The Sega 32X is an add-on for the Sega Genesisvideo game console. Codenamed "Project Mars", the 32X 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. Independent of the Genesis, the 32X uses its own ROM cartridges and has its own library of games. The add-on was distributed under the name Super 32X(スーパー32X,Sūpā Sanjūni Ekkusu) in Japan, Genesis 32X in North America, Mega Drive 32X in the PAL region, and Mega 32X in Brazil.
Unveiled by Sega at June 1994's Consumer Electronics Show, the 32X was presented as a low-cost option for consumers looking to play 32-bit games. Developed in response to the Atari Jaguar and concerns that the Saturn would not make it to market by the end of 1994, the product was first conceived as an entirely new console. At the suggestion of Sega of America executive Joe Miller and his team, the console was converted into an add-on to the existing Genesis and made more powerful. The final design contained two 32-bit central processing units and a 3Dgraphics processor. To bring the new add-on to market by its scheduled release date of November 1994, development of the new system and its games were rushed. The console failed to attract third-party video game developers and consumers because of the announcement of the Sega Saturn's simultaneous release in Japan. Sega's efforts to rush the 32X to market cut into available time for game development, resulting in a weak library of forty titles that could not fully utilize the add-on's hardware, including Genesis ports. By the end of 1994, the 32X had sold 665,000 units. After price reductions in 1995, it was discontinued in 1996 as Sega turned its focus to the Saturn.
Come closer, come closer, come look inside a nigga head Dead for life, ain't no need for me to think twice Look for that gat but I just can't find it Fuck it nevermind it, and since I'm devil-blinded I'll plot me another way to end this shit If my gat can't do it, then I guess I got to roll through it Look to that mirror and I think of the pain Voices from a devil and it drove a nigga insane Now I'm all up in that forty ounce O, thinking about my gat I heard my forty-four callin up on me, in that Back again with that Manson mind And now my blood's on that wall; all I can say is its about time Looking up from my gravesite First scene from a motherfucker dead for life What do I see? My baby-momma sucking up on another dick Fucking my bitch cause my death made my woman rich She never really gave a fuck And when that check came through, guess who got the first buck? Ashes to ashes, and dust to my bank book Who would have thought that my baby's moms was a crook? As for my son, my poor little worm's got no food to eat Cause his mom's always in that street Poor little O.G And I'm thinking to myself he never really got to know me Looking up from my gravesite Second scene from a motherfucker dead for life What do I see? Mom's gonna choke from the smoke that she be blowing Them wasted years not knowing that no matter what Whatever happen let it happen But after what that pipe say, and when them tears start flowing When them years start growing short, yo The fear of her laying right next to me, and up on that note That one little rock get lit up, hit up Better toke that shit up, too much to take But better make that blast last, but she spliff too fast How comes moms won't get up? Is it because that lit been did up By too much cut up in stuff that shit can't even set up Fed up by my own clothes cause she smoke them bones Momma gone, drown my own, but then no one knows What she done been through, what she got herself up into What's in the past to make her blast up? Must have been rough Crack monster ain't nothing nice That's what I see laying hella deep That nigga dead for life That niggaz dead for life [Break] Dead for life And as they, life after death Little angels with wings coming down to bring you up to your maker Seeing all them people you missed Hear about them good things, and what that future brings But what I see, ain't nothing like they told me Ain't no god in sight, and no shining light And my dead daddy's still in the box Cold as a motherfuck, still moldy like a motherfuck And to think we believed in that shit Heaven ain't nothing but a casket And about that Devil, that so-called Devil Ain't nothing but a man with his hand on that shovel And all them Sundays dressed in my best church clothes Them shoes always hurt on my toes And now I'm dead, as life goes on until they die Goes on until they lie up in that grave with me Maybe if we all wished hard enough All that stuff about that God might come true Cause if not, we finally gonna rot up in that grave
Sony may have had more powerful hardware than the Genesis, the SNES, or the 32X peripheral, but Sega's Saturn was launching at right around the same time.
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His collection includes some of the classics such as the first Sony PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and (his personal favorite) the Sega Genesis, complete with the 32x and Sega CD expansions.
An unofficial recreation of the cancelled Sega Neptune console has been unveiled, which combines the Mega Drive and the 32X add-on ... Mega Drive and 32X cartridges, along with games from the Sega CD.
... in action, such as Sega Saturn's unique sprite-driven 3D rendering ... There now exists, for instance, versions of Tomb Raider that can run on classic consoles like the Sega 32x, 3DO and Game Boy Advance.
When Sony revealed updated models for the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition, one specific accessory for the latter caught my eye ... PlayStation ... Recommended Videos. A more modular future ... That feels reminiscent of 1900s console add-ons like the Sega CD and 32X.
Sega had the Game Gear, Sony had the PS Vita, and the list goes on ... And Sega, during the time of the Mega Drive and CD add-on, also later released the 32X (another add-on).
I’m reminded of Sega’s strategy in the 1990s, offering up two 32-bit systems. the brand-new, CD-based Sega Saturn and the “32x” add-on for the Sega Genesis. This decision fractured Sega’s consumer base ...
... time," reporting that it's now been reverse-engineered by a GitHub user named Snesrev, "opening up the possibility of Link to the Past on other platforms, like Sega's 32X or the Sony Playstation.".
