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  -/-  NEWS RELEASE:

        Sega staged a special Gamers Day to unveil its Hot new 32x Genesis
        upgrade along with its game lineup to the end of '94.  Here's a
        report.

  -/-  32X: On the Upgrade Path

        Sega of America has fired the first shot in the game system wars.  
        Although its parent company, Sega Enterprises of Japan, and Sony 
        will introduce $400 standalone 32-bit game systems (the Sega Saturn 
        and the Sony PlayStation) this November in Japan, Sega U.S. is 
        preparing to bring its 13 Million Genesis owners along for the 
        upgrade ride for $150.

        The 32X doesn't turn your Genesis into a Saturn, but Sega U.S. is 
        betting that 32X will keep power-hungry American gamers satisfied 
        until Sega releases an American version of the Saturn in late '95.  
        According to Haven Duburl, Sega 32X product manager, "American 
        gamers want arcade game play, and they want it now.  But they don't 
        want to pay a lot for it, and they don't want to abandon their 
        16-bit library."

        A Genesis Power-Up

        The 32X is a Genesis add-on peripheral due in November.  It slides 
        into the cartridge port of the Genesis, and it supports the SEGA CD.  
        The unit enables you to play special 32X carts and CDS with enhanced 
        graphics, sound, and gameplay.  According to Sega, Gensis 32X carts 
        and CDs will be available for a suggested retail price of 69.99.  
        Sega promises 12 available games at the system's release and says 50 
        games from third party developers will appear during 1995.

        The 32x is going for speed it uses two 32bit Hitachi SH2 RISC chips 
        (the basic setup of the Saturn) Working in parallel to pump up the 
        CPU processing speed to 23 megahertz, Compared to the Genesis/Cd 
        with 12 Megahertz, and the Snes's under 4 Megahertz.  The Hitachi 
        chips complement a newly designed VDP (Video digital processor) chip 
        that burns video processing at 40 MIPS.  The unit will also add four 
        megs of RAM that will work with the RAM already present in the 
        Genesis and the SEGA CD.

        The results should have visual pizzazz: 32,768 colors on Screen 
        simultaneously, texture mapping, sharper computer polygon graphics, 
        variable 3D perspective, enhanced scaling and rotation, and smoother 
        video motion for the SEGA CD.

        For audiophiles, 32X will feature built in Q Sound support.  This 
        audio programming technique shifts sound to create surround-sound 
        which you can hear either through headphones or from speakers.

        The Future is NOW

        No doubt gotta get it now gamers will spend the big bucks to grab 
        Saturn or Play Station systems and games from Japan.  For the rest 
        of us, however, 32X may well be the system of choice in '94.

   Games to be released for the 32 X



        Ecco the Dolphin
        Star Wars Arcade
        DOOM
        Virtua Racing Deluxe
        Super Afterburner
        Super Motocross
        Fahrenheit (*CD*)
        Cyber Brawl
        Stellar Assault
        Midnight Raiders
        Super Space Harrier
        Tempo
        Tomcat Alley Deluxe,
        College Basketball
        Metal Head
        Wirehead (*CD*)


    Software Companies producing for the 32X, already have games in the
    makes...

        ACCLAIM         Accolade        Activision      American Softworks
        TECHNOS         Atlus           CAPCOM          Capitol Multimedia
        Core Design     Crystal Dynmics Donmark         GameTek
        Hi Tech Enter   Interplay       JVC             KONAMI
        Playmates Inter rocket Science  Software Toolwo SUNSOFT
        Takara          Time Warner     FOX Interactive Vic Tokai
        VIRGIN

    As you can see alot of *BIG* Video game companies are jumping on for the
    ride, (Expect to see more apon the release of the 32X), as well as some 
    smaller and NEW software developers--->> Twentieth Century Fox 
    Interactive is making a debute into the Video Game markets.
