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  1. 09-11-2013, 07:48 PM #1
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    Default Interesting Amiga CD 32 advertisement.

    It looks as if this ad was deliberately placed next to a Sega building in Europe somewhere.

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    It took about a year, for Sega to be that good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by azonicrider View Post
    It took about a year, for Sega to be that good.
    Not even that . . . CD-32 came out in '94 . . . Saturn came out in Japan that year, and 32x in the west. 32x is definitely better than CD-32 in all respects save RAM capacity. Hell, the Sega CD itself is better than the CD-32 in many respects too.
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    Dude it’s the bios that marries the 16 bit and the 8 bit that makes it 24 bit. If SNK released their double speed bios revision SNK would have had the world’s first 48 bit machine, IDK how you keep ignoring this.
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    the PCE, that system has no extra silicone for music, how many resources are used to make music and it has less sprites than the MD on screen at once but a larger sprite area?
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    Yep; the bigwigs at Amiga thought this was some kind of masterstroke against the competition.

    It wasn't.
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    Let's compare shall we:



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    Quote Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118 View Post
    Let's compare shall we:



    Man, the difference is like night and day! The Genesis version shits all over that CD32 version, lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lan Di View Post
    Man, the difference is like night and day! The Genesis version shits all over that CD32 version, lol.
    And for even more kicks and giggles, here's the NES version:

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    The Amiga platform had so few exclusives. Plenty of its games were available on 16-bit consoles and MS-DOS. That's not to diss on it; the OS provided more functionality and programmability, and contributed in founding the "scene", and it continues to live on via niche distros.
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    Not only did the advertising not work but may have given Sega a helping hand with the name Sega Ages for the re-releases and compilations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pulstar View Post
    The Amiga platform had so few exclusives. Plenty of its games were available on 16-bit consoles and MS-DOS. That's not to diss on it; the OS provided more functionality and programmability, and contributed in founding the "scene", and it continues to live on via niche distros.
    A huge number of games are just Amiga computer ports . . . and a chunk of those aren't even AGA specific games iirc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evilevoix View Post
    Dude it’s the bios that marries the 16 bit and the 8 bit that makes it 24 bit. If SNK released their double speed bios revision SNK would have had the world’s first 48 bit machine, IDK how you keep ignoring this.
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    the PCE, that system has no extra silicone for music, how many resources are used to make music and it has less sprites than the MD on screen at once but a larger sprite area?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaced View Post
    Not only did the advertising not work but may have given Sega a helping hand with the name Sega Ages for the re-releases and compilations.
    I don't think so; it was a play on the Sega Europe slogan "To be this good takes ages; to be this good takes Sega." Sega had the anagram thing in their back pocket already, methinks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DJ_Convoy View Post
    I don't think so; it was a play on the Sega Europe slogan "To be this good takes ages; to be this good takes Sega." Sega had the anagram thing in their back pocket already, methinks.
    Seconded, the SEGA|AGES anagram was a really nicely done ad campaign that was clever. To expand on this for Spaced, in the ads both the words SEGA and AGES were normally written in the logo font we all know and love.
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