A Working SEGA Neptune prototype LOST in a move!

Hi gamers,

Every SEGA fan knows the story behind the one and only Neptune, it's mainly just a stand-alone 32X anyway. It was going to be a in-between the Megadrive and Saturn time frame to prolong the life of the Megadrive.

Recently a prototype collector that goes by the name of drx contacted a 1st party SEGA producer, as he was asking more questions about the system and just about to finally have it in his collection the producer said he lost it while moving houses. Sounds like a lie right? It most likely is. drx has many weird boards from SEGA as he claims, and I do believe him, he is fairly trusted by the community he has released a lot of prototype material in the past.

How could a professional first party producer lose such a rare piece of hardware, hell it's not rare it's ONE working on earth, and it's now misplaced. Now don't get confused with the many that people have "spotted" they were just case prototypes, no guts inside.

We may hear about the one and only Neptune again some day, but for now it's going to fade into the past. Sad day for many SEGA freaks including me, I could of seen a HD image of one of these oh well.

Source: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859

SEGA 32X value is rising, what?

Hi gamers,

For anyone who is a fan of AVGN would know how much the 32X sucked ass. While only being 6 months in production before SEGA pulled the plug, the system it's self is very rare not so rare that's it's exactly hard to find, but rare as not many were made.

Amazingly you can pick up a brand new 32X for around $160, yeah it's not my type of cake either but the demand for these have risen. The used value is a bit hard to determine mainly the reason behind this is, if the previous owner had a model 1 Megadrive/Genesis the metal slot insert would come with it, and with the model 2 it wasn't required, however the video communication cable is usually a missing piece.

Not many collectors keep track of the 32X hardware as the software library just wasn't solid enough, even I haven't kept track of it. The demand in the hardware market has changed, SEGA hardware is becoming VERY collectable and the 32X is becoming one of the most collectable systems, together with it's software library.