Unreleased X-Men 32x

[A Black Falcon]

The game should've been ported over to the Saturn. But this was a SoA not SoJ game as Tempo and Stellar Assault both got sequels on the Saturn. This game looks impressive running on the 32X but it really plays like shit compared to Clone Wars on the Genesis. Great tech demo but awful game.

Yeah, I'm not sure why Sega of America canned most of its 32X stuff instead of porting them... Sega of America never liked the Saturn, of course, that might be part of why. Sega of America was shrinking too, due to the Saturn's failure; they didn't have as many resources as they had previously had. By the middle of the generation they'd basically ditched the Saturn for PC game development instead... (1996-1998 Sega published PC ports of a bunch of their Saturn games, and some PC exclusives like Obsidian, Scud: Industrial Evolution, etc.)

Also STI shut down mid Saturn gen, after the collapse of X-Treme and the end of their collaboration on Die Hard Arcade. Sega of America lost a lot of what they had had.

The developer of X-Men 32X, Scavenger, did publish two games for the Saturn and PC though, Amok (which as I said I think actually did start on 32X) and Scorcher... and then went out of business due to other problems i think.

But overall, whenever a platform dies some games get moved to other systems, but others just get dropped, presumably because the additional cost of porting over the game was determined to not be worth it. That's probably what happened here... that or Sega of Japan didn't care about Western games much and Sega of America had less money and between that and added porting costs it was dropped. Kind of too bad, but a lot of 32X, Virtual Boy, etc. projects ended up canned, sadly.

[Da_Shocker]

More than likely it wasn't ported because it was an American made game and all of SoA resources was going towards Sonic X-Treme. I think Amok was gonna be on the 32X but got moved over to the Saturn. What got canned on the VB? I vaguely remember about 2 games getting canned but support was never that big on the system to begin with.