>end of 1995
>most people still didn't upgrade to PS1 or Saturn
>gaming magazines hype all those cool 3D racers and 3D fighters
>32X price is cut down to $99 (or $139 when bundled with VF)
Were the picrel games considered good substitutes for people who wanted the taste of 3D but couldn't afford proper 32-bit consoles just yet?

>>11869635 (OP)
I got mine exactly for this reason. Upgraded to a PSX a year later.
VR Deluxe and a good VF1 port were great. Though VF 32x was a bit of a missing opportunity imo. VF2 was already in arcades and VF2 Saturn port around the corner. They should've added some of the new VF2 moves to the VF 32x characters and call it VF Deluxe. Having hundreds of moves is one of the main Virtua Fighter features and VF1 seems limited in this regard. But still having a real 3D fighter at home on basically Sega Genesis was cool.

>>11869635 (OP)
Virtua Fighter 1 was considered a tech demo. Even at the time I thought it was kind of barren and empty. Virtua Fighter really came into its own and became a noticeable force up there with other 3D fighters like MK, Tekken, and Dead or Alive when they released 5. But by that point, fighting games were mostly dead, until Street Fighter IV released a few years later.

>>11869727
I don't even like VF as much as Tekken or DoA but this is incorrect.

>>11869635 (OP)
32x virtua racing was fucking top tier and played better than any racing game ps1 devs could put out for years

>>11869958

>>11870002
>came out 3 years later on a significantly more powerful system and was inferior in terms of both visuals and gameplay
Pathetic.

>>11869958
Virtua Racing Deluxe has glaring issues though. It's a typical high speed Sega arcade racer with fish lens style camera which enhances the perceived speed ever further but it runs only at 20 fps which often makes it difficilt to react because on screen objects lack smooth movement.
Second, the analog steering of the arcade game was translated to Genesis d-pad very poorly. The steering doesn't follow the usual curve of 32-bit racing games like Sega Rally, Gran Turismo or Need for Speed and the car feels like it drifts and rotates on a single pivot as it goes through a corner.
Last, collision detection is very basic.

>>11869635 (OP)
No 3d games in 1995 were good

>>11870047
ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about the tragedy of the 32X

>>11870052
Add-on dreams decay—
Sega's tower leans too far,
Pixels fade to dust.

>>11870050
Lots of great 3D racing and fighting games were made by 1995.

>>11869635 (OP)
Yeah, that and DOOM was a great bang for your buck.

>>11869727
>fighting games were mostly dead, until Street Fighter IV released a few years later.
the revisionism is insane. all that capcom propaganda on SFIV's release really worked i guess

>>11869635 (OP)
I would have gotten a 32X only for VF and VR those games are pretty neat.
>>11869727
Why would you like this bad on the internet?
Every single thing you said is false.

>>11870050
Excuse me?

>>11870006
>t. sperg who insists SADX is an 06-tier mess

>>11870050
tendie

Also Star Wars Arcade

>>11869727
didn't knew people were this upset at VF of all things, likelly a tekken fag that lives in denial that tekken was an inferior edgy carbon copy of it. Notice how he mentions MK instead of an actual beloved proper 3d fighter like soul calibur.

Oh yeah!