Sega CD article on IGN

[NightDragon83]

disolitude said:

NightDragon83 said:
Just a dumb question here but... I remember some games late in the Sega CD's life that said "Sega 32X CD" on the box... so they were CD games that also REQUIRED a 32X to be played? How the hell did that work?

 

Believe it or not those games came with 2 disks. Sega CD disk and 32x Sega CD disk...lol.

Basically they would play fine on sega cd, but if you had a 32X, they would enhance the collor pallete to the point it was actually nice to look at.

Games that did this that i can think of are Fahrenheit, Corpse Killer...umm...more possibly???

Ahhh... it's all clear to me now!  Yeah I remember seeing those 2 games and an NBA game featuring Scotty Pippen haha.  2 CDs huh?  I had no idea... when I first saw them in stores I was like what, do they come with a 32X cartridge AND a CD to be played?

The Sega CD did have a handful of gems, notably Sonic (obviously) and Mortal Kombat which was by far the best version available at the time.  Played that at my friends house all the time back in the day... the SNES version was good but just couldn't measure up.

The 32X on the other hand is a completely different story... a $179 add-on with a library of mediocre to comepletely crap games... that and the surprise early launch of the Saturn was the one-two punch combo that set Sega way back and pretty much doomed their future as a hardware manufacturer.  Dreamcast was a great system for its time, but didn't get the support it needed because most publishers still had their doubts and saw greener pastures elsewhere with Sony.