TwistedPear

It's early in the year 1994, and the 32-bit era is just taking off with the PSX around the corner. Other cd-based systems are already on the market.

Hypothetically, you as a customer are ready to upgrade, but have a sizable library of carts. Boom, 32X.

On paper, the 32X is an entry point into the next era that is both modular and backward compatible. The base unit gets you started, but also owning a Sega CD can unlock the full potential of the Genesis ecosystem with Sega CD 32X titles, and of course retain Sega CD compatibility.

A modern work like the Doom 32X Resurrection romhack gives a glimpse into a scenario where Sega fully committed to this premise. The way it works is the Genesis processor becomes a delegator, handing off tasks to the other processors found in the 32X and CD (if present). By all accounts, this handoff works much smoother than one might think.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting going all-in on 32X hardware would have changed anything for the better. Obviously, obviously they should have just been patient and devoted that much more resources toward the Saturn instead of panicking.

I just get where their heads were at - right? It made sense. Sorta.

In honor of Toriyama.

Too bad the game tried to push people toward a multiplayer that nobody wanted or liked to unlock single player content.

Dope orchestral soundtrack, though. Turns out blaring brass sounds good when you know what you're doing.

This roguelite Metroidvania surprised me with how well the randomized mechanics blended with exploration, and this track gives plenty of atmosphere to the third biome.

The Frontiers ost, and esp. the cyberspace stages are amazing as-is, but yeah, I can get down with this.

Themes from Mega Man 1 - 3 are here, including a couple of Wily Castles.

A turn-based rpg about travel and discovery in a very shonen kind of way. Now that I think about it, Skies takes a page or two from Laputa: Castle in the Sky. Anyway, one of the early lands has some of the most memorable music.

The ost was released physically by Wayo Records here. If you care enough about the soundtrack as a whole, it's a beautiful recording and a neat cd collection to own, despite missing a few tracks here and there.

OC Remix also has a remix album here

Prodeus might have been the first time in a while that I had a great time in an fps.

Spent Fuel is a downbeat industrial metal track that symbolizes the game's "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum" attitude.

The long, brooding original by Moraski is given a similarly dark and insidious treatment with heavy synths and punchy bass.

Check out the rest of his Portal 2 remixes here

Most seem to prefer "Vitality" from the same album, but I rather enjoy the darker, more intense rhythms here.

Helltaker is a slide puzzle akin to Slayaway Camp mixed with a waifu collector visual novel, and the ost has no business going this hard. I haven't played the game even once, but I've listened to this album for hours.

You can support Mittsies on Bandcamp but just be aware the artwork can be a bit....saucy.

I would be remiss to mention SayMaxwell did very popular remixes to most of the tracks as well, including this one.