The most you've spent on a Sega Saturn game

[celerystalker]

The Sega Saturn definitely has its collector's market and one of the more established import communities. So, how much have you spent on a Saturn game, to rip off all of the other topics of the kind?

For me it was $150 on Radiant Silvergun, which has been the going rate for a long time. I feel like I overpaid, as even though, my initial impressions were good, I grew to really dislike its chain scoring system. I found the scoring in this and Ikaruga to detract from the experience for me. Conversely, I paid $9 for Galactic Attack and like it way better.

[Gentlegamer]

I spent $60 on Symphony of the Night back in 2006. I won an auction, but at the end I was hoping to get outbid.

[Emperor Megas]

Yeah, I think I'm starting to see a pattern here with these topics. :)

Anyway, I think the most I've ever spent on a Saturn game was about 45 bucks or so. I purchased a lot of games that price point, most were when they where new releases.

Age AGES
Burning Rangers
NiGHTS into Dreams
Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei
Radiant Silvergun (this was about 8 years ago or so, in a lot with other choice import games. They worked out to about 40 bucks or so each)

[Canadian Psycho]

$215 for Hyper Duel with spine and registration card in 2013...

[celerystalker]

Yeah, I think I'm starting to see a pattern here with these topics. :)

Anyway, I think the most I've ever spent on a Saturn game was about 45 bucks or so. I purchased a lot of games that price point, most were when they where new releases.

Age AGES
Burning Rangers
NiGHTS into Dreams
Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei
Radiant Silvergun (this was about 8 years ago or so, in a lot with other choice import games. They worked out to about 40 bucks or so each)

Fortunately, the vast majority of mine were cheap as well. $40 for Panzer Dragoon Saga, $20 for Shining Force III, Burning Rangers, Dragon Force, and Shining Wisdom, $30 for Magic Knight Rayearth... buying them in the late '90s was cheap. Back then, you used to see Guardian Heroes everywhere for $5. I paid full inflated price for Silvergun, and it's not only not my favorite shooter, it's not even top 5 on Saturn for me. The only game I paid more for other than arcade cabinets was Top Hunter on Neo Geo AES. I thought about doing a Neo Geo topic instead, but I think a lot less people would enjoy it.

[Tanooki]

Probably $20 to $30. The last time I bought Saturn games was like 15 years ago. The only ones going that high I paid for were the best version of Castlevania Nocturne in the Moonlight and also that odd but fun DBZ fighting game. All the US stuff I had was cheap even if it was complete.

[goldenband]

$10 each for Battle Monsters and GunGriffon, of all things.

Most of my Saturn collection has come from big, cheap lots found at yard sales or thrift stores: Enemy Zero for $2, Shining Wisdom in a massive lot that cost $20 total, etc. Given that I basically never play my Saturn, it's kind of ridiculous.

[Steven]

$98 Crows: The Battle Action

Proud to say I bought all my Saturn titles for under 100 dollars, and that's amazing considering I got these triple figure titles for the following prices:

Radiant Silvergun $65
Psychic Assassin Taromaru $80
Panzer Dragoon Saga $85
Hyper Duel was like $60

Hell, one guy even gave me a mint complete Battle Garegga for FREE. It went for roughly $70 back in 2004.

Good times.

[Emperor Megas]

Fortunately, the vast majority of mine were cheap as well. $40 for Panzer Dragoon Saga, $20 for Shining Force III, Burning Rangers, Dragon Force, and Shining Wisdom, $30 for Magic Knight Rayearth...

I was fortunate in that I got my Panzer Dragoon Saga for free. A former friend let me have all of his Saturn games when he got a Dreamcast. I had to replace the manual and case though after they were lost in a house fire and it took almost a decade to get another one. In the end it cost me about 30 bucks for the manual, case and the paper sleeves.

Wait, shit, I just remembered, I didn't purchase my copy of Burning Rangers either. It was another free one in that lot. Again, I just had to replace the case and manual for. I'm positive I got them or for even less than the ones for PDS. I don't recall how much I purchased Magic Knight Rayearth for. It was a later (about 8 years ago) acquisition, but I know that it wasn't more than 40 bucks. I may have been purchased in a lot. I used to buy almost all of my retro games that way.

[bb_hood]

The most I paid was 110$ for a mint/complete panzer saga, then later traded it to another collector.

I really wish I had bought a copy of Cotton Boomerang before it got super expensive.. its one of the few video games I actually still want.

[celerystalker]

$10 each for Battle Monsters and GunGriffon, of all things.

Most of my Saturn collection has come from big, cheap lots found at yard sales or thrift stores: Enemy Zero for $2, Shining Wisdom in a massive lot that cost $20 total, etc. Given that I basically never play my Saturn, it's kind of ridiculous.

I love the heck out of Enemy Zero. It's my favorite game on Saturn. I bought mine to play Virtua Cop, fell in hard with the arcade ports and RPGs... and somehow Enemy Zero stole my heart. It's all about atmosphere.

[ZeroCool]

60 for Nights but it was complete with controller box etc.

[PreZZ]

50$ for brand new sealed megamanx4, 40$ brand new sealed magic knight rayearth and 30$ brand new sealed albert odyssey. I got burning rangers for 15$ last october in local ads!

[Tron 2.0]

Hmm i haven't bought a game for the saturn in a long time.Still langrisser tribute comes to mind i think it was $100.00+ max,it's a nice box-set of the series to.

[SparTonberry]

I think the only Saturn games I even own are all Japanese: Bubble Symphony, Kingdom Grandprix, Princess Crown and Twinkle Star Sprites. The last I think was the most expensive at about $45. (though I hear Princess Crown has gone up lately, possibly as someone is close to finishing a translation patch)

[BetaWolf47]

$40 on Die Hard Arcade back in 2010. I don't regret it as the title is my favorite arcade game of all time. I have luckily gotten more valuable games for the system for chump change to offset that, anyway.

[mailman187666]

I paid about $150 for my Panzer Saga off an ebay auction. I forget what year I got it, but that's about what it was going for at the time I bought it.

[BlastProcessing402]

Most for any Saturn game, probably Fire Prowrestling S: 6men Scramble, since it was an import. I don't recall how much, probably somewhere between 60 and 80 bucks including shipping. Well worth the price, spent more time on that game than any other Saturn game (and most other games on other systems too).

Most for a used game, well, the only used Saturn game I ever bought was a beat up (but complete) copy of Virtua Fighter 2 from a Blockbuster for less than 5 bucks.

All my other Saturn games were bought new at retail for whatever they were going for when they came out. I was kinda surprised when I walked into a TRU and found Panzer Dragoon Saga, as it was already getting known to be a collector's item, but they had lots of copies. I probably should have bought more than one!

[Koa Zo]

Back in 2001 I paid $80 for D&D Collection, and that seemed like the most I'd ever pay for a game.

Super Tempo is one that I wish I'd gotten when new copies were going for $39.99.
A decade after it's release my tastes brought me back to wondering about it, but now prices were in the $150 range. After periodic searching over a couple years, I got a copy for $117 in 2012.

Stellar Assault SS is another game I got "a bargain" on at $99, also in 2012

And Liquid Kids is one that I also recall seeing on sale for $39.99 back in 1999-2000... then next thing I knew it was going for $150+
Somehow I scored a copy in 2013 for $65.

[Nesmaster]

$5 for the trio pack that was a pack-in. Daytona/VF/Virtua Cop I think. But the system and rest of the games I have were saved from the electronics recycle bin at work... so if I didn't rescue this stuff, I wouldn't have spent that $5.

I shared this story back in a finds thread... in 2009. Damnit time, stop slipping!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/Nesmaster/saturnfind.jpg

As I recall, I spent $3 at a thrift for an extra controller and Saturn AV cables, so I've got $8 into my Saturn collection.

[Bing147]

$170 for Panzer Dragoon Saga. Seems like a good price today. By far the most I've ever spent on a game. (next highest is 110 for Snatcher)

[MetalFRO]

Mine's kind of boring, but a few months after I bought my Saturn, I picked up the 4-in-1 Action Replay cart so I could start getting imports, and I paid $50 or $60 for a still-sealed, late reprint of Strikers 1945 II, I think from NCSX. All the other imports I've snagged have been 2nd hand since then, and have been much cheaper. I'm kind of stingy about such things. I refuse to pay twice original retail for something that may not be worth it, just to have it in my collection to play. I may never own a physical copy of Radiant Silvergun, because this $150-$250 nonsense is completely unreasonable. The game is neither rare, nor in short supply on the market, so the price needs to come down.

[A Black Falcon]

I got a Saturn in 2009. Since then, the most I've spent for a Saturn game was $50 for a complete copy of Mega Man 8 (US version) a couple of years ago. That's as much as I've ever spent for a used game, but I thought it'd probably be worth it, and it was! Best version of the game for sure.

Below that, perhaps the next most I spent for a Saturn game is the $35 or $40 that Bulk Slash (Japan import game) cost me. I also have an Action Replay 4M Plus that cost something like that.

[Bloodreign]

I got help with my Saturn collection, a friend jump started mine. I think $25 for Chase HQ+ SCI was the most I've spent (he spent $75 for Liquid Kids for me at a time when the game was already in triple digit territory). Almost decided to beat that record, but passed on a $35 Earthworm Jim 2.

Now I wish I had bought Saturn Bomberman Japanese version when it was going for $15, now it goes for more.

Edit: I take back the $25 Chase HQ + SCI part, paid $50 for Kyukyoku Tiger II Plus, before I had my Saturn I saw a copy sell for a mere $15. Same store I saw a $50 Wonder 3 Arcade Gears (I kick myself for that one too, it goes for way more online, not too worried, Capcom put it on a PS2 compilation pack as Three Wonders), and $50 Gekirindan, but again no problem to pass it up for that price due to having it on PS2 US and Japanese Taito compilations.

Had I picked up Wonder 3, I would've had 3 of the 4 Saturn Arcade Gears packs, only Gun Frontier would've been left to get. But hey, Taito put that one on their compilations too. :D

Edit 2: I'm a sucker for buying various ports of games, console (cross ports) and arcade if I can get them for fair prices.

[timemaster11]

400ish for Daytona Netlink Edition

[otaku]

I bought the most expensive games of my life all on saturn. PDS was 180 I later sold it for closer to 300 with a custom made clock I had made on the cheap.

I had radiant silvergun also I don't recall the price but in excess of 150 I beleive. Same goes for a few others. Expensive games awesome though I miss my saturn

[Flashback2012]

Wow at some of the prices people have said they've paid... X_x

I think the most I've paid for a Saturn game was X-Men vs. Street Fighter w/ the 4MB Ram Cart which I believe ran us $80. My buddy and I were in Atlanta in 1998 for E3 and after the show we hit up a EB Games nearby. We pooled our money to get it so we could have something to play back at the hotel and later on I bought out his half to own the game outright.

I haven't seen the price of Saturn games lately but I'm sure they're obnoxious.

[xelement5x]

400ish for Daytona Netlink Edition

Not a bad price at all considering it's one of the hardest out there to locate. Even better if it was complete with the Netlink Supplement, I've been trying to get a scan of that for quite awhile.

[synbiosfan]

Not a bad price at all considering it's one of the hardest out there to locate. Even better if it was complete with the Netlink Supplement, I've been trying to get a scan of that for quite awhile.

I'd be interested in seeing that myself.

[LaughingMAN.S9]

The most I've spent was on panzer dragoon saga back in 2007 or 2008, paid $125 when it was going for $150

After that the next highest I paid was streetfighter alpha 3 that I bought for $50 back in 09 but was surprised to see it go for around $150 today