{"id":982,"date":"2013-05-20T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:55:15","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-32x-through-the-keyhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/982\/retro-scan-of-the-week-32x-through-the-keyhole","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> 32X Through the Keyhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sega_32x_keyhole_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sega_32x_keyhole_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sega 32X Genesis Electronic Gaming Monthly ad - 1994\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Surely you have newer locks in your house.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I bought a Sega 32X for $30 new in 1995 or &#8217;96 at Toys&#8221;R&#8221;Us.  They were on clearance because nobody wanted them. (I also bought a Virtual Boy for $30 this way around the same time.)  There were good reasons why no one wanted them: chiefly, because better machines like the PlayStation and Saturn were out there, and most games for the 32X weren&#8217;t very good.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I have a soft spot for this system.  It touches some fundamental nerdy part of me that likes convoluted electronic expansion modules &#8212; it means more to collect, and more to mess with.  I have a bunch of 32X games, perhaps even half of the entire library for that system, but I rarely play any of them.  I seem to recall the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars_Arcade\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars Arcade<\/em><\/a> title being pretty good for it. <em>Virtua Racing<\/em> wasn&#8217;t half bad either.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the only explanation I can muster for the inclusion of the keyhole in the ad above is that it&#8217;s some sort of sexual metaphor, much like those found in Sega&#8217;s other 32X ads at the time (See &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/515\" target=\"_blank\">The Sega Mating Game<\/a>,&#8221; Retro Scan of the Week, 2008).  In other words, I guess we&#8217;re spying on a Genesis and a 32X having electronic intercourse.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, November 1994, p.180 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> In an alternate universe where there was no Sega Saturn, do you think the 32X could have held its own against the competition for a few years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely you have newer locks in your house. I bought a Sega 32X for $30 new in 1995 or &#8217;96 at Toys&#8221;R&#8221;Us. They were on clearance because nobody wanted them. (I also bought a Virtual Boy for $30 this way around the same time.) There were good reasons why no one wanted them: chiefly, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9,8],"tags":[166,524,150,295,523,60,198,527,526,525],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-technology-commentary","tag-166","tag-32x","tag-advertisement","tag-egm","tag-genesis","tag-retro-scan","tag-sega","tag-star-wars","tag-star-wars-arcade","tag-virtua-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}