Growing up back then, it was all about the hot systems that were relevant in the mainstream. N64, PS1, before that, Genesis and SNES era. Eventually Dreamcast came out & actually moved some units. People legit bought it (to a degree) up until around the PS2 came out & really took all the attention away from Sega's final console. However, I never really knew anybody in that late 90s period who owned or played the Sega Saturn. Was it THAT unpopular? I didn't even know they had a Saturn-based magazine in Japan....that's pretty wild but man, it was like a FLOP in America/Canadian markets.
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No. I actually didn't. Every rare occasion I may have heard of someone at the high school 20 miles over having it. But we all know Sears had a Saturn for everybody to play so f**k that.
Yes, my cousin had one, blah blah blah
Can we get back to talking about other consoles please
>Yes, my cousin had one, blah blah blah
this but unironically
Heard that the kid who had a sega Genesis and was the biggest Sega Genesis advocate learned how to have sex with girls. So yeah. Imma pray for that dude. Lord have mercy. Hope he's ok.
Ever notice how no matter how great the games are for a system, people always end up bringing up the specs.
How come Gameboy never had that problem. True visionaries. But anyway. Would absolutely buy a saturn today under the right circumstances.
I owned a Saturn in the 90s (model 2), I remember my dad was amazed by the real-time pitch shifting on the audio CD player
It went on sale in time for christmas so a lot of disappointed kids with inept parents got one. Daytona and virtua fighter were pretty cool but I don't remember playing anything else at my friend's house. I think he got more use out of it as a cd player.
nope
I owned one. shit sucked. It finally got a great Sonic game in 1997 so it's time to save up money to switch consoles, and afterwards we got one the system only had 2 more games released for it. Plus you can't save frick all because backup carts basically don't exist on the market.
The only up side was that I got a PC later that year.
I had a friend that got a Saturn at launch and I bought one a couple years down the line when the price dropped and the console revision released with the better controller. We were the only ones who had one that I knew though.
Considering that the Saturn was THE MOST expensive piece of shit out of gen 5, not really. I knew 1 old kid that owned one but that’s because his mom was a lawyer and his dad was a doctor so he was rich rich.
>THE MOST expensive piece of shit out of gen 5
Here in the UK it was practically in a clearance bin most places after 97.
That’s because Europe is frickin’ weird when it comes to the gaming industry, especially in the 90s.
How? Everyone had a PlayStation.
in France on the supermarket shelves you could play consoles.
in 1995-1996 with my friends (older than me) we tested the Playstation and the Saturn.
my friends all had the Megadrive (a neighbor and 3 brothers from college) and only me the Snes.
the guys were able to finish D on Saturn in the store because they went so often.
but in the end we all got the Playstation at Christmas 1996 (me with Die Hard Trilogy and after Twisted Metal 2 and Cool Boarder).
It was only around 2000 that the 3 brothers had their Playstation out of service, so the older brother bought the second-hand Saturn while waiting for the PS2.
I switched to N64 then Dreamcast.
compared to what ?
the Saturn was more expensive than the Playstation whether in Europe or the US.
at first few people had these consoles, the games on both consoles were the same.
It was around 1997 that the shift was made and everyone wanted Tomb Raider 2, CoolBoarder 2, RE2 etc...
in stores the Saturn had a little corner like the Xboxes today.
A shame that the higher price point killed its selling potential. Seems like Sega/Sega of America made too many mistakes during its inception & lifespan.
Didn't even know it existed till much later
My 8 year old brainlet ass didn't think the Phony Gaystation had a chance in hell because Sony only makes Walkmans. At least Sega made good games (but they were still bad because they were not Nintendo).
My Nintendo cultist years are very cringe.
I didn't know one person with a Saturn I only knew it existed as a concept because of Gamepro.
So true, GamePro were practically the only ones in the West who kept it alive in people's consciousness.
>reddit spacing
probably just someone posting from their phone
>Sony only makes Walkmans
The Sony name was huge. It had a fantastic reputation for high quality electronics and that reputation carried over when they entered the console wars. At least that's how I remember it.
I had one.
We got my sister one because it was so much cheaper, but she was always asking to play on my PS1 for games until we got her a Nintendo 64 because of how aut she was about it.
>Did you know anyone that owned a Saturn in the 90s?
Yes, actually. A kid I was kind of friends with invited me over to his place a few times and he had a Saturn. He had Panzer Dragoon and Astal. I thought PD was kind of ugly and not that much fun to play. I thought Astal looked great, but was not that much fun to actually play compared to my SNES platformers.
>Was it THAT unpopular?
Yes. My best friend, who is two years younger than me, had never heard about this console before hearing about on the internet in the 2000s. That's how fast this thing was off retail shelves if you weren't paying attention.
I was one of those kids. Got a Sega Saturn secondhand a few months before getting an N64. It was pretty cool, but PS1 and N64 had more mainstream games. I used to level skip TR1 and MM8 just to watch the FMVs.
yes
but it was towards the end of the consoles lifecycle
marvel versus xmen games blew me away
nights kiosk had me sold as a kid but obviously lacked the funds as a child
I blame cringe print media
I knew 2 people, one of which lended it to me.
No. I'm pretty sure no one officially distributed it here. Even Dreamcast got an official distributor here only like 6 months before it got discontinued. Ofc you could just import one from Germany, but who had the money for that? The fact that piracy was harder and you couldn't just go to a random electronics shop to get it modchipped didn't help.
in europe yes, around 1996 and 1997 it was pretty common almost 1 kid per town had a sega saturn.
We had one for about six months in 1997. It broke and was replaced with a PS1 because it was obvious at that point which one had the better games and my brothers and I were tired of missing out.
Yes, my cousin.
Had a blast playing Sonic 3D Blast, Virtua Cop, the Dragonball fighting game and Panzer Dragoon.
Virtua Cop would have been sick to play at home. I loved those types of games at the arcade. Neither my parents nor anyone I knew would let us have light guns or light gun games, though. Not even the goofy super scope.
Having trouble imagining someone having a blast playing Sonic 3D blast though. Very misleading game title. Neither 3D nor a blast. Does have Sonic though.
I fell in with a friend group of people that had played virtua fighter 2 religiously in 95-96 on one. But they'd pretty much shifted to soul blade and tekken on PS1 by my time, then soul calibur on DC.
Back in the 90s an older neighbor down the street had one. Virtual Fighter 2 blew my mind when he showed me. Outside of store kiosks that was it until I got one myself in the early 00s. It was my console of choice for years because the games at brick and motars were dirt cheap.
I owned one in the 90s. Three of my neighbours owned saturns as well.
I owned a Saturn in the 90's
i bought one when it was heavily discounted and came with a bunch of games, but i didnt know anyone who had one
I did.
Still works like a champ!
Video games weren't terribly popular in my area during the early to mid 90s, I only remember a handful of people having an SNES or Genesis, then later the PSX and the rare owner of a N64 usually by more well off families. I didn't know a single person who owned a Saturn, even though I later knew a few who owned a Dreamcast and loved it.
I always counted the Saturn as a sideshow console, sort of like the 3DO, the Phillips CD-I, the Jaguar, or the Wonderswan. They existed as these rare, esoteric artifacts that a few enthusiasts had, but you wouldn't find them in a random kid's bedroom as something that got a lot of playtime and discussion. I think it was the PSX that finally broke ground in that aspect, it's when I started hearing a lot of people have one, some kids even just buying it as a music player in place of a boombox.