THE SEGA SATURN IS OUT OF THIS WORLD

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The Sega Saturn is a glorious video game console. It's library is filled with some of the most imaginative and entertaining video games ever created. Many of these great games never made it to The Western markets but not it is possible for everyone to experience and appreciate the absolutely majesty that Saturn can offer. Whether you prefer shoot em ups, RPGs, action games, sports titles, arcade racers or platformers... Saturn offers a comprehensive selection of fantastic choices.
I only barely begin to scratch the surface of what is offered for this console in my video. These are just a hand full of examples of games that I enjoy and wanted to share.
Please let me know your favorite games for The Sega Saturn.
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@supermegagrafx64 Жыл бұрын

I noticed that the video seems to be hitching or glitching or... itching? something... anyway yeah so every once in a while it locks up for a split second here and there. This is not something that is happening on my original video file so I guess this is a youtube issue. I dont know. My apologies about that. I dont know if I can do anything to fix it.

@michaelromeo9567 Жыл бұрын

Stop spreading this urban legend again and again. 🤦‍♂ The Saturn wasn't designed first for 2D Even 2D games were a mess to develop with the first dev kit. Very simple 2D Games like suiko Enbu fuunsaïki had TERRIBLE frame drop with the first dev kit. SEGA Saturn was a 2D powerhouse AND a 3D powerhouse but was a mess to develop on. It's the only 32bit console that had 60 FPS 3D textured game in HIGH RESOLUTION..! 😱 We were only in 1995..! Playstation never magaged to do so EVEN in 1998/1999 with their new Andromada Kit..! Just imagine what they've could achieve if they didn't abandon the system so early... (Sorry for my English)

@fadzalhakimi1298 Жыл бұрын

Hitch, glitch and itch all rhyme.

@FunFactFactoryX Жыл бұрын

Apparently, this is a myth that Saturn was always intended to be a 3-D machine.

@knight0fdragon Жыл бұрын

100% correct man. Launch titles were 3D games, goes to show you the system had 3D in mind from the get go

@sentokigames151 Жыл бұрын

For me it was great and had the best joypad ever. I used to play streetfighter and fighting titles in general a lot, so the 6 buttons layout was just the best. And still up to this day it's my favourite joypad. And Daytona USA...damn when I played that in the arcades it was such a new experience and then on the Saturn it was too for me.

@Beavernator Жыл бұрын

Everyone in highschool had Playstation and talked trash on Saturn, UNTIL they came to my house... I had almost everything... We'd play Decathlete/ Winter Heat, Radiant Silvergun, The Street Fighter vs. Games, The Panzer Dragoons, Guardia Heros, and so many others... Only problem, was when they wanted to get some, the Games were almost immediately difficult to buy... Still play them to this day with my kids...

@teoperoxd Жыл бұрын

Of course it is out of this world, it's a SATURN! 😁

@aegisreflector1239 Жыл бұрын

The Saturn being able to play arcade perfect ports of X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Superheros vs Street Fighter, Darkstalkers 3 etc to me was sorcery and truly next gen experience at the time.

@macuser7048 Жыл бұрын

Alpha 1-3 too

@davy_K Жыл бұрын

@@macuser7048 Alpha 3 on Saturn is peak Saturn. Still considered the best port by many. Peak price too though.

@aegisreflector1239 Жыл бұрын

@@macuser7048 Yes EVERYTHING by Capcom, SNK even Sunsoft ( the ones who made Astra superstars) and Sega themselves Nights, Astal Panzer Dragoon etc

@macuser7048 Жыл бұрын

@@aegisreflector1239 Speaking of Sunsoft, Waku Waku 7 is on PS4 and XBOX One

@macuser7048 Жыл бұрын

@@davy_K Yeah it's gotten crazy now. lol The other Marvel games and Street Fighter games aren't as high in price now though.

@rolandbaron5813 Жыл бұрын

Long live the saturn ❤ thank you for sharing 🙏🏾

@hammerheadms Жыл бұрын

I loved the Saturn. My brother had one, while I owned a Nintendo 64 instead. It was an impressive piece of hardware. Too bad nobody liked writing games for it.

@richardwright1948 Жыл бұрын

So many great memories of the saturn. Sega rally, virtua fighter 2, fighters mega mix, the panza series, athlete Kings and so many more great games.

@silverwings21 Жыл бұрын

3:16 I was just watching an interview with a programmer; he said it wasn't that the Saturn was hard to program for, all new systems were hard to learn. What Playstation had was more documentation than the other systems, so it was easy to figure out how to work with it. 18:06 I have it; I should have got it free in "Ultra Game Players" magazine, but it wasn't there. But eventually got it about 20 years later off Ebay. Too bad I can't get P.T. Demo, that's why the future must remain physical. 25:02 I did a live stream of Deep Fear this October.

@jayt1077 Жыл бұрын

The Saturn actually rendered games using quadrilaterals instead of triangles as other 3D systems did. This contributed to the difficulty of making games because most 3D modeling programs used triangles. As far as I know this is still the case today as "quads" never caught on.

@sgx5481 Жыл бұрын

I wonder who came up with the idea of using quads for the Saturn --- that was a big mistake.

@masterkraft4746 Жыл бұрын

SEGA is the best video game company that ever existed

@knot3d_ Жыл бұрын

I cant believe that the guys behind the Virtua series, truly thought that the Saturn should have a 2D emphasis.

@EatingCtrlV Жыл бұрын

I love the Saturn so much, it's right there with the SNES as my favorite system, still to this day I use a Saturn pad for all of my 6 button fighting games. And so many of my favorite games live right here on this system. Dragon Force may just be my favorite games of all time, Sega Rally on Sat is easily my favorite arcade racer of all time and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold from the SF Collection on Sat is my favorite fighting game. The library may not have been as strong as the PS1's in NA, but the gems on the Saturn shine so bright.

@davy_K Жыл бұрын

Saturn was a good console. But it's a great console now. The Saturn and DC analogue sticks are drift proof because they use magnets to detect movement - so they don't wear out.

@VitorBarbosa 7 ай бұрын

Had tons of fun with the Sega Saturn back as a kid! Daytona USA, Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition, Virtua Cop, Virtua Cop 2, Tomb Raider, Last Bronx, Nights into Dreams, Sega Rally Championship, Manx TT Superbike, FIghting Vipers, Destruction Derby.. and many more! Bought a lot of used games on the cheap so had a pretty good set of games for it😁

@RIP_Milhouse Жыл бұрын

I lived beside the factory that pressed the CD games for the Saturn. QC would throw out anything with the slightest blemish. My friends and I would go to the back of the factory each week and lift trashbags full of games out of the skip. Wed keep titles we didnt have and sell the rest to games shops as trade ins. Special times!

@MaxOakland Жыл бұрын

That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard! What a lucky location

@TheRealDustinNunn Жыл бұрын

The Sega Saturn was the best fifth generation home video game console because the Sega Saturn was compatible with the Action Replay Plus RAM cartridge which allowed all Sega Saturn models to play imported USA, PAL region and Japanese Sega Saturn games such as the Japan-released only titles like X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, etc.. Plus, the Saturn was backwards-compatible with music CDs.

@TrevorFosterTheFosterDojo Жыл бұрын

thats why it was the best? lololol

@23GreyFox Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorFosterTheFosterDojo I'm not sure... Maybe some forgot that the PS1 played music CD's as well?

@TrevorFosterTheFosterDojo Жыл бұрын

@@23GreyFox ps1 dominated the Saturn these morons

@gjergjaurelius9798 Жыл бұрын

@@TrevorFosterTheFosterDojo Saturn? Shit N64 too! I had no faith in PlayStation and BOY…did I bet wrong!🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

@segare-trop-vieux3932 Жыл бұрын

The Saturn is the real beast of all Sega’s consoles, 1107 games, more consoles variants than any other, best controller, best tactical rpg…. Ok I guess it is only my point of view 😅

@VernonJr19 Жыл бұрын

Sega as a whole company was ahead of it times point blank!

@SNARC15 Жыл бұрын

To this day, I honestly believe that the Saturn might be the most underrated system of all time, and it's an absolute crime the way Bernie Stolar treated it. I'm glad to see it's now getting the love it deserves. I always wanted to get another Saturn console but the price range kept it out of my hands. Thankfully I'm able to relive the Saturn again via emulation on my Steam Deck, which runs it near flawlessly. I know you mentioned Duke Nukem 3D, which was a very impressive feat, even for a talented studio like Lobotomy, but whoever thought they'd actually get QUAKE to run on the Saturn, let alone run it quite well! The claim that the Saturn can not do 3D is one of gaming's biggest lies, almost up there when they lie about how Xbox has no games.

@dextersbeard3472 Жыл бұрын

The Saturn and the Dreamcast are 2 consoles that i absolutely love. Its such a shame some of the coolest titles never left Japan. There are so many RPGs on both consoles never got localized for the west

@Retro-Fez Жыл бұрын

The megadrive will always be my all time favourite console, i never had a saturn back in the day i switched to the ps1 but i got a saturn last year and love it ❤️

@roberto1519 Жыл бұрын

As a kid, I remember playing many exclusives, and actually played more 16-bit Sonic games on the Saturn than I did with the Mega Drive. The only thing they should have done is to add all Master System, the Game Gear exclusive Triple Trouble and Sonic CD to be the complete package, the museum in Sonic 3D World shows a lot of material from all Sonic versions and I somehow expected the 8-bit and CD games could be unlocked somehow, as this compilation isn't emulation, but a proper and enhanced port, like many console/arcade/computer-to console games tended to be, emulation was basically non-existent, which often meant good quality ports. Things like the dreaded Sega Smash Pack on the Dreamcast and many other 6th ports are emulated. Even back then I found Die Hard Trilogy clunky, with weird visuals, but I had so much fun playing the first and third games, Pandemonium, Croc, Sonic R, KOF96/97, Xmen vs SF, Marvel vs SF, Shining Force 3 trilogy, Alien Trilogy, Hexen, Duke 3D, The Holy Ark, Mystaria, Dragon Force, Die Hard Arcade, Virtua Cop 2, Tomb Raider, Grandia, Resident Evil, Myst, Riven and this is to name a few, it was the best time for me and my brothers, and also the best console to choose as we were totally into arcades, you could have it all with this console.

@Philroq7 Жыл бұрын

I’m still buying games for the Saturn and my Saturn is still hooked up to a CRT ready to go. I love the shmups genre meaning I absolutely adore the Saturn’s shmup library.

@TheMadisonHang Жыл бұрын

its kinda sad, but i'm glad finally we can all appreciate how amazing this generation of gaming really was

@Mashado Жыл бұрын

Normal since saturday means Saturn day.

@Nice-Poeci-Fancy-Guppies Жыл бұрын

I had a sega saturn the year before they came out and wow - ill never forget how ahead of its time it was. Blows my mind this wasn't bigger than playstation.

@godchi1dvonsteuben770 11 ай бұрын

It really is one of the greatest console of all time, bar none, no question. Effing' phenomenal system... Can't wait until the homebrew community gets really good at coding for it...

@marcbasil 8 ай бұрын

Imo it’s THE best. Saturn, MegaCD, & GameCube are the GOATs

@sournois90 3 ай бұрын

@@marcbasil why the gamecube?

@iPlaySEGA Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful gaming system! I ♥ the SEGA Saturn!

@Thor-Orion Жыл бұрын

I don’t think people view the Saturn the way you’re describing anymore. We Saturn fans have gone out and showed people the great exclusives on Saturn and people understand the value of the Saturn Library.

@warrensid Жыл бұрын

Who remembers Guardian Heroes? They re released it in X360 with ONLINE PLAY!! And outside of arcade 1up, Saturn had the best release of Xmen vs SF

@jeremysart Жыл бұрын

I just installed a Fenrir in my Saturn, best decision ever! Now I want to mod all of my pre Wii era disc based consoles with ODE's!

@pablohenrique3442 Жыл бұрын

Love the Saturn. Panzer Dragoon Saga is my favorite RPG of all time

@perfectionbox Жыл бұрын

Those pixels look super crisp... I'm guessing it looked smoother on the CRT screens people had back then

@scrambledcitycustomz8134 Жыл бұрын

Great commentary video, i love my saturn, but i hated how it got treated here in the states, i was the only one out of my friends with a saturn, thumbs up for mentioning wing arms!

@mrfake675 Жыл бұрын

I was the only kid in northern Canada with a Saturn. World series baseball was my happy place

@scrambledcitycustomz8134 Жыл бұрын

@@mrfake675 my happy place was panzer 1-2, sega rally and gun griffin.

@RobsRetroGaming Жыл бұрын

Man, I wish I had gotten a Saturn back then!

@muppetonmeds Жыл бұрын

If you have the money you should check out the Japanese ones on eBay I bought one last year and it didn't have a scratch on it and the disk drive runs perfectly not to mention the games are cheap as hell.

@LukeDodge916 Жыл бұрын

I ❤️ the Saturn. It was not as much of a love back in the 90s. The PS was king then. But decades later my fondness grew for this system (and the N64) immensely. I just wish it was so with everyone else, because I cant afford games anymore! Why the hell did I ever get rid of my old game collection...?

@jasonleveck8546 Жыл бұрын

Its the same problem when any of us gets rid of an old system, games, trading cards, toys and all that stuff. We never think to put it back in the box and hang onto it.

@LukeDodge916 Жыл бұрын

@@jasonleveck8546 that's the truth. I think everything i ever had while growing up, I've repurchased the past 10 years, at exorbitant prices! I really am gullible...

@muppetonmeds Жыл бұрын

@@LukeDodge916 Yeah the older we get the more we love to replay the past.

@joelmartins7794 Жыл бұрын

I NEVER see "Firestorm: Thunderhawk/Thunderstrike 2" in these videos. VERY underated game if you like flight simulators!

@demonology2629 Жыл бұрын

Wait a minute Sega Saturn has more power under the hood than Sony Playstation 1 and I even knew it back then there is a lot more chips in that system that has not even been tapped yet with programming. And it doesn't make sense to say that SEGA went the 2D way at first knowing damn good well Panasonic 3DO was doing the 3D games in 1993. Basically every 32-bit system was designed with 3D in mind as if 3DO started at all.

@roberto1519 Жыл бұрын

Some devs had to use half its performance, maybe even less, many games, such as Sim City 2000 uses only one CPU. The PS1 has many slick advantages, yes, it's a great machine, but if properly designed, from the ground up, the Saturn could reproduce games that any other hardware at the time would have a really hard time to duplicate.

@SomeOrangeCat Жыл бұрын

A lot of people talk about how overengineered the hardware was, but the Saturn had a second problem that made porting games over to it a pain: Quad polygons. Everyone else was using triangles, so models had to be heavily modified for the Saturn ports of games like Resident Evil, which is why they look so different.

@EhHold Жыл бұрын

Awesome system. Legend of Oasis, Dark Savior, Astal, Guardian Heroes, Sega Rally….. there were amazing games on this thing.

@vintagepennies6899 Жыл бұрын

Man, I'll always love the Saturn.

@fitnessabcvideo Жыл бұрын

Although the PS1 won this war, I had to own a Saturn due to my love of beat em ups, it was superior and it hit that itch that I wanted for near perfect arcade ports. As mentioned, guardian heroes..... An all time great. It's a shame that sega of America and Japan couldn't agree with how the later days of the genesis should have been handled and muddied the waters with too many add ons, this would have early on left newbies unsure as to what was an actual next gen console. Plus I read everywhere Saturn programming was rough compared to PS1 simplified hardware.

@winterwraith1934 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I wasn’t a newbie but I wanted a Sega CD when it came out but I couldn’t afford it and held out for the 32X. That tanked pretty fast and being fed up with Sega’s add-on nonsense I got a PlayStation. Around ’97 I did snag a used Saturn for mostly the excellent shooters and fighters available in Japan. It is now one of my favorite consoles of all time!

@seasidegalaxystreet Жыл бұрын

People say arcade conversions were not good. If Sega in that time released a full on arcade system for the home with exact games it would have been a dream. Imagine Daytona USA the same as the arcade but on your TV at home.

@DragonSlayerKyo Жыл бұрын

That would have been much more expensive than the Sega Saturn, sadly.

@Hahnsoulo Жыл бұрын

They kind of did do this, but later. The Dreamcast. It had a whole bunch of arcade perfect ports.

@seasidegalaxystreet Жыл бұрын

@@Hahnsoulo I think Sega should have followed a similar technique of Sony in terms of similar game titles released that made the PlayStation successful.

@m2y8v Жыл бұрын

I still have my original and still works in 2022

@TechyMantis Жыл бұрын

I do agree that the Sega Saturn is an underrated console

@LordBadenRulez Жыл бұрын

After the marketing machine settles and people forget the hype, these machines have to stand on their own merit. Which explains why peeps tend to only appreciate these machines years after they fail.

@pharotman2311 Жыл бұрын

Sega six button for street fighter 2 is perfection.

@Hahnsoulo Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, in the west the Saturn is viewed much more favorably as a retro console that it ever was as a current console back then. Back then people were blown away by the 3D graphics coming from the PS1 and N64. In retrospect, the 32-bit 2D games have aged better than the early 3D games did. So 2D PS1 games like Symphony of the Night are some of the best looking games on that system in retrospect. This also means that since the Saturn is a 2D powerhouse it is looked at much more favorably now than it was at the time, because 32-bit 2D graphics are viewed very favorably now.

@simonpreston Жыл бұрын

The Saturn's problem wasn't the hardware. The Saturn's problem was Sega. Their strategy was confusing, and they showed with the 32x they would drop it immediately, if they wanted to. Which they did. Then of course you have the Playstation, whose marketing made it the 'cooler' product, and so many flocked to that.

@zhangliao8175 Жыл бұрын

Sega was, many times, it's own worst enemy.

@MaddSweetGT500 6 ай бұрын

I love the Saturn ... My fav ever. I still have all of my games with receipts! :)

@SharifSourour Жыл бұрын

I have a Japanese Saturn and Christmas Nights. Will definitely play it this Christmas!

@kingforaday8725 Жыл бұрын

Sad that console wise we are now down to two options. PS or Xbox. Loved the days of the console wars.

@brunoramos9747 Жыл бұрын

There is definitely something special about that system

@Robin-ie3ns Жыл бұрын

Great video! What's amazing about the Saturn is just how many games there are for it -- as you mention prob 50+ high quality shooters and tons of arcade perfect ports; Space Harrier, Out Run, Afterburner, All the SF2/Alpha variations, Ghouls N Ghost/Ghosts n Goblins to name a few. The 3D does let it down a bit, but the top tier 3D games hold up and the 2D library is incredible.

@theobserver86 Жыл бұрын

I almost wish video games would have stayed 2D for a while longer. The 2D era was some of the best gaming in history

@DarDarBinks1986 Жыл бұрын

I grew up during the '90s a.k.a. the Platinum Age of gaming. The Saturn was one of those consoles that I always wanted but never had when it was new. Didn't score mine until five years ago, when I got lucky and found a working unit at a flea market along with a few games: Virtua Fighter Remix, Virtua Fighter 2, and Daytona USA. Among the games I do want to find for it: Sonic Jam, Fighters Megamix, Dragon Force, the 2D Capcom games (even though I have Street Fighter Alpha 1 and 3 on PS1 already), Magic Knight Rayearth, and the various shmups on it. I can't help but feel cheated out of those experiences because I had a PS1 and N64 back then. To all the fanboys, fangirls, and everybody in between and beyond who bitch and moan about the Saturn: Can't we all agree that the Saturn, PS1, and N64 all had great games? That's all that matters! Let people enjoy things! As long as you're having fun, that's the most important thing that matters!

@Nightopian1982 Жыл бұрын

Great video pal. I've recently got my Saturn modded with a Fenrir Duo ODE, and I'm so glad I did! Being able to play Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silvergun, Shining Force 3, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Metal Slug, Dead or Alive, King of Fighters 95/96 to name just a few, without having to spend hundreds, nay, thousands of pounds for the privilege is truly wonderful. I owned my original Saturn way back in 1996, and whilst many friends thought it rubbish next to the PS1 and N64 (because they all believed the massive media bias that existed back then), I personally never felt as much love for a console as this. I also still own a PS1, N64 and Dreamcast, and frankly, I've always enjoyed this era of gaming far more than modern machines. Gameplay is key, as opposed to the obsession with photo-realistic visuals. Was the Saturn a failure? No doubt yes, next to the PS1 in terms of sales, but there seems to have been a recent resurgence in the retro market for this truly wonderful console. The number of emulators, mods, and various geekery sites are great, and I heartily recommend that anyone who never gave the Saturn a chance back in the day, or modern day gamers who were too young to remember it, take advantage of the marvellous variety of options to play such gems of gaming history. I would, however, recommend getting hold of the console, modded or otherwise, together with the 3D controller, rather than an emulator. It's a far better experience overall. Unless you're a collector, though, I'd suggest a mod, as some of the top titles will set you back upwards of £100-800! There's a couple of HDMI converter cables available nowadays, so there's no real issues with playing on modern TVs!

@stucazzo2000 Жыл бұрын

We bought ours shortly after the Saturn was released early to the public in '95. Having played Daytona USA in the arcades, the Saturn port looked dreadful and it immediately gave me a bad vibe about the console. After the initial game library that we picked up, we picked up NHL Powerplay '96 as our last game for the system and it collected dust for many many many years. Fast forward to about 2019 when I decided to get a Pro Action replay and try out some of the Japanese games that I would burn to disc. And holy shit... The Saturn went from something I didn't care about at all, to a console in my top 5 now. It blows the N64 away imo. The library of arcade games and 2 gaming is incredible. It is such an underrated console, I'm so happy that it's getting it's due 27 years after it's launch. Hail Sega Saturn. :)

@AcesnEights698 Жыл бұрын

Sega had the best 3D arcade games at the time. "Hey lets focus on a next gen 2D console and not utilize our established IPs. Why am I losing?"

@MaxOakland Жыл бұрын

They were such a mess

@ostroom Жыл бұрын

Sega Saturn was awesome.. thx for this video!

@Ancaja123 Жыл бұрын

This backup unlocked sounds awesome!!!! I have close to a hundred CDs I burned for Saturn during lockdown...I love the system

@cyber13337 Жыл бұрын

I've had my Saturn for 20 years or so, Still play it all the time. Sataurn and Neo Geo CDZ are my gotos these days. I love the games and am sick of having to install games on the new consoles. I just want to put a disc in and play.

@andriodman1 Жыл бұрын

What games do you find yourself playing now a days on the Saturn? Just curious. Thanks

@cyber13337 Жыл бұрын

@@andriodman1 Radiant Silvergun, Shinrei Jusatushi Taroumaru, Elevator Action Returns, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Street Fighter Collection, Magic Knight Rayearth....I could name more, so many good games

@tankdarla637 Жыл бұрын

Sega Saturn blew me away bitd. Still has some of the best games ever.

@LordBadenRulez Жыл бұрын

Some of my faverite games I still play on my PAL Saturn are, Nights, Warcraft 2, Duke Nuk'em, Command and Conquer, Quake, Resident Evil, Amok, Tomb Raider. I didnt have a PC at the time but I was able to finnish all these games on my good old Saturn. Love the analogue 3D controller :)

@segasaturn6800 Жыл бұрын

Great video ! We still love segasaturn 😀

@randomanton Жыл бұрын

Virtua cop was a great game for Saturn

@kurtsydavis7517 Жыл бұрын

If not the best

@2stroke4ever Жыл бұрын

The Saturn was a 2d and a 3D beast. It had more raw power than the Playstation and even could do better textures. What the Saturn could never deliver better than the Playstation was the transparency effects in 3d games not the 3d itself. Look at Virtua Fighter 3, a perfect example of the console´s 3d capabilities when a game is written properly by in-house programers.

@orkoto6057 Жыл бұрын

Of course could, but it was not worth the effort and hassle. Just take a look at Astal and Guardian Heroes. Also many effects took advantage of composite video, in RGB looks really nasty. Tricks of the era

@andriodman1 Жыл бұрын

@@orkoto6057 could never understand how those two games got the transparency to work right but every other game didn't. Even all the first party games. Really crappy

@orkoto6057 Жыл бұрын

@@andriodman1 take a look at this channel its quite revealing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMV_lsuAu8W7dJs.html

@powerfulaura5166 Жыл бұрын

It's a cope that it was a '3D beast'. VDP1 couldn't draw nearly enough polygons (what are really 2D sprites distorted into quads) fast enough to match the PS1's GTE for instance. If your game could use VDP2 to draw the floor (which has to be flat, btw, somewhat limiting potential game design), freeing up resources on VDP1, then yeah you could pull off some impressive 3D visuals &/or performance.

@maroon9273 Жыл бұрын

Saturn was horrible with lighting and used warped sprites/polygons.

@gedrooney9305 Жыл бұрын

Daytona was GREATNESS as a 14yr old with long hair, a skateboard and a Pearl Jam T-shirt…

@outerspaceman7534 Жыл бұрын

Pearl Jam wasn’t good bro.

@gedrooney9305 Жыл бұрын

@@outerspaceman7534 For a teenager in the 90’s the first two albums were awesome- after that they went shit

@outerspaceman7534 Жыл бұрын

@@gedrooney9305 I’ll be honest they are crap. I was listening to their first two albums yesterday. I just prefer bands like Soundgarden if I wasn’t my 90s grunge fix. They sound more heavier and metal.

@gedrooney9305 Жыл бұрын

@@outerspaceman7534 Im a Soundgarden/ Stone Temple fan, I never bothered buying another PJ album after Vitalogy as a kid. Moved onto Beefheart and down that rabbit hole..I’m a 43yr old rock climber now..Grunge energy keeps me pulling hard on rock instead of smashing shins on my board..

@zenzero1356 Жыл бұрын

AIC > PJ and STP

@dave99887 Жыл бұрын

What a great video. I wish I kept my Saturn.. Watching this video brought back so many fond childhood memories. Glad I came across your channel!

@collect-thor8064 Жыл бұрын

As a huge SEGA fan i really like your videos. Keep up the good work!

@PaeTian Жыл бұрын

DragonForce is my all-time favourite game for the Sega Saturn. Back then I did not speak English and didn't understand anything but I still had a lot of fun playing it. Even I never managed to beat the game, for obvious reasons 🤣 -Tian

@katseazzz Жыл бұрын

unfortunately none of the 90's consoles lived and had games to see the full potential of them ecept of course the playstation..imagine if playstation never existed and you had the chance to see great games from the sega saturn,atari jaguar,3do,amiga cd32 etc cause all these consoles had the power do do a lot more than what we saw,,or imagine to see other style of games than fighting games and shootemups from the ultimate neo geo..

@TheRealMince69 Жыл бұрын

Another amazing video! I really wish I would have had more time with my Saturn years ago, I really missed out.

@cuteuiboy Жыл бұрын

Loving those sweet, sweet Saturn money shots! I'm probably the only one to say this, but I LOVED playing with the pitch modulation in the cd player and watching those cubes pulse to the rhythm of the music.

@insanebarz Жыл бұрын

You're making me miss my Sega Saturn Bro.

@segaarcade_baby0888 2 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this video. Thank you.

@iwantthemoonback4198 Жыл бұрын

Loving the Golden Axe theme at the start!!

@avinashrambakus9266 Жыл бұрын

Bought my Saturn at launch and boy was it great

@SNARC15 Жыл бұрын

As did I. I was shocked to see it in stores early and as a huge VF fan I had to get it. Fast forward several months and you would need to scrape my jaw off the floor after seeing VF2 run.

@N1C0YA Жыл бұрын

Great video and loving the golden axe music in the background!

@stevenewsome5306 Жыл бұрын

I love my sd modded Saturn and dreamcast. I remember getting my first Saturn for Christmas. It didn’t come with the right hookups for tv and I threw a major fit. Luckily my parents took me to get the proper hookups and all was well. Not sure if mine was just missing or what but it’s a memory I’ll never forget.

@Nightopian1982 Жыл бұрын

Which mod do you have? I've got a Fenrir Duo ODE for my Saturn. My DC isn't modded (yet). It's an awesome thing to have. I'm going through all the back issues of Sega Saturn Magazine I've recently downloaded in PDF, and it's really great revisiting such a great time in my gaming life. I've also ordered an HD upscaler for January, so I'm massively looking forward to that. I've been going crazy on the retro this past year, got an N64, PS1 and SNES too. The Saturn is my fave, however.

@stevenewsome5306 Жыл бұрын

@@Nightopian1982 mine is Fenrir but not sure which series. I buy my consoles rtg. I can load everdrives and sd cards but prefer to have them already modded. Very convenient and imo best way to do it, especially someone just starting out with collecting. Playing on original hardware and have all the games available is awesome. I’m selling most of my physical. Saddens me and I hate to say it but Everdrives are the future for retro gaming.

@Nightopian1982 Жыл бұрын

@@stevenewsome5306 yeah I'm getting an Everdrive for my SNES and N64. I had to install my Fenrir myself, but it wasn't a problem. The ability to play on the original hardware is, as you said, by far the best way. Emulators are all well and good for those who haven't got the money to pay for consoles, but I found it very difficult to get any running on my laptop. There were all sorts of compatibility issues, so I just gave up in the end. Discovering the Fenrir was just fantastic.

@onenessseeker5683 Жыл бұрын

To finally have sega rally at home instead of just arcade was one of the best times in my life. Enough said

@darthpaulx Жыл бұрын

I think Sega Rally 1 is still better then 2. 1 was so much fun. :)

@Ch1n4m4nn Жыл бұрын

My beat time on video games. And I had them all at one time. But the Saturn was awesome. Luckily I had access to the world wide market. I got more Japanese games than EU ones.❤

@ChairmanMeow1 Жыл бұрын

I was a big fan of the Dreamcast too. If you liked certain types of games, both were pretty great.

@russellmania5349 Жыл бұрын

Grandia 2 and Skies of Arcadia are my 2 favorite RPG games of all times that came out on the dreamcast.

@evilsdemise1287 Жыл бұрын

I was one of the few people who bought a Sega Saturn instead of a Playstation. I got mine at Toys R Us. I have the original Panzer Dragoon, the one in the middle of the screen at 7:28 I also bought a spaceship flying game that was kind of "on rails" with multiple corridors you could go down and some of them were dead ends. I can't remember the name of it, but I do remember that it had real actors in the little com-screen that would pop up when your teammates or enemies would talk to you during the missions. I remember one particular mission where you had to chase down an enemy but his ship was much faster than the player ship. I also have a football game, can't remember the name of that one either, it's not Madden but it's really good. Btw I really enjoy how genuine you seem, it somehow comes across in the video. This is the first time I've come across the channel so I'm just subbing now.

@lethalwolf7455 Жыл бұрын

Not a space ship game but this kind of sounds like Sewer Shark, from your description, or possibly Descent

@hemesath3 Жыл бұрын

I was hooked on Sewer Shark back in the day for some reason lol

@billiondollarman3847 Жыл бұрын

Much ♡ to this Console. My Top 5. Story of Thor 2 Athlete Kings Torico Virtua Cop 2 Sega Rally

@maxzavalaiii2866 Жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! The retro algorithm has bestowed this video in KZfaq for me to watch and I'm glad I pushed play. I dabbled in the Saturn by means of renting the system for a weekend at a Blockbuster in the mid 90s and my cousins owned one as well. I always appreciate videos that dig in deep on the Sega Saturn. Would love to see a Saturn mini be made for retrophiles like myself. Great video, following. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

@humanice2 Жыл бұрын

Among the best video game purchases I've ever made was getting that Terraonion MODE disc emulator for the Saturn, I beat through entire english translations on the Saturn, Shining Force 3 Scenario 1, 2 and 3 quickly became some of my favorite games ever, the Saturn is an amazing console, being able to turn it on and going straight into a menu with a list of games you can choose from has made disc collecting obsolete. Yet I do own a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga, but I bought that around 10 years ago, it was even expensive back then but nothing compared to today.

@hamidisaidi2879 Жыл бұрын

I play SS throughout my teenage years...a lot of fav games...but im just gonna name 2.. Magic Knights Rayearth and Dragon Force.

@shadowboyv9532 Жыл бұрын

Ray earth is a great ass game

@TheLastLineLive Жыл бұрын

The Saturn deserved better, especially outside of Japan. Imagine if we would have gotten games like Sonic Xtreme and Shenmue on the system, that would have been insane!

@darthpaulx Жыл бұрын

Now that you've mentioned it. I still need to play Shenmue 3 to finish the story. Played 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast.

@23GreyFox Жыл бұрын

I cam image a Shem Mue on the Saturn, it already run horrible on the Dreamcast.

@abdullakc Жыл бұрын

Very good video man! Informative and not silly as other videos around KZfaq!

@gilbert3579 Жыл бұрын

Yes! I was waiting for this!

@freddiejohnson6137 Жыл бұрын

I think the biggest problem was that in the west most people were moving away from just playing arcade games at home and wanted much more content in their games. Then there was the fact that even though 3D games from the times ages poorly they certainly wowed people and the Saturn simply couldn't keep up and while it had plenty of fantastic 2D games that have aged better they didn't really interest the public as much. Some of its games aging well doesn't change that it didn't appeal to most people at the time and some people think that simply more of the 2D games left in Japan being released would some how have saved it when they wouldn't.

@jsp1107 Жыл бұрын

I have to agree Sega rally was the best game on the saturn and the replay music was great

@TboneTenEighties Жыл бұрын

It's my favorite Sega console also. I was very late to the Japanese side of things but I am really enjoying picking up new games for it. I also purchased my first Japanese Saturn console a couple weeks ago. I'm in love all over again. Can't stop spending money lol aaahhhhhhh! Cool vid SEGA!!!

@The.love1 Жыл бұрын

amazing work man plz continue

@SciFictionOfficial Жыл бұрын

Superb channel!!! 😀

@jasonleveck8546 Жыл бұрын

We never had a Saturn. We had the Dreamcast, which really was a tremendously good console, but suffered under the poisoned past of Sega's failings with the 32X, Sega CD and ultimately the Saturn. Saturn looks like another console with so much untapped potential! Sucks that these things happen, but often times people in big business and especially management seem to actually be really stupid.

@macuser7048 Жыл бұрын

The Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and Sega 32X should have been all in one system.

@lrddarius Жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved my Sega Saturn. I bought it when it first came out and spent many hours playing it with my brother and some friends. I had well over 30 games in my library which were all completely awesome and imop hands down way better than anything the PlayStation had to offer. Sadly I made the dumbass decision to give it away when I was moving to some friend of my then girlfriend. A totally stupid decision because I miss the games and basically everything about that system. Awesome video and great content. Thanks so much for bringing us this.

@fullauto86 Жыл бұрын

I remember virtual figher one changed how gaming graphics could be presented. Stunned at tue time, seems quaint now but man at the time, stuff like vf, mario 64, quake on pc, things really changed during that time. Good stuff, great video.

@Colwray1 Жыл бұрын

I bought this in the UK on day 1… for me aa you said one of the best consoles ever made…. Loved it.. but the marketing of it especially in the uk let it down as all you saw on TV then was Sony Sony Sony…. The rest is history! It wasn’t the console it was the way it was marketed arc the time that let it down….😢

@redcrimson1028 Жыл бұрын

Great video my boy.

@theobserver86 Жыл бұрын

Ppl don't support these systems when they're out but always like it after its gone The sega Saturn The sega Dreamcast The Nintendo GameCube I think it's bcuz ppl love an underdog

@karimcheese7257 Жыл бұрын

Hindsight is 20/20