View Full Version : Saturn Feature on 1UP.com, Great Retrospective
segagamer4life
08-10-2005, 10:39 AM
1UP.com has a great look back at the Sega Saturn on it's 10th Anniverary.
I'm sure many DP members may be familiar with most of this information, but some newer members may be interested in reading up and it's great to see a mainstream gaming site giving the Saturn some attention. Hard to believe its been 10 years.. wow.
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3142283
Xexyz
08-10-2005, 11:38 AM
SoA really screwed Sega over big time.
Blanka789
08-10-2005, 12:01 PM
Cool feature, I had no idea Shenmue was planned for Saturn.
segagamer4life
08-10-2005, 12:56 PM
yeah, I used to have a link somewhere to the "beta" footage, its amazing, it actually looked great, If I can find it I will post, but its interesting to see where it came and how it ended up on the DC
THATinkjar
08-10-2005, 01:35 PM
yeah, I used to have a link somewhere to the "beta" footage, its amazing, it actually looked great, If I can find it I will post, but its interesting to see where it came and how it ended up on the DC
If you can find that footage, that would be ace. I would love to see it. I think we all would!
President Shinron
08-10-2005, 01:57 PM
Its on the shenmue 2 disc but i forgot where.
Sosage
08-10-2005, 05:07 PM
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178
second link after searching "shenmue saturn video" in google. :P
sharp
08-10-2005, 05:18 PM
Great, some attention to my most used console in all time. And even yet (although not at the moment as my TV-broke down) I still use it more then my GC, Xbox and PS2 together.
THATinkjar
08-10-2005, 05:52 PM
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178
That's impressive. Stunning, even. Those character models are to die for. And some of the textures are pretty impressive. And the framerate looked soild, too. I wonder what the loading times were like...
I read the feature. Great stuff from Tom Kalinske. He left Sega after NiGHTS was released. There were a few things in the article that were wrong. You can't have everything I guess. It's nice that a major site remembered the Saturn.
THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM
joshnickerson
08-10-2005, 07:10 PM
I don't own one, but I've had the privilige of playing one several times over the past few years. It really is a nice system, as well as some cool games (Virtua Cop rules!), it's too bad it died so quickly.
MegaDrive20XX
08-10-2005, 07:17 PM
Its on the shenmue 2 disc but i forgot where.
I think it's on the DVD movie that came with Shenmue 2 Xbox
rally9x
08-10-2005, 07:23 PM
Ok just to start things off...I don't think many people think the begining of the end was the saturn. Clearly sega cd and 32x were obvious signs of something going wrong even at the time.
chrisbid
08-10-2005, 07:28 PM
Ok just to start things off...I don't think many people think the begining of the end was the saturn. Clearly sega cd and 32x were obvious signs of something going wrong even at the time.
32X - yes
killing the genesis off too early - yes
sega cd - not quite, it had over 100 games, a couple of years of shelf life and multiple hardware releases
oesiii
08-10-2005, 07:37 PM
Very cool feature. I usually stop my history of consoles at the NES so it's always nice to catch up on the 90's ;)
Also makes me want to give that tough Mr. Bones another try tonight :D
rally9x
08-10-2005, 07:41 PM
Ok just to start things off...I don't think many people think the begining of the end was the saturn. Clearly sega cd and 32x were obvious signs of something going wrong even at the time.
32X - yes
killing the genesis off too early - yes
sega cd - not quite, it had over 100 games, a couple of years of shelf life and multiple hardware releases
Hmm I remember it getting a lot of crap for the price and all the FMV. I didn't know anyone at the time that owned one either, but my town was pretty heavy on the SNES side. I wouldn't consider it an unsuccesful console but i think you could see the signs of something wrong. Thanks for the input though. I have a feeling their was probably even more information in this article but it gut pulled out by an editor for having to much history in it.
chrisbid
08-10-2005, 07:48 PM
in the day, FMVs were considered cool and new. Night Trap had a fair amount of buzz. yeah the gameplay sucked, but its no different than today, where graphics and cutscene hype are substituted for gameplay. This was in the era when video clips on personal computers were still a new thing, so seeing a video game system generate them was quite a sight.
Lothars
08-10-2005, 08:27 PM
awesome, I enjoyed the article
Thanks alot for posting it :)
zmweasel
08-10-2005, 09:06 PM
in the day, FMVs were considered cool and new.
Absolutely. I remember playing Night Trap on SEGA CD for the first time right after its release, and being as blown away as I was by the CD music in Ys Book I & II. It was, at the time (but only for a brief time), an awesome technical achievement. And it didn't hurt that I had, and still have, a MST3K-developed soft spot for cheesy movies.
-- Z.
RetroYoungen
08-10-2005, 11:11 PM
Very cool article, it reads well and it's interesting to hear more backstory as to just what went wrong. And the Shenmue movie was cool, but I could tell why they decided to move it to the Dreamcast. It didn't look that great to me overall; nice looking for the time, but still very blocky, and it seemed pretty jerky to me, with odd collision detection.
Sosage
08-11-2005, 01:18 AM
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178
That's impressive. Stunning, even. Those character models are to die for. And some of the textures are pretty impressive. And the framerate looked soild, too. I wonder what the loading times were like...
Thank Segata (http://www.catsuka.com/interf/bideo/sanshiro.htm) they released the game on the Dreamcast. It is cool to see what they were doing with the tight restrictions on the Saturn, but Shenmue was an ambitious project that deserved to visually spread itself out on the more powerful machine. I know my DC library wouldn't be as special with out it. ;)
segagamer4life
08-11-2005, 01:41 PM
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=178
second link after searching "shenmue saturn video" in google. :P
sweet nice find,...lol I was about to post..but day late and dollar short. :D
CrimsonNugget
08-11-2005, 10:49 PM
My god, those Saturn Shenmue visuals are jaw-dropping. I had no idea they originally had it on the Saturn, and that video really made me think again about what the Saturn was capable of.
CrimsonNugget
08-11-2005, 10:49 PM
My god, those Saturn Shenmue visuals are jaw-dropping. I had no idea they originally had it on the Saturn, and that video really made me think again about what the Saturn was capable of.
Muscelli
08-11-2005, 10:56 PM
did keiko flying squadron ever make it to the saturn?
oh, and my offer of 5000 dollars still stands for a shenmue development beta 8-)
Muscelli
08-11-2005, 10:56 PM
did keiko flying squadron ever make it to the saturn?
oh, and my offer of 5000 dollars still stands for a shenmue development beta 8-)
dj898
08-12-2005, 02:15 AM
it did although it's different from earlier ports...
and for beta don't Sega would release the code for just $5k...
maybe $5M... he he or just buy Sega. :p
dj898
08-12-2005, 02:15 AM
it did although it's different from earlier ports...
and for beta don't Sega would release the code for just $5k...
maybe $5M... he he or just buy Sega. :p
CreamSoda
08-12-2005, 05:12 AM
That was a pretty good read, I wish there was more pictures though. LOL
CreamSoda
08-12-2005, 05:12 AM
That was a pretty good read, I wish there was more pictures though. LOL