This is seriously a thing that is happening. Rather than pretend it never existed, Sega will be celebrating the ill-fated and universally terrible 32X when its fifteenth anniversary hits this year. The one-time threat to Nintendo's dominance will be releasing a soundtrack set, harking back to the 32X's many victories.
Releasing March 31, this three-disc box will contain 128 tracks, all recorded directly from the hardware. Space Harrier, Stellar Assault, Virtua Racing Deluxe, Parasquad, Metal Head and Virtua Fighter are just some of the games that will be tickling your ears with the delightful tunes. Also included is a booklet with liner notes from the sound producers.
So yes. This is a thing that is seriously happening. Let us all clap our hands and triumphantly remember the greatness that was the 32X!
Sega forgets how awful 32X was, celebrates anniversary [Andria Sang]
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10:00 AM on 03.20.2010
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I guess Sega still does what Nintendon't.
I mean, that has to be the ugliest album cover ever. Ever.
You kids...you freakin' kids just don't know how good you have it.
...Yeah, I got nothing. At least I got mine for almost nothing.
I never owned one personally, or played games on it. It makes me think about the Sega CD, which was one of my favorites growing up.
I'm curious about the soundtrack though. I used to collect Video Game Music and I love hearing it. Thanks for the heads-up and the new wallpaper.
When Jim posts a picture with god awful spray ALL OVER a bathroom stall.
(( On the F*ing Front Page! ))
/irony???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvR_3OTxs8A&feature=youtube_gdata
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Sounds like you had a bargain Christmas that year. Quanity over quality. I had some of those too.
Chaotix ftw!
Yeah, pretty much. And I don't mean to sound bitter, because getting Super Mario World, Sonic 1, 2 and Sonic CD all on one day was pretty epic. All my friends got were Mario 64 and Wave Race if they were lucky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzRm6rwEQE
"Let us all clap our hands and triumphantly remember the greatness that was the 32X!".....lets not
I don't remember the music from any of the other games, though.
Dunno how it was where you were, but here in America, only the hardcore gamers heard of the TurboGrafx-16. It was just a two-way war between Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, with Nintendo ahead by a healthy margin.
With the 32x, it was practically Sega signing it's own death certificate. The jump from 16-bit to 32-bit wasn't that impressive on the ailing console, many of the games were just as good if not better on the SNES (especially when you look at the music, like this album is trying to make you do) and it was just an expensive add-on for a console that we knew would be discontinued in about a year when the Saturn came out. It was pointless, even to the Sega faithful.
The time spent on the 32x could have been spent on an add-on for the Saturn (imagine a Genesis-to-Saturn converter that fit in the Expansion Cartiridge slot, a la the Base Power Converter) - or just some games for the Genesis.