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The 32X is an add-on for the Sega Genesis video game console. Codenamed "Project Mars", it was designed to expand the power of the Genesis and serve as a transitional console into the 32-bit era until the release of the Sega Saturn. The 32X uses its own ROM cartridges and has its own library of games.
Codenamed "Project Mars", [1] the 32X was designed to expand the power of the Genesis and serve as a holdover until the release of the Sega Saturn. [2] Independent of the Genesis, the 32X used its own ROM cartridges and had its own library of games, as well as two 32-bit central processing unit chips and a 3D graphics processor. [1]
After the success of porting Virtua Fighter to the 32X in 1995 after its 1994 Sega Saturn port, Sega was reportedly looking at other Saturn games to be ported to the 32X. A port of the 1995 Saturn game Bug! was announced in early 1996, but never released, with the 32X being discontinued shortly after. [17] Realtime Associates: Sega: Casper
Their answer was to call the 32X a "transitional device" between the Genesis and the Saturn. [160] This was justified by Sega's statement that both platforms would run at the same time and that the 32X would be aimed at players who could not afford the more expensive Saturn. [151] The 32X was released in November 1994, in time for the holiday ...
This is a list of cancelled Sega Saturn video games.The Sega Saturn was a video game console by Sega.While Sega found success in its Sega Genesis in the early 1990s, the failure of the Sega CD and 32X hardware add-ons left them in need of moving on to new hardware.
The 32-bit/64-bit era is most noted for the rise of fully 3D polygon games. While there were games prior that had used three-dimensional polygon environments, such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter in the arcades and Star Fox on the Super NES, it was in this era that many game designers began to move traditionally 2D and pseudo-3D genres into 3D on video game consoles.
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the Sega Saturn version of the game a 28 out of 40, [2] later giving the 32X version a 27 out of 40. [3] The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly applauded the addictive gameplay, the ability to create custom generals, and the level of depth, and commented that the FMVs of the Saturn version were an ...
The Saturn version sold 630,000 units in Japan, while Remix sold a further 437,036 units there in 1995, for a combined total of 1,067,036 units sold for the Saturn in Japan. [64] On release of the Saturn version, Sega Saturn Tsūshin scored the game a 38 out of 40. [48] Famicom Tsūshin would score the same version a 36 out of 40 five months ...