X why did it fail so bad was because it's suppose to be 32 bit yet it looks like shit and there's barely any games to play on it.
JackRed666 3 years ago
sega cd had a few good games not just sonic cd
are you just saying this because thats what avgn says?
jamaicob 3 years ago 8
Maybe but at least I often listen to my fans.
JackRed666 3 years ago
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SonicTheJackrabbit 2 years ago
Sonic CD is very overrated IMO, I did not like it all. There have been MUCH better games on the Sega CD than Sonic CD.
The Sega CD had the potential, but it was ultimately brought down with SOJ's horrible marketing, way too high costs, and overload of mediocre FMV games.
The 32x on the other hand, had no reason to have a release as the Saturn was already on it's way.
SonicTheJackrabbit 2 years ago
Sega of America did not invent the 32X, it was started by Sega Japan and finished in the US as a stop-gap until the Saturn's release, also Knuckles Chaotix is not a killer app, in fact it's actually one of the worst Sonic games from that period, and was savaged by all the magazine critics on release.
jesusarnold 3 years ago 4
This thing fucking destroyed sega big time!
strawberryfields1982 3 years ago 2
HARSH
dikkie1983 3 years ago
I completely agree with you, the 32X only hurt Sega, not only when it was out but for the rest of their lifetime as a hardware manufacturer, I wish they hadn't bothered with the SegaCD either (though I know it had some good games) they Should've just concentrated on the Saturn, failing that though, if they hadn't bothered with the 32X they could've done more with the SegaCD instead, there was no need to make 2 upgrades, especially when they hadn't even found the full potential of the first yet.
jesusarnold 3 years ago
I think it confused people do I wait for the saturn, or what!The games were shit! Just destroyed the brand! People didn't trust buying sega after it!
strawberryfields1982 3 years ago
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Seriously...have you ever even seen a naked girl live before???
NYCHeckler 3 years ago
does your mother count XD
kaboomstick 3 years ago 6
Knuckles Chaotix is the Killer App for me.
ArchonXR3 3 years ago 3
Basically without the cable you mentioned you would get video but no 3d parts. All you would see is the 2d parts like selection screens and backgrounds.
gamemaster14neo 3 years ago
bad example about saying about selling anthor add on for the ps2 as the ps3 comes out cuase for a fair time sales of ps2 outstripped sales of the ps3(just pointing out i like all consols)
tom133991 3 years ago
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the 32x sucked your not the only one that thinks so i was at my video game store and they agreed
AVGNCorporal 3 years ago
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ur an idiot
triplet1325 3 years ago
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You seem really nervous. Also, you might want to play every game available before reviewing something so you have the full picture. :p
ShinobiWan1 3 years ago
The Genesis was on "life support" and Sega was trying to outdo its nemesis, the Super NES with the SCD and 32X add-ons. The Sega CD sucked, but the 32X was more worse when it was released. Hell, the 32X was released around 8 months prior to the release of the Saturn. Plus, SEGA also planned to release another system called Neptune (which was just a stand-alone 32X), however, SEGA screwed up their own marketing and this is a reason why the 32X FAILED miserably.
kibjohn 3 years ago
At least SEGA finally did something right when they released the Dreamcast, even though that also ended up dying an undeserved death.
259 3 years ago
Both the Saturn and Dreamcast were great consoles. SEGA of America invented the 32X, because they had no idea that SEGA of Japan was already working on the Saturn. So when the 32X was annouced SOA of caught of gaurd.
Tornado1994 3 years ago
if they released it like 2 years ago...it would be that most F***ing advanced system out there...well...if they tuned up the graphics. But come on! Sega Dreamcast owns the wii so much its not funny!
n64dude2 3 years ago
meth much?
IBeHoey 3 years ago
one of the great addons
32x3do 3 years ago
you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know...
allenperu2k 3 years ago
I always wanted a 32x when I had a genesis/Megadrive, and i managed to get one recently with 14 32x games including knuckles chaotix, and I must say its pretty good,lots of fun..
NeverAgain1985 3 years ago 3
everybody loves the 32x though. Thats why theres more fasination with it than saturn on you tube. You love it or love to hate it. But you got to be bitter gayboy to say games like virtua fighter, tempo, kolibri bla bla bla are crap though
twinhitachi 3 years ago
This guy should go on Oprah so the whole world can here his intense video game stories.
TheSkogy 3 years ago
seriously play knuckles chaotix. my favorite sonic game...seriously:P
rottenwigga 3 years ago
thank u
rykuo15 3 years ago
thank u
rykuo15 3 years ago
I agree, the only 2 reasons i bought a 32X was just like jedite1, im a collector and player, and the second reason is like you, to play Knuckles Chaotix because it is still a Sonic based game, even if its a little bit flawed.
DeanoTheLegend87 3 years ago
I bought a 32x for the bloody blackthorne, the amazing shadow squadron, The exellent am2 virtua fighter, virtua racing, The unfinished but violent doom, afterburner with a flight stick, starwars, kolibri....... I never even considered buying !!another!! god damn sonic tails knuckles game. Sonic 3d was great though but I don't really consider it to be the same thing at all.
twinhitachi 3 years ago
Jedite you rock but the 32x kiks ass and you all know it!
hollerritter 3 years ago
Oh thought is a disc but is
a cartage i got it
hilarioph 3 years ago
haha yeah...Jedite from sailormoon, you should come up with a better name
distortion1205 3 years ago
pretty much everything sega made failed to make the cut commercially or financially, (I mean after genesis and compared to sony and nintendo...) but that never ment any of their systems didn't have good games. example: If you say shadow squadron was not at least good for its time then you either don't know your game stuff or your a blatent nintendo fanboy or simply hate space games..
32Xperience 3 years ago 3
I would buy a 32x for my sega cd/genesis, but it just looks like a diarhea mess when all three system are put together. And I can barely get both beasty plugs into an outlet let alone adding another one.
misitifilm 3 years ago
Exactly what Angry Video Game Nerd had to say about it.
HazenMustaine 3 years ago
Well okay it might've been a sasd cash-in, but dropping it on the floor to prove a point is just stupid!
Mappman 3 years ago 2
u know
Cornholio360 3 years ago
is it just me or are your lip movments un acurate to your audio. wierd
narutoboy0 3 years ago
Sorry but i disagree , it doesent deserve to collect dust, some of the games are great its worth having nowadays since its cheap to buy, you can get a cable cheap on ebay. Its worth owning for: Kolibri, Blackthorne, 36 great holes, knuckles chaotix, space harrier, after burner, star wars, virtua racing, virtua fighter, steller assault, MK2, metal head.
domplegi 3 years ago 3
i smell an otaku...
thund3rs 3 years ago
i smell an otaku...
thund3rs 3 years ago
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Not that I wanna be all mean, but, WHY IS THERE A 20-30 YEAR OLD ON YOUTUBE TALKING ABOUT A FUCKIN SEGA GENISIS SHIT! GET A LIFE?!
Aaronisyahoo 3 years ago
the 32X is an unpopular attempt to sell the
beta of the saturn. (thus why sega saturn was
ALSO 32 bit).
NixonTech2071 3 years ago
actually it was a unsolid beta semi-system aimed at selling the saturn while it was still in development, but the use of cartridges discouraged others from buying the 32x AND the saturn , sorry for the miss-fact. there.
NixonTech2071 3 years ago
were any games actually better for 32x than 16 bit genisis? i mean i kinda wanted to try out mortal kombat, is it any closer to arcade version?
AndrewKH85 3 years ago
no.
ookooweb 3 years ago
Knuckles Chaotix was fun.
thund3rs 3 years ago
Dude stop pretending to be so hardcore and angry. Seriously you can't be taken seriously when you are sporting the sailor moon postering. Kinda creepy rather than anything else.
BizzyDJoe 4 years ago
Sailormoon was pretty popular with both boys and girls.
lostinseganet 4 years ago
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i bet that you are jaking off in those sailor moon posters.....naughty boy
siriusgr85 4 years ago
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how gey can be guy with a sailor moon poster xD
necrokillerj 4 years ago
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you know...you know......you know
oh my god stop saying you know!!!
citrusboy123 4 years ago
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Yeah, Sega does what Nintendon't, and that is suck ass.
thebonefish 4 years ago
yeah,when they started doing that phrase,they were screwed!!!
pintend 4 years ago
and then came the virtual console
Ow3n007 4 years ago
If That Was A Model 2, You Don't Need The Connector. Oh Wait, I'm Talking About The Metal Prongs.
DanielTheHedgehog 4 years ago
The 32X is one of the biggest reasons why I quit playing video games--for a time--not permanently , mind you. While I enjoyed many games on tons of systems, I got sick of the lies and the false promises. The irony is that nowadays, the 32X gets brought up quite a bit in the failure vein, while the same people (myself included) are enjoying the types of things the 'X rarely delivered, and if managed right, could have been ahead of its time in a huge way.
gernorlair90 4 years ago
Make a background research before posting a video. 32x came before Saturn and it was due to Sega of America who worked years for the 32x where Sega of Japan worked on Saturn. The problem was Sega of US wanted the 32x released becouse they worked for the Console but PSX and Saturn had the better Technology and Graphics. Actually Sega lost it`s respect after the Sega CD which only had minimal enhanced Technology.
Cyrus7500 4 years ago
The 32x was actually a good alternative to the Saturn if you didn't want to spend the ridiculous amount of money (near $400 when new iirc) It had the exact same processors as the Saturn did although at a slightly lower clock of 23.5 MHz instead of 28.7 MHz. With less RAM and a less powerful VDP.
GGigabiteM 4 years ago
You could say its like a Pentium vs. a Celeron, just a cheaper alternative to the Saturn. It's too bad that people moved onto the Saturn so quickly, because the few games that were made to run on it uses nowhere near the maximum potential of the 32x.
GGigabiteM 4 years ago
True but I would rather have held out and bought a Saturn, the 32X just was not worth it, the only good game was probably Virtua Racing. By that time, I already had a PSX, and never looked back.
DJgaZman 4 years ago
From a programmers perspective, the 32x was really never used to its full potential. If the 32x was solely dedicated to video processing while the game code was run on the genesis processor, you could have done some amazing things with it.
GGigabiteM 4 years ago
Another good game could be DOOM or Knuckles' CHAOTIX
UltraJackhammer 4 years ago
Doom absolutely sucked compared to the Jaguar version, the music and visuals were far superior, then again, Doom was the only good game apart from Aliens vs Predator on that piece of shit console. By then I was kicking ass on Tekken on the original PlayStation.
Good times!
DJgaZman 4 years ago
i would buy 1!
bones2k 4 years ago
why wtf would u?
Flyingdutchman009 4 years ago
cus i would
doom and sonic!
and anyother games that i may like
bones2k 4 years ago