Sega Saturn Victims Unite!

I got a Sega Saturn as a present from my uncle back in 1995, it was my introduction into the 32-bit era. The console was all the hype back then and the Playstation was being made fun of as the new kid in town everyone bullied. The games I got with the console were Virtua Fighter (packed-in), Daytona USA, Myst, Clockwork Knight and Sega Worldwide Soccer.

Until the first quarter of 1998 I stuck with my Saturn exclusively while ignoring even the games the other consoles of the era had to offer. The highlights (games) for me on it were Myst, Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter, Die Hard Arcade, X-Men Children of The Atom, Street Fighter Alpha, Virtua Cop 2, Worldwide Soccer '98, Sonic 3D Blast and last but not least my favorite outta all of them Megaman X4.

I still remember that night during Q1 1998 going into my usual gaming store and the clerk telling us (me and my brother) that the Saturn was getting its plug pulled due to the soon arrival of the Dreamcast and the only new release he had on the shelf was Burning Rangers. I remember leaving the store sorta shocked with sadness, I did not see it coming. Ended up buying an N64 a week later and then a PSX a year or so after that.

That's my story with this legend of a console, what's yours?

Oh yes I also had Bug! Man that game was funny.

in 2001 i think? a friend gave me a sega saturn with no hookups and a controller because he didnt like the games for it. i said ill keep it until i find stuff for it. now 8 years later i still have nothing going for it. next month im going to see if theres any cables at one of the game stores i go to.

I just bought a Saturn for the first time early this year, and I like it. I enjoyed games like Sonic 3D Blast, Bug, Clockwork Knight, and I still have yet to play Sonic R, Sonic Jam, and many other games. Overall, I think the console is great to own today.

I just bought a Saturn for the first time early this year, and I like it. I enjoyed games like Sonic 3D Blast, Bug, Clockwork Knight, and I still have yet to play Sonic R, Sonic Jam, and many other games. Overall, I think the console is great to own today.

dog64

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I just bought a Saturn for the first time early this year, and I like it. I enjoyed games like Sonic 3D Blast, Bug, Clockwork Knight, and I still have yet to play Sonic R, Sonic Jam, and many other games. Overall, I think the console is great to own today.

Aero5555

because you got how many sonic/sega compilations? OVER 9000!!:P what!? 9000? theres no way that could be rightbigM10231

I remember I got a Saturn for Christmas back in 96. I liked it back then, and I still like it. I just wish it didn't go down the toilet so fast. I do feel kind of special because I'm one of the few who can say they actually had the Saturn when it was current gen, lol. Maybe that just makes me "special".

I do feel kind of special because I'm one of the few who can say they actually had the Saturn when it was current gen, lol. Maybe that just makes me "special".

Mtngranek

I've had the Saturn since it came out and I can safely say there is no better system in existence.savebattery

I bought a satturn last year. A lot of it's games didn't age well.

Fighting Vipers and Virtua fighter 2 feel arhaic

Panzer Dragoon Zwei is short and way too easy

shinning wisdom feels like a Sega CD game

Daytona USA: Circuit Edition and Last Bronx are the only real good Saturn games I own

The saturn in my opinion is the best sega system, its sad to see such potential was lost,

I only had the Saturn, played the PS1 at my friends.

I remember playing the Saturn at a friend's house the day it came out. Eventually we spent hours and hour playing Xmen vs Street Fighter when that came out. Then we went to the arcades and killed everyone in that game. Good memories. I eventually was able to afford one and then also bought a Japanese one for all the shooters and fighters.gokuofheaven

[QUOTE="gokuofheaven"]I remember playing the Saturn at a friend's house the day it came out. Eventually we spent hours and hour playing Xmen vs Street Fighter when that came out. Then we went to the arcades and killed everyone in that game. Good memories. I eventually was able to afford one and then also bought a Japanese one for all the shooters and fighters.bigM10231

I had one but I regretfully sold it. I found someone who is selling me a Saturn and Dreamcast with games pack cheap, even thought I already have a Dreamcast. Im eagerly anticipating it. I already have about 15 Saturn games waiting I was collecting while I waited to find one and now this has popped up! YEW!

I only had the Saturn, played the PS1 at my friends.

gameofthering

Saturn Victims?

I bought a Saturn and thuroughly enjoyed it, even while also having a N64 and PS1 as well. The Saturn had so many classics that went virtually (no pun intended) un-noticed and unrecognized and just seemed to disappear into the void of dead consoles like my Jaguar and 3DO and Sega CD...although as far as I was concerned at the time it was all money well spent.

Here goes my story. I hardly think of myself as a victim though. I love (and still love) my Saturn.Anyway, I think it was Christmas of 97 (maybe 98 ), and Sega was advertising their Saturn system with 3 free games packed in(Daytona USA, Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter 2). And I had begged my parents for it. I told them about the deal and they caved. I received it for Christmas that year. Suffice to say, I was elated. At the time, I still had my Sega Genesis hooked up and was still playing that while the PSone and N64 were the dominant brands. I felt out of the loop for a long time without a next generation console. So I had some catching up to do. I heard great things about a few of the games, mainly RPGs. I bought Tomb Raider, Shining the Holy Ark, Dark Savior, Shining Force 3, Duke Nukem 3D, House of the Dead, Mega Man 8 and a slew of less than stellar titles. Shortly after that, when Saturn started to lose 3rd party support and the selection of games coming out were few and far between, I got a little sad and frustrated. Moving on was hard, but soon after the Saturn stopped, the Dreamcast was just around the corner and by then I had gotten my first job and could buy it with on own money. Hooray! End of Story.

I didn't personally own a Saturn until probably 2003 or so, long after they discontinued making games for it. However, growing up I had a close friend who had one; we used to play The Lost World, Virtua Fighter 2, and several other great games on it all the time. I really wish this system would have lasted longer then it did, because it had so much going for it and I still thoroughly enjoy playing it. I just hope they start porting a lot of its games to the Playstation Network, XBOX Live and the Nintendo Virtual Console.

Saturn Victims?

chefstubbies

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Saturn Victims?

Aero5555

The Saturn was officially supported for 4 years: November 1994 - November 1998. And in America the system wasn't discontinued until 1999.

In order to avoid "falling victim" of any given product you should always inform yourself better before purchasing it, otherwise it's very much your own fault.

The Saturn had a very good lifespan and an excellent library of games most of which were only released in Japan, but this wasn't an issue for me. I do understand this posed a problem for many users, but again they should've informed themselves better, wait a while, or just avoided purchasing it it if they didn't had access to the best games of the system.

I see no problem with the Saturn, and greatly enjoyed its 4 years of glory. The Dreamcast had less games and an even shorter lifespan and people love it.

You certainly won't see anyone claiming they were vicitims of that system.

In order to avoid "falling victim" of any given product you should always inform yourself better before purchasing it, otherwise it's very much your own fault.Panzer_Zwei

I bought the Saturn within the month it was launched, while I was ticked off at the cost and the fact that the internal memory was pretty lame and required the purchase of the Back-up Cart, I was pretty pleased overall with it.

There were nearly three solid years of support for the console in North America, and a steady flow of Working Design RPG's that generally kept me pretty happy. While the E3 announcement of Katana killed a lot of software I wanted for the Saturn its library was respectable and I rarely found myself looking at the new release list for a month and not seeing at least one game I wanted.

[QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]In order to avoid "falling victim" of any given product you should always inform yourself better before purchasing it, otherwise it's very much your own fault.Aero5555

The point still stands and it's actually when you have the less resources that you have to think of what to buy of what to ask for.

The whole " purchase victims" poin of your thread is silly to begin with. I'm as big of a SEGA fan as any you can meet and yet I never bought a Super 32X. You know why? Because even back then in 1994 when I was only 14 I knew that add-on was going to be rubbish. I've never bought any single system on "blind-faith" just because I'm fan of the company, and that's precisely because I couldn't afford to waste any money back then.

I remember when the Saturn came out I was still happy and buying games for the Mega-CD. Mega-CD games weren't cheap, and I actually got many of them after I had a Saturn. But then you also have the so called victims of the Mega-CD who all they knew of the system besides Sonic-CD were rubbish games like Jurassic Park and Sewer Shark. And they still go on claiming how they wasted money on the system that according to them "had no good games" and labeling themselves as vicitims, when it's very much their own fault for never having played all the good games the system had on it.

IMO unless you were rich and bought a new game every 4 days or something the Mega-CD was an excellent add-on that had enough games to get you through what was left of the generation. And at least to me it did. And it's the same thing for the Super 32X or any other system for that matter, if you bought it just because of impulse, then you were a fool and it's very much your own fault.

I also remember desperately wanting a PC-FX during those days after having seeing one at an import store, and it was just as expensive as the Saturn. And it was because I thought it could very difficult to get games for it that I never bought one back in the day, and it was a good decision.

I got a Saturn from my older brother back in the 8th grade. It had its gems, but I found the system mostly disappointing. More recently, I bought a Japanese Saturn off ebay so I could have access to all 3 Shining Force scenarios. If the Saturn had more games like that, it would have been a much better system.

If I didn't buy a xbox 360, I would have invested into buying a saturn and a dreamcast back when. Oh course, if I had the money way back when I would of done the same. When I sold my 360 don't remember exactly but I didn't get as much as I thought I would. Big mistake. tidusjeff

The point still stands and it's actually when you have the less resources that you have to think of what to buy of what to ask for.

The whole " purchase victims" poin of your thread is silly to begin with. I'm as big of a SEGA fan as any you can meet and yet I never bought a Super 32X. You know why? Because even back then in 1994 when I was only 14 I knew that add-on was going to be rubbish. I've never bought any single system on "blind-faith" just because I'm fan of the company, and that's precisely because I couldn't afford to waste any money back then.

I remember when the Saturn came out I was still happy and buying games for the Mega-CD. Mega-CD games weren't cheap, and I actually got many of them after I had a Saturn. But then you also have the so called victims of the Mega-CD who all they knew of the system besides Sonic-CD were rubbish games like Jurassic Park and Sewer Shark. And they still go on claiming how they wasted money on the system that according to them "had no good games" and labeling themselves as vicitims, when it's very much their own fault for never having played all the good games the system had on it.

IMO unless you were rich and bought a new game every 4 days or something the Mega-CD was an excellent add-on that had enough games to get you through what was left of the generation. And at least to me it did. And it's the same thing for the Super 32X or any other system for that matter, if you bought it just because of impulse, then you were a fool and it's very much your own fault.

I also remember desperately wanting a PC-FX during those days after having seeing one at an import store, and it was just as expensive as the Saturn. And it was because I thought it could very difficult to get games for it that I never bought one back in the day, and it was a good decision.

Panzer_Zwei

Wow, just wow. You've gotta be kidding me. Dude, please take this advice from me as a friend, stop taking forums seriously. There are more important things in life that deserve alot more attention to detail than video games and the internet. So I added "Victims" in the thread's title, my bad. That's how I felt at the time (*gasp* an opinion). Are we cool now? Ok good, let's move on. Seriously.... Geez.Aero5555

I don't really care about what you or the users here do, but we're all here to discuss videogame-related stuff and not the more important things in life, why, I'd guess because we want and like to. And since people here in fact spend time discussing videogames, I'd guess they want their opinions to be taking as seriously as any other videogame related conversation. But if your want your opinions to be taken as a joke, then all you had to do was say it in the first place.

I own a Japanese Saturn now and enjoy the Japanese games I own for it a lot. My favorites are Grandia, Wachenroder, Deep Fear, and Panzer Dragoon RPG Azel.

It's my 2nd favorite 5th generation console right now, but I also think it has the weakest library out of the three.

[QUOTE="tidusjeff"]If I didn't buy a xbox 360, I would have invested into buying a saturn and a dreamcast back when. Oh course, if I had the money way back when I would of done the same. When I sold my 360 don't remember exactly but I didn't get as much as I thought I would. Big mistake. bigM10231

I bought a Sega Saturn the day it came out as I do almost all consoles. Still have it to this day with two hori fightpads, 2 controllers, the big hamburg controller for nights, an st key/ 4 mb memory card the lightgun and around 40 to 45 games...

My 4 1/2 year old play the fighting games at least once or twice a week. We alternate between:

x-men vs street fighter

vampire savior

marvel super heroes vs street fighter

king of fighters 97

dead or alive

vf 2

street fighter alpha 2

x-men cota

and marvel super heroes

He also likes to play Galactidc Attack, Bug and clockwork night.

I got a Saturn for Christmas in '96 mostly for NiGHTS: Into Dreams. I was thrilled to find that the game was every bit as good as I expected and I also enjoyed Sega Rally and the first two Virtua Fighter games. I couldn't get into Daytona USA and because the system was unpopular, there was nowhere I could go to rent games for it so I found myself playing it less and less and eventually sold it by the end of the year.

However, I got into Saturn collecting not long ago and have had a great time. There are a lot of fun 2D shooters available for the system.

I own a Japanese Saturn now and enjoy the Japanese games I own for it a lot. My favorites are Grandia, Wachenroder, Deep Fear, and Panzer Dragoon RPG Azel.

It's my 2nd favorite 5th generation console right now, but I also think it has the weakest library out of the three.

hakanakumono

[QUOTE="Aero5555"] Wow, just wow. You've gotta be kidding me. Dude, please take this advice from me as a friend, stop taking forums seriously. There are more important things in life that deserve alot more attention to detail than video games and the internet. So I added "Victims" in the thread's title, my bad. That's how I felt at the time (*gasp* an opinion). Are we cool now? Ok good, let's move on. Seriously.... Geez.Panzer_Zwei

I don't really care about what you or the users here do, but we're all here to discuss videogame-related stuff and not the more important things in life, why, I'd guess because we want and like to. And since people here in fact spend time discussing videogames, I'd guess they want their opinions to be taking as seriously as any other videogame related conversation. But if your want your opinions to be taken as a joke, then all you had to do was say it in the first place.

Relax bud, I don't think I've ever seen a sense of humor from you.

I still have my Saturn and still play it to this day. I loved it. Burning Rangers, Virtua Cop 2, Daytona were all great games. Plus as a fighting fan, Street Fighter vs. Xmen and Street Fighter Vs. Marvel Super Heroes were just about perfect arcade ports. Oh yeah, Bug! was a fun game too.