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Awesome, I hope you enjoyed it. Not a very well known system in America.

@@RetrogamerGenX I am European and never heard of it, but I was born in 1999

🤣🤣 True that brother. But others would disagree...

I was around too.. That's why there's the Gen X in my name.🤣🤣 Yeah I was around Ramstein Air Base🤣 But yes. I have to say Sega was king back then in Europe at least. When we came back to the States it was SNES vs. Sega Genesis. In Europe, there was way more choices. Although, the top dogs were still Sega and Nintendo until Sony came along and changed the game forever.

Nope, too much of this 🍺🍻while doing voice overs.😂 It'll be fixed next year. 🤣 Hope you still enjoyed the content though.

@RetrogamerGenX haha keep it up 😄

Yep by the time the CD32 launched Commodore was on life support.

That would have been nice to have an AGA system back then. I stopped at the Amiga 2000, but mine was fully loaded, I used it until 98' when I got my first PC. Argh... I wish you well on you CD32 adventures!

Yeah there was a small release in Canada, but the Candians didn't get their full shipment either.

Right. I used my Amiga until 98' when I switched over to PC. Argh.. lol

@@RetrogamerGenX 1998 were the same year PC became my main thing too. lol I did have 486 PC since 1994, but still used Amiga most. In face i built 4 new powerful PC's during those 4 years and still used Amiga most.... The reason is that Win 3.1, 95 and 98 were useless compared to Workbench for most things. I went with Windows NT 4.0 and then Windows 2000. Most stable windows ever. Only used 32.GB RAM out of 768.MB RAM in my 1999 PC.

Cool. Well I hope it helps you out on your repair.

That said, the CD32 was still an Amiga, and still a great machine. Especially if you got a few of the, um, "unofficial" compilation CDs of various Amiga 500 titles. The CD32 was just as capable as the A1200 of playing older Amiga games, so these CDs are naturally a great way to get the most value out of the system (albeit any game that requires keyboard input you'll be plum out of luck).

I was one of the few people in the US that was an all out Amiga fan. But it was hard to find hardware and software for it. There was one mom and pops computer store in town back then that sold Amigas and Commodore stuff. But that was it. So if they could get what I was looking for I was hosed. Too bad what became of Commodore. The Amiga has somewhat "survived" over the years. But the Commodore name has been through the ringer a few times. Lol

Good luck in your search for one. They're out there, you'll just have to find a good deal on one.

@RetrogamerGenX maybe if I visit Europe. But then if I could afford to come to Europe, I'd just use eBay 🤣

@@Midlife_TimeCrisisoh they aren’t cheap here in Germany too. I come from the city where Amiga/Commodore had its headquarters and production facility. it’s completely forgotten about here. Fortunately there’s a little privat museum run by a transport companies CEO to not completely let the heritage die. He opens his little project to the public on every first Friday of the month I think.

@@rolux4853 ah well

Yep. That's why it's in qoutes in the title. 🤣🍻Cheers mate for being the first to say it. Another system I hope to do one of these videos on soon.

@@RetrogamerGenX There are actually two versions of the Marty - I was lucky enough to purchase a few of them from Japan years ago before the price of them went through the roof. Interesting system considering they are basically a PC in a console shell almost ten years before Microsoft did the same thing with the Xbox.

Nice. One day I hope to score one.

The FM Towns was kind of bleh. Wasn't there a version with a PCE built in? Or maybe it was a genesis, I don't remember.

@@tarstarkusz No, FM Towns was VERY cutting edge. In fact, when it was released it was one of the few x86 based systems that could actually do the same sort of things the Amiga could..... but it was HORRENDOUSLY expensive, had a lot of software incompatibilities, and had very few games tailored to it's hardware. The Marty had some fantastic arcade conversions - check out it's port of Raiden.

Amiga was the king for a while back in the day for sure. I had an Amiga 2000 with a 8mb of ram and 030 accelerator card, a 20mb scsi hard drive, a Video Toaster, a XT Bridgeboard card and a 2X CD rom. I wished I would have never sold it. I have a 2000 now, hoping to one day re-build the system I had back then.

​@RetrogamerGenX that was a mean system you had. I would have loved to have seen it run. Scsi also brings me way back. Plug and 🙏. 😂

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OK Sorry CD32 fans, but finding real documented history on who actually developed this system, the number that shipped to different regions, actual sales numbers, prototype pics, and what that interesting HP chip is on the mobo, (ahh, let me catch my breath) from when commodore as a company was a complete disaster, is a nightmare to find. But I hope you enjoyed the Amiga history lesson.. There is that better.. 🤣😆😂 Just messing with ya brother... But yeah, it would have been interesting to see how it did in the US market. Honestly, as much of an Amiga and Commodore fan I am, I'd have to say it wouldn't have done well. Even against the Sega CD here, let alone the CDi, 3DO, 32x, Saturn, and Playstation. Sure I would have loved to get my hands on one back then, but just like the 32X I had, it would've turned out to be a bust because the way Commodore was being ran at the time, it was going under no matter what unfortunately.

I believe, it was going to be sold for $499 here in the US with 2 pack in games, Pinball Dreams being one and the other I can't think of off the top of my head. I don't think it would have done well here, at least not good enough to save the company. Maybe, if they could have shipped here, and possibly broke even. Commodore could have closed business in the North America, and continued on in Europe. But really for how much longer, IBM compatiable PC's had taken over by then, Amiga and Atari computers were destined for extinction. I'm actually surpised Apple survived. If Jobs hadn't came back and Gates investing so much $$ in Apple they probably wouldn't have.

@@RetrogamerGenX With all of the other options out on the market during that time I don't think that they would have moved many units at $499. I doubt that most of the big box retailers would have even carried it. It falls in that soon to be outdated category upon release like the 32x, Neo Geo CD, and PCFX were.

You have to remember a major chunk of the enormous Amiga game catalogue was unknown in the US. What in Europe was a 'lazy port' would have been a new title to a hypothetical American parent. It was designed to compete with the Mega Drive and the SNES which it was capable of doing, although it was destined to get eclipsed by the arrival of the PlayStation (although one imagines a possible CD32-2 might have been on the cards were it around by then). It must be said, the CD32 did just fine in the UK despite the lack of strong launch titles. The 2 pack-in games were a mediocre and forgettable europlatformer, and a slow burn mining strategy game which was really good, but a very eccentric title to put on a console. The killer-app was meant to be Psygnosis' Microcosm (great to look at, average to play), which wasn't ready for the euro launch but may well have been included had a US launch gone ahead. I got lured into buying one in the UK for Xmas '93 when I saw the intro for 'Captive II: Liberation' playing in a computer store and my jaw hit the floor (still looks and sounds good even now)! Probably not one of my better purchases in hindsight but heyho! I concur with RetrogamerGenX though, Commodore's management was so lousy that the company was doomed even if they survived the 1994 bankruptcy. The rot was too deep to save. The US wing of Commodore never seems to have understood what they had in the Amiga, still trying to market it to Americans as a business or multimedia machine even whilst it ruled gaming in Europe. In terms of comparison with the Jaguar, The CD32 sold a similar number of units in months, what took the Jaguar years to accrue. And in its short lifespan the CD32 had more game titles released for it. Not too bad for Commodore's final parting shot.

Just like time, it's all relative. 🤣 There are so many games that I "missed" brother. But these were my favs back in the day. Thanks for sharing yours. I might do another video here on the Apple II and include these.

By drinking too many of these 🍺and doing a voiceover. 🤣

So true. Trying to market a has been computer as a console was a joke. No wonder Commodore died. I'm not saying the Amiga wasn't a great computer, but let's face it, by 1993 the 68000 based pc was going the way of the dodo, x86 had taken over already. Power PC only lasted a few years more until Apple finally switched over briefly to Intel. Amiga would have been wiser to market it as an arcade board. I'm mean there's a reason slot, video poker, and arcade manufacturers bought them in the fire sale.

@@the710gamer9 The 1200 had an 020, not a 68000. Believe it or not, the 68k processors were in a lot of powerful arcade machines of the early 90s and even mid 90s. IMHO, the weakness of the CD32 hardware wasn't the 020, it was the AGA. The 020 is more than fast enough for the logic of the games. The reason arcades used them so much was they were good enough and cheap and they could put the money into the sound and graphics chips. But AGA was an evolutionary increase from OCS and not a revolutionary one. The problem was Commodore never really had the money to properly support the Amiga. They had shoe string budgets. The Amiga was many years ahead of the PC in 1985 and even in 1987. But by 1992, the PC had caught up and commodore was in the same place it was in 1985. Still, even if Commodore had not handled the Amiga so ineptly, the Amiga's days were always numbered. The PC was an unstoppable juggernaut. Mac barely hung on.

@@the710gamer9 The Amiga was hardly "has been" in 1993, especially if you count how popular it still was in many parts of the world including the majority of Europe and Australia. Whilst Motorola was rapidly losing market share and becoming irrelevant in the PC market by this time, their processors still competed well with the latest x86 releases - the Motorola 68060 can actually outperform the Pentium at the same clock speeds, so the fact a CPU was becoming less mainstream does not suddenly make it a bad choice for a closed architecture platform such as a proprietary console! The biggest issue with the CD-32 was it usage of planar graphics, which are fine and dandy for 2d, but in the 32bit console age 3d and texture mapping was all the rage.... and the CD-32 was ill equipped for this (the Akiko chip was a sticky tape and gum solution). At the end of the day, the CD-32 was a quite powerful and capable console... released by a company on the verge of going under, with very poor software support (lot's of lazy A1200 and even A500 ports with a CD soundtrack), and not made available in the numbers being demanded by the market (Europe was crying out for more CD-32's) in order to generate enough income to pull Commodore out of hole THEY dug for themselves.

Wow man. A has been computer... 😲😳 But what your saying is kind of true, by then the IBM compatiable, x86 was taking the lead over all other computers. But wow man, that is harsh to hear when your an Amiga fan! 🤣🤣

Ah you broke my heart by saying "Just an Amiga" 🥹🥹🤣🤣

I cut a few pieces out that I should of kept in. That's one. Canada and Australia received their shipments. But the US didn't. The few CD32's that were in the US back then, were the ones snuck into the country from Canada. hehe I don't think Canada recieved all their units though. The details were sketchy on this, that's why I left it out.

because only ignorant seppos use that phrase...

Nice!

Ah yes. I was somewhat confused abuout it. Jack sued saying that Atari already had the rights due to the loan being out. So I just summed it up as Jack's doing.🤣 But becuase Atari paid up by the end of the loan term, he couldn't touch it. Didn't he sue Jay Miner personally over it as well? Yep, the Atari Arcade division split between Namco, AT Games and Warner at the time.

I've got one, I'll give it a shot.

A 16 bit processor on an 8 bit bus unfortunately, so it wasn't a true 16 bit system. But it was first console to have a 16 bit processor.

Yeah they were. Back when they were an awesome company.

The homebrews are pretty amazing. Dragon Quest is one of the best.

Couldn't agree more! Glad you liked it.

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Actually I love Atari. I have more Atari consoles and computers than any other manufacturer. Lol. I said the 2600 version has better gameplay, but the intv version has slightly better graphics. At least that's what I thought I said. 🤣🤣 Maybe I didn't. It was like 2 in the morning when I recorded that so I could have said anything. 😂😂

Haha right. I thought the green donkey Kong was odd as well.

Right on. I bet you were stoked to get it. I wish I could have had one back then. But, I've got one now so that all that counts. 😂

Some of the Homebrews too. Like Dragon Quest, if you didn't know any better, you would think it was an NES game.

Burgertime is awesome on the ColecoVision. I'd say the most faithful port back then for sure. Those D&D games are cool, and really before their time.

Right.. That would have added to the pile...

I didn't. I'll have to try that out tonight. Thanks for the tip.

I hear ya. Even back then I would have given up my 2600 for a ColecoVision. But I was like 7 years old so I had no say. Lol

The Coleco is just a weird system, not quite second gen, but not quite third Gen. It was that system that showed us what was coming in the near future.

I get that. I feel alot of the ColecoVision games are like that. Almost trying too hard to be like the arcade game, with graphics and difficulty. Where as the INTV's games were just more fun to play. So coleco is for the arcade experience at home and getting frustrated at how hard they are, while the INTV is to have a good time playing games at home. 🤣

@@RetrogamerGenX No, the Colecovision version of Mouse Trap is way faster than the arcade version too. I have no idea what they were thinking with that game.

np Welcome!