woohoo! The Saturn turns 10 today!

[Arrrhalomynn]

It's 22 november now, which means the Saturn turns 10. It was first released on 22 november 1994 in Japan.  Let's fill this topic with happy Saturn talk, favourite games, good memories and anything else Saturn related!

I wrote an article about it for Gamemag.nl, read it here:
http://www.gamemag.nl/specials/item.php?id=66

[den68]

November 22nd is also my daughters birthday. She turns 5 today. I'm sure she'll be pleased to know she shares her birthday with an obsolete video game system.

I do love the Saturn though. I can't say I have any memories of it as I did not get one till it was long discontinued. I picked mine up about 3 or 4 years ago. I paid $40 bucks for it at a used game shop. It came modded to play import games. There is a little toggle switch installed for this. I've got about 7 Japanese games. It also came in a cool suitcase with custom fit foam inserts and a Saurn logo on the outside. I was told the case was a Blockbuster system rental case.

Some of my favorites for the Saturn are:

House of the Dead. I don't have the US release, mine is the Japanese release and it was much cheaper. I got it complete for $20 bucks.

Virtua Cop 1 & 2
Area 51

The Sega Stunner is still the top light gun peripheral I've ever used.

Skeleton Warriors
Die Hard Arcade
Clockwork Knight
Astal - beautiful 2D graphics on this one

and there are a slew of great fighters I really like. Virtua Fighter2, Fighters Megamix, Fighting Vipers, Nightstalkers:Darkstalkers Revenge.

I've also got Panzer Dragoon and Panzer Dragoon Zwei. both great games. as is Nights into Dreams.

but anyway... great system, big Saturn fan here.

[Arrrhalomynn]

Congratulate your daughter for me. She should be proud.

I got mine 3 or 4 years ago too. Some guy offered a set with 50 games for around 400 bucks. Most games were pretty, so I probably overpaid for it, but at the time I thought it was a good deal.

In the time before that I had only played the system in stores and one time on some computer exhibition before it actually got released here. I showed Daytona USA and I wasn't impressed. But then again, I was 11, what did I know about stuff like that.

I fully agree with you on House of the Dead, it has an unsaturnish quality. I also really love sega rally. Still one of the best racing games ever. Sega touringcar championship is pretty good too, but a bit too messy overall. It doesn´t feel as polished as it should.

To complete my top five; Die Hard Arcade, Panzer Dragoon Saga and Virtua Fighter 2 are all 3 pretty close to being master pieces.

[Sauza12]

I was the only one out of my friends that had a Saturn, andf I didn't get mine until after the Saturn died.  The first game I bought for it was Die Hard Arcade, and I didn't stop playing it for like a month.  I also got Shining Force 3 at the same time, and while the begining blew me away, I couldn't get any farther than a few hours into it because the memory in my Saturn was blown (which I have since fixed).  I remember thinking "why didn't this system last longer?  It's sweet!".  It wasn't until later that I realized that it wasn't all of the Saturn's fault that it failed.

Another great Sega system that died too young.