Why is this such a good channel?

"I can think of no other reason why this game sells for this kind of money." //Starring Tim Curry//

Very happy to have been a Saturn owner in the '90s. I have a very healthy collection of the majority of what folks ga-ga over, but at a fraction of the modern cost. Oh, for the days when stacks of Guardian Heroes were on clearance at Toys R Us for $5 a piece, and they even still had NES stuff on clearance at the same time...

Rare & Expensive Sega Saturn Games: The entire US collection minus like five games.

The "Working Designs tax" was quite notorious even back 20 years ago. Everything they released seemed to shoot up in price within a few months due to low and short print runs.

This makes me so glad I hoarded every Saturn game I could in the late 90s early 2000s.

At one point these were in a bin for a few dollars.

At least I know when my life goes off the rails, I can trade my Saturn games for heroine at the prices they fetch.

In a world where we can easily and effectively emulate Saturn games with official Saturn controllers no less buying any of these games is less about pursuing quality titles and more about collecting artefacts. As a previous collector I remember how addicting that next high could be in completing a library. That being said, Dragon Force is the best Sega Saturn game for sure.

Ha! I have the Working Designs Sega Ages (purchased it back when they released it) and also have each individual game from Japan (purchased much later) just because I am insane. Also I had no idea there was a longbox version of Virtua Fighter Remix.

I was a Manager at Toys r Us back during the time most of these released so I had instant access to these Saturn titles the store was in redwood city Ca 3 exits away from Sega of America headquarters. We always had sega people in and out of the store and got some real good information on what was going on with the company.

This is why I stopped collecting Saturn games years ago. The price vs gameplay value is so tilted. I got the games i wanted and got out. I got my Pebble Beach Golf Links with Craig The Walrus Stadler and that's all I need.

I always love hearing about the kind of things you put into your "THE TRULY STRANGE" category. So little of that sort of thing ever happened outside of Japan, so it's always fascinating to hear about it.

I'm currently about 25 hours into Shining: The Holy Ark and can recommend this title to anyone who is into classic dungeon crawlers. Well worth mentioning here!

Another awesome video! So glad I collected the Saturn when stores were clearing them out. I couldn't imagine paying the prices some of these games go for now.

Dragon Force is my favorite game of all time.

Dragon Force is truly a gem, I still have my original copy, never sold it, and don't plan on selling it unless i got an insane amount lol

Really great episode. Please do a part 2! It is crazy how popular Saturn has become with collectors now. I can not even find crappy sports games for under $30 locally, if I find saturn games at all.

Great video man keep up the good work 👍 I was kinda hoping to see Panzer Dragoon Saga here on this list but Im glad you're making part 2

Excellent episode!! This is the best "pricing guide" episode I have ever seen and you're honest no b.s. approach to telling it how it is a breath of fresh air!! Totally agree with you across the board on all opinions expressed. MORE, more episodes of this type would be awesome!! Cheers, SLX! 🤘

I could imagine a scenario playing out like this: "Hey guys, I just got paid 2 grand!" "Oh man, that's cool! What are you gonna buy? A car? A new watch?" "Ohh, I was thinking of buying Eyeful Home and Heim Waltz on the Sega Saturn!" "Wow! Those must be some pretty cool games, considering their price!" "Well... You basically spend the whole game 'walking' through low res FMV's in houses in random houses." "Oh...."

There’s a lot of games missing do a part 2 asap!!!

One of your finest videos to date in my opinion. PLEASE do a part 2!

So glad I was a Saturn fan back when the system was still on shelves. I own a nice selection of these rare games, and paid only $10-$56 (with tax) to buy them. Panzer Dragoon Saga, Burning Rangers, Magic Knight Rayearth, all $56 (with tax), and definitely the rarest games I own. Dragon Force and Guardian Heroes, probably $35 (with tax), my friend left Saturn Bomberman (just the disc) at my house, and then stopped talking to me, and never asked for it back, so I got it for free. Looking forward to a part 2 in this series.

No mention of the most sought-after Sega Saturn game. Panzer Dragoon Saga 🤨.

Maybe placing Tim Curry in that Frankenstein game made it shoot up in price lol

This is such a great channel, great content and highly informative 👌

As always, very well done sir. Makes me again, start collecting. Great work

Thankyou sega lordx i added a sega saturn with a terraonion mode, an action replay cart, a levelhike hdmi upscaler 256gb sd card, a retrobit sega saturn controller and a virtua arcade stick to boot. All thanks to your videos! Even though i had no experience with a sega saturn as a kid in the 90s it is now my favorite video game console of all time! Its going to provide my daughter and i memories for years to come! Thankyou so much for your content segalordx!!

PDS and Radiant Silvergun were the first that immediately came to mind when I saw the title.

I´ve just realized that some Sega Saturn games are as expensive as Neo Geo games. Keep those videos coming. Rare & Expensive Sega Saturn Games part 2 in 3, 2, 1 ......... now.

The fact that I sold my huge Saturn collection with most of these games for cheap to buy a Dreamcast on lunch date makes me sick :P. If only the younger me knew...

I feel like that I'm better off buying all these games than paying the university system thousands of dollars!!

Fascinating stuff SLX, looking forward to a part 2 👍

I own a bunch of those. Glad I got them when they cost under $50. Thanks for the show!

I still get the old Saturn out and play through my copy of Dragon Force about once a year. Fantastic game.

Thank God for Emulation!

Great video! As always. This channel truly is a KZfaq's treasure

Definitely make a part 2! these videos are to be catalogued as a way to get a better field of view for pricing. Because I am going to collect Sega Saturn as well and I need more of these. Another great video man.👊💥✌

Most of my Saturn games i paid under 40 USD. The most expensive was the US version of Sega Ages Volume 1 costing me about 93 dollars shipped. Those prices are from four years ago. I use to spend kinda crazy money on retro video games especially the ones i had as a kid. I pretty much have all the physical retro games i want titles i will enjoy and appreciate for years to come. Great video as always.

Hell yeah, you not only showed one of the most OP general moves (Holy Shield), you also picked a fight that had the best fight music. Dragon Force may well be my favorite game of all time. If it were ever released on virtual console--anywhere--I would buy the console purely to play it. I love the game THAT much.

The "truly strange" category was fascinating, would love to see more of that.

I’ve still got my Saturn and games i loved and played back in the 90’.

Sending this to friends with the caption "This is what I've brought on myself"

Still waiting on a Saturn Mini. Forget the Dreamcast, pretty much all of the good games for it have already been ported to other platforms.

Love your videos as usual! So much nostalgia and info I actually get excited when I see you post a new one! Thanks for the hours of entertaining content!

Topic is certainly worthy of another episode. Thanks for the research and production, Sega Lord X.

Another great video. Looking forward to Part 2!

I sold my Sega Saturn collection last year. It saved my life.

Yeah!!! U read my comment and made a video of it!!!!! Hats off to u man!!!

My mom worked as a cell phone dealer (this was early 90s so it was a big deal then) in 2 different malls. One of her stores was right next to an "Electronics Boutique" the other was 3 stores down from a "Software ETC". Needless to say, when I'd have to go with her when she worked night shift, and stay as a kid I'd be in those stores and the arcades. I eventually pre-ordered a dreamcast in 1998 but I had the Saturn before. Marcus was the name of the manager at the Software ETC and he told me to wait a week and the Saturn games would be cheap. Well, they were. I got so many games for ~$100 (My lawn mowing money). I even had doubles of some titles. About a month after that, Marcus came into my mom's store with another one of his guys with a rolling cart and 2 big cardboard boxes. They were full of Saturn games. He asked me if I wanted them and to give him an offer. We left that day with all those games for $150. I had to borrow money from my mom. I guess they weren't selling even on closeout, so he just took what he could for them since they were already considered a loss. There was every rare game in there you could think of. I still have 10 sealed copies of PDS from that day. MKR, MMX4, MM8, etc... This story isn't a unique one either. These games aren't that rare. People just hoard them and mess with the "market".

Your commentary and the way you structured everything made this video very enjoyable to watch

Great VIDEO. I'm fond of the Sega Saturn. My sister brought me Saturn Bomberman for $5 in 1996. Me and my boys still play it today. I always told her that the prices were going to skyroocket. Great channel and great memories. Still shocked about dragon force. Another GEM.

Quite happy that I still have my copies of Shining and the Holy Ark, Guardian Heroes and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Wish I had bought Dragon Force all those years ago though.

I'm not gonna lie. I bought a Sega Saturn on the summer of 2019 And I have absolutely no games for it

Opens Retroarch. Downloads Beetle Saturn Core. Enjoys everything on this list in HD.

Yes, please do a part 2 to this video. I really enjoyed it. I wasn't able to get a Saturn as a kid because it was so expensive ( lol, my father just laughed at me when he seen how much the Saturn cost) but my wife got me one a couple of years ago CIB no less for a great price and so finally I can experience this legendary library of games. I actually stumbled upon Sega Ages at my local retro game shop last year and got it along with Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2 all CIB and in mint condition for well under market. Sega Ages is the pride of my Saturn collection and a fantastic game but it is most definitely not worth spending $200 on. I picked up a replay ram card and I'm fixing to start importing since the PAL and Japanese versions are far more reasonable in price........mostly.

Yep. I'm going to need a part 2. Also, Sega CD.

Ive seen power slave many times. It looks like a game id love. It seems imaginative, and in that respect i feel as though it would remind me of how i felt playing games like timesplitters back in the day. I need to find out if my uncle still has his saturn... id buy that thing for whatever price he wants. Saturn was always cool as hell to me. Also, love the arcade music in between segments! Hit me in the nostalgia with altered beast and golden axe.

Dragon Force was pretty addicting. I brought it for about 70 ten years ago. And I got Shining the Holy Ark for around 40

I have been waiting for this!

Sold my copy of Daytona Net-Link Edition to the Immortal John Handcock to help complete his collection. He posted a video about it with good information on concerns with collecting older cd based media. I think he was happy with the purchase (and so was I $$$)

I'm happy I own Shining Force Holy Ark and DragonForce and completed them both.

Shining the Holy Ark kinda gave me some Golden Sun vibes!

Great video, it deserves a sequel.

I adore this channel. Seriously. Only a channel like this I can get Sega related content this well articulated. These vids are the highlight of my week. Hearing that Batman theme at the end. You do it nice, brother. Definitely do a second episode. Keep doing what you do, SLX

Thankfully i kept my Saturn and 95% of the games i had with it and everything i bought knew is still virtually mint, apart from Panzer Dragoon Saga which i picked up for £87.00 every other ive purchased has as a retro collector has been from Japan even buying some as back up copies for my PAL games as they are just so darn cheap.

Back in 2015 I purchased a complete long case of VFR, for 90 dollars. Crazy how the price jacked up in just 5 years. Thank you for another good, and insightful video SLX!!!!

First time I ever heard of that bicycle crazy taxi looking game. Looks fun as hell

I've bought that Frankstein game at Walmart for PC many years ago. I paid around 10 dollars.

I just watched this and despite not being a collector, seeing what's out there is very interesting. I would love a part 2.

Resellers helped sparked the expensive prices we see today for consoles like the Saturn, the PC Engine, and the SNES. They are also slowly doing it for the Genesis too.

Couldn't agree more , if I'm paying that kind of money it better be fun. Great video as always

Man i wish i still had guardian heroes, my fav game of all time. Good thing im getting an odroid soon, its one of the games on the list :)

Loved this one ! Definatly need an episode 2 right here , right now !!

The pricing is a result of the Saturn's overall failure in the market, especially here in the UK. Pretty much every PAL game released in 1998, sells for crazy money now.

'Love your stuff! SEGA Saturn 4 Life!!! FIRST!!!

Another key strategy for collectors is to be patient when scouring Ebay for finds. Every once in a while, you will find a rare title for a very low price that somehow gets ignored by bidders. I also recommend buying “disc only” titles, whoch may be notably cheaper. I bought a disc copy of Worldwide Soccer 98 for $10, while the boxed copy goes for $40. If you see a bargain like that, go for it. Finally, don’t forget that CD-R is an option, especially for super rare classics like Powerslave. Keep looking to collect your library, but don’t miss out on playing old videogames. This also applies to fan translations such as Shining Force 3 Trilogy, Policenauts and Sakura Wars.

Some of the games you mentioned like Power Slave or SOTN, I can't believe they hiked the fuck up prices overtime. They were fairly cheap something like between $45 to $65 pre-internet talks about them, this is amazing.

I can't argue with guardian heroes. That games is worth a ton more. One of best games ever made.

Awesome video SLX, I'm glad someone out there covers Saturn games and Sega games in general.

I have binge watched almost all of your videos. You definitely have quality content 👍 keep it up!

Recently got my Saturn emulator up and running. I'm really excited to try out both Dragonforce games

Holy crap! I'm glad I got a hold of Sega Ages before the price reached $200. I have just the game in the jewel case, but I know how to play these games. :)

Until watching this video I had no idea how good a deal I got when I purchased “Shining the Holy Ark” complete with case and instruction manual off of Amazon for $24 back in 2010!

I picked up Frankenstein for £2 when the Saturn was fading. I'm glad I didn't pay any more for it! I could never really figure out what was going on in that game, but good to see it's a good investment.

Thanks Lord!!!!!

Those two FMV he software disks are actually fantasy games now. They show you respectable homes you could actually buy as a working class.

Yesssss Dragon Force and Guardian Heroes were my absolute favorite. I honestly never see those on anyone's top list especially DF.

I love your channel, especially Saturn games and hard to find Dreamcast games. Never got a chance to get a Saturn so I’m living through your experiences

*The Shining Force 3 trilogy* is wonderful. Great for any SRPG fan, and orgasmic for fans of the series. There's also a superb fan translation for Chapter 2 and 3.

*Guardian Heroes* - like so many Treasure games - is best known for its amazing 2D character control, super precise collision/hitboxes/ability interaction, creative enemies and boss encounters, and outstanding co-op play. The 6-player vs. mode with a massive roster of playable characters that you unlock in the campaign is a sweet cherry on top, and the game's multi-plane 2D adds immensely to the strategy in this battle mode. If your first GH experience was on Xbox using the Xbox 360 controller's absolutely disgusting d-pad, you didn't quite enjoy it as intended - and your perception of control and gameplay was likely compromised.

I enjoyed this video, but you definitely left a few out for a part 2. I'd love to watch it!

Absolutely make more!

Wonderful episode, one rare Saturn import that came to mind was 'Big Thanks Super Keirin 50th anniversary Not For Sale Version' although not as expensive as some of the other games on your list.

Great vid! Please do a part 2 as there a bunch of other games you missed. Some games I'd like to see covered include; Winning Post, Battle Sport, Maximum Force, Megaman X3 (PAL), Dragonball Z The Legend (PAL), Three Dirty Dwarves, Herc's Adventures, and Batman Forever The Arcade Game.

Imagine selling your home to afford a complete Saturn collection, only to find out that the house you just sold was showcased in a Saturn real estate software several years prior.

Do a part two for sure!

Best Sega channel in history, easily

Don't forget *Hyper Duel* - a beyond perfect arcade port (with extra stuff for home). It's a horizontal shooter by Technosoft, I believe their 2nd or 3rd arcade title, and the Saturn port feels really beefy and powerful, like a thoroughbred arcade shmup from the era. Has the legendary developer's typically stylish menus, HUD, and overall strong level, weapon, and enemy design. Worth tracking down.