Just a port of Sonic R, I think? And Guardian Heroes on Xbox
Would like to try Mega Man 8 since that has extra stuff and crisper sounding music but noooo, Capcom only acknowledges the PS1 version
Would like to try Mega Man 8 since that has extra stuff and crisper sounding music but noooo, Capcom only acknowledges the PS1 version
I know, that's what I was referring to when I brought it up. :P
it was Capcom that sold me on getting the Saturn. Specifically the Marvel/X-Men and Alpha series. I later fell in love with Sega's first party offerings which resulted in me becoming a diehard Sega fanatic!
Oh dude I completely misread your post and thought you said Sonic R was prototype to Adventure. My bad.
Yeah, four. Nights into dreams, clockwork knight, virtua fighter 2, and virtua fighter Megamix (I'll always remember this one: you could fight as a car.)
I had only played Virtua Fighter 2 on a Saturn Kiosk before. All of my friends and family either had a PS1 or N64. I bought a Saturn a few years ago and own VF2 along with some sports games. I'll get more some time.
Never played but I love watching the console retrospective videos by Pandamonium.
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8GRpE9Ff6q-CkyI6EhTg4LjN3CI5UU1p&si=jCtDlE7KXKJs_9lV
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8GRpE9Ff6q-CkyI6EhTg4LjN3CI5UU1p&si=jCtDlE7KXKJs_9lV
Owned a Saturn and it came with the classic pack in I'm pretty sure we all got: Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter 2, and Virtua Cop. I became obsessed with Gungriffon and Fighters Megamix playing both a TON b/c I wasn't really gifted games much. I would play the demo discs of Nights, Clockwork Knight and Sega Rally a lot as well.
To this day I regret trading it in and wish I had kept it
To this day I regret trading it in and wish I had kept it
I think so, yes. It lived up to the "very impressive for its time" moniker, this game came out within months of FF7 and the production value is mindblowing for 1998. Game isnt too long and I'm pretty sure it was cut really short but still fun regardless, interesting albeit non-challening combat system. I really liked the setting.
Yeah I owned one in 96 or something. Never bought a game for it. Had a demo disk with sega rally on it. I remember at the time that game looked so good. I loved the arcady controls too. I rented a bunch of other games for it. Panzer dragoon was probably my fav. Virtuo cop was fun af too. I eventually sold it to a junior high friend. Bought a PlayStation in 98 with bof 3 and never looked back though.
Had no idea the thing even existed during its lifespan and wondered as a kid why Sega stopped making games between Genesis and Dreamcast. Have never actually touched one in person, but I saw a friend had one in his collection in his apartment a few years ago, but he wouldn't let me play it (apparently it was missing a cable or something? I dunno, his apartment was a notorious mess and the cat chewed through half of his cables).
Recently I've been able to play some Saturn via the Mister FPGA, and there's some cool and bizarre stuff there, for sure! Can't wait for games like Panzer Dragoon Saga to be playable all the way through on Mister!
Recently I've been able to play some Saturn via the Mister FPGA, and there's some cool and bizarre stuff there, for sure! Can't wait for games like Panzer Dragoon Saga to be playable all the way through on Mister!
I have never played a Sega Saturn game, and in fact, I never saw Saturn consoles or games even being sold in stores. Where were they sold, I've always wondered.
And it's a blobber where the maze's dead ends give you rewards if you're paying close attention! Which feeds into a twitch-reflex mechanic to help you in battle! FIRE THE LEPRECHAUNS!
Gonna be 100% real with you, it probably doesn't work. I went through 3 of the things. Absolute pieces of shit. Magnificent, beautiful pieces of shit.
Still have my white Japanese model w/ matching standard and analog controllers. The more I think about it, the more it climbs the ranks as one of my all-time favorite consoles. If you had access to and the ability to play the Japan-only/4MB stuff, it was a 2D lover's dream. Recent fan translations like the Sakura Taisen one have been amazing too.
Not old enough to have ever touched Sega hardware tbh.
Well I could have touched a Dreamcast but no one had those. Didn't even know it existed as a kid growing up in the N64/PS1 days.
Well I could have touched a Dreamcast but no one had those. Didn't even know it existed as a kid growing up in the N64/PS1 days.
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My family had a Saturn on launch week, I have extremely fond memories of playing Bug and Clockwork knight with my dad back then.
I've only played real hardware at a demo station back in the day. Everything else has been ports or emulation.
I think how old one was and where one lived dictated a lot about about whether or not the Saturn was on your radar. I was in elementary school in Central Texas during the course of that console generation, and everyone I knew had an N64, almost no one had a Playstation (only saw it in magazines and when my older cousin's friend brought his over to my cousin's house with a copy of Twisted Metal 3), and I had never even heard of the Saturn before. The Dreamcast seemed to be a big deal for a hot second, though.
I think the people most likely to play Saturn back then were people who were already super bought into the Genesis (which, from my experience, wasn't very popular in Central Texas compared to the SNES) and people who were really into Japanese import games (which only really applies to people with access to magazine mail-order and/or local import stores, which sure as hell didn't apply to me or anyone I ever knew).
Don't remember seeing any sort of ads for Saturn or any Saturn games on store shelves, either.
Never owned a Saturn but pretty much half my friends growing up owned one cause we were all heavily into fighting games. Back in the day Saturn was pretty much the only choice given how insanely borked fighting games were on PS and N64 had jack all. Like Jesus I still remember the absolute slide show of Xmen Vs Street fighter on PS1 LOL kids these days have no damn idea how good they have it
It was my main console at the time. Still have my console (actually, I have two!) and all my games, and I spent a few hours playing some of the games on the weekend - but on a Polymega this time.
when i was growing up, i lived in a city in eastern Kentucky of less than 20k people and knew several people other than myself with a Saturn. the PS1 seemed to be vastly more popular than the N64, which was more popular than the Saturn.
I have a Saturn with one game: Dragon Force.
I don't know how to hook it up to my modern TV without it looking terrible or having to pay for an expensive upscaling device so I emulate on my ShieldTV to play Dragon Force instead.
I don't know how to hook it up to my modern TV without it looking terrible or having to pay for an expensive upscaling device so I emulate on my ShieldTV to play Dragon Force instead.
