I’ll save you time: 10. Virtua Cop 9. Die Hard Arcade 8. Radiant Silver Gun 7. Guardian Heroes 6. X-Men Vs Street Fighter 5. Saturn Bomberman 4. Sega Rally Championship 3. Panzer Dragoon Saga 2. Virtua Fighter 2 1. Nights into Dreams HM: Burning Rangers, Daytona USA, Fighters Megamix, Shining Force 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Other Games Shown: Clock Knight, Black Fire You’re Welcome.
NiGHTS at number one is absolutely perfect. I played it as a kid and now that I'm 30, I can still play that game and be enraptured by its awesome music and imaginative gameplay.
I love your list! The one game you mention was the only reason why I wanted a Saturn instead of a N64 at the time was Die Hard Arcade! I still play that game and it never gets old to me!
Growing up, I played a lot of games not mentioned here, like Mr. Bones, Three Dirty Dwarves, Baku Baku Animal, and Bug! I'm surprised none of those even got an Honerable Mention.
I downloaded an Android Saturn emulator just to play 3 dirty dwarves lol and yes it works everything except saves states but no worries after you complete a level you can select it in options
Science the Pony Dragon Force was the #1 game for me on the sega saturn. Thankfully, I can play it my PC. But, nothing beats playing it on the console.
aaah sega saturn. i remember buying one. going in, expecting nothing, popping in sega rally and i was pleasantly suprised. maybe it wasn't playstation but aside from that i was suprised how good this console was. kept buying the games i could get at a store in the city. Vf2 wich blew me away graphically, nights into dreams made me go on to say that the saturn could do what psx could, fighting vipers, etc etc the capcom games. what a console. one of the top 3 sega consoles.
Gotta agree... please always see it as being a bit cheesy for the music and the fact it's not a traditional Sonic game. However, the tunes are all really catchy (I legit like them all), it's lotsa of fun and the graphics are really impressive.
This was really cool to watch because I never owned a Sega Saturn. I played Virtua Cop in arcades. I mean, that game is still in arcades today. Fun game. Hard game.
People love to talk about how bad the Saturn is but I remember getting one after only having 8 or 16 bit systems and I was blown away. I got it with Nights Into Dreams and it was an epic game along with the Panzer Dragoon games. I think it's right up there with the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. The problem wasn't that it was a bad console it was just that very few quality developers made games for it.
Thank you for this. The Saturn was the most underrated console in history. The world missed out on some of the best games ever made. Owning the Saturn was probably the happiest time in my childhood.
chentemccloud yeah haha Sonic R was a guilty pleasure from the lone fact that it is Sonic in 3D, even Jam's 3D sections were cool the one that I didn't like was 3D Blast, I hated that isometric camera
Greatest console of ALL TIME! I don't think I could do a top 10 list for Saturn, there are just too many fantastic titles I would inevitably have to leave out and feel guilty about;)
Panzer Dragon Saga was what ICO and SotC where to PSX. Amazing art style, music and story. Glad I got a copy... Only wish Sega release it updated for everyone to play. Its a must play for a true gamer.
Well to their credit, I do own several saturn games including Nights and Burning Rangers. So I can verify that Nights really is one of THE best games on the system, at least in my opinion anyway.
+The Spit Dragon (Spitty) yep! Played that demo disc plenty-along with that terrible Clock game and the awesome HR derby in that otherwise awful baseball game.
For me one of my most favorite Saturn games was Mystaria: The Realms of Lore, also known as Blazing Heroes. It was my first strategy and rpg game I ever played, The game meant so much to me and I still have it to this day. I cant even begin to count how many times my brother and I have beaten this game.
I'm so happy to own working copies of most of the games in this video. I love old school gaming. I enjoy them so much more than most current gen stuff.
The most innovative and fun, musical game I found was MR BONES! I remember laughing so hard that I couldn't believe it. And I love the message of the game. Very great characters, varying game play and super cool video scenes. And I would take Need For Speed (the very first one) to number 2. Mostly for the music, but also for the crazy driving. Unmatched!
Definitely my favorites that I had for my Saturn were Astal (short but very good) and Battle Arena Toshinden. I still have the disks and intend to get another Saturn to play them again.
I had a blast growing up with my Saturn. I was hoping to see more of my favorites on there like Magic Carpet, Virtual On, Panzer Dragoon Zwie, Croc, and Bug 2.
Hmm...its unlikely most people can get a copy of PDS, but there are quite a few other games that could help fill your list, which are probably still affordable...
Almost my entire Saturn collection would've been a good choice for this list, but it would've been a top 20+ instead. My collection includes: Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force 3, Grandia, MagicKnight RayEarth, Albert Oddessy, Warcraft 2, Legend of Oasis, Dragon Force 1 & 2, Guardian Heroes, Street Fighter Alpha 1, 2, and 3, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Xmen vs Street Fighter, Final Fight Revenge, Vampire Savior, Nightwarriors, Dark Legends, Pocket Fighter, Super Puzzle Fighter, Sonic Jam, Nights into Dreams, Myst, Burning Rangers, and several more games that were decent but not as acclaimed as most of the other games I listed above. I played that Saturn for hours everyday since it was released, and that was while balancing a 30 hours a week job, full-time college studies to become a teacher, and the first few years of my marriage. The Saturn provided more fun memories than anything else did back in the day. Pro Action Replay cartridge was so sweet!
I like your number 1, I think Panzer Dragoon Saga is a contender for best RPG of all time (regardless of system) ... but there are so many great RPG's!!
Absolutely. I had both a Saturn and a Playstation and had already played Final Fantasy VII thinking nothing could top it. Then Panzer Saga came out and blew my mind. It was close between the two, but I would have to give the Edge (pun intended) to Panzer Saga.
That was a mind-blowing game... I was happy to see #3, #5 & #8 on the list, was expecting to see Assault Suits Leynos II in there but it's a very difficult and not that popular game. Vampire Savior anybody? Antiignorant is true to his tag with Virtual On, I got 2 sets of the Twinsticks for versus!
I'd advise lots of education first. Seriously, the Sega Saturn is an amazing console for the day and has one hell of a library. The biggest issue is that 90% of the games were never ported over to English. This means there is an insane collection of really awesome title which all happen to be in Japanese. Many of them have English Menu options but not enough. Sega Saturn also offers the ever coveted Red Label titles.
I have always wanted to play Fighters Megamix. It was the first fighting game to featured characters from different franchises kind of the way Super Smash Bros is now. It featured characters from Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Cop, Rent-A-Hero and Daytona USA.
I loved the Saturn, wish I'd owned one. Would sometimes have a swap around from time to time with my mate and he'd borrow my Dreamcast and I'd borrow his Saturn, good times. Surprised Tomb Raider 1 isn't on here since it was well recieved at the time and was released on the Saturn first.
Heres my game Console list growing up. 1st. Sega Saturn 2nd. Super Nintendo 3rd. GameBoy Pocket 4th.GameBoy Advance 4.5 PS2 (My Half Brothers) 5th. Xbox 6th. Mobile Gameing (Still Have) 7th. Xbox 360 8th. Nintendo 2DS (Still Have) 9th. Xbox One (Still Have) 10th PC (Still Have) 11th. Another 2DS (My Sons) (Still Have) 12th. Nintendo Switch (My Sons) (Still Have)
#10 - I still play this game often today. One of the greatest light gun games I've ever played! #9 - Who cares if it has little to do with movies, but it is a great exclusive. #8 - Not a fan of those type of games. #7 - Great game that's certainly one of the Saturn's greatest exclusives! Give it a try! #6 - I'm not a fan of fighting games. #5 - Looks great, but I don't care for this one. #4 - One of my all-time favorite arcade games of all time! #3 - One of my Top 25 favorite video games of all time! Well worth the $250 I paid for it! #2 - I'm not a fan of fighting games, but receiving this one with my Saturn wasn't so bad. #1 - Definitely one of the greatest and most innovative games ever produced by Sega, and it's no longer exclusive on the Saturn. Don't miss this one if you've never played it! My Hon. Mentions - Shining the Holy Ark, House of the Dead, Burning Rangers, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Iron Storm, Mega Man 8 (Saturn version is superior to PSX version).
Glad to see Panzer Dragoon made it on there; the Saga I only ever got to play on an emulator because it was never released in Australia. But I had Panzer Dragoon and PD Zwei. The orchestral music of the orginal by Yoshitaka Azuma was nothing short of jaw-droppingly beautiful, and I still listen to it to this day.
I am a bit disappointed that Street Fighter Alpha 3 is not number one or at least number two, since 3D games seem to be the concept of this best list. It is one of the few 2D games that incorporates all of the Saturn's features. These include, but are not limited to: 1) Auto saving. 2) Using all of the processors separately for best sound quality and animations that even the Dreamcast failed to have in its port. 3) Background loading during gameplay for no loading times in-between matches. 4) Internal clock. 5) Highest Resolution. It looks better, plays better and sounds better than any other home console port to this day. The Alpha Anthology just ported the bad Playstation version and the Playstation Network revisited the bad port once more. The PSP remade it, but in the end it forgot about those animations again. The Dreamcast port is the only arcade-perfect port in terms of gameplay and no loading times like the arcade, but the Saturn port is the indefinite port due to having all of the features that the arcade version has as well as copying the exact nature of it flawlessly. It honestly feels like you took the arcade version home with you as it looks exactly the same. Also, the gameplay is actually tighter than the Dreamcast port as well and having the 6-button setup is superior to it by far. Oh, and let us not forget that awesome d-pad the Saturn has which is flawless for fighting games to perform those combo moves. Even though it fetches for high prices, this port is worth getting your hands on.
For every misstep Sega had, they always something innovative up there sleeve. I mean I thought the Dreamcast was the first home console that allowed online play with Phantasy Star. But ten player Bomberman via a dial modem if I could of played that as ten year old my mind would of been blown. Also quick question Panzer Dragoon Orta on Xbox 1 is it any good? since Saga is about £150 on ebay
+Luigi84289 Huh? How is something so small as bad dubbing (which can even be funny sometimes) be worse than something that affects the actual gameplay like lag?
+megamarsonic Poor voice acting can single handedly destroy any immersion into the game. It's hard to take characters seriously if they sound like they're being voiced by the local middle school anime club.
+Jessie Edsell Well I guess that would suck if you're invested in the story, but not as much as having the actual gameplay wrecked due go technical problems. Maybe I would put voice acting higher while listening to an audio book or something but, kn video games, gameplay almost always comes first. Mess up the voice acting and I may find it funny or, at the very least, power through and keep aying. Mess up the gameplay and I'm through playing it no matter how good the other parts of it are.
Holy sh*t, Die Hard Arcade! I couldn't remember what that game was called for the life of me, thanks lol. I used to play that in arcades all the time, at the time I didn't know it was a movie series. I've never seen the Die Hard movies. I also loved Virtua Fighter, I played that in arcades alot too. I never owned a Sega Saturn though.
I just remembered, I used to play this arcade at Golden Skates alot every time I went up there lol. I'm just glad I remember what it's called, just watched a playthrough of it. Lovely nostalgia.
NiGHTs Into Dreams is one of the best Sega games ever made. There was another game i owned for the Saturn where you played as a bug, but i cant remember what it was called. It was a great game
Thanks for this video! One HUGE aspect of Guardian Heroes you skipped was having 10, 15, 20(?) enemies onscreen at a time, all actively trying to kill you! When Han swings his sword through 8 baddies at a time, it's pure zen.
As little as 3years ago if anybody asked me what my favourite console that I’ve owned was(I’ve at some point owned master system/megadrive/SATURN/PS1/N64/PS2/Dreamcast/Xbox(Original) & ‘360)I would always answer without a 2nd thought,the SEGA Saturn(50/60hz switched) & SEGA DREAMCAST,I loved both equally but now I’ve got to say by some distance it’s the X Box 360 & it’s because of the reason I used to pick the SATURN & Dreamcast & that reason is I love SEGA games,especially their arcade ports & my 360 thanks to XBLA & ‘SEGAs Ultimate Megadrive collection’ my 360 has turned into the greatest SEGA console not made by SEGA.With XBLA I’ve got 49 games I owned on the SATURN & DREAMCAST + over 40 megadrive games on ‘SEGAs Ultimate Collection’.That’s over 89 SEGA games with the benefit of all the amazing games from other companies...Got to give praise to my trusty,old’ish but still regularly played 360
This list of games all basically take full advantage of the Saturn hardware which was complicated and poorly documented. Can you imagine what games would look like if devs stuck with it and the system did well? Just these few games from 94-96 look better than the majority of the N64 and PS1 lineups until 1998! I mean compare Cruis'n USA to Sega Rally Championship, or Panzer Dragoon to RPGs like FF7. Sure in 1998 we had Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, etc. - but then compare those to late life cycle games for Saturn like the Shenmue Saturn footage. I really think Sega should have stuck out with the Saturn a bit longer, or heavy handedly ended the Genesis line to push the console in 1994 in the States. It's such a shame considering its fairly large library and success in Japan.
I agree, I'm sure I have more import titles for my Saturn than domestic. Same thing happened with the Dreamcast... I couldn't believe how early they ended it here. Your true fans miss you SEGA!!
The Dreamcast came out too early, people weren't ready, they were the first with their own online game library... sad to know that now it's all we use... they could've been far ahead of PlayStation, probably leaders ... and maybe the Xbox would've been never launched...
Panzer Dragoon Saga is not only my favourite Saturn game, but my most favourite game of all time... So I would have put it at Number 1... then NiGHTS at Number 2. Oh, and I loved Sonic R - I really don't get what the issue with it is.
I miss my Saturn so much, the Panzer Series was excellent. Also had a huge soft spot for Die Hard Arcade and later Dynamite Cop. There were a lot of good games on the system really. Legend of Oasis, Shinobi (despite digital characters), Sonic Jam, Scudd, Magik Night Rayearth, Shining Series, Megaman, Burning Rangers... Saturn was great.
Do anybody else thinks if the saturn wouldn´t have existed, the Dreamcast would be still alive? Such a great console :( and in my opinion the only console from SEGA which was really superior to others from the same generation.
The best thing about Virtua Cop (and indeed, almost all Saturn light gun games) was that you could have two players with two light guns, no extra or special hardware needed (two player light gun games on 16-bit systems typically required a daisy-chained special gun, or for one of the players to use a controller or mouse). Now, you could do something similar on the PlayStation, but most of the light gun games on that system really sucked (well, the non-Namco ones, anyway).
+Mitjitsu Well, sure. Some of them were indeed featured on this top 10. And to be fair, if only the game was 'completed' (If any of you played it and beat it, you know what I'm talking about)...it could rival the best of the best. Oh well. ;(
hahaha. Right. Right. Still, Albert Odyssey: Legend Of Eldean has the foundation of THE greatest JRPG made in history...if only they covered the loose ends.
I’ll save you time:
10. Virtua Cop
9. Die Hard Arcade
8. Radiant Silver Gun
7. Guardian Heroes
6. X-Men Vs Street Fighter
5. Saturn Bomberman
4. Sega Rally Championship
3. Panzer Dragoon Saga
2. Virtua Fighter 2
1. Nights into Dreams
HM: Burning Rangers, Daytona USA, Fighters Megamix, Shining Force 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3
Other Games Shown: Clock Knight, Black Fire
You’re Welcome.
I liked Duke Nukem.
Sega Saturn deserves more praises and love. It was the only way to enjoy those arcade games at home.
highwayblowout Or if you were really rich you could actually own the arcade machines
***** or a neo geo
Unless you were rich
Yep. But now, neo geo CD consoles are ranging between $150 and $300. So, maybe not so rich.
+RYLAES
SEGA SATAN SHIRO!
Some that were missed. Astal, Legend of Oasis, Shining the Holy Ark, Dragon Force, Shining Force 3, Dark Savior.
The Saturn kicked ass.
At least SFIII got thee HM ... really surprised the others you listed did not at least get a SS cameo! StHA, DF, & DS make up my personal Holy Trinity
3 Dirty Dwarfs
Never did I ever think I would see this list. My first console and one of my favorites.
Man Last Bronx and Fighting Vipers should be on this list too . Who's with me?
NiGHTS at number one is absolutely perfect. I played it as a kid and now that I'm 30, I can still play that game and be enraptured by its awesome music and imaginative gameplay.
I love your list! The one game you mention was the only reason why I wanted a Saturn instead of a N64 at the time was Die Hard Arcade! I still play that game and it never gets old to me!
Clockwork Knight? Astal? Gex?
Yes, yeeeeeese, and yes
Yes, clockwork knight!
anyone remember one called "Crusader; No Remorse"?
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oh yeah Bug! was pretty awesome too :)
Command and conquer?
Shining the holy Ark, Virtua On, Ultimate MK3 and Tomb Raider ( It was released on Saturn before PlayStation).
Growing up, I played a lot of games not mentioned here, like Mr. Bones, Three Dirty Dwarves, Baku Baku Animal, and Bug! I'm surprised none of those even got an Honerable Mention.
+SuperChaosControl Yes! Or Virtual On and Battle Monsters..or Shellshock
+Justin Burnham Bug! and Virtual On were amazing! The level design for Bug! was so revolutionary when it was first released
I loved bug.
Yes the 3 Dirty Dwarves and bug should have been mentioned and I could mention others.
I downloaded an Android Saturn emulator just to play 3 dirty dwarves lol and yes it works everything except saves states but no worries after you complete a level you can select it in options
Dragon force....
Came here just for this comment... What an amazing game DF is. I still play it regularly on an emulator.
Stainless1369 I still have my copy for my Saturn =P but the console itself died years ago, so emulator is my only option.
Exactly my situation. I also still own Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Stainless1369 Sold my set for $600 years ago D= was short on cash and well you know...
Science the Pony
Dragon Force was the #1 game for me on the sega saturn. Thankfully, I can play it my PC. But, nothing beats playing it on the console.
aaah sega saturn. i remember buying one. going in, expecting nothing, popping in sega rally and i was pleasantly suprised. maybe it wasn't playstation but aside from that i was suprised how good this console was. kept buying the games i could get at a store in the city. Vf2 wich blew me away graphically, nights into dreams made me go on to say that the saturn could do what psx could, fighting vipers, etc etc the capcom games. what a console. one of the top 3 sega consoles.
Sonic R = best Saturn game ever! :D
"Everybody's Super Sonic racing, try to keep you feet right on the ground..."
Gotta agree... please always see it as being a bit cheesy for the music and the fact it's not a traditional Sonic game. However, the tunes are all really catchy (I legit like them all), it's lotsa of fun and the graphics are really impressive.
This was really cool to watch because I never owned a Sega Saturn. I played Virtua Cop in arcades. I mean, that game is still in arcades today. Fun game. Hard game.
People love to talk about how bad the Saturn is but I remember getting one after only having 8 or 16 bit systems and I was blown away. I got it with Nights Into Dreams and it was an epic game along with the Panzer Dragoon games. I think it's right up there with the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. The problem wasn't that it was a bad console it was just that very few quality developers made games for it.
Thank you for this. The Saturn was the most underrated console in history. The world missed out on some of the best games ever made. Owning the Saturn was probably the happiest time in my childhood.
Now that I look at it, Nights into Dreams totally reminds me of Mario Galaxy's flight mechanics, they even share the spin when launching!
@Kaki Molis I'd argue Tekken did enough to make itself different from Virtua Fighter, especially with Tekken 3
I wanna fly sky Highhh! , let's gooOoOO togethaaaa! " Daytona USA Best song "
Wow! A Top 10 for a Sega console without a Sonic game. I am surprised.
Sonic Jam was a compilation, Sonic R was a mess and Sonic 3D Blast downright sucks.
DragONheart27X still never stopped me from playing them when i was a kid
chentemccloud
yeah haha Sonic R was a guilty pleasure from the lone fact that it is Sonic in 3D, even Jam's 3D sections were cool the one that I didn't like was 3D Blast, I hated that isometric camera
DragONheart27X A mess is kind of an understatement.
yeah it was bad but i used to love the music in 3d blast, although i never got pasted the first 2 levels :P
Can you feel the sunshine, WatchMojo?
Does it brighten up your day?
No
And don't you feel that sometimes
You just need to run away?
So many different things to see
Greatest console of ALL TIME! I don't think I could do a top 10 list for Saturn, there are just too many fantastic titles I would inevitably have to leave out and feel guilty about;)
Guess i get this as my next retro console. Love the classics
This video made me feel so nostalgic, I'm only 23 but I used to sega Saturn all the time with my brothers 😥
Nights, never played another game like it, such a fine one.
This makes me want a Saturn. SO. BAD.
longarmsshow just get a emulator for pc or a smartphone
@@milans041 Works better for pc
There's way better channels that talk about the Saturn than Watchmojo. I recommend Game Sack, Classic Game Room and MetalJesusRocks.
I have 2 of them
You just placed the best games of my childhood. Thank you. And Nights at #1? That game was beautiful.
Burning rangers was a cool game. Im glad it got a cameo stage in the last sonic racing game
I've never played or even heard of any of these games until James Rolfe
Guardian Heroes was one of my favorite games when I was young. Great nostalgia moment.
Panzer Dragon Saga was what ICO and SotC where to PSX. Amazing art style, music and story. Glad I got a copy... Only wish Sega release it updated for everyone to play. Its a must play for a true gamer.
Guardian Heroes, Saturn Bomberman and Panzer Dragoon Saga are probably my all time favourite games on the Sega Saturn. :)
i LOVED x-men vs. street fighter. it was a real arcade conversion done perfectly for a console.
I've just started watching, let me guess: Nights Into Dreams is gonna win #1.
Called It!
Well to their credit, I do own several saturn games including Nights and Burning Rangers. So I can verify that Nights really is one of THE best games on the system, at least in my opinion anyway.
+The Spit Dragon (Spitty) yep! Played that demo disc plenty-along with that terrible Clock game and the awesome HR derby in that otherwise awful baseball game.
For me one of my most favorite Saturn games was Mystaria: The Realms of Lore, also known as Blazing Heroes. It was my first strategy and rpg game I ever played, The game meant so much to me and I still have it to this day. I cant even begin to count how many times my brother and I have beaten this game.
I'm so happy to own working copies of most of the games in this video. I love old school gaming. I enjoy them so much more than most current gen stuff.
Those games look amazing! I never played that game console, but it looks like it would be really fun.
I miss Sega Saturn.
buy yourself one
Nice choices.The Panzer Dragoon series was my favorite.Magic Knight Rayearth,Legend of Oasis should have been mentioned as well.
Happy 20th Anniversary SEGA Saturn!! ^_^ ♥
The most innovative and fun, musical game I found was MR BONES! I remember laughing so hard that I couldn't believe it. And I love the message of the game. Very great characters, varying game play and super cool video scenes.
And I would take Need For Speed (the very first one) to number 2. Mostly for the music, but also for the crazy driving. Unmatched!
I love Die Hard Arcade, I remember finishing the game with my dad, we had tons of fun with it :,)
Definitely my favorites that I had for my Saturn were Astal (short but very good) and Battle Arena Toshinden. I still have the disks and intend to get another Saturn to play them again.
No Dragon Force :(
I had a blast growing up with my Saturn. I was hoping to see more of my favorites on there like Magic Carpet, Virtual On, Panzer Dragoon Zwie, Croc, and Bug 2.
NiGHTS, Daytona USA, and Panzer Dragoon Saga are the three games that’ll make you want a Sega Saturn.
Hmm...its unlikely most people can get a copy of
PDS, but there are quite a few other games that could
help fill your list, which are
probably still affordable...
A great list of Saturn games. I loved Sega Rally and Nights was amazingly fun.
The most underated system.
With gamecube.
Dreamcast, TurboGrafx-16, and PlayStation Vita.
Almost my entire Saturn collection would've been a good choice for this list, but it would've been a top 20+ instead.
My collection includes: Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force 3, Grandia, MagicKnight RayEarth, Albert Oddessy, Warcraft 2, Legend of Oasis, Dragon Force 1 & 2, Guardian Heroes, Street Fighter Alpha 1, 2, and 3, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Xmen vs Street Fighter, Final Fight Revenge, Vampire Savior, Nightwarriors, Dark Legends, Pocket Fighter, Super Puzzle Fighter, Sonic Jam, Nights into Dreams, Myst, Burning Rangers, and several more games that were decent but not as acclaimed as most of the other games I listed above. I played that Saturn for hours everyday since it was released, and that was while balancing a 30 hours a week job, full-time college studies to become a teacher, and the first few years of my marriage. The Saturn provided more fun memories than anything else did back in the day. Pro Action Replay cartridge was so sweet!
+Marie Laudate ALL of the Panzer games deserve to be in the top 20 list.
Shining the Holy Ark and Grandia it should be in the top 5
i hear you tho i was in high school! my top five: 5. Shining the holy ark. 4. Grandia. 3 .Shining force 3. 2 .Dragon Force. 1. Panzer Dragoon Saga.
I like your number 1, I think Panzer Dragoon Saga is a contender for best RPG of all time (regardless of system) ... but there are so many great RPG's!!
Absolutely. I had both a Saturn and a Playstation and had already played Final Fantasy VII thinking nothing could top it. Then Panzer Saga came out and blew my mind. It was close between the two, but I would have to give the Edge (pun intended) to Panzer Saga.
Nights for sure!!! Spend most of my summer holidays playing that game over and over.
Good call!!!
my favorite Sega Saturn game ever is Panzer Dragoon2 Zwei.. who is with me
That was a mind-blowing game... I was happy to see #3, #5 & #8 on the list, was expecting to see Assault Suits Leynos II in there but it's a very difficult and not that popular game. Vampire Savior anybody? Antiignorant is true to his tag with Virtual On, I got 2 sets of the Twinsticks for versus!
I love it too
Certainly one of my favourites. It's a bit like asking me to choose which soft toy was my favourite as a kid... they were all damn good!
Saturn ! La meilleure console de tout les temps !
I need to go pick up a Saturn
I'd advise lots of education first. Seriously, the Sega Saturn is an amazing console for the day and has one hell of a library. The biggest issue is that 90% of the games were never ported over to English. This means there is an insane collection of really awesome title which all happen to be in Japanese. Many of them have English Menu options but not enough. Sega Saturn also offers the ever coveted Red Label titles.
play Nights into dreams that a good game to play and Christmas Nights
My cousin had one and I played Nights, it was a great game. But some many others I missed I want to get a chance to experience..
Daniel Lopez well you can buy it on PS3 store or on XBOX360 store
@You'reAlwaysAWinner :O
I loved the Sega Saturn as a kid. My favorite game was Street Fighter Alpha 2!
No Virtual On?
No Astal?
House of the Dead??
Clockerwork Knight??
I have always wanted to play Fighters Megamix. It was the first fighting game to featured characters from different franchises kind of the way Super Smash Bros is now. It featured characters from Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Cop, Rent-A-Hero and Daytona USA.
omg yes Nights is #1!!! I luv you WatchMojo you got a subscriber!
Hontoni Arigato we'll other videos will let you upset.
Hontoni Arigato :)
Bug! deserves an honorable mention.
Ahhh shish kabob!
I loved the Saturn, wish I'd owned one. Would sometimes have a swap around from time to time with my mate and he'd borrow my Dreamcast and I'd borrow his Saturn, good times. Surprised Tomb Raider 1 isn't on here since it was well recieved at the time and was released on the Saturn first.
happy 26th anniversary sega saturn!!! :3
I remember playing the top 1 pic on demo consoles in stores. Memories!
Heres my game Console list growing up.
1st. Sega Saturn
2nd. Super Nintendo
3rd. GameBoy Pocket
4th.GameBoy Advance
4.5 PS2 (My Half Brothers)
5th. Xbox
6th. Mobile Gameing (Still Have)
7th. Xbox 360
8th. Nintendo 2DS (Still Have)
9th. Xbox One (Still Have)
10th PC (Still Have)
11th. Another 2DS (My Sons) (Still Have)
12th. Nintendo Switch (My Sons) (Still Have)
Panzer Dragoon Saga should have been #1.
+andresisthename This.
#10 - I still play this game often today. One of the greatest light gun games I've ever played!
#9 - Who cares if it has little to do with movies, but it is a great exclusive.
#8 - Not a fan of those type of games.
#7 - Great game that's certainly one of the Saturn's greatest exclusives! Give it a try!
#6 - I'm not a fan of fighting games.
#5 - Looks great, but I don't care for this one.
#4 - One of my all-time favorite arcade games of all time!
#3 - One of my Top 25 favorite video games of all time! Well worth the $250 I paid for it!
#2 - I'm not a fan of fighting games, but receiving this one with my Saturn wasn't so bad.
#1 - Definitely one of the greatest and most innovative games ever produced by Sega, and it's no longer exclusive on the Saturn. Don't miss this one if you've never played it!
My Hon. Mentions - Shining the Holy Ark, House of the Dead, Burning Rangers, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Iron Storm, Mega Man 8 (Saturn version is superior to PSX version).
How the FUCK is Dragon Force not on here? No other game in history is like it, and you don't even give it an honorable mention??
Uuugh.
totally agree. awesome game. also Shining Holy Ark.
nick clark was waiting for someone to mention shining the holy ark, one of the best games I’ve ever played, dark saviour was also great
Glad to see Panzer Dragoon made it on there; the Saga I only ever got to play on an emulator because it was never released in Australia. But I had Panzer Dragoon and PD Zwei. The orchestral music of the orginal by Yoshitaka Azuma was nothing short of jaw-droppingly beautiful, and I still listen to it to this day.
I am a bit disappointed that Street Fighter Alpha 3 is not number one or at least number two, since 3D games seem to be the concept of this best list. It is one of the few 2D games that incorporates all of the Saturn's features. These include, but are not limited to:
1) Auto saving.
2) Using all of the processors separately for best sound quality and animations that even the Dreamcast failed to have in its port.
3) Background loading during gameplay for no loading times in-between matches.
4) Internal clock.
5) Highest Resolution.
It looks better, plays better and sounds better than any other home console port to this day. The Alpha Anthology just ported the bad Playstation version and the Playstation Network revisited the bad port once more. The PSP remade it, but in the end it forgot about those animations again.
The Dreamcast port is the only arcade-perfect port in terms of gameplay and no loading times like the arcade, but the Saturn port is the indefinite port due to having all of the features that the arcade version has as well as copying the exact nature of it flawlessly. It honestly feels like you took the arcade version home with you as it looks exactly the same.
Also, the gameplay is actually tighter than the Dreamcast port as well and having the 6-button setup is superior to it by far. Oh, and let us not forget that awesome d-pad the Saturn has which is flawless for fighting games to perform those combo moves. Even though it fetches for high prices, this port is worth getting your hands on.
For every misstep Sega had, they always something innovative up there sleeve. I mean I thought the Dreamcast was the first home console that allowed online play with Phantasy Star. But ten player Bomberman via a dial modem if I could of played that as ten year old my mind would of been blown.
Also quick question Panzer Dragoon Orta on Xbox 1 is it any good? since Saga is about £150 on ebay
What about one of the greatest Castlevania games made, Castlevania Symphony of The Night?
darksouls45688 The Saturn version does contain extras, but it was a lazy port where they stretched the graphics, lags more and has longer loading.
+Luigi84289 Huh? How is something so small as bad dubbing (which can even be funny sometimes) be worse than something that affects the actual gameplay like lag?
+megamarsonic Poor voice acting can single handedly destroy any immersion into the game. It's hard to take characters seriously if they sound like they're being voiced by the local middle school anime club.
+Jessie Edsell Well I guess that would suck if you're invested in the story, but not as much as having the actual gameplay wrecked due go technical problems. Maybe I would put voice acting higher while listening to an audio book or something but, kn video games, gameplay almost always comes first. Mess up the voice acting and I may find it funny or, at the very least, power through and keep aying. Mess up the gameplay and I'm through playing it no matter how good the other parts of it are.
Because is a port from the playstation
Personally, I really loved Bug! and Clockwork Knight. I can see why they aren't on this list, but I thought they were magnificent as a kid.
Holy sh*t, Die Hard Arcade! I couldn't remember what that game was called for the life of me, thanks lol. I used to play that in arcades all the time, at the time I didn't know it was a movie series. I've never seen the Die Hard movies. I also loved Virtua Fighter, I played that in arcades alot too. I never owned a Sega Saturn though.
Watch Die Hard, best christmas film ever.
I just remembered, I used to play this arcade at Golden Skates alot every time I went up there lol. I'm just glad I remember what it's called, just watched a playthrough of it. Lovely nostalgia.
You can get Dynamite Cop for the Dreamcast; it's the sequel to Dynamite Deku which came here as die hard arcade
What about clockwork knight??????
Grandia ?
maybe only games that got released in the US counted
Be sure to have a Sega Saturn console to avoid getting a smack down from a Karate guy.
NiGHTs Into Dreams is one of the best Sega games ever made. There was another game i owned for the Saturn where you played as a bug, but i cant remember what it was called. It was a great game
Bug...simply bug
I've always wanted to play Shining Force 3. The first two were amazing on the Genesis.
nice list, love the sega saturn :) mine are all the panzer dragoon games, shining force 3 shining the holy ark etc. :)
Thanks for this video! One HUGE aspect of Guardian Heroes you skipped was having 10, 15, 20(?) enemies onscreen at a time, all actively trying to kill you! When Han swings his sword through 8 baddies at a time, it's pure zen.
Streets of Rage is the legendary Sega game of all time so original for the time
*****. I thought it was just on Megadrive exclusively until Sega went Bankrupt
Reece .S I know right . I loved the three games.
Then you should play Streets of Rage Remake.
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As little as 3years ago if anybody asked me what my favourite console that I’ve owned was(I’ve at some point owned master system/megadrive/SATURN/PS1/N64/PS2/Dreamcast/Xbox(Original) & ‘360)I would always answer without a 2nd thought,the SEGA Saturn(50/60hz switched) & SEGA DREAMCAST,I loved both equally but now I’ve got to say by some distance it’s the X Box 360 & it’s because of the reason I used to pick the SATURN & Dreamcast & that reason is I love SEGA games,especially their arcade ports & my 360 thanks to XBLA & ‘SEGAs Ultimate Megadrive collection’ my 360 has turned into the greatest SEGA console not made by SEGA.With XBLA I’ve got 49 games I owned on the SATURN & DREAMCAST + over 40 megadrive games on ‘SEGAs Ultimate Collection’.That’s over 89 SEGA games with the benefit of all the amazing games from other companies...Got to give praise to my trusty,old’ish but still regularly played 360
Dragon Force no question!
I remember seeing Resident Evil 1 on Sega Saturn the first time, I was a kid and afraid of the graphics. damn how nostalgic
The 90s the last great decade.
so for the last 17+ years you have been living in misery? wow
no, not really. the last 17+ years haven't been miserable, just very meh
everything now is usually just so disposable and lacking any originality or heart most the time.
Nah the 200s had there moments beisdes the 90s wasmet that great video games use to cost 80 dollars
its the great actor of fox mulder from xfiles love your show by the way ^_^
I really wish I could go back in time and help them make it a console to truly stand up against the N64 and PlayStation
Make Top 10 Polystation Games.
Panzer Dragoon Zwei was my fave🤓
Yeah, real good game, played the hell out of it,
everyone who hasn't a chance to play the 3rd
part, should play this one, if they haven't already...
This list of games all basically take full advantage of the Saturn hardware which was complicated and poorly documented. Can you imagine what games would look like if devs stuck with it and the system did well?
Just these few games from 94-96 look better than the majority of the N64 and PS1 lineups until 1998! I mean compare Cruis'n USA to Sega Rally Championship, or Panzer Dragoon to RPGs like FF7.
Sure in 1998 we had Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, etc. - but then compare those to late life cycle games for Saturn like the Shenmue Saturn footage.
I really think Sega should have stuck out with the Saturn a bit longer, or heavy handedly ended the Genesis line to push the console in 1994 in the States. It's such a shame considering its fairly large library and success in Japan.
I agree, I'm sure I have more import titles for my Saturn than domestic. Same thing happened with the Dreamcast... I couldn't believe how early they ended it here. Your true fans miss you SEGA!!
The Dreamcast came out too early, people weren't ready, they were the first with their own online game library... sad to know that now it's all we use... they could've been far ahead of PlayStation, probably leaders ... and maybe the Xbox would've been never launched...
Panzer Dragoon Saga is not only my favourite Saturn game, but my most favourite game of all time... So I would have put it at Number 1... then NiGHTS at Number 2.
Oh, and I loved Sonic R - I really don't get what the issue with it is.
I would've put Burning Rangers on the list and put Panzer Dragoon Saga at #1
5:29 I use to play that on my PC when I was a kid, along with sonic R. Memories :)
No mention of Mr. Bones? Eh, I'm not sure what to say. NiGHTS is one I never played but would like to.
Shining Force 3 is my all time favorite game. I was happy when it got at least mentioned :)
The saturn is very impressive for it's time.
Actually no, its why Sega went bankrupt
I miss my Saturn so much, the Panzer Series was excellent. Also had a huge soft spot for Die Hard Arcade and later Dynamite Cop. There were a lot of good games on the system really. Legend of Oasis, Shinobi (despite digital characters), Sonic Jam, Scudd, Magik Night Rayearth, Shining Series, Megaman, Burning Rangers... Saturn was great.
SONIC JAM!
A compilation of MegaDrive games..... smh
Do anybody else thinks if the saturn wouldn´t have existed, the Dreamcast would be still alive? Such a great console :( and in my opinion the only console from SEGA which was really superior to others from the same generation.
NiGHTS is seriously the greatest.
The President Thanks. :-D
You guys forgot that Nights also introduced the first dual analog controller.
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SEGATA SANSHIRO♫
SEGA SATUUUUURN SIRO!!♬ :D
The only reason we got one
The best thing about Virtua Cop (and indeed, almost all Saturn light gun games) was that you could have two players with two light guns, no extra or special hardware needed (two player light gun games on 16-bit systems typically required a daisy-chained special gun, or for one of the players to use a controller or mouse). Now, you could do something similar on the PlayStation, but most of the light gun games on that system really sucked (well, the non-Namco ones, anyway).
WHERE THE HELL IS ALBERT ODYSSEY: LEGEND OF ELDEAN YOU NEANDERTHALS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
+Sagittaire There is about a dozen or so RPG's on the system which are better than that.
+Mitjitsu Well, sure. Some of them were indeed featured on this top 10. And to be fair, if only the game was 'completed' (If any of you played it and beat it, you know what I'm talking about)...it could rival the best of the best. Oh well. ;(
+Sagittaire I agree with you i loved the game.
+Mitjitsu ARe you counting the Japanese RPGs. the saturn only has like 9 or so RPGS. ( im not counting Dragonforce)
hahaha. Right. Right. Still, Albert Odyssey: Legend Of Eldean has the foundation of THE greatest JRPG made in history...if only they covered the loose ends.