UFO:Enemy Unknown CD32

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I think the CD32 was the first 32-Bit CD console...

The 68020 was a 32-bit processor and at the time the CD32 was competing against the Mega-CD (68000) which was 16-Bit.

I don't think the Neo-Geo CD came for a while later. If I remember correctly the Neo-Geo used a 68000 too!

Funnily enough, one of the Mega-CDs FMV games called 'Double Switch' starred Debbie 'Blondie' Harry. She of the 1985 Amiga launch!

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I wouldn't call that thing a console... it was basically a PC.

Yeah it had about 1 more game than the NEC-FX (that makes 2)...

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You could argue that the Amstrad Mega-PC was a console and the Sharp PCs with inbuilt PC Engine...

Still, the Mega-CD won the CD war. I think 1 in 20 Megadrive owners bought it and it was a bigger hit in Japan.

The Jag CD, 3D0 etc. bombed!

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Yes, because the CD32 wasn't the size of a breezeblock and wasn't mounted vertically.

Oh, wait...   the X-Box...

DARN!

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EDIT: Oh wait, there was a little white Marty too wasn't there, looked like a PSone. What year was that released?

I'm sure it had some Final Fight style game on it...

Anyway, UFO:Enemy Unknown was given away free on an Amiga Format cover CD in the latter years of the 20th Century!

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adolescent: Oh, I was confusing it with the computer. Not hard to do since FM Towns is a brand from Fujitsu... so Marty would be equivalent to the '1200' bit bit of Commodore Amiga A[1200]!

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Commodore may not have been totally wrong. The CD32 was the first 32-Bit CD console (released in any country other than Japan).

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One could argue though that the CD32 had 32-Bit AGA Lisa, what was the Marty's GFX bandwidth?

Interesting bit of kit the Car Marty is, Sega copied this with the Hi-Saturn didn't they?

When you compare the games on CD32 (Aliens Breed, Roadkill etc.) and the schoolgirl based filth on the Marty you can understand why one was a little more available in the West.

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EDIT:
Wasn't there a sequel to UFO:Enemy Unknown on PC called 'XCOM - Apocalypse' ?

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400,000 CD32s were sold worldwide?

That's pretty low considering the Mega-CD sold 270,000 and I think that was just in the UK!

Anyone know of a chart of sales figures, that'd be really interesting!

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lou: I think we shall have to accept defeat here. World First should mean the first to be released in the world, we had the opportunity to buy it through importers but didn't.

We should definately make a list of all Amiga's '1st Done' achievements and maybe a list of EXCLUSIVE games that never appeared on any other format.

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Did PayBack make it to GBA? I heard they were trying to port it...

Speedball 2 was also rumoured.