I wish that during the PS1, Saturn, and N64 era that they had focused on 2d experiences a little more. I understand the 3D push during that time but we could have had the best 2d games during this period.

Cyber Speedway. First Saturn game I bought. Fun fact: Syd Mead designed the cars

Winter Heat was one of my most played games, the sound and graphics effects were awesome

Mass Destruction is a really overlooked game. It plays well and is very fun. Nicely done sir.

Been a long time fan of your channel. I am 41, grew up with the Genesis, sega cd and 32x. My good buddy had a Saturn back in 97. Sadly, he passed away in 1998. I just got a Sega Saturn from a super cool dude I just met. Excited to expand my library for Saturn games, and I have been watching your videos for references

I love Titan Wars/Solar Eclipse. But, it really needs to be played in cockpit mode to have a chance to catch your breath in the later levels. Also, there's something very charming about the B-movie plot, and the music is very catchy across most of the levels. Also, Vampire Hunter remains my favorite fighting game across the whole genre. Hsien-Ko's my go-to fighter.

Bro, Sega should of gave you a genesis mini. Sega is really trippin on this because you're a dedicated Sega channel that get really good views but KZfaqrs with more subscribers that hardly talk about sega get a genesis mini. I'm upset for you

The best part of videos like this is when a game pops up that is in my collection. Asuka and Darkstalkers are already in my library. Wing Arms and Noon are two that will be added soon. Great video.

I can never get enough Darkstalkers. I pray Capcom stops with the neverending supply of Street Fighter games and puts out a new Darkstalkers. Also good to see Winter Heat. I do like it more than Decathlete. Steep Slope Sliders in part 3? Hmmm.

Saavaki's lighting is IMPRESSIVE. Keep telling us about the and not so good games that are unfamiliar in these shores bro. We appreciate it immensely!

Never heard of Asuka 120% and Savaki, both look realy interesting!! Nice video, pretty informative!

What an obscure selection of games. I think the only games I've heard of are Scorcher and Night Warriors. Had no idea about Titan Wars, must get that one as it's my type of thing. Thanks!

Nobody ever talks about Iron Man X/O Manowar...it's one of my favorite mediocre entries in the Saturn library.

didn't know about wingarms, cheers.. I am obsessed with arcade flight shooters so will try find a cheap copy of this.

I just want to say I always thumbs up your videos before they even start playing. I'm about your age 39 and k had a Sega Saturn from day one. Mine was ordered COD from Japan. I'm happy to have a channel like yours in here that can relate to my Sega childhood

Another great video of must-play Sega Saturn videogames. And the great thing is that you still have only scratched the surface of what this system offers. As always, most American gamers have probably never heard of any of these gems, as the Saturn was all but abandoned by the time Super Mario 64 dropped. A few notes on the videogames in this video: Mass Destruction is great fun if you're looking for arcade shoot-em-up action with lots of explosions. It has a strong Amiga vibe to its style, which is probably why I love it. The Saturn version runs in 480/60 high resolution and looks terrific, much better than the PSX version, and demonstrates the system's powers when in the hands of programmers who actually bother to put in the effort. Return Fire would have made for a nice commercial release had it been finished. The late beta copy put online by the developers is nice, but you can clearly see how they still needed to optimize the program code and tighten up the frame rate. You can also see the difference between this game and Mass Destruction, and I suspect the software team basically dumped the 3DO code onto Saturn without really using the hardware wisely (the ground is probably drawn with polygons instead of 2D VDP2 planes). Still, it's good fun and an original concept. Scorcher is a hard videogame to love. Its graphics engine is excellent, as one expects from the skilled demoscene coders at Zyrinx. I could never warm up to the controls or the odd viewing angle that puts the vehicle too deep into the screen, or the high difficulty. I probably just need more practice, so maybe it's just me. Savaki is another excellent 3D showpiece for Saturn, offering 60 fps frame rate, gouraud shading and light sourcing. We also have a caged arena that never clips or flickers out, unlike Sega's efforts in Last Bronx, Fighting Vipers and Megamix. The entire game was programmed by a single individual (the same coder behind Robo Pit) and it shows in a few places, notably the looping crowd noises and the single arena. Whatever. Everything looks great and plays brilliantly, like a hyper-realistic Virtua Fighter. The name "savaki" revers to the parry move where you can deflect an incoming attack. Sega toyed with that technique a little in Virtua Fighter 3. I burned a copy of Noon many years ago but couldn't quite get into it, so I tossed my disc out. I'd definitely like to find an import copy today, however. You do a good job of explaining what you're supposed to do and how the game mechanics (RIP Bill Kunkel) work. It received very mixed reviews in Sega Saturn JP magazine, which qualifies this title for true "hidden gem" status. Solar Eclipse/Titan Wars is another quality game from the early Saturn days that holds up pretty nicely. It's basically a poor man's Star Fox that offers some intense action and interesting outer space environments. I would agree about the repetition and length of stages, but considering this was the work of a Western software studio working in a Japanese genre, they did pretty well. The FMV clips certainly give it a retro-cheese quality that MST3K fans will enjoy, and, hey, it's that gal from Babylon 5. That was a good show. Pity it's become all but forgotten. Night Warriors/Vampire Hunter is 2D arcade bliss, just wonderful and gorgeous and endlessly playable. This is where we start to point the (middle) finger at the real culprit behind Sega's decline: the spoiled, lazy gamers who couldn't recognize greatness if it smacked them clear on the face. I swear that Toshinden absolutely ruined everything. All anybody wanted to look at was the PSX "lightey glowey" effects. Everything else, including everything 2D, wasn't even given a passing glance. Whatever. Between this game, SF Alpha, Darius Gaiden and Galactic Attack, Saturn was rocking the classic arcade scene. Winter Heat is one of many examples of a brilliant 3D Saturn videogame that was completely ignored because the gamers and the prozines had already moved on. Had anybody bothered to even look, they would find a wickedly fun and addictive arcade sports title that equals, if not surpasses, the great Decathlete. Every system needs a good Track 'N Field game and Sega delivers the goods. I don't know why Sega didn't continue this series on Dreamcast, or why Virtua Athlete was so poor by comparison. I liked the gameplay and the colorful cast of characters. The JP release includes an extra athlete that was cut from the Western release, just like Decathlete. This might be a Saturn Top 10 title for me. Wing Arms, however, felt like a frustrating mess. The combat is fairly satisfying, if overly simple, and the early stages offer some fun action as you shoot down planes and battleships. The canyon stages, however...whoof, what a mess! Daytona USA caught an eternity of grief for its background "pop up," but this game is massively worse. It's a terrible embarrassment, another casualty of the early Saturn days. I do wish Sega had revisited this game a few years later once they mastered the hardware. A sequel with improved graphics, more varied gameplay and multiplayer would be awesome. Come to think of it, that's exactly what Propeller Arena of Dreamcast does. Finally, Asuka 120% Burning Festival LTD is absolutely fantastic, silky smooth brilliance from the fighting-game heavens. There are many days when I consider it my favorite 2D fighter on the Saturn. The fighting system is deep and complex, yet extremely simple enough that casual players (you know, the ones who just mash buttons until they get bored) can jump right in, while the more seasoned experts can mop the floor with massive 20-hit combos. The "Limit Over" disc that was released online by the programmers makes many changes and is probably the definitive version, but I have no idea where you could find that now that ISO Hunt is gone. Bottom Line: once again, we see that Sega Saturn works for developers who were willing to put in the actual work and learn to work the machine, as well as code in Assembly. Lazy programmers who just dumped C code from another source or merely switched off the servant CPU got nowhere fast. And this system was the victim of the worst avalanche of bad hype in the industry's history. It was the "but her emails" of its day.

Your smooth and stylish voice delivery makes your videos really nice to watch super late at night when I am tired. Keep up the god work. Been loving the hell out of my Sega Saturn thanks to all your good advice and info on the system I never had growing up. All modded chipped with 4 in 1 cart, and now HD retrovision COMPONNET CABLES making it look the best it can.

Sega Lord X, keep making vids. I love your content.

Fun fact: Night Warriors has a debug code that lets you unlock additional frames of animation

I've never looked at Scorcher. Thanks to you, I decided to pick it up. It looks impressive for the time!

Titan wars/ solar eclipse is pretty damn fun. Creepy story too at least what I saw of it.

Damn I got here early. This channel is growing into one of my favorites. Keep up the great work!

OMG I finally found out my favorite military game for the 3DO. "Return fire" was mas fun on the 3DO. Sega lord X. U kick ass! That classical music "Ride of the Valkyries" or whatever the F, in the background of that video game was well selected by the makers of that game. I loved that game, but spent most of my 3DO's time powered on with Road Rash playing by me or countless other's while my hand's where off that 3DO controller back in 94-97. Man, you give me flashback's with smiles. Great content. I never thought I would even find out the name of that military game I enjoyed on the 3DO. Thank you kindly. Great video.

Return Fire was one of that generation’s underrated two-player games. Not enough people noticed it, in my opinion. I’d love to see an updated, HD version that offered network and couch co-op. Thank you for another great video, SLX. 👍

Ah, the Darkstalkers/Night Warrior series is fantastic, truly among Capcom's top tier fighters. Asuka 120% looks really cool! I never even knew about it, I definitely want to check it out

Love the videos sega lord x. Saturn is my favourite system ever. Keep it up mah boy.

Mass Destruction is probably one of the Saturn games I played the most. Super simple pure action fun! Soundtrack is pretty good too. Loving your videos mate, one of the best youtubers I have seen.

Sega Lord X- would you ever do a Yakuza series retrospective? This being I feel, SEGA’s most cutting edge & relevent series of the 8th Gen / 21st century, or are you just a guy stuck in the 5th Gen?

Solar Eclipse kicked ass that game was great and the sound track was good.

Man I remember playing Asuka!! But I remember playing it on psx? So many great Sega saturn games, the more I watch your channel I find out how great a system it is.

I always loved Wing Arms! Still have my original copy

Fantastic content, as usual!

I can't believe you mention 120%. I used to play that game nonstop on the PSX using that brown skin girl who was basically Akuma. NOON, look hella good as well. I will remember getting that game later.

I've always kind of felt that the inconsistent label for the Darkstalkers franchise was to it's detriment early on. It just wasn't typical *(in the west)* for a franchise to adopt different titles for games in the same series. I think their messaging should have been much more uniform. I know someone might think something as silly as that wouldn't keep people away... But it was more so that people didn't know what they were looking for, and the title didn't ring a bell and lots of people who would have liked the game and the franchise never got into it... until it was far too late, lol.

Mmm Felicia AND Morrigan? Yes please

*SATURN had the best versions of Quake and Duke Nukem 3D and Power Slave too!!* ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

This was a really good list bro. I Hadn't heard of a couple of these

I want a Mini Sega Saturn.

It's funny how I started out watching Sega vids being like "so what" and now I'm always interested in this stuff and what they're currently up to. I guess you've done something right SLX 😊

Great video glad u mentioned one of my personal favorite games, winter heat. Love the content keep it coming!

Great video as always! I'm really getting into Saturn now thanks to your channel!

Thanks, I am a big Saturn fan, and I love old bulky Sprite Scalers! My most favorite has to be Wing Arms, because 1.I love planes 2.The dithering adds to the charm. Also, thanks to Saturn's hardware, the games can look more colorful than on PS.

According to KZfaq subtitles your name is Sig Allure Decks. 😁 It warms my heart that I own many of these and recommend them to others. I especially love Wing Arms and Winter Heat. As I told my wife, I think Winter Heat is WORTH $120. It’s that good. Basically it’s a high res arcade game of the Winter Olympics that looks like it’s running on much higher end hardware. And anyone who likes G-LOC should buy Wing Arms ASAP.

Another great Saturn video thanks brother

Mas destruction looks strikingly similar to return fire on the 3do

Awesome bud!! Thanks More games to hunt for that I never heard of..

Hi, I've been following all of your videos so far, as I'm also a huge SEGA fan. Love your content on everything SEGA. I just thought I'd comment on Vampire Savior just a bit. I also once thought it was a sequel, since the 3rd title was named Darkstalkers 3, implying there was a Darkstalkers 2. Apparently, the original Vampire game was a PlayStation exclusive, and would never be released on other systems at the time. While development on the original Vampire game was still ongoing, Capcom had also released Vampire Hunter in the arcades. Vampire Hunter is basically an updated version of Vampire, with gameplay tweaks and 2 new characters added, Donovan and Lei Lei (the titular Vampire Hunters). Capcom then announced that this updated game will be released on Saturn, and would be an exclusive. The Saturn version was even released ahead of the PlayStation version in the end. So it wasn't really a big loss not having the original release of Vampire. I have both Vampire Hunter and Vampire Savior in my Saturn collection!

Really liked Wingarms, mechanically pleasing

Praise Lord Sega X aaaammmmeeennn

Ahh, I got my Saturn fix for the day, thanks! Of all these, Mass Destruction caught my eye as a game I've never tried yet but will keep my eye out for it. Personally I love the 2D fire and explosion graphics, those surprised me!

Scorcher has one of the best soundtracks on the system as well as brilliant graphics 👍👍

i still love Wing Arms

Another great Saturn video. I loved Darkstalkers when it came out. Probably one of my favorite fighters on the system.

That's fun; I've never known anyone else who played Newtype Action Game Noon. I've played it on Playstation for years, and it's good fun. On Saturn, I also really enjoy O-chan no Oekake Logic, Popoitto no Hebereke, and Grid Runner.

yeuuuuuuh! Always good when you upload

The Scorcher soundtrack drew me in, the challenge pushed me away lol ;)

'slightly angled overhead perspective'- isometric view. i played this game to death back then, great game!

Anyone else think Sega Lord X was going to say TAITO when he said TITAN???!!

Man, some of these games have great music! I was listening on headphones and hopping away.

I honestly loved Vampire Hunter/Night Warriors when I FINALLY got to play it on the Saturn. I never found an arcade machine of it in my area. I read about it constantly in the pages of Gamefan and EGM before its release. I actually prefer the speed and chain combo system in this entry over its successor. The winning character portraits are some of best artwork I've ever seen and have fueled my love for drawing ever since! The Saturn version has a plethora of hidden codes including a full animation option that restores missing frames from larger characters especially during mirror matches.

For what it's worth, Mass Destruction running at 60FPS like that more than makes up for the simple graphics, especially compared to most 3D PS1 titles.

Another great video, keep em coming man!

Asaaki was a great idea.

"As rare as rocking horse shit" haha! That killed me. Some good choices here and even a few I hadn't heard of and will certainly check out. Great video as always.

YAY more segalord videos!!!!!! yesssssss

I didn't know Wing Arms was an overlooked game for the Saturn, I consider it to be one of the console's greatests games. It's Propeller Arena's ancestor.

Great channel, keep up the great work! Your videos are more professional and informative than many others out there. I've recommended your channel to friends, and will continue to do so. Cheers!

You're a mini-legend on Saturn gaming dude.

Awesome videos lately. Would be great to see more of these lesser known games. Ive been discovering alot on the Saturn, it really is a great console. Astal was surprisingly fun to play through and Tyrush Deppy was another fun japanese only game. Alot of great shooters and a variety of different genres of games. Clockwork Knight 2, though a little clunky, was a fun game to beat once I gave it a chance.

Wow i learnt of some games here I had never heard of, Thank SLX i'll be sure to check some of these out.

Saturn has so many gems!

Love Saturn content.... yours especially

Asuka 120% is probably pronounced as "Aw-ska"; like the WWE superstar as the name is spelled and pronounced the same way.

Asuka saga I think begging in the PC Engine CD, recently I play this game.

I freaking loved mass destruction. I put a ton of hours into it

I secretly come here to hear the intro on repeat... shhhh

Good vid X, I agree 100%, these games were amazing.

Scorcher is a Scavenger Team (Zyrinx) game and has music from Jesper Kydd.

Mass Destruction a banger in the tunes department too

Ok I know battle arena toshinden plays like absolute hell but the music is solid as hell especially being i think a playstation 1 pack in game

I found Winter Heat to be a tedious button masher like Athlete Kings (Decathlete).

actually vampire hunters animation was spot on for the saturn when the 1st and 2nd player picked the same character check it out

I started thinking that the ship they used for Titan Wars was wack. But It's not so bad. Reminds me of both Star Trek and Star Wars at same time. Also, initially, I didn't like the color scheme. I still think it's too drab...but some araes are narly. 10:00 and at the end, from 11:02 through 11:11. Awesome stuff. Looks cool.

Sega lord X you have earned your name!

Mass Destruction is actually a bit special because it's a Saturn game not made by Sega and not a 2D game that runs at 60fps

I thought the developer's of Return Fire were the same developers of Mass Destruction. I remember hearing Mass Destruction was developed by the Return Fire developers.

Thanks for keeping the saturn output up! Although I can't afford all of these I definitely burn most games you talk about and have a blast with them!

I had Mass Destruction on PC it was fun

Some of these I haven't played yet, got to try them out sometime

I wonder what happened with Scorcher. I've played the PC version since I was a kid and love the game, but when I tried the Saturn version I noticed the controls are very different for some reason, I think this is the main reason why people find it so hard. It's much responsive to control on PC.

Noon looks awesome!

Looking at Mass Destruction makes you wonder why the frame rate in Return Fire is so poor, maybe the PC version is smoother. Scorcher is quite pretty, the texture work is really nice from that vintage. Savaki does have an interesting grounded quality to it, weird to see such realistic kicks and punches when compared to Hadokens heh. Solar Eclipse is fine and solid, it's really like an upgrade to the FMV rail shooters a generation before it but with more actual player control. The Darkstalkers seemed to get ported fairly well on SS and PS1 but you're right how they get more overlooked in the west for SF. Wing Arms looks tight and smooth, likely from choosing to do fewer things well rather than too much poorly. A 120% still looks fun, remember reading about it in GameFan which often covered stuff that never was released in NA. :\

Wing Arms is an amazing game. I just wish I could find a Mission Stick complete with a box that isn’t beat the hell out of. I used to think it doubled as a twin stick. Too bad it doesn’t.

That's some sage like advice at the very end there. Another great one in the can!

Hello! While watch this video I discovered Scorcher and being a being a antigravity racing fan I paused, and purchased the game before finishing this video. Also purchased Vampire Hunter. And Wing Arms. 😀 Thanks.

I remeber working for a used game store in the early 2000's and I remeber grabbing almost every sega saturn game that came into the store. The standard price for any non-RPG was $4.95 and I got a lot of my collection that way. Some of the title you mention here are ones I got for that low price. Too bad Saturn was treated like trash. It really was a system worth a 2nd look.

...Yeah, putting Felicia on the thumbnail like that... that's one way to get me to insta-like your vid.

scorcher

14:29 Kage from VF doing jump.

SEGA=BEST GAMES=FOREVER!