Now you just need to get the CD and your genesis will be complete!

Now stack a game genie on top of that, like some cursed totem pole.

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.

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

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.

You want that one extra sound channel for MK2

If you haven't read it, and you're interested in the history of Sega in the US, then Console Wars is an excellent book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(book).

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 :)

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.

I have wanted an old school mechanical Sega CD for years with the price on them has just gotten stupid.

It’s beautiful. 🥺

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.

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

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.

Man i fuckin LOVED my 32x when i was a kid. The playstation was out of our budget so I thought the 32x was the next best thing for 32bit gaming. It had the best console port of MKII, Star Wars was the shit, I played the crap out of Doom, NBA Jam, Virtua Racing, Tempo..

But the following year I traded it all in at Electronics Boutique for a credit towards a playstation lol

because eco the freaking dolphin!!!

I think owning this back in the day turned me off console gaming completely. Genesis+Sega CD was lots of fun, I even had the memory cartridge to store more saves.

Then, so many different systems released around the same time, and it was hard to rent and read GamePro and hope you'd pick a good game.

It’s important that the genesis looks like a toilet. A 32X is a must.