...talk to you about the Sega Saturn console. It's not as 'retro' as some gaming machines like the X Spectrum, but it's pretty much forgotten about now, although there must be a few satisfied Saturn owners out there! Ok, so the Sega Saturn may have paled in comparison to it's only rival as it were, the Sony PlayStation, but the console was not a complete flop, although the shelf life wasn't overly impressive. Still, there are many reasons why you should ... ...take you on a little Sega Saturn guided tour...
Back in the mid 1990's Sega brought out it's latest revolutionary games console, the first CD based around, and everyone thought it'd be a sure fire hit. However, due to many reasons, including the failure of previous pieces of Sega hardware - notably the 32X and Mega CD add-ons to the Mega Drive machine, coupled with a supposedly awful basic development kit - compared to Sony's PlayStation at least, ...
D1A1UK 17.04.2001
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Advantages: Cheap, good looking, CD player for £30! Disadvantages: Old, bulky, no longer supported
The Sega Saturn is a dead console: no one supports it, not even Sega. So why should you invest in one? Well, let me tell you a story...
I bought by Sega Saturn in the summer of 2000. The sun was out, everyone was care-free. Rabbits hopped along the tree-lined streets of the rural town of middlesbrough(!), and people went about their normal daily business.
I walked into the local Chips and went to their display cabinet. There it was: a Sega Saturn, ... ...is, at second-hand prices, the Sega Saturn is tremendous value for money. That £30 gets you a CD player, it gets you 2 fantastic games and it gets you a nice black piece of electrical equipment to stash under your TV. In any language, that is value for money.
The machine itself is actually very attractive, in an electrical goods sort of way. It is big, but hten electrical equipment should be. The CD opening mechanism is very smooth, and it has two ...
andithegoose 08.12.2000
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Advantages: One or two good games. Disadvantages: Impossible to program for.
...great sucess of the Megadrive, Sega though they had it easy. They were wrong, and the Saturn remains to be one of the most flawed and underappreitated systems that was ever on the market. The trouble started with the impossible to program system, a lot like the PS2 now, and hardly any games came out for it. Nights was good. I think the Sonic one was ok too. But thats it. Their failure of the Saturn gave the Dreamcast an undeserved bad reputation. ...
Grix_Thraves 24.09.2000
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...release of their ‘Sega Saturn’ Sega Inc have been shunned and put down every step of the way except for their exceptional quality of games which they have now published for other consoles, but these insults were not fair as after buying a Sega Saturn for only £20 second hand, I was astonished by the quality at which it was made.
Although the Sega Saturn is slightly bulky (No more so than the X-Box, or should I say ‘X-Bulk’) I consider it a brilliant ... ...get a feel of the Sega way of life with games such as, Virtua Fighter, Virtual Cop, Sonic The Hedgehog and many other great classics!
Sound quality on the Sega Saturn for it’s time is exceptional, it boosts the ability to use surround stereo sound, which means your gaming fun will always be with the best of sound.
Loading times are minimal, infact seemingly faster than Playstation so there’s not really any wait for your games to start and there ...
Hellzone 26.06.2002
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Advantages: rayman Disadvantages: not many games 2 buy
I bought this 2nd hand when i just wanted a console to muck around with for a bit and I didn't really have too much money, it was okay when i first had it and then i got bored of it and found it hard to get games for my new console. I do like rayman though. RAYMAN ROCKS!!
I am probably going to sell the console now cos i am bored of it. I would reccomend adults who have young kids to buy it cos they dont rreally care about the console and just wanna ...
emmab1985 20.09.2000
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Advantages: Very good console Disadvantages: Not enough games released
Sega launched the saturn in a blaze of publicicity...indeed it was at the time state of the art in console technology. I bought one the day of the lauch, paying almost £400 for the package. What a fool I was! Within a year it seemed as though Sega had given up the battle against the playstation and almost completely ceased releasing new titles, still trying to sell us oldies like clockwork knight and sega soccer. I doing so they effectivly shot themselves ...
Advantages: Own memory card built in Disadvantages: dead in the uk, us and japan
The Sega Saturn was an amazing console but the public helped by Sega in many respects treated it poorly, with very little support and a very few good games, it seems the Saturn was destined for the cupboard and was never to be seen at highstreet stores again. But it had some great games - some better than the Playstation - like Nights - an original game, Sega Rally, and all the Virtua games. It seems some of these games have been updated on the Dreamcast ...
A1H1 27.08.2000
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Advantages: cheap Disadvantages: no more games being made
...and an excellent conversion of sega rally . They stopped selling saturn's about a year ago so the only place to get them is in a second hand shop . The good thing about that is that they are cheap and cost a fraction of what a playstation 2 costs . If you want to play some of the best games ever made buy yourself a saturn ...
abigsmurf 12.10.2000
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I had a Sega Saturn - it had some of the best games around - classics like Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter 2 aswell as many great looking adventure games - NiGHTS was good - as was the brilliant Sonic jam and panzer Dragoon Saga. I did swap my Saturn - it died out as not enough were sold - partly due to the incredible difficulty that developers had to program it. The games are cheap now - the console is even cheaper - and it would make a great gift. ...
SkeletonMan 12.09.2000
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Advantages: It's cheap and bloody great Disadvantages: Admittedly the likes of PS2 are somewhat more advanced, but that's not what the Saturn is about any more
When the Sega Saturn came out it was a top of the range console that was all the rage. Naturally I couldn't afford one and so I was stuck with the not as good, but still rather groovy, Mega Drive. However, for my last birthday my wonderful wonderful girlfriend decided that she would let me choose what I wanted!! We found a shop in town that sells old consoles, the Mega Drive and Saturn being such examples. The shop had run out of stock for Saturns ... ...I returned to the shop a couple of days later to learn that they had a Saturn in stock. And how much was this piece of ingenuity that once cost a small gold reserve? Just £25! I'm now looking for a cheap VCD cart for it so that I can watch my VCDs on the telly rather than on my computer. The Saturn was great when it came out. Now it's just the dog's knackers. ...
cebrey 14.09.2000
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Advantages: Cheap, Better controls than playstation. Disadvantages: Out of date, smaller catalogue of games.
The Sega Saturn was a great console and although the N64 and Playstation trampled all over it I thought in many ways it was as good as the Playstation. The Playstation was more successful because it was easier to produce games for. But where games have been released on both systems, games such as Resident Evil and Fifa 98, RTWC. I found that the control style and graphics were much better on the Saturn. The machine was destined to "die" after the ... ...like Sega Rally up for £3, and I believe this is one of the best racing games of all time. The Sonic games were also good, well Sonic R.
Basically, if you want value for money and don't mind having your choice of game restricted slightly, then a Sega Saturn is a definate YES. ...
JimSouth 29.07.2000
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Advantages: Excellent Games, will be worth a lot in five years time Disadvantages: Hard to find the excellent games
...underrated console. Partly because of sega it flopped. They build a console which is hard to program, crap marketing, £100 more than playstation, the first game titles look 8 bit, no wonder the never recovered, but the games,yes the games absolutely phenomenal, Nights!, Virtua Cop Series!, Sega Rally (Hail to the king of rally games), Fighters megamix!, Panzer dragoon, probably the best rpg i have ever played, Capcom and Snk beatumps, no loading ...
Abdurrahim 13.07.2000
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Advantages: Great, classic games Disadvantages: starting to look old now.
The Sega saturn for some reason was overlooked by the general public, and was overtaken by Sony and Nintendo.
The Saturn had some of the best games ever, and still does. Sega Rally is still my favourite game after all these years. It was made in 1995! Gran Turismo for the Playstation came 2 years later and still could not match it. Although I now have a Playstation, because Sega have stopped making games for the Saturn, I still play on it as much ... ...games. Normally when you look back at old games, you laugh at the graphics and only ever think of playing them if they have outstanding gameplay to compensate. The Saturn when it first came out had graphics every bit as good as th Playstation today, and better gameplay than a lot of Playstation games. Now, after the Playstation has had so much success, it has started to invest more in quality games and is beginning to drag me off my Saturn to the ...
philrange 14.07.2000
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Advantages: Good Graphics, Great Multiplayer and a Pretty Decent First Controller Disadvantages: Short Game Library and a Short Life
...ahead of their time because Sega tried to use technology that developers had trouble developing off of but when games did push the system to its limits they looked beautiful. One of the big issues that developers had with this system is some of the shapes in the games, some enviroments had oddly shaped rocks or trees. Character models however, were on par with the Playstation and the colors on the Saturn were a little brighter. Multiplayer is very ... ...Playstation, it doesn't even come close.
Overall, the Saturn ends up being another console by Sega that makes people wonder "What Could Have Been", if Sega had given a little more time for their last two systems, which were great systems, maybe their console business would still be around. ...
TheGame2k2 01.08.2009
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Advantages: Good graphics and still plenty of games available Disadvantages: Will be hard to get hold of in a year or two
The Sega Saturn was a game machine that was Sega's replacement for the doomed Megadrive with CD add on.
While it was around, and it still is in a lot of homes, it did have some ground breaking games developed for it, like Panzer Dragoon and Sega Rally, and these type of graphics had not been seen before on any console.
Unfortunately, the console suffered a quick demise with the likes of Nintendo and Sony having a quick look at its insides and then ... ...have learned by now to sit back and wait for others to move first before releasing a sub-power console onto the market.
However, if you buy one second hand, you can still get a good variety of games, and the second hand consoles are incredibly cheap compared to its rivals. Recommended for about 7 yrs and upwards. ...
MikeScoates 08.09.2000
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(+) Plenty of storage space, for media. Good Games, Great for partys, with singstar. Very Reliable. (-) Sometimes the optical drive, breaks; but not very likely, my 60gb still working after 2 1/2 years.
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