Okay so I haven't gone this long without hooking up a Saturn since it came out. It's been at least eight years. I haven't added anything to my collection in a long long time. I'm always had plenty of hardware including to Saturn's, stunners, etc. But I've always had a fairly pitiful selection of games. I have panzer dragoon saga tho! Got to brag.
So I don't even know why I hooked it up this time. I'm sure there was some specific courage, but I can't actually remember what spurred it. Either way the things are easily at hand so I had all the stuff pulled out and hooked up in like 30 minutes.
So I just started flipping through my games and playing stuff one after another. Like a half hour at a time because I'm sort of showing them for the first time to the so. despite not having many games here, I've got some that I put a good amount of time into. So I played some Sega rally and some nights. Some panzer dragoon. I think that night, I started a game of dark savior, which I've never played much of. I think I've started this game two or three times over the years and never got far because I would get frustrated and not really get the game. Same thing this time, I got to the first platforming area And threw the controller down. It was kind of hilarious. I don't beat my head against games like this, but I do a lot of swearing and laughing while I fall over edges over and over again.
So that was Friday night when I hooked it up and I couldn't find a game that was really sticky. When I woke up Saturday morning, I put in Virtua fighter 2. I kind of got obsessed with it and played it all day Saturday and Sunday. Stayed obsessed with it. Made an appreciation thread about it that you might like if you didn't see it:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/th...hter-2-is-gone-from-this-wicked-world.116763/ wait. All week. Enjoyed it very much.
The next weekend, I go back to dark savior because someone made an appreciation thread about that during that time, and I forced myself to play. Sure enough, it started clicking and I really enjoyed it all the way to the end of the 1st parallel. I immediately went to start the second by finishing the intro sequence a little faster. That's how you enter the second story line. But it turns out that it doesn't want a little faster, but a whole lot faster. It felt like trying to do a speed run. So I gave up on that.
While I was playing that, I was mixing in some fighters megamix and a few of the racing games. Megamix is really cool, but no Virtua fighter 2. Try some last Bronx and I really didn't like it very much. I've played it before, but I guess I hardly remembered it.
Found a real gem among the racing games. I had F1 challenge, but for some reason I kept flipping by it thinking it was as crappy game that I remember called andretti racing. Well I noticed it wasn't, and I put it in. I remember this game now! this game is fantastic and a good change of pace from Sega rally which I had played the shit out of. I'm still enjoying F1 challenge, I think it's great.
Goof around with a few more my collection but no more than half an hour apiece
When I quit dark savior, I put quake in and set to mastering the funky controls all over again. I'm absolutely delighted whenever I see quake running on Saturn, so I'm more than happy to put up with the shortcomings.
Messed with some games I used to be able to play a lot. Panzer dragoon, nights, etc. Played a chunk of shining the holy ark. But I wanted new stuff. I had some zero calorie cocktails and went on eBay. Fixed that right up. Stuff's been coming in the mail for weeks. I got to retro bit reproduction controllers, some extension cords, a pseudo Saturn cart, and a bunch of games. I think I got necronomicon, decathlete, leynos 2, panzer dragoon 2, alpha 2, dead or alive, kof 97, darkstalkers 2 and 3, and real bout. everything's been amazing. I barely cracked into the new games, but I'm satisfied that I'm bolstered the collection a lot.
And finally, last Friday, I played dreams and broke my 5 week run of Saturn only. It was excellent! I think that was one of the best gaming experiences I've had in a minute.
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