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>That kid who owned a Sega Saturn
Was anyone on Ganker that kid? -
Didn’t even know it existed at the time, lmao.
Now Dreamcast, that was the fuckin shit.
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Me. We had a Megadrive, Saturn, Playstation, Gameboy + Color, PS2, PC, XBOX and Dreamcast for my childhood.
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I was an adult when the saturn came out its was a good system. i also had PS1 and N64
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You ever listen to Retronauts?
I was a big fan of 1up podcasts, before magazines went bankrupt-
nope
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I have yet to even see a Saturn
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why did sega of america even bother with the saturn, it had no fucking games
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Sega should have went with the 32X, skipped the Shiturn, and released the 3dfx-based Dreamcast instead of PowerVR.
Sega would’ve never died if they’d done this.
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dreamcast has 700 games, saturn has 1000+ games
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Over 1000 games in the library and nothing at all worth playing. What a fucking pathetic console and a shitstain on Sega’s great legacy.
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It’s incredible how SEGA consoles in Europe went from being the household name to a literally who when the Saturn launched
PS1 completely dismantled more than a decade of SEGA dominance in Europe in a single year-
There were still plenty of Sega diehards around but man it really is amazing just how quickly Sega went down. Nintendo losing dominance in the US was a much, much slower process, in Europe Sega just fucking vanished overnight.
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The N64 was more relevant than the Saturn in Europe, that’s how much of a fiasco it was
Nintendo whose biggest achievement in Europe before the game boy was having Famicom bootlegs all over flea markets sold by chinks and gypsies lmao-
>Famicom bootlegs all over flea markets sold by chinks and gypsies lmao
That’s fucking SOVL right there. Such a shame those things tended to break down after less than a year of use.-
I still have mine and I’m sure it still works, the shell I later discovered to be mimicking the super famicom, complete with the red eject button and everything
I spent countless hours playing contra force, tecmo world soccer and a funny jap game of street basketball where you punched each other and every team had a unique power to shoot and dunk
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Man I just love walking into a chink shop and seeing a basket full of those 9999 in 1 bootleg carts.
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Very true. Of my group of friends most had Mega Drives and paired it with a Gameboy, mostly for Pokemon. Once PS1 hit it became Sega who. Not really sure how they managed to do it so quickly in Europe, even without factoring in Sega flopping with the Saturn and Dreamcast. It really was like an overnight sensation.
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A lot of countries they were dominant in were poor as shit and kept buying Mega Drives well into the 5th gen. Both the PS1 and PS2 exploded in sales after the cheaper models came out (granted they were already selling well before then) so if Sega had done the same perhaps they would have done better but the way things were the Saturn was just a crazy expensive console that most people didn’t even know existed.
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Sony bought their way into the market for Europe, for all the bitching and whining Sonyfags do about Microshit buying ZeniMax, Sony did the same thing with Psygnosis.
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They ran the town with Genesis. I had a PSX and an N64 and still wanted a Genesis for toy story and sonic. Saturn was poorly handled as fuck. They launched the system at E3, the same day they announced the price, so stores had to rush to get them stocked. Then they announced the price was $400 and all sony had to do was walk up and say "$299". One of the most infamous mic drops in gaming history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaAYIKsDBI&ab_channel=SoldierMWSDid you ever import anything?
Also your dad sounds pretty basedNah I was too young and stupid to get japanese games overseas and my dad wasn’t about to pay for it. Hell I didn’t even know the Saturn came from Japan at the time. He came in clutch sometimes, he did end up getting us a N64 with DK 64 eventually, then got us Ocarina and Majora from a pawn shop. As well as finding a wii around christmas when no one had them. My dad is the whitest Nigga in existence though. He was a founding member of Napster, claiming he wasn’t stealing music, he was "sharing" it with other people that owned the music and sharing was legal. Then he rented Space Jam and played it on one VCR, while the other watched and recorded so he could save $20. His defense there was that by renting it from blockbuster he had temporary ownership and could do what he wanted with the things he owned.
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Your dad sounds really based anon.
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Your dad sounds pretty cool.
>founding member of Napster
Oh shit. Thank your father for me for all the music I downloaded back in the day. -
>"$299"
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves
What the fuck happened to this attitude?
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Thread theme song –
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Not me. Didn’t even know anybody who had one. Did know a kid with a 3DO though.
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My brother had a 3DO, Road Rash was surprising good on it, as was Need for Spped and Return Fire.. terrible system though
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How was it terrible? I have one now and find it just fine for an early CD based system. And at least I can get games for it unlike the Saturn, which I also now have.
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>that kid with that had a saturn and only virtual hydlide
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I had 2 copies of corpse killer for some reason. I would have killed for virtual hydlide instead I mostly just replayed clockwork knight and panzer dragoon over and over
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I was a kid with a PlayStation in the mid 90’s, ONE friend and his brother owned the streets only N64 and no one owned a Saturn. Genuinely had no idea it existed.
We were all more aware of the dreamcast because it’s games actually appeared in store shelves but again, no one i knew owned a dreamcast either.
I did not read up on the Saturns existence until the early to mid 2000’s, had assumed they skipped between Genesis/Megadrive and Dreamcast.
Have still never played one in all these years.-
why did sega of america even bother with the saturn, it had no fucking games
It actually has a fantastic library.
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One of my friends had one. I remember playing clockwork knight, sega rally, and two player time crisis 2.
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The Saturn people were always the most hardcore gamers. It was almost a status symbol. And they were all old and weird… uh kind of like us. The thing is though anyone who was that deep into gaming didn’t even bother with the US version, they’d import. The terrible US library doomed it.
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Yo.
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Both me and my brother had saturns, then he got an n64 and i grabbed the psx
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Sounds like you won out.
Hope he liked Mario64-
We played so many jank shitty acclaim fighters back in the day it was sick.
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I had a Genesis and a Dreamcast. I wish I had a Saturn back then, though.
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Play bulk slash
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good taste
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Owned N64 and Saturn and Ps1 at various points. I feel like the quality of games on Saturn was more varied than the other two. There were some truly abysmal games, right alongside ridiculously good stone cold classics like Sega Rally. When a Saturn game (or port) was good, it was really, really good.
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all the alpha chads owned a chadurn. nintendo kids wouldn’t understand.
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The top sega game is a niche VN about the Japanese mafia with mini games. I wouldn’t call that winning
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imagine unironically ignoring sega’s arcade legacy, so many companies owe them for pioneering loads of 3d shit alone
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yakuza is better than any of your nintroonshit. miyamoto would never allow a game with that much testosterone to be made at nintendo.
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Are there any decent Saturn emulators, bros? I feel like I’ve missed some good stuff since I’ve never played one.
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Yabause or Retroarch’s modified mednafen core Beetle-Saturn. The only game I’ve had chug on it is Burning Rangers, which runs almost perfect but 59fps means some really crunchy audio in it for some reason.
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That was me. My progression was NES -> Saturn -> PS1. The only reason I can figure my dad got a Saturn is because it flopped so hard in the US and was discounted tremendously. The man was a pawn shop king. If he could get something on sale or used, he did. It actually had some decent games, it’s really a shame that the full catalog never made it to the US because the launch was so sloppy.
>clockwork knight 1 and 2
>scud the disposable assassin (dad wouldn’t let us play M games, but this one was gory as fuck for T)
>nights into dreams
>sonic 3d
>virtua cop
>virtua fighter
>Bug!-
Did you ever import anything?
Also your dad sounds pretty based
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Genuinely don’t even remember it being sold in stores at the time where I was
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My friend got one at launch. Ended up never using it and getting an extreme green n64 eventually. Only game I ever played on it was Nights but I had a N64 and a PS1.
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>that kid who used rare candies on all his Pokemon
>that kid who ran like sonic
>that kid who was weird and self deprecating all the time
>that kid who would daydream about playing a rock song and their classmates loved it
>that kid who deepened his voice when he was called on in class
>that kid that liked blink 182 too much
>that kid that wore band shirts every day
>that fat goth girl
>that kid that died during your time at school
>that kid who always touched his friends
>that girl who had mental health problems because she was raised by a single mom-
>That kid that died during your time at school
Fuck I remember that, she just fell over and shit her pants in the middle of the library. They got the AED and it didn’t do anything and she went out on a stretcher.
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I had snes, gameboy, gbc, gba, n64, saturn, ps, and dc.
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My friend Michael had one. I loved panzer dragoon.
Side note: Mike is in jail now. Could be a coincidence.
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You ever visit Mike in jail?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_of_mercy
Visiting people in Jail is a corporal act of mercy. It’s like grave digging, good for the soul-
I actually just found out recently. Been writing letters.
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I was. Panzer Dragoon Saga was a religious experience for me. Blew my fucking mind away.
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I actually hated Saga the first time I played because it was nothing like 1 or 2. I also wasn’t big on RPGs. But by the time I got to the desert the game clicked with me and I was completely obsessed.
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Who else had this battery chugging machine?
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Don’t know how or why my dad got one, but I did. We only had one game, some baseball game, and then casually let it rot by the wayside. It was a monster at eating batteries though.
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Still do. Also have the Nomad.
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>blocks your path
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>KB Toys
They deserved to fucking die.
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i had a saturn growing up
ama reddit-
You ever play Virtual On?
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No, I really wanted to play it as a kid, but never got the chance to buy it. I think a friend of mine had it but I wasn’t that close with him that I just could pop into his house.
I bought it a few years ago when I went to Japan but haven’t played it yet since I bought a lot of stuff and still haven’t gone through all of it. Also bought the DC Virtual-ON.
It always looked like a beautiful game, I hope the gameplay doesn’t disapoint.-
Super potato is pretty overpriced, but walking around a store and seeing Arino on every TV is nice
It’s also nice when walking through Don Quijote, when the one section of the store has the Dragon Quest theme on loop
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Yes Super Potato is overpriced, I didn’t find a single cheap game worth buying in tokyo or osaka’s stores. I bought most of my haul at book offs and hard offs. I got a few in mandarake as well in the top floor. Since I was a broke bastard at the time I was mostly trying to get as much cheap games as possible and didn’t really invest in a big fish. I managed to bring like 35 games with me I think.
I do regret not getting a white saturn though.
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Nothing about the controls or the game mechanics feels intuitive, but if you stick with it it’s an incredibly rewarding experience.
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I’ll keep that in mind, as I grow older I keep losing my patience and don’t invest as much time trying to stick to a video game, I will most often than not just disregard them if I’m not immediately having fun.
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Having a dreamcast growing up was way cooler. Saturn just had the extra niche factor.
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>yakuza is better than any of your nintroonshit. miyamoto would never allow a game with that much testosterone to be made at nintendo.
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why did you quote me with a portrait of yourself?
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No, I wasn’t born when the Saturn released.
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I lived in Atlanta and I never saw a Sega Saturn or Sega Saturn game out in the wild. Not once.
First time I saw one was when Funcoland opened up in like 2002.
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>7 years after launch
Jesus. I’m surprised they were still in circulation.Oh no, like most niggas, he only took, never shared.
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They weren’t, Funcoland had all sorts of retro shit at the time.
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Me, and sonic racers is still my jam. CAN YOU FEEL THE SUNSHINE?
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>For the longest time I would swear I had a Saturn despite having no memory of it
>But I knew I had played Sonic R
>Later find the game in storage
>There was a PC version that I completely forgot
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Me. Sega is love. Sega is life. Patrick K. Lawson is a fucking smelly lying melanoid.
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I was that kid. I had Xmen Children of the Atom. Virtua Fighter, Daytona, Panzerdragoon, Clockwork Night, Nights, and Ghen War.
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euro here, i have never seen one IRL
once i saw a dreamcast at a gaming convention, but that’s it-
What else have you seen in Europe?
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lots of bootleg psx games, we had like, millions of those here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scsobag2wB0
I heard it was worse in Russia.
This channel is pretty cool
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Imagine being so cucked that you don’t go around with your boys and burn all these tent cities to the ground.
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psycho
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Pleb
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What’s your excuse for tolerating these barbarian invaders?
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saying "i’m from europe lol here we didn’t have it" is a little retarded
especially at the time most countries had completely different markets, and a lot of eurpean countries sega did incredibly well while others it didn’t even get in. trying to apply an entire continent to this particular subject is very silly
here in portugal saturns still to this day sell for like 40€ in used retro stores, they’re absurdly common, it sold a lot here-
portuganon.. if you look it up, your country is literally the only one in all of europe that actually bought the saturn
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yeah but not the dreamcast as the other guy was saying. mega drive also did pretty well in a lot of countries. the master system for whatever reason did well in the UK.
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Source? Hadn’t heard of this.
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yep, i was that kid. grew up as a segafag so i bought a saturn as soon as it came out.
i remember going to school with my video game magazines and showing friends games that are only going to be out on the saturn.then awhle later, my friend got a playstation with FF7 and i got jealous. the only RPG i had was shining the holy ark
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I had one when it’s lifetime was nearly over. Would have liked enjoying it at it’s peak but I did play most of the classics on it.
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I wish I was
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I’d be more interested what it was like being the kid with a CD-I, Neogeo, Atari Jaguar or 3do.
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I was the kid with a CD-I, i uhh didnt play many games on it besides Hotel Mario and that one beat em up
Mainly used it for my stereo, it was pretty good for that. Some CDs even had graphics specifically for the CDI
https://youtu.be/8hFJakfYgNo?list=PL8RnW3nRCF9nUXt50HIpTHBVs44qEGckN
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My father bought "us" one for House of the Dead. Its funny because he warned me it probably wouldn’t be as good as the arcade but my 11 year old peabrain didn’t understand what that meant…its house of the dead, just at home, surely? Even if it wasn’t that great, the novelty of Virtua Cop, House, and Daytona at home was pretty awesome. He also scored us a copy of Saga without knowing it was going to be rare or anything like that. 1998 was pretty awesome for vidya.
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You know what I miss? When consoles weren’t glorified PC’s. Put the game in and you’re off to the races. If the next console gen returned to physical media without the need to download shit, I’d buy it day one. I don’t even care if the games needed to come in the size of a brick, I’d buy it.
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i dont miss that at all
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How even? That was one of the big upsides to consoles, none of the tinkering and downloads and installs that came with PC gaming.
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sounds like youre just mad because you have a small brain and you didnt know how to connect to the internet. lol
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My highschool girlfriend did. She challenged me to some Sailormoon fighter. Ended with her giving me an angry blowjob after a few rounds heated rounds. I destroyed her. Thank you, Sailor Jupiter.
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I played virtua fighter on it
Still don’t get why Saturn went for quads instead of triangles-
It was built as a 2D system. Sega threw in 3D as an afterthought
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i imagine they were just adapting the sprite system they already had and slapping a z-buffer on it
don’t forget the console started as a 2D powerhouse and shifted it into 3D at the last minutebut regardless of that, there was still going on a quads vs tris mini cold war at the time in emerging 3D technology space. it wasn’t necessarily obvious who would win at the time
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>i imagine they were just adapting the sprite system they already had and slapping a z-buffer on it
stop using terms you don’t understand
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When I was a kid I was living in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, one of the closest Russian regions to Japan, and my father used to take bussiness trips there. For a year or so that was his primary job. He was helping his friend to get imported goods for his store such as cassette players, video recorders and other stuff. Mostly electronics. That is how I had a Saturn for 2 weeks. Time flies crazy but I still remember the joy and excitement. Parents restricted to invite my friends from school to play it because they would break it or something, but I didn’t listen and we played the only CD I had, that was some action horror game.
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I had the CDi.
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Yes, I remember most stores stopped carrying Saturn games and I was one of the only people who rented Saturn games from our local rental shop. In 1997 when they announced they were discontinuing the Saturn my parents bought a bunch of games from them heavily discounted. Most of them weren’t good
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Bug and bug too really filtered me on some parts despite stacking lives,also i wish i could go back and buy more games for it
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those games are fucking terrible i hate bug so fucking much
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A childhood friend of mine had one, but his folks were rich and he had all sorts of import stuff as well with exotic consoles
>Sonic R
>Daytona USA
>Virtual On
>Nights into Dreams
>Night into Dream Christmas
>Burning Rangers-
What’s that kid doing these days?
Corporate exec?-
Pretty sure he moved country and became a hippie lol
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Yes me, and I got to use the superior 2d/Fightan controller.
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i used to own a retrobit saturn but it broke down after a month, nowadays i just use a stick
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Any must play games that are exclusive of the Saturn?
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Panzer dragoon trilogy, especially Zweii and Saga, burning rangers, night into dreams and Christmas nights
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Panzer dragoon saga
Burning rangers
That bomberman game if you have friends
Dragon force
Guardian heroes but iirc it also got ported to xbox?-
pd saga and burning rangers are not so great but dragon force is a must play
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Dragon Force has a superior remake on PS2. No reason to play it on the Saturd anymore.
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Assuming its like the die hard one,what exactly the remake adds
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I think it has one or two new characters that you can’t recruit(only fight against), redrawn artwork and voice-acting
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Indeed, why play a game on the Saturn when you can play it on another console in a language you can’t even understand?
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Saturn Bomber man
Robitka
Battle Arena Toshinden (remix)
Virtua Fighter 2
I hear Panzer Dragoon Saga was good but I never had it
Virtua cop with the blue gun
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Never had a Saturn but I borrowed one from a cousin back in the 90s so I got to try it out. Virtual On, Virtua Fighter, Daytona, Clockwork Knight. Think he had some sports games too but I didn’t play them.
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Yes, I was. I’ll tell you more: I had Daytona USA and I enjoyed it. It’s like to admit to have a weird fetish, but so much so that. Anyway, a year after I bought it it was clear that it was destined to fail, so I sold it and moved on to the enemy buying a PlayStation. No regrets, it won the 5th gen for good reasons other than piracy.
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I was that kid. My parents gave me the choice between this and a PRAYSTATIORU and I went with this. (they got a ps also a few months later tho along with GTA1 cause my dad was based and wanted to play it too)
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Anyone remember a game called Imp? Think I remember that being alright
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Shitty arcade ports, shitty weeb jarpigs, the list goes on…
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Dunno bro saturn was fantastic when it came to arcade fighting game ports
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Had to buy a ram cart for them though, and even then they still didn’t look as nice or smooth as arcade.
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it was me
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Indeed. I still have it, in fact, though the laser stopped working a few years ago
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Buy an ODE.
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Nights got obliterated by Super Mario 64
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My cousin was. Can’t say I was ever impressed by it, but we had some fun playing on it. We played some fighter jet game, think it was called Tomcat? I wanna say Timesplitters was another game he had for it, but I can’t remember if that was on his Saturn or some other system he had at the time.
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I’m sure Timesplitters was a PS2 game
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I wish. It has a far better library than the N64.
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Genesis > Saturn > Dreamcast
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God Tier:
GenesisHigh Tier:
Master SystemMid Tier:
Game GearLow Tier:
DreamcastShit Tier:
Saturn-
What perfect storm allowed Genesis to do what Nintendon’t?
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The PC Engine completely failed in the west because they delayed it for 2 years for a pointless case re-design.
Sega literally didn’t even get a foothold in the market in Japan until the Saturn.
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PC engine was never gonna catch on anyway even if it had good marketing. Shit was just too outdated compared to the Genesis and SNES, basically the Dreamcast of its generation.
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Right, that’s why it outsold the Mega Drive. Or how it was technically more capable than both of those consoles thanks to the CD add-on, so much so that Sega released the Sega CD as a failed attempt to capitalise on that market.
If it’d come out a year earlier, like it should’ve, and they had the CD system out to compete with the Genesis’s launch window, it could’ve been a different story.
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>Right, that’s why it outsold the Mega Drive.
Because the average jap has terrible taste in videogames.>Or how it was technically more capable than both of those consoles
Lol, shitty system couldn’t even do parallax scrolling. Nice coping tho NECbeard.-
Imagine bragging about parallax when your system can’t even do CD audio and voice acting. The only impressive MD game is Virtua Racing, and that’s because the cart did half the processing work.
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>voice acting
Cutscenes are cringe as fuck and take away from the gameplay experience.>CD audio
Chiptunes unironically have more soul, especially based FM Synth.
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The CD-Addon could have made up for it. Still, its library was too jap centric
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That’s not the only reason. Most of the games were weeb rpgs and adventure games which were only popular in Japan back then
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street fighter alpha 2 was best on the saturn.
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I remember not finding a Saturn anywhere. Buying online wasn’t a good option back then, no shop had Saturn for sale miles around me. Genesis was indeed a lot easier to find, comparatively.
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Segata Sanshiro would have saved it if he was in western marketing and they actually translated most of its library.
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Or if Sonic Team had just fucking made a 2.5D Sonic sidescroller instead of Nights into Memes.
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Why did they put the copyright info on the fucking startup screen? Imagine getting it for Christmas 1995 and feeling it’s already outdated after a week.
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Almost. I was leaning toward it in the store because N64 wasn’t out yet and it came with virtua fighter for free. Luckily I went ps1 though.
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Favorite PS1 JRPG?
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Legend of Legaia. Must’ve rented it 3 times and still didn’t beat it. Have to go back and replay it one of these days.
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>that kid that released a Sega Saturn emulator for the PS3 years after the PS4 was released
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>muh redbook audio
Meanwhile, the SNES version of Dracula X has better music than Pshit Engine’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LuFBlUNoRY
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