lmao ikr? it's pretty much the complete opposite now a days us Saturn games are basically like gamer jewellery

Tell me about.

I went to a place recently with really cheap saturn games, but it's only open 3 days a year :(

Invader GIR What kind of store is that and how exactly do they stay in business? lol

***** It's a store at a convention lol They had REALLY good deals and a LOT of shit. Their Saturn section made me regret not bringing a bigger wallet.

LMAO, I swear it's an endless cycle. These games just keep on getting more and more expensive. Even though PDS goes for like 2 grand now we are gonna look back on how cheap that was 10 years from now when it's probably $20,000 at that point.

+G Ryen Almost the same here. I got a Dreamcast in 2000 and I loved it, even if I had a PS2. I got a Saturn a couple of years ago out of curiosity and got a great deal on a huge bundle. I like some games, but I do not love it as much as the Dreamcast. The one I don't get is the Genesis. I've been trying to like it for 25 years and I still don't get it. Back in the day I used to play with my friend for the blood in Mortal Kombat and play the best version of NHL hockey until 95 on PC(great, but buggy), but did not convinced me to buy one. I guess it appeals to a certain type of gamer!?

+G Ryen I am loving this thread. You guys are the perfect fit for our new grass roots movement. segareniassance.blogspot.com/2016/03/su-message-preview-message.html Join my site April 19th. #BringBackThe4thGen.

If it weren't for sega we wouldn't all be here today with out knowledge and absolute love for classic game room

I love the Saturn. I loved the fact that you could pause a part of a song and repeat it. I learned to play the bass parts on so many songs with the help of my Saturn. I love the Genesis and the entire 16 bit era. In Japan the Saturn continued to do well where it failed here. Even when the Dreamcast came out. Which failed in Japan.

I agree with you I love the mega drive

***** Well said, and yes...we did.

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I've almost got my Dreamcast ready to roll. I got the console and hookups and a VMU. all I need is some games and controller.

Hey! I'm responding to this 11 years after it got posted and I'm currently the same age as you were when you commented this, and I hope you're alright and still happily retrogaming. As for me, I'm also a retro gamer and this channel is a major part of it!

+Daves Archives I know I like it WAY better. Now he sounds like he is too sarcastic to even be alive...every emotion is a parody of something he once felt.

Hearing it still gets my dick wet.

That's Really Racist. U better be sorry. Xion will not be happy in The slightest. On my life you stupid N****

+Tildesare Cool I prefer the Japanese and second generation controllers. The original US model feels weird to me. I bought a "Saturn" USB controller lately and it's pretty great. It got the clicky shoulder buttons and it feels better than the original.

Too coool

@@andreboucle3238 its not a crime if these systems are not on the market

A needed 2020 update. Buy a MODE as well.

That's what I'm doing!

Dunno if you guys gives a damn but if you're bored like me atm you can stream all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. Been streaming with my gf recently xD

Can I play my megadrive/genesis games in saturn? From spain! :)

I don't think you can, but I'm not for sure. I know you can't on the US and Europe version.

My favorite gaming system of all time! ^_^

Yep . Cool. :)

I agree with you bro.

iPlaySEGA still hated today

Happy 25th anniversary this year...

I agree even though I prefer the model 1

+john tracy The Saturn had a lot of 3rd party developers but most of the Sega Saturn games didn't get released in America or Europe

+john tracy Also, Sega of America wasted ALL of 1994 on 32X. All of its resources on it.

+SpyroPS1iscool Have you ever played Saturn?Did you buy a Dreamcast?

titles you ignoramus

Grigori Rasputin1990 *titties

Sometimes I wonder if compatibility with Genesis and 32X games was planned in the early stages of the Saturn's development. Almost every time I see the cartridge slot in the back, it takes about a microsecond to remember that it's for memory units and RAM expansion, not game cartridges.

Because then they wouldn't have been able to do Sonic Jam or Sega Ages. Rereleases at full price is not exactly a new concept. lol

It's performance is very comparable to the PS1.

Nice work. Now get the black action replay cart and start playing all the great import Capcom and SNK fighters out of Japan. Best console for home arcade ports with the use of the extra RAM on the cart. Even out-performs Playstation almost across the board.

GroovinFunk if only the Saturn had better marketing and a cheaper price tag back in 95 the gaming community would be totally different today Sega forever

GroovinFunk Just got one of those Action Replay cartridges, they are a must have. So far I have Slayer Royal 2 and Neon Genesis Evangelion from Japan and a european copy of Sonic Jam, it will work with european games as well.

Retro Gameing Guitarist sweet bro I'm still waiting for my Japanese Saturn complete with virtua fighter 2 biohazard (resident evil) and.... street fighter the movie game not to thrilled about that one but imma look into one of those action reply cartridges

derrick hockaday Get one while you can, they're about $40 on amazon but they're worth every penny. I'm still waiting on Street Fighter Collection which contains SSF2, SSF2 Turbo and Alpha 2 Gold that I'm importing from Japan from amazon. If you wanna a good Street Fighter game on Saturn I suggest these ones or Alpha 3 which was released only in Japan.

Bet that was expensive!

Me too

+Steve Normandin Excellent thread. It's exactly what my team and Project Dream is looking for! segareniassance.blogspot.com/2016/03/su-message-preview-message.html

+KaBlamBandicoot64 Wow, that made me feel old...

Dude, I'm looking at purchasing a Sega Dreamcast instead of the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. Games are still being made for it! lol Fuck you next-gen! Ahahaha!

BiohazardGT It's true.

BiohazardGT Look it up: Pier Solar (RPG), Sturmwind (shmup), Gun Lord (shooter), etc, etc, etc....

Penny Filkins Wow. I never knew that. Why are people still supporting the dreamcast? Isn't it like really old?

***** Are you being sarcastic? Or serious? It's hard to tell on the internet sometimes. ;) Dreamcast is the best arcade console ever. So many pick up play titles. Sure, they got knocked for being "short", but the sheer number of games, and hella replay value, makes it all worth your time and dollars. :)

It took a memory card where the AR is. It also was too powerful to run Genesis games.

Ps2 make SEGA dreamcast sudcide the sale

+GameBoy Punk segareniassance.blogspot.com/2016/03/su-message-preview-message.html

the n64 killed the saturn let alone comparing it to the ps1 idiot

+AgentCell I hear ya. The Saturn I can understand because Sega totally blew the launch, but the Dreamcast felt like it had so much more potential and wasn't an outright failure. Unfortunately many potential DC owners fell for Sony's genius marketing and ended up waiting for the PS2 and skipping the DC altogether. It's sad.

It was more successful in Japan, it's one of the few consoles people actively recommend importing for because most of its best games, and there are alot of them, came out in Japan. Unless you can read Japanese I suggest shopping for the Playstation for the rpgs, alot of them made it to that console in the States, but there are plenty of other titles to play that don't have much of a language barrier.

+AgentCell Saturn had quality problem it's very first games. Polygon pop-up, unfinished games, low quality and few games. When PS1 arrived it launch with 40 games, kind of the same amount Saturn had with 1 year of life, and promised more 40 ins next few months. Also the PS1 was focused in 3D games. Saturn remake some games hat should be good but was badly ported like Vitua Fighter and Daytona (remake as the REMIX and CCE versions) tho prove it's potential, but was too late. On Dreamcast SEGA had already built a bad reputation and soon after it came PS2 using DVD.

+TrollBuster The Dreamcast launched at $199, so for an extra $100 you got a console with marginally better graphics and the ability to play DVD's. Sega also pissed of EA and they refused to make games for the console ( No Madden, NBA Live) + a lot of people were worried that Sega would ditch them after 2 years like they did on the Sega Cd, 32X, and Saturn. Which is a shame, because watching the opening sequence to Sonic Adventure and playing the first level w/ the killer whale practically changed my life.

+AgentCell Well, part of it was a bad launch, and part of it was the fact that they misjudged the market, which was more interested in 3d titles. While the Saturn could do 3d graphics, it not nearly as good at it as the PS1, and porting over to the Saturn was made difficult by the fact that the Saturn renders with squares, rather than triangles. The last, and probably most fatal part of the Saturn's failure was basic hardware confusion. Sega had released the Genesis, followed by the Sega CD, and then the 32x. Beyond which, they had three different versions of the Genesis (four if you count the Nomad, which claimed the souls of countless innocent AA batteries), and various combinations like the third party JVC X'Eye and the CDX (which could also be used as a portable CD player). Did you say you wanted a IBM compatible PC with Sega hardware pointlessly shoehorned in? Why, then you need an Amstrad built Sega TeraDrive! Complicating things even more is that not everything worked with everything else. It was more than a little confusing to consumers, and the fact that they kept selling these previous versions after the Saturn came out (despite not supporting all of them with continued game development) caused people to not know which thing they should buy. Nintendo watched this unfold, and quietly smothered their CD add-on project with a pillow, which, due to their somewhat underhanded dealings, led to the fantastically successful Playstation console being created, and also the soiled, unloved afterbirth that was the Philips CD-i. So, after all this, the Saturn came out, and while it was well built, and was a 2d powerhouse, people either kept using their prior Sega hardware, or more likely, purchased a PS1. The effect of the consumer confusion, coupled with Sega abandoning hardware people had dropped a fair amount of cash to purchase, caused distrust that was fatal to not just the Saturn, but also the Dreamcast. I love my Saturn, by the way. I love the weird way it saves games with volatile memory and a battery just like a cartridge (also used by the Sega CD). I love the weird "3d controller" with the bizarre round shape and weird wiggly analog nipple, and the fact that you have to switch between the stick and the d-pad, and that the cord can unplug from the controller. I like the varied solutions to problems before we'd all agreed on what the best way to do things is. Sort of the way phones and PDAs used to come in all sorts of strange combinations before we all decided that boring rectangles with touchscreens were the way to go. This is why I'm a collector, especially of odd, unpopular hardware.

I have an N64, and like two games, because my friend gave it to me, but he sold all his damn games!

the Saturn was betrayed by Judas Stolar.

The Saturn was also pretty difficult to program for and was dropped with little to no warning at a time when the 32X was being hyped as the future of Sega (this issue itself was due to poor relations and poor communication between Sega's Japanese and American divisions). The Saturn was actually pretty popular in Japan, in no small part thanks to the Segata Sanshiro ad campaign, so at least there's that.

I actually think it's one of their strongest consoles with some of their best games. Outstanding arcade ports from all developers like Treasure's "Radiant Silvergun", the Capcom CPS fighting games like the Street Fighter Alpha series, the X-Men fighting games, and the Marvel Super Hero games, the great library of Shoot'em Ups, such as Salamander, Dodonpachi, Galactic Attack, and a whole lot more. Also, the hardware is very well made. Granted the old Sega's were built fairly well, this thing is built like a fricken tank. The best part is the CD-ROM drive, which is very well put together, and you're almost guaranteed to have your system work. Plus the power cables and video cables are pretty cheap and easy to come by. Plus the controllers: the Model 1 & 2 controllers are awesome, the Mission Stick is pretty cool, and the Virtua Stick is really cool for shooters. I like the system a lot, but I'm split between this and the Genesis for favorite Sega System

+5 Volt Actually, the Saturn was one of their strongest consoles. It was just often underused.

Except when they're clamoring for the Dreamcast 2.

Yay Seeeeeeeeeegaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I'm Sony fanboy by the way, but i'm also Sega and NIntendo fanboy. Screw Xbox! nobody i would buy that. I love Sony, Sega and Nintendo no matter what, but not Xbox except Windows.

Dreamcast is overrated, Saturn and Genesis are the best Sega consoles. Also, if you think Saturn didn't have third party support, i advise you to look at the Japanese game library to educate yourself: Capcom, Konami, Atlus, Taito, SNK, Treasure, Technosoft, Hudson, Camelot, Game arts etc. those aren't good enough for you?, i think that's a much better third party support than for exaxmple, Nintendo 64.

Marcel Weber the 64 outsold the saturn by a land slide! ea pulled there support of the system and so did many other big third party supporters. yes the dreamcast did have some but most if not all the games that where "good" came from first party support SEGA not anywhere else

BIGGIEDEVIL Who cares about western developers support, Saturn on Japan had a lot of great third party support and outsold the 64 there, Saturn doubles the n64's game library. I can understand not liking the Saturn back then being american, but today it's pretty easy to buy import, so saying it was a bad console is just dumb.

Marcel Weber i actually liked the saturn i found the graphics to be better than the ps1 when comparing same titles, but the saturn was a failure 9.5 million consoles compared to 32 million from the N64, Despite the saturn having many more games then the n64 the n64 quality of games is far superior and set the standard for games to come like goldeneye and mario 64

BIGGIEDEVIL N64 is an overrated console, why games like Goldeneye, an overrated first person shooter are better than Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Radiant Silvergun or Guardian Heroes? Mario 64 is fun, but the Saturn has a lot of great titles too.

You will never regret getting one. Panzer Dragoon series is worth the purchase alone! Throw in Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter 2 and you're set for days of entertainment!

@@ELEKTROSKANSEN Neat, glad to hear!

@@rockylopez7846 Fingers crossed for you finding and getting one, the more of us Sega Saturn lovers the better! :) Keep an eye out for Burning Rangers, too!

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