Great video. These are the kinds of videos I would fall asleep to if it weren't for the static burst transitions. And videos people watch multiple times to doze off to means more views and engagement. If I were you I'd take out the static burst transitions or at least make the static noise waaaayy quieter.

32X was the best console, I got one when my friends were playing donkey kong country on the snes

Hello, everyone ! I really like this movie

I'd rather SegaCD not release, Sega was just trying to be the first for everything...smh I also would've wanted the 32X to be included in the either SegaCD or Genesis as a standard. 😊🎉

I probably would’ve forgiven the reboot of its inaccuracies if it was actually gritty, like 5 Americans died in the remake, almost everyone dies a brutal death in the original. It was one of the few movies when i was a kid that stuck with me, like when the pow’s sung America the Beautiful while being mowed down, it felt like the kids in the original didn’t have much of a choice, they would die otherwise. But the reboot make it seem like the north Koreans didn’t really mean business, and that the kids would’ve been completely fine if they didn’t fight back.

MD Shock is seriously biased against SOA, so basing an entire video on those translations is a risk. Has anybody cross checked those translations? The guy talks about Tom Kalinske like he banged his mom or something. The bottom line is SOA sold over 20 million Genesis consoles in the United States. That's more what SOJ sold in Japan for all 5 of their consoles combined. SOA gave them their only real success in the hardware business. Tom and his marketing savvy was a big reason why. His career speaks for itself. It was a great 3 year run.

If your audio was more consistent it would be considered.

Great documentary, you obviously put a lot of effort into this. However, I notice you speak too fast sometimes, causing syllables and words to become blurred. I notice this at ends of sentences or pauses. At first I thought you were using some machine learning or text to speech - but I believe this is your real voice. Make no mistake, you have a good voice and are 96% there, presentation alone. I feel obligated to preface that I don't take you for granted, or your video, and my criticism is only mean to be constructive. 05:31 "Those displays even landed Mario's signature voice, portrayed by Charles Martinet". The first half of the sentence just seems rushed. Please don't be afraid to take second takes with vocal recordings. Regarding Charles' surname, it's gotten wrong by people for decades, I don't mind. 18:27 "Ultra 64, done and ready". This line is spoken so fast that I had trouble understanding it. Is this phrase a about a previous working title or marketing phrase? 20:19 Pronounces "Nintendo" as "Ninten". These are just a few examples. Criticism aside, you have a great talent. Keep up the good work.

Yeah, the only thing I've ever seen rrlated to what a Philips CD-i might've looked like is the leaked technical specifications document from quite a while back that you can find easily if you just Google 'Nintendo Philips SNES CD-ROM system leaked technical specifications document PDF.' The specs listed there are actually more powerful than those present in the known 'Nintendo PlayStation' Sony SNES-CD prototype that surfaced within the past handful of years, funnily enough. You may well have come across that file already, though. Have you maybe tried asking any of the folks at the Video Game History Foundation to see if they might have any contacts to share that could potentially help?

All they had to do was paint the PC Engine black and put a TG-16 sticker on it back in 1987 and ship that puppy to North America in time for Christmas. Done deal.

I was kind of hoping there was going to be a bit of the Sega PlayStation story tied into this. With Sega of Japan reluctantly accepting Sega of America's proposal to work with Sony on their next system, ultimately going in with bad faith before self destructing that deal, Sega was trying to get its ducks in a row with how best to be prepared for the Sony PlayStation. Would Sega of America's discussions with Sega of Japan lead to the creation of the 32X if Nakayama hadn't told Sony to get lost? To me, that factors not only into the creation of the 32X's existence entirely, but also the hardware we received. If it had been in preparation for the PlayStation, its architecture might have been different in that timeline if it were still to be a thing.

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Amazing really high quality documentary!! I gotta ask though, where did you find images of Sony's system G, and DME-9000. I've scoured the internet, even the wayback machine to no avail. Can't wait for any upcoming docs!

I saw this in the late 90s. The local blockbuster had it in its tiny anime section. The back of the box had a man being crushed by a robot hand. It horrified me and intrigued me at the same time. I ended up renting it and i loved it.

M.D. Geist is bad@$$. Would love to see a reboot with good writing and production behind it. ....And English (dubbed).

so your theory that it was a fleet could be accurate. it only takes about a crew of 20 to sail one of those cargo ships so over 500 years it might be just the deez left and the descendants of all the crews. i could definitely see a billionaire commandeering a cargo ship of their products to survive and bringing dumb stuff like a car

Sonic Roboblast 32X has arrived.

Don’t get me wrong the original is better than the remake, but the feeling towards the remake isn’t just he thinks he is somebody else it goes more deeper than that. It goes every single time he wakes up he loses his wife he loses his kid and if you actually think bout it it is pretty depressing as the original one was. Any man loses his wife that he loves loses his son it will break him. I think the remake is more deeper than the original cause in the original the only thing actually matters to him is his son. At the end he gets his son in the remake only thing matters to him is his wife and son at the end he dies he loses everything. Like I said from the beginning I think the original is a better movie but the remake isn’t just he thinking he is somebody the remake is bout he got to start a family with the girl he is in love with got to start a family with her. Plus on top of that he got his brother back even though he thought he was dead he loses his brother to it only a deep film only if you think bout it this way. Imagine you got to spend the rest of your life with the girl in your dreams any girl you want you get to marry her and you get a son by her then one day you wake up and realize it isn’t real. You wake up being a loser like you always have been. To anybody doesn’t understand that imagine you wake up one day your homeless you are single no wife no son everything you dream bout is just a fairytale it would crush you.

this edible is taking forever :/

Seeing the transition from the TV to the PC reminds me how cool it was to see the Dreamcast run in a much higher resolution on a product most people already owned, instead of making people buy HDTV’s like when the Xbox 360 came out.

I bought my Turbo graphic 16. I enjoyed it, but like many of us when we saw the PC engine game catalog, as well as the pictures of the system, we couldn’t understand why we didn’t have the same. I covered it one day being able to own a PC engine because of how much smaller it was and how relatively more competitive I think it would’ve been. But I still love my TurboGrafx 16. My three favorite titles Keith courage bonks and Splatterhouse. And if I had to pick one shooter, it was R type.

29:05 This is ridiculous, BTW, at the time anime was getting extremely huge in the West, and cartridge consoles had severe lack of cutscenes, a TurboGraphx CD with tons of both shonen stuff with mechas and spiky hair and magical girl shojo games translated to English would have gotten a HUGE headstart in the market that everybody was craving for, and was filled by Final Fantasy VII, MGS and Tekken, ensuring PlayStation completely destroyed every single console maker in the 1990s, most of them going bankrupt (like Atari, 3DO or Amiga) or folding and giving up on making consoles (NEC, SNK, SEGA). All people wanted was to play through an anime. And they kept porting 8-bit platformers instead of giving, say, Kojima a chance at foreign markets and translating Policenauts or Snatcher, again, the market quickly captured by Sony after Metal Gear Solid let people play through a mecha anime spy thriller with ninjas and Square learned they can actually sell the SNES RPGs nobody seen in Europe on PlayStations.

Afaik , HuCards weren’t any different than cartridges as far as how they worked. The cartridges just house the PCB in a different way

I wonder whether 32x would have been given the green light had SOJ known of the impending losses at SOA when it was first planned and developed. I suspect not. When the empassioned please of SOA to Irimajiri regarding prolonging the 16 bit market, SOA will have still been flying high, pre stock buy-back, and hence will have had significant bargaining power in discussions with SOJ

I wonder whether 32x would have been given the green light had SOJ known of the impending losses at SOA when it was first planned and developed. I suspect not. When the empassioned please of SOA to Irimajiri regarding prolonging the 16 bit market, SOA will have still been flying high, pre stock buy-back, and hence will have had significant bargaining power in discussions with SOJ

Excellent documentary! Imagine if Sega had released the Neptune in 1990 or 1991. It would’ve been glorious.

The ost in MD Geist is bloody amazing

Heman was killed in the netflix revelations show.

SUCH a shame! I loved TurboGrafx, so many great games! We got screwed in the US with video games & consoles throughout the 90's. Luckily there was a specialty store "High Tech Only" that sold imported Japanese games and consoles

They were better off added the hardware into the sega cd and delaying the add-on to 1993 or late 1992.

Well-made documentary, thank you! I've often wondered why the TG16 was such a distant rival and this does go some way to explaining it. They had the system, had the software, but didn't have support. Sad, really. (Also really nice to see an American do videogame coverage without screaming! Very chill presentation style. Kudos.)

Goddammit I hate remakes

Price was a big deterrent they should have sold it for the price of a game cartridge and included a free game with it as well

I love the turbo gravity 16 I had Keith courage, Bonk’s. Their version of splatter house. The turbo graphic 16 had so much potential. PC engine in Japan had some of the better games I thought but they’re continuation from their system to enhancing it as well as adding a CD system was awesome.

I'll take 80's Anime over current day " find a girlfriend in a dungeon" garbage. Most dangerous! Geist!

Talk about getting your lick back...

They should make another one part 3

My Genesis, CD, and 32X are still a throuple after all these years. It's important to be friends first, for it to last. 😀

Daytona on the MegaDrive would have been mind blowing at the time! Sega made so many dumb decisions from 1991-2001 😂 If the SVP chip could handle Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, Star Wars arcade well enough then wtf was even the point of 32X?? aside from to waste money and customers goodwill of course, and fracture the Saturn's userbase and confuse everyone too 😐 I loved the master gear converter and power base converter, but everything lost that was a real shitshow. I had my saturn in 97 and 98 and here in the UK it was barely supported. And after salivating over project dural and following every tiny bit of gossip about the Dreamcast I finally got one around xmas and within 18months they fkn dropped it and stopped supporting it. I'm still pissed off by that and I am quite in awe at how badly Sega screwed us over and trashed the company. Sega didn't even have the brains to include a VCD player into the Dreamcast and if they had used DVD's I believe Sega would still be in the console market

It's really two things. A: The US market treatment of the late 80s/early 90s( that even the NES had) where the execs must have screamed : PC Engine ?!? No,no,no it looks like a toy. Make it as bland as possible while transforming the design into a doppelganger of another electronic device in the TV room so the consumer doesn't think it's a video game console, then call it something rad. B : Either the japanese still thought westerners were too stupid to play JRPGs (*cough* Final fantasy mystic quest *cough*) during that time or the US side didn't thought it was culturally relevant, but if they would have translated the JRPGs to english, the library would have had more than one "final fantasy" on top of the plethora of shoot em ups the library is known for.

For the 32X to be divisive, would require that a decent number of people consider it a success. It's not. It's an absolute failure by every possible metric. Which doesn't mean it's not worth having in a collection. I have one and enjoy the fact that is has 5 or 6 unique good games that don't have ports on any other system. But still it's really not divisive. The library is small and doesn't have "must-play" games.

It's so fun coming to the Modern Vintage Gamer channel when he talks about how mistakes were made... Oh, wait...

After having had the NES, Genesis, SNES, Sega CD, 32x, Saturn, Dreamcast I had really wanted the TG16 and Neo Geo. Only one retailer in my area had a TG16 demo but never actually had any consoles for sale. Now I see them in onesies and Twosies every now and then at retro gaming stories for decent prices but the games are about as expensive as the Neo Geo games were when it was a thing.

I was heavily into Sega back then. But the best add-on to the Genesis was a SNES. Sega CD barely added colors and the 32X added “mode 7” when it was too late. I missed out on a lot of amazing SNES games due to the console wars 🤣

Bro when I heard about It and genocyber the storys where there but songs where better

I bought this for twenty bucks and farted on it, but I never took it out of the box than sold it for a huge profit only recently