Sega 32X 15 Years Old, Receives Unnecessary Commemorative Album

The 32x was a disaster. As the second ill-fated hardware addition to the otherwise solid Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, the 32X released to a world of disinterest. Its “state-of-the-art 32-bit game technology” produced nothing of note above Knuckles Chaotix, a semi-interesting Sonic spin off, and fearfully pointy editions of the then arcade hits Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing Deluxe.

Ignoring the console’s financial death and critical panning, Sega is currently celebrating its 15th glorious anniversary with a commemorative soundtrack album featuring 128 tracks over three discs plucked from the plug-in’s super hits. Audiophiles can rock out to the exquisite Mission 1, Mission 2, Mission Clear, SEGA and 124 others apparently recorded straight from the ageing hardware.

Despite featuring tracks plucked almost exclusively from titles that found fame away from the slot-loading plastic mushroom, the CD collection proudly features the classic Super 32X logo, emblazoned like some badge of scouting honour. Quite why Sega felt the need to flag the continued historical existence of their crowning failure is anyone’s guess, but it seems unlikely that import sales of the box set will sell at anything approaching the “high speed”s attributed to the console’s behemoth of processing power.

Gamers worldwide are looking forward to upcoming console anniversary release tie-ins Virtual Boy: Virtual Hits, The Atari Jaguar Really Did Render Doom Pretty Well and Other Folk Songs and WONDERSWAN – A WONDERYEAR in coming months.

Via: Andriasang