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Uh, yeah.

The Sega 32X was an add-on designed for the Mega Drive with the intention of creating a stop-gap 32-bit gaming solution for those budget minded consumers that were not ready to step up to the Saturn, which was due for release the following year. Not such a great idea in hindsight. Overall, just 34 games were released for the troubled system, along with 6 games which used the Mega CD and 32X in tandem.

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An overlooked arcade beat em up.

Zombie Revenge is an arcade brawler developed by Sega AM1 for the arcades and later Dreamcast. The game is technically a side story to The House of the Dead series, even carrying the title Blood Bullet: The House of the Dead Side Story during its development. This ad is for the French release of the game.

Well, Sorcerer’s Stone in this case…

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone for our American visitors) was the first of seven books in the Harry Potter series. Electronic Arts snapped up the rights to make games on the series when the film rights were licensed, and farmed them out to a variety of developers. The result was four different games on four different platforms, and I’m not all that certain that any of them are good.

52 games, 52 abominations.

Action 52 is a multi-game catridges developed by Active Enterprises for the NES and FarSight Studios for the Mega Drive/Genesis. Sold for twice the price of a standard video game, Action 52 promised 52 awesome games. It delivered 52 hilarious bad games. Of course, it did bring us Cheetahmen, which is worth its weight in comedy gold.

Ask a stupid question…

Battlezone was a popular vector-based arcade game released by Atari in 1980. Atari brought the game to a variety of home console and computer game formats, but had to redesign the game with raster graphics in mind. This ad is for that particular version.

Blizzard didn’t always have the Midas touch.

The Death and Return of Superman follows the major comic book arc of the early 1990s where Superman dies after a brutal fight with Doomsday. Players get to control Superman and his four imposters – The Cyborg, Superboy, Steel and The Eradicator. The PAL Mega Drive version is worth quite a bit of scratch, so keep your eyes peeled for it.

Who doesn’t love a compilation?

Arcade’s Greatest Hits was a mid 1990s compilation featuring several of Midway’s early 1980s successes like Defender, Joust and Sinistar. I have to admit to enjoying this particular version of Defender, since the Mega Drive pad makes it so much easier. This ad is for the UK 16-bit versions.

I spent way too much time in this game with little clue as to what I was doing. Turns out you can beat it in under 10 minutes.

The Rescue of Princess Blobette is the second game in the Boy and His Blob series, and the final one developed by Absolute Entertainment. The series would be reimagined many years later on the Wii by WayForward Technologies.

Chicks will ditch you if you don’t have the right computer, 80s kid.

Atarisoft was a publishing label utilised by Atari to publish various arcade hits to a range of home computers. They licensed games from Nintendo, Midway, Namco and others.

Not the type of pussy we tend to associate with the Clinton administration.

Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill was an ultimately unreleased video game starring Socks, the Clinton family cat. Someone actually greenlit this project, believing it to be a good idea, and it got very far into development before being cancelled. Ah, corporate stupidity.