Did any of you oldfags have one or know anyone who had one back in its life?
>>12380390No, everyone I knew had a PlayStation or N64.
You cannot buy this or any games for it in used games stores here. Even the person I know who circlejerks this company like the s*ga s*stem spammer in this town does not own this.
I only knew that it existed after sonic gems collection came out
>>12380390Yeah, my brother picked up one somewhere. I played a ton of Nights and Bust-a-Move 2. We had Dragon Force but no memory card so I never really tried to play it, but I wanted to. I just read the manual instead.Anyway, it was pretty cool. Crazy to think that if he'd held on to it longer it would be worth stupid money.
>>12380390I got one because I was a really big Sega Genesis fan. I've never felt more let down and betrayed in my life.
>>12380390I had a couple of friends with older brothers who did. One later sold it and ended up getting a Playstation. The other was into fighting games and after going through a Neo-Geo AES and a Neo-Geo CD he imported a Japanese Saturn with a RAM cart. I later picked up one up primarily because I wanted to play all the Sega arcade ports.
I had one, but near the end of its lifespan. Paid 20 dollars for with a bunch of games and extra accessories. I stupidly didn't get into the jap library till much later.
>>12380390They were so cheap in the year 2000 any person who played video games would be retarded not to pick one up.
>>12380390My Dad bought one off his friend second hand with almost a dozen games in 1997. The friend of course sold it because he got a Playstation. By that point in time the Saturn was already dead in the water. It was my first 32-bit system so I have a soft spot for it. I still have mine. Installed an ODE to it and play translation patches, as well as have the entire US, Japan and Europe game libraries on it.
There is something about Saturn's graphics that makes me kinda sick
A friend of my brother lent his Saturn to me back in 98-99 with precisely one game for it: Resident Evil. I kept the console for a year because he didn't care for it anymore because he had a PSX (and the Saturn wasn't supported anymore) and he also had Resident Evil Director's Cut for it. In fact I'm sure I could have kept it longer and maybe still have it to this day (I got mine now though) if my brother hadn't insisted he'd take it back, that's how little he cared for it.Shortly after that I knew one guy who had a Saturn and he was the archetypical Sega fanboy. This was at the time the Dreamcast was still relevant and he had all the Sega consoles and ONLY Sega consoles, they had a PC but didn't even game on it, with tons of games for each console, bought all the Sega endorsed or Sega specific magazines and basically bought every game the magazines told him to buy like Guardian Heroes and Burning Rangers and everything and had all the opinion dictated by the magazines and still believed in console wars and not just some retarded magazine speak (from my experience console war marketing never really sticked in my country, certainly not like in the US). As I said, the average Sega fanboy like you'd see in Uncle from Another World except from the European side, the kind of cusomter that showcases why Sega had a higher attach rate than others.He was also a bit of a contrarian, only listened to Metal and called Nu-Metal fans and goths "trendies", I think I was his only friend but I was the kind of person who could get along with everyone. I often went to his place to play and sometimes we'd play on Saturn.
>>12380390nope
so I guess to OP's question the answer woud technically be "no" because I knew both these people only after the Saturn was relevant (I was 10 in 1998 so a little too young), but both of these people did have their Saturn when it was relevant.
I got it around 1996 or 1997, after I had already gotten a PS1 and N64.Still have it and it works. Use it regularly.
got it at liquidation prices w/ several games
>>12380558I spent my birthday money on a Saturn, still remember the exact games. Sonic Jam, Shining Force 3, Ghen War, Toshinden, The Horde, and some hockey game that was like a dollar so I said why not. Plus a Game Shark. My friends made fun of me for buying it.
>>12380390Yeah it was well know in the vidya costumers in 1995-1997 in Europa.But around in 1996-1997, your average small town or neighborhood had 6 psx for each sega saturn. Sega saturn was total vanished in late 1998. But I managed to play one in 1997-1998Tomb raider, sonic jam and fighting vipers are amazing.
>>12380390Nope. I played one at a Circuit City though, it had Sonic R. It was cool since I was a Genesis kid. I ended up with a PSX though and eventually an N64. I have a Saturn now and like it.
>>12380390of course not
>>12380390I was not there for its launch, because I got the original Playstation for Christmas. However, because the Playstation started to fail, requiring operation on its side or upside-down, my friends helped me hunt down the Saturn and had it modded (you can see the region switch on the right). After seeing a few other friends and the great games that appealed to all of us, it was a better choice for me to diversify to getting the Saturn than getting another Playstation. I can recall 9 other people around the groups I hung out with that had the Saturn in its day. It is one of my favorite consoles, top 5 non-PC/portable, as the games were really cheap on clearance and the games really suited my tastes.
>>12381068I like to think this guy is still around and creating all the console wars and what if threads about Saturn to this day.
I got one in 98 to play MSHvsSF and Vampire Savior
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Older cousin-in-law had one, he loved Sega Rally
>>12380986This but PlayStation 1 (thank God for emulators)
>>12380390Never saw one once, only found out it existed in the 2000s when I started going on the internet. I had heard some about the Dreamcast and seen it in some magazines once, but only for a while.By that point, I had an N64 and PSX, I would probably also have enjoyed some of the games if I got to try them as a kid.Still haven't seen one IRL nor tried any of its games.
>>12380390i had one back when they were new, and i have one now too.
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My dad bought one whenever they did the 3 game bundle which i feel like was pretty late. i don't remember owning any games except a bootleg copy of C&C and the 3 discs the console came with.
>>12380390I had my saturn since late summer 1995. Its still working. I still play stuff on it. Having had a saturn throughout the 90s was awesome mode. Playstation didnt even remotely compare. Never bothered to get myself an n64 though.
>>12380390In the US no one had it. It might as well have not existed. The lack of interest in it at the time is an often overlooked factor when people today struggle with understanding the fact that Sega made two 5th gen consoles. For most people, it was really GenesisDreamcast with nothing in between; no hype for Saturn, no curiosity, no awareness, nothing. I really can’t emphasize enough that at the time, NO ONE gave a shit. People for some reason started to pretend to care about it years later, but back in the 90s not a soul gave a fuck. I didn’t encounter anyone who owned one until 2009 (they had gotten it in the 90s) and to this day never met anyone else who owned one.
Well i'm not an oldfag (Zoomer) but I do own one, it's a nice console all things considered with a good library, always been bummed that it failed in the west.
>>12380390I had a 32xI had a buddy with sega cd1/2 my friends had a Genesis 1/4 of those kids including me had a dreamcast I never new someone with a Saturn or a master system.
all these motherfuckers itt blatantly lying about owning and enjoying a saturn, wtf do you all gain out if it, we all know they could have been givng saturns away from free 30 years ago and still it would be a failure
>>12386015>Sega made two 5th gen consolesLet me guess fanboy the 6th generation only started when Sony said so. I suppose you think that the 3DO and Jaguar were 4th gen consoles too because they predate the PS1.
>>12386041Im not a fanboy. Sonic Adventure came out in Japan in 1998. There was never a period of time where you could walk into a store and they would he selling ps2, xbox, gamecube, and dreamcast all at the same time. the dreamcast ceased production in january 2001. it was onpy ever competing with the ps2 for a few months. I dont understand why people like you get so mad at these historical facts
>>12386074That's not how console generations work retard. There were a bunch of consoles released in the 5th gen that were effectively dead by the time the PS1, Saturn and especially the N64 came out. You couldn't walk into a store were they would be selling all of them at the same time either but that doesn't stop then from still being 5th gen consoles.
>>12386026I didn't lie, I have owned the same Saturn since the 90s. COPE
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>>12380390I know a single person who owned it and later he got a Dreamcast too. Other than that most people I knew had N64s in the 5th gen with Playstation owners being a distant second. Then on the 6th gen they all moved to PS2/Xbox/PC gaming.
>>12380390Britbong here, I never knew a single person who ever had one. I'm guessing rich kids might but everyone went from mega drive/snes to ps1 or n64.
>>12380491I got one because I was a really big Sega Genesis fan. I've never felt more elated and fulfilled in my life.
>>12380390My sister and I really wanted one for Christmas because the Genesis was a hit in our household. But there were also a lot of good SNES and Genesis games that year. Basically our parents gave us the option to get a Saturn or more games for the systems we had. We got DKC 2, Mario World 2, Earthworm Jim 2, Chrono Trigger and I think Power Rangers. Suffice to say we made the right choice.
>>12380390My buddy had one, and bizarrely it was his first modern system after being a C64 owner. VF2, Virtua Cop, Fighters Megamix, Resident Evil were all cool. He had Shining Force 3, it always annoyed me that the complete game didn't get a PAL release. He also had Panzer Dragoon Saga which I thought was a dreary game with a miserable aesthetic, but he ate it up and it went on to become one of the systems most valuable games.Same dude was also an early adopter of the Dreamcast, before switching exclusively to PC gaming.
>>12386379Why do people do this? Take video game opinions so personally that they can read a genuine and honest story someone wrote about their experience with a console, and then feel like they have to multiply it by negative one just to restore some sort of balance and maintain a false narrative of their preferred console? Like who actually gives that much of a shit about decades old tech that they're willing to be so disingenuous.I like the Saturn, but it's a total objective dud compared to N64 or PlayStation.
>>12380390I played one at a Toys"R"Us once. So I guess you could say I knew (in an indirect way) a store manager that had one
>>12380390Yeah, I had a Saturn in the 90s with a ton of games, the official lightgun, etc. Sadly, I sold it all at some point. Don't even remember when or where. We weren't rich, so I generally sold my old stuff to help pay for new consoles. I'd guess maybe the Saturn helped fund my launch day Dreamcast purchase.
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>>12380390My friend had one. I watched him play Nights Into Dreams. He never let me play it. He didn't have any two player games. So I brought him over to my place he watched me play toejam and earl alone cause I told him my 2nd controller was broken, it wasn't.
never saw one in person nor had I ever heard of anyone who ever had one. I'm an American millennial
>>12387046Nta but realistically someone could enjoy it. It had some decent games yeah it was a dud but I can think of some good stuff. Wasn't too bad but yeah next to ps1 and n64 it's nothing compared
>>12386110>That's not how console generations work retard.Correct. Which is why this "generational" look at consoles is wrong.Because that anon is correct, pitting the Dreamcast against the GameCube and XBOX is objectively something that didn't happen, its main competition was the PSX. Which is exactly why Sony lost their shit over Bleemcast while nobody gave any thought to emulation until that point, the difference was Bleemcast was allowing playing PSX games on the DIRECT competition.Equally, pitting the Megadrive against the SNES is forgetting half of its life. During its first half the Megadrive's direct competition was the Famicom and NES. In pretty much every country it came out in, the Megadrive came out 2-3 years before the SNES. A purely "generational" look at video games also omitts that.
>>12380390I did indeed have one. What’s up op?
>>12387046I wasn't being ironic. As a lifelong fan of Sega's style of game design, I was thoroughly thrilled by the string of fantastic titles they released over the machine's lifespan. it was a roller coaster ride with the launch titles being shit (bad ports of Daytona and Virtua Fighter) but once they got into their stride they just kept cranking out hit after hit: amazing ports of Sega Rally, VF2, Virtual Cop, Virtual On, Last Bronx, plus all the Capcom fighters SFA2 being the best, Duke Nukem, Quake, Powerslave, Tomb Raider, ten player bomberman, Etc even with it's dying breath Sega gifted us with Grandia and a FREE COPY OF CHRISTMAS NIGHTS I don't give a shit if sales were low. if Sega only sold one Sega Saturn, to me, I'd still be happy because I got what I wanted out of it.
>>12387247> even with its dying breath Sega gifted us with GrandiaYou’re either a liar or Japanese, because Grandia on Saturn was not released outside of Japan at all.
>>12380390I know one guy from back in college who had one, complete with a bunch of games including valuable stuff, most notably all 3 Panzer Dragoon games. Guy seemed surprised when I told him he was sitting on over a thousand bucks of value with that stuff (way more in today's prices too).
>>12387682Of course he's a liar, this is all just a larp. People who are super into the Saturn because of some attachment to Sega's philosophy of arcade game design is not a type of person who existed back in the day. This is all a manufactured personality created by people who got into arcade gaming in recent years through MAME, I wouldn't be surprised if that guy never actually owned a Saturn back then in the first place.
>>12380390Yes, we got the 3 game bundle and Albert's odyssey for like $150. My gfs dad loved Daytona.
>>12387682>>12387717not a "larper" and I never said I owned Grandia (though I knew one guy who bought and played it on import) I said sega gifted us (collectively) the Saturn owners, with the game, late in the console's lifecycle. But this is silly, you're pretending you think I'm pretending to like a console I once owned and loved and had 18 games, a memory cart and two gamepad taps.
>>12388075> I said sega gifted us (collectively) the Saturn owners, with the game, late in the console's lifecycle.Except they didn’t, unless you were from Japan. Even so, Sega had no involvement in the game whatsoever, at least Sony published it when the game released internationally on PlayStation. Regardless, you clearly framed your first post as if you got to experience them first-hand; if you were just listing a bunch of late release games, why wouldn’t you have mentioned Panzer Dragoon Saga, a game that actually did release overseas and that Sega was actually involved with?
>>12380390>THE ULTIMATE GAMING SYSTEMWhen I look at the Saturn's library and compare it to the absolute bangers on the N64 and PS1 I feel sad for any kid who had a Saturn growing up.
>>12388767The Saturn has a much better library than the N64 overall. It's not really even close.
>>12388794Saturn had the best 2D games and N64 had the best 3D games of the gen.And then Saturn has a few really good 3D games, and N64 has a few really good 2D games as well.PS1 just has more of everything, but if you combine N64 and Saturn agains the PS1, the segatendo combo wins 5th gen.
>>12390631This post basically ends the debate of "How could X save the Saturn" because it didn't need to be "saved", it had a genre that it excelled in and its competitors also had genres it excelled in, end of story.
I had one, and as far as I recall only had Sonic CD (never played much) and Sewer Sharks (played all the time).Oh, wow, as I went to fact check this I just learned for the first time that Sega CD and Sega Saturn were different things. No, I never had a Sega Saturn.
>>12390653bruv
>>12380390Yeah, and I still have it. Plus the original lightgun, the big controller, a few of the smaller J style controllers, a couple of the recent licensed Retro-Bit BT controllers, and OEM Sega RAM carts and mem cart. Has a modchip in it that I installed in ~1999 that still works great.
what is this, 500 dollars for an s-video cable?
>>12387046the shitposting quality had seen a massive decline in quality on this board, but what's worse than that is we are getting less effort posts and people who actually want to talk about things
>>12390885Just do composite like any sex haver
Paid 20 dollars for a boxed system with light guns, action replay, extra controllers and about 12 games. Wish i had known earlier that the action replay would let me play jap imports. I would have gone crazy importing stuff when it was cheap.
>>12380390I knew a kid that got one when it went on sale back in 1997 with the free triple pack games. None of us knew what the ram port was back then.
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>>12380390I had an N64 and my friend had a PS1. No one knew what a Saturn was. I found out about it years later from Retrojunk.
>>12380390Yeah my friends dad had it we used to play Sega Rally with him. I think he was a Sega Arcade guy way back in the day so he always bought Sega up until DC died. Dude had like a ton of fish too, he was always fucking with these giant saltwater tanks in the basement room with the Saturn and Genesis. It was a pretty cool 1997 era mancave of like, tropical fish and video games I guess.
