#super 32x

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The Super 32X was released 31 years ago today in Japan.

[marie-rosehonoka]

28 years ago today, Virtua Fighter was released on the Sega 32X at JP. It was developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega.

[techturd]

Japanese 32X pre-launch Promo Video

[didyouknowgaming]

Did you know longtime Pokemon art director Ken Sugimori is a huge Sega fan? He made the artwork for Sega's 3D Classics Collection, and he even made his Twitter handle @SUPER_32X, named for the Sega console.

Source: tinyurl.com/y9a4se7o More Sega Facts: youtube.com/watch?v=kbiShLQzayQ

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 ‘Super 32X’

[32X] [JAPAN] [MAGAZINE, SPREAD] [1994]

The industry was transitioning fast, and 1993 was to prove a pivotal year. Not only did it see the launch of both the first true 32-bit system -- the 3DO -- and the 64-bit Atari Jaguar, but also the first announcement that Sony was indeed working on its ‘new home-use game system’, scheduled for release by the end of 1994. Sega had to react. [Senior producer at Sega of America] Scot Bayless recalls being with [vice president of technology] Marty Franz and vice president of product development Joe Miller at [CES 1994] when the group took a call from [Sega president and CEO Hayao Nakayama] in Miller’s hotel suite. ‘Basically we put him on speakerphone, and he said, “We have to do something about the Atari Jaguar.” And we all went, “Okay... why?!” To him the Jaguar was the machine that had broken the barrier into 3D and -- quite rightly -- he saw 3D as the future.’

A plan emerged for an interim solution -- another Genesis add-on -- the could advance the console’s huge customer base into the 32-bit era for a reasonable price. This was Project Mars, later released as the 32X (the Super 32X in Japan). ‘It was effectively designed on one of those littler hotel notepads in Joe Miller’s suite,’ says Bayless. ~Keith Stuart, ‘Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works’ (’Arcade Perfect: How Sega Took Gaming to the Next Level’, pg.39)

Source: micomBASIC, December 1994 || The Internet Archive; Sketch the Cow

[thesegasource]

The front and back of the SEGA Super 32X 15th Anniversary Album box set.

[randomisedgaming]

Vault video today Stellar Assault / Shadow Squadron is one of the best games on the 32X an arcade space shooter much like Sega’s own Star Wars arcade. It still doesn’t get much love on the internet but deserved to be discussed a lot more, it’s sequel on the Sega Saturn was even more impressive. This is our full playthrough in the two player ship.

[sammyrms1]

Sega Hard Girls chirper icons (Set 4 of 4): The 90′s Part 2