Official Sega Saturn Thread

[c2000]

Aaaargh so THATS the game I forgot, I KNEW I forgot one and it's WORMS!
Boy do I love that game.

BTW why cant I edit my post..seems silly.

[Steven]

Aaaargh so THATS the game I forgot, I KNEW I forgot one and it's WORMS!
Boy do I love that game.

BTW why cant I edit my post..seems silly.

I love Worms too. Nice to see others appreciatative of the Saturn port! IMO it's one of the best competitive multiplayer blasts on Saturn, no pun intended. I also consider it one of the most underrated Saturn games, period. It hardly gets any mention.

Me and my bro had have 100s of classic cut throat battles with WORMS.

I just never got into the sequels. The original to this day still has me captivated.

[dj898]

- What is your favourite game on this system?

I have to say Panzer Dragoon Saga followed by Hyper Duel.

- What are some of your other favourites?

Radiant Silvergun, Metal Slug, Astra Superstar and many more...


- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?



- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?

Saw it on the launch day back in Tokyo... couldn't afford nor my old man was about to buy one for me either...


- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?

Nope! I didn't. I only started to collect for Saturn stuff since 98/99... stop'd soon after though and didn't pick up till 2001.


- How many games do you have for it?

not sure... probably around 500-600+?


- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?

At one stage I'd collected Saturn consoles and only one I didn't have was Hi-Navi and VCD Saturn but I got wise and sold most of consoles except prototype and Sonic and CartDev Rev.B setups...

[ozyr]

I never owned one, but I did play one, so...

- What is your favorite game on this system?

Of the limited games I played on this, I would have to say Saturn Bomberman. I've always liked Bomberman, and the Saturn version totally rocked! Multi-player is too cool!

- What are some of your other favorites?

Bust-a-move (2 and 3) - easy games, but I love 'em just that same.
House of the Dead - not the best looking game on this system, but it is a good translation of the cool arcade game.
Virtua Cop (1 and 2) - great light gun game (makes me wish I had this system and the light gun)

- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?

Panzer Dragoon - it was just such a cool shooter done in a somewhat different way than most of the others out there.

Infuriated - none that I can think of. As said, I didn't get a chance to play a lot of games on this system. I'm sure there is something out there that would piss me off, but I haven't bumped into it (yet).

- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?

At a friend's house. House of the Dead was the game. That is what really got me interested in playing the system for a while. Did not buy it though, for the same reason I don't have an X-box or PS2 right now (at this point in time) - money!

- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?

No and No again. As put above, I played it on a friends system at his place.

- How many games do you have for it?

None! Wish I did, but I find it impossibly to collect for every system that is out there. I don't think I would want to anyway, as my other hobbies are important too.

- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?

Just that I thought it was a rather cool system that deserved more time that it got. It could have been so much more. However, Sega just kept digging itself into the grave with each system that was canned before it's time was up.

[segagamer]

- What is your favorite game on this system?
Virtua Fighter 2 and Thunder Force V
- What are some of your other favorites?
Burning Rangers, Shining Force III trilogy, Shining the Holy Ark, Sega Rally Championship, Sega Touring Car Championship, Radiant Silvergun, Puyo Puyo Sun, Shanghai: Triple Threat, Sega Ages series, Panzer Dragoon trilogy, Last Bronx, Grandia, Dead or Alive, Street Fighter Zero 3.
- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?
VF2 surprised me the most with its high resolution polygon graphics, especially at a time when PS was known for better polygon graphics. Also, Sega Rally was really solid driving game with great graphics. Sega Touring Car was so very fast. Grandia and Dead or Alive again with great graphics. X-Men vs Street Fighter surprised me with lightning fast loading and crisp solid sounds.
I tried to avoid buying games that infuriated me...
- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?
Yes, I was at a local game shop with lots of import games, and saw Virtua Fighter running on Japanese Saturn. I got to play it and was surprised at the deep gameplay.
- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?
No, in January 1996, my brother bought the core system at $299 plus Shinobi Legions, Galactic Attack, and Street Fighter Alpha and surprised me with them, since I had a average paying job and could not afford to buy Saturn for $299. Once I hooked it up and played those games, I then went out on a shopping blitz and bought about 20 games at Best Buy, including VF2, Sega Rally, Virtua Cop, and many other 1st and 3rd party games.
- How many games do you have for it?
500+ (both US and JP)
- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?
When my brother moved out of the house, he left the Saturn with me, since I bought 99% of the games. Every so often, he got the urge to play Saturn, and borrowed the system and games. At the time, I had already acquired dual-rom games like King of Fighters 95, and 4MB games such as XMvSF, and was swapping carts. Then I got Soukyugurentai and found out about the glitchy text. Eventually, I got hooked on eBay and found so many import games, and that was when I decided to buy a mint but used V-Saturn system from Japan for $50 so I could play every Japanese and US game without problems. But the real story was one day recently, my brother played Vampire Savior and didn't realize that you must power down before swapping carts. He removed the official backup memory cart and plugged in the 4MB cart with the power still on. Sad to say, most of the saved game files were either corrupted or erased, including those for VF2 and TFV.

[Mason P.]

I have been wondering what are the best shooters for the Saturn? Everybody says the 2D shooters were awsome, but I can never find a list of the best ones. I have read through the post and have gotten some good ideas on other games to pick up. I just got a modded saturn so I could play the imports.

Thanks alot,
Mason

[Damaramu]

- What is your favorite game on this system?
The very game that convinced me that I had to have a Saturn, Guardian Heroes. Absolutely my favorite.

- What are some of your other favorites?
Pocket Fighter, Shining Force 3, Shining The Holy Ark, Albert Odyssey, Sexy Parodious, Gungriffon, KOF 95-98, and a bunch more.

- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?
Guardian Heroes just impressed the crap out of me, with it's graphics and frantic pacing.

Three Dirty Dwarves, however is a tough game. I remember playing that one with a friend and just getting frustrated to the point where I set my controller down and stopped playing.

- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?
Yup. I was working at TRU and we received our first shipment of Saturns. We actually hooked one up in the break room and played Panzer Dragoon, Virtua Fighter and Daytona!

- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?
I picked up a used Saturn in '96. I still own that Saturn, plus 2 others.

- How many games do you have for it?
A bunch, at least 30-40. I'm gonna have to get back to you on this one.

- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?
Nothing but good times and good memories really.

[Tatsu]

- What is your favorite game on this system?
I don't have that many games, only three to be exact. Shinoby X and Darius Gaiden sure are great!

- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?
The first game I've played was Shinobi X. I was amazed by the graphics, I mean the console is rather old now but the cinematic intro looked like a real movie. I was sure expecting the graphics to be a bit more dated.

- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?
I never had a Saturn when it was new and I only did finde the one I own now by chance. An Easy Cash store was opening around the corner of my home and I was always carefully watching the display windows because I was hoping that they also cary used games. The first item I saw before the opening was a used Saturn together with one controller and the Sega Ralley game, and it was damn cheap! I counted the days until the shop was finally opening and as soon it was open I was planing to buy the console. I went there after work, hoping nobody has allready taken the console, but it was still there and now it's main. The a/v cable to connect it to the TV was missing and because of this I got a price reduction. I ordered a cable together with Shinobi X and after waiting a week I was finally able to play.

- How many games do you have for it?
As said above I only have three games because you rarely find Saturn games in the wild here. The games I have are Sega Ralley, Shinobi X and Darius Gaiden.

[jp]

- What is your favorite game on this system?

Oy. Pending on my mood a toss up between Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silvergun, NiGHTS, and Guardian Heroes.

- What are some of your other favorites?

Hmm... that would be a long list indeed. But, I'll give it a shot:
Astal, Blast Wind, Hyper Duel, Batsugun, Soukyugurentai, Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, almost all of the Capcom 2D fighters, Astra Superstars, Darius Gaiden, Galactic Attack, Taromaru, Silhouette Mirage, Metal Black, and... a lot of other stuff. Heh. Most of the 2D stuff though.

- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?

Surprised me? Blast Wind, because it was so damn fun but everyone online kept dissing it. Infuriated me? Time Bokohan because I paid too much for it and it was quite mediocre.

- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?

Panzer Dragoon at Toys R Us on launch day! I played through the game 4 times standing there, and even drew a crowd!

- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?

Yes and yes?

- How many games do you have for it?

430+... I haven't counted in awhile. Need to do that this summer I guess.

- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?

Way too many and too hard to pick one.

[VG_Maniac]

- What is your favorite game on this system?

There are tons of Sega Saturn games out there that I've never played. So, my favorite game as of now is probably Panzer Dragoon II Zwei.

- What are some of your other favorites?

The first Panzer Dragoon
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Virtua Cop 1 & 2
Virtua Fighter 2
Mega Man 8
In the Hunt
Earthworm Jim 2
Dragon Force
NIGHTS
Darius Gaiden

- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?

Sonic Jam. I was dissapointed that it was just a collection of the Genesis Sonic games and not Sega's answer to Super Mario 64. :/

- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?

It was at Toys R Us some time in 1995. I saw Panzer Dragoon playing one time, and NIGHTS the other time...but I forget which one I saw first. I played a little bit. I thought the graphics were very impressive. However, I was so much into the world of 16-bit through the SNES at the time...I really didn't give the system much thought. I just wasn't ready to "move up" to the next generation.

- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?

I didn't own a Saturn back in the day. In fact, I didn't buy one untill 1999, when Sega had already dropped support for it. I was at a local used video game store and I saw they had one for sale for $30. I just couldn't pass the oppertunity to get a 32-bit system for so cheap. I didn't even own a Playstation yet at this time. The only current gen system I had was the N64. Over the next 2 months, I bought 8 games for it. This was before I knew about ebay, and most places around where I live had already stopped carrying Saturn games...so it was very tough to find them. After only owning a Saturn for 3 months and hardly being able to find any games to buy for it, I called it quits. I sold my Saturn and 8 games to a friend for $80. Then used the money to by a used Playstation with one controller and NO games. About 5 months after I bought that Playstation, it broke down...it was one of the early models that overheated very easily. I ended up getting a brand new Playstation that Christmas...but since the Playstation I had sold my Saturn for broke, I sold it for nothing.

About 4 years later, I really started to miss my Saturn and some of the games I had owned like Panzer Dragon II, Virtua Cop, and Virtua Fighter 2. So I got on ebay and bought a boxed Sega Saturn system and all my games back, plus a couple others. So far, I haven't really tried to collect for my Saturn, so I currently only own 10 games. However, I am never going to sell my Saturn again. This time I'm keeping it for good!

- How many games do you have for it?

Like I said above...I only own 10 games as of now. I am planning on getting serious about building up my Saturn collection sooner or later.

- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?

I pretty much shared my main story above. I sold my first Saturn because it was to hard to find games for it (my pre-ebay days). Then a few years later when I started to miss my Saturn, I bought another one off of ebay.

[Reid]

I never owned a Saturn until recently, when I bought one off ebay.

It is a great system!

My favorite games are Duke Nuke em 3D and Virtua cop

[josekortez]

Since I recently got into the Saturn and its library, I wanted to be a part of this discussion on what is one of the finest systems ever made!
- What is your favorite game on this system?
Konami Antiques MSX Collection because of the sheer number of games on the disc
- What are some of your other favorites?
Domestic – Fighters Megamix, Sega Rally, Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter Remix & Virtua Fighter 2
Import – Fighting Vipers, Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty, Poppohito Hebreke, Tokemeki Memorial Taisen Pazurudama, Fantasy Zone Sega Ages, Super Casino Special
- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?
The puzzle games above are really great. I can’t get used to playing Duke Nukem on the pad, and I’m probably the only person who can’t figure out why Nights is supposed to be so great. The fact that the shmups are so expensive infuriates me too.
- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction? I didn’t see it in action until I owned one, and I thought it looked worse than the Dreamcast at first, but it grew on me.
- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?
I didn’t when it came out. I remember I was a freshman in college, and not only didn’t I have the money for it, but I had stopped buying games briefly after the 16-bit era.
- How many games do you have for it?
Roughly 40 or so, 10 of them are Japanese imports.
- Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?
I found my first Saturn at a thrift store out in the country with about 14 games, but the Saturn’s battery had been gutted and it didn’t save any games. Later, I found another loose Saturn at a swap meet with 4 games, so I picked it up, but I didn’t start liking it until I got imports and an Action Replay cart.

[Baloo]

Ahh, the Saturn. My all-time favorite system, and oddly enough one of my newest consoles, next to the Vectrex, having only got it last summer. There's just something about the system that I really like.

- What is your favorite game on this system?

The amazingly beautiful NiGHTS into Dreams..., what a game.

- What are some of your other favorites?

Burning Rangers
Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend
Street Fighter Zero 3
X-Men Vs. Street Fighter
Sonic R
NBA Jam T.E
Virtual On
Daytona USA

And that's just naming a few.

- What games surprised you? Infuriated you?

What games suprised me? NiGHTS into Dreams, Burning Rangers, amongst a lot of the Sega stuff for the system. I played some of it and thought "Now why hasn't any of this stuff been re-released? It's amazing!" It feels like very few, if any exclusives for the system have been re-released here in the US, and it's a shame because there's a lot of great stuff on the Saturn.

As for infuriating, well Virtual On is definitely difficult, I have a VERY hard time beating VR-Dorkas. Sega Rally is really challenging too, I still can't even make it to the Lake level.

- Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action? What game was it? What was your reaction?

Well, I bought my Saturn at a flea market last summer for $35, and my first games was Virtua Fighter Kids (which I later sold), and then X-Men Children of the Atom. At first I thought "Uh-oh, maybe I shouldn't have bought this system", but once I got NiGHTS (my 3rd game for the system) I was definitely satisfied with my purchase.

- Did you own the system "back in the day"? How about now?

Didn't own the system back in the day, unfortunately. I did own the Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, and Playstation, but I think I would've traded them all in for the Saturn back in the day. I only wish I could've scooped up games like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force III, and Burning Rangers for cheap when the Dreamcast had come out.

- How many games do you have for it?

21 and counting! I've got Rayman on the way in the mail to make 22, and I'm still looking for quite a few more titles for my Saturn. It's my favorite system, and probably the only one I can really see myself keeping in the far future.

[M15fit]

I thought i'd responded to this thread? Anyway, the SS is one of my favorite machine's, So logically, I own about a dozen of them, of all shapes models and colors.

Favorite game on this system?
Devil Summoner Soul Hackers

Some of my other favorites ?
Powerslave/exhumed, Devil summoner, all the shmups, Quake, Duke 3d, Vatvla, Shining series, Grandia, Virtual on, all SNk and Capcom fighters

What games surprised me?
Quake, powerslave, duke 3d, Saturn cant do 3d? Awesome games

Infuriated me?
Doom, should have been so much better. Japanese version is superior

Do you remember the first time you saw the system in action?
Soon after Japanese release, Japanese owned game store I frequented for years.

What game was it?
Virtua Fighter

What was your reaction?
I bought 1, still own it, reaction was overly positive

Did you own the system "back in the day"?
Bought a Japanese grey Import pre Australia release, check above

How about now?
Own 12 working, about 4 for parts

How many games do you have for it?
About 100+ Pal releases, About 200+ Japan releases, About 50 U.S Releases

Any stories surrounding the system that you can share with us?
I really wish there was, but nothing comes to mind. Just that back in the day, my friends and myself enjoyed many nights on Saturn Bomberman. Many Vocal Brawls, many beers, many broken controllers. Nothing violent, Just teenage fun.