After listening to the Sega Addicts podcast, I was did a lot of thinking about Sega consoles. It seems like a lot of people have fond memories of the Dreamcast, I happen not be one of them. The Sega console that I have very fond memories happens to be the Sega Saturn.



Back around 1996 I decided that I wanted the Saturn solely based on the fact that at the time the system was bundled with 3 different games, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop, and Daytona USA. I enjoyed playing all of these games, each had their own things to bring to the table.



The next year I ended up getting Nights into Dreams for Christmas. The funny thing is that I ended up getting the Sega Saturn Nights bundle, apparently my aunt paid for just the game at Toy R Us back when you had to grab those paper slips and you had to give it to the guy who would go into the back of the store and picked up the game. What happened was my mother went back and returned the console bundle for just the actual copy of the game Nights. I didn’t think until years later that I could of probably just could have just sold that console bundle to someone for extra money for a Nintendo 64 that I eventually got instead of just returning it.


I rented many games for the Saturn while I had it, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Fighting Vipers, etc…. But it wasn’t until around the time that the Saturn was discontinued that I was able to get a bunch of used games from the local Blockbusters from anywhere from 3-10 dollars. So I was able to grab a whole bunch of games. Everything from Virtual On, Fighters Megamix, Virtua Cop 2, and several other games that I can’t remember off of the top of my head.

Getting rid of my Saturn still is one of the biggest things I regret giving up. This would be because the system is so god damn hard to emulate. I tried out a subscription to GameTap just because they had Saturn games to play, man did they look like crap though. I never got to play games like Guardian Heroes or Radiant Silvergun which also seems to be a crime to like the Saturn so much and never get to play those games. The funny thing is that I wouldn’t have played most of the games that I did for the Saturn if the system didn’t crash and burn like it did. The only thing I can really hope for is that since there are Turbographix 16 cd games available to download on Virtual Console that somewhere in the far future, if they are able to crack the emulation code that there will be Saturn games to download.