Without a doubt the 32x was one of the biggest disappointments by SEGA.  Designed in a late night fit of rage in Las Vegas, the 32x was to be the middle step from the Genesis to the 32bit Saturn.  The Saturn got rushed, and what happened is that in America the 32x had less than a six month lifespan.  Not to mention the model 1’s had bus issues with the 32x if the user didn’t have a Sega-CD.
And of course the 32x required ANOTHER power adapter, supplied two SH2 RISC processors much like the Saturn, but included a measly 256kb of RAM, required you to pipe the Genesis video into the 32x where it did its own video genlock (that can’t be cheap right?), and did nothing to the cartridge sizes, so you were still capped at 4MB!
If that wasn’t enough there even was an infomercial.
Yes that is right, an infomercial!!!  I dare you to watch it, in all of it’s 1990’s glory. I made it 90 seconds.  Ugh the horror.  I wonder if this was done by the Windows/386 people.
i do hope you’ve seen the AVGN episode on it. it’s quite hilarious.. 😉
How did people get through the 1990s alive?! The infomercial is radiating brain damage.
too long… but surprisingly has quite of technical information, starting at about minute 4.
Unlike things nowadays – “it’s iphone 4S !!! It’s … touchscreen!! buy it! you know you want to”.
Sat through all of it. Haha. Classic goofy sega crap.
You are far braver than I.