Sega 32X

in the end did he really destroy the 32X?

I was never against any game company, but I certainly had and still have more brand loyalty for Nintendo(if only because I've never had a Nintendo product go out on me, my NES model-001 is 25 years old and still going strong). Sega had some awesome games but they screwed up in making these unsightly add ons to the console rather than following Nintendo's example of improving game capabilities with extra chips in the cartridges or doing what James suggested in releasing the 32x and Sega CD as stand alone consoles. I also believe that a little more work in the R&D and Marketing departments of SEGA back then could not have hurt them. It was still an exciting time to be a gamer with all the new technologies that were coming out in the 90's and Sega played it's part in that.

Doom 32x = balls

Angry Video Game Nerd,

you have work to do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WzpEQ3neK8

The sega 32X + Cd looks small compared to this^

This is what always amazed me about "Sega people." I mean, i wasn't a "Nintendo person..." but people always tried to play that "Sega people vs. Nintendo people" garbage. I'm like, if you're gonna pick a side, why the hell Sega? That shit makes no sense. Sega went "Super Shredder" and STILL fell short of the good ole 16-bit SNES.

TBH I loved my 32X! I sooo miss playing "Black Throne" and blowing the slaves heads off right after they would give me the help/info I needed. It was a mistake the first time and I laughed my ass off! Also this was a "Blizzard" game!!! Yea the guys who brought us "StarCraft" And "WarCraft" made a 32X game!!! It's totally worth hunting down if there is a emu! I have never looked for one.

Still the video rings true. The system in a business sense was a total flop! And the hook-up is to this day the most frustrating thing ever! I also owned the "Model One" and it took about 2 hours of trial and error. Bear in mind I was probably around 8-10 years old at the time. I had some weird games.

I forget the name but I even had a game where you play as a HUMMINGBIRD! I think it was trying to jump on the success wagon with "Ecco The Dolphin" which personally I found to be complete shit. Stage two was SO FUCKING HARD! I wish Ecco was reviewed on here. But I am not asking. You are clearly occupied.

I remember when my Sega 32X melted part of my Genesis. lol

He removed the "I don't own a Saturn" -text from the video because he got sick of people sending him those systems.

good information, good reason to be pissed... or be pissed on

Yeah the boxes on the plugs are the solid state power supplies. Long story short they turn an A/C voltage into a D/C that the game systems/computers use. Computers and consoles have alot of solid state components such as transistors and processors that only work with D/C, and since electricity is distributed to our houses in A/C, it has to be converted. Hence the box, but there is no reason that the box cant be at the center of the cord and it end in a small plug like my laptop cord.

I had a 32X as a teenager. The Sega Genesis by itself was 32-bit to start with, considering it had a Motorola 68000 processor which is 32-bit. But Sega didn't want to push their luck advertising the system as 32-bit back in that era, even though it was truly 32-bit. Just goes to prove bits aren't everything.

LOL, the power things are the power adapters/power supplies. Without them the consoles would have to be the voltage of the outlet.

You bring up so many good points, James. Having all those power adapters was simplistically a pain in the ass, and the power strip... I don't even remember them being around when I was a kid. I had to run two different basic extension chords. Good times.

Funny thing that soon enough modern (or "modern") consoles need to get attachments somewhat like these too? Why? Last few consoles ALL had 10-year plan. Every one of them died in 6 and current generation is going on seventh. If console developers want to keep up with PC they NEED to upgrade their consoles.

They just need to make it AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE. "Open the box, put it in, press the 'ON'-button.", because PC is soooo complex and they don't want to sacrifice their consumers for the big, bad PC...

Getting gang-raped while on Life Support... on man o_O;

That console was that shitty that it didn't made it's way to mexico!
I love all your videos because i realize how much money we saved on videogames because all the shitty games didn't came to mexico so we only had good games (Expensives as gold) but good ones

wow the genisis had it hard in the old gays

Im surprised the stand alone 32X wasn't going to be called the sega URANUS!! HAHAA

In answer to your question James, about what were they thinking and what kind of marketing was that. You actually answered your own question when you said people were to smart to be suckered in. Sega obviously thought they could outsmart customers by producing an ad on while keeping us waiting longer than the Japanese for the Saturn. In other words make a huge profit off the ad ons and then make a huge profit off the Saturn. Im assuming the 32X games were not compatible with the Saturn so that gamers would need to own one and a CD anyway to be able to play all the games.

hahaha :D please god get this shit off me

Here's an idea for plugging them in, first plug in the genesis into the wall then plug in the power strip in then the CD and 32X

As an owner of the 32X (I pestered my mum for one for ages...I was such a sucker...Can't believe magazines said it improved the look of your Megadrive games and I believed it.) I can verify mine was somewhat faulty.

If you played Megadrive games on it for a length of time, they'd start to blink. The colour would look a little grey and wrong, not exactly negative, but just not what they should have been. The more you played, the shorter the gap between blinks until eventually it was constant.

As for 32X games, it would distort a graphical layer, pulling it off to one side. Chaotix, for example, would have a layer of the background flickering, juddering and leaning to one side as if it was a curtain and someone was pulling the hanging part while the top was nailed in place. Again, longer you played the worse it got.

But I loved Chaotix and my parents too much to truely complain about it. I just put up with it like it was nothing.

Doom is also one of my all time favorite fps. and by the way, did you actually destroy your 32x or did you have and extra?

I really wont like to be that poor sega genesis....

lol both of its slots are getting fucked at the same time and on top of tht it looks like its on life support nice vid lol

being born in 1999, i had nothing but things to look forward to, my first console was a gameboy advance sp then i got the gamecube which is frickin' awesome then i got an xbox 360 and even later a wii and then a ps3 but for some reason i also have a ps1 and ps2 and oh yeah i also got my ds and my psp go but for some reason ive never even seen an original xbox let alone play it. P.S im not sure if you have a sega saturn but id like to see a review of it, or maybe the dreamcast or 3do.

oh is he left handed? :D One thing that pisses ME off doesn't have anything to do with this episode or avgn. I'm just confused of why does the cinemassacre's account's password have to be so tricky that you can't remember it? I mean, James is always whining about shitty passwords in games etc. (no offens. I think it's funny :D). Well that's all. Greetings from Fin again!

Yeah I completely agree with you on everything in this video. A neighborhood friend had all of the above when all that stuff was still relevant and it was madness. Sweet composit bow by the way, and a perfect sendoff for the garbage it is.

It's one of the biggest, dumbest attempts to milk every last dollar they could out of their customers I've ever seen in gaming. It's even worse than the N64 gameboy cartridge controller attachment thing, the "transfer pack", cause while that thing seemingly only worked on the pokemon stadium games (maybe I'm wrong), at least it added some element of fun and was cheap.

can't believe you set the 32X on fire. LOL!

@ Galaga Master

That's the sole reason i gto DOOM and DOOM 2 for the Xbox 360 and i even have DOOM 3 ur right because i hate the computer version my mouse sucks for it.

On Primal Rage..well I can kinda relate to how James complains about combos being up because in this Street Fighter wannabe game called "BlazBlue Continuum Shift" There are SO many combos that require pressing up. Like on Jin & Haku-men..Even on Litchi. It's fucking impossible!

I've never had a Sega CD or 32X, but I do have a Sega Megadrive (which is a Genesis) with sonic 1, 2, 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. I still want all the other Sonic games and consoles. I like old skool gaming better than new games. :p

Nice shot! The Nerd is an archer too! There was one 32X game I wished he reviewed; Spider-Man Web of Fire.

I had a 32x and Sega CD as they died. you could get them for around 30 bucks or less. the Sega CD was run there were alot of good games for it. one of the ones that will always stick in my mind is Popful Mail. Take Zelda 2 and add funny voice acting... Great stuff. Or Lunar was good.. of course theres Sonic CD.

Damn talk about add-on hell!!! All that shit is a jumbled clusterfuck of a mess!!!! And to think I actually wanted the 32x! What a piece of Garshit! Yup thats garbage and shit all rolled into one!!

I agree that the 32X should have beet it's own console. The only game on this thing I'm interested in playing is Star Wars Arcade, because I'm a die hard Star Wars fan.

The 32X is a Tumor!

Sega made a lot of mistakes with its consoles. They even screwed up the launch of the Saturn by making a surprise launch announcement at E3 in 1995 by telling everyone in attendance that the console was launching that day instead of in September as was planned. People were pissed at that. No games were available at launch time, no game magazine or other media would have the story out for a month at the very least , there were supply problems where sometimes a store wouldn't get any consoles at all, and KB Toys wouldn't even carry the system out of anger at the surprise.

i also had a friend who had both the Sega CD and 32X and he loved them. I was playing them at his house and I didn't see anything special. Playing Night Trap was damn annoying, too. Either he was on some really good drugs or he was just lying to himself. Next time I see him, I'll ask.

Will the Sega CD and 32X hook up to the old sytle Genesis or just the second model?

though it was fucking shit
i loved the ps1
every game i played i thought was fukin awesome

God....I'm glad I ignored all this crap....I was a Nintendo kid and was so glad to see Sega go down the toilet.

I'm quite blessed to have a plug board thing where the plugs go sideways :D

Good Thing I was Born In 1995 so I didnt need to play and see all that shit.

Yeah back then when you bought stuff like this you really didn't notice what a waste it was! I Keep all my old Video games mainly for use for reviewing games on my website, but also for the Nostalgia..