AMIGA CD32 Story & Review; Inspections | Nostalgia Nerd

[@BeardWulf]

Always seeing CD32, Jaguar, Lynx, 3DO commercials in magazines, while playing MD and SNES awaiting Saturn, 32X, Ultra 64 and PSX... man, it felt like the wild west of video game consoles. Early 90s were cool.

[@njones420]

April 1994 ... I became a teenager, and my beloved Commodore and Nirvana were killed off... what a month

[@prsplayer210]

Cobain offing himself was the best thing that ever happened to Nirvana

[@jameslewis2635]

Yep, that is a pretty shitty set of birthday presents.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Hmmm. Wonder if there is a connection... Maybe you becomming a teen caused all this. You are cursed!!!

[@Callie1981]

81 CREW

[@rvbrexer]

@@prsplayer210 Why? Nirvana ended that day.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Capt Scarlet Thanks for your kind comments! I would reply to your comment, but KZbin inevitably won't let me. It does make a whole different experience on a CRT, love it! I do need to update my equipment list. BUT you're right, I don't have one the Atari 8 bits. I'm keen to get one when I spy one at a decent price. I was thinking about going for an 800 or 800xl

+Nostalgia Nerd It was rated one of the worst consoles of the 90's and with good reason! Poor sound, poor graphics and VERY few games! No wonder Commodore failed. Its only good as a door stop!

[@srichard7291]

+yogibear2k10 The hardware was completely outdated,the 3d0 was out here also and killed this machine.It was a piece of junk and amiga tried naming it amigacd32"as to pass it off as a 32bit system"it was 16 bit and 32bit generation consoles were released.

[@srichard7291]

yogibear2k10 I agee

[@venicemackay9244]

i had one of thees i asked my dad if he finds it anywhere to keep it not throw it away

[@beingatliberty]

truth is sega CD's offering and amigas CD32 and even the jaguar were totally owned by machines that could do real 3d games, 3d graphics chips performance is where the market went, once mario 64 was released on the N64 nothing could save this generation of machines, 3d triumphed over CD, the playstation having both won out overall. 3D enabled all kinds of games no-one had seen before.

[@pinkwolf6407]

I inherited my dads CD32 in the mid 90s. He largely used it with an amp and speakers as an audio set up so when I got it, I just used it for music. I don't remember if we had any games for it. The boot up screen music in your video brought back lots of nostalgic feelings. I miss the 90s!

[@erichth]

"With consoles such as the XBox One NOW"... I feel like a time traveler from the future 😳

[@mountainbearoutdoors]

thanks for the video I always remember seeing the cd 32 in magazines, we had an amiga 600 in our house and I loved it despite having to battle with the kids at school who always had the snes or megadrive. in retrospect the amiga was the superior bit of kit :)

[@NightRogue77]

Love your channel bro. Awesome content and great depth in your reviews and "way backs" lol. As a 40 year old gamer back to coleco and old Ataris of course, I just eat this shit up! More content!! MOAR MOAR. Also, super J about all your old hardware man.

[@Stella-ri5ex]

Had Commodore got companies like these on board and started releasing true arcade conversions: Konami, Sega, Namco, Capcom, and Data East. Then I think Amiga CD32 would have been a smashing success.

[@lafeelabriel]

Problem is, getting those on board would have cost money, and Commodore were quite tight..fisted. Could be worse, at least they didn't throw good money after bad like some others..

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@lafeelabrielAtari tried to get companies like Konami and Capcom onboard for the Jaguar, sending Bill Rehbock to Japan a venture which meant nowhere.

[@tremorist]

I want to live in the parallel universe that has AMIGAStation 4 now.

[@EdgyShooter]

I think I'd prefer to be in a world with the Sega Callisto 😉

[@lorumipsum1129]

You mean amigabluray512

[@arcadealchemist]

yeh Sadly the CD32 Was ahead of it's time

[@michaelwahl7810]

In that universe 99% of people smoke crack. The remaining 1% don't have mouths...due to birth defects from their parents smoking crack.

[@ilmediosu]

@@arcadealchemist it was already old, when launched. less capability than snes megadrive neogeo 3d0. there were only few more useless machine, like cdtv or cdi but they werent game console.

[@KarlUKmidlands]

I still make mouse and keyboard adapters for this console!

[@chrisrobinson82]

Watching this for the second time over this Christmas period. Great video but at the same time it's great to see how far you've come Sir Nostalgia!!!!!

[@PaulSimonRough]

Good video I sat and watched it all last night on the youtube app on my TV while looking for something, keep it up!

[@Nostalgianerd]

***** Thanks man. Will do!

[@Hiraghm]

I would have loved to have had an Amiga 1200 in the CDTV form factor. I still think the CDTV had the coolest looking case of any computing device, ever.

[@SkynetCyb]

Old comment but I'm pretty sure you can convert it into an amiga 1200 if that helps

[@robsims6352]

@@SkynetCyb You can't. You can expand it with more memory, a faster processor (see Vampire) or even a SCSI hard disk, but you can't upgrade the OCS/ECS chipset to match the A1200's AGA chipset.

[@SkynetCyb]

Rob Sims I checked online and it seems it has an AGA chipset though, it’s based on the a1200

[@ClayMann]

A nostalgia shot from me seeing the CD32 again. My experience of it was a bit odd. By the time I got one, it had pretty much become a dud, the price fell through the floor and you could pick one up really cheap. My memory might be flaky here but I think I got mine from Dixons for £50. I didn't get it as a games console, I got it because it had a CD-ROM drive and getting one of those for the Amiga A1200 was really expensive if anyone remembers back then. You had to get a squirrel scsi interface and an expensive drive that would end up costing around £200. However you could pop a special CD into the CD32 and get it to turn into a little server and have it send anything on a CD onto the A1200's hard drive but over the ancient parallel interface I think It was. Correct me if I'm wrong. Anything I remember it took 4 hours to copy one whole full CD onto hard drive with it. Absolutely awful speed I know but 600mb of data was amazing back then. A couple of Aminet CD's and you were set for months of gaming, demo's and programs to do everything. So I loved my CD32 for the access it gave me to so much stuff pre internet.

[@KarlUKmidlands]

Yes i got a used CD32 back in the day and built my own interface to my amiga 1200, CD drives were so expensive at the time but transfer speed was slllooowww, I now use a USB flash drive that reads at 200mb/s

[@rvbrexer]

I remeber that my firs PC CDROM burner would take 90 minutes to finish a 600MB CD

[@thecoyotespeaks9649]

This is one of those consoles I really would have liked at the time. Shame Commodore went out of biz after its launch. Still jazzed it had Simon The Sorceror CD on it :)

[@alynicholls3230]

i'm glad you mentioned cd playback functionality, at the time what hifi did tests on the cd32 and the cdtv,as it turned out playback quality was excellent on par with budget high end players, the conclusion was it was worth buying as a cd drive with its game play a bonus, the cdtv had good cd playback too though not as good as the cd32. when the price was slashed buying and using as a cd spinner was a no brainer.

[@bluebull399]

I see your point. However, didn't most other CD consoles have the ability to play audio CD's? If the CD32's audio playback quality was better than say the Sega CD then maybe commodore should have allocated some of the marketing towards hifi buffs.

[@Asphodellife]

I always wondered if the CD32 has a good DAC in it. I know some audiophiles own a first generation Playstation because of the quality of it's dac and implimantation.

[@valerfor8361]

That's a fine review man, your system commentaries are amongst the best in KZbin. I guess, all of these systems (Jaguar, CD 32, 32X, etc.) had some common ground that eventually led to their demise, but for the love of God, I don't understand how one can make so wrong decisions about the freaking gamepad!

[@bobbyberetta4206]

Greetings from Texas! This is the first video I've seen of yours and I really enjoyed. You have gained one more new subscriber.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Bo88y Beretta Much obliged! And Greetings :)

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Bo88y Beretta Much obliged! And Greetings :)

[@doodoostickstain]

thanks for showing this on a proper recording on a proper screen. when the chaos engine intro kicked in i was slung straight back to childhood by the sound and look

[@DeathEvil_DH]

excellent look at cd32. Got it on lunch, and hold it close to my heart:)

[@bigpaw124]

Thank you, a well made video about the amiga cd32, I had the amega 1200 but I did want the cd32!. I would say its the best video about the cd32. Cheers.

[@joanmagnusmagnusson5896]

Diggers was a good game! :) I owned a cd 32 for yrs and used it as a cd player in my hifi setup. :)

[@speakerwizard]

ditto, as all the games were a500 ports which i already had haha

[@005AGIMA]

This weekend I walked into a Retro Games shop in Perth Australia. Just browsing. Got chatting to them about Amiga's and they pipe up "That whole bottom shelf over there was Amiga CD32 gear this morning. One guy came in and brought the whole lot!".

[@GregDaniel78]

The brainbot exploded out of boredom playing Microcosm! Could have seen that coming, eh scientists?

[@heidirichter]

I got one of these back in I think it was 1994, maybe 1995, to go alongside my A1200HD/40... Loved it. Had an A2000, A500, A600 and A4000/040 too... Sadly, I sold them all, and am now looking for an A600 or A1200 to show the kids how good computers used to be, lol

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Troy Wilkins Yeah, 1200 is the way to go, with a Flash card hard drive and WHDLoad. I recently sold my CD32... I loved it, but I rarely used it over the other machines

[@rvbrexer]

@Gernot Schrader money, I guess, the CD32's got quite pricey lately.

[@Jaytecx]

I like the background music. It sounds exactly like early Level 42!!

[@niamaru2]

only amiga makes it possible.. i miss amiga :(

[@Broyale26]

Let me taste your body milk.

[@phill80]

I owned a CD32 back in the day as all my friends had Amiga 500/600/1200 and I was always round their houses, playing on their systems and wanted in on the action. (the Amiga music was amazing in comparison to what most people has gaming wise). I was wondering +Nostalgia Nerd, any chance you could capture and upload the music from the cover disc you have? I owned that disc myself and the music takes be back to be 14 again. Cheers.

[@kayana9270]

gods, that intro animation and audio makes me shiver. Fond memories of the CD32 include getting mum to bring it and the TV up into my room when I was too ill to go to school! Jetstrike and Roadkill were my favs

[@kayana9270]

mine had issues powering up, had to wiggle the power switch in just the right way or it wouldn't boot

[@djames216]

I was one of those rare creatures who bought a CD32 at launch. I regularly used it as a CD player in my Hi-Fi and even played games on it. The early 90s was a time when CD players were sexy. In the video Nerd mentions the rear expansion port. I used that port for something called the SX-1 which I ordered from a magazine advert. It basically turned the CD32 into an A1200. It allowed you to plug in mouse, keyboard, floppy drive (I think I used some sort of emulation software to trick the CD32 into saving games onto floppy instead of its tiny internal memory) and........a hard drive. The hard drive I used was a whopping 170MB in size. I installed games onto it such as Monkey Island 2. Favourite games: Frontier Elite II; Theme Park; UFO: Enemy Unknown (the UK name for the original early 90s XCOM game). I also collected a bunch of magazine CDs. Some of them have bizarre voice over on the menu screen.

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

It beggars belief that the makers thought this could compete with the forthcoming PlayStation with the seriously out of date hardware. I owned an Amiga at the time and read Amiga format magazine. Each month they would cheerlead for this machine stating that it was indeed a better choice than the ps1. It was like reading the writings of cult members. Then after release they Actually published a letter of complaint from a reader stating they had rushed out to buy one on day one only to find the shop had no games available whatsoever.

[@005AGIMA]

Could have been worse. Could have opted for the non-CD based Atari Jaguar over a PS1. .....I know I did.

[@005AGIMA]

@@davecurtis86 That was back in the day when they were brand new. Wish I'd never sold it. That's the 1 console from my past I'd like to re-buy boxed one day. What did it cost back in the day? TBH I can't remember what the RRP was. Wasn't it a couple of hundred quid? Like 250 or 285 or something. *goes to google* 200 to 300 quid according to wiki. I got it with Cybvermorph,which was utterly crap, and then added the games I really wanted it for....DooM and AVP.

[@V3ntilator]

I still own two real CD32 consoles with different hardware add-ons, and bought nearly all games ever released on it. One of my CD32 consoles is brand new and unused as backup.

[@brpadington]

I had a magazine advertising these and I wanted one very badly. I don't think they ever released it in the US. It was a crazy time in the early 90's with all of these companies releasing crazy powerful hardware with shit software. I remember being amazed at the CD32 and the 3DO.

[@cyborgjeff]

One day... i've find an Amiga CD32 for my retro collection promise ! thanks for this great music selection ; )

[@sologals361]

Banshee is the best vertical shooter on the amiga. Apidya is the best horizontal shooter.

[@krashd]

I agree with Banshee but Project X was better than Apidya.

[@carbonara2144]

Recently got CD32. Banshee is crazy good. It really shows what the machine can do!

[@karlwalker1771]

Thank you for your upload sir, you have truly fulfilled your mission, you have truly taken me back to my teenage years and with the spectrum, you truly stirred up my pre teens HORMONES:) PLEASE Keep up the fantastic content as only you know how, if it was not for you my good man I would cancel my youtube PREMIUM!:) Love you channel and I really don`t know how you keep life in perspective while making this fantastic channel, sir! PS I only migrated to the PC after playing DOOM on a DX 486 66 ghz to a 88ghz machine that I personally overclocked:/ I will add your video has broken me and brought back fantasti memory flooding FUN back to me and I thank you :) I would also like to add in this era we had a finite amount of money to spend after PAYING BOARD /booze on friday and saturday night/girls and motorcycles, we were GODS REALLY lol

[@capt.scarlet1099]

Great review, I may have to visit the great loft in the sky(well the loft anyway) and give it a whirl again this weekend. Just wish I had a CRT to play it on, in it's full glory. Thanks to the internet, there are several compilation cd's that have dozens, nay 100's of a1200/a500 games that run just fine on the cd32. Well worth buying on ebay if you see one at reasonable price for retro gaming.

[@TheNotoriousBIF]

I pretty sure the CD 32 wasn't released here in the U.S. because Commodore lost patent dispute in U.S. courts. Commodore was barred from releasing the CD 32 in the U.S. until it paid off the person/company that sued them over copyright infringement. Commodore refused or couldn't pay the amount and decided to divert all the U.S. CD 32's to Canada. Anyway... I really enjoyed this video and look forward to watching more.

[@typicaledc]

+TheNotoriousBIF Correct, Amiga wanted to make it in the North American market but wasn't able to do so due to the patent. Like you stated the consoles that were sent to North America were sent to Canada and that's where I had to import mine from.

[@srichard7291]

+ConsoleGeek I live in Canada and bought one when they were released,one of the biggest mistakes I've made.

[@remisclassiccomputers341]

A few were initially sent to dealers for showcase and demo, and the nsold to the public I think. Later, a few were imported from Canada.

[@cubdukat]

That was part of it. The other part was they just didn't have the inventory. It was sitting in an abandoned warehouse in the Phillippines being held by the Phillippine government because Commodore owed them. If they had paid them, that inventory would have poured into Canada and then into the US.

[@skywalker6119]

Very informative. I'll probably come back to watch more videos like this.

[@Nostalgianerd]

skywalker6119 Thanks, I appreciate it

[@ElSmusso]

This was my last computer, until I switched to a PC in 1995, when the internet came. I also had the sx1 expansion with a 20mb 2,5 HD.

[@Cuzjudd]

How is a PC not a computer? It literally stands for Personal Computer

[@sabre3901]

I was lucky enough to own a CD32 shortly after it was released. I loved the machine but the lack of game saves really hurt the machine. I loved the Amiga period and was lucky to have owned A500 , A500+ and an A1200. I look back on my Amiga days with fond memories. I spent many of my teenage nights burning the midnight oil on Amiga games. Happy times and I miss them so much. Love your videos and please keep them coming.

[@paulv5733]

I remember spending hours editing entire leagues of teams in Sensible soccer via the joypad, all to be lost on reboot!

[@tahustvedt]

I remember the hype around Rise of the robots. Magazines had articles following the development with renders.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Brilliant video!

[@thefifthdoctor6780]

Still rocking my CD32

[@crt82]

I was a big Amiga player back in the day, and really wanted the company to be a success. What was difficult though, was Amiga (and others) touting the incredible power of their new machines (32 or 64 bit) and, as gamers we see the games and they have versions of Cannon Fodder, or Zool that looked no different to my Amiga 600. It is incredible to think how close Final Fantasy 7 was to this. Fantastic video by the way. I really enjoyed it.

[@MarJay1980]

My CD32 had a savegame feature... It couldn't save a great deal, but it had 'slots' a bit like a PS1 memory card. The memory was very limited, but if the battery backup hasn't given up the ghost, I still have savegames for Liberation: Captive 2 and Gunship 2000.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+MarJay1980 Yeah, I think there was like 1kb or something pitiful.

[@MarJay1980]

The controller buttons were labelled after CD controls. 123 was the shuffle function.

[@antster1983]

The UI for the CD32 Gamer discs was produced by Multi Media Machine Ltd. of Bolton, Lancashire. They also branched into making Amiga-based karaoke machines and quiz night machines, right up until last September when they called in the creditors and the business was liquidated.

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

In 1995, I had an Amiga 1200 with an external SCSI CD-ROM; from my PowerMac 6100 (that I bought the year before), a CD 32 with an expansion for keyboard and drives. As well as two CDTV, of one I gifted away to my little brother. I was at that point still ready to affix bayonet, charge the landing force and throw them back into the sea; or at least have a thoroughly good go at it :3 Simon the Sorcerer. I _really_ like the CD 32 version. And Elite 2 would play very well on a CD 32, so I was one happy and sad camper, that held on to the old ways while the old ways crumbled around us all.

[@Rambling-Thomas]

Hello I just bought your Amiga CD32 on eBay. What a excellent bonus discovering your channel too through your item description. Consider me well and truly subscribed!

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Thomas Sutherland God, it was hard to sell that. BUT, thank you for buying it!.... Judging by your user name I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it! Also thanks for your subscription and comments! :D

[@Rambling-Thomas]

+Nostalgia Nerd No probs, it's hard to believe you only have 2000 subscribers. Very good quality stuff. I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the CD32, I promise it will be well looked after and played often.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Thomas Sutherland I think it should have been delivered today hopefully! Thanks man!

[@Rambling-Thomas]

I got it today! Just gave it a whirl now. Delighted. I'll let you guess what demo disk I put in first :p Nostalgia Nerd

[@Nostalgianerd]

Excellent! :D :D I shall drop you some feedback. Did I have Superfrog on demo?!? God damn, didn't realise

[@Sentinel_UK]

Great video, love that you’re rocking an Ashens t-shirt.

[@dykodesigns]

I remember seeing a CD32 in my local Dixons in the Netherlands back in the day. It looked quite interresting. Sadly in retrospect it doesn’t feel like the Mega CD competitor Commodore had wanted it to be. The CD32 may be proper 32 bit, but it hasn’t got scaler hardware and the sound hardware of the Mega CD. Looking at the CD 32 games it feels like there could have been more potential that sadly didn’t come to fruition. I see it more as a 4th gen system, kind of as system roughly comparable to the Mega CD (if you consider the dual cpu setup and the combined MIPS figures of the two 68000’s vs the lower end 68EC020 with it’s 14 mHz clock speed). I really wonder how the CD32 would have panned out if commodore had survived 1994. To me the 32x was an unnecessary move by Sega, the Mega CD was more then good enough sans the colour capabilities. Both the CD 32 and the Mega CD have their own strengths and weaknesses but I would really like to see a sort of technical/philosophical comparison some day, really curious how they compare performance wise.

[@jonfosterbeatles]

Great video keep them coming.

[@atomiswave1971]

Commodore did with 32 bits what everyone else did with 16.

[@mrfivegold]

atomiswave1971 only worse.

[@rvbrexer]

The should have released this machine a couple of years earlier.

[@bubba842]

And Atari did it with 64, only worse.

[@mervynstent1578]

@@bubba842 with a 68000

[@panathaninf]

To this day Amigas were my favorite machines.. A game console level of user friendliness paired with depth of available non gaming software equivalent to pc

[@Hirvibongari2]

Cool machine twas!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Absolutely awesome. Could have done so much better if it wasn't for those dastardly production problems!

[@Ome_cent___]

My heart skipped a beat as you played simon the sorcerer 😪. Such a great time...

[@jameskrassnitzer2710]

I played on one of those every Wednesday lunchtime in silica systems (which is the magazine your looking through) in keddies, Southend when it came out. I quite liked it but went for a jaguar!

[@mintydog06]

Diggers is a brilliantly fun game! I've played it a lot on my CD32 but haven't finished it, it does take a while to play though.

[@Lorfarius]

How did Simon the Sorcerer work with save games? Did it just not have it as a feature?

[@pferreira1983]

I would guess since you can make one internal save you can do that. But if you try to save with another game it overwriters that one save.

[@StefanHomberger]

I really want a PAL Amiga CD32 for a handful of exclusives, but damn is it a pain to get PAL games working in NA.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Stefan Homberger Are there any NTSC Amiga CD32s about?

[@StefanHomberger]

Nearly impossible to find, especially in the US. Even at video game conventions I've never met anyone who has physically seen an NTSC Amiga CD32. Besides, not all PAl games for the system will run properly even if you try the trick with the mouse.

[@Nostalgianerd]

I did think they were super, super rare. I remember watching LGRs video trying to get a Spectrum to work in the States. Unbelievably arduous!

[@StefanHomberger]

Yeah, it's doable, but as much as I want one, I'm not sure it'll be worth all the trouble.

[@Nostalgianerd]

I think you may be right..... :/

[@Akriashi]

why would the CD Drive have a magnet that strong? is it the one in the motor?

[@RoqueFortStu]

My family had an Amiga 500 which we liked for several years, and we thought the CD32 looked good so we got one, but they migrated to the PC after it took over the market as did most of my friends, while I stayed an Amiga fan. I wanted to do things like animation on an Amiga so I saved for years to buy an SX-32 expansion module for the CD32 we still had, which allowed me to add a floppy drive, HD and extra RAM so I could do cartoons with Deluxe Paint 5! I'm still an Amiga fan, although the A1200 I have is secondary to my laptop PC and smartphone, and I still do cartoons now and again!

[@domformula1]

I remember playing one in Leeds, I liked the pads too! In the end I went for a CD drive for my 1200 by zappo, that with some trickery meant the 1200 could play cd32 games, I had ultimate body blows, arcade pool and a couple of others

[@OldManTheseDays]

I remember seeing the CD32 previews next to Sega Saturn, Jaguar, and PSX in gaming magazines. Noble effort, but completely outmatched, even in its day. Shame, I always really liked Amiga as a company. Very forward thinking philosophies.

[@pferreira1983]

What got them in the end was no first party support.

[@spavatch]

Well I wouldn't call mid 1993 'in its day', it pre-dated PSX and Saturn by over two years so nobody actually knew what to expect from 5th gen at that time, including the hardware and software developers. Usually the one who comes first has worse hardware and that's how it was in this case. On the other hand, unlike other consoles CD32 could be easily expanded, increasing the computing power tenfold and adding features not seen in other consoles until ~2000 (HDD, modem etc.)

[@CrashUK28]

CD32 sold well and had over 160 games but was only on the market for 4 months, The lack of fast ram slow down the cd32 and amiga 1200 by 50%

[@DiscoNRGLucario]

Can anyone tell me where the footage of that Zool mascot suit at 21:47 comes from?

[@SimpleSimonSS]

That was the most in depth and fascinating insight into the doomed Amiga cd 32 I have seen so far and I loved it! I have only one gripe though, occassionaly I found the background music a little to distracting from your commentary, thankfully later in the show that wasn`t an issue. My brother bought one of these back in the day, seemed like a dodgey deal with a guy carrying a black bin liner around town pulling and stopping people. He stopped my brother and shown him the contents, which was the Amiga cd 32 boxed with all leads and gamepads, plus at least a dozen games. The guy wanted £100 for it, but he must have been desperate because my brother haggled him down to £60. Luckily the system worked. Sadly despite all the marvellous cd audio and speech in the games I really failed to be impressed. I just found it very boring. Amiga had a chance at taking the console market by storm, but the blundered with failed promises, and games that were clearly not intended for console. To top it off the majority of games really did not differ enough from the 16bit consoles. Anyway enough of my story, thank you for this great insight, going to look at more of your content and hope you have plenty more of this type of stuff.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Simple Simon (KV) Yeah, that was before I learnt to balance the volume to an adequate standard XD But thank you! :D

[@SimpleSimonSS]

+Nostalgia Nerd Your welcome mate, I have subscribed and I`m very much enjoying your content, nice work :)

[@NickM...]

Lovely stuff, subbed. Not my words Nostalgia Nerd, the words of Shaking Stevens.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Nick Meikle What a guy

[@brianh2771]

Nice video, covered the gamut. Very entertaining!

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Brian Holdsworth Why thank you sir :D

[@4mat_music]

heh, spotted my old "Waterfall" song on that CD32 coverdisk menu. didn't know about that one.

[@enkiabzu5792]

I would've wanted one of these as a kid simply because I could play Alien Breed on lol,I was obsessed with that game as a kid and couldn't always play it on the family computer!

[@jessragan6714]

This system... geez. I purchased one on eBay in the late 2000s, because they were readily available at the time. Apparently they were stock from the Philippines that Commodore wasn't allowed to sell in the US because of a copyright dispute, I dunno. Anyway, it's maddeningly hard to find peripherals for this thing, because they're all proprietary and in short supply. I had to build my own power supply from discarded PC parts, because you couldn't get one designed for the Amiga CD32... at least not for a reasonable price. Maybe things are different in Europe, but man, using the CD32 is such a hassle here in the States.

[@dannygabel8132]

7:16 Technically, the snes used the same cup as the c64, just with expanded memory busses

[@doodoobrn]

So that billboard, is that why Sega came out with the Ages collection?

[@lawrencein]

It's based on an old Sega marketing slogan "To be this good takes ages, To be this good takes Sega".

[@aurelienb12]

Wouldn’t be a good idea to add some lighting in your studio?

[@AmigaCammy]

The CD32 has 1k of NVRAM for saving games, which provides a handful of savestates, and thanks to the Aux port it can be linked up to another Amiga via the serial port so you can backup those savestates, delete them and replace them with new ones, or load old ones back in.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Absolutely! :D I discuss the 1kb of RAM further in the video. But it really wasn't enough. Would it have hurt them to include even an additional kilobyte!? Admittedly, if the saves were efficient, then 1kb could have adequate for a few saves. But for most 1200 conversions, they required a lot more than that for a disk save state. It's shame. And backing stuff up via. serial port wasn't really accessible for the masses, although it's a nice feature :)

[@e3ovuziotica]

Nostalgia Nerd Some games wanted to use the whole 1k (or almost all of it) which made those precious pinball scores disappear. Was one of the reasons to play certain games on A1200 than on CD32 at the time.

[@Nostalgianerd]

e3ovuziotica Yup! All that hard work... GONE! I'd be devastated

[@cpnnpr]

FM Towns Marty was the first 32bit console with CD Rom

[@otherreality]

Indeed, but the Marty was Japan only

[@si4632]

and not true 32bit dont you listen

[@daishi5571]

FM Towns Marty used a 386SX processor which was 32 bit internally but has a 16bit bus (thus a 16 bit processor) If you consider the 386SX a 32 bit processor (like some ppl seem to) then the CDTV has it beat. Released in 1991 with a 68000 which was 32 bit internally and has a 16bit bus.

[@79franz]

FM towns Marty first. Ok only on japan but it's the first!!!

[@evscope]

I remember buying this from Dixons or maybe Comet when launched. Wish I had kept it.

[@nuardanuarda9030]

What is the TV program with the Amiga 32 and Mega CD featured on?

[@Nostalgianerd]

Bad Influence! A classic CITV series from the early 90's! Used to watch it every week after school

[@BlueSatoshi]

Man, you've really come a long way.

[@summerlaverdure]

this so much

[@doriphor]

The problem with the CD32 was that it had no good games.

[@Nostalgianerd]

+Olivier Doriath Well, it did. But they weren't exclusives. They were just Amiga games. So you're right, mostly

[@ClayMann]

+Olivier Doriath yeah it never really had a chance. If Commodore had put some money into a little tiny bit of engineering, they had the talent there to put out amazing hardware. Instead the just used what they already had, the A1200 and packaged it up into a really cheap to make console. It was typical of the idiot management. Everyone at the time could see it for what it was that had any interest in The Amiga.

[@TheBadFred]

+Clay Mann They were breathing already their last breath ....they had a ceo with no affinity to technology.

[@ClayMann]

TheBadFred I agree on the idiot CEO and probably a lot of management that were also clueless but after the success of the A500, Commodore were riding high. They had a lot of money that just went poof. All they needed to do at that point was invest a lot of that back into R&D for the next line and I truly believe they would be the platform we'd all be using today. We wouldn't be saying PC's, we'd be saying Commodores or perhaps just Amiga's. After they pissed away that money they were just trying to re-package what they already had. A1200? lets make a games console out of that and call it the CD32, despite it being horribly adapted for that. The engineers will forever be the unsung heroes of that whole line of winners from the Vic20, Commodore 64 to the Amiga line. They were itching to go on and develop ever greater machines but were held back at every turn and forced to compromise in such big ways it must have broken their spirit.

[@si4632]

i got a 1200 on release a big disappointment no decent games just a few more colours on same old amiga games

[@AdrianDX]

Probably been said. But yes it does have storage for saves. Built in. Boot it without a game and press red.

[@andrewgibson8794]

genius editing work 11:56-12:30

[@ParaSytius]

I loved my A500 back in the day (with 512mb expansion) and really wanted the CD32 as an upgrade but it was out of my price range. If I got one would I be able to plug in one of my external floppy drives so I could at least attempt to save games or was that function removed from a lot of the games released on the system?

[@FrankyHustle]

Very cool and interesting video. Keep up the good work !

[@Nostalgianerd]

Thanks Frank Calleja, will do! :D

[@captaincorleone7088]

Great video. The CD32 was death knell for Commodore, who were already reeling from numerous errors and bad choices. The money and time that was ploughed into R&D for this should've been invested into developing new Amigas. They foolishly chased the console market instead of concentrating on producing computers that could play games and also be used for serious work.

[@naviamiga]

Never had a chance to really hit it's stride. Shame, but I still love my CD32.

[@velvetpilot2008]

I dunno why but I'm very much in love with the Amiga CD32. Problem is I live in the States and they are very rare and very expensive. Some of the games go for a s*** load of money too. I saw the A500 Mini can play CD32 ROMS. Do you think it's worth getting that for? It's currently $129.99 on Amazon and comes preloaded with a bunch of games.

[@BoomBox02]

Loved hearing the tunes from some of them games. It brought back great memories. The CD32 and SX-1 expansion was my first 32bit Amiga computer i owned. I always wanted an Amiga 1200 but even a used one with CDrom a fast ram expansion was way too expensive for me. The CD32, SX-1 and 4meg fast ram i purchased was brand new and cost under $1000au and i used this till i saved enough money to purchase my dream A1200 setup which cost around $2500au back then.

[@mervynstent1578]

Your CD32-SX1 setup was my first AGA Amiga! I was over the moon when I bought an NOS SX1 expansion for $100AUD

[@mervynstent1578]

Really only Amiga users bought it!

[@KurisuYamato]

The power supplies were for the C65? That's kind of awesome. I wonder if it was just an architectural and design thing, or if the units were actually produced "FOR" the console, and then when it was canned sent over. Odd that they would possibly make some before the computer was actually in production but at the same rate, not crazy to think! It's awesome either way!

[@perihelion7445]

You do realise @6:15 that this new thing called *the games console* was besides the Atari was doing very well with the *Intellivision* and *CBS Colecovision* in around *1982* ?

[@weirdscix]

Ah I had one of these, bought it when it was released, I remember being disappointed with the lack of games

[@RemnantCult]

I know its been years but is your CD32 okay?

[@lada2765]

20.30 does the Competition Pro controller have bite marks?

[@electronash]

Bad Influence! :o I used to record every episode of that onto Betamax (yes, really. lol), and watch them over-and-over. There's stil nothing like that series on TV now, and I still think a similar program would work for modern gaming. We had things like Games Master as well of course, but that was a completely different beast. btw, if anyone has every episode of Bad Influence in the highest possible quality, I would gladly pay for a full set. I know there are a lot of episodes on KZbin, but it would be great to get hold of the whole lot. I was also quite addicted to Reboot! back then. Superb series.

[@si4632]

Betamax was superior to vhs

[@electronash]

I agree. lol At least my old Sanyo and Sony Betamax players had noticeably better quality than the VHS decks of the same era. I used to do TV and VCR repairs too, so I've seen hundreds of VCRs. (S-VHS is undoubtedly better than Beta, but that's not a fair comparison.) But yeah, I thought Beta was great. I'm thinking about buying another player soon.

[@bojankotur4613]

What's the model number of that JVC monitor? :-) How does it compare to Philips 8833 or Commodore 1084?

[@NeonPegasus1979]

I let KZbin run while I was half sleeping half watching videos, and when that groaning face appeared, the noise shocked me awake and I was like "wtf was that?!" xD

[@tech-ryze]

The audio volume jumps at 23:13 when he clears his throat. That probably would have woken you up. Poor audio quality really. It's a shame that made it to KZbin.

[@Kumimono]

I still have, though my gaming library is somewhat limited at 0 games. I did burn one of those pirate compilation disks, worked well enough, though the lack of an actual CD32 controller was somewhat limiting.