I used to have a 32x back in the day, but you know, Sega did what they did, and it didn’t really pan out. I thought the mushroom system was cool tech, but lamented how little value it added to the Genesis. I essentially gave it away.

The library was small, and even the top tier A-list games barely even graze competency, let alone “good”. Most of them play well enough in emulation (there are exceptions, of course), and even Mister has a core for it now.

Still, I unironically enjoy Cosmic Carnage; Doom on 32x was sadly rushed but the result is hilarious for so many reasons (my favorite is the end of the game dumps you into a fake DOS prompt); and I still remember being legit excited to play Mortal Kombat II on the system, and it got a lot of mileage. So it wasn’t all bad.

It may not make a lot of sense to buy it again now for the nostalgia, especially with all the benefits of hindsight I have. Did it anyway.

  • hoodatninja@kbin.social
    20·
    1 year ago

    It may not make a lot of sense to buy it again now for the nostalgia, especially with all the benefits of hindsight I have. Did it anyway.

    Never, ever let this stop you from enjoying this hobby. Nothing about retrogaming collection makes sense. That’s not the point! Enjoyment and utility or “making sense” are not directly linked.

    Do I need to tear down a dreamcast and mod the ever living hell out of it to play it? No. Do I need to letterbomb my wii? Of course not. But I wanted to because learning the process and just doing it was fun in and of itself. Arguably more than playing the games.

      • hoodatninja@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m always open to potentially taking unwanted game consoles haha. But you should just look locally, you’d be surprised who wants it. And believe it or not, Facebook marketplace is fantastic for sellers and buyers alike. It’s like a better craigslist and literally the only thing good about FB these days.

  • maniajack@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Kolibri was the shit. It was like Echo the dolphin but with a humming bird. I still have my 32x…somewhere.

    • Disgustoid@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Never got to play Kolibri but Ecco was the shit for its time. I’m bummed no one ever made an updated version on more powerful systems. The 32X version was just the Genesis version with a bigger color pallette if memory serves.

        • Disgustoid@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Even though I owned a Dreamcast, I somehow missed Ecco ever being released for it. Reading up about the game, it looks like a fun time.

  • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I had that thing with a Sega CD and saved every penny I could raise from shoveling snow and raking leaves to get them both and probably ended up playing like 3 games between each of them.

  • alaxitoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    My husband was a Sega kid, I was a Nintendo kid, it’s been fun learning stuff about Sega that I had no idea of :)

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Sega has a really fun history to research into, from console ideas to their place in the Japanese arcade market.

      For a time, they were really innovative, even if most of it didn’t work out the way they had hoped. Just throw it at a wall, see if it sticks.

      This is a stupid one, but as a kid, E.A titles always stuck out to me because they had these unique cartridges. They were taller, and had this weird yellow tab on the side. Turns out it was to bypass some restrictions Sega had in place, but as a kid, I just thought it was neat that they looked different. It made me want to get them just to have more cool carts.

  • sudsmcduff@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    The 32x was always super fascinating to me as a Nintendo kid…so much so, that I also bought one recently! It’s just a wild idea from a different era.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I wanted one so bad when I was younger. If ever there was a new old stock cache waiting, it’s for this.

  • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    What I don’t understand is why they made the 32x at all. Sega should have instead delayed the Sega CD, made it as powerful as the Saturn (except without the excessive complexity), and then release it sometime around 1994-1995. Then cancel the Saturn entirely and tout the Sega CD as a next gen addon for your current console. Sell the addon for $199. Then maybe they would have stood a chance against the Playstation.

    • Cleverdawny@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Just scrap the Sega CD and 32x, then release a less powerful Saturn optimized for low cost as both a standalone console and an add-on for the Genesis for a bit less money. They would have done very well.

    • krakenx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The Sega CD had a purpose. The CD quality sound and FMVs were clearly something that couldn’t be done on a stock SNES or Genesis. But the 32x… I played one in a Funcoland once and I honestly couldn’t tell the difference between it and a normal Genesis game. Some extra superfluous scaling effects that the SNES could do natively and the Genesis could do if you were a clever programmer?

  • zerkrazus@kbin.social
    31·
    1 year ago

    I mean why not right? I plan to get one eventually along with a Sega CD. I bought a Saturn a couple years ago and only have 1 game for it still (Virtua Fighter). But I wanted one so I got one. I remember playing one during the national tour they did right before launch back in the day. I think someone I knew growing up had a 32X and a different person had a SCD, but I didn’t know anyone that had them both.