Unreleased Sega 32X Games | Cancelled 32X games 

Knowing that AvP could have been on the 32X is like a huge sword to the heart! That would have been a console seller!!

I think your documentaries are a very important part of gaming history that few if any people cover as in depth as you. Keep up the great work my friend, hope you're all well over there in the USA.

Darkstalkers would have been epic for the 32x!

The 32X cancelled library seems better than the 32X actual library. I guess the only thing Sega forgot to put on the 32X was a brand new Sonic, a Streets of Rage game of some kind, and maybe a Shining Force or Phantasy Star RPG or both or any RPG for that matter.

If AvP was released on the 32X, I would imagine that copies would show up on eBay for $500+ haha

I remember wanting to see a 32x version of Mortal Kombat after seeing how much better MKII was for 32x compared to Genesis.

The XBLA Port of Daytona USA is pretty darn close to the arcade version

I remember wanting a 32X so bad because the Capcom Alien vs Predator was supposed to be ported. I can't believe they did'nt end up porting it on the Saturn. It would've been arcade perfect.

Alien Trilogy and Aliens vs. Predator would have excellent. That and that X-Men that was never finished. If those had come, I’d still have my 32x/Genesis/Sega CD I had back in high school.

Losing the Castlevania game is painful. I was actually really excited for that one.

This new video is a bit of an experiment. What did you think of the format? Would you prefer a more detailed overview of the games that did see releases on another system compared to what I did here? Let me know.

Great video, it sucks ports of games like Aliens VS Predator and Dark Stalkers where cancelled, they could have done the system wonders!

Oooh I would have wanted to play The Bloodletting so damn bad.

As an early adopter of the 32X this video holds a special place in my heart. I remember how many of these were promised in magazines….yet they never came. Rough times! I felt burned by Sega as a supporter. Great video

I have just discovered your channel a week ago and I love every single video you have posted so far. Keep it up.

Would have loved to have seen the 32X Daytona, I did hear rumours Sega were even considering a Master System port of the game :S But most excellent video work, really enjoyed it. The custom box art you created too must have been a real time vampire for you too, Kudos!!!

Sad I wish and would have love to see alien vs predictor or castlevania game for 32x

Their is an excellent port of Daytona USA available for the Xbox 360 online in the Xbox live Arcade store. It can also be played on the Xbox1. I've played the Saturn version and have used the AM2 emulator to run the real arcade ROM on a high end pc. In my opinion the Xbox arcade port is as good as its gets short of actually having the real deal quarter eating machine in your living room.

This was a super interesting video. It's crazy to see how many games were planned with this console before Sega of Japan said "NO, SATURN SUPPORT RIGHT NOW AAAAAAA"

BIOSfear sounds like it could’ve been a standout.

Holy Cow! That is a ton of games and it's only A - D, wow. I knew the 32X had a lot cancelled but never would have guessed so much. Sega, you truly missed a golden opportunity in the US. I look forward to more of the series though it's also with a bit of sadness as Sega truly shot itself in the foot cancelling everything but the Saturn as the Genesis, CD and 32X all had more life to live.

Very good video. At least it's not the usual "32X. Does it really suck?" or "What the hell was SEGA thinking when they released the 32x?" kind of video.

The transition from 16bit to 32bit in general was a painful time in video game history.

Didn't know they were so many unreleased games for the 32X. Castlevania: Bloodletting and AvP would be the most interesting imo. 32X was ultimately the victim of Sega's bad timing and the imminet release of the Sega Saturn. Nice video.

Jenovi should have millions of subscribers, dude makes really great informative videos.

I love videos like this that bring to light games most people had never even heard of. Keep up the good work!

I loved Loadstar as a kid. Would've loved to see another game in the same vein by the same developer. Great video as usual.

5:38 I think you actually mean the other Batman Forever game, which was developed by Probe Entertainment. Because according to Wikipedia, GamePro reported that a 32X version of that game was present at E3 1995, but it went unreleased. Also, the unreleased enhanced port of Boogerman makes me think of Earthworm Jim: Special Edition (Sega CD) and Earthworm Jim 2 being ported to the 32X as well, even though nobody managed to make or announce those games for the system.

Love it and thank you for making this video. I grew up in that era.

That AVP being cancelled is the biggest crime in gaming. Never been put on a home console! It’s SO much fun.

The reason AVP development never moved to another platform was apparently because 20th Century Fox hated the game. There was this Twitter thread by the former Capcom artist Akitomo about how western comics influenced Capcom games and he mentions that Capcom kept asking 20th Century Fox to let them port the game up until 2000, but they kept refusing. He speculated that they didn't like that it was an action beat-em-up instead of a scary horror game. Of course, in 2019, they relented and Capcom put it on the overpriced arcade stick, but I think 20th Century Fox was just doing whatever they wanted at that point before The Mouse swallowed them up. Additional fun fact: Linn Kurosawa was created because they wanted to include Machiko from the comics but only had the rights to characters from the movies.

Something to bear in mind about the Duel demo and Mean Machines is that IIRC their sister magazine, which was the official Sega Magazine, published arcade shots of some games claiming that they were the Saturn or 32x versions (Virtua Racing and Daytona, for example). Mean Machines may have published them too, but I can't remember. Magazines of the time were quite good at either misunderstanding or misrepresenting what they were being shown. Judging from the small, low quality clip available, that Duel demo's animation was extremely impressive for the time. IMO too impressive for building actual game from at the time.

This is the most interesting 32x related series I have ever seen. What a shame these games did not get released and that more support was not given to the 32 x by SEGA.

I would say the PS3 and 360 Digital ports of Daytona USA do meet/exceed the quality of the original coin-op since it's a port of that version with some extra content and no compromises and featuring the original graphics and music. Only thing missing would be the Arcade version unique control setup but that's a given.

I would have loved for an enhanced version of Dynamite Headdy on the 32x, as well as Boogerman and C2: Judgement Clay. I hope someone dumps C2 online sometime somehow. I always love playing old-school enhanced ports of games, like the Sega CD versions of Earthworm Jim and Mickey Mania.

12:03 it's 6 years later and I'm just now realizing that's a Xindi from Star Trek enterprise on the Duel cover!

Aliens vs predator would have been a great port

I love how you understand the frustrations of being a 32x owner. Please show me more of what we never got i love when the topic is the 32x

The thing with the 32X is it had little to no reason to be. The Saturn, though rushed out, was something that had a very short time before release, and SEGA had flooded the market with their products by then - Mega Drive, SEGA CD, GG, and SMS were _all active!_ and the Saturn was a few months' time away from arrival. Then comes an add-on... for a console that _already had_ an add-on (that gave it better benefits than the 32X itself offered). And then you remember that the Mega Drive had a Virtua Racing port that moped the floor ten thousand times with any 3D game the SNES had, and consider you could use that tech to develop other blazing fast 3D games. What the hell would you want the 32X for, then? Everything that was meant for it, or released on it, should've been left to CD, SVP or Saturn... All these cancelled games tell, however, that there were a lot of devs willing to bet on it. Shame.

Cool to see this. I worked at Sega Midwest on Aftershock. There were some great people working there subject to some questionable management.

That front cover of Duel at 11:45 the alien is IDENTICAL to the Reptilian Xindi from Star Trek Enterprise!

I’ve been researching Genesis homebrew development, and I hope to tackle the 32X when I get experienced with the Genesis hardware

Alien vs Predator Arcade adaptation would've been a GREAT reason to get a 32X.

I purchased the 32x for AvP, you cant image how upset and disappointed I was when it got cancelled, I sold the add on few weeks later.

Tnx 4 posting video brought to light some titles i did not know existed.

Yes, I enjoyed it. Keep them coming as long as you have material!

I’m subbed. Good editing!

About Castlevania: Bloodletting became Symphony of the Night

Wow what a list of games, I remember some of them in the mags, highly disappointed the 32x was dropped. Descent would have been a great one, I looked forward to 32xtreme and a couple others! Good stuff! Oh and Subbed!

As a lifelong Sega fan, this is the most depressing video ever. The mistakes committed by Sega's management around the time of the 32X's release were grievous and numerous to the point of being timeline-altering, all but ensuring the company's eventual demise. I legitimately believe that if things played out differently, Sega would still be a player on the console market today. Makes me wish I had access to a time machine.

Holy crap...I didn't know there were that many! Thanks for covering this, looking forward to more. So bummed that AVP arcade never got a home port. I remember coming across it on Mame and wondering why I had never played it before given arcade porting was a big thing in that era.

That's kinda funny Midwest Studios has a tornado for a logo :D

Nice Sega Genesis Jungle Strike music for the intro!

32 bits mean it had the power of ps1 which was also 32 bits. Different hardware but either or they never used the 32x to its fullest potential but somebody originally, obviously, did and I bet there's a few complete but unreleased gems waiting out there

Duel cover art is an alien species Xindi from Star Trek Enterprise series.

A guy I know swears he saw a 32x mortal combat 3 cart while living in southern Oregon. I guess the developer lived down there.. but who knows

I didn't realize so many games were left on the table when they killed the 32X, it's unfortunate we don't have more dumps of the prototypes for them.

2D capcom and arcade games as well as castlevania would have been the best collectible games ever for the 32X and probably on par with Neogeo

If all these where to come out it would be nice

The Jaguar also had far more announced games than games actually released. Of course the Jaguar, like the Dreamcast, has a very active aftermarket and homebrew community. I've never seen any aftermarket releases for the 32X. Instead of releasing another Genesis/MD Mini, I'd love to see Sega release the Neptune, a planned console that would play all Genesis and 32X cartridge based games. Prototypes and reproductions exist. There have been several aftermarket releases for the Genesis/MD. I have 4 or 5 in my collection.

日本ではすぐに廃れてしまったけれど海外では多くのセガ・サターンにひけをとらないソフトが発売されていて、32x及びメガドライブのファンとして嬉しく思った。

AMAZING video. I always wondered what games got cancelled when the 32x was prematurely discontinued !!!! Thank you, i was there at thr 32x release day. What a time and even though everyone seems to hate the 32x today everyone was excited for it when it came ouy. I could not afford a saturn or ps1 but i got the 32x instead.

I owned a 32X, I got it at the end of its life cycle for dirt cheap with Virtua Fighter as a pack in game. I had a few other games such as Star Wars and Doom. In my opinion, Sega should have rode out the 32X another year so more games could have been finished and released. It is NOT a bad system, despite the poor reputation it has. It just has a lackluster library of games. If you can find out on eBay or somewhere for cheap, get it. I wish I still had mine just for the sake of nostaglia.

SERIOUSLY?! AVP ARCADE?! CASTLEVANIA?! DARKSTALKERS? Wow...that would have been too awesome. and that cover for BIOSFear looks like a horror game, wild to see the associated screenshots

The 32x was an impressive machine, but it came out too late, the Sega Saturn was already in development and came out shortly after.

Damn man I had no idea that the 32X had so many cancelled games. I wonder how much money was collectively spent on all of these unfinished projects? Crazy to think about. And I wonder how the stack of cancelled 32X games compares with other systems. I would imagine it to be higher and maybe in line with something like the Dreamcast and the Jag. Nice video, sir! And I loved Zero Tolerance on the Genesis!!

Great video! If only we had a port of the AVP Arcade game!

Great work !!!! Wonderful video

This clearly shows that 32x had a lot of potential, such a pitty.

Man, I'd love to see a 32X homebrew scene pop up. I'm so curious as to what the system was really capable of.

Ahhh I didn’t know there were THAT many games planned! Multi episodes to come as well.... damn, I THOUGHT I knew the 32X history. I like the images with the 32X box art.... that Darkstalkers one looks so good. Looking forward to the next one, can’t wait until Virtua(Virtual) Hamster!

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Wait. Did you use a Xindi-Reptilian from Star Trek: Enterprise for Duel? XD

Just found your channel awesome video just subscribed!

Fun Fact: Doom itself was originally going to be a licenced Alien game.

It looks like there were more games planned for the 32x when it was discontinued than the Dreamcast. I would have loved to have seen SVP and 32x games like Daytona and Darkstalkers. Just 15 games is so sad for a Saturn running on a Mega Drive.

If sega had made the svc chip a lock on cartridge like (sonic & knuckles) They could have released all those games on genesis and not ever had released the 32x. This would have given the geneiss way more sales and given time for the saturn to set up its launch . Without thinking about sony .

I liked the 32x. It was just a really awkward system with many factors that caused it's demise but I had a blast playing this space fighter game it had with my friend as it was co-op. I remember him flying the ship while I was the gunner.

I knew that Beyond Zero Tolerance was planned for the mega drive, but I had no idea a 32x verison was planned also

I don’t know how Descent would have run on the 32x. Freaking love that game

Stellar video. Looks like I'm gonna have to step my game up for my videos! XD You've got yourself another sub. :-)

The 32X should’ve just been a chip in Genesis games and not a full console add on. Should have continued with the chip they put in Virtua Racing.

Thats why homebrews exist my friend, TONS of "unreleased" 32x games that you can now get thanks to homebrews and roms/emulators etc. it's to the point now where you can literally get them in physical carts now. 32x, n64, hell even dreamcast. Pretty much any retro console now, has homebrews. n with the amount that are out there, like i said, TONS! from people making there own games from legit scratch, to people taking ports and re-porting them (so, as an example" daytona usa, was for saturn but pretty much has same specs to be ran on 32x, in other words it's been ported to 32x and you CAN no get it on the 32x) long as there was some rom released or some prior port and someone cleaver enough to re-port it, homebrews have pretty much saved retro consoles. it used to be a thing of like, retro consoles were solely for collecting and maybe to scratch a nostalgia bug (if you will) now-a-days with all the homebrews, it's actually like buying a "new" game but for your old system, it actually gives the system more meaning now and more life, and the library of games just keeps growing, yah they aren't "official" games, but seriously who the fuck cares, long as they can run/function on the console itself (or obv emus if you don't want to go that route) then it's a win win and at the end of the day homebrews really do just give extra life to retro consoles, i have such a shit ton of homebrews for my dreamcast it's not even funny from ports like half life, to fan made games that are just 100% from scratch by the person, the list is endless. Just recently i Picked up the Goldfinger64 cart for the N64 and have already had quite a few people pass by it and want to play it, every time, it's the same reaction "I DIDN'T KNOW THEY MADE A GOLDFINGER GAME FOR N64!" lol because they didn't my friend that's the power of homebrews. long as there are dedicated people out there continuing to port things/create new things, homebrews are endless and you can literally start and entirely NEW collection of games for your retro console. it's a beautiful thing. The 32x library isn't as small as everyone wants to keep crying about. the OFFICIAL library may be but that's just because you don't know about homebrews then. suggest looking into them and you'll see the 32x collection is actually quite strong.

I like this new format. Keep the overview but cut it to a few sentences. Then use it for a teaser or a quick intro. That would be cool, and a better way to introduce Retro Impressions. Just a thought. Great video.

Capcoms Alien Vs Predator was moved to the Sega Satuirn in Japan. Before completion they ran out of the 20th century fox license.

Capcom's CPS2 Alien vs. Predator is my absolute favorite arcade beat 'em up of all time. It would have been so amazing if they actually released this for the 32X. To this day we never got a home port of it.

About AvP, according to the Japanese side of RU-vid, Capcom were working on a Saturn port that would have been released along side the D&D beat em up ports, but it also got cancelled.

I bought the 32x on day one. I really liked it. The games weren't the best but I could see the potential.

Cool video 😄 i love the 32x so i am still sad that this system failed and that alot of promosing games were cancelled 😔 i love this video 😄👍 great content 😉🙂👍

Incredible video I luv my 32x

Thanks for the 32X video.

This really got me wanting to try out Descent

I wonder how many people have bought the Capcom Home Arcade for AvP alone. Hopefully that is the foot in the door for getting a proper release on consoles.

Daytona on the Saturn was considered lackluster? I don't seem to recall that at the time...

Where did you get the Aftershock gameplay. Nice video?

If AvP was available for the 32X I would have kept my 32X.

The colors are freaking perfect

Jenovi, I don't understand how you can out put so much content? Do you sleep?

Man some of these could have been really great! If only the slot in Sega Saturn would have accommodated 32x carts as well maybe they could have continued these titles and more.

If the Saturn port of Daytona was bad, I cant imagine what the 32x would be, much less the NORMAL genesis. let's not go away to the genesis