Did anyone have a Saturn??

Back in my younger days in the mid-late 90's when the Playstation and N64 were all the rage, there was one little console that was left out of the spotlight, the Sega Saturn. A lot of kids at my Elementry School had an N64 (as did I) and I knew a few kids that had a PS (I got one later on) but never in my entire life did I find anyone who had a Saturn. Despite being made by a well known and popular company, I think the Saturn was one of the most obscure and unpopular consoles ever. It was forever trapped in the Playstation's shadow...Sure it had a few gems like Nights, Panzer Dragoon Saga, etc but I think the rest of its library was pretty forgettable. I think that Sega tried too hard to push it in the US and make it look ''cool''http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lqhu1wCpPkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQW6-cbnHvYYeah Sega's commercial's were very fanboy lol. Eventually things got so bad for Sega that they started dropping the price on the Saturn by a lot and even including it with free games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pSklkNbT10%26NR=1That was when you could tell that Sega was getting desperate. After that Sega decided to pull the plug on the system altogether and start working on the Dreamcast. Its a real shame too, because I think the Saturn had at least another few years left in it. Did anyone here have the console? What did you like about it? Did anyone have a Saturn??
[QUOTE=''Simulator_Shock'']I think the Saturn had at least another few years left in it. Did anyone here have the console? What did you like about it? [/QUOTE] The Saturn was half dead when it was born, Sega never fully supported it and it died from neglect and high costs. I've only met one other person who owned a Saturn when they were released. Besides having a great controller, the Saturn had completely amazing games, although 90% of them went ignored in America. Did anyone have a Saturn??
I [i]still[/i] have it and I think it's one of the greatest consoles ever. The few great Saturn games are worth a lot more to me than thousands of PS1 games. That's only my personal opinion, of course.
SATURN in the united states was a miserable failure. Aside from a few good games the Saturn was much more appreciated in Japan. Personally I have the U.S. and Japanese console that I enjoy mostly everyday.
I Loved the Saturn it was very underrated. It had some great games and my fav were panzer dragoon and guardian heroes.Oh yeah i liked the crow even tho most people thought it sucked.
I still have my Saturn but it's not hooked up
Sega Saturn was 500$ when it came out. I remember this because I was trying to save for one.Games used to be 60$ back then, and we complain about that price today. Sega Genesis games were 50$.
I never owned a Saturn-I mostly stuck to the N64 in those days. Hell, I still haven't owned a Sega console to this day. (Of course, I've played on other people's Genesis consoles, and even knew a few people with Master Systems and Saturns...)



However, I now want one more than ever after learning about what it has to offer. Too bad that most of its best are imports and usually going for triple-digit figures on eBay...if only I wouldn't have to pay so much just to have Radiant Silvergun or Panzer Dragoon Saga (yes, I know that Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG is much cheaper, but I don't understand Japanese) in addition to all the hardware to play it on.
I have one in a box in my closet. It used to belong too my Nephew. One day I might take it out and play some Darius Gaiden.
I played and remember more Saturn games than Playstation and N64 games combined. So my definition of forgettable most likely is very different from yours.The Saturn was the best at it's game, plain and simply. It was the best Arcade system, no other contemporany console compared to what the Saturn could do, and posterior more powerful consoles never did quite had the same developing interest or support for the main genres the Saturn covered. The Saturn also lasted 4 years: November 1994-1998. While it could certainly had lived longer, it's not like it had a short life-span neither.
I still have my Saturn but I haven't played it in a while.
I have a Saturn and I love it.However it is a misunderstood system. Most people think the system was barely any more powerful than both the Jaguar and 3DO yet the potential of it's processing power makes it actually more powerful than the Playstation. Games such as Panzer Dragoon Saga and Radiant Silvergun probably would've been impossible on any other system except the Saturn. The 4MB expansion it eventually got too made it the best system for 2D fighting game ports. Games such as Street Fighter Zero 3 were best on Saturn, that's right, best. The port of Zero 3 was so good that there were claims it was ever greater than the supposedly more powerful Dreamcast version.The only two reasons I can think of to why the Saturn failed were, one, because of Sega rushing the system out at a high price and with an unfinished array of titles. Two, the system was a bit of pain to program for properly. Some developers like Probe just used the best of one SH2 processor like in the Saturn version of Alien Trilogy it was that complicated to deal with. Still though, despite its complexities, we did see some awesome games out of the Saturn.Not long ago, I reviewed Virtua Fighter 2, an excellent conversion of the Model 2 arcade legend for Sega Saturn. I gave the game 9/10. My union, DreamON, features the Saturn on the homepage and in the topics from time to time, a testament to its greatness and I sill know a gang of people who love to play on their Saturns, even now, since it did do well in providing 2D titles that they would actually want to play.So, actually, it wasn't a bad system at all. If you find anyone who calls the Saturn a ''bad console'', they're just Sega haters, fanboys and/or very moronic.
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I never owned a saturn then, but I own two saturns now. It was hard for developers to devlop for which nixed it off early. It did though have some highly prized titles.
I just got Guardian Heroesand damn man, biggest let down ever if it weren't for those damn ''plains'' I'd love the game so much moreI just got a Saturn recently and it's decent alot of the 3D games haven't aged too well but it burns brightly in the 2D department which is why i got itI've rounded up all the US games I want and now I'm going to move onto the importsthat's where people say the good stuff is so we'll seePanzer will probably be gettin' a crap load of messages from me soo:D
I still have Saturn. I like several fighting games- X-Men Children of Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel vs Street Fighter, others.I have about ten American games for Saturn. However, I have more than twenty import games for Saturn.
[QUOTE=''Hells_Hammer''][QUOTE=''Simulator_Shock'']I think the Saturn had at least another few years left in it. Did anyone here have the console? What did you like about it? [/QUOTE] The Saturn was half dead when it was born, Sega never fully supported it and it died from neglect and high costs. I've only met one other person who owned a Saturn when they were released. Besides having a great controller, the Saturn had completely amazing games, although 90% of them went ignored in America. [/QUOTE]Yeah, it appeared the only people who bought the Saturn were the hardcore Sega fans. Its a shame that the really good and epic games on the system went unnoticed in the mainstream. Nights into Dreams and Panzer Dragoon were much more like cult-hit games that were obscure to the mainstream while games like Final Fantasy VII and Goldeneye was what everyone was playing at the time.
The one thing I will never forget about the Saturn were the ads where they always bashed the Playstation. Too bad the ''Plaything'' beat out the Saturn. I think that was one of the reasons why the Saturn failed in the U.S. Sega tried to make it look like the right system to buy and they didn't have enough AAA games to back it up...I understand that a lof of the Saturns best games are imports but in the US it was a differant story.
had, i do have a sega saturn only 3 games though, lol, id like to find more like duke nukem 3d also is on genesis id like to find that version to , lol,
ya on the side note, games for saturn costed more then n64s did, i did not see one 60 dollar game on n64 , i dont know how many did, they were eitherr shopping at wrong places or where they lived everythin costed double but ya saturn games still cost 20-30 dollars used lol,a xbox gc ps2 game at one of my pawns only cost 10 unless otherwise marked, n64s go for 6 so do dc and ps1s, saturn i have yet to see any lol, but in one in boise, theres saturn games not really good ones mind you, that cost 1999 if they costed 1999 imagine what duke nukem 3d cost would be lol,