| MikeB said: @ exindguy What's next: complaining that the Amstrad GX4K, SuperGrafx and PC-FX don't get mentioned much? The Amiga CD32 was a direct competitor released just before the 3DO and Atari Jaguar were. Those other consoles you mentioned simply were not. In fact, were there even ten CD32-exclusive games released? (And just so we're clear: by exclusive I mean they didn't exist in some fashion already on the CDTV/A500/A1200.) The console had a very short lifecycle as mentioned earlier within this thread, the parent company was unable to meet demand (and thus the console was too risky for big investments from developers). The best CD32 games are enhanced versions of A1200 originals, sadly the A1200 did not come with a CDROM drive by default, so the bulk of these games were primarily designed for using diskettes. For example Naughty Ones is almost the same on Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200, the A1200 version only has extra colors. The CD32 version is almost exactly the same as the A1200 version which uses just one 880KB diskette, so 99.9% of the available disc space was left unused. A fun little game, but does not show of what the CD32 is capable of. |
The point is, the machine is ignored for good reason (just as the PC-FX is ignored for good reason when people talk about the Saturn and PS) as it died in less than a year and had virtually no compelling games you couldn't get somewhere else (I say this as someone that owns a CD32 and lots of games for it, many of which were actually inferior to the system they were ported from--Chaos Engine, for one, is a glaring example of this.) To expect that it be included, in the same breath, with two machines that had largely exclusive libraries is asking a bit much considering what it brought to the table.
Sure, the hardware, on paper, was decent (the controller, however, was an abomination), but the fact that it basically stumbled out of the gate, took three steps, soiled itself, collapsed, and then was beaten to death by its coach means it isn't actually worth mentioning as anything other than as a brief footnote by 'yanks' or anyone else.
