Sega's System 32 was a set of
hardware that powered such
arcade hits as; Air Rescue,
Alien 3: The Gun, Arabian Fight, Burning Rival, Dark Edge,
Dragon Ball Z V.R.V.S, F1 Exhaust Note, F1 Super Lap,
Golden Axe II, Hard Dunk, Holosseum,
Jurassic Park,
Looney Tunes, Out Runners, Racing Hero, Rad Mobile / Gal Racer, Rad Rally,
Sonic The Hedgehog,
Spider Man, Stadium Cross, Super Visual Football, and Title Fight.
The system first appeared in arcades in
1990 in both single and multi-game screen formats. The single screen's hardware contained 4 different
processors. The first (the main processor) was a
NEC V60 (16Mhz 32 bits RISC CPU). The other three processors were for sound, they were a
Z80, and two YM3438's (A custom chip Sega had produced for many of its arcade configurations). The only real difference between the multi-version and the single was that the multi had one less YM3438, and a faster V60 - one that clocked at 20 MHz.
Interesting, but quite useless trivia: Segas first 3D fighter was NOT
Virtua Fighter as many would have you know. It was actually a game called Dark Edge (It utilized the System 32 hardware, not the
Model 1 hardware that Virtua Fighter later used).